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FAMHE-STRIUKEN FINLAND. Rev. Dr. Talmage Makes an Earnest Plea; for These Starving People‘. ‘ manna according (0 Ac; 0! an Ear- uuncnt u Canaan. u: the your One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three. by Wm. Bally. at Toronto. C! the Dem: 01 Agriculture. otuun) Grew: lay church bell of toâ€"dny of American manufm cut in the hot fires 0 ter’s persecutions; Hebrew Paul both to the G] Darius." I do uon vuncement. of ltsel! 1 That ci domain the W0] Sometimes an extra financial ob- ligation is assumed by a. government In times of peace as well as in times of war; A government can owe to “reign lands more than money. Such definitions as we have given ue right. as In: as they gd, but they are too circumscribed. When the Hebrew Paul wrote. "I am debtor ling to the intellectual influence ie Athenian capital, which made I felt throughout the world. , city swayed the scepter ln-the iii: of intellectunlity; it’ ruled world of culture with the culp- v chisel, the poet's pen and the asthencan oratory of a. patriot ing the people to‘wnp we: as: King Philip. When Paul 9 ol the barbarians, I believe he alluding :6 the strength and tho ity which the world had absorb- 'om the diflerent provinces. As in of learning he was indebted dog of 3 Referring 'ast am'ong t ery tongues about. the éhriv dies 0: John Russ and Rid \ Latimer and Cranmer: i- houg ARTIST“ was at )NOMICAL WORLD ouch he was indebted to whom he was sus Christ. the day when - religious Jibâ€" outgrowth of and heroines Bloody" Alva, 3 Netherlands. the pcrsecutor emonaic Cath- mle instigator id to the bar; believe he had -iaJ' interpretaâ€" reece, he was r, then over burn Isa upon I mus an mines linn priest, go to hea- L'was cast. e Nerodinn 1 the aposâ€" That :rning the a1 at th known share }‘o'ur mantelpiece has a. foreign name stamped upon its base. This beau- tiful tablecloth which is spread in your dining room came from Bel- fast. Those gran pictures upon your walls were p 'qted by artists who rose to be masters by study- ing in foreign schools and sitting at the feet of the old masters of Eu- lpest. Mexico was not. conquered so much by Cortes as it_ was made helpless by the invasion of this king of horrible plagues called smallpox. When the pilgrim fathers landed up-' on the Massachusetts shores, they Liming thg‘t‘ the; Indian tribe which' rthat‘pfit oTThe‘m entirely obliterated, with the excep- ccption of one man, by the fatal ravages of smallpox. So, in the; {ace of derision and persecution," Jenner proclaimed the gospel of’ vaccination. Though he might, and to a. great. extent did. destcoy his private practice, he kept crying to suflcring humanity: "Here is a.‘ 'rcxnedy for this dreagl'ul and mnligâ€"' nunt disease. Take it and live H Take it and live I When James Y. Simpson perfected his investigations in chloroform, did he keep them to himself ? Did he! patent than: and say. “You come to me or suller and die 7" No. He freely gave the anaesthetic to the world. And toâ€"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 ? j Oh. no. He is trying, purely on philanthropic grounds. to cure conâ€" ‘ sumption. which causes at leastl‘ or fourth of the total annual incur-l,l to v among the human race. I! ‘ ht ever perfects a germicide for the;‘ tuberculosis bacilli, he will at once tell all he knows. He is struggling 5 and working and analyzing purely]: to save a dying: race. How, then, is America to cancel the national (121 L in a moral and spiritual sense which she owes to the modem Greeks and to the bar- barians? "Well." answers some one. “I suppose the bat way to repay the debt. we owe toJorergn lands is to make our goods better and cheap er than they can make them and then go forward and capture their markets for our home industries." Ah. my brother, I am not. here to fritler away my time answering these selfish propositions prompted by mere. commercialism; I am here national debt first. by conveying to foreign lands the sweet message of tho Calvary cross. It the religion of uesus Christ is the beneflcent thing that we profess to believe it. are we justified in keeping the knowledge of it to ourselves? Are we not bound as debtors to the whole world to repay our obligations by making it. known in: and wide? ‘ . plorcd the awtuL destruction made by this terrible scourge' of smallpox. He knew that Whole countries had been almost depopulaled- by the pest. Mexico was not. conquered so lag ral HOW WE MAY BEST’ REPAY -hav« ater v -rl y e it nc bear tl ut PREACII THE GOSPEL all to tell you now, md the spirit of re are to cancel. r! sin 511ng a. antic ile the at lul Let 1:} :sson do thesp illustrious of the human race Leach they study and investi- 1bor â€" to alleviate sufl‘er- Icreuse the longevitv of r n. hundrc ‘ould have And when any of them remedy for disease or a moving deformity how makes the discovery t all the world may ‘ benefit ! In our hands a revelation of infinitely e. Their discoveries can prolong life only a few the gospel of‘ Jesus e gospel of eternal life nedy for the universal 11. Yet there are among 1g themselves Christians 0 effort to publish the of that remedy. They Chinese are not willing csus Christ 3. Where w ry in the ould send 31: the h become And noving makes , all benefit then they, 11 responsibility gosx you how, in_v.h5 lun- spirit of the apostle 3 cancel. he national > foreign Lmds; I am tell you he 1v best we >bt. as individuals as n. We can repay our an A‘mcr an never bil dark cont 3 thousand cit will 1 until thaw. grca t 2c peopl‘ not w them can Lnd uld enormous siu There few hc mainly _nni:nuls. It is strikes the str: looking upon pulk the members hearing the doctor sny: “Ah, poor thing! now she is out. 0! her sufl'cring." Inc tremhIes to think of how many such cases re- main undiscovered, and the unspeak- able horror of :eturning to con- sciousness boxed up in a coffin, six feet, underground, to sufior a murâ€" tyrdom of mental and physical ug- ony without the fuintr-st hope of res- cue or escape. The object of the above association is to put an end to such terrible and preventible pos- sibilities. ‘Personal Testimony of Such Cases‘ 5* in England. ‘ ’ Mr. James R. Williamson, Elont-i ' agu road, Lower Edmonton. Lona “Idon, writes to an English Duper: It} ywill be of interest to some of your 'lremlers to learn that. Mr. William ‘Tebb presided at. the sixth annual meeting of the London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial. Dr. Hooker read the report. fDr. J. Brindley James said he was always impressing upon his medical colleagues the necessity for subjectâ€" ing a body to a number 0! tests be- :iore death was certified. The best proof was putrel'action where death had not occurred. Bodies should be temporarily removed to “waiting. I mortuaries," as was done in Ger- tmany. A lady in the meeting dc,L clured that, on hearing news of the loss of her property, she went into violent hysterics for two hours, and then was thought to be dcnd. After slicing left {or twenty-four hours, she 'wns taken out of bed, rolled on the floor. and needles and pins stuck in- to her. Next morning one of the servants, on looking at her body on n den. , and applied son the cold lips. "Then said the lady, and at was five years ago. death certificate at ‘ though I could not, It hear everything. I he: take my measurement, 1 fi'n." Another laily at testified that she kn ,Kcnsington who “came ing prnounced dead. a members hearing the The nations oi the world have alloi other claim: upon us as a. Christian people that must not be ignored. 11‘ we have the spirit of Christ, we shall not be mindful of their ma!- terlal wants. He who "had com- pasion on the multitude because they had nothing to eat" would nev- er have closed his ears to the cry oi a. famine stricken nation. If we would be like him, we, too. should lead the hungry and succor the homeless. the widow and the or- phan. How better can we make known the grandeur and beauty 0! the Christian faith than by proving to other nations its benelicent in- fluence 7 As the hand of Christian America. is stretched out across the sons, bearing bread for the starving. they see Christ living again in us and Mess his door name. Having accepted from us the bread that perishcs, they will listen as We tell them of the Brand that come down from heaven. of which if u man eut he shall live forever. Were the wel- coming doors of heathen India. ever more widely opened for the gospel message than when the shiplunds of American bxcadstun‘s wme lloaied across the Atlantic. through the Mediterrnncnn, dawn the lied son and over the Indian occnn until they was taken out of bed, rolled on floor. and needles and pins stuck to her. Next morning one oi servants. on looking at her body the bed, thought it had moved. doctor was sent .for again, but. certified that she was undoubu dead. and so the coffin was ordm Three hours afterwards her dang} said: “I don't think mother across the Atlantic, through the Mediterruncafi: down the Red sen and over the Indian ocean until they wurc safely landed in the harbor of Bombay during;r the awful Indian {amines of 1897 and 1900 ? I have seen it estimated that, hundreds of thousands ol starving and dying natives were physically saved through American generosity during those 'two years. But no one save the recording angel of heaven will ever he nble to keep track 0! the multitudes of immortal souls who will ultimately be brought to the foot of Christ through the contri- bullons and th: prayers of those who tried to some extent to allay the horrors of that nwlul {amino Though the religious and daily newspapers have been for Weeks filled with the accounts of Finland‘s sulleriugs, the horrors and agonics which those simple people of the north are going through will pro- bably never be fully told. Starting 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 dwaileih the love of God in him 7" As you love your children, think 0! those children that. are starving ; as you love your wife, think of those wives and mothers and sistr-rs who are now tottering upon the} brink of the grave because they have| nothing to cut. ! May God had you‘ to 500 your duty in reference to this‘ cull which comes from across the! seas ! Then, to some extent, at} least, we may be able to Cancel a! part of the national debt which! Christian America owes to tho' aniorn "Greeks and to the hnr-i thc ugue TIIE CRY OF FINLAND 'I plon't think motht and applied some brun lips. "Then I mmt Indy, and added: ‘ years ago. I hm :rtificnte at ‘ home. [ could not move. I -rytl\ing. I heard the BURIED ALIVE rti , had moved. 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Instead, stop pleading by th use of water as hot as you can or it, and healing will take place ln-hnll the time. Common alum malted in on iron spoon over hot. coals forms a. strong cement {or joining glass and metals together. It is a good thing [or holding glass lamps to their stands. Rice can be used in several Ways for puddings and is wholesome and pal- ntnhle. Here is a good one that is easily made: Take six ounces of whole rite, and when sumciently boil- ed, stir in o. tnhlespoonful and a half of snot, shredded lin'c; when that ls melted, take it up, add one egg and two ounces of moist sugar. Boil tlr’w together three-quarters of an between the leave. of a. closed book lying upon a. an table. 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