Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1894 — Page 12

12 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 18,V4 TWELTE PAGES.

THE ESCAPE OF PAUL

nn. talmii.i: dux uinr.s it i his He Chor nn HI Snlj-et l nniire-l-iiln! -r iee How rtit lttult Hane on Mrmlrr Tlir-jili Many Ilclnfol luHm iKTt Scivr Ackavn I edsfrtl. ".lOCILi:. -Mctnii 11 The liev. T. l.c Witt Talmas-, 1. D.. wh Is now visiting tfiv South. svl'H-tfd as the subjci-t of today's st-rnioii 'Unappreciated Services the t'-xt 1 iiiLr taken from 1 1 Corinthians xi, ' Through a window, in u. lakf t. was I l'-t d"wn by tie wall." Damascus is a (iiy -f whit and kHstning architecture snni-t Invs called "the eye of the oast." yorr.-tinies railed pearl surrounded by emeralds," at one time distinguished for s won Is r f the b ?t material, failed l:in!3.Hjs Hads, and upholstery of ri- h-st fabric, culled daniak. A hors'inan of the ranif of I'aul. ridini; toward this city, had Inen throv.n from th saddle. Tin horse had dropped under a Hash from th sky. which at ihe same time wlls so Prisrht it Minded tlr rider for many days, and, 1 ti.ink, spermanently injnrtd his eyc.-iyht that this defe t of isj..;i Kcame the thorn in the 11. sh It- afterward sp'aks of. lie Mart oil for Ian:asi-ns to liutch.tr "liristians. but alter that hard fall from his horse ho was ;t changed man :cnd j n-ached Christ in Damast us till the ity was shaken 1 its foondal in. TI.e mavt'i- f;W s authority f.-r his arrest, and th p.-pular cry is: "Kill him: Kili him!" Th- ity .. surr und'd by a high wall, and the. sr.tcs are watched by the police lest the I'U'u !an r-.a in r s.-ane. Many f th - li'.uses arc built n th wall, and th-ir haloniis projected clear over and hovered above the ard -ns o'ltsi b'. It was (iis!em;iry to lower t;tsk"ts on; of tics.- b.ileonifs and j u i 1 ui IriuTs and tl wers fr.-ni the pard"ns. To this day visit. trs at the monastery .if Mount Sinai arc lifred and let down in baic ts. Dotoctivos prowled around from hmi-t-hv'mso lo.kin.u for Paul, lau his friends hid him n.-w in ne place, iv w in iinothr. He is no coward, a? fifty oiderts in his life demonstrate. Hut W- feels his work is not dr. yet, and so h" e tides a--sasstc,ttii u. "Is that prent h'T li- fe?" ti;e f-.arnin m..l shout at one It. use or. "Is that fanal'nhere?" the police shout at another lious-.-d.M.r. S. in,ei:m on the wint-t lie passes in.Mfrtiito through a crowd of flinched iits. an.l som--timos lv se r-tf hims. If n the house At h'si the infuriated populace jr. t on sure Mv.i k of him. InulM INcnpe. They l-.ave -sitive ci.et e thai he is In the house of t-n.' the KMkony of vi.'.--tlv w.:!l. "Her., he Til.- vociferation an howlinjr of the pursn .,r the Cliristiaa-:, honie reaches over :s! II re he is:" d blas;he'n' and e; s are at th" front do.... They h.vak in. "Fetch out that Kospelizer. and 1.. t us hamc his lead on tho city tr ite: Whte is li"V" Th : vmretj.-y was terrible. I'rovi'lcnti.illy thpfe was a K1" ' 1 stoat basket !n th" house, fa ul's friends fasten a roj. the biskef. Paul steps into it. Th" basket is lifted to the edsv of the balcony on the wail, and then while Paul hobbj onto the rope with both hands his fpnds lower away, carefully and cautiously, slowly, but surely, farther down and farthtr down, ur.til the basket strikes the eirth. ar.d the apostle sieps out. and afoot and a -on? starts on that famous missionary tour, the story t f which has astonisheil earth an.l heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary of travels "Throuirn a window, in a basket, was I let down by th" wall." Observe first on what a slender tenure great, results h.anjr. The ropemaker who twistel that cord fast ne 1 to that lowerlr.p basket never knew how much would depend on the stronpih f it. How if it had Iteen broken and the apostle's lifLad been dah. d out'.' What would have become of the Christian church? All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphylia. Cappd oia. c.alatia, Mao-w donia. would never have been accomplished. Ail his writings that make up s intlispensa.bl and t-nchantinf? a iart of the new test intent would never have been written.. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously t.ld as h" t"ld it. That example of heroic and triumphant cndurar.ee at Philippi. In th Mediterranean cut -lyilon, uiiil-r flapetlation and at his lw.-headinpr. would not have kindled" the courage f.f lO.nn. martyrdoms. Hut the rope holding that basket ht.v much deluded on it: S again and a era in frreat results have hung on what seemetl slender circumstances. The Hont MiiHf laiy In. Did ever ship of many thousand tons rrosslng1 the sea hae such important r-asse rigor a. hal once a boat of leaves, from taffraii to stern only thiee or four feet, th" vessel mad" waterproof by a cat of bitumen and floating on the Xile with the infant lawgiver of the Jews on board? What if some crocodile sdw.uM erun h it? What if some of the atUe wading in for a drink should sink il? Vessel.? of war sometimes earry forty K'ans li'xtkiny through the port-holes ready t open brittle. Hut that tiny raft on the Xile s.-enis to be armed with all the fnms of thunder that boml'.tnlcd J-'inai at the lawgiving. On how frafcile ci-aft sailed how much of historical importance: Tlie Taritonago at Epw.rth. Hr.ttlantl, Is on lire in the nicht, ami the father rushes through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the ground. lut on- remains in the consuming- building- That one wakes, and Hndhi his bed on fire and the tidlding crumbling comes to the window, and two peasants make a la.l-d-r of their lxn!les, .i:e peasant standing on the shoulder of th" other, and down the human ladder the boy dseends John Wesley. If you would kn.w how much depmded on that ladder of peasants, ask the millions of methodu;ts on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all round the world. Ask the hundreds of thousands already asf ended t. join th-ir founder, who would have j-t ished but for the living stair of ie,t scats' shoulders'. An Engli5h shin stopped at Pitcairn Island, and rieht in the midst of surwoundinsj cannibalism and squalor the I)asseng. rs discovered a Christian colony .f churches and schls and leautiful home and highest style nf religion and civilization. For fifty yeaxs no missionary and nc Christian influence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a desert f.f heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met disaster, and one of the sailors, unable to save anything elfe. went to his trunk and took out a bible which his mother had placed there and swam a?hore, th bible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides until tho muh and vicious imputation were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established, and the world's history ha3 no more brilliant page than that which tells of the transformation of a nation by on book. It did not sem of much Irr.porLtnce whether the sailor continued to hold the book In his teeth or let it fait In the breakers, but upon what mall clrcums'ance depended what mighty results! Practical inference: There are no inFignincancw in our lives. The minutest thing U iart of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of infinitesimals. Great thinsrs an exasperation of small things. DethJehem manger pulling on a star in tiv fatrn ky. One book In a drenchexl sailor's mouth the evangelization of a multitude. One boat of papyrus oa ths .Nile freighted with event fur all

ages. The fate of- Christendom In a basket let down from a window on the wall. What you do, d. well. If you make st roj.e. make it strong, ami true. for yuu know not how much may depend cm your w orkmaiu-hip. If you fashion a. bKst. l"t it lw waterproc.f, for you know not who may. sail in it. If you put a bible in th.- trunk of your boy as he purs from home, let it be heard in jour prayers, for it may have a mission as farrcaching as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the IMtcairn beach. The plainest man's life is an island b-tween two eternities eternity patt tippling acainst his shoulders, eternity to com tom-hliiR his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened so, are parts of a preat pl;ri. and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from th" Damascus wall is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuri.. Aj?ain. notice unreeopnized an.l unrecorded services. Who spun that rope? Who tied iL to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of th arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched the ground and discharged its maeniticent carp-o? Xot one of their names has come to u?. but there was no work done that day in Damascus or in all the earth compared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their apitation tied a knot that could slip? What if the sound of the moi at the dot.r am! b-d them to say, "Paul must take care of himself, and we will take care of ourselves?" No, no: They held the rmi", and in doins: so did more for the Chirstian church than any thousand of us wiil ever accomplish. Put c.l knows and has made eternal ncod of th. ir undertaking. And they kno. lbw exultant they mut hav: feJt when they read Ips letters to the Ji.m ins, f the Corinthians, to tic C.ala-tian.-. to tlv Kphesians. to the pi,ilippiaiis. p. the- Colossian, to the Thessaloniins, :. the Timothy, to Titus, to Phi lent n. to the Hebrews, and when ihrty heard how he walked out of prison, with the carthcjuake unlocking the door fir hint, and took command of '.he Alexandrian cornsbip when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook IViix off his judgment seat: I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall taikinvr in private over the .matter an I s-ivinc: '"How lad I am that we effected that fescue: In comum times others may thi jrlory of Pud's work, bu: no or." shall rob u.-i of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope." U- Held Ilie Itiiiir." There a:e said to b. ab.-ut sixt.--nine thousand ministers of religion in this co'intr. A beut fifty thousand. J warrant. mne from early homes which ha I to stiM'-r'-ilc f,.r tlie necessaries of life. The f ri h bankets and merchants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the s ns of thos who h:.d ten-Hie s! rnspl'" to et their everyilay breati. Th-- c '11 eia i e sind I he .b ";i al "tlucatioii of thit ::i .k ewry luxury from the parental table tor ciidit year-. The o.her hiidrcii were more scantily appareled. Th" s) n at ccjlt'e every little while trot a bundle front home. In it were the socks that moj her h.ol knit, sittini; up late at niht. her surhi not as go...! as or.ee il was. And there also Wei" some ddi iii.-s front the sister's h url for th" . 'rat ions appetite of a hungry student. The years tro by. and the son has been onlained and is preaching the u'.orious eosj I. an 1 a t'reat rexival e eines, and o'ils iiy scon s anil hundreds accept the gospel from the ljp.s f that ountr preacher, an.l fat It r ami mother, quite o'.d now. are visiting the son at the vi!-lair-1 pa.r.-onage. a:ai at tic lose ..f a Sabbath of mishty blessing father and mother ret ire-to t h ir n m. the s.n li.e;htiri"; tic way and askin;; them if lie cair do anything t' make them more comfortable, saying if they want anything in the ld-ht just to knock on the wall. An.l then all alone father and mother ta'.k o,-r tip. gracious influences of the lay and say: Well, it was worth all we wept throuirn to dti- ate that boy. It was a hard pull, but we held on till

the work was .lone. Th know it: but, mother, w world may lot h. ld the rope, otce, tremulous .-ponds: "Yes, didn't we-'-- Ar.d the v-;; with joyfal emotion, r .-; father. We held the fop-. work is done. Now. I,oid. I fe.-l my lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. r,,r mine eyes have seen thy salvation." "Pshaw." says the taller. "I never felt so much like living in my life as now! I want to see what that fellow is going on to do, he has begun so well." Hidden from l!i World. Oh, men and women here assembled, you biag sometimes how you have foucht yen- way in the world, but 1 think there have been helpful influences that vim he.ve never full acknowledged. Has there not been some influence in your early or present home that the world cannot see? Does then? nt reach to you front the among the New i:ngcand hills, or from western prairies, or from southern plantations, or from Knglish or Scottish or Irish home, a cord of influence that has kept you right when you would have gone astray, and which, after you had made a crooked tiiuk. recalled you? The rope may be as long as thirty years or ",iki miles long, or :;,0" miles long, but hands that went "lit of mortal sight long ago still hold the roie. Von want a very swift horse, an.l you med to rowel him with sliarj-est suprs, and to let the reins lie loose upon the neck, and to give a shout to a racer, if you are g ing to ride out of reach of your mother's prayrs. Why. a ship crossing the Atlantic in seven days can't sail away from tlum: A sailor finds them on tlie lookout as he takes Iiis place, ami finds them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle a nie in th" ttmpest, and tinds them swinging on the hammock wnen he turns in. Why not le frank and acknowledge it? The most of us would long ago have been dashed to pieces had not gracious and loving- bands steadily and lovingly and mightily held the rope. Put there must conic a lim when we shall bad out who these Damascenes were who lowered Paul in tip basket, and greet them, ami all those who have rendered to (p.tl and the world unrecognized and unrecorded services. That is going to be one of the glad excitements if heaven the hunting up and picking out of those who did great good on earth and got no c redit for It. Here the church has been going on nineteen centuries, anil this is probably the first sermon ever recognizing the services rf the people in that Damascus baony. Charles ;. Finney said to a dying Christian, "dive my love to St. i'aul when you meet him." When you and I meet him. as we will. I shall ask him to- introduce me to to those people who got him out of the Damascene peril. Once for thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of .tlie ocean. Th waves struck through the skylights and rushed down Into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time, but by the blewng of Cod and the faithfulness of the mn in charge we came out of the cyclone, and we arrived at home. Kach one before leaving the ship thanked Capt. Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Cap. Andrew, and when years after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the gcodness, the courage and the kindness of Capt. Andrews, but it occurs to nie now that we never thanked the engineer. Tie stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism, and his continuance, and his ndelity, and there will be Just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight as the captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest. A Christian woman was seen going along the edg of a wood every evenride and the neighbors In the country did not

understand how a muther with so many arcs and anxieties should waste fo much time us to be idly sauntering out evening by evening. It was found "out afterward that she went there to pray for her household, j-tid while there one evening !"he wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: I ln-o to steal awhile awny From every ciimtering care And spend the hours of fetting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no reward for such unpretending yet everlasting service? ic.d M ill Inlroilnrr I i. We go into long sermon to prove that we will be able to recognize people in heaven when then is one reason we fail to present, aixl that is better than all God will .introduce us. We shall have them all pointed out. You would not be guilty of the impoliteness of having friends in your parlor not introduced, and celestial politeness will demand that, we b" undo acquainted with all the heavenly household. What rehearsal of obi tinier anH recital of stirring reminiscences. If others fail to give introduction, find will take us through, and bef-u-o mir first twenty-four hours in heaven if it were calculated by earthly timepieces have passed we shall meet and talk with more heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal slate we met with earthly celebrities. Many who made great noise of sefulmss will sit on the last scat by the front door of the heavenly temple, whil" right up within arm's reach of the heavenly throne will be many who, though they could not preach themselves or do great exploits for God, nevertheless held the rope. Come, let us go right up and accost those on this circle cd' heavenly throne. Surely they must have killed in battla million men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the cities tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daughter in a humble home that 1 miht take care of my parents in their old age, and T endured without complaints all their tiuerulousness arid ministered to all their wants for twenty years." let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was for thirty years a Christian invalid and st.fferfd all the while occasionally writing ;. note of symi-athy for those worse off than I. and was general confidant of all those who had trouble and once in awhile I was strong enough to jne.k a garment for that poor family in the back lane." l'ass mi to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was the mother who raided a vlmle family of children for God. and ihv arc out in the wir!d. Christians, merchants. Christian mechanics. Christian wives, and f have had full reward of all my toil." I.t-t us piss on in the circle of thrones. "1 had a Sabbath-s. ho -1 class, and they were always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am wai'iag for their arrival." Hut who art tlum. the mighty one of heaven on this other throne? "In time of bitter persecution I owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ Was hounded from street to street, and I hid him from the assassins, an.l when I found them breaking in my hue and I could n longe r keep him safely 1 advised him to dee for his life, and a baskt was l-t down over the wall with the malinatt-d man in it. ami I was one who heied hol I the rope." And I said. "Is that all?" and he anwred. "That is all." And wh:lrt I was lost in amazement I heard a s-trong vice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from many exposures and triumphant as though it might have be. long. 'd to ..ne of the martyrs, and it said. "Not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but ;.k1 hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound th things which are mighty, and base things of the wot Id, and tilings whi'h are despisul hath Cod chosen yet, and things which sire n a to bring to naught tilings which are, that no Üe-h should glory in His pre.---ence." And I bok'Ml to see from whence the voice came, an.l. '. it was the very one who had said. "Through a window, in a basket, was I let down by th" wall." Tin- Slorj of Ihr nil. Henceforth think of nothing as insignificant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunnrder put out from England for New York. It was well equipped, but in putting up a stove in the pilot lx a mil was driven too near the compass. You Know low that nail would effect the compass. The ship's officer, deceived by that distracted compass, put the ship :2''ii mil.s off her right course, and suddenly the nri'.i on the lookout cried. "Irnd, ho" and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny na:i came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, puts his hand behind his head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night, by the light of an insect called the c ;t:i 11 "My, is kept from stepping ove r a precipice a. hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated clergyman, said that he entered the ministry from a train of c ircumstances started by the barking of a d..g. Had the wind blown one way n a certain day the Spanish inemisition would have been established in England, but it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed imtituti ai. with 7.1;) tons of shipping, to th bottom of the sea or flung the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in y..ur life or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right sitle of the figure 1 make a thousand, and six ciphers on the right sitle .f the figure 1 make a million, and our nothingness placed on the right sitle may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony!

An Invisible oodl'. Where the kitchen adjoins a iroh or woodshed it is possible t make a woodbox in the partition so that the box can be filled from the porch or shed, and the wood need not be brought into the kithchen at all. The Country Gentleman tells how a wood-box can be construe ted so that it need occupy no space whatever in the kitchen a most desirable feature. The box is made in the form of a V and WOOD-BOX OPEN AND CLOSED. 1. hung so as to swing on the point at the tKdtom or on a Bplndle passing from the partition through the box Just at the point. When the box is shut up on the kitchen side it projects on the other side of the partition and can be filled. When wrtod is desired in the kitchen the box is swung into the room, a few sticks o? wood removed and the box swung back again. Its weight will of course hold it in either position. Parlor DecortiHon. A high easel arranged with a chair upon each side gives an upward, angular tendency, which is undesirable. The placing of one chair by the side of this easel would give a neutral effect and be all right, and the other chair could be placed elsewhere, but the arrangement of everything to be cheerful should preserve a down-pointing angle aspect. If designers remembered that, they would grasp the reason why th uneducated masses so often make big demands for certain patterns and . leave others severely alone. The subtle Influence of expression reaches them where artistic ffets fail utterly to please. Upholsterer.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

I.ESO FIRT QfARTER, IXTF.RV1TI0V4L SKRins, MARCH 1. Text of th Lrimon. lern, xvill. 1T-21 in Minxlonnry- l.rmoti ."Hrmnry en, 1 7-1!) Golden Trti. Cin. vlH. IM'ommrntry by Ihr Itci. P. M. I-Bro. 17. "And th Lord said. Shall hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" As we have choice between a temper ance and a missionary lesson, i unnwtatingly ehtwse the latter, believing that the greater includes the less, and also litmly believing that if individual Chris- , tiar.s anil churches, societies and Sundayschools would only yield fully to the Lord that He might through them accomplish all His pleasure in preaching the gospel to every cr?ature, not only would the Lord bo greatly rejoiced. His elect church hastened to completion, but these same individual believers, churches, societies and Sunday-schools would know the blessing of the I.rd as never before. These five versus of this lessotv are in connection with the visit of the Lord a nil the angels to Abraham uneler the oaks of Mamie and the approaching destruction of th? cities of the plain. It is a most suggest h e missionary topic, attire same Lord who said, "Shall 1 hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" said also some l.sa) years later, when here on earth in His humiliation. "As it vas in the days of Lot. they did eat. they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they budded, but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destioyed them nil. - Even thus shall it Ie in the day when the Son of Man is revealed" (Luke xvii. 2S-3"). and now over l.SO.) years still later those who are Ablaham's seed by faith In Christ Jesus (Gal. Iii. US), with this thing not hid from them, are as indifferent to th1 impending storm that is surely coming and the welfare of people about them as if 1 he Lord had never utterevl thse words. Please do read Truv. xxlv, 11. 12; Kzek. xxxiii. 7-0. 1. "Seeing that Abraham shall purely become a great and mighty nation, ami all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him." As to the far-reaching blessing, see chapters .vii. and xxii. 1J. Although it was not fully revealed to Abraham just how this glorious result was to be ac'-omplishr-d. it is not hidden from us to whom lias been given th" New Covenant as well as the Old. The New opens with the statement that Jesus Christ is the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matt, i, D. and ges on to show that He is the one of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write that though he was rejected by Israel, to whom He sp.-cially came, yet He Puffert.! and died and rose again according to the scriptuifs; th:t while the kingdom is postponed because of the rejection of the king He is by the preaching of the gospel of His grace gathering from all nations an elec t company who shall reign with Him as His Pride when He shall bless all nations through His 'lect. restored and holy nation. Israel (Lukexxiv, xiv. II;" Acts iii. 19-21; xv. f4-17.) The national conversion of Israel will b. accomplished when they look upon Him whom they have pierced, as He shall return in power and glory, bringing His bride with Hirn; then shall th?y be smitten with tru conviction of sin. like Saul on the way to Daensens, and shall welcome their rejected Messiah, saying: "This is Jehovah. We have waited TaHim; we shall be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Then shall Israel blossom an.l bud and till the fac of the world with fruit. Se Zech. xii, 10; xiii, 1; Isa. xxv. xxvii. !. 1!. "For I know him trot will command his children anil his household after him. and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to elo jurtlce and judgment, that the Lonl may bring upon Abraham that which He bath spek.n of him." The Lord knoweth each of us thoroughly, eve n to our thoughts and imaginations Ps. rxxx'x. 1-4; Chn n. xxvlii. :. ant He know? what He can accomplish through us. and whether we will walk in His way t,r not. By disobedience we hinder Him from accomplishing His pleasure in and through us. If we were only willing and ol.rdient we would in I every true sene cat the the good of the land ami be Ml,d with the fatness of His house (Isa. i. 1; Ps. lxxxl. 13. P; xxxxvi. St. The way of the Lord is as high aliove nur ways as heaven is above the earth ilsa. lv. 8. 9). yet vain man clings tt his own thoughts and ways, and thus knows neither the Lord's thoughts nor counsel (Mie. iv. 12). Much time and stre ngth is thu wasted by individuals an.l churches by not knowing the I rird's way and purpose. 2". "And the Lord said, 'Because the cry of So.lom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous." All sin cries unto clod, and He hears the cry of all the oppressed. "The voice of thy brother's blood eriest unto Me firm the ground" (Gen. iv, 10). The cries of the oppressed reapers enter into the ears of the Lord of Hosts (Jas. v, 4). His eyes and ears e.pen to all things n earth, but because io is long sufferFng He tarries to the utmost if perchance He may lead men to repentance ami deliver them from eternal loss (II Bet. iii, 9; Job x.cxiil. 23, "0. And while judgment is restrained He gives us the privilege of interceding for men as Abraham did, and of beseeching men to be reconciled to God (II Cor. v, 2'J). 21. "I will fn down now an.l see wh"ther they have done altogether according to the cry of it. which is come unto n, and if ivjt I will know." He never punishes without cause, nor without due and patient investigation. "Ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord (Jod" (Ezek. xiv, 23. Before the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the- gospel of our Lord Jesus (II Th.ess. i. 7. M. there will be a judgment of the saints for the ir sei vice (Bom. xiv. 10; II Cor. v. fo). and as there is a possibility of muc h work being burned up (I Cor. iii. 13-1..). I for one desire to keep the way of the Lord and have Ilim work in me loth to will and to do of His ge nl pleasure (Phil, il, 13). Polinnen Sou (He. This is a very tempting form of potato. I'eel some nice-sized potatees, and cut them in slices about one-quarter Inch thick, dry them well in a clean cloth, put them Into a frying basket, and fry in plenty of lxdling lard or fat till they are cooked, hut n t colored. It is on this first cooking that their success depends, and they should be just so cookeel that, while c(uite se.ft. they shemld bite crisp and short if you put a piece in your month. Now have ready a second pan cf fat. throw a few cf the eeoked potato slices into the basket and fry them in the fat till they color prettily and puff out on both sides. Put these to I drain in a hot ce.rner and continue till ! all are colored ami light. Mr. IMIon. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison is described t a a rarely beautiful woman. Her father, Iewls A. 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