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Vol. XXIX.
The Foundation of Faith.
[Geo. H. Hepwortb's Sunday sermon in
the New York Herald.]
A great many honest minds have
been disturbed and driven to the
verge of doubt by their inability to
form any conception of God.
He is the uncreated Creator, but
the words convey no meaning what¬
ever to our minds. If you look
thro ugh the Lick telescope at
Arcturus you see very little more
than with the naked eye, and if
the profoundest philosopher looks
at the Almighty he sees very little
more than the unlettered peasant.
Still Arcturus is in the sky, whether
you can peer into his secret or not,
and God is in your life, thought
vour most searching thought re¬
turns to you empty handed, The
very words omnipotent and om¬
nipresent have an unthinkable
signification, and when the man of
science tells us that space is abso¬
lutely limitless, that it consists of
horizons which are simply endlers
in number, we accept the fact, but
have no more conception of it than
the microbe in a watch has of the
delicate machinery whose ticks are
a continuous roll of thunder in its
ears.
What, then, you ask, is the basis
of a religion which demands such
self-control and self-sacrifice? If
these problems will always remain
insoluble, and if you can know so
little of the Bring who demands
your soul's allegiance, why may
not religion itself be a mistake?
Many a heart has been engloomed
by these thoughts and many a mind
befogged by them.
The Church, I fear, has done us
an injury by putting into a creed
its speculations and making that
creed a standard of excellence. If
the creed were offered to hungry
minds as merely a theological hy¬
pothesis, to be accepted or rejected
by the thinking folk in the re¬
ligious community, valuable in so
far as it is spiritually, helpful and
satisfactory to the individual, then
we could see its importance. But
when you are told that it is the
absolute truth on tne subject, and
that assent is the condition of re¬
ceiving the Christian sympathy ot
your fellow pilgrims through the
darkness, you are balked in your
efforts to lead a holy life, and per¬
haps fall from the high level of
your natural faith to the fateful
lowlands of doubt as to whether
the whole scheme of salvation is
not mythical,
True religion is independent of
any purely intellectual theory of
the universe, and is founded on
facts proven true by the universal
experience of mankind, This
statement is easily illustrated by
childhood. The little one does
not understand its mother has no
comprehension whatever uf a
mother’s love or of the significance
of a mother’s discipline, If the
baby were gifted with speech and
could describe its relation to that
mother it would maxe as many
misstatements as we do in describ¬
ing our relations to God. The
mother’s providence is wholly mis¬
understood ; even her watchfull
care looks like interference with
the child’s rights, and the child
might say, as Calvin did of the
Almighty, that “of her own good
pleosure” she pets at one moment
and punishes at another. The
knowledge that punishment and
love are entirely consistent with
each other, or that mother is still
mother even when the child s
The Toccoa Record.
Toccoa, Georgia, June 27 1902.
prayer is sternly denied, is beyond
the reach of that narrow intellect,
and will be for many a year to
come. Mothers and children some¬
times get at odds for this reason,
and in like manner we get at odds
with the Almighty.
Bui when we come to be men
our minds are large enough to set¬
tle certain matters of practical im¬
portance. It is needless to therize
for harsh experience tells us truths
which cannot be gainsaid. The
microbe in the watch has learned
his lesson and knows that some
journeys are dangerous while oth¬
ers are safe, and from that moment
ht has a plan of life. He con¬
structs a decalogue for himself, and
the “Thou shalt not” is the voice
of imperial law, not forbidding
him through caprice, but because
an infraction of the law is follow
•d by loss and remorse. Every
man knows that there is a right
and a wrong ; has been taught this
by many tears and failures; that
love biings sunshine, and hatred
the tempest; that filial relations
with the Infinite result in sereni y
ot soul, a resignation to harsh
events which changes them from a
curse to a blessing by some necrom¬
ancy whose secret he cannot fathom
while hostile relations end in lone¬
liness and desperation ; that in¬
tegrity of character is worth all it
costs to acquire and defend it. Add
to this the prophetic longing for
another life, which no argument
can suppress, a longing that, like
the spring on the mountain side,
will have its way, snd a curious
conviotion, which seems to be a
component part of his nature, that
in ways unexplained the dear ones
in heaven can find a path to earth,
drawn by a love which was sacred
and strong before the funeral bells
tolled, and is equally strong and
sacred now, and you have an array
of facts, corroborated by every hu¬
man life in every clime and every
age. That is the basis of the kind
of religion which Christ taught.
He gave us no explanation of
mysterious problems, but simple
truth instead—truth most needful
and altogether practical. Build
your faith on that foundation and
the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. Earth will become the
primary school for God’s Univer¬
sity,and God Himself the Teacher,
whose love is no more loving than
is His discipline.
Mrs. Maggie Hooper Sends a
Message.
Jefferson, Ind., May 15, 1900.
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Sincerely yours, Mrs. Maggie
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Stoutsville, Mo., May 5, 1900.
Gentlemen :—I have been troubl-
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tion for the last two years, and
have cried every remedy known,
but had never received any relief
until I was handed a trial bottle of
Dr, Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin,
through our druggist, J. W. Wat¬
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say has given me more relief than
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“Good Will to All Men.’
Mushroom Spawn.
Mushrooms, although of sponta¬
neous growth, are raised from
spawn. The best spawn is made in
England and is the droppings of
horses, cows and sheep, dried and
pressed into bricks. Artificial grow¬
ers take great care to have the soil
changed in the beds frequently, and
they also keep the heat of the beds
at a certain temperature. Ther¬
mometers are stuck in the soil at
short distances apart and are con¬
sulted every few hours, both night
and day. This carefulness results
in producing good mushrooms, but
it is not necessary in the production
of ordinarily good ones.
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Funny Business Ways In Russia.
As typical of Russian eccentrici¬
ties in business a writer in Scrib¬
ner's Magazine cites the case of a
foreign minister who was in the
habit of having books bound two or
three at a time. Just before his de¬
parture he wished to have fifty books
bound in the same way. He sent
for the binder and asked him at
what price he would bind fifty vol¬
umes. The reply was, “If you are
going to have as many as fifty
bound, I shall have to charge you
more a volume than for two or
three."
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A Story of Cecil Rhodes.
Once at a big dinner which Cecil
Rhodes gave at Groote Schuur,
where all the servants were men, a
charming woman came down in a
tea gown which was a “dream," but
which was cut high up to the wear¬
er's diamond clasped throat. Cecil
Rhodes, who was orthodox in his
notions of dress, looked at the tea
gown, but said nothing. Next morn-
ing, however, he sent his secretary
to the woman of the high necked
gown with this message: “I like my
guests to dine in evening dress and
not in compromise, however charm-
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PPiuDIGALS IN PERFUMES.
Oils and Ointments That Were Used
by the Romans.
The amount of perfume used in
the palmy days of Koine was enor¬
mous. The wealthy patricians were
most prodigal in this respect. The
perfumers were called unguentarii,
us they principally compounded un¬
guents and must have done an im¬
mense business. In Rome they con¬
gregated in a quarter called the
Vicus Thuraricus. The most cele¬
brated perfumer in the time of Mar¬
tial was a certain individual named
Cosmus, whom Martial frequently
mentions. At Capua there was such
a number of perfumers that the
principal street of the city, named
Seplasia, was almost entirely occu¬
pied by them. For the most part
these tradesmen were Greeks, and,
as at Athens, their shops (taberna)
were the rendezvous of the rich
idlers of those days.
The perfumed oils and ointments
were made in great variety. The
basis of the oils was generally the
oil of Ben, and that of the unguents
was a bleached and partly purified
tallow. They were used not only
for the hair, but to anoint all parts
of the body, especially after the
bath, which was quite a complicated
process. It was also customary at
banquets to honor the guests by
pouring costly perfumed oils over
their feet. Some of these were sim¬
ple oils, such as rhodium, made from
roses; melinum, made from quinces;
metopium, from bitter almonds;
narcissimum, from the narcissus.
Perhaps the most fashionable oil
after the oleum susinum was that
called crocinum, made from saffron
(crocus), which communicated both
a fine color and odor to the person.
Heliogabalus never bathed without
it.
Superstition Hard to Kill.
For more than a millennium Eng-
land has been a Christian nation,
yet m tne museum at Oxford we see
images bristling with' rusty nails
and needles, which demonstrate the
late survival of a belief in sympa-
thetic magic in the rural communi-
ties whence these objects came.
Within the university itself I se-
cured a desiccated specimen of
familiar vegetable which an officer
of one of the colleges had carried
for years as a preventive of rheuma¬
tism! Neither centuries of enlight¬
enment nor the revolutionary
changes of this progressive age have
exterminated such beliefs. They
even adapt themselves to the new
conditions, as in the case of the lady
living within the shadow of the
walls of Harvard university, who
maintains that carbons from arc
lamps are a sure preventive of neu¬
ralgia!—Journal of American Folk¬
lore.
Fire From Friction.
It is well known that some sav¬
age tribes are accustomed to obtain
fire by the friction of dry wood, hut
white men trying the experiment
usually fail. The method used by a
native Indian tribe, the Yanadis of
Madras presidency, is described in a
bulletin of the Madras government
museum. In a short stick a square
cavity is made. The stick is then
laid on the ground and held firmly
in place by one operator, while an¬
other rapidly twirls between his
hands a longer stick, one end of
which rests in the cavity. From the
fire thus produced dry leaves or a
rag can be ignited.
Wantcd Music.
“As I hear your piano very fre-
quently, Mrs. Fortissimo, I suppose
that you are up on musical mat¬
ters/’
r\ Certainly, Mr. Crusty."
*\ Then, do you know who
was
playing when the poet wrote, ‘Music
hath charms T ”
“I do not. But why?"
“Well, if you can find out I wish
that you would invite that musician
to play on your piano."—St. Louis
-^ e P u ^^ c -
The Bucket Brigade.
The little town of Massos, in
Sweden, has a female contingent,
No. 26
15o strong, in its fire brigade. The
water supply of the village consists
simply of four great tubs, and it is
the duty of the women “firemen" to
keep these full in cases of fire. They
stand in two continuous lines from
the tubs to the lake, some distance
away, one line passing the full buck¬
ets and the other sending them
back.
A Meal That Was Never Eaten.
Like all primitive peoples, the
Maoris are very inquisitive and in
the manner of children are inclined
to bring everything to their mouths
to test its qualities. In the early
days a party of Maoris came across
some bars of soap which had been
washed ashore from a wreck. Find¬
ing that, the stuff was too stickv to
be eaten raw, they resolved to cook
it. Accordingly they cut it up into
small pieces and sprinkled these
pieces over the sweet potatoes and
fish which formed their evening
meal. I ina’/y they covered the
whole mass over with fern leaves
and nulls and, putting earth on the
top, left everything to bake quietly
in the ovens till evening. The scene
at the evening meal must have been
very funny. Not only did the tribe
have to go supperless to bed, bu^
the whole set of ovens were spoiled,
and new ones had to be constructed
before any further cooking could
be done.—All the Year Round.
The Banana of Malayan Origin.
The banana goes back to the ear¬
liest days. Alexander's soldiers, as
Pliny says, joined the sages of India
seated in its shade and partaking of
its delicious fruits; hence the name
sapientum, given the plant, which
likewise bears the name of Jupiter’s
fair daughter, Musa. Now, it has
been shown that the banana is of
Malayan origin. Iiow did it get to
India and South America and Mexi¬
co ? The feet of birds have borne
seed a full 10,000 miles, while the
cocoanut has floated well nigh the
world around in the great ocean
currents. But the cultivated ba¬
nana has no seeds, nor has it a cas¬
ing like the globular cocoanut to
float it around over the waters.
Then it must have been carried by
man.
Sickly Creatures.
They were neither of them bril¬
liant scholars, but they liked to
move with the times as regards their
knowledge of current events, so the
daily newspaper was regularly deliv¬
ered at their humble domicile, and
it was Jennie’s duty to read out dur¬
ing breakfast time all the most in¬
teresting items of the day. One
morning after wading through the
latest intelligence from the front
she turned to another page of the
paper and said:
“Herbie, it says here that anoth¬
er octogenarian's dead. What's an
octogenarian ?"
“Well, I don’t quite know what
they are, but they must be very sick¬
ly creatures. You never hear of
them but they're dying.”—London
Answers.
New Year's In China.
New Year’s time in China is al¬
ways fruitful of fires. It is the Chi¬
nese custom that all debts must be
liquidated by the end of the year.
Failure to do so means utter ruin of
one's credit. It frequently happens
that a Chinaman, seeing disgrace
staring him in the face, will set fire
to his house and thus plead to his
creditors: “How could I pay? Tho
gods have destroyed my home. Ask
the gods for the money." In this
way, if not detected, honor is saved
and credit is unimpaired.
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