LESSON OF TliE NATIVITY >r. Tilnaje Say* On That Christmas Nitht God honored Motherhood.

la tUsiorjr.

^ bow befe botany will yet ron. All astrono , Sur of Bethlehem.

:m- Behold, also, in that

of niaht that God honored I

all in, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and see

the child. "Nor they any; "we are not dressed good enough to come in.” "Yes, you are; come in." Sure enough, the storms and the night dew and the 1

bles hare made rough work with

■hip the Bose sf Sha>

astronomy will yet recognize tbs

— , _ first Christmas of night that God honored the fields. Come

Ihooght that Christ came, among other •%: zf-rtA bSs; Srs-ns crest in the fset that Chn«t waa born in mmWm IsS-S-Mi njToi

Jg” bS***T ertd fgasehS^ Irire not off that old robin for her nest he sky in trsining. In yonr fsmihes snd n yonr school, tesch tjm coming genersSon more mercy than the present geners-

. unaer enarge. or carciui now ke him across the head, jarring n. What rou ssy to him will be entennial snd s thousand years will not top the echo snd re-echo. Do not sgy. It is only s child.” Rather aay,~"Itia nly an immortal." It it only a masteriese of Jehorah. It is only a being that hall outlive san and moon and star and ges qnadriennial. God Us infinite reehrees. and He can give presents of great sloe, but when He wants to give the rich«t possible gift to a hOnsebold He looks round all the worlds and all the universe nd then eiTes.a child. Yea, in all ages >od has hononrd childhood. He makes hnost rrery nicXure a failure onlea. there e a child either playing on the floor or ooking through the window or seated on be lap gazing into the face of the mother. It was a child in Naam^Ta kitchen that old the great Syrian warrior where he night go and get cured of the leprosy rSch at his seventh plunge iii the .Iordan raa left/at the bottom of the river. It ras to tin cradle of leaves in which a child raa lain, rocked by the Nile, that God ailed the attenUon of history. It tyas a ick child that «voksd Christ's curative ympathies. It wmajchild that Christ set n tile midst of thr^ubh]ing disciples to each the lemon of bumilitfc- A child denied Waterloo, showing the army of Bluher bow it could take a short rut throngh be fields when, if the old rood had been 0110 wed, the Prussian general would hare oms up too late to save the destinies of Suwpe. It Vss s child that decided Gethey derided to march for Gettysburg intrad of Hamaburg. and. this reported to jovemor Curtin, the Federal fortes Itarted to maet their opponent, at Gettvs«irg. And to-day the child is to decade 111 the great battles, nuke all the laws. etUe aU the destiaiea sad usher in the sorM's salvstioa or destruction.

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Noties slao that ia this BiUs __ eaae God tionorad seieaee. Who ars lbe bras wise men Trrrfieltag before the Drvtne ciSLXst-j’SJaw; day. W their time. TbeAr alchemy was he fofsnaper of our sublime chemister, Uh astrology the mother of om- ms^rifi-

te, ft «rcs

lien the gnatest^ physicians? Omitting Sm-idiousi* have we not had among them

Christian men like James Y. Simpson and Rush and Valentine Mott and Ahercrom- •»? Who hat

_.a and AhernetHy? greatest scientists? Joeeph Henry, who lived and died in the faith of the gospels, and Agassiz, who, standing with his atn- ' ng the hill. ‘ ' *

gentle:

God who made Urn rocks." All geology will yet bow before the Rock of Ages. AU

■re been our Henry, who

s.V£5i iifinsnSMU a a said, “Yount gentlemen, before we study these rocks Tet us pray for wisdom to the ~ ' ‘ l e rocks." All gee'—

the Rock of Ages.

' Rose ef

storms and the night dew i bles hare made rough work with their apparel. but none has a better right to come in. They were the first to hear the music of that Christinas night. ~ The first announcement of a Saviour’s birth was mads to those men in the fields. There were wiaescree that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep, and there were salaried officers of government

Jh

gfct to have half the first'ninva ,-cat event, tome one dismounti swift camel at their door and till at ——•'-"K™

great

it have been told of the celea-

Id'of lords heard

the first in tae major key and the last in the subdued minor, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men!" Ah, yea, the fields werr honored! The old shepherds with plaid and crook have for the moat part vanished, but we hove grazing on our TJnited States pasture fields snd prairie shout 42,000,000 sheep, snd all their keepers ought to follow the shepherds of «ny text, snd all those who

history God has been honoring the fields. Nearly all the messishs of reform snd literature snd eloquence and law snd benevolence have come from the fields. Washington from the fields. Jefferson from the fields. The Presidential martyrs, Garfisld snd Lincoln and McKinley, from the fields. Daniel Webster from the fields. Martin Luther from the fields. Before this-world is right the overflowing populations of our crowded cilice will here to take to the fields. Instead of ten mer- - " that

la chants in rivalry as to who shall sell one apple we want at least eight of them

to go out and raise apples. Instead of ton J i—— * « — bushel

them

merchants desiring to sell that one t

of whest, we want at least eight of

i» and* raise wheat. The world

wants now more hard hands, more a: /gst/Ajti surrender to the God who made the conn-

Ctri.tmM

night God honored motherhood. Two anMi?, btto* tbm Whro thT«■ and one of the tendered relations waa to be the maternal relation and one of the sweetest words, "mother.” In all sees, had a good mother; Doddridge, a good S5s. w w!£ great audience, mokt of whom were Chrisalmost the entire assembly stood up. Do JTLSESJ! VtM U ! th, iulvn ITtiR. who, b, .1.1.t-d face? I never heard, but I think they, took their own mothers as the type of Mary, the mother of Chrat. When you hear some one in sermon or oration speak ent home, and was dressed appropnstely

her own needles seated by tne bi place, with grant backlog ablaze, c ter night. It matters no? how ma

s win-

te.ir'K

stooped with the burdens ad a long life If you painted a Madonna, hers would be the face. What a gentle hand she had when we were tick, and what a voice to too the pain, and waa there any one who could so fill up a room with peace and purity and light? And what a aad day that waa when we came home and she could greet us not. for her lips were forever still! Come bade, mother, in these Christmas times and take your old place, and, za ten or twenty or fifty years ago, come snd open the old Bible asyon nsed-to; read and kneel in the same place where yon used to'pray and look upon ue, ee of old, when you wisned y_;,-xr. 2rss SA'SXte to call you back. You had troubles enough while you Were here. Tarry by the throne, mother, till we join you there, youf players ell answered, sad in the eternal homei of our God we shall again keep stmaa jubUee together. But apeak i your thrones. aH you glorified mothand my to all these, your eons and - ght beside you at the bsnqust' "Slow footed years! More swiftly run Into the gold of that setting sun. '

THE SABBATH SCHOOL loieraational Lesson 'Comments For December 29. Review el tbs Last Qosrtsr el IM1. Psa. cv., 1-20—OoUIcd Tezi, Rem vlU., 31 —Soamary ol Ike Twelv#

Intioduclion—During the past quarter ws have seen the Lord gradually bringing about Hu purpose in ways that are ‘erious and strange. A nation ia d up in a foreign country, and then a mighty hand ia dcliverad from the easor and started toward the land of

toward the land of promise. We should learn that no event prJ';T^ ! r,srss , -.!SbTLs .SffSsr 'puSTiSl-M ^"V^"vLrLr.~'?bS;.b,

& 2;r ;

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1th Z ^ SS; fljfcs them; they each have a dream and are sfc mzwzzx fir- ‘ nd III. Topic: Fidelity rewarded. PUce: Zoan. Pharaoh has two dreams that bera Joseph; he u called; the king tells Ki dreams; there were to be seven years SS&s.-;®

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ii^Tri'b^C; J^b wii-bu^ji

el’s neck: Joseph then introduces his

Jacob dies snd is buried in the cave w; Abraham snd Isaac; Joseph's b ret hi... again ask forgiveness: Joseph forgives them; Joseph trains his children well;

Joseph dies and is embalmed.

VI. Topic: The afflictions of God's people. Place: Goshen. God greatly prospered the Hebrews and they became numerous; the new king of Egypt oppressed them greatly; they were made to serve with rigor: taskmasters were set over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; they built Pithom and Raamsea; their lives were made bitter, but the more they wtrr epnresaed the more God prospered them. VII. Topic: God preserving Moses. Plaee: Zoan. Moses's parents, Amram snd Joehebed, were of the house of Levi: Moses was a goodly child and was kid three months by his mother; an ark was then made; the child waa put in the river; the king’s daughter went to bathe and saw the child; Moses's sister Miriam ia told to call a nurse; the calls her mother: after the child waa grown he became the son of Pharaoh's daughter; she called hia name Vlri. Topic: The woes of intemperance. Israel is compared to a vineyard; the Lord looked for good grapes, but it brought (forth wild grape*; some of their evil deeds are here enumerated; woes are pronounced upon the covetous—those who ’’join house to house;” also upon thsf drunkards who regard not God; because of this the people are to be carried into captivity; their ruin will be complete and unavoidable; they are to be deatroyad like

chaff before the fire.

IX. Topic: God calling Moses to deliler Israel. Place: In the land of Midian. Mosea decided to leave Pharaoh’s sonrt and join himself to the people of God; he killed s man and fled to Arabia; be married Zipporah: tended hia father-in-law'r sheep; when in the desert, near Horeb, God spoks to him from the burning bush; told him to put off his shoes: said ns was about to deliver Israel; called Moses to lead them out of Egypt snd promiasd to be with him. '' X. Topic: The last plague threatened. Place: Goshen. Moses thought bs was not able to deliver Israel, but God sent Aaron to assist him. Nine plagues wars brought -blood. frogsVl.ce. flies, murrain, boils, hail, locusts, darkness—and still Pharaoh refused. One more plague waa to bs brought and then they would bs thrust out. All the first born in the land were to be slain; there would be a great cry, but among the Hebrews all would be safe. XI. Topic: Preparing for the exodus. Place: Goshen. The Lord gave minute insti net ions to Mesas and Aaron. Each Habrew family Vas to take a lamb and loll it in the evening and sprinkle the blood an the lintel and the two aide posts; thr lamb- was to be roasted snd aU oaten; they were-to eat in haste, ore pared ts ' leave at any moment; the blood would protect them. They were finally thrust out. and Pharaoh followed them to the Red Rea, where hia host was drowned. XH. Topic: The Prince of Peaoe. Place: Jerusalem. The prophet protoissd deemer. Bellas coma and baa eatabliahad ijisrs^sja Shuras: world RAM’S HORN BUSTS-

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PUZZLED OVER NAMES.

go ms of iti* I> I flic u 11 las Encountered by

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The de»lrahlllty of n wider popular acquaintance with scientific names Is revealed by the difficulties which the scientific bureau* of the government have In making themselves understood throughout the wide expanse in which their publlcstlons circulate. One growth often has so many differlocal names that a complete glos-

iry.

For example, the division of botany

' agriculture, re-

ef the departmet

sary is necssarj

ment of i _

intly Issued a bul'etin on the "chavote,” a tropical vegetable. Most people will ask. "What Is it?” It is s vegetable known by 28 more or less common colloquial names, although It Idely distributed. The Engiking residents of New Or leans call it the "one-seeded cucum-

I*”

is not t Hah spe

ber;’’ the Porto Ricans call it "tallote’ and "tavote;” the BriUsh West Indians call It the “vegetable pear." and so on. In the opinion of the department of agriculture this vegetable will in time become familiar in the American kitchen. Paris and London

begun to import it from Algeria,

It ia well known

tropical countries. It

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