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BENEFITS OF ADVERSITY Dr. Talnafe Say* We Most All Qt. Throafk Some kind of Thrasblnj Process for Oar Ow« Good. Trt«*pa Always Comes After MUfartaaa— Orta I Need Is SoUcc- • WAKlt*cTOS, D. C.-Krom a procc« fanulisr to tbo farmer Dr Ulmste draws le»sDn« of consolation and encouragement

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ttchcs,are not thrashed yith a thrashing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about tipon the cummin, but the htches arc betaten out with a staff and the cunt-

Misfortunes of various kinds come upon people, aud in'all times the great

i-.—t of a bun-

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various pcopl

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i _ _ • tioned—htches. cummin and corn. Of t last we all know. But it may be well state that the titches and the cummin were ■mail seeds, like the caraway or the chick-

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iy or the

grains or herbs w fee thrashed thev were thrown c

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til the seed would be .titrated, but when •he corn was to be thrashed that was thrown on the floor, and the men would fasten horses or oxen to a cart with iron dented wheels; that cart would be drawn around the thrashing floor.-and ao the work would be accomplished. Different *¥£ 'r« d £3i/^r. thrashing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised bnause he will not ever he thrash-

ing it*” ^

The great thought, that the text pres, upon our souls is that we all go through some kind of thrashing process. The fact that you may be devoting your life to honorable and noble -purposes will not win you any escape. Wilberforce, the Christian

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ington Macauley, the advocate of all that was good, long before he became the most consptcuoiu historian of his day, was cari-•-later liSkJT'&srv? ■ J*eod. the great friend of the Scotch p£>r. was industriously maligned m-all-quarters. * although on the day when he was carried out to his burial a workman stood and Sooted at the funeral procession and said. "li he had done nothing for-anybody more than he has done for me. he would ahim aa the stars forever and ever.” All thi

sir

If such men could not escape the malignJesus must suffer persecution. Besides that, there are the Mcknessea and the ^ bankruptcies and the irritations and the disappointments which are ever putting a cup of. aloes to your lips. Those wrinkles deciphered?'would make ^out^a ^tl^ftng story of trouble. The footstep of the rabbit is seen the next morning on the snow.

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Even amid the joys and Tiilarities of life trouble wiD sometimes break in. As when the people were assembled in the Charlestow» tbfeatre dnnng the Revolutionary •War.Vand while they were witnessing a farce aWl the audience was in great gratulation the guns of an advancing army were

nonade of some great disaster. All the fitches and the cummin and the com must come-down on the thrashing floor and be My subject; in the first place, teat that it ia'no compliment to ns if

cape great «Btn on o

SoYSKalrjiir™ i one thrashing floor might lo< the corn on another thraahin

- inch *

.would answer and aay:

reason you have not been as much pound as I have? It is because vou are not of

nmeh worth a* I am. If .you were, yon.

would be as severely run over." Yet there men who suppose they are the Lord's { intes simply because their bams

there are no funerals in the house. It may "ibite atSwmd^'I^ the'jHwi pound bepause sbe is the best part of the En. hxi i & 'S's gram. If you have not been much thrashed ^5715 b

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but when the drought

| the fruit, then a qua

s' took the venomous snake on Paul'* band, and the pounding of him with sb unti' Jie was taken up for qead. and jamming against him of prison gates, the Ephesian vociferation, and the an. . skinned by the painful .stocks, and (toe. foundering of the Alexandrian com ship, and the beheading stroke of the Romah sheriff to bring Paul to hii proper derflopJt was not because Robert Moffat and Lad? Rachel Rusatll and Frederick Qbej^ }in were worse than other people that they bad to*suffer. It was because they were better, and God wanted to make them heat. By the carelessness of the thrashing yon may always conclude .the valul of the

gram.

Next, my text teaches ns that G< portions our trials to What we can the staff for the filches, the rod for the

.cummin, the iron wheel for the com.

SVou^Writ:'

God would not have sent it upon yon ifHe had cot known that you mid bsar it. Ton trembled and yon swooned, but yon got through. God will not take from your , eyes one tear too many nor from your lungs one sigh too deep nor from your temples one throb too sharp, The perp’.exities of your earthly bnainess have not in - thqm one tangle too intricate. "You sometime. feel „ if our world were full of bludgeons flying haphaeard. Oh, no: they are thrashing instruments that GoJ jost suits to Tour ease. There is not a doHar of bad debts on your ledger or a. disappointment about? goods that yon expected to go up but thAt have gone down, or a I swindle of four business partner or a trick

great deal better opinion of P -. mills and corn thrashes

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trouDIr. k ou

would not hurt, ai

not get sanctified! Your t be cnildlessncss. You a dreii, You aay, "Why ehildmi to that other h they ore unwelcome and banged almut when I wc them 4 n the anna of my i aay, "Any ot’ 1 *' »»

trial perhaps nance or a fai

and you aay, * w* only I was good lool perliap-i is a violent to drive it like six the gunpowder expH day, and ever and anon you. Your trial is the "If lit were rheumat' erysipelas, but it is t such an exhausting tl

oulil choose something that and unleae it hurt it does *• gr'tfrsK

"Why doaa God other household.

laps may

aa of chii-

God send

mold,' where

na are beaten and would hare taken

ma of my affection?” You er trial but thii.’ Your iay be a disfigured countsthat is eaailr caricatured. I could endarManything it I Inokins” And vour trial

.our tnal u the asthma. You say, ir trouble fa a husband, aha™ snsn-

id cross about the house rn

py and crou about the n> a small riot because a but could you know "the button trial is a aife ever in corsteal your presence once, now al not learn, and you have *«■ mult until they are a aigl

VJ'! & * with the ser

en. Though (lie er appearance in

leaaon you canrua.^ because they you. There

Would thajSfl could administer some of these drop* of celesUal anodyne to these | nervous and excited souU. If you would take enough of it. it would cure all your ;

eo riY ,r “ff *» this trouble.

i>e sbaVf bare a great ro»=» er»*iU d«

m heaven/ but I wiil tell yc

tell me?” Yes. I can. It will be the day we get there. Some say heaven is growing more glorious. I suppose it is, but I do not care much about that. Heaven now is good enough for me , History has no more gratntatory scene than the breaking in of the English anr* upon Imcknow, India. A few wdeks befol a massacre had occurred at Cawnpur. aa aomen and children had been pat in >• Then fire professional butchers wei ad slew them. Then the bodies of tl. *! were taken out and thrown into a well. As the English army came into Cawnpur they went into the room, and

oh. what a horrid scene!

8word stroke* on the wall near the floor, showing that .the poor things had crouched when they died, and they saw also that th« IspSisss locks 61 hair and fragments of dresses. Out in Lucknow they had heard of the massacre, and the women were waiting for the same awful death, waiting amid angniah untold, waiting in pain and starvation, but watting heroically, when, ode day, Havelock and Out ram and Norman and Sir

and Peel, the heroes of the

Itriy.cmTouad the pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter. And no wonder. sas a£raa , srr i 2t.T Ugue and wounds and leaned akainst the that was an exciting aeene. world, streaming with the wounds of h

and while I

THE SABBATH SCHOOL loterutloBal Lesion Comments For March Jot Btrlew of the Pint Qnarter, Acts L, t-W; IL, 1*4—OeMei Text. Acta IL J*-Tepic: The P»w»r if Oed—Semmary ef the Prtftdlef Lcsassa Introduction.—In the lessons tms quarter we eee very dearly what God is able to do through Hii people. At the very beginning of the new dispensation they received a baptism ef fire and power which enabled them to triumph over every foe. Miracles were wrought, hypocrite* were discovered and punished, and even in the midst of and death Hi-

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A cave was recently dlacovered near "ombarollos, Franco, the rock wnll >f which.are covered with engraved or Stchod figure* representing the home, Ae cow, the blaon, the reindeer, the nammoth and the wild goat. Borne of Ao pictures are colored, and most of mem are covered with a stalagmite do posit, which partly conceals them. It .■ believed that they were made In paleolithic time*, and thus furnish evidence that the mammoth and the reindeer lived In France at the tlmo that these cave artists did. Popular journals every now and again recount that wheat found In mummy cases has been planted, germinated and grown. Certain wheats of Egyptian origin arc known

wheats.

lasts.

M. E. Gain has recently tried extensive experiments with wheat taken from Egyptian tombs and finds that no

cereals there found will Ibelr kind. Tbe embryoi

grains are completely dead, although the reserve material Is perfectly fit to

I nourish them were they alive.

There Is widespread belief that the

Thousands were brought to believe in

Jasas.

The supreme promue of prophecy and tbe climax of go«pel fulfilment ia the bestowment of spiritual power. Thi* is the central thought of the leuona of The quarter. About thia thought, they may be grouped a* follow#: Power promued, leaaon 1. Power po»acooed, Icaaona 2, 3. Power exercised, (») An blessing, lesson 4; (b) in punishment, lesson 6. Power opposed, lessons 8, 7, 10. —Power prevailing, lesson 11. Power practiced, lesson 12. Summary.—Lesson 1. Topic: The coming kingdom. Pisces: Mount Olivet and Jerusalem. Luke the author of the Acta;

Jesus about to leave the disciples; they i There is wldespn

were commanded to return to Jerusalem vast stores of precious metals Ue deep &T3 *>" ■■ u.' ««'■. *'•«- «»■ the kingdom to Israel; He promises tbe ' not get at them, but Professor Van | Holy Spirit to them; they are to be wit- I Hlse, at a recent meeting of tbe Amer- j

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1 in all lands; Jesus ascends to

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IT. Topic: Tbe Pentecostal outpouring. Place: In an upper room at Jerusalem. iL, u ',t.'7-L:!4r.b';'5£S; iLU‘3

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ion begun in last lesson; showed

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lean association for the Advancement of Science, said this can hardly be true. Metallc deposits arc made by underground waters, and these are confined to a shell near the surface of the earth, because of the pressure on tbe rocks at great depths. Ore deposits. as a rule, become too poor to repay working, below 3000 feet. Nlao mines In ten are poorer In the second thousand feet than In the' first thousand, and still poorer In the third

thousand.

Danish Engineer. H. C. Vogt, of Copenhagen, has Invented a propeller for empts to Imitate tile acih's tall, and combines

Experi-

j meals are said to have shown that the

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and wonders; those that believed sold their meala are said to have shoi

isions and bad an things in com- ! new apparatus, which U called tw ,0,1, a pr.„r O ,h, j ..^„ ao , unl p ro p,, tor .~

Jcsui Christ. I driving 1

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Topic; The power of Jesus Christ. | driving thrust than does the screw Place: At the temple in Jerusalem. Peter I propeller, while lu steering ability oxandp John going into the temple see a j CCC(1 g ^ attainable with twin screws Lr toToik^n^emn^o ^ £ \ ^ belm together. Th. grmat dtffihim money, but command him to rise up | culty Is with the engine, tor, wlA proand walk; the roan was healed and went I sent forms of engines, the weight of

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Christ, the corner-

stone. Place:. Jerusalem. While Peter and John were preaching the authoritiee came upon them; they were grieved because they preached Jesus and the resurrection; the apostles were arrested and put in prison: many that heard the word believed; the next day the rulers assembled and Peter and John were set in the midst; Peter spake to them and

again preached Jesus; the Sanhi

ehurch. I lace: Jerusalem. Those who land and laid the money at the apo.tles' feet; the apostle* witnessed of the res-

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the)- both fell down dead at Peter’s feet; fear came upon the church. VII. Topic: The impossibility of «uppressing the gospel. Plscc: Jerusalem. Such great numbers were added to the church that tbe rulers and Sadducces determined to stamp out the new religion; the apostles were arretted and brought before the council; Peter preached Je«us to them; they were cut to the heart and "took counsel to slay them:” Gamaliel’s speech saved their lives. VIII. Topic: Choosing the seven deacons. Plscc: Jerusalem. The number of the disciples was large and the apostles could not properly attend to nil-the. worthy poor; a general meeting was called and seven men were chosen to attend to that business. . - IX- Topic: Stephen’s death. Place: Jerusalem. Stephen still before the Banhedrin; makes a long address in which he shows that their charges are false; they cried out against him: east him ont of the city and stoned him; Saul consented to his

death. \

X. Topic: Preaching to the Samaritans. Place: A city in Samaria. Saul persecuted the church greatly; the disciples scattered abroad and. went every-

where preach

in Samaria; many were healed; andean spirits were cast ont and there was much joy in the city. Simon the sorcerer pre-

tended to be converted.

XI. Topic: Salvation through Christ Places: Gaia. Caesarea. Aeotus. Philip ia directed to go south of Jerusalem into Gaia; he drsws near to a man of Ethiopia

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he was reading; the man did .not, whereupon Philip was invited into the chariot; fe’&rssfjsa.-' p “ p should walk ta love, avoid all uncleanness, ■ covetousness, foolish jetting and

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iruitim wonts ox oarer:ass; reprove cm; walk, in the light; awake from spiritual lethargy; be not drunk with wine; be filled with th* Spirit; give thanks to God;

submit to one another-

, A small feather with a very HtUa •tern must be produced to play th* feather game; al*o a tablecloth or sheet. The feather 1* placed this, and the ootnpany stands in a circle, bolding the sheet. Some one give* the feather a blow, and the object of the game Is to promt It from touching any one. Each one give* the feather a puff henevsr It cornea near him. and over, it goas to the other ^de again/ The

The bioscope haa been used to advantage at Harvard University In experiments to determine- bow oryctailration begins. Experiments heretofore xaado with tho microscope b»Te led bozco observers to boilers that they detected tomo formation of minute globules Immediately proceeding tho formation of aryatals, but Instantaneous micro-photographs taken with fhe bioscope show only crystallue forms from the -cglnnlng. Another interesting revelation macs by tfieso leture* ii that the growth In fllamo-

crysi

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th* first Second of a crystal’s ice la much tnore rapid then during tho after period, and ft la thought that this twlft growth hi start Is the cauc* of ft lack oi del

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pictures it that tar In th* first

tlon, which deceit the photographic

M. Lebedewfof Moscow has experimenUUy - demonstrated thr.t the pressure -of light agrees with the theoretical demonstrations of Clark/ Maxwell. Maxwells theory declares that tho combined effects of the electrostatic and electroklnotlc give us.ft resultant

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Speculations regarding the age of the world we lire In are of a atrictly relatlve nature. They require to bo considered in relation to many other

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