“NATURE NEVER GIVES UP.”
A Phrase That Is Full of Meaning for
the Sick in Either Body
or Mind.
A phrase from a recent magazine
article is so suggestive and so full
of encouragement that it seems
worthwhile to make it the text for
one of our small sermons, says
Woman’s Home Companion. The
phrase is: “Nature never gives
up.” You may with profit say this
over carefully and thoughtfully
and let its full meaning come to
you: “Nature never gives up.”
Nature is on the side of health,
and sanity, and consequent happi
ness. Hard as your case may be,
the great Mother is fighting the
battle with you. Has disease got
into your bones? Nature has mar
shaled her forces to combat it,
and with marvelous strategy has
set engines to work which are en
deavoring to circumvent the en
emy. Nature is working in con
junction with the physician and
yourself. That is a thought,
which ought to cheer you. You
have been imprudent, possibly—
have done and left undone. You
have taken such ill-care of your
God-given body that your friends
have set you down as hopeless or
worse. You have told yourself
that there is no hope for you. Na
ture has not given you up. She
wants you to live and work and be
healthy and happy and in the
event of your neglect of yourself,
she is still fighting for you. She
has no moral idea in doing this.
She just does it. Perhaps you de
serve to be given up. Many of us
do, it sometimes seems. But Na
ture is blind to that. Of course,
she is not all-powerful. She can
be overcome. She fails often.
But you will do well to remember
that in every case while there is
a spark of life left, she is trying.
Let that thought braceyou. Buck
up, and give Nature some help.
I should like to think that we
could carry the analogy into the
moral world as well. Do you not
believe that there are forces as
yet unvalued which are fighting
the fight for good in the souls of
men? Bad a man or woman may
be—there is exterior pressure to
„„ make him or her better. There is
v law; there is education; there are
all the societies and institutions
whose object is to help the down
fallen and the unfortunate. But
B*in tluinn lirtf f
Does not the great Mother of
Souls fight continually for the
spiritual health and sanity of all
people? The thought is comfort
ing, stimulating, encouraging. It
is the business of every individual
to add all his personal strength
to all encounters with evil, physic
al or spiritual. He can do so more
heartily and with better faith for
success if he remembers that “na
ture never gives up.”
INTERESTING CHILDREN.
youngsters of Oriental Ministers at
« Washington Never Heard of Christ
mas Before Coming Here.
There are in the foreign colony
In Washington quite a number of
children who never heard of
Christmas until they came to the
land of the free, says the Wash
ington Times. Among them are
the two sons and the daughter of
the Chinese minister, the young
sters of the Korean legation, and
Osman Sureya and Ali Haidas.thc
black-eyed little sons of Chekib
Bey, the Turkish ininisto»-._,\''hiot
iWu Ting-Fang was ^tinese minis
ter he adopted the American
Christma*j.-to the extent that his
youn” "son was allowed to go to
u/white house each Christmas
morning with a bouquet almost as
' large as himself designed as a
token for the first lady of the
land. In the Chinese colony are
aeveral children who have been
enjoying an American Christmas
for some years past. These for
tunate youngsters are the chil
dren of Yung Kwai, the secretary
Interpreter, whose wife is a New
'England woman.
Magnificent Distances.
The diocese of Kiawatin, in Ru
pert’s Land, is one of magnificent
distances. Bishop Loft house once
n walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor
tor his wife. Many of the Indians
walk 25 miles to church, and the
bishop has baptized scores of ba
bies which had been carried 150
miles on their mothers’ backs
over hard frozen snow. At nighr
the family sleep, wrapped in tie*
deer skins, on branches laid upon
HI the snow.
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MAID’S EVASIVE ANSWER.
Her Employer Was Busy and Could
Not Receive Callers—What
She Told Them.
Strange as it may seem, says the
! Philadelphia Telegraph, there is
a public man in this city who is
blessed or cursed with a tender
conscience that worries him in
small matters as well as in great.
Among the things that he cannot
justify to himself is the bidding
■ a servant to say that he is
not at home when in reality he is
inside his house. At the same
1 time he is not able to receive
many visitors who call upon him,
and his only resource was to give
instructions that polite excuses
should be given. Upon one oeca
i sion such instructions were given
! to a maid, an Irish girl gifted with
the readiness and good wit of her
nation.
“Then I’m to be saying, sir, that
you’re not at home?” the muid in*
j quired.
“No, Mary, no!” was the reply;
“that would not be true. If any
one should ask for me, you must
just put him off—give him some
evasive answer, you know.”
“I’ll do it, sir, never fear,” was
the maid’s reply. Mary was as
good as her word.
That afternoon a person of im
portance made his appearance,
and was duly sent away. The
faithful maid reported the cir
cumstance to her employer.
“What did you do, Mary?” in
quired the latter, with some trep
idation.
“Oh, I just put him off, sir as you
told me. I gave him an evasive
answer.”
“Yes, but what did you say to
him?”
“Oh, sure he axed me if the boss
was at home, and I said to him:
‘Was his grandmother a mon
key?’ ”
JAPAN’S RAPID PROGRESS.
Has Converted Herself Into a Power
ful Nation in the East Quarter
of a Century.
When I visited Yeddo and the
ports of Japan in the winter of
1860*61 the country was ruled
upon the most exclusive Japanese
methods, wrote Lord Wolseley in
the Cosmopolitan in 1895. The
people were held in subjection by
a hereditary nobility who ruled
them with a rod of iron. They
were Then tar Denind (Jmna in all
matters connected with sea pow
er, for in order to prevent any
communication with foreign
places all Japanese junks were, in
accordance with the law, con
structed with low, open sterns,
so that they dared not trenture be
yond a few miles from shore.
No one can be blind to the enor
mous strides in progress Japan
has made, the immense reforms
she has effected and the powerful
nation she has converted herself
into during the last quarter of a
century. The result is the crea
tion of a power in the eastern seas
that must in future be always
taken into consideration by west
ern statesmen.
Turkish Beds.
A recent writer on Turkey says:
“Bedsteads are not used by the
Turks. Each room contains a
large cupboard, built into the
wall, in which the bedding Is piled
during the day, and at night the
slaves come in when summoned to
make up the beds on the jloer.
Of!:*? beufuom requisites,'in the
shape of washstands, dressing
tables and wardrobes, are dis
pensed with as superfluous. For
everyday ablution there is a small
washing room with a hole in the
floor for the water to escape
through, and if the hanun would
wash her hands and face only, a
slave brings the ewer and basin
and pours the water over her
hands. For special ablutions she
will go either to her own private
hamraam or to the public baths.
She ‘does her hair,’ or has it done
for her, seated cross-legged in her
corner of the divan; and the old
walnut-wood chests and coffers in
her treasure-room suffice to store
her gauzes and brocades, her silks
; and embroideries.”
The Drum Major.
As a matter of course, the drum
; major belongs to the band, but he
gives one the impression that the
band belongs to him. — Chicago
Daily News.
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The Result.
A quiet wedding is often the
prelude to a noisy divorce
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| Dec 15, 1904.
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