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KATIE.

By Rose Seelye Miller

“If you please, mistress, canna ye gie a puir lassie wark to do!” Here the pleading voice broke a little. The plea had been so often repeated, and as often repulsed.

The woman on the steps of the little Dakota home looked up apathetically, hardly hearing the words, or noting their import. The girl's voice again broke the stillness.

“Ye dinna ken, mistress; canna ye gie me wark, and a bite and a sup for the wark? I hae walked sae far, and I am sair wearied wi' it a'.” The sweet voice grew pathetic; this time the woman had heard, but she still looked apathetically at the girl.

“Nay, lass, I canna gie anythin'; I am sair troubled mysel', and I canna pay the wage to any; nay, nay, I canna, I canna.” And she relapsed into hopeless brooding thought again.

“Ye maun be ill, mistress,” the girl said, looking thoughtfully at the wan face and lusterless eyes. “Ye maun be ailin', and ye maun let me come in and helpit ye a bit. It's no wage I'll ask, just a bite and a sup forenenst meal time.”

“O, but ye dinna ken, ye canna enter here. There's sair sickness, and it's sair tired and troubled I be, lass, but not so sair daft as to let ye in. Ye dinna want the fever lass, and I dinna want twa to care for instead o' ane. Nay, lass, nay,” as the girl pushed the woman gently aside, and entered the door.

“Ye maunna tek it sae hard, mistress,” the gentle voice said, “but if ye are sair troubled and burdened, then it is for me to help ye wi' your care. Ye ken, mistress, the Maister tellit us in His Buik to bear each ither's burdens.” The girl spoke softly, but with quiet insistence, and as she spoke, she took off her sunbonnet, and hung it up, and laid her bundle of clothing in one corner.

The room was untidy, but Katie MacPherson did not at once begin its setting to rights. Through the open door she could see a figure lying upon a dingy bed. The face was drawn with pain, and flushed with fever; the bright eyes met hers, and she went into the room, and to the bedside.

“It is sair pain ye are bearin',” she said, gently, with infinite compassion in her blue eyes, as she looked at the man's face before her. “But I ken hoo to care for the sick; I cared for my ain feyther lang, and he thought nane could comfort sae well as me.” And Katie softly moved the hot head to a cooler place upon the pillow, and straightened the tumbled bedclothes. “Noo, I maun get ye a drink, for ye are sair parchit wi' thirst,” and she went out quietly, and, finding a pail, went for water. The fevered man drank greedily, and then Katie drew the shades in the little room, and, closing the door, left the sick man alone.

“And, noo, mistress, canna ye tell me about things a bit? and then ye, too, shall hae a sleep, and wake refreshit.” And the woman laid her tired head upon the girl's shoulder, and wept for the first time in many days. Little by little she told the girl how they had come to Dakota, in the far West, and had lived very well until John had sickened; how there were no neighbors near; how the scorching heats had come and withered the grain, and burned the grass until it crisped beneath the feet; how the little garden was neglected, the cattle had wandered off, and how now she was in the last straits of desperation. The food was nearly gone. She could get no doctor. There seemed no help from heaven or earth, and death seemed so near that she could not leave her sick husband for help.

“And ye would hae turned me awa'!” Katie said, half-reproachfully.

“Aye, weel, most wenches will hae the siller for their work, whether they earn it or not; I carena to live if John dees.” And again the tears dropped from the tired eyes that were losing their glassy, despairing look.

“Didna ye pray?” asked the girl in an awed voice.

“Na, lass, I couldna, I haena lived reet, and I couldna ask for things when I haena lived reet.”

“It isna the reet livin',” Katie responded, “its just the luv o' God, and the believin' in His Son. And He's an 'ever-present help in time o' trouble,' mistress—an ever-present help.”

“He didna help me,” the woman said doggedly; “He didna help me.”

“Aye, mistress, He sent me; 'twas little I thocht He was leadin' me to thee, when I couldna find work anywhere; but His hand it was leadin', and noo I am come, and we shall see the mercy o' the Lord. We shall see it.”

Katie was a strong Scotch girl. She, too, had met with sore troubles in the sickening and dying of her mother and then her father, in the loss of her little home, and her unavailing search for work. Days and days she had walked, seeking help and finding none; but her heart was staunch and true, and she knew the God of her fathers had not forsaken her, and her faith wavered not in spite of heart-aching losses and troubles that would have crushed one less certain of the goodness and love of God. She was young—only sixteen; but she had a wisdom that cometh down from above, and so into her humble hand was given a great work for the “Maister” whom she so loved and trusted.

As the days went by, she tended the sick man. The woman, Mrs. MacGregor, had sickened; the strain had been too great for her overwrought body, and Katie's hands were full; but her strength came from on high, and she never failed or faltered through all those trying days. She sought and found the missing cattle, and she replenished the empty larder; she sought out a doctor, and she told the neighbors about the sore pressure at the little sod house on the Dakota plains. The people were too well versed in the school of suffering and self-denial to feel it a burden to help this stricken family, and so all through the long sickness and convalescence nothing was lacking; and all through the efforts of this one humble follower of the One who never forsakes His children.

The little harvest was gathered in by kindly hands before the sick ones recovered; the garden had been tended and coaxed into bringing forth some vegetables; the cows, tended by Katie's willing hands, were sleek and glossy, and gave down their milk, making rich stores of butter, which Katie disposed of at the nearest station, so that when the fall winds began to blow, the little family of the MacGregors were in a comfortable condition. Mrs. MacGregor was sitting by the little window, looking out at the sear and yellow cornfield; and her eyes grew dim as she thought of all that had come, and what had not come, through that trying summer.

“If it hadna been for ye, lass,” she said to Katie, “mayhap John and me would hae been lyin' stark and cowld out yon where the corn is ripenin' noo.”

“It hadna been for the lass,” Mr. MacGregor added, thoughtfully.

“Nay, nay, but ye are baith wrang,” the girl responded brightly. “Ye maun better say if it hadna been for the Laird. He watchit all the time, an' He kenned just when ye needed help sair, and He sent it. It was the Laird, and not me at a'.”

“But it isna ivery lass wha would hae done as ye hae, Katie; it isna ivery lass.”

“But I hae done nocht mair than I should,” the girl persisted. “The Laird gied me a wark, and I shouldna be a guid servant if I didna do it. I hae done nocht for praise.”

“Ye hae taught us a lesson, lass, and ye maun stay wi' us, and teach us mair of this ever-present Laird ye talk sae mooch aboot,” said Mr. MacGregor.

“It's not the talkin', mon, its the leevin' an' doin' an' hopin' an' lovin',” said his wife.

“The Laird maun teach ye these things hissel,” Katie responded.—Rose Seelye Miller.

HE ONLY ATE IT, AS MANY OTHERS DO.

PROFESSOR COMSTOCK, of Cornell, in speaking to his class recently of the trials of scientists, told this authentic tale of the experience of a professor of invertebrate zoology in a sister institution, which had better be left nameless. Trichinæ in pork, the cause of the frightful disease, trichinosis, in human consumers, give a peculiar appearance to meat, which is studded with little cysts; it is then known to the trade as “measly pork.” The learned scientist,

wishing some for study, went to the butcher and asked if he ever got any measly pork.

"Sometimes," said the butcher cautiously, "but I always throw it away."

"Well," said the professor, "the next time you have any, I wish you'd send me up some," meaning, of course, to his laboratory. The butcher stared at him, but said he would. Three weeks passed, when the professor, growing impatient, again dropped in.

"Haven't you found any measly pork yet?"

"Why, yes," said the butcher, "I sent up two pounds a week ago."

A sickly grin broke over the professor's face.

"Where did you send it?" said he.

"Why, to your house," said the butcher, "of course."

"CUMBERED ABOUT MUCH SERVING."

[Luke 10: 40-42.]

CHRIST never asks of us such heavy labor As leaves no time for resting at His feet; The waiting attitude of expectation He ofttimes counts a service most complete.

He sometimes wants our ear—our rapt attention— That He some sweetest secret may impart. 'Tis always in the time of deepest stillness That heart finds deepest fellowship with heart.

We sometimes wonder why our Lord doth place us Within a sphere so narrow, so obscure, That nothing we call work can find an entrance; There's only room to suffer—to endure!

Well, God loves patience! Souls that dwell in stillness, Doing the little things or resting quite, May just as perfectly fulfil their mission, Be just as useful in the Father's sight,

As they who grapple with some giant evil, Clearing a path that every eye may see; Our Saviour cares for cheerful acquiescence Rather than for a busy ministry.

And yet He does love service, where 'tis given By grateful love that clothes itself in deed; But work that's done beneath the scourge of duty, Be sure to such He gives but little heed.

Then seek to please Him, whatso'er He bids thee, Whether to do, to suffer, or be still; 'Twill matter little by what path He led us, If in it all we sought to do His will.

—Anon.

CONSUMPTION IN DAIRY COWS.

By E. H. Curtiss

"THEY Had Consumption. Startling Results of Examination of Dairy Cows in Chicago." Thus reads the headlines of an article in the Topeka Capital of May 30. Then is given the account of the killing of twenty-five cows at the Chicago stockyard, every one of which had tuberculosis. The article states that "while there was no outward sign of the disease, yet every cow was in an advanced stage of consumption. From the lungs of one subject a pint of germs was taken."

To-day I clipped an article from the same paper, dated June 6, in which Governor Tanner, of Illinois, says: "My observations lead me to believe that it is unsafe to drink milk which is not known to be non-tubercular. The cattle which I have seen slaughtered and dissected to-day, saturated with tuberculosis, ten days ago were furnishing milk to my family." Again he says, "I am convinced that tuberculosis has made a more general invasion of livestock than is generally believed."

Disease in cattle is so wide-spread, as is shown by these statements and also others which might be given, that it is getting to be absolutely unsafe to use flesh as an article of food at all. If men would compare these statements with the words of the Lord on the question of diseased animals I am sure that few would want it on their tables as an article of diet.

The Lord, when speaking through the prophet Hosea, said: "Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel; for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. . . . My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:1-6.

We see how perfectly the Lord has described the times in which we live. The earth is filled with violence; there is swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing. Every paper is full of the record of these crimes. He says that in such a time as this the people would languish, with the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air and the fish also would be taken away.

To "languish" is to be sick and diseased. See Ps. 41:1-3. The Lord has thus told us plainly that the animals would be diseased in such a generation as this present one is, and if you and I persist in the use of the flesh of diseased animals, do you not see that we are eating disease and are rejecting the counsel of God against ourselves? "My people," says the Lord, "are destroyed for lack of knowledge." We may have the knowledge of these things, for it is published everywhere.

After the flood God gave man permission to eat the flesh of animals, but the result was the shortening of life.

If mankind were not so blind and stiffnecked they would have seen long ago that God spoke the truth. Will we not learn to eat that which God gave to man in the beginning; that which God pronounced "very good"?

E. H. CURTISS.

Atwood, Kansas.

WHAT A BOY DID IN HIS SPARE MOMENTS.

A THIN, awkward boy came to the residence of a celebrated school principal, and asked to see the master. The servant eyed his mean clothes, and, thinking he looked more like a beggar than anything else, told him to go around to the kitchen. He soon appeared at the back door, and repeated his request.

"You want a breakfast, more like," said the servant, setting him down to some bread and butter.

"Thank you," said the boy. "I should like to see Mr. —, if he can see me."

"Some old clothes, maybe, you want; I think he has none to spare," remarked the girl, eyeing his ragged clothes.

"May I see Mr. —?" asked the boy, with the most emphatic emphasis on each word.

The girl for the first time stopped her work. "Well, he is in the library. If he must be disturbed, he must, I s'pose;" and she whisked off to the room, remarking as she opened the door: "Here's somebody terribly anxious to see you, sir, so I let him in."

The professor laid aside his book, and talked with the boy with increasing interest, and soon took down some books and began to give him an examination, which extended even to Greek. Every question was answered promptly and correctly. The professor was amazed, and asked the boy how he had managed, with his apparent poverty, to accumulate such an amount of knowledge.

"O, I studied in my spare time," answered the boy brightly, unconscious that he was an example even to the man before him.

Here was a boy, a hard-working orphan, almost fitted for college in the spare moments that his companions were wasting. Truly, spare moments are the "gold-dust of time." —Anon.

THE WOLF IS AT THE DOOR.

By Charlotte Perkins Stetson

THERE'S a haunting horror near us That nothing drives away; Fierce, lamping eyes at nightfall, A crouching shade by day; There's a whining at the threshold, There's a scratching at the floor; To work! To work! In Heaven's name! The wolf is at the door!

The day was long, the night was short, The bed was hard and cold; Still weary are the little ones, Still weary are the old. We are weary in our cradles From our mothers' toil untold; We are born to hoarded weariness As some to hoarded gold.

We will not rise! We will not work! Nothing the day can give Is half so sweet as an hour of sleep; Better to sleep than live!

What power can stir these heavy limbs? What hope these dull hearts swell? What fear more cold, what pain more sharp, Than the life we know so well?

To die like a man by lead or steel Is nothing that we should fear; No human death would be worse to feel Than the life that holds us here. But this is a fear no heart can face— A fate no man can dare— To be run to earth and die by the teeth Of the gnawing monster there!

The slow, relentless, padding step That never goes astray— The rustle in the underbrush— The shadow in the way— The straining flight—the long pursuit, The steady gain behind— Death-wearied man and tireless brute— And the struggle wild and blind!

There's a hot breath at the keyhole And a tearing as of teeth! Well do I know the bloodshot eyes And the dripping jaws beneath! There's a whining at the threshold— There's a scratching at the floor— To work! To work! In heaven's name! The wolf is at the door! —Charlotte Perkins Stetson.

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LESSON VII.—SABBATH, AUGUST 12, 1899.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

Jerusalem, A.D. 30.

Lesson Scripture.—John 10:1-21; 27-29.

1 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spake Jesus unto them; but they understood not what things they were which He spake unto them.

7 "Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the Door of the sheep. All that came before Me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, 10 and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11 I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd layeth down His 12 life for the sheep. He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and 13 leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, 14 and scattereth them; he fleeth because he is a hireling, and 15 careth not for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd; and I know Mine own, and Mine own know Me, even as the Father knoweth Me; and I know the Father; and I lay down My life 16 for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; 17 and they shall become one flock, one Shepherd. Therefore doth the Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I 18 may take it again. No one taketh it away from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from My Father.

19 "There arose a division again among the Jews because of 20 these words. And many of them said, He hath a devil, and 21 is mad; why hear ye Him? Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?"

27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow 28 Me; and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never 29 perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, which hath given them unto Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."

NOTE.—The texts inclosed in marks of parentheses, while not essential to the lesson study, will be found to throw much light upon the lesson, and are suggested for those who wish to study further.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

1. What does Jesus say of him who enters not by the door into the sheepfold? John 10:1.

2. Who enters in by the door? Verse 2.

3. Who opens the door for him? Who hear the shepherd's voice? What shows his close acquaintance with the sheep? Verse 3.

4. Describe the way he leads out his sheep. Verse 4.

5. How do sheep regard a stranger? Why? Verse 5.

6. Did the people understand this parable? Verse 6.

7. What explanation of it did Jesus give? Verses 7-9. Note 1.

8. For what purpose does the thief come? For what purpose did Jesus come? Verse 10. (John 14:6.)

9. What does the Good Shepherd do for the sheep? Verses 11, 12. Note 2. (Isa. 40:10, 11.)

10. What course does the hireling pursue?

11. Why does the hireling flee? Verse 13.

12. Who is the Good Shepherd, and what does He say in verse 14? (Heb. 13:20.)

13. What does Jesus say of "other sheep"? Verse 16.

14. What does He say about laying down His life? Vs. 17, 18.

15. What effect did His teachings have upon the Jews? V. 19.

16. What charge did many make against Him? Verse 20.

17. What defense did others make? Verse 21.

18. How secure are the sheep of Christ's fold? Verses 27-29.

Side Lights.—"Desire of Ages," chapter 52.

NOTES.

1. I am the Door.—The word "door" is here used in the sense of means of entrance, just as faith was made a door unto the Gentiles. Acts 14:27. Christ is the Door to the sheepfold, through whom all must enter. Heb. 7:25. He Himself, as leader and caretaker of the sheep, must go before the sheep, and prepare the way by faith. Those who follow must have His faith, the faith of Jesus. To all such the door opens just as readily as for the One who prepared the way.

2. I am the Good Shepherd.—The adjective "good" is from the word kalos, meaning, beautiful, pleasing. Christ is therefore a beautiful, pleasing, and therefore an attractive, shepherd, one who gives joy to those who follow Him. He draws them after Him by His pleasing gentleness. Ps. 18:35; John 12:32.

LESSON VII.—SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1899.

EZEKIEL'S GREAT VISION.

Lesson Scripture, Eze. 37: 1-14, R.V.

1 "The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones; and He caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and lo, they were very dry." 11 "Then He said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off." 3 "And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? 4 And I answered, O Lord God, Thou knowest. Again He said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, O ye 5 dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into 6 you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that 7 am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold an earthquake, 8 and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And I beheld, and lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then said He unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these 10 slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army." 12 "Therefore prophecy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring 13 you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to 14 come up out of your graves, O My people. And I will put My Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land; and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord."

Golden Text: "I will put My Spirit within you." Eze. 36:27.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

(1) In the vision here recorded, what was done with the prophet? V. 1. (2) What then was he caused to do? What does he say of the quantity and condition of the bones? V. 2. (3) Whom did the bones represent? What did they say? V. 11. Note 1. (4) What question was asked of the prophet? What was his answer? V. 3; Job 14:13-15. Note 2. (5) What command was then given to the prophet? V. 4. (6) What was said to the bones? Vs. 5, 6. (7) As he prophesied, what occurred? V. 7. (8) What else took place as the prophet beheld the bones? Yet what was lacking? V. 8. (9) What further prophecy was he commanded to utter? V. 9. (10) When the prophet had prophesied, what was the result? V. 10. (11) Then what application of this result was made by further prophecy? V. 12. (12) Then what would resurrected Israel know? V. 13. (13) What additional promises are given? V. 14. Note 3.

NOTES.

1. "The whole house of Israel."—This prophecy was written during the captivity of Judah in Babylon. Judah was not the "whole house of Israel." Neither did Judah, in connection with the ten tribes (which had been dispersed many years before the captivity of Judah), comprise the "whole house of Israel;" for "they which are of faith, the same are children of Abraham" (Gal. 3:7), without regard to nationality. Therefore this vision can not be confined to Israel according to the flesh, but the spiritual seed. 2. "Can these bones live?"—From a human standpoint, No. "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." Mark 10:27. See John 5:28, 29; Luke 22:27-38; Acts 24:14, 15; 1 Thess. 4:14-18; Rev. 20:12, 13. The promise included not only a resurrection but a regeneration. 3. "In your own land."—This promise plainly applies after the resurrection; the logic of the vision compels this conclusion, so also does the promises to Abraham, which included the heirship of the world. Rom. 4:13. This promise was to Abraham and his Seed, which was Christ (Gal. 3:16); "and if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (verse 29). But neither Abraham nor his seed will ever inherit the present earth. Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Heb. 11:10. This city will be located on the new earth; so Peter says that "we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:13. And John says of his vision on Patmos: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people." Rev. 21:1-3. In this chapter, the holy city is described as having "a wall great and high" and "twelve gates." On the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; and "the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." Now note the promise of Jesus to the twelve apostles: "Ye which have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Matt. 19:28. And note that other promise: "Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth." Chap. 5:5. When shall they inherit it?—"When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him," He will "say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Chap. 25:31-34. Thus will the whole house of Israel be placed in their own land. Then will be fulfilled the promise through Isaiah: "As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain."

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