Most of our methods of cooking seem contrived to destroy rather than to conserve the nutritious elements of the animal fibre, the albumen, the gelatine, and the fibrine. We have much to learn, not only from the French, but also from the Scandinavians, as to the methods of preparing food that shall be palatable, nutritious, and easily digestible. When that intelligent observer, M. Taine, was visiting England, and inquiring into the methods of domestic life, he asked his host, "How do you cook vegetables in England ?" "Cook them !" was the astonished reply, "why, we boil them; how else should we cook them?" In this connection there is an important class of the community demanding our attention. I refer to the laborers and operatives in our large towns, who labor on the public works and in the factories. Many of these hard-working people are in the habit of " carrying their dinner," which is of course eaten cold, and the contents of these little tin pails and baskets are richer in their variety than in nutrition. No wonder that we have been called a race a dyspeptics. He will be a benefactor to his generation, as well as "put money in his purse," who will devise a simple method of soup distribution among the operatives who depend upon this cheerless method of dining. With large tin cans, transported on hand carts, hot soup could easily be distributed by dexterous hands among the shops and factories, and for a few cents a comforting and sustaining meal could thus be furnished. How often do we trace the sallow, attenuated look, the languid eye, and the feeble, inelastic step of many who seek our advice, to the lack of proper food at the proper time !-Annals of Hygiene. ITEMS. VEGETARIANS are taking up the feeding of the children of the poor on a self-supporting basis. A correspondent describes the experiment in the Daily News. A room which had a small fireplace with hobs was taken in a King's Cross Court at 3s. a week; three saucepans and other cheap utensils were bought, two or three mothers were asked in to help and to learn to cook a shilling was invested in lentils and vegetables, and 6d. in two wheat-meal loaves. So the dinner was made by the teacher and the mothers, and eaten with relish by the mothers and some fifteen or eighteen children for a week. So far the dinners were free. The mothers were then asked to club together; they were to take the cooking in turn, day by day; one fire was enough; and the cost had been found to vary from 8d. to Is. for twelve to eighteen portions of a little more than a large breakfast cup each. Accordingly the women are now cooking at their own expense the two-gallon saucepan full either of strong lentil soup, peas pudding, or sweet porridge. They feed their own children, each woman has three or or four, and they have some left, which others in the court buy at three ladlefuls for a penny. One day they fed their party for a shilling, and sold the remainder to a non-co-operator for 2d.; and the soup is beautiful.-Sanitary Record. IN THE REPORT of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, the main points are these: What manufacturers now need, says Mr. McCul loch, is a market for their surplus manufactures. We are suffering from a plethora of goods; we can produce much more and much faster than we can consume; the existing iron, woolen and cotton mills would meet in six months, perhaps in a shorter time, all our home demands. What we must therefore do is, either reduce our manufactures or find a foreign market for them. But to find a foreign market for them we must be able to compete with other manufacturing nations in prices, and we must so far remove restrictions on trade that foreign nations can exchange their commodities for ours on something like equal The first we cannot do and put a tariff on raw materials; the second we cannot do and exclude by a protective tariff the products of other nations. Thus, last year we sold to Brazil, in round numbers, eight and a half millions of dollars' worth of goods, and bought from Brazil over fifty millions of dollars' worth, and paid for the balance against us by agricultural terms. products sold in Europe; we ought to so adjust our tariff laws that we should be able to compete in Brazil with Great Britain, which we are now unable to do. Thus far our manufactures have thriven by supplying the home markets; they can thrive so no longer; and the time has come for a new departure. For a long time to come our revenues must be chiefly derived from import duties, which will be necessarily protective; but they should be adjusted so as to enable us to compete for the world's markets, and so fulfil Mr. Cobden's prophecy of the time when the United States would be Great Britain's greatest competitor. In this adjustment the following principles should be observed: 1. The public revenues should not be in excess of the amount required for public expenditures. 2. Our present manufactures should not be jeoparded by radical and sweeping changes. 3. Raw materials wool?) 4. Duties should be reduced upon the neces should be admitted free. (Query: Does this include saries of the poor rather than upon the luxuries of the rich.-Christian Union. SINCE Adam Smith wrote his "Wealth of Nations," more than a century ago, the number of persons who have essayed to close the breach between capital and labor by new plans and systems has been legion. In the face of all the volumes that have been written on the subject, and the enormous amount of labor and money expended in trying to harmonize the two great factors of production, to-day seems to find them as much estranged from each other as ever. The war between capital and labor is, apparently, one of no end. It is without intermission, for no sooner is a strike settled in one quarter than a conflict breaks out in another. This state of things is prompting many to put forth a variety of plans as remedies. Among the many is one which is fast making its way in all kinds of industries. It is known as the "Profit-sharing system," and at the present time is carried out in a large number of different ways. Twenty years ago J. S. Mill, in his famous chapter on the "Probable Future of Laboring Classes," gave it as his opinion that the industrial partnership, or profit-sharing system, was the only sure and effectual means of joining capital and labor in confidential bonds of harmony. Mill was no mean authority. Anything like a full account of the profit-sharing system as it is now practiced has cinity. not been given to the newspaper readers of this viThe experiments that have been made as yet," said a prominent manufacturer who thoroughly understands the system, "are based on the same principle, viz., the participation of the employed in the profits of their employers. In other words, the proprietor of a business has given over to his work-people. over and above their weekly wages paid at the ordi nary market rate, a share of the annual profits realized by his business. This looks as if a great self-sacrifice was made by the employers, but experience, gained from the history of the examples just now to be quoted, shows that the employers make no sacrifice at aÎl.” * * DR. SCHAFF announces that the revision of the Old Testament, after 14 years' labor, is completed, and that it will be published next Spring. A memorial edition in four volumes, finely printed and bound, will be sent to any contributor of $30 to the expenses of the Committee. THE managers of the Indiana Reformatory Institu. tion for Women and Girls have made their annual report to the Governor. This State incarcerates its female convicts in a separate prison from men-the only State in the Union which does so. The penal department for women, and the reformatory for girls, are entirely separate, though in the same building. Until last year the Institution was under the supervision of Sarah Smith, well known to Friends as a minister. The present superintendent is Elmina Johnson, a Friend. There are now fifty women in the penal department, and 142 girls in the reformatory. It is stated that eighty per cent. of those sent out from the reformatory, and seventy-six per cent. of those sent out from the prison, have become useful and orderly members of society. The religious influences of the institution are excellent. Sarah Smith has recently been appointed one of the Board of Managers.—Chr. Worker. THANKSGIVING. Oh, men! grown sick with toil and care, Follow again the winding rills; Go to the places where you went And all you dreamed of life was sweet; Taste the ripe fruit of orchard boughs; Go sit beside the hearth again Whose circle once was glad and gay; And if from out the precious chain Some shining links have dropped away, Then guard with tenderer heart than hand The remnant of your household band. Draw near the board with plenty spread, Or mother's patient, loving face, "O Thou! with whom the night is day, Alive, perchance, on some lone beach "O dread and cruel deep, reveal Let winds that tossed the raven hair Or dying wail! SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 22d inst. GREAT BRITAIN.-A fire occurred at the Windsor railroad station in London, on the night of the 21st, but was extinguished without much damage. In the debris were found clock work wheels similar to those in the explosive machines used at the other stations where explosions took place some months ago, and other articles thought to indicate a like attempt. It is supposed that the lighted fuse ignited the articles near it, instead of exploding the nitro-glycerine. Further examination of London Bridge shows that several stones in one pier were shifted and the joints opened, and fissures were found extending six feet into the bed of the river; but they are not deep, and the strength of the structure is not affected. It is now thought that the dynamite was suspended to the grating over the sewer hole at the base of the pier, where nails are found driven into the masonry. The Scottish Chamber of Agriculture has issued an address to landlords and the people, demanding an immediate reduction of rents, on the ground that the depression in the agricultural industry appears to be permanent. It is proposed that a Royal Commission be appointed to inquire into the causes of the decrease of values, with the view of taking suitable measures to alleviate the present urgent distress. Very stormy weather was reported off the coasts. The steamer Oxenholme, from New York for Liverpool, put into Queenstown on the 19th, disabled, and was towed ashore to prevent its sinking. Of the cargo of cattle only five remained alive. FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th, the Minister of Marine and of the Colonies stated that five points on the coast of Madagascar were occupied by the French, but that a complete blockade of the island was impossible. The cost of the expedition to the present time was stated to be 12,000,000 francs. The Colonial budget was adopted. The Chamber, on the 19th, rejected, by 293 votes to 168, a motion to abolish the French Embassy at the Vatican. The Budget Committee of the Senate has restored the credits for the salaries of the clergy and other religious bodies, which had been rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. The Council General of the Seine has adopted a proposal requesting the Chamber of Deputies to reject the duties on foreign corn and cattle. A large meeting was held in Bordeaux on the 15th, to denounce the proposed increase of duties on corn. Advices from Saigon state that the revolution in Cambodia is complete. The direction of public affairs has been wrested from the King's hands, and the French Commissioner at Saigon has assumed the direction of the government at the capital. GERMANY.-The Congo Conference Committee, on the 18th, adopted substantially the statutes relating to navigation on the Congo and Niger rivers. The session of the Committee on the 19th, was entirely occupied with the question of the importation of spirits into the Congo and Niger countries, the delegates from Germany, France and Holland opposing any restriction of the liquor trade, although declaring themselves ready to promote the cause of humanity in every possible way. The discussion had no practical result, but it was finally agreed to put on record a protocol strongly expressing the wish of England and other cago 120, at Omaha 150, at St. Paul and Dubuque 20o, and at Fargo 30°, all below zero. In the neighbor. hood of Philadelphia, on the 20th, the mercury ranged about zero. A rise of temperature followed, but on the 22d intense cold was again reported in the Northwest, reaching-320 at Fargo, and 47° at Winnipeg, and ranging throughout that region from these degrees to 220 at Omaha. Heavy snows were reported in Colorado, and in Northern Montana and Dakota. CONGRESS.-The Senate passed the bill making temporary provision for the navy; the Military Acad emy Appropriation bill; and a bill providing for a Commission to examine into the liquor traffic. The House passed a bill making provision for the support of the navy for First month, 1885. The committee of conference on the Naval Appropriation bill left from last session, reported a disagreement. The House insisted on its disagreement to the Senate amendments, and appointed a new committee. Bills for the regula tion of inter-State commerce are before both Houses, each having its own, and have been partially con sidered. 66 CHRISTIAN CONVERSION." Its Nature and Results, and some of its Relations to certain other Topics. By Dr. William Nicholson. A neat 12mo pamphlet of 46 pages. For sale by NICHOLSON & BRO., Richmond, Ind. Price, postpaid, 10 cents; three copies for 25 cents. 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Our Book, "GOLD AND SILVER FOR THE PEOPLE," which offers unrivaled inducements to all, sent FREE. If not successful can be returned and exchanged for MORE THAN ITS VALUE. REMEN. BER, this is a practical outfit and I will warrant it, or it can be returned at my expense. Will be sent C. O. D. if desired, upon receipt of $1.50, balance to be collected when delivered. Next size outfit, with Tank 12x10x6, only $5.00. TRY IT. Profits, over 300 per cent. BOOK SENT FREE. Address, 15-8m FREDERICK LOWEY, 96 & 98 Fulton St., New York. OUR LONDON LETTER. The following particulars illustrating some of the difficulties of foreign mission-work, are communicated by a Friend. The Friends' Mission at Brumana, Mount Lebanon, has lately suffered from a revival of religious fanaticism in the district. For a year or two past, the Greeks and Maronites have been more active than before, opening new schools and taking various means to check Protestant agencies. Our own schools in the villages have been in consequence, less well attended, and in one or two cases have had to be closed on account of the opposition set up against them. In the Catholic schools it need scarcely be said that prayer to the Virgin Mary, and a system cf catechismal teaching greatly at variance with gospel simplicity, are in use, and the superstitious observances which render the people wholly dependent upon the priests. Even in Brumana itself, in which, as the headquarters of Friends' Missions, our influence is the strongest, opposition of this kind is much increased. An occasion has lately offered for a special display of intolerance. One One of the oldest members of Brumana Monthly Meeting is Sheikh Akel, so named because he was at one time Sheikh, or head of the village of Brumana. He is a white-haired old man, much respected by all; he is of solid Christian character, and an appointed "Elder" in the Church. He Bravery... Items...... ... 350 POETRY.-Contentment-Nearer to Thee-Given and Taken..... 351 SUMMARY OF NEWS.. ....... 351 has been for long engaged in the ministry of the Gospel in religious meetings, and in his occupation of itinerant Scripture Reader in the neighborhood, under the auspices of Friends. Like the other members he was originally a convert from the Greek Church. Sheikh Akel fell ill some months ago, and has now become, from long sickness, greatly reduced in strength. During this time he has often been visited by Friends, and has expressed his trust in the Saviour. On one Firstday he was worse, and vocal prayer was offered for him at the usual morning meeting at Brumana. On going in to see him again after meeting, T. Waldmeier found that a fanatical brother of the old man had sent for the Greek Priest, so that ere he died he might receive the Sacrament, and be claimed as a member of their Church, and so buried after his death. Another brother, however, who is like Akel himself a Friend, endeavoured to resist, and an unseemly crowd of one hundred or more persons gathered around the poor man's bed whilst he was interrogated by the priest. In his weak state he was unable to prevent the latter from thrusting the wafer between his lips, and having gone through his formula, the priest departed in triumph, declaring to T. Waldmeier, whom he met, that the old man had renounced his Protestantism, aud returned to the bosom of the Church. Wassa Pasha, the Governor General of Mount A Lebanon, had lately passed through Brumana in a progress through his territory, and had paid a formal visit to the Mission, expressing his cordial good wishes for its welfare. To him, therefore, T. To him, therefore, T. Waldmeier at once sent off a messenger with request for protection against such injustice. Commissioner was quickly sent by the Pasha, but by this time our poor Friend was delirious, and replied to his questions without sense or relevance. Such answers it was very easy for the Commissioner to represent in a way favorable to the Greeks, so the contest has been for the present decided in their favor, and the people are reproaching Akel with his long hypocrisy in having pretended to be a Friend. Upon his death the Greeks will claim his body, and not suffer it to be interred in the little burial-ground belonging to Friends. In that land, from Bible times downward, the place of sepulture is considered of great importance, and in all probability a fight would at once ensue should the Protestant relatives of the deceased man contest the right of the Greeks. The matter however has too serious consequences to rest here. The other members of the Monthly Meeting are very uneasy. Being natives, and many of them having ignorant and bigoted relatives, such an event might happen in their own case if taken ill and near death. In one vil lage, for instance, there is a devoted young Scripture Reader, who is almost alone, his own family opposing him, holding weekly Bible meet ings and preaching from house to house. Were he to be incapable of protecting himself, there would be no one to help him. Religious liberty, so dear and hardly bought in our own favored lands, is not yet established in the East. By the Convention of 1861 between the European Powers, the Governor of Lebanon is necessarily a Christian, and although he is directly responsible to the Porte, the Consuls of the chief nations have considerable influence in the maintenance of good government on the Mountain. T. Waldmeier has therefore written to Wassa Pasha a full account of the affair, and of the ineffective action of the Commissioner, and he will, if necessary, take further steps to obtain better security for the future. It is likely also that the Committee in England may shortly see their way to send an address to the Governor. London, Twelfth mo. 2d, 1884. For Friends' Review. JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION. Are justification and sanctification separate experiences, only to be found at different times clearly divided by a greater or lesser space? Our early Friends seemed to recognize this distinction only by allowing justification to consist of two parts. Even this distinction would seem more Scripturally expressed by "first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear." If we understand justification to represent a spiritual child, born into the Kingdom, and as such a member of the Father's family, and heir of the purchased inheritance; so delivered from bondage to sin, as to be able to praise God on the banks of deliverance, one who,♦ justified by faith, has peace with. God through the Lord Jesus Christ, and brought into this blessed condition through repentance and faith; it would seem naturally to follow that sanctification was simply a state of spiritual manhood representing the matured Christian; a condition promoted and perfected through the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. This view of the subject would leave the impression, that, as the natural child, though an infant in knowledge and comprehension, was a legitimate heir to his father's estate, even so the spiritual child, justified by faith, was in deed and in truth, a legitimate heir to that inheritance that is undefiled and fadeth not away. Hence it is obvious that in securing this higher state of religious experience, there is no substantial change in the principle by which the whole work is effected, but simply the development of the blade into the full corn, the seed into the tree, the child into the man. That it is the exertion of the same lov ing power, that convicts of sin, that justifies the child, and sanctifies the man; purifying the heart by faith, destroying the carnal mind, purging out the old leaven, when the subject becomes a new lump. "I will purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin;" being wholly pervaded by the Spirit of the Master; being baptized into Christ. Old things having passed away and all things become new, and all things of God. In this great work the Apostle happily combines grace and faith. (Eph. ii. 8). "By grace are ye saved through faith," showing the former to be the means, and the latter the instrument by which that means is made available for the accomplishment of its appointed purpose, and that under the combined influence of these priceless gifts, those who profitably receive them are so far trans formed as to be created in Christ Jesus unto good works. It is the privilege of believers to know this state to be a realized fact, preceded by a process, and it may be, like the natural birth, accompanied by suffering and labor; and while enjoying this blessed experience in the retirement of his own heart, he will be manifested to the world by a life fruitful in works of holiness; thus witnessing that if the tree is good, the fruit will also be good. In pursuing this important and deeply interesting subject further, we should carefully notice that the process referred to is not the new birth itself-but only its precursor and prob. ably much of it not necessarily preliminary thereto, but like Israel's journey in the wilderness towards the promised land, prolonged by lack of obedience and of the continued exercise of a trustful unwavering faith. Like them we have enemies in the way, and also like them our faith falters, and our spiritual progress is arrested. We are prone to forget that it was only after Abraham had patiently endured, that he obtained the promise |