CHRISTIAN
IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY;
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY;
IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY.
Volume XXXIII.
SUFFOLK, YA., FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1880.
Number 8.
TRUSTING GOD.
[The following is the last hyran written by
Mr. bliss, and not entirely finished at the time
he met his death at Ashtabula :]
I know not what awaits me,
Qod kindly veils mine eyes,
And o’er each step on my onward way
He makes new scenes arise;
And every joy He sends me comes
A sweet and glad surprise.
Cuouus :
Where He will lead I’ll follow,
My trust in Him repose,
And every hour in perfect peace,
I’ll sinjj, “He knows, He knows.”
One step 1 see before me.
'Tis all I need to see ;
The light of heaven more brightly shines
When earth’s illusions flee ;
And sweetly through the silence comes
His loving “Follow Me.”
Oh, blissful lack of wisdom,
’Tis blessed not to know ;
He holds me with his own right hand,
^nd will not et me go ;
And lulls my troubled soul to rest,
In Him who Ipves me so.
So on I go, not knowing,
I would not if I might;
I’d rather walk!in the dark with God
Than go alone in the light;
I’d rather walk by faith with Him
Than go alone by sight.
— Christian Star.
j^eUdiong.
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
—Your pastor needs your sympa
thy and support in your own homes..
What you say for or against him and
his work is certain to reproduce it
self iu the church. That minister’s
usefulness is practically at an end
whose reputation and character and
work are not upheld in tho families
ofhis congregation, and especially
parents in the presence of their chil
dren.—Christian Intelligencer.
—But, after all, (he Church must
depend nmpi her pastors. They come
the neatest to the people. It is wor
thy of note that one mau in the same
Church,without offensive earnestness,
secures a large missionary collection,
while his predecessor or successor
makes i the most limited returns.
Little will be done without the pas
tor’s h^art is iu tho cause. Not the
Church merely, but Christ, the Lord
himself, constantly looks to him for
his best efforts in this great field. It
is' the Master’s inheritance—the pur
chase of the travail of his soul. He
alts “expecting” until his disciples
shall bear his message of love to all
people,—Zion's Herald.
—Sharp—sharp ought the line to
be drawn between the world and the
Churcl. The early Christian saw
the necessity of this ; and the very
moment any church undertakes to
toy with the pomps and vanities of
this wicked world—be it iu billiard
rooms, bar-rooms, ball-rooms, thea
tres or iu any of Sabbatarian com
promises, or by trying to popularize
> religion—as if it was a drug to be
taken in some kind of treacle—then
that church will get her white robes
besmirched, aud it will cease to be a
a godly church, and become a world
ly church, where religion will be cul
tivated in its “mildest form”—among
the roses.— Centra l Fresbyterean,
Richmond, Va.
—The world has no objection to
joining the Church, ii' it may coutiu
lie to be the world. A low standard
of membership, or even a high stau
dard, applied with a slack hand, will
bring in numbers. But what are
they worth when they come iu ! It
tire understanding is that they can
enjo^ Church privileges on any or no
terms, and live as they have lived
and as they may still choose to live,
the larger a Church thus becomes,
the weaker it is. Indeed, a society
constructed on such principles is not
a real Church; it is not a body called
out of the world ; it is only a part of
of the world, under a new namo.—
Christian Presbyterian.
—The German says, “How do you
find yourselft” or, “How goes it l’i
The Frenchman, “How do you car
ry yourself!” The Turk, “How is
your digestion 1” The Englishman,
“How are you t” aud the impulsive
American, “How d’ye l” A bow is a
courtly , practice; the lifting of the
hand to the hat a military salutation;
handshaking prevails in the United
States and England, and kissiug iu
Frauqe. In Africa demonstrations
> of delight are made by falling down
oil th? buck and kicking up the heels;
in America by clapping bauds. The
Arab, to express his friendship, hugs
and kisses his adored, if permitted,
and then asks for backsheesh; iu
some tribes they rub t noses. The
Yankee, when be is puzzled, scratch
es his head, the Chinaman his foot.
CHRISTIANITY AND HEATHENISM.
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST.
Palistine—The Real Huh—The Septu
agint—Paul Quotes Poetry— Grecian
and Roman Divinities—Pandora—
Woman's Curiosity—The Constella
tions— Their significance—Bible Ref
erence to them, etc., etc.
BY HORATIUS BONAR, D. D.
It is not usually noticed that Pal
estine is situated as a centre in the
terrestrial globe, best suited for
sounding throughout all the earth
the glad tidings of Gospel salvation.
The Old Testament record was in
trusted to the Jews, and their lan
guage was oue peculiar to themselves,
but situated as they were iu so advan
tageous a position between the East
ern and Western hemispheres, there
cau be little question but that they
became the instruments of divulging
the sacred truths lirst intrusted to
them as to the creation of the globe,
and of man, its temporary occupant.
Perhaps, for the like end, the cap
tivities of the Israelites were design
ed by the Almighty for still farther
carrying trust into distant parts ul
the earth. It cannot be supposed
but that Daniel and his confreres
left their impress on the people of
Babylon, and that all were made to
feel that God was was with them,
and the only true God. Still more
when, uuuer the wonueriui counsels
of Providence, the Hebrew books,
hitherto much of a settled record,
were in Egypt translated into Greek,
then the most common language in
the world ; the learned of all nations
eagerly sought to enrich themselves
w'lth the ample stores of history to
be found nowhere else. The Septua
gint, translated from the Hebrew
about 280 years before the birth of
our Saviour, was obviously prepara
tory for the advent. It was from
some such information that the wise
men of the East learned the time of
the birth of Him who was to be the
Saviour of the world, and also the
region of His birth. It may be here
remarked that Greek, being the
adopted version of the Hew Testa
merit, and the fact of three langua
ges undesiguedly by the enemies of
the Saviour in derision inscribed over
the cross of Jesus, as well as the
miracle of tongues on the day of Pen
teeost, all in unison proclaimed that
the Gospel was no longer confined to
the Jews, but was for “idfc^opjc who
on earth did dwell.” I JBIHipot to be
wondered at, thereffiaKhat the
learned men of Greece and Koine ea
gerly sought out the salient point of
the Mosaic record, and worked them
up with their debased mythology and
their multitudious deities, whose
names, like that of the Evil One him
self, were legion. Their number in
deed was so great that there was a
division into superior and inferior,
and the latter were so numerous that
they had to be classified into divis
ions. Orpheus reckoned the num
ber of superior deities aloue at 305.
But Vakro enumerated 300 inferiors,
and Hesiod computed 30,000 deities
hovering above the earth iu the air.
Paul thought it not unworthy of his
noble argument on Mars Hill to
quote, from the hymn ot
to Jupiter, evidence that their own
poets confessed that man was made
in the image of God. The ease with
which men were made to pass from
the region of the terrestrial into that
of the celestial is seen by the barba
rians of Melita (Malta), when they
viewed Paul atone moment as a
murderer, but in the next beheld him
as a god; or when Paul and Bar
nabas were at Lystra, the people,
because of the miracle done outlie
cripple, “lifted up their voices, say
ing, The gods have come down to us
in the likeness of men; and they
called Barnabas Jupiter, and
Paul Ferourius, because he was
the chief speaker. Then the priest
of Jupiter brought oxen and gar
lauds unto the gates, and would
have done sacrifice with the people.”
Scholars have remarked that the 4th
eclogue of Virgil to Pollio is a lib
eral translation of various passages
of Isaiah.
The Supreme God, by the ancients,
was held to bo “father of gods and
men by the Greeks called Zeus
(God); by the liomans Jupiter. It
is worthy of remark that the proper
name Jupiter appears incapable oi
regular declension, and crops out in
the genitive as Jovis, a direct recog
nitiou of the Hebrew Jehovah. The
Greeks recognized three divinities j
united iuto one Supreme God. Both
the Greeks and Romans gave nppel
lations to the Supremo Deity, an
swering very nearly to the attributes
ascribed in Scriptures to the true
God, especially “Options Maximus,”;
the Best aud most High. “Jupiter
Tonans,” or the thunder, was his pre-1
rogative- "and favorite appellation,
hence a thunderbolt or flint stone
were the symbols of his power. In
the words of Job, “God directeth
His voice under the whole heaven,
and His lightning into the ends of
the earth. Alter it a voice roareth :
He tliuncleretli with the voice of His
excellency; and He will not stay
them when His voice is heard. God
thundereth marvellously with his
voice; great things doeth He which
we eauuot comprehend.” In both
Greece and Koine Jupiter was repre
sented as ‘‘determining the course of
all human affairs. He foresaw the
future, and the events happening in
it were the results of his will (Smith’s
Classical Dictionary).- As Lord of
heaven, white was his color: white
animals were sacrificed to him, white
horses drew his chariot, and his
priests were arrayed in white.
1’Audora bears a very remarkable
likeness to mother Eve. She was
supposed in the classic age to be the
first woman on earth. When Pome
tbeus had stolen fire from heaven,
Zeus, in revenge, caused bis son Vul
can, the god of lire, “to make a
woman out of earth, who by her
charms and beauty should bring
misery upon the human race. One
god adorned her with beauty, anoth
er bestowed upon her boldness and
cunning, and so she was called Pan
dora, or “the All gifted,” as each of
rile gOiU-trau given uer some power
by which she was ro work the ruin of
man,” (Smith). She became the wife
of Prometheus. Iu his house there
was a closed jar or box, which he b.v
Zens was forbidden to open; “but
the curiosity of woman could not re
sist tlie temptation to know its con
tents, and when she opened the lid
all the evils incidental to humanity
poured out and spread over the earth.
She had only time roshut down the lid
and prevent the escape of Hope.”
There can be no better recognition of
the fail of man than this with its ac
compauying woes, but still with the
liopeof salvation, to be accomplished
by the seed of the womau in the lull
ness of time. Vulcan, the god of lire
and of smiths, evidently has its root
from Tubal Cain,omitting the first syl
lable and changing the b into a v, not
uncommon in ancient languages, aud
thus we have the Scripture name. So,
too, Aehillis, invuluerable all but the
heels, because held by his mother
when plunged iu the river Lethe, in
order to render him proof against all
weapons of warfare.
Thus we see that whatever is beau
tiful in the old mythologies, or sug
gestive of hidden truth, aud cor.se
quently whatever there may have
been impressive for any degree of
good upon their devotees, was caught
eat of tlie Hebrew Scriptures. And
perhaps at the first this commeuded
the grain of truth, though dressed in
falsehood, to the troubled and per
plexed, though inquiring, heathen
mind.
Before leaving tins section dealing
with the creation, we may shortly no
tice some evidence derived from the
signs of the Zodiac, and the constel
lations. So much did this appear,
that Voluey and Dupuis, two leading
French infidels, while acknowledg
ing the fact, argued that mankind
had taken their theology from the
starry vault of the firmament, and
not that the firmament wss the im
press of revealed theology. It is not
surprising that in early ages, when
written records were unknown or
scanty, mankind should syufbolize
great tpths iu the canopy of the
heavens. So, iu the words of the
Psalmist, “The heavens declare the
glory of God, and the firmament
showcth Llis handiwork; day unto
day utteretli speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge. 'I here is'
no speech nor language wlierg there
voice is not heard. Their line is gone
out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world.” Ac
co'-dingly, in Book of Job, the most
ancient portion of the Bible, there is
a distinct recognition of constella
tions, by the very names under which
they are known in modern astrono
my. The stars which form a constel
lation do not at once give the figure,
but require lines to be drawn from
one stur to another, thus grouping
them together. Libia is thus thirde
to symbolize the justice of God. Scor
pio is death. Sagittarius represents
the conqueror of death in the figure
of Scorpio. Hercules, or the Savi
our, is represented as treading ou a
dragon’s head. Capricoruus repre
sents the saciificial goat. Aquaiius
is the symbol of the Holy Ghost pour
ed out as water. Pisces the fishes
has always been the symbol of the
Church. Similar symbols may be
found in the blessings of Jacob on
his twelve sons, as recorded in the
49th chapter of Genesis, especially
Leo in the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
VirgoJias often been recognized as a
wonder!til symbol of the Christian
creed. Though prostrate on the
ground, her high estate is shown by
her having wings. She holds in one
band ears of corn, emblems of the
chosen seed; in the other band she
raises the palm of future victory.
GEORGE MULLER.
There are some names that seem
fitted to stand for certain great
truths; as Luther for down-right,
honest, sturdy thought; Howard for
for beneficence, and Washington for
unsullied patriotism. In a similar
way, the name of George Muller may
be allowed to ston'd as suggestive of
of Faith in G&e Efficacy of Prayer.
His life teases that with siugular
point and (fnect.
He was born in Prussia, in 1803,
and in his youth, was remarkable for
wildness and recklessness ot charac
ter. He was destined by bis lather
j for the ministry—for no higher tea
i son than that be might be secure of a
comfortable living. To this end he
j was sent to school, passed a rigid ex
1 animation, and engaged in the study
of Theology. He possessed a library
of throe hundred volumes; bnt did
not own and had never read the Bible l
Ill-at ease at heart, ho sought rebel
in the theatre, the dance, and the
gamingtable; but left them as dissa
tisfied as before. He then heard of a
little Saturday evening meeting,
where ..$ome of the students assem
bled for singing, prayer and reading
the Bible. This he felt a strange de
sire to attend; and, at last, one ol
the members consented to tike Mul
ler with him to their little gathering,
at his own earnest request. Here a
new world opened before him, and
“the old, story of Jesus and His love’’
came to him with new and strange
ayd mighty power. Like Saul of old,
he “was not disobedient to the heav
enly vision,” but yielded himself to
its demands. He found peace and
joy iu believing; and quickeued with
the energies of the new life, he gave
bimseh to the work he was called to
do, in entire aud hearty consecration
And just here, it may as well be no
ted for the encouragement of those
who believe in aud love such servi
ces, that it was not under what men
call “a splendid sermonnor iu the
gorgeous and elaborately-appointed
church ; but iu the humble meeting
for Prayer and Praise, that George
Muller was called t® a knowledge of
“the truth as it is in Jesus.” Here
his spiritual life began. And right
nobly has it asserted itself before the
world. Of one church in Bristol, he
has been pastor for about forty-seven
years, and for forty-five of these his
life has been one of simple faith in
God—proving itself by the richest
fruits of Faith.
But it is not so much to follow out
his life step by* step, that we now
write, as it is to call attention to the
great work with which his maue is
most intimately connected—we mean
the Bristol Orpliau Home. From the
small beginning oi caring lor oue des
titute child ; it has grown until it now
numbers five Orphan Houses, erected
by him ; offering a home and instruc
tion to some five thousand children.
The enterprise was begun in prayer.
It has been continued in prayer; and
it is what it is to-day by prayer. He
believes in the Living God, who an
swers prayer to-day, just as He did of
old. His associates share that belief;
and the Bristol Orphan Home is never
in debt. As means are needed, they
are provided—coming in the contri
bution of a servant girl on the one
hand, and the princely gilt of noble
men ou the other. The expenses of
the Home amount to about $U30,00
per dSy ; and George Muller’s testi
mouy is “that God has never once fail
ed me," or let His Word fall to the
ground.
How, here is an example before the
eyes of the world. It means some
thing. It may be known and read by
all men. And, after all the silly
sneers of unbelief, the question comes
back to be auswered : If Prayer is
not a Factor iu the Christian Life,
what does the Bristol Orphan Home
menu T »
DAMASCUS.
Like all Eastern cities, the iuterior
is disappointing. The streets are
dusty aud narrow, and the effect of
the shabby houses and dilapidated
walls is rather that of a collection of
villages huddled together than of a
large aud important city. Our first
call was made at au excellent hotel,
kept by a Greek. Its court-yards,
with fountains playing aud with
large orange trees shadowing the
whole place, looked so enticing, its
myrtles and jessamines and marble
floors so cool, and its bed-rooms so
clean and comfortable, that we felt
'quite sorry it had not been arranged
| that we should stay there, instead of
i pitching our tents in one of the iar
i famed gardens in Damascus. From
the hotel we made a progress through
the picturesque bazaars. Here they
are covered iu buildings, swarming
with people in every variety of orien
tal costume. Turks, Syrians, Maco
nites and Druses of the town jostle
each other. Now a Bedouin of the
desert rides by ou a beautiful Arab
mare, with his long, pointed lance at
rest, followed by other Bedouins on
foot aud in rags; unsuccessful rob
bers probably. We wandered about
for some time, greatly amused bi
looking ■ at a crowd assembled to
await the arrival of the Prince of
Prussia. At last we sauntered ou to
our tents, but a great disappointment
awaited us iu tbe appearance of the
garden iu which they had been pitch
ed. Its roses were over the grass,
looked parched and dusty, aud the
Abaua flowed low and sluggishly in
its bed. But it was too late to alter
now, so there wascBothing for it but
to dress aud go aud dine at the hotel.
We made a droll cavalcade, on horse
bace, tbe gentlemen with loaded pis
tols, and the attendants, who carried
lanterns, bristling with weapons.
The table d'hote was rather bare of
guests that night, lor the diligence
which plies betweeu here and Bey
rout, and brings the travelers in
time for dinner, did not arrive at all
having, been required for the use of
the Prince of Prussia, as it is the
only carriage in all Syria. We re
turned to the tents in the same
melodramatic procession, and had,
besides, four soldiers to guard the
tents during the night. Friday is
the Mohammedan Sabbath, and they
make it market day as well, so that
the Bedouins of the desert, who
come from long distances, may com
bine their temporal and spiritual du
ties comfortably, and do their mar
keting and go to the mosque on the
same day. The streeis were even
more crowded than last night, with
varied and wonderful costumes, and
so closely packed that it was ditlicult
to make one’s way through them. In
one corner stood a Bedouin Anazeb,
of the tribes from Palmyra, bargain
ing for a cane to make a spear, his
goat-hair cloak, with its broad black
and white stripes, hanging from his
stalwart shoulders. Auother ot the
tribe, bard by, seeming to be doing
his best to sell a horse, while others
again rode by with an abstracted air,
the graceful mares they bestrode
being often closely followed by whin
nying foals. Groups of Turkish,
Jewish, or Christian women, made
their purchases with quite as much
earnestness and gesticulation as:
housewives nearer home, while their
lords and masters lounged near, prob
ably keeping an eye on the domestic:
expenditures, fW apparently only
intent on buying sweetmeats from
some of thus many venders. There j
were no Franks except ourselves. i
HOW TO CONQUER DOUBTS.
Be careful to keep the oUl receipts!
which thou hast from Goil for the;
pardon of t.hy sius ; it behooves thee j
to lay them up safely. Such a testi -
mony may serve to non suit thy accu
ser many years hence. One affiir
rnation from God’s mouth for thy
pardoned state carries more weight,;
though of old date, than a thousand!
negatives from Satan.
Question—“But what counsel would ;
you give me,” said the distressed;
soul, “who cannot fasten on my for
mer comforts, nor dare to avouch
these evidences which once I thought
true! I find, iu'deed, there have,
been some treaties of old between.
God and my soul; some hopes have 1
had; but these are now so defaced
and interlined with back-siblings, re
pentances, and falls again, that now
I question all my evidences, whether;
true or counterfeit. What shall one I
iu this case do !
Answer first—Renew thy repen
tance, as if thou had never repented;
put forth fresh acts of faith, as if;
thou had never believed. This, seri
ously doue, will stop Satan’s mouth
with an unexpected answer. Let him
object agaiust thy former actings as
hypocritical—what can he say against
thy preseut repenting and believing,
which, if true,-sets them beyond his
shot! It will be harder for Satan to
disprove the preseut workings of
God’s graoious spirit, whilst the im
pressions thereof are fresh, than to
pick a hole in thy old deeds and evi
deuces.
Answer second—If he haunts thee
with fears of thy spiritual estate, tly 1
thee to the throne of grace, ami beg
a new copy of thy old evidence, which
thou haBt lost. The original is in the
pardon office iu heaven, whereat
Christ is master. If thou art a saint,
thy name is on record in thuUcuurt;
make thy inoau to God ; hear what
news from heaveu, rather than listen
to the tales which are brought by
thiue enemy from hell.—Uurnalis
Christian Armor.
jfarm and Jj-irciidc.
WASTED WINTERS.
We trust that one winter's time at
least —the present—has not been
wasted by our farmers. Such unifor
mally favorabb weather as we have
had for almost every kind of farm
work that can be done at this season,
should not have been thrown away,
and doubtless the majority of enter
prising Southern farmers have ac
complished a great deal of work to
ward the ue.w crop. There are lag
gards, however, in every calling, and
there are stillsome farmers—we hope
the number is not great—who lack
that persevering and ever vigilant
energy that is always needed and ex
ercised by all who succeed in life.
There are yet some farms where the
article of energy does not seem to
thrive—whose owners never go to
work until the season or circumstan
ces compell them, and even then they
do not labor with that vim that- char
acterizes so many of onr deserving
yeomanry. These men have wasted
this splendid winter season, and soon
the spring will open and scarcely
anything will be done.
Aow the best fanners do the liar
(lest part of their work in winter. It
is the time for performing the rough
and heavy work of cleaning and mak
ing ready for future crops. The st a
sou with its cool bracing weather fa
vors hard labor, and-the niafu of en
ergy and forethought takes hold and
gets through with the more burden
some and toilsome portions 'of the
year’s work, and leaves for the sum
mer the lighter tasks of tending and
keeping in order. The heat of sum
mer is too enervating to man and
beast, and men of observation know
that bard labor ol'ter breaks a man
down at that season, or brings on a
spell of sickness to pay for it. It is a
great physical and pecuniary mistake
to waste the winter in almost total
idleness and crowd into the summer
all the iiard toil of the year. Ail the
preparatory work necessary to the
planting of crops should be perform
ed m winter, and The duties ot sum
mer should be those of tilling and
taking care, and leisure and recrea
tion should be indulged in as much as |
possible. The man's system needs it j
then, but wants active exercise rath- \
er iu winter. A far north farmer |
may be obliged to waste his winters ;
iu inactive ease, but not lie of the I
milder South. The sun and plenty of]
exercise for winter, but a slower pace,
much shade, and long intervals of
rest iu summer.— linral Messenger,
SELECTING DAIRY COWS.
Look first to the great characteris
tics of a dairy cow—a large stomach, j
indicated by broad hips, broad and 1
deep loin and sides, a broad or double
chine—these indicate a large diges
tive apparatus, which is the first es
sential requisite to the manufacture
of milk. Secondly, a good constitu
tion, depending largely upon-the
lungs and heart, which should be well j
developed, and this is easily deter
mined by examination, but the vigor!
and tone of the constitution is iudica
ted by the lustre of the hair and
brightness of the eye aud horns, and j
the whole make up. Thirdly, having |
determined her capacity for digest- j
iug surplus food (or making milk, |
look carefully to the receptacle for j
the milk—the udder—and the veins !
leading to it. In fact the udder is
the first point to look at in a cursory j
examination of a cow, for Nature is
uot apt to create iu vain. If it reach- i
es to the back line of the thighs, well
up behind, reaches well forward, is i
broad and moderately deep, with |
teats well apart, and skin soft and !
elastic, it may be inferred that Na- j
ture has provided means for filling:
it.
If the udder be a small round cyl-1
iuder, hanging down in the front of
the thighs, like a six quart pail, the j
cow cannot be a profitable milker,!
whatever digestive apparatus she i
may have.—National Lire Stuck llcc- \
ord.
Draining a Hollow.—To drain j
a depression in a field where a clayey !
or hard-pan subsoil prevents the sink-1
iug of rain-water, and the lay of the j
land is unfavorable for ordinary meth-1
ods of draiuage, first dig a hole, as if
for a welt, through the impervious'
stratum at the bottom of the hollow,
till it up to the brim with refuse
stones, remove the excavated earth
so as to allow the surface-water free
access to the pit, and standing.water
will never injure the grass or grain
crop iu that part of the field.
Subscribe for the Sun.
SELECTED RECEIPTS.
To Roast Beef.—A roast of six
pounds requires about an hour to
cook; have the oven very hot when
the meat is put in ; sprinkle with
salt.
Baking Powder Bisorn. —Use
one leaspoqn powder and one table
spoon shortening,one fourth teaspoon
salt to every pint of flour; mix very
soft with tnilk or water; bake quick.
Molasses Drop Cake.—One cup
molasses, oue-half cup butter, one
half cup warm water, three cujw flour,
two teaspoons ginger, one of so
da. Beat well together, drop with a
spoon on buttered tins.
Any kind of poultry or meat may
be cooked quicker by adding two ta
blespoons of viuegar to the water, in
which it is boiled ; it will also remove
the taint of fish, flbsli, or fowl, by
soaking it in it and scraping.
Ginger Snaps.—One egg, one cup
brown sugar, one cup New Orleans
molasses, two-thirds cup butter, thiee
teaspoons ginger, one of vinegar, due
of soda, a little nutmeg, sufficieut
flour to roll stiff, roll very tiiiu; bake
quick.
cheese omelette.—orate cueese
m-proportion of a large cup full to
one dozen eggs, beat ttajs'eggs as lor
omelette; add tfut cheese, pour into
a buttered ofroileS fryiug-pan, about
ball'inch thick, fry quickly, do not
turn ; serve on buttered toast, very
hot.
Coen Bread.—One pint sour milk
one teaspoon soda (or only enohgh to
sweeten the milk), one tablespoon
butter, one egg, half teaspoon salt, a
handful of wheat flour, enough meal
to make a thin batter; pour in the
pan and bake twenty minutes.
Graham Meal Griddle Cakes.
—Three tablespoons yeast, two cups
graham flour, one cop wheat flour;
m ix at bed t i mg w ifh w a rifl water or
milk—they should be quite thin—set
where it will keep warm ; bake ou a
griddle for breakfast. They must be
well cooked.
To Cook Turnips.—Pare, slice,
cut in dice an inch square, boil ’till
nearly done, in as little water as pos
sible; to one quart of turuips, add
one tablespoou sugar, salt to make
palatable; wheu they are boiled as
dry as possible, add two or tbree
spoons of cream, and a beaten egg,
and serve. Excellent.
Sponge Ginger Cake.—One pint
of New Orleans molasses, warmed
butter size of an egg, melted in the
molasses, one tablespoon giuger, one
quart flour. Dissolve a heaping teas
poon of soda in a cup of milk ; mix.
If you wish a hard giuger cake, mix
euougk flour to roll about one-half
inch thick. Bake quick.
Leg of Mutton.—A leg of six
pounds will require about one anil
oue-half or two hours to roast. Re
move carefully all stray hairs, wash
in strong vinegar, place in a pan, salt
well, add a cup of hot water, put into'
a hot oven, baste ofteu ; make a gra
vy of the drippings. Serve with bak
ed potatoes and boiled onions.
Rolls.—Take a piece of bread
dough a little larger than a pint cup,
and knead into it oue or two tables
poons butter, roll out and spread
with butter; roll up aud cutoff pieces
the size you wish, roll thin iu the
hand aud place in the pan, let rise,
aud bake. The crust will be nicer if
they are rubbed with butter before
baking.
Buckwheat Cake s.—One cap
yeast, three or lour cups warm milk,
teaspoon salt; make quite a thick
batter, and set where it will keep
warm. If sour, add one-fourth teas
poon of soda. In the absence of milk
or if the Hour is poor, boil and mash
two or three medium-sized potatoes
and add them; it causes the cakes to
brown, and improves their flavor. A
tablespoon of molasses is sometimes
used.
Fried Oysters.—Drain from the
liquor, dip in beaten egg and then in
finely rolled crackers ; have the egg
salted a little, also the crumbs. Fry
brown iu any fat, (butter is best,)
and serve very hot. Or take one cup
sweet milk, one egg, a pinch of salt,
flour enough to make a thin batter,
and one teaspoon baking-powder.
Dip iu tiro batter aud take out one at
a time with a little of the batter and
fry brow u.
Custard Cake.—One egg, one
cup sugar, three-fonrths cup milk,
one aud one-half cups flour, three tea
spoons baking powder, butter sixe of
an egg; bake in layers. Custard_
One and one-fourth cups milk, oue
teaspoon flour, and two of corn
starch, one egg, pinch of salt, sweet
en to taste, make quite sweet, flavor
highly with vanilla. Must be made
I first and cooled before puttiug be
1 tween the cakes.