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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-28, Page 7'NIA I N ION PARE TAMEN T . OUR ItAlildAKEIRS IN COUNCIL 'Proceedings of The Solute° and /louse of Common; New IOUs Introduced and The Dateget Debate Contintted. The order of the day being called, Mr, aOharltoa rose to speak upon the :fernoas Tay Canal, He first gave an outline pf the history of the eonstruebion of the -canal, in 1834 Sir Oherles Tapper esked ler the firat vote, stating that the coat :would be $132,663. together with coratin land damages. In 1898 he &eked for $75,- 900, alai said that owing to certaia changes the to tal expense would be $210,- .000. sin 1881 $100,000 more wag meted; in 1887 yet $§5',000 more, Sir Charles Tupper steting that the expense had beeia, 4256,360. In 1838 another yobe of $78,000 had been asked for, The cost had up to then, been $358,864. In, 1899 Mr. Foster -asked for 925,000; in. 1893 for 911,000; -and in. 1890 a further vote of $20.,000, part sof it a riavote, was given. In 1891 Mr. j3owell stated that the cost up to date had 'ibeen, 9140,613.21. In 1892 a :fifth last cai1 of $20,000 was made to provide• a braneh from Perth Basin to Haggarb's Mill, though the actual cost of this was 436,412.26, or almost doable the estimate, ib had lately been stated that Mho total cost up to January 1 had been 4476,128.73. The expenses for ineinte- .uance for 1893 had been 92,486, and the areventie had been. $1.85.76. The returns showecl that two or three small steamers, a scow, one or two yachts and a skiff or two had. been all the vessels passing :through it, the tonnage being 5,83.1.. Mr. •Haggart in 1881 had assented the respon- ssibllity of the construction, and had claimed that it hal benefited to the -amount of $30,000, in that the charges 'upon 20,000 tons of freight had been low - aired 81.50 a ton. The returns of the traffic on the =nal showed a discrepancy. Mrs Taggart said that he had not as- merted that the 20,000 tons had. gone by the canal, and Mr. Charlton replied that .he had not said that Mr. Haggart had .asserted that the canal had carried, this -amount, but that ]Jr. Haggart had said that, through it, the rates had. been low- -era.. If air. Haggart had wisb.ed to re - .duce the railway rates, why had. he spent .half a million. upon the canal, when the mailway act of 1888 provided means of scatting down exorbitant rates? In conclusion Mr. Charlton moved an amentlment as follows: "That the amount of business transacted upon the Tay Canal is of insignificant proportions when contrasted with the cost and capac- eity of 'the work, and that the benefits con- ferred upon the general public by its -,construction. are eompazatively trivial and unimportant; that this House ex- presses regret that so large a sum of $476,- 12833 was expended in a way that no .consicleration of sound. public policy could justify, leaving the country to suffer, not -Only the loss of manual interest upon the investment, but a considerable annual ‘tharge in additioxt to the nearly useless alreation if the expenditure is maintained; ..and. that this House is of the opinioa that the magnitude of the public debt of Can- ada is du.e in no inconsiderable degree to that waSteful an& -unwarrantable class of expenditure of evluch. the Tay Canal is a .type." Hon. Mr. Haggett said the present res- eolution was almost in the same language as one moved in 1891 by the member for . Heron (Mr. X. C. Cameron). He had at that tines replied fully to the statements which ?,tr. Charlton had just reaeated. 'The first vote for the canal was made by Parliament in 1882. For several sessions thereafter aclditionul votes for it were anode. On each of these occasions no ob- jection was raised to the project by the 'Opposition. At the time the Tay Canal was constructed he (Mr. 'Taggart) was a private member of the House, and. did. his 'best to aet for his constituency of South lamark6a pulelie work which was to its ' benefit. The work was commenced upon ta petition signed by the citizens of Perth, -and the town had. contributed a consid- erable sant of money to it. It had been -a great benefit to the town in saving $1.50 .a ton upon 4,000 tons of freight per an- num. He thought the people of Perth had a right to have the canal, because 'they ha'1 contributed their share o± the most of public works in every other part .of the Doininion. Sir Richard Cartwright said, in all the profligate expenditures of this Govern- ment, he doubtecl if there could be found a more scandalous waste of the revenues -of the country than the particular waste to which the attention of the House had just been directed. ' The Tay Canal was a worse job than the Curran bridge, be - 'cause, although in the latter there had been a waste of 8200,000, at least the • 'country had get a work of some utility, Dr. Sproule said that if the Tay Canal was a mistake and he was not prepared to admit the statement, it was not the only mistake of the kind. which had. been made by a Government in this country. 'He reminded the Opposition of the St. .Francis Canal Maths Thunder Bay die- trict. Up& that work 8250,000 was ex - Tended by the Mackenzie Government, and it wits now filled with sawdust aitd -debris. The division on 'the resolution was then taken. The result was a majority of 34 for the Government. It was a straight party vote, Col. O'Brien voting twill). the Government. In Commibtee of Sapply a discussion arose upon the itern. of $8,200 for the Do- minion statistical year book. Sir Rich- ard. Cartwright criticized the way the book is made up, The statistician's bus- iness, he contended, .was to record facts; his comments were of mighty little value, • .antl, being influeneed by a desire to stolid well with his superiors, he had trans - lamed the year book from a public rem ord iota a party pamphlet. Mr. alcainl- len end. Mr. Perry made criticisms along • the same line. The censusreturns of 1891 were brought un.der cliseuesion by Mr. Lavergne, mem- ber forAthabascavalle. In the village of -that name, having a population of 1,000 people, the census gave forty-two inclus- tease, employing ninety hancle, inelacllng five boot and shoo manufactories, era- ploying altogether five hands. The o.E elistmaitytwas that a woman was put down as the bead of a dressmaking establishment and a knitting estriblitim meat, in each of whieh she was the only one engaged, . Mr. Choquette referred to a sineilat Misleadiag and unfair enumeration in his Town of Montmagaty. • . Dr. Borden, taking up the subject, gave • the,Hottse facte evlueli show that the cen- sus, as well as being completely uniesli- able an to iild.ttsrial eStabliShinelltS, ±5 110 ' Mort tellable with regards to the entuner- atton of population, Ile had had pro- , paved by a gentleman in. his constituency ;0± King's Cottnty, N.S., a' list of fifty per -lone. Those 'KRUM lan had sent to the census eonunissioner, &pacing if they ,wer0 011 the enumeration returns. This en- quiry he had been obliged to make, be- cause the commissioner had detainecl tit allotv him to examine the returas for himself,_ The reply he reeeived was that forty-eight of the, names were on the ro- taries, and one of the remeining two might be there, but he wee not sure. Dr. Borden then, reed to the House the places of residences of these fifteapersons. They were scattered over variooe States, but most of them were in Massaohusetts, aniaive or three were in different parts ot Canada. Whole families, whosemena beta had been absent from King's County five years andlonger, had been counted. In one case a person absent for twenty- two, yens was included:, in the census. Several bad. been away for aeventeen years and a number.for eleven, and all of them for a longer time than two years previous to the taking of the onsets, and bob long to allow </any ctaestion. that they had been, mooted. bfrinstake. Dr. Carrteron followea, declaring that the evidence adclueed was not worth a straw, and that tint amount of emigration from Canada had decreased under the National Policy. Mr. Flint declared that the statietics sent out by the Depaortmens of Agrieult- ure were worthless. Sir Richard Cartwright suggested that the G-overnment give orders to allow members to inspeet the census rolls. It was evident that in the district taken by Dr. Borden a gross fraud had been coins mitted. Sir John. Thompson said he was not aware of the state of the law upon that point, but he would giv-e an answer on the next day, Mr. Forbes followed, stating that he had. the names of eight clerks under Mr, Johnson, one of whom had informe±1 him that he and some of the other clerks named had, at Mr. Sohnson's express or - ars, increased. the figures in the tableein thi e ndustrial bulletin by amounts from. 10 1o25 per cent. in. excess of the amounts returned by the enumerators. No reply being made by the Govern- ment. Mr. Ma/Lilian complained of the lack of 'courtesy to the Opposition in no reply being made to these serious charges. The item was passed without any re- ply being attempted. The railway and canal an.d postoffice estimates occupied the time until 1 o'clock, when the House adjourned. NEW FRANCHISE ACT. • Sir Sohn Thompson introduced the bill to amend the Electoral Franchise Aet, and moved the first reading. He said: After what I said -the other day in indi- cating the outlines of the bill, it will nob be necessary- to express myself at great length this afternoon in order to give the House to understand what the contents of the bill are. In order, however, to give a brief sketch of them previous to -the second reading, I woultlmention that the principal features of the bill are these: First of all, in relation to the revision bf the present year, we bringinto force for the purposes of the revision of the Re- clistribation Act of 1898, it will be made on the lines of the constituencies as rear- ranged ill 1882, notwithstandingthat the Redistribution Act is not to comi e nto f orce for electoral purposes until a dissolution of this Parliament. At the same time it is our constitutional duty to see that the constituencies are always -in such a posi- tion that incase of an appeal the electors will be ready with the lists revised in the constituency so arranged. that the general elections may take place. While it is n‘ot only possible,' but very probable, that the revision of this year will be followed, by a revision next year prior to any dis- solusion'still, acting upon the principle which lhave mentioned, we are bound to keep in view the facts that whenever a dissolution shall take plitee the constitu- encies will be in a position to have a vote taken according to the distribution which will then be in. force. However, we pro- pose to provide for the case of bye -elec- tions taking place in the meantime by taking care that the polling divisions will be made in. such a manner that they will not run from one constituency, as it exists at present, into any new constitu- ency that will exist; under theReclistribu- tion Act of 1892. The change is also pro- posed in this bill, which I indicated a few days agp, that the question upon which so nuich difference has arisen in the past as to the basis of the franchise, shall be adjusted by adopting the fran- chises of the several Provinces. It is obviously one of the most desirable fea- tures in connection with any system of franchise, and to my mind an essential feature, that the' system to be adopted shall lie such that it can be put into operation every year, while under the system which we now propose, consider- able difficulty and labor may arise, fully as almela perhaps as would arise in a re- vision trader the law as it now stan.ds. We uphold the feature whieh I regard as the principal feature of the Franchise Act of 1885 sad that is that the revision shall take place by officers under the con- trol of this Parliament and of the Federal Government. The great principle whieh underlayed the Franchise Act of 1395 was the control by this, Parliament over matters connected with the franehise. I adhere to the second branch of the prinei- ple of control, namely, that this House and the electors who return members to this House ought nob to be under the con- trol, as regards the exercise of their fran- chise, of the officers of any other Govern- ment or Legislature wh.atever in the country. And, therefore, we intend to ask the, House to aaliSre to that prineiple of federal control over the federal fran- chise. With these remarks I ask the first reading of the bill. . Hon. Mr. Lauriere-We, of the Opposi- tion, do not at all find fault with the bill 50 fo,r as it goes. The only fault I find with it, and f will criticize the bill at a subsequent stage, is that it Sloes not go far enough. II-owtiver, the Governmann I will not say have surretulered, because the svord. is objectionable to the lam. aentlerama and I desire to hold oat the e 1, s olive bronco end will nobharrow his feel- ings by urine; that expression, bet I con- gratulate him on the fact that he has a good deal diverged from the prineiples maintained in the past by himself and his party. Sir ,Tohn'Thompson, answering c cites- tionesaid thee the Government were eon- siaering the advisability of eemoving the military school frone St, John's, IQ., to Montreal. Sir Adolphe Caron, answering Mr. Ca- sey, said that the postmaster of St. Thomas did not reeeive the box rents. Dr, Sprotao moved for an other of the Renee toe a return of all correspondence, reports, instietetions or ,other °Mamma eations between the Governmeat and the tatilatity (tempt -mice, and belaveert the Gov- ernment and their inspeetors, regarcline the regulations for carriege of live steel's over said railways from any poiut in the Unitea States thromahlOatieda 19eta! otaer point in the United Stamm, liat said that e noweoeper publiehea mn, westeru Ontario laid in its issue of May 3. =Ada certain steteineate with refeteriee ts Ameriemn °Mae passing through Cenada, It charged that the Emelt& embargo against Oenadiaa eettle had restated bo- o -use the Canadian Government had al- lowed diseased cattle to enter Canada without inspection, It was charged, that the inspectors at Sarnia. and. Windsor were permitted to pass °tittle at night, and a number of other equally ridiculous eharges were madeHosaid that these charges wore the resat of the dismiseal of Dr. Wright by the Government. He desired the return that the charges made might be officially refuted. H -e proved. 'rem documenta in, his possession, inelud- ing letters written, by Dr. Wright himself, that Wright had demanded $2,500 in east', 8200 per month and a permanent pass over all lines controlled by the Grand Trunk Railway from Sir Joseph Hickson, president of the G.T.R. Wright threat- eried that unless all his denian.ds Were satisfied he woalcl write letters to the press aid make statements which would ruin the cattle trade" of the railway. When the facts were reported to the Gov- ernment Wright was dismissed, and then published his aatioles, which formed the basis of the article in question. He trusted that when all the papers were laid before the House that the editor would see fit to place the matter in its proper light before his readers. Mr. McMullen was, glad that the mat- ter had• been brought before the House. It would have the effect of clearing up a question which had evidently been greatly misunderstood by Cauadian farmers. Ile was pleased that Dr. Wright had been. dismissed, but he blamed the Government for not homing dismissed "the black- mailer" long before they did: He trust- ed that the.Government would succeed in soon ongetting the English embargo re- mvThe motion was adopted. Mr. Perry moved a resolution which gave him an opportunity of speaking for two hours in favor of the Prince Edward Island tunnel. Mr. Wood (Westmoreland) advised the Government to make provision for a bet- ter mail service between the island and the mainland. in the meantime. He said it would take at least ten years to Qom.- plete the tunnel, and in tlae meantime a better mail service should obtain. Mr. Davies said thas the tunnel would cost at least from $15,000,000 to $20,000,- 000. Mr. Edgar, after recess, moved the sec- ond reading of his bill to reduce from twelve to seven the number of ithed gran. jurors necessary to find. a true bill n any province, where the jury shall net be composea of more than thirteen jurors. Sir John Thompson said that he was in. favor of abolishing the grand jury system altogether, but would not move in that directiori because of the great difference of opinion with reference to the subject. Mr. McCarthy wanted to koow what Sir John thought about the constitution- ality of the bill. As for himself, he was in favor of the present systeni of grand. juries. Sir John Thonapson said that, even though the bill did pass, it could not come into force except by the proclamationof the Provincial as well as the Federal Governments. The bill passed the second reading and. the committee stage, and stood for a third reading. Mr. Coatsworth moved. the House into committee to consider his bill to make further provision as to the prevention of cruelty to animals and to amend the crim- inal code of 1892. The billprovides pun- ishment for cruelty by beating, starving, baiting, abandoning and carrying in crowded cars. The bill also provides that the police may destroy diseased animals .when permitted by two justices of the peace. t Col. Tisdale proposed an amendment permitting shooting out of traps. Sir John Thompson opposed. the amend- ment. He said it was a miserable, un- manly sport to shoot pigeons from a trap. He trusted that the amendment would be voted. down. Mr. Haslam said that the people who were behind the bill were principally good-natured ladies. He thought that they could do more good by refusing to weal: bird feathers than by prohibiting shooting; from traps. Hon. Mr. Ives thought that too many laws were passed. both by the Provincial Legislatures and. the Fedeeal Governan e at. He said that new crimes were being cre- ated every year simply by the pezeage of laws. He opposed the bill clause by clause. He thought a man owning ewe tie was the best judge as to the amount of whipping they required. He did not think any man, from a financial stand- point, would ill use his cattle. Messrs. Davin, 'Metcalfe, Amyot and Sutherland spoke, and the committee rose without reportingthe bill. Mr. McMullen, in the absence of lvIr. Mulock, moved the second reading of the bill respecting ocean freight rate 3 on cat- tle. He quoted a lot of figures showing the importance of the cattle trade to Oan nate. The exportation had been decreasing in recent years. The object of the bill was to prevent the steamship compa- nies from squeezing tb.e exporters as to rates. Every facility should be given by the Government to secure th,e exportation of cattle, which aormed an important in- dustry in this country. There must be some reason why export steers au Buffalo bound fax Europe were worth 30 cents per hundred more than. in Montreal, which was an mean port, while Buffalo is tot, Canadian exporters did not know what they were going to be charged for carrying their eattle aeroes th.e Atlantic. 00,BOS were knowwhere the ehip had sailed before the vessel owners would tell them what rate would .be eharged. One clause of the bill would prevent, such a state of affairs. The House ought to leg. islet° in the interests of the people and form the steamship companies to do what is fair as between the cattle exporters and tb.emselves. Heretofore the whole situa- tion of rates wee entirely in the hands ot the ship owners, ana ib was now time that sueh a state of attain should ceasta Mr. ateNeill urged strongly upon the Government the advisability of dealing with the question in a serious way. The Gotrornment ought to eonside r the anwant iavestedin eattle in the provinee of On- tario. It was strange if the Goverumen b could belie no course to gti.ard the farmers of Ontraio from the ship owners, who held the key to the cotaation. The changing of the freight rates . at intervals to suit the ship owners diemegenized the eattle tram The ship owners wore really me- ting their own throats by doiag Mr, Remand also supported the bill. Mr. Fatties moved the adjournment of the debate. Time saved is tiot abising lithe tate is pat to ignoble WRY ANOTHER CHANCE. HEEDLESS OF THE WARNING MEN OONTINVE IN CRIME. the Place Where tins Tree ralleth There It Shall Tie"—No Purgatorial Rejuvenatiou—The Ages of Eternity a Prolongation of Desravity. . BROOKLYN, Tune 17.—Rev. Dr. Tel - image, vvho is mar on his round -the -world journey, has seleoted as the eubjeot for hte sermon, through the proem to -day, "An- other Chance," the text being taken from Eccles. 11-8; "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place Where the tree falleth there it shall be, There is a hovering hope in the painde of a vast multitude that there will be an opportunity in the next world. to correct the mistakes of this; that, if we do make complete shipwreck of onr earthly life, it will be on a sliore up whieb we may walk to a palace; that, as a defendant may lose Macau in the Circuit Court, and carry it up to the Supreme Court or Court of Chancery and get a reversal of judgment in his behalf, all the costs being thrown over on the other party, so, if we fail in the earthly trial, we may in the higher jurisdiction of eternity have the judgment of the lower court set aside, all the costs remitted, and we num be victorious de- fendants forever. My object in this am- nion is to show that common sense, as well as my text, declares that such an expecta- tion is chimerical. You say that the im- penitent man, haviug got into the next world and Betting the disaster, will, as a result of that disaster, turn, the . pain the cause of his reformation. But you can find 10,000 instaeces in this 'world of men who have done wrong and distress over- took them suddenly. Did the distress heal them? No; they went right on. That man was flung of dissipations. "You must stop drinking," said the doctor, "and quit the fast life you are leading, or it will destroy you." The patient suffers parox- ysm after paroxysm; but, under skilful medical treatment, he begins to sit up, begins to walk about the room, begins to go to business. And, lo I he goes back to the same grog shops for his morning dram, and his evening dram, and the drams be- tween. Flat down againl Seine doctor! Same physicial anguish, Same medical warning. New the illness is more pro- tracted; the liver is more stubborn, the stomach more irritable, and the digestive organs are more rebellious. But after a while he is out again, goes baok in the dram shops, and goes the same round of sacrilege against his physical health. He sees that his downward course is ruiping his household, that his life is a per- petual perjury against the marriage vow, that that broken-hearted woman is so un- like the roseate young wife whom he mar- ried, that her old school -mates do not recognize her; that his sone are to be taunted for a life -time by the father's drunkenness, that the daughters are to pass into life under the scarification of a disreputable ancestor. He is drinking up their happiness, their prospects for this life, and, perhaps, for the life to some. Sometimes au appreciation of what he is doing comes upon him. His nervous sys- tem Is all a -tangle. From crown of head to sole of foot, he is one aching, rasping, cruoifying, damning torture. Where is he? In hell or earth? Does it reform him? After awhile he has the delirium tremens, with a whole jungle of hissing reptiles let out on his pillow, and his screams horrify the neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, crying, "Take these things off mer As he site convalescent, the doctor says, "Now I want to have a plain talk weth you, ray dear fellow. The next attack of this kind you have, you will be beyond all medical skill, and you will die.' He gets better and goes forth into the same round again. This time medicine takes no effect. Con- sultation of physicians agree in saying there is no hope. Death ends the scene. That process of inebriation, warning and dissolution is going on within stone's throw of yon, going on in all the neighborhoods of Christendom. Pain does not correct. Suffering does not reform. What is true in one sense is true in all senses, and for- ever will be so, and yet men are expecting in the next world purgatorial rejuvenation. Take up the printed reports of the prisons of the United States, and you will find that tbe vast majority of inearcerated have been there before, some of them four, five, six times. With a million illustrations all working the other way' in this world, people are expecting that distress in the next state will be salvatory. You cannot animal° any worse torture in any other world thau that which some men have suffered here, and without any salutary consequence. • Fuetherraore, the prospect of a reforma- tion in the next world is more improbable than a reformation here. In this world the life started with innocence of infancy. In the case supposed, the other lite will open with all the secomulated bad Habits of many years upon him. Surely, it is easier to build a strong ship 011E of new timber than out of an old. hulk that has been ground up in the breakers. If with innocence to start with in this life a man doos not become godly, What prospect is tbere that in the next world, starting with sin, there would be a seraph °voluted? Surely the sculptor has more prospect of making a fine statue out of a bleak of pure white Parian marble than out of an oiti Mack reek seamed and cracked with the storms of half a century. Surely upon a clean white sheet of paper it is easier to write a deed or a will, than upon a sheet of paper all seribbled and blotted and torn from top to bottom. Yet men seem to think that, though the life that began here comparatively perfect Mimed out badly, the next life will succeed though it starts with a dead failure. "But," says some one, "I think we might to have a chance in the next life, be- cause this life is so short it allows only a small opportunity. We hardly have time to turn around between cradle and the tomb, the wood of the one almost touching the marble of the other." But do sou know what made the anoint deluge a nec- essity? It was the longevity of the ante- diltiviaus. They were worse in the second century of their life-aine than in s' launched year; and Oil' worse bathe third century, and still worse ell the way on to seven, eight and nine -hundred years, aud the earth had to ba washed, and serubbea, and soaked, and anchored clear out of sight for more than a month before it could 'be made fit for decent people to live in. Longevity never cures impenitence. dell the pictures of Time represent him with e scythe to out, but I never Few any picture of Time with II ease of medicines to heal. Seneca says that Nero for the first fivo years of his public life was set up for an example of clemelicy fold kindneee, bet his path all the wey deaden/led until at, .08 he beeanie a uniehle. 0 80 years did not make antediluvians any better, but only !Made thein moose, the girt of eternity tionld have no effeet except prolougation of ',pray. ity. ...Beta says sons One, "in the future state, evil eurroundings will be withdrawn all elevated iniluenees substituted, aaa hence expurgation, and eublimation, and glorification.' But therighteous, ell tbeir sins forgiven, aave passed on into beatific state, and consequently the unsaved will be left alone. It cannot be expected that Doetor Duff, wao exlimusted himself in teaching Hindoos the way to heaven, and Doctor Abeel, who gave ltis We in the evangelization of China, and Acloniram Judson, who toiled for the redemption of Borneo should be sent down by some a celest:1 missionary society to educate those who wasted all their earthly existence, Evangelistic and missionary efforts are ended. The entire kingdom of the moral- ly bankrupt by tbeinselves, where ex.e the salvatory influences to come from? Can one speckled and b .d apple in a learrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good? ONI1 those who are themselves dOVVII Hells others up? Can those who have themselves failed in the business of the soul pay the debts of their spire, insolvent? Can a mil- lion wrongs make one right? Poueropolie was a city where King Philip o(Thracia put all the bad people of his kingdom, If any man had opened a primary school 51 Poneropolis, I do not think the parents from other cities would have sent their children there. Instead of amendment in the other world, all the . associatIons, now that the good are evolved, will be degenerating and down. You would not went to send a man to a cholera or yellow fever hospital -for his health; and the great lazaretto of the next world, con- taining the diseased and plagne-straok, will be a poor place fax a moral recovery. If the sarromdings in this world were crowded of temptation, the surroundings of the next world, after the righteous have passed up and on, will be a thousand per cent. more crowded of temptation. The Count of Chautes.ubriand made his little son sleep at night at the top of a cas- tle turret, where the winds howled and where speotres were said to haunt the place; and while the mother and sisters almost died with fright, the son tells us that the prooess gave him nerves that could not tremble and a courage that never faltered. But I don't think that tower of darkness and the spectral world swept by sirocco and euroclydon will ever fit one for the land of eternal sunshine. I wonder whet is the curriculum of that college of Inferno, where, after proper preparation by the sins ot this life, the candidate enters, passing on from freshman class of deprav- ity to sophomore of abandonment, and from sophomore to junior, and from junior to senior, and day of graduation comes, and with diploma signed by Satan, the president, and other professorial demona acs, attesting that the candidate has been long enough under their drill, he passes up to enter heaven! Pandemouium a prepara- tive course for heavenly admissionl Ah, my friends, Satan and his cohorts have fitted uncounted multitudes for ruin, but never fitted one soul for happiness. Furthermore, it would not be safe for this world if men had another chance in the next. If it had been announced that, however wickedly a man might act in this world, he could fix it up all right in the next, society would be terribly demoral- ized, and the human race demolished in a few years. The fear that, if we are bad and unforgiven laere, it will not be well for us in the next existence, is the chief in- fluence that keeps civilization from rush- ing back to semi -barbarism, and semi - barbarism from rushing into midnight savagery, and midnialit savagery from ex- tinction. for it is the astringent impres- sion of all nations, Christian and heathen, that there is no future chance for those who have wasted this. Multitudes of men who are kept within bounds would say, "Go to, now! Let me get all out of this life there is in it. Come, gluttony, and inebriation and uncleanness, and. revenge, and all sensualities, and wait upon me I My life may be somewhat shortened in this world by dissoluteness, but that will only make heavenly indulg- ence on e larger scale the sooner possible. Iwill overtake the saints at last, and will enter the Heavenly Temple only a little later than whose who behaved themselves here. I will, on my way to heaven, take a little wider excursion than those who were on earth pious, and I shall go to heaven via Gehenna and via Sheol." An- other chance in the next world means free license and wild abandonment in this. Suppose you were a party in an import- ant case at law, and you knew from con- sultation with judges end attorneys thatit would be tried twice, and the first trial would be of little importance, but that the treat me in thie way, Swing up to tin deek, attain, throw out planks, seta let eonte on board." &oh heltavior would invite arreet aa a madman. A.rul ia after the Guspel ship has lain at anchor before mar eyes eoryears and year; aud all the benigu voieee of earth and heaveu liave urged us to get on board, is she iniglet sail away et any moment, anil after a while elle sone witheut us, is 11 common sense to expect her to come Wok? You might as well go out on the Highleuds at Nerersink and call to the "Majestic" after oho bees been three days out, and ex. pect her to return, as to call beat an op- portunity for heaven whea it once Liu sped away. All heaven offered us as S1 gratuity, and for a life tame we refose to ttlre it, and then rush on the bosses of Jehovah's buckler demanding another chauce. There ought to be, there oan be, there will be no sum thing as posthumous opporturater. Thus, Our common sense agrees with my text: "If the tree fall to- ward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." You see that this idea lifts this world up from an unimportant way -station to a plat- form of stupendous issues, and makes all eternity whirl around this • hour. But one trial for whieh all the preparatioa must bs made in this world, or never made at all. That piles up all the emphases and all the climaxes and all the destinies into life here. No other chancel Oh, how that augments the value and the importance of this chaucel Alexander, with his army used to sur- rouud a city, and then would lift a great light in token to the people that, if they surreodered before that light went out, all would be well; but if once the light went out, then the battering-esuns would swing against the wall, and demolition and dis- aster would follow. Well, all We need do for our present and everlasting safety is to make surrender to Christ, the King and Conqueror—surrender of our hearts, sur- render of our lives, surrender of every- thingl And He keeps a ea:eel:tight burn- ing, light of Goapel limitation, light kindled with the wood of the cross, and flaming up against the dark night a our sin and sorrow. Surrender while that great light continues to burn, for after it goes out there will be no other opportunity of making peace with God through our Lord. Jesus Christ. Talk of mother chancel Why, this is u saoernatural chaucel In the time of it lward tee Sixth, at the battle of Musselburgh, a private scalier, seeing that the Earl. of Huntley had lost his helmet, took off his own helmet and mit it upon the head of the earl, and me head of the private soldier tint ramoverecl, he was EOM' slain, tvhile his mem:lender rode safely out of the battle. aut in our case, instead of a private soldier offering his helmet to an earl, it is a King putting His crown upon an unworthy sub - jeer,. the King dying that we might live. • Tell it to all points of the compass. Tell it to night and day. Tell it to ,all earth and heaven. Tell it to all centuries, all ages, all enilleniams, that we have such a umenificent chalice in this world that we nsfil no other chalice in the next. I am in the burnished Judgment Hall of the Last Day. A great white throne le lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting fax his arrival I hear immortal spirits ia conversation. "What are you waiting here for?" says a soul that went up frern Madagascar to a soul that as- cended from A.merica. "The latter says, "I o tine from America, where forty years 4 I heard the G-aspel preached, and Bible read, and from the prayer that I learned in infancy at my mother's knee until my last hour I had Gospel advantaae, but, for some reason, I did not make the Christian choice, and I am here for the Judge to give me a new trial and another chalice." 'Strange!" says the other; "I had but one Gospel call in Madagascar, and I accepted it, and I do not want another chance." "Why are you leers?" says one who on earth had feeblest iutellect to one who had great brain, and silvery tongue, and scep- tres of influence. The latter responds, "Oh, I knew more than my fellows. I mastered libraries, and had learned titles from colleges, and tny name was a synonym for eloquence and power. And. yet I neg- lected my soul, and I am here waiting for a new trial." "Strange," says the one of the feeble earthly capacity; "I knew but little of worldly knowledge, but I knew Christ, and made him my partner, and I have no need ofranother chance." Now the ground trembles with the ap- proaching chariot. The great folding doors of the Hall swing open. "Stead ' book!" ory the celestial ushers. "Stand back, and let the judge of quick and dead pass through!" He takes the throne, and second would decide everything; for which looking over the throng of nations, Ho trial would you make the most prepare- says; "Come to judgraent 1" By one flash tion, fax which retain the ablest atter- from the thron.e all the history of each 0110 neys, for which be most anxious about the flames forth to the vision of Himself and attendance of witnesses. lfbn would put all others. "Divide!" says the Judge to all the stress team tl econd trial, all the the assemblv. "Diyide echo the walls. anxiety, all the expenditure, saying, "The "Divider cry the guards angelic. first is nothing, the last is everything," Give the race assurance of a second and And now the immortals separate, rush - more important trial in the subsequent in" this way and that, and after awhile there is a great aisle between them and a great vacuum widening and widening, and the Judge, turning to the throng on one side says: "He that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy, let hint be holy still ;" and then, turning to- ward the throng on the opposite side, he says: "He that is unjust, let him be un- just, let him be unjust still, arid he that filthy, let bite be filthy still;" and thee lifting one hand toward each *group, He declares: "If the tree fall toward the life, and all the preparation for eternity would be "post-mortem," post -funeral, post sepulchral, and the world with one jerk be pitched off into impiety and god • lessnese. Furthermore, let nee ask why a chance aiould be given in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this? Suppose you give a banquet ancl you in- vite a vast number of friends, but one man declines to come, or treats your invitation with indifference. Yon in the course of 20 years give 20 banquets, and the same man is invited to theta all, and treats them, all iu the same obnoxious way. After awhile you remove to another house, larger and better' and you again invite your friends, butsend no invitation to the man who declined or neglected the other invitations, Are you to blame? Has he a tight to expect to be invited after all the indignities he has clone you? God in this world has in- vited us all to the banquet of His grace. He invited us by His Providenee and His Spirit three hundred and sixty-five days of every year since he knew our right hand from our left. If Nye declined it every time, or treated the invitation with indif- ference, and gave twenty or forty or fifty years of indignity on our part toward the Banqueter, and at last his spreads the ban- quet in a more luxurious and kingly plaoe, amid the heavenly gardens, have we a right to expect Him to invite us again, and have we a right to blanae Him if He does not int vite us? V twelve gates of salvation stood open twenty years or fifty years for our admit - Bion, and at the end of that tithe they are closed, can we eomplain ma 'it ana say: "These gates ought to be open again. Give Us another chancier If the steamet is to eatl fax Hamburg, and 'We want to get to Germeny by that. lite, and we reed in . every; evening and every morning news., paper tacit it will sail ati a certain day, for. two weelas we heve • taat advertisement be. fore' bar eyea and then we go down to the docks fifteen minutes after it has shoved 1 south or toward the north, in the place, where the tree falleth, there it shall be." And then I hear something jai. with a great sound. It ia the closing of the Book of Judgment. The Judge ascends the stair' behind the throne. The hall of the last assize is cleared and shut. The high court, of eternity is adjourned forever. A Reasonable Question. ' Little Willie—Father, what is a spend- thrift? Father—He is a man who spends a greaa deal of money foolishly, Little Willie—Then is a mail who lends lots of money foolishly a lend- thrif t? 'TwaS Ever Thns, The question of debts is a paradox great Few persons can true understand, For when they're contracted, strange ti relate, They certainly larger exp She slew Six Tigers. It is said that the most noted shet among English women is Lady Eva, wife of Cap, tain Wyndham Quin, heimptesturiptive to the Earl cif Dune:men. She has killed, Nei the chronicler hall it, six full-grown tigers feom the frail shelter of a howdah. Ho Wes itecklese, "How dicl young -Lovett get snail 101 swat] cold?" "Ile was all wrapped up in that girl 4 the party last night." Of Courise Not. Husband—This 18 Ruda, poor gas. Give me another chance. It is net fair to we 35,,efe gamic& off into the stream and say: "Come back, allife—Yort hover complained of it before