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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-2-20, Page 7lr":"A`Ir se°77SseSe 51' TE STARTINPOINTH HOW REV. DR. TALMAGE WOULD EVANGELIZE AMERICA. 1 • Wants an outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the National Capital.— Would be of Incal- culable Value to Cliris,tianitr-A New Awakening. Washington, Feb. 9.—The audience of Dr. Talmage is thronged with the chief men of the nation and people from all parts, making this airmen most timely. An hour and a half before the doors open the people gather in the street, and -police- men keep the way open for the pew - holders. The text chosen for to -day's dis- course was Luke xxive 47, "Beginning at Jerusalem." "There it -is," said the driver, and we all Instantly and excitedly rose in the car- riage to catch the first glimpse of Jerusa- lem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, goroneted with temple and palace and radiant, whether looked up at from the valley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at from adjoining hills, was the capital of a great nation. Clouds of incense had hovered over it. Chariots of kings had rolled through it. Battering rams of enemies had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lament- ed,and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most in- teresting city ever built since masonry rung its first trowel, or plumb line meas- ured its first wall, or royalty swung its first scepter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom Washington is to our own country—the capital, the place to which all the tribes cense up, the great national heart whose throb sends life or death through the body politic clear out to the geographical extremites, 'What the resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples when he ordered them to start on the work of gospelization, "beginning at Jerusalem," it seems to me God says now in his providence to tens of thousands of Christians 'in this city. Start for the evangelization of America, "beginning at Washington." America is going to be taken for God, if you do not believe it, take your hat now and leave and give room to some man or woman who does believe it. As surely as God lives, and he is able to do as he says be will, this country will be evangelized from the mouth of the Potomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands of the Navesink to the Golden Horn,from Baffin's bay to the gulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk every lake, whether be - stormed or placid, and be transfigured on every mountain. Again and again does the old book an- nounce that all the earth shall see the salvation of God, and as the greater in- cludes the lesser that takes America gloriously in, Can you not see that if America is not taken for God by his con- secrated Teeple it will be taken for Apoll• you? The forces engaged on both sides are so tremendous that it cannot be a drawn battle, it is coming, the Arma- geddon! Either the American Sabbath will perish and this nation be handed over so eferods and Hildebrands and Dio- Cletlens and News of baleful power, and Alanhollam will reign, seated upon a pilea up throne of beer barrels, his mouth foaming with domestic and national curse, and crime will lift its unhindered knife of assassination, and rattle keys of worst burglary, and wave torch of widest conflagration, and our cities be turned into Softiies, waiting for Almighty tempests of fire and brimstone, and one tidal wave of abomination will surge across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take on more sanctity, and the news- papers will become apocalyptic wings of benediction, and penitentiaries will be abandoned for lack of occupants, and holiness and happiness, twin son and daughter of heaven, shall walk through the land, and Christ reign over this nation either in person or by agency so glorious that the whole country will be one clear, resounding echo of heaven. It will be one or the other. By the throne of him with liveth orever and ever I declare it will be the latter. If the Lord will help me, as he always does—blessed be his glorious name—I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun at Washing- ton would have a tendency to bring the whole continent to God and before this century closes. Why would it be especially advantage- ous if a mighty work of grace started here, "beginning at Washingson?" First, because this city is on the border between the north and the south. It is neither northern nor southern, It com- mingles the two climates, it brings to- gether the two styles of population. It is not only right, but beautiful, that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and brought up. 'With what loving accentuation the Ala- bamian speaks of his orange groves! And the man from Massachusetts is sure to let you know that he comes from the land of the Adamses—Samuel and John and John Quincy. Did you ever know a Vir- ginian or Ohioan whose face did not briahten when he announced himself from the southern or northern state of presidents? If a man does not like his native clime, it is because while he lived there he did not behave well. This capital stands where, by its locality, and its polii teal in einem°, it stretches forth one hand toward the north and the other tow- ard the south, and a mighty work of grace starting here would probably be a national awakening. Georgia would clasp the hand of New Hampshire, and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and Califoinia the hand of New York, and say, "Come, let us go up and worship the God of Nations, the Christ of Golgotha, the Holy Ghost of the pentecostal three thousands." it has often been said that the only way the north and the south will be brought into complete accord is to have a war with e some foreign nation, in which both sect- ions, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be overcome. Well, if you wait for such a foreign con- flict you will wait§ until all this genera- tion is dead, and perhaps wait forever. The war that will make the sections for- get past controversies is a war against un- rigeiteousness, such as a universal relig- ious awakening would dealer°. What we want is a battle for souls, in which about 40,000,000 nottherners and southerners shall be on the same side and shoulder to shoulder. In no other city on the contin- ent can such a war be declared "so appro.. P....lately, for all the other great cities are either northern or southern.. , This is , neither, or rather it is both. . Again, it would be especially, advan- tageous if a mighty work of grace staeted. here because mo eb 'representativemen are in Washington than in any other city between the oceans. Of course there are. accidents .• in politics; •and occasionally ' there are men who gei into the senate and ,house of representaavei and other im- porettet pieties, who iire fitted for ,the positions in neither' head nor heare, but ,this is exeeptMnal and more exceptional now than in other days. There is not a drunkard in the national legislature, al- though there were times when Xentucky,, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, New York and Massichusetts !lad men in senate or. house of representatives who went...lami- na and staggering drunk across those high places. Never nobler groap of men sat in senate or holm of representatives than sat there yesterday and will, sit there to -morrow, while the 'highest judiciary, without exception, has no* upon its bench men beeond criticism ' for good morals and mental endowment. So in all departments of officeal position, with. here and there an exception, are to -day the brainiest men and most honorable men in America. Now, suppose the Holy Ghost power should fall upon this city' and these men from all parts of America should suddenly become prommumed for Christ! Do you say the effect would be electrical? More than that. It would be omnipotent! Do YOU say that such learn- ed and potent men are not,vvrought upon by religious influence? That shows that you have not observed what has been going on. Commodore Foote, represent- ing the navy; General Grant and Robert E. Lee, representing the northern and southern armies; Chief Justice Chase, representing the supreme court; the Fm- linghuysens, Theodore and Frederick, representing the United States senate; William Pennington and scores of others, representing the house of representatives, have surrendered to that gospel which be- fore this winter is out, will in this capital of the Ameriacn nation,if we are faithful in our prayers and exertions, turn into the kingdom of God men of national and international power, their tongues of elo- quence becoming the tongues of fire in another penteoost. Some of us remember 1857, when at the close of the worst monetary distress this country has ever felt, compared with which the hard times of the last three years were a boom of prosperity, right on, the heels of that complete eresuration came an awakening in which 500,00e people were converted in different states of the Union. Do you know where one of its chief powers was demonstrated? In Washington. Do you know on what street? This street. Do you know in what church? This church. I picked up an old book a few days age and was startled and thrilled and enchanted to read some words, vvritton at that time by the Wash- ington correspondent of a New York paper. He wrote: "The First Presbyter- ian church can scarce contain the people, Requests are daily preferred for an interest in the prayers offered, and the reading of these forms one of the tenderest and most effective features of the meetings. Particular pains are taken to disclaim and exclude everything like sectarian feeling. General astonishment is felt at the ex- pected rapidity with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are beginning to anticipate the necessity of opening an- other church." Why, my hearers, not have that -again, and more than that? There are many thousands more of in- habitants now than then.° Besides that, since then aro the telephone, with its sort nom n ipresen ce, and the swift cable ear, for assembling the people. I believe that the mightiest revival of religion that this city has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth will tremble from Capito- line hill to the boundaries on all' sides with the footsteps of God as he comes to awaken and pardon and save these great populations. People of Washington, meet us next Thursday night at half past 7 o'clock to pray for this coming of the Holy Ghost— not for a penteostal 3,000, that I have re- ferred to. but 30,000. Such a fire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crdnohing through the snows of Labrador to the Caribbean sea, where the whirlwinds are born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the blank verse poet of the bible: "0 Lord, re- vive thy work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." Let the bat- tle cry be 'Washington for God, the United States for God, America for God, the world for God! We are all tired of skirmishing. Lot us bring on a general engagement: We are tired of fishing with hook and line. With one sweep of the gospel net lot us take in many thous- ands. This vast work must begin some- where. Why not hero? Some one must give the rallying cry. Why may not L one of the Lord's servants? By providen- tial arrangement I am every week in sermonic communication with every city, town and neighborhood of this country, and I now give the watchword to north and south, and east and west. Hear and see it, all people—this call to a forward movement, this call to repent- ance and faith, this call to a continental awakening! This generation will soon be out of sight. Where are the mighty men of the past who trod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake in yonder national leg- islature and decided the stupendous questions of the supreme judicatory? Ask the sleepers in the Congres tonal oeine- tory. Ask the mausoleums all over the land. Their tongues are speechless], their eyes closed, their arms folded, their op- portunities gone, their destiny fixed. How soon time prorogues parliaments, and ad- journs senatcs,and disbands cabinets, and empties pulpits, • and dismisses genera- tions! What we would do we must do quickly or not do at all. I call upon peo- ple who cannot come forth from their sick beds to implore the heavens in our behalf, from their midnight pillows, and I call upon the aged who cannot even by the help of their staff, enter the churches to spend their last days on earth in MD - plicating the salvation of this nation, and I call upon all men and women who have been in furnaces of tronble,as Was Shad - rich, and among lions,as was Daniel. had in dungeons of trouble, as was .Teremlah, to join in the prayer, and let the church of God everywhere lay bold of the Almighty arm that moves nations. Then senators of the United States will announce to the state legislatures that sent them here, and members -of the house of repiesentatives will report to the congressional districts that elected them, and the many thousands of men and women now and here engaged in the many departments of national service will write home, telling all sections of the country that the Lord is Meee,sted that he is on the March for the reoemption of America. Hallelujah, the Lord is corn lag! I hear the rumbling of -his chart t wheels. 1 feel on any Cheeks the breath of the white horses that draw the Victor! 1 sea the flash of his lapterns through the long night of the world's sin and sorrow! We want in this country, only on a larger scale, that which other centuries have seen of God's wierkings,as in the Re-. formation of the sixteenth century, when Martin 'Luther and Philip eielanchthon led on; as in the awakening of the seven- teenth century, when Bunyan and Flavel and Baxter led on; as in the awakening of the eighteenth century, when Tennant and Edwards and the'Wesleys led on; as in the:awakening of.1807,1ea on by Mettles,. ew Simpson, the SAr5phip Methodist, ee and Bishop ;Maollvaine, the Apostolic Episcopalian, and Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presbyterian'and others, just as good, in all deriominations. Oh, will not some of those glorious souls of the past come down and help us? Come down off your thrones, Nettleton and Finney and Daniel Baker and Edward Payson and Truman Osborne and Earle and Knapp and lnakip and Archibald Alex- ander—that Alexander the Great of the Christian churches. Come down! -How can you rest up there when the world is dying for leek of the gospel? Come down and agonize with us in prayer. Come down and help us preach in our pulpits. Come down and inspire our courage and faith. Heaven can got along without you better than we can. But more than all—and overwhelmed with reverent emo- tion we ask it—come, thou of the deeply dyed garments of Bozraletraveling in the greatness of thy strength, mighty to save! Lord God of Joshua! From where the seaweed is tossed on the beach by the stormy Atlantic to the sands laved by the quiet Pacific], this country will be Emanuel's land,the work beginning at Washington, Lew° have the faith and holy push and the consecration requisite. First of all, we Initiators must get right. That was the startling utter- ance of Mr. Swinnock when he said, "It Is a doleful thing to fall into hell from under the pulpit: but, oh, how dreadful a thing to drop thither out of the pulpit." That was an all suggestive thing that Paul wroteto the Corinthians, "Lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway," That was an inspiring motto with which Whitefield sealed all his letters, "We seek the stars." Lord God! Wake up all our pulpits, and then it will be as when Venn preshed, and it was said that men fell before the word like slacked lime. Let us all, laymen and clergymen, to the work. What Washington wants most of all is an old fashioned revival of religion, but on a vaster scale, so that the world will be compelled to say, as of old, "We never saw it on this fashion." But re- member there is a human side as well as a divine side to a revival. Those of us brought up in the country know what is called "a raising"—the neighbors gather together to lift the heavy frame for a new house after the timbers are ready to be put into their places. It is dangerous work, and there are many accidents. Tho neighbors had gathered for such a rais- ing, and the beams had all been fitted to their places except one, and that very heavy. That one, on the lone pikes of the men, had almost reached Rplace, when something went wrong, and the men could hoist it no higher. But if it did not go in its place it would fall back upon the men who were lifting it. it had al- ready begun to settle back. The boss carpenter shouted: "Lift, men, or die! All together! Ye—heave!" With might- ier push they tried to send the beam to its place, but failed, Still they hold on, all the time their strength lessening. The wives and mothers and daughters stood in horror looking on. Then the boss carpenter shouted to the women, "Como and help!" They mune, and womanly arms became the acing of giants, for they were lifting to save the lives of husbands and fathers and sons as well as their own. Then the boss carpenter mounted one of the beams and shouted: "Now! Altogether! Lift or die! Yo, heave!" And with a united effort that almost burst the blood vessels the great beam went to its place, and sr wild huzza was heard. That is the way it sometimes seems in the churches. Temples of righteousness are to be reared, but there is a halt, a stop, a (latch some- where. A few are lifting all they can, but we want more hands at this raising and more hearts, more Christian men to help—aye, more Christian women to re - enforce. If the work fail it means death of many souls, Alogether! Men and women of God! Lift or die! The top stone must come to its place • "with shoutings of grace, grace unto it." God is ready to do his part, Are we ready to do our part? There is work not only for the knee of prayer,but for the shoulder of Upheaval. And now I would like to see this hour that which I have never seen, but hope to see—n whole audience saved under one flash of the Eternal Spirit. Before you go out of any of these doors enter the door of mercy. Father and another, come in and bring your children with you. Newly married folks, consecrate your lifetime to God and be married for eternity as well as time. Young man, you will want God' before you get through this world, and you want him now. Young woman, without God this is a hard world for women. One and all, wherever you sit or stand 1 lift my voice so that you can hear it, out in the corridors and on the street, and say in the words of the Medi- terranean ship captain, "Call upon God, if so be that God will think open us, that we perish not." Oh, what news to tell; what news to relate to your old father and mother; what news to telegraph your friends on the other side of the mouotains; what news with which to thrill your loved ones in heaven! it was of such news that a man read in a noonday meet- ing in Philladelphia. He arose, and un- rolling a manuscript, read: Where'er we meet, you always say: "What's the news? What's the news? Pray what's the order of the day? What's the news? What's the news?" Oh, I have got good news to tell— My Saviour hath done all timings well And triumphed over death and hell— That's the news! That's the news! • The Lamb was slain on Calvary— , That's the news! That's the news! To set a world of sinners free— That's the news! That's the news! • The Lord has pardoned all my sin— That's the news! That's the news! 1 feel the witness now within— That's the news! That's the news! And since He took my sins away, And taught me how to watoh and pray, I'm happy now from day to day— That's the news! That's the news! And Christ the Lord can save 'you, too—. That's the news! That's the news! Your sinful heart he can renew— That's the news! That's the news! This moment, if for sins you grieve, This moment, if you do believe, ,A full acquittal you'll receive— That's the news! That's the newel And now, if any one should say, "What's the news? What's the news?" Oh, tell him you've begun to pray -- That's the news! That's the news! That you have seined the conquering band And now with joy at God's command. You're marching to the better land— ' That's the news! That's the news! Measles by Law. A health officer recently ieceived the following note from one of the residents of his district: "Dear sir—I beg to tell you 'that my child, aged 8 months, is sufferingeWith measles as required by act of parliament.—Tib-Biba OUR OTTAWA LETTER WILL THE RANK ANO FILE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY SAVE THg GOVERNMENT ? A Foregone conclusion—die Wrote a Met- ier The Two Septuagenavlans Vote En Masse—It Sees the Light—Mow the Vote May Stand—Renewed Distrust of the Eremier---Loyalty nesolution--All United -- AU Old Story -- A cowardly Charge. • Now comes the time when the strength of the Conservative linty of this country must be developed, must be brought into the most effective use, must be the salva- tion of the ,nen who lead that party. The time has net long gone by when in the Government of Canada was the strength of the Conservative section of the elec- torate. Times have changed. Now it is that the rank and file of the party must save their leaders. The session that be- gan five weeks ago has been barren of ad - 'vantage to the Ministry. True it is that the Liberals have scored nothing off their own bat. For a time there was tempor- ary insanity within the four walls of the Privy Council chamber, Men who had been esteemed cool and farseeing took their political lives in their hands in a futile attempt to oust their leader. Sir Mackenzie lacked the positive qualities of intellectuality, originality, generalship. Wherefore the Ministers sought a new leader. But the dissentients forgot that they had to deal with a man who is as obstinate as a mule; as pugnacious as a bull dog; as uncompromising EtS a Scotch - man. His negative qualities won the battle for Sir Mackenzie. His victory will not be for long. Already shouting' Conservatives have welcomed to the Cap- ital the man who, they believe, shall lead them through the perilous ways of the general election into the fat lands of patronage. ' A Foregone Conclusion. Few were there who believed that Sir Charles Tupper the Elder had anything but victory before him. Cape Breton is a strong Conservative constituency. For many years It has gone with the Govern- ment. And it is filled with worshippers of Sir Chailes. The Catholic population is large, and it was to capture the Catho- lic vote that the Liberals sent MeIscuto and Devlin into the riding. Mr. Maisano Is the Liberal who succeeded Sir John Thompson as member for Antigonish.And who has not hoard of Charles R. Devlin, the fiery Irishman who sits for Ottawa county; who in days gone by has con- stituted himself the parliamentary representative of His Holiness the Pope? Having these two members of the ancient faith strenuously fighting their battles in Cape Breton, the Liberals esteemed their chances of success very good. They for- got to reckon with a third party to the contest. And he was the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Bishop of Antigen- ish. Bishop Cameron is a Conservative. He never has concealed his belief that the Conservative party is the friend of the Church of Rome. More particularly did he emphasize this belief during the late campaign. Had not the Government promised te give redress to the Roman Catholics of Manitoba? Had not the Liberals declined to make any promise ,copepepiner the matter; had they net en- deavored to avoid the direct question by their advocacy 'of the commission proposi- tion? He Wrote a Letter. The case was clear to the mind of Bis- hop Cameron. He sat him down and wrote a letter. Its tenor became known to every parish priest in the diocese— which includes Cape Breton. As a campaign document it was of the great- est benefit to the Administration candi- date. By implication, Catholies were told how to vote. Messrs. Devlin and Mc - Isaac, by Implication, had been dubbed "hell inspired hypocrites," by the Bishop. His Lordship -of Antigenish has made himself famous as a writer of political letters. Never before did he give such evidence of the possession of powers of objurgation. The letter had its effect. The Scotch Catholics of Cape Breton voted for Sir Charles Tupper. Conserva- tives say that they would have voted that way in any evept; Liberals assert that intimidation did its work. The Two septuagenarians. Here at Ottawa men speculate as to Sir Mackenele's tenure of the premiership. By some it is supposed that he will resign before the end of the session. I do not agreethese speculative gentlemen. r1wellknewthatheet potential head, and that Sir Mackenzie will fight long and fiercely before he is forced out. It seems probable that there will be no change in the leadership of the Government for sonic time to come. We have been assured by both Sir Mackenzie and Sir Charles that there is great amity between these two.septuageneriane. They said so at the time of the signing of -peace protocols between the warring factions. They say so now. The Government has before it a season of bitter strife. The Remedial bill has been introduced in par- liament. By it this Administration must stand or fall. Both Sir Charles and Sir Macisenzie believe that a refusal to bring in such a bill would have ensured the defeat of the Government at the next general election, Therefore they will act In concert in their attempt to pass the measure, Gray fear has stricken half of the Ontario Conservatives. They know that they cannot vote for a Remedial bill and successfully ask for the suffrages of their electors. And, on the other hand, they know that they may assist in the defeat of their leaders if they vote against the measure, Certain Ontario Conserva- tives have no choice in the matter. The Toronto members will have to oppose the bill, So evill twenty others, The Ad- ministration relies on the adventitious , adhesion of the French Liberals. In the Council chamber the whole question -has been debated. The French Ministers have asetlred their English speaking ,colleognes that the Quebec Liberals can- not vote against the bill. will Vote En Masse. Here arises a pleasant diversity of opin- ion The gentlemen who sit on the left of the Speaker Scoff at this belief of the Government, The other day I talked to Dr. Guay, the chief Liberal , Whip from Quebec. The stalwart Guay is Frenali'of the French, alert, courteous, indomitable. "So they say, the French Liberals will: vote for, the bile, do they?" asked the Doctor. "Now, I don't wish you to understand that -I'm goipg,eo- 'Mail:sate the course tbat we Liberal's shale teke" ore the measure. But I will say this; that Os Liberal party, will voter en Maseee. We won't have any divisions. Wer -well content to let, the other felloWel Vasa splits In theii party. We are not , many In na*ber, but we're fully United. Ae for the Government's' assertion that ,we errenell Liberale cannot afford to vote against the measae.e I cap only say that we, and not the Goverionopt, are running the French- Liberals." All of which I firmly behove, It is Ineopeeivable to me that these French supporters of Wiierid Laurier will aid jii keeping their enemies Caron. and °Willey in power, Our French fellow countrymen take their politics much moee seriously than die We. ' By their Liberal compatriots Ouineet and Caron are cordially hated. Their com- patriots will do anything in their power to oust the Fre,nch Ministers. . It Sees the Light. At last we have seen the much heralded Remedial bill. It has brought small, com- fort to anybody, if men speak truth. "It is infamous," said Joseph Martin. "They ave'giving the Roman Catholics ranch more than they had before the pass- ing of the Act of Disestablishment." Lariviere, the Manitoba Frenchman, says that the measure does not go far enough; that the Church should have more to say concerning the management of the schools. 4es I write, the opinion of Arch- bishop Langevin has not been vouchsafed to the waiting world. Doubtless His Grace is imperfectly satisfied. Though Joseph Martin assures us to the contrary, the bill seeks to give to the Catholics of Manitoba something very far short of complete autonomy in respect of their Separate schools. Alphonse Lariviere may simulate dissatisfaction in order to sway the minds of waeering Conserva- tives. Mr. Martin has no such object in view. He believes now as he believed in July last, that to give Separate schools to Catholics and not to Anglicans and Presbyterians, would be "rank tyranny," How the Vote May Stand. And SO the debate on the School ques- tion will end in thus wise: The Liberals will vote solidly against iteThey doubtless will bring in an amendment looking to the appointment of a commission. A score or more of Qietario's Conservatives will vote against the measure. The Gov- ernment's majority, with these Conserva- tives, is forty-four. That is the way the vote will stand unless some new consider- ations induce the Conservatives unitedly to support the Government. The arrival of Sir Charles has induced many Minis- terialists to take heart of grace. They hope that the old gentleman will be suc- cessful in his essay to bring all of the Government supporters into line. Renewed Distrust of the Premier. As a corollary to this sentiment a new feeling of distrust of Sir Mackenzie Bowell has sprung up. My readers, both Liberal and Conservative, not to speak of the members of the important class that thinks for itself, will remember that I never have believed that Sir Mac- kenzie would be able successfully to had a Government. He began his premier- ship by negotiating an alliance with the French Catholics; he followed up his course by breaking his pledges ta the members of the Conservative party. In the early days of July last he promised the Ontario Conservatives that the Gov- ernment would take no steps toward granting or refusing remedial legislation until ho had consulted his supporters in (MUCUS assembled. The session was drawing to a close and, having confidence in their chief, many Conservatives left Ottawa. One morning they were as- tounded to read in the newspapers the Government's pledge to introduce and push to a conclusion a Remedial bill, Then it was that the first feeling against Sir Mackenzie became evident. Con- servative eyes were turned across the sea to where sat an old man, a past inaster in the arts of the politician, and an one who, whatever his enemies may say of him, never misled his friends. Macken- zie 'Bowel], unknowing of the plan to supersede him, went on with his arrange- ments for drafting the hill. And the de- sire for a new loader grew day by day. The time is not far distant when Bowen must make way for Tupper. As I said, it is probable that the change will not be made until after the session. A few of Sir Meckenzie's friends are working hard to obtain for him the position of Lieuten- ant -Governor of Ontario. They suggest that Mr. Kirkpatrick be given the High Commissionership. So far nothing has been done in the way of making a formal agreement. Loyalty Resolution. Our good friends the Americans must have read with some surprise the report of the debate on the motion of Alexander lecNeill on Wednesday last. This was the resolution: "That in view of the threatening aspect of foreign affairs, this House desires to assure Her Majesty's Government and the people of- the United Kingdom of its unalterable loyalty and devotion to the British Throne and con- stitution, and of its conviction that, should occasion unhappily arise, in no other part of the Empire than theDomin- ion of Canada would more substantial sacrifices attest the determination or Her Majesty's subjects to maintain unimpair- ed the integrity and inviolate the honor of Her Majesty's Empire; and this House reiterates the oft -expressed desire of the people of Canada to maintain the most friendly relations with their kinsmen of the United States." All United. Twenty men, Liberals and Conserva- tives, French and English-speaking Can- adians, part ciliated in the debate Was there a man who was otherwise than strong-haute:I in his sturdy Britiolsei? Not one. Cartwright and Foster, Laurier and Cockburn, Devlin and Davies, all apotheosized Britain, the mother of nations. Jimmy MoShane's high-pitched voice broke with emotion as he told how the Irish were ready to fight tor Canada and Britain. Sir Hector Langevin, now so seldom heard in the forum of 'the nation, recalled the days of 1812 when De Salaberry's Voltigeurs vanquished Wade Hampden at glorious Ch ateaug uay. Sir Richard, once denounced, as an annexa- tionist, sang the praises of the United Empire Loyalists, And he gave to the House a phrase that was characteristically epigrammatic. "It would be a monstrous thing," said the Knight, "if one drop of Anglo-Saxon blood wore shed for 'all the anee-monkeys of the South American re- publics " At which the House roared.' -Of course the resolution was' carried un- animously. One of. the "men in a row," that Kip- ling speaks of, had "stood up." An Old Story. The, debate on the Budget has dragged along. To nobody bat the official reporter ,has it brougnt interest of any kind, It is late in the day an discuss the National Padoy. The men of. Canada, , the men who make the country, have' given over talking about; Sir John's measure. Their minds are, made up one waydr the other. Not so their represehtatives iii parliament." Session after session 'Conservetives land, Liberale.debry the To hear of ithas, b000nte to newspaper men' a weavineesgof the flesh a -upon thy readers I have, no dee sire to inflict as ;Weal of tbseworo one charges and defences that have been flying about the Commode chamber during the past week. A Cowardly Charge. Since he left the Goveroment Clerk() Wallace has become a gentleman of no great importance in Ottawa, The editor of the Toronto paper that supports him has made a violent attack on Mr. Wallace's enemy, Dr. Montague. Be accuses the Minister of Agriculture of having Relight refuge in a woman's plea of ill-itealth, and insinuates that'the Minister left Ottawa because he feared eoneething— whale I cannot imagine, for the winarge has a cowardly vagueness. It te a pity that we have in newspaperdom some men who will stobp to any depths to score ,a point. It is not my part to act as the defender of Dr. Montague. The fact that • every man in the Rouse remarked upon his obvious ill•bealth for clays before he obeyed his doetor's orders and went away, should be sufficient answer to the un- manly attack of the political weathercock who chose the coward's course of making an insinuation where he feared to lodge a charge of dereliction of duty. I have had the honor in the past of having some very vigorously voiced disagreements with Dr. Montague, and am in no wise his apologist. It is because every Cana- dian should despise slanderers that I mention the Toronto newspaper's accusa- tion. A Cheque for Nearly $25,000,000. An unpretentious ceremony whicis took place at the Bank of England at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, affords striking evidence of the fact that London Is the center of the monetary world. Here were assembled representatives of China and Japan, the former to hand over and the latter to receive a cheque for R4,900,- 000 odd, the price of the evacuation of the Liao -Tong Peninsula by the Japanese troops within three months of such pay- ment, The uninitiated might have an- ticipated that the transaction would take place in coin, and that the Japanese representatives would take away their due in gold in a four -wheeled cab. Un- fortunately however, there are material diffiaulites in the way of such a primitive proceeding. A million sovereigns weigh 256,750 ounces troy, which may be rough- ly estimated as between seven and eight tons avoirdupois, so that allowing a ton as a fair load, some 85 vans would have been required for the operation. The pro- cedure adopted was therefore muth easier. Mr. Horace G. Bowen, the chief cashier of the Bank of England, was present with a cheque for R.4,900.000, represent- ing the gold which had been paid Into the bank to China's credit. This cheque he handed to China's representative, who, with a grave bow, han ed it to Japan's representative, who handed it back to Mr. Bowen. who in his turn walked to another office and paid it to the credit of the Jap - ones° Governinent, where it will lie until drawn against —London Graphia Japan Up to Date. • Japan is going ahead. Its first big swindle is really a very creditable piece of roguery for such a young nation. Mr. Haman°, the member of the Diet and pastor of the Greek church at Tokio, who is also president of the ,Japan Cast Iron Company, belongs to a politico - religious type already familiar in .the older haunts of commercial morality. The municipality of Tokio had decided to undertake a waterworks system, and had obtained a subsidy from the Government of 15,000,000 yen in aid of the total esti- mate of 80.000,000. In a patriotic mo- ment some of this outlay of Japanese money on water pipes was kept for the japan Cast Iron Company, but the result has only been to artificially foster foreign rather than home industries. By a Ines:, ingenious device about 800 tons of defective pipes were laid after they had been rejected by the clerk of the works and the Tokio citizens, it is esti- mated, thereby suffer a loss of abctut 1, 000, 000 90U, The officials of the company are now awaiting trial—which tipparently does not prevent the newspapers it Japan from assuming their guilt -se -St. James Gas-- - otte. Mystified by Telephones. At the house of a well-known electrici- an, in Loudon, whore some believers in spiritualism were spending an evening, one of them began to play the pianoforte accompaniment of a hymn sung at spiritualistic demonstrations, when the room was mysteriously filled with a voice singing the words. There were many other manifestations, which the spiritual- ists looked upon as confirming the genuineness of their communication with the spirit world; portraits sung in the natural voice of their originals, who were not in the room; questions were answered, and sometimes the .reply was given by voice as well as by raps. The entbusis asra produced by those phenomena was scimesvhat dampened when it was pointed out that telephone receivers, which were placed inside the piano and behind the pictures, were connected with a loud - speaking transmitter in a distant part of the house. Another transmitter, fixed near the piano, was connected with a re- ceiver at the ear of a distant "operating Spirit," who was thereby enabled to keep time and tune and to hear everything said in the room. The raps were given by using the armature of an electric bell. needier: Tortoise Shell. Tortoise shell, although beautiful, is brittle and unfortunately breaks easily. Combs and many expensive articles, lorgnettes particularly—which, by the way, are used this winter more than ever —are discarded because of the damage. Toreeise shell can be easily repaired. One who has experimented with success says: "Slope the margins by scraping off the broken pieces for the distance of about a quarter of an inch from the edge. Then place them so that the margins overlap one another and thus arranged, clamp them between a strong iron letter clip and immerse in boiling water for seine time. The pieces by this means become so perfectly united that the joint cannot bese seen'' Protracted heating of tortoise shell, it should be noted, darkens it and greetly leseens its beauty. So cute must be taken that the heating is not unduly prolonged. —Philadelphia Times. Being content. When those hours come upon us in which we yearn for the wings of a dove that we may fly away flint be at rest, let us strive to overcome our sadness by the cheering influence of hope, let us go to God for that "peace that paseeth under- standing," and thus change the burdens of lite into blessings. There is no SOrrow which may /eaten this way be alleviated, no veouna ttiat may net by this balm be healed. In doing so ,we will indeed be carried away from our sorrows and trials • to a conclithen of holy rest in God. This! is after all the groat blessing. "Being contelit, the poorest man is tech ; while he who counts his millions hath little joy be he iitheiwise."