HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-2-11, Page 7THE HARBOROF HOME
NEV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES
UPON A GRAND THEME.
The Home as a Test of Character1 as a Safe.,
xuard. as a School and as a TM, or
Ifeaven--A Beautiful Dream.
Washington, Feb. 7.—This sermon of
Talnaago will set many memories
%aging with the good old tiraes. His
'abject was "Harbor of Home" and the
text Mark v, 19, "Go home to thy friends
and tell them how great things the Lord
kith done for thee."
There are a great many people longing
for some grand sphere in 'which to eerve
God. They admire Luther at the diet of
Worms, and only wish that they had
florae sane great opportunity in which to
display their Christen prowess. They ad -
re Paul making Felix tremble, and.
they only wish that they had some such
grand occasion in which to preach right -
newness, temperance and judgment to
come. All they want is an opportunity
to exhibit their Christian heroism. Now
the apostle comes to us, and he •practic-
ally says, "I will show you a place where
you can exhibit all that is grand and
beautiful ana glorious in Christian, char-
acter, and that is the domestic circle."
If one is not faithful in an insignifin
suit sphere, be will not be faithful in a
resounding sphere. If Peter will not help
the cripple at the gate of the texaple be
will never be able to preach 3,000 souls
into the kingdom at th.e Pentecost.
Paul will not take pains to instruct in
the way of salvation the sheriff of the
Philippian dungeon, he will never make
Felix tremble. Be who is not faithful
in a skirmish Would not be faithful In
en Armageddon. The fact is, we are all
placed in just the position in whit% we
°an n104343 grandly serve God, and we
ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about
some sphere of usefulness which we
May after awhile gain, but the all absorb-
ing question with you and with me
ought to be, "Lord, what wilt thou have
me (now and here) to do?"
Significance of Horne,
There is tem word. in xey text armed
which the most of our thoughts will to-
day revolve. That word, is home. Ask
ten different men the meaning of that
Word and they will give you ten different
definitions. To one it means love at the
nearth, it means pletty at the table,
industry at the workstand, intelligence
at the books, devotion at the altar. To
Iiim it means a greeting at the door and
a smile at the chair. Peace hovering like
'wings. Joy clapping its hands with
laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed
on the ripples sleep the shadows.
Ask another man what home is and
he will tell you. it is want looking out of
a cheerless fire grate and kneading
Integer in an empty bread tray. The
damp air shivering with curses. No 13ible
en the shelf. Ohilaren, robbers and mur-
derers in embryo. Vile songs their bill-
aby. Every face a Macao of ruin, Want
in the background and sin staring from
the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over
e that doorsill. Vestibule 04 the pit. She -
Pow of infanta VO110. Furnace for forg-
' lug everlasting chains. Faggots for an
unending funeral pile. Awful word! It
is spelled with curses, it weeps with
ruin, it chokes with. woe, it sweats with
the death agony of despair.
The word home in the one case means
everything bright The word home it
the other case means everythiug terrific.
1 shall speak to yon of berne as a tent
of character, home as a .iniage., home as
a political safeguard, he, a as a school
• and home as a typo of heaven.
And in the first place I remark that
home is a powerful test of obaracter.
The disposition in.aublio may be in gay
orattiMe, vlaile in private it is in' disha-
bille, .As play actors may appear in one
way on the stage and may appear in an -
Other way behind the scenes, so private
&erecter may be very different from
public cluaracter. Private oharenter is
often 'public character turned wrong side
out. A. man may receive you into his par-
lor as though he were a distillation of
smiles, and yet his heart may be a sainunp
of nettles. There are business men who
all day long are mild and courteous and
genial and good. natived in commercial
life, keeping back their irritability, asasi
their petulance, and their discontent, but
at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding
pours iorth in floods and freshets.
Reputation is only the shadow of char-
acter, and a very small hoes() sometimes
will cast a 'very long, shadow. The lips
may seem to drop myrrh and cassia, and
the disposition to be as bright and warm
as a sheaf of sunbeams, and yet they
may only be a magnificent show win-
dow to a wretched stock of goods. There
is many a mau who is able itt publics life
and amid commercial spheres evne, in a
cowardly way takes his anger ' and his
petulance home and drops them in the
domestic circle. -
Piety at Horne.
The reason leen do not display their
bd temper in public is because they do
not want to be knocked down. There axe
then who hide their petulance ansi their
irritability just for the same reason that
they do not let their notes go to protest
—it does not pay. Or for the same reason
that they do not want a man in their
stook company to sell his stock at less
than the right price, lest it depreciate
the value. As at suunset the wind rises,
so after a sunshiny day there may be a
tenapestuous night. There are people who
In public aet the philanthropist who at
tome act the Nero with respect to their
slippers and their gown.
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with
gun and pencil went through the forests
of America to bring down and to sketch
the beautiful bird, and after years a
toil and exposure completed his mannscript and put it in a trunk in Pinladel-
phia for a few days of recreation and rest
and came back and found that the rats
had utterly destroyed the raanusoript,
but without any discomposure and witb-
out zany fret or bad temper, he again
picked up his gun and pencil and visited
again ell the great forests of America
and reproduced his immortal work. And
yet there are people with the ten -thou-
sandth peatof that loss who are utterly
irreconcilable, who, at the loss of a pen-
cil or an article of raiment, will blow as
long and sharp as a northeast storm.
Now,
that man who is affable in pub
110 andwho is irritable in private is
making a fraudulent overissue of stock,
and he is as bad as a bank that might
have $400,000 or $500,000 of bills in cir-
culation, with no specie in the vault.
Let us learn "to show piety at hornen'
If we have it not there, we bays at not
anywhere. If we have not genuine grace
In the family chola all our outward and
piibllc plausibility merely springs from a
fear of the world or from the slimy,
Puldf pool of our own selfishness. I tell
you Me home is a Mighty teat of char
-
water. What you are at home you are
everywhere, whether you demonstrate it
or not.
A Refuge and a Safeguard.
,&gain, I remark that home is a refuge.
Lite is the United States array on the
national road to Mexico, a long march,
with ever and anon a skirmish and a
battle. At eventide we pitch our tent and
stack our arms: We hang up the war cap
and lay our head on the nnapsack. We
Sleep until the morning bugle calls us to
marching and. action. Bow pleasant it is,
to rehearse the victories and the surprises
and the attacks of the day, seated by the
still campfire of the home circle!
Yea, life is a 'stormy sea. With shiver-
ing masts and torn sails ansi hulk aleak,i
we put into the harbor of home. Blessed
barber! There we go for repairs in the
drydock of quiet life, The candle in the!
window is to the toiling man the light-
house guiding him into port. Children go
forth to meet their fathers as pilots ab
the Narrows take the hand of ships. The
doorsill of the home is the wharf where
heavy life is unladeu.
There is the place wbere we may talk
of what we have done without being
charged with self adulation. There is the i
place where we may lounge without!
being thought ungraceful. There is the'
place where we may express affection
without being thought silly. There is the
place where we may forget our anuoy-
anoes ansi ezasperations
Forlorn earth pilgrim! No home? Then
die. That is better. The grave is brigther
and grander and more glorious than this!
world, • with no tent from marchings, I
with no harbor from the sterna, with ne
place to rest from this scene of greed and,
gouge and loss and elan God pity the
man or woman who has no home!
Further, I remark that home is a poli-
tical safeguard. The safety ef the state
meet be built on the safety of the home.
The Christian hearthstone is the only
cornerstone for a republic. The virtues I
cultured in the family novae are an abso-
lute necessity for the state. la there be I
not enough moral principle to make the
family adhere,
there will not be enough ,
prineiple to make the state ad-
here. "No home" means the Goths ancl
Vandals, means the nomads of Ada,
means the Numidians of Africa, ohanga
ing from place to place according as tho
prature happens to change. Lonfounded
be all these Babels of iniquity which
would overtower and destroy' the home!
The sarno storm that upsets the ship an
which tbe faanily sails will sink the
frigate of the constitution. Jails and
penitentiaries and armies and navies are
not our best defense. The door of the
home is the best fortress, Household
utensils ere nib best artillery, and the
chimneys of our dwelling houses are the
grandest monuments of safety a,nd tri-
umph. No home. No republic.
ifoute as a School.
Further, I reanark that home is a
school. Old ground must be tuned up
with subsoil plow, end it mast be bur-
rowed laid eoltarrowed, and than the orop
Will not be as large as that of the new
ground with less culthe. Now, youth
and childhood are li.OW gamine, and an
the influences thrown over their heart
and life will come up in after life luxuri-
antly. Every time you have given a smile
of approbatiou all the good cheer of your
life will come up again in the genialit'
of your children, And every ebultion of
auger and every uncontrollable display of
indignation will be fuel to their disposi-
tion 20 or 30 or 40 years from now—fuel
for a bild fire a, quaeter of a century from
this. You praise the intelligence of your
child too much sometimes when yoa
think be is not aware of it, and you will
see the result of it before ten years of
ago in his annoying affectations. You
praise his betray, supposing ho is not
lone enough to understand what you
say, and you will find him stranding on a
high (their before a flattering mirror.
Words and deeds and examples are tho
seed of ammeter, and obilaren aro very
apt to be the second edition of their par-
ents. Abrahanrbegat Isaac, so virtue is
apt to go down in the ancestral line, but
Herod begat Archelaus, so iniquity is
transmitted. What vast responsibility
metes upon parents in VIM of this sub -
Oh, make your home the brightest
place on earth if you would charm your
children to the high path of virtue and
rectitude and religion! Do not always
turn the blinds the wrong way. Let tho
light which puts gold on the, gentian and
spots the pansy pour into your dwellings.
Do not expect the little foot to keep step
to a dead march. Do not cover up your
walls with such pictures as West's "Death
on a Pale Horse" or Tintoretto's "Mas-
sacre of the Innocents." Rather cover
them, if you have pictures, with "The
Hawking Paaan" awl "The Mill by the
Moantain Stream," and "The Fox
Hunt," ancl "The Children Amid Flow-
ers," and "The Harvest Scene," and
"Tbe Saturday Night Marketing."
Cheerfulness.
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from
grasshopper's leap and lamb's frisk, and
ciettil's whistle, and garrulous streamlet,
which, from the rock at the mountain
top clear down to the meadow ferns
under the shadow of the steep, conies
looking for the steepest place to leap off
wb antalking just to hear itself talk? If
all the sides hurtled with tempest and
everlasting St03131 wandered over the sea,
and every mountain stream went raving
man frothing at the mouth with mad
foam, and there were nothing but
simooms blowing arnong the his, and.
there were /minter lark's carol nor hum-
ming bird's trill, nor waterfall's dash,
but only bear's bark and panther's
solemn and wolf's howl, then you might
well gather into your homes only the
shadows. But when God has strewn the
earth and the heavens with beauty and
with gladness, let us take into our home
circles all inneeent hilarity, all bright-
ness and all good cheer, A dark home
rentes bad boys and bad ghee in prepar-
ation tor bad mon and bad women.
Above all, nay friends, take into your
henna Christian principle. Can it be that
in any of the comfortable homes of my
congregation the voice of prayer is never
lifted? What! No supplication at nigat
for protection? What I No thanksgivieg
in the morning for care? How, my
brother, my sister, will you answer God
in the day of judgment with reference
to your children? It te a plain question,
and therefore I ask it. In tho tenth chap-
ter of Jeremiah God says he will pour
out his fury upon the families that call
mit upon his Mune. Oh, parents, when
you are dead ansi gone and the rnoss is
covering the inscription of the tomb-
stone, will your children look back and
think of father and mother at family
prayer? Will they tains the old family
Bible and elan it and see the mark of
tears aud aontritioa and tears of con-
soling promise, wept by eyes long before
gene out into darkness? Oh, if you do
not incubate Christian priteiple in the
hearts of your children, aod you do not
Warn them against evil, and you do not
invite them to holiness and to God, and
they wander off alto dissipation anti into
inadelity, and at lot make shipwreck
of their hnraortal souls, on their death-
bed and in the day of judgment they will
curse you! Seated by the register or the
stove, what if on the wall should name
out the history of your children? What a
41story—the mortal and immortal life, of
your loved ones! Every parent is writing
the history of his child. He is writing it,
composing it into a song or tuning it
into a groan.
My mind elms back to one of the best
of earn* homes. Prayer, like a roof over
it. Peace, like an atmosphere in it. Par-
ents, personifications of faith in trial ansi.
comfort in darkness. The two pillars of
that earthly home long ago crumbled to
dust. But shall I ever forget that earthly
home? Yes, when the Bower forgets the
sun that warms it. Yes, when the mar-
iner forgets the star that guided him.
Yes, when love has gone out on the
heart's altar a,nd memory Iles emptied
its urn into forgetfulness. Then, home
of my childhood, I will forget thee—the
family altar of a, father's importunity
and a another's tenderness, the voices of
affection, the funerals of our dead.
Father and mother, with interlocked
arnis, like lntertfwining brancbes of trees,
making a perpetual arbor of lone and
peace and kindness, then I will, forget
thecae then, awl only then. Iron know,
My brother, that 100 tithes you have been
kept out of sin by the rnenaory of sucla a
scene as I haye 'been describing. Tap
have often had raging temptations, but
you know whaths held you w11h super-
natural grasp. 1 ten you a reale who has
ha,d such a good home as that never gets
over it, aud a man who bus had a bad
early home never gets over that,
Borne and Heaven.
Again'I remark that home is a type of
heaven. To bring us to that home Christ
left his home. Far up ancl far back in
the history of b.eaven there came a period
when its most illustrious citizen was
about to absent banself. He was not go-
ing to sail from beach to beach. We have
oftm done that Hewes not going to put
out from one hemisphere to another hem-
isphere. Many of us have done that But
he was to sail from world to world, the
spaces unexplored and immensities 1m --
traveled. No world. had ever bailed hea-
ven, and leaven had never hailed any
other world. I think that the windows
and the balconies were throngedand that
the pearly beach was crowdecl with those
who had come to see him sail our of the
harbor of light into the meats beyond,
Out and out and out, and on and on and
ox*, and down end down and down be
sped, until one night, with only one 'to
greet him, be arrived. His disembark -
anent so unpretending, so quiet, that it
was not known on earth until the excite-
ment in the cloud gave intimation that
something grand and glorious had hap-
pened. 'Who comes there? Prone what
port did he sail? Why was this the place
of his destination? 1 nuestion the shep-
herds. I question the camel drivers.
question the angels. I have found out
He was an exile. But the world has had
plenty of exiles. Abrabam, an exile from
1nr of the Chaidees; John, an exile from
Ephesus; Kosciusko, alai exile from Pol-
and; Mazzini, an exile from ROrne;
Emmet, an exile from Ireland; Victor
Hugo, an exile from France ;.Kossuth, an
exile from Rungany. But this one of
whom I speak to -day had such a re-
sounding farewell and came into such
chilling reception—for not even a hostler
went out with leis lantern to help him
in.—that he is more to be celebrated than
any other expatriated one of earth or
heaven.
It is 93,000,000 miles from .here to the
sun, and all astronomers agree in saying
that our solar system is only one of Me
small wheels of the great anacbinerr of
the iutiverse, turning round. some great
center so far distant it is beyond all
Imagination. and calculation, and if, as
some think, that great center itt the dis-
tattoo is heaven Christ came far from
home when he came here. Have you
ever thought of the homesickness of
Christ? Some of you know what home-
sickness is when you have been only a
few weeks absent finale the domestic
circle. Christ was 33 years away from
home. Sonie of you feel tomesiekness
when you are 100 or 1,000 miles away
from the domestic circle. Christ wa,s
more millions of miles away from home
than you could calculate if all your life
you clid nothing but ea/opiate. You know
what it is to be homesick amid pleasur-
able surroundings, but Christ slept in
hats, and he was athirst, and he was a -
hungered, and he was on the way from
being born itt one man's barn to being
buried in another inan's grave. I have
read how the Swiss, when they are far
away from their native country, at the
sound of their national air get so home-
sick that they fall into melancholy and
sometimes they die under the homesick-
ness. But, oh, the hamesiokness of
Christi Poverty, hoanesiok for celestial
riches. Persecution, homesick for hosan-
na. 'Weariness, homosine for rest. Home-
sick for angelic, and exchangelio 00131-
panionship. Homesick to go out of the
night and out Of the storm and the
world's execration, and all that homesick-
ness suffered to get us home.
At our best es tate we are only pil-
grims and strangers here. "Heaven is
our home." Death will never knock at
the door of that mansion, and in all that
county there is not a single grave. How
glad parents are in holiday time to gather
their children home again. But I have
noticed that almost always there is a son
or a daughter absent—absent from home,
perhaps absent from the country, perhaps
absent from the world. Obi how glad our
heavenly Father will be when he gets
all his chidlren home with him in hea-
ven! ,And how delightful it win be for
brothers and sisters to meet after long
separation! Once they parted at the door
of immortality. Once they saw only
"through a glass darkly;" now it is
face to fitee," corruption'incorruption;
mortality, immortality. Where are now
all their sins mad sorrows and troubles?
Overwhelmed in the Red sea of death
while they passed through dry shod.
The Final Welcome.
Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst,
thrones of dominion do not stir my soul
so much as the thought of home Once
there, let earthly sonsews howl like
storms and rell like seas. Florae Int
thrones rot and enipiree wither. florae!
Let the world. die in an earthquake
struggle and be buried amid procession
of planets and dirge of spheres. Home!
Lea everlasting ages roll in irresistible
sweep. Horne! No sorrow, no crying, no
tears, no death, but home, sweet norne;
home, • beautiful home, everlasting
Koine, honie with each other, home Witil
hcane with God:
One night, lying on my lounge when
very tired, my children eall arouad -aboat
me in full romp and hilarity and laugh-
ter —en the lounge, half awake and. half
asleep, r dreamed this dream: 1 WA$
in a far eountry. It was not , Per-
sia, although more than oriental lUX-
uriance orovsrned the cities. It was not
the troplos; although more than trophical
frnitfulness Riled the gardens. It was
not Italyalthough more than Italian
softness filled the air. And I wandered
around looking for thorns and nettles,
but I found that none of them grew
there, and I , saw the sun rise, arid I
watehed to eee it set, but it sank not,
And I saw the people in holiday etthe,
and I said, "When will they put off this
and put on workmen's garb and again
delve in the mine or swelter at the
forge?" But they never put off the holi-
day attire,
And I wandered in the suburbs of the
cite' to flesi the place where the dead
sleep, and I looked all along the line of
the beautiful hills, the place where the
dead might most blissfuily sleep, mad I
Saw towers and castles, but not a mau-
soleum or a monument or a white slab
could I see. And I went into the chapel
of the great town, and I said, "Where do
the poor worship; and where are the 'hard
benehes on which they sit?" And the
answer was made me, "We have no poor
In this country." And th.en I wandered
out to find the'bovels of the destitute,
and I found maesions of amber ansi ivory
and gold, but not a tear could I see, not
a sigh could 1 lion and I was bewildered
anu I sat down under the branches of a
great tree and said: "Where am I? And
r hence comes all this scene?" And then
out from among the leaves and up the
flowery paths and across the bright
streams there came it beautiful group,
thronging all abaft me, and as I saw
them come I thought I know thteir step,
and as they shouted I thought I knew
their voices, but then they were so gloela
ously arrayed in apparel, each as I had
never before witnessed, thae 1 bowed as
stranger to stranger, But when again
they clapped their hands and shouted,
"Welcome, weloome!" the mystery all
vanished, and 1 found that time had
gone an.d eternity had come, and we were
all together again in our new home in
heaven. And. I looked around, and I
said, "Are we all here?" and the voices
of many generations responded, "An
here l" And while tears of gladness were
raining down our cheeks, and the
branches et the Lebanon cedars were
clapping
their hands, and the towers of
the great city were chiming their wel-
come, we all together began to leap and
sheut and sing, "Horne, borne, home!"
A. PROSPEROUS YEAR.
North American Life.
The animal meetliag � tilde cempanY
was held at its head, office in Toronto on
Tuesday, Januaey 26th. Mr. nohn L
President, was appointed. Obair-
man, ana Mr. Wm. McCabe, Secretary.
The Direetors' report presented at the
meeting showed masked proofs of con-
-tinueel, progress and solid prosperity in
every leading branot of the Company's
business. Details of the substantial gains
ratale by the Company during tlie past
year are more pa,rtioularly referred to
In the remarks of the President and the
report of the Consulting Actuary.
Suentnary of the Financial Statement and
, Balance Sheet for the Year ended De-
cember 31st, 1896.
A. Plus:Icy Sparrow.
" The sparrow, in wbatever part of the
world he is found, seems to earn it repu-
tation for a degree of persistency and
pugnacity altogether disproportionate to
his size, Even the climate of India does
not enervate the valorous little creatures,
ant they make their way, or take it, with
the same resolute impudence that they
exhibit itt colder regions! In the journal
of the Bombay National History society
Lieutenant Barnes gives some interesting
particulars about the house sparrows of
-westerns India. At Deese he found that
a pair had built their nests between a
pair of antlers on the veranda, and
another pair appropriated it soap box in
the bathroom, where, although their
nest was destroyed several times, they
persisted in building until, out of com-
passion for their repeated labors, they
were left alone. A. third pair built in an
empty birdcage banging against a wall,
and there reared their little ones,although
the cage was frequently taken down to
exhibit the family to visitors. Once their
eggs -were stolen, and their Indignant
clamor was so disturbing that the resi-
dints of the house, for their own sakes,
were obliged to bunt up and restore the
missing treasures.
Lieutenant Barnes also states that
these sparrows will attack their own
linage in a looking glass and will fight
with it all day, only leaving off when
darkness sets in, to begin the battle over
again the next anorning, so that it was
often found necessary to protect the mir-
rors with coverings. They are perhaps
no more brave than the fiery little Brit-
ish American residents of this country,
one of which not long ago disputed with
a bantaan cook the possession of a partic-
ularly delectable tidbit. The bravado of
the sparrow so astonished the bantam that
he retreated ill dismay, casting glances
of affright over his shoulder, so to speak,
at the small -warrior, who, having dis-
posed of the delicacy, was indulging in
a fantastic war dance—Worthington's
Magazine.
tis Specialty.
The favorite game played on strangers
is the "mock. fight" Two of the local.
stockyard boys pretend. to quarrel before
a farmer. One word leads to another, and
in the heat of the excitement both the
contestants draw revolvers This is about
al] the average man who is not "on"
cams to see of the fracas, for by this
time he fat about four blocks way. One
afternoon the chief clerk in one of the
freight offices wee aown in the yards
when two fellows started it sham fight.
This gentleman had heard of this joke
before, but the fight was so sudden and
so realistic that he lost no time in leaving
the scene of action. He even took pains
to get over the fence and crawl on his
hands and knees behind a manger. When
the guns were shown to him and found
to have been corncobs wrapped with tin-
foil for cylinders, he said he was ready
to buy out a barroom. But, like many
others, this game was worked once too
often, Two fellows, both well known
around the yards, started a sham fight
before a stranger who happened to be
from Texas Of course they didn't know
this. When the part came where they
drew guns, the Texan pulled an enorm-
ous 45 that looked liken gatling run on
the would be jokers and said calmly:—
"If thar is any shooting goin on, I
want a hand in it anyeelf, and if either
of game tans vet -aveepin this way I'll
let mine loose. Ian from Terantula Creek
rayself, and I don't get away from no
place where there's. sbootin."
It is eeedless to say it was the jokers
who did the "hot foot" this time, and
this joke hasn't been played since—Kan-
sas City Tames.
For Neuralgic FainS.
For facial neuralgia, this is the very
best plan to secure wick relief: Beat a
freestone hot and roll up in a cloth, wet-
ting ono side of it a,ncl turning about a
teaspoonful of essence of peppermint on
the wet surface Lay the face against this
and cover the whole head up warily
'with flannel. It will aisles relief in almost
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Cash income . .$ 641,788 08
Expenditure (in eluding
(teeth clainas,endowinents,
matured investment poli-
cies, profits, aud all other
payments to policy holders436,545 14
Assets 2,515,833 41
Reserve Fund.... • 1,091,526 00
eTet Surplus for policy -hold-
ers. 421,546 00
WM. Mo0ABE, Managing Direotor.
Audited and found correct,
JAS. C4RLYLE, X. D., Auditor.
Mr. W. T. Standen, of New York, the
Company's Consulting Actuavy, in his
full wed detailed report of the year's oper-
Mims, said: "I have examined tne In-
vestment Policies whose diaidend reriods
mature in 1807, and leave apportioned to
them the dividends accruing thereon.
These settlements, like those for 1896,
will be found to compare very favorably
with the results attained by the best
managed companies. This is cause 'for
congratulation on the part of your policy-
holders, as, notwithstanding the large
payments for investment policies matur-
ing in 1896, you terve been able to close
the year again with an increased surplus
to your credit. The large amount of your
new business for 1896-2,603 policies for
$3,55'4,960—being half a million dollars
in excess of any previous year, shows that
the plans and operations of the Company
are becoming better Ineowie and appreci-
ated. Your results show a good surplus -
earning power, indicating that your busi-
ness is of a paying character."
The, President, Mr. abbe L. Blaikie, in
moving the adoption of the report, said:—
"I am fully warranted in congratulat-
ing every policy -holder, and every person
interested in the Company, upon the
splendid position to winch it has attained,
and upon the results of the past year's
business.
"An examination of the figures before
you reveals many most interesting and
important paritoulars.
"If we compare the bushiess of ths
year just closed with that of the previous
year, viz., 1895, vte have the following
results
:—
Assets increased $215,815.26, or over 9
per cent.
Cash Income biereased $60,309.84-, ex
over 10 per cent.
New insurance issued increased $50,-
110.00, or over 18 per cent.
Total insurance in force inereased $1,-
714,785.00, or over 10 per cent.
Reserve Fund increased $195,704. 00,
or over 10 per cent.
Payments to Policy -holders increased
$150,459.94, or over 142 per cent.
In no former year have such inagnins
cent results been attained.
The nuancial strengtb of a company
may be gauged by the relation of it
assets to its liabilities. In this respece the
North Anaerican exceeds that of its ebiel
competitors in. Canada, haying $120 el
assets for each 100 of liability."
Hon. G. W. Allan, in seconding the
resolution, said: "The President has
spoken fully on the satisfactory position
of the Company, yet there are one ox
two points te which I will briefly refer.
'There axe our investmeats in which all
are interested, and will be pleased te
learn, that they were very carefully made,
and have terned out erceedingly satisfaxe
tory, as evidenced by the prompt fnanner
In which our interest has been paid."
"There is another point of 00/013FtriSON
WiliCh Will show favorably for our Com-
pany, that is, as to the telative proill
earnings. I am satisfied that those inter-
ested in the Company bave every reason
to feel exceedingly 'gratified at the very
prosperous condition whioh it holds at
the present moment."
Mr. J. N. Lake, in moving a vote ol
thanks to the Company's Provincial
Managers, Inspectors a-nd Agenoy Staff,
referred in very complimentary terms te
the splendid work done by the outside
staff in. 1896, as evidenced by the grand
business secured during that year, and
also state that the new business in Jaarte
my, 1897, was already largely in excess
of the whole araottnt teCeived for the
same month last year.
Ames Thorbtue, M.D., Medical Di,
rector, presented a full and interesting
report of the mortality experience of the
Company from its organization, which
illustrated fully the care which had been
exercise in the selection of the Company's
leusiness.
After the usual votes of thanks uad been
passed the election of Direetorfs toot
place, whereupon the newlyeeleotea
Board met, and Mr. John L. Blaikie wa
unanimously elected President, and the
Hon. G. W. Allan and Mr. J. K. Kerr,
Q. C., Vice -Presidents.
Chinese Jewelers.
There are two jewelers in Chinatown,.
but their establisinnents do not assemble
the ordinary places known as jeeelery
shags, 1130 Chinese jeweler 10 it facturer LS well as a shopkeeper. Hie
esMblishruent Is a tiny room un'one of
two narrow flights of stairs. The retina
in one place is divided by an open-
work iron uounter neat the window,
where the jeweler stands at work. E. is
an elderly Chinaman wearing glossae,
and ha works over a tiny fire in the Win.
dow. All his work is done by band, and
some of it is beautiful. There are heavy
silver bracelets which open with a hinge
and fasten with an odd little staple. The
fine raised pattern is ant out, every bit
of it, by hand. There are gold ringe
mace in, the same way. They are fine
rings, made of 24 -carat gold. Almost
nothieg is kept in stock. There may
chance to be a ter,' ringa and bracelets,
which are taken from a small safe. Most
of the goods are made to order. When
the manufacturer is asked the price of a
nee he weighs it before he anwera His
scales consist of a slender stlpk of Ivory,
perhaps a third of a yard long,, covered
with Chinese characters. At one end is SI
small brass plate suspended from the
steak by fine threads, and a very small
weight, also benzine by a thread, is
moved along to the balancing point by
the jeweler as he holds the little machine
in his band. The front part of the little
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