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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-11-18, Page 7TIIE BIBLE ORCIIARD DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE FRUITS OF PARADISE. The rIrst Orchard DescribedIn All Its Beauty and Perfection --The LeSSOn or Its Creation Before the 19t.1t and Birds—, Solomon's Orchards and oatdent. [Copyright Pea by Amerivan Press associe, dune Washington, Nov. 14.—Dr. Talmage And the &vale hand in all the domin- ions of the natural world, and this ser- mon presente religion in its most radi- ant attractiveness. The text is Genesis i, 11, "The fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind." It is Wednesday morning in penalise. The birds did oot sing their opening piece nor the fish take their firse swim until the following Friday. The solar and lunar lights did not break through the thick, chaotic fog of the world's mannfacture until Thursday. Before that there was light, but it was electric light or phosphorescent light, not the light of sun or moon. But the botanical and pomological productions came on Wed- nesdey—first the flowers and then the fruits The veil of fog is ]ifted, and there stands the orchards Watoh the sudden maturity ot the fruit In our time pear trees niust have two years before they bear truit, and peapb trees three years, and npple trees five years, but bare in- stantly a ooniplete orchard springs into life, all the brancbes bearing fruit The insectile forces, which have been doing their worst to destroy the fruits foe 6,000 years, had not .yet begun their invasion The auroullo bad not yet stun e the plum, uor the caterpillar hure the apple, nor had the pbylioxera plague, whice has devastated the teineyards of Anserioa and Franca, assailed tbe grapes, nor the borer perforated, the wood, nor the apt hides ruined the cherry, nor the grub punctured the nectarine, nor the blight struole the pear. There stood the first orchard, with a perfection of rind, and an exquisitiveness of color and a lusci- ousness of taste, mut an afiluenoe of pro- duction witioli it may take thoueunds of yeaes more of study ot the solence of fruits to reproduce. sal. He wants the stip:mins a strong &dolts. -He wants the pernaissions of a profligate lite. The one ,rnembership, the one bad he,bit, the one carousal, robs him of all the possibilities and innocent enjoymentand noble aspirations of a lifetime. By one mouthful of forbidden fruit be loses a whole orthard of fruit unforbidden. You see what an expensive thing sin is. It costs a thousand times more than 18 is vvorth. As soma of all kinds of quadru- peds and all kinds of winged oreatures passed before our progenitor that he inigbt announce a name, from eagle to hat and from tion to mole, so , I suppose there were in paradise speoimens,of every kind of fruit tree. And in that enormous orchard there was not only enough for the original family of two, but enough fruit fell ripe to the ground and was never picked up to supply whole towns and villages if they had existed. But the infatuated couple turned away from all these other trees and faced thie tree, and the fruit of that they will have though it oost them all paradise. The Edenic Story Repeated. This story of Eden is rejected by some as an improbability, if not an impossi- bility, but nothing on earth is easier for ma to believe than the truth of this Edenic story, for I have seen the same thing in this year of our Lord 1897. I could call them by name, if it were pol- itic and righteous to do so, the men who have saarieeed a paradise on earth and a paradise in heaven for one sin. Their houses went Their eibrare mot. Their good name went Their field of usefulness went. Their health went. Their immort tin soul went. My friends, there is lust one sin that will turn you out of para- dise if you do not quit it. You know what it is, and God knows, and you bad better drop the hand and earn lilted to- ward that bending bough before you pluok your own rain. When Adam stood. on tiptoe and took in his right hand that one nand peach or aprioot or apple, satan reaohed p atui pulled down the round, beautiful world of our present residence. Overworked artist, over- wrought merchant, ambitious politician, avaricious speoulater, better take that warning from .A.dam's orchard and stop before you put out for that one thing more. But I turn from Adam's orobard to Solomon's Prober& With his own hand he writes, "I made me gardens and or- chards." No it depending on tbe natural fall of rain, he irrigated those orohards. Pieces of the aqueduot that watered those gardens I have seen, and the reservoirs are as perfect as when thousands of years ago the mason's trowel smoothed the mortar over their gray surfaces. No orchard of olden or modern tirne, prob- ably, ever bad its thirst so well slaked. The largest of these reservoirs is 589 feet long, 207 feet wide and 50 feet deep. Tese reservoirs Solomon refers to when he says, "I made um pools of Water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Solomon used to ride out to that orchard before breakfast. It gave him an appetite and something to think about all the day. .7osepbus, the bistor- Ian, represents him as going, out "early In the morning from Jerusalem to the famed rooks of Beam a. fertile region, deligbtful with paradises and running springs. Thither the king, in robes of Waite, rode in his °harlot, escorted by a troop of mounted archers chosen for their Youth and stature and clad in Tyrian purple, whose long hale, powdered with old dust, sparkled. in the sun" After Solomon had taken his morning ride in these luxuriant orchards he would sit down and write those wonder- ful things in the Bible, drawing his ill- ustratiens from the fruits he had that very morning plucked or ridden under, and wishiug to praise the coming Christ he says, "As the apple tree among the trees on the wood, so is my beloved." And wishing to describe the love of the °introit for tier Lord, be -writes, "Comfort me with apples, for 1 tun sick of love," and desiring to make reference to the white hair of the octogenarian, and just before having noticed that the blossoms of the almond tree were white, be says of tbe aged man. "The almond tree shall flourish." The walnuts and the pome- granates and the mandrakes and the ligs make Solomon's writiegs a divinely arranged fruit basket. The rruit Diet. Wby 'WAS the orehard ()mated two days before the fish and birds and three days before the cattle? „among other things, to impress the world with a lesson it is too stupid to learn—that fruit diet is healthier than Meat diet, and tbat the former must precede the latter. The rea- son there are in the world so many of the inibruted and sensual is that they have not improved by the mighty, un- noticed fact that the orchards of paradise preceded tee herds and aviaries and fish ponds, Oh, those fruit bearing trees on the bank of the Euphrates, and the Glhon, and the Iliddeltell I wonder not that the azioient Rooms. ignorant of our 00d, adored POMOlia, the goddess of fruits, and that all the sylvan deities were said to worship her, and that groves were set apart as her temples. You have thanked tied for bread a thousand times. Have you ever thanked biin for the fruits which he made the iirst course of food. in the menu cif the world's table— the acids of those fruits to keep the world's table from being insipid, ana their sweets to keep iafrom being too sour? At this autumnal season how the orchards breathe and. glow, the leaves re- moved that the crimson or pink or saffron or the yellow or brown may the better appeaavebile the aromatics fill the air with invitation and remipiscence. As you pass tbrangh the orchard on tbese autumnal days and look up through the arms of the trees laden with fruit you hear thumping on the ground that whit% is fully ripe, and throwing your arms around the trunk you give a shake thee sends down a shower of gold and fire on all sides of you Pile up in baskets and barrels and bins and on shelves and tables the divine supply. But these or- chards have beeo under the assault of at least 60 oeuturies—the storm, the droughts, the winter, the insectivoral, What must the first orchard have been? Ad yet it is the explorer's evidence that on the site of that orchard there is not an apricot, or an apple'or an alive —nothing but desert and desolation. There is not enough to forage the ex- plorer's horse, much less to feed bis own hunger. In other words, that first or- chard is a lost orchard. How did the proprietor and proprietress of all that in- tercoluminntion of fruitage let the rich splendor slip their possession? It was, as now, most of the ordhards are lost— namely, by wanting more Access they bad 80. all the ag trees. apricots, walnuts, almonds, apples—bushels on bushels— arid weve forbidden the use of only one tree in the orchard. Not satisfied with all but one, they reached for that and lost the whole orchard. Go right down througb the business marts of the great cities and find among the weighers and clerks and subordinates men Tab() once comxnanded the commercial world. They had a whole orchard of successes, but they wanted just one more thing, one more house, or one more country seat, or one rnore store, or one more railroad, or one More million. ror One More Tree. They clutched for tbat and lost all they had gained. For one more tree they lost a whole orehard There are busi- ness men all around us worried nearly to death. The doctor tells them they 'ought to stop. Insompia or indigestion or aching at tbe base of the brain or un- governable nerves tell them they ought to stop. They really have enough for themselves and their families Talk with them about their overwork and urge more prudence and longer rest and they say: "Yes, you are right After 1 bave aocornplisbed one more thing that I have on my mind I will band over my busi- ness to my sons and go to Europe and quit the kind of exhausting life 1 have been living for the last 80 years." Some morning you open your paper, and, look - leg at the death column, you find be suddenly departed this life. In trying to win just one more tree be lost the whole orcbard. Yonder is a man with many styles of innocent entertainment and annisenient. He walks, he rides he plays tenpins in private alleys, be has books on his table, pictures on his wall and occasional out- ings concerts, lectures, baseball tickets and the innumerable delights of friend- ship, but he wants a key to the place of dissolute convocation, He wants associa- tion with Some member of a high family wants, affluent. Ile his soul has sped away on tbe wing of hosannas, The Healy of Wellington. An old and poor mtisician played so well one night before his king that the next morning when the musiolan awoke he found his table covered with goldea cups and plates alai a princely robe lying iieross the back of a ohair and reably eaparisioned borses were pawing at the doorway to take him through the street In imposing equipage. It was only a touch of what comes to every man who makes the Lord his portion, for he has waiting for him, direct from his king, robes, banquets, chariots, niansious, triumphs, and it is only a question of time when he shall wear them, (mink them, ride in them, live in them and celebrate them, You think religion is a good thing for a funeral. Ob, yes! But Solomon's or- chard. means more. Religion is a good tbing now when you are in health and prosperity and the appetite is good for citrons and apples and apricots and pomegranates. Come in without wasting any time in talking about them and take the luxuries of religion. Happy yourself, then you can make others happy. Make just one person happy every day and in 20 years you will have made 7,300 people happy. I like what Welling- ton said after the battle of Waterloo and when be was in pursuit of the French with his advance guard and Colonel Harvey said to him, 'General, you had better 'not go any farther, for you may be shot at by some straggler from the bushes." And 'Wellington replied: "Let them fire away. The battle is won dud my life is of no value now," lify friends, we ought never to be reckless, but If, through the pardoning and rescuing grace of Christ, you have gained the victory over sin and death and hell, you need fear pothieg on the earth or under the earth. Let all the sbarpshooters of perdition blaze away. You tome ride on In joy triumphant. Religion for the raPeral, Oh, yeal But religion for the wedding brealtfest. Religion for the brightest spring paorniog and autumn's most gorgeous sunset. Religion for the day when the stocks are up just as much as when stooks are down. Religion when respiration is easy as well as for the last gasp; when the temperature la normal as well as Whall it reaohes 104, Ie may be a bold thing to say, but I risk it, that if all people, without respect to belief or character, at death passed into everlast- ing happiness, religion for this world is suob a luxury that no man or woman could afford to do without it. Why was it that in the parable of the prodigal son the finger ring was ordered put upon the returned wanderer's hand before the shoes were ordered for his tired feet? _Are not shoes more Important for our coni - fort than finger rings? Oh, yesi But it was to imprees the world with the fact that religion is a luxury as well as a necessity. "Put a ring on, his hand and shoes on his Met." If in sermonic, or exhortatory, or social recommendations of religion we put the chief empesis on the foot that for our safety we must nave It when the door of the next world is opened, poor human nature will take the risk and say, "I will wait until the door begins to open." But show them the radiant truth, that the table of God's love and pardon is note laid with all the fruits whioh the orchards of God's love and pardon and holpfniness men supply, and they will come in aed sit dowe with all the other banemeters, terrestrial and celestial. Ob, fetch on tho citrons and the apples and the walnuts and the pom- egranates of Solomon's orchard. The Orchard or Pilate. Beligion a Luxury. What mean Solomon's orchards and Solomon's gardens, for they seem to tbe two into one, flowers under foot and pomegranates overhead? To me they suggest that religion is a luaary. All along the world has looked upon re- ligion chiefly as a dire necessity—a life- boat from the shiputeck, a ladder from the conflagration, a soft landing place after eve have been shoved all the preci- pice of tbis planet. As a consequence so many have said, "We will await prepara- tion for the future until the crash of the shipwreck, uutil the conflagration is in full blaze, until we reach the brink of the precipice." No doubt religion is inexpressibly important for the last exi- gency. But ethat do the apples and the Ogs and the melons and the pomegran- ates and the citron and the olives of Solomon's orchard inean? Luxury. They mean that our religion is the luscious, the aromatic, the pungent, the arbor - °Nona the eilloveseent, the foliaged, the umbrageous. They mean what Edward Payson =emit when he &aired, "If my happiness continues to increase, I cannot support it muob longer." It means what Bapa Padmanja a llindoo convert, meant when he said, "1 lemur for toy bed, not that I iney sleep—I lie awake often and long—but to hold communion with my God," It means what the old colored man said when he was aocosted by the oolpor- teur, "Unele jack, how are you?" "1 is very painful in my nitee, but, thank my heavenly Master, I'm cause to be thapkful. My good Mester juet gib me nue to make me humble." "And do you caojoy religion as numb oow, lJnele jack, as whet) you could go to church and class meetings?" "Yes, I 'joys biro more. Den I truss to de people, to de meetings, to de sacrament, and when I hear de hymn sing and de pray 1 feels glad. But all dis ain't like de good Lord in de heart, God's love bore.' It means sun- -rise instead of sundown. It means the Memnon statue made to sing at throe stroke of the orniag light. It means Christ at the weddiug in Cana. It meane the "time of the singing of birds Is come." It means Jeremiah's "well watered garden." It means David's "oil of gladness." It means Isaiah's "bride and britlegrooro." 18 means Luke's bad boy coine home to his father's hewn. Worldly joy killed Leo X when he heard thatMilan was captured. Tabu died of joy when the Roman senate honored Diagora died of joy because his three sons were crowned at the Olympian games. Sophooles died of joy over his literary successes. And religious joy has as reckless as be 18 instead of a quiet Sabbath, one of carou- been too much for many a Cbristian ape 1, now take you into St :John's orchard, and I will stop there, for, haying seen that, 'Yea will want to see lathing more. St. John binaself, having seen time or- chard, discharged a whole volley of Cornet Come! Comeaathen pro- nounced the benediction; "Tee grace of our Loed Jesus Christ be with you. all, Aanen." Then the banished evangelist closes the book, and tee Bible is done. Tbe dear old book opened with Adam's orohard and closes with St. John's or- chard. St. John went into this orchard tiarougla a stone gate, the blaek basalt of the isle of Patraos, to witioh he bad been exiled. That orchard whish he saw was and is in beaven. One person wilt err in speaking of heaven as all material and another per- son describes heaven as all figurative and spiritual, and botb are wrong. Heaven is both material and spiritual, as we are both material and spiritual. While much of the Bible account of heaven is to be taken figuratively and spiritually, it is plain to me that beaven bas also a material existence. Christ said, "I go to prepare a place for you." Is not a place material? God, who has done all the world building, the statis- tics of stars so vast as to be a bewilder - intent to telescopee, could baYe some- where in his astronomy pilled up a tre- mendous world to make the Bible heaven true both as a raaterial splendor and a spiritual domain. I do not believe God put all the flowers, and all the precious stones, ad all the bright metals, and all the niusic and all the fountains, and all the orchards in this little world of ours. How moth was lit- eral and how muoli was figurtitive I +can- not say. But St. John saw two rows of trees on eaoh side of a river, and it differed from other °tabards in the fact that the trees bore 12 manner of fruits. The learned tnanslators of our common Biele say it means 12 different kinds of emits in else year. Albert Barnes says it means 12 crops of the same kind of fruit in one year. Not able to decide which is ' tee more accurate translation adopt both. If it means le differentkinds of fruit, it declares variety in heavenly joy. If it mean le orops of the same kind of fruit, it declares abundance in heavenly joy, and they are both true. Variety? 0e, yes! Not an eternity with nothing but music; that oretorio would be too protrected. Not an eternity of procession an white horses; that woald be too long in the stirrups. Not an eternity of watching the river; that would be too much of the picturesque. Not an eternity of plucking fruits from the tree of life; that would be too much of the heavenly orohard. But all manner of varieties, and I will tell you of at least 1e of those varieties: Joy of divine worship, joy over the victories of the Lamb who was slain, joy over the re- pentant sinners, joy of recounting our own rescue, joy of embracing old friends, joy at recognition of patriarolis, apostles, evangeliets and martyrs; joy of riuging harmonies, joy of reknitting broken friendships, joy at the explanation of Providential inysteries,joy at waking the boulevards of gold, joy at looking at walls green with emerald, and blue with sapphire, and crimson with jasper, and &flash with amethyst, entered through swinging gate% their posts, their hinges, and, tbeir panels of richest pearl; joy that there is to be no subsidence no re- action, nu terminus to the fetidly. An that makes le different joys, 12 manner ot fruits. So much for variety. But if you take the other interpretation and say it means 12 crops a year, I ant with you still, for that means abundance. That will be the first place we ever got into where there is enough of every- thing, enough of bealth, enough of light, enough of supernal association, enough of love, enough of knowledge, enough of joy. The orthards of this lower world put out all their energies for a few days In autumn, and then, having yielded one crop, their banners of foliage are dropped out of tbe air and all their beauty is ad- journed until the blossoming of the next May time. But 12 crops in the hea- venly orohard during that wbioh on earth we call a year means abundance perpetually, The Heavenly Orchard. But baying introduced you to Adam's orchard and carried you awhile through Solomon's orchard, I want to take a walk with you through Pilate's orchard of three trees on a bill 70 feet high, ten minutes' walk from the gate of Jerusa- lem. After I read that our great-grandfather and greategrandmother had been driven ant of the first OrChardi I made up my mind that the Lord would nob be defeat- ed in that way. I said to myself that when they had been poisoned by the fruit of that one tree, annewhere, some- how, there would be provided an anti- dote for the poison. I said: "Where is the other tree that will undo the work of that tree? Where in the other orchard that will repair the damage received in tee first orchard?" And I read on until I found the orchard and its centre tree as mighty for cure as this one had been for ruin, and as the one tree in Adam's orchard had its branches laden with red fruit of carnage, and the pale fruit of suffering, and the epotted fruit of decay, and thet''bitter fruit of disappointment, I found in Pilate's orchavd a tree which, though strippea of all its leaves and struok through by an iron bolt as lona as your arm, nevertheless bore the Hob - est fruit that was ever gathered. Like the trees of the first orchard, this was planted, blossomed and bore fruit all in one day. Poul was impulsive and yehent- ent of native, and he laid hold of that tree with both arms and shook it till the ground all round looked like an orchard the moraine after an autumnal equinox, and, careful lest he step on some of the fruit, gathered up a basketful of it for the Galatians, crying out, "The fruit of althea By the reeonetructing and stoma ifeing grace of Christ we need to be made all over and let as be gettiog our passports ready if we want to get into that country. An earthly paseport is a personal matter, telliug our beight, our girth, the color of oat. hair, oar features, our eaagon oexinal our age. I matureti get into a foreign port on your pees - port, nor eau you get in an mine. Eala ODS of us for himeelf needs a diviee sig..nature, written by the wounded hand oe the Son a ow, to gat into the beavenly orchard, under the laden branahes of which in God's good time we man meet the Adam of the first orchard, and the Solomon of the second orohard, and the St Jobe of the last orchard, to sit down under the tree of which the cburcb in the book of Contieles speaks when it says: "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, eo Is my beloved among the sons. 1 sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." And there it may be iound that to -clay we learned tbe danger of hankering after one thing mere, and that religion is a luxury, and that there is a divine antidote for all poisons, and that we had created in us an appetite foe beaven, and that it was a wbolesome and saving thing for us to have discoursed on the ponaology of the Bible or God among the orchards. rather and ;Sou. Little Bobby—'I can't find my hat and %oat. Father (rushing aboat)—I can't find mtne either. I don't see weat your rum, ther does with things. She's gone out, and there's pothing for us to do but hunt till we Riad 'eln or else stay in. Little Bobby (after long thought)— Let's look on the ban rack.—Good News, A remale elauricimaisen. Lady Middelton has written for an English magazine an account of some remaritable recoveries of lost property, seas the New York Journal. In one case a valuable ring was lost Years tAfter- ward, when a floor was removed, the jewel was found wedged tightly around the neok of the skeleton of a mouse. Tee ring had fallen through a creek in the floor, and the mouse, half-growie at the time, had thrust its head into it, had thus been cauglit and had grown until it was strangled, Aootbor case: A gentleman shot and wounded a sand piper, wbich, ilutterlog tigress a pond, was seized and devoured by a pine. Thae afternoon the sports- man's brother, while fishing in the pond, caught a pike in whose stomach was found the identical sand piper. ,Another case: A lady who was visit- ing a relative lost a ring. Six years after, while vielting the same person, then living in a far distant locality, shy slipped her hand thoughtlessly in a re miss of the chair she was sittiug in and Mune the inissing ring. Another case: A lady supped at a royal ball, and one of the golden species lodged., unknown to her, in one of the pockets formed by the plaits on the front of her dress- The following year, ha pre- sentation to the Queen, she wore the same gown. As she bent in courtasyiug the plait opened ana out fell the missing spoon at her soverelgres feet. Sim Go It. The hostess was thinking of the com- pliments she would be sure to hear by the beverage whieh she was preparing when she discovered that SOMEI necessary ingredients were miesing, A colored woman who had beeu employed only a few days before was called to the rescue. "Hannah," said the hostess, "can you do an errand for nie in a hurry?" egatida "Can I depend on you!'" "I am afraid most of the groceries will be closed at this hour, but I want you to go after sonic lime juice, arid see that you don't come back without it" The colored woman hurried away An bour passed, and she did pot remurn. Guests began to arrive, but there was no trace ot the messenger. At last she came. "Dia you get it?" asked her mistress "Yesan—dat is, I come cc close to it ez I could I didn't bother 'bout no gro- ceries, caze 1 knowed 'twould be wastin' time" "Where did you go?" "I went straight to de limekiln I found de watcbman dar, an he said he didn't reckon dar was no lime juice round de place So I made him gimme dis chunk, an I reckons de bes' ning 801) nae ter do is ter hurry right along and put watah on it so's ter soak de ance out"—iletroie Prat dress While there is enougb of the pomp of the city about heaven for those who like the city best, I thank God there is enough in the Bible about oceintry scenery in heaven to please those of us who were born in the country and never got over it. Now you may have streets of gold in heaven. Give me the orchards with le manner of fruits and yielding their fruit every month, and the leaves OL tee trees are for "the healing of the nations, and there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve biro, and they shall see his face, and his 17111110 shall be in their fore- heads, anti there shall be no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign forever and ever." But just think of a place so bril- liant that the noonday sun sball be re- moved from the mantle of the sky be- cause it is too feeltie ataper. Yet most of all am I impressed with the feet that I am ant yet fit for that peace, nor you SAVED BY A SONG. now a areercia Negro Minstrel Named His Passage [Ionic. From London. "As an illustration a the sentiment awakened by tee old songs that belopet to the sonthlanda said a Virginian Cinoinnati Enquirer reporter, "I want to relate the story at an ineidefit that came • under my observation while I was in London eight or nine years ago. "I was a stranger toad the Imoseeet wet not 0 pleasant one, but I happened to see the name or a num from my own State on the hotel register, rand, al - thought I did not know him determined to send my card to his room. Then a happy thought struck me, and I lianted up all the Southerners wbo were stop- ping itt the bouse, and running a sprig 0t embi anit1 tory°1t1 tog ali z le 1 i numberver the.% a reka hsae 1T- 13 r later, eight xnen, two from Vir- ginia, four from Kentucky, one from Georgia and ttvo from Louisana lined up before tee bar, and—well, the friendship thus formed lasted through the week, and a few evenings before ray eteamer was to sail the party was augmented by five more from the new world, alto were gathered around a table in a comfortable cafe partaking of a farewell supper. "In the midst of the noise and laugh- ter no one noticed an aged negro who entered and stole quietly to one corner of the room. Placing his bat on the floor be swung his guitar into position and attraoted our atteutiou by striking a few prelimipary chords, then in a sweet, melodious baritone he began to sing 'Ella Rea.' Glasses were placed quietly on the table, the noise aod laughter ceased, and we al) were thinking alike—of home. "I know I was, for there wee a lunati in my throat as big as a yam. "The roue -Wien followed with 'Belinda May': --- True Brotherly Love. Raggs—I was passing tbe insane asylum today and stopped in to see your brother. Jaggs—Did he ask about me? Raggs—Yes. He's crazy to see you.— Chicago NOWS. Bald as a Billiard Ball. , Tomtom—What in the world has old Baldpate gone west for? Buzzfuzz—Why, he's gone out there in the hope of having some hair rais- ing adventures. --NeW York Jouroal. tho spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffer- ing, eentieness, goodnees, faith, nieek- nesalemperance." The other two trees of Pilate's orohard were loaded, the one with the hard fruit of obduracy and the other with the tender fruit of repentance, bot the center tree—bow will I ever forget the day I sat on the exact place where it was phi/Wadi—the center tree of that orchard yields the antidote for the poisoned nations. Tbere is in old England the hollow of a tree where a king hid, and there is in New England a tree in which a docu- ment of national importatice was kept inviolate, and there have been trees of great girth and immense shade and vast wealth of fruitage, but no other tree had Bush value of reminiscence or depth of mot or spread of branch or infinitude of fruitage as the center tree of Pilate's =hard. Berate I pass this day from ander it I mu I like to drop on both knees, and, with both hands outspread and uplifted toward the beavens ory out with all the nations of earth and heaven "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, whet was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. He descended into Len. The third day he rose from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence he shall come to jduge the quick and the dead." St. John's Orchard. Now, in this discouese of the pomology of the Bible or God maid the orchards, having shown you Adam's orchard and Solomon's orchard and Pilate's orchard, ,11 The D ily 61 e (Morning Edition) INCLUDING' The 24=page Saturday Illustrated Edition Only 4.00 a Year Order direct or through newsdealer or post- master and secure THE CHRISTMAS EDITION FREE. THE GLOBE, Toronto. " 'Lovely Belinda, Belinda, Belinda, 'My sweet Belinda May; I could work in the fields And be happy all day If you would only smile on me, My sweet Belinda May' "And then the guitar spoke softly for a 'moment, and I fancied the old fellow's voice quivered with emotion as the sweet strains of 'Old Eautuoky Home' flooaeci the room with a mist of tender naemories. "The hat was filled in a moment, paper mooey, silver and. gold. pieces were fairly sbowered into it, tee recipient looking on in amazement. At last he broke out with:— '"Iiress Gawd, genTmen. Ton alt must come from bonte Yes seb, genn- men, I knows you do, cause day don do no tech things as dis yeah in nes coun- try,' " 'Where do you, come from, uncle?' lisned, some one, 'and how do you happen to be way out beret' " 'Lemma tell you, genatmen. I some from Geo'gia, an' I was born in Atlanta. You see I kin sing tenably vvell, an' one day a Yankee genTnian some down our way an' he says as how he want to get some mind folks to trabble in Europe, in a sort ce minstrel company. Wall, sehs, he done tell we all bow mush, money we gwine get, so me an' some of de yoene folks go tong wid him. He takes ono England fust, but de bust - SUMS ain' no good nohow, so be try Paris, an' at las' we go to Germany. Things kepter gittin" evuss, an' so one mohein' we wake up an' bin' we all Ms" got no =imager an' no money nether. " 'Mee' ,ob de young bucks dee gits a chance to do avaitin' an' seoh, but de ol' man jus' been workin' his way roan' de kentry singin' songs dat nobody seems to -waiter hear nohow, " 'Soon as I see you genn'xnen tten roma' Its'en dis tannin' I know rigth erway you all must cote° front bonae, an' I wanter thank you genTmen, 'deed 'n does. Gracious! I am' seen 80 0313011 money In my life beta. Genamen, do you low thers puff money bere to git the ol' man back home?' "Well, there's not much zoore to tell, only the fallowing Saturday saw the old fellow on one of the big steamers with his passage paid to America and enough money to carry him back to his old home in Georgia." Progress in Victoria's Itelgu. "When Victoria was called to the throne the United Kingdom contained 86,000,000 people," writes William Geo- rge Jordon of "What Victoria. Has Seen," reviewing. in the Ladies' Home Journal, the worlds progress during tbe sixty years of of the English sovereign's rule. "To -day it has over 80,000,000. The 'wise men' of the time said the 'na- tion would go to pieces. They claimed it could never govern its home and eol- onial possessions. Under Victoria the new territory acquired alone is one-sixth lareer than all Lorene. To -day Victoria rures over 40e,514,1tei people, or twenty- seven per cent. of the population of the globe. Her Empire extends over Melte - 816 square miles,' covering twenty-one per cent or the land of the world, The United Staten at the time of Victoria's coronation, laid only 17,000,000 people; to -day it has 70,000,000. Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana were than West- ern frontier etates. All our territory west of the Mississippi contained less people than Philadelphia has to -day. Our present trans -Mississippi population exceeds in ntunber that •of the ;whole country in 1837. Our territorial area has increased seventy-five per cent.; our National wealth has increased about sev- enteen hundred per oent " The Snandragoti CatehdY. Some plants—the catohflies, ear e 11'- ampls—have their stems and leaves cov- ered with sticky hairs that catch and hold intruders before they can reaoh the blossoms. Next time you are in the country look for the snapdragon (tetch- ily. You will find it in almost any field or roadside at the beginning of summer. It is not at all a showy plant—in fact, it is rather weedy looking. Its flowers 079 small and white, opening ati dusk and closing itt tbe daytime. Tim curious thing about it is that there is a dark. brown sticky band around the storms be- tween each two of the upper jointa Here' may be seen sticking small particles of sand and sometimes tin a insects caught In the act of trying to rob the plant. Some botanists think that these plants with sticky bates that catch insects in self-defepse are a connecting linkbetween ordinary plants and lima feeders, such as the sundew and the *Vanes flytrap — Thos H. Kearney, ir., in St. Nicholas. George was rejoying Hire sel u. Mother (at a ball)—Are you enjeying yourself, dear? Daughter—No, I'm not. "What Is the matter?" "I've refused George six dance & run- ning, and he doesn't seem misers,* --Exchange.