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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-4-15, Page 3:SITEDDTISG OF • BLOOD.: WITHOUT IT THERO IS NO REMISSION. ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE. Pale Zr. Talmage Preacbes an Eloquent in Courluelog Sermou Prom a Well- Xilawn Text -Pang for Pang. Bleed for Blood and 1.1f0 for Life. (Cepyrig:a .2e.'8, by Amerieati Press Associa- tion.) tre.shington, April 10,—The redical theory of cbrietianity is see forth by 1)r. Talmage2U this diecourse, and remark: - 01e instances of self etterifice eta brogghe eue for ilinstretioa. rho tel is Hebrews ixe iiii. **Without shedding of blood is no remission." Jobe G. Whittier, tbe • last of 'the greite ;whoa of Ainericon poets ehae matte Dhe laSt quarter of this century brillient, eske ue iu the \Mite Moueteins one toolving :after prayers, in which 1 bad livea out Cowper's famone hymn Omit "the fountain filled with bleee," "Do you really believe her is a literal apple, eatiou a the blood of Christ to tbesoul?" My negative reply then ie negative reply now. The Bible staremeue Aigrette with allphasiciensand all pbysielogiete aed scientists In eaying 'that the blood is the life, and to che Christian religion le mens simply elute Christie life was gimp for our U. Hence all this 'telt et moo who eay the Bible entry et bleed le ills- euti that they deti't waue whet they cell e "slaughter house religiegew only •ehowe their iticepacity eaS to look through tbe figure of speech toward the thing signilico. The bleed time on the therkeet hhidey the Weriti ever ettW weed or trickled Or poured them the brow, and the side, and the heude, and the feet et the illustrious sufferer beck of jerusalan in a few hon rs coeguleted and dried up and forever dieeppeared, and it man heti depeaded on the application ot the literal bleed of ()Mese tbere istoold DO e two been a soul saved for the lase 18 cauturiee. The iteit Weed. from our northern and, southern homes hendreds o thoosands of men to do bettle. All the poetry of war soon van- ished and left them nothing but the ter , Tibia prose. They waded twee deep in mudi They slept in snow banks. They Marched till their out feet tracked the earth. They were swindled out of their honest rodeos and lived on meat not fit for a dog. They had jaws fractured and eyes extinguished awl limbs shot away. Thousands a them cried Air water as they lay on the field the night e,fter the' battle awl got it not. Tiley were home- sick and received no message from their loved ones. Tbey died in bares, in bushes, In ditches, the buzzards of Mee summer boat the only attendants on their obse- quies. IS'o one but the inanite God, who knows everything, linows the ten thou.- satulth part of the length and breadth, and depth and height of anguish of the riortheriz and southern battlefields. Why did these fathers leave their children and go to the front, and why did these young men, postponing the marriage day, start out into the probabilities of never coming back? For a principle they died. Life for life! Blood for blood! Substitution! But we need not go so far. Wbat is that monument in the cemetery? It is to the doctors who fell in the southern epi- demies. Why go? Were there not enough sick to be attended in these nerthern latitudes? Oh, yes; but the doetor puts a few medical books in his valise, and some vials of medicine, and leaees his patients bere In the bands of other physicians and takes the nil Penn Before he gets to the infected regions be passes crowded, rail trate% regular and eXtra, taking the flying and affrighted populations. He at'. rivee in a city, over which a great norror Is brooding. He goes from couch to cottein feelieg the pulse and fitudying symptoms and preseribing day after day, nighe after night, until a fellow physle clan says: "Doctor, you had better go home end rest. You look Miserable." But be menet rest while eo wavy are suffers in. OD and on, lintil ecnne meriting Ande him in o, deliriumin Mitch he tains a Immo end them rises end says be meet go and look after those rethinks. Ile is told to lie down, but he lights his attendants until he falls baek and is Weaker and weaker and dies for people In order to under -tend this Mil word with 'whom he bad no kinsbip and far away from his ow ia fenaly and ni hastily nue away in a stranger'a tomb, and Only elie fifth pare of auewspaper line Mlle us of his faerifice—bis name juet mentioned among live. Yet Where teuebet1 thefar- tiay illustrateil. The pet et eubstitu- tittst Wight at la that three of my text we wily have co exercise as eaueli cerement ren" e in religion txte we do eVerytiinir, elee. Pang for pang, hunger ter huneeri ;Mime thir fatigue,, tear for tear, bleed for Week life tor lite, we see eveey eesu te uo wedgy, although 1 hear nen week.; tit ;11=3We:hien service. ie goes talk ae ititelifh the Wee ot Christ's suffer. tritilffht as an arrow la tba tosera Of bini log enleitiated for our suffering were who Fold, "1 was sielt, anti ye visited something idinertneh semething wildly nee." Life for life: Ilieed for blood! Sub- etwentrie. ealitery epleatio in the worlitti etitutiotai hietery. witen 1 could take ewe oat ineu AStory of seward, 'this City and before sundown paint you In the legal prefeielon I see the same to 500 ateee of Aubstitaitien anti voluntary sufferi*e. et ono in behalf of another. At 2 teeleek to morrow afternoon go among the !dame ot laminae; or toll. It 'will he Ito thing for you to And iitindple osU' ieterinee. In 1846 William Ereeman, u pauperinel and idiotic; negro, , canui's stall, to thruet bis shoulder un was at Auburn. N. y.. on trua tor Tuur. 1 der our burdens and tato the lances of pain threngh Isla vitals, and wrapped himself der. He bad Slaill the elltIr0 V411 NeSt men who by their looks show you time r. ° i• • men wily eh our miscleings and stood on tbe splitting y aro promo mut/UT could lie they are overworked. The CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST. wroth ole They are beeteabia rapidly . armed constables. Nebo would 'volunteer )(leeks of a foundering vessel amid the (trembling surf cot the RA and passed mid- — Husain. or William Turner! Blood for there was a hollow ba the ground, rolled Used! Substitution over and down, troini after, troop. tumbi- An Exalting rewrap -le, Mg into one awful mass of sufferingboof of lea:king hereee againet brow and breasa , of captains wad colonels and private sol- diers, the human and the beastly groan kept up until the day after all Was shoveled under because of the malodor What an exalting principle this which, leads clue to suffer for another! Nothing so kindles enthusiasm or awakens elo- quence, or chimes pootio onto, or moves melons, The principle is the dominant one in our religion—Christ the martyr, arising m that hot month of Juno. Christ the celestial bero, Christ the de- "tr here," mid our guide, "the Highland fonder, Christ the substitute. No new tegunents lay down on their faces wait. principle, for it Was Old as hind= nature, mg for the moment to spring upon the but now on a grander, wider, nigher, foe. In that orobard $,G.O0 men were out deeper and more world resounding eeale, to piece?. Here stood Welliugton with The shepherd bee as a champion for Israel whitedips, and up Oar knoll vele Mar - with a sling tepPled the giant of /halls. shot lecy on his sixth borse, five having been shot under him. Here the ranks of tine braggadoeio in the duet. hat hero another David who, for all the armies a the French broke, and Marshal Net, churches militant and triumphant, burls with his hoot slatehed by Sword, and his the Goliath of perdition into defeat, the hat off and his face covered with powder crash of bis brezen armor like an explo. and blood, tried to rallv his troops as he sion at Hell Gate. Abrebarn had at God's cried, 'Come and see how a Mersbal of command agreed te eacrifice Ids son Isaac, French dies on the battlefield.' From and the same God just in time had,, pro. yonder direction Grouchy was expected vided a ram of the thicket as a enlist'. for the French re-enforeemeut, line he tete. but there is another Isaac bound to otnne 005. Around those woods Blucber the altar, and no baud arrests the sharp edges of laceration and death, and the uutverse shivers and quakes and recioils and groans at the horror. All good men have for centuries been dazed and insane, trying to go back. trying to tell whom this substitute was Scene of a battle that went on Preto 25 like, aed evez7 comparison, inspired and minutes to 19 o'clock on theltith, of June iminePired, evangelistio. Prophetic), ape. until 4 °tile*, when the English seemed stolie and human, falls short. for Christ defeated, and their commander cried out: was the Great Unlike. Adele a type of "Boys, you can't think of giving way7 Christ, because he oame directly from Remember old England!" And the tides God; Noah a type of Owlet, bee,,ause he turned, and at 8 o'clock in the evening deliveree his Own fetidly from deluge; the man et destiny, who Was ealled by Melchisedeo A type of Christ, beeause bo had no predecessor Ql` successor; Joseph a tip* of Christ, because be WM cast out by hie brotehren; Moses a type of Cbeiet, because he was a deliverer front bondage: Joshua a typo of Christ, because be was a couquaor; Samson a type of Christ, beentiee of his strength to slay the lame and carry off the irou gates et impossi, bility; Solomon a type of Christ in the affluence ot bis dominion; Jonah a type of Christ, beceuee et the etormy sea in which he threw himself for the rescue of others, but put together Adam and. Noab and hielehisedeo and Joseph and Moses and Joshua and Samson and Solomon and Jonah, and they mulct not make a fragneent of n Christ, a quarter of a elitist, the half of a Christ or the mil - part or a Owlet, ravel titii Top of Glory. was looked for to re -enforce the English, anti just in time he came up. Yonder is the field where Napoleon stood, his arms through the reins of the horse's bridle, his troops Old Two Hundred 'thousand, turned away with broken heart, and the fate ef centuries was deoltlea. The Lion and tho Lamb. NO wonder a great moued has been reared there, bunnreds ot feet mound at the expense of =Mimes ot dollare and many years in rieing, and on the top is the great Belgian lion ot hretreet nazi;; genii olti lion le is. But our great Waterloo was In Paleitine. There came a day when all hell rode up, led by Apollyon, and the captain of our salvatiou confronted them alone. The rider on the white hum of the Apo. calypee going out againet the black horse cavalry of death, and the battalions of the demoniac and the neermitioas of dark MISS. From 12 ealoet, at noon 'to 8 o'clock In the afterzalan the greatest battle of the universe went on. Eeernal destines were fle forsook a throne and sat down on being deeitletl. .All the areow's of bell Ids OW11 tOOtRttiOl. Ile came front the top pierced our Chieftein, and the battleaxes of glory to the bottom of humiliation anti eletaged a circumference seraphic for a shoulder and baud and foot were blear - struck him, until erow and cheek and 1 eirrillaferauGa illabolk- Oar° 'waited ca trained with oozing life, but be fought by angels, now biesed at by brigands. on until he gave a final stroke with Front afar and WO up he ratro down, sword from Jebow's buckler, and the pet meteors, swifter than they; by starry commander in chief of hell and till his thrones, himself more lustrous; past forees fell back lo everlasting ruin, and larger woride to smaller worlds, down the eietory is our. And on tb* moiled, stairs et Armaments mid from cloud to that celeleutee the triumph WO plant this Cloud and through treetops and Into the d.ay Iwo fignres. nut in bronze or iron or sculptured marble, but two figurci of Ilv- ing light, the Lion of Judab's tribe and the Lamb that Was slal». anada Life ASSURANCE COMPANY A.MOST.SUcCESSFUL YEAR I th In ali the agonies which we deserve for toward their decease, 'They have gene to let. coUnsel? No atterney wanted to sacrifice bispopularity by such an ungratet , nights on the mountains amid wild beasts through eritai in buelneei that shattered their nervous spawn and pulled on tlioiIII1 18k. .A.II were 8I1011t save one, Id prey and stood at the point where ail 'able voice that earthly and Infernal hostilities °barged on brain, They have a shortness Of breath t and a pain in the back of the bead and ' 1`11"111 11-1rinY 11a lwar""ts111a the hat% at niglit an insomnia, thet alarms them. Fala and thin a" aWl`w"rd" It Was Wil" slut leer two Nei It weabi be him, oner was Idiotio and irresponsible and blot at once with their keen sabers—our Suietittitel When did attorney ever endure so much for a pauper client or pbysialan for ought to tie put in an asylum rather than tho patient In elm lazaretto or mother for cult to extraetany amusement out of that . wit to death, the herolo .counset uttering the child in membrauous aerie as Christ exhaustion. Because they are avarleietaa ' for no and Christ for you and Cbrist for these beautiful words: le many cases no. Because their own me? Shall any man or woman or child in personal expenses are lavish? No. A few "I speak now in the heaving of a pee - this audience wbo has over suffered for Imndrecl dollare would meet all their barn II. Seward, 'who saw that the pies. 'Why are thee drudging at business -early wauts. The simple fact Is the man is en- during all that fatigue and exasperation and wear and tear to keep his home pros- perous. There Is an invisible lino reach- ing frorn that store, from that bank, from that gimp, from that =Voiding, to a quiet steno a few blooks, a few miles away, and there is tbe secret of that v. business endurance. Ito Is simply the champion of a homestead, for ethical lie W111S bread ;end wardrobe und education and prosperity, and in swill battle 10,000 mon fall. Of ten business men whom I bury nine die of overwork for others. Some sudden disease Ands them with no power of resistance, and they are gone. Life for life, Blood for blood., Substitu- tion! , .A Dim Idght In the lIonae. At 1 o'clock to -morrow morning, the bour when slumber is most uninterrupt- ed and profouna, walk amid the dwelling houses of the Gay. Hero and these you. will lind a dim light, because it is the household custom to keep a subdued light burning, but most of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A. merciful God has sent forth the =henget of sleep, and he puts his wings over the city. But yonder is a clear light burning, and outside on a window casement a glass or pitcher eon- taining food for a sick child. The food is set in the fresh air. This is tbe sixth night that mother has sat op with that sufferer. She has to the last point obeyed the physician's prescription, not giving a drop too much or too little or a moment too soon or too late. She is very anxious, for she has buried three children with the 1181:00 disease, and she prays and weeps, each prayer and sob ending with a kiss of the pale cheek. By dint of kindness she gets the little one through the ordeal. After it is all over the mother is taken down. Brain or liervous fever sets in, and one day she leaves the convalescent child with a mother's blessing and goes up to join the three departed ones in the kingdom of heaven. Life for life! Sub- stitution! The fact is that there are an uncounted number of mothers who after they have navigated a large family through all the diseases - of Infamy and got the: fairly started up the flowering slope of boyhood and girlhood have only strength enough loft to die. They fade away. ,-Some call 45 consumption, some call It nervous prostration, some call it Intermitteet or malarial indisposition. but I call it martyrdom of the domestio circle. Life for life! Blood for blood! Substitution! Or perbaps a mother lingers long enough to see a son get on the iihrong road, and his former kindness beecones rough reply when she expresses anxiety about him. But she goes right on, look- ing carefully after his apparel, remember- ing his every birthday with some memen- to, and when he is brought hone worn out with dissipation nurses him till he • lets well and starts him again and hopes and expects and prays wo'd counsels and suffers until her strength gives out and she fails. She is going, and attendants, bending over her pillow, ask her if she has any message to leave, and she makes great efforts 50 807 something, but out of three or four minutes of indietinot utter- ance they can catch but three words; "My poor bov 1" The simple fact is she died for him. Life for life! Substitution! Blood for Blood. About 88 years ago there wont forth pie W110 bum prejudiced prisoner and condemnel me for pleading in his behalf. Ile Is a convict, a pauper, a negro, with- out intellect, sense or emotion. My child with an affectionate smile disarms my careworn face of its frown whenever Cross iny threshold. The beggar in the street obliges mo to give bemuse ho says, 'God bless you!' aa 1 pass. My dog caresses me with fondness if X 'will bUt smile on him. My horse recognizes me When 1 1111 his manger. "What reward, what gratitude, what sympathy and effete tion eau X expect hero? There tho prisoner sits. Look at him. Look at the lissom - bingo around you. Listen to their ill sup- pressed censures and excited fears, and tell me where among my neighbors or eny fellow men, whore even in his heart anytime finct it hard to understand this Christly suffering for us? Shall those wboie sympathies have been wrung in behalf of the unfortunate have no appreci- ation of that one moment which was lift- ed out of all the ages of eternity as most conspicuous, when Christ gathered up all the sins of those to be redeemed under his ono arm and all their sorrows under his other AVM and said: "I will atone for these under my right arm and will heal all those under my left arm. Strike ma with all tby glittering shafts, oh, eternal justice] Roll over me with all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow." And the thunder- bolts struck him from above, and the seas of trouble rolled up from beneath. hurricane after hurricane and cyclone a after miolone, and then and there in pres- can expect to find a sentiment, enee of heaven and earth and bell, yea, thonght, not to say of reward or of 1 acknowledgment, or even of recognition. all worlds witnessing, the price, the bit - Gentlemen, you may think of this evi- ter Price, the transcoutlent price, the aw- dance what you please, bring in wbat I ful price, the glorious price, the infinite I price, the eternal price, was paid that verdict you can, but asseverate before heaven and you that to the best of my sets us free. knowledge and belief, the prisoner at the The Religion of Blood. bar does not at this moment know why net is what Paul means, that is what it is that my shadow fans on you instead I mean, that is what all those who have of his own." ewe had their heart changed mean by "blood." 1 glory in this religion of blood! The Hero Buskin. am thrilled as 1 see the suggestive color The gallows got its victim, but the in sacramental oup, whether It be of bur - post -mortem examination of the poor nished silver set on cloth immaculately creature showed to all the surgeons and white or rough hewn from wood set on to all the world that the public were table in log hut nmetine house of the wrong and William H. Seward was right wilderness. Now I am allied as 1 see and that hard, stony step of obloquy in the altars of auelent sacrifice crimson the Auburn courtroom was the first step with the blood of the slain lamb, and of the 'stairs of fame up which he went to Leviticus is to me not so much the Old the top, or to within one step of the top, Testament as the New. Now I see •why' that last denied him through the treaoh- the destroying angel passing over Egypt ery of American politics. Nothing sub- in the night spared all those houses that limer was ever seen in an American had blood sprinkled on their doorposts. courbroom than William H. Seward, with-. Now know what Isaiah means when he out reward, standing between the furious speaks of "one in red apparel coming populace and the loathsome imbecile. with dyed garments from Bcarah," and Substitution 1 whom the Apocalypse means when it de. the realm of the fine arts there was scribes a heavenly chieftain whose "yes- es remarkable an instance. A brilliant ture was dipped in blood," and what but hypercriticised painter, Joseph Wil- John the apostle means When he speaks liam Turner, was met by a volley of abuse of the "precioits blood that cleanseth from the art galleries of Europe. His from all sin' " and what the old, worn, paintings, which have since won the ap- out, decrepitmissionary Paul means ',lees° of all civilized nations, "The when, in my text, he cries, "Without Fifth Plague of Egypte" "Fishermen on shedding of blood is no remission." By a Lee Shore in Squally Weather," that blood you and I will be saved—or "Calais Pier," "The Sun Rising Through never saved, at all. 1'n all the ages of the Mist" and "Dido Building Carthage," world- God has not once pardoned a single were then targets for critics to shoot at. sin except through the Saviour's expia- In defense of this outrageously abused tion, and he never will. Glory be to God man a young author of 24 years, just one that the bill back of Jerusalem was the year out of college, came forth with his battlefield on which Christ acbieved our pen and wrote die ablest and most fam- liberty I ous essay on art that the world ever saw It was a most exalting day 1 spent on or ever will see—Jobe Ruskin's "Modern the battlefield of :Waterloo, Starting out Painters.'" For 17 years this author with the Morning train from Brussels, fought tbe battles of artist, and after in poverty and broken that famous spot. A son of one who wag heartedness the painter had died and the in the battle, and who had heard from public tried to undo their cruelties to his father a thousand times the whole ward him by giving bine" a big funeral scene recited, accompanied us over the and burial in St Paul's cathedral his old- field. There stood the old Ilougomont time friend took out of a tie box 19,000 Chateau, the walls dented and scratched pieces of paper containing drawings by and broken and shattered by grapeshot the old painter and through many weary and cannon ball. There is the well in and unoompensated months assorted and which 800 dying and dead were pitched. arranged them for public) observation: ,There is the chapel with the head of the People say John Ruskin in his old days. infapt Christ 'shot off. There are the Is cross, misanthropic and morbid. What- gates at wbich for rnany hours English ever he may do that he ought not to do and French armies vvrestled. Yonder were and whatever he may say that he ought the 160 guns of the Englisla and the 250 not to say between now and his death he guns of tho Frencls. Yonder the Hancwili e leave this world insolvent as far as verian•hussars iled for the woods. It has any canaaitY to pay this author's The Fate of centuries. pen for its chivalric: and Christian de- : Yonder was the ravine of Ohain, f poor ainter's pencil. John where the French cavalry, not knowing • Shemaltreated Belgiurn we arrived in about an hour on ones o ap p Death on tlt* Cross Was a Mast Terrible rem ur Torture. "Crucifixion was a terrible death." writes the Rev. Amory II. Bradford, D. D., apropos of Holy Week., in ate article on "The Last Weak In Christ's Life" In the Ladies' Home Journal. "It was re- served for offendera of a servile class and never used :for a Roman. citizen. The bands and feet et the victim wero nailed to the wood, and a kind of rude seat was provided—just enongli to prevent tbe weight of the body from tearing through tile flesh. The genet spot where Jesus was eruelfied cannot now be identified. Golgotha was probably some skull -shaped hill 'outside the city wall.' Thitber a strange procession wended its way—the condemned with their crosses on their backs, the hard-hearted rabble making fun of them as they passed. The strength of :Jesus failed before tbe destination was reached, and another was compelled to carry the cross for Him. This crucifixion, like all others, was cruel and barbarous in the extreme. The executioners were Roman soldiers, but a host of Jews feasted their eyes on tbe hideous sight "Such agony was no protection against the gibes of tbe crowd. With but one of His disciples in sight, and only two or three friendly women near—one of them ibis mother—Jetus passed the last hours of His earthly life. Those who suffered by crucifixion sometimes lingered three or four days—Jesus lived about five hours. While hanging on the oross He spoke seven times. Soon after the cross was raised, looking over the coarse and brutal soldier:, and the mistaken fanatics who had hounded Him to that hour, He uttered a prayer, which „ bas probably made a deeper impression on the world than any other single limier ever offered: 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' " INCREASED EARNINGS. • The einem). meeting of the Canada Life ASsurau ee Conipany was beld on Wedlies. day. The following is a synopsis of the report and financial statements; in eremite, ieg to the -shareholders their fifty-first genital report, the .direetties A are gratified in annoancing that the company has fairly shared M the somewhat irepeoved mention of the .business of the conutry as ProsPerOUS 'Year will be eeen be the statements and accounts now submitted. By these it will be observed that the company has transaeted a larger bueines% dem during the previous year, and has increased its clear aurplus lee no less than 8497,0e3 Ite. The application for new assurantes during 1897 numbered 3066, for the sum of $6.185.900, of which, however, 26:1 for $521.000 were de- . clined, the lives not appearing up to that standard whieb it is in She interests of the company', other .aesurers should be maintained, and as 191 applicatione for 473,300 were not carried out the of the year was tor $5a91,636, under tifyle policies, exceeding 1896 by 073 polities for $798,9e0. The neat business in force at the close of 1897 wee $72,719,055.27 of assurance'. un- der 3$,4157 policies. upon 24,469. lives. The claims by deaths paid during 1897 anationtecl to $770,101.45, toed endowment policies for $128,816.19, haring matured, these sums, al well as Q18,481.29 for profits. Onta.411.18 for surrenders and au ;Ma. unity of aluti,U00i uttaltiug be $1.203.307,84, were paid to policy- holders during the year. , The income reeeipte of the year svere 81,953,272.8S, and deducting Increase lit therefrom all payments to policeeholtiers for claims by death. /Or Assets profit, atal for matured endowment policies, as well as all ether outhey, ineluding expenses of management. there was left the soM $1.27a.480.03, which bee increiteed the compenyteaseets to $18,678,916.67. Surplus As appear); by the abstrace of assets and liabilities, After providiog fully for the necessary reserve for all parieq of the compaay, and for all its other liabilities, there is shown a surplus of $1,564,0824. Financial Abstract for the Year 1897:. New Business The Philosophy of Good Clothes. They had been listening to a lecture by O brilliant young woman, and one of the girls felt depressed. She wanted to scintil- late herself, and she felt that life was a failure and that her college education had been wasted. Her companion was still cheerful. She hadn't satisfied all her ambitions, but she 'was something of a philosopher and found balm in Gilead. "Yes, she's splendid," she assented. "I'd like to have a brain like hers, but Emerson was right about compensation. My tailor is a comfort to me in my dark- est hours; and whenever I get the blues about my mental state I just put on nay best frock and trot around to call on the cleverest women I know. I always go home feeling reconciled to life. I'd like to be able to twelve on psyobology in literature; but, my dear, though ye speak with tongues of men and angels, and don't dress well, it shall avail ye nothing. It's great solace to me on occasions like this, to say to myself, "Well, cheer 'u.p. You're prettier and better dressed than -that abetract intelleot anyway." Policy Claims Peculiar Abbreviations. There can be formed from the names of some of the States of the Union to the south of us a list of peculiar abbrevia- tions, such as the following: The most egotistical—' Most religions—" Mass." Most Asiatic—"Inti." Father of States—"Pa." Most maidenly—'4Miss." Best In time of flood—"Ark." Most useful inthaying time—" Mo." Decimal State—" Tenn." State of exolarnatioo—"La." Most astonishing State--" O." Most unhealthy State -4 'Ill. " State to cure the sick—" Md." Not a State for the untidy—"Wash." State whore there is no such word as To premium income (net).... To tuterest, rents, etc •11.01/r.44411..*.M10..””Ana•.141 2.087.994 44 e6e,047 44 2,957,041.89 Paid claims, endowments, surrender values ijatetell 115 ?rents to policeeholdere*„.•. ................... .• • • • • • • • 115.481 89 Expenses, taxes, dividende 421,e46 PO Balence 1.272,1b6 05 Assets Jan. tst, 1898. Loftus on real estate and on other securities. $ 9.128.674 10 Securities owued 7,043.594 02 Real estate owned, including but Wage., . . 1.431.750 78 Oabh cm baud and other ledger iteeets... ...... . . .. ..... . altatiat 98 2,957,041.89 $17.9:14.896 78 Net outstanding and deferred premiums 465,578 99 Interest and route ;Accrued 290,450 80 Total. Assets -8,67,915,67 Liabilities. Reserve fund (4 per cent) All other liabilities Surplus over all liatlillties .4 • • • ...gp3,704,417 00 410.416 63 $17,114,833 62 ..........1,564,082.05 /8,678,915.6Y *Exclusive of $97,355.82 bonus additious included in claims. The President's Address, The President, Mr. A. G. Ramsay, in inoving the adoption of the report, fetid The directors' report and the annual account and statements have for some dm been in your hands, and have now been taken as read. While the report is brief, it contains, I think, along with the various published accounts, all thee is required te enable those interested 211 the company to judge of its progress and success in the past year. The addition during 1897 of nearly half a million dollars to the surplus or profit fund is a large aud satisfactory one, and without invidiously comparing it. with the figures of any other particular company, I may say that it was more than was at- tained by all the other Canadian companies combined. The new business of the year was, von will observe, of satisfactory and gratifying amount, and in excess of the previous year, and you will be pleased to kuow that it is of that desirable class which will result more to the profit of the companythan would a larger amount obtained at heavier expeuse, or from less desirable regions than the healthful climate of Can- ada, and the four Northern States to which we have thus far deemed it judicious to connue the operations ot ;he company. The existing assurances are $72,719,e55, or nearly twice as much as they were twelve years ago. The death claims et the year coutiueed of very favorable amount, and being well within what was calculated upon, that fact testifies to the care observed in the selection of the lives, and to the judicious limitation of the busiuesa to the healthful climates already alluded to. The recent lamentable failures of some of the compauies doing business on the assessment system, and the anxiety felt as to the others which are based upon the same fallacious principles, lead me to point out that these occurrences are ou ly the inevitable results whieh were from the first predicted by those whose knowledge and experience enabled them to judge of what the future of compaaies of this kind might be. At our meeting in 1887, wheu concerns of this kindwere making strenuous effort' to establish themseives in Canada I alluded to the miserable failures they had been in England and in America, and Canada, that their "ephemeral existence indicates how useless the assessment system of assurance is as a family provision. It can only offer the uncertain hope of a cheap assurance for a few years, till the company breaks down. 15 000000 afford any guarautee that a definite amount of assurance will cer- tainly be paid to a widow or children after an assurer's death, whether that occurs at au early day or 0 distant one, and without such a guarantee as that, which our own and other sound companies oiler, life assurance must be a fraud and a delusion." I added that `I was aware that agents and managers of compauies of the kind pointed to the names of prominent business and professional men who have joined them, or who act as their directors, but as some ot them at all events allow their names to be employed in. that way, simply because policies have been gratuitousiy given to them, one can judge how little weight snould attach to the names- of the geatlemen thus used to decoy others to joie such comeanies.." One cannot envy the feelings of the prominent gentlemen alluded to who induced persons to take polioles in companies of the kind, from which they are now driven out by their failure, or by Oa levy of such high payments as they are unable to meet. A.s the accoutits show, the year's income was within a trifle of three million dol- lars, andabet assets of the company were increased to the very considerable amount. of nearly nineteen million dollars, and yielding, after deducting liabilities of every kind, a net srpulus or profit of 81,5134,082 for allocation at the end of next year, along with whatever addition there xnay be made to it between now and that time, and as the management and other expenses by which, the profits of policy -holders are very largely influenced continue to be of a more moderate percentage than that of any other Canadian or American company the prospects for 'Our assurers are of a favor- able character. HOW HE SAVED THE DAY. It Was Simply Another Case of GOVera.• ment by Injunction. The ostensible head of the house was a man of resources. The real bead of the house was a Woman of determination, but not well versed in the ways of the world. The 000k was one of those independent mortals who would think nothing of re- tiring from the kitchen and taking to her bed with a toe aobe half an hour before a course dinner was to be served for 10 o15 guests. Neither would she have any been tation about getting up in the middle of the night and throwing up her job without saying a word eo any one if she happened to feel that way. Long experience bad taught the real bead of the house to recognize the symp- toms when the cook began to get nervous, Ind one day just after she had mildly in- timated that it ought to be possible to wash the dishes without breaking more than two of them a day the symptoms be- gan to foroe themselves upon her attention. Then it was that the real head of the house went to the ostensible head of the house and told her fears, for even Mien the real head of a house flatters bonen' tbat she knows more about sucb matters In two minutes than the ostensible head 'of the house knows in seven years it has been noticed by close observers tbat she nevertheless goes to him whenever there are indications that the road is strewn with rocks. • "Maggie is going to leave,' said the real head of tho house. The ostensible head of the house whis- tled. - • "Sbe hasn't mid so," went on the real • head of the house, "but 1 have been through this experience often enough to be able to recognize the signs. I can tell by the careless way in wbioh she banks the dishes around." "Just as soon as we have taught a girl enough to make her of any value," said the ostensible bead of the house, "it seeing *0 020 that she leaves us." • "She does," replied the real bead 01 550 house. "They all do it. „ There ought to ,be some way to stoe it." "Do you think you cam manage to keep her until afterhoon?" asked the ostenelltie head of the house aftee some elements of thought , "Easily," ansimeed tbe real head of the house. , " The ostensible head of tbe house smiled a triumphant smile as he. put on his hat and started for bis office. That afternoon the cook was served with papers enjoining her from ohangiug em- ployment without first convincing the court that suob change would not be detri- mental to the welfare of the conanenity. ' "I have been enjoined from doing about 17 different things 50 connection with my i business," chuckled the ostensible head of ; the house that evening. "It would be ' strange, indeed, if we could not carry i thttee innovations into the hoine."---Oha cage Post. Getting, stt the Facts. Hotel Manager (to departing guest)—I trust you have boon comfortable, sir? !, Guoat—Ob, yes. Manager—And that everything has been I Cooked to your liking? • Guest—Yes, all but the bill. I sbould have preferred that boiled down a bit incate—Tit Bits.