HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-5-20, Page 3BLESSINGS OF WAIL
left.TALMAGE PORTRAYS THE BRIGHT
SIDE OF THE CONTEST,
Alleviations:0 the XfoictiMies With _Spate
—Might and Xtigat Gong fla in, Hand
—No Room for netieeeeresee on the Week,"
ern eentinent.
(Coperlgbt 1e38, by Ametleao Preto Amon,
tin.) ••,
Washington, May 15.—Meet pertin. ent
to the .eeeitiog times tbrougli. whietn we
arenow pessing is this sermon of Zr.
Telmage, in whit% he proPoses' to. h,eer
the people who are saddened by the hor-
rem of war; text, Pseines xxvii,
"Though wor Should a against me, ha
this will 1 be ,coulident."'
The ring, et battleaxes, an the Math
of Shields, and the tmeop of :armies, are
,Iteeed :all up awl down ithe• Old Test,*
Menet, aed you, feed godly eoldiere Ake
'Moses entl Josbua aud Coleb aral Gideon
end, scouridrelly soldiers like Seetuaelterib
apd Shinimapeser end Nebuchadnezzar,
The high priese would stood at. the beoci
tbe arny and say, "Ileee. 0 Israel, ye,
approach this. do unto battle .ageinse
your enemiee, let oot your hearts faion
_ •
tear not and not tremble,. neitleee be
'le terrified becaese a thou 1- And then
tho officers w.etdd give command to the
troops .sa,yingt "Whee Marl la there that
bath belle a new house and hath nee
dedivated le? Lee him go and reuro to
bis hoes°, leet he die en the battle and
;Mettler Ulan dedicate it. Azol what mon
is he thee bath Planted -vineyard tend
leeth inot eaten ot ite Let Idea else go 414
return. 11Tata hie Imitee, leee he •dle. en the
battle and another mon eat of It. And.
while Mall le there thatienteh betrothed
w ife awl bath net token her? Let ,him go
awlreturre unto hie honeci, lege he die in
the beetle end =other melt take hen"
Great erodes marched at fotight. In
time of 'Moo end dashue all the 111011
Were toldlora, When. esrael Celan MID Of
E gypt they 'were 600,000 ggliting
Ahijith eemmetnica 40U,(100 dereheaue
COMMAIlded 800,0U0 men, of whou 00.t
000 were stein in MO battle, t3otne ot
these Wart God_ opprovee, for they were
for the resewa oppressed, nellgens,
IMO of them he demmuced, but in MI
wee it Wet eudgment neon both victors!.
and vonquished. leaved new juit what
war was when be wren) in the
"Theugli Near ehould rleen against me, to
this will I he coulident.."
Havld eocouraging itemenit in sternly
times, and before eppinekidug itettlee
minietess to himeelf tho cooselapery. So
tinuay- enny theme le the "Alleviatione of
'War." War le one:mined Atrozity. It is
the teiOne0 of Ossas4ItatInta. It it 'the
convorationU 41 horrante. It le butcher:
w holeetle. ie murder gleritlei. 1ei
death on a threw) of humen siteletens.
It hi the coffin in aseendency. It is dia.
baThnitZ a game of simile. But Near is
here, and it is time now te preech on ite
alleviatioine
neunien of North and South.
AP or CUBA
UNITY
AND
tet
eetho
HAITI OR
esaaterr0 latCQ
Rae()
11
regalet an empty eepuleher; the Napo,.
leellie wars, with their 6,000,000 slaughe-
ered men, were proeected. end cerried .0ene
to appeaso the aiubiZtot Of one men; cif
the 44,000,000 Alin In Jewish wors 4101
Of the 0;0,000,000 stein wars under
Julio% Coesor, et the 18e,ffiefl.1)00 stein he
wors with Tints end Saracene, or the
60,000,000 -stein in Wars of Neroen, ot the
2.0,00%000 gleirt in Wart Of tu od
the :3,000,000 stein in the leers ef
Genghle Rhine .not one nun was sacrificed
by Meettle, IAA in thit Hispernie-Americerf
war every dru.romer boy or picker Or
muting or ittointlard brerer Or skirmieber
or tharpshooter or cavalryman or oral-
lerytuort or engineett who talis fells in the
muse of mercy and becomes a martyr for
God ond his cou.ntry.
The itrieende or LILtertr.b
Anoth.er Mievietion of this war 1$ that ,
It is ter •the.edvaneement 'of the sublime!
principle ot /Almelo. which will yet en,
girdle the eareh. Not only will this war
tree Cube, tree Auelly will free Spin. 1
Iln wim,t righe doe.s donasty like that
gond,
at a terrope veurt detninoto a,
oeuple for cOlituries. taxing them to I
death, riding in gilded chariot .over the
neeke et a, hemmed popintation? There
are I,Ce0 buys in in growing up with
mom voyarity to gerveru that ration than i
will the weal;Siy lleW in the i1Ck11
palace over peeeete. 'Before MI centllelle 1
over tlie Seanieh oation will Le well on i
Toward the tInee when a emistitutionel
convention wilt aoetenble to establish a
foie .governament ZflI of the vont
dynasty that now ateiets the people. The
liberty of all maims. traneatlantio as
find an ideviation In the face
that It has consolitleted the uorth end
the south after long voncinued ;trained
relations. It le lei yeari ainvo our eivil
war eleeed, and the violeteres are all gone
and the soveritiee have Leen hushed. But
ever tend noon in oration, In sermon, in
newspaper editorial, in magazine (Miele.
on political stump and in congressional
ball the old sotto:oil ditterence bele lifted
Its head, awl for the first tirne wition
law enemory or the memory of any one
who hears or reads these words the vorth
and south ere ono. By a marvelous pror-
Idence the family that led in opposition
to our government e0 years ago is repro,
tented at the front in this present war.
o th in g elee could Imre done the work
of unification so suddenly or so complete-
iy as thie eontliat
At Tempe, at Chattanooga, at Rich-
mond am' in many other places the rogi-
moots are forming, and it will be side by
side, Mit-ettehusetts and Alabama, New
York and Georgia Illinois and Louisiana,
lied= and Soul Carolina. Northern
and southern men will together unlimber
the gum s and rush upon the fortifecation
and charge upon the enemy and shout
the triumph. The voices of militavy offi-
cers who wore under Sedney Johnston
and :Toseph Hooker will give the com-
mand on the same side, the old sectional
grudges forever dead. The name of Grant
on the northern side and of Lee on the
southern side will be exchanged for the
names of Grant and Lee on the same side.
Thu veterans in northern and southern
homes and asylums are stretching their
rheumatic limbs to seo whether they oan
again keep stop in a march and are test-
ing their eyesight to land whether they
Gan again look along the gun barrel to
successfully take aim and fire. The old
war cry of "On to Richmond!" and "On
to Washington!" has become the watery
of "On to Havana 1" "On to Puerto
Bleol" "On to the Phiiippine islandsl"
The two old rusty swords that in other
days clashed at Murfreesboro and South
Mountain and Atlanta are now lifted to
strike down Hispanic abominations.
An 'Unselfish War.
Another alleviation of the War is the
fact that it is the most unselfish woes of
the ages. While the commercial rights of
our wronged citizens will be vindioated,
that is not the chief idea of this war. It
is the rescue of hundreds of thousands of
people from starvation and multiform
maltreatment. A. friend who went out
under the flag of the Red Cross two
pars ago to assuage suffering in Arnsenia,
and who has been on the seine mission,
under the same flag, in Cuba, says that
the sufferings in Armenia were a comedy
and a farce compared with the,greater
sufferings of Cuba. At least 300,000
graves are calling to us to come on and
resnember by what process their occu-
pants died. It is the twentieth century
crying out to the nineteenth: "Do you
xnean to pass clown to us the ourse with
'which you have been blasted? Or will
you let me begin under new auspices and
turn the island of desolation into an
island Eflenic9"
It is a war inspired by neeroy, whioh is
an attribute in man imitative of the
eame attribute of God. In no other age
of the world could ouch a war have been
waged. The gospel of kindness needed to
be recognized throughout Christendom
in order to make such a war possible.
The chief reason why most, of the Euro•
peen nations are nob now banded together
against us is because they dare not take
the part ofthat behemoth of eruelty, the
Spanish government, agranst the crusade
'of mercy which our nation has started.
Had it beets on our part a war of eon -
quest,
) ' a war of annexation a war of ag-
grandizeraent, there would have been by
this time enough iiying squadrons eeni.
,ing to this country across the Atlantic to
'throw into panic every city on our
lAmerican Seaboard.
Who wars of the crusader,: were only te
men, to he beekeel upspeedily with OK -
000 more if needed, We do net 114TO te
1.4,9X for any miracle, but Only a fair ithet
ot the thipa neoded this •way and Orlin
enough ter &modish them. This le one of
the: casco in the weelti's history where
might arni righe .ore thoulder to secadden,
COMA Meet be T.,Itehned,
Another alleviation is in the fece that
gusha atreeity oe the deettuction of eilti
lives in. Henana harborIntime of pone'
eminent With impunIty lie wrought in
thie ago Of the world's eiellizaeleth The
ggestien as to who did that infe.roolisM
la too Well settled to need any fareher
ditellatiell. Hue what a small crliene it
was. Cemparod with the ayetemetio lent
-
ting Into their gavea ot hundreds of
teousauds of Colones or leaving thine Un-
bliricd for the huzzartie to tale eve oft
I4rn C
people was not a very great undertaking.
Melt and ebildren, the elaiefeitter of 200
Hue thie one last deed will ,esnit in the
literetion ot Culla, and the driving of
Salto Imen tide hemisphere, and the overt
throw ot thet gevernmout, vehicle will
soon drop to Idetne if ie does not gado=
under hotaberffinenit ot Ineutte4 nations.
Thera Wet danger that the long coue I
tinned oppreselen of our nelohitore in ff
Cuba =Iola be ventinutel from generaelon
to generation witinecce suffitient protest ,
on our part and the pronounced execra-
tion a people on Lela sides ot the Atialiv
but that, buretiug entraue of destruct
don In the barhor of elievana Bred the
nation and shoeked the whole olvillzed
world. AR uatione will item that suede
an act cannot ba repeated without the
wufl °° egs"thind°' If 11°4 ?Ire°dr estaL liamthenue ot all Chrietendom. As indlehl-
liehed, le on the way aim It `""' Ufa er1111111ale 11111,4, be punished for the
stopped. .1 public good, and 3,V0 have for them courts
NaPeleon 111. theelleht he had SPee0ii' » teterend termlnerand penitentiaries nod
fully driven the printegio,out iof letierrio :! occult, geeite and hoop:mauve gollowes go
when on the dad daY eeevenwert "let* overnMents connsuitting high crimes
he rode down the Champs Elysees of against. God and anmanity luust bo
Paris, constitutional government seem- i; scourged and bung up for the World's
1"glY °rushed Wider th° licefs ef IlitAndignation. When in Spaolett waters our
steed. But did it stay erushed? Let the 4
bettleihip, lookIno. after our commercial
batteries ote the belehts above Setlau onteresre end inteuding teething hut
answer, and. the shout ot 4150,000 eon- •fittiohtido. gme bulged into demolition end
flooring Ineetee and the letter of surrender
to BnIperor William NS ill tell the story, the num on board, without time to utter
one word of prayer,._oom ot the reigning
'were dashed, into the
"Sire, my broeher, me have been able to eternal world, the d
die in the midst of 311Y Tr0303 only re" l'ilooso of Spam was pronounced ha tones
'wins for in° 10 Pince n'Y ssrurd In your ;1louder than the thunder whieh that night
majesty's hands. I am, your majesty, rolled out ogee tjal sea,
your good brother, Napoleon. St elan, 1 ,
September, 1870." Thee monareby having God IA With Us.
Nieto then the Prenein republic resumed tli° fact that we
its march. PM a 1.10a beh
to go to in alf at all those
A Geed Itocluning.
Another alleviation Is that the war
opens with a groat vietory for the United
States. It took our government four years of home restraints and somotimee luto
to get over the fiasco at Bull Run. A t
ovlI companionship. hinny of the brave of
defeat at the start of this present woe the earth are nob tho good of the earth.
would bave been disheartening to the ,
ro be in the same tent with those who
lest degree and would bare invited for- bay° no regard tor God or home, to hear
eion intervention to stop the war before their holy religion sometimes slurred at,
anything practical for teed and butnanity to be placed under influencestalculated to
MO been accompliebed and would have snake one reckless, to have no Sabbath
prolonged the strife for which we aro except snob Sabbath as in most encamp -
hoping a quick termination. in the xoost meets amounts to no Sabbath at all, to
jubilant manner let this victory of our go out from homes where all sanitary
navy be celebrated. With the story Of the;
- laws are observed into surroundings
exploding battleehip freeh in tho miuds of where questions of health are never dis-
the world, it required no ordinary coos.- fetesed, to invade climes where pestilence
age to sail Into the harbor of Manila and eelds poeseseion, to make long marches
ottani> the Spanish shipping. That bar under blistering skies, to stand on (look
bor, orowded With sunken weaponry of and in the fields under fire at the mercy
death—to enter it was running a risk
enough to make all nations shiver. But
Ms:1111a is ours, and she blow has shaken
to the foundation the palaces of Madrid,
and for policy's sake the doubtful nations
are ou our side. For Commodore Dewey
and all who followed him let the whole
nation utter its most resounding huzza,
and, snore than that, let us thank the
Lord of hosts for his guiding and protect-
ing power. "Praise ye the Lord! Let
everytlehag that hath breath praise the
Lord!"
Might Allied With Right
Another alleviation is the feet that in
this war the might is on the side of the
right Again and again have liberty and
justice and suffering humanity had the
odds against them. It was so when Ben-
hadad's Syrian hosts, who were in the
wrong. at Aphek came upon the small
regiments of Israel, who Were in the
right, the Bible putting it in one of those
graphic sentences for which the book is
remarkable, "The children of Israel
pitched before them like two little flooks
of kids, but the Syrians filled the whole
country." It was so in the awful defeat
of the Lord's people at Gilboa and Meg-
iddo. It was so recently when gallant
and glorious Greece was in conflict with
gigantio Mobaramedanisin, and the navies
of Europe hovering about the Bosphorus
were in pi:utter:1 protection of the Turk-
ish governenent fresh from the slaughter
of 100,000 Armes:dans. It was so when,
in 1776, the 13 colonies, with no war
shipping and a few undrilled and poorly
clad eoldiers, were brought into a con-
test with the mightiest navy of all. the
earth and an army that commanded the
admiration of nations. It was so when
Poland was crushed. It was iso when
Hungary went under. It has been so
during all the struggles heretofore for
Csiban independence. But now it is our
powerful navy against a feeble group of
incompetent ships, crawling across the
Atlantic to meet our iaotillas, which have
enough guns to send them as completely
under as when the Red sea submerged
Pharaoh's army. 11 15 so in these times
when only a few thousand Spaniards at
most can reach our hemisphere, and we
go out to meet them With 12,5,000 armed
„
of our countrymen who limy he in espee-
lel expoeure at the front, for .tve must
admit the perlle. It is no trifling thing
for 100,000 young moo to be put outside
of shot and shell—we must admit that
those thus exposed need fespecial rare,
and to trio onsniprosent God we havo a
right to commend them and will com-
mend them. Postal communication may
be interrupted and letters started from
camps or hoxaes may not arrive at the
riteht destination, but, however far away
our loved ones may be from us and how -
'ever wide and deep the seas that separate
us, we may hold communication with
them via the throne of God.
.A shipwrecked sailor was found float-
ing on a raft near the coast of California.
While in hospital he told his experience
and said that he had a companion on the
same rafe for some time. While that com-
panion was dying of thirst he said to
him, "George, where are you going?" and
the dying sailor said, "I hope lain going
to God." "If you do," said the rescued
sailor, "will you ask him to send some
water?" After the death of his compels -
ion, the survivor said, the ram came 10
torrents and slaked his thirst and kept
him alive until he was taken to safety.
The survivor always thought it was bn
answer to the message he had 'sone to
heaven asking for water. Thank God we
may have direct and instantaneous com-
munication with the Lord Almighty
through Jesus Christ, his only begotten
SOD, and in that faith we may secure the
rescue of our imperiled kindred. Is not
that a mighty allevsa don?
Pray for Our Country.
• Until this oonfliot is ended let us he
much in prayer for our beloved country.
Do not let as depend upon the friendship
of foreign nations. Our hope is in God.
,Out of every roisfortnne he has brought
this natioxx to a better moral and finan-
cial condition, and so lotus pray that he
will lift us . out of this valley unto a
higher mountain of blessing.
It is a nnystery that just as this coun-
try was reetwerimg from a long season of
hard times so many of our industries
should now be halted; that business men
who thought they could see their way to
pay their debts and build up' more pros-
perous enterprises and endow their homes
with more advantages should have to halt
and wait until the perfidious oppressor of
Onba shall turned hack. But individ-
nal and national lito is always clothed
with mysteries, and we unity mane our-
seleeerable by %Minion oorselene
with -sharp laterrogetion points and ply-
ing the everlaselogrniestiens of "Wbye"
and "flow?" rout "What." nod "When?"
While eve MOO ot course try to be hatelle-
WRIT on ail public affelre, it is a glorious
thing to do our duty, and then fully and
tomillently met all In the hands of God,
who hoe proved himeelf the friend ef one
eceentt7 Irmo the time when the Seenish
government fitted oat on expedition to
discover et to this time when Spaniards
would like to destroy it.
hlorielog, aeon and night lee ns cone,
Mead thine beloved land to the care of a
gracious God, That he answers prayer is
so certein time gour l'ellgiert is a Minuet-
Tlatiett t he does tote answer it, Pray f
that in reply to such supplication the
farmers' boys rao gee bonne again in ,
time to zeap the hereest ot net July,
that our busineete men may ration in time
to prepare for a fall traelo such at has
neve: yet fitted the eteree aud fecteries
wieh eetetonnere, and that all the home
In thle country new saddened by the de -
pay= of father or erother or On may '
months heron the Thenesgiving and
ChirktneS holidoe be full of Joy at the ,
arrIvell of those who Neill for the rest ot
their Uwe have snits to tell of double
quiet: neerelo and narrow weep°, and ,
hnp Ilia p3 rats and ni tete see
on gt,' with bointatelment, and our liag
hafeine up to places from which other ,
tlatoi WON hauled down.
oway Witls easrbartame
,
NOW that wo have SP.irteil On the wer1.
let ue Matto that Spanieh government get
out of thit holellthere. We do net want '
be any more, with her injustIces and
hartariena and stilettea of cruelty, hang.
beet around the shetee of anti free laud.
She muet not breathe her foul breath on ,
our Willtiet she num not again redden
our
se ai with her buteheriee. There bids
fair to he a scene en the deep as dims- I
trone to the ;epaulet* as that which
vereelencel their armee. in 153e. Philip
.1ng of Spain, resolved on the con•
quoit or Bump% and already in the coin -
pees of Ns dominious, besides Spain,
:gallica and Sicily, and the Nether-
lands, and the Beet Indies, and the Can-
ary and hiolucca and Sunda and Philip-
pine islands, aud Mexico and Cuba, and
some of the most splendid parts et norm-
ica. All the nations of the earth except
lenglaud were to her underlings, and the
Spanish king reeolsed that even England
muse bow the knee. Although the de -
stellate° strength of modern battleships
was then unknown, the Spanish armada
started for the subjection of England
with about 140 great ships. with '3,600
guns, 4,000 cavalry horses and 3ee000
mon. The battleships were provisioned
with 147,000 casks of wino and six
menthe of provislone. The commanders
and officers of the -a war vessels wore
dukes and marquieee mut noblemen. At
Plymouth, England. on the 10th of July
the prominent ollieers of the navy were
In a bowling alley, howling with great
glee—Lord Howard. the high admiral;
Sir Martin Frei:I-her, the daring explor-
er, and Sir Frame, Dralse, the first eir.
cumnavigator at the world—when word
eatue to them that the Spanish armada
was advanoing. The officers continued at
the game of the bowling alley until the
game was finished and then went out to
investigate the tidings, and, sure enough,
that mighty fleet which was considered
invincible and -which was to bombard and
overthrow England was approaching, but
the invading navy was destroyed, for the
Lord Almighty appeared in the fight
Old and 'New Spanish Armada.
A storm such as had never swept the
coast of England or aroused the ocean
swooped upon the Spanish armada. Most
of the ships soon went down under the
sea, while others were driven helplessly
along to be splintered on the coasts of
England, Ireland, Scotland and Norway.
Another Spanish armada is orossin,g the
Atlantic, and we are ready to meet them.
The same God who destroyed the armada
in 1588 reigns in 1893. May he in his
might, either through human arm or
dumb element defeat their squadron and
give victory to the old flag of Adnural
Farragut and David Porter!
Yet what the world most wants is
Christ, who is coming to take possession
of all hearts, all homes, all nations, but
the world blocks the wheels of his °har-
lot. 1 woold like to see this century,
which is now alnsost wound up, find its
peroration in SWIM mighty overthrow of
tyrannies and a mighty building up of
liberty and justice. Alroost all the cen-
turies have ended with some stupendous
event that transformed nations and
changed the map of the evorld. It was so
at the olose of the fourteenth century; it
was so at this close of the fifteenth cen-
tury; it was so at the close of the six-
teenth century; it was so at the close of
the seventeenth ciente)/ ; it was so at the
close of the eighteenth century. May it
be more gloriously so at the close of the
nineteenth centnryl "Blessed be the Lord
Gocl of Israel from everlasting to everlast-
ing, and let the wbole earth be filled
with his glory." Amen and amen!
The Christian Family.
The answer of Christ to the sisters a
Bethany gives a new and sacred aspect to
sickness. If personally afflicted, we can
console ourselees with the reflection that,
though 1,7e cannot do mush for the
avior's honor, we eon bear in neeennees
and Christian peelenee our allotted suffer-
ge, and tilliS glorify Ciod„ Lomas IWO,
to egTOPeratire obeeerity; be is laid upou
bed of sieltnese and it is there he may
'deserve the glory of eied as really as if
he engaged to the more nubile alld active
eeenes ef the And thus we,
though not eaded to athieve heroic deeds
in the ore et the world, may, byraeek.
Christian patience en the ebeinber of sick-
ness, honor Ohriet. The devotion or a
flitter or child, ministering tor months
inside an &filleted loother, or comforting
through yeare the bedridden winter ot a
parene's age, may eontam a holier martyr -
One thee any which the church bas enn
sauteed. There is, therefore, a present
idesstug in sieknese to the Chriettan fatu-
ity, Ie is a blessing to ammonite*. afflict,
ed. Perhaps be needed that prostration
To deopeu the sense of dependence ninon
Oceic perhaps it wee needed to isolate
him from the dietraetione of care and
busineee, and leave him ;done for theogbe,
meditinen and prayer. Whatever may be
the rutioutiar moth tine sdetinese, if it is
borne in mete:Lee-el end moyer, will be
productive ot spiritniet improvement.
T1ze are tessonsand
subanis-
sion to be learned tinere--a melloolog of
the spiri; the elontly autumn of
nes and and debility. ;Mee es of old the sick
and blind were breneist to Cbrise by
affiletion,so mans- new are led through
physical suffering to eeek thoseivation of
their souls. Many fen leek bade to seams
of trial end sleknese with gratitude to
God. And so the other members of the
fatuity are indireetly blessed by' the
afflicted one. We !mow how a IISIA mem,
ber of the household develops and exer-
seises the eYmeathiee anti gentle rainistra-
talons of the other members; bow it mills
forth affection; bow tine beart will put
forth a strength and richness of blessing
unknown before. tterreilet "A crippled
and suffering child seems the beaeles0 of
dontestio afiliecione. Yet, once confided
to our cure, -Whet an obteot of tender in-
terest It becomes! 11 eat pure and gentle
affeetions hover over it! What a web of
soft anti fostering duty is Watall around
itl It gives new value and beauty to Wei
We would keep it with us forever:" Yea,
the individual Chrietian and the Chris-
tian Auntie, eon unitedly say, "It is good
for us that we have been aillieted."—
il.'hoopellus Stork, D. D.
The .11ipane80 nress.
The Japanese noose is ono of tbe most
enterprising going. Of daily papers and
roViOWS there are st10. Tokyo alone can
boast of twenty inewspapers devoted to
p011tiOS, and 113 periedicass, The circula-
tion of the daily newspaper is, however,
rather limited. Even the Times of Japan,
which is subsidized by the Government,
does not circulate more than 16,000 a day,
and, unlike the London Times, the jigi
Shimpo, as it Is called, is not more ex-
pensive than its contemporaries, winch
can be bought for the equivalent sum of
a penny. The most interesting paper in
'Tapau is the Nishi Nishi Shimbun, or
the "News of the Day," which is the
Radloal paper of dapan, and is continu-
ally eogaged itt inkshnging at the Nip-
pon, the organ of the Conservative party.
Many of tho daily newspapers are illus
trated, and fushion plates and ladies'
pages are quite the rage.
Pinked 11» in Passing.
Tbe parchment of the best banjos is
made of woifskin.
Chinese women have now, it is said,
taken to bioyeling.
If the streets of Loudon were put end
to end they would reach to St. Peters-
burg.
A polyglot magazine, printed in twelve
lauguages, is to be published in St. Louis.
When a fish has lost any of its soales,
by a wound or abrasion, they are never
renewed.
Printing from wooden tablets is said to
have been invented by the Chinese in the
year 160 A.D.
The Maldive Archipelago contains 14,-
000 islands, which abound in cocoanut
palms.
Ready fer a. "fealty Day.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Put an advertisement in the paper
saying that the man who bad appeopri-
abed my umbrella at the reception was
known. There were twenty-seven
umbrellas at my house before I left this
morning and I met a messenger boy in
every 'block on the way down."
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VII I, SECOND QUARTER,INTERe
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 22.
TeSt of the Leesen. nath. gwe,, 01.46—Nrom.,
ory Verses. 34-44--Goldert Test, AWL,
Vat 21—colOraqutikr7 b/ tho Roo= b,liro
etearne.
fOoPerInht, 1858, bYP. M. Stearnej
Ole "When the Son et Mau Shall, come
:n Ills glory and all tho holy angels with.
then shall He sit open the Queens of
His glory," Conceroleg the coming of
the on of WO in glory eee also Math.
xri. 27; xxiv, 30, and compare Zeek
6, 9; Jude nin, 16. We reuse keep In mind
that up to *bis thane tn, our Lorere niin-
leery thereNeas no ccarePandte go to every
=eater% but wale' to Tared, and that tbe
beginning and end 4;if *110 story ot the
lhureb, which is Ills body, Is tound. chiefly
In tine Acts, the, epistles and Revelation,
Tbe eburch, or called OUt company from
• natiene, being His body, we would ex.,
poet to And Him lo blade, when Ile site
upon His Ozone, axed these are the eseur-
eocea given us In Col. iii, 4, and Rose in,
where we are Mid *bat when Cbrist
our life shall appear we shall appear wtto
Eine tn glory and sit with Him on Hie
throne. We are olso told In I Con el, 2,
that We shall judge the world, and, this is
In mood with Pe. enlio, 5-9„ That the
ithen of lkinn shale come glory is as cer-
tain as that Re once came in hureiliention.
a "And before Him shall be gatheend
• nations, and He Shall separate them
one from avother, as 5 ebepherd dirldeth
ohm frora the goatee" In the even:text 02
the passages quoted coucerning Ilia come
log in glory we canoot but etire that the
SOHO always speak§ at deliveraece for
Braid and judgment upon her ettennitei
and Wessling for her fricando and thee is
lime tile etery here, in perfect aceord Nvlth
the testimony of the prophets, "Sorely
the Lord Owl will do neehipg, but He ;vi,
vealeth 115 eeeret unto leint eervenots, the
prophets" (Aeotte 111, 7). Therefore- if
we would know Hie ?meioses we oaust go
to those to whom He has told therm WO
therefore inquire, "'Dive the prophets said
anything admit ilis judgIng the Dation'
or about sheep and goats?" As we cannot
noderstaud the Ant 'verse in the New Tee,.
tawent Witil0U0 a coosieerable knowledge
of the Old, so there are many other Woe
in the New Teeteraent which enquirer the
light of the Old TeStAlUellt, and this 11,1dg.
meat of the natio= is One of thou, Aog
no familiar with Joel Ili, Zeph. 113 an
Bak. xXXIN` Will feel illlidaSt at IMMO IA
our lesiva and will 110t eauteund 1.14.
judgment of Being nation:40U= with the
judgraene 6e3T of Christ or that of the
great wbite throne (Rena. 10; II Car.,
T, 20; Rev, xx, 12), ;be former for Nalco*.
ere only and the latter thr the rest of the
dead, who take no pert io the first resew.*
minion, at the end of the thousaud ycara.
e4. "Ogee yo bleesed at Aly Father,.
Inherit the kingdom memo() for you from
the foundation tif the world" It seem
to me that our Lord must have bad, the
Words in Neel:. ossiv 10 His mend, for
there we read of sheep and goats, and a
the 111 treatment of the diseased and the
eick, and of blessing tba; shall come to
other noting through Israel because they
were Israel's frit:ode. The blessings of the
church let ber oueness with Christ era
spoken of as prepared "Before the Sound*.
tion of the 'world" (John zeil, 24; I Pot.
20; Eph. 1, 4), while the blessings of other
'nations through Israel seem to be "Prom
the foundation a the world" (Roo. xill,
11; nett,. 8). But without pressing thle
only leek that you distingnith between the
millennial kingdom of blessing to nations
through Israel and the kingdom of God
the Pather to follow it
85, 25. These are good works prepared
for all believers at all times, and there are
alWaya plenty Of Opportunities for such as
are ready. Even .1011 to:3MM thab be de-
livered the poor and the fatherless and
tenth as had oone to help.
87-39. We do liot tund to keep count of
all the things We do for Him. We only
need to hold ourselves ready for any roan -
nor of service, wholly at Ills command-
=ant, and just do as occasion mere us, as
the moments come and go, believing that
Ho Prepares every oeteneion and notioee
whether we are watching His way and
ready for Hie every call.
40. "And the Xing than answer and say
unto thorn, Verily I say unto you, Inas-
numb as ye bave done it unto one of the
least of tbese, My brethren, ye bare dare
it unto Me," Some of us think that, n
would have been very glad th have MiTlis.
tered unto Him pareoually if we bad lived
when Be was on the earth. We would
have followed Him like the true disciples
and have bung upon His words. We
would hare ministered unto Him like
those women, and kept open house for
Him, like Martba and Mary. Let us learn
from His own lips in the words of this
verse that Nvhatever is done to one of His
for love's sake is the same as if done to
Himself.
41. "Then shall Etc, say also unto them
on the left band, Depart from Me, ye
cursed, into everlasting Are, prepared for
the devil and his angels." He tells what
Be Himself will say, for Be is the King,
and there can be no mistake about it, and
whosoever would teach that there is no
devil and no everlasting fire is in partner-
ship with the father of lies himself, for be
Is a liar and the father of it (John viii,
44), and began bis work by questioning
the word of God and making God a Bar.
Notice that this awful place was not pre-
pared for man, but for the devil, for God
willetla not the death of a sinner.
4246. "Inasmuch as ye did it not to
one of the least of these, ye did it not to
Me." While we are reading, as we believe,
of a judgment of living nations with ref-
erence to their good or bad treatinent of
Israel, yet there are principles here which
are always the same. At all times it is
true that tvliatever is done or uot done to
a child of God is looked upon as done or
not done to Obrist Himself. The only
way to show love to God is 'to show love
to preople for Christ's sake. The ooly way
to prove our submission to God is by sub,
mission to circumstances and to people—
not only to the good and gentle, but also
to the 'forward (I Pet. ii, 18).
46. "And these shall go away into weer -
lasting punishment, but the righteous into
life eteroal." The WordS eternal and ever-
lasting in this verse aro the same, teach-
ing that as is the life for duration oe
the torment. Why should we oritioise and
find fault with what we cannot under-
stand? It is ours to believe God, to acme
Ills dear Son, to receive gladly what He
so freely offers and to rejoice in Him ever-
more'having perfect confidence in the
love that game from heaven to save us
and gladly yielding our whole being to
Him as a thank offering. As to many of
His ways which are to us a great deep,
oan we not trust Him? "Shall not the
Judge of all thfa earth do right?" (Gen.
xviii, 26.) Who are we teat w• should
dare to sit In jusigmeot en One who so
loved no that XIs gave Hirneelf for net g
The Only Thing X,oft.
"How does Blankly get along? ele says
that he's too proud to beg and too honest
to steal. ' '
"He gets trusted."
Fully Revenged.
What to Eat tells a stery of two young
women with bright auburn hair who went
to a certain restaurant for luncheon. A
Very florid veoinan with a oriroson dress
took a seat oppoeite ahd after glancing at
her neighbors and examining the maim
remarked to the waiter that redhead ducks
were not served that day. Then the waiter
eame around to get the young woroen's
order, whereupon one of them glanced at
the fiorid woman and then at the bill of
are and paid to bar sister, "The boiled
lobster is ntit on the bill."