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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-11-4, Page 7THE IMPROVED HEAVE) Dr. Talmage Sermonizes on the Almighty's Residence From a Novel Standpoint. The Old -Fashioned idea of Heaven --The Illimitable Vastness of Paradise --What the Future on High Will Be Heaven Beautified by Death. Washington, Oot, 80.—All out of the usual boo of sermonizing ill this story or Dr. Talmage concerning the next werlds anti it may do good to see things from a novel standpoint. The text is Bovele- sion xxi, 1,"Aud I saw es new heaven." Tee etereotyped heaven does not make atiegnate impression upon us. We neon the We entry toll in new style in (seder tte arouse our appreciation. I do not sup- pose that we are compeiled to ale old braseology. King James' eranslators *lid ot exhaust U the good and, graphic words le the English dietienary. I sup- pose it we should, take the Mee of heaven and translate it inte modern phrese we would find that its atnaosphero ia a com- bination a early June and of the Indian summer in Ootaber—a place combinine the edventages of city gull eountry, the •scrota etetnilng for the ono and the 12 Whinier ot fruita for the other; a plaeo tit Peemicel euteetaimetents—barpors, pipers, ertunpotere dozologiet;i plaea at •wark., Orin1 arthiteeture—behola the templee; a plain whore 'there May be the laigber forms of animal lito—tbe beasts which were 011 earth beaten, 111013 'Whipped Anil galled. and oninenketaci and Worked to death, tweed en; lemon the Visite Melees wisioli the book of Revelatloa deeeribee AS being in beanie; A Place 'et etupendeng literature—the books open; a Intim of arlatocratio and demooretio at. tractiveness—the kings standing for the one, all nations for the other; ail botani. eel, poniological, ornithological, arbor- etwent, worshipful beauty and grAtidenr, But my We row is to speak inlay of the improved beeveu. People somotimee tink c been as amnia it were an old city, finished centuries ago, wen I bevel to toil yon time no city on eterth during the lest 50 eon bas had awns changes as *1tMvou 1 ta not the earn e place as when euti David anti Paul wrote of in For bundreds and bundreds of years It has been going ehrough peaceful revolution, and 'war by year, and month by Meath, and hum by hour, aud Insane by moment it le changing nn l changing Ter eon -Minn better, Away bag% there eves only one reshience in the universe—tee residence el the Almigesty. Heaven bail not yet been Muted. linmensite Was the park all around about this great rens donee, but Gad'sympathetio heart after a while overflowed. in other creation:, and there ensue all through this va cuuntre of inniumeity inhabitee winch :grew and enlargel until they Joined tetob other and became one great central metropolis of the univerno, street - en, gated' temeled, wateted, inheibiten One angel went forth with arced, we ate teat, and he measured lenven on ono shin and then ho wont forth and rneasurol heaven on tee other side, nett then $t. joint tried to tene the census tit that -city, anti be because se bevaidervil that he gave it up. emproyements in leen:vele That tangs lue to the first thought of ray theme—that heaven la vastly int - proved In numbers. Noting little under this head about the multitude of nuke who ens o gone into glory during elle lust lull or IMO or 1,000 years, I remember there are IA00,000,000 of people in the world, and thee the vast majority of peo- ple ale in infancy. How nine children must have gone into beam during the Met 50U or 1,000 years? If Now York should gentler In one generation 1,000,. 00 postulation, it London should gather in one generation 4,000,000 population, what a vast increase. But what a mere ne.hing ae compared with tho 500,000,- 000, the 2.000,000,000, the "multitude that no man cen number," that bum gone into that city. Of course all tbis takes fer grented that every child that dim gates as straight lett" heaven as ever the speed from a star, and that is one reason why heaven will always be fresh and beautiful—the great multitude of obildree in it. Put 500,000,000 onildren in a country, it evill be a blessed and lively cuuntry. But add to this, if you will, the great multitude of adults who have gone into glory, and how the census of heaven must no. Many years ago a clergy- man stood in a N'ew England pulpit and said that he believed that the vast majority of the race would finally be destroyed, and that not more than one person out of 2,000 persons would be finally sayed. There happened to be about 2,000 people in the village where he preaebed. Next Sabbath two persons were heard disonesing the subject and wonder - bag whin one of the 2,000 people in the village would finally reach heaven, and one thought it would be the minister, end the other thought it would be the old deacon. Now, I have not much ad- miration for a lifeboat vrhich will gn out to a sultan able with e,000 passengers and get one off in tafety and let 1,999 go to the bottom. Why, heaven must have been a village when .A.bel, the first soul from earth, entered it as compared with the present population ot that great city! Sutton into heeven, awoke into higher realms of philosophy, and theft Sr Wil- liam Hamilton, liftea to loftier sphere, understemi better the construction of the human tntellect, an that John Milton took up higher poetry in the actual pres- ence of things that on earth be bad tried to describe? When the arst saints entered heaven, they must have studied only the A 11 U of the full literature of wise= with which they are no s' aequeinted. Armin, heaven is vastly improved in ite society. During your meteory how many eminisite spirits have gone into it? If you Fbould try to narske a Ilse of ail the genial, loving, gracicus, binned souls zhat you have knowu, would be a very long list—souls etsae have gime into glory. Now, do yea not eunpose they have enriched tbe soeitaye Have they not Improved heaveg? You tell of what heaven die or them, littee they done notblog for heaven? Take All the grettious souls that leave gone out ot your ao- queintenceehip and add to them all ale grannie and beautiful souls that for 600 or 1,000 years bare gone out of all the ma ell the villages And all the ountriew of tele tenth into glory, and bow tbe society of heaven must nave been Improved. eleppeve Paul the Apostle Were intreneed lees your social eivole earth; ime heason hati witted all the apostles. Suppose Hennalt More and Ottarititte Elizabeth were introducel into your senal eine° on earth; but heaveu has added all the blessed and the gracious and the holy women of tho past egos, nuppose that Robert MoOheyne and John Sernmertiold shoeld be chua to your eartine eircie; but heaven has gathered up all the inithful ann earnest tuinistry of the Veen Teem is not a town, or a city, or a village diet bas so improved in elooleey in tbe last years as laeaven has Unmated, ehttece or etegree Only. BUt you say, "Hasn't heayen always been perfect?' Ob, yes, but not In the gense that it moot he augmented, It has been reeling on in grandeur. Christ bas been there, and he never changes— tbe Fame yesterday, teeday and tomveri glorioue then and glorious now and glori- ous forever But 1 speak now of attritive, Mons outside of this, and I have to tell you that no place on eartb hes improved In somety an batten hal within tee last to vers. for the mott of you within 40 year', within CO years, within r, year, within 1 year—in onion words, by the miertselons front your own household. If heaven were pity ei In grout—an apos. tube group, a men:trona group, a pm- phctio group, grout' « murtyrs, group ot gels and then a group of your own glorified kindrea—weleb group would yon ohoosee Yon Inight look around and make compare:en eu. it would not take you long to ebeette. Yon would say: "novo me beck those whom 1 loved on earth; let tee otter into their society— my punts, my eitiltiren, my brothers, my sisters. We lived together on earth; lot ua Itve together n heaven," Ob, is it not u blessed thought that beaver, bas boon improved by its society, this coloni- zation from earth to bees en? Again, I remark that heaven has greatly improved in the good neer of an- nouneed viotories. Where beam retoiced over one soul it now rejoices over 100 or 1,000. In the olden times, when the events of buman life were scattered over Thur or five couturies or longovite and the world moved slowly, 'there were not so many gamine events to be reported in beaven, but now, I suppoge, all the great events of earth are ropurted in heaven. It Lure is any truth plainly taught in this Bible, it is that heaven Is wrapped up in sympathy with buniatt bistory, and we look at those inventions of the day— at telograpby, at swift communication lay steam, at all these modern improvements which seem to give one almost onini• presence—and we see only the secular relation, but spirits before the throne loon out and me the. vast and the eternal relation. WhIle vations rise and fall, while the earth is shaking with revolu- tion, do you not suppose there le aroue- ing intelligence going up to the throne cf God, and that tbe question is often aseed before the throne, " hat is the news from that world—thee world that re- belled, but is coming Lack to its allegi- ance?" If ministering spirits, according to the Bible, are sent lorth to minister to those that shall be heirs of heamn, wben they mine down to us to bless us do they not take the news baok? Do the ships of light that come out of the celestial harbor into the earthly harbor, laden with cargoes of blessing, go ban un - freighted? Ministering spirit; not only, but our loved ones leaving us, take up the tidings. Suppose you were in a far city aed had been there a good while, anti you beard that some one had arrived front your uative place—some one who had reently seen your family and friends - you would rush up to that man, and you would ask all about the old folks at home. And do you not suppose *ben your child went up to God your glorified Even 1Teaven Mast ohmage. NM 1 kindred in heaven gathered around and e .".Again, I remark that heaven has vastly unt-ati about you to ascertain as to imuroved in knowledge. Give a man 40 whether you were getting along woll in or 60 years to study one soienee or all the struggle of life, to find out vvhether sciences, with all the advantages of you were in any especial peril, that with laboratories and observatories and phil- swift and mighty wing they -might own osouhio apparatus, be will be a marvel of , down to intercept your peens? Oh, yes! Information. Now, into what intelligence I Heaven is a greater Islam for news theta must heaven mount, angelhood and it used to be—news weaned through the sainthood, not after studying for 40 or 50 streets, newo ringing from the towers, years, but for thousands of years—study- news heralded from the palace gate. Glad Mg God and the soul and immortality newel Victorious newsl end the universal How the intelligence ehe Entare Heaven. of that world meat sweep on and on, But the vivacity and sprightiluess of With eyesight father reaching than heaven will be beyond all conception telescope, with power of caloulation wean the final victories come in, when 'flightier titan all human mathenaanos, the church shall be triumphaet every - with powers of analyeis surpassing all whore. Oh, what a day in heaven it will chemical laboratory, with speed swifter be when tne last throne of sarthiy oppres• than telegraphy! What must heaven learn sion has fallen, when the last chain ot With all these advantages in a month, in serfdom is broken, when the last wound a year, In a couture, itt a millennium? of earthly pain is healed, when the last The difference betvveen the highest uni- sinner is pardoned, when the last nation varsity on earth and the smallest class in is redeems:I! What a time there will be a primary school cannot be a greater in heaven I You and I will be in the Pro. diffeeenee than heaven as it now is and ceesion, you and I will thrum a string -t 'heaven Its it, once wee, Do you not sup. in that great orchestra. That will be the pose that nine ten James emtpsee neet greatest tley in heaven since the day when up from the hospitals of Edinburgh Into the first block Pt :iasPor was put down heaven he knew more than ever the for the foundation and the first hinged 'science of health. end that Joseph Henry, pearl swung. If there is a difference be- d 11 1 the Smithsonian Insti- tween heaven now and heaven ae it was, eh, the difference between heaven as it ihall be and heaven as. It le nowl Not a splendor Mune fast, but rolling on aild. rolling on, and rolling up end rolling up, forever, foreseen. Now, 1 say these things about th, changes in heaven, Mont the new im- provemente in heaven, for three stout reasons, First, because I find that some of you are impatient to be gone. Tonere tired of this world, ark you want to get UM that good lan4 about whin you nave been thinking, praying and talk- ing so many years. Now, be patient, I could see why you wouid Want to gO to an art gallery If some of the best &- tures were to be taken Away this week or next week, but it SOMone tells you, that there are other beautiful pieturee to nine—other Kensetts, Reel:teals and Butienses, other masterpiente to be added to the gallery—you would say: "I can afford to wait. The plant la imprinting all the time." Now, I want you to apply the same principle in tele matter of reaching heaven and leaving tbts world, Not one glory ie to be eubtracted, many giOr100 ndOed. Not one angel will , be gone, not one hierarob gone, not anal ot your glorlflea trines gone. By the long practiolng the xnusio will be better, the procession will be longer, the rata - bow brighter, ehe coronation grander. Another reason wily 1 speak In regard to the ebanges in beaven and the now improvements in bonen Is because I think it will be aCousolatIon to busy and onterpasing good people. I see very well that you hate not much tuns or a amen that was all &Me and finished, centuries ago. After YOU have been aotive 40 or 00 or 60 years it would be a ebook to stop yOU suddenly and forever, , but bore le 4 progressive beeven, an ever at:cumulative heaven, vest euterpmett on foot there before the thrum of God„ Aggressive lmowledge, aggreseive good - nese, aggreesive power, Aggressive gran- deur. You 'will not have to 001410 atel file down on the banns of tee river of We ea weenie:Sing inconapation, Oh, brier Men, 1 telt yea sit a hetsveri where teem la something to do. That is the menthe of the vantage, "They rest not day nor night,'" in the lazy sense of resting. The Old -Fashioned Ifeavem speak these words oo the changes in heaven alto because 1 want to cure Some of you of the delusion that your departed Christian friends have gone into dullness and silence and enecraseitnitanesa, They are in a stirring, pleturesque, radiant, ever ACOUlnllintiVO scene. When they lett their bodies, they only got rid of the last eindration They are no mare In Oak- wood, Laurel Hill or Monet Auburn than you, in heliday attire, baviug seat- ed youvelf at a banquet, can be Mid to be in a dark closet, where you have lett the old apparel that was not fit to wear to the banquet. A soldier cunnot use a *word mail be bus unsheathed it, and the body of your departed was only tee sheath et a bright and glittering spirit Welch Goa as lifted and is swaying in the heavenly triumph. Acoording to went I am telling you at present, your depart- ed, Christian friends did not go so much into the company of tho marines, and the apoetles, and the prophets, and ate potentates ot heaven ea into the company of grandfather and grandmother arid the intent sister that tarried just long enough to abtorb your toutierest affection and all the boom circle., \Veen they landed ib was not as yot, tend In Antwerp or Hamburg or Hume, wandering up a strange wear:, lookieg at strange Mops, asking for a strange hotel. They landed streei your glorified relatives, nitio wero waiting to greet them Oh, does not this bring heaven nearer? Instead at being far off it comes down just now, and it puts its arsns around our nooks, end we feel its breath 011 our faces. It melts the irigid splendor of the oonventionel heaven into a domestic scene. It comes very clue to us, If we bad our choice in Jammu, whom would we ilret see? Rather than look at the great poteutates of heaven we would meet our loved ones. I want to see Moses and Paul and Joshua, hut I would a great deal rather sea my father, who went away 80 years ago. I want to see the groat Bible heroines, Deborah and Hannah and Abigail, but I would rather see my mother than to see the archangel. I do not think it was superstitious When one Wednesday night I stood by a deathbed within a few blocks of the ohuroh where I preached, and on the same street, and saw one ot the aged Christians of the churob going into glory, After 1 had grayed with her I said to her; "We have all loved you very much and will always cherish your memory in the Christian enrols. You will see my son before I see bine and I wish you would give hint our love. She said, ' "t will, I will," and in 20 minutes she was in heaven --the last words ebe ever spoke. It was a swift message to the skies. If yon had your ohoice between riding in a heavenly (harlot and occupy - Ing the grandest palace in beeven and sitting on the throne net highest to the throne of God and not seeing yonr de- parted ones, ana on the other band dwell- ing in the htunblest place in heaven, without crown or throne and without garIand and without scepter, yet having your levee ones around you, you would choose the latter. I say these things be- cause I want you to know it is a domes- tic heaven, and conseguntly it is all the time improving. Every one that goes up makes it a brighter place. and the attrac- tions are increasing month by month and day by day, and heaven, so vastly more of a heaven, a thousand times more of a heaven, than it used to be, will be a bet- tor heaven yet. Oh, I say this to intensify your anticipation. At the Final Day. I enter heaven one day. It is almost empty. I enter the temples of worship, and there are no worshippers. I walk down the street and there are no passen- gers. I go into the orchestra, and I find the instruments are suspended in the baronial halls of heaven, and the great organs of eternity, with multitudinous banks of keys, are closed. But I see a shining one at the gate, as though he were standing on guard, and I say: "Sentinel, what does this mean? I thought heaven was a populous city. Has there been some great plague sweep- ing off the population?" "Have you not heard the news?" says the sentinel, "There is a world burning, there is a great conflagration out yonder, and all heaven has gone out to look at the con- flagration and teke the victims out of the ruins. This is the day for which all other days are made. Thls is the judg- ment. This morning all the chariots and the cavalry and the mounted inntntry rumbled and galloped down the .sky. " After I had listened to the sentinel I looked off over the battlements, and I saw that the fields of air were bright with a blazing world.I said, "Yes, yes, this must be the judgeneut," and vvhile / stood there I heard the rumbling of whoele and the clattering of hoofs and the roaring of litany velem and than I saw the coronets and plumes and ban., Aers, and I ItaW that all heaven was 00111. Ing book again—coming to the wall, coming to the gate, and the multitude that went off in the morning was aug- mented by a vast multitude caught up alive from the eart/as and a vast Multi- tude of the resurrected bodies of the Christian dead, leaving the cemeteries and the abbeys end the mausoleums and the greveyards of the earth empty. Pre - minion moan in through the gates. And. then, I found oat that what was fiery judgment day on earth was jubilee in heaven, and1 ode& "Doorkeepers of heaven, shut the gates; all beaven has come int Doorkeepers, Out the 12 gates lest the sorrows and the woes of earth, like bandits, should Was day eoma uP and Un to plunder the city!" AN ANCIENT TEMPLE Dunovered at Pompeii During this COurso of Itecept Excavations, The excavations of Bonapeit have been continued during the past year and have resulted, Wetly in the discovery of small houses containing objects of secondary interest and importance. In the neighbor - hove of the eiate of Vesuvius a portion cif the city wall belonging to the earliest period ot Pompellan building was lalci bare, and is iuteresting, ae it le apparent- ly more ancient than elan other porelons ot the wall as have been cliscevered. appears to be of Oscan construction, be- ing built of large blooles of rough stove neatly jolned withoue snorter, and re- sembles meneweat the taellit) Of "The 14011S0 at the eturgean," whin is admit. Seely et Osean urelsiteeture, though tile stones are larger and not so innoothln i"eThtlie motion ot the eX014Vati0/311 being exleauted, the ground already appropri- ated being finished, the director deter- mined to excavate tho SMA11 tomer near the "Seat nets," which 'wee the only un. extetrateicl'apal 14 that part of the oity. /experts had long been anxious to gee went lay buried there, for there W99 a portion of a very large mut bandsoute red marble pillar, whin bad long been above ground, and bad given riS0 to sun- dry conjectures, On removhag the Sail the site was found to be °coupled by the fOuntiations of a temple vrttiolt was in course of constrection at the time of the destruction of the oity in 79 A.D. Thls is partlealariy letterman, becalm It Was supposed that all, the snored (elitism of the city had been diecovered long ago, no important deity being witholet a representative temple; but, unfortunately, there is nothing in the rudtments of tho temple before us to indicate to whom it Was to be dedicated an its completion, It is evident that, though very small, it was intended to rival in its deooretion any temple which centred in the eity, and thouge it bad scarcely risen above the ground level, the marble architrave', carved as usual egg and tooth molding, are lying atound it ready to be put up; and the Corinthian capitals, some finished and others male, partly exeouted, aro Ota - played in the enclosure, as well as the base ot a pillar upon willoia the mason was at work at tho time of the oatastro. phe wenn overwelmed the oity. The tool - marks on this base aro clearly peronti. Me, and look as if the workman bad only just lett hie tank. As to the haatisome rod marble pillar to which we have alluded, it Is reason- able to conjecture the. it was the base for the statue of the god, as it is about four feet loon and the ouly piens ot colored marble found on the site. The partly executed oapitals are extremely interesting, as showing the methods of 1 the Roman artist who was engaged upon I tbern, while those that are complete are very good speohnens indeed, considering that they belong to an age of deoline. It Pompeii itself has nos been produc- tive of sensation this year, a small ex - amnion on private ground only a few yards outside the walls bas mom than made up for this by revealing one of the finest and most, Interesting mosaics of antiquity. Surrounded by a most exqui- site garland of flowers, with a theatrical mask thrown in here and there to break the pattern, is a picture representing a group of seven philosophers, 0110 01 whom is seated with a papyrus In his Main and the others are grouped round listening "Ihnimtli.e background are some ruined pil- lars, and in the right hand upper corner is a repreeentation of the Areopagus of Athens, with Its roons and buildings. The mosaic is polychrome and in dimin- utive cubes of very fine workmanship, equal in merit to those by Diosoorides of Somas in the Naples eiusenne andoh are believed to be ehe only sigeed niosaios of antiquity. It is about three feet square, and was, no doubt, Intended for the centre of the pavement of a room. It has probably never been used and was a new mosaic, because it was not found on the ground, but leaning against a wall, showing either that it had been moved from some other place, or that 11 was about to be put down for tbe first time. Its perfect median leads one to prefer the latter conjecture. The Govern. meat has purobased it from Sig. D'Ao- guino, and it will shortly be exhibited to the public In the inosaio department of the Naples lausenin, It is generally admitted that tbe earli- est mosaies in Italy date from about 80 13.0., and there oan be no doubt that in many oases they were reproductions, or, at all events, traditions of famous pic- tures. In the case before us, the sketob of the Areopagus, coneereing the identity of whin there oan be no doubt in the mind at any one who knows the snot even in its present state, displays the Greek origin of the work, and the scene depleted must be eithet some celebrated disauesion on "Mars Bill," or, what is more unlikely, a casual group of one ot the Attic schools of thought such as might be seen there any day. At any rate, a sketch of the Areopagus which is recognizable at the end of the nineteenth century Is no mean treasure, and we are encouraged to bop:: that one or other of the archaeological schools of A.thens may be able to throw game light on tile sub- ject of this interesting mosaic). It is not thought likely that the D'Acquino excavations will produce other objects of great importance, as the house so far has shown no signs of being anything more than a suburban villa. After the rich dud of silver which was made some three years ago in a house about a mile from Pompeii, and present- ed by Baron Botbschile bo the Louvre, It to unsafe to slime with too much confid- ence, but the above is the opinioe of the expert who is in charge of the exeava- tions.—London Times. New Chemical Element. Coroniurn, a chemical element hitherto found only by spectrosoopio examination In the sun's eerona, has been found by Prof. Nasini in the gases given cat by Mount Vesuvius. It is supposed to be niveah lieliter than hydrogen. LONDON'S POLICE FORCE. Fifteen 'Thousand Urn to rroteet Five reutearee Zelltion rounds' Wortte or Property. The remarks concerning our police ferce made by Mr. Dioninson, the stipends lacy magistrate at the Thames Ponce Court, on Saturday have led to a Daily Mail representative obtaining the attest details ot our blimented protectors. "Complaints are frequently being made trom all quarters of Loudon," said Mr. Dieldisson, "that the polite preteetion is inadequate. That may be so, but the rear eon is then; thee police rate es. now yore bigh, and it is lett deemed advisable to increase it. Butt it is a grand thiug for London to boast that about 15,000 Men can contra/ 6,000,000 inhabitants.' Perhaps few of London's ratepayers actually anew what mut notice Mena really consists of. A visit to New Scot- land Yard yesterday obtained the lateet 'available data concerning our army in blue. "We patrol an area oe 688.31 square mules," said one of the Mile; offasters, "We take In every place, town, village, within a rubies of 15 miles from Gear- ing Gross, except the city; we beim super- vision over the Tbantes police, and We actually have our men stationed in all of leer Majesty's dockyards threelghoue the notary. We leave only got three actual polies dietriets for executive purposes), and the are each ia charge ef it bead constable. Bu; then there are 21 land divisions, each lender a superintendent. and eaoh broken up into euleelivisione, Under the control Of an inspeeter. Teat Is entirely apart, j,0141 the 'Jeanine police, who term a divlstois it, thetneelves, but who are controlled by the oda compels- sloner in the same way as AD tbeee an land, and each of Went bas ben anon" "Do Mr, Inekipson's figures acourat le represent elm ntual pOSitiOn of effeirst' "I -cannot say thet they do," roplien the (aeon though they are nut far Out, It wania be Moro swirly correet to say that the actual availeble fete° Is is tittle over 13,000. The ligures I aus able to give you are thine: auperintendents 2e, iuspectors 634, sergeants 1,688, conetables Mena, total 18,604. This is the num- ber of melt Available for service In the summate, but the actual force, Annul - Ing the offieere employed an special duty in (iii/VOT111110/At di:WM.111.101;1,S, number 15,320. So that you See our Workable force is between 13.000 and 14.000, "The ewe at this army le pretty heavy, and runs into a little over a million and a quarter a year for wages alone. But then Imagine, if you can—and nobody can ever accurately do so—the value of use property alone we protect. I suppose it woulkt be close upon 41500,060,0a0, if you take the intenble value only. No doubt London oughe to be proud et tier pollee force when ebe constders bow in- finitsimal are the number of felonies compared With the huge standing and the constantly circulating population of this great city, which harbors people from all nations nutter the sun." Compared with theInetropolltau police, the oity force Is a small ono. Tim area under its charge is of enormous value, though it only comprises 071 statute acres. Catlin at the Old Jewry ()Mee, I learned that there are two superintendents (one being in the detective department); Meld inepeatore, 3; distaot inspectors, 15, station inspeuters, 2I3; deteetive in- spectors, 10; sergeants, 72; detective - sergeants, 7; and constables, 705. There are also 67 vonstahlee on private sorsies duty. Though the city—with all its im- mense wealth—is thus protected by such O small force (assisted at night by mili- tary guards at the Bank of lenglantin iso one can deny that it is a model of per- feetion.—London Daily Mail. POISONOUS PLANTS. etway Grown in Oar Gardner; Are Capable of Groat 31.Isellief. Among the garden plants tommonly In vogue whioh posiessa poisonnus nature botanists mention the dowers of tbe jonquil, white byaninth and snowdrop, the =teens being particularly deadly, so much so, Indeed, that to new a small scrap of one of the bulbs may result fatally, while the juice of the leaves is au emetic. ma berries of the yew have kill- ed meny persons, and it is pretty well known nowadays that it is not safe to eat many peach pits or cherry kernels at once. The lobellaa are afl dangerous, their juiee, if swallowed, producing vomiting and giddiness, with pause In the bead. Lady's slipper poisons in the same manner as does paisoe ivy. Tee bulbs seem to be the most harmful. Lil- ies of the -valley aro also as much so. Tbere is onong,h opium in red poppies to do mischief; and the autumn croons, if the blossoma are obewed, eaums vomit- ing and purging. The leaves and flowers of the oleander are deadly, and the bark of the catalpa tree is very inleabievous; tbe water nropwort, when not in Bower, resembles celery, and is virnienk—Solon- title American. Gourmands of the Past. Tim menu of a baugut given in the year 73 B.C., at an ordination of priests, is an example of the queer eambinations to which they were aceustonied, says a writer in Dinners anti Diners. The first course consisted of snails, oysters, two varieties of mussels, &thrush served on asparagus, chicken, a ragout of °miters and mussels, and blue and white nest - nuts; then came varieties of shell fish and seafood, with vvoodoock, a fillet of venieon and wild boar. After this fon lowed the main part of the dinner: udder a wild boar, boar's head, a fricassee of fish, two kinds of &tontine boiled, ham, roast fowl, and bread. The desserts CCM - prise all of the sweets found on the tables of the rich at that time, Tbeir motto was: "Tbe more and the dearer, the better." The cost of a -ban- quet was in many oases angenentecl by a desire on the part of the host to serve a dish out of sermon, or maze Vitellins once sent the Boman fleet as far as Spain to pronto certain ingtedionts necessary to a dish he desired. Mot Active Volcano. The most active volcano in • the world is Mount Sangay, 17.190 feet high, situ- ated on the easteen ebain of the Andes, South America. It hae been in constant eruption SinCe 1728, aud the sound a its explosions is sometimes heart! at Quito, a distance of 160 teilee, 267 having been couuted in an hour. 1i'01-1:4(1 With Joweleol Drills., The laborers who built the pyramids did not work under such disadvantages as have long boon atttilyeted to them. 'trees research 'ehos that thee heti solid and Winder drills Lent lathe tools. , The drills were set with jewels end alit into tbe reeks wuh kounnees and aeouratv. NEGLECT NOW Means Pains and Aches This Winter. KOOTENAY CURE WILL SAVE You. 1116 Tinl° "La GrIPPe" intenstfted, thet /Disease—Ask the Lady Her:vele What leeetenay Due For Her. Ottawa, August 7ele, 183'3. S. Ryeleltmen M. P. Dear Sir,—I cermet nun words to ex- press ett• YOU my gratitude for the service, your Kootenay Cure has diens Me, 2 lisel• been treated by the oest phyeiciatis in Ot- tawa for Rhenneatism, but they told me tbat my case was so complicated, my trouble baving origivated from La Grippe, that any relief tbey could give woold only be temporary. Just at this nem I heara of your reinesly, and ytto were kiwileongh eo call on me. I bad eery little imps of reliet ee first, the Itneurnatiena having settled iu my enuecien awl alienist de- stroyed my nerv. Ffowever, 2 deter- mined zo try Once more and began to take your medietne, and in my case, pleyeSeallet speaking, old ehineet LaVit paseed away and all tbiags have become ueve. I mut go euywhere, unaeleti. My eervee are al szrong as ever they were in ray life and lee nausea in bee mauteepisere bas P. ay en feet, an eile now. I ciamot thank yon, enellehr but write tisie so that bwao oeher eufferer may mad utausi eget reeet. Yon an refer any pence!, ta nis c,t my reel. deuce, 139 AiLere le'reet, 0:tawa, awl hall be wily tee, bat py to glee them any formetion ip my pewer. Xonre grettituilY, M.TO01. A. Itettln, itte sentert, St,., Otteere. John SI m A41, A clergyman win> Ilea a steal earna was walking rend, superintezellugewherr he ettlae isp to leis piewmain who Was luting Ws isennee. The clergymen said; "den% eOuld yen not brisig an old sickle and eta away the weeda itide eorner while emu teat the nersear John saint "Master, Cotslan't you take a bag of tnent mixed seeds into the poolpit you and sort 'ani while they're 2i:wir- ing?" John tawny& bretthed ant home an Well as himself after tbat with meshing seed. DentlePsia and nein:este:tn.—a 'W. auow an Co,, Syracuse, Y„ writes: 'Telma send as ten greet; of Pills. We me sling tn:otircieueff: ::::eclueresesoireill)13,s.sptehia,snlikaanuya oL,;h:r.rr I:111 We keep. They liave a great Amu - Complaint." Mr, Clients A. :ninth, Liu& say, writes; "Parraelee's Pillsare au, excellent medicine. My sister •inte been trouble.I with severe hentitebe, but these "ills have cured her. ' The Itcwards of Iraith. Bien, indeed, are the rewards of faith; sure and testae is the course of a Iife illuminated by its rays- Faith taken hold upon Him teem cannot lie, upon Hitn oho Is not willing that any sbould perish, and wbose inflnite love is only paralleled by Ills ability. Well may we who trust Hint and rely upon the aton- ing work of Jesus rest assured that no one shall pluck us from His nand, telly persuaded that He is able to keep that committed to Elms Baddeck, June rx, r-897. C. C. RICHARDS & CO., Dear Sirs,—Minard's Liniment is my remedy for NEURALGIA. It relieves at once. A. S. McDONALD, Gentle Hint. Mr. Gigiaraps (who has been caught by the keeper with some fish in his basket under taking sizet—"Oh—er—well, you see—fact is, my glasses—er—mag. reify a good deal. Make things look larger than 'they really are!" Keeper (about to receive a smaller tip than meets the oceasionl—"Ah, makes yer put down. a 'when yer reeene 'elf a crown, sometimes, I dessay, sir!" Money Seared and pain relieved by the leading household remedy, Dr. Thomas/ Belectrio Oil—a small quantity of which usually suffices to sure it cough, heal it sore, cut, brulee or sprain, relieve lumba- go, rheumatism, neuralgia, excoriated nipples, or inflamed breast. Home of the Soul. I fear that there are many people 'who love Christ and trust in Him, but who fail to see the one great object ot His work; they have never under- stood the seelptuse, "He died thin He might bring us to God." There is a difference between, the way I am going and the end I have in view. . . . If I have a home which I long to reach, all the scenery and conapany around me cannot satisfy me. God is meant te be the home of out: souls. Convenient Memory. She—Has your friend a good nue mory? Fle--Well, yes; its good tO Wm. Be always forgets whe.n he owes s. fellow any reoney.—Yanke.rs Statesman. )tinard's Liniment Cures Distemper. Sicic ro),1 I)tqa-11tf,d. Harold—Nothing is the matter with ray fiancee except her father is too healthy. Clarence—Weil, beet be sick enougli when you get en hiis faintly. ti oie were. The Fthind manuserint, now In the Britieh moseem, is the ohlest intelli- gible mathematical work extant that has ever been deciphered. • It Is caleulated that •ag per cent et th,e cigars in London are not made •1 toltacoo at all.