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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-9, Page 7LIFE'S BRIGHT SIDE Rev. Dr. Talmage Sees Sunshine Through Every Cloud. God's Seeming Afflictions on Us Are Influences For Good -- Grandeur of Character is Achieved by Conquering Washington, Deo. 4.—In this discourse Dr. nalmage takes anoutimietic view of many things that are usually aeceonteo as inexplicable in laturam, experieuce and shows ue thee even trouble and affliction may not be wholly without their brighter side; text, Psalm xlix, 4, "I vsill epee my dark saying upon thin harp." Tim world is full of the inexplicable, the impassable, the unfathomable, the Ansumnountable, We canuot go three stens in ally direction without combig up against; a hard wall of mystery, riddles. paredoxes protnedmies, labyrinths. prob- lems that we cannon, solve, bierortlyphite that we caenot decipher, anagrams We eanoot spell Q.1.t. sphinxes that will not speek. l'or that reason David in my texe propoeed to take twe some of these somber end dark things and try th set elm), to Iweet musk). "I will mien my (leek met hies on a barp " g I look off upon ;Moiety and find people in unhapp,y con- junction a cireuinstances, and they do not know what it Ineens, and they 'lave In right to tisk) Wby is this? Wby is thae. sled I think I will be elonog a gond work by tryieg t ) explain unmet those strange Thins tind 11141;15 you Moro centent, with Tour lot, Mid I shall only be answering questions that have often Leon asked Mb or that we have ail asked emeritus wbile I try to set those mysteries to tousle and open my dark eayinge on a harp. h) Ave am -useful Teem'? Iuterrogetion the first" Why does God 'take out of this world those wino are useful and whom we cannot spare, aud leave Alive and in good bealth E0 many Who eth only a nuisance to tee World? 1 thoughI would begin with elm very tougbese of all he seeming iuseruteblee. Many at ehe most useful men And woman die at 30 or 40 rears et age, 'while you often lind uselese people alive at 00 and 70 and 80. :John Careless wrote to Brad- ford, who Wild soon to be put to death, saying, "Why (loth God suffer me and snob other caterpillars to live that can do nothing but coueume the aims ot the allure)) and take away so ninny worthy workmen in tne Lord's vineyard," questions are often asked. Hero are two men. The one Is a noble oharacter and a Cleristlan man. He chooses for a lifetime oeinininion one who has been tenderly reared, and she Is 'worthy of him and he is worthy ot her. .Aa nier- clung or termer or professional roan or mechanic, or artist he toile to educate and reor his children. He is summeding, but be has not yet estAblished tor his fatally a full conn etency. He seems indispens- able to tlitit household, but one day, before he has paid off the mortgage on is house, be is coming home through a strong northeast wind, and n chill atrikee and tour days of pneumonia and hie earthly career, and the wife and children go into a struggle for taunter and food. His next door neighbor is a !pan wbo, though strong and well, lots his wife support him. He is around at the grocery store or some general loafing place in the evening, while Isis wife sews. His boys ate imitating his example and lounge and stvaeger and wear. All the uso dietitian is In that house Is to rave because tho coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast or to say cutting things about his wife's looks, when he furnishee noth- ing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that family would be that man's funeral, but he ueolinos to dio. He lives on and on and on. So vat have all noticed that many of the useful are early out oft, while the parasites have great vital tenacity. I take up this (leek saying on my harp and give tbree or four thrums on the string in the way of surmising and hope- ful guess. Perhaps the useful man was taken out of tho world because he and his family were so constructed that they could not have endured sone great pros. parity that might have been just ahead, and they all together might have gone down in the vortex of worldliness which every year swallows up 10,000 households. .And so he went while he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severi- ties of life kept close to Christ and fitted for usefulness bete and high seats in heaven, and wben they meet at last be- fore the throne they will acknowledge that. though tbe furnace was hot, it puri- fied them and prepared them for an eternal career of glory and reward fox which no other kind of life oould have fitted them. On the other hand, the use- less man lived on to 50 or 60 ov 70 years because all the ease he ever can have he mud have in this world, and you ought not therefore begrudge him his earthly longevity. In all the ages there has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place for him there to hang around. Not even in the temples, for they are full of vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. If the good and useful go early, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. Troubles of the Good. Interrogation the second: Why do good people have so much trouble, sickness, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks into one set of jangled nerves? I think now of a good friend I once had. He was a consecrated Christian man, an elder in the church, and as polished a Christian gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out, and he hobbled around on a cane. an old man at 40. After awhile paralysis 'trunk him. Having by poorhealth been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost what property be had. Then his beautiful daughter died; then a son be- came hopelessly demented. Another son, splendid of mind and commanding of presence, resolved that be would take care of his father's household, but under the swoop ot yellow fever at Fernandina, Fla., he suddenly expired. So you know good men ana women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush 50 people. No worldly philosophy could take such a trouble and set it to music or play it on violin or flute, but I dare to open that dark saying on a gospel harp You wonder that very conseorated people have trouble? Did you ever know any very °emanated man or woman who bad not had great trouble? Never! it was through their troubles stultified that they were made very good, It you flied anywhere in this city a man Who has now and always has had perfect !motet* and never lost a child, and bas always been popular, and never had business struggle or misfortune, who is disting- uished for goodness, pall your wire for a telegraph- messettger boy and rand ene word, and I will drop everything and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that and never will , be. Who are theft arrogant, self-conceit- ej creatures who move about withoet sympathy for others and who think more of a St. Bernard dog, or au Alder, neY COW, or a beuthdown sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of amen? 'They never had any meanie, ar the trouble was never 4anciiiied, Who are those men who listen legit moist eye de YOU tOil them of aullering, and wig' have a pathos in their VOiCe, and a intelnese in their manner, d an excuse or an allevtatien for those gone astray? They are the men who have gratiuetea at the litiTal Aeademy of Trouble, smil they bave the diploma written in wrinniee on their Own COUllt• 011411COd, nly: znyl enbati heartaches they What tears they have wept' Whee iejestiees they bay* sufferea: 'The might - et int/mum for purificatien end ailva- tion is truoble. No dinnionil it for 4 gown until iv le ou. o wbeet tit for bread till it is ground. Time are only me things that can break oil' a chain -- 4 hammer, a We ora ilre--and tronble ie all three of them. Tito greatest writers orators and reformers get much of their force from trouble. What gave Washing- ton Irving that exquisite teederuese and pathos vthiele will make his boons favor- ites while the English language ceintinues to tui writteu and aponen? Al) mitly heart- break. time be raver once mentioned, and when. SO years after the death of Matilda Hoffman Who was to have been bis bride, bar father picked up a piece of embroidery and said, "That is a piece of poor Mattisla's workmanship,- Washing- ton Irving sank from hilarity into eIlene and walked away. Out of dant lifetime grief tho great author eipped Ms pen's mightiest re -enforcement, Calvin's "In- toitutes at Religion," than which a mare wonderful book was never written b lintninn hand, Was begun by the author at 23 years of age because of the persecu- tion by Freeing, King of Fratme, Faraday toiled for ail time on a salary of OS0 a year and candies, As every brit* of tho wail ot Babylon was steepen:1 with the letter N, Emending for Nebuchadnezzar, a every part ot the temple of Christian achievement is stamped with the letter T, standing for trouble. All In ter the When in Englend a roan is itenorad with knighthood, be is struck with the fiat at the sword. But those who have come to knighthood In the kingdom of God were lirss struck, not with the fiat of the sword, but with the keen edge of tho selmeter. Tb build his magnificence nt character, Pan] could no; have spared one lash, ono prison, ono stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper fro.n the hand, one shipwroolt. What Is true of in. dielduals is true of nations. The borrors of the American Revolution gave this country this tide of the Mississippi River to independence, and the conflict between England and Franco gave the most of this country west of tbe Mississippi to the 'United States. France owned it. but Napoleon, fearing that Euglan I would tette it, practically made It a present to the Lnited States, for he received only $15,. 000,000 for Louisiana, Missouri, Arkan- sas, Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory, Out of the Aro of the American Revolutioe came this country east of the Mississippi, out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi River. The 13ritish Empire rose to its present overtowering grandeur through gunpowder plot, and Guy Fawkes' conspiracy, and Northampton insurrection, and Walter Raleigh's be- heading, and BaC011'S bribery, and Crom- well's dissolution of Parliament, and the battles of Ed go Bill, and the viciesitudes of centuries. So the earth itself, before it could become an approoriate and beauti- ful residence for the human family, had, according to geology, to be wasbea by universal deluge and scorched and made incandescent by universal firm, and pounded by sledge hammer of ioebergs, and wrenched by earthquakes that split continents, and shaken by volcanoes that tossed mountains and passed through the catastrophes of thousands of years before Paradise became possible, and the groves could shake out their green banners, and the first garden pour its carnage of color between the Gihon and the Hiddekel. Trouble a good thing for the rooks, a good thing for nature as well as a good thing for individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point, Why do the good suffer? I open the dark saying on a harp and, though I can neither play an organ or tweet or haut- boy or bugle or clarinet, I have taken some lessons in the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: "All things work togeeher for good to those whu love God." "Now no chastening for the present seemoth to he joyous, but grievous nevertheless after- ward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exer- cised thereby." "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy oometh ln the morn- ing." What a sweet thing is a harp, ane I wonder no,t that in ,Wales, the country of my ancestors; the -harp has become the national instrument, and that they have festivals where great prizes are offered in the competition between harp and harp, or that weird Sebastian Erard was ramie of his time bent over tale ohorded and vibrating triangle and was not satisfied until he had given it a compass of six octaves, from E to E with all the semi- tones, or that when King Saul was de- mented the son ot Jesse came before him and, putting his fingeis among the oharmea strings of the harp, played the devil out of the crazed monarch, or that in beaven there shall be harpers harping With taeir harps. So you will not blame me for opening the dark saying on the gospel harp: YOur harps, ye trembling saint", Down from the willows Mimi' Loud to the praise of love divine Bid every string awakel CouquertkXg: Evil. Interrogation thizdt Why did, the good Clod let 'sin or trouble come into the world when he might, have kept them ant? 147 reply le, He had a geed reason. He had reasons tint be has never given W. He had reuons whit& he ceuld no more make us understand in our Attlee state than the father, starting out on some great and elaborate enterprise, could make the 2-yearee14 cluld in lei mined chair comprehend le, Gee was to demonstrate what grandeur of character nute be achieved on earth by conquering eell, legid there been no evil to conquer aim no trouble to oimsole, then title uni. verge would never bays known an .bra - haw or a Moses, or a Joshua, or an Ezekiel, or a Paul, or a Christ, or a Washingten, or a eobn Milton, or a John Hoetare, and 1,000,000 victories which baye been gamed by the consecrated spines of all ages would never have been gained. Had there been no battle there would have been no victory. N'imetenths of the anthems of heaven would never have beeu sung. Heaven coula never have been a thousandth part of the heaven that it is, I Will aol say that I am glad that sin and sorrow did enter, but I do say that I am gad after Gml has given all his reasons to an aseepubled untyoree • aorrow had never entered, and that the uiefallen celestials will be outdone and will put (=owe their trumpets to listen, ' awi it will d in beavep, when tho-0 wig) but, eonquered sin entl Farrow shall Wee, as it woulti 14 in a dlUdil diadia0 tehQ01 an datth it Theliterg and Gotts- chalk and Wegner and Beethoven anti Rionuberger and Schumann sheuld all at once enter. The immortals that bave been obentiog 10,000 years before the throne will Ray es they cloie their Inbret- tog, "Oh, it we could only sing like OW" But God will say to those wile bevel never fellee and conseqUentlY have not been redeemed: "You muse be silent now, You Wive not the qualification tor this anthem" So they fig with closed lips and folded hands, and sinners arena by grace take up the barntony, for tile Bible says "no roan could leara that song Oat the hundreil and forty and tour thousend which were eedeemed from ;be earth." A great prime datum, wile can now do anything with tier voice, told me thee ween she first starte4 in musie hor teavh• or in Berlin told her she could be a good singer, but a ceetaiu note the could never teat+. "And then," she sale, "1 went to work and studied and practiced for yeers ntil I die roach It." But the song of the singer redeemed. the Bible eays, the " exalted barnioniets who have never eluned (mold not reach and never will reaoh. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way Play a enetch of that tune? I con give you only one bar of the tousle op this] gospel hare, "Unto him that bath loved us aud washed us from our sins in his own blood and bath made us klutts and prieets unto God and the Lamb, to him be glory and dominion forever and over. Amen." But before leaving tbis interrogatory, Why God let sin (mine into the world? let me Nay thee great battles eeetu to be nothing but eueroring and outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they SalVO been a Long while past we can see that it was better for then) to have beau fought— namely, Salamis, Inkerman, Toulouse, Arbela, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. tiee oow that the great battles against sin and suffering are go. Ing on we can are tnostly that which Is deplorable But 20,000 years from now, et:outing in glory, we shall uppreolate that beavon is better oft than if the bat- tle ot this world's sin and suffering had never been projected, IN& rori t es DI so Ipi ned. But DOW I Come nearer home and put a dark saying on the gospel harp, a style of question that is asked a million times every year. Interrogation the fourth: 'Why do I have it so hard while others have it so easy? Or, Why do I have so ranch difficulty In getting *livelihood while others go around with a full portemonnaha Or, Why must I wear these plain clothes while others have to push bard to got their wardrobes closed, so crowded are they with brilliant attire? Or, Why should I have to work so hard while others have 305 holidays every year? They are practically one question. I answer them by saying it Is because the Lord has his favorites, and he puts extra discipline upon you and extra trial because he has for you extra glory, extra enthronement and extra felicities. That, is no guess at mine. but a divine says so: "inborn the Lord loveth he chasteneth." "Well," says some one, "I would rather have a little less in heaven and a little more here. DIsconnt my hea- venly robe 10 per cent. and let me now put It on a fur lined overcoat; put nie in a less gorgeous room of the house of many mansions and let me have a house here In a better neighborhood." No, no; God Is not going to rob heaven, which is to be your residence for nine hundred quad- rillion of years, to fix up your earthly abode, which you will occupy at most for less than a century, and where you may perhaps stay only ten years longer, or only one year, or perhaps a month more. Now, you had better cheerfully let God have his way, for you me, he has been , taking care of folks for near 6,000 years and knows how to do it and can see what is best for you better than you can your- self. You, my brother, and you, my sister, who have it so hard here, will have it po fine and grand there that you will hardly know yourself and will feel disposed to dispute your own identity, and the first time I see you there I will cry out, "Didn't I tell you so when you sat down there in the pew and looked incredulous because you thought it too good to be true?" And you will answer. "You were right; the half was not told met" So I open your dark saying of despondency and complaint on my gospel harp and give you just one bar of music, for I do not pretend to be much of a player. "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of waver, and God shall wipteaway all team from their eyes." But, I Must confess, I am a little perplexed how some of you good Christians are going to get through the gate, because there will be so many there to greet you. and they will all want to shake hands at once and will all want the first kiss. They will have beard that you are coming, and they will all press around to welcome you foul will want you to say whether you know them after being so long parted, But here I must slow up lest in trying to solve mysteries I add to the mystery that we have already wondered at— namely, why preachers should keep on after all the hearers are tired. Se I gather up into one groat armful, all no whys and hows and wherefores of your lite and inine which we have not had time or the ability to answer and write on %hens the words, "Adionened tu Eternity." I rejoice that vie do not un- derstand all tbings now, for if we did what would we learn in heaven? It we knew it all down here in the freshman and sopbomore class, what would he the Use of our going up to stand andel the juniors and the seniors? If we could put doyen one log est the compass and with the other sweep a Mrole clear around all the ineerutablee, If we could lift our lit- tle steelyards and weigh the throne at the Omnipotent, it we could with our Ser011 day clock measure eteruity, whet would be left for heaveply revelation? So I move that we cheertully adjourn what is now beyond our comprehension, and as, according to Rollie, the histerian, Alex-, soder the Great. baying obtatned the gold casket in whith Darius had kept his rare perfume, used that aromatic) casket thereafter to keep his favorite copy of Heiner in and called the book theref me, the "Edition of the Casket," and at night Put the casket and bis swore under bis pillow. ro I put this day irate the perfumed casket of your richese affeetions , and hares this promise, worth tuare than apything limner ever wrote or ewovd ever compered, "WLat I do thou knosvest not uew, but thou shalt know hereafter," and that I call the "leakier' Celestial." RAMA INDIANS. ^'^—^ These C:411:11111,«M AbaniVilleS Ave Keeping Well Abreast of the Taxies. A large delegation of Indians from the lemma Reserve reeently Attendee the an- nual pow.wew et their brothere of the Sent% Reterve. 'The leilians anti their squewa nestle in eeritiee Mail on laieyelei. Of tine triter craft there were a meal of in conimiselon among the visitors. A brother and setter of the 10.11)4 Reserve attendee who rode tile elegance on a tmeien) bicycle, A newspaper representa- tive who wee present says the pew - Wow. which extended over several days, was womierfully secceseful. ta the proceedings was held a publie tea, ' A pregrain was varriee Odt WiliCh was exeeptienally good, many Indian speana ers giving capital aderesses, title musical eeleetleas 'were rendered with great Mete, One !Tennant gentleman did S01134 astoe- Ishing team in baiencing, :Among them turtling n bicycle upside tievyn Atte ben Anteing it by the sedelle on Lis chin. he' Ineleu brighten are keeping well abreese of the thues, as was evidenced bh the . Itele and (punkt' of their Orese. Timm were quite a uunther of bleyelei hrouebt to the meeting, the troupg cyclists adopt- ion the eogulation oycliug costume. The spirit or eilleeltier. Now are the days and ni -*lens of bean blowers eon jun o' lanterns, aud the small boy is making free with tamerfinoue gates, elyeterione sounds terrify the occupants of houses, The bell is pulled with uneonsolonabla forth, or the door Is thumped with something like in 'weight to a catepuit, but when bigotry is znado into elite° things, no one is to be seen or heard anywhere, except that away down the street tin horns are tooting, and a great din Is making over some mischier or other. nen the good man of the house, or the good lady, either, settle] down again to comfort. linsh, What was OW Somebody Melting on tho window. But no one is there, and again there is a resolution that the wind has been playing pranks. It Is only after several essays that the wick- ed tiee.tack is discovered, fastened to the window and operated by a mall boy in possession of the string across the street. There is an eeriness sand weirdnets about It all. But it is 40 little sport for the youth, who aro all mystery in the day time, but at night rendezvoue to whore there is a choice collection of cabbages, pumpkins and other implements. Then the revels begin. wine"' Your Bmbrella Blows Inside out. During the last deluge did you have your umbrella blown inside out by the sudden gusts of wind? Do you remember how you struggled to right it, and very probably broke several of the ribs and tore the silk in the effort? The next time the accident happens, just turn round, facing tho other way, and lot the wind blow the umbrella back into shape. It will do it, and all the chances are that your umbrella will not be injured in the least. I found that out recently. The wind was blowing great guns, and it was minims hard. All at once a strong gust caught my umbrella and turned it into a parachute. I was wrestling with it vainly, when I heard a voice at my elbow: "Jos' turn rerun, ma'am, an' let the win' blow hit back agin." I looked up inquiringly, and there was an old clarity, bowing with all the oaurtesy of down south before the war. "'Twill do bit, sho'; jos' you try hit " Mechanically, I obeyed, and, presto, the umbrella rigbted itself, as good as ever. "Now let hit down, you calm hole bit In this win'. nohow." Told in Fignres. The number of people at present who speak English is said to be 116,000,000. The expenses of Great Britain are now about $500,000,000 yearly, or nearly a1,- 000 per minute. The heart beats ten strokes a minute less when one is lying down than when In an upright posture. Russia, with a population of 127,000,- 000, has only 18,834 physicians. The United States, with about 70,000,000, has 120,000. The barrels of the Krag-Jorgenson rifles are 30 inches long. Placed end to end they would make a continuous tobe 181 miles long. The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull fights every year exceeds 1,000, while from 1,000 to 1,200 bulls are saoriticed. The American Tract Society has 400 publications in the Spanish language, and intends to put a Spanish primer and Testament in the hands of every Cuban family. His Firat View. An old Hampsbire farmer came to town to buy a hat, and was requested to les.k in the glass to see if the bat suited his tastes. The customer stood before the glass as though fascinated by his reflected image. Present]." be slowly inquired: "Well, is that me?" "Of course, it is, guy'nor," was the shopman's reply. "Why, don't you know yourself?" "I be 60 years old," said the ancient, after another pause, "an' I dunno as ever I see my face afore." And when, his purcbase completed, be burned to depart, he walked up to the looking glass, saying: "I'll just take one more look at meson, Lori amino as even I shall ha' the chance again. "-- Spare Moments. TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XI, FOURTH QUARTER, IN- TERNATIONAL SERIES, DEC, 11, Text or the Lemon, Jer. ttitti 20 -32, -Ment - (WY Verse. 33 -Golden Text, rue Commentary Prepared by the Ker. steam.. Ecopyright. lea by D. m, Stearns.] 20. "And they went be to the klieg and told all the words ill the mrs of the king." Thi e is King Jeholakira, a sort of Josiah, who reigned 11 ,yeare, but did evil in the sight of Om Lord. In the fourth year of bis reign the Lord told Jeremiah to write In a boon all the words He bad spoken against Israel sine the daysof Josiah anti read them to tbe people if perchance they might turn from their sins to the Lord and have their iniquity forgiven. Both tu the fourth and fifth yeare of Jeholakieit's reign theee.words were read publicly tout eri vatatihilits• aeghaalin)telgclauagdani noweteesamperewv thooushewpa nee them tell them to tile king. 21. "So the king sent Jehudi to feat the roll, and .Tehudi read it tit the au, of the king." learach the scribe, who heel written the words of the Lord from tine mouth of Jeremiah, lend also read the book in the ears of the people and of the rulers (verses 6, e, 10, 15, 16), bub now jehodi reads. It does rot matter mueb who reads provided he reads distinctly arel give the sense end eattee ren:110 to understand the reading isleele viii. 8). As to the origin of the words, they were from the Lord, the Lord's words. Ile uted Jeremiab's mouth and Baruch's Fen and utoutle but the message was emit her from Jeremiah tier from Baruch, but tourailon !now it le Jebudies month, but it is etili the sanie message from the Lurie :t3 "Ile eut it with tins pen enife a mi east it into the lie' that wain the bearth, mall all the roll was eioneumed 10 m- are." Thins did with the roll containing the meow from tine Lord Thus ho despised tina tweeted with eon - tempt the message from the Lord and turned his back upon the Lord and would not heathen to Itun. What a contrest to Joeitill in our lust lesson, who humbled himself before God and turned to ilim with all his heart! Jelioialtim was a Cain men, yenta Josiah, like Abel, had faith in 00d. All ere either for or against thal, 24. "Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments. neither the king lior any of his servants that heard ail these words." The hard hearted, rebellious king would influeuce those about Wm in some meas- ure to be reeellicius, like himself. Wizen once the beart turns away from God, the hardiness (*times increases very quickly. When we receive not the truth in the love of it, God lets us believe a delusion and a lio (II Then. II, 11, 12). It is a fearful thing to even listen to a word against God or against His word, for, while holiness ti not easily communicated, sin ts, accord- ing to ling. ii, 12, 13. 20. "lie would not hear them." Three aro intentioned who pleaded with the king Pot to burn the roll, but ine would not listen to them He thought that ho knew better than his counselors, he was in his own esteem wiser than his faller who bad humbled himself before (lod, he did not believe that "Ile that, being often re- proved, hardenoth his peek shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy' (Prow xxix, 1). 20. "But the Lord hid them." This re- fers to Baruch and Jeremiah, whom the king would now like to lay hands upon and put a stop to such words as these, In verso 19 wo learn that wben the book was about to be read to the king some advised them th bide so that they could not be found, and now we learn that in their biding they were guided by God. Elijah was so securely hidden by God that he could pot be found by Ahab in any nation or kingdom (1 Kings xvii, 8; xvill, 10). There is a rock, the Rook of Ages, in whom WO may so securely hide Oen no evil can befall us (Ex. xxxiii,lea. ii, 10; xxvi, 4, margin), The life dell who truly receive (Ihrist as their Saviour is said to be hia with Christ in God, for He is our life (Col. Ili, 8, 4). 27„28. "Take thee again another roll and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll." I have for some years reveled in the blessed assurance of Ps. exix, 89, "Forever, () Lord, Thy word Is settled in heaven." On my way home from India last year it was my privilege while spending in. few days in London th rejoice in some blessed fellowship with my dear brother in the Lord, Rcv. John Wil- kinson, author of that wonderful book, "Israel My Glory." I found him one day greatly rejoicing in Ps. °six, 89, on which he expatiated somewhat after this fashion: "Just think of what we have herel What is settled? Thy word. Where is it settled? In heaven. For how long is it settled? Forever. Whose word is it? Thine, 0 Lord! Let the enemies throw out Jonah and his book, and Daniel and his book, and whatever they do not like, they can no more destroy the word of God than jehoiakim could destroy the words of Jere- miah's roll. When we reach heaven, we shall Ilnd Jonah and his book and Daniel and his book and all the word of God for- ever settled there." 29. "The king of Babylon shall certain- ly come and destroy this land and shall cause tc cease from thence man and beast" These were some of the words in the roll which Jehoiakim burned which caused him to hate It and burn it. Jonah was a wondrous type of our Lord in His death and resurrection, and this the great truth which satan hates and may be one reason why he would if possible set aside the book of Jonah. In Dapiel perhaps more than in any other book in the Bible the importance of the wisdom of this world to understand the things of God is made manifest, and for that reason, among others, the book of Daniel is disliked. Revelation tells of the devil's downfall and final doom and there- fore he would like you not to read that book. 30, 31. "Therefore thus saith the Lord of .Tehoiakim, king of Judah." Then fol- lows a statement of what would come upon him personally for this sin, but he would not hearken In chapter ascii, 19, it was written that he should be buried with the burial of an ass. God is not willing that any should perin, has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. but if in spite of all His warnings and entreaties the wicked will persist in his wickedness he is some- times given up so to do (II Pet. tin 9; Ezek. xxxiii, 11; Dent. xxviii, 15). 32. "Another roll was given by Jere- miah to Baruch the scribe, and Trona the mouth of Jeremiah he wrpte all the words that were in the former roll, with the ad- dition of many like words. This suggests to us that all efforts to destroy the word of God or any portion of it only results in the increase of that, word: Since the days of Jelmiakim the word of God has been bought in order to be burned, but the money thus obtained produced, a larger edition. •••,•••., ST. VITUS DANCE. A Trouble That Causes Its Victims Much Inconvenience. Winfred Schofield, of °aspires's. NAL. Tens How Bo Obtained a Speedy and Permanent Cure, From The Acadien, Wolfvlile, N.,S. The many ease& brought to ids 'notice et residents in this vidnity being cured trona physical disorders through the agency of Dr. Williams' Pink have creeted ip the mind of Tbe .&ea- diu , rePreeeetOtive sioeere belief the healing powers of this remedy. Yet withal he was a little incredulous the other day when told of a Young teen vibe had been cured of 4 very se- rious and deplvrable disease by she 11G• of only tivo boxes of those little mira- cle workers. It seemed impoesible that such a remarkable healing could las wrought even by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in sueh short order. Amterdingleehe nas posse:es:et of a strong desire, to in- veetigatet Mr. 'Winfred Setogield, teinepereen, was the address given us by our infrermant, and we were not kng . . is up e emit •tfr. Sceofielii to be a brignt young ntan about twelety yeara of age amlcfthOrd tban OVdillary 11/WIligence, Hifi air of caning and straightforwardness dis- pelled any doubts wo, may bare bad. In a very few words be stated to us , his ease. "Two aeare ago," be saki, "I was when with an attack of $t. Vitus Dance. Sometimes 'mime et worn 1 feuinel that lay lingers would all at came Weigh:in out, anti I would be emend- ed to deg) anything I was betiding. One den I was using an axe ween tielzed with oue at these attaolte. ante axe slipped from. my Leeds and in 'falling struck ray foot aud gave it a nasty cut. After that you can depend upoe it I left nes elope, and it was not long be- fore I had to give up wing any kind of teeil. My complaint rapidly grew worse, and 1 was sfadl uuntteti for any sert of worn. Everything possible wae tried by me be order to get relief, but I got eue better. At last one day a neighbor ot mine, Mr. Fred, Fielding, who ltad been cured by the use of Dr. WilliamsPink Pine, advised me to give them a trial, offering to pay for theirs hire:self 11 they did not help me. Ae it turned out, be was safe enough in mak- big the offer. I followed his aarlee, but Itad scarcely begun to use them when I began to feel very much bet- ter. After using two boxoe 1 wae per feetly cured, and bave never been trou- bled with the complaint since. I ant con- fiden that to Dr, Williams' Pink Pills alone I owe my cure." Dr. 'Williams' Pink nine create new bkod, build up the nerves, and thus drive disease from the system. In hun. deeds of eaters they have Mired after all other medicines bare failed, thus estab- lishing tbe elaim that they are a mar - rel among the triumphs of trnmeern med- ieta science. The germane Piek Pills are sold only in boxes, beating the full trade marks "Dr. Williams' Phalt Pills far Pale People. Protect yourself from imposition by refusing any pill that does not bear the registered trade mark around the box. If in doubt, *send di- rect to Dr. 'Williams' Medieine Co., Brockville, Ont., -and they will be 'mail- ed to you post paid at 50e. a. box, of six boxes for $2.50. Flowers 'Without Smell. By far the greatest number of flow- ers have no smell at all. Foo instance, of the 4,200 species of flowers in Eu- rope only about ten per cent, give forth any odor. The commoneet flower e age white ones, and of these only one- sixth are fragrant. Street Car Accident. —Mr. Thomas Sabin, says: "My eleven year old boy had bis foot badly injured by being Ton over by a car on the Street Railway. We at once commenced bathing the foot with Dr. Thomas' Eclectrio Oil, when the dist coloration and swelling was removed, and in nine days be could use his foot. We alwayskeep a bottle in the house ready for any emergency." The Hop Growers' Friend. The much despised and maligned skunk has at last found friends who re- spect, cherish and encourage Mu. They are the bop growers of New York state, who find the skunk their main reliance in keeping down a very destructive grub which otherwise would rain their crops. We believe MINARD'S LINIMENT is the best. Matthias Foley, Oil City, Ont. Joseph Snow, Norway, Me. Chas, Whooten, Mulgrave, N. S. Rev. R. 0. Armstrong, Mulgrave.N.& Pierre Landry, sew., POkomouche, N. B. Thomas Wasson, Sheffield, N. B. Sterilizing Library Books. In order to prevent the spread of diet eine by means of library books, astep. Hieing impale -etas hos been brought out in NOW York. It consists of a double - walled box of iron, in which are shelves for the reception of the books. Free and easy expectoration inimed- lately relieves and frees the throat and lungs from viscid phlegm, and a medicine that promotes this is the best medicine to use for coughs, colds, inflammation of the lungs and all affections of the throat and chest. This precisely what Bickleet Anti -Consumptive Syrup is a specific for, and wherever used it has given unbound- ed satisfactioe. Children like it beceuse it is pleasant, adults like it because it re- lieves and cures the disease.' linN,1 "You don't seetnto eyrripatbiee with 'Sem' huskiand's insomnia." "No; he has the enuring kturlei Keep Minard's Liniment in the House.