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POPULATION AND. ASSESSIVIENT.
Eadebtedn4fill tUe VarJou& Bitlfiloi
ties--Statlstical Tables. Compiled trona
Returns Embracing Thirteen Year
Some Startling Naets rand VIgUrkih.
The Provincial Department of Agra,
culture has just issued Part V of
that useful publication, the annual
report of the Bureau of Industries,
'for 1898, comprising the municipal
statistics of the Province as gather-
ed from the returns sent in by the
local officials. • From this document
can be learned the eoadition as to
population,- assessed valuation and
indebtedness of every munieipelity.
Statisticaltables compiled from re-
turns embracing 13 years 'show the
progress of the country in these re-
spects. The total number of muni-
cipalities in the Province in 1898 Was
498 organized townChips, 100 towns,
136 villages, 18 cities and 88 coun-
ties. ,
During the period 1886-98 the to-
tal population, inoreased from 1,828,-
495 to 2,001,350, while the aggregate
essessment rose from $694,380,659
to 3809,184,883. Taxation for all
purp'oses increased from $9,009,659
to $12,222,966, or from $4.93 to
$6.10 per head of the population.
The most noteworthy conclusion to
which an 'analysis of these figures
points is that the growth in re-
sources and population indicated has
been wholly confined to the towns
and cities, the purely rural districts
having been stationary in these .re-
spects.. The township population
was 1,118,856 in 1886. It suffered
considerable -diminution from emigra-
tion to the Northwest and the ten-
dency to migrate to the large centres
and the inerea.se of late years has
been very slight. It was 1;110,894
in 1898. The cities had an'aggregate
'number of 319,634 inhabitants in
18S6 and 440,889 in 1898..They ad-
ded ten thousand to their numbers in
the latter, year, as cempared with
1897, while the townships showed a
small decrease.In the towns and
villages the increase in the 13 -year
Period was from 360,005 to 449,567.
The assessed valuation of the town-
ships amounted to $452,097,645 in
eSS6 and the figures for 189S were
$448,310,060, Moving been practically
staitionary for some years. City as-
sessments •have increased from $154,-
20.1,921 in 1886 to 3236,077,876 in
189S, and towns and villages from
$83,073,093 to 3124,297,397.
The statistics concerning municipal
debts include the year 1897, later re-
turns not being available. During
12 years the total municipal deben-
ture debt has increased from $29,-
924,S63 to $53,577,475. This aug-
mentation, however, is solely confined
to urban municipalities. The aggre-
gate of the township debt has been
slightly decrea.seci and ceunty debts
have been reduced et -le -half, or from
$3,505,744 to $1,sos.107. City debts
on the contrary have doubled, the
aggregate volume being $87,-
840,377 in 1898, as comPared with
818,469,893 in 1886. Town and vil-
lage liabilities have grown in equal
proportion. It is worthy of notice,
h oweeer , that taken g the aggregate
amount of all • municipal debentm.e
debts the increase ha e mainly been
in the earlier portion of the 12 -year
period under consideration, as of late
years the increase has been much less
rapid. •
, This year a table is published giv-
ing the financial conditions of the
leading Amen ca n ci ties wh i ch is in-
struct i ve for purposes of comparison.
It will surprise many, no doubt, to
observe that .the debts of cities like
Chicago, Buffalo and Cleveland are
.much smaller in proportion to their
population than those of Toronto and
some other Canadian cities, One
factor in the case which should not
be -overlooked is that the water-
works, which are a 'valuable asset in
Canadian cities, are often in pri \rate
hands in the States or managed like
the parks ,by commissiaps, .so that
any 1 iabilities incurred in connection
with them would rot appear in a
sta.tement of the general debt. But
even after making ample 'deductions
on this score it is a little startling
to find Canadian civic liabilities so
formidable as compared with those
of much larger communities.
INANE AYLUM.
Recommendation of Change!, to Meet the
the Nnoll),•t• of Applicant..
The annual report of 111,r. R. Chris-
tie, Inspector of Prisons and Public
'Charities, dealing with the insane
asylums of the Province, has hist
been published, and conta,ine several
recommendations Inc changes in the
system rendered necessary by the in-
. ceeased number of applica,nts for
lehoni accomma,t*o ton cannot be
,
freancl in existing institutions. The
e,,,,p''average number of inmates for 1899
W —the year being reckoned to the end
of September—was 4,441, as com-
pared with 4,368 in 1398, and sta-
tistics covering the lase ten years
show that the yearly average num-
ber has increased by 1,274 diering
tha,t period. The Inspec)t,or does not
regard this as evidence that insanity
is becoming more common, pointing
°tit that owing to the increased scope
of medical science many cases of
subtle brain disease now receive
treatment which formerly were not
considered to fall within the sphere
of the alienist. As increased accom-
modation must, be olArtinecl tile In-
spector strongly urges that a eepar-
ate building' be provided for this
cless. Formerly none but the mani-
acal and violently excited were con-
sidered fit for asylum treatment, but
as the remilt of investigations, both
of a scientific and practical charact-
er, a knowledge of the subtler forms
of brain diseases is being developed,
and many of this afflicted class are
receiving treatment as insane. To
eanity a consideruble pereentege of
the increase most be attributed,
PreteiSing that inereaSed room
muse now be had for the augmented
number of petienta, the reeore
strongly recommends an exterieled
means of classilication for the insane,
Tbere are 77 criminal lunatics in the
Provincial asylums who have been
found guilty of ofeences, but released
by the courts as insane. There are
also over 400 patients who have pro-
nounced homicidal tendencies and
need special attention, and some 800
epileptics who could be much better
cared for if domiciled in a separate
asylum. Provision has to some ex-
tent been macie for the separation o1.
the criminal insane by setting apart
a building at 1-lamilton, known as
East Honse, for the °catenation of
such as have been found guilty of
serious cremes. The homicidal in-
sane who have not been charged
with •crime are, however, equally
dangerous, and should be placed un-
der similar restrictions. It is urged
that a separate institution for these
classes would relieve the asylunis
from much of the rigid and exacting
discipline and the arbitrary restraints
which now have to be imposed and
that special structural arrangements,
conducive to security, are requisite
in dealing with the criminal a,ad vio-
lent class. Were the eeparation ef-
fected the cost of maintenance would
be lessened. The removal of the epi-
leptics would also tend to lighten
considerably the pressure on asylum
accommodation. As a class they re-
quire different treatment from the or -
canary lunatics, as many of them are
not afflicted mentally to, such A de-
gree as to warrant their continued
residence among the insane, and are
fit Inc useful employment, such as
could be supplied, if an institution
for their aemommodation were estab-
lished with land attached.
The number of inmates at the close
of the year was distributed among
the diffeeent institutions, as follows:
Toronto 716, London 996, Kingston
580, I-Ia,milton 1,021, Mimico 601
and Brockville 518. There were 657
in the Orillia Asylum for Idiots
welch, together with the insane
'Prisoners in the penitentiary and jails
mid the inmates of the Homewood
Retreat, Guelph, bring the total for
insane and ictiotie persons cared for
in public institutions to 5,210. The
asylum per capita rate of main-
tenance for each inmate was $125.05
per annum and the total expenditure
of the year was 3629,974, as against
3621,737 for the year previous.
The revenue from the institutiens
amounted to, $74,364, as compared
with $72,042 for 1898.
it -.oyes the Boys.
The argument I have found in
Maine for prohibition was by an
editor of .a paper in Portland, thcet
%vas for political reasons mildly op-
posed to it. I had a conversation
with ban that ran something , like
this:
"Where were you born?"
In a little village about sixty
miles froin Bangor."
"Do you reinember the condition of
things in your village prior to pro-
hihetion?''
"Distinctly. There • was a vast
amount of drunkenness and conse-
quent disorder and poverty."
-What was the effect of prohibi-
tio 11?"
"It shut up all the rum shops, and
practically banished liquor from the
village. It becomes one of the most
quiet and prosperous places on the
globe."
'1-J OW long did you live in the
village after prohibition?'
"Eleven years, or until I was twen-
ty-one years of age."
"Then I went to Bangor."
"Do you drink, now?" ,
"I have never tasted a drop of li-
quor in my life.''
"Why
"'Up to the age of twenty-one I
"ne-vel• saw it, a,nd after that I did
not care to take on the habit."
That is all there is' in it. If the
boys of the country are not exposed
to the infernalism, the men are very
sure not to be. This man and his
schoolmates were saved ,from rum by
the fact that they could not get it
until they were old enough to EllOW
better. Few men are drunkards who
know not the poison till after they
are twenty-one. lt is the youth the
whiskey and beer men want.
T,,t`001:0 to E.,flystaitb.
London Golden Penny prints a por-
trait of lia,ifir Charlie, who made his
way through the Boer lines to Lady-
smith. Says G. P.: Charlie, who is
in the (employ of a lady at Pietermar-
itzburg, who was most anxious about
her son imprisoned at Ladysmith
(from which no news had arrived for
three weeks), volunteered to atternpt
the dangerous journey. A despatch
was secreted in the hem at the bot-
tom of his trousers. He was stop-
ped a number of times by the eneray,
and at one kraal was kept a prison-
er for twelve hours. While the Boers
were holding a prayer meeting he. es-
caped, and succeeded in slipping
through to Ladysmith.
Foetid ei, lea. street.
London, Feb. 26th.
Messrs. Kruger, Cronje &' Co., South
Africa:
Gentlemen,—Our Mr. Roberts will
have the honor of waiting upon you
on the 27th with the latest sample
of lyddite, cordite, etc., in all our
neWeet spring patterns. Our other
traveler, Mr. Kitchener, will be with
you shortly with samples of our fall
geode. Thanking, yod fpr Past; ,feer-
ors and hoping for a ',continuance of
the same, we are, gentlemen, youre
yeey 'truly,
John Bull & Sons:
•
0 ere e ,,, 1, U O ,te,t e.
The popularity of corduroy as an
upholstery faeric is well founded. It
IS 'durable in texture, and Although
its color faclee it fades beautifully
and Usually is thereby improved.
Still another good quality of the ma-
terial is its adaptability to its sur-
roundings, Like ,a, sealskin sacque
weich leay be acceptably worn to
market or for a round of visits, cor-
duroy is most a,ppropriate for lib-
rary oe sitting room, and not at all
out of place with the finer furnish -
this enlarged scope in judging of in -Ing 01 the drawing room,
VV1-11U3 VI I 11Ii 1-4 1/.14111
TE MS OF INTEREST FROM AROUND
THE WORLD
Panned, Punctuated and preserved in
Pithy Paragraphs for the Perusal ot
Practical People - Personal, Political
and Profitable.
UNCLASSIFIED,
Mail advices, Feb. 27, from Hono-
lulu say the plague situation is im-
proving.
Three fresh eases of bubonic plague
In Sydney, N.S.W., were officially re-
ported on Sunday.
Hamilton will try to open Lundorn
Park as a city playground on the
Queen's Birthday.
The new Oddrellows' Temple at
Chatham, evhich cost 320,000, -(i'vas
dedicated on Thursday.
Joseph H. Choate, the United
States Ambassador at London, start-
ed Friday morning to join his, wife
at Cannes, France.
Toronto police department returns
ehow 122 deaths in the city from vio-
lence and accidental causes for the
year ending Bee. 31, 1899.
'The municipal election on Friday
resulted in a cliScorefiture of the cor-
rupt ring, and as a result the city 01
,Talllalea, is en fete.
South Carolina and Georgia he'd an
inter -State cock fighting main on
Thursday, which was 'won by the
former by 11 to 8. The winner. took
over $2,000.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has
just decided that the act of the Le-
gislature giving the State Board of
Transporation. the right to regulate
telephone rates is constitutional.
Miss Ella Little, an American, has
received a doctorate of the 'Univer-
sity of Heidelberg, Germany, "Sunnna
Cum Lauda" This is the first time
the distinction has fallen to a wo-
man.
Miss Ellen Terry .of Sir Henry Irv-
imee's Company is still confined to her
bed at Toronto, and although her
condition is slightly improving, she
may net be able to leave the city for
some days.
Captain Abereromhie and 43 Gov-
erunmnt engineers will sail for the
Copper River, Alaska, on the steanaer
St. Paul, from Seattle, Monday or
Tuesday. They will string telegraph
Wires from Valdez and St. Michael.
The I-Iarnburg-American fast steam-
er, Fuerst Bismarck, arrived on Sun-
day froni Genoa and Naples, making
a record passage between the latter
port a,nd New York, in 10 days 1
hour . and 50 minutes, with an aver-
age speed of 17.19 knots.
Barbadoes, believing that the pre -
prayed reciprocal trade convent ion
with the' United States will not, be
carried into effect, has Passed a law
to continue in force the fiscal condi-
tions which existed before the nego-
tiations" with the 'United States be -
ger.,
Mrs. Michael McDonald on Saturday
gave birth , at Detroit to two boys
and two girls. The babies weighed
an average of 31/2, pounds at birth.
Mrs. McDonald and her husband came
here from Canada about six months
age. The mother is about 35 years
old.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has de-
clared his loyalty to Britain. He
concludes his statement thus: "Eng-
land's troubles are always my troub-
les; her strength is iny' strength, and
her 'weakness is my weakness. Eng-
land must remember that I am al-
ways ready to light for her on land,
here or in India."
The remains, of Abraham Lincoln
were transferred on 'Saturday from
the Crypt of the National Lincoln
monument at Springfield, Ill., to a
temporary vault just north of the
monument on the brow of the hill
overlooking Oak Ridge Cemetery. The
removal of the body was made ne-
cessary by the demolition of the mon-
ument preparatory to its entire re-
construction on a different plan, for
which $100,000 was appropriated by
the last Legislature.
CASUALTIES.
Josephine Bennett of Plamiltonwho
was frightfully burned on Wedi I esday,
passed away Friday evening about 6
,o'clock. She was 12 years of age.
'Pito Smith fuse manufactory at
Pompton, NJ., blew up at 1.30 p.m.
on Friday, and four persons were
killed, and a nunaber more or less
wounded. •
The loss of the Norwegian steam-
ship Franklin, of Mobile, is reported
on Chinchora banks, about 100 miles
north of Belize, Honduras. No lives
were lost. '
Sixteen miners have been killed by
an explosion in a coal pit at Bes-
seges, France. The galleries of the
mine collapsed, berying the bodies of
the victims.
The British steamer Cuvier, Captain
Quintop, from Antwerp for Brazil,
has been sunk in collision with an
unknown steamer. The Windsor
picked up the second mate and two
seamen belonging to the C'uVier. The
rest of the crew were drowned.
Alex. Walker, , 11 -year-old boy,
was thrown into the cogs of an tm-
protected horse power by the fright-
ened horses on the farm of Alex.
Hatra Toronto Junction, and received
dreadfully mutilated %tilde. The
doctors are trying to save the leg.
By an explosion of mine dust at
Clinton, Ind., on Thursday, three
miners were killed and nine were in-
jured. The coolheadedness of the
pit boss, W. Ir. Brown, averted a
greater calamity as there Were SO
men in the mine at thti
e me. He
ma,de the men keep their faces close
to the ground for 212 feet, when
they were rescued.
• FOR MEAT OF WAR.
The Canadian lied Cross Society for
the aid of the sick and wounded in
war has collected so far in Canada
since the beginning of the war $21,-
93A8eletlo'releaux, France, students bat-
tered down the door and shattered
the windows of the British Consulate
there, after attending a pro -Boer
me
e
t
ii
n
g
.
The first Orders for the withdrawal
or regularsIran' the Pflip ines lios
been sent to 4en. Otis, and the home-
coming of stich troops as he can spare
will begin in a few days,
Gen. Peppin, formerly Oateenor of
Sant Mee de Los Caleilleroe, echo lee
000 11)' Ileac lecl 0, revolt it gai t s t; tit
Coi'theetiqn3 hrising iraissableictno aptoTreneitnegdo, &hug").
been suppressed,
A geueral arid 15 men have been.
lailded at Kingston, .faniaicia, th
way to Colon. They say they • ai-
Aregntinicals, and are going to jolt
the Colombian revolutionists. Mai
advices report that the Colombian re
volutionary movement continues.
two different letters received in
San Antonio, Texas, from members
of 'the 38rd Infantry, who pressed
Aguinaldo so closely in the mount
ams Luzon, comes the story that
a member of the reghnent, who fell
behind in the hills, was killed and
partly eaten by natives.
A great parade of Strathcona's
Horse took place , Ottawa -on
Thursday. Mrs. Borden presented
the guidons to CJol. Steele, in. the
presence of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, all
his Ministers and many members of
Parliameut. Addresses were made
by Sir Wilfrid and Sir Charles and
Lord Minto.
THE FIRE RECCR10.
A fire at Malale, Ont., on Saturday
burned down Rose's tinsmith shop
and a stable. There was only $125
insurance.
Fire, which broke out in the Balk-
enberg saloon, Lead, S.D., ,consumed
40 buildings, worth, with their con-
tents, $500,000, before it was stop-
ped on Thursday.
The Theatre Francais, erhich occu-
pied the highest rank among the
theatres of Paris and which was
built in 1872, was burned to the
ground on Thursday., One life was
lost, in the fire, Mlle. Ilenrio,t, an ac-
tress. When M. Sardon, the play-
wright, saw that the theatre was
doomed he beest into thears. Most
of the valuable statues and paintings
were saved.
POLITICS -IMPERIAL.
L,ord Salisbury, Lord Kimberley,
the Liberal leader, and the Speaker,
in the Lords on Thursday pronounced
A eulogy on Lord Pauncefote, who
remains as Ambassador to the United
States at Washington.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS,
John Wesley French of New York,
a lawyer and newspaper man, ha,s
been found dead at San Juan, Puerto
Rico. Foul play is suspected.
Farmer P. J. Moore of Welland Co..
was given a good time by Brantford
young men on Saturday to the
amount of $28. Two of the latter
have been arrested.
A bonib was thrown through the
window of M. Alfred Picard, Com-
mis,sioner General of the Paris Expo-
sition, on Thursday, but fortunately
it did not explode.
Robert J. Graham, the confidential
agent of L. Coffee & Co., of Toronto,
has given himself up in New York.
He stated that he had stolen $26,-
000, but the actual charge against
him is that he stole $341 on Feb,
18 last. TIC will be brought to Can-
ada for trial.
Archibald Carle asked Judge Bren-
tano at Chicago on Friday to grant
him a new trial, so he mig•ht plead
guilty to murder and be sentenced to
be hanged, instead of going to the
Penitentiary for 25 years, as senten-
ced by a jury, for killing Hector Mc-
Kenzie. Judge Brentano refused.
The disappearance of Thoruas Mc-
Ilemen from. his farm near Clinton has
been revived by the startling story of
his murder by four tramps told to a
relative of his by a casual acquaint-
ance on the train. It is now thought
that there is truth in the story, as
corroborative circumstances have
been unearthed. In the spring, after
the four feet of snow limits, search
will he made for his body in the
schoolyard, where it is said the
tramps buried him.
roiiirrics-CA NA.DIAN.
SAVING THE 'WOUNDED.
e
Th., Croat work Ilona hy Dhoolla
5 I:el/revs it, the ifyltisii Army.
Someof the hardest worked men in
the 'British army are the men:bets of
e the field ambulance corps. This 18 OW-
° Mg to the terrible execution dorie by
; the Boer shariesbootees. After such
battles as that at Storirieerg, Magee's-
-• fontein or Modder where• the
British casualties ran up into the
hundreds, ,scores of wounded soldiers
were left on the veldt. It was the
duty of the ambulance corps to go
out and gather these in and when-
ever this has bean possible it has
been ,done.
There is nothing inspiring about
this aspect of war. It is a dreadful
Part of the business. Of course the
anibulance bearers become aceestone-
ed and hardened to the sight of blood
and wounded men, but they do not
go about their work with the ent,hu-
siasna and dash of the men who do
the killing.
Men seldom enlist for this work.
When they join as recruits, they ex-
pect to carry rifles and help win
victories. , They do not anticipate
clearing a field of the traces of a
bloody fray. But it is a business of
necessity, so a certain number of men
from each regiment is detailed for
ambulance duty.
These nien are trained in the sim-
ple px•inciples of first aid to the
evoundee and are taught how to im-
provise stretchers, bandages and
crutches. They learn how to make a
tourniquet out of a stick and a
lic%nclkerchief--a tourniquet that will
stop the flow of lifeblood—and they
learn how to take a helpless man
hack to the field surgeon's tent.
The field ambulance corps of the
British army is exceptionally well
drilled. The men learned tile theory
Mr. F fW. G. Haultain, ,Attorney -
General of the Northwest Territories,
is at Toronto, on his return from
Ottawa, where lie succeeded in secur-
ing an additional grant of $142,000
for the Territories.
A meeting of 85 delegates to the -
Liberal convention at New Westmins-
ter, B.C., on Friday night, unani-
mously condemned the Premiership of
Hon. Joseph Martin, but two-thirds
of the Vancouver meeting the same
night expressed confidence in him.
Mr. J. C. McLagan is with Mr. Mar-
tin
DIALECT HEROINE.
Which Shows That Bra -very Will
Surely Be Rewarded.
Her face blanched till the very freckles
grew white, but she tittered no sound.
Her frightened eyes scanned the rugged
sides ,of old Kahongu, and she knew it
was useless to call for help. Besides, she
stuttered.
A lone bicycle rider was toiling up the
road. She waved at him with great vio-
lence and whistled shrilly. She could
whistle better than she could talk. Would
he hear her in time? Yes, yes; he was
slacking speed! With a heave and a dis-
mal creak the bicycle came to ti stop, and
the wheelman leaped to the ground.
"What is it, my girl?" he cried. "Any.
thing wrong?"
For a moment she could not reply.
Then she slowly answered:
"Bud B-b-braclshaw an Eh S-s-sientuons
woe a-peltin it into each other yest'day
aftelmoon, an when p-p-parsou come er-
long an seen 'em fightin he jest tuk
Beabucl's lel-bottle an smashed it right
yar' in th' road, an I 'lowed es how
you uns teig13t git a bad bust in one o'
them thar wheels o' you tins ef you rode
enter them thar glass pieces. S -s -se •;1
s -s -stopped you ans."
"Phe young man gazed at the fragments
or the crushed bottle, find then his eye
wandered to the sheer descent of old
Tollywhoopy as it swooped to the valley
below.
"fIoly Pedro!" he cried. "But that was
a close ealll" Ile heaved a sigh of thank-
fulness. "What can I do to reward you?"
A dull flesh Stole eel'OSS the girl's ruddy
eh 'mks.
"If you uns," she demurely began,
"want to tickle we tins mos' to death,
you tins will let we was ride on you ewe
hisickly as ter as th' *oar pester' in
back."
She rode away down the hill with her
teeth gleaming and her face radiant
He waited by the roadside for her to
come back.
This was three year ago, and he is
still waiting. --Cleveland Plain Dealer.
DROOLIE 1300RERS.
of the business at Aldershot. Since
they have been fighting the Boers
they have had many opportunities of
putting those theories into practice.
But the tnost picturesque and inter-
esting branch of this corps is the
body oe Indian dhoolie hearers, which
was sent from Bombay at the begin-
ning of the war. • A dhoolie is an
Indian ambulance. It is really a big
basket slung in the middle of a long
bamboo pole. These baskets are
about 6 feet long and 2 feet deep. A
man can stretch out in one quite
co" fortably. Over the basket is a
lepielt, framework on which cart be
stretched a covering to keep off the
sun or rain.
I he dhoolie bearers are mild eyed,
meele, patient, strong limbed natives
of India. They pre not fighting- men,
but they are willing to go on the
field of battle and remove wounded
eufferers under the flag of the lied
Cross—and for a price. They are
the finest ambulance carriers in the
world. They are gentle as women
and Icnow leow to handle a wouncled
man so as to givo him the least possi-
ble pain.
When they have loaded him into the
dlioolie and dropped the curtains,
they put the poles across their
shoulders and trot aevay with an easy
step which gives only a gentle swing
to the basket. An uninjured man
who rides in a elhoolie drops off into
peaceful sluraber and dreams he is a
sea gull riding on the waves. The
wounded man almost forgets his
pain.
These Indian dhoolie bearers are
brave, too. During some of the re-
cent battles in SouthAfrica they
have repeatedly gone on the field
under a hot fire to bring in wound-
ed neen. Many of then' have been
shot, but this seems to have made
no difference to the rest. They are
like the immortal Gunga Din, the
Indian water carrier whom Kipling
has desceibed. You remember how
Tommy Atkins appreciated theser-
vices of Gunge. Din:
Though I've curse(' you curd I've flayed you,
By the living God that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunge Din.
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Text of the Lesson, a Comprehensive,
ceearterty Review -- Goidert 'Text,
ldnek. x, 45--Contritent8Vy Prepared
by the Rev."). M. Stearns.
[Copyright, 1900, by D. M. Sti,9,!.tris,]
LE'SSON I.-Tbebirib of ,lestis'cleeke
• 1-16). Golden Text, Math. i,
shalt call His name Jesus, for Ile shell'
save His people ilrein their sins." %Ye
have 'speet three months once more 11)
considering the most womierful life diet
wee e,,ee need 00 tees earth. How niece"'
snorneswsetidtih:allbut
ell. 01E:)ur5,7rS0 mfi
might be bre,
to pass a good examination upon the lee -
given Nye have studiN
ed in andI,Iilisin,Ireiwt
if fur -
given Nye
not continually saving ns from our sins
We de not know him as we should.
LEssoet II. --The child jesus visits Je-
rusalem (Luke 11, 41-52); Golden Teat
Luke ii, 5.2; "And .Teens increased in wis-
dom and stature and in raver with Gel
and man." A good eumniary of this les-
son might be, :label:it our Heavenly leli-
ther's husiness, subject to our earthly
parents.or guardians, content 'With a veey
humble home or lite as long (IS God wile*
it, well versed in the Scriptures and filled
with the Spirit that C4ed inay be glori-
fied." Let us riot allow the Lord Jesne
to be out of our thoughts nor anything to
come between uS lest eve lose fellow,slzip.
LEssoet III. ---The preaching of 'John.
the Baptist (Luke iii, 1-17). Golden Text.
Luke iii, 4, "Prepare ye the way 'of the'
Lord." All rulerand governors area
made unconsciously to accomplish the
Purposes of Him who worketh ell things'
according to the counsel of His own.wille
(Eph. 1, 11) and doeth according le Eri• s
will in the army pf heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth (Dan. iv. '351.
As He came in humiliation, honoring.
John to be His herald, so He will coma
in glory, Elijah being his herald.
LESSON IV. -The baptism and tempta-
tion of Jesus (Math. iii, 13, to iv. 11).
Golden Text, Math. 111, 17. "This is My
Beloved Sen, in whom I am well pleas-
ed." The Father and the Spirit 'teetify,
Shat Jesus is the Son of God. Then the
devil is permitted to take I-Iirn in hand
and make Elis circumstances so trying.
that there is for the time no outward_ evi-
dence that He is the Son of God, but
steadfastly believes and wins the victory
by faith and patience, by the word or
God and the Spirit of God.' We must not
-
question God's dealings with us, but firm-
ly believe in the darkest days that He is,
ever with us and for us.
LESSON V. -The first disciples of Jestna
(John i, 35-45). Golden Text, John i, 3T -
"They followed Jesus." Those who pre-
pare the way of the Lord must keep cry-
ing, "Behold the iamb of Ceode.' and cie
this is done and Jesus is set before,ehe pee-
ple He will draw unto Himself those who
are willing to be. drawn. These first dis-
ciples, each one. when found, brought an-
other to Christ. Unless the so' called.
Philip and Andrew brotherhood are ever'
seeking to do this they are not henoring-,
their name.
LESSON VI.--Jestis and Nieoderens-
(John iii, 1-18)e Golden Text, John Fife
10, "For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son that who-
soever believetb in EIiin should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life.". There ise
a kingdom coining which shall be world--
wide. a kingdom of peace and righteous-
ness and of course of unparalleled pais-.
perity. That all who eel] ma e enjoy
the blessings and glories ef this kingdom
God gave His Son to he a sacrifice for.
sie and an example to all belie.vers. No,
amount of religiousness, or edueatiore,or
talent, or worldly wisdom can fit a persoa-.
for this glorious kingdom. Only by a near
birth, a nature from above pet in us, can
IVO be fitted for it.
LESSON V11.--Jesue at Jacob's well
(John iv, 5-209. Golden Text. John; ive
24, "God is a Spirit, and they that wor-
ship Hine must 'worship Him in Spirit
anti in truth." See' the weary, thirety
Saviour forgetting His weariness and,
thirst in doing the will of (acne See His
zeal and skill and power in seeking a lose
soul. Are you drinking of the water
that causes continual 'thirst or of that
which lie gives. Whiell setesfies the soul,.
makes us forget ourselves end run to tell
others? Elle alone can satisfy. It is folly
to look elsewhere.
LEssoe VI[/, --Jesus rejected at Naza-
reth (Luke iv, 10-80). Golden Text, John,
i, 11, "Ile came unto I-Iis ONTO. and' His-
oa-n received 1-lim not" The people or
Samaria gladly received Him. bet His
oevn townsmen, among whom He lived..
for 30 years, sought to kill Him, and the
Jew's, His OVV/1 kindred (for He was of',
the tribe of Judah, Heb. vii, 14), finally
had Ellin put to death. But the tinxe wile
,conie edam" all prophecy shall be fulfilled
in Him, who, up to this present time, is
•still by the vast majority of people either'
unknown or: known only to be despised;
or rejected. We who count itan honor
ta hear witness to Him must not think it.
strange if our, testimony is received by
but few and rejected by the many.
Lussole IX. -Jesus healing in Caper-
naune (Mark i, 21-341. Golden Text,.
?dark i, 34, "And Be healed many that
were sick." Rejected at Nazareth, Ile isc
welcomed at Capernaurn, and publicly.
and privately He preaches the word and,,
heals all manner of diseaSe, going about:
doing good and showing stone features or
the kingdom. His words were the word,s.
of God, and His works were the worke or
God (John riv, 10), and all He said or did
revealed the Father.
LBesoN X. -The paralytic healed (Mark.
if, 1-12). Golden Text, ielark ii, 10, "The
San of Man bath pewee en earth to for-
give sins." Preaching in a private hue
to all who could get within hearing, the
service is somewhat hindered by fear
men who hace,a matter whieh they were
sure IIe' Would attend to if they could
only get to Him.' litiey would have soon
no way. but these inen of faith saw to
way thrbugh the roof, where no 013.7
Their faith and petience and persevee-
tine° succeeded in placing their &fele
friend in the midst before Jeeus, and 1-11
did all they expected, and probably more.
for I -Ie healed the sick man, body and
00111 1ssole ,X1. -Jesus at Matthew's house
13-22). Golden Teri, Luke
27, "He said' unto him, Follow Me:" The
grecioni
s call s elven to a despised pub'
lican, wbo inalnedietely resemnds and in
, his gratitude and clevetiele inelces a feast
to Jesue in his own house, inviting MOON'
Of his friends and ciegtiaintaneee. 'rho
se! right 0008 who tide k they need tee
ofie eliVe thein are there also, and they
trintenur beeauee Lie seeks' and savee the
loet. So Jesus tells them that there ie.
no healing, for sueli as they ate or ehiele
limuiselecie to be, but oteleeifelreeheet Wee.
know that they are lost.
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