Exeter Advocate, 1900-6-14, Page 7••••••••••••memmarme,m.
) A MenclOreble Incident in Christ's
Life Described.
STORM ON THE SEA OF GALILEE
Dr. Talmage Shows How lany People
Pall to Understand Their Best Bless-
. lugs-Go:la Help Shoitia ,De Sought
at the Beginning of All Our En-
terprisos.
Washington, June . Tal-
mage, who is now in Eueope preach-
ing to immense eongregations in the
great cities, sends this sermon, in
Which he describes the rough places
of life and indicates the best means
of gettiro,” over them aosi shows how
Many people fad to understand their
, best' blessings; text, Mark iv, 89,
'And. he .arose and rebuked the wind
and said unto • the Sea, Peace', he
still."
Here in Capernaum; the seashore
ville,ge, was, thetemporary home of
that Christ who for the most of his
life WaS homeless. On the site of
this: village, now in ruins, and all
around this lake what scenes of
kindness and power and glory and
, pathos when our Lord lived here!' I
can understand the feeling of the im-
mortal Scotehman, Hebert McCheyne,
when, Sitting on the 'banks of this
lake, he wrote: .
It is not that the wild gazette
Comesdownto drink thY tide, '-
But He that was pierced to save from hell
Oft wandered by thy site.
Graceful around thee the mountain S' meet,
Thou, calm, reposing sea,
But, ah, far more the beautiful reet
Of Jesus walked o'er thee.
I can easily ,understand .from the
contour of the country that bounds
this lake that storms were easily
tempted to make. these waters their
playgroimd. This lake, in Christ's
'time, lay in a scene of great luxuri-
ance; the surrounding hills, terrac-
ed, sloped, groved; so many hang-
ing gardens of beauty. On the shore
were pestles, armed towers, Roman
baths, everything attractive and
beautiful—all st,yles of vegetation
in smaller space than in almost any
other .space in the world, from the
palm tree of the forest to the trees
of rigorous climate. It seemed as if
the Lord had launched one wave Of
beauty on all the scene and it hung
and swung from rock and hill and
oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleas-- ,
UTE.' boats sailing this lake and coun-
trymen in fishing smacks coining
down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shout and laugh-
ter or swinging idly at their moor-
ings. Oh, what a beautiful scene!
it seems as if weshall have a quiet
night. Not a leaf quivered in the
air, not a ripple disturbed, the face
of Gennesamet. But there seems to
be a' little excitement up the beach,
and we hasten to see what it is,
, nd we find it an embarkation.
TO111 the western shore a, flotilla
pushing out; not a squadron of dead-
ly armament, nor clipper with val-
uable merchandise, nor piratic ves-
sels ready to destroy everything they
could seize, Mit a flotilla, bearing
messengers of light and life and
peace, Christ is in the stern Of the
boat. PTAs disciples are in the bosv
and amidships. Jesus, weary with
much 'speaking to large multitudes,
is put int0 somnolence by the rock-
ing, of the waves. If there was any
motion at all, the ship was easily
righted; -if the wind passed ,from star-
board to larboard, or from larboard
to starboard, the boat would rock
and, by the gentleness' of the motion,
putting the Master asleep. And they
extemporized a pillow made out of
a fisherman's coat. I think no soon-
er is Christ prostrate and his head
touched the pillow than he is sound
asleep. The breezes of the lake run
their , fingers through -the locks of
the. worn sleeper, and the boat rises
and falls like a sleeping child on the
bosom of a sleeping mother,.
Calm night, starry night, beauti-
ful .night! 'Run up all the sails, ply
all the oars, and let the large boat
and the small boat glide, over gentle
Gennesa,ret. But the sailors say
their is going to be a change of
weather. And even the passengers
can hear the moaning of the storm
as it comes on with. great stride a,nd
'all the terrors of hurricane and dark-
ness. The large boat trembles like
a deer at bay among the clangor of
the hounds; great patches of foam
egra.egiTrig into the aim the sails of
thevessel loosen and in the strong
kvind crack their pistols; the smaller
'boats, like petrels, poise on the cliffs
of the waves and then plunge. Over-
board go cargo, te„ekling and masts,
and the drenched disciples rush into
the bauk part of the boat and lay
hold of Christ and say unto him,
"Master, carest thou not that we
perish?"
That great 'personage lifts his head
from the pillow of the fisherman's
coat, walks to the front of the ves-
sel and looks out into the storm.
All around him are the smaller boats,
driven in the tempest, and through
it comes the cry of drowning , men.
By the flash of the, lightning I ,see
the calm Mrove.of Christ as the sprray
.dropped from his beard. I -la has one
word for the sky and anether for the
wa,veS. Looking upward, he cries,
"Peace!" Looking downward, be
Says, . "Be still!" ' The waves fall
flat on their faces, the foam melts,
the extinguished stars relight their
tOrehes. The tempest •falls dead, and
Christ stands with his foot on the
neck of ;Um storm. Arid' while the
sadore ere benne: out the, boats and
while they are trying. to 'untangle
the cordage the disciples stand in
amazement, now looking into the
Calm sem, then into the calm Slam
tbeh fele) the' calm Savieer's a un -
ten an cc, d .they cry out, ''What
manner Of 311 an 18 is, that even the
winds and the sea obey him'?"
7,rhe subject; in the first ple.ce, im-
presses me, with the Met that. it is
very important to leave Chriet lit the
ship; fol" stil these boats Would have
gone to the bottom of Genuesaret if
Christ had not been present. 011,
What 'a lesson ior you and for me to
learn! Whatever voyage we 00(101 -
take, into whatever enterprise we
start, let us always have Christ in
the snip. All you can do with. ut-
most tension of body, mind' and SOU1
you are bound'. to do; but, oh, have
Christ in every enterprise!
There are men 'Who ask God's help
at the beginning of great enterprises.
He has been, with them in the bast;
no trouble can overflow them; the
storms miailit come down from the
top of Mount 'Hermon and lash Gen-
nesaret into foam and into agony,
but St could not hurt them. But
here is another man who starts out
in worldly enterprise, and he de-
pends upon the.uncertainties of this
life. He has no God to help him.
After awhile' the storm. comes, tosses
off the mats 01 the ship; he puts
out his life boat p,nd the longboat;
the sheriff and the auctioneer try to
help him oil; they can't help him off;
heimust go down; no Christ in the
ship. Your life will be made up of
sunshine and shadows. There may be
in it arctic blasts or' tropical tor-
nadoes; I know not what is before
you, but I know if you have Christ
with you all shall be 'well. You
may seem to get along without the
religion of Christ while everything
goes smoothly, but after awhile,
when sorrow hovers over the soul,
when the waves of trial dash clear
over the hurricane deck and the docks
are crowded with piratical disas-
ters—oh, what would you do then
without Christ .111 the ship? Take
God for your portion, God for your
guide, God for your help; then all is
well; all is well for a tinee; all shall
be well forever. Blessed is that man
who puts in the Lord his trust.. He
shall never be confounded.
But my subject also impresses me
with the fact that when people start
to follow Christ they must not ex-
pect smooth sailing. These disciples
got into the small, boats4 and, I have
no doubt they said: "Mat a beau-
tiful day this is! How delightful is
sailing in this boat! And as for the
waves 'under the keel of the boat,
why, they only make the motion of
our little boat the more delightful."
But when the winds swept down and
the sea was tbSsed into wrath, then
they found that following Christ was
not smooth sailing. So you have
found it; so I have found it.
Did you ever notice the end of the
life of the apostles of Jesus Christ?
You would say if ever men ought to
have had a smooth life, a smooth
departure, than these men, the dis-
ciples, of Jesus Christ, ought to have
had such a departure and such a life.
St. James lost his head. St. Philip
was hung to death_ on a pillar. St.
Matthew had his life dashed out
-with a halbert. St. Mark was drag-
ged to death through the streets. '
St . James the Less was beaten to
death with a fuller's club. St.
Thomas was struck through with a
spear. They did not find following
Christ smooth sailing. Oh, how
they were all..tossed in theaterapest
John Huss in a fire; Hugh McKail in
the hour of martyrdom; the Albig-
enses, 'the Waldenses, the' Scotch
Covenanters—did they find it smooth
sailing? But why go iato history
when We can draw from our own
memory illustrations of the truth of
what I say? .
.111y subject also impresses Inc with
the, fact that good people sometimes
get frightened. In the tones of these
disciples as they rushed into the
back part of the boat I find they are
frightened almost to death. They
say, "Master, carest thou not that
we perish?" They had no 'reason to
be frightened, for Christ was in the
boat. I suppose if we had been there
we would have been just as much
frightened. Perhaps•more. In all
ages very good people get .very much
affrighted. It is often so in our day,
and men say: "Why, look at the had
lectures. Look' at the various errors
going over the ehurch of God. We
are going to founder. The church is
going to perish. She is going
down." Oh, how many _good people
are affrighted by iniquity in our day
and think the church of Jesus Christ
iS going to be overthrown and are
just as much affrighted as were the
diseiples of my text! Don't worry;
don't fret, as though iniquity , were
going to triumph over righteous-
ness. A lion goes, into' a cavern to
Sleep. 'He lies clown with hisshaggy
mane covering the paws. Mean-
while the spiners spin aaweb across
the mouth of the cavern and say,
'`We have captured him." Gossamer
thread after gossamer thread until
the whole front of the cavern is cov-
ered, with the spider's web, end the
spiders Say; "The lion is done; the
lion is fast." After awhile the lion
has got through sleeping. He rouses
himself, he shakes his mane, he walks
gut into the sunlight. He does, not
even know the spider's web is spun,
and with his . roar he shakes the
mountain. So :nen come spinning
their sophistries and skepticism
about Jesus Christ. Pfe seems to be
sleeping.. They say: "We have cap-
tured the Lord. He will never come
forth again upon the nation. Christ
is overcOme forever. His religion
will never make any conquest among
men." But after awhile the Lion of
the tribe of Judah will arouse him-
self ansi come forth to shake might-
ilythe nations. What's a spicler's
web to the arotised lion? Gave truth
and error a fair grapple, and truth
will come off victor.
But, there are a great many good
people who get affrighted 10 other
respects, They are affrighted about
revivals. They say; "Oh, this iS,
a strong religious gale! We are
afraid the church of God is going to
be upset and there are going to be a
groat Many people brought into the
church that are going to be of no '150
to it." Ancl .they are effriglited
whenever they see a 'revival taking
hold 0,1 the churches. As though a
ship captain, with 5,000 bueliels of
wheat foe a cargo, should Say seine
day, coming upen deck, "Throw
overboard all the cargo!" and die
sail ors' shoeld say; "Why, capte 11,
what do you mean? Throw over all
the cargo?" "Oh," save 5110 eap-
tain, "We have a, peck of chaff thet
1 has got into this 5,000 buslasis oi
wheat, and the enlY Way to get rid
of the chaff 1$ to thrONv -,t11 the
Wheat overboard!' Now; that is
great 0001 1 wiser than the s 11
many Christians who Want to throW
o et' b 0 al' d all the 'thousands and
tens of 'thousands of souls wile are'
the sabjects of revivals. Throw all
overboard because they are brought
into the kingdom of God through
great revivals, because there is a
Peck of chaff, a quart of ehaff, 1) pint
of chaff! I say, let them stay until
the last day, The Lord' Wi11 divide
the dhaff from the wheat. r
Do nob be afraid of a great revival.
Oh, that such, gales from 'heaven
might sweep through all our church-
es! Oh, for such days as Richard
Baxter saw in England rind Robert
'aleCheyne saw in .Dundecil 011, for
such , days as Jonathan ,Edwards $aw.
in Northampton! 1 have often heard
any father tell' of the fact 'dote in the
early part of this century there beoke
out a revibal at Somerville, N.J , and
some people were very MucIi agitated
about it. They said, '"You are go-
ing to bring 'too many people ieto
the church at once," . ancl they eent
(Iowa 50 Ne'w Brunswick to get John
:Livingston to ,stop the revivel. Well,
there evas no. 'better soul in all the
svorld then John Livingston., Re
went and looked at the revival.'
They wanted hira to stop ,it. LIM
stood in the pulpit on the Lord's,
day fend looked over the Salem IA au-
ditory, and he said: ."This, brethern,
is in reality the work of God. Be-
ware hoW you stop it.'' , And he
was an olcl man, leaning heavily on
his staff -,—a very old man. And he
lifted that staff earl,. took hold of the
small end of the staff and began to
let it, fall slowly through between the
finger and the thumb, and be said :
'Oh, thou 'inipenitent, thou' art fell-
ing now -- falling from life, falling
away from peace a,nd heaven, falling
as certainly as that cane is falling
through. ,Mer hand—falling certainly,'
though. perhaps falling slowly!" and
the cane kept on falling through
John Ieivingston's hand. The relig-
ious emotion in the audience was
overpowering, and men saw a type
of their doom asthe cane kept fall-
ing and falling, until the 'knob of -the
cane struele Mr. Livingston's hand,
and Inc clasped it stoutly and 'said,
"But the grace of God can stop you
as I stopped that cane," and then
there. was 'gladness all through the
house at the .fact of pardon and
peace and salvation. "Well," said
the people after the service, "I guess
you had better _ send Livingston
home. He is making the revival
worse." Oh, for gales from heaven
to sweep all the continents! The
danger of the 'church of God is not in
revivals.
Again, my subject impressed me
with the fact that Jesus was God,
and man in the same being. Here he
Is in the back part of the boat. 011,
how tired he looks! What sad
dreams he must have! Look, at his
countenance; he must be thinking of
the cross to come. Look at him;
he is a man—bone of our bone, flesh
of our flesh. Tired, he falls asleep;
he is a man. But then I 'fin-cl. 'Christ
at the prow of the 'boat; I hear him
say, "Peace, be still," and I see the.
storm kneeling- at his feet and the
tempests folding their' wings i,411 his
presence; he is a God., If I have
sorrow and trouble and want sym-
pathy, I go and kneel down, at the
back part of the boat and say: '0
Christ, Weary One of Gennesa,ret,
sympathize with all nay sorrow! 'Man
of :Nazareth! Man of the Cross!': A
Man, a Man! But if I want to con-
quer my spiritual foes, if ' I Want to
get the victory over sin, death and
hell, I come to the front of the boat,
ancl I kneel down, and I say, "0
Lord Jesus . Christ, thou who dids6
hushthetempest, hush all my grief,
hush all my temptation, hush all my
silliIlenrn once. more from this subject
that Christ can hush a tempest. 31
did seem as if everything must se) to
ruin. The disciples had given up the
idea of managing the ship; the ‘.:riftv
were entirely demoralized; yet Christ
rises, and the storm crouches at his
.feet. Oh, yes, Christ can hush the
tempest! You have had trouble.,
Perhaps it was the little child taken
away from you—the sweetest child
of the household, ,the ,on0. who asked
the most curious questions a,ral.stood
around ,you with the greatest fond-
ness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding heart. perhaps it was
an only son, and your heart has ever
since .been like Is desolated castle; 'the
owls of the night booting among the
fallen arches and the crumbling stair-
ways. 'Or all your property sevept
away, you said: , "I had so much
bank stock; I had so many Covet:a-
n-lent securities,; I had so lnan)'
houses; I had se many farms -- all
gone, all gone." Why, els, all the,
storms that over trampled with their
:thunders, all the shipwrecks, have not
Thema worse than this to yon. Yet
you have not been completely over-
thrown. Why ? 'Christ says: "I
have that little one in my keeping. I
can care for him as well as You can,
better than you can, 0 bereaved
Mother!" Hushing the '-13e,rtapest.
When your property,went away, God
said, "There ,are treasures in heaven
in banks that never break." Jesus
hushing the teMpest.
• There 'is one storm' into which we
will all have to run. The Moment
when we let go of .this .world and
try to take hold of the next,we
will, want all the grace possible.
Yonder I see a Christian soul rock-
ing on the surges of death., All ,the
power§ of darkness .seera lot mit
against that soul --the, sWirling
Wave, the thunder cif the sky) the
shriek Of the wind, all seem to uoiLe
together. But -that 'soul 151 101 trou-
bled. There is no ,sighing, theme are
no tears; plenty of tears in the room
at the departure, but he weeps .110
tears ---calm, satisfied and peaceful
all is well. By the flash of the stoma
you .see the harbor Mat , ahead, and
you are making, for that harbor. All
shall be Well, jest's being our pilot.
into the, harbor 51, heaven now we glide;
we're home at lnet, at 1586, '
Softly we drift on the bright, stiviry tide;
We're home at last.
Glory to God, sus deeeers a re 0'07')
We etaud were ne the 100)') 15(1 stiorcd
Glore ta Coe, we Shout OvQrmore,
1,V,Cre home at last,
DOINGS OF THE \YEE"(
TEMS OF INTEREST F'110M AROUND
THE WOPl_D
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Practical People - Personal, Political
and Profitable.
tONC4A„ssfFird.
Pickering, Oat.; is new a police
village.'
The .:State of Naw York has 1)001)
awarded first prize at the Paris Ex,
position f6r- its matibit of 115511 09
• • •
• The: Venezuela • Government has ae-
ceptede the invitation of the American.
GaVerament to exhibit at Buffalo in
1901..
-An epidemic. of Meek panker rash
prevails at West Derby, suburb" of
Newport,' Vt, Three deaths have 06,
eurred within a Week_ . • •
A family naMed Elopgood, consiste
Mg of father, Mother and two daugh-
ters, has beett dieeoyered ,near Rich-
mond, Va., living • in a hollow oak.
tree.,
The steamer Arcadia arrived Erie
day evening at .Halifax :from Ham-
barg with. 1,080 inmagrantse bound
tO different points in the Northwest
Territories.
Last week a soaking ram • Was fall -
Ing all over Manithibeearid as heavy
rain 'had. already fallen, from lefooee
Jaw to Broadview, the much -desired
wet June is probably at, hand.
. Voting On the. Propesed bylaw for
the 'construction of the :Pert .Dover,
Brantford; Galt and Berlin Electric
Railroad for 921,000 'boniis to same,
carried at Beelin on Friday by 728
for and 198 against, :
.The Hawaiian authorities have de-
clared, the Hawaiian Islands free .from,
infection by 1116 bubonic plague on.
the 806li.nla, and add .that the quar-
antine of the islands was raised bn
the last mentioned.date.
..The Thespian's, an amateur drama-
tic .society of Paris, Franco, gave
performance ef the, "Private Secre-
tary" at the Athenee Comique 60
Saturday night, 111 aid of the suffer-
ers by the Ottawa. Ere.
The Royal Soeiety of :Canada has
elected these officers : President,
Louis Frechette; vice -President, Prin-
cipal Loudon of 'Torouto UrtivereitY;
hon. secretary, Sir John C. Bourinot;
hon. treasuree, Pletcher,
•MeSsrs. Fischer, 'Welmatans and
Weassels, the Boer envoys, ,were re-
ceived on Thursday by Mayor Hart
:of Boston. The interview was short
and informal. There was a public
reception in Faneuil Hall at night.
aFriday afternoon Samuel Harkness
of - Kingston, Ont., received from
Capt. Irwin, commaading 39th Sep-
arate Company, Watertown, N.Y., a
cheque for 928, value .of flag des-
troyed by a bandsman on the. Queen's
Birthday.
'The first measure of the new French'
Mihister. of War, Gen. Andra,on taka
in"g.•.over` the. War Office wasto crder
the, prosechtion, of the Dreyfusard.pa-
per,• The .Aurore, for an article print-
ed Wednesday by 'Urbana Collier, vio-
lently attacking the headquarters
staff.
CASUALTIES.
Frederick Corey of Brantford ran
into a trolley car on Friday. His
leg was badly injured below the knee.
His wheel is a complete wreck.
Sunday afternoon the body of an
unknown young man was found on
the railway track near Blyth, Ont.,
with his bead completely severed
from his body.
A dynamite explosionoin the house
of August Broehm, near Forest junc-
tion, Wis., on Thursday, killed six
members of the amity. The house
was completely wrecked.
A heavy explosion of chemicals at
the Eastman Kodak Works' at Ro-
chester on Friday wrecked a portion
of that building. Foreman Tracey
was instantly killed and several ever°
injured.
Mr. Henry Mullins, one, of the best
known and most highly esteemed cus-
toms officers in Montreal, was struck
and killed about 2 o'clock on Friday
by a G. T. R. freight train, near the
subway at Point St. Charles. -
Saturday evening while Michael
Carriere, a milkman, aged 53, with
his assistant, Napoleon Tellier, aged
16, were driving across the track in
Montreal they were run clown and in-
stantly killed by the Toronto ex-
press.
The fast passenger train on the San
Antonio & Arkansas Pass Railroad,
known as the "Flyer," was wrecked
30 miles south of Waco, Texas, on
Friday night by tho washing out of
a bridge. Engineer John Hines and
Fireman Womble Were killed.
Grosvenor Peterson, son of Mr. N.
A. Peterson of Belloyille, was dsown-
ed in the Moira yesterday afternoon.
He was bathing with some of his
Id llow-students from Albert College;
and sank in deep water. The body
was repovered 133, his comrades, but ,
life was 'extinct. Deceased was 16
years of age. •
CIIIME A.ND CRIMINALS,
James Christie Brooks, under ar-
rest for shooting a burglar in 'Ire-
land's store in Trenton last Wednes-
day, was on Saturday allowed out on
nominal bail by His Honor, Judge
Fralick. ,
Carl Raab, formerly connected ,With •
a Cleveland,, 0., German neWspaper,
shot and killed his niece, Miss, Bertha
Yucker, on Thursday. Ete then killed
himself. Raub was 50 years old and
his victim 25. .
John T. Howell was lodged in the
cells at the London police' headquar-
ters, charged with .steeling the sum
of 970.75 from S. G, Litt`le,'Oof Toe
relate, Who also keeps a small dry -
goods store in London. Howell was
hi s man a ger .
judge Cantrill has directed Circuit
Clerk, I'ord to issue a bench sverraht
for the arrest of former Governor
'Paylor of Kaitucky. The .warraii L
based on an indictment Secured sever -
el weeka ego, elmeging Taylor with
being atmaccessOry '1.0 the aseassina-
tion of Willie/et Goebel.
Twa young men, J. Jonea and :F.
Lucl, at :i\lilVerton, ,Ook, have been
operating for a week, taking orders
tor erflalgirg pictores. They left
suddenly early Wednesday morning,
..104ving onpaid bills, and were e,ap re
Cid Th urs d ay 111 n am. ' and.'
hraugh t b a ele, Their me tit od was 19
secure at least 50 certts with each
order taken, and they collected quite
4U1T11
l'HE DEAD.
Mrs. Hague, wife of Mr. George
Hague, formerly general manager of
the Merchapts' Dank of Canada, died
Cridoy morning at Montreal.
Charles Engel, said to be the first,
brewer of German lager beer in Am-
erica., died at his residence in Kais-
ers-TAUtern, Rhein Pfalz, Germany.
00in1.11Th'siiicaladealphIliae isrletiiis'esd6fbusiness
.rom
Thomas Mc Kerieber of Perth, about
35 years of age, who has been oper-
ating a steare shoVel along the line
of the Canmla Atlanlie :Railway, was
found dead in his Ottawa boarding
house on Sunday morning.
Friday morning tile death occurred
of St. Cathariaes' esteemed Cfty Clerle
.folm Rollinson. john Rollinson was
bora in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July,
1883, and came Lo this country when
quite young'. In Dece.mber, 1863, he
W515 appointed to the position of City
Chair, which he has filled since 'that
time,
FOR MEN OF WA.R.
.1\rajOr-Goneral Elwell S. Otis, late
of the Philippines, is looked upoa at
army headquarters as next comman-
der of the Department of the Lake.
The 'Yaqui indiaas, after several
-weeks of inactivity, have agent be-
come very annoying to the Mexican
troops near Torin. Several -night
attacks have been made recently, and
a number of casualties are reported.
Officers of the Canadian volunteers
at Vancouver, B.C., have politely but
firmly refused the annual invitation
for their battalions to take part in
celebration of the United States' na-
tional holiday in Seattle. This is
because of recent hostile utterances
of the Seattle press and the anti-Bri-
tish feeling there. •
MARINE MATTERS.
In corning down the canal near
Port Dalhousie the steamer Haskett
struck scarae obstruction which broke
her wheel and loosened her stern
pipe, which has caused her to leak
some. A diver is examining her.
Capt. Smith at Halifax delivered
judgment on Friday in the -wreck of
the steamer Montpelier. He said the
captain should have exercised the
lead more than Inc did, and not hav-
ing done so was negligence on his
part. Capt. Galt was suspended for
three months.
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Archbishop Chappelle, who is in the
Philippines as a papal delegate from
the United States, is to be made a
cardinal.
The Free Church Assembly in ses-
sion at Edinburgh on Thursday ap-
proved by 592 -votes to 29, the union
with the 'United Presbyterian Chnrch.
The union evill be effected in October.
THE FIRE RECORD.
At Fort De France, Island of Mar-
tinique, on Wednesday, a fierce fire
broke out, resulting in the clestruc-
ion of the Custom House and a num-
ber of houses in the imraediate vicin-
ity of the building.
Chick -Say, ma, got my clothes ready?
I want to come out. -New York Journal.
Which Won't'
They made a wager as to which could
give a story the widest circulation in the
shortest time.
' One of them had it manifolded en the
typewriter and sent it to every newspa-
per in the town.
The other merely told it to his wife
"in strict conlidenee."-Chicago Post.
ONLY A LAUGH,
Only a laugh, but 1115' jQY et 111s hola'S in it,
Dropping 50 lilltboly from out of, the 5100111,
Down from the casement that leis the red tlowait
Flooldnini,
g1with sunshine my poor little room.
Only a laugh, but I know, M:11 51110$0 choice Liz
011 I can .mess whose the that can eliaff
Whose is the ssulsog mouth, whose bubb1111i; voiec
it is,
Putting such perfume in only. a laugh;
Only a latigh! 34 lone life 1) 00 shadowy,
Tinged with the clarliness that solitude grows,
Most of the brightness missed. isoot of its glad
away,
Most of its tenderness chilled by the snows.
Only a laugh, but so much of the gay in 111
oh, were there lov.e 'twould bo sweater by le:14S
I could forget that my hair has its gray in 16
Were it far me more than -only a laugh!
-New York Pcese,
WHERE PRICES ARE STEADY,.
The Mountain Dealer Ob;leeteci tes 'n
Pall Foy Religions nerisow4,„
"That veminds ine ludirectly," Sala
the other drummer, "of a yarn 1 heard
lately over in South Carolina told tat
the expense of a peculiarly guilf.esa
old chap who keeps a little crossroads
store up in the mountains. l!veryboder
wears boots in that part of the country,
and, as the story goes, the old fellow
had been buying his stock for many
years of a manoracturer in a big city
not 1,000 1111105 away. IiIc,‘ paid 96 -a
pair for his boots when he first wept
into business, and the maker had <Nom-
.
tinuecl charging him the same Egure
year after year regardless ,of the fact
that the market price ball been steadily,
going clown. 'The old storekeeper., se-
cluded from the world in his mountabe
home, never dreamed that be was 1}8-
ing fleeced and took pride in payMg bJs
bills with clocklike punctuality.
"At last, when that grade of boOtie
was quoted at 92.50, tbe manufactur-
er's conscience smote him, and he de-
eided to make amends. So be woote
the country merchant, saying that
there bad been a considerable decrease
In the price of leather, and be was glai9
to state that he would be able to let
him have the last lot of boots he order-
ed at 94 a pair. This, be added, was a
special low rate, made on account of
personal esteem and the fact that ba
had been a regular customer tor suck a
long period. A few clays afterward tics
conscientious manufacturer was amaz-
ed to receive a letter running some-
thing lilee this:
"Dear Sir—It's mighty kind of you all to otter tc
let me have than boots at 91, but I wish yaai
would please keep the price the same as what iis
was before. I have been selling them boots for sat
a pair for 12 years, and, being a deacon in the
church, I don't think it would be right to take no
stronger profit. So no more at present from, yet=
truly, (1111:5
-New Orleans 'times -Democrat.
THE PALACE WAITED.
A Builder's Suggestion That Chang,.
ed the Pluns of a Pope.
At a time a -hen there was great But,
fering among the people from lack oE
food aud when famine in its wors,
form was threatened Pope Alexandet
VI had made arrangements for the
erectiou of a magnificent palace. The
bost,architects had been employed, and
the plans had been submitted and ac-
cepted, and an accomplished builder
had been sent for to come from Ilenicei,,
ii man whose work had won forlimr*-
nown and who was known to be -alai*
-and upright man.
The builder had arrived, and ateseis
appointed time he waited upon his ,ho-
liness to receive the plans and make him
estimates. "There is one thing yet to
be done," said the pope. "There faao
been no proper inscription or legsvel
thought of to be placed over the mato
entrance of the palace. It should be
put above the great gate. You have
had experience. Do you think of a*
Inscription that would be appropriater
"If your holiness would pardon co aik
for the liberty, I might suggest MC
most appropriate at this time."
"You are pardoned in advance," Sella
the pope, smiling. "Now, what shall flf8
be?"
"Sovereign pontiff, let it be Ca=
'Command that these stones be made
bread!'"
The pope was visibly and deeply age
fected. He paid the builder munificeatr
ly for his expenses of coming and eii,*&,
ing, and instead of building Pis paizee
he fed the humerv ones of his laildreme
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