HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-8-16, Page 6S ALL SHINE AS THE STARS.
Rev. Dr. Tallniage Discourses on the
of the Christian.
A despatch from Washington says:—
Rev. Dr. Talmage preaelaed from the
following text ;—"They that turn
many to righteoueness shall shine as
the stars for ever and ever."—Daniel
xii. 3.
It would be absurd for me to stand
here, and, by elaborate argument,
prove, that the world is off the track.
You might as well stand at the foot of,
an earibauknaent, amid the wreok of a
capsized rail -train, proving by elabor-
ate argument that something is out
of order. Adam tumbled over the em-
bankment sixty centuries ago, and
the whole race, in one long train, has
gone on tieueleling in the eame diree-
tion, Crash! crash! The only ques-
tion now ie, 13y what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? 13y what ham-
mer may the fragment's be recon-
structed?
First: We may turn them, by the
charm• of a right example. A child,
corning from a filthy home, was
taught at school, to wash it face. It
eveut home so much improved in are
pearance that its mother washed her
face. And when the father of the
household came home, and saw the im-
provement in domestic appearance, he
washed his face. The neighbours
eonaing in, ea,w the change, and tired
the same experiment, until all that
street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the
whole city felt the result of one school-
boy washing his face. That is a
fable, by which we set forth that the
best way te.get the world washed of
its sins aad pollution is to have our
own heart and life cleansed and puri-
fied. A man with grace in hie heart,
and Christian cheerfulness in his face,
and holy consistency in his behaviour,
a perpetual senmon; and the ser-
mon differs from others in that it has
but one head and the longer it rune,
the better. There are honest men who
walk down Wall Street, ranking the
teeth of iniquity chatter. ,There are
happy men who go into a sick-ropm,
and by a look, help the broken bone
to knit, and the excited nerves drop to
calm beating. They are pure men
whoee presence silences the tongue of
uncleanness. The mightiest agent
of good on earth Ls a consistent Chris-
tian. I like the Bible folded between
lids of cloth, of calfskin, or of morocco,
but I like it better when, in the
shape of a man, it goes out into the
world—
A BIBLE ILLUSTRATED.
Courage is beautiful to •read about;
but rather wautd f aee a man with all
the world against hica confident as
though all the world were for him.
Patience is beautiful to read about;
but rathee would I see a buffeted
eoul ealcely waiting for the time of
deliverance. Faith is beautiful to rea.ci
about; but rather would 1 find a man
in the midnight walking straight
on as though he saw everything. Oh,
how many souls have been turned to
God by the charm of a right example!
Again: We may turn many to right-
eousness by prayei. There is no such
detective as prayer, for no one can
hide away from it. It pute its hand on
the shoulder of a ma.n ten thousan.d
miles off. It alights on a shit) mid-
Atlantic. The little child cannot under_
stand the law of electricity, or how
the telegraphic operator, by
touching the instrument here,
may dart a message under
the isea to another continent:
nor can we, with our small intellect,
understand how the touch of a Chris-
tian's 'prayer shall instantly strike a
soul an the other side of the earth.
You take ship and go- to some other
country, and get there at eleven
o'clock in the morning. You tele-
graph to New York, and the message
gets here at six o'clock the same
reertaing. In other words, it seems to
arrive here five hours before it start-
ed. Like the‘t is prayer, God says,
" Before they call. 1 will hear.To
overtake a loved one on the road, you
may epur up a lathered steed until he
• shall outrace the one that brought the
news to Ghent; but a prayer shall
• catch ii. at one gallop. A boy running
away from borne may take the mid-
night train from the country village,
and reach the sea -port ill time to gain
the ship that sails an the mcerrew ;
but a mother's prayer will be on the
deck to meet him, and in the ham-
mock before he ewings into it, and
at the capstan before he winds the
rope around it, and on the eea, against
the eky, as the vessel ploughs an to-
ward it. There is a mightiness in
prayer. The breath of Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds off the ,sky, and
it was dry weather. The breath of Eli-
jah's prayer blew all the clouds to-
gether, and it was wet weather. Pray -
in Daniel's time, Walked the cave
as a lion-tarneae It reached up, and
toek the sun by its golden bit, and
stopped it. We have all yet' to try
the full
POWER OF PRAYER.
The time will come when the Amari -
Gan Chureh will pray With its face to-
ward the west, and all the prairies
Reward
God; you are there to an instant to
do it. There is a young man in New
York to be arrested from going into
that gat e of stn; you are there Lnan
instant to arrest him. Whether with
spring of foot, or stroke of wing, by
Lthe Reece of some new law, that shall
hued you to thtl,. spot where you would
go, 1 know not; but my text sug-
gests velocity. All pace open before
and inland cities will surrender tolyn°11ra' Iswsifothn of ll7tihiaihhgt, atondiVnlovdoe:ranydou
itt
God; and will pray with face toward
the eea, and all the islands and ships you Shall ShilL0 14), SWiftneSS
become Christian. Parente who
have wayward sons will get down on
their knees and say, "Lord, send my
by home," and the boy in Canton
eha.L1 get right up from the gaining -
(able, and go down to the wharf to
find DLit which ship starts first for
Altnerina.
As stars, the redeemed have a bor-
rowed light. What makes Marc. and
Line as the stare for weer and ever.
'Again; Christian workers, like the
stars, shall snlue in magnitude. 'Ihe
most illiterate man. knows that these
things in the sky, looking like gilt
buttons, are great masses of .mate
ter. .To weigh theme one would think
that it would require spates with a
pillar hundreds at thousands of mile*
high, and chains hundreds a
Venue, and ,Tupiter so luminous ? thousands 02 miles lung, and
When tlid sun throws' down his torch at the 83°Itttem a the chains
basins, an eether side hundreds of
in the laeavens, the stars pick up the
scattered brands, and held them tilmusands of miles wa;dah and that
,in Procession as the quee,n of the night ChaniPe'ten" alone could Put the
adranees; so all Christian workers, ineirntains into the scales'. and the
gtanding around the throne, will hills into 918 balance. But' punY man
shine in the light borrowed from I he has bee'neiuc4 to the un-dertaking''
Sun of Righteousness, jesus in their and has set a little haiall'e on his
faces, Jesus in their songs, Jesus in gel°PetrY, and weighed( world against
their triumph. Christ left heaven world. Yea, he has Pulled out his
once for a tour of redemption on measaring-ifne'
El
and announced that
earth, yet the glorified ones knew 'he Herschel is thirty-six thousand miles
would came back again. But let him in diagnetble S,aturn eventy-nme
abdkate his throne, and go away ttheasan'd mires in dianeter, and
stay for ever, the music would stop; jupiter efghty-siine thousand mites in
io
the congregation disperse; the tem- diameter, and that' the smallest pearl
Pies of Gad be darkened, the rivers on the beach of heaven isimmense
would became a hearse, and every bell Wal0 have toiled for Clartst on earth
So all they
of light stagnate; and every chariot heY°nd imagrnation.
would toll, and there would not be shall rise 119 to a magnitude 'a Prvi-
of the great metropolis, for there and a magnitude at .holiness, and a
strength
room an the hill sides to bury the dead lege, and a magnitude of -
Jesus lives, and so all the redeemed saint in glory- become greater than
would be pestilence in heaven. But
live with him. He shall recognize all that we can now imagine of. an
them as his conara.des in earthly toil, .archangel.
and remember what they did for the Lastly, and corning to this point my
honor of his name, and for the spread mind almost breaks down under the
and tears, and work will rise before
Prayers, contemplation—dike the stars, all
Christian workers shall. shine
of his kingdom. All their
him as he looks into their faces, and IN DURATION.
he will divide his kingdom with them; The same stars that look down upon
his peace—their peace; his holinessg- us looked dawn upon the Chalda.ean
their holiness; his joy—their joy. The shepherd.
a
glory of the central throne reflected a'hemeteor that I 'saw flanhing
from the surrounding thrones, the lasil across the sky the other ,night, I won -
spot of sin struckl, from the Christian
der if it was not the same one that
aottrbd, aandfiathste enwtiir
the n
itaothurt:e tahetyshall
pointed down to. where Jesus lay in
shine as the stars a manger, and.if, having pointed out
FOR EVER AND EVER.
Again: Christian workers shall be
like the stars in the fact that they
have a light independent of each oth-
er. Look up at night, and see eacla
world show its distinct glory. It is
not like the conflagration, in which
you cannot tell where one flame stops
and another begins. Neptune, Her-
schel, and Mercu_ry are as distinct as
if each One of them were the only
..star; so our individualismwill not be
lost in heaven. A great 'multitude
—yet each one as observable, as dis-
tinctly recognized, as greatly
cele- ever the jubilee progresses. The ,Lamb
brated, as if in all the space, from which is ia the midst of the throne
gate to gate, from hill to hill, he were shall lead them to living fountains of
the only inhabitant; no mixing uri,_ water,hand God shall wipe away all
Christian worker standing out illus- But tears from their eyes.
te,,otte f these things for the id -
o
no mob—no indiscriminate rush; each
trious—all tlse story of earthly lere, the drones, the stumbling -blocks.
achievement adhering to each one; , They Wilo haveeby prayer and exam -
his self -denials, and pains; and ser- plc, and Christian work, ,turned many
vices, and victories published.
Again: Christian workers will shine
like -the stars in swiftness a motion.
The worlds do not stop to shine.
There are no fixed stars save as to
vela Live position. The star most
thorpughly fixed flies thousands of
miles a minute. The astronomer,
using his telescope for an Alpine
stock, leaps frone world -crag to amount 'of war material sent Out. It
woredecrag, and finds no star stand- appears from an article in the Edin-
mg still. The charaois taunter has to burgh Review that 170 millions of
fly to catch his pray, 'out not so swift email:area ammunition have been for -
is his game as that which the scient- warded' The 1811°Nving figures give
ist trees to shoot through the tower re s
the corresponding provision of artil-
,
of the observ,etory. Like pe L 1 lerY ammunition'
Atlantic, that seem, to come from Over 105,000 raahdd for the 12 -
no shore, and be bound to no landing pounder 11. A' gun.
place—flying, flying—so these great ; Over 330,000 rounds for the 15 -
flocks of worldrest not as then go --g pounder' iield gun'
wing and wing—age after, age—for I over 30,0.00 rounds for the 5 -Inch
ever and ever. The eagle bastes to howitzer.
Prey, but we shall in sPeed beat- the l Over 20,000 rounds for the 5 -inch gun.
eagles.You have noticed the veiod Nearly 21,000 rounds for the 4-7 gun.
,
city. oi the swift horse under whose Nearly 380,000 rounds for the "Pool -
feet the miles slip like a smooth rib-. Pe're''•
The clothing etatistics are as follow.
bon, and as lie passes, the four hoofs
strike the .earth in such quick beat Drab suits' much. over 200'000'
your pulses take the game vibra- Khaki suits' aheut 80'000'
,s ,
tion. Hut all these things are not Boote, pair, over 370,000,
'
swift in cornpagison with the motion Woollen draw.ere, over 400,000
of vviaich I speak. The moon 'move's Jerseys, ever 200,000'
T
fifty-four thousand miles in a day. :Worsted socks OVe170,000.
Yonder Neptune flashes on eleven Flannel bells, over 400,000.
,
thousand miles in an ,hour. Yonder, Flannel shirts, over500,000.
Mercury goes one hundred und nine
Besides this, some,18,000 tents, 426,000
thous -,td mil.e,s an hour. So, like blankets, 300,000 waterproof sheets, and
other such general stores have been
the stars, the Christian worker shall
shine, in swiftness of motion. You sent* _ _
As regards ood, though mach has
hoax now of frillier, or Mother, or f
been collected in the country itself, the
claild sick one thousand miles away,
you two days to
and it takes
exports have been gigantic; 85 million
,
pounds in weight of the fifty-eight
get to them. You, hear of some case
items meat, bacon, cheese, . peasoup,
of suffering- that 'demands your fin-
m,ediate attention, but it takes you
an hour to get there. Oh the joy
when you shall, in fulfillment of the
text, take sterry, speed, and be equal
to one bundred thouearal miles an
hour. Having on earth got used to
Christian •work, you, will not quit
WHE'N DEATH STRIKES YOU.
You Will Only take on more velocity.
meat. Of forage, 79,000 tons were sent about to est:el-dish their own righteous -
There is a dying child in Landon,
from English end 154,000 tons from ness and unwilling to receive or v,,4neeeie
told itS spirit 131115 tak°'-,f up to foreign and Colonial porte,
his birthplace. it has ever since been
wandering thasougla the heavens,
watching to see how the world would
treat him. When Adam awoke in the
garden in the cool of the day, hesaw
garden in the cool of the day, he saw
conaing out through the dusk of the
evening the same worlds that greeted
us 0111 Call way to church to -night.
Safe fox ever—all Christian workers.
No toil shall fatigue -them ; no hostil-
ity overcome them; no pain pierce
them; no night shadow them. For
ever the river of joy flows on; for
to righteousness, and only they
" shall shine as the stars for ever.'
THE SUPPLIES OF WAR.
eggs
Enormous Quantities of Goods Sent to
smith Africa by Great Britain.
Sense idea of the cost of the South
African war may be derived from the
LESSON VIII, THIRO QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 19.
SOME RECORD TIIVIE.
ante by Ivar correspondents anal Itough.
' stetting Seouts.
- ABOUT' KING HUMBER'I'.
hharaeterastles or the Aiseasheated Igen.
aree—neleved by sine People. 1
The war correspondents in South King Humbert is described as intre-
pid, gifted with splendid enthusiasne
at times, and frank and open in his
treatment of his subjeots, says a
writer in the New York journal. He
has been known as the moist Martial'
figure among Earapean sovereigns,
with the poesible exeePtion of the'
German Emperor. He has kept his
body lithe and active by abstemious
Living, and is a devotee of the vege-
tarian system.
He OWTIS palaces in all sections of
Italy, and the: expenees of the main-
tenance of these takes up two -third
of his civil allowanee oP $3,800,000.1
With aLl his faults King Humbert has
been most generous.. He not only paidi
off the enormous debts of his fiatherg
refusing all offe.rs of assistance from
the State, but he has been a most
charitable monarch as well.
CHARITY FOR:THE POOR.
His charity in many instaidOes has'
been for the direct • welfare of his ,
poorest subjects. A few months ago
he gave $30,000 to organize an anahNe-
ance eervice for the rnalarMestricken
villages of his kingdom, a sum- that
he could ill afford to give, en view a
the enormous expense of naaintaining
his establishments. Then, too, he cons
veated the proiduction and sale a.
a/Teeing seven large rivers and num- quinine Linto a Government monopoly,
and thus removed it feom the extroe
tionate methods of druggists to wit*
in reach of the people.
Such aets as theee have endeared
King Humbert to a very great num-
ber of his subjeets. His generosity
his kindly bearing toward his subjects,
and Inc personal honesty have beets
without question.
Ktiag Humbert has never been,
credited vvith great intellect. It has
been charged that at times he ha.i'
been too sta.nchly obedient to the con-
stitution, and at other times too neg.:
leetful orits requirements.
THE KING AND THE POPE.
Victor Enamanuel wrested. Rome
from the Papacy, and the son, Hume
hart, has been unrelenting in his at-
titude toward the Holy Father, and
vice versa. The Vatican has waged
unnecessary war upon the Italian
State. Humbert fla.tly refu,sed to re-'
store to Leo XIII. his ecclesiastical
rights, so that the Pape woulcUreign
with supreme temporal power irs
Rome.
The differences between the Papacy
and the Italian Government have
been a source of great grievance to
relatives of the royal family. Prine
cess Clothilde, the king's sister, even
refused to cross the threshold of the
Quirinal when she went to Roane to
the deathbechof her hies -band.
And for similar reasons many mon-
archs of Europe have refused to re-:,
turn visits paid to therm by 17-41er
Humbert and Queen Marguerite:1P'
• NOT A CREATIVE KING. -
It cannot be said that Humbert has
beeoa a creative or a masterful rut.,
er: While fbaly has enjoyed freedom
from wars, the country has not grown'
en strength during Humbert's reign -
extraordinary
enough to stamp him as a most
extraordinary. man." He has been a kind and just monarch—
Afsdea have dwelt on tho so-called re -
Text et the Leemon. John 1 -TT,
Memory Verses, 4-I.—golden Teat, 4eloiiii'do-41.),hreackaivnaigi ryPeian' r tnhian Peis,ranosivatahle,
John ix, 26—coininentary Prepared There was, for in.stance„ the fine ride
by the Bev. D. M. steam's. of the Natal Mounted Carlaineere,
[Copyright, 1900, beyiatelionellelicart Preas AiSSO, W110 rade 85 miles in 12 hours over the
sun-scorclieci veldt, or the dash of
1. "And as Jesus Passed by He saw .0. Freaawa Horse for eacei•ellef ef Kim-
inan which was blind froth his Write"
Many blind people had their eye e opened berley, when the troopers stayed. in
by 1Ilin (luting His public ministry. R the,saddle far more than seven hour.
would be interesting and profitable to col- Of couese, the ride of a Wady cav-
leet the incidents and seek to gather the
lesson from each, yet each has its own alry in their full equipments, 'which
setting apart from which the special les- burdens nearly ever•yll°rse with near -
son of the case cannot be felly learned, ly 250 pounds, munt; net be, congealed
All the incidents of healing in Hie minis- with long-distance records achieved by
try speak of the Iringdom where the blind
single riders in racing trim, such' as
Count Stahrenberg, who rode one
horse over a distance of 350 miles in
70 hours, OT Baron Cotter, who eode
from Vienna to Paris, a. distance of
625 miles, 12 1-2 days. One of the
most famous long-distance rides in
history was that of King Charles XII.,
of Sweden, who, in 1714, rade from
Demotica, in Turkey, to Stralsund,
in Sweden, a distance of 1,300 mile,s,
in a fortnight.
he present South African records
were eclipsed as long ago as 1842,
when Dick King, a British dispatch
rider, covered the 600 nai_le,e from Port
Natal to Grahamstown in niiie days,
see, the deaf hear, the lame •walk, the
dumb sing and the inhabitant shall not
say, I am sick (Isa. XXXI', 5, 6; XXXiii,
24). -
2, 3. It is a common thought with
many, even to this day, that any and ev-
ery affliction must be the result of some
sin; but our'Iaord says not so; rather, He
says that the blind, deaf, dumb and sick
give opportunity to make manifest the
works of God. Allowing that there
would Ilene been no sickness and no suf-
fering had there been no ein, and that
sin is the work of the devil and that Je-
sus came to destroy the works of the dev-
il (1 John iii, 8; Acts x, 38), every work.
of the devil gives the Lord the oppor-
tunity to destroy it. In due time He vvill
destroy all enemies, even death itself, as
well as him who has the power of it (1
Cor. xv, 26; Hab. ii, 14). .
4, 5. It was a stronger comfort to the
Lord Jesus that the Father sent Him
(John vii, 16, 18,28, 29, 33; viii, 16, 18,
26, 29, 42, etc.). He came as the light of
the world to work the works of God:
Now that He has returued to the Father
and sent the Holy Spirit with a special
commission, all His redeemed are in the
world as the light of the world that God
may now work His works through them
(Math. v, 14, 16; Phil. ii, 13). His own
words to the Father in prayer were, "As
Thou hast sent Me Into the world, even
so have I also sent them into the world,"
and after His resurrection He said to His
disciples, "As My 'Father hath sent Me,
even so send I 'you" (Jolan xvii, 18; xx,
21).
6, 7. There are blind people every-
where, blinded by the god 'of this world
(II Cor. iv. 3, 4). The Lord Jesus is still
opening blind eyes, and He often uses
clay to do it. We are the clay, He is the
potter, and we are in His hand as the
clay in the hand of the potter (Isa. lxiv,
8; ,Ter. xviii, 6). We are His workman-
ship (lhph. ii, 10) even as that piece of
clay was, and He will apply us to some
blind eyes to open them if we are as
passive in His hands a, that piece of
clay; but we must be content to be used
and weshed off into Siloam that Lie may
be glorified. He rejoices to be sent of
God, as we have been, and the clay was
washed off in Siloam, which means
"sent," and is suggestive of Himself.
8-11. The contrast between the poor
blind beggar and the man walking about
with his eyes open was so great that
those who formerly knew hina did not
recognize him, and some could hardly
believe him to be the seine person. His
own testimony was Clear and convincing.
"I am the man who was blind, and a man
called Jesus put clay on ray eyes and sent
me to wash it off in Siloam, and I went
and washed, and I received sight." If
there was as marked contrast between
the new life and the old in every child ge
God, how God would be 'glorified! And
certainly God desires it to be according to
II Cor. iv, 11; f, 15, 17, and He would
make it so if we were only willing.
12. "Then said they unto him, Where
I e He? He said, I know not." He had
never seen Him and knew not whither
He went after He had put the clay upon
his eyes and sent him to Siloam. When
Jesus found him., after the Pharisees liad
cast him out, and said unto him, Dost
thou believe on the Son of God? he did
not know who was speaking to him, but
said, Who is he, Lord, that I might be-
lieve on him? Then for the first time he
saw, and knew that he saws his Lord, his
healer, and he believed on Him •and wor-
shiped (verses 35-88).
13. "They brought to the Pharisees
him that aforetime was blind." The
Pharisees still live and have much to
say; they are very religious, but it is all
outward to be seen of men (Math. xxiii,
5), yet they are often rulers and leaders
in religious matters. When any one has
special blessings from the Lord or has
learned to know Him intimately for their
own or others' good, the Pharisees are
apt to have something to say. g
14: "And it was the Sabbath day when
Jegus made the clay and opened his
eyes!' The impotent man at the pool
I3ethesda was also healed on theSabbittla
day, and for thus bres.king their Sabbath
the Jews sought to kill Jesus (John v, 9,
16). They had perverted the Lord's
feasts and ordinances, and .by their tra-
ditions set up those of their ovrn, accord-
ing to their own thoughts, making the
word of God of none effect (Math. xv,
8, 6, 0). Although Jesus had told them
more than once who He was and Whence
He was, yet they insist upon saying, As
for this fellow we keow not from whence
He is (verse 29), and also say, This man
is not of God, because He keepeth not
the Sabbath day.
15. "He put clay upon mine eyes, and
I washed and do see." This is the rna,n's
answer to the Pharisees when they 111.1e.f.1
how he had rddeived his sight. He is a
good witness; he always tells the same
etory. He is also a bold vvitness (verses
i30-83) and is privileged to be reviled for
It (verse 28). Ile is very strong upon
one great point, "One thing I know, that
whereas I was blind. now I see" (verse
25). He had received his natural sight,
and he knew it, and no one could make
him doubt that. He soon after received
his spiritual sight and acknowledged Je-
sus as the Son of God.
10, 17. "He Is a prophet." As the
Pharisees disputed abotet Christ and
were divided in their opinions, they asked
the inan who had been blind what he had
to say of Him, and this was his answer,
etc., having been despatched. The Their condition Was far worse than that
difficulties of package may be imagin- of the blind beggar, for his blindness was
ecf—frorn the eetimate that 622 000 physical, and he knew he was blind end
'Hine to be healed; they'were bliod
bottles of different kinds were in wTdiv'
• !spiritually and did not know it, but ae-
cinded these supplies. Interesting tunny thought they saw (verses 40, 41),
items ate 10 ,million pounds of jam and therefore needed he healitig, It is a
and nearinelade, 27 million pounds of great thing to know our true condition
f our real need, but a
biscuits, 1 1-2 million potinde of tobac- t%ni,(,1,4,bblee FreTi.i.;.1>11-(30 (e)e Ince these pharisees,
co, 20 1-2 million pounds of preserved ignorant or God's righteousness, going
Christ a8 the rightcouene,.,,, ' &toe
S. 4).
herless smaller spruits on the way.
King's ride resukted in the relief of the
hard-pressed British garrison at -Pont
Natal, which was then besieged by
Boers.
THE COLLAR BUTTON.
Its Blessings Realized Only by Those Who
Have Lived Without It.
" In looking over a trunk full of
old trtick the other day," said the
middle-aged man, "I came across a
lot of old shirts withi the buttons
sewed on, and as I looked at them I
realized anew what the collar button
_means -to humanity. There have been
greater inventions, surely, but not
many that have conferred a more un-
mixed blessing on mankind. The
younger person of to -day, accustomed
to the collar button always, cannot
realize what it was to be without it.
He can never know what it was to
have shirts with the buttons sewed on,
—or not, as the, case might be. Not
so very many years ago, when the col-
lar button was yet comparatively new
before persons had come to keep, as
everybody commonly does now, a lot
of buttons on hand, the man who had
lost his collar button thought himself
entitled to dee eyrapathy of his fel-
lows; but wrung as hsa. might_ be by
that loss be could not even guess at
the anguish tha t in the sewed -on but-
ton days flied the heart Of the man
who, when he came to put on his last
clean shirt, found that key button,
the one on the collar band, most- im-
portant one 'of all, gone entirely or
only just hanging by a thread! 1
knew a man once who had this happen
to him aneldhe didn't sweal'elhat was
the only great till/1g, he ever'did; but
I have always thought that that alone
—TO STUDY THE OCEAN.
to his subjects, but has not been they'
author of great works of development.
Gerniany, with its usual thorough- •Although a most soldierly figure on',
ness, is bent on systematically ar- horseback and educated in military ale
ranging the knowledge likely to ad. fairs, King Humbert has never
cure from its development as a sea brought the Italian -array to estate
power. Emperor William has ordered of excellence. The humiliation of de -
established at Berlin an instithte for feat at the hanclg;Oi Menelek's Abys-
the study of the ocean., At this center simian army was very great, and it
materials already acquired will be_col- is said that the King's- sufferings at
lected, and considerable- additions are that time were very keen":
expected to be made to the knowledge
of the marine physics, chemistry and CLEVER 'SYSTEM.
natural history.
GOOD ADVICE ,TO IGNORE.
flow does it happen that you! are so
successful xa lent 1 polities?
aGeycontrary to the advice
given rae by my political opponents,
and then I know I can't make a mis-
take.
Jinx—You're wearing a very mourn:,
morning?
Thinx—Nothing. Why?
Jinx—Your'e wearing a very mourn.
ful expression.
Thinx-0! I'm just assuming that.
It's 'part of my system, of mnemon-
ics. My wife eommdssioned me to buy
her some sad -irons to -day.
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