Exeter Advocate, 1900-11-15, Page 2LAND
GOSPEL
The Rev. Dr. Tali -nage Urges Us to Struggle for the
eavenly Shore.
A deapateli from waeataaaeae say
--Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from th
following text; "I am e,scaped wit
the skin of my teeth."---,Tob, xix. 20
Job had it hard. He washed he wa
dead and I do not blame him. Ha
flesh waa gone, and his bonee wer
dry. ale cafes out, "I am escape
with the akin of my teeth".
A very naeraw escape, you say, for
.Tob'e body and soul; but there are
thousa,nds of men wain make juet as
narrow .eacape for their soul, 'Vaere
Waa a titian when the partition be-
tween them and ruin was no thiekez
than a tooth's enamel; but, as job
finally escaped, ea have they. Thank
God!
I want to show you, af God will
help, that some men make narrow
eseapes ter th.eir smile, and are saved
as "with the skin of their teeth."
We
will admit that it is MUM dif-
ficult for eame men to accept the
G-ospel than aor ()there. Smile of you,
in coming to God, wall aa-ve to run
against sceptical notions. It is use-
,
less for people to say sharp and cut-
ting tihings to those who reject the
Chriatian religion, I oannot say
such things. lay what preeess of
temptation., oa trial, or betrayal, you
have come to your present state 1
know not. There are two gates to
youe nature; the gate of the head,
and the gate af the heart. The gate
of your head as looked with bolts and
bare that tea archangel could not
break, but the gate of your heart
swings easily an its hinges. If I as-
s,aulted your body with weapons you
would meet tee -with weapons, and it
would be sward -stoke for sword -
stroke and wound for wound, and
blood for blood; but if I come and
knock at the door of your house, you
open at, and give me the best seat
in your parlour. If 'should come at
you with an argument, you would
anefveex me with an argument; if with
sarcasm, you would answer me with
sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for
stroke; bait when I come and knock
at the door of your heart, you open .
it and say, "Come in, my brother,
and tell me all you kntow about
Christ and heaven."
Listen to two or thee questions;
Are you as happy as you used to be
when you believed in the truth of the
Christian religione Would you like
to have your children travea on in
the road in which you are
now travelling? You had a
a relative, who professed to be a Chris-
tian, and was thoroughly consistent,
living and dying in the faith of the
Gospel. Would you not like to live
the same quiet life, and die the same
,peaceful death? I recently received
a letter, sent me by one who has re-
jected the Chriatian religion. It says,
"1 ants old enough to know that the
joys and pleasures of life are evanes-
cent, and to realize the fact that it
must be comfortable in old age to I
believe in. something relative to the d
future, ansi to have a faith in some h
eystean that proposes to save. I am i
free to confess that I would he hap- b
pier if I could exercise the siraple and a
J
beautiful faith that is possessed by • LI
'
many whom I know. I am b not will- ,
id
ingly out of the Ch.ureh or out of the
faith. My state of uncertainty is
one of unrest. Sometimes Idoubt my '
immortality, and look upon the death- 1
N
bud as the closing scene, after which k
there is nothing. What shall I do
of
..
that I have, not done ?" Ah 1 sceptic- fi
ism. 15 a dark and doleful land. Let w
me sa,y that this Bible is either true Sa,
or false. If it be Lease we are as an
w,ell off as you; if it be true, then at
which of us is safer. _
• Do you not feel that the Bible, take 3'0
it all in all, is about the beat book Y
rah
that the world has ever seen ? Do /0
you know any book that has as much sa
in it? Do yon not think, upon tlae Ha
whole, that it a influence has been he
I
beneficent? I come to you with both y.s
bands extended toward you. In one
hand I have the Bible, and. in the Hu
other I have nothing. This Bible in eu
one hand I will surrender for ever just oes
as soon a$ in any other hand you can up
a a
th
nes
br
or
hes
the
fro
b u
par
e; those het -breathed peesions; and, with
e them ride down injuatice and wrong.
b There are a thousand things
. ie the world 'that we ought
s to be mad at. There is no
e beam. in getting red hot if you only
e bring to the, forge that which needs
d hanamering. A man who has no Pow-
er of righteous, indignation is an ina-
laeeile. But be Ottre itt is a righteoua
indignation, and not a a petulancy
that blurs, and unravels, and depletes
th.e soel.
There Ls a large cle.ss of persons in
mid-life who have still he them ap-
petites that were aroused in early
manhood, at a time when they paid -
ed thsmselves Ott 'being a "little -fast,"
"high livers," "free and easy," "hale
fellowe well met." They are now
paying in compound interest for trou-
bles they collected twenty years ago.
Soma of you tire trying to escape, a
you will—yet very narrowly, ' w
the skin of your teeth." Godl a
your own soul only know what t
struggle is. Omnipotent grace h
pulled out many a soul that was
deeper an the mire tha.n .you are. They
lane tb.e beach of heaven—the multi-
tude whom God has rescued from the
thrall of suicidal habits. If you this
day turn back. on the wrong, and
start anew, God will help you. Obl
the weakness of human help! Men
will sympathize for a while, and then
tuna you off. If you ask for their
pardon, they will give it, and say
they will try you again; but, falling
away again under the power of temp-
tation, they east you off for ever.
But God forgives seventy times seven;
yea, seven hundred times; yea, though
thia be. the ten thousandth tirae, he
is more earnest, more sympatbetic,
mane! helpful this last time than when
you took your first nais-steP.
If, with all the influences favor-
able for a right life, men make so
many naietakes, how much harder is
at when, for instance., some appetite
thrusts its iron grapple into the
roots of the. tongue, and pulls a man
clown with hands of d,estruction If,
under suel. circumstances, he break
away, there will be no sport in the
undertaking, no holiday enjoyment,
but a struggle in whiola the wrest -
marc frorn side to side, and bend
and twiat, and watch for an oppor-
tuna t • h ' stroke,
til with one final effort, in which th
nmacles are distended, and the veins
stand out, and the. blood starts,. the
swarthy halait falLs under the knee
of ,the victor --escaped at last as
"with the skin of his teeth."
There are others who, in attempt-
ing to come to God, must run between
a great many b-usiness perplexities.
If a man go over to business at bee
o'clock in the moaning, and comes
away at thr.ea O'clock in the after-
noon, he has some time foe- religion;
but how- shall you find time. for re-
igiou,s contemplation when you are
riven frora sunri,se to sunzet, and
aye been for five years going behind
is business, a.nd are frequently dunned
y creditors whom you cannot pay,
nd •when, from Monday morning
atil Saturday night, you are dodging
ills that you cannot meat? You walk
ay by day in uncertainties that have
ept your brain on fire for the past
hree years. Soma, with leas business
embles than you, have gone crazy.
ow, God will not be hard on you. Ile
Hear me, all eueh mein 1 preach to
you no rounded periods, np ornamental
discouree; hat I put any hand oil your
ehoulder. and invite you into the peace
of the Gospel, 'Here is a rook on whiola
you may stand firm, though the waves
dash against it harder data the At-
lantic, pitching its surf clear above
Eddystone Light-houee. Bo not
charge upon God all these trotibles
of the world. As lenge as the world
stuck to God, God stuck to the world;
but the earth seceded from his govern-,
ment, and hence al i these outrages and
all these woes., God ia good. For many
hundreds of years he has been coaxing
the world to come back to him; but
the more he has coaxed, the more vio-
ent Iave men been in their resistance,
and they have stepped. back and etep-
ped back until they have dropped into
ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the
blood -hounds after you., and who have
thought that God had forgottenyou,.
Try him, and see if he will not help.
Try ham and see if he will not pardon.
Try hitn, anal see if he will Mat save.
The flowers of spring have no bloom
tso sweet as the flowering ofeChrist's
affections. The men hath no )varmth
compared, with the glow of his heart.
The waters have no refreshment like
nd the fountain that will elake the thirst
WI of thy soul. At the Moment the rein-
nd deer stands with his hip and nostril
li th'reSt in the cool mountain torrent,
as ease, hunter may be- conairtg through
the thicket. Without •crackling a
stick under his foot, he comes close by
the stag, aims his 'gun, draws the
trigger, and the poor thing rears baits
death-ag,ony and falhs backwards, its
antlers crashing on the rocks; but
the panting' hart that drinks from the
water -brooks of God's pronaise shall
never be fatally wounded, and shall
never die.
This world is a poor portion for
your soul, oh business man! An East-
ern king had graven upon his
tomb two fingers, represented as
sounding upon each other ;with a
snap, and under them the motto, "All
is not worth that." Apicius Coelius
hanged himself because his steward
informed 'hiim that he had only 80
thousand pounds ste,rling left. All of
this world's riches make but a small
inheritance for a soul. Robespierre
attempted to win t,he aPplauee of the
world; but when he was dying, a wo-
man mule rushing through the crowd
crying to him, "Murderer of nay kin-
dred, descend to hell, covered with
the curses of every mother in France!"
Many who have expected the plaud-
its of the world, .have died Under its
Anathema Maranatha.
Oh, find your peace in Glod. Make
one strong pull for heaven. Not half -
THE S.
S LLSSON
as he bad Said to john eh,,e Baptist, so
acted has life through' It becometh
us to fulfill all, righteousness," And
vlille,he knew that the priesta rePre-
sented an effete and dying eyetem;
while he knevv that they were Person-
ally las malicious enemies, jesils show-
ed hie respect for the sacred lam by
insistingt on his "patients" ebeYing its
meet, minute requirements. Ile said
'priests,' because one of these men
was acclamaritan a heretic with whona
no respecteble Jew would consort ;
though the degrading influence of the
disease had bill tted out aIl
distinction between Samaritan
and JeW, and 'a tl3e lepers
had huddled together. Now they
were to ge, to their priests—the Jews
to Jerusalem, the Samaritan to
Mount aerizira; and probably they at
once parted company.
15, 16, When he saw that lie was
healed. It must have been with
strange sensations that they extend-
ed their w/aolesome limbs on the high
road, and felt their nerves again
tingle with health. Witla a loud
voice4 4locrifiecl God, and fell down 011
his face .at his • feet, giving him
thanks. His voice, like his pone body,
had • been restored to health. ,He
thanks God and thanks his human
Healer, as he flings himself at, his
feet with oriental demonstrative-
ness. Ile was 'a Samaritan. The
Jews went on to •their priests, and
probably expressed gratitude both to
God and to Jesus when they returned
to th 'air homes. But the Samaritan
cannot wait to be formally pronounc-
ed whole until he falls in 'ecstasy at
the feet of his benefactor. .
17. Jesus answering said. What
a man says when he is praised is apt
to reveal, much of has character. Our
Lord never told those wila,o praised laina
that he did not merit their praise, as
is often the fa.shion with us. Here he
makes no remark to the healed leper,
but turns to his disciples to inq,uire,
Were there not ten cleansed? , No
doubt this very morning God is ask-
ing, Were tlaere not many fed in the
Dominion, in our Province, in
our town OT our
borne'? Where are the nine? Why
are t,he majority ungrateful, or, if
there. is any gratitude, why is it un-
expressedr "Well acsuainted with
the plans which had already been
forged in Judea for his destruction,
the Saviour yet once again makes this
boundary tract of Galilee the theater
of his saving love, and even at the
first miracle �n this journey it is
naanif,ested ihoW very much the pre-
vailing tone of feeling is now altered.
For formerly a miracle performed on
one animated many hundred tongues
to [hes praise; now, on the other hand,
the healing of ten unhappy ones does
not even atilt from tthe naajority of
the healed. still less from the inhabi-
tants of the Village, even a single
word of thanks. Ile has this time
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON) NOV. 18
The Ten Leper.; illoaused, Luke 111. 1149.
Golden rexn—nue 'rewound.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
As e wen to Jerusalem.
At the very beginning' of his direct
journey to the feast. He passed
through the midst of Samaria and
Galilee. The road leading him some-
times on one side of the border, some-
times on the other.
12:11e -entered into a cm tain
An unwalled town. There met him
ten men that weee lepers'. The pre-
valence of_ leprosy in the ancient
East wad- appalling. Even now the
most loathsome incidents of travel in
Palestine are due to the persistent
beggary of these sufferers. Euro-
pean methods of sanitation would
soon do away with the abominable dis-
ease, bute-Turkish authority goes no
farther than to compel the tainted
to live together in settlements, and
the result is frequent marriages and
the, perpetuation ef a leprous race, as
vile and pitiable In morals and man-.
ners as in body. Lepers were m,ade
ceresn.onially unclean by the Jewish
law. They grouped themselves to-
gether, and 2 Kings 7. $ gives a sine
Maier example of a tiny protective aa-
soalation, a sort of "trades union,"
formed by leprous men. Isolated as
they were, the lepers of our story hakl
heard of Jesus. Stood afar off. TitY
were' compelled to remain a prescrib-
ed distance from all healthy folk. '
13. They lifted up their voices. The
voiae of the leper is husky and hol-
low—an awful travesty on the naa
tura.I voice of mankind. These men
were compelled to "lift up" their
voioes because of their weakness as
well as because of their enforced dis-
tance. Jesus, Master." Prophet;Teach-
er." They made no appeal to the "Son
of David." Theyelenew. little or noth-
bag of the public talk concerning Jesue
as the Dressiala. It is astonishin,g how
little theological knowledge is neces-
sary to saving faitla; haw little a
man needs' to know/ if only he will
trust with all his heart in God. Have
mercy = us'. Orientals' would address
such word, to any king or powerful
man.
14. When he saw them. When he
perceived them.; saw their condition
heard their cry, and perceived their
inner need. He said unto them.
Shouting across the hundred paces
that parted them- Go show your-
selves unto the priests. • This was
an entixely new way of dealing with
way,work will do it. Therefeenaetimes lepers. While the disea.se was pogua
0 comae, a time on shipboard a tie?"r""a 'ef-f iatrI3rafaid be, incurable, there were
erything must be sacrificed to save ocensionally cases of recovery from
the passenger. The e,argo is nothing. it; and it is not imProbable that
The captain puts the trumpet to his severe skin diseases were grouped une
lip and shouts, "Cut away the mast!"
Boma of you have been. tossed arid
driven, and you have, in your effort
to keep the world well-nigh lost your
• soul. Until you have decided this
matter, let everything else go. Overh
board with all, those sails of your
pride, and cut away tlae mast. With
one eae•nest cry for help, put your
cause into the hand of him who help-
ed Paul out of the breakers -of Melita. leas hoped that the happy day would
and who, above the shrill blast of the dawn when he could thus visit the
yerathiest tempest that ever blaoken- Priest and be reinstated in normal
.ed the sky or shook the ocean, can humela life; but none of them could
hear the faintest imploration for havo expeoted tO be cured after this
mercy. • abrupt fasaeicei. Jesus does not say,
Heaven grant that some of a-ou,who "I will; be thou clean." He does not
have considered Your ease as hopeless, say, "According to your faith be it
will now take heart again, and that ante You." He makes no Promise that
you have never experienced before,
with a blood -red earnestness, such as." fwbtedn thileemYrs:lavcelas thyeeizi.ihomalatthieuystwailal
you will start for the good land of they are, with all their repulsive sores
110WIS what obstacles are in the way
your being a Christian, and your
rst effort in the right .direction he
ill crown with success. Do not let
tan, with cotton bales, and kegs,
d hogsheade, and counters, and
ocks of unsaleable goods, block up
ar way to heaven. Gather up all
ur energies. Tighten the girdle
out your loins. Take an agonising
ok into the face of God, and then
y, "Here goes one grand effort for
e eternal," and then bound away for
even, e,scaping "as with the skin of
ur teeth,"
In the last day itovill be found that
g,h. Latimer, and :John Knox, Huss
am. oust Wain lrO1a%1,11TOoq`siSlrend
3155.52 ega aou eaaae '-a0113111 pne
Mee ter eel', from•,the contaminations
d .prep:exities of the exchange, the
e market, the courts' and .from
. Ou earth:, they were called
okers, or stockeroblaera, or retailerSa'
importiors; but in heaven, 'Christian
efes. No fagots \vere! heaped about
ir fent; no Inquisition demanded
m them recantation; no sol-
e aimed a pike at their heart;
1, they laatI mentel tortures, eons -
'ed with .which all phyeical eoneurn-
ing is as the breath of a apring morn-
ing:,
find in the oommunity a large
lass of men wile have been, 6o cheat-
ed, so lied about, se outrageously
wronged, 'that they have boat their
faith in everything, In a world where
ry thing seems so tdpsy-turvey,
y .do not ,see limo there can be any
Thby are conf orin de d, arid
naiesl, and naizanthropic. Elabor-
arenements to proye to them the
tis of Christianity, or the truth of
thing els,e, touch them nowhere.
put a book that is better.
I invite you back into the good old-
fashioned religion of your fathers,—
to the God labia= they worshipped, to
tile Bible they read, to the promises
on which they leaned, to the Crass
• on which they' hut g their eternal
expectatione. You have bot been hap-
py a day since yOu, ewung off ; you
will not be, happy a minute until you
swing back.
, Again: Theee snay be sone of you
who, in the attenapt after 1 Chris-
tian lite will have to rut against
powerful peasione and appetitee. Per-
haps it is andieposiLion to anger that
you have to conteed again.st; and por-
haps, while is a very sexiotte anood,you
hear of aoMething that makes you eve
feel that ysos muet aweaa or die. All a
your good resolutions heretofore have
been torn to tatters by explosion of 're
-temper, iNoW there is no harm. in ar`e
getting mad if you only get mad at ti's
sin. You need to bridle and saddle any
der the general term leprosy. At all
rather concealed than naa.de conspion-
methods by which a leper when au,red
could be reintroduced into ,society. He
1VOIS to appear before a priesteand be
officially ,exanained according' to car- of the miraeles is at once forgotten,
tain presoription,s. When the priest and v,ehile he on his part, even in this
Last period., displays his respect for
was satisfie,d that the disease was
the law and the priesthood, he Ls re -
gone, the man was pronounced clean.
Every one of these lepers had doubt- warded therefor with a mean slight.
The observation of this fact goes to
the Saviont's heart; and as he had
just shown himself the compassion-
ate 'high prieats, he feels himself now.
the deeply contemned Mesaiala. Yet
the complaint to which his sadness
gives utterance is at the same time
a. eulogy fox the one thankful 'one
who appeared before him; and with
the words, 'Ripe up, go thyl way, thy
faith hath saved. thee," the benefit is
folr this one' heighffene'd, confirmed:
events, the Levitical law furnished ous the 'brilliant character of the
miracle by its form, but he experi-
ences at the same time how the Doer
it.?ahge, G,olovphela—tata lgarsetattorliosokkIbraack,
n11sayAli
Al-
most lost, but saved 1 Just got
through and no more I Escaped by the
akin of ray teeth!"
RELATIVE AR1VIAMENTS.
The naval strength of the great
Powers of Europe, the United States
and Japan, as far as artillery is con-
cern,ed, is given by a reliable German
authority, as follows: Great Britain
10,2.10 guns; France, 5,052 guns; Rus-
sia, 3,607. glans; Germany, 2,864 guns
Italy, 2,508 guns; United States, 2,-
324 guns; Japan, 1,592 guns. It must
be mentioned that in the figures of
the British artillery there are yet in-
cluded' 310 muzzle -loaders with which,
of C011tse, only the ol-cler vessels of the
reserve fleet are armed.
Comparing the artillery of Greet
Britain with the combined strength
of Russia and France, we arrive at
10,240 guns against 8,659 guns. As
fax as torpedo tubes' are concerned,
however, the British fleet is inferior
to the number of 19 tubes. Great Bri-
tain possesses 1,53 Al:tussle and France
„era
1,553 torpedo-laneers.
,The above comparisons', havia of
course, but a meclaanica,1 value, as not
only the number of guile, hut, perhaps',
to a higher degree, their quality playa
tise grea Le,st pare in battle.
QUITE A COME-DQWN,
Tom. Seoberly :earns to be very raucli
cast" clown to -day.
Jack, No wonder. He asked old
CrruMley for hh daughter's hand in
Marthtge last night,
Tom, Well?
jack. Grurniey e third
loot, Yon know,
they are told to go to the priest to be
pronounced well. Bare was the eh-
tremest demancl,of faith that our Lord
ever, made. As they ',went, they were
I cleansed. The east of the story shows
that immediately, when they began to
go, the healing proceases aaserted.
theinselVes.
If any man could do without 'what
we in moderia life call. "chairch rules"
,aertainly the Lord Jesus could. .Yet
orn
sanctified."—Van Oosterzee.
18. This staanger. The Samaritan
was farthe,r renaeved from the aym-
pathiats of the orthodox Jew than
even the Gentile.
AN UNANSWE'RED Pla0BLE1VI,
"I don't see," she simpered, "how
you ever came to love me."
"Oh well" he gallantly- remarked,
perhapsit would be better to waive
these puzzling leading q,uestions,
e or toug
Paw . indeed are the 'family cirele
s.c)x.taa nacanb,er as the result of
pr.u.dent' D1,0t111,er eonstantily ()n
'aredap, bronelifit C0:)0. Sh..e
Lan troubles
ed....there la certain? preeectio[ri a,gaina
,
of Lanaeed and ri'll,reen,Ipne eo proinptly loosen the tiu,Itt coaghsto.
allay tin= in/Jaren-1=1 r to. clear tile pri,szag,OS and thoroughly cue() the
cold, Their confide..e.ce ibis grand_ •on
such unusual nalert as to have a,Ltained to 1).3.* far the laegest sale of ariy
irt1(2int
e from whanc'e ihere has not been tak.en
neglected coo phis and colda '
guard lest, her lattla ones fall prey to
knows that if coldS ase promptly car-
t, conatemptieD, pneumonia and other
. Hes tS , nie6leers. hafee ie a r,n.pel to trust Dr. Crhaaa's 'Syrup.
,
been shaken because it has never fa ifs d to prove ben etude 1. It is of
sim a r preparation.
A .1-1P.,.OgiNC3.1 OOLUOi-E,
Mr. 'W. Lae Wylie, 57 'Seaton! Street,
Toronto states .—"My little grand-
, ,
child had Suffered with a naste,
Ing c,ough: for about eight weeke When
cl/lP) procured a bottle of Dr. Chase'
Syrap of Lietaaed and Turpentine.
Af.ter the fital these she called it
'hone,y' and \vets eager for naerlicine
time POMO around. 1 can, simply
. • ,
tteite that ;,eart of one bottle cured
her cand kdle Fs now well and as height
go a cricket."
Dridivoft IT:S.
Mr. Wart. Davideen, Si. Andrerwa;
Que., otat.es ;,—"Dr, Chase's (Syrup ,Of
Lirasced and ?Turpentine has cured an.o
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ens .years: , 'winter, when had
a severe -attack and was unable to
work ptaa11-7.',Od a bottle , Dr,
Chaeefe Syrup of Lirns,eed and anenene
tine o,nd win 't,s atate that tlie
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Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed an fill:15(13,
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Colria: 25 cents a bottle; faintly.. Siie eontainine,' a b;vUlt tiniefe
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UNDYING •THE EMPIRE.,
POLITICAL G,EOURAPHY AND THE
HRITISH EM,PIRE,
Sir George Robertson ItIlahos an ininerotio
speech iterere inn iiivitisit Association.
the .seventieth meeting of ' the
British Association, Sir Georg,e. Rob-
ertson gave an address whichahas at-
trac.tecl . considerable attention. He-.
took
as his subjeet Geo-'',
graPhy and the Britifsli
oue eie the, points discussed wee
this;
"There Ls, a ,general ImPression that,
we have Wen hastily and Unfortti-
na.sely aequisitive whether we could
help, it or hat; that the new piova
aloes, dietriets , and padteetorates
ale ednae of there weak ( 'JO finality;
that the, great and unprecede,nteel
grOwth of '•the Empire has led to
stretching and thinning of iks holdi
lag links which, are overstrained.
the weight Of unwieldy extension and( ,
far beyond the help of a, protecting.
Sir George's conclusion was thus.'
staled; "I hope to be able to s1iol04.1.'
that, in same important respects this
suspicion is not altogether true, that
science, loaeman ingenuity and racial
energy have given us some eonapene
satioths, and that it is not, paradoxj.
cal or incoreeet .to say that, our' rea
cent enormous growth of enable° ha'
been evea'ywhero aceompanied .,by
remarkable slirba.kage ef distance—br
quicker ansi claser -intercOnamunicas
tion of ,all its parts one with., anothex
and with the heart centre.
"The world as a whole lias strange-
ly centracted owing to a bewilders
isag .inerea,se , in lines, cif connriunicti.
tion, to our MOTO detailed geographical
, .
knowledge, to th.e formation , of nevi .
harbors, the extension of railways tht
inexeased speed , and the increased
number, of steamships, and the greatly
augmented 'earrYing power of great
vessels built of steel. Then hardly
second in importance to these inflate
-
daces are the great land lines and tlie
sea cables, the postal iraprevementst'
the telephones and, perhaps we may
soon add the proved comrnercia.kutil-
ity of Wireless telegraphy. , This nnI-
versal time -diminution. in verbal and
persaeal contact has brought the 'col-
onies, our dependencies, protectorates,
and our dependencies of dependnecieen,
closer toeach other and all of thank
nearer still.ta us. Measured by time-
diet,saace, which Is the -controller Of
.the merchant 'and the Cabinet Minis-
. ,
ter just as much as Of the soldier, the
world has, indeed, wonderfully ,oene.
tracted, and with this lessening-ihat
dominions of the ,Queen • he
ave a
rapidly cone olicia tang. Nor id tali*
aowerful influence by any mea '
hansted. In the near, flitureiw
anticipate :equally • remarkable
pkovementa of a like kind, espeei ly.
in railways; telegraph lines, and deepe
sea cables, and in other scientific' dis.
coveries for transmitting man's mese
sages throng/a water, in the air, ore
perhaps, by the vibrat,iOns of the
earth. For us particularly, refl.,'
way schemes of extension must be
mainly relie,d, upoin to open op andt
to connect daatant parts of the Etna, -
larch But our true a.nd only trust,-
woad:ley . road ,of intercommunication
between the heart of the Empireand
its limits must always be the sea. If
we ever fonget that, there may be a
calamitous awakening. , We are a
voricl _ Power solely because of our', ,
warships and because of our command
of the sea. In the, fu.ture aLso we
sha.11 renaain a world Power only so
long as we.hold coninaancl of the s,ea isa
the fullest sense of the teeth not
erely by the force and efficiency of
he fightin.g navy, bit by.the exeel.-
,
rice and ,the perfecting of our, mere
antile 14 'increasing it.s' mag -5
nude, carryi4g power and speed,, and
y anxiously attend.ing,to its user:tilt-
mit by British aaitorS. We must
eb attempt to overtax our resources
guard ,railway linee through for-,
gen' .seini-civilized pr savage couu-,
le,e by. exPorteil or local armies. ,e4.
Davy land responsibility- rests an
already. Under te little tonere
le
La
ei
tr
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rn
co
Ora
he
th
ight be eaailyoverweightedd and'
atsaaeal doevn. Wo must concentrate
1 Oai'l'aaiaaa Ler-6'17-1:‘aaaai,as apon our isiSi
mnamnica ti0/1S.' F;i:;E11)07'ef 01'e ibe
ilway lines whicli'lli,sgoloe of
lping ta consolidate thef,fif.,inpire isa
future are "those eassewhieh
are projected. OT are being
,the varicnta ,Clolonies and dependencies'
neat proeinees arid: feed harbors.. '
araTialM' IT to jblY) 811'111
ShOl'eS of the Queen's •donaiiiions
eea cables campeetely controlled b
Britt:eh aueharity.: ".ao'rely upeui oon
nee elan between ,our own eaTe.
theouga telegraph systems stretehr
amass le r eign ethen trifon however
triendly, cir to permit tfie. ends o
these sentient nerves al the Emmet
ensrgc upon ithoresneigh
possibly become an enemy's country
Le dangerous to the pont of reckleSS
uees,,, that parent al diSaskein AO it
nselancltoly inmtaneeof
18, only nec,easary for .us Lb r,e embe
the Pekisi en taste oplies-hotWe'
fered from' these dreadful
de.ad sLlenc, when ee• eoul o vsin
cO5aSn1isiirate dIrectly with 'tier %own
onnaeva,ibca.5f,foiciex's 1:shul'Rgu4lettii: o.1,,,[1:helokr,ii4folle:avveffi
have in our poesesel(** Placa of sl',131,
at; ' AVOt-'11;11.1-Wei; ' theet4ulf
lines to dielribuite and, collect, ,to con
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