HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-12-27, Page 6R. v. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the First
Man
in
the
ace.
A. despatch from \Vashing,ton says :--
Rev, Jar. Talmage preached from the
following text:—"And whenhe. saw
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the waggons ons which Joseph had seat
to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their
father, reviYed,"—Genesis (lv, a7.
The Egyptian capital was the focus
of the vverid's• svcalth, in ships and
barges there had been brought to it
from: India frankincense, and csin
narnrn
n , andivory, and diamonds; from
�tIi;,. north marble andiron; from Syria
,purple and silk • from Greece acme of
the finest horses of the world, and
some of the most brilliant chariots;
and from all the earth that which
could best: please the eye, and charm
the ear, and gratify the taste. There
were temples aflame with red sand-
stone,'entered by gateways that were
guarded by pillars bewildering with
hieroglyphics, and wound with brazen
serpents, and adorned with winged
crt attires, their eyes and beaks, and
pinions glittering with precious stones.
There were marble columns bloom-
ing into white flower -buds; there
;were stone pillars, the top bursting
into the shape of the lotus when in
f.]t, bloom, along' the° avenues listed
with; sphinx, and fano, and obelisk ;
there were princes who carne in gor-
geously upholstered palaiacluins, car-
ried by nervanis in scarlet; or, else
were drives
in vehicles the snow-
white horses goldenbitteel, 51.v Malas1,
dashing at full -run; there were faun -
tiaras from stone -wreathed vases
climbing the ladder f the sun.Lou
would. laca:r a bolt drawn and a door
Df brass open like a flash of the sun,
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Th;s ss as the place where Joseph, , -the
shepherd boy, vvas Gained
to . stand
next, to Pha.rao'hi in: honor. What a
gentlest between this scene and his
humble standing, and the pit into
Which his brothers threw him! Yet he
was not for etful' of his earl horde
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he was not ashamed" of where he: came
Erase: When they' came up from the
(amine -struck land, to get "corn from
THDI KING'S CORN -CRIB,
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Jose h instead of chiding them for
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the ,,vay they had maltreated and
r. with
ab,ishim, sent them back
sa �gens, which Pharaoh furnished,
hien with corn; and old Jacob, the
father;'`im the ; very same waggon,
was '-,brought back that T•-„„-o:natt''
your table. Oh an Cod for
bread—to,d 'bread !
I - remark, again, that, like those
that -eam::"from the Eayptien palace,
the King's waggons bring us goad=
news. Jacob had not heard from his
bey for a great many years. Ile
nove,r thought of him. but with a
heart -ache: There was in Jacob's
heart a room where laid the corpse
of hie unburied Joseph; and when the
waggon came—the, king's waggons
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-and told him that Joseph was yet
alive, lin taints, dead away, Good
news for Jacob! Good news for us!
The .Bethlehem shepherds :were awak-
ened at midnight ° by the rattling• of
the waggons thait brought the .ti:l-
inge. Our Jaseph .!esus -sends us
a message. at pardon, of life, of hea-
ven; corn for our hunger, raiment
forour nakedness. J csepgh—Jesus—is
yet alive.
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think that the ]in 's:waggons will
take - a,aup to see our lost friends.
Jacobs chief 'anticipation was not of
seeing the Nile, or oi; seeing the long
colonnade oI architectural beauty, or
of seeing . the throne -room. There,
was a focus to all his jaurneyitigs-to
all his anticipations—and that \vas
Joseph. if Jesus were'not ua heaven
there would be no music there; !hare
would be very few "people there; they
would be off looking for the tont
Christ, crying through •the universe:.
',Whore is Jesus? Where is Jesus?
Oh, the joy of meeting aur Mother
Joseph—je
esus. A:Ler we havetalk-
ed about Him for ten, or fifty or
seventy years, to', talk with Ilim ! and
to clasp hands with the 1 -Hero of the
ages, not cruuchiug us uaieriings in
His presence, but as ,lac ,b and jos pix
hug each other. We wi.1 want` some,
nest' term . by which to address (Inn
On earth: we Gail Him Saviour, or 'Re
deemer, or Friend; but when we
throw our arms' around flim in ever-
lastiag embrace we will want sone
new term" of cnciealm:nt,
T11fl KING'S \w AtaGONS
Smithey, who said he could die far
away frouxt his friends --like a, dog,
crawling into a corner and dying 'un-
1b eived, those wore his, words;, 13e
it ours to 'die on 0 couch,, surrounded
by loved ones, so that they; with us
may hear.` the ' glad, ,sweet, jubilant:
announcement, "The King's wag-
gous are coming.” (lark! •C . hear
them now! Are they canning for, me
or you?
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ROYAL 'TALISMANS.
.BOUT NEW
OJTA-zal.
ADVANTAGES W1IICII; THIS REGION
OFFERS '1'O THE SETTLER.,
1 da .racteres11es a `B'arleus IA1nlrlets—'110
iie`ialtd for Thither-lavoraltae Coat-
diti+a[r for A,^^,'A'ic11lltu'e—¢'rrrerable to
Roralrlc Hauaal.
The advantages which New. Ontario
offers to the settler la search of a
h c,m�ostead aro so superior to those
held out by any other. ' new country,
list if the vie • more enerally' uzv
t y g
dersLood the land now available would
5,aok" .0rtte,les Posse, aa:e1 ley, be very. guieilrly taken up. The, La
vi'nriotn Pet.tretate , during 1900 has
flux of populationc
Same of the most powerful mon-' been eic�usi.deiab1e, birt nothing corn-
ailohs in the world are the possessors a:, r•able to the rush whitch took place
t •is an the- loss of ttihich \3001 -ti 1
11 1 m to N tnttoba a tew years ago, and yet
fill tharal with dire. forebodings and 1110 condilluus reyailin„ in New 0n-
dismay. re r ruci:h ore favorable 110 the
Lana a r more
The autocratic Czar of All the Sus- anything
man of small resources than y S
s as constantly carries
took Jacob • up to • see his lostboy;
and so 1, really- think the .King's vvag-
ions will take us: up to see our boat
kindred. -How long - is it since Joseph
went out, of your household? Hove
many years it it now, last Christ -
aAe the present time .a groat : many
would induce bin), to move a step from :„ and a i•ieµtlLural
farmer's tans n S
his l:aluoe; 'Though this is really rrbar a,rs are looking PP
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about N'it'
which the "prairie aaiuirlitry cath• offer.
him ring, vvtt}raaC which nothing
a for o orLunr
fiction, it is believed to contain atiny
which the ties to better, their courdition by
piece of the cross on
taking up land an their own account,
a'�'iaur'was crucified. •' i
Where
1a same ueu!.y °Pelted dislrrc1
'The ring is supposed to be endowed either free'or
in its a lot can be obtalnad
with some occult power of shielding � • i'< class the
hence at a nominal price, . l.o. L1 is
vvi>arer from personal danger,. en the new -
with
presented by
Chi: Czar's anxiety to always have it Province .hou,ld
"ts m ; is in- er settlements of this l roviince 5
with him.. Belief in x a involving dr
was immense's, strengthened cumruend themselves as invo g
fluence, Y - c 10 rode end
resent Emperor's readier and serer way P
bp the fact of tlia p p
graddfatlier being without the r+.ng at
l7ie. nioinent of his assassination.
'The Shah of Persia/ always wears a
belt sat with a superb, emerald, to
wliicli he ascrabas the same virtue as
the Csal• attributes to his sacred ring•
'The brat is filled with onion -peelings,
th,, object of which is said to be to
prove any would be assassin to tears.
\Vh:a,the Late Shah visited F; ;land
htt ttas !lever seen 111 public \'aw :timut
this protecting ;belt and gem. He
thoroughly believed that if lie traveled
without the emeralcl dis+ast'er would
ovortake(him, and by a strange coin
ci:dence
IT ACTUALLY PID.
It will be remembered that this
Pus an monarch was': foully- assassin-`
at id not many years ago, and it was
a singular fact that he was not wear-
Mg the. gam' at the time.
King 'George of Greece possesses a
tal,sman which is also a grim remind-
er of an attempt on his life. Just at
the conclusion of the war with Turkey
he ss' as waylaid and shot • at ;se•reral
times, one of the bullets embed:,ling
itself M. the box of his carriage.'~
ii;s '1,I.ajusty s escape was so miracu.
that this bullet ,xt ac e
ou3 a be had th u � r t c
and t a i watch
as made into charm for his
cha�n. Ire ,would not part with 'it..fr
looked is that the growing demand HOW TORONTO HAS GRO'IVN.
for umber of all kind's gives the set- ,-,-ar
tier a market for a greet deal of the Forry.e'our Arial, cd to (0) 011atton
woodcut down in clearing his land, I 10. T.q 3=car:
In the early days of settlement a As next year is "` census" year. a
great iluantiiy of valuable timber good .deal eel! -guessing and figuring is
was burned as {here Was no,.other being domea5 tr wihat the returns
means of disposing of it. Now, in will show Toronto's population to be.
most Iocalities, it can be sold for fuel, The folks with a turn for mathema-
railroad ties or manufacturing .pnr- ties have various methods of obtaining
poses, securing to the settler an im- results, but these results vary so much
mediate return for the labor expended that they scarcely: prove more than
in clearing his lot. The districts now that the man who says figures can't
offered for settlement are - all cum- lie isa—p ilitician.
.' • in
parat>vely ol', Gasy access by rail�or Now when the assessor s rotutns
steamer, so that the hardships enclu•- 1891 igave the population of the city
ed by, the old pioneers owing. to the as 166"7,439,, the census returns showed
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lack of transportation, are largely a it to be, 181,220. The figurer knows
thing of the past. Under these con- what the population of the city is to-
ditions a wooded country .has a tie- day, But if he pushes his enquiries
Gated:a o r'. the Prairies. llic a little further it is ;{different,' Suppose
advantage over P
he, takes the number of names to the
city directory. Then he finds that (14,-
339 nameb : in 1891 gave 181,22/0 popu-
lation,
•ron, soan 87,029 names 1900, must
,
give 87,209 Or 245,129 population. Titus
her finds dist there is a differeuc;e of
30,000 o people le to.' be accounted
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somewhere- and the matter grows
more mixed.
1NC11EA.SP IN NINE )7. -EARS 30,711,
Going further ho finds that estim-
ating from the increase in the num-
ber of water takers, the population'
should now be 229,545, while the in-
crease in the number of scho3,1 hull-
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dren only calls for a , population -
of 200 288. The only thing left appears
and this
to be to.: sCrik:; an average
gives the population at Toronto in
1900 as 220:,'31 or, an incrertse in nine
is ,et 3
-eais bf ,39,714. But there y
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U COLONIZATION.
r n before the census is`tali-
• Y1JSIiIN r, yeas to u
r, k o. times j-(
Lhe govr:r,nmetnt of Ontario z, n t I ern a o .tri these gtawr.ng
maki�n • err s V sternatic attempt too in- • fe to_ su use 'that the city will goy
g Y Y sa xP
here 'n that year
duce Eoieibners to take up, land ahead t.t'least as fast. i
6 . .:nine. Thus'
.caving the matter of immigration as ci�urinb the preceding
a
Dominion
� �� be added, 71, c-
ar el in the hands are the Da another, 1.113 mat , 1
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:i in'for the. census. re
howev loess., ori endeavoring, of in.. Incthe estimate for c
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g r. of
hews;ver, to bring- the resources
settler possesses abundance of tim-
ber for 'building material, fencing and
fuel,' which, in prairie country,
have to be purchased at a high mate
or brought from • considerable dis-
tances. The forest modifies the oh -
mate by preserving a supply of mots-
ture-during the summer season,, and
lessening the force of the winds,
the violence ''of which is : o notable
a disadva,niiage in a prairie conintry.
New Ontario throughout is plenti-
fully supplied with water being
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everywhere intersected with lakes,
streams and rivers, and the protract-
ed droughts experienced by the resi-
s hardship anti'entirely un -
fewerattended by les P dents of the p.arns. aro crit y
fewer drawbac,ks than fall to the' known The ; oliuna:te is healthful
pioneers elsesvliare, and bracing and not nearly"so ,cold
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reasons why the
'There are several x Y as that of the, . North -Vs est or
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population has not hitherto been at American prairie States.
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Lat.
Lr•acLed to New Ontario in any g
volume
Some of the land in this im-
me.nsG region, constituting two-
thirds
6hirds oC the Province, is rough, rocky:
a:
said infertile, eapecially that1sst
ion
of it with which the pr uctng traveller
likely to ba mG it fa,miliar,,namely
t od
,� t�r�e nei whbaiho
that in the immediate �
of the.Canadian 1 acifio Railway and
on the north shore, of Lake Superior
where fire has ram/Dived the timber.
But throughout this ' territory are
e
scattered large areas of as' fine agri-
cultural land as any
in the older
sections of the Prov.ace. These that
are now open for settlement are
widely separated from each other
and diff -read : ,ins soil; and: stir-
er �, Y
roumdings and also in the conditions,
which obtain ' as to transporta-
tion,, markets and employment in
connection with other industries than
that of agriculture. Thelatter Point
is an important one to many of intend-
ing settlers,as unless they are in pos-
session of sufficient means to supper
themselves and families until their
farms bedome productive, tl
New Ontario more promin-ea4ly bc-
tore our own people;' so Chat the large
number of young men,.and others who
'desire to make their homes on new
land may realize :the advantages pre -
turns in 1901 at 225,3,1'7.''.
Taking the precentageof growth in
it
i that fi:om1671t 1
eaca decade we find 1
1881 the 'population increased 71.4'
per cent.; from 1881 till' 1891 the in-
crease and during'
cre�a�s'e was 88:1 "Dei cent., sented by their own Province as a the present ten years the estimate
field` for colonization. &ir. 'lvhoni;as only gives an increase of 24.3 per
Southworth, eel the Bureau of (Coloni-
zaLioo1, will be glad -at all times to
Cornish any inforw.alien or supply
documents giving r} detailed account
of t.ho different settlements where
land can be obtained.
THE Iil1.IN THING.
Mr. Wan aerby—Nousensel Why
should we ha,vc 'burglar proof alarms
in the house? !We have nothing wc.rLh
but
cent.
I,LSS TI -IAN IN PREVIOUS DECADES
Al; a glance it would appear that
the present growth is not so encour-
aging as in previous ,decades; but it
must be remembered that since 1891
no new territory' has been taken ing
by the city, while prior to that date
the population wwas sent up by "leaps
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and bounds,„' by :the absorption of
' other
Toronto, and
o th L
x
Pakdale, N
suburban municipalities. It must al-
so be
1-so":be remembered that since 189
rite ha
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