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Exeter Advocate, 1901-3-7, Page 7The Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks Elijah's Petition. IA despatch"from Washington says; Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text :-"And there woe a great rain." --1. Kings, xviii. 45, : A long, coneunaing drought had come upon the land. The leaves crumpled; the eaerah brake opcm ; the buckets ! camo. down on the stony bottom of the svell, and foundono water ; the cattle bellowed with thirst on the banks of 'he ravine, that waa once all a -rush ' :kith liquid brightness.• Alas! must I the nation die? ' Up the eiele'of Mount Carmel go Elijah, his eerve.nt, and king Ahab. There ia a magnificent' 4Prospeet from the top of Mount Car - 'mel. You can look off upon the Med- iterranean and see yeasels" moving up and down, carrying the conanaerce of 'great nation. It is a very conspicu- 'one point.: The sailor to this day, calls it Cape Carmel. But Elijah clid not go ,tnthe top of the mountain for the fine 'prospect. He went up there to pray ,for rain and the Bible saye he oast hirneelf down on the ground and put 'bie face between his knees, and cried mightily unto the Lord that the land • might not perish, but that the show- ers might come. As soon as he had finiehed the first prayer, he sent his servant t� the outlook of the moun- tain to see if there were any .eigns of rain. The servant came back and said:" No eigns of Min." Again, Elijah prayed and again the servant Went to the outlook and •came back with the same information, and the third time ancl the fourth, eand no rain, and, the fifth time and no rain, and the sixth time and no signs of rain. And then Elijah threw himself into a more im- poetunate petition, and for the eeventh , time he cried unto the Lord, and for the seventh time he aent his servant to the outlook. Lo the young naan came back eaying: "1 see a little cloud five or six inches long, about the size of a man'a hand." Elijah leaped from his kneee and said to the serv- s.aat: "Run and tell king Ahab to get down out of the mountain; the freshets will come, and unless he flies now, he vvill never get home." The servant etarts for kintg Ahab. Ahab • gete en the chariot and speeds dowia the mountain, and Elijah, more Swift - footed than th'e horse, leads the char- • iot clown the hill. The cloud that was only five or six inche,s long, expand§ until the whole heaven es filled with gloom, and the wind blows up from the eea to the mountain and from the mountain to the aea, and THE THUNDERS 'BOOM and 'there is a wild, overwhelming dash as the clouds buret, and the for- ests are drenched, and the earth sings -"And there was a great rain." "Well,' you say, " what is that to us? It is an incident lOng. ago past. The last drop of that ehower is exhal- ed, the very last leaf that was washed by it, has gone into dust, and why do you preeent it thie morning ?" For a rnOst practical purpose. I want to send this whole -church to its knees'. I avant to have yen understand that if you ,will only go up to the Carmel of prayerful expectations and look off, you can behold already'vapors gather- ing into a 'cloud of mercy which will burst in torrente of salvation upon the people. I have to tell you three • or •'tear things about that wonderful erayer of Elijah • which resulted so narvelously. First: it was a humble prayer. Mark :he language of, the Bible: "He 'cast nimself on the earth and put hie face between his knees." " Oh," you say, "the posture of the body doesn't de - aide the'ealrnestnese of the soul." know that, hut the feeling of the soul , very often indicates what; shall be the position. Of the body. There was sor- row in your house. Clouds of bereave- ment hovered. You were afraid you'd lone that loved one. You went to your room; you locked the door; yea pray- ed for thcrecovery of that eick one. What position did you take ? Did you • eft upright? Did you stand.? No; you • either knelt, or-yeou threw yourself on • your face before God. You had no idea position would have any efface with: God, 'but the position you took was . nee result of your feeling. No wonder, e....then, abet Elijah, with his own sins to confess, and the sins of a nation, took that launable posture, and it is most appropriate to -day for as. How tine we living? Within a few years -yes, perhaps within a few hours, of Our last account; yet, cold and, worldly nod selfishand proud. Where is the inerey-seat ? How little we pray. Where is Jesus? How little vie seek : his society, Where are the impenit- ent ? llota little we do for their res- ' cue. on expreseable pain the price that was peed for our rescue? Look over the peat five, ten, fifteen years of our life' how renieh wasted opportunity 1 Profeesing to live or God and eter- nity, has not .our. profession some- timebeen a lie, and our position a by- word? 0 my brethren and sisters, we must come down out of this pride. We must humble oserselveS before God, as Elijah did. Church of God, repent! repent! To Lhe dust. Put on, eackclotth! Weep aloud for thy eisa! Wail for the dead I xe,raark again in regard to the petition of Elijah: It was a definite prayer. - There were fifey things that Elijah worulcl have liked to have had for himself. There were fifty things he would have liked to have laa,d for the people; but he goes there and asks or jut one thing, and that is. rain. e My friends, there are too many glittering generalities in our prayers. I think that is the reason they ido do nlot amount to touch. We must before God with some specific er- rand, and say: "Here are my children, strangers to the obvenant of grace having no part or lot en the matter. 0 Lord, eiave my children!" and just call them byname. yen ha.ve'been asking that the coanniercial world be consecrated to Christ, and that wag a glittering generality. Why do you. not say; "Here is my partner in busi- ness, all abeorbed in the world; 0 Lord, c,onvert him by thy grace, and show him that there is something better for his soul than this world." I with I could make yen feel that you are responsible FOR SOME, ONE SOUL. Do you not suppose that when: you come before God in judgment, he will ask you about those over whom you had a,n influence? :Will h.e not ask you about your own children? will he not say: "Where is John, or George, or Mary, or Sarah, or Han- nah? Where are they?" And if, in that hour, you say: "I don't know, I don't know," perhaps God will point anal say: "There, do you see that? Do you knolv what that is? Why, that is the blood of their souls; on your garment!" I ;remark again; that this prayer of Elijah • was a confident prayer. There was no "mase -bees" about it. Why was it that, when he -was 'ray- ing, he sent his servant to the out- look? It was because he knew rain was going to come, and he wanted to know the first moment of its arrival, so that he could get down the Imoun- ta.ba. • He knew that the raLn would come, just as certainly ag, Carmel rose above him, and the Mediterranean lay beneath him. Have you the same positiveness of expectation? Do you believe God really means it when he says: "Ask, and it shall be given you; see,k, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you?" or is your imploration a mere matter of indefinite "perhaps?" Then away with your prayers; they will die on your lips. Coming to God with such • an insulting unbelief, he will spurn you away from him. 0 my dear brethren and siaters in Clarst, ,how can we halt and stagger adid doubt with the Bible flail of promises, and heaven full of glories, and God full mercy and ,salvation for all the peo- ple. I remark again in regard to thrtt prayer of Elijah: It was a successful prayer, that is, got what he wanted, which was rain -not rain only for Lhe trough of the camel; not rain just enough to settle the dust; not raia enough to wet the cornfield, but enough to drench the forests and soak the fields, and slake the, thirst of a whole nation. Rain for, the Mountains, rain for the trees and rain for the cattle. it was a great rain I Now are we making the prayer that will bring the same success? We do not want rain so much on the field,s, but it is rain on. the tender heart of childhood and the weary spirit of the old man that we need; it is rain on the heart, hard with the drought of sin or wilted under the sun -stroke of worldliness, it is spiritual rain that we need, :How to get it? The way Elijah got it. All our Preaching about it .and' talleing about it will not bring it. WE MUST PRAY AND PRAY. We must go on the Carmel of Chris- tian expectation and bow ourselves be- fore the Lord, and then it will come. It always has come when the right kind of prayer • went up. - It will come as certain as there is a Lord, and you have a eoul immortal to be set On trial On tile last day, Prayer now; prayer perpetually, I see flats morning some who have been back -sliders from God. They atice sat at the communion table; they sit there no more. Onee they prayed; they pray no more. Once np- on their eyes there came the vision of ta pardoning Jesus; but nowthey een' e, le 11 • WIIERE IS HEAVEN ? liow little its raptures kindle our soul. Cold and. hard, ,ought we ,flot to -day, .you in thc pew an.d I on the platform, ,to take before God the:segue posture that Elijah took? Tell mee are we all Sons and daughters of the Lord A1 - nighty? Are we the souls that have been retisomed ? Wag that cross of in - eland, with both their foot on the bleeding hear of the Son of God. wanderipg brother, you. east Goct off, do you? Will it be strange if Go(' caSt4 you offi it will he harder for you at the last than fur those who never took the first stel,) heavenward. You showed that you knew your duty. How aboult all these precious scenes in which you once conamingled? 'Where are they now? 'low can you' meet Ohrist at last -that Jesus whom you nave been persecuting by a wandering life? LinW can you look him in the face at • the last? Are yoa happy, hack -sliders? No, no; you have not, seen an hour of happiness since -you gave up your „hope and wandered off, peshaps, to please a skeptical com- panion. You say; "Oh, if I could only get back to these good old timeswhen I did serve God!" The most wretch- ed condition in all, the world is that of a man who once was a member of the church and sat at hdlY cortirriure- bon, who has gone back. But Jesus will be just as,' glad to have you, come, now as he was the first time you started for him. He waits to, be gracious. Trust him. He will say nothing about what you have said against him. He will hay nothing about the days of your wandering. He will say nothing about the fact that yoei have been sitting in the -seat of the scorners and laughed at Christianity, and despised that which , you once loved. He will not throw that uP to you at all, no more than did the father when the prodigal came back. The father did' not say anything to the 'prodigal about his poor clothes or his hungered face, but he went right away to clothe him and to robe him and to feast him. And Clarist will not say anything alaout what you have been doing sol long, if you will only come to him to -day, -and do •your works over again. To have been warned and not to have heeded; to have been invited by all the pleading wounds oftChrist and nolt to have accepted them; to have had glorious Sabbaths of niercy like this, and yet not to ,have improved them; to have come so near heaven, yet to have missed it! There will be LWO things that will be •said an Sleet • day. You, will say one be said on that day. You will say one and God will say the other, if without repentance you appear before him,. Two things, one by you and one by the Lord. You, looking back on the wasted -say; "How have That - ed instruction and my heart despis- e,d reproof. ,The harvest is past, the summer is ended and, I ana not sav- ed." The other thing will be said by. the Lord; "Because I called and ye re- fuseel,eand stretched out my hand and no man regarded, therefore I well tau,gh at your calarnety and mock when your fear cometh." TWELVE BUSINESS MAXIMS. The president of the London Cham- ber of Commerce gives twelve maxims which he ha e tested through years of businesg experience, and which he .re- commends as tending to insure suc- cess : 1. Have a definite stns 2. Go straight for it. S. Master all details. 4. Always know more than you are expected to know. . 5. Re.member thee' difficultie,s are only made to overcome. 6 Treat failures as stepping -Stones to further effort. . !T. Neves' put your hand out forth- er than you can"drave it back. 8. At times lee bold e always pru- dent '7. The minority- often beats the majority in the end , 10, Make good use of other naen's trains 11, Listen well answer eautiously, decide promptly. 12. Preserve, by all means in your power. a sound mind in a sound 'body. THE RATS TI-IEY EAT. The current impression that China- men eat rats -1 Mean ordinary Ameri- can rats -Lis all nonsense, said Dr. James J. MaSOn, a well known Chinese missionary, chatting abut his expert - 0000 in the Flowery Kingdon: The truth in regar-d to it is this: There is a small animal oin China knotan colloquilly as ',the tsui-choev. that is often bred especially for food. It infests the. rioefield,se and is' about the size of an ordinary rat, but r.haa a longer body and o hertd alaaped seme- t,hing like that:. of a ferret,. It is a very prolific creature and is sold in enormous numbers in all the markets of tho g, eat cities -neatly cleaned and sk.swerejoipart. and s:rungs in bunches of tvventy or thieety on bamboo reeds. The tsui-chow is strictly an eglilele aniinel, and, feeding entirely on rice, it naturally has very delicate and savory flesh, I have eaten them, and if I had been able to get the rat idea out of me: mind would have relished the -dtsh. They taste something like young squir- rels, and alive or dead are certn hely much tress repulsive that many things e commenly es1eem. delecacie-eels and frogs, for example. cheerfulness of tetnper arises half front personal goodoess, half from a bellet so tlae personal goodness of oth- era, THE SUNDAY asae "Aesuredly am " POAer leere SCITOOL " Stands for the leteenal 04E. 65. The high pelest root hiselothes. "A formal ace expreeeiug a sudden and ovel.poweging sense of horror at sahat he called blasphemy ; but hypo- critical, ani used to disguise hie mal- ice. The judges in a Jewish trial for blaepliemy were bound to rend their clothin twain when the blaephem- aus words , were uttered, and the elethee eo torn were never afterward to be nice:vied." Be hath spoken blae- plieiny. And lildel1d OUT Lord's words were either blaepheinuue, or insane, or true. What further need have we of witneeees? Here ie. a nrafty 'stroke. If he got any more witnesses they might contradict those already heard; uit rerew the entire council had heard his bla.eplaenay, and ie all witnesses were.falee the aeottsed, had prorved his dean 66. ,Whait think ye? Not so mach a question concerning their opinion as a call upon them for their verdict. He: is ,guility f death. S:o far a,s this nseeting'wa.s concerned our Lord •wee now destined to death, but "the Jews, or at Least their rulers, who courted the fav'or of Rome,ostentatiously desclaimed the power of punishing capital offenses." So new, charges must be pressed before the Roman geivernor. 67. Buffeted hem. Struck him with clenched fists. Others smote him the palms' of their haIcl.s. I;t1 was not the dignified roembers, of the Sanhedrin, bat the eoffieers," , who have appeared so oaten in this story, the servants of the temple, who during the perforraa.n:ce of their brutal duties "bad fun" with their INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 10, "Jesng, ad Cataph4s." Matt. Golden Text, Mat. 10. 110. P NOTES. Vea'se 57. And they that had Mid hold on Jesus led him eiwaY to Oaia- 1hi5 the high priese. This1 was af- ter the examdnation by ,;\onas. Cala- plitte had aLready committed himself to Vile Policy of kiilirig Jesus. There .1i3 no indication in the Scripture that any of tiro fpriests svcre friendly to Jesus. Some defenitere in the San- hedrin ate ineplied but we may con- jecture them to have been. JosePh and Nicoeleneus. The tscrifbeg and the, elders. The Sanhedrin. Almost every class represented in the San- hedrin heel 'been criticised by 'Jessie for hypocrisy, greed, ignorance OT skepticism. Were assembled. Jew- ish law prohibited the Sauahedrin from holdeng formal sessions`at night. 'Apparently this informal gathering continued until daybreak, whe,n it formed itself into the regular court and pa'ssed judgment on Jesus. The unseemly and illegal haste wa.s due to IoaT of an atteseePt at rescue Pee' our Lord's friends. 58. Peter follewed him afar off un- togthe Isegh priest's palace. Another disciple went with Peter, who is of- ten assumed to haye been„ John, but whora many schgars are inclined to think was ludas. • By the influence of this other disciple Peter found ad- 1 mission. See John 18. 16. He went ers to the court of the palace, and Sat with thc servants, that is, the "offi- ees'i," who had jaist arrested Jesus. vTilitese isa the chill of the early elawn had lighted a charcoal fire. Edwin women who actesi as gate keepers were passing to .and fro. The cold night air had told on Peter, and be too', weary and chelkd, drew neari the 1ir0 to w.arna, laimeelf." '.no see the end. The last proof of affection. Each word indicates a crushed but loving heart. 59. Sought false, wit/lees. 'Chat the had been thus seeking for Some three is made plain by the tense iof the Greek verb; but they had not now time to harmonize the false testi- mony. Apparently, Judas's treasen, unexpected by the priests, had hur- ried their plans. 60. Though many • false weinesges carnse yet eouincl they none. The mul- titude of false witneeses does not in- timate any widespread dislike of Jesus. Proceedings in modern courts and Christian countries have shown that it is not difficult evesi now to procnre false testimony. R.. I an able to destroy the tem- ple of God. John 2. 19: "Destroy this temple and in" rehnee days Iwill raise it up." These witne,sses were near- er the truth than Lhose who had gone before but they lead corrupt motives, and Mark tele us that their testimony did not agree. 62. Answe-reist thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee Or. "Answerest thou nothing to What these witness against thee ?" One after another had come forward with prejudicial statements against Jesus, and be steel "held his peace." Of this :eileince Tea- 53. 7 is a pro- phecy; 1 Pet. 2. 23 is a most instruc- tive and touChing coramentary. 61. I adjure thee by the -living God, that thou tell us •whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. The law em- powered the chief priest in certain casee to administec an oath. Our Lord could not refuse to answer this chal- lenge, and it was 63 worded that he must have , either denied himself or have uttered what seemed, to be blas- phemy to the Sanhedrin. 64. Thou has said. This expression wee a ,Jewish idiom of the strongest victims. 68. Prophesy unto us, thou Christ. Who is he that smote thee? From Mark, 14. 65 and Luke 22. 61 we get the full force of this ibla.sphornous mockery; they had blindfolded our Lord, and had both struck his face and spelt upon it. "They knew not what, they did."' TO FIT SHOES. People: would fend less dillictilty with ready-made ehoes, says an experi-: enced salesman if they Would standup to fit there on, instead of sitting down. Nino persons out of ten, particularly ladies, want a comfortable chair while they are fitting a shoe, and it is with the greatest difficulty you can get them to stand for a fewi minutes even after the shoe is fitted. The,n, when they begin walking about, they wonder why the shoes are not so comfortable I as they were at first trial. A wo- man's foot is considerably smaller , when she sits in a chair than when she 1walks about. Exercise brings a large blood into A BARBARIC FASHION. French schilciren are ridiculously dressed as far as the, laws of hygienics are concerned, for, . even in cold 'weather, when furs and velvets attest to the taste and money lavished upon little girls' attire, their legs are wretchedly exposed to the weather, not only by the eooks, which leave their knees entirely bare, but by ex- tremely abort underclothes. A GERMAN DILEMMA.' I see that at the Gerroan antler ex- hibition a Teutonic ,gentlernan with- out a tette was .given the first prize oven Etoaperor Whew! Say, that board of judges must have been in a painful dilem- ma for a while. A dilemma? Yes, they didn't know which horn to take. PERSONALITIES. Pepe Leo XIII does not speak Eng - lisle though he began to learn it more than 50 years ago in Brussels. In he days of their geentest prosperi- ty Gilbert and Sullivan are said to have divided between them *200,000 a year. Charles S. Francis, the new Ameri- can minister to Greece, 16 a graduate of Cornell, but before going to college learned the printer's trade in Troy, N. Y. Robert Dick Douglas, a grand son of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, bas been -appointed by Governor Russell to the office of attorney general of North Carolina. Frank Svoboda of New York has re- turned from the Klondilee world. He is 12 years old and made the trip on foot vvhere often, the temperature was 601 degrees below zero. The Geographical Society of Phila- delphia has presented the Elisha Kent Kane medal to Dr. A. Donaldson Smith of that city in recognition of his recent explorations in Africa. Secretary of tbe Navy Long denies •the report that he is going to Colorado to live. His daughter is going to that state on account of her health, but Mr. Long says he will always consider Mas- sachusetts his home. Sir Richard Webster, now Lord Al. verstone, the English lord.chief justicet when called to the bar made 1,500 in the first year of his practice and $5,000 the second. Before his latest promotion he was making $100,000 a year. ` Professor Schiaparelli re..tired on Nov. 1 from the directorship of the observa- tory of Milan, where he had been at work for the last 40 years. He has been one of the most conspicuous fig- -tires in Italian science. His successor' Is Professor Celoria. ' Mr, H. N. Goddard -of Clyffe Manor, who died recently on his ninety-fourth birthday, was one of the old order of English co-untry squires. His family bad been settled in Wiltshlre'ever since the reign Of King John, and the estate of Clyffe-Pypard had descended to him in a direct line from 'father to son for The German emperor recently pre- sented a marble bust of himself to Baron Beck, chief of the staff of the Austrian army. The bust is on a large scale and weighs 1,800 pounds. Bare. Beck is having his house thorougt. overhauled by military engineers to aS:k certain if there be any spot in it capae ble o.f bearinignseoyenormouthus ps.a weight. : ed to a tele. gram asking if there was any foundas tion for the newspaper report that he was engaged to Lillian Russell: "If j you apply to the lady, you will ascet tain what is true. That she has neve spoken to me in her life and would toe know me if we should chance to meet Is a pleasant illustration of the liberty press.00 ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Keep all dead and faulty limbs en_ off the fruit anti ornamental trees. In manuring the orchard the whale) surface should be equally enriched. , The mulberry is one of the best of fruiftrees to grow in tbe poultry. yard. As soon as the ground freezes suffi- ciently hard to bear up a wagon apply the mulch. When selecting shade trees for plant - Ing. hardiness of the 'trees should be given preference over rapid growth. Whenever bushes or suckers are seen growing around the apple and peaa. trees you may know that the orchard does not pay. • One advantage of good drainage in the orchard is that the fruits will usu- ally come to maturity earlier than on, endrained land. A FLESH REDUCER. IP the fruit trees are split by frost, Stout Lady -Does a bicycle reduce S;arot griaslin afting plwax,acesPirreuavderitthoon wound, opuieucde, lan ' I tying it to leeep in place. Mr., Slimpurse, wearhy-If you When pear trees refuse to grow and b it th in b 11 ant pran d buy . on . e s a m p a i . oes. -------- - eppear dormant, cultleate them well •and apply plenty of wood asees around seases 0 th • them. The liatchingof the tent cater- . .. pillar can, in a great measure, be pre- vented by going through the orchard now and pickino off the clusters of eggs. hroat and Lu Lea.d to Pneumonia and Syrup of L.inseed an Aliments. To -day et is eni,y a cough; only, a tickling in the throat. To -morrow will comer the pains and soreness in the chest, the bronchial tubes and langs. Once again: is repeated the old story of eonsumption or pneumonia developed from a neglected cold. 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All deals ers. or Eetmanson nate and 00m4 pasty, Toronto ITEMS OF INTEREST. When a French newspaper is not sure of itS news it does not say "it is ru- mored," but simply adds "under re- serve." • i A curiona custom prevails n Mexico of paying afternoon calls on New Year's day attired In full evening dress white ties and gloves. ' Relic bunters are the vandals to evhoni nothing is sacred.' These pestiferous destroyers are now defacing the ean- opy over -Plyirenth rook. The Belgiap ,chamber has resolved that every M. P, shell be a total ab, stainer, 'at least during the hours when he is officiating as a legislator. The valtie of the chicle, the basis of CbeWing guns, that is produced in Idea - leo Is tliteo times as great as that of the country's present rubber product. The Chicago c1rainag4, canal haa permanent tile line consisting of it strong wire cable stretched along its antire distance of 84 tniles. It is there for nee and safety In case of an acei- d en t. A writer on lake navigation says it Is easeless to anti-( of keeping a winter channel open with strongly built ice crushing boats, beenuee the gales tare Mo severe ;Intl the cost et maintaining the boats in motion would be too great.