Exeter Advocate, 1901-3-14, Page 6GOD'S P�tOMI�E TO JOS$UA.
he looks at the faint crescent of the
moon, and in the; name of the Lord,
who spake the world into being, he
lifts one band and says e"Sun,
stand thou still over Gibeon," and
1
over the valley of ,A,•jalon." And, for.;
twelve hours the planetary 'system
halted...
It in not yet quite su'nddwn in
Joshua's day, and we will have time'
for five royal funerals. WIhere
are
those five kings that Joshua took
and whose armies he destroyed? The
are there to that ca ' Y
cave—the cava of
1VLakkedah, Ming, Joshua has roll-
ed a stone against it and they can-
not get out. But before night, be-
fore this very sun which I am5peak-
ing about goes d.osvm, these five
kings are brought out, and according
to the ancient custom, the major
generals of Joshua now eonte up,
and they put thein foot on the nook
of
The
the other hand to the moon
At e Reno Drs Tali -nage Discourss. es. on he says; "And thou' moon stand atil
Ancient History.
'A despatch from Witshing'ton say
--Rev. Dr_ Talmage preached fronts tel
following text :—"There snail not a .
man be abie to stand before thee a
the days of tby life."—Joshua 1. 5.
Moses was: dealt. A beautiful triad
tion says that God kissed him, and i
that act drew forth the scam of th
dyring lawvgiver. He lute been burie,
only one person at his funeral:. th
sans one who kissed him. But Go
never rcmovee a man until ihe h;r
some one ready to take bis place_ Go
does not go around seeking•. among
great variety of candidates some ora
to take a vacant position; he jus
makes. a man to fit that particula
place. Moses had passed off the
letage. Toshua, the hero of the text
comes one to take his place, and puts
his foot so solidly on the platform
of history that all ages hear the echo
of his tread. He was a magnificent
fighter, and he always fought on the
right aide. He never fought for Per-
sonal aggrandizement, and never
fought unless the 'Lord told him to
do so.
His first undertaking was. to cross
the river Jordan in a spring freshet.
At ee.rtain seasons in'the year, and
En certain points, that river could be
easily forded, and the water would
only come to the knee or to the gir-
dle ; but at this season of which I am
ispeaki.ng, the snow of Mount Leban-
on had melted, and they were pouring
down into the valley, and the valley
had become one raging flood. The
Canaanites on the other side felt per-
fectly secure. They looked across the
river and saw the Israelites, and they
said: "'Aha 1 you can't get at us—we
are safe anyhow until this spring
f.resbet falls." Rut one day Joshua
orders out his troops and tells them
to fall into line.
"FORWARD MARCH !"
s: go all around the city of: Jericho once
ie and a failure. Around the city twice,
ny three times, four times, and a failure.
11 Around the city five times, six times,
seven times, and a failure. 'There is
1- only one more- thing to bo done,' and
n that is to give a great shout, Joshua
e rises up to his fuil. statua.•o and he
t1. selves the command. He feels tho
e fight moment has come, and ho Says:
d `,Shout for the Lord hath given you
s
d,i'dna eity,n and the command is heard,
'and the pec le all together cr
P g Y,
a ` "Down, Jericho! down, Jericho"! And
e that long line of solid masonry be-
t gins to quiver, and then crash go the
✓ walls, the temples, thepalaces, until
the earth quakes, and the Heavens
are blackened with the dust, and the
shriek of the crusbed city and: the
huzzaof the victorious Israelites come
mangle.
People cross the ocean to see a ruin.
You need not go far. Stand a min-
ute and look at the ruins of this city
Jericho. There is one house that
did not fall. I wonder that one house
stood while all the rest of the city
fell.
RAHAB LIVED THERE.
She had been noted for her crimes.
Yetshe was saved,` Because she had
been a great sinner? No, because she
had repented, and to prove to all the
ages that there is mercy for the chief
of sinners. All the other houses went
down but Rahab's house; that stood.
She repented. She trusted in God.
She was saved. Mercy for the chief
of sinners.
This is no place to stop, Joshua
cries; "Forward, march!!" There is
the city- of Ai to be taken. They got
up in franat of the city when the men
of Ai came out and gave one yell, and
away ran •the Israelites like reindeer.
I see Joshua coming out that day of
his encampment, and he looks up and
sees the people running, and he
puts his hand to his forehead,
and he says; "Why, I sea lly
believe those are our men.
They are running in retreat." And
soon the retreating army come u
They say: "0, General, we are a
cut to pieces. Those men of Ai a
awful people. We are all cut.
pieces." Joshua falls down on b
face in chagrin. But how did Go
arouse Joshua? Did he address hi
in some complimentary apostrophe
No, he says: "Get thee up. Wh
Best thou {bus on thy face?" Joshu
cries Joshua to hie troops. They pass
on toward the ricer, and it seems as 1
if the light -armed troops and the
spearman and the archers and all.
their leaders must be swept down in
the fearful flood. They reach the bank
and they pull themselves up its. steep
thirty or forty feet in height—they
pull themselves up the bank by the
oleanders and the tamarisks and the
willows until they reach the top. No
sooner have they climbed up this high
bank than with dash and roar and
terrific rush the waters of the Jordan
break loose from their strange an-
eharage. Why did not those waters
Stay parted until Joc-hua and his
troops could find out whether they
could cope with their enemies or not?
I hear one of the unbelieving Israel-
ites say: "Lord, why didst thou not
keep those billows parted so that if
wewanted to retreat we could go back
dry shod, just as when we advanced?
Wii are engaged en 'a very risky ex -1
periment. How if these Canaanites
eat us all up?"
Ah 1 my hearer, God never makes
any provision for the Christian's re -1
treat. He clears the path to Canaan,l 1
if we go ahead ; if we go back we die.
ff
It is dry shod on a path of broken!
sbell and pebbles in one direction. It':
is water forty fent deep in the rear. p
The same gate -keeper that swung s
• back the crystal and amethystine •'f
door of Jordan to let you pass, hath o
bolted and barred the crystal and am- a
ethystine of the Jordan to keep you r•
from going back. I declare it to -da.
y„c
,Victory ahead. Darkness, flood, ruin a
and death behind. I
But we cannot stop hexe. It is no s
place for Joshua's; troops to stay, I
What is that in the distance? At
o
the end of a grave of palms eight f
miles long, is the chief city. f
THAT IS JERICHO t
the great metropolis. Take it Joshua
nn:st. "Take it Joshua can't.” say
the unbelievers." This campaign is Y
planned by the Lorcl Almighty. There J
a .ret to be no swords, no shields, no 0
ibattering. rams el llere is tot be ons • u
one weapon, and that is to be a ram's t
born. Now the command is, that t
seven 'of
priests he
i should take these t
rude musical instruments, and for a
six days they should go around the
malls
he 'C
walls of Jericho once a day, and then t
fan the :seventh day, they should fro o
around seventimes blowing curl- 1 this • T
'acus, rustic, musical instrument, and
!the peroration 01 the whole scene is c
to be ,a great shout under which that t
,wall from base to capstone is to of.
tumble. Around thea
w lls of Jericho bl
,the priests go once, and a 'failure, so
Noe so cancel as a piece of.
v.. ,- ,w ., P mortar or 3
peas er drops Froin the wall; 'not so:
much as a crevice e
op.ns, not so much m
tae a rock get,e loose. Around the city
th
rae�ktoad day, incl a Ieilance the b
third day.'and't f &dire the fourth
h
day, and a failure ; around the fifth
day, and a failure; around the sixth
day, and a failure. Joshua's stock
Was down• But the .seventh day
came—the olimaoteric day. d. y At last,
the hour has arrived. The priests
P
ieh these e
,v< t es rude , xn,usical: nstz'un'ents
P.
11
re
to
is
m
y
a
arose, I suppose looking mortified
but his old courage came back again
He marshals all the Israelites, and h
says: "We will go( up en masse, an
we will take the city of Ai." H
takes most of his army and he hide
it in the night behind a ledge o
rocks. In the morning he marche
up a small battalion: of troops in
front of the city as by stratagem.
The men re'. Ai say: "Ah. 1 we will
conquer these men very soon," and'
the people of Ai pursued this little
•
THE TER,RI.BL17 OLD KINGS,
and they are beheaded, and their
bodies are put "`back into the same
cave and the game stone ie rolled
against it again.
Now, irt'is time for Joshua to go
home. He is :an old, man. He is a
hnrnelred and ten. Nov give Jos-
hua, the oldest warrior of the ages; a
chance to rest. No ! The greatest
battle of all his lifetime opens. He
conies out now against the greatest
king on earth, a king who has more
subjects than all the present popu-
lation of the earth. It ;is the.. king
of Terrors, the conqueror of thous-
ands of years. Now, Joshua, you
have your match. No! For id'
this is Joshua's greatest battle it
is Joshua's' greatest victory.' ` He
gathers his friends around him and
he givee his valedictory.
He is a handred: and ten years old.
Touch him very, gently. Stretch
out those old feet that orrice walked
the dry path of the parted Jordan.
Close those lips which blew; the blast
that dropped the walls of Jericho.
Foie that arm that stretched : out the;
spear, against the doomed city of Ai.
Fold it across tbee heart that exult-
ed. when the five kings fell. But
where shall we get the burnished
granite fit to be the 'headstoneand.
the footstone of this .greatest of
warriors? t Oh, ;I bethink .myself.
now. I imagine at his head it shall
be the sun that stood still, above Gib
-
eon, and at the foot it shall be the
moon that stood'still ovee the valley
of Ajalon.
LORD ROBERTS' PATENT.
Text•pf tLc 13oennacnt Which Conferred
1'eerae on the Marshal.-
The following is the full text of
Lord Roberts' latest patent of nobil-
, ity:
• The Kintg has been pleased to direct
e letters patent to;be. passed, under the
d Great Seal of the `United Kingdom of
e Great Britain and Ireland..granl'ag
s I the dignities of Viscount and Earl of
2 the saiti United Kingdom unto:
s Frederick Sleigh Baron Roberts of
Kandahar, K.G., E.P.• G.C.B, G,C.S.I•;
G.C.I.E., V.C,; Field Marelaall and Com-
mander -in -Chief of leis nIajesty's
Forces; lately Field Marshall Coro -
la -landing -in -Chief, the forces in South
i Africa, by the :names, styles' and ti-
les of Viscount St. Pierre and Earl
Roberts of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
and Pretoria in the Transvaal colony,
and of the City of Waterford ; with
remainder to the theirs male of his
body lawfully begotten
And in default of male issue with
remainder to his.elder daughter, the
Honorable Aileen Mary Roberts, spin-
ster, to hold the names, styles' and
titles of Viscountess St. Pierre and.
Countess Roberts of Kandahar in Af-
ghanistan, and Pretoria in the Trans-
vaal colony, and of the City of Wa-
terford; and after iher decrease to the
heirs male of her body, ,lawfully `be-
go.tten by the names, styles and ti-
tlesi of Viscount en. Pierre and Earl
Roberts of Kandahar in 'Afghanistan
and Pretoria in the Transvaal colony,
and the City of Waterford:
Wirth the like remainder in defsent
of such issue of the said Aileen Mary
Rolbar'ts to the Honorable Aria Ed-
wina, Stewarts Roberts, and the heirs
male of her body lawfully begotten.
(With the like remainder: in default:
of such issue 1:o every other younger
daughter lawfully 'begotten of the -
said Baron Roberts, successively in or-
der of seniority of age and priority of
birth, end to the heirs male of. their
bodies lawfully begotten:
THE S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 17.
"Josue and I'flnto." Lake 23, 13.20. Golden
Text, Lake 33. 4.
PR{ACT;TcAL NOT1 S'. 1
Verse 13. Pilate, when he had call-
ed together;! the chief priests and the.
rulers. Compare Matt. 27. 15-23;
Hark 15. 6-14. Apparently the San-
hedrin or council was atilt in session;
at least its mem'tnere had;not dispors-
erL When Pilate had' striven to
throw all the responsibility con-
cerning Jesus on the Sanhedrin ite,,
members chimed that they had no
pewee to execute judgment. To the
conversation between Jesus, and,
Pilate : which John records was due
probably the great desire shown by
th'e go'vernlor to sexeun the release
of Jesus. The words'' and the people
point .to this groat desire. Pilate.
appeals from the council to the crowd,
co;n.fident that" the "common' people"
wbo "heard him gladly" will support
•
him how.
14. Ye hare brought this man un-
to me, as one that pervnrtcth the peo-
ple. Turns them away from the
religion of the nation or from the loy-
alty to the Roman government. I,.
having - examined him before you.'
have found no fault in this man.
Pilate's examination had proved that
Jesus wa5,' in another sphere of life
from the rulers. f
15. Nor yet Hero'L To whom our Lord
had been sent by Pilate, when he
heard that Jesus was a Galilean. In-
stead of for I sent you to him the
Revised `Version` has "for he gent him
back unto us." Nothing worthy of
death is done •unto him. "Nothing
worthy of death hats been done by
him."
.16. I will therefore chastise him,
and release,him. 'Pilate proposed to
scourge him—a punishment inflicted
by the Roman magistrates in certain
cases far offenses gess than capital
This was said in,a spirit of weak con-
cession to the assembled multitudes,
since he had already declared thein-
nocence of the aceused; and the Jews
took advantage of this weakness.
17. Thin verse of the Authorised
Version is omitted in the Revised Ver-
sion. It is wanting in several import-
ant Greek manusoripts. In most
classes; which study frons the Author-
ized Version, mention of the omission
would be' of little service, for it_re-
cords an historic fact,` whether' Luk
originally wrote it or not„ and ^it be
longs properly to Matt. 27. `15 an -
Mark 15. 6. Seel' an act of public fav
or was often shown in old times o
a occasions of public rejoicing.
18. Cried, out all at once. `Ai .un
animosos clamor. Away with this man
and release unto us Barabbas. Ai ma
who wan at once a prisoner:' an
popular. Barabba,n is not so much
name as a "patronymic." "Bar'
meads a son. "Abbas" may be eith'
er the ,napae of the man's tfather or it
may mean a complimentary phrase
often applied to priests it may mean
the "son of a rabbi." There is some
evidence in favor` of reading in Matt,.
27. 1G the name "Jesus Barabbas."
19. John tells us that Barabbas was
a robber. Mark! agrees with Luke
that, he was a notable insurrectionist,
and: that murder for which he was'
held responsible .had been committed
during the uprising. It bas been con-
jectured that he was a leader of the
mob which arose - when Pilate ruth-
lessly appropriated. Jewish religious
moneys. This may explain his popu-
larity.
23. They were instant' with loud
soices. "They pressed upon hire
with loud voices." "Instant" meant
"urgent."
24. Pilabe gave sentence that it
should be as they 'required Matt. 27.
21-3D; Mark 15, 15-19. The motive
which at lest prevailed with Pilate is
more >ully' shown in John 19. 12-16,
He` feared .that the Jews would 'ac-
cuse hvm before Caesar, and from his
many acts of cruelty arise extortion he
had reason to dread the consegtuences.
But the very misfortune which he
sought to avoid by condemning the
innocent did really befall him alter -
ward. The six years of, his governor-
,sleip of Judea were years of arbi-
trary violence, and four years after
our Lord's death he was dismissed
from. his charge, and is said to have
destroyed himself in ibanishment at
Vienne, in Gaul.
'25. Whom they had deer: d.
"Whom they were clamoring for,"
Barabbas.
26. ` Simon, a Gyrenian. Cyrenc
was a city in;the. north of Africa,
where many Jews were settled. Simon
whose ,sons Alexander and Rufus are
named by Mark,< may have been
e
d
n
ei
d
a
talron, and the Israelites, as
though they were frightened,
a.11 back into the strata-
gem. No sooner are all the
eople of the city started in
ursuit of that battalion, that Joshua
tends on a rook, and I' see his, hair
lying in the wind as he stretches
ut his spear toward the doomed city,
nd all the armed men behind the,
ocks rush for the city and they
apture it and put it to the torch,
nd no sooner is it on fire than those
sraelites in the city start down, pee-
ning the men of Ai, and the
sraelites coming out of the city on
ne side, and the battalion that had
alien back suddenly, coming up
rom the other side, between those.
wo waves of Israeiitish courage,
THE VICTORY WAS' GAINED.
Joshua's troops cannot. stop
et. "Forward, march I" says
oshua, :for there is the city'
1 Gibeon ; it has put itself'
ncier. the wings of 'Josbera's protec-
ion, and Joshua must' defend it; and
he people send word. from this city
o Joshua: "Come might away; there
re Sive kings' going to destroy us.,
ome right away." Joshua makes ,a
hree days' march in one night. The
onflict opens with great" slaughter.
he Canaanites look up and they nay;
Ah 1 it is Joshua, it is Joshua who
onquered the' spring freshet, and
he stone wall, and who took the city
Ai. There's no use; he's a terri-
o man; there's no use ;'' and they
oended a retreat, "Oh." says
oshua, "this is a victoryI
M But it is
getting towards sundown and those r
iserable Canaanites are going to
get away from me. and hey will
esiege us, and perhae attempt to 1
� l
destroy tee. Oh for a day twice es long l
s any we have ever Seen in this e -1
�l m
te." What is the matter with Joshua?
as»be fallen in an apoplectic fit?
o, be is in prayer..
i
Toshua rises, his face radiant with
rayer, and he looks, al, the descend- (.
sun over the bl1e
g' of GrYieon, and
a
a`
1
in
MORE TERRI'B;LE THAN WAIt.
Dr. Ohait:lain, amilitary doctor in
the ,service: of the Swiss army, has ken
just published some startling was
facts concernin absinl ' e a 't'
g ha, diinkrn„ in s,
the arra He states that(seen
Y a total c• �
of 200,00e men have•piessee i'nder his
care in four ;years, of whom, 2400l were
e
suffering from theeffecte of abeinthe
to a greater or less" degree. Of the
adult male populition oi the fifteen
largest towns, lie eases that twelve
y
per cent., are eictims of absinthe olid
s
the vice is on the increase, I7r. •Chale-
lain ativocetee the passing of a bill
to contt'oi the Gale of absinthe,. 1
ten as a; follower of our Lord, but
tn.r ebably taken bythe soldiers s as
ranger. On him 'they laid the
u. `.P.hey tens apparently be -
cane our Lorcl was unable to bear
ithe longer,
ert ss any long
C'0 [7LD �T'T SIIINE IN FICTION. p
1
Ailchbs—You,ngpop ie altogether
lacking ire ithaginetion.
Slobbe—W,h
y do you Say thatZ
BIaiabe—I've never 'bearci him
gat off.
TOMMY- TALKS OF THE WAR
HE CRITICIZES THE CONDUCT OP THE
COMMANDING OFFICERS.
Alen Always Being Led into heath l'rnps-
O/ileets Fared the Rest--nnclns Knows
AU About It, Too.
mommy Atkins is a silent fellow.
He fights, he marches, and he bears
all the hardships of a long cani;paign
and says nolthieg about it. Even in
his private` letters home lie seldom.
gimes expression 'to more than a.n oc-
casional grumble at the privations he
itt compelled, to endure. Dee opinion,
however, upon the actual conduct of
the war, apart from strategy, is more
valuable than that of any other man,
for it is th;e oven in the ranks who
feel the pinch. They pay for blun-
ders and 'mismanagementt in pri-
vations and hardships. If food is
sheet, it is Tommyn who goes without;
if !t'he transport breaks down, it is
Tammy who sleeps in the mud, in
the pouring; rain, without any shel-
ter to protect him; if there is a hitch
im
sending r up new clothing, it is
TonimY whogoes in rags and marches
wit 'bootless feet. ilivrch' and fight
he muse, no matter what blunders
are eammitted. If' his officer is young
and ;ignorant and leads his men: into
a death-trap, it is Tommy who pays
for that ignorance with his life. If
the hospitals " aro mismanaged and
Overcrowded, ,et is Tammy who dies
inthe filthy wards. He bears the
brunt of the campaign without a
murmur. At its close he surely has a
right to express his opinion upon its
management.
iFIGHTING—AND PT;ENTY OF IT,
The other day, writes : a represen
tative, I had an interesting talk' wit
a -nom•-commissionod officer who re
centlemereturned from the fightin
Inc.iHe had been in a dozen battles
and has had personal experience o
bath 'field and base hospitals as a
enteric patient. He has served hi
timer and is no longer in the arm
He was a non-comonissioned office
in 'the Guards, andis an educated
man, who made careful' notes of his
experiences in a diary which he kept
from day to day.
"Were yon. in all the fights in
which ,the Guards took part?"
"Fighting? Yes, we had plenty of
itt. Most of us had never been under
fire before. Yon feel pretty bad the
first: dime, but you soon get used to
it. After the first fight or two we
thought no more of a battle than
of a parade day in England. It was
all in the day's work. Sometimes
we really looked forward to a fight'
with pleasure, as a break in the
dreadful monotony of the continuous'
marching day after day. As soon as
we landed we joined Lord Methuen's
column. Our first bit of fighting was
at Belmont. Madder River 'fight was
by far the worst battle I was in,
and I went through a good many.
of
None us thought' we should have
Lo fight that day. Bun frons early
morning till late at night we had
to lie flat on :the veldt in a blazing
sun, hardly daring to lift our heads,
We could see ,notching' of the enemy.
We aiened-at.the puffs of white smoke
inthe river bed. If the Boer shells
had only burst there would have been
very few, of us left - alive and un-
wounded; but they seldom exploded.
I often saw a shell bury itself im-
mediately i/o front ofa man, so close
that Id raised him off the earth, but
he would not be injured, for 11; failed
to explode."
NAVAL AND MILITARY OFFICERS.
"Did .the officers fare as badly as
the men?"
"No fear. They always 'looked outfor themselves. They; could always
fund a flask of whiskey. Although
there was not sufficient transport for
the needs of the army, many officers.
were allowed a hundred or two bun-
d.red pounds of, baggage in place of
the thirty pounds to which they were
h
g
f
n
s
y
r
entitled, They expected everything t
be the same as at home. Some 'o
them were too' fine gentlemen td
speak to a non-commissioned officer:
They indeed smoke their ci'g'aretteg
and keep to themselves. The officer®
of the Naval Brigade were very din,
ferent. They were with us at Mode
dor River with the 4.7 igu,ns. They
worked and talked with their men,
and even messed with them. You
had be be vers careful how you spoke
Ld your officer, or, it was the worse
noir you. Here is a little thing which''
happened at bladder River, which will
show you what I'rnean.At non-com-
m;ission,ed-offices hacl been the round
of the outposts one night. He was
making his report to the commanding
officer, who had asked nine 'where
suich and such a 'picket was. "Over
there, sir," the man replied, In an-
swer tot another ;question, he said,
"Over ;there." Simply because he had
'olmaitted to repeat the word "sir,"
that man was court-martialled, and
lost his stripes.
'TOIVIMY ON HIS OFFICI7R.
"What did Tommy think of his offi-
car `as a ,leader?"
"They were always leading yon in.
td death traps, unless you kept, your
eyes very wide open. They did not
knaiw what to-do.' I will ,give you a
case that happened at Magersfonteiin.
We were -supper ting the Highlanders,
When they were shot down by scores
we held the greeted, and formed the
first firing' line. There 'was a great
deal of barbed wire fencing about
Crouching on all fours, we managed
to get past one fence. The next could
non -be passed, as the wires were too
close together. The Boers were firing
in front and on our, flank. We were
protecting a battery of guns by
fining volleys at the enemy. That's
the +onIyy thing that will keep them.
quiet. The lieutenant in command
of my section lost his bead complete-
ly. Really,' he kept on saying, 'real-
ly, I'don't know what to do. I think
we sha11 be; cut off 11 we stay here.:
Really, I believe < we had better re-
tiree 'I think, sir,' 1 ventured to'
suggest—they don't Luke you to in-
terfere, so you must be careful—'we,
had 'better remain here.' He thought -
better of it, and there we stayed.:
If we had retired, we should have
last Sonne" more .goals. Some of the
officers cared very little for their
men. They would speak, to -them as
if they were dogs. At Magersfonteirr
one of my, men was wounded in the
arm. W.e bound in up as well as WS
could. He had' to lie out in the open
all day long,' for the Boers fired at.
the stretcher -'bearers. At night, When
we were about to retire, I asked the
officer in command of mycompany
what we should do with the wounded
man. 'Da' he said, 'we must 'leave
him 'behind. He will have to stay
out all: night•' I knew ` that would
mean certain death, for he had host
a' terrible amount of blood, and d
knew also that he had a wife and
tevo children at home in England. I
therefore got four of my men to make
a stretcher out of a blanket . and
two rifles. While the others were
firing volleys at the Boers, we gqt
him safe into camp. Of cou,rse, you
!got no credit for it. But the man's`.
life was saved."
A POINT IN PRECEDENCE..
Mr.`Marmac1uke-Jc•nes—Society now.
adays seems to be made up of such: a
lot of people' we don't know.
Mrs. Marmaduke-Jones-Oh, don't
put Id that, my clear say rather that
society nowadays' is made up of such
a lot of people who.. don't know us.
FRIENDLY: ENCOURAGEMENT.
timmons—Since thinking it over 1
have concluded that perhaps you are
a Second Shakespeare.
Timmons—Oh, thank you! Er -But
why ?
The actors say Shakespearedoes-not
pay.
Artery Severed While Undergoing an Operation-
No Longer Necessary, to Use, the Knife for
Piles.
Saturday's paper contained °the tic -
taunt of ati - accident svlaereby a
toung lady lost her life: While under-
go. ing an operation the surgeon's knife
!!lipped, an artery was severed, andlbe-
Lin the, surgeon knew the result of
Ins error the p'atien't was in a dying
lend it ion.
Every .stergicsl operation is attended
with great risk to life aslwell as being.
ts"svere strain on the nervous system
land an expensive method of treat -
Ment. Ibzetora formerly recon-
needed ani operation as the only cure
for piles bu', that day is past, since Dr.
!,h ,q i's ,Oin:' m°alt hag proven its abso-
u? ti e nt al o er'every for of itching
biee. in • an:l protruding piles:
l?hysieiai o h a are considerate of
tai -going• oa their patient do not
a: dilate to recommend Ter. Chase's
Ointment, and only those haven a
�m.inia.
for operations ,claim that cruel
nethcd an the proper treatment: By
•omptly stopping' the distressing
felins'' and tau ping Dr. Chass's Oi.nt-
a n' b:irs quick ane lasting relief,
Pose S, A, Duprau, Mcetb;dist tniuis-
;r, Canaesen, Prince Edward County,
Dot., states e--"/ ryas trcr>bled with
Ftelr ng and` bleeding piles for
ibd 1 hay ultimately attained to a
yee aryy
Oohed. fa,m. Large lumps, or abscesses
I any of the brittle. sayings of.
y B bit
lit ar'en.
o I
foerne,dso that it was with great diffi-
culty and considerable pain that I
wan able to stool. At this very severe
crinis Ipurchaaed a box- of Dr. Chase's
Ointment, but ball iittle'or no faith in
et, aag I. had tried various remedies!
ef„ore and to no purpose.
"Now N w imaaginelaow great and'oyoufl
( was my surprise to fired, that just
one box tired me so that the lumps.
disappeared and also the external,`
•sw,elling.: I feel like a different man,i
to -day, and have not the 'least doubt:
that Dr. Chase's Ointment saved me
from a very de reroute andainfu
p 1
operation and many eear.,s of suffering,
It is with the greatest pleasure an
witestithma oniathalnkfu
,kno
l hwieartngthat that Dr. CI giveha,thief
se'
Ointment,has dyne so much for mei
You are at :perfect liberty to nee thie
testimonial as you see fit Mr the
benefit of othere similarly afflicted."
(Dr. Chase's' OdmiLment has been en-
dorsed ley :more people, including docs
tors and professional men, than
. anrsimilar preparation the world hae ever'
..:
known. Itis the standard ointment ttnd
world over, and, positively the only
II. L
f/ lla I Cl r,a
for piiloa, 6(1 rents a box
alt all dealrers, K
Co.. Toronto.