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eNv. Dr.
0
Talmage Speaks of Now
and Hereafter...
A despatch from Washington says: amount of trouble, and so he ap-
ev. Dr. Pah:nage preached from the portions it for all the days and
following text; Matthew vi, 34, Years of ottr life. Alas, 101' the poi -
unto the day is the &tat icy of gathering it all up for one
thereof," , day or year ! Crttel thing to put
'rile life of every man, woman and upon the back of one camel all the
child is as closely under the divine cargo intended „for thc entire cara
.care as though suck person were the van. 1 never look at my memoran-
°illy man, ,woman or child. There duin book to ,sZ,,e what engagements
ere no aalliCiallE,S. A3 there is a law and duties are far ahead. Let every
ef storms in the natural world,so week bear its own burdens. The
there is a law .Of trouble, a law of shadows of to -day are thick enough,
disaster, a law of misfortune ; but Why implore the presence of other
, • the majority of troubles of life are shadows ? The cup is already dis-
imaginary, and the most of those tasteful. Why halloo to disasters
anticipated never come. At any far distant to come and wring out
rate, there is no cause of complaint more gall in the bitterness ? Are we
against ,God. See how much he has such champions that, having won
done to make you happy, his sun-', the belt in former encounters, we
shine filling the earth with glory, ean go forth to challenge aU the
,making rainbow for the storm and future ?
halo for the. monntitia, greenness for HERE ARE Buarmess MEN
the moss, saffron for the cloud, and
. just able to manage affairs as they
Crystal fur the 1311 1°‘`' and Preeesswn 110\V are. They, can pay their rent
of bannered flame througa the open- and meet, their notes and manage af-
ing gates of the morning, chaflinches fairs as they now aro, but how if a
to sing,rivers to glitter, seas to panic should come and my invest -
chant and springs to blossom, and ments should fail ? Go to -morrow
overpowering all other sounds with and write on your daybook or on
its song and overarching all other your ledger, on Your money safe,
splendor with its triumph, covering
'Sufficient unto the day is the evil
up all, other beauty with its gar-
lands and otitilashing all thrones thereof." Do not worry about notes
that, are far from due. Do not Pile
up on your counting desk the fin-
ancial anxieties of the next twenty
years. The God who has taken care
13ORROWING 'TROUBLE, of your worldly occupation,. 'guard-
ing your store from the torch of the
incendiary and the key of the bur-
rar, will be as faithful in 1910 as
n 1901. G s hand is mightier
in my garden; the one thrived beau- than the machinations of
.stock
tifullY., the other perished. I found gamblers or the plots of political
the dead one on the shady side of demagogues or the red right arm of
the house. 'Our dispositions like revolution, and the darkness will
fly and the storm fall dead at His
feet.
So there are persons in feeble
health, and they are worried about
the future. They make out very well
with its dommion—deliveranco for
lost world through the Great Re-
deemer. I discourse of the sin of
First,. such a habit of mind and
heart is wrong, because it puts one
into -a despondency that ill fits him
for duty. I planted two rosebushes
our plants, need sunshine. Expect-;
' ancy Of 'repulse is -the cause of mariY
secular and religious failures.. Pear
Of bankruptcy has uptorn many -a
line bUsinesS'and sent the man 'dodg-
• ing among the note shavers Fear now, but, they are hOtheringthem-
selves about • afuture pleurisies and
rheumatisms and neuralgias and fev-
ers. ' Theie eyesight is. feeble, . and
they :are worried Jest they :- entirely
lose it. Their hearing is. indistinct
and they are alarmed 'lest they :be- f
dutY is a man who sits: down under :come entirely deaf. They felt : chilly.
the gloom of expected 'misfortune ! I- e
to-dtiv and are expecting an attack
. If he prays, he says,. "I do not think of typhoid. They. have been troubled
I Shall be answered," If he gives, 1 for weeks with some perplexing male
' 'he Says., "I expect , they will steal i adY and iread becoming lifelong in,- I 1.
the !Money.".', Ifelefie•Clialineks told. i Yalids. sTake care -of your health 9
, ,inc that her father, Thoma S Chet-• /now and, s trust . Gad for, the. future.
mers, in, thendorkeSt hour 'of the his. .. „
'Be .not guilty of the .blasphemy •of
tory of the•Free Church of Scotla.nd arking 'him to takeacare. of you while
. and when the woes of the land seem- you sleep with your windows , tight
ed to weigh tiron his heart said, to , down or . eat chicken salad at, 14
his, children, "Conde, let us 46 out o'cloek .at .night or sit -clown on • a -
and 1.,iay hall or fly kite.,,', .elid. the cake of ice to eool off. Be prudent,
of slander ,and. abuse has often in-
vited all.. the long. beaked .vultures
• of seem and backbiting. Many of
the misfortunes of life; like. hyenas,.
flee if you courageously meet them:
How poorly prepared for religious
Large IntereoSt Money to pay will
8°°n eat_ up a fern?, a 'store, an es-
tate,.. and the interest on borrowed.
trouble:4 will *warn') anybody, -Suf-
ficient unto the day is the evil
thereof."
TREATING SOLDIERS.
Fortunes Spent in Tobacco and
Liquor' by His Admirers.
A son of a Yorkshire farmer al-
ways had a ''hankering... after the
army, but his parents were obdur-
ate, and his militery ardour finally
found yent in a modified form of sol-
diering in the Yeomanry, n
,s a kin • o c.mpters in the Bit 1 i
those (lays was re • 3 • 1
,
Cod (Gen. xxxii, 1-32). Golden Text
THE s s LESSON Lessen XI.— Jacob a prince with
INTEI1NATIONAL :LESSON
Sept. .1,39.
Text ef the Lesseri,---Comprohen-
eive. Quarterly Review.—Gold-
en Text, , Ps.
Lessoa the Creator of all
things '(Gen. i, 1; ii, 8). Golden
Text, Gen. i, 1, "In the beg -liming'
God .ereated the heaven. and the
earth.'' To niY mind one of the
greatest and most precious truths in
of TItitioa a(t)tfiletice of
fo It, eh .e young
follow i n 17(!of trtal:11
ng unhjncterecl
l things in h
iitiestioil theta and left the farmieg end on
thii,tissinceassse,, to liis saang.00,1,1heonieatLeinr He who commanded i he lig
too 3vonderfiil (.Ter, xxxii, 1 7).
failed to give the applicalion to the slime out of darimess eh Mes
, Juke xY,11 1, 1, Alen ought always to
prayand not to faint," Our I ea-
ven y Father is ever longing to do
great things for Ells people that His
power may he Seen, that He may be
glorified, but we are not to be so
full of 011/lSCIVOS thet we hinder ITiin
by our planning and striving and do-
ing.
Lessbn XII.--Tremperance lesson
(Pro v. xxiii, G olcleu Text,
Prov. xx, 1, '`Wine, is a mocker,
stoolig , drink is raging, and WilOSO-
ever is deceived thereby is not wise."
There is rio salvation from the sin of
strong drink or any other sin except
.
s II 113. who was made sin for us,
; God who 1)ore our sorrows and carried.
°Liven our griefs, who for us was a. man of
ng is sorrows and o.coitainted With grief.
When
nIttoutor
RACE WITI-I A TIGER.
e face
.we
, and .41.' Icreilehmari s Adventure in
oci in Malay Peninsula.
werk which it required- He was con- hearts to give the light °I the 1
stantly driving in to the nearest lege 01 the fi:lerY of God 1'1 th
garrison town, where _a regiment of of' Jesus Christ (II Coin 0'
Dragoons, were stationed, and 'Ile ar0. from that tinie on earth foi
Spent most of his evenings. either at in 'partnership Witli Ifini that G
the sergeant's nies, or witb mili all things may be glorified thi
He would not allow the soldiers to LOSS011 II.---13eginning of Sla al
Lary companions in the town. • , '
_ - ,
:Jesus Christ (I Pet. iv, 11).
pay for anything if he could prevent demption (Gen. iii, 1-15..
it, and and he spent money at a much Tet,' Ilona v, 20. "Where
faster rate than 'lle could make it: abounded grace did much
He had militarY friends at the farm ab6und7,' 'Here is the outrank° 0
for Nyeek-ends mid -treated them great eneniy, the devil, the adye
handsomelY in the matter of drink's of G°(1 and man, wh° ee°nt'nu
. ..
and cigai,s. ' , . such all through the thole stoi
There could only te one end to' .1;ev, xx, where le goes to his
this sort '01 ' thing and it came. He place forever. In verse 15 we
had to dispose of Ins farming: in_ I:he promise of a Deliverer
terests to meet claims, and got out though He shall suffer at the h
of it with but a few pounds in his of the adversary, shall finally
POcket. With the aid of' friends ' la, quer him. In verse 21 we* have
host simple illustration „of the
Went out to America and began life
again on a cattle ranch. of redemption, and in verse 21
Harold Freeman, a y,oung flow of, gi°rY 01 the redeemed in Paradis
thirty, came unexpectedly into a stored is taught by the cheruhn
sum of $2,500. He was: a inachipist ' Lessen 111." -Noah saved in the
at a saw-miil with a wage of $7 a (Ge.,1'111' 1-22). G°1derl.' Text'
\.‘,_eek. He threw up his job, and set va 0, "Noah found 'grace in the
Out to enjoy nimSelf. -ge went' to of the Lord."
London, and after a fortnight there.' the division aniong those who
Chapter iv tell
went on to Aldershot to see a„friehd shipped God as set -.forth in Cain
who was a corporal in a line regi-
ment.. ' Abel, the one refusing God's way
the, ,other ' accepting it. As y
HE LIKED THE SOLDIERS
- , passed on the increase was 00
, side of those against God till
and lie sperit all his time and his ''''
money between Aldershot aid 'Lon- flesh became s° e°1111Pt that a`pd
d'on with his soldier friends. At th'e str°Yed all with a dethae, sPal
end of three months he had not it Noah and his \filthily, His°
penny in the, world, and was seeking 'whom to people the n.ew earth.
a job at 'firs old employment. As h -e great practical question is, Am
. .
was a good hand at his work., he ,the ark, the true ark, Christ je
slAccee.ded in getting a job at Hull, in whom alone is redemption?
bet he could not shake off his,pro- ?,21, 1-9).
calls Abram (0
pcnsity for treating soldiers when- a Golden Text, Gen. xii,
ever he came across them when his I will bless thee and make
unds allowed. name grea.t, and thou shalt be a b
The dockyard towns of P1ymout11, sing." , Hatred of G od is again s
Portsmouth, and Chatham are npt dah113: manifest at the tower of Da
withoeut their instances of the kind. where C,od stopped them in their
Apart from the men Who come oh it bedion by the cenfusion of tonga
°reign station and on being pnia Notwithstanding this, men fall 'a,t
11, "blew the. lot," there are c -iv-,
. into idolatry, and' from the mass
i mils who beggar themselVes in ' an idolators God. calfetAbrain to‘ b
eXcess of admiration for the handy-
man. 'A few years -ago two men
from Wolverhampton, who „came
down to Southsea with an excursion
and had unwisely. brought'. all they
had with them, spent, about 230, in
two days in "signifying the 'same in
the' usual manner " with. blue -jackets
and marines.
When they had paid for a wire to
a friend for the amount necessary to
take them home, they were penniless.
Fortunately they were single men,
and had . mekely to. return to the
process of -saving up."
H. 13, Syers, who had 21.600 left
him a few years ago, went through
every penny. at Chatham, treating
sailors and marines. It WEIS no all
"Wowed" in—treating to drink and
music halls, for he bought all sorts
of things allowable and forbidden to
men in hospital; including, scores of
pounds of tobacco for convalescents,
while he sent moroy to needy rela-
tives 01 his naval friends. When last
heard of he was a patron of a "doss-
house'' in LQ11don, but Chatham
knew hiin no more.
•It nmst not be inferred for ono
moment that soldiers and blue-
jackets are generally guilty of
"sponging" on generous civilians,
for there is nobody More open-hand-
ed and generous than our soldiers
and sailors when they have the
wherewithal, but occasionally indi-
viduals of the above character crop
up, and they insiSt upon doing the
thing . well to the total depletion of
their own funds.
the
oughA 'race for .on bicycle from
man-eating tiger sounds more like a
id re- passage from a novel. bf adventure
olden than , it..dOes 'like an ectual event.
sin Yet Monsieur IL Rosily, the noted
move French author, traveller and. sports -
the nmn, claims tbehave taken part i
rsarY. just, such'a'l'aCe in the Malay Penin -
CS 115 Sala. ITO SayS E* •
'Y to A bicycle gleaming ;under a shed
own caught iny'eye that first morning at
have Nieuwenhuys ,plantation. I could
who, not resist the'temptation-1 had not
ands ridden since leaving Frame. So • I
con" sped along canons- the rice and coffee
the fields for about six miles, until 'I
way found myself in the heart of a forest.
the While I was enjoying the beauty of
e re- the place. there was a crunching of
n• branches, and I became conscious
ail that something massive and light -
Gen. footed was approaching. Thirty
°Yes yards from where I sat a tiger had
s of issued from the jungle.
W01' I dared' not move a. finger. To
and reach my bicycle •must,get to the
and road. This was ' iinpossible without
ears attracting the attention of the brute,
all -
the and' in two leaps he would be upon
rae.
de- With extreme nonchalance the tiger
'Ing at length turned toward the depths
ugh of the forest. I could bear it no
Tile longer. 1 tore from my hiding place,
m clambered over intervening obstacles,
SUS, caught the bicycle. and ran along-
side, my hands on the handlebar.
ei',.‘• In a flash, as I was mounting, I
-4, caught sight, of the great body
thy
, crouching for the leap, I heard the
'es- tiger at the first, bound land not far
ePe,- behind me. In -the minute space be-
tween the first and second bound I
re- . • . ,
got myself well st.aited and kalanced
'es• for the strttggle.
vat.Y., His fourth bomid brought the
tiger very near. The next time I
0 it felt the wind -of his fall. A second
later his 'shoulder or paw touched
ar- the tire anci made me swerve.
ess What I no longer feared or even
.a„Y thought of now happened --I lost
one ,pedal, then both. I regained
tbein with some trouble, but on ac-
courit of the delay a claw once more
vut, grazed iny rear tire. -
len At this instant we carrie toe a very
to narrow bridge—two h.oards "side bY
ti•Se side over an irrigation canal. The
In wheels went. over true as an arrow
SP - The passage must have slightly re -
11,0 'larded the awful thing behind me,
for although I dared not look, be-
n, hind I felt Irifn.to be farther off.
SO
„ We were now between two fields of
a -t -L bananas. A small tree hacl been cut
oi and thrown on'the road so that it
, completely barred the way. There
°- was nothing to do but try to go
t, over it at top speed. I sailed right
in furiously, and although nearly
is thrown over,'I succeeded in recover -
ds irig my balance--•Ivent on, reaching a
smart decline, and rolled down like
a cannon -ball. At a turning of the
of road the plantation buildings came
1' in view.
P- I cannot say when the tiger aban-
1- cloned the race. But when shot
10 amici the group of my friends, fell
s and scrambled to my feet completely
S out of breath and my e,ves bulging
m out, my ffrst instinct was to look
around in the expectation of finding,
- the brute at MY heels, ready to slay
n us all: •
For a week afterwards I ran that
- race again in cla --dreams and awful
1
nightmares ; and every time I passed
n in front of illy inirror I saw myself
e as haggard' as a lunatic..
r;nly difficulty in the play was that
, and then be confident.
the children could not keep up , with -
•
Again the habit of borrowing mis-
their. father,. Thci-McCheynes...and ilia ,
fortune is - wrong 'because it unfits
SuminerficildS of the Church' who did Os for it when it actually does come.
1 We cannot always have '
They distill poison ;,, they dig graves 'Life's Path Wi II soinetimes tumble
i
and if they could climb so higl'i they among. declivities, and minint- a :steep
would drown the rejoicings of hen, , and be thorn pierced. 'Judas . will
lien with .. ,.: . ' . kiss our cheek .and then sell ' us . for
SOBS AND 'WAILING, .• . 30 pieces ..m. .silyera Human Scorn
I will try to cruelly us 'between two
Again, the habit of borrowing (thieves, ,We will hear the 'iron gate
trouble is wrong because .it has ' a t of the sepulcher Creak and grind .as
tendency • to make us overlook: pre- it shuts in our kindred. But We'can-
sent.blessing. To slake man's thirst , not get ready for : the.se things by:
the rock is , Cleft; and cool Wates ;foreboding's. They:who .fight imaghs;
leap into his brimining cup. To feed I ary vy.OSS Will COSIIC 01II of breath
his hunger the fields how down with into conflict' with the armed disas-
. bending wneat, and the tattle come lters of : the future. Their 'amnitina-
• down 'froM, the clover Pastures to jtion will have been wasted 'long be -
give him milk', and the orchards yel- 1 fore they come under the 'guns. . :. of
low and ripen, casting their juicY 'real misfortOne. Boys in 'attempting
fridts into' his lap. Alas, ' that to jump a wall sometimes go so far
I
Mnid stich exuberance of . blessing' lback in Order- to get 'impetuS that,
man should growl as though he Were when they come UP they are exhaust -
a soldier on half 'rations or a sailor ed, and theSe long races in order to
on short allowance ; that a. Mali igot spring' enough to vault . trouble.
, should .Stand neck deep in harvests fbrings us. up at last to the dreadful
looking', forward, to famine; that one ;reality Ntri,t4: our strength gone.
,
,eliould..: feel, the. strong pulses of I pjaaliy;, tile. ' habit. of borroWing
.
health Marching with regular treacritrouble is wrong because it ie tulip&
., through all the: avenues of life and ilief. ,God has promised' to take care
: yet . tremble at the expected assafilt 1 of us. The Bible blooms Ivit,4 .. as--.
of Sickness; that 'a. Man should sit t.surandes. Yrollii• Imager Will be fed ;
..
in nis pleasant, home, fearful that:1 your ,sickaess will be alleviated; your
ruthless want _will some da,ynattle sOrrow8 Will be healed. • God Will
, the, broken:window _sash With. telt- .!5011(101... your feet. and sum eth your '
Peet arid sweep -the COL3,15'• from the. Ipatlig and along by frowning crag
• hearth and . pour hanger,f Into _ the !and . oPoning ',grave seund the voices
.- bkead ,t:r4y., that a enan fed by ,";lairn.,. of, viatory. and good cheer'. The ' Su/Us-
:Who owns, ;ill the harvests ..shOtild imer Clouds that 500111 thunder charts,
expeet to starve; that one whom God led really carry in their bosom liar-.
. loves and sorrel -Inds. with benepic- f vests of wheat and shocks of ,01..0
tion and' attends with angelic es7 and "vineyards pUrpling, for the 'wine-
. cort and - hovers,- Over: With more preas. The wrathful: wave will kiss
than metherly fondness should be 1 the feet of the grea.t Storni Wall:eis
:looking for a heritag,e of tears! Has , Our great Joshua Will cOmmand, and
, Cod been hard with the,e-that thou !above your soul the SIM of prospea,
should -St be foreboding? 1.-Ias He ity will stand still. -Bleak mid wave
stinted thy board ? Ha,s He covered Htruele Patinas shall have' apoCalyp-
thee' with nags / I-Ias I -le sr,rea,d tic vision, and you shall' hear, the
cap and. raspedothy said, and wreck -',,and trumpets of salvation mid the
1
traps for til feet, ,and galled thy cry. of elders and the.sNveep, of Wings
ed thee with stern), and thundered !voice of halleluiah
. upon 14ee with a life full of' calank tu,,i i 0 G on 1 onEvv,R.
.it,y ?
, If your "...father or :brother' come
into yeti, bank where geld and silvei
•••••-"' are lying about; you do not Watch
them, fOr you know they - are honest,
but if. ,an entire stranger ,coine by
the safe you 'keep your eye: on him,
for yoil. dp .. not .lOio.)Ir hi,s, designs,
' So some men treat God
. NOT AS A FATHER,
the Most good toiled in the sun-
• light. Away with the horrors' : : SMOOTH SAILING,
but it stranger, and act suspiciously
toward him. It is high time you
began to thanlc God for present
blessing, Thani< for yotir child-
ren, happy, buoyant and bounding.
Praiso Bun for your home, with its
fountain of song and langhter. Ac1-
01 Him. for morning light and even-
ing shadow. Praise I -Tim. for fresh;
cool water. 133ibbling from the rock,
teapieg into the cascade, soaring in
the mist, falling' ie tile shower, eit‘sh-
ing against the rock ettd clapping
its hands in the tempest. Love Elfin
for he grnss that cushions the enkth
end the clouds that curtain the sky
end the fplia,ge that waveS in the
forest, Thank llint for a. Bfble to
read and a SaV ti (1011:r01°.
Again, the habit of borrowing'
trouble is 3vrong treeetiee the present
is sulliciently taxed Ivith trial God
sees W0 all 1100d 0 certain I
Y01.11-' may wind along danger-
0118- bridle paths and amid .wolf's
lhowl and the scream of the vtilture
but the way still winds upward till
angels gimredi it, ancl trees of life
overarch it; and thrones line it; and
crystalline SOUntilins leap on it, and
the pathway ends at gates Hutt are
pearl and street S -that ttre gold a;id
tempies that are always open and
111118 that quake' with perpetual song
and City- Mingling'forev'er Sabbath
ancl jubilee and triumph and covens, -
Courage, illy' brothel' ! The father
dees not give to 1115 son at school
1
'enout..,,li money to last laim several
Erean'3, but, as 1.110 bills for tuition
and board and clothing' a,ncl books
come in, pays 1.11ern. So God will
not give you grace all at once for
the future, but will meet all your
iexigensies as they 001130. Through
leornest pra.yer trust Him. 'I'eopie as-
Icribe the success of h. certaie line
of steamers to busuiess skill and
know not the fact that ryllen that
Bile of steamers s-,tart.ed the wife of
the proprietor passed the whole of
each clay .whett steemer started in
prayer to' Go(1 for its safety 0.nd the
success of the lines Put everything
in God's hauds and lea.ve it, there.,
g.-oo PAnTICULAR.
.A business man who had eaten a
meal at a'restaurant where he fro-
qeently took 1315 midday luncheon
Nvalked up to the cashier and said:
I find I haven't a cent of chan,ge
about me to -day. If you will kind13,-
let me awe for this until I come in
again which will certainly be in a
day or two, I will stiller° up then. •
The cashier was not a good judge
of human na.ture, or was under , the
influence of a momentary irritation,
for she replied :
We don't nun any accounts at this
shop. If 3ron haven't anything to
pay Nvith, you can leave something
with us as security. .
I didn't say I hadn't any money,
the customer rejoined. I said I had
no change. PI easo take the ainotnit.
of my check out of this.
And he took a fifty -dollar bill out
of his pocket -book and handed, it to
the , astonished cashier. , •
It will be better to pay it now,
perhaps, he added, than to leave
something as security, for 37011 Will
110i; be likely to see me here again.
Then pickins,,,up his change, which
comprised about all -the money the
cashier could find in „the ,establish-
ment, he bowed and walked out.
0
THE 1..TGYAL KITCHEN AT ST
PITTERSIAIJKG
'The walls and ceilings are of black
Marble, covered with valtiable orna-
ments. The kitehe.n uteneos are of
solid gold, and date back to the
time 'of the. iempi•ess . CatheAne.
Thole value is $50,000, and there are
E11310ng thent several saucepans worth
8250
00
of 29
000 t
man whollyalbr Hihaself anclthe
tiler of a people whom He can sep
ate from all other people and bl
them that through them. He in
bless others' (Ex. :six, 5, 6; xxx
16), • ,
, Lesson' V.•—Ath'ame and Lot -(G
Xilia 1-18). Golden Text, Math.
1 2,'-','`IVIlatsoever ye would that n
should do' to you do ye even so
that'll." It became necessary beca.
of the wealth of these two men
flockS and herds that they should'
parate. Their 'men who' kept t
flocks were' striving among til0111S
VOS ill the presence of the heathe
and this was a dishonor to God;
Abram, to whom God had given
this land, magimnimously gives L
his choice.
Lesson VL—,G,Od's promise to A
ram (Gen. xv, 1-18). Golden Tex
Gen: xv, 1, "I am thy shield and ti
exceeding great reward!' This
the cha.pter in which so many wor
are tised for the first time, such
"fear not," believe," righteousness,
etc., and here is the first prornise•
the seed as the stars of heavei
Abram is becoming increasingly se
melted unto God,. and God is becon
ing increasingly ,real to him. Ti
adversary is ever suggesting 'doubt
and fears and seekine; to turn hi
eyes to the circumstances,. but "I a
thy shield" shoald dispel all fear.
.Lesson VII.—Abrahalifs interces
slim (Gen: xviii,. 16-33). .Golcle
Text, Jas: v, 16, "The effe,ctual, fer
vent prayer of a righteous man avail
eth much." Ile who had, dined witl
Abraham 'and DON talked with 1111
wns none othee than .He whom w
know as our great, High•Priest wh
03731 ]iveth t3oniiiinisatkiey ioncteirncteesiteesnsiofonr
as set.forth.in Ilev.fAndrew ,Murra,y's.
beak with that title, is one of our
greatest privileges.
Lesson VIII.--Abraliam and Isaac
(Gen xxii, 1-14). Goldoni alext, Help.
xi, 17, ''13y faith Abraham, when lie
WEIS .t.iii3(1, offered up Isaac." This
is the Most remarkable type of the
sacrifice of Christ in , the S,criptures.
Abraham and • his only son are so
suggestive of God and His' omy be
gotten Son. Isaac submissively bear-
ing tho Wood on which he was to be
offered, and the father, with the fire
and the knife, making the. picture
complete in every detail. The ram
suffering in Isaac's stead, taking his
place on' the altar reminds us of
Christn.s our. sul..)s' titute, dying in
our place.
Lesson, .IX.—Isaac- the peacemaker
(Gen. xxvi, Golden. Text,
Math. v, 9, '`IBlessed are the peace-
makers for they 811011 be called the
children of God:" Abraham :would
not strive for tha,t which was right-
fully his, blit .rather, yielded to Lot
that God might be glorified. Isaac
in like manner yielded. to the Philis-
tines ,pkoperty 'that was rightfully
his, and God was glorified in him,
and the Philistines said, "We SaW
certainly. that the Lord was with
nee'' (xxvi, 28). By meekness a,ncl
submission and yielcledness God' is
glorified; not by asserting oUrselNes
ancl our rights,
Lesson X' --,Jacob at :Bethel (:Gen.
xXviii, 10-22). Golden Text, Gen.
xxviii, 6,, "Surely the Lord is in
this place." Great' WaS the grace of
God to 'this penitent but unworthy
mare opening heaven to him and giv-
ing Min the most precious; a.esura,nces
while n, hsh-kettie worth Of forgiveness and constant care and
0, 'Dm kitchen etaff e,onsists future biess'Ing' -Mt tile PrOlnises of I
.1'11111 LARGEST PRISON..
In 'Prance, at tile new prison,
which is about eight miles front
I'aris, the authorities show their be-
lief in fresh air and sunshine, ' and
the prison is a, model sanatorium.
The priSon. is tile largest in the
world ,and takes tho place of three
old_ ones. It ' is built in a -very
simple style.. but covers, with ith
floral gardens and ,resiclences 01
officials, more than half a"square
111110, There are as rnany 1,824
cells, but as there is accommoda-
tion on the associatiim system. for
about 4,00 more 'prisont$-s, the total
2itmwooil.1 contain is considerably over
1_,ARCE FLOCKS or SE:MEP.
Australia is the wool centre of the
world, for it pOesesses , more thcin
100,000,000 slicer), and it cuts
enort,gli wool 150n1 their ha.cks to
brine,' hi 8.1.00,000,009 0, year. It
has 501110 of the largest flocks . of
sheep (3101' gatheted to,gether, mad
Job's cattle upon a thousand hills
cannot compare with them. In proof
of this WO lnay moil I 1 011 that there
are a hundred rnen in New South
Wales alone, -who each ONVI3 50,000
head there are initidr:eds more who
have 20,000 ; four hundred who
each have 10,000, Lind many wlio
own flocks of 1,000 encl ttpNviircls.
There are twenty-one men ‘vlio each
own 1 00,000 sheep.
7 pee:$.0115, and /see head cook Gocl shall surely be kept and Per-
es saiarY 61:$50,000 a, yew'', formed CH COI'', '1, 20; JO% xxi, 29),
ther coclks earn ec1i f $o for I.Te is faithful Ile cuinot denY
$7,500. Himself.
ODDITIBS OF ORATglat,
MEMORABLE SPEECHES INc,
• THE BRITISH COMMONS,
A Speaker Killed By tong -Wind*
ed Or at ory.--Mr. Pitt's ' First
ExP'erience.
-"The TIou e is empty and
3
our stomachs ; pray you, therefore,
adjourn the debate. for one hour,'e
was the appeal wrung from a long-
suffering Member of the 'House of
Commone more than two eenturies
and a half ago by a Wearisome sac's\
cession of long and prosy speeches.
But Speaker Long, a martyr to
tcoOnsacdiieonce if ever mail was, refused
urn the debate, with the re-
sult that a little later he fainted
from exhaustion in bis chair, and,
was removed unoonscious to his res5.
donee, where he shortly expired, a
victim of long-winded oratory.
It is .some kind of consolation to
the modern legislator who yawns
through a speech an how. long on
some "subject of parochial interest" '
that, he did not serve his country in
days ,when a single speech sometimes
made a serious hole in a week. of a
session ; although it Is true that
sorno of these speeches one would
give much to have the privilege 01
sitting through even now. ,
When in 1787 Stheridau spoke for
three hours on Burke's proposal that
HastingS should be iinpeaehed, his
last sentence Was more eagerly lis-
tened to than the first ; and he sat
downamid a scene of such enthus-
iasm that it was unanimously agreed'
to adjourn until the House reSumed
a "calmer and more judicial moocl.",,
Sheridan's last speech in this his-,
toric • debate occupied no lesS than
our days ; and his oratory was so
captiVating, that not a Single mem-,
her, in a House croWded to suffoea-,
ion, who heard the first words 'of
Ile speech missed a word of the
'finest oratorical effort of the can.
tuAl'YnO"ther abnormally 'long' speech)
vvhich .was, by common consent fan.
00 brief, was Lord Palmerston's
ELOQUENT VINDICATION
f his claims on the Greek Govern.'
ilent for 1)on Pacifico. This historid
peech, with its famous declaration.
ivis Ronianus sum, , lasted exactly
ve hours, and as even Mr. Roebuck/
ord Palmerston's adversary at the
ime, said, ."It would be impossible
or five hours to pass more quickly
"
WhentSir Robert Peel, in his mem-
rabic speech on 27th January, 1846
rought the repeal of the Corn Laws
efore the House of Commons, he
poke for nearly four hours to a
ouse which his eloquence and
owerful argument enchained to ,the
st ethoment.',
;Ur: Gladstone many times eclipsed
ijs record ; and it will be renter -Ja-
red that' Mr., Biggar on one oc-
sion claimed 'the car of the liotise
r ,ever five hours.
A stdry is told of 'a member in the
rly ,days of 1st 'Century ' who, after
eaking for three hours, suddenly
llapsed in his seat to the midis-
ished relief of the few _members
30 had survived his oratory so
ng. To their horror, however, he
most immediately stood. up again,
d, after apologizing to the Speak -
for his interruption to his speech
used by a pain, in his side, he
id : "And now, -sir, I will proceed
th my opening remarks."
Dat, while S01210 Ol'atOrS have claim;
the attention of the Housefoi
urs or even days, there have bees
lers of .itt least equal natural elo-
ence who have been content witt
ands.
Vhen a certiiin young member, wile
now a man of weight and elo-
ace, stood up some years ago te
ke his maiden speech, he gazed
plessly around him for a moment,
de an effort to articulate, and
seignominiousl3r resumed his
I11,3.e.11.1001311:fraUbiTe'17-11:1I,NinCol'elA.
who suo.
led him, with very cjnestionabli
0, congratulated him on "having
O the most powerful speech" oil
side of the cjuestion debate(
ice silence was the most eloquent
ession of the 'view of hii
so are'
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inember that when next he "caughi
the Speakej's eye'' he inade speecli
of such eloquence and Stirgang, sar..
.?..asm that Isat down amid a tor.'
rent ,of aPplause. -
When .Lord Guildford 'imade his
maiden speoch in the House of Gone
Mons his experience WaS SO painful
that he decided never tO 1015175 t.
maimged to speak two or three
sentences," he afterwards confessed,
"when a mist begnu to rise before,
my eyes. theo lost 'my recollea,
tion, and could soo nothing 1301; the
Speaker's wig, which save I led arid
swelled , and swelled_ until it cevered
the whole Dense. I then. sa.nk bacJ
on my seat, and never attempted to .
.speak again,"
On ,one historic (occasion even the
Earl .of. Chatham experienced , the
miseries of . orat011iCal 'C011aPSO.
He 011010d MS SPOCCE11 with the words
"Sugar, 39r. Speaker,- which not
unnaturally 'the'"IfouSe greeted with,
a, roar of surprised 113)1911 Id. 'The
'Statesman glared. around 'fiercely and
1.nciignantly, and repeated i11 a loud-
er tone, "Stigae, Speakeo."
Again 1,130 Homie WeS convulsed .;
mid when a thied ,time the hon.
member ,shriekeei, defiantly, "St:le-arc
'Mr. Speaker," the House was seized
by such a pro onesid paroxysmol
laugh ter !let Mr. 113 111 resumed hi.
seat aiith disgust. •
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