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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1902-9-18, Page 7"ET THINE Ham IN OgilER." Prepare for Your Eternal Journey Over the River of Death, menet easenset ea et the ransoms Qr etietott... nizt roar Oco 'Clvker.seet enap. late- ens and To Pakt.r.ot Tweeter, et Dtrirosatet *vim114r$1, Ottawa A desPetch from Chicago says: ttev, Frank De Witt Talmage Preach - 44 from the following text: Isaiah •xxxviii. 1, -Set thine house in order fer thou shelt I am going to stay aboera this planet. as long as I can.. "When the Mine _ conies for me to 410. I believe . . . , grace w1i bp given. to um with which to die. But I have nev- •Or telt leae like dying than at the tot,preeeee time. hey bone virktA ;lever Po haPPY, a frtende never more Mod. my work iiever more ebscaleing. Preearit earthly life ie inexpressible emcee to me, X feet in reference to it a greet deal ae 414 Christopher _ North. the Iffiyeical end literary athe leteewhe, with h'iende and thilth tan, ;men to race over tbe heather of Scetiond. Ms yellow curls eeilye ing in the 'winds, einging and shout, hig as be ran, because he wait bub- bling over with joy and eniteel emits. 1 am in love with the world beeatiee 1 We the peeple wile are in Butt though earthly life may be a priceless boon to emit() people tie well es to ints011, yet there must come to all a time when eve /dual! heve to ttje.Pereepe, like Iler.eklee, at my textwho betought God by prayer to istereane MS eertitly day, we may be able to prolong our existeuee tea, Ofteen or even twenty yetirsby riga idly obeying the weihtested phyeicel laws of heelth. Dia Leen% the, great lecturer upon hygiene1 once dee dared that every normal, healthy born into the world ought to live to be at least 100 years old, fl asserted that nearly all the mem- ers of the human race do nut live 'out half their earthly life because they do not eat the right kind of food. weer the proper clothing and take the proper AleOUNT 01? ItielEll.CISE, n ticipatirig We earthly demise •a common house man should n the first, place eet IS teMporai house In order. That Weans he should, if accessary. get his life insured. Ile should •make out his past will and testametit. ile should appoint the ,executors ot his estate. and the fu- ture guardian of his children. He ehould explain the details of his business and invest Me moneys In such a, meaner that, his executors eon eioilly terry out bis p1tna. tie should train up his children or Ids •lieuteneuts so that they may carry on his work after he is dead. Re ediould. if desirable, buy his family plot arid make all arrongements for the, last resting place of himself tuld Ids loved ones. We have contempt for the man who tuts so 'little litter - est in tbe temporal welfare of his wife end children that he will not make0. last will and tistaxnent to -decide how Ms estate is to be di- vided. We despise the selfishly thoughtless man who will leitvo his business altairs in one grand, big, inexplicitble muddle. Although X am, comparatively Vomiting, a young man, yet I have had a, great deal of experience in oleic rooms and by deathbeds., and, ray brother. X want to worn you as a, friend that in all probability when, yo%t tome to die you will not have any time to fix up your esta,to and make an intelligent will and testa- xnent. In all probability you will be be such physical and mental 'weakness that you will not. have en- oughstrength to do anything else but lie in your bed and murmur it few words of farewell until you axe gone. Therefore, my brother, wbat You want to do in reference to set- ting your temporal house in order, through the influence of your last will and testament, you lia.d better do right away. When death comes, your brain may be too feeble to plan and your lingers too TREMBLING TO ITOLD A PEN. Furthermore, my friend, that state- ment of yours about being supersti- T tioue In reference to realcing a will and testament is very foolish. It is as foolish an tbe superstition some people have about sitting one of thirteen at a table or looking at the ziewmoon over the wrong shoulder or carrying a nevaborn babe down- stairs before he is carried upstairs. It is so foolish that I am surprised it should be anywhere entertained among intelligent people. You will not die because you make your last will and ,testament, but you ought to make your last will and testa- ment in reference to your temporal affairs because your death is inevita.- ble. "Set thine house in order." 'Mut, Mr. ,Talmage," says some other, "what is the good of making a last will and. testament? I have nothing to leave CXC0r1t a few clothes in my wardrobe, and there • ar' e not many of them, 1 ain clerk on it comparatively small sal- ary. I live up to the last cent of my income, and I cannot afford to insure my life for the benefit Of my ' My brother, that, is a very brave and frank statement te make. You say it is ustless.for you to make a e last will Ind testament because you have nothing to leave aud Cannot af- ford to even get your life insured. If you, a great b4, strong man, are having such n hard time to 'make a living, what will your physically weak wife dowitha big brood of little ones strapped upon her back when you are dead? If it is so hard for you to swim in the current of life, and keep your head above the % •waters, how will she, a poor wi- aow, be able to do it, when your strong arm is gone? Will the world be kinder to her than it 18 to you? Has the .cruel • world ever been any gentler sr eXtendecl a more helpful •hand to a wife and a mother. who is that wo shall make Christ the su- preme ruler of mir Uvea so thet rn all things we may do eotaing in- conistnt with our allegiance to him. Are you and 1 like Heoeltiallot ready to aurrender our livelto gotire- ly to the MOINE MASTER'S WILL ? Some of us have seen the noted picture which bears the title "Obriet or Diana, ?" The ental figore iS a beautiful girl, with one of the sweet, est noblest faces ever panned by au rtist'n brush. With tree dramatio power the master has serrounned left a poverty-stricken Widow that), it that younggirl with all the horrors bee for yeti? lee a, Neroinan persecution. There in "the bacisground ot the Iticture is the was, after • all, permitted to finish left side of the.railway lowards, his men, Bet it. wee not a meal the There I hee etetieeed enieYed„ in neaee, at all eVents, some Mel) on a eopje under Ooetleu- izen and Kemp. ot Kruger:et:tarp- TENS °E TH°V8ANDS The Wentz", at this Piot were oub- of the 'Iner'e solaiera were o A Milii0e4 on millions et roubles were ei`ncd1:eZebteouttbeewpQiishthreortelsesgeunssilaertse' exkleraletb yet even so late as tile seen they made desperate Attempts autumn. of 1804. we find the "Secret to get aero e the ape to their aw- ov$snij Goverument of the Pole eta., Fore times they tried. but it oishooNavtaitorni,;aftberafistbeeetizing plat 50,2 was beyond human want:queen tx, 5 4141' 441'4 gat. ti1r0/1g11 the bail of lead. As 100,000 exiied to Siberia, still can-. .„ soon as One lOt Was shot down, ark. leg ee the l''oles gctIlUutie "'"' other rushed leeward, but ell to no struggle. avail. I do net believe„ as I hove Turkey, once a hilantkdon ttetong seee stategl, that theinfaetry were land -grabbers, has of late treare eeeit pent ou from their own rear ranee as yoa hive to teem an eternal jour- are tearing the inwalletlyrel bepi:cesst4 14allievrtngjO.4 trtiec4at;Itof ttwinFrpCteheertsi:,:ireEtugliltereaulditlne4:e°1171Duue';'.11;:-Itr NO amphitheatre wild nett as PerlInPe hi the Ykr$ nenr and crunching the hems of the eoe,000 squere milea of territory was mere than human gesO and rooch ot her own territory filched to urge them forward. but I did see ture you will have to leave this old slain. There are the torches made and its 1,300,000 populatlea. 0 m a 4 AS:AWL 9i CO0r0e. are constantly;hthiee;teddescosotledido beat,eaeenwabni41 e etvg planet and go into the witness lite out ot the living bodies ea and -r enema, what spiritual oreParatical women covered wi.th itch, who are being gobbled bY hig hewers*. neee, et the Arlastrong batteries hell gun - have you made for the mementoes ;dying or their belief in the lowly but they hardly count. uelese they beep. shat down, emu seat ueet. • emberitation? IlaVe yOn Made the Nazarene. There are the grim feced are. like hte4ngasear or New Guinea.,heohineenn with the dolitienesburg proper spiritual peeperzetion for the Einitan, soldiers. There is the plead- et extra large mze, stilt the seine police to reiuforce the Itrugerstioree tourney welch shell take you into a ;country where you would like to live thrO1fgh, endless eteraity' where you • would like to live until time Itself sheet be no ieugere elese you in eneedeo •stands tetweee the alter of a Germany was very much delighted ;emelt when, the teritieh retired and readiness for this eternal journey al heethen God and the solemn upright with eer share of $enunie and still lot u4 the go4,. letter of Credit. Made Oat at OW rraaa, UPOn Which i4 balrIgiDg 01[0 gprO her acquisition ot the bean-; •ow•dal I koow that th etrug Ing lover, as well es the pleadieg ure of Ilewaii. the lebilippines, and ,ienh so as le step env attenepe to mother and father, begging, the rorto Rico by t•ee 'United States, retake the aunt. In toto they were young girl tO renounce her belief' peewee an era, in the ()award Mardi. aacceeSfUl. The battle raged from her Saviour. Anil there. tbe young of that lusty tsoupg republie; while dttypreak moil our in the atter, 113aa$: of Divine Grace? gave you bruised body of a deed °twist. 'ese, eternat passport written in. red That Picture may be drattlatie and ink—written hi the bleed. which 'powerful, but, eh, my brother, there thewed out el the wounded side el is a truer eceim being eiaacted here • dying arid en atoning Christ? If ,tthelay. A* speak the worde of ray °You beee not such a, letter ot credit, ow deo, there seeree t4ro be4ea, wow- reo, loog pendieg, would tete , eetisteetiou ettaelied to tee ewallowe Plage that' ekahl FaeilY ellollgit, TIM SUNDAY $11100L4, XNTERNATIONAI. LESS° •SEPT, 21. Tet of the Le$Sell1$ T.T1r,""Flep 142, fieldeu Text Ea xxxiei... 11. 1,-3. Awe the Ishrti slieweil hire all the land. Reed with Prayer and reliance up- on tee Hely Spirie the pereliei pas, sages in. Nein. xxvii. le, -1.7; Peet. 23-29' 'PS-Xii 48,52 tort vatic° efes' great deeire to go over jet° the land, his prayer to God that he might he permitted to do on God** refusel te allow bins, A40SeS* MO* eubmiesiou and hie request *bat someone be appointed in his stead, SO EWA, Israel might not be es pimp which Ileac no shepherd. Observe „that it was Moms' ein when he Mot obeyed , God at Kadetit in Striktnin Ithe rock instead et weeklies' to it and thus failed to eaeetify God ere the eyeS of Israel that kept him • from eiztering the PrOWSed land at that Gene See Num. ex. 7-13, in canmeetwa with. tha nhelfe pasnagete -rt. have caused, thee to eee it %%lett thine eyve, but thou, shalt uot go over thither. Beim Moses pleaded to to Permit,' :tad to go over, the word from the '• Lord Was. "Let euffice thee, epeatz' enore untie of this mut- ter" (Petit °G) and Utah was Cnringh. it was Ieritere sin in mute rowing and rebellipg that led Mosee to alit, but that did net excite* tiloteag. Hew hely is aur Goa* goat wbat holineas Re regulate in mil , And who is equal to tta Fedora le seen in Adam, in Neal;. in Abraham, 'Isaac' and ,racob„ Memo and "Aaron in. Devid and Elijah in the apostlee and everywhere. There is none good but one. net is God. And Jeans Was God manifast the fleele is only as He is manifeate 4 ed hi us by Ilia Spirit that our life • will be what Ile deelres. 5-7, Muses Was an hundred and twenty years old weep. he died, Ilie eye was not dint nor his natural force abated. Wien Aaron died. Moses and Elea - ear were with him, bitt no -one wan with Moses when he died. He bad often been alone with God, on two different °evasions for forty days and nights at a time. but previous to thio ocCasien he end alwaya come hack to eontitiue with the people. Now in health and vigor 01 body and in the uSo of all his fogulties ho went up into the mountain alprie ittut returnee to letrael no more. Out from the earthly tabernaele he which, be had sojourned for 220 years' Moses, the servant of the Lord, went to live with God forever. sick-, RCS% no suffering, as far as we know, but be just closed his eyes ta earth and entergel into tbe presence of God and of tbe vedeeined and of the holy angels, absent from the body, present witli the Lord. whicli wus very far better for him (Phil. 21, 23). Ile is still there alive and well, and after more than 1,400 yearn from the time of bis departure Peter and the others eaw him on .the Mount ot Trimsfiguration With Jesus Christ, as he and Elijah spake with our Lord of IIis approaching de - erase (Luke ix, 30-32). The body of Arosea was belied, but, no man he- ing present, no man knows where. for God has not seen fit to tell. To bury bodies in. the earth is Script- ural, to burn with fire is heathen- ish, though it matters little how the body is disposed of, for God will raise a up (-John v, 28; vi, 32, 40, 44. rd). 8. And. the cbildren of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. itta al lama intit,poldent isiatitis; woo SCOUt. entne At 0*eleek in the text Your Own eternal retletnetien stecies over Fiji. Zmizebar. and otla 1°4010 11/it" c°11/P wan allght" why did John Bull go into *ugh eta taeraia vdth thVI news th4t 011 tbe Well as that of all your lovedier shaillar earth inoreele. 1 ham then that the tette& would les, is pleading with you. They aro wrtgogiNas BIG litOUTFIFULS. be Wine thud, Morning. 'Whe do broke and it was Weer you are lost indeed, even though in this world you had all the wealth of a Rottischlid, a, Veuderbilt. a Rothe - 'feller. or an Astor, even though • you *see on earth lived in as Magni, Wh1ell i$ the altar et Bin. They are inedern aceentations, SO far an mere Waxing into the three differeut lficent a mansion as did Dives of old, pleading with you because it you too molitge is concerned. leavillg Out of , linee of attack, in three divielons, at, whose gate the togs were lieetng uat "me to hew before sites altar censieleration, of course, her South ;their front eetenelhar over six utiles. the sores of a. dyime beggar. Shroude I you shell aurely elle. Rut ef you will Africtl° eeleales' and Egypt and the II glelculate that their mein dieleien heye no pecketa, and a skeletoles!I in. the few yeara that are left On•ff-4e-arhIll Previte:es, both ot whieti numbered 8,000 men. Their brat -ern latter are Under our proteetlen Oidy Was astounding. Sometiniett they bony fingers can hold uo gold, and:earth bow before the crow and ite- /all your worldly rithee will tem he "copt Christ as your Saviour, you -91°11111tallY' Tbe incorporation advanced at a walk, in regular or - but dross, which you eaeuet, carry sball eternally live. And if you here withill tlt 13rittsh Empire af II"' 'der* And when HWY were mowed Mall elates from 1885. When the half. down those that were left simply with you on that last jeuroey. But, If you bave the letter of credit of divine grace and the paseport stet:po- i ed with the crimson seal of Calvary, i then the long journey will he AO- complislied safely, and the gates of the Nov Jerusalem will be opene4 unto you, no matter how finencielly poor you may Imam been on earth, hecause you are pleadiug there for admittance in Christ's nein% To farther carry out the idea Of ray NATION GOBBLES NATION teat the true Christian ehould local' after the spiritual interests of his"hte children and loved Ones as wen na' Y." 114:Exxonr IlfOrMT. 'nitlitT Prellato for his own celestiel transla- tion. Tee homestead la not n. herniee • toga, vot a, place built where a man Little, Peoples Baton, Up by t or WOMan or child C411 live la soli- countries During. the Les Bitty Years. FRANCE'S BIG- MEAL. ,Algeria, was the first to falhafter a long and bitter war, characterized n the part of the invaders by a sav- age ferocity, accompenied by each fighting for some years, the brunt ot and so many acts of gross trench—which, however, was borne by black cry, as have 'rarely been equalled. at troops led by British officers. least within the last century. Gen - •••••••••••••11.1••••• eral Soaritry, Due de Rovigo, Was the (Meer in supreme, comunied, and one BOTIii TELLS OF OULENSO you cannot separote your own in- of the earliest of his exploits was dividuel spiritual Interests front the the massacre of a whole Arab tribe. spiritual Interests of your wife and including old Inert, worueu, and child- watTuta,,,D snmsa r ROM TU- rm. during the night. Ile also children and loved once. GELA ECEIGIErrS. The simile of death as a long lour- treacherously murdered two power- ney away from the family fireeide is ful Sheiks wbom lie had enticed in - very striking, lehen a man titees alto Ids power by a written assurance long earthly joureey, he is very apt of safety. The result of it all was I to gather his family about bim and to give to Frauco 181,4.74 square saye "If I should take this journey miles of territory—mostly desert. in, all probability I Will return Immo Tunis, with 51,000 square miles of at such and such a. time," or if the territory was gobbled up in 1882; father is going into it new country and Madagascar so late as 1895, the to establish anothee home he says conquest of Ulla latter island addlug to his children : "After 1 am settled 228.000 square miles to the colonial there. arid find everything all right possessions of the Republic. It also you can sell the goods and pack up extinguished In fire and blood one and come to me. I will be in suck of the moat unique ungroid civilize - and Sueh it place at such and such a. Hoes of which Ive have any known shirpdipina: atWith.tb7Uttittut,o stop calVa4:: Pannell is the biggest of Britainhi enoughnto there they were 40' and now consecrate your life aright to the Divine Master'e service your loved 011e$4 by hearing the gospel niesaage from your life, may eterna ntade and wholly wielied sting drOnlion tit the grass and waited til14 haw saw fit to wantenly niaesecre ithe next lot CAMP up. They were, eliniber of peaceful British trade ,men of pluck and no inietakei . , n TOWAIIDS 110G'Ebee ally live also. May the Holy SPIrtt"arrogatitly refuse to Oven receive our h / "After Colenso the British kepte right preparations for the imminentWhie elided* so 1.°I. as the CO111111eaced shifting perilous of their; lead every one of US to make tile iUaVoy. The result was. of course. , quiet tor none /ewe, Then %hey, the ahadow of death. th° st/e°4 camp towarde the Little Tugela. 'capture of Ms capital. Mandalay. ..Eetveually teey Riede a big, journey t,hroligh, tee clerk valley of erees was vatte.vraqti. and lila sena deposition. • Ashanti. another indepetalent state 'Inicivelateitt fritla ri"4" tuttP-4114 t° ruled by eve another bloodthirsty Pnat:s Daft asat afterwards t° ' potentate, •ging eirerapeg. was ah-IITIChartrs Drift, They relinqUistiel soarsdittelemarvis, ilun jes000tmogtroiontgerlrnituornit. , whatever intetition they Might have bad. of mincing at Pot's Mitt on' Eighteen nuniths Pretietnily 'legend/A, the discovery that we were Otrehtikr badaboubt eetlwi g( off aoobbbleisd.74 cA°sroLiri ri itiZ il et1414:0e1411"rlttlisllelre. then moved farther ' westward to Trichardes Drift, where wfuellYlitztV%evicsahicei"adrdtgutirir9' °la tonalt-; ilieY ereeted a. pontoon. Veen) they, tive "klegdoms," known es taeteas ,croeil the river autl went on. in a, leaver°. Ankoll, and Kok!. To at- liorthwesterly VlIervecema tory grandeur. But the house of tkit text impliee that the father and the mother and the children, the broth -- era and the sisters. the kith and Mn and TIM mow Lowia) ONES. All Call 111'0 together in penis and liappineas within the Same four Walla and as all the members of e, family • dNvelling within the :mine house ought to have it common, Interest, so direction to Aeton tain our ends in these remote re- linlales.s farina Where eheY eteuck gime onlonee almost perpetual the main road which runs into Litdyeinith over the open Veldt from! the direetioti of Oliver's "That night I was preparing (04 leave the Colenso trent for Pretoria on a, few days' holloay; but before setting out I received the rresi-o dent'6 instructions to go at oncn! west towittels the teem Tugela, aud there take teearge iti the forces. eThis was at seven o'elock in tee vetting. and after having innuediate-,' ly despatched the neceaeary rein-; forcemeats 1 rode over, arriving General Burger's camp between two ! utl three in the morning. Along ti I My brother, as you must take this long journey through the valley of the shadow of death tvith the divine passport in your hands, how can you ever expect to rejoin your loved ones unless you make previous ar- rangements with them where to meet ? Having it letter of credit at the Bank of Grace, you say you ex- pect to journey to the Celestial City. Have you ever told your loved ones about that city ? Have you ever told them how to get to that centre of the universe? Have you ever told them there is only 0110 way to reach your destination, and that is for them to obtain forgiveness of their sins by the blood of the Lamb, so that their heavenly advent shall be made possible ? If it is important for you to make spiritual prepara- tions for the journey of death by being washectin the Savior's blood, is it not just as important for your loved ones to be cleansed 33Y THE SAME BLOOD? But there is one overwhelming thought about my text upon which I love to dwell. If we go to the throne of grace in the right spirit of prayer, God will let everyone of us live as long as is necessary to do the work he welds us to do in his name. When .the prophet Isaiah en- tered the royal palace of Jerusalem and said to the sick Hezeldah "Thus saith the Lord, set thine hovse in order, for thou shalt die." The king turned his face toward the wall and began to weep. Ilezekialt was not weeping because he had to die. Re was not afraid to die. But he wept because he could not accomplish for God ancl Ms people that which seemed necessary for hint to do. Then, in answer to Hezekian's pray- er, Goa said to Ionian the prophet, "Go atid say to Ilezekial, Thus saith the Lord the God of David, I have heard the prayer ; I have seen the, tears. Behold I will add un- to thy days fifteen years." So, to- day, if, like Hezekiah, we will pray in the right spirit, God will let most of us live long enough to carry the gospel message -to all of our dear ones as well as to spiritually prepare for our own eternal journey. But as our earthly time iLe short, in order to Make this spiritual pre- paration ourselves and to help 1110,1C0 the spiritual preparation of our loved ones by bringing ,them to the Saviour, we must consecrale ,our - •selves to the Lord's service now. By the power of the Holy Spirit we must consecrate our lives to God's work as we have never consecrated them before. We must so eat and edge. ATTACK OF INDIGESTION. The conquest of Annum, again, in the spring of 1884, and Tonkin in the latter part of the same year, gave France 15,000,000 new — and unwilling — subjects, And 115,000 square miles of territory. In put- ting on all this flesh, bowever, the country gave itself dyspepsia pretty badly, and ministries went and came, canto and went again, with something of the dazzling persist- ency of a quick -change artiste in a modern music hall sketch. The eating up of Dahomey was per- haps France's least excusable bit of nation -killing; for if ever there was a. despotism that richly deserved to be strangled, it was that establish- ed by tbe truculent gang of ruffians who claimed to ruie over that un- happy land prior to the arrival of the white conquerors. The last na- tive monarch, for instance, Kieg Behanzin, whom the French defeat- ed and dethroned, thought nothing of sacrifteini, a few dozen slaves be- fore breakfast; while his usual me- thod oef ridding himself of surplus or undesirable wives was to place there, bound and smeared all o -ver with honey, in the track of an advancing colunm of the seruyi. or warrior ants,. by whom the unhappy creat- ures were, of course, devoured alive. THE GREEDY RUSSIAN BEAR. Twenty -Ave or thirty Years ago it used to be the custom of the Tsars of Itussia, to gobble up a Central Asian Khanate every few months. Most of these were, it is true, petty states and ill -governed; but some few of them were deserving of a. better fate. Khiva, for instance, with its 700.000 stalwart peasants, and I3okhara, with a population of two and a half millions and an area of nearly one hundred thousand square miles, both made a brave and protracted, though fruitless stand, against overwhelming odds. One cannot help feeling a thrill of admiration, too, for the brave Tekke Turcomans, who in 1881, so gallantly defended thentseiVes against the redoubtable General Skobelon, and only gave in at last when their fortress capital, Geok Tepc, was -stormed and taken by the conqueror of Pi evn a . But it was with the fate of the ancient kingdom of Poland, declared Rustian province in 1817, but not finally cam:Leered until many years afterwerds. that the rest of Europe, and Britain especially, was chiefly concerned. Nearly all t he great Powers, with the single exception of Austria, pretested, coaxed, and thInit and, breathe and talk and ,pray threatened • by turns; yet the Bear IMMI,•••••111. British Bravery Astounding "Nen of Bluclr and NU Mistake." The tellotving interesting interview , With General Burger, General Cronies, tha to a. special correspondent of Bo- 01 the Fro State. and S01110 Of the commandants. I drove over and re - was granted by General Louis The London Daily Mall, who an- Viewed the menaced Boer positions. companied him to England on board "We -discovered that from the pose the Saxon: jitions the British. haat taken nit, ad - "Four or five days Wore the bat- aeeat to the le°511 reed' there was from the Tugela, heights that the funntillate battle* he said, "X saw nothing to do but to prepare for tle of Colenso," Briteele were massing in greet num- "So the next day we worked care- bers at Chieveley and neighborhood, Milo into the British positions, and became convinced that a heavy through the most vulnerable points, engagement 'VMS inuninent. Accord- and the fightieg waged fast and furl- ing to my notion, there would be three points of our position assail- ed, aud at these three points X and the burghers commenced to thor- oughly prepare ourselves. 1 kept the intention foremost that nothing should be seen by the other aide of these defensive arrangements. Aly conjecture es to the enemy's dues of advance proved to be absolutely correct, and I had no need to modi- fy it as the fight proceeded. In fact so complete wes the surprise that at the first point of conflict the Im- perial Light Horse and. the British regulars came along with their rifles elung over their shoulders, in care- less order, to within sixttr yards of my men anti guns—the hill of Mang- Avani—before we opened. ere. Then, :as you may imagine, the slaughter was terrific and the discomfiture cornnlete. That was the British right wing. "The second point of attack was at the Bridle "drift, made by the British left wing, and distant about six miles up the river from Mang- wani. There one of the British gen- erals—I don't know who—marched with a, large force. Opposhig them. were the Zoutpansberg and Swazi- land commatoloes. My men allowed them to come within 200 yards, and then opened fire.. The British did their best to get through, and I must say that I never SaW anything more magnificent than their charges at this point, which was the main objeetive and easiest of attack. But all to no purpose. They were driven back time aftertime, and though one or two • stragglers got .through the river, they were quickly taken prisoners. The main body was re- pulsed. No fewer than five thnes they charged, and I never want to see finer bravery, than I saw there. "The third point of attack was at the centre, near the .railway line, in the attempt to get through the wagon read and over the wagon bridge, The British Orst of all moved their guns to the right of the railway line looking_ north, and fired on our near positions for some time. Getting no response' -for I had is- sued strict orders on this- point— they limbered up and mine nearer, 700 yards from the railvvey bridge. The Krugersdorpers ancl Vryheiders who were statioeed here reserved their fire 'until the enemy were quite. cloee; but . when it did open the effect was terrific. ' tlittl C.:MESS FUS MADE. "Meanwhile the Main body of Bri- tish infantry was'proceeding on , the ous for liVe days all over it Lugo Plateau to the right of Siam Kap. "I took sip different points. though never for long, but kept moving, my men about, strengthening here and. reducing there. All the time the firitish force was trying to force its way through, and it was warm work, 1 can tell you. "On the evening of the Linn day the enemy suddenly retired in the di- rection of Trichard's Drift: but in- stead of recrossiug the river, they occupied Solon Kop, which is on the north side. "I and General Burger then egreed that an attempt should be made to retake the kop, which was of con- sideralne strategic value, in the morninge-the -attetn E'0 be made from two sides, one by myself and the other by General Burger. t, , "We selectee .our men during the eight from diOerent points, took up our positions, and in the grey dawn commenced the perilous, arduous as- cent. We had only 350 meo engag- ed, the others being in different pos- itions, to support, if need should be. Commandant Prinsloo, with the Carolina burghers, went in front, and they bore the brunt of the at- tack. They were the Orst to gain the summit, and they lost pretty 'Welt half their men in doing so, kill- ed aud wounded. TIM Caroliners Were supported by drafts from vari- ous Other district Commandoes, and it was by their united bravery, sec- ond to the help from God himself, that the victory of Splint TOO was gained. They succeeded in, gaining their object; they drove out the eriee My, though greatly outnumbered, and after, seising the position held it all through the nettle: It Would be impossible to speak too highly of the splendid, dash:ancl courage of theSe Men." • 'TO give you. some ideas of the ean- vinery nature of the affair, when the mist that -nung over the moun- tain during the ascent tiftetathe burghers found theniselVeS.46se PO the eneiny's schanzeS, and Warty , of theni seized the -soldier's rifles, nen they were 'preparing to 'lite, oa the alarm being notinded. So .close Were: the combatants' that the smokeof their rifles , intermingled,. and for. sonie time there was .confusion. 'Eventually, however; we gained the day, .and As night descended We had token some: 200, prisoners. • The betaeca of •the British force ot 3,- 000-athose wlso Were not got away away with their wounded .during the ,night.' Mthough the great enemy death can only bring gam to the behove, yet his work on inc body is to be deplored, and our Lord Himself wept at the grave of Lazartia Death came by sin, bet In due time both death and sin shall be found no more on earth, but shall be de- stroyed (Hos. :tin, 14; 1 (loe, XV, 26 Rev. xxl, 3, 4). 9. And Joshua the son of Nun Was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him. When Moses asked that some one might be appointed to take his place, God designated Joeinue as his successor (Num. nxvii, 18, 19), and now the people hearken to him 0.8 they hod done to Moses. His story will come before us in the next q,-uax- ter's lessons. Meanwhile let all be looking up the past mention of hint and thus wetting better acquainted with him. 10-12. And there arose not a pro- phet Since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. Itt mauy respects Moses stands alone ; none like him. It is written of hint, "And the Lord spline unto Moses face to file° AS a man speak- e.th unto his friend" (Ex. xxxiii, 11). But in Heb. iii, we see how much ' greater Christ is than Moses, and in that epistle it is set forth how much higher Christ is than angels. than Mows or Aaron or Joshua or any other, our High Priest forever after the order of Melohisedec. The last two versea of our lesson set forth the way in which Moses woo greater than any other prophet in the matter .01 the signs o.nd wonders which God wrought by him in con- nection with Israel's deliverance from Egypt. A greater deill:erance for :Israel, is drawing nigb, when with similar but greater wonder.% elle shall be aelevered from all nations and placed- in her own land forever to the glory of God and the blessing of all nations (J er. xvi, 17, :18; xxiiit 7, 8; Mic. vii. 15-20). Death may remove from earth a Jnseph or Mose8 or. a Joshua, but the Lord liveth, and all the promises of God are yea aed amen in Christ 'Yeses, and, like Isaiah when Uzzialt died, we may look up into heaven, .'1,111:1 see a priest King who never dies, who said to John, "I am ile that 'teeth and was dead and, behold I am also for ever more, ameo, and have the keys of hell and of death (I Cor. '1, 90; Isa i, 1; Rev, e 18).