HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1903-4-23, Page 2"THERE WAS A CRY IAD
Hour of the Ohuroh's Triumph, and Hour
of the World's Woe.
irestered eccording te Act ef, the Per- bea,rts ; for the eremiug et the Lord
nameni, of temena, m the year one t d
Tbousend Niue iiunered and 'Three. arwetb ah.
e
wm, Oaity. of Toronto. et the But although we may riot hooW
Departracnt of Agriculture. Ottawa-) the day nor tbe hour, God in Ills'
'Vo rd has set certain sign posts
A despatch front Chicago says e—hwhich will indicate te the believiree
Rev. 1•'rarsle De Witt Talmage preaeh-heArt that the day is Approaching.
ed from the following, text,. , Tint. real declares. -that deY
at midnight there wee o cry emote° shall not come, except there come
Hatt 25, 6. a alling away nrst. aid that man
Some of the most tragic and most I of sin be revealed, the son of perdi-'
Momentous events in profeue arid tion ; who opposeth and exaltetti
nacred history hove transpired dor-, leitulf above all 'that is called God.
4ng the quiet hesh of the midnight or that is worthilitiedi so that lie. as
hoer, Mon has frequeotly dose n sitteth in the temple of
tteat period to plot And to plan. to ,showing himself that like Geri." The
work and to execute. and God has :diseinles desired to livow tne sign
often feend it a convenient season of the conring of the Lord. and
in winch to move among men and Jesus in the twenty-fourth eliapteie
carry ouleis eternal perposeei The of iilitttliew outlined to them genie,
words ef OTAr text Are tonere iron? ,itlto "mations wild& would
the paraine ef the ten virgins. and Too in the world previous to Ilts
Mark the advent or the Bridegroom te'ntini co/PIM and closing with the
as He -conies to claim His bride and declaration that ".this Ooseel tif 'the
go into the marriage supper. Ilot shellihe Preached In &lel the.
it :nest feet suppossd that they:twat/a for a, WAtA;ess onto OP
fix tiennitely the bone of the world , then shalt the end
Coming of Chriet. for Christ 1ha, solo ;nese worde of 'Testis oPen
Pelf declared that 4`o1 that day andta,„ns etn;° ee''tainties e°8h,..h".tiam
hour iinoweth no num. no. not the Ictettt., id?.? wont; naming of twist
eagels which are in Ileaseu, reither vein lin to more clearlyunder
Son, bet the Father. -
, etand the eignificauce of the mid-,
elle "
The %Wilting church. Christie bride. '4;iight b°°Vasmarld° .the "ye"'
hePeesented by the ten virgins, heare the Bridegroom, in the parable
the cry and trims the lamps in reatie "eler° us- First, the unbelief ot the
recit
eive s coming LON, Tho "rid will he full. Paul Fek:ond, the,
filig;:swtits'a viegins. with the oil of the einifeh" the 11°4 or ehri'a- silt be
Reening, the Vallee ot eheir faith burn-', esus
CM St alwaYs does,
I le.g of
Ig
lIoly Sprrit Allure their hearts oral 4('-; P T‘
heinietty. inlet quickly on to meet , ore of two 'Outages It either brings
-their corning Lord and go witat U 'hilTation to the sent. or it hardeus,
the marriage eupper. The
t :e emit to the pout of at last Uri -
five '
foolish virgin% whine beads hove re., ally reieeting the Owlet.
eeived the truth in regard to the., THE WORI.P'S
turned to hear the cry! Ali, what
eed, appointment to be amoug the
nye foolish 'virgins who are shut out
of the marriage *upper! Oh. °brie-
elem. WATCH YE! You may he
recede, to go in with your X.,ord when
He comes if you, will,
FUTURE OF Till EXPIRE,
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THE STORY OF
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S:- --w- -'SHYLOCK IL +
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may IleAven help you and he
eurned away to the river again, and
his beral drooped miserably on to
bis chest," •
"While there's life there's hope." I
paid, trying to cheer him. up, "And
lipwever bail your luck is it's better
than deepair. That Would be a
Odaerahle genie. I woula simply be
naMitting yeti were Denton"
"And I am Almost beaten," he
groaned, 'Tour years have I fonght
And done the beet that ccond DO
The clerha ii411r .,41.11co decided tee
day that the story, of Shylecks 11,
CHAlt/BERLAIN% SPEECI1 inT must be glom to the world, It WAS
Teel'. MANSION liCOITSE. alzo agreed that the literAry part of
the work mest be done by me, Jack
This le a. ceitical Perks!), j the Slade, -/ee4.484 last Yew' T Wan a
Hieterer 91 the Whole
British Enepiee,
done, and POW the end is cloelog Iu
Ond POW-- Oh I" Ile shivered
freer head to foot as he spoke. and
clutched nie by the arin. "Look
sneer watch, in A eon:waitron. by here, blade, 1 hinn you're httKt-
gaessing almost enactly the number creamed fellOW. eQ1Pe and OPend
of peas in a bottle. this evening at my lodgings. Come
In bis speech at the heansion lien, to begin with four years ago and talk to me or I shall go mad.
Pewee, Leaden. rerently, 3Ir. Chana Haunt Heywood _mI
was the nest -liked The suseellse in I ,
nning Med
terlain eaid: "If Imperial interests fellow in our office. Four
months It was now or never with him.
are to be put jui a ago be was the bestshated man in 'Yolk inNtn you are killing Your -
if the welfare And comfort of Seem- ,the Place. pelf," 1 mid, sterilly ; "as for tbe
teries of State are te be treated es This lass of popularity was en, end coming in three days from 1•40Vri,
'entlrely seCandary. then, sir, 1 ''en- timely due to hineselL From a that's impossible while you held on
tore to ionise that tlus experiment'brigbt, cheerful kind of chap. uP to Y0811s sltuallaa""
which has niet been made. aPd Which to no eud or hires awl always ime tie stared in such te pitiful. asters,
in this reepect, at ay rate, hae had peeueinue between paydays. he be- jailed way that it olffloh.t 1144erTP4
o. great success, may be reecated came a quiet, ruiserable-rooking ,a4e.
from time to time by these who beggar and a regular Miner. )(Quinn i “"e't 40 Y°° Wean r4be aid,
laae- follow in laY Place &load Itaineee-awfully clever youngster— (Melte. .
einem); for I do not tth
hink it is pos-,hyeo_hyesesays that a raiser is the "1 ptb
aean at if you will give nit
sable to oveienetituate the effect up, most masons], et au moo. because be this gambling you've 'the best part
on our Tialeeilel relationa, nith or denies lila:self all his life for the $ane 01 your life. and 4
otter. mid by AIM proef 4t intereet baPPY life, before
'ebilmll
eren ecross the seas, of peesoral ei e beim. you. And if you'premien isle to
interieniese with statesmen en this But, anyhow, sou eau understand give trp gambling IUhelp yon any
sicle with repreeentAtive men on the that Heywood hiredoany cmed to WOY yOn lie. e•Neept. WIth rummy.
be a favorite with us- Someone and that T don't Pafsesse"
which elicit an arrangementailatilise„ christened hint Shylock II.. and the Twtime Id touched him up, and
' "1 nave felt far some Om lane name stuck to hint like a leceh no nrietalie. Ms face was ne white
o '
Oda is 4 critiva) Period in the his we enew for a inet that he lived Jo as thalk and his eyee fairly blazed.
tory of the Empire. What we at: lodgings and bad pot, a relate:et in And yet the poor beggar was s
now and what our colonies do nil. the world, so then the venerable weak after his years of nun -sterna -
of this century settle for all yern about eupporting, a moor old tion thet he had to 11°10 on to the
veers
new .11totlier and a bundle of sisters bridge, he trembled so much. But 1
lime ther querition whether a
aore. such, as 1ms vever enwred wouldn't "ewer in thin ease, it Stood firm and waited for his reply.
engaged to be married but no one'more ehaicy than he did himself.
Christ. bet whom hearts have not lt will he ntarhed he' two great
(Pencil tin tin receive the Hole- Sidrit i,circenietancies Or conditious. tin foil -
inn! then the lack quenctee the witeiseettel, of the Spirit'
goers" ef their feith the crucial, of Goa, in fulfillment of e early ,
time of the coming. and while they oelaristion of Goa in itenesis 613.'
eiegerhess. aPharentleh 110 saP*, "l. -Shish shall not alh.Vio,FS strive
ply that deneiernet. the door is sleet . with man." And the uneeetreined
and the wail of dieapitairnntent Ongli gower of Satan which lead hint
angnieli burets from their lips. to "sit, in the temple of tree. and.
TEE entrxernen noten :I flew that te is God." AtlialV
ttie will Uleile is tinted at in the
It was at midnight that Me scriptures. and is referrea to as the'
pridegrOona calt PiOrhEe•59‘. glint time of the tribuletiou. The
darlinese, 'Sat on ber throne, the pression "hell on cart*" will thea!
conqueror of the da.Streuge Lour certainly have ite realleavion.;
for the Bridegroom to isolate It is mem= wisdom Inman y11 huan-i
not so with Imam The !Ong of day' anitatianism. sociolegyi fretesnal-i
i9 at the 'zenith of his glory when leen, philinathrophy and all the otter
probahly in the course of the earlier
known that he had been.; And when it came I believe felt
into the eoeception of roan before -1 was alsa
THE SUNDAY SCI{0011
HITERNAITANIALL26,LESSONp
Text of Lesson, „Acts xxio 3-12.
Gelden Text, Ante xxi., 14.
3, 4, And, finding distiples, we
tarried there seven clays, Who paid
jq Peell titre -ugh the Spirit that he
suoum not go up to JeraPolem.
COPPOt bat, woinhee if it was
teixougb, the Spirit that the leserne
emancittee seleeted the pertions ans
signed io Oda onti the ecalowteg tent
or three lemons, an they seem to
liege cheeen the least helpful por-
tit4vT:Z,
choren. Paul awl his party, having
landhel at 'IWO on their Way to Jere
usalere, find idissiplee, with slalom.
tbey *end a, week, min, knowing
Fainhe coatom, we cermet but releice
in the seecial Bible StudieS Which
cPey PIOPt NOV had ht the bleseing,
which must halta come to them,
Knowing that Pninha desire Was tothilln
hasten to Jerusalem for re3teZOSt
(cbapter enti 16), we me him in the
echoel of patietwe as he jOurreyn. It
is a great victory wieen we learn to
proctice Sam. x, 7—"Po nova,
shin terve thee, for Gobi is 'with
thee"
We lineeleil deem on the
nheiti and prayed, and when we betee
tam our leave one of another we
tea ship, ami they ireturned home
again.
The men, women and children witle
shore praying. north bane been a teas
Paul's Partnt all kneeling on the
tietiorey to all who witnessed them
110h fOOP forgotten. The faithfuls
lies'S and feeder:ewes of those who
wider PO eirenneetances omit their
. en-etione are always. to the gloty
an Amore holm togett et bs on .-
Rile ties and yet extroordirsery tandgnetehnuettnzvelzititietalll.es.ziTevkormoste "I'm eorry to have troubled ewer. ,1 of Ciod and owned of Mo. Even,
he eald. quietly euough. "You Anise;the beetiteli condemn us by their
strength — wbether such an Ein.i..ire
Ilansible explanation was that a 'understood me"
or whethes we are to drop apart in- "'"
h eten el gOgenleP la Foure .oight...
t i d d tits ueeti to that after four Years. 0004-1Tho faithfulness of a Illusive oe tire
but 1 ought to get 'faithfulness to their imaginary gods..
shall he consolidated and ineintinaed ,,,e„ 1
bi 1 i t throve.
1 llie clothee were worn to the very iVien ?" I "led- "'ell ilVe 08 ar
for our local aini paroc a n eite
to several attnite. eaelt eating only ear al.44 "lewd him into a Inisall"1 emit how eaethe misunderstood tdie:eekriaverratIol4legathiecTittinasanwde 2i:401111:
umaran on the werarf at Singapore
) 'THE IMPERIAL 11MA Ina stage of shabbineesi It
five years Mien te, bad Lad a new alm friendly with a profeseismal eanitn foegottert.
overcoat. and as for Ws gloves, was -ow a Fivir salary. you meet and male a great tOlffeSSiOrk on Ina not
i an, only seiently lanvii root in Ode they Rudder. you talk of the odds beitiiii:, 7. in We canto to Ptolentairi and
i country. We bave only to look back , were extinct altogether. OA -CAM YOU, and of ruin coming in nralitted II e hi etliren and abode with
to ille lifetime of gnaw ot us to re -1 Arid yet, somehow, most or las tiLT.r.. 4,411,Fa, The Derby in run three tielin ore day. and the next day WO
A-4;01449er a 11%4(4 of apathy end in- linen hire, although we were swim el ""e" ""1.84 laaw----.'
me * * * came unto Caesarea. and We
li:iffeaKVO. ill1 wiiieli iiiir titan:Wee% to admit it, There was 5omething', "GOodllight," he filid (MAW,. "YOU tiCrtelred into the houito Of Philip the
the bridegroom of the fashionable lauded bulwarhs of eitillzation will
church wedding comes to claim hi bae their boasted stiengtia tested.
bride at the altar. But. Christ. the n'i;e deseitfracess 4'1 the Lumen;
Bridegroom, is coming at the leach:heart will he laid hare in the pew -
hour of midnight to Jae to Ilimaenee of the unreetreined power of
sell Ms bride, the church. It is tee roe% deeeiver, for there will ne,
significant. It. to declared of Jesus ,nothing then to hold him In cheek.
upon His first, advont into the world The human arm will be shown to be:
that He came as Light into dartapies '; too short, and too weak to wrestle
but "the darliness coinprehended it with the arts and devices and skill
not." of the aeon. Man is not yet rently
It was dark at Jesus' firrA conee to gise up the task of overcoming
Ing. It will be the blackness or and controling the evil in the. world.
Midnight Which will wrap the world,' lie still thints le can mimed and
In its folds when lie tomes again. will ultimately resionrob, hoe if one
The morning light may be just lean be honest with himself and rend
breaking In the east, awaking the the oewsparers te will have to ad -
world to another day, but if it ndt thnt there are no present hall-
marks the advent of the returning leations that Inicress is any nearer
Lord, it will be the Inidnight or than when the Babelltes sought to
the world's sin. The sun May have build to Heaven and link the two in
sailed majestically tip the blue of the Ousting 'union. But in tte time of
heavens and be riding gloriously in the tabulation the power of Satan
will be manifested ,aral realized, and
its midday splendor. but if the Lord,
coming in the chariot of tbe clouds 11110.XL will see tte utter folly of boln
to forge the ehains which will
and heralded by the "voice of the 1111
bind him. Christ forged the chains
archangel and the trump of God."
shall then come, it will be the
odd- during Ills forty days in the wilder-
ight of Satan's greatest triumphs tress which alone are strong enough
n
over men. The birds may have to bind Satan, and when He returns
at the end of the tribulation period
caroled their last good -night to the
nighty king of the day ris gore to rule with His saiuts over the
geously robed in scarlet and gold
.he withdraws into bis palace behind
the western hills, but if the hand on
the dial oi God's eternal purposes
has moved to the hour set by God
for the return of Christ, the Christ
will conie winging upon the fullness
of God's time to earth, and Ilis
advent will find the world wrapt in
the midnight of its own thoughts
and plans and purposes.
"At midnight there was a cry
made : Behold, the bridegroom
tometh."
WE CANNOT KNOW Tun DAY
on the calendat of time winch will
echo with the Heavenly shout and
!nark the flight of the triumphant
ihurch fromthe earth to meet its
Lord in the upper air. We may not
discover the wonderful secret by
'searching ever so long and diligent -
were eager (*blithe' tO rid thetnetivein so end about 4I0faCe• Not 111118t.I are •"'''•"4hvit no Matter. I will av""Ilt* whowas ase (If t" tielv•
of reeeotielhility, and felt that home i!or anyone env ewer board jam come° ask for MA snore renerpettry. Good- eu" °Ed 141°4° /dth 14133"
! It is very refresliing to meet 'the
affaise were as Much as thee' could ' plain ; heel too much grit for that, "llight."'
At that tlIPQ our roloPIPP Were fly-',roAllirt.t. ilia they °
es for his miserly habits, we ee,,,e, „1,e nee
reg any agi r 401 int; leayroaut,i,i :',,i4sm(ora,(1)11. it,ielleinitlo.nothZwEalFead,oar: reri, 0granuttdileTtiseero4vecunvii 1;11,i:re:el; Til69401'1101*irlad011eadfr°111441atilleafAVU° tge PlaCrdne:
eat& to it. Tiane who think that
'properly ne caned upon to attend to, no turned and hurried awav and redeemed of the Loranhere and there
we ate, ht"tc.n lindaslit:antel we.e did be spenr nohemstaiNe.edo'ai*dn whet ter We were all wrong in our t. e ha" ol rrca llac'anr7 81141 "4
elet lds Opinion of SI dock 11. Fellowsl Ip and &ugh ordere is lite
seintielent testiniony, any indifference Of mime, l'ut arguing tilee mat -
Y** fl!fl44flVi7. there is on their inert, as 1 brave had hes and food ?
ItO COMMoll interest. auy wout of :ters now in his favor, but at that
world the chains will be put into
full use and Satan will be bound.
John in prophetic vision saw tbis
when he wrote: 'tend 1 saw a,* an-
gel come down from Heaven, having
the key of the bottomless pit and a
great chain in his hand. And be
laid hold on the dragon, that old
serpent, which is the devil, and Sa-
tan, and bound hini a thousand
years, and cast him into tbe bot-
tomless pit, and shut him up, and
set a seal upon him, that be should
deceive the uations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled."
That will mark the 'dawning of a
new 'day for the world. Put the
midnight must yet come bringing in
the woes of tribulation before the
millennial age rau come.
THE CHRISTIAN'S MIDNIGHT.
It is bright with hope. It is filled
with joy, for its stillness will be
broken by the shout of triumph of
ly in God's Word, for it is not there,, the descending Lord; it will ring
but is locked in the innermost i0 with the b0aven3y voice of the arch-
cesses of the heart of God. We may
angel, it will thrill with the awak-
not even dare to guess the hour, for
ening trump of God. The bride
when Gocl says no man knoweth the
longs for the return of the bride -
day nor the HOUR, neither the groom and rejoices exceedingly when
angels, and not even the Son, but
she hears his huerien tread and feels
the Father only, it places the cities -
his love clasp about her. The
tion absolutely outside the pale of
church, made up of the true believ-
heman reason or the right to deal
ers, by whatever name or denomina-
with it in an effort to fathom its tion called, is the brine of Jesus
mystery. It is worse than folly to mese. She is expectant of her
attempt to figure out a problem corning Lord. Her joy *ill be cont -
that the mighty angels of Heaven plete when he does come end takes
are not able to solve, and of which her to be -forever with Him.
even the Son on the throne is kept The delicately adjusted receiving
in ignorance, and which Be has no instrument of the wireless telegraph
desire to know, as He abides in the will readily respond to the vibra.-
will of the Father. It is enough to tions of the sending instrument
know that God knows, and that in across the ocean which is tuned to
the fullness of His time the joy and the same pitch, but all the instru-
hope of the Christian heart will be meats winch are not so tuned would
realized. It is'enough to know that be ee insensibie to the ether waves
this some Jesus is coining again, flashing over the orean as a dead
and that when iie comes the dead body is insensible to pain. The
in Christ Jesus will rise from their Christian heart which is toned to
graves, and with the living saints the expectant hope of a returning
will be caught up into the air to Lord need not fear that the thrill of
meet their Lord. It is enough for the midnight cry elll not be felt.
us to know this and to -comfort 'The slio-ut of the coming Christ will
one another with these words." set the chords of the true believers'
But let us heed Christ's warning hearts to vibrating, an] they will
Word : and in faithful mount op the wings of faith to join
service be patient unto His coining. their voices with the voice of the
For, James goes on to say, -be- archangel while the trump of God
hold, the husbandman waiteth for
the^precious fruit if the earth, and
hath long pn,tience for it. until he
receive the early and the latter rain.
130 ye also patient ; establish your
fills the Heavens with its triumph-
ant music. Ah, at iniclnight. what
hope to make the dark hours or
wailing Ab, Ivhat need of
wratchfu Mess, that tl3e heart may be
The next day he did not tura Up
feeling Or (caution: but that tbehn time the opinion of the fellown was
own local affairs have beernue strentirels, hostile. I think we were at businces, nor for many days after.
important and so absorbing that, all inclined to imagine tee poor ehap When a. week had gone by 1 beeamo ileNe nothing to say against it for
perhaps, they have failed to 11%ppreet--000141 have juetined himself, but he inor
hfixtuhLrlaoknanttiooilome
ed uc.
phis ?actress stlel have nothing better, 1 ait
ate adequately, 101 that Is due from d never tried to do so, and perhallU"' 1 glad 1 lave 'knurl ,oamething better
them as raeinbern 01 Oar Empire to that tented 11118 against him ; and 1 went round that evening, and a and NM) proved it for more than
wlich they .are proud to belong.iafter a while we had drifted tt
so far In hiip
0 Bele lace it was, away thirteen years and around the globe
(Cheers). The AT idea or itorninioW apart that no me In tee oineeup four flights of stairs. at the top t ard In many lando. It is tliat bond
WAS Oa aUtheirlty to be Wed by the, spoke to bint except about wallop, of a dreary old bOuse in one of Until of oneness With Christ which so
central State for its own advent- now he stood It 1 don't linow, I.Peoreet suburbs of the city. lbound together Paid and his party
ages. T1.0 new conception of Ent -1 expect be felt bad sometimes, but I tapped at, the Maur gently, whilst „and. the believers at Tyre ard Melee
pire is Of a voltintatiV OrgnnizatiOn he gave no Sign, enCePt that b
e .411 manner of sympathy and pity pity mais mai Caesarea and nu88(11105based on COMnUnlity of intereets and mated to grove thinner and sbab G
rue
tore through my heart. ambler or 'believers one etry,,ywnere to -day.
.
-community of Saerificen. to Which bier every day. But all tins thue ha 310 galnhler. lie Was down, on his 1 9, And the sante Man had foto'
alt shouln bring their etintriblitiOn must have been saving nearly an hick and Should ho tenderly treated, dauglacus, eirtflus, wiiich did pro,
Ifituftn:M h
red pounds a year out of his And aa I reached out to seize the .-phesy,
princely income Of Oundred and handle the door Wentstiddenly Open- The last We heard of Philip was
ed from the 1ns1de and Jones, the that after he baptized the treasurer
betting man, stood before ine.titCandacti be 'wan (Mind at
I felt nalrnge, and told him so be- Azers 1 11,1 ten that he PreriChed in all
bnet bond of travelers titter are not
Chrietiars or If they are they il0
net ninny llitit as they might. 1an
a professing Cliristian tried the first
moiled order ,faithfully. and, While X
to the common good. It. is thrs
ew spirit, X bellow, Which we have
d to infuse in our colonies. Our
kinsfolk may he educated to this
great ideal, but the Gospel must b
preached from colonial imlpits. It Is
not enough to lecture our children in
addresses from home. Missionaries
of Empire must spread the faith of
personal intercession. Rome was
not built in a 'day.
A GREAT EMPIRE
on novel principles is not to be con-
solidated and established in days,
or months, or years: but eve inay be
encouraged by tile east to look for-
ward to the future. Who is there
among vs who a few years ago
would bave ventured to predict that
In a time of stress and difficulty the
colonies would one and all — those
even who were only indirectly inter-
ested— wenld have leapt to our as-
sistance, would lutve made necriaces
hninense so far as they are per-
sonal, in so far as they are pecun-
iary notable? 11 that shoatl have
happened in so short a course of
time, what nuty we not exrect 10.
the future? We ourselves are true
to this great and insprintg nnssion.
We bave faith in the future, and we
axe prepared to maim tlie sacrihces
in which we call upon otbers to
join. (Cheers), My Lord Mayor,
tbink :this object is so important
that I am hoping, despite the crit-
icism to which I have referred, you
may find in the future worse employ-
ment ler your Secretaries of State
than no send them tramping over the
, globe in ioicler to preach the doc-
trine of the imperial mission of the
1.3ritish Empire. And if I have been
permitted in any *degree to contrib-
ute towards this great ideal, then I
think that will not be the least im-
portant result of the lnission to
which you have been good enough to
give yoei approval. (Cheers).
A. prisoner was in the dock on . a
charge of stealing, and the casebay-
ing been presented to the Court by
the prosecuting solicitor, he was or-
dered to, stand up. "Have you a
lawyer. ?" askedthe court. "No,
sir." "Are you . able to employ
one ?" "No, sir." "Do you want a
lawyer to defend the case ?" "Not
partickler, sir." "Well, whatedo you
propose to do aboutthe case ?"
''We-11-11"—with a yawn, as if
Wearied of the thing—"I'm willin'
to drop the case far's I'm con-
cerned."
"Johnnie," called the mother, "I
want you to go to,the store. . for
me." "Wait 'a second, maw," re-
plied the youth, who was. absdrbed
in an exciting story ; "Pepperhole
Pete has thirty-seven Injuns to kill,
an' it.'11- onity take him abOut
,
minutes."
•••••=1•••••=••••
One evening X bad to meet a train
at Blucher eLreet station. You -know
what an old-ralibit-warren of a indifferent to aeything 1 might say
place It is, so you will understand .about himself. Arid I 'believe the
how X only found the platform at sill-. Se h had been erying. Ills eyes
the last militate. Tlie porter told me were all red and swollen,
it was No. 7, so I fixed inyself Heywood was sitting up in bed,
there with a cigar so as to impress propped with pillows. The doctor
the girl favorably when she looked was by ids side, and a la"harlY"
tor rue as the train came in. looldng old woman, the landlady,
etruck a grand attitude and stood staring at the tire, tier eyes
hung on to it until the train stop- were red and swolloi too. ..
mid. The guard shipped out of his But if I dwell on things like this
van, end just to make certain X you'll never know the end of this
story, so I'd better go straight on
and get it done.
Poor old Shylock smiled Wetly
when be saw me. "It's good of you
to come," he said, "after our last
meeting,"
"How about the suspense—the
three days ?" I asked.
"It's over now," he said, and his
thin, white hand patted the connter-
plaisileol.geyntly.
"Did you know I was engaged to
be married," he said, presently,
"about four years ago ?"
"Yes, I had heard so," I muttered
hi
"We were to have been Married
that .sunimer," he continued, gazing
through the window as though he
spoke to himself ; "but Berthe. was
Seized with illness—some spinal dis-
ease. The doctor said her only
diance was to go into a ,certain
home for a few years, but that it
would cost a lot of money, as, she
was not eligible for free treatment."
Ile stopped speaking for a mo-
ment, for his breathing was difficult.
And my eys were red and swollen
now, as I knelt by the bedside.
"We manageci it," he said quietly,
in a minute or two, "arid she seem-
ed to be getting better, I 'got Jones
a place as attendant at the home,
and he used to bring me news of my
poor girl. Then the doctor said
that if she wolild undergo an opera-
tion she might be cured almost at
once. it was a very dangerous
operation, and painful ; but she
agreed and it was fixed for three
days later.
She died this morning," he added,
with just a quiver in his voice, and
his thin hand treninled.
don't know exactly what hap-
pened next or how I got out of the
room, but I wasn't the only idiot
text morning at the office. Poor old
Shylock never really recovered his
,.
health, but we did our best to make
up for our past unkiridness- and I
think the dear old chap understood,
3.
Maude—"Papa has offered to pay the Spirit in all things, It means
all the expenses of our honeymoon- great deal to humble ourseives to
trip." Claude—"Then well never Walk with God (Mic. vi, 8) and
come back." have no will f o
fore entering the room. But he only the oilles till 110 °Lune to eitesat"le
shrugged bis shoulders as though Wo aro now glad to find him etill
witnessing and keeping open Imes°
for Christians and that his dough -
tern are 80 olio with him. It. must
bave been a happy home, a very de-
lightful place, to sojourn, mid we
do not wonder that Paul was able
to overcome his baste to be at
Jerusalem in order to tarry there
many days. As to women pro-
phesentg, being the Lord's =resell-
gers, see Joel ii, 28; Ps. lxviii. II,
R.V.; Phil. iv, 3, and think of
DehOrah, Huldah and others and see
further indorsernent in Coa xi, ti.
10, 1±, Thus saith the Holy Ghost
So shall the Jews at Jerusalem
bind the man that owneth this
girdle and shall deliver hine into the
hands of the gentiles.
Thus testified Agabus, propliet
from Judaea, and this added to the
voice of the Spirit at Tyro (verse 4)
makes me inclined to believe that
Paul was not journeying to Jane
usalon command of the Spit*,
and that the years of imprisonment
and some other things might, have
been avoided had he been
more obedient to the Spirit.
There is only one perfeet man, fully
controlled by the Spirit, set before
us in Scripture—the man. Christ
Jesus. He never failed. All others
have. We do not pretend to say
that Paul was in the wrong in Act'
xv, 39, but we do know that the
time came when he was glad to have
Mark (II Tim. iv, 11). 'We do not
know why Paul wanted to go into
Asia and Bithynia when the Spirit
did not want him. to (Acts xvi, 6,
7), and the twice repeated message
from the Spirit in our lesson inakes
us somewhat perplexed as to whe
Paul insisted on going to Jerusalem.
. 12. And when we heard. these
things both we and they of that
place besought him not to go up
to Jerusalem.
So in spite of tho warnings of the
Spirit and the entreaties of Luke
and others of his own party and of
Philip and his daughters and the
other disciples Paul determines to
go on, expressing his readiness to
be bound and to die ,at Jerusalem
for the name of the Lord Jesus.
The others could -therefore only
pray the Lord to actomplish His
will and commit an to Him: So in
due thne they arriveei at •Jerusalern,
and the brethren received them
gladly (verees 13-17). I know of
nothing more necessary for a child
of God than to be filled with and
controlled by the Holy Spirit, but
that certainly means obedience to
asked him if he had come from Clap-
ham.
"^Not exactly," he answered •
"this is the South Coast express."
Oh 1 I said, zuoi looked round
for the porter who had accepted my
twopence on false pretences.
The next moment I forgot all
about everything else in the shock
of seeing Shylock He was shak-
ing hands with a fellow who hail
just come in by the train. 11'ney
walked down the platform together
as friendly as could be, and when
saw the other man's face you could
ha.ve knocked me down with a
feather. He had formerly been em-
ployed by our firm as lift man, but
was discharged for nia:king bets with
the clerks in the office.. 'He usnd to
"make a book" on every race in the
year except the human race, and
that, he said, was too uncertain to!
bet about. .
I felt downright sorry at seeing
these two together. The instinct
saving for some straightforward
that lied told Inc Heywood was
purpose oozed out of Inc at once on ,
receiving such a' squeeze as this. I
It seemed such a pity to think ,
that a fellow of his age should be so I
irretrievably' entangled. A slave to
gembling, a mere low -class plungerf 1
13ut it couldn't be so ; there must ,
be a better explanation. I was try-
ing to think out some excuse for '
him all the way out of the station.
As for the girl, I forgot all about
her, and that's the truth.
Half -way across Waterloo Bridge I
collided with a chap who. was star-
ing miserably down at the river.
And when he turned round saw to
my amazement that it .was the very
man who was troubling my
thoughts.
"Looking eit the river ?" I said,
trying to speak in a friendly tone.
be answered, drearily ; "it
ROWS very smoothly,. doesn't it ?"
"Why, yes, I suppose it does.
But, look here, Shy--Ineywood,
what's the use of being such a miser-
able sort as you are ? Look at me;
I've far more trotAlles than you, and
yet you don't cat& me moping."
"If you've more troubles than I
have," he cried, passionately, "then
o ur OWAL .