HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1903-10-15, Page 2SIXPLE AND URIC -11T LIVES
A Warning Cry Amid the Distractions
and Temptations of Modern Life
(Paltered aecording to Act of die Fee -
'tenant ot eimada, ia the Year Ora
wuoust Niue Ilea/erect and Three.
be win. Daily. of Termite. a,t the
Depertment of Aviculture. Ottesva)
A despatch trout Chicago saysza-
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach, -
ed from the following text; Jeremiah
via 16. "Ask for the old paths"
hlost aimplo he the tent's figure -
Its stannic:ay gives it a homely beau-
tY. It has ia it the, aroma of the
woods. It is one a those simple
similes
of couotry life that bring
bach. to the weary city dweller, whose
feet hone beeu long accustomed to
the bard pav, stoues oi the city
sidewalks, the g. oloory of the foot -
Paths over turf covered hills and the
oarrow lanes between the banks be-
jetveled with sweet wild dowers that
Ie used to walk in his childhood
days. The old paths—we can never
forget theme It will do s good if
we thinof them this morning' and
t're hi there nre any raoral lessons
we rail learn iront them. loonullailes
the tonmineeet inebleats oe everyday
life liONO 'tiee for those who will
hear.
Jeremiah, among the greatest of
tite prophots, lamenting thatnis
C011atr.elliell !and deserted their God
and disobeyed his laws, pleatie with
them to alert the impending punithe
Loon by pimento; to him. and. lie
employs this simple agure to por-
tray their condition. He describes
ileeti as troseiers lost Urea thr.
Moantains of in. limiting for a path
width will lead them out of their
moral dittimillies. He represents God
:is telling them to "ash for the OW
1%.4thS, witielt is the good WAY. «1rd
walk therein, and ye shall flud rest
foa year C410•4. theY sain. talt,
will mit wall; ther" Jeremiah
reeete the right path leading to the
oi God by 'tieing the homely
of taza ordinary try prithe
or rough roadways in common on
iit the tinet over witielt the eastern
eeroveris bove treveled Cold the cowe
hate come home for the mining milt-
ing and over Whieli haw pasSed
V ;4* nein and women Wile0. with
(tally taelio well •done. they twee
aisiela the Louie firesides for physi-
cal reiteehment and for hinaed
:repo.
Till: PATHWAY TO THE CROSS,
Like Jeremiah, I would to -day car-
ra your thoughts back to the re..
wini.woriei.zi Of the country and irtna
tlia evait. frh ilowere of the va-
lue., ilearows Week blossoms which
voil remind rim of old time aseocia-
liens unit rove. The greateet of
berticulturists is met the garaener
who itishions lus beds In the "mauy
rotors" of n Joseph's coat or a
grendinother's crazy quilt. It is he
whi»nakes his floral designs Monne
—eery eimple. Ono bed !oohs
though it were a. bit of Alphine lake
flung uniting the crowded regiments
of ihovera It. is planted entirely
with eiolete. It looks as simple
and yet os 'beautiful as the June
heavens colored in blue. Another
bed looks idte a great collection o
lett/ling flames. It is planted only in
roan. It is eery eluiple. It is as
:ample in colors as a cardinal's robe.
It is as simple in tailors as the set-
ting sun. .Another heti has the
Jaundiced iook of a Malay's skin. It
is only planted in golden aloes's. An-
other trill be an azalea bed, another
a, dahlia, another planted in white
lilies, smother in geraniums. The
horticulturistic genius thrives best
;n the simplicity of colors. From
thiS aermonic bed X would pluck
only the sweet for-get-mo-nots of ten-
der memories. Like Jeremiah the
prophet I would try to lead you
Over IMMO of the old paths which
your feet have trodden in the past,
Alld in leading I would lead you to
the foot of the cross.,
CLEAR AWAY THE RUBBISH.
Buts come, let us take our axes
to -day and clear away some of that
rubbish. Let us explore the old
path which once led up to the old
homestead. When the first settlers
entered the Michigan woods they
used to "blaze" the trees. That
means that With their axes they
would cliop a notch out of this tree
and that and the other tree as they
went along. Thus, if they could find
the right place to settle in one di-
rection, they would retrace their
steps by these notches and start out
in the woods from another direction.
Well, these old paths which once led
-up to the homes of our childhood
may not have been used for a quar-
ter of a century, but they can be
easily followed. ' Our parents "blaz-
ed" them all the way along.
As I follow these- "blazings" I find
they were morally straight paths.
They were as straight as a 'die.
Your father may not have ha,d much
money.- In all probability you, as
a farmer's boy, remember hint for
the most part clothed in overalls
and a woolen shirt. ° But under that
rough exterior there beat a heart as
true as honesty itself. Looking back
over the long years, you remember
him traveling that "straight path."
You cannot think of one act your
lather ever did winch was dishonor-
able. People sometimes said "he
was close" in reference to money. He
had to be close in order to furnieh
bread enough for his babies' mouths.
You cannot remember your father
once losing his temper and uttering
maledictions unless perhaps it was
on the day when he found that a
neighbor, who was left an executor
by law, had robbed a poor widow of
her an. Ah, that old father of
yours may have worn shablnr
clothes awl may have been poor ie
pocket, but he was rich in charace
tar. The path he -traveled to an'd
ram the old homestead was always
straight. p at h. " Th gh a he
'last will aria testament'which he
f
went for the first time to the Come
mainion table of the Lord?
eitiGnIWAY On' BLOSSOMS.
There is still another p.ath which
you ones iron. Tbis path is frag-
rant oath blossoms. Like the fabled
trees .of old the heavy branches whioll
line it are ladeu with silver bells, it
is hthe path which mice led up to
your marriage alter. Ia is the path
over which the fallen rice is strewn
and where the merry laughter of the
bridesmaids is trying sto dawn the
•sigiled made ,Provision for a few joyful salutations of the wedding
trinkets, a Bible and a gold headed chimes. The blossoms which line
Cana and perhaps a smitibex, that this pathway are orange blossoms.
father left e-911 the grandest legacy a The silver bells are those which once
hey ever reteived- He left to you Played Meadelssoba's "Wedding
au untarnished name, the example of, Maroh," Where did that path wbich
ka father's life well and lutoestly live end,ed at the marriege altar tlint
etl, lead you? "Oh," you answer, "at
led me first arnoog the briers and
over the stony grounds. aly court-
ship days were no all ouusbine. law
a long time I did not know whether
I could win the band ef iny boort
, love. In the Mist place, I was not
paths were Cluestian paths and an socially bee equal. Then j. was
,ways led toward the throne oi Cod. penniless and had nothing to offer
How do I know? Well, nen fritild, my two hands and 0, willing heart.
In going along the pathway which Then, my life was not what it ought
was `Wand" by your mother's to have been. But she had faith
bread iinife and knitting needle, 1 in me. I promised her to reform.
Male upon altars everywhere. I I went to hu •Cli with 11,r I oete
ilirel that there was hardly a step, up drinaing, and I promised her I
that she took in life but she had a ' would surrender my heart to elitist.
place where shecould stop and 'meet And, do you now. the night, ste
, in prayer. And at every altar I gave herself to me she mode eie
Orel indetitatioos in the rocks where 'kneel with her and we both teede
ishe laid her Undone at the Saviour's tourer that God would hear :red
feet. help inc heop my 'Vows." Abi :kW,
11 Aud. ob, my friend. what o lot of my brother, I know just how •3•4,111
,hardelf43 At} had to lay lallOn her think of that old path wbich led up
.Savienuns breast in her journey of to your marriage 'altar 1 When n on
life! There was that awful burden toeh the trembling band of that
of physical sichness. I do not know young girl in ;VOWS You tilde" felt
how you may remember your mother, , that you wanted to he good. Von
but most of us think of mother i Pr°111"ed "a. then and there' for
when she was physically sick., she ! ber suite as well AS your own, to
seemed to be so long dying, Now llt'e a good, true, pure. noble. Caris-
it eves the pain in the head; now it III" We' fray(' Yau lield Sulu" .villy?
was the dieorderea nerves. ihbtfk it I Are yon willing to go to church with
'was that lona, long time, vawn w„ther now as you did when ;you were
had a trained num. "How is move I engaged to ber 9 Are You let4"g'
ther to -day?" the younger children ;Ii;(Zirtoeisieatiettolnie-iel•lotiet eNerdalac'tiber;ti)i%
iweuld 2Sli, and she lrattla answer. hers? Remember, man, you made
."Not very well. tine gear: MK vern a promise to her and to God on the
well," 1 think one of the sunniest i /light of your wedding. Will you
and yet the most beautiful prayers ;i seek the old path or consper,,h0.
l'llS MOtbea used to make. in the last ilove. •which wound through the aeys
:Year and a half Of her earthly exo!of your courtship and euded on the
istililete wat lbt9, "M. Gad. lattlZ,' WY illight you took your heart lore ite
eiliiiiiren never have to physically a bride from her father's home;
isuiler as I have suffered." Yet. for THE WAY TO HAPPINESS.
Itit!, most part. our mothers lost Ditt how are you going, to 4jud
their Mt:Meal health by living and your wav back to'these old pinta?
doing for us.
A, GLORIFIED ROADWAY. . these paths for mann years. •You
a e hest coundetely lost You roi-
1 go a little farther along this ' r-o.o. 1. ' e front' i '
'Mistime path of your dead mother C`1,' ioei your way out tae amino
1,:, taloa of sin unless you twee a dit41.0
Mel also the place where she laid' 1 " -
at nbrinttni feet the burden of her .oritnildeo.no Thleostim iortance of a. otiiih
hinxiety for tile salvation of her! In 0 ll . 0
A.110(11%14 some people love to ;earth or of sin Call never be overtire,
think of theft, mother, first by 01 i linagted * I remember, some nairs
, wring her sitting and sewing for ago, when bicycling through the
i their advent. 11. 15 .a. beautiful ienorTilftuiteattlityls °I Lets" Virgiwoni/I'wlovendIgfili
,sight to see the young wife, he that
ee ---- around and around until the sun
levelling lawn with JP'P needle in herl eana 4urfti the twilight covered up her
lhand, milling the little white gat"' somber face with a black robe and'
welts for the stranger soon to come.
, Our mothers thought and planned I I,dd , hernelf in total darkness. Me
for the cradle awl the little ward- le' A r ° t* along, S" " ge
lobe weehs before ithe *widish nen of a eereech ool and
. ,
They did it so thaNtveWNiNiverrie btl; f, ttegoliftthelp.thrgowle?n.egs ptjalunttbielrii.glItAttehxe•
simuld lie down liPall a bed °f ani-lawbile we saw a dim light in the
taring all might be well for the little
vision. That, oh, to me it is a far 1
a heaatIful I deoissreken.oeTIVeatstruggled On until we
that house and be
one's welcome, That is
more beautiful sight to see a young 1 were In' Then in 11(1 °wiling we
„ eie safe because our host, as a
wire u " Irer kr ' ' in . . ' !guide, directed as on. To -day, ne
• :ie..— -- 2---- lost and weoried sinners, Christ is
think of her niminn to Ged that
her unborn child might grow up to ready
be a good ntan, a. good wonnin. And lead to be your guide. Ile will
you, lily friend, eitting before ine, you out of the mountains of
from that moment when your motia Ire will lead you to the old
er first myea for you uutii her i paths wIdell axe all converging into
the one Christian path that leads
death she never left, that altar Pc -1 to the foot of the heavenly throne,
fore whieh she was contieually
seething God for the salvation of
he- Will you let him lead you ? Will you
your soul Jet him pardon you? Will you let
pathway :he nrs\lelned Inlour etol tte' ring . Jesus save you?
feet. In that Christian pathway she 4
first taught you to •tater the baby A.R1WY REGULATIONS.
prayer, "Now I lay inc down to
sleep." In that Christian path she Sometimes ThereIsHumor in. the
gave you her doing benediction. Will Red. Tape Rules.
you not seek the old path, the It is often the little things that
Christian path of your glorified and take hold of one's imagination and
sainted mother ? It is a path opy- linger in the memory, writes an
erect with wild flowers and fragrant array nurse, in recording her South
with perfume. These flowere and African War experiencea. Battles
that pathway have been Might be fought, won or lost, but
watered with your mother's tears. dinner invariably held its position
WALEING WITH CIIIIIST. as the important feature of the day.
If the path which you first travel- The surrender of sixty Boers had
ed to Sunday school was along the small interest ior the sick inhabi-
sidewalk of a city, then in all pro- tants of a camp, but a. mistake on
liability you walked. You walked the part of a cook brought grief and
by the side of your father or moth- pain and discontent and bitterness to
er, became you were the youngest. valinat soldiers of the queen.
Then your new shoes would squeak Owner was frequently at hand in
at every step. Those shoes kept far the red -tape arrangements of the
a long while, because you were only army. On one occasion, as I was
allowed to wear them 0.11 Sunday. ViSitillg a ward, I was confronted
But as you rode or walked to that with the spectacle of a strong, able -
Sunday school and to your nrst bodied soldier, who had .been helping
church services a great change came usein the wards for about six weeks
over your family party. One of your while he was waiting for a ship,
sisters or brothers left your side and lying prone on a stretcher with two
went to the church altar. One by orderlies standing in readiness as
Christ and publicly confessed him at bearers.
in consternation I asked if Brown
one they there gave their hearts to
the communion table. After awhile had broken his leg.
"It is all right sister, a sergeant
your turn came. You can see your-
self now as you came before, the replied. "The men have to start at
church session. You remember how once for England, and as Brown is
tbe old minister • wiped his glasses. down on the papers as a stretcher
Ho put his hand 'upon your shoulder' casco as a 'stretcher' he must go ato
and said : allify boy, why 'do you the raiway, station."
want to join the church? Do roil It was useless to explain, useless
love Jesus ? Will you promise to to give evidence that Brown, fit. and
nye for him and give your life to s,,,t1:101_,,,,ng.;,..aftek a very slight attack of
was able to walk, mid
his service ?" Then you remember '"'""--•'
carry his kit, too, for Brown was
the great big lump that stuck in
your throat.. You remember how entered in a certain form in the blue
papers, and who dare gainsay the
between your Sobs you said : "The
reason I want to be a Christian is fact? So along the tree -bordered
v road I watched my strong,
because my father and mother and '—'1'• '
brotherasand sisters are all Chris- healthy friend being carried' slowly.
fleas. I. want their Saviour to be to the station, where he was .care-
fully lifted from the canvas ' and
placed an a recuMberit position
=Ong sick men, "according to tegu-
latioos." And never a smite . was
seep on the face of sergeant or
bearer.
"BLA'ZING" MARES.
Then, again. I further study the
"blazing' marks along the paths
'which Ied up to the home of our
childhood. I find out Vett these
Ploree of you have been away nine
mine. As we have a -united family
Pero I want an -unbroken family cir-
cle in heaven. Aged, gray. haired
man, that was a beautiful path
over which you went to church for
the first time. That was a holy
drive you took on the morning you
went, to take your first communion, MEXICAN ING IIITY.
•
You did not speak much that morn- 'The Mexican postal department has
ing, but your thoughts were very taken a new ond novel means of in-
deop and very bigh. Tbey were as fox:ablg the public of the weather
deep as your sios, as high as and as bulletins given out by the weather
great as the forgiveness of God. Oh, bureau. Evert- later which ,passes
why have you not always kept walk- through the office is now stamped
ing in that rata ? Cbrist walked with the indications for the next
with you there twenty years ago. twenty-four hours. This stamping
Jesus as guide is ready to lead you is done at the same time that the
back to that path and walk with postage -stamps op the letter are cart-
yoa there now. Will you seek tbe, ce1lcd an,cl the receiving stamp is fix -
old path—the path over whiLA you ed,
1111110R3 OF THE SLEEPER
ALL SORTS OP CRANKS ARE
MET ON Tng. OAR.
Wear Eyeglasses Whitt* They
Sleep—Others 11Zust Bave
goad to the North.
A Pullman oar porter is aothoritn
for the statement that Melly people
sleep with their glasses on.
"They are peoplo who appear to be
in thew right minds, too," he saia.
"When I first mado the acqualut-
ance of their tribe. I thought they
were crazy, but I have found out
better since. The tirst fellow I ever
saw bunk up thus accoutred was
politician, who travelled over inn
road frequently. The funky thing
about. him was that be didn't really
neea his glasses any mare than I
did. • lie seldom WOre them in the
day lima mut generally read the pa-
pers and made notes for his speeches
with his glasses dangling from his
buttonhole, three feet away from las
eyes. But the minute he got reedy
ler sleep they laming indispensable,
,5IltusiblIte)essaledhitoenehissilegitiiOn:erfall;otertzlil
ght
and found him shaiping with the
things on. I did not know it was
his custom to wear theta. I thought
Pc had beconw so tired out with
speech making and band shakiog and
halo,- kissing that he lied temporarily
lost his millet and gone to bed with
them on by inistalie. I was afraid
to 'MVO him so, for it seemed a dead
erteinty that if he should roll over
mn the night he would smash tbe
things to atoms and perhaps put hie
ee;saot. So I took the glassesft
o
n
I did it. as gently as a
911111Mer breeze, but at the first
tom% the old gentlemun Was wide
143%."411`That flrer you up to?'
Pc " "hahing off your glasses,asZ,
eahl I. 'You went to bed with them
on.,
" ••Of mum I did.' said he. 'I al-
ways no. 1 couldn't sleep without
them: Give ton here."
"'Mime thou 1 have seen lots of
other follis who were slaves to the
eyeglass habit. The politielan wore
a plain. cheep pair of reading glasS-
ee that wouldn't here limn notch loss
if they had been broken ;micas the
pieces rad bappened to injure his
ayes, but I have seen other travel -
!ere with specially prepared glasses.
They are provided with hooks sued
clasps and other appliances to ilOid
OM ill plate and the eye lass crank
. g
who goes to eleep with a pair of
OM OA ean staud all the hi
tlle roughest l'Ofid la the country eau
give him without their bring dis-
lodged. However. the people who
tate to eyeglassee instead of wolf-
Phine tableta as opiates have the
knnet of holding their heads at a
eafe enole even in sleep, and T bare
seen few accidents happen to the
glasses."
FALSE TEETH AND WIGS.
False teeth, although apparently
Icontaining fewer potentialities of
danger, are, aceuraing to tho some
authority, treated with more respeue
by their OWIlerS. Travellers who
depend upon the dentist for their
grinders display a good deal of cau-
tion about creeping into a berth
with their teeth in their mouths and
they tuck them under the pillow and,
in valises, and mon hand them o'er
to the porter for safe keeping rather
then take chances on swallowing
them in the night.
Wigs are another thing about which
sleepers have peculiar ilOtiOnS. Very
few people like to sleep in a wig on
account of the difficulty in combing
it properly tho next morning, but the
porter tells the story of one man
who had the wig bubit developed to
an extraordinary degree.
"He, too, was a frequent traveller
over my line," snid the porter. "I
had had many a nice little chat with
him and thought him one of the most
sensible fellows I ever knew. Ile was
quite bald from his forehead back
past the crown of his head, and on
often joked about it being excess of
brains that had pushed his hair out.
But after I found out about that.
wig business I wanted to take back
everything I had said about iOs bril-
liant mind. I found it out by ac-
cident.
"One coaling I had occasion to
look into the old gentleman's berth
after he was made up for the night.
To my utter amazement I saw him
togged out in. a wig that spread over
the pillow like a monster mop of
au.burn curls.
" 'Excuse Inc.' I said. 'Have I
made a mistake? I thought this was
Mr. M—'s berth.'
"The old fellow laughed. `Sh-shesh,'
he said. 'This is me all right.
Don't say anything about it. It is
a fad of inine. All my life long I
have wished for a fine head of curly,
auburn hair. Nature denied me that
boon. She gave me nothing but
sparse black locks to start with.
Now she has seen ht to take even
those away, and I bave concluded
that since she played me such a
scurvy trick I am justified in getting
back at her by wearing any old kind
of hair I please. Hence tbis red
wig. On account of the inevitable
uacharetable remaiSks of my friends I -
couldn't blossom out in a brand new
suit of hair in tbe daytime, but I
Parc made a practice of wearing it
at night, and it gives me the great-
est comfort imaginable.'
"And that man Was universally
rated a smart fellow, too.
"I remember well an old chap sena
an ear trumpet. Every night when
he turned in he arranged the trumpet
with the tube to his ear and fasten-
ed it some way so it couldn't budge.
I got to know the man pretty aboutttyt1,'Oli
d in
anone night I spoke to i
it. d always fix the trumpet ready
for use,' said the old man, 'so it
won't be hard to find hi case there
is any trouble on the road and sorne
of yo0 fellows fiocl it necessary to
caLleallaet:
man travelled over my line
On an average of twice a month for
two years. Ono night we ran into
a freight train, In the excitement I
forgot all about hive and bis ear
trumpet, and I neglected to call him,
as I had promised, but I guess he
fOIMS1 out about the accident, evert
if lie ceuldn't hear very well,
SOME OTHER CRANKS.
"Some folks hove the habit ot ade
iustiug their elothieg in a lieeullar
fashion when they go to sleep. Even
to thie day there are plenty of old-
fashioned people who non in with
bandlierchiefs woond around the head
and neck and ehowls and skirts about
the shoulders, while the number of
people win) sleep with glows on is
hoown only to a Pullman porter who
SeeS tile black and tan Paws entelnl-
ing at various times during the
nig"101ti all the sleeping ear cranks, the
ono 1 oast detest is the fellow who
insists that he will 1i befom morn-,
ing if he cannot sleep with Ids head
pointing to the north, so as to get,
the full benefit of tbe nneemetie cur-
rent. We have lots of trouble with
this hind when the trache. antl con-
sequeotly the bertha ruo east and
west. Women are worse in that re-
spect than men. I remember one
W0Xklan, Who refused to go to Califor-
ilia on that wallet atter her hus-
band had bought tiaets and had
.bundled all the family down to the
'station. lt lacked only a. few min-
utes to train time when dhe happen-
eiellainhel Inaf she could maw
sleep unless her head was turned to
the Teeeth.
• "'1 wonder if we eau numage it on
this trip.' she sand.
" afraid not,' said her hus-
band. 'The mon MU enet 0114 Weld,
and we can't very well make up
lepeekil berth for you. miming cross-
ways,'
" 'Very wen,' said the woman, 'if
you can't do a little thing like Mit
to pleaee inc I won't go. on know
it makes me deathly sick to lie with
hoed in any other direction.
ould never stand that long trill
turned around some other way, and
�u Immo it.'
The man swore and the girls
cried. They set the whole mociiinery
of tho road in motion to try to get
that woman a croeserise berth. but
csohieddwadst szittlevitaag:tilt1 ItIlk:13;
Witil either her head or her feet
sticking out of the WiadOW. She
was a proud woman mid wouldn't
agree to that, eo they gave up their
tickets and travelled elsewhere crier
a north and south line. wliere she
could lay her head in a healthful 110-
eiti011.
"There am other monks abroad,
d the Pullnum ears gather them
ill in impartially, 'There is the num
who cannot deep without an alarm
Clock Itching under his head. the fel-
low who is liept meanie all night by
the whirring of the cor wheels and
the one who can be lulled to sleet)
only by a roar and rattle that is
loud enough to split a pair of Ordin-
ary ears. Then there is the fellow
who
ecu never be fooled on the time.
Ile is the greatest, bore of all, 1118
faculty for measuring time Is so
acutely 'developed that lit eau wake
any hour of tho night, nod without
looking at his watch.; sing out the
time to the fraetion of a minute He
is the same kind of a fellow who says
when you make up his berth. 'I want
to get up at ‘6 o'clock sharp to-
morrow miming, but yotoneedn't
bother to woke me. I can wake my-
self. All X will have to do will be
to go to sleep thinking about the
hour and rn got up on the minute.'
I /tato that fellow, and ii. is all T can
do to keep from telling him so.
"A funny thing about theso habits
is that the people enslaved by them
cannot sleep if there is the least de-
viation from custom, and if the num
with his glasses, or the one with ins
wateh or bis pilaw' or his wig
should be deprived of his oid to
drowsiness, ho wonld -wonder about
all night like a lost soul."
WHAT A SURPRISE!
Interesting Lave Story Prom the
Aretie Regions.
While M the Arctic regioo trying
to reach the North Pole the Duke of
the Abruzzi was told this tale of
the adventures of a young Esqui-
ninon, who had secretly courted the
daughter of an enemy. The huts of
the lovers were not far removed, but
one night the terrific cold ripped a
great crevasse in the ice, and the
young mains house was left isolated.
A gorge one hundred feet deep and
twouty feet wide separated it from
the igloo, or hut, eontaiiiing his
sweetheart, but there was n. narrow
bridge of ice left across the crevasse,
and this, the young men found,
would hear his weight.
Esquimau:: sleep in bags. The lover
decided that he would that tight
cross the ice bridge, steal the inaid-
en he Menet bear. her to his but,
and then break down the bridge, so
that he and she 'together might en-
joy their honey -it -Moo unmolested.
Re planned very soccessfully. He
erept in the cleat] of night into his
enemy's hut; he Snatched up • the
maiden in her sack 'without awaking
:anyone:. • he bore her over the .ice
bridge safely, broke down the bridge
according to 'bis p1110, and then .11(3
opened the seek to embrace his bride.
but, behalding its contents, he gave
loud cry,. It was not the maiden,
but her -fathea, taat 1i hadstolen.
THIEF'S ITISS.
is magistrate's clerk has been
anowa • to have his • tie -pin stolen
\\,hile ip court, end one in Birmin
ham, langlan,a, a few years ago lost
his coat in this way; bat a more re-
inatka,ble exeinole, perbaps, qf a
thief's cleverness maler the very eves
of the police was that of the burglar
at Clerkenwela who laanaged to con-
eeal two diamond ring's while the
police were se areal ng Pilo, and' pass -
cd one of them to his wife in tale
cells While the police ware looking
on. 3.110 rings were 1111 d c r Pis ton-
gue, and one of them passed from
P15 mouth to ])is wife's when' he
was Visaing lier good-bye,
Tllt SUNDAY SCHOOL
ea -0
INTERaTATIONAL LESSON,
OCT, 18,
Teat of the 1;70,,Ps. 1-17s"
Golden Text, Ps.
laTethiws twhleirttsewnee.btypIsi:lotielltoolyf
Spirit. as David ?ant in some el his
'Time Spirit of the Lord
spatie by rae, and His word Wa9
my tongue" (IL Sam. 'nada, I, 2),
See also Acts 1,, 10; iv., 25. If wei
would Mellor God and be blessed 14y
Him we must, not only believe that
ail- Scripture NVA$ written by the
Holy Spirit, but that ih 1174,9 all
written for our profit (II. Tim. hie.
10, 17; Bono 7iar., 4). '1110 OCCASIOn
Of this psalm is giveu to us in what
we might call M our Bibles the pre-
face to the pselun but which in the
Hebrew psolter is part of the pealm
itself aod oerabered as verses 1 and
2s'velantay-n
klonh
geieteswtelloot
ePsallnAletceiTay.
es.
ts!
es. lite seine David W110111 God ap-
.peduted a king and a prophet prov-
ed hinaseilr to be a very great siana.
'noir. Ile did not in this surprise
iGod, for God 1MeNV him thoroughly
;lieiore lio caned Min; but inasmuch
as ehe may Inolaitil material God
eau get to work with le siultd, He
takes What Ine Menses and magnifies
His grace in such AS ete are, showing
forth in greater or less degree our
under sunfulileas and Itis amazing
grime and love. The Holy Spirit
ehow e forth all that ia 13 num with-
out revert of person. Nothing is
ieuvered or Mile light Oft but AWOL
being fully pinioned, is shown how
he inay be cleansed front all his sin
by God's own provision.
God is all mercy and loving kind -
tans and long suffering. but He
Just and caunot 1.01erAte gi10. MA.
though lie bear long with the sin-
ner (Ex. waive. (3, 7), tin has pro,
,eided. at infinite cost, eternal re-
tdeunetioll. ineluding the forgiveness
of all Shia, for every truly penitent
sinner, but there muSt tie on MO
Part Of the Sinner honest confienion
.and forsaking of all NIL Wel are all
!by natere einners. This is set forth
generally in verse 5, with whielt como
!pare lph. Bo 3; Rom, ilia 23.
!David's confeselon of sin i9 EVe
!WM.% 8 and in, and his ery tor
idealising mid restoration in the
4ereater part of the rest Of the psalm.
The majority of people do not seem,
to think that they Need forgiveneSs,
Thcy have no convivtion of sin, no
sense • of guilt before God, no cone
Fehal0 Maid of a Saviour
. A deep conviction or sin is a great
blessing, for only thus can we ail -
'won't° our Saviour and His great
'Salvation. In verse 7 Dinh! doubt-
less has reference to the cerentoolal
cleansime of the leper (Lev. xiv.,
4-9), the byeeop beibig usid tO
epriakle the blood. "'Wham, thou
enow" tithes uti to Ina. 1., 11t. And
mikes us think also of out Lord s
"Oran exery whit" (John xIii., 1(1).
That which ltavid slied for thatall
might be blotted out, verses 1 and
9, we are *issued of in Ise. Min.,
25; alive, 22; I. John 1-9. What a.
wonderful redemption it is that biota
out it sin and nmakes the donee to
appear heroin God ns if he had never
sinned, and lite helpless sinner's only
part is to receive what God has
provided. As one has said ht
John iii., 16, God does all the
loving turd all the giving, and man
does the receleteg. When a chilli ol
God commits sin he does not cense
to be a, child of God any more, than
when a child in a family, boIng dis-
obedient, seases • to be a. cbild
that family, but the joy and fellow-
ship are broken, awl the parents ara
grievoil. Drafd does not pray tha.im
salvation may be restored to liim,
hut the joy of salvation (8, 12).
That God has rebellious children is
seen in Ise. 1, 2, and the reason Of
it is in the cetera mind, which is
enmity against God, is not subject
and never can be (Rono viii, 7),
therefore the need of a clean heart
anal a right spirit,. which only God
can put in us and whic,h fle has
promised. See Ezek. xxxvi, 24-28,
arid remeinber that what God will ny
in itue time do for all Israel
sorely do for His own now. There
are, alas, so few who seem to want
a dean heart now. The aim of
many seeins to be to get all the
selanh enjoymeet they can now, hop-
ing that somehow by the mercy of
G'od they may reach heaven at last.
Coatrast David's 'desire in seeking
agalo the joy of God's salvation --
that bis tongue might sing aleud of
God's riglitousness, that his mouth
might .show forth God's praise, that
transgressors might know the Ways
of God ao'd earners be converted Un-
to Him (13-15).
There are Many who still think,
as 'cad the bypo,crites in Israel, that
Cods favor Call be 1.VOD by our gifts
Or so called sacrifices, not wader-
stankling that God has provided the
only and all auflleient sacrifice and
is ready to give the full benefit to
every truly broken mid C0111pite
heart (10, 17), There is no Sava
iour for the proktd and self righteous,.
but for those who knosv themselves •
to be lost ania helPlens Pinners there
is a. Saviour and a fall redemption.
IProm the forst sae,rifice of Gen, iii,
21, OD to CialVa.ry, we m03- trulF5(137.
"Hereby- perceive we the lo-ve of
(-4 '.1110 sacrifices all pdiilt to .
Pim \vim bore oar sins in ITis own
body atal thus provided redemption'
for every slimes, for all Israel 011d,
for all natioas (18, • 19). Our saeri-i
fleas a,re only the lo:s-e of Christ con-,
straining us te show 0131' gratitude
to :1.(ini who has redeemed us. Mayl
10-1;41Yr isb(linsi,isaiciady,a;0111L01°11111; s°111)11(;111 'sr1)110();‘lvj
forth Thy praise." (15). Ansi may
We not forget taat tae Cod of Trott)
tolfo has sent the Sea it of Truth to
reveal ITiln Who is the Trath de-
sires Troth in our inward parts (6).
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