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Great Distinction Between the 'Worldly
and the Spiritual
Nazarene." le it not a bleased
thought that if we Roe for Christ
this side .9f the Dave wo may still
coutinue to live izt influence for
Cbrist after we are dead? John the
Baptist, great berme) his sacrifice!
John the Baptist, great olter he was
martyred!
A 111011011T ILLIISTRATFD.
Perhaps I can illustrate the Bible
thought in a simple way. A great
wall Ql• fortress has to be built. The
arateree aceereing tOAct Of the e'er, ore we trying to preach, ea that, as • work must be pushed One group of
ltateeat of Ccuenia„ ne the year One - • .
1 i1011s440 :one litoulati and Three 'when Demosthenes harangued, be woromen ascend the scaffolding and
le, nee. neatly., ot Terente„ at the auditors maed, "I.et, go and figlit, lay on one layer of stone and theo
ttegl'attia front Clticago says :-raTome let us mast uttler the bozo
leepartment ea Agriculture, Ottawa-) our bearers Weer aa -T. go to their rest, Another eroup lay
another layer of stone epon the pre-
ceding laoer and then go to their
rest. And eo the work upon the
wall grows higher And higher. each
group of worlaneu etontling upon a
loftier scaffolOing than that of the
pre eding lehorers. the great
wall of prowees has been buddeti in
this way. Each generation repre-
fonts a batch of workmeneach lay-
er of stone the colanleted wax* Of
the preceding generation. The got -
lege boy of to -day knows more of
geographer. more of chemistry, erzore
of astronomy, more of all the whew -
es. than the ablest man livieg three
centuries ago. Why? Ilease he
has absorbed the compact knowledge
of the last 1300 years. the
great scholars of those 'aim; con=
tortes hate laid at lila teot,
Itut, us the Wall oi mentel nod
spiritual progrese went on growing
higher and higher century after con-
tury suddenly abottt 100 years ago
spiritually it took a niiraeuloue lift.
Christ's eacrifice was laid neon OM
top of it.F1u Onlvary stonee were
the layers of the year ail A. D.
Those stones will lift nil eurceeding
ge:erotions higher in knowledge and
in possibilities, higher than all sin
and higher than oll future rot:denim-
tions. 1 once heard a worldly man
y: "The best man that ever lived
;lever went to beovea on Ids own
Merits. If we ever reach the city of
tile redeemed, it molt be through
what (larlst has dello for us and net
through What we have dono for our
-
:Selves." This statentent contains
the kerne). the essenee, tizo heart 01
all the gospel. Joho the Itaptlet In
his own life great? 'Yee! "Yet.
notwithstanding, he that Is least in
the Meg:tont of heaven ba;reater
than las."
lama. lee Witt Talmage preaclo; f101 01Jestls
!nom tiee tolaraiieg text : aiotthew 1 A FAMOUS PERSONALITY.
NI
t . 11, -Teeie hath ak):t 11';'2" pee et .es inquire a little More
eete4fee Mee ,ifeeta the Baptist:"
telosely how John the Baptist. eub-
aat oleo, great eVVI,It"Ii.".A ;Merge(' hie life in Christ, Jesus
viato.;a; :Soar; 111 ii me're owas ap. unknown me.n, at the time
41.3131..4.41 tt'e 5,1.4,X$ pitos =4: Joon. the bermie aoo roeleee, was,
arein thane.- 44-....ce wroteite tbra- the ve, noaoe wails too
pith- of 114..leot Banns. Lihe the jersafon gglatZ trp to thirty years;
S."4"1"1 .41e'Y 1314":12a444' in; of age Jesus was an unhnown
ei.R. 2 toeie tepottitions teitati:en
;
sonnatoe &LA 2,,in ti 8'' ...extent of yhlist.s earteey ministry er in a country eillege. The whole
1'3
ril.1 1°1.'4 F;4•14:3 .eetenileil over ooly 33. alma period
1 33 ,.‘1;4„o' Ot three or low years. We read of
elt.SlitS Wile!), he was born. Then to
Oisaloeears. We read of him twelve
eee o *.3'3)',goao. ...o.yeals inter, „Awn as o boy. be taxes
43 3 311,,1 ;els 4:35.3epatrOpr::ir4et tirr cteiglinfietalet;uTloiale;;I
Col ei-.'11 '742; 31a:4" yet-.rs, vp to thirty Xea4''S of10331. Age
cal.eiIeal, ;and tuee'e tong.% woe praU;icgaly told sociologi-
44.."31341 elly au unienown teeter eaetern
yeeo.340,
y teash
4..., eaten:was oi many greato in the 1144tniin'1°' who was this
Biltitist? This
second
V.11041;:: Z:Vuog man, of about the same oge
%tints is 11:.17,. gre^,I.M4y,;?. IMO, ore :is JP";:,$$ 33;A% 110 ZUOSt 4840 OU pere
heteots ebielt 41i eiloptielt tlie. of.ality !IR the east. Ile bail lived
t eel; nohle 014,44 21%.. hierely eehieldy ;,ue aegozit. But the voice he
;epee •O ".4 ,i3'ei4l.14"1.1. Mit 0221:e. 3-,41141441 118021010133
T at,C, ';!tait, villitettai. hut alsoethretighoot the 8'3 Lfll
1. e gl'eatcopilot itself. The rich end
o 'tie poor. the old and the young, the
3 - - 1Z4.0 4. 011icie.1$ and the peoestre.
greeter thee other Well bkkefe. alike 301 their hOlUeS t44 sft At WO
haptisnee-John LI eiteet. Great crowds wormed aboat
Mititna oneot. althounth lie teas i'1 thi strenge teacher wherever he
ie,,,,r tloet. letea, wee aenoog the ,went. They pressed into Ills eaves
noel fiends 431 the wilderneee, eta though they were temples. As
c.vOital wad Ilze "nottilt John. built up a, great SehcK41
Pe431. tk`Ca. 145 41411$ g deV Citeffi and bootie -tat his follew-
ert' cv-1"3'u Iti,e,7nos by hundreds and thousands. Mann
eon 3 -no titrionelt the. tutle5li u.._; 7'91 :lean were ready to bow doWn
ieh :hole:Let: hie moo limbs Wei land worship boo oe13. lenipQral33.
4 4'••,)73 pacer thet1 on3, lk341 Qs a spiritual Meg, "Yet when
t,41.40 V. te; th' P.::ilbSlitgeViti.V%i or
i. .; . -LIiusto;!ftrjee"stue, app'ethin inostrio.nmaxo.a 130 333J3imp read,htowwaly re40341 so.,1C 4:11417taw nir *or oo.r mtJohnol tn
th-eu tee iek this the Barden, are we willing to lay
/4" 00 f our wealth and OM' MUM
0" „n„ .141V ?tr.
1;4 3.340:4431.3 l'33e443ele. w"ait *78'S31', 1031?
The htlatel portroit ues of a gold ft FRARI.ESS FOR RIGIIT.
fe: ta13 411-3•11 13841 0$ bet. 110 4.a1 was Jon the nlinisitl„ A
;no tee:, ot 'total tao llaptiet ie
tee, 3' 34.2 a auto. ',mow, 1.16. it of his life he wets reedy 40
ming irmi it 1H 6.1; go a denoonce and attaelt the intrenched.
n. root poolous dimatido and the p343t-to:411y invultterable tons t
Lite a zeieror 1*' .1 bras% Aof that, (lay. Ile WAN not ono of
ialti* mat spotleNe. it reflecte Ikea those men oho alwaye etop and ash,
loin id a nining non lt was John rilues it Pay?" beOire they attempt
t!4' Beoliet's etleee elect oe. veto, tae, to do what they ought to do. 1.1e
pe,opeor (q 3'33 31.4 thou 133ea:e11.-,3'3oae3W4 413334 '3 of men and
he the direct Owe:muter of the Son': '3'333. 31 war agoitt A wielooluess in
of floe eamo at the temente &lois „hilth Plticott, Vitt ugttinct
tte worala:113 lorI the aeorteo mile as mighty in. bis day as the
thos 333 31 uith the name neon- 31 '*3334. is in ours and never
44; *ons *3 313 31 ;Jed cleaves a routiloinee eziree though. the criminut
leetee froze tar eonetenittit. There 'wee a king. Ile was ready to look
eeel law theo meat 314. )14100118( ZOOnSter 13111 SqUareb:
thettilied with ,toe l33'0 alld then hit at Oust ein.
et,ttemea lat; men might seem to be us
mot, rim tooseomess, 1.3p1sowl weak an the hood of a
hyoung girl wilting at the 'wild beast
tta te :eo; 1,4 4 41 33 3"4% for great-
Al.1,41142.2g 121:012 Ler 444 the 1.(01213312 are -
33 43 4 434431 114 . 1.33 3.10 s..,.ecaled a• Ile 43 S3133tJ' 41,
3' k.1.23. h:a lietitf;11;reltie:ttl8' 1.1
: 2331 ai1t*1t&'v,
}devil:lay blatipitemy mid hypocrisy
! 3,,,. :Mt ,Intmlei/i
;14, 11.4 .1,a. „le._ ,nyeawriey wherever they Were 101111(1,
38 4;:4:141374 dent:unveil and excoriated the sins
thi Jewiela eleo 'M
irelien Ilerod,
elate tit blow a hula,* blast with a 3:11 -
Peony witietle or vetch thutttlerbolts 'the g0N4*111','/.• 1°N.,43 with, hi.„8
m Mt it envoy: oat or shoot mosto. erot taw's Wilt: 1111t4 31122r444aeu
dmie 1. it1 pins or stinieele 'Wk./MOM that IP' ruialit marry ber,
won ;Tete. eo.be„ Tto ttiti poets slolin instontly hurled the divine
ezdel 13 11 vet en "amble are used for :tomtit -natation agoinst the rulerlie
etceeeeos and tee al,iveme is a 'I•aisect such a storm, of popular in-
ednegoeual arai all intleity is abluee -dignittion that Herod flung bint into
taitO the eonilagration then the very 'Prieml afterwrod, at The niettett
Its then:sates most tale part in 3'.01 Ids etelealaughter, who was done -
tee sheen le rvelIS 7.'83,3/1,14.2. none ; mg before aim at a drunken feast,
tato: ;teem or mine to lutch zeluuds 'he beheaded John and gave to her
fie cpiefts, to bowl down mountains :tho bloody tropby upon a charger. 1
for tenpins, to swing aentleplieres as ital. iny brother, dere we, with
an athlete burls the hammer. or, John's!courage, attack itArenclted sin
with stamp of foot, to mohe the whereeer ft may be found? Like
stihmer.ged continent Atlantis, whieh John the Baptist, are we weat
once stretched between the old world enough and brave enotigh, no matter
and the now, with a dying guzgle what the direct cost may be, to up-
eink and disappear. But great bold the goon principles of gospel
needs bring great men from obscur- truth in the store, the home, the
It) into prominence. 'rite occavion factory, the city hall -axe, through
furnishes the opportueity. the sacred aisles of the church it -
Great men are produced only by self? Dare we do this even though
great emergencies. This premise he- the earthly "powers that be" should
*ng granted, what greater event is unsheathe the glittering sword of
there in all history tlean that of the
coming of the promised Messiah?
How numb it meant to the world
and to us 3 What life of eternal joy
have we except that which revolves
about the personality of him who
was once baptized by joint the Bap-
tist, in the river Jordan? What
hope have we of ever meeting* entr
loved ones, our parents and our
friends who limy° gone beyond except
through the Divine Being of whom
John the Baptist was the 'direct fore-
runner? Oh, my friends, as John
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death and wave it over our heads
and the heads of our loved ones?
GREAT IN DEATIL
But, thougb John the Baptist was
great in life, he was also great in
death. Like the pioneer who entere
the American forests and cuts away
the trees and pulls up the stumps
and builds the home and plants the
corn, In order that his children may
reap the harvests after tho father le
gone, so John the Baptist, not for
the Baptist's name was great by be- himself, hut lor those who should
ing linked to the name eaf Jesus come after him, lived his life and at
Christ at his first coating, will you last laid it (14351.33 a. martyr. John's
not make your name great by 'doing death was as beneficient in ft e re -
your paet toward preparing tho sults as that another's death Might
world for C)irist's second coning? be which would bring together the
A FORERUNNER OF GOODwarring factions of her family and
.
reunite them beside tbe altar of her
John the Baptist was a dfrect fore- casket •
runner. was more than that. 11 you follow the teachings of the
Ile was ready to sink and submerge Bible very carefully you will find
and entirely cover up his individual- there was 41 war, a rivalry a jeal-
ity with tbe personality of Jeaus
Christ. He was ready to let Christ
be all in all. Ile wanted to be
merely a footliglat to make the di-
vine faze shine forth tile more clear-
ly. Il'e was willing to decrease so
that the glory of his Saviour.might
increase. Do we, like Joh- e the
Baptist, sink our individualities 111
Christ's or do we, like some of the
ancient forerunners of the east pre-
eeding- the king's cbariots, wieh to
he dressed so gorgeously and `to
make so mime noise that people will
he watchiug us and admiring our
strides instead of turning their eyes was John the Baptist dead than his
towahd the royal Master whom we hise/Ples took trie headless trunk of
are proclaiming? Are we wishing his body ancl buried it and "went
that all eyes43333311 he tureed upon and told .1031:18." Ail, yrs, by
us 1133 1.oad of 'upon Jesus ? Are we John's death all these 134.3.] 3133 (34
ooriog preaeb so that men may healed. The Johimnian scliool be -
."That Is a fine sermon ?-‘' or came in toto the "school of the
otiose between the followers of Jesus
Christ ' and tbe followers of John.
There was no war between John and
Christ. No sooner did .ieses appear
than .John bent the lit)Ele aml render-
ed unto him full and coniplete obedi-
ence. Ilift, this obedience was not
true in reference to the ,foharm lea
school. In the fourth chapter of
John we find that In order to still
this rivalry Christ with his followers
left the southern regions of judaeit
and travelled eorth and went
through Samaria. But no sooner
OuTrivnimmr,04
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SAVING. A CITY.
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lottery's Brae* Action
Chino.
II. J. Whighann who earned
fame during the South African War
by his letters to the Londe* Morn-
ing Post, gives the following Mary
of 4-courapouti missionary who
•
broved a, city of Boxers:
It happened while 1 was in Chinn.
just after the Boxers hod tore up
the Manchurian railway and were
playing hanky -may with law and
order. The Ittissiane land to stop
this sort of thing, oncl they die it An
their ustad fashion by marching from
city to city, destroying and looting
as they went.
On theee expeditilms they generally
got a Protestant .usissiouttry to go
with them, in most cases a Scotch -
man ot• 33.33 Litglialunan, to net as in-
treter. 'rho ntiosionaries were
glad enough to go tiecause they hop-
ed to check in some ineanure the
frightful excessen of the Iluesian sole
dicry.
In most cases the cities and 'vil-
lages laid down their arms without
a murmur atul waited for the Rus-
sians to 'walk over them. But at
one place something bappened. Tile
liuseiams marched 1111 to the gates
and were just about to enter When.
the Boxers opened lire upon them.
The army was withdrawn, the bat-
teries were got out, and the general
was just going to sana.sh up the city
when the Scotch missionary, Doc-
tor Westwater, approached him and
asked for a moment's trUCO.
"I undertake," he said, "to enter
the city and to induce it to surren-
der without a shot being fired on
elle condition."
"Which is?"
"That there shall be no destruc-
tion and 310 'looting; none what-
ever."
The general yielded, and mounting
his potty, Doctor Westwater rode for-
ward to the 'city alone.
Now wheu you consider that the
city was full of Boxers, you will re-
alize that it was a pretty consider-
able aet of courage for a naission-
my, of all men, to ride unarmed
through those seething streets. This
Was what Westwater did. The city
was a roaring hive of armed Boxers,
meskets peeping from roof and win-
dow, and the streets ringing with
the noise of arms. At the mission-
ary quarters Doctor Westwater was
fortunate enough to find a Christian
convert, evil() cooducted him, to .
place wherethe nterchant gild Were
holding a sort of cabinet council.
Westwater explained matters, ap-
pealed to the citizens to avoid blood-
shed, and pledged his word 'that nei-
ther destruction not looting should
mark the Russian occupation of
their city. The appeal was success-
ful, and he rode quietly back to the
ReSsian general.
The general was an awful brute, as
bad as he conld be, but Westwater's
action seemed to impress him, and
his .orders were very exact. During
Ins occupation of the city there was
no single instance of erinae. West--
wateeteegallene action, too, iinpress-
ed even the Boxers, They earned
him the savior of the town, and
whcin, some months later, he took his.
'departure for home, he was made the
honored vest of extraordinary ban -
(metre MO NVIIS accompanied to the
railway 131.ation by all tbe grateful
(1314. 3. half of theta waving flags
arel 3ie11 of them banging emisical
inetrianents.
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WaelTED THE Relefeesy,
Ofe-T offered to 14.17>s tax tears
a:Vvay.
e ---Wel ?
e1e-af.-4 Ja; cline Worse" than eeer,
G
This redictione hare re eotedly come
EA A ' ,JATE -
IT IS SAID TO 33E OBADVALLY
SIXANGING-,
Sun Spots Probably B1,V3Ug Et-
fectoeThe 4314
InallOACe•
In l'age, of the; facts, it Seems hard,
ly worth while to answer the geese
tions. Is the eiganate chaoging? blv-
eryone linows that we hardly over
hate a real old-fasitioned, entreeelad
(.1*rist*na 313 thezo tilnee; that tires
are ofteo On esaidsumnier
day, and that September -after the
cricket aeason-often turns out to
be the best month of the year, writcs
h'idin Spero* in the Landon Moil.
But ttough tbe clerk of. the Wea-
ther is a butt foe the gayety of ne-
tione, etatronoety eon tell us certain
things about the elituate; And in is 4
Matter of positive eeieratifie know-
ledge that the climate is necessariln
changing, though certaloly not $0
filet as it seems to he doing in the
efeeereon jaidgment.
Everyone sheul33 know that the
season. which now seem to he getting
a sOrt of push along, so that every-
thing crones a little later than ita
proper time. are due to tbe fact that
the anis of the eurth is tilted.
Imagine the eon in the middles of
thia nbeet and the earth going roved
it on the levet of tim paper. It the
North Pole stunk straight up auct
the South Pole straight dOWn, there
would bo uo Seaeoete; the climate at
ny Wren spot 'Wield he just the
Sfaleei all the year round, except thot
33. would be a trifle warmer -when
he earth was over the sun thnn
when it Mut o little further away.
BtiYINO TIM NonTii rulx.
I remember reading in my ochool
days it story in wide)). Jules Verno
took advantage of this fact. An nn.
teeprising conapany boUglat tho polar
regiona, which, of course. they got
vei.7 Owen, they were of no WO
to atiyhed,y. Then a mathematicol
'rector mode A calculation of the
omit of dynantite that WOUld be
needed to explode on a given quit
on the earth's surfaee, so tha4. Ito
oxia of the earth might he altered
by the 331204313. Then the North Pole
would become the only really eligible
part of the world to live in, and the
brilliant owners could tell at MI inee
heard -of profit. That was the idea,
but in calculating the figures the in-
gotions gentleman had accidentally
rubbed out a. few nothings on the
blackboard with ids elbow, thereby
the crash took place, the vesta34 was
nil.reducing the amount of explosive a
few tailbone of timeo; so that, when
Now, as n, matter of actual fact,
tho direction of tho earth's axis is
slowly but steadily Altering, and
therefore the eorieet answer to our
question is in the affirmative -the
tab:tate ia ehanging. This alteration
In the earth's axis gives rise to the
astronornical phenomenon litiown as
the "prece.sslon of the equinoxes,"
hut it would he absurd to pretend
that it has emitted any impreeiable
difference in tilo climate within the
nunnery of man.
For another reason, also, the cli-
mate is nereestwily becoming colder.
The earth is still cooling, inol so IS
the Man. It is true that bis solar
majesty must have at least twenty-
four millions of years beanie he cone-
ys to glow, hut nomthaess he daily
gives out et Minute fraetion less heat
and light than ever before. The
earth is going through the seine pro-
cess, though, being much smile; it
is cooling much faster, and it has
been calculated that it will not sup-
port life inoro than about three mil-
lion years to come.
Year by yenr, therefore, assuming
that man's requirements remain the
same, he will lend, reversing Jules
Verne's story, to crowd more and
more toward the tropics, and the
temperate regions become too cold,
rind when the climate bas changed so
much that thore will be terrible com-
petition for the only decently warm
place on the surface a the globe.
SUN SPOTS.
But another little peculiarity of
the sun may possibly be affecting the
earth's climate. This is his well-
known tendency -like the face of the
youth who has just, started shaving
-to break out, into spots. There
have, been some very large ones this
year, into some of which you could
drop a couple of earths sido by side
and never find them again.
Sun spots run in cycles of about
ele-ven years and forty days, aed just
now they are On the incre'ase os they
havo been since the year 1900.
There is worse to follow, however,
for not until next year will they at-
tain their maximum No one knows
the reason of this cycle, though it
has been recognized for nearly a. cen-
tury, and has been traced back, with
regular recurrence, to the time of
GaIilegreat
rrb
majority of astronomers
deride the idea that sun -spots have
anything to do with the weather,
but Sir Norman Lockyer has tables
which seem to show a very definite
connection. I think the scorn of
these astronomers Very hasty and
illfounded. At any rate, they have
no explanation for the changes in
the climate, and it is an admitted
fact that sunspots do affect the mag-
netic needle on the earth; how, no
ono knows, The magnetic effect be-
ing prolved, and atmospheric electri-
city or magnetism assuredly play -
leg, as it must, a eney important
part in the proeluation of the wea-
ther, it is surely reasoliable to sup-
pose that "eirespots may affect cli-
mate, especially as Sir No ran a n Loclo
yrr's observations seam that climate
does change considerably with the
changee in the frequency of gunspots,
Then, egain, nacre is the moon.
These bZune astronomers assure us
that anyone who enlieens in a lunar
influence Mt climate le -well, a lenti-
1 tie . Mr, Ilatgh Clements hos le
inost reasonable theory which sup
-
pine s a belief in lunar influence, and
ritiln MOON AND ITS INFLUENCE.
true. If this be so, we have aoether
reason, why the elimate .shoulci be
changing, The moo» is steadily get-.
Ung further and further away from
the earth, 413331 143 also taking longer
to revolve a,roeincl her. Nothing in
leer universe, Indeed, is jn a, state of
Stardstill„ and all these ever -pro-
gressing -changes, io the solar system
getnir Olen earth ineletled-icattsit
eessaelly react on the ebonite.
'The anawer to the question is ai-
n't -native, Ind none ot the valises
witicit I ban.) meutioneil, except the
sun spots, aro acting with avant -lent
rapidity to Account for what we are
urdortunatelynow being compelled to
observe.
'lute lest abotdel disturb our
peace of aniud, let us take a word et
eomfort from. biologY. If there is
toorthing certain, it is that aU
rattle, including nom, bait; an extra-
ordinary power of adaptobilito. Only
give 33 Man times and lie will learn to
fit himself to a neer environment. It
is in virtue of this power, which he
rosseseee hi an exceptional degree,
tbat he has overrun the earth. So.
the climate, changes, we will
floe with it' -3 n the words or the
Letin Saw, "Tempera mutantor. et
nos in Wis." Fortunately ehe
char:line will be slow. and wilt leave
336 olento of time to adopt ourselves.
In davs to eorne when the son is 'dye
, cow prosPerity may even develop
oleo coat of fur. , Who knows?
STORIES or sAmatirx.
Aneedetes a the zate 113me im.
ister ot Great Britain,
Mr. Devid Williamsort, writing on
"Some aepeeta of Lord $aiabury'a
Pereonelity," soya ;-"On tho night
when the peers rejected the lioute
Rule Bill -that evenieg when 'the
hall, the nutirood, And the „Wind.
came to the novae of Lords„ and
ilet A few poem were unrecogmeed
by the doorlieeperen havnis pnt in
no appearance in the legislative
chandier for ye31rs-1 had an instance
of Lord 1331 3317'84 courtee,y. Sitt-
log benido me, waiting tor ealmienion
1.* the gallery, Wita 43. curate, who
eared me that he was certtan to
gain a neat. *I have au order sign -'
d by Lord Salisbury hintrett.' 204
said. 1 Velltnrial 40 afrk /tint1 Ile
1811453*' Lord Salinbury, 'Not a bit,
ever wen him, never heard him. But
I. just. wrote and ectid I lenged to
attend tide debate, and Nu sont 3843
tut order and, not only that, but he
wrote me this letter,' and Om eurnte
handed ma a letter in Lord Hallo-
hury's own writing, in which extilleit
dircctiona were given tor getting to
the iICil1,50, And thea curate was ad-
vised to be eariy in attendence.
liked Lord Stellsbuty all the better
for that courtesy to a strauger; it
VMS One more ingot -ice of tho way in
wl la the busiest men and time to
ha hind."
Upon one occasion his coachman
bad the misfortune to run over a
/Ittle boy. The Prime Minister bad
the little fellow conveyed in bis car-
riage to the hospital, and that even-
ing, 300311 433 the cares of it day of
grove respontibi ity at the Foreign
Office, made his way to the infirmary
to ask after the sufferer; and to nee
that tie lacked nothing that wealth
and kindness could furnith. UPtin
another occation the Marque:la learn-
ed that an old dependent was ill,
and went soveral times to call upon
1*1*134 laboting up three flights of
stains to Sit by the bodeitie und eitat
chew fully
TO Tun INVALID.
Lord Salisbury bad been a slave -
owner but not in the settee 4411(33311)?meant: by the term. Count Ignatielli
to prove to Lord Salisbury that
lime -dealing prevailed in the bazaars
of Constantiuople, where the pair at
the time were staying, bougbt tor
tho lang Women, with the latter'
money, a Christian white slave girl.
it is needless to add that the girl
was at once given her freedom by
Lord Sa iebury.
Lord SaIisbuey lived ouch a life
of digoified reserve that few people
imagleed what a tender heart he
possessed. When Lady Salisbury
lay deing, it was suggested at a
united Communion Service in the
Bible Christian Chapel. Sandown,
that prayer should be offered for
her renovery. Most fervent prayers
were offered that the heavily -burden-
ed Prime Minister znight not have to
bear the weight of bereavement. A
slight improvement in the lirvalid's
conditeon took place eoon after this.
A friend told Lord Salisbury of this
sympathetic zietion, and received a
reply in the Prime lelinister'e own
handwriting, acknowledging "with
sincere gratitude the emphatic ex'
preeeion of kindness and of etTective
goodwil recorded, in his sympathe-
tic letter." These words, "effective
goodwi 1," are a key to Lord Salis-
bury's belief in prayer. Mr. Irenry
Chaplin's tribute, by the way, to
the late Lady Salisbury is worth
recording here: "A braver and
nobier an'd more devoted woman I
do not think has often lived than the
wife of your Prime Minister." When
she died, Lord Salisbury, lest 0210
of the chief supports of his life, anil
when Cliteen Victoria passed away'
soon' afterWards, his aid into:dive
to remain in public life was gone.
The late Lord Salisbury's mother
had such Spartan ideasi as eo the
ananagement and dieting of children,
that it is said that the yoeng Ceeils
could have no more welcome offering
When they,visited :my of the lodges
on their estate than a thick slice oi
bread-and-butter plentifelly sprinkled
with brown sugar.
ootteetteoteeeeeeeeetiver
HIE SUNDAY S0110011
INTERNATIoNAL LESSON,
NMI'. In
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Tett of the Lesson, II. Som. tve
1-12. Golden Text,
Atn, 23X.4 la.
After the everlasting, oucortilitiene
leovenane made with David coneernina.
' lais son, who would be ierael'a hies-.
Wale, and the kiugdo131 of righteous',
nese.. as recorded in our teat leseon,
ill this book (Chapter oil). we read
ai jeayed•s great trosperity and
rigbteous reign (viii„ ,lii). Then
comes, the record of his great ein and
repentence, the sin of Amnon allolt
bis death at the Imelda of hie brother.
Absalom. after whielt Abealcart fieel,
to toe aing of eteetutr ond remained!,
Otero three years, but througra tbe',,
pleading oi the wiee woman of Te-'
Loa, employed by Joaln ho came'
back to Jersaleza and dwelt whole
years without reeoregliation to Idle3
latlaer, after which, through, Joalen
intere.eselon, the king became regime_
tiled to iti224,, SaW aim and hiestgl:
;boo (eie., on, too. Absalom sitotr
Oleo "fatter of ;peace," bet lags Om -
'duct suggests one who is of lain ea -
I tiler the devil Wolin viii., 4i), l'ino
04ing'o ltise to Abe:limn wile the leo.
'*ng hiee of a Izettrtbrolien father wel-
coming 1119, erreag son, but the ides
of AbFO10341 (li In,' ditt Itisel Itia fit-'
her) was liko Om !dee of Judas,
when lok betrayed his Master. Thi33.
in the third time in fottrteen years -
Witt wo have bail this, portion of.
is chapter assigeed as a lesson in.'
ste81 of the timeli more 33431333:111 owl
uggestive Pollioli follaileing, but we
t ate aeoed to -day tO study veree lill,
which iS seine ituprovenient.
1 The titery of Abettlout in ono of eke
oll'i* and tying and treaelzery and re -
hellion even against 11131 6333311 father,
i
FerhaPS there was no One more wiehe
ed. Ilia ii necrupulons selfeleoleing.
even at the con of his fat*' n life,
la auggeitivo of tlze devil, who
would U poesible detheene God, atiti
who will yet 3746; to do SQ CM the
age chases. Make a careful and pray-
ortid Study of the following paseageo
and ho ever on yonr guard agellast
ail such menifeatatioos. lea. alto,
1.3. 14; Dan. via, 2:5; val.. 21.12:
xiso 26; II. Thcee. ii., 41. 4; Rest
alit. 5-7; eteii.. 14; Nix,. 19. .10.
'there are many foreettallowingo on a
rmall neale--polititionii who will uot
take up a Matter without drat con -
tittering how it many affect their own
political proerett; thoeo who, for
their own ends, by good .words tout
fair soetches, deceive the lwarts 0E
the eimplo; those who under preteneeh
of worshipping Clod have Only inr
view their ca33 promotion mul pose
slaty the toteatirow of home juel ,
,pernon. Ilow despetottoly wielzed
invest have WWI die httll't of Absa-
lom, olio, with !trot -es -thin of thole.
tion to tied on his lips and Iti3i fa-
ther's blear:lug soituding in hie eats.
igots forth to carry tett hiS dollish'
designs oguirest Ids Waller. Yet
ther43 is an (Kee iacreeeing multitude
who are diroliedient to parent* and
'in opev rebellion against Cod (II.
Jim. in., 1-0). Let as truly as Inn ht
rettosied and sat on hin, throne ill
flPaCe (MX., Id) eo shall our Lord
Jesus retitrn and reign on David's`
throma and the work of righteotte-
eta; shall be peace anti the affect of
rightfousnies quietness and 1M9111.''
(two forever (Ise. ix., (2. 7; 3.tXtii,,
17). There tare away ahlthopluels
(foolish brethren, the mime signi-
fies) who etand high beano /nen
in Mat ion to the king, but
who while outwardly profeeslug :al-
legiance, are reedier on the side of
the celerity. 7.44 us turn from the
thole picture of relf ad :On. to the
faithful few who ;mid to David in
this dark Moue "fieltold thy eero
vents aro ready to do whatsoever
my lord the king ehall appoint," and
to Ittal. 'who evil!, "As the Lord -
Hotel raid as my lord the king
liven, surely in what. place my lord
the king shall be, Avhetber in death.
or life, MAUI Un -'it' tibio will thy ser-
vant be" (verses 15. 23).
mere natural sight it looked
dark for Davie, but God hail promis-
ed that the Lingdom would be estab-
lished forever anti there were somet,
who had falai in God and were also
reedy to die with David rather than
Hee with Absalom. The time was,
and in China only two years ago,
when to live meant to deny Cariet,
but many confessed Vim and died for
Rini. See in Rev. Mil, 15-17, a, 'de-
scription of comirg 'days, and see in
Rev. xiv, 9-11; XV. 2-1, the futere of
those who deny Christ in order to
live and thc future of such as die for
Ills sake, afity we have tbe spirit
of Ittaf and of Ruth and of Mishe-
(Ruth i, 16 17; II, Kings ii, 2, 4.
(3e 9), and may our determined stand
be that of .Paul in rbik, i 20; Oh,
St -10. Note David's submission and
recognition of God in this great trial
"Behold, here ain 1, let Him do to
rne 13e1101311313t11 good unto leriazi"'
(verses 25, 96). Over the same
brook Ridron (verve 233; John xviii,
1) wont tile son. of David on the
night of the agony in CethSetnane and
the betrayal by juilas Iscariot, and
'the faithfill fol Meyers were ' very fe30.
nom the same OliVet (veree 80) the
rejeeted Chriet returned to elis home
in Heaven, mad to, elm same •Olivet
will elee COree again 'to overthrow
'His enezniee and establish the preen, ,
ised kingdom with Jerusalein as a
center (Acts i, 11, 12; Zech. XiV, 4),
therefore let 118 obey Ise. lxii, 6, 7.
David's going barefoot is suggestive
of ids ackinewledgerneet that this
was all of Cod, and God must man-
age it, for it .is Iles affair. Ile
knows how to perform His every
purpose, and it becomes us to pet;
off our shoee in Pis presence, as Ile
'said to Moses and to Joshua (Ex.
II, 5; V. e5), lee have come to a
place of ginat rest:. when, With erue
humility and abeolute cenfidencee. in ."
God, , we 'can go day by day with
unshed feet, acknowledging that the
whole life and all its service, passive,,
or active, are of God; He appeintellh
finil 3)4(3)1.) ed f(w us and we have
only to waek with tTim. in it, Ore .
tile author 111i1 finiseler oil all. Con-
trast a life like this with 'the wret-
ched, life of ;iebsalorre and it Is like
ecintinsting heaven and toll,
BORROWED LICafra.
The Faj?uans 01 the Malay coast.
of New Guinea are sill in the attest
P31 1)141V3) state. •J'hey nee Wholly
ttileeiereillwaeizattpkoohnsw lot fit stitiohtt1-129,a1) onnods inaa'nk(ei
wood. They do not know holy .to
start fire, though tire iS used
among 'damn. When askPd 110SV tileY
racule a fire, they regarded it as very
anene,ing and answore'd that when
a pereon's fire went out he got sortie
of a neighbor, aud if, all the 111-ee in
the \h 13343 should go out they weeild
get it from the next village