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Rev, Frank De Witt Talmage
Simple Christian. Story,
-*Entered according to act of the ,no '
Ilsnsent of Canada, he the year One
Thousand Nine 1iundred and Three.
l�ry W)r. BailY, of 'Toronto, et thh
rtment of Agriculture, Ottawa.*
A despatch 'from Chicago says:
e la .. ), ,' ev. Frank De Witt Talmage , Ottawa.*
Ani, the following text: I11at
7 ,"J3oieold, there cause wise
mem frinie the east!"
When,',in' 596 A. D., St. Augustine
was sent to convert the British isles
to Christianity, Pope Gregory com-
manded his missionary as far as pos-
sible to 'harmonize the Christian or-
dinances with the Heathen feasts,-
the result is that many of the cus-
toms associated with Christmas have
their origin not in the .birth, of
Christ, but in heathen festivities. It
is my purpose to -day to tell the sine-
, pie Christian story, as found in the
Bible, and to apply souse of its bene—
ficent teachings to the practicalities.
of every =day life.
The account of Christ's birth is
not only .simply told, but very brief-
ly told. Some of us are apt to
think to briefly. We would like to
have known all the details of ' that
wondrous event which is destined' to,
transform the world. We deplore the
loss of any fact relating to our
Lord. But the historians would .not
have us concern ourselves with the
accessories of the picture, but with
that glorious life and death in which
dour eternal destiny is bound up.
they briefly state the main -facts and
proceed to the narrative' so momen-
tous to the whole world.
THE MAGI DEFINED.
Then this simple account of the na-
tivity goes a step further. The
birth of Christ is connected with a
startling < incident. The name of
Peregrine White is never mentioned,
but the explanatory statement is
also made, that "she was born on
the Mayflowerwhen. the pilgriie fa-
thers were on their journey to live
in a new world." Christ's birth is
hardly ever mentioned without an
associate statement. When Jesus
was born that, was the year the wise
men came from' the east, saying,
'Whereas he that is born 'King of
the Jews, for we have seen his star
in the east and are come to worship
.him," The magi have been the.
theme for , many an artist's brush,.
poet's song, as well as minister's
sermon. If in the short account of
the nativity it was important enough
to note the visit of these wise men,
surely it will not be ..wasted time for
us in a Christmas discourse to con
-
sake, der. who were the wise inen, :from.
whence they came, what they did
when they knelt and worshipped at
the manger, where they went after
they had' seen the newborn Christ.
Who were the magi? They were
the wise men. They were not fools,
not ignoramuses, not silly star gaz-
ers. They were not tramps going
from place to place because they were
too .,lazy to work. They were the
intellectual giants of the east. They
were such intellectual giants . that
when they appeared in Jerusalem
they startled all the sages of the,
I•terodian era with their grasp of af-
fairs and mental power. They be-
longed to a class that was the re-
pository of all thescientific know-
ledge of the time. They were the
observers of natural phenomena, the
philosophers of their day, the lead-
ers in the world of mind. When
Matthew . described them as wise
men" he knew that the description
would be clearly understood as ap-
plying to men whose erudition 'and
mental ability, placed thein among
the aristocracy of knowledge.
FOLLOWED TIIE STAR.
Wbere did the wise men come
frem? The far east? The Word
"east" is very indefinite. It, might
mean easlern Asia or China. It
might and proliabl3r does mean Per-
sia or India. At all events, the east
was far on. lt was so far off that
these Strange travelers must have
startled the iahabitants of the west-
ern capital with their peculiar garb
and their foreign accent. It was so
far off that in all probability the
wise men would have been unable to
find the Jerusalem capital had they
not beeia led by that wonderful star,
the star of the east. Ah, yes, the
magi, in order to lind the manger,
had many a weary day's march.
Traveling in their time had to be
'done on foot or on horse ,er camel
beck, They had to tramp through
the paeched deserts. They had to
climb the loftiest of mountains and
fathom -many a deep valley. now
tired they must have become! If
Melchior was old in all probability
he weuld never have reached the
manger but for the strong arms of
his tOto friends. But wherever the
three wise men hailed from, that
glowed:ate star would beckon them on
And, yet, any friends, though the
whie Irani had to travel a Tong, dis-
tance, they did not have to go any
farther than some sinners would bane
to travel to find Christ. My, my,
my, how long a distance some of us
have wandered forth into the land
of sinl Ten, twenty, thirty yeare
ago we started. Voting man, you
have not worehipped at the manger
since peer mother died. 'Young wo-
Man, you have isot felt the touch of
the manger since the day yen al-
most gave your heart to Christ in
the village rovival—ahnoet, but' re -
&see. via man, fair a quarter of a
century ybu hen° never uttered the
name of Christ exeept blaspheleiy.
Yes, yes, the eitther will have a leng
klietance to travel to find the mang-
er, He must trawl hack over the
crooked paths of Melly a sinful year,
But Ibis Christmas, if he Will, he
Can :Ind the manger -ailed it beckon -
Tells a
ing him. from the far country of sin
even as the star in the east guided
the three wise men to the infant
Christ.
A HOPED FOR EMIGRA'110N.
Oh, that to -clay we might see a
great einigeation from the far off land
of sin toward the manger. Oh, that
to-daY- the prodigals in the far coura
try might seek the old hointistead of
mercy:, even as the Bethlehera care-
nanSary was sought of old. In im-
agination we can picture how the
wise men started. Perliapi weeks,
perhaps months before that first of
all' Christraasee these orteutal sages
were working diligently at their al-
loted tasks. One is studying in one
part of the housen another in an-
other and the third in still another.
Perhapa Melchior, the aged astro-
loger, , with an astronomical glass
is silently and earnestly studying
the heavens, Patiently the aged
scientist is watching and waiting
for the stars to change their re-
lative positions. Suddenly a tre-
mor of excitement sbakes his frame.
swiftlye awfully, divinely,
thieve pasees before the Ions a strange
light. lt does not look so much like
a star as a great orb of light, like a
diamond glittaing upon the finger
of God, beckoning, always beckoning.
In great excitement the old man
staggers to his feet and calls his
two comiades. Caspar, the smooth
faced sage, rushes ouickly into the
room because he is younger than the
swarthy iniddle aged Moor. At first
the three say nothing. They are too
absorbed to speak. Then Balthazar
opens a musty parchment written
hundreds of years befoie, and begins
to read from the Hebrew prophet
Micah : "But thou Bethlehem Ephre.-
tah, though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me that is
to be ruler in. Israel; whose goings
forth have been from of old, from
everlasting." "Yos," answered the
old man Melchior, "that reminds me
of another passage from the I-Tebrew
prophet Isaiah : 'Unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given, and the
government shall be upon his should-
er, and his 'name shall be called
Wonderful, Couneelor, the Mighty
God, the Everlasting Father, the
Prince of peace." "Yes," may &axe
answered the poetic young sage, Cas-
par, "that reminds me of what the
Hebrew psalmist wrote, 'Thou art
nr,sr son, lo, I come; in the volume it
is written of me.' " "Come, com-
rades, they shoat to each other.
"Come, the star is beckoning us.
Conie ! Come !" And they leave their
instruments and their manuscripts
and set out on their journey. Would
that before the dawn of next Chriat-
Inas many eanles from Christ might
start and take this journey nrith
the wise men ! Would that all who
are lost in the mountains of sin
might leave 'behind. their dead selves
and seek the manger, which is afar
off in the land!, of purity and love.
THE CHRISTIAN'S MISSION'.
Where did the wise men go after
they had Seen the iefant Christ and
rendered their homage at the man-
ger ? Why, the Bible tells us ex-
plicitly they went back, home. God
spohe to them, as be has spoken to
the hearts of many who have bowed
at the manger, and they went back
to their own country. History is
silent about their later lives, but we
cannot think that they would ever the explosion that would mean a
forget that steange experience. No horrible catastrophe. .Sarange to re -
man comes in contact with Christ late, not a man of all those grouped
without results. They probably about had gone forward to the res -
thought of him as a world conqueror cue. Teey stood there watching at a
and bade their disciples expect to safe distance.
hear of his victories. Little could Sudhenly at the dooinvay appeared
they have imagined the extent of his one of the women again. She rolled'
empire or understand how, throUgh 'out one of the mall tin kegs or
the cross, he eibulthattain his crown. canisters of powder. Another follow-
, enhat is the simple deduction of ed, and th'en a third. Before we had
this thought.nand lesson ? Is it not reached the bottom of the lill they
this : .Aftdr you ancl-I have wor- Aad rescued every pound of it; and
shipped at the manger, in the fuller wr,Cen at last ' sonic men approached
light of our later day, then. ' to help ---even the sins of the win -
should everywhere, but first gemeing dows of the house were on fire—one
our own' people, tell the -news, ehe of the women stood thorn pouring
glorious news, tbat Jesue, the sttn water from a dish -pan on the heat -
of God, has been born. We must tell blistered tins et giant powder. Even
to . our brothers and- sisters. We Placed my hand on one,I found it
that space of time, when I
it to our children. We must tell it after
must tell it to our parents and to still hot to the "touch. The hands
all 'our friends and neighbors. hBe- and hair and clothing of all three
hold Jesus has bee!". bore ! Jesus, women had -been. singed and burned. •
our Saviour has been born 1 Ile -
lives He lives ! Jesus, the Son of
Mary, lives ! Jesus, the Son of
MIX -IIP OF NEW YORK.
HOW ARTABAN FOtTNIf CHRIST. A. New York man was entertaining
his friend from Wales at the Lawyers
The xlex•t scene in the story of "The Club the other day. Tho guest asaed
Other Wise Man" is found , the about the foreign population of the
village • of Bethlehem. Jesus had city. -
been born, and the title° magi had "They are all -here," said the :NOW••
disappeared. 4s Artaban entered the, tem -ker. •"My grocer conies from
village he heard the tramp of bloody Holland, my baecher is a native of
Herod's troops, who had come " to Brazil, int- druggist hails from
ma.ssacre all the male children in nIstiee, nix rewrman is a Bohemian,
Judea, with the hope Of slaying the my haberdasher is from London, my
infant Christ. A poer -woman rushes chef is a Gorman, my valet is a Jap,
out. tleading for the rescue of her my domestics are Irish and Swedish,
clald, The yOung mother'e face, my coaehrrian is a Cuban (the only
grew white with terror at the cry: one I ever knew in that business
"The i3OldierS The soldi•ers of 1 -Ter- here). • my barber is from Trieste.
od Tbey are owl' children!" The other day.I had occasion to call
'When a eaptain of Herod's troope a doctor for the first time in ten
wanted to enter this woman's house years—one of my helpers was sick,
tee slay her child 'Attaban stood in and siunmoned the nearest doctor
the doorway and °Meted to the mine e, knetv of. In my talk with Min I
deroue soldier his second gem, tho found that he was from Persia. Not
beautiful ruby, if Le would save the far from iny place lives an ender -
child: Now two-thirds 6f Artaban's taker, who, I expect, will tale) my
fortiMe was gono, , and had measure one of these days—he is
not found Christ. Seotchman. Last, but not least,
Then Artaban started. on a journey
to Eg-ypt tti find jesus. Ile hunted
tor aim everywhere until he was a
very old man. One (lay, in ins Wane
derings to find the Saviour, he head-
ed baok to the city oS Jeitsalem,
capital of David WnS in gi eat
exciteineet. There wae to be a pub-
Oner, Jesus by name. AS Artabeel
entered the (-Hy o saw a young gill
in great distress,' She was to be ktioW. '
sold es a Slave for debt. She br
loose from her eaptors and Ili
herself at his feet, begging for dei
the beautifel pearl, for her res'
And now all his•money ivas g,
1 -Te wae now old man, and S
he had not found Christ. et
Just then the darkness Qf crueitk:S
ion began to gather around the cro
and`to settle over the temple,
the awful earthquake came, he
tile slipped from one of the hou
roof 'and fell upon the 'Old Wan'
heal, But as he was dying
strange spirit appeared before Art
ban and practically said : 'IThou,
eoble man, thou hest seen me P
these yews. Verily I say unto tb
one of the least of these my bre ren
thou haat done it unto
If the Christian living to ytcan-
not belong to the first groap that
started for the numgen if lie cannot
be Melchior, Caspar or Balthazar,
perhaps he may belong to the second
caravan. He may be Artaban. ,Hei
!tips will generally break the habit
may be the "fourth man." He may
his Christ
He of biting the nails,
According to a glove expert, the
may be the "other wise man-"
soon—aye, very soon --see ideal.' size of a lady's hadd is that
tiler Christmas day fit -
ba. which a six and a quarter glove will
face to face. He may see hira
fore even ano
rolls around. Ile may see hien to The hands can' be cleansed better
part from him again never through with warm. water than with cold,
all eternity. but they should always be rineed
terwards with cold water, as this
ICold rain water and soup will re -
move machine grease Won). weeliable
fabrics. .
A room in which soiled clothes or
shoes become mouldY is too damp
for health.
Nervous people sliduld take light
exercises, increasing thane daily as
strength is gained.
Bitter aloes rubbed on the finger
keeps them in a better condition.
THE BRAVEST DEED. Celery should be allowed to lie M
cold water to which a little salt
Women Carried Powder From has been 2:dded, for an hour before
Burning House, it is required for the table. This
will make it very crisp.
Mr. James Barnes, the war corresa
pondent, a man who has seen many In making turkey toast chop cold
battlehlelds and other scenes of turkey fine, Put into a saucepan;
danger and dining, tells in V. C. of season with pepper, salt and inust-
what he deems the bravest deed he ard, add a little piece of butter, a.
ever saw. The bravery was. the little milk and just water enough to
bravery of women, wheel, me, saw cover the meat. Sinuner fifteen min -
but did,' not share. It was in ICan- utes and serve on buttered toast.
saS, on the line of a newly construct- All mothers should see that their
ed railroad, The wife of one of the daughters are trained to do some -
contractors coolcett for fifty men in a thing of marketable value, for if a
little house of sod and timber over- girl does not marry she ought to be
looking the railroad embankment. In able to earn her own living. As it
a shack against the side of the house is they are often not even trained for
thirty or forty kegs of giant powder marriage.
had been temp•orarily stored. Two 13ring children up, to sleep in the
or three men wore down _with fever. dark, as it is much better for their
taten them tei the house on tile em-
end the boarding-house keePer had eyes, the darkness being an entire
rest. Dark green or blue curtains
banament. are the best for bedrooms and thty
Mr. Barnes had been out driving • ' •
should bo drawn aeross the window
with the contractor. As tbe3r as- to prevent the elare of mornin ht
the settlement they looked back and Hot milk is the newest panacea for
saw the corral afire. lt was full of
all complexion ills, If the face be
dry oat straw, and the flames were wrinkled, sallow, or otherwise ni-
sweeping toward the sod house. Ricted, hot milk, says the enthusiast
"The powder !" cried the con -
over this new remedy, will produce
tractor. "There's enough to blow
tlae hill to stuithereens !" . a cure. Converts declare that the
Another instant we were tearing face after being washed with milk at
back, for all the world like an en- night feels wonderfully refreshed,
gine going to the fire. while the skin soon becomes very
As we neared the scene we could white and soft.
see the meh running toward the build An immense number of people sleep
ing, that had now caught fire on the on the left side, and this is a com-
side nearest -the burning steaks. mon. cause of the unpleasant taste in
But no one came farther than the the mouth in the morning`, which is
spring. in tbe little hollow at the generally attributed to dyspepsia. If
bottom of the hill. Evidently the a meal has been taken within two
news of the powder being there had or three hours of going to bed, to
become known. 13ut suddenly, as sleep on the left side is to give the
we watched, while our horsee tore stomach ,a task which is difficult in
over the rough and. heavy ground, we
e the extreme to perform.
saw two women running up theetall- It as straage but true that babies
are frequently run dawn through
side toward the building. They were
the contractor's wife and sister -in- over -entertainment. But it is a well -
law. All at once we saw a third knowa fact that babies of the -very
figure appear in the doorway of, the l
poor are ess nervous than those of
house, over which the smoke was
the wealthy, and this is largely fiuo
pouring. It was another woman, to the fact that their mothers aro
and she was helping a man, who
oo busy to constautly entertain
was evidently almost too weak to
them. The children are left more
walk. Before the leader of the two
women who were runuing up the hill alone. They are not worried by
got near her she had appeared with over -attention.
another man, wrapped like an Indian Many householders allow a thick,
in a blanket, and both men staeted greaSY. black coating to grow on the
down the hill; but the women did outside of saucepans and iron ket-
not stop. Without hesitation all ties.- ,They are scrupulously clean
three turned back into the house. about the inside, but let the outside
The house was plain in sight when go, thinicing it does not matter
we reached the top of the bank. much. -But this is bad houselceeping,
Every minute We expected to hear and if proper care is taken from the
first it will not be more difficult to
keep the outside clean than the ia-
side, only a cloth meet be kept speci-
ally for the purpose.
Woinen, says an authority, are
much mistaken in thinking that high
heels make the.foot look smaller. AS
matter ef fact, they naa.ke it look
far larger, as it is compressed- into
any ugly -fat mass that swells nut
over the toP of the shoe in anything
but a -graceful manner. To put the
foOt in a tight -fitting shoe of -the
size that properly belongs to it and
wear low heels is the best way to
preserde the foot in perfect health.
Here is a coating for damp walls.
Make a varnish of a quarter of
pound of shellac, miiced with a quart
of naphtha. Brush this „over the
damei spots, and when it dries the
coa.tinge will be impervious to damp
and the wallpaper tnay be hung in
the usual Mennen':
To break glass don't take a ham-
mer or throw it upon the ground,
that is to say, if it needs to be lirok-
en in any required form. Preferably
make a small notch by means of a
filo on the edge of the piece of glass.
Then heat a thin rod of iron rod hot,
apply, it to the -notch in the glass in
any desireci direction or shape. A
peat crach will mark the course of
'the hot iron and there the glass can
be safely servered.
Shininess or spots upon black
satin garments may he made less
conspiehous, if not altogether un-
noticeable, by sponging the right side
of the material with equal quanti-
ties of spirite of wine and warm wa-
ter rniXed. roltow the thread of the
material and never work across it or
new:ledge While still damp, iron on
the wrong side.
The ivory of piano keys turns yel-
low by exposure, but inav be whiten -
Otn
entitle ye
cut out le
an opening g
party or some euelt subjeet.
trifles help to inahe a room
CONCERNING WEIGHT.
Every housekeeper should possess
a set of measures and weights and
scales, and thus be prepared to check
the quantities of goods sent by her
dealer, who is as liable to realm
errors in weighing as in eastieg bis
bills. Many heads of families are
exceedingly particular about the
price of their pin -chases, but utterly
regardless whether or -not they have
the amount paid, for,
PAY TO BE LEFT ALONE
PRIVILEGE WHICH IS HIGHLY
VALUED BY SONE.
Some Strange Precautions Taken
By Men From Various
Not many people would pay $1,500
a year for the ,privilege of never see-
ing. a human being. But this is what
John Farm, a notorious hermit,
who resides on the coast of Suther-
lead, Scot.land, does. He is perfect- The Ming of the jows had come to
ing- an invention. enact' he firmly be -1 bring the kingdom to Israel, but,
heves will brina him, undying fame, bemuse they would not have either ;
though what thO nature of his dis- Hie herald or Himself He totre tilnIn
covery is no one knows. that the kingdom would riot corn ''
His house is entered by climbing till Illis return, and that Elijah
up a steircase to the second floor, would then be His herald (Lene.aa
and at the foot a retainer is always111, 12 : Matt. xedi, 11, 12t. Who
on , duty to heap away etrangers,1John the Baptist in the spirit and
while seventeen other servants are 1 Power of :Elijah was to His , first ' egeee,
stthilarly employed all the year roundlcoming, Elijah Mine -elf shall, be ta
Hie second coming. By preaphing
repentance mid reaassion of sans in ,
His name among -all, nations' all be-
lievers are now to. prepare the' way '
for His retunn, that the kingdom
may come (Luke xxiv, 46-481 Acta
ooned kingdom is to nether fiationeinneash
nations a people for 'His name, the
chunch, Ilia body, and thee He will
return (Ants xve 14-17).
John w.as not of this world, either
as to food or raiment : Ms was rie
earthly royalty. Contrast what 13
said of the scribes. in Madk lin 88,
89. He had no worldly ambition, na
Self scan:nig, no 'desire to draw man ..'
to himself, no einvY when men for,
lowed. Josue; but he gladly SMit',...
that he was the friend of the Bridge -
groom who rejoiced greatly because
of the 13ridgegroom's voice, and de-
lig,hted to decrease as Ho increased
Many from jerusalem and judaeg
and the region where Joha was bap.
tized were led to confess their sim
and receive baptism •at Johanaa
hands, but ,among the many thhc
came there were some whom Johe
trial to his fellow -mortals to look I felt led to address as a generation
of vipers, the seed of the serpent,
world.
upon him, so he laid out his fortune
in cutting himself off from theiOur Lord also called them 'sthhaientseh , ,,,,
the first, thing he did was to lelihn33),
and yet they were the most
chase a large area of land, In the I religious people of their day. lint
it was all outward, to be seen 01
boasted that Abraham, was then
rangle in the centre. Then, although. father (verse 9; John viii., 83), but
of keepers tolJohn tad them that they mast
he had a Small army
guard him from the curiositer of
strangers, he bought up, a. neighbor-
ing village consisting of sixty-ttoo
houses and raized it to the.ground to
still further insure his solitude. From
that time fortvard until the day of
his death he never again set , eyes
on a human ,being, all his. food being
delivered to' him through a trap-door
built in the side of the house for
the purpose,
Saurian the eminent French novel-
ist also laid out a large sum of
ti
of him
oriAth *in the
the way of the Lon
Glad!" but the L
aeht said also,
messenger and lie
ivay before Me"
iii, 2).
Out T..,ord Jesus
"Among those that are
Men thieve is not a gr°f"
seven inx".ntia-ond in Script
named before their birth, he
ap in the desert till the day of his,
Showeng unto Israel, aad at the ap-
POinted time he came forth by the
2). When the priests and Levites
sent by the Jowls asked him : "Who,
art thou ? What, sayesit, talon -61
thyself ?" he realied that he was the
voice of oae chying in the wilder-
ness, foretold by Isaiah (John 1.
194:3). His groat cry was like that
of oar Lord Himself. "Repent, fox
the kingdom of heaven is at hand"
("wawa 2 and chapter iv, 17). Set
alsso the preaching of the twelve and
the seventy in Ma.et. x, 7: Luke xt
in the various parts of the grounds.
Many will remember the case of
Dr. Borthwick, the wealthy 1, hermit
of Atherlpy Edge, England. He
owned a fortune of $500,000 in all,
but some time before his death he
pm -chased $140;000 worth of jewels
and tapestries from London mer-
chants, and then -threw the whole
into the sea off the coast of Angles -
ley. Withithe $60,000 remaining he
built himself a house, sheltered by a
high. wall so that no one could over-
look hixn, and then engaged six.
watchmen at handsome salaries to
keep the inquisitive at a distance.
After paying severe:I hundreds a year
for the privilege of being lonely he
died seven years ago, and left , the
balance of his fortune to his two
nephews.
JOSIAH WAS ALTRUISTIC.
Probably no man ever went -to
more trouble and expense to be lone-
ly than did Josiah West, retired
woollen manufacturer, who resided
in the Midlands. Being an extremely
ugly man, he became impressed with
the idea late in. life that it was a
middle of which he built hiLeself a
house ,in the shape of a square, with
all -the windows facing on to a qua.d-
prove it by thew conduct, and out
Lord said the same, but, also told
them that they ,were of their father
There ie no salvation in any niers
say so, or word of month, for al-
though it is gloriously true that
we are saved by faitli and not by
works, eternal life being the free
gift of God, yet it is with the heart
and not the mouth that 'we believe,
and where there is real faith there
will be a life corresponding (Rom
of both sexes, and -declared that he'
loLemlyannboeililiagds
Our Lord also speaks of the hero -
est and the .fire at the end .of the
age for ,,enere professors, the tares ,
among • the wheat or the bad fish `
could not work with anyone m the
same house as himself. Eventually
he spent $90,000 in buildhig a room
beneath the lake in his grounds, gathered in the net (M'att. xiii., 37 -
which was approached by a subter- 1 42,
a' Plates and searching to hear Him who Ina
47-50). How awfully solemn
:11V -room that love itself using such words and de -
that He will have to say to
be wrote several of his 'finest novels, raring
of some in that day, "Depart from Me.
ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
human voice. pared for the devil and his ar
SECRET WAS LOST.
(Matt. xxv,,, 41). If eaqueachtie
fire the lake which •1;exneth witt
fire and brimstone, tormented with -
the' world losing one of the greatest
fire aad brimstone (Rev, xxi., 8; xiv.,
inventions of modern time's—namely,
yeer a ago Dr. Herbert Franklin of .
tchhaitcagoe: wcealsor spulicocetossgituniphiy'n. ta,:ivrige
ety is so unutterably awful that lan-
guage Cannot deseribe it. It must
several excellent photographs in col -
be a fearful thing to perish, else
or on plates of his own preparation
God would. not have sent His sou to
and his discovery was considered by'
suffer as I -Te dici in our stead that
scientifie Colleges of Chicago and
Washington to be ef a vexy Taituttile We might not perish, We may well
be thankful that the. lake of fire wak.
'nature. In order to keep himself se-
cure against spies he decided to work
in secret, and for this Tempest; spent Clecl is not Willing that ally should
$12,000 on a laboratory without Nrcts'll (1- Pot. iiie 9); but thoSo
tvho prefer the devil to God must be
Windows and fitted with intricate and
the keys with solution of soda, talx.- costly locks. Beyond this, again, cant°111.. to share his doom (nev.
ed if carefully treated, First waeh
VMS a high wall guarded by keepers; XX"' 10). .
Let Us be sure that we have truly
ing heed that no uirdSturo fulls be= in fact, his gleclution coet him an
my partner in bugenees is a Cava- the ivoty with a eau -lion of one part enormous sum. For six Months he rStlaiVed ths
worked without setting oyes on e, xiere, and then ,vielcl to ram to be
filled with His Spirit day by clay.
onlY Saviour of site,
tw?en the keys. When Washed, eover
dian. It all ;lint hapeena so; of o1 nark meld to eleveo mete of was Thaana beiog; then one day came the
that, like John 'we may truly honor
course, and I really had not thought ten thicaterdna it to a Pustuliho eon-. (news that he had been asphyxiated.
question, , Eis plates had necessitated his using and nbagnifY Iiim whose simeS von
of it at all hotil you asked the mistency by adding powelered whiten-
I,eave this paste. an for one
any and beugh off the meet; trying
to reavent the poWder finding ingress
between the 'keys,
eharceal 'fire, and, hitting omitted ar.° not worthy ft.', bear, and
itesot with fire Mine US and rinickeit
• to Mien the ventilators, the
Whittiside--''Why do you altetene
put 'dictated' at the top of your
lettere'? I See you hit.ve 00 Short -
I'm rather poor speller, you
s.
Was that he perished and carried las
seerat to the grave with him.
The King al Italy pogneeses 200
Sometimes one has Very prettily herSeS, which aro valued at end for any use made ty t;.
decorated ettlentlare Which it Weevil a, 000,000. help bring IIis hingdoeul
Us nod cauee the water of His word
to boil in us to Make ,His name
110W WO will praise Trim in that day
for "all the pains Ile took with