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Showing How Christians May Wm Great
Spiritual Victories
()3ancroft according. to Act el the e'va-
Minium, at Qua lane, an the.year Ore
Thousand, Nine ennadred and Peer,
by \lie. ULt, ol Tore:etre at the
leelateament of Agrieuiture, Ottawee
A despatch from Les Angeles, Oa,
says : Rev. Frank De Vitt 'Talmage
preached from_ the folioiving text :-
Judges vii, ti. "And the number of
them that lapped, Putting their band
to their mouth, waS three hundred
miserable„ whining, grating words of
despair,
THI'd LOYAL FEW,
But I cannot close nay study of
this mighty theme of the, church es
conquering army 'without telling
you, lily people, the objeet I have in
view. First, I want to kindle th
holy zeel the scores awl hundreds
and thoesands al churches all over
the land which baVe been for years
torn and rent neumier with internal
trife Pastore • r '
also by preponderance of numbers, 8 . i Me cascouragee,
concentrated in one move, I-° Ina"' cPoeIPutunitaii; dairsec°11dtai:ceaclairageedhvieslittl
as the Bible says, e little one "be -
'On," these people say, '"we
come a thousand .and a small one a them' '
are only a little handful. We have
stroitg nation."' Coocentration ia
military parlance meaus not only
conquest, but generally the complete
nreetificatioe and disorganization of
an. opposing foeif by a sale
ate.thernatical ealenlation the mile. can do everything. God has beea
'
tai' chieftain can drive as a batter- sitting Your membership until the
Mg rani ten offensive ineu against best are left. You are now a Gide-
th eefeneive the sue- on's band. 'Clotted aid welded to -
dwindled down and down until there
is hardly any membership left. What
are eve be do?" Why; ye dithoureged
churches, by the :grace, of God ye
The story of Gideon's camPaiga is one
tongue in history, Here was a gen- cosful aatcome of the conflict, bee settler by trouble you can accomplish
&lel invader, wed. armed and equip- comes an assured fent.
eral about to march against at! Pow-
13e.fii whom he must meet with a raw THE PRAYER MEETING.
and undisciplined force, actually Midimtish hosts were
re -
clueing by a. capricious test the num- How can this great forward move-.
her of his foliowem 'Under a ewe ment of a single thurch agetinst sin is to show you that these compel--
command he dispensed with nine- be eoacentrated and conserved? ars over the- a
tenths of his men. When General I'virsta by all the church members ordinary men. 'Who were they? We
were selected at
Gideon raised his standard to repel SYerY SeYoll dive's answering etureh don't know. They'
tee invasion of the Millianites mid roll at tee midweek prayer meetiege rMidoin, Soule came perhaps from
wed/les-day night prayer meeting is , wealthy homes; some came from the
Arnalekites 32,000 volunteers: answ-
even more important than the Lord's homes of poverty. They were all se -
mid to Gideon, better quality than day r8h1P
ered the cad to arms. lent God. It is by the connaingle lected simply by the way they lap-
-
quantity„wa'
Better a few loyal and ing o'i
prayers that the spiritual, ped up the water when they drank
.
forces of a church become inflamed .of the fambits.broole. Sooelod is
devoted men to repel the invasion
wththe holy zeal and all conquer-
going to judge oer availability to
than a. great host made up of dise
gruntina and fault finding, indiffer- m -1 fug gospel enthusiasm. It
is to th4t be among his chosen •fellowers by
roll that the members of tbe church
eet recruits. Gideou, •as directed the way we are ready to do, in his
give diligent heed. Colleen -
by God, cut down the numbers of mast" name, the little things of life. Ho
belted church membership at the
that Israelitish :array. He cut them will judge whether we are fitted for
down and down and down and down midweeg prayer meeting is of over -f
membership in the' Gideonite band by
metal there were left only three hun- whelnling importance. I liner o
the way we smite a good morning;
dred men -only three small comport- what I speak. During my lilsfe. .ci have
by the way he help upon the car a
les to follow their intrepid bailer. observed the wayS of ewo an s of
poor woman with her basket; b our
But they won the victory. so it churches. In the one I have. seen a
willingness to sit by an humbleysick
may be in the great conflict between mighty gospel conquest goingon1 .
bed by the we 1 ed ' ' 7% • .
Way e. . in praeti m
good and evil in this world. Cense- month in and month. out, Why? ,
'the'lg- •
anise of trouble and b the way
crated, loyal, earnest . men are need- The people attended the midweek v.. , , 51
ed in tb,e struggle for righteousness, praeier meeting. In the other meld we forgive.
The falling away of the half bearted, of church spiritual results were never UNDER. CHRIST'S BANNER.
WI ? The people no matter
The third purpose: I would show
that these three hundred -immortal
Gideonite conquerors were all volun-
wonders. It was not by great num-
bers that Gideon won, but by the
loyalty of a few.
My second purpose in this sermon
the qua,rrelsorne, need occasion no as .
alaam. The neat is the Lord's mid haw the nester begged and Pleaded,
he can accornplish more with oeeW failed to attend the midweek prayer
• 11*- c
brave souls, inspired with the Holy meeting means a e.•
Spirit and devoted -to him, than ing church. A cburcli with an empty eteers. Christ's disciples must be vol -
with a host of nominal Christians Prayer meeting means a spiritually !unteers, not conscripts. One of the
deadchurch . Elear it ye pews I :most borribie pictures . ever painted
i ,
Hear it ! The spiriLual success of !was that by M. Clairin, called the
every church is to be decided by I"Conseeipts.- It shows an African
whether its merabers will' regulaely )scene eviler° hundreds of young men
assemble, as Wei the first church in tare nixoniele.d in chains and are being
the upper cbaraber of Jerusalem, to !forcibly compelled to enter the sul-
pray together earnestly week by • tan's army. As convicts ' they are
al army decides week for tee manifestation.
. of the hieing driven away to almost certain
disloyal to him. ancl antagonistic to
one auother. .
TUE CHURCH ARMY.
The dowel' should be a hare:acne
lonely organized army. The loyalty
with which one soldier holds toan-
to a, great extent the aggregate Holy Gime .
strength of that army. When going
tia battle it is just as important CONCENTRATE CHURCH FORCES
in
for a solmer to know that a° is must be a volunteer. Will you en -
standing ehoulder to shoulder with The concerted forward Movement of
list under Christ's banner? Will you
friends as to realize that he is stand- a church, in the next place, must be
• go forth in the name of this church,
ing face to face with attackie 'foe inanifested in the -united -ecaices or
a united band, to march against the
Civil we vetera told . tlgt tes' its raerabers lifted in songs of praise
other in the nation
death. But Christ's army, like that
of Gideou, has in it no conscripts.
The Christi= scildier of the church
Satanic 'hosts? 'Will you tro forth a
aiTection which bornd the meal of and in its gospel energy. 1, eas, ,
EJELEBRATED DIANWORIFT
MILTON'S `4COPY'' leOR
DISE LOST.
EXistence Has Long Be= Known
to Students of the Blind.
Poet.
A country wheel, bus supported for
* generation a costly commissien to
Secure for the State printed copies of
thoesands of historie inanuseripts is
not likely to let go tee original eoPY
of "Paradise Lost," and we may be
The Creevey Peelers, which all the
world has been reading of late, by
for sixty years undieeovered, and we
have hact in the lea few years a re-
inarkable example of how, even io
those days, momentous manuscripts
may lie hickleu and uesuspected be -
Yen(' the gave of man. 'The oldest
code of laws ie the world, promul-
gated by a king of Ilebylon forty-two
centuries ago, was found, thanks to
the enterprise of the Freeell Gov-
ernment, cony last year, end thaugb
this ancient manuscript is written in
etone, it is an amazing thieg that
can. now reed, in King Hammer -
sure that long before the eale an- ssvbei's own word's, 1,814i lines of the
manuscript will rest in the national he enacted for file people
nounced for next sPrieg, the Milton. statutes
ionoure than two thousand years before
treasure house, side by eide with the ist
Ejaared and Yellow e°P•Y 01 Magna 'It'ller.0 is noev in St. Petersburg the
Charta, says the London' Doily Mail.
oldest known manuscript in the New
That shrivelled parchment., the eller- Ttestament in Greek, saved from de -
is said, by the veriest chance from
ter of English freedom, was sa.ved, it
SIX.TV YEARS AGO,
s ruction by the merest chance
the sciesors of a niereiless tailor.
Crossing the hall of a convent at the
Struck by the great seals attached
to a piece of- paper the tailor was foot °I: Mount Coustanteue
elating; up, Sir Robert Cotton stop- Tischenchwf saw a basket fall 'at
parchment leaves on their way to be
Ped the man and gave him foorpence
burned. Two baskets had alreecly
for the document ee would have de -
gone, he was told. and all that he
Museum, lined and mounted, and in
stroYed. is now in the British
could seeige for himself was A small
bundle of odd leaves. But the monks
a glass case, the seal a shapeless
now interested in the "waste paper,"
mass of wa,x, and the characters
quite illegible. saved the rest from, the fire, and nine
years after, on a return visit to the
Fourpence will not buy "Paradise
convent, 'Tisclienderf found tliat the
Lost," and the passing of this in -
steward bad wrapped in a red cloth
teresting document into the posses-.
sion of the State will be a much "a bulky kind of volume," which
proved to be the whole of the New
more formal and unrorna.ntic transac-
Testament, with parts hitherto no-
tion. Is it too much to suppose that
known, and poets of the Old, which
the secretary of the Historic Maim -
had long been sought. He begged the
scripts Commission will quietly send
volume for the Czar, and to -day it
a cheque one morning to Messrs.
lies, well preserved in spite of its 1, -
Sotheby and hand the manuscript to
500 years of ago, among the treasure
Sir Edward Thompson at night?
es of the Ruseian capital.
TI -IE COMMISSION, The Stuart Papers, one of the Most
precious possessions of King Ed-
it we aro to believe an Earl, has
Ed -
done much more darieg things. The ward, were foend lying in a garret
fourth Earl of Ashburnham had to by an outiew, tip°, whose head the
great love for it. "You are here, sir. British Government bad set a price,
who bought them for a paltry sum
under false pretences," he shouted to
Sir George Dasent wben the knight, as a heap of tradesmen's bills, and
at the Earl's invitation, arrived at
Ashburnham. "I bave discovered
that you are a member, sir, of that
most. disreputable society called the
Historic Manuscripts Commission;
they are a society of ruffians, sir."
"Surely," exeraimed Sir George, "a
great many eminent persons belong
to the commission -Lord Salisbury,
for instance, is not a ruffian."
"Yes, sir; be is a ruffian, when act-
ing for that society," the angry Earl
burst out; "and you, sir, are a ruf-
fian, too -you tamper with title
deeds, sir I"
The old lady who receie-ed letters
from Carlyle would have agreed with
the fourth Earl. When Froude's
"Carlyle" anpeared she opened her
chest, filled with letters from the
great men of her day, and took out
a bundle. "They e -ere written to
inc." she burst out, as she flung them
TIIE SUNDAY S0110014
INTERNATIONAL LESSOhl,
FEB. 21.
Text of the Lesson, ivlatt. xii., 1-
13. Ceolden Text Matt
12.
Atter the healing of that paralytic,
who came down thi•ough the opening
in tbe roof, the order of events seems
to have been the call of nietehew
and the feast given by him. his
owe house, them a visit lei Jerusaie
lem and the healing and cliscouree at
ile.tnesda ,(John v). We recently
had tee record of a Sabbath day at
ClePerumma, the healing a,t Bethesda
was on a Sabbath day, and now the
cornfield incielent and the healing of .
the withered hand in to -day's, leseoe
are both Sabbath envy events. Noto
nese the healing of tile blind man in
Why all these Sabbath day doings
when they so stirred arid angered the
ojeews t?lialt4r°1tTlelizieYkifaoiri thdaeat5lalane0edrerlai."
brazen serpent welch Mosee hail
made, The ea:Wheal of Israel made
an idol of it a,ud burned iasense to
it. When tee Lord Jesus was on
Qp:rth the Sabbath day was a :Jewish -
idol, thee- worshipped it rather than
.Tebovali, and the Lord of the Sab-
bath was seeking to draw them to
Himself.
Dr. Weeton says that t.he Sabbath
was the Jewish national flag and
that by it they claimed peenii,ai,
relation to Gad as their Creator,,
Redeemer aral rest. 'They were think-
ing of their national honor of their
God and His word. 'The bone of
contention on this occasion was that
praising through cornfields on the
Sabbath 'day. His disciples had
Plucked and oaten ears of corn. The
Pherisees said it was not lawful to
do so. The Lord Jeeus justified ETh
afterward en ded a miserable li fe by iltalairelPitiPlielsestoofononDneariv.00ifudr'intgehr:Sum:Tclart°titlibliferoolsle:;x1:'
strangling hilaseif in a London tav- 'the prophets (Hos. vi, 6; Mice vi,
harmonious company of Christians, into the fire, "not to the public,"
each company together was like the very best voices trained by our•
ready to battle in Cihrist's name?
bands of unbreakable steel. if a aol- musical colleges axe never too good and when the childret ran. in to say
dier out foraging found food hidden to be ,allowed to sine in the church Will you not realize that all your that the chimney was on fire all that
past trials, whether in church or out she would say was, "Never mild,"
away in a barn or if he found a ; choir. But the cliurcIT members have
of it, have. been only a meaps Used and the papers went on burning.
deeeited pile of blankets or an extra no more riglit, in this gospel for lti
move -
Pile of dry wood to be cut into Intent, to let the choir do all the -t° fit yeti umate gospel- tri- There was aeburning of manuscripts
,. umph? 'Will you became a member much less deliberate and much more
serious in which the old lady's , core
respondent was concerned. Can we
ever forget, once we have read it,
that page in Carlyle's journal in
which the great man tells us . how,
on March 6, 1835, John Stuart Mill.
rapped at the door at teatime? .
"Ile entered pale," Carlyle wrote
next . day, "unable to speak; -ga.sped
kindling, the first ,persons he thought a singing than the pew an
of were those of his ecurgiany. There the pulpit to do all the praying.
the members shared each other's 'filethoclist pews have sung as many
303:s. They sympathized with each 'immortal souls into glory as Methoe
other in their sorrows. If one of dist pulpits have woo by preaching.
their number did wrong or got into
trouble, the different members of his
".Let everything that breathes praise
the Lord!" In every service let the
assistance. So, my friends, -the mem- old fashioned hymns be given out and
company would always come to his
hers of each separate net all the people sieg. Yea, shout
church ought to be linked together
Christian forth your gospel battle songs like
by gospel love. They shoprd try i- !the sound of many waters! Concert-
i° htration of the church forces in prayer
shield eaili other and pray for eaeh imeeting means spiritual conquest for
alb°r and care for each lather and Christ. Concentration of tbe songs
help each other': They should never .
before the world expose each other's of praise in one great congregational must be an insigninea,nt proicipalety
chorus means also spiritual conquest that has thus been ci•eated. Panama
vif for Christ. is certainly very small; yet it, • is
wealineeses • any more than a i a
ahould be willing to publish before a. i
cynical neighborbood the wea,knesses I The concerted strength in the larger than four. other =dependent
'States of the Western World, and
and shortcomings of her husband. ', church, in the neat place, should - - - ,
Church: members, in other welds, :make that church„a unit in its be- much larger than the smallest States less a manner, after or while reading
should "be kindly effectioned to one lief in the authority of God's reveal- of Europe. Of theeeniatter, Monaco it) was, except four or five' bits of
anoteer, witb brotherly love, in , ed word and also in its protest leaves, 'irrevocably annihilated!"
is itthe mostm.leaerii3 jutelet, V‘:Ittilliits
honor preferring one another." is gone!" Carlyle 'wrote again; the
!against' sin, wherever found. When eitigedl squareoirea, it mules.
itSeswne OlOsiTIO:le-,
leOT TRUE CHRISTIANS; Ithe three hundred Gideonites went postage stamps, nn troops, the late whole world and myself backed by it
most effeetive tee. numbering .11ve Officers and 70 could not bring that back, nay, the
ogle church a. harmonious gospel eforth to battle, their
old spirit, we, is fleclo,, 1 find it ecae4,
company? Oh, no,/' saet one. ."That , weapons wore a 'lighted Immo eon- men, It 'has also three towes-Con- '
Heel is not alwaYs a Possibillity. I 1 coaled within e pitcher and a trum-. daehine, with 6,218 inhabitants; five mouths' of 8t:eadfatA' aecasi°111al'''
know it is not possible for ine to ' pet in the right h.=d. 'The lamp . ly exteeeive and always. sickly. and
lif:ente, 'Carlo,' with 8,794, and Mone
painful toil." Mille he added, "very
live in sympathy and 'lore witli • ali !lighted, can be need . as the symbol. neoe. with 3,292.. The princiefalt -in-'
of Gideords band?
DIMINUTIVE REDUBLICS.
Several Countries Are Smaller
Than Panama.
Most of the independent States of
South America look small to us on out to ray wife to go down and
the map, so that when we hear of speak with Mrs, Taylor, and came
the secession of a narrow neck of
Isthmian territory from the Republic forword (led by my hands and a.ston-
of Colombia we feel sure that it ished looks), the very
PICTURE Oli DESPERATION.
"After various inarticulate a.nd ar-
ticulate utterances to merely the same
effect, he informs me that my first
volume (left out by him in too care -
ern. But for this tragedy of a Ille
tbese priceless volumes in the King's
library would doubtless have perish. -
ed unknown. More pathetic is the
story of the manuscript of one of tin
most beautiful poems in English lit-
enature. Dante Gabriel Rossetti,. on
his wife's death, placed the manu-
script of "The Blessed Demosel" in
her coffin and beried it with her. It
was his only copy, and the poem was
then imprinted. And unprinted it
would have remained had not his
friends induced the poet to regain
possession of the poem and give it
to the world. So the Blessed Damo-
sal was brought
"From the Gold Bar of Heaven."
, the members of My church. •Some tie of gpspel faithi'as eevealecl nie Cod,s* (I:vette...6e the terineepalitetaas eeerye,
Ithdrit have been 'tem meari:and haVe Werd. Thal trim:met ean:-haeu.sed nas becite keoivs, eie- the eyStematie
ate Leo many inluetices. I can the symbeliof the voice of -eoeptlion �f .'private.rovenuee., San
- truly say I do not want to harm :den ehdrch Protesting evilest a Marino, the ()iciest republic in the
them, but I certainly desire that world steeped in sin. Plenty of world, has an area of 23 square
they should leave inc entirely alone. !room in every Christian church for miles and a population of 9,537.
I certainly intend to ierive them en- all repentant sinners saved by Among the ether European countrles
lirely alone. I do not wish to keep ;Christ's blood, but no rooni for any that axe smaller than Panama are
them out of heaven, but 1 do ric't wishlitan who will not accept the sacrifice
some of them to sit, beside 1110 in a ia.1 blood of Jesus Christ and who
celestial mansion or by any onnmon i will not. protest against sit, where
earthly fireside made of brick and 1; ever found. The Christian church
etone."- My friend, ny such an a,n-
limust be a unit in its Calvary belief,
swer you are proving the 11°.'Y :and it must be a unit in its protest
Spirit's power inefficacious. "x ou. are aeainst sin.
demolletrating that you are unwill- -
ieg to beronie one of Gideon's band
and . live in faithful harmony with
the chosen three hundred. God is
willing to give you grace eriough to
love all your ferow church members
if you will only a.sk for that grace.
etes not the sure testimony been
give% "I can do rill things through
Christ Which strengtheneth mci ?"
THE artAcE OF COD.
BE BRAVE FOIL THE RIGHT.
If you do not believe that all men
may became outward cowards, read
the memoirs of one of our greatest
generals, than whoni no braver man
o'er lived. Yet he tells us that
when he went into battle tee first
time he trembled lila; an aspen leaf
shaken in the wind. Ile was so
scared that he would have turned and
You art now about to, decide your fled but for the fact that he was
whole eternal destiny. You are to afraid his regiment would run away
decide it llat by how you profess to. with' -him. Then; much to his sur -
rove God, but by how you are will- prise" wIblexaubeen
Carrie to where the
*big' o 'love 'our fellow church mern- eilomYencamped 1m feuod
hers - Are you rade, here -and now. that •tiheyitlriad been even more fright -
as Cliristian soldiers to "be ened tturn himself. During the previ-
ili.,f,icesiiiiyjuvfatlbo
tlioerrilecl too oaeanolrp
otheLf,errinu os inght, without striking a blow,
g the enemy- had turned and fled. lees,
awe ;mother ?" Do not tell 2110 that there Da eewarely streak in all
it is imposeible for you to line ei tlaTherefore; Chrititian soldiers,
CThist1an eymprithy with thewee - "
clo not go publishing around your
leaning to your same (*.bereft family,
Ile giaee oi clod it is possible, fears. Do tot criticize 3rour minister
btu:came yeti may start
Anti if Yon are not willing' to lei.
love have fothers criticizing hirO. DO riot tiiik
that thee: ea ull control of
:vow.ilIn, ti,tn igeteaii ei staying le about your anxieties lea, the church
a church and disputing and finding, audiences shnnifi ant 4°69 3b°
fault continually with the other not exaggerate the results of your
rnembete it is far hatter for you to f°°Ifsh ifflagniatiinni• lb° not, in
ineoc, that eineren and go bean tcy the other worde, give free rein to your
Wo) Id alai thereby way the gospel gospel cowaxdice. if you do you may
rowertf. as eld the 211,000 melt Wbo unkeenel and unleash the cowardly
deserted .Cideon'S standard tit the disposition in lis all. If You ever
firet opportimity the Hebrew coin- Whitt to be a blessing tie a church
mender' gave them in sheik home, , member,only sound forth the inepir-
Tee eluareli should be a barraori- ing Words of hope. God kraowe there
iously orgainzed army. It ie not are enough and tee many who are
only possible thereby to hurl a send alWaye ready t� sit itroued in the
front agabiet the Satanit foe, het dark death cornera and eroak the
Denmark (exclusive of her colonies),
Belgium, Switzerland, and the Nee ecript of "In Memoriam,' of which
therlands. she had possession ,during the poet's
iniudeoiouelie.tatityerieweithiusetall latene-
and.- reie en, el ielariseci and'pieiabile-
, Though it Is not generally known,
another manuscript as famous as
Carlyie's was at one time la peril of
a shriller fate. Lady Simeon Once
Tennyson's death has generoesly pre-
sented to his son the original mania
If we turn to the Western Herois-
sphere we find a great diversity of
areas among the countries of North,
Central and South America. First,
of course, conies the United States,
with Brazil a close encored.. The im-
xnensite- of Brazil is better appreciate
ed when we compare it with the
United States than when we regard
itgnerely as a yellow space on the
South American map. The figures of
life. :Fifty years ago the roariuscript
was *nearly lost in a London lodging,
and there is nsonstewhere an interesting
letter from Tennyson, in whicle, writ-
ing to Coventry. Patinore,. he said: -
"I went up to. mer. repro yesterday to
get. my book of Elegies; you know
what I mean; along, butcher -ledger -
like book. I was going to read catte
or two.eo* ate artist here: I could ilot
find It. I have some obscure remem-
area for all the in,dependent coun- brance of having lent it to you. If
tries of the Western Hemispeere are so, all is Well; if not. Will you go to
as followe, though it should. be un- my old chambers and institute a vig-
derstood that in. many cases they are
based, at least part, on estimate or
guesswork :--
United States -,....,... 3..146_8.84
Brazil 3,218,130
Argentina 1,01)5,013
*Merit° i--.. ... •,. - .•.... ., 167;316
Pere . ,, .,..
. 695,733
Venezuela ., 593,945
Colonabia , 473,202
Bolivia , 472,000
Chili , . . . ,... ,,, e56,860
Paraguay. , . .. 14,8,000
Ecuador , e ,, e 144,000
Uruguay , e ,,, 72,210
Viearagea , ,, , 51,160
48,290
Guatexual a .-...
If 1.3"loiLdurae „ , ,, 44-61.:268505
Pangiri 81,571
San Doiningo ., 20,596
Costa TUea . . .thoreo have lath far years and generations,
.„.
16,311rti ••••'' s204 ometimes for eehturies, out of eiglet.
Qaivador , . .
*'"" Milton's Commonplace 13eok was' lost
soma die of heart failara and aaata fuourd,, pflb11hcd Id 1874 lhtt i6f10;:alraisr;le
liettewith head fit -dere. caeca ,
WHEN LOVE WAS BLIND.
— -
Story of a Woman Whose Lost
Beauty Still Lived.
When the famous young Countess
Potocka ivas at the zenith of her
career, and half the royal and
noble dandies of- Europe at her feet,
a cloud suddenly dimmed the luster
of her fame. 0A. young Austrain, wo-
naao had appeared upon the scene,
whose beauty, it began to be whis-
pered, surpassed that of tbe Potoc-
ka. What might, have been the out-
come of a clash between two blaming
stars of their magnitude will never
be known, for scarcely had the reign-
ing beauty -learned of the, advent of
so eangerous a rival, when even she
herself shared the universal feeling
of pity and tragic interest in the.
fate whicli had overwhelmed the new
star, whoni we will call Mme.
The unhappy woman contracted
smallpox, and the dreadful disease
not ionly left her with the usual dis-
figuring marks but marked her fea-
tures so that she had become an
objeet of ghastly, almost loathsome,
appearance. She at once retired
froin society,* of thinse, and even
among her immediate relations con-
stantly wore a thick -veil, Mercifully
soaring them the torturing sympathy
which her .borrible deformity, arous-
ed. But _all this time the law of
oro•us enquiry
Two or three weeks had passed
since Tennyson changed his lodgings
in Hampstead Road, ,end the land-
lady said no such bpok had been left.
But Patreorei insieting on looking
hineself• found thegruieezeript in a
cupboard where Tennyson had
KEPT 1115 PROVISIONS.
Once before Tennyson had lost a
manuscript, which he never recover-
ed. He lost the first manuscript of
"Poems, Chiefly Lyrical," out of his
great -coat pocket one night While re-
turning home from a, neighborifig
toven, and sat cloven With a Courage
worthy of Carlyle arid rewrote the
poems froin begihning to end.
Examples alriloSt without number
corne to Mind of incieuscripts which
been lost to the world, 00 it narroW-
ly eseitped being hrieked up with the
liTOthieg fears it man like being come Bridgewater rapers, Which had all
perished, when found.
to love by centratt.
8) and leis own authority es Son
of Man.
Professieg to honor the Sabbath,
they had no Sabbath stillness in
their souls, but full of evil purposea.
they go their own ways, find their
own 'desires and speak words out or
their own hearts. Contrast Ise, lviii.
13. They did not understand the -
significance of either the Sabbath or
sacrifice; hence our Lord saidoe"Ge
ye and learn what that meaueth, I
will ba.ve mercy and not sacrifice"
(compare verse 7 and thapter ix. 18)
The 'design of both Sabba.th and me --
ranee is not. that men should do or
bring something meritorious to God'
to win His favor, but that God
might show favor and blessing to
is. God desires to give to us as:
sinners His mercy and compassion.
The very first saotifice on record
(Gen. ill, 21) sets forth God giving
to helpless sinners redemption cloth-
ing; they having nothing 'to bring
Him but their naked, sinful, help-
less selves. The first Sabbath seta
before its man., in the image of Cod,
resting in and enjoying the works.
of Gocl, with which he had nothing yr
whatever to do but to accept and 1111
gratefully enjoy. These Pharisees
were supposed to be well versed in
the Scriptures, but our Lord hail to
that same still, for mere religious-
ness is always ignorant of the Scrip-
isiimaiyiv.ees.y.toe not road?
?IlIalveyee-ehaancetkureualiwun:
(verses 8., 5, 7). And He is sayinge
The second incident of our lesson is
the healing of a man with a withein-d;
hand in a synagogue, the scribes and
Pharisees watclaing llirn that they'
might accuse Him. He referred thenel
to the law which taught that they.
Were to help creatures not their own
if they saw them in trouble (Dent.
xxii., 4). Be also remirided them,
that a man was better thine' a sheep
and assured them that it web lawful
to do well on the- Sabbath day, He
.
being Lord even of the Sabbath day
(verses ,12, 8). • 'Tenn He. beak:ell
the man, arid the Plictrisees became so
uciefniptella:atieloutwtiesast WrOorrtkliallptc. eZII,V.i.o0bIleg,tlieft:ahietdnidectisbita:Qaygtaiiirsirwt,
-t1eise 1l) he l
importance of the -mite -was very, wig -
des -dye of theeepirituid000nditioo of
the nation, but he leneiatbis
tion and they did not. They were
blind and
On losing her beauty and becoming leurcuollseaand lti
and
thuunelandgifttpalsie
that no'
a repulsive object, Mme. X. wrote to thing ailed them, but that, on the
her flariet releasing him, and she was contrary, they were the only righte-
ous nation on earth. They. were re-
ally as helpless as this helpless man,
and the Lord was as ready to help
them 0.2 him, but they would take
nothing from such 0.0 they considered
Himto be, and why should -they, for
ft-amid:en hiry
etoi Jost, preen 'to lice.
ifiriess sire fooirir6c6.toki
,
elent paseebo expreseed for her by
'dashing young eaveleir officer, and a.
betrothal had been announced on
the eve of his doped:tire to the wars.
trying to learn how to bear this
added grief when one day as she sat
in licr boudoir unveiled, she heard
the young officer's voice denaanding
to be admitted at once
Rushing to the 'door to prevent
hini entering, she leaned against it,'
crying out, "For God's sake, don't lin their own esthilation they had
come in-Ien-O, have they not told everything and needed nothing. Rev.
you ?-I am a wreck -it will be Im-
possible for you to see nie."
"True," replidd her lover With a
merry laugh as he pushed "open the
door and entered. "It will be im-
possible for me to see yoli-for 1 arn
totally blind 1."
Hca had had his eyes blown out by
an exploding shell, an'd thus it came
to pass that to tbe one, of all can
earth, to whom she cared to be
beautiful she would forever seem as
the ill wind bring such a dramatic
compeneation in its track.
POOR PEN'S SARCASM.
Penhecker was, in vulgar parlia.nce,
"catching it hot" *yew his better
half, for he had stayed an hour
later than usual at hie club -an ea-
petelonable offence in Mrs,' P.'s eyes,
That enerigetie lady, havieg vituper-
ated her spense in the hall as he took
off his great -coat, at last etopped foe
breath. It was then that poor Pen
tried the elleet of, sarcasm.
"To you l.'noW the difference, my
dCar," he said, coolly, "between
your mouth and that street door'?"
"Difference between -No," said Mrs,
P., taken oft her guard.
'Well, if yell can't tell the (Effete
ence, vat might shut one or other of
'tan, and let the neighbor's find out
Whteli ig which.''
Tire, P. did Oat "cahe ofeieee,"-
had it %vas reit the feebler..
iii., 17, describes them, as et also
does inultitudes to -den.
In reference to His saying about
0 sheep some one has well said that
He did not say "000 a sheep," but
"have a sheep" The point is that
of ownership. He owned them, they
were Ills sheep, at, least professedly,
and Re owned'. the Salffiath day,
whieh He had given to man for
man's benefit, but while He could
control it and gaynspecial blessing
in it they woold hot let Ilim control
them, They persisted in going*astrea
Isa liL, 6). '
1'1ier deternilbation 'to kill Id 101
expiable smile changes hi Hie teach-
ing, or, rather, His manner of teach-
ing,. front, this thee on. Ile will not
yet break theite breisecl reeds • but
a, time will cone (verse e()). lIence
Wheal Ile taught the nualtitude oelY
in parables, that seeing; they Might
not see and hearing they might not
understaed (Luke vih., 10; Matt,
xiii., 18, 14). They had blasphemed
one who was greater tbao -.Innate
greater than Solomon, greater than
the temple and the people of 'Nineveh
and the qtaeen of Sheba Would rise
up ,egainst them in judgment and
condone them (Verses 6, 31, 02, 80,
42). Thet bad violently tented
against „Him and Ills kiegilem, and
now their hoese ig to be desolate till
Ue shall thine again (IVItiet; xxiii., 8d-
89).