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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1904-6-9, Page 3PASSION FOR TIE SONE God Has Stretched Out His Hand to Rescue Him From His Ruin Mitered eccereing te act of the were 110-MOILt iGaneera, in the 31011.1" 0114 ThOUSahd N Ina ilunered arta Pour: by Wm. Barre; or Toronto, it tee tar:omelet el agriculture, Ottaira g A cleSpatcli from Los Angelee, • says: Rev. 'Frank Witt Talmage eireached from the following text; jos/ma vile 25, "And all Israel eterred him with stoma." Few people Have an3r adequate con- ception of the wealth and the luxury of *the ancient. Peoples of the east. Ever and anon in our own daLy neWSpapers contain accounts or the foolish extravagances of the scions of wealthy falxLilies,. who show even • renter genius in their. ability to dis- sipate and scatter their cumulous fortunes than their ancestors 'did in the accumulation of their wealth. By froguent repetiti011 SO prosaic and • coaun.oaplaxe have these accoonte be- come that spectal trains, private yetchlsoaud banquets coetieg ten and evcn. twenty thousand -dollars fate a few selected friends attract the read- ersof the many newspapers hardly more than a passing notice. -13ut ev- en the wildest extravagances of mod- ern times cannot equal those of the ancients. Then not only did Stricea a.nd his friends move around their palaces in slimiers of goid, but when out riding they bestrode 'horses shod with silver, If perchance one of - then silver shoes should be wrenched . from off a horse's hoof the supercili- • ous end arrogant young Roman nob- les commanded their servants to leave it lying in the dirt rather than • stop the cavalcade to pick it up. OPULENT BUT WICKED JERICHO in ct, place where he has uo to be. :it mo illustrate my thought from an old scene in the Bible, How ofteu bas the downfall of David been the subject of the pessimist's diatribe! How he exults 6Ver the Spectacle of the shepherd boy who conquered Go- liath and climbed to the throne of Israel, yielding to his infatuation for a woman! 71.res, yes," • he says,. "men are all alike; the .best of men are vile at heart. Here is the sweet psalmist of Israel, the perfect speci- men of noble manhood, the man af- ter God's own heart, so entlaved by his guilty passion for another lama's wife that he slays the husband • to• get possession of her. No Man is to be trusted." WHY DAVID SINNED, business Is that your idea of Men? Then, my brother' awi sister, you have uot read human nature aright. All Men are not bad. But all men will be bad if they do acit stick, scrupulously to the work God has given them to do. The reason David sinned was not because he looked upon "Bath- sheba, the wile of Urittle the Hit- tite." The reason David aimed was because, like Achan among the Jeri- cho spoils, he was idling at: home instead of being with his alloy. In the first York of the eleventh chap- ter of IL. Samuel we read the secret of the whole sinful story: "And • it came to pass after the year was ex- pired, at the time when kings go forth. to battle, that !David sent Joab." That sentence means simply this: When the time of . military •campaign came -the time when David • The traveler in the far east as he • ought to have taken the. field and led roams through the ruins of ancient on his own troops to battle -he sent • cities realizes how costly those and- a substitute and stayed at Ileum. eat tialaces must have been, even as The beginning of his 'danger was not frolia a broken column of the alhame in looking at Bathsheba, Who was bra you can infer how beautiful must the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, beet in being, like Achan, among .the Jericho spoils, in a place where he had , no right to be. My brother, when God calla you the heaps of Damascus rugs centuries to do a, work, he will cilways give old, the sword hilts jeweled With dia- you strength to resist the sinful tem - mends awl other precious stones, the 'Actions incident to that work. But : have • once -been the Palaces of the Spanish Moors. So in imagination you may picture -the costly vases of myerhiue, the priceless robes of silk, garments woven out of thread of • gold and the emptied treasure vaults, with their countlees prizes scattered about the palace halls in untold pro- -Nat'l on the day that Jericho fell. Jericho was always noted among the ancients as a city of fabulous wealth. • But. though Herod the Great after- ward erected his palaces in this "City of the Palm Trees" and • though it was for a time the home of , Mark Antony 'arid Cleopatra, yet Perhans in all its history Jericho . was never more opulent 'than on the day before its walls tottered before the blasts of the priests' ram's horns-. But, though the wealth of this cap- tured eastern capital was prodigious yet not one atom of gold, not one yard of silk, not (MO rug, not one diamond, was to be taken by the Hebrew soldiers Inc their own usa. • God told Joshua he would give this • city into his soldiers' hands, but all the seed's of war of this city were to be God's and God's alone. But the night after the battle one He- brew soldier, instead of staying in his own. company and doing what he ought to have done, allowed his sinful curiosity to get the better of him. He went out among the ruins on his own account and began to explore. Then, as lie saw tbe piled up heap of wealth, his heart .began to covet what was not his, but God's. When he thought no one was looking, he stole a beautiful Bdbylon- ish garment, 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold and went and hid them in his. tent: After many days this theft was exposed, Swift condemnation followed, and "an Is- • rael storied him with stones." • What interest can that ancient crime be to us of the twentieth cen- tury? It concerns us as a type of the sins of every age. Trace the progression of evil in Achan's time; and you will find the four stages by which sin still conies to culmination in the lives 'of the criminals of our clay. From its inception to its tra- gic :dose it is ever the sante, and, though in this world it sometimes escapes detection and punishment, in the end it incurs the righteous judg- ment or Clod. • TUE LUST OF THE EYE. • • The first stage in Acharis fatal course was what -the apostle de- scribes as "the lust of the eye." Achan's curiosity was expited. Tie Wanted to see the wonderful treasures which were to be consecrated to the : Lord. X-ris first step in the down- ward path which ended 'in his de- struction, Was taken when he rose from among his sleeping comrades, and, slipping past the guards, he wended his way among the shattered walls of the captured city. It was one act for Achim with sword and spear and shield to fight' his way in- to that doomed capital, swarming with enemies, but it was another' act, after the battle was woe, for this beaVe Soldier to arise at 'night and crawl past the Sentinels and begin to examine the spoils which Were not his and by right never could be his. It is one act, and a commendable • act, for o young physician at the gall 'of duty to go (learn to the place of evil resort in a large city to help • tome sufferer prostrated by physieal • infirmity. It is another act, and a very dangerooe act; for a young man -or a yeong wonian, actuated merely by an Idle curiosity, to join a. shun- Mieg partY to look upon vice and gloat over it as a Specta.cle, • Some- times temptatiote Write to than in • the ordinary Welke of life,but in nearly every meet, at adta Achan, tem p tations to 1117.$, Moat 1.1ccessfu11y iiriteall a Malt W'esiait that 211 In is idling • l'tTldrfn0SIS IdesnairesSt' a AcO°'weaPtlicaolilte ofrlin a • Man -without tra exception, always, always. •Sin by its very natere is Orly another moue Inc eciWardice, No sooner did 'Adieu/. take the gold than he ran away end hid it; no sooner' do you sin against God, then, which Must have been worth at lettst $10,000 in our money, .• He coveted them without the id,ea, of lairting an,y one else, yet Inc that sin of eove etousness, • *hien Was tbe forerunner of other sips, Adorn had to die. Beware, 0' roan, how year allow your evil thoughts to live. Acheet's 'eye Sin." Was followed by Achan 's ."eoV- °tows sin." Evil thoughts will ul- timately be the 'parents of evil ac- tion. INCTIAN'S COWARDICE: • Bat now, • after the "finger step" has been committed, comes the fear and the horror. Aye, the "covet- ous step:' may lead through an en- bowered garden, , The buzzards may there be feathered in the gorgeous colors of a yellow breasted, blade tipped. orioio. •. The "finger step" may be a leap( it jump, an impulsive bound, but no sooner is that fourth step taken than comes the "foot step," or the stealthy fugitive step. As soon as Achim, the thief,. got possessiou of this gold and Silver and this Babylonish garment he did not know what to do with theme. • Ho could not Wear the cloak; he could not spend the money; so, like a coward, he skulked away and went and hid them iii his tent. Sin nearly always makes a cowaid out of a, man. Achan did exactly what our first ancestor did in the like all other sinners, you try to: get as Inc as possible away from Cod, • HIS REAL BIRTHDAY, May this moment be the .stmeeme moment for your eternal rodenapthea and not eternal damnation When Bertel Thorwaldsen, the great Danish sculptor, was asked the day or his nativity, lie answered : "I Was bora on the 8th of March, 1797. :Before then I did not exist." This was not the date of his physical • Utah. Thorwerdsen was physically born Nov. 19, 1770, and 3farch 8, 1707, was the day that he was artistically born. That was the day when he first saw Rome. May this "day be to you the best of all days, not the day when, like Achan, you most' die, but as Berta Thorwaldsere first saw Rome, so May this be the first day On which you can truly see the face of Jesus Christ and live. when you go to a place where you have no right to go, you are liable to experience that lust of the eye -which May be the beginning of a long succession of other sins. ACHAN'S FIRST _STEP. A.chan's "eye step," in the next place, was followed by his "covetous step!" We say that the sin of covet- ousness is only one step beyond the first sin. But the second step of Achou's sin is even. more dangerous than the first stage. The one may be the bare, repulsive branch, with its sap frozen and congealed by the frostsof winter. The other may be the spring blossoms growing upon that branch when the spring has placed the silver trumpet of the resurrection to nature's hp. The lust of tho eye is nearly always ac- companied by hesitation and timid- ity. You can see that fear in the flushed cheek of the a-ouag man who stands upon the street corner debat- ing within himself whether or no he will enter the place of evil resort to which his dissipated friends aro per- suading him. When the mind has taken the second step and desire is aroused, the hideous deformity of sin disappers, and longing:leas in it only what is attractive and enjoy- able. The second sin, the sio of covetousness, is blind to ,the scor- pion's sting or the adder's hiss or the tiger's claw or the shark's threa- tening fin lifted like the black flag of the pirate over a threatening sea of green. 'The "sin of covetousness" is a summer stroll through woods filled with the aroma of wild flowers. It • is the .fantasies of the diseased brain ef :the opium eater, which the sinful imagination can, place almost within the grasp of the dreamer. It is the most gorgeous of air castles, the most beautiful of 'Utopias, the sweetest of songs. It is the soft couch under the shadows of the overhanging tree branch* ' over which the satanic spiders aro spinn- ing a few beautiful silken tbreade Which. can be snapped in a day, but which in. time May become as stroug as links of steel. HARD TO RESIST. Oh, • the evil siri of covetousnest ! 'Beware! Beware! :Evil thoughts are only a step from evil actions. Are we not all in danger of the covetous sin? Would you tell a lie for 10 cents ? "No," you emphatically answer. "No, of courseno le -of course not," Woold you tell a lie, just ono little lie, for $100? "No," you answer again, bet riot so em- phatically. Would you tell a lid for $10,000-a lie which in oree sense would net bort anybody? You look at mo in a quizzical way and mesa "Please don't ask me." Well, I do ask you. I ask etent, not for the pur- pose of giving you the offer, bat of finding out what is the condition of your thoughts. Achon eovetsed 200 shekels of silver aod a wedge of gold garden of Eden after lie had sinned. No sooner was' that feerbidderi fruit &den than foe Adani the heavens teemed to be overeast. Ile• had one ly slunk away and bid in the thick- ets as a Cowardly hyena; Wattle' tato away from the hounds, but Wheel God tailed hila forth he ("fa even a Meaner act:than that. He turned and tried to throw the blame. .upon the woinan bY hie eide as he said, "Yee, 1: did oat, but the woman Whom thou 'gayest to be with me; she gave ine, and I did eat." Oh; AFRICAN BOUNDARIES. They Are Being Changed by the Mixed Commission. Every new edition of African maps shows shiftings of the boundary lines between European possession.. Somo- times the boundary is shown on one side of a river or mountain ratan, aml in the next edition on the other side. If the boundary is a parallel or a meridian it may he shown On ************ HOME. * Yook******** • DoUNST1.0 uZaIrus, Breagrast.Disii.-Taf,e. a sparter of a pound of fres1i cheese, cut in thin Slime, put on a frying pan, and tern a OLmp. of sweet milk over ite Add one-fourth of a teaspbonful of •dry o egg, and not even the boiling War - ter Will remove the paw, Grease, ctookieg butter and driefe pings of any kind that have become "strcng" or diseolored may be made sweet and white by being clarified with bits of 'raw, potato. Turn all the `drippings into a deep gdittle which haS a perfectly fitting over, and• allow them to become heated through. In the meantime sliee and peal one ire:diem-sized Potate Inc three pounds of dripping. Slice and throw in, and allow it all to eoole together until the bits of potato aroe a, deep brown. Strain and set away. inustard, a pinch of ;sett and pepper, When cold, a utrantiter of snow-white and a piece of butter the size of an ishorteniag material will repay the time and trouble. egg, Roll three Boon crackers very fine and spriokle in gradually. Then turn at mice into o, warm dish, and serve immediately. Cookies, -Delicious crisp cookies, rich; enough Inc a queeti's table, are made by an °Id Dutch i.ecipe, as fol- lows: Cream one-half pound of but- ter and one-half pound of granulated sugar, and break into the bowl, and mix in two eggs. Then add gradu- ahIy Of a pealed of sir - ted lour. Roll the dough out on it beard, using powdered tam instead of flour for both boned and rolling - pin, The cake should be yolled quite thin, and cut with a round or Taney - Shaped cutter, and baked in well but- tered tins. Care should be taken to watch constantly, as they brown very quickly. Do not let Mkr lest they be too dry prompt you to use less floter; if you do the' cookies will be greasy and slineelese.' A touch of extra richness may be added by* sprinkling the tops of some ' with chopped hickory nuts Of.' walnuts he - fore baking. Aepic Jelly. -Take a handful of ar- omatic herbs, such as throat, e,her- oil, and tarragon. Boil them in white vinegar; when the vinegar is well scented, pour into the stew -pen Some cousomme of fowl reduce'd; sea- son well before you. clarify. When the aspic Is highly seasoned • brears the whites of four eggs into an ear- then pan, and beat them with an osier rod; throw the aspic into the whites of eggs, and put out the Whole on the fire' in a stew -pan; keep beating or stirring till tbe jelly gets white; it is then very "wax boiling. Put it on the corner of the stove, With 0. cover over it, and a little fire on the top of it. When quite clear 'and bright, strain it through a.bag, Or sieve, or napkin, to be used when wanted. Or, if this is wanted for a mayonnaise, or as a jelly in molds make sure of its being still enough. Then put a knuckle of veal in a small stock -pot, a, small port of a knuckle of ham, and two calf feet, Olcl towels may be made to renew then youth, says an oconoinico,1 housewife, by cutting them threugh the centre and sewing tile two out- side edges together.' The raison d'etre of this is that the towels get thin down the centre long belore the sides are worn. • A piano scarf -recently seen is a good example of what can be clone witli leather applique. This • scarf was of green leather, which had a slashed 'range showing two shades of green. The cover itself was aPpli- quad, witli light green leather, which showed the dark tints through the perforations. The latter was se -- curdy glued to the foundation. A FEW DAINTY SALADS. • Nut Salad in Tomato Baskets - Scoop out the centres of ets many to - mai oes as required, and fill with a mixture of •celery (chopped fine with a few olives), and whole p6can and English walnut meats. • Place a tonal quantity of cream or mayon- naise dressing on the top of each basket, or •Mix with the salad, before putting it in them. Sweetbread Salad -Chop boiled sweet -breads and • • mix with mayon- naise dressing. Serve on a bed of watercress and garnish with • water lilies. (The open blossoms with the stems cot off.) English Walnut Salad -Shell and blanch 1 lb.' nuts, :Cover with boiling water, add. some mace and a bay leaf, with a few slices of celery, boil till tender, drain and when cool cut them into slices. Prepare an equal amount • of sliced celery, and when ready to serve cut 2 tart apples into small pieces, mix all together and add sufficient mayonnaise to moisten. "Over this mixture pour a gill of clar- et. Serve cold. Bean Salati.-Soak lima beans over night and cook in plenty of salted water until quite' tender, lent not broken. Pour off the water, let the beans Cool and poor over them a some trimming of fowl or game. Sea- generous amount of French dressing. son this with onions, carrots, ,and a hunch of herbs well seasoned, and moistened with good broth; let it JAPANESE' PATRIOTISM. boil gently for four hours, then. skim . . away all the fat, and drain it Condemned Murderer Proved He through a silken sieve; put that in a Shared. Its Spirit. , stew -pan, with two spoonfuls of tar- ragon vinegar, and four -whites of the later map so. Inc from ;es earlier e position thate the change is noticeableggs, salt and pepper to clarify; keep r' en on a map ot sinail seal°stirring it on the fire till the whole . becomes wiry white, thea put this These changes do not mean that the On the Side with a little fire aver boundaries, as described -in treaties, the cover; when you find it iceac rink " Thrm, ao 'a It' have been altered, but merely thatthe end of Endo he was approached to - --1 - ' lb - -lsNI- S f ti 1lld °-.' the eourse dr delimitIf this was a stupefying potion men delimiting commissions in un it in a cloth or jelly -bag , and by ArrFu . jisa3,ia, th use it for aspic; if not, clo not Vat who, alluding parenthetelecalllyd tioailteb%. cifully given. to lessen the sufferings, of more a.ccurate suryeys and explora- pre_ in any r vinega; jelly fopie ogel- it is manifest that Jesus would take tions have . discovered that our r r fact that Gila was the last day on N,ions knowledge was so far erroneous antirre does not roe:mire acidwhich they could meet, added that nothing to lighten in any way. that that tho stipulated boundaries could Fish Pie. -Fry two tablespoonfuls Mr. Endo still had a little more than which: He came to endure, "And not accurately be laid on a map. of minced onibn in two tablespoon- when they had crucified Ffina" 'The report el the Mixed Conunis4flas of hot butter until yellow, add sion on the Anglo -German boundaryitwo tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir in East Africa is a case in point. Inin gradually one pint of hot milk, 1890 the Germans and British agreed !Season with one teaspoonful of salt, that the boundary between their pos- one saltspoonful of pepper, and one sessions should cross*Victoria Nyanza tablespoonful of chopped parsley. in one degree soatli latitude and go Codfish and Eggs. -Stir together in on to the Congo State, except that 1 a sauceleau over the fire, until time- whenit reached Mount Miumbiro, , oughly mixed, one tablespoonful each which Spoke had placed one degree of butter and flour. • Add half a cup southof the Equator on his map, °I water and one cup of shredded it should skirt the mountain so that codfish, prepared for use as directed. it might wholly bo included M the Let sin.unee Ave minutes, stir in two British domain. eggs. cook gently until the eggs are The maps accordingly showed the sufficiently done, then: serve. mountain as a British summit till it Russian Tea. -Pare and slice good juicy lemons arid lay a Piece in the was discovered that it really stands far to the west in the Congo State, bottom of each cup'; sprinkle with and ' under existing treaties could white sugar and pour hot, strong tea not possibly'belong to, Great Britain. upon it. Po not use cream. It .was found later that Miumbiro Glace Frosting, -Put hall a capful is about sixty miles south of the la- of sugar and tlwee tablespoonfuls of titiule Speke assigned to it, so that, , water in• a sniall saucepan. Stir over even if his longitude had been cor- 'the fire until the sugar is nearly rect, it would have been a. German melted. Take the spoon from the instead of a British mountain; and Pan before the sugar really begins to now come the latest resultof the boil, bdcaurte it would spoil the icing Mixed Comanission, bringing both if the syrup were stirred' alter it be - glad, and sad news for Great 13ri- gins to boll. After boiling gently for tairt. •. . four minutes, add half a teeseioonful The Kagera, River, tho largest af- of vanilla extract, but do not stir; fluent, of Victoria Nyanza and the then set away to cool. When the ultimate source of Its waters, has syrup is about blood warm, boat it bem assigned on all maps since the with a wooden spoon until thick and treaty of 1890 to . German , East Al- white. Now put the saucepan iii an - rice.; but the Mixed Commission has other with boiling water, and stir decided that the lower fourth of tbis until • the icing is thin enough to river, fromthe point where it turns Pour. Spread aelick]o on the cate. sharply east to the lake, is north of .. ' the boundary line; so the only part of the river offering excellent radii- WE'LL WORTH KNOWING.. ties for navigation is now proved to A pinch of soda stirred into milk belong .to Great Itritain, that is turning sour will make it ...aiiit what the 13ritis1i have gained sweet again. in the south they have •lost in the • A useful hint regarding the bak- west, for the boundary surveyors have ing of eiotatoes is to cet, a small found that a long strip that the maps piece from the end, to allow the have ineluded in 'Uganda is really in steam to escape.' tbe Congo State- For years Ivo have One of the latest dinner fastdoes seen the eastern waters of Albert is a bread • nod butter plate with a, Edward Nyanza tanning alleged Brit- small ' pat or fresh butter and crisp ish territory, but now we are told baeadflutter foe dinner has been that every drop in the lake belongs eonaidered vulgar for so many years .to the Congo *domain; and wo innY that it scents only a fad that wilt expect fut ther. revelations of this last but a short time. * Sort until crude surveys ;lye replaced Soups without meat can be made by' the scientific de.limitation of all as agreeable to the palate as songs Afric,an bounclarieta . without, words are to the ear. And they need not itecossarily be limited t� the cream soups, such as cream of HIGH SPEED RAIIAVAY TRIALS. eelerY, <Yearn of asParagust and the ' like thourh those are the mow theft The PruSsian government intencle ' • e ' " • - - •'• - immediately °emir to the mind at the :to continuo 11S experiments WI th .„ . . high-speed locomotion on the Ilerlia- Sbg:e''"}j1'‘ 9 he iireeful potato can zossea military railway, Not long be pressed into service arid made, the basis of heir a, cloven differeet kinds ago a litaXiMtini SPCOC1 of 180 miles my friends, the criminal iincoaseimis- ,r)er hour was attained with ntt aloe- °f ).-,)01Elge” , ., lY reveals himself, The accusing"' tricalTy 5111011 car, Experiments at'e wave erarb:en eggs hava to he heil voice of bis conecience saps his man- l'ilow to he made with steam locomo- ed e, little vital -co added to thc wa- !Mess and robe' bior of his open d&etives of Various typee, and it is'. in- '?",4' will prevent the white from boil - Meaner, If there is not, at honest I tooded toty emcee as high as ;-.10 mg out, Tili . aeiti coagulates the 11°111" tit 4 hull), his lace and his and 00 miles tier hour. The tests aiblimen and stiTs the leaks. The bearing will not he honest, rl'he ate meant to throw light on the, lit.o- cracks may also be 00111 ,d with a lowered eyelid, the trembling hand, perconstruction of both tracks and hit of peed • wet with the exuding the shuffling foot -all reveal the et - eeningeetoett. . albumen. Nothieg sticks irkd White ••••,-• ••••••,•• THE SUNDAY SC1100111 INTERNATIONAL LESSOSS-, JUNE 12. ••••••• Text of the Lesson, F.f.arlt xv,, 39; Golden. Tent,. Cor. xv. 3. He is now wholly in the hands, by Iris own voluntary will and by the will of • His Father, of those Who for the time being seem to be pos- sessed 'by demons, Versee 10 to 20, the seetion betWeemx the lest. lc On and this one, begin and end witil the words, "And the seldiers led Him away, * led Him out 14. crucify. Him." Between these two seri tences comes all the history of Jesui in. the hands of the soldiers, tat Mocking, the smith -me the spitting( the crowning witb thorns. But whet con describe it? Who nevi: heeled oiti prisorer, evee though justly; condom, ned to. die, subjected to such 111. human treatment? But it was all foreseen and writtot by the .prophets: "They ,geped ape), me with their mouths, as a ravening and a, roaring lion, for dogs have compassed me, the assembly of tht wicked have iucloeted me." "'tepees...a hath lrioken my heart, 1 am full of heaviness." (Ps. =II, 13, 10; Jib:, 20). In John xix, 17, it is written( "And He, bearing His cross, weed forth," • It Would. appear that Jos, US Himself bore His own cross ed they started forth for Calvary, bui for some reason they laid hold tripoli this Simon, a Cyrenian, and coin pelted him to bear the cross, chile! -wholly or in part, after ...Jesus (lailtj xxiii, 26). • Consider the pbYSieel condition of our Lord • afters- the agony and bloody sweat of CiethCe. Inane, the long night of inoeklug and buffeting, the merciless scourging aril all that He afterward suffered at the hands of the soldiers, wed was it all, riitech less walk or bear His ecirootssa? wonder that He could stand a f No other mortal -ever 'did or eau enjoy the privilege of this Simon, but where was Simon Peter, wild said he would die with Him rathet than' deny Him? He is not ready, and this apparently uufortunate but truly blessed African has the honor. Consider Rom. awl, 13; 'Acts Xi, 20; 1, and the possible cermection with this event. Mathew, Mark and John call the place • where He was crucified Golgotha, while Luke calls it Calvary, which is the Greek equi- valent and bas the Sfano sigreification, "the, place 'of a skull." •• Only Luke mentions the fact Ilia+. a great company of people and e women followed Elm out of tho. cita bewailing • and lamenting Hini, ant that Heturned and spoke to th women, telling them that they ha' more cause to weep for themselvo and for their children than Inc Hilt beieneoa u9c°t the judgments that woul( con the city. It is also is Luke only that we find that the too The other day a gentleman named malefactors were led in the procee Yoneichi Endo, aged 38, and offtcial- slop. with Him ' (Luke •xxiii, 27-32.) ly described as "a murderer and rob- ber," was executed • at the Ichigaya. prison, Japan. On the day which was to witness It is written in Ps. Mix, 21, -Tito gave Me ;also gall Inc my Meat, an,i in My thirst they gave Me Vinegaii two yert of the money given him by kind -relatives. "Buy yourself some little delicacies, and give yourself a. treat for the last time," urged the s3rinpathetic Fujisawa. It may be that the chief jailer thought he might share in the results of stieh an ex- Penditore, or his advice may have • ....••••••••••e.41 • Who can tell the agony conbamed in that sentence? It was tbe most ignominious and painful ponistiment known. The anguish caused by the nails tearing throtigh nerves and tencfors, tbe • infianiaticn armed by the exposure of these wounds to the been dictated by puro benevolence. 'air, the tiolcat pain from the least Tbis advice, no doubt, appealed to motioo.-all caused inexpressible the mail Endo. He know that the misery from ohich there , Wee no roe remainder of his life would be a. laxation or rest till death ensued, short one; why not make it merry? It was just here that the patriot conquered the mere natural man. The Japan Times relates the -beach- ing sequel :- "The convict, quite unexpectedly, said in reply that he had learned from new prisoners that Japan was fighting with Russia. His only re- gret was that he could not help the country in the war in the manner he would have adopted if he were out of prison, aod the only service he could render would be to contribute Just as literally. all unfulfilled pro - to the war funds the paltry sum re- phecy shall yet be fulfilled. As you see Ewa enduring these untold agon- ies and remember that it is written, "Ceased is every ene that hangeth on re tree!" does your .heart say , with great sympathy with Him. but with gladneas because of Him, "Christ hatili redeemed 1110 from the erase of the Mw, icing made a curse for me?" (Feat. xxi., 23; Gol. 13.) • The two thieves were ceucilied. one on his right hand and the other on Efs left. and thus another Scripture was fulfilled, ohich seethe "And Ile was numbered with the transgres- sors'' (rsa. Hie 12). Pis eneilliee sat dean to watch Pim, and both they and the passersby reviled. Him and derided. Him and railed on. Him. The thieves also reviled Him, ; but one of them afterward believed on Him and was saved. The suiperscrip- tie-a of His accusation was set up Os er His head in Hebrew and areal< and Latin (razike xxiit, 88),. and thus was proclaimed to all the world = the . truth yet to be ma.do manifest to all nations that the de- spised and crucified Nazarene is in- deed the King of the Jeers, who as an immortal man shall sit on Da- vid's throne and reign over the laeIrse of Jacob and ,over all the earth Mule i., 32, 88; 'Zech. xiy., 0). ConSider aell fims seven sayings from the creie.sgeo fedi of eternal Signifidance, and •iony our hearts truly. 'cry with the centualon, "This man is the Son of Goell" Forgive - Pass now, glory hereafter, all wa. need in between -,these are auggost- ad by Iris fleet three worcia concern- ing tho soldiers, to the thief and to sTolarl, fold 'should Ueed the re- deemed to ery, 14ke Lord and • MY Ged.. *how! T • am told eithoirr Serve! (Jells xx., 28; Acta xicvxl' 28). Another Scripture was fulfilled, "They pierced my hands and my feet," and yet another, ..lhey part my garments ainong them and east lots upon my vesture" (Ps. x.xii., 10, 18), for when the fear soldiers disided. Iris garments, to every sol- dier a part, they found that lie ' wore also a szamless coat, and for that they cast lots (Jolla xix., 23, 24.). Illow minutely all • was foretold and how literally all was fulfilled! maining to his credit. He asked the chief jailer to carry out his wish- es, which the latter promised to do."- — LOCUST PLAGUE IN EGYPT. The Invasion of Insects is a Very Serious One. There is every probability of the plague of locusts which has now de- scended on Egypt proving very ser- ious one. Great anxiety is felt for the young cotton and othex crape. The locusts first arrive in compara- tively small numbers, but they mul- tiPly very rapidly, as sootm as they reach tile edge cif cultivation. With- in ten clays the young insects, though still wingices, advance in it, solids phalanx, sometimes two or three feet deep and several miles M length. It is eesential that at this stage they should be •cinstroyed, as' it would Lie impossible to cheek the ravages of flying locusts, The method adopted during the latt visitation, that of 1590, 'was to dlg, deep trenches, Sometimes miles in length, between • which end the ad- vancing swarin liege heaps of straw were laid 'and fired. .A.ny lsecusts which auccoeded itt Oecaping the flames and smoke ,fell iiito the trendies, where they weee deetroyecl by natives under the snpervision of 'English ha structors. • It is a providential habit of young locusts never to thrn back or aaide whim once started,no matter Whet obstacles ma pet in their.' way, -Ca - leo Correspondent, London Daily CAUTIOUS, "Ilo you let 'Work worry you?" “No; nor 1 don't let worry work Me eithar,". ••,)