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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-06-10, Page 2i • • • ► ► ► • i+♦ ++++N+++++++++4+: l THE FAITE FAITH THAT �S+t Z The Spy. Life Lies Deeper Than Its Outer Forms and # Consists of More Than bleat and Drink ;++++++++++♦++++++♦♦++ "The walk by faith." -2 Cor., v., 7. The fools save the world; the practically minded and the worldy wile° simply keep it going.The wise, wno never go forth without a two foot rule in hand, first laugh at the fools, then pity theta, then imprison and kilt them, They did that to Jesus and to Galileo, and to every other one who talked of a kingdom that could not be laid off with their measuring sticks. Probably to a horse a man is the greatest foul imaginable ; he rushes around. he does so many things that stem to have no significance; he wears herself all out and often gets neither oats nor a stall at the end of the day. The man works for ends that are before him, in- visible often; the horse•works only on the spur of that which is be- hind him. The man is a mere ideal- ist ; the horse a practical economist. Almost any person can see the meaning of a brick wall; only a few get the significance of a sym- phony, yet the one is as real as the other, and the truth is this plain old world of ours ,s molded a good deal more by the things that touch the soul than by those that sink no deeper than the senses. The philosophy that sees all life only as so much animated mud misses the richer and mightier meanings of life. To see only things is really NOT TO SEE .ANYTHING. It is as if one should think of a book as only so tnany type impres- sions or of a song as only so many black dots on paper. Yet through all our money mak- ing, our getting and our spending, our mad rushing to and fro, the toil and turmoil of our world runs a fine strain of great motives and ideals. It manifests itself in love of truth, devotion to great pur- poses, tenderness and regard for the weak, succor for the needy, sym- pathy for the sad ; in truth and goodness and helpfulness it is seen, and the name of this spirit is re- ligion. Churches are only organized, social forms of its expression; creeds are only attempts to analyze its phenomena; meetings, services, and preachings are only more or less formalized methods of stimu- lating men to its ideals; back of them all lies this vision of great principles, great purposes in liv- ing, this that makes sumo count net their lives dear to themselves, makes many set first those prin- ciples and ideals in their lives. e are all idealists—we all live for the things not seen. 11'e pre- tend to bo much more materialistic than we are. But deep within our- selves we know that life cannot be sustained by bread alone, and that it consists in more than abundance of things. And so we live for the love of a friend or for the hope of a better world. The unworthiness of our lives is often due to our lack of confidence in the essential worthiness of all life ; we are not quite sure whether this is a right world ; often we have more faith in the evil that asserts itself in selfishness and every form of iniquity than in the good that BECKONS FROM ON HIGH. We yield to the instinct to save our- selves because we aro not certain that infinite goodness will care for those who follow the right. We will do right when the way is clearly mapped out in c`oress direc- tions. But faith is the power to do the right when the way is as yet un- charted, to he lieve that there is no other way fol 'ot souls, to be- lieve that it . losing all for the right than gaining the whole earth and losing one's real self. We need to believe in the better day that is to be, to have faith to fit ourselves for it, and to push out into it. We need faith to overcome the mountains in its way, to stir the sluggish hearts of men who cling to old selfishness and to change the minds that lie dormant in prejudices. This is the faith that regenerates and sa.es. Men are not saved by believing this fact or the other incident in history ; they are saved by the faith that makes history, the faith that forms the future, that looks back only to be inspired to push for- ward, by the faith that leads thein to follow truth wherever it may lean. Doing this they find they are walking with all the faithful, they are treading the way that has led to every Calvary and to every new and eternal life. Constance C'heverton, only daughter of Major Cheverton, prided herself as being neither fool- ish uor impetuous; SO when she raw Lieutenant Andrew••a hurriedly descending from the summit of the fort, followed by the short, thick- set num whom she had secs prow l- ing about in a suspicious manner earlier in the day, she slid not fly into hysterics, and make inco- hcregt allusions to his perfidy, as a less ls*nsible girl might have done. lntead, she increased her pace along by the thick hedgerow that surrounded the base of the fort, and dived into an unoccupied sew try -box that stood facing the open sea. Here, secure from observa- tion, she gave vent to some of thee indignation that surged within her palpitating bosom. B' intuition she knew that this thick -set, foreign -looking man was nothing but a miserable spy, who had come to ferret out something about the big guns that had recent lv been placed on the fort. But un til now she had never believed that an officer—and especially an officer like Dick—would be guilty of such dastardly conduct as that of traffick• ing in the military secrets of his country. It was a strict order that no civilian was to he allowed access to the forty --she had even been re- fused that permission herself—yet here was one of her father's most trusted officers wilfully disobeying that order. She turned her head, and looked through the small, circular pane of glass in the back of the sentry - box. A tremor seized her when she saw that the two comspirates were coming in her direction. What if they should see her I Hastily drawing back her dress, she tried to make herself as incon- spicious as the narrow confines of her hiding -place would allow. The next moment the sound of their voices fell upon the still oven- ing air. It was the stranger who was speaking, in his deep, gruff voice: "You will let me have the photo as soon as possible?" he was say- ing, with simulated carelessness. "If 1 can get an opportunity, I'll take it to -morrow," responded Lieutenant Andrews, in a low voice. The listener could scarcely re- strain herself. Oh, that she might step out and denounce him then and there! But prudence forbade. HENRY F. COPE. She would thwart his fell design. But she must use cunning. She must wait, and watch. Another moment, and the spy and his dupe had turned a bend in the pathway, and disappeared from view. Constance then emerged from the sentry -box. and set ar- ranging her crumpled dress. That dune to her satisfaction, she slowly retraced her steps towards the grey block of buildings known as the Fort Barracks. The first shock of the discovery over, she had a strong misgiving that the whole affair had been a horrible dream. it, was so difficult to associate Dick—or, rather, Lieu- tenant Andrews—with anything mean or treacherous. Yet, on further reflection, she was forced to realize the absurdity of drawing VI. Muses' Great Venture of into question the accuracy of her Faith.— Vs. 23-31. How many con- unimpaired sight and hearing. spicious instances of faith does the No ; she could not doubt her writer note in connection with the senses. The stranger was a for - exodus from Egypt and conquest of eigner, who had no right in the fort ; Canaan) Seven in all --not because and, worse than all, he .vas shortly seven is "the per feet number," nor to receive a photograph of one of because there were not more than seven, but because (v. 32) time failed hint to recount others, such as the victory at Rephidim, the healing wrought by the brazen serpent, the report of the two faithful spies, VII. Heaven's Honor Roll.— Vs. 31-4o. How does the writer close hours before she had asked hin, to his examples of faith 1 So many take her for a sail in the boat ; but crowd upon his mind, from the he had pleaded a pressing engage - times of the judges, kings, pro- ment, and so she had been forced phots. that he despairs of going to moon about the whole et the on with even the condensed son- afternoon alone. And this pressing THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 0 TER N.1'1'ION.11, LESSON, J(NL13. Lesson NI. Heroes of faith. Golden Text, Ileh. 11: 1. Introduction. --Why is our lesson from the Hebrews studied at this time 1 Because, perhaps, of its possible connection with the church in Jerusalem, which will not again come so prominently into the history as in Lesson Viii. The theme of this chapter, also, is illtistralkd finely by the missionary activities of Paul, our study of which is soon to be renewed. Faith is the great cornerstone of missions, as of all theology and Christian living. I. The Book of Hebrews.—Who w rote the Epistles] The author is unknown. The title, ascribing the Epistle to Paul, found in the King James version, "forms no part of the original document ; but it must have been given to the book at a eery early date."—Westcolt. II. !What Faith Ia.—Vs. 1 3. They does the writer define faith 1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things trot seen. Faith is not hope, but mart' he has been giving. He in- engagement was-- But why underlies hope and renders hope stances the faith of Gideon, who dwell upon it I She must prevent confident Faith is not the vision with only n handful of men turned this photograph from living taken of mystries, but that proof of them to flight the armies of the aliens at all costs. Above all, she must in heart and life which arurea us (Judg. 0-S) :of Barak. whose ea- save Dick ; she must save him from of them without any sight of them. iploit was similar (Jude. t, to: of his own cupidity, although, of 11i. Seven Guide -Posts on the Samson, who stopped the mouths of course, he could never be ail thing flay to Faith.—Vs. 4.18. How does lions (Judg. 13-10). as did David (1 to her again. ('ufurtimately, she could not con - the writer proceed in his illustra- Sam. 17 : 34.3M and especially Daniel' mut her father, as he had gone to tions of faith' With a series of !(Dan.et); of Jephthah (Jude. 11. 12), •London that eery morning, and pictures, showing different- aspects' who turned to flight the .lmmonites; would not return before the fol - e f (With, taken in order of time of David. who subdurd kingdoms lowing evening. But, still, she was from the hook of Genesis. in con • (2 Sani. 8, 10, 11); of Samuel, who determined 1bnt the foreigner rection with each illustration the wrought righteousness (1 Sam. 19 : should not receive the photograph writer point+ out some cl,aracteris 3 4.\. Then follows n crowding rush' he expected. and she was equally tic of faith in terse and beentiful of memories, the triumphs of faith determined to save Dick. phages that have become guide- in e -caping fire. as Daniel (Dan. 3); * 0 IF • • pests on the way to faith for all re. ei.ii1g the dead raised to life Late that same evening Constance again. as the widow of larephath crept t uietty out of the house by (1 King• 17: 22.23) and the Shunam- the back entrance, and groped her mite (2 Kings 4: 31+-37 ; holding to way to the low brick wall that the truth in trials such lee stenings divided her father's garden from rhe value of tests of faith. The (Jeremiah, according to tradition). that of the junior officers. Step - n orbeing w• oto w 1few r' sawn esund n a box. h ch a hours attiternew passe to particularg a cr (the tradi- pingh i events, and begins with one of the tional fate of Isaiah). Many of the pre%lously she had placed there for finest examples of faith in all his- trials here enumerated occurred in that purpose she scrambled over, tory, the toting ("trying"'i of Ahra- great t iolenee during the times of and dropped don n on the other hate. Think how many eager hopes the Maccabees. i were centered upon young tease-, ------,k---- side All was `till and dark, the moon what long waiting was rewarded by Russia's Tsar receives an Average him. v. hat glorious pr„mise+ had ' of 10o petitions dairy. their fruit in him. in fast should les,'hrst,nm•ei send he called ((len. The man who figures in an explo- : t1,at is. Fosse and his dein sion begin+ at the bottom and goes nt< ,i I.: to he cn;'ritrd repCCl- up. ally as Abraham's seed, inheriting tete promises made to hint. And now his loving father has offered Isaac up (R. V. margin)—for Abra- ham's submission to God's wilt is so entire that the sacrifice is as good as completed and the lad as good as dead; so that, when the ram was substituted (Gen. 22 : 13) for the boy, Abraham may truly be said to have received his son back again from the grave. V. How Faith Gives Clear Vision. —Vs. 20-22. What is the point of the next three illustrations, those of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph 1 In each case, the clear vision of the future that faith gives. the most important bulwarks on the Eastern coast. "Oh, Dick,” she cried, half aloud, "how could you—how could you 1" It was hard to be compelled to distrust him --hard to think of him as a traitor. Only a few short (10d'. children. 11'. Abraham's Great Test of faith. -1's. 17.19. !What is the point of the writer'+ next illustration I being bidden by a thick curtain of cloud. and the tight* of the is on a visit to Sir Henry Luscombe of ger•' rooms being extinguished. at the Beeches and he requested Stealthily she crossed over to me to let him have a photo of the where a mai, gla+s-ronfed shed - bay. taken from the summit—" half summer -house. and werkshnp A taint cry interrupted hint. Con —Stood against the high wall at the stance swayed, then, with a crash, fueling that his own train was mor• sense of insecunty lower end of the garden. She glided along softly, partl • through fear of the unknown, and partly because she knew that on the other side of the high wall there paced to and fro a night sentry. The tiny glass door was securely locked ; but this she had anticipat- ed, for, drawing a small hunch of keys from somewhere under hey cloak, she began one by one to try them in the lock. At length she found one that erred better than the others, and with the aid of her handkerchief she managed to turn the bolt, when the door, with a pro- testing creak, swung itself open. A streak of light now shot from behind a drifting cloud, and dimly revealed the interior of the glass - roofed house. It was here that Lieutenant Andrews was wont. to indulge in his various hobbies. In one corner was an easel, in another a bicycle, and on a table lay a pal- ette, a collection of ghostly -looking bottles. and a camera. With a smothere.d cry, Constance seized the camera by the lens, and, without waiting to relock the door, dashed inadly across the open ground to the wall. Flinging the camera over. she climbed the wall with surprising agility, and in a few rapid strides she reached the safety of her own house. On going to her room, she buried the stolen camera at the bottom of her trunk ; then, panting and ex- haused she dropped on a chair be- fore the mirror, and gazed at the pale, haggard reflection therein. fell in an unconscious heap at their feet. e • • • • It was a week later before an- other golden opportunity presented itself to Lieutenant Andreas. The reaction had been too much for the highly -strung nerves of Constance, and, at the doctor's express coni- mand, she had been confined to her room for several days. They were standing once more in the room in which the young officer had so unconsciously vindicated his honor. "And you'll nut return for a whole year!" Constance murmured sorrowfully. "No not for a year," he respond- ed, with an affectionate look at her lowered face. "But, Constance"— taking her unresisting hand—I'll write to you every day, and I shall leave you something of mine as a keepsake that will constantly remind you of me "That is quite unnecessary," she hastily interposed. "I have some- thing of yours which will always remind me of how much I should love and trust you!" "!That is that 1" he asked eagerly. She flushed and hesitated; then, raising her eyes to his. she answer- ed, in a voice almost inaudible: "Your love !"—London Answers. FOLKS WHO HAVE DREADS During the whole of the next day she moved about like one in a AMONG THEM A MORBID dream. After lunch, one of the servants informed her of the theft of Lieutenant Andrew's camera, and added that the men's quarters were being searched for the miss- ing article. But Constance gave no sign that the occurrence had the slightest interest for her. The weight of her awful secret was crushing her. It was eating into her .heart like a canker, and if she could not share it with someone soon, she believed it would send her mad. How she longed for the return of her father! But as the hour of bis expected arrival drew nearer, she began to dread the ordeal that his coming would necessitate. How could she betray the mar, s!.e had thought she loved 1 It would not be easy. Still, there was no other course. She must not allow her father to go on trusting him un- suspectingly. No ; she must unmask the traitor, let the cost be what it may! Five o'clock came. Her father would return now at any minute. Six! He had not yet arrived. What, could have detained him? Seven! His arrival was still un- announced. Constance was sit- ting alone—her mother had just left the room—when she heard a foot step in the passage. Was it he at last 1 Tho tension was becoming ter- rible. But, to her intense chagrin, when the servant opened the door, it was to announce Lieutenant Andrews! "The major has not yet arrived, then 1" he asked, in his usual cheery way. "Not yet," she answered coldly. She had risen as he entered, and was standing with her elbow resting on the mantlepieee, her frozen beauty shining white in the light, like the profile of a marble statue. But the young officer appeared utterly oblivious of the great change that had come over her during the past twenty-four hours. Whatever his faults, Inc was not given to throwing searching glances into the faces of his friends each time he met them. Ile had something important to say, and ho approached closer to where she stood. "Constance," he began, with an Unusual touch ot tenderness in his voice, "I expect to he going abroad shortly, and such a golden oppor- tunity as the present may not oc- cur again. Constance' —raising his eyes to her rigid face—"I have long waited for this hour. I have come to tell you how much I love your Stepping hack she turned her flashing eyes full upon him. She patients are amurin when they struggled to open erhdry, pallid coma to visit the phys; fan. lips—to hurl the fierce denuncia- I Avery sit t interesting set of dreads tion that rose and almost chi+i[ed . g her in its effort to find release ; but 1 are those associated with looking before the words of fire hissed down fit high place. Everyhcdy forth. the deur again opened and i experiences •m to some elegy°e. No one can look owe (Incedge of a her father entered. "Hallo, Andrews'" puffed the high building major. "Missed my confounded!11'1"fHOl' f A SHUIMF.R. train by just half a minute. ().r, Ecen the workmen on high build - the platform, too, I was, which +! inYrs Hoist gradually accustom them- male It more til. SHl ng. Ran into, I selves to working at a height. anColonel Cranfield. adn't seen him I think I can say withuul any for tweet} years, and, in the joy of breach of confidence,'' the pl ician meeting, forgot everything else, till goon or "that there are uteri. than I saw my train glide out. Beastly irritating: Everything is all right, I suppose r "Yes everything but my camera:" replied the lieutenant dolefully. HORROR OF DIIIT. Some of the Interesting Classes Which Conte Under a Doctor's Care. Never have doctors written and talked so frankly about us and our His. It used to be the proper mem- cal attitude to listen attentively to our rehearsal of our symptoms and to treat ace sante wirer at (east an outward show of respect. The modern method is different. The fad for making light ot sickness has driven the doctors to show us that they have all the time been secretly leaking light of many of our cherished ills. They knew we were victims of our own imagine tion and they treated that imagina- tion in their own shrewd way. We haven't had anything like the diet of drugs we thought we had. A physician writing in the Ec- clesiastical Review on the general subject of scruple.,, tells some of the interesting classes of such cases which come under the doctor's care. There are, for example, the people who have a morbid horror of dirt. They fear especially to soil their hands or face and will wash themselves over and over again, ten, twenty, even thirty times a day. Whenever they touch anything £kEY WASH THEIR HANDS. They frequently so rub the skin off them that they become sore and develop various forms of artificial dermatitis because of the mechani- cal removal of the epidermis and the irritation of soap and water. No amount of reasoning will keep them from doing this. It may be pointed out to them that most people enjoy quite good health without any such solicitude about cleanliness, but that makes no difference to them. Some of tho women who aro afflicted with the aftcction would not think for a moment of touching a door knob; they make all sorts of excuses to wait for somebody else to open the door. Often they leapt forward. will not confess their unwiliingness I I saw O'Donnell drop on one to touch an object that is handled knee. The sunlight gleamed along by so many people. At the door I (Inc barrel et his Martini a- it came of a store they will find some ex- to a +etraight, rigid line. The case to parse a moment until some downmurderer war within a dozen yards one else opens the door. o[ him. I saw a red streak, a puff They would not think for a mo- of white haze, and then the rifle meet of handlingeed a library book spoke. that had been used by others. They The Malay sprang into the air, sometimes put themselves to eon- siderable discomfort and incur- twisted sideways, and canis lows venience by refusing to touch the ill a heap. railing of a boat or railway station When I see in no. aiind's eye that or the balustrade of a porch or ',lamb', kneeling figure, and the even a house stairway. These wild one, brandishing that blood- stained blade, leaping upon him, I think it was the very coolest thing 1 ever saw done, or ars ever likely milto.—B. l':., in I'eareus's Weekly. fills MALAY RAN AMUCK TERRIBLE AFFAIR LSI THE MALAY PENINSULA. Slow Four People Before He Wass Shot by Brave Sergeant '1 O'Donnell. It is not otic: that the human beast of the Western hemisphere gets tt eat they call below tae Equa- tor the "blood -eye." 1, lien the Slav, who is racially most liable to it, dces, he iuvariab,y r.ins, kill- ing as he goes. He will sometimes travel for miles, infinitely further than his strength would permit hen is on the run he is a uiurdeiet When he sups the blood lust goes out of hint. But while he runs woo betide any- one who meets him; he slays with- out reference to sex or colur. And the sight of a child is►s:antly in- flames him to a greater and more deadly extent than in the case of an adult. It was a hot afternoon, and I was walking along a road of Perak, in the Malay I'e:iinsula, which bi- sects the town, when I heard a mixed clamor of voices, aad saw fit man running towards me. I could , see that he was a Malay, SMALL, SLIGHT AND LITHE, like all his race, black -haired, and clad in nothing but a loin -cloth (the Malay whis is "amok" always strips himself). I had been warned by ono of the officers of the British detachment which was quartered in Perak at the time, and I took to the nearest tree without the least hesitation. Tlio Malay as he passed under- neath nder- n a h e t shookhis with kris at me a snarl exactly like that of an ani- mal. The kris is a long sword -like dagger, with a "wavy" blade. It inflicts a moat horrible wound. I trust I may never see again what I saw then. The passing glimpse of the Malay'a face, as dead -white as the brown akin ever approaches to, the bloodshot eyes, both told me he was "amok." As be ran, a little toddler, not more than ten yearn' old, came out from behind one of the huts direct- ly in his path. The Ma.ay slashed at the child with his kris and al- most severed the little head from the body. The mother rushed out screaming ant. was stabbed before the cry had passed her lips. Two coolies were the next victims. They came unsuspectingly out of the jungle, and scattered to right and left at the sight of the wild figure leaping upon them. But ate human swiftness could save them. I never saw anything done with sack iucredihle rapidity. The lay seemed to literally bound in air. and his w irked knife to de- scribe an arc to right and left LIKE A FLASH OF LIGHTNING. And there !;,, the two bodies in the dust c,. t:.e road, which was red- dened with their bl sod, shed in shorter time than it takes me to write chi, doe i,. Remember this is not fiction, but actual fact. The Malay slew once more (an- other child, alas'), and then his hour of retribution overtuck him. At the head of the road, where it enters the juggle, came into view my friend Sergeant O'Donnell. As ha caught eight of the uniform the Malay's supple body seemed to momentarily arrest itself. Then he elf a citizen priests who have told me in the course of profeisietsal That it i• necessary for a man to visits of the difficulty they experi ence in saying mass at a hi altar. crr:nk liquor daily i4 a theory that They have no difficulty at ..Ti in say- `' saf Mt hold water. 1 0UAEi1KO. Aget--'':Day I put a burglar alarm in your homier 1" Lady--' No, we don't need it.'' "No, I mean it The family across the street a etches the place s., closely that even a burglar couldn't got in without being seen." "!That on earth has happened to ing [Hass on the level of the flour your camera t" demanded Maio, a convent. $ren being an a The lazy Mali wu;,ld i ather take (,iievertsmd haltihngter' on his way to single step disturbs them but slight- half a lova! Was work for a whole greet hidaugly. other informed him, in a tone of one. To be up the flee or six steps "Someone has stolen it "' the of a high altar, however, complete- { ly unnerves seine of them. They regict. ,,. have the feeling that they may fall "Stolen it , echoed the major. sad so they have to cling to the °Ves, stolen it.- resumed Lieu- altar et times. tenant Andrews. "and just when I This is in reality a physical and particularly wanted to use it. Gen not s psychic manifestation Or• .--Ys--...-----ete_- oral Gains good paid an official visie dInailily our e)es are fixed on eib ing when a neightborittg tee was to the tort jestrrdav afternoon he jests near us and a portion •f eur passing will relltt1ltlite ue. Wbelieve r sees. of equilibrium ie depends t the nearest e111441a to u ars a' u on this fixation of vision on stead) axed •r when or *mediate :or objects not far freta U. rounding• are ss far from us that it "Ary one who bas sat it, a rail require+ a @peefal effort of .inion T•44 train aad had the rItriou, to fixate them, th,Fn ws bare s Theills!sibaasiaeboat wastest• ed in Plvmoufl Harbor, F,ngland, in 1774.