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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-06-10, Page 2 (2)- • .77 11 t (11, tIen ity thein, then al*01. and tVey o talked ngdomthet void nett.be laid with their meaeuting .etiehs. Prbsb1 to -11, horse a-rinin IS the tool inniginsible; he ruslie around, he does so many thiegs tJiat seem to hoe .no•iigniteanee; be wears teineelt *11 out and often gets neither oats nor a stall at the d of the day, -The man works or ends that are before him, ite WOW often; the beret work* only n the 001- of thet-whieh is be- hind lum.. The Man it a mere ideal- ist; the herseipractical economist. Almost any perlon can Me tho meaning of, a brick* wane only few get the significonce of ,a !win- • phony, yet the one is as real as the --`.-other, and the -truth -le 11-4 plain oldetta..gopti deal more by, the thing* that -touch . the soul than by those .644sink no ,tteeiper than 'the seneee, The!philosophy that sees all life ,onlY as so much 'animated mud =inset the richer and mi htisr , !eel/rings .of life. ,Titeete, e MT- SEE-ANYTRDI Itt is as ifoneshould think of a. book as only so many type impres- *ions or of a, song as only so. many .01ack dots on paper. ' 'Yet through *11 our zooney mak- ing, our getting and our spending, our mad rushing to and fro, the toil and .turmoil of our worldrune a 'fine strain Of great motives and ideals. It manifests itoelf in love of truth, devotion to great pur- poses, tenderness and reseed for the weak, euctor for the needy, sym- pathy for the sad; in truth and goodness and hetpfutriees it ig seen, and the name cif ,this" spirit is reg gion. • " Churehes are only organized, .social forms of its expression creeds are only attempts to analyze 'its phenommt...;_reeetings,-servessi • and preachingsare onymori 1es fOErrnalized nethods of s J&Uuj men to' tIZt4X *11 4 lie% A 0011*. .igrOat „ og,this t net their he dtat to i!‘;' make 'znany- it•trt 0 -prrn-- and ,ideaih iii tJieirV We are ,elklisti we ,e1.11,1vie for the thJ not ettee, We pie, tend to lie 'emelt More Matelialistle tbau iteAre. But deep within our- selves we know that life cannot be, sustained .by bread *lone,and that i •coneists n,more than ..ahundance ' of tliuigs.And so we live for the loire of /kg friend orr fir the hope of better world. TIie univottlines,s of our lives is often duet to our lack'of confidence in the, eeetentiat worthinese of 'all life; quite sure whether this * riglit.worldkoften we, have more faith in the evil:that asserts If in teilAohnees and every form of fquity than, in the good that TJECKOXS raom ON HIGJJ. We 4 yield to the znutinct to *eve our- selvesbecause 've, aro, net pertain tht *to goodneee will care for WhO*Ilinv*te-right. will tht right -when the'waY is, clearly meensed out in 04Crretta dirte- tiorts. But faith is the power to do the right when the way is as yet un- charted, to htlicys that there- hi no 'other way for 'NI* soul's...to be- lieve that it .ito losjit all for rigit than ,zuniug the whole earth and losing one's real *elf. 2 ITO nee -4'147h elieVe-in tbe better day that is to be, to have faith to i fit ourselves for t, and to push out into it.. We need faith to overcome the mountains in its way, to stir the sluggish hears of mon who eling.- to old eelfisliness and to change the minds that lieedarinant in prep./dices- ,Thieie-the faith that regenerates and sits. Men are not saved by. believing this tact or the other incident in history; they are leteed by the faith that makes history, the faiththat forms the future, that looks back only to . be inspired to 'Push for- ward; by the faith that leads them to follow truth wherever it mey leett. Being this they And they are walking. With *II the faithful, they are tresding the way that. hat led to every Vitivety_and_lo every_nes-e d eternal' life., • IIENEY F. COPE. INTEIttiATIONU, LESSON, 411$1.. .• ,Lessen„ geroes o faith. Golden Tet, Hob. 11; ' Iotrethiction.-.Why is our lesson • from the Hebrews studied at this "time? Because, perhaps, of. • its Pessihre conneetion.with the ehurth in Jerusalem, which will not again tome so prominently into the 'history at in Lesson VIII. The theme cf this chapter, also, illustratka finely by the missionary tetivities of Paul, our study of which h soon to renevitel-itlx great iorrierstene of ini*sions, as, of *11 • theology and Christie!' Jiving. 1. The Book of Hebrews. 0 *rote the "Epliftlesi The tuithor is unknown. The title„ ascribing the Epixtle to Paul„ found in that Zing 'James version, "forms' ,110e part of the otigittal doeureeet; but it reest ave been given to the bookat * very early date."-Westeotet II. . What Faith Hoer, does the writer define faith I raith is the etibeteiteit, a thing* oped for,, e(he.1 evidenetS 4.4 things 'not\ seen. Faith 11 not hapie, 1184 underlie. hope and render* he* confident. Faith is not the iirisiopt 'of raystries, but that proof Of them in heart, end „life *hien azure* us f them iiithotit any sight of then. IL' Yen Guide.Posis on the 4-13. Hew does :writerthe proceed in his illustrat fin of **tilt With * series of 0winst different aspeet* -f faith, en in. order of time m t Of Genesis. In ran. e(tiort with tech illustration the writer points out some cliersketeris. tie of faith in torte *tut beeutiful Oates thet hieve ',teem* nide. posts on the 'way to faith to all God's ehildren. lV Abrshaimiii Great 'Test f 1/.1R. Whist is the paint 4)t the write, next illuttration The voittio of tett* of faith. The *tett new passes to partienlat and begins with (me of the examples of faith in all hie - he testing tz 'trying") of Abr.* Think how many eagtr hope • ly as Abraham's seed, inheriting the protases made to him. And now his loving father has uttered Isaac up (IL V. margin) --for Abra- bara:s submission to God's will is so entire-that-the-sacrilice is as good as completed and.the lad its good At dead;40 that, when the Mak WU stihetituted (Gen. 13) for the Abritham may truly be mild to have receiveil his .ilon back . again from he grave, „ V. How Faith Gives Pleat! Viiion. -Vs. 2042. What is the point of the next three illuetraitions, those of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph? In each ease, the 'clear vision of the future that faith gives. VI. Moses' Great Venture of Vs. ;23-31. How 'many con- *pieipus instance* of faith doe* the writer note eonneetion with the exodus front Egypt -arid' qt*eonest of Cenielin? Boyce in all -net beeause twee ie "the per feet numbers" nor beeinioe there were not more than seven, but become-tr. 4) time failed -hint 'to recount others, such its the vittory at. Itephidim, the heeling wrought by the brazen serpent the repotof the two faithful bilks. Heaven's Honor V*. 3te.40, How doe* the writer dose example; of faith? ° teleny crowd upon his ° mind, from the times , the judgete kings eve pliete., at tspairs sonic on w' \the condensed awl. malty s 'been king. Ile in. star(' faith Gideon who with onlyhandfitt of men -turned the *tans*, of the alien* eludg. 0.1) ;of Barak, *belie 'ex- ploitlwas *Whit eludgit 4, .0; of Simeon, who stopped the mouths of lions (Judi. 13-10), its did David 1 so. ter ti4,10 and espeeiallv Dan* I (Diut.6); of jephthah Crud& 11, i0), who turned to flight the Ammonite of David, who euledued kingdom* *flain. te 10; 11); of „Semite], who tereneht ‘tiehteousnese (t Raze. 1,51g 3 40.. 'Then followe *crowding rush of iiitenories, the:triumphs of faith n escfpirtcrire,,as Daniel (Dan, 3; tceiving the dead „raised to life *gain, as the widow of Zarephatli 41 Kingi te,1$) and tle Shunam. mite (st Xing*. 4: M-31: holtlinorto th-e'truth in trials inieh *teeing, 'Jererefitle 'imeeortling to „er*Iitioe), ins( sawn , asunder (the tredi- fete of Ietialit. Many °tithe " 1 bete eieuniserated omitted in iolenee during the timesreeideeete " af • - 1'4 '..40teiet14 $ .4.744o; ........... * 124 'hersel , hope hurriedly oSt r. rt, ..foilOAve *4 „ ing about in 1 # ljeletin tbe - dzy; she did not fly int bysteie, and.‘ make ineo liere allusions to 114,, les 111410*.' OA night hive dne. Inteed the increased her • vice &twig' y the„thick hedgerow that surrounded the hese of the tort, and d:ved into an iiiineetitied Nen- try-box that etoter lacing the open :sea. Here, secure trout eliseriore tier!, ehe gave vent to, emit of thee" indignetion that surged -within her palpitating eeeoin. 137 intuition she, knew that • this - thiee..eet,„ foreign -10441g, Man WO. nothing but * mieirrible spy, who, had ,come. to ferret out aometh'in aboutthe big gou$ 01t.:had recent kt been Placed on the fork But un tilnow she' had never believed that an Offltereserid espeeially.an °leer' like Dickeewould be guilty ot-en'ett astardle eanatiet 584 ffick- Mg- in. -the mill country: towaS a strict ; order that ne 'civilian was tt) be aflowed aecess to the tort -she had evenbeen re, Nevi that. Itetmiseion herself -yet here was one of her *tether's moat trusted etfieer* wilfujly disobeying t o •„: She turned looked throughthe smio , tar- pan of glas* in the haek of the sentry - box. troller seized, her when she saw' that the two eemopiratee were coming in her. direction. What if they Shoeldse,e beet Ilastx1" y• drawing beck her dress, he tried to mike herself as town. *Pieious' as the narrow confines .of her hiding -place would allow; The next, moment the sound of their 'voices fell upon the still even- ing air. it was the stranger who was -speaking, in his deep, gruff voice:, - "You Will let inc have the photo aa soon as possibler he was say- ing, with simulated carelessness. "If I can get an, opportunity, take to -morrow," revoitcled Lieutenant Andrews, m *low voice. The listener coul' scarcely re- strain herself.' -04, :thatshe might ste out and -denounce; him then • therel_But_prudeneeioth he would thwart his «fell -design, But she must use cunning. tete ust wait and. watch.. Another moment, and tne,,epy and $ dupe bad turned a, bend in .the thway, anddisappeared from ew. • Constance then emerged om the sentry-box,and set tem, ngingli,er crumpled dress. . That ne to her satiefaetion,• she, slowly traced het' *tops towards.the grey or.* -of buildings known-- as the rt Bursae.- The first shock' ,of the discovery er, she had a strong misgiving at the erhole affair had beeii a, trible dream. it was so difficult associate Dick--or,orather, Lieu - ant Andrews -with anything an or treacherous. Yet, on tiler reflection, she was .forced realize the absurdity of drawing o question. ,the accurate)? Ofher mpaired sight and hearing. o; *lie could not, doubt 'her. sec The stranger watt a, for - too, who heir no rzghtin the fort, worse than all, he etas *homy reeeire a photogreph of tined most important bulwarks o Eastern eostit.- - 014 -Dick," she tried, half ud "how could you -hew could to t- yes- Wird to be compelledruet him -hard to think .of:Ituu at traitor_ Only ' few short r* before she had asked him to ,her for a, sail in the boat;' but had pleaded * pressing engage t, se& so she hed been forced 'moon _about the or the tnoon this preseing gement \was- . But • why 11 upon ill She must prevent photograph from. being taken II costs. • Above *11, she must Dick; she must, toe him from own cupidity, although,. of „I/he ,eeeld never be anything am. niorturtately. she eouid not con hi fr ea do re bi Fo or th ho to ten me tut to int Uni sen eig and to the the - 00 alo you diet ao hou tak he Men to afte enga dive this At eave hi* tour to h milt her father, as he had gone to London ttio i,vry morning, and would not return before the fol' lowing evening.' But, stint shet ws detennined that .tht oreJgner should 'not receive th photognapb he expeeted, ‘`and she determined to tau.' * ,* te that **me eeeni pt uietlyout of t entrance„ inc y to he low bra ided r .father unior P - box, whieh a few hoos ;ly ihc bad placed there for be seriegibled over, dot* on the other • t • iht loyter •1.4 - ;• o gar She UfltUUW, *d1 there p&ced to n:hfliblvt00,4 ,. bas sce ut Vila -*he }id h 'eft ' 14,. one L from nder' i in the tiny glass d.b,iicie„xrrit uito -,a,-* .. gt ct on tb*t s„' n ' )'llettlitli'' eb:eitittde' 0 i .' aged. to 1 mg e r „ ith VU'o' t now shot revealed the -:interior of tL, . wu. here tbat Leuteuant Anareu wee;:veint tu indulge h* his riene liobbiea. In e corner was an easel, in *nether *cycle, and on, a table lay a pal- ette, * collection hottiee. -aed * caniere;, With a- imotherW cry; Constance, seized the ,cauter*.,by the len*„ and, without waiLing to releek" the door,. dashed Madlyzerors. the open ground to the wall. Flinging the erst,:over.i .41te climbed the wall i-400riing agility, and n o apid stride,* *lin -reached, the safety of liet own henget' On going to her reeim, alio buried the stolen owner& at the bottom of her ttunk; theie`-psoiting iind eSe 1,077' • - 'exited she, eltodiied on a chair be ,ore the mirror, and Wed at th haggised reflection • ring the whole of the*next da ovedabout like. --one..in r After lunch, one of the servant* mfonned her of the theft of Lieutenant Andrevei -0,ioneral and added that, the men's quarters were being . searched for the Was- ing article. - ,*-:-Buteonstsineeegave -no sign that est -foe -het- The- weight awful secret was crushing her. It was eating into. lier..lieert. like canker, and if she could not abut it with, someone soon, she believe it would send her mad. How she longed for the return of her father! But as the hour of his expected arrival drewnearer, she began to dreadtheordeal that hie coming would necessitate'. How could she betray the man she had thought the loved? . It would not he easy. .Still, there was no ether course. She must not allow her father to go on trusting him an. suspeetingly. ; she must unmask he traitor, let the toot be what it may! . Rive ,o'elock came. her father would return now at Any minute. 'Six! He had not yet arrived; ,What could have . detained him•l "Sevin His arrival wee still u 'atineunced. conetanee was sit tint -1-iliniii=her-rauther-ilad-jus left the room -when she - heard an foot step in, the..paeszege. Was it at last t - The tension was becoming ter'. rible. But; to.hee intense chagrin, when the servant opened the door, it was to announce Lieutenan Andrews! „. "The major hat not yet -arrived, Allen r he asked, in. his usual theory way.' "Not Yet." Vie answered eoldl • She had risen as he entered, and. was standing with her elbow resting' on the mantlepiece„ her frozen beauty shining, white .in: the light, like the profile of s marble statue. , But the young officer appeared utterly °billy -loot ofthe great change, that had, come over her during the past twenty-four 'hour's. -Whatever his faults, he eesot not given to throwing searching glances into. the feces of his friends each time he met them, ' He had something important to sitk, and be aprossehed eloser to where skest.• , • "Constance," he 'Vegan with an. lin/Atte' touch ot tendernes, in his voice "1 expect to be going abroad shortly, and. such * golden oppor- tunity at the present znal .not °c- ent again. Constance' -iiiialog his eyes to her ried ftee....."/ have long waited for, this hour. I have come to tell you loirt much I love you!" Stepping heek ,..ohe • turned . her flashing eyes' full- upon- him. •She etruggled to .opin her dry, pallid lips- to knithet ',4*!eice &snoodg. tion that rose. and almost thoked her in its effort to find release I but he, door again. opened, and beforthe words of, Are hissed forth,her fit ee entered. . „. "Hello, Andrews t" . putted the Maier. "Missed say ,confoutided tram by just half * minute; Oa the platform, toot t ites. whip ewe!, it snot* anaoying.. Ran into Colonel Cranfield. Hadn't serehim for twentyyears, and, in the joy orgot evolythiug else, train glide out.- Beastly —itatink:Ever/thing is all right,. , ryt)ting but nky camera! repled tes lietttensett dolefully. Ica earth luta Lappeeed to rat" 40stion4e4 *sig,wit hi* way dghter stolen it tJae 1st, in a' tole Inied the major, ," resuase Aga tokA V ZI 0 re, 0 1 a Mdrews. uch fo s p or several days. 14*0 1 IX . • A 10 rinori honor-hs4 Mi hs 1 o °on 1tor , , . et tern r „, ,rettrmix t fora . ;, r flii ., 'Noiho , 11° ' 11;,°. is io 1 *), f " .ed ook at lu 1,1 ' II ' kin r, • unreaistkg. n. le to u every day ' abali leave ou something of mino , a keept thatwilt conotanti Ind' yfoi, 'of mei'' ' Matis quite unnecesserY," she hastily interposed. . 9, have soMe- thin ,1""What zs, .. that?" he Asked tatil:Iiir 0rfs:liwowbkmhuwebilll always lovejsted trust ye/x She finished and hesitated; then, raising her eyes to his..ehe answers ed, in a voice almost ix/audible: , "Your love 1" -London Answer*. OiG 11EM A ROitInD .)1011ROR OF OM, *me �f• the Interesting'Clasees V!det%4 404,449r* • litiver have docters written an *liked so -frankly about us and our is,- It used to b0- theiproper medi- cal attitude to listen attentively to our ;concertsl of our symptoms and to treat the same witn it least an .outward show of respect. The modern enettiod is different. The fad for malting light of eickneos has driven the doctors to show us that they have ail the time been oteretly making- light, of many of our cherished ttlo. They ka02V we were victims or our own,iinegina, tion And they treated that magma - tion in their own retreed way. We haven't had anything like the 414 of drugs -we thought we had. .pbyeician writing in the Ec- clesiastical Itesiew on the general ubjseet Of scruple., tells *time of the Interesting classes of suoiLeasso bich come under the doctor's csre. There are, for example, the people dirt. They fete espeeially. to sett their hands or face and will welsh themselves over and over again, t,wenty, even .thirty times it .dzy. Whenever they touch anything IILEY WASH: TiaEllt "-KAMM. ey requently so rub the skin olf thatthey become sore and' develop vuious form* of sirtifieisd -derniatjtjs bocause oftlu, Iliac 401.4 removal of the epidermis and the irritation .of soap and water. No amount of retooling -will keep them from doing thii. It may be pointed oukt011iein 'that most peepleeenje ip,iite good health without any such solicitude *bout cleanliness, but that maker; no difference to them- -Some. Of UM *Man V110. are iellicted with the atection would not think for it 'Moment of touching door knob; they make all tots of excuses to wart for eoraeloody else to open the door.' Often they willnotconfess their unwillingness to touch sin °Nett that is handled en b so tosay people. " At the door of a *tete they will -lind some .ezt ease to pause *moment until some one els* opens the door. They *QOM not thiuk for * mo. went of handling a library book that had been used by others. They *onetime* put themselves to con- oitletable 41fstorafort and taco*. 'talent* by refusing to touch the boat or railway station or the " Industraile- of °*, porch sir evarl shouse eteirwaye These vitiate, are seausirig *hen th come t� vjsjt the pheeteitn. A very Interesting set of +heeds are those astooieted with looking dewit'fis high places. tretyluely exp,stieuees mom to 110016 degrae. NV 006 taWitkik 0101‘ the edge of 4 high building, JZs ftcn , tt labAy ria, L. :goes, Ho will gvizobrgift- a t they 4 "blood,' to.'ta t lilt. 'for miles,: in nitcly fitrthar than , strength wouid !4urt on the run he to murder When he lite0F4 the blood lust goes out of bine But while be runs woe betide o who .ineets him; he shoo. wzth- eut reference to 10X- Or: 0010r., the sight of * child ineeently in flames him to $4 greater and ;no• deadly extent than in the cue Of an edalle te was a. hot afternoon, and as walking along .* road.of Perak; in the Malay Pemnsnla, which his, sects'the ,town, when .1 heard mixed clamor of yokes, 44,**** inuring toweleis me. 1oouZd at he we* a Malay, SMALL, SLIGHT AND like 11' hie race, tiliteloh clad in nothing but a 10121. X*47 whit le "smelt" siwaysal himself); bed been warned by one o ofileers of the Britishdetachme which* was quartcred in Perak 2 Utookto4he,- trtlief-lettst-iyesi 6 alsY as he_ .un neath shook bbs kris at me 'et sttael exactly 'like that of an Mal. The kris is a. long sword -1 dagger, with a ..wavr, watt.It . inflicts 4 most horrible wound. I truet 1 may never ie ig whet' I saw thou, The pas*ing glimpse of the Itelae's flee, deadwbjt. as the brown skin eYar 0:1)*Preaches to, the hlooel*hot,0 botk told. me be was !Lfainek.." As he rise; * little toddler, n�t more than ten year** old; cameaut , from tieltindeoni of the huts direct- ly in his path. The itteley slitodied, at the ehi,14 ,with 'his kris and most severed the little head from the body, The:mother rushed out screaming anti was *tabbed before the cry had passed her. lips. Two coolies were the .ieset Victims, yczme tuisuspectingly,out o4 t e jungle, and ecattered to night and loft at the eight 4the-- gure leaping upon them. But hunten swiftuess, could see" :the I flamer saw IVA/lint 4040 salt i*eredible, rapidity. The lay seemed to literally bound in * air!' and his wicked knife to scribe a* are to right and left- ;ot 4 1'; - And there lny the two bodies in *dust of the road, wixich, Was ed with their idsod;:th otter time than it eskee me -to welt° this down. Berseuther this is not Actioa„ buil actual tot. 4Tlie MeleY sl'i4 *ice --stiore other, child, ;alas and then his hour of retribution overtock bine - At tha "head et the roadotherelt enters the ,justgle,. came into view any frievel Sergeaat O'Doenell. As he caught sight of the natferns the Malay's supple body eecertai to momentarily street itself. Thea,ha forwerit, *OW O'Donnell Aro on eiae eo. The ernili lit gleamed aloe the barrel of his astiai as amino do** to 'a 'straight, tighl lia.. The murderer was within * dozen y ot-hitte I saw * red streak, se or .,white haze* slot then 'tho oko. • • . The Malay *Prang luto the twitted .eideivari, ased cam* in 4 -Islip. • • "ists I $44 in ray vosind's.e$10 that steady, kueolin te, be* re, eatt the wild staiaid blade, lea atiOnitlit. 141bialib", 1' birth it was tht iery oeoleet Obis ev6r saw done, o any ever likely t B. E., is rearsoaes .10aTitOtIT XL the works:lea * ings must gradually aecustoL to working at a li.igbt, , think 1 can say without btsch ofesesifeteriee,' ,.' 'that filkara are *sore th hall a prieets who bave to Oatirsia, at prof* ‘• „ ' difficulty* titer ezpeni g mese at a bigk altar, at all i 1141 tike levet a the t* Zren houag ¥p *smgl. at distatits theh the iire oft. si however, the*. " *it they Intsy faj ye to elks* to Lb. *alit ' A a 1. %MAO, ..etkokittra... ., 4. Is heosper• den ti*be watehia tba siren fru "thout being sou. 4 '4fr" lazy rails Wkf� le ' • * •