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" Could notthis man, who opened the ayes of
the blind, have caused that even this man
should uot lave diedr—John xi 37,
It is interesting to remember how all
which has happened to Christianity, happen-
ed first to Christ. All the welcome and re-
jeetion, ell the eager love and passionate
hatred, and all the perplexed geestionings
which greeted the religion of the Savior,
greeted the Savior first, and. bave left their
record upon the pages of the gospels in
which the story of his earthly life
is told, If men have wondered whether
the final salvation of the world has in-
deed been attained. in Jesus, has there
not been a questioning echo of *Tolle. the
Baptist's message, "Art thou he that
itould come, or look we for an
?" If men have taunted Chris-
tianity because, withal its claims, it allow-
ed itself to be despised. and trodden under
the feet of men, we can hear their mockery
as in the words uttered. to Jesus, "11 Thoa
he the Son of God, come down from the
CrOSS." If men, by their own suffici-
ency or incompetency, by their earthly
associations and traditions, have been
wounded, they leave cried olit to
the Redeemer, -who offered them redemp-
tion ; " Are thou greater than our father
Abreitamit ,Art thou greater than our father
jeemb, whogaveua this well ?" If theepleitual
region which Cbristiantty has *pelted !me
seemed too obscure, too remote from the ae,
credited interests of mankind, the volee
which declared that 444 religion could not
save the world has only taken up again the
old objections "Can any good conic out
of Nazareth? Search and see, for out of
Galilee arise% no prophet," It is a sign of
the perpetual vitality and deep reality of
Jens. It isa. sign. how Christtheity is bet
an extension and perpetuation of Jesus in
the world, that all geed o arietianity to-
day was said years and yeare ago of Christ.
An illustration of this is to befound in the
verde which I have chosen for my text this
afternoon. The miracle of Jesus was fresh
in people's mind e ; he had touched the blind
man's eves and given him hie sight. Then
the teacher clears up perhaps Lime special
point, or calms perhaps some ininor terapest ;
but the great tumult cloud still fills the sky.
Then there comes to many a man—there has
come to very :many meet in these our days --
another possibility„ another hope :,—What
if it be that God, has, for his people in these
days, a better blessing than any which he
gave to thein. of old? What if, ill:stead of
sending them a subtle and ingenious leader
who can answer questi013.4 and put doubts to
rest, he chooses, by the very process of un-
answered questions and unresolved doubts,
to bring the whole great soul a ma,n, up to a
higher les -el, up, into a broader life, audinake
it ready for a larger mid completer faith
The difference between the old faith patched tees or churches, or conarmateon eertfficaten
and made habitable, and the new faith in there are many things which the world thus lung ese,aped from being tempted? or haa forced you through everytlung, m tears =4 heueeforth be seeepted ENS 014Viant tea,
which ineu's hearts are wide open that far has thriven to eacape, but which now it God grown tired of protecting you e has he in. distreee, to go on, and let bine do for eon tunoey as to their rebgions proficiency.
the truth may go in and out and begins to strive net, t0. escape but to over- ceased to care ? could net He who saved you the larger an a the larger mercies which Gee. Sherinetieff, thecivil Governor of the
livewithout afear, this is thediffereuce coneee:duties which it has ignored, tasks SO Often, IMMO you again ? Them behold your soul required. 0, when he does tee Caucasian provinees, advocate:3 that money
tween the two set e of dreams which men are which re has.ace,ounted too great, probleine what comeinea new mercy, you go into try tie mese any of as with biaJargest wierey,
be appropriatedto subsidize the Russian
dreaming everywhere. One man expects to to which it thought there WAS AO the temptatioe ; your old security perishes, may we be ready to submit to be readY : theatres of the trans•Caucaidan cities arid to
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see old forms of faith, old schemes of doc, answer, which now it must take up., with but by and out of its depth there comes a be blessed 1 establish such theatres in the cities of
trine and of government, restored ; he ex- which it, must grapple, but by ite victory etreugth--not to be saved from dyieg, but a
pecte that all Iloulat wed alldibturbaneo will
be looked back upon lea few days as% mere
dreadful cloud, through which the human
old bee passed„ coming out from it dually
• juet, aS it entered into it SOUIO time ago.
Another man looks for a greet rebirth of
faith ; be expects to see mankind grateful
forever that out of the very grave of unbe-
• lief there came a resurrection to a fuller, a.
different spiritual life. All men who think
at all about the strange conditions of re,
ligioes things today, beloug (0 0110 or other
of these &mem:. Which ie the nobler dream,
my friende ? dream is the more
worthy both of Gad wed man I Which
tepees the more lumeful prospect, for the
peat years to cone?
Nor is thie true only about religious
things. The reel %notion everywhere is,
whether the world, distracted and vonfused
as everybody sees that it is, is going to be
etched -up and restored to what it imed 10
, or going forward into quite A
new and different kind of life whew
precise nature not the wisest Man Can pr°.
tend to foretell, but whites is to be Matinee.
ly new, unlike the life of any other ago which
the world has seen already. Men say that
the world has been disturbed before, that
classes have clashed with one Another in all
the older generations, --that governors and
governed, employers and employed,—have
these are cries for deliverance. "Father, II have spoken mostly, perhaps too much light, and mercy, and salvation which the
thou hast saved me ; save me again ;" it , about the way in which our truth affects the infmite power, the infinite love, the in -
is e cry for 4 repeated miracle. But how !larger expectations of the world. It is no finite God can give. Open pier hefirtstodleY.
wonderful it is! Both time' before thewords . less trim concerning eatth manes personal God Can not, merely do for you, over and
are fairly spoken from the sacred lips there ' career. Let me venture, for a tune, to say over again, what he has done bi the past:
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coines a fuller light ; the glory of the new, a few words on that point before I close. ,he Must do more—lie must give a etew, a
the better, and unprecedented miracles ep- You have lived, perhaps for teeny years, 'deeper sight of his truth ; a new, a deeper
tear* "No, I can not be wed from this a secluded and protected life; "Lead inethedience to his will, Whets Lewes sat
our i No, I can not see this cup pass from I not into temptation," you have prayed with them all atBethany, anethe lentse was
ram leather, glorify thy name 1 Father. ' every morning; every day has brought yous'solenen with the reaurrectuue. Inc. how
not my will, but thine, be done." Tlae mir- 1 thue far, All answer to your prayer ; 'good, then it seemed, thee Christ had not.
aele of eseape is abandoned, and the miracle (hit some day all that breaks up i"caueedeliat this mansbould eathayedied "
of victory is taken up ; thenceforth, not to ;around you, it goes to pieties ; a great temp- And the day will come, sense tune aed
be saved from the sutlering, but to gore the ; ration eomes, and is uot hiseire ; then you somewhere, certainly, for you, when it enll
world, by suffering is lue hone and Pure- ' crY out for the old mercy, and it does not be your everlasting thankfulness and ley
And is he not the type of the world which I come, Was the old mercy, then, no mercy, that your lord refused just to repeat for you
he saYed ? Is it not growing evident that Was in mere aident, you say, that you the old familiar mereles of the past, but
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:some sllart time had passed, end a new COMO tObloW4 M other dais thee these, hut
any vas very trick. mad Jesus had not
need for help bad come. Linens of Beth,
healed. hint ^ be had even came to him ;
he had let him. die ; and to the
people, as they stood around the tomb,
there inevitehly came this queation : 4' What
does it mean'? Neely was there not another
miracle? Strange, that Ito who resteired
sight to the bliud could have found any dif.
ficulty. Could not thin Man, who opened
the eyes of the blind, have caused that even
this man should mot have died?" Mary and
Martha, the dead man's sisters, felt the
same wonder; " Lord, if thou head been
hore, my brother had. not died." It was
evidently the general let:lin—this wonder
at the unrepeated miracle, the unused power
which might have prevented all the sorrow
and. kept tbe dear life alive. And we can
imagine some questions which such wonder
must have started in the minds of thane°
ple. Some must have found, themselves
questioning the reality of the ommtraele:--
, Did Ho open thieblind man's eyes 2 Could
w have been mistaken ?" To others it
t have seemed that Jesus could nothave
ed for Lazarus • it must, have seemed
at if he haa cared for him, and possessed
is power, he would have helped. him.
hen, there mistime-el:men others, to whom
ere came some new light 3—" Perhaps
sus did love Lazaru.s and could have saw -
him, but did noti 40030 to save him;
rhaps not the repetition, of forrner mercy,
t something new read different, was best."
t any rate, the pont and love of jesuswere
them beyond alt question; and so they
vatted. Between this haat and the other
co groups,there is ovidentlya clear distina-
n. These last believe in Jesus; to the
ers be is still upon test and trial. Hero
is the parting of the -ways • here is where
some go this way, and some 'that, and some
stand liesitating at the fork ; here is where
maize on to the greatness of full faith, or
go back into partialness and skepticism.
So was it at the tomb of Bethany, where
men stood wondering why Christ did not do
again what he had already done and what
they ex-peeted him to do, giving 'their faith-
less or faithful explanations.
And has not the same scene been repeated
ever since? This is what I want to speak
to you about. Some miracle is NAN:night,
some manifestation of the eternal spiritual
power of Christ is made; the whole world
recognizes the miracle with shouts of joy.
"How strong Christ is," it cries ; and seems
to feel as if for all time to come there could
be no more anything like doubt or difficulty,
or anything like lack of faith. Then, by-
and-by, as the world goes on, a new emer-
gency occurs, and men say: "There is no
danger; we know exactly what God did,
and we know exactly what God will do.
The Christ who saved us yesterday will save
us again." They watch and listen confidently
for his footsteps, but he does not come. The
emergency works itself out to itscatastrophe ;
there comes dismay, and men ask: "Bas
elitist grown powerless or pitiless? Or,
were we mistaken? If Christ really did
open the eyes of the blind, couldnothe have
caused that even this man should not have
died ?" So are suspicions and misgivings,
so is skepticism, born. But some soul still
stands strong and patient, with more spiri-
tual insight into Christ than into what he
will do. Be will not work the same work
twice ; he never did ; he will do something
new and greater. By-and-by such faith is
justified, and He who did not choose that
this man should not have died, cries, "Laz-
arus, come forth 1" and the greater miracle
ehas taken place where the smaller miracle
seeme to fail.
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No oubt, in all time illustrations of this
truth ve been abundant; but it would
really: seem as if they were specielly plen-
tiful in this day. God's methods of treat-
ment in his world. seem to be mani-
festly, bewilderingly changing. In regard
to the subject of religious thought,
how often has it seemed, in the past, to be
the case that, when difficult questions arose,
men were raised up to answer them? In
great crises of the Church's life, great soils
like Atha,nasius, Augustin, Luther, and
Calvin have stood forth, and, with some
great word, have seemed to satisfy men's
questioning at rest. How is it to -day?
There never was greater doubt or tumult.
Never was the great human heart seeking
for truth, more bewildered or distracted,
How natural, then, is the cry which here,
there, and everywhere breaks forth "Where is the mighty champion of truth,
who is eoming to answer all these questions,
as other champions have answered hard
questions in other days? Where is the mal-
leus hereticorum who is to. beat into dust
these adversaries of truth?
Now and then we hear reports that He
has come: rumors run about : some book
has been printed, or some voice has been
raised, which is to Fettle and make plain
for them all that has grown •so mix-
ed and tinier eIllefble. The rumor always
ends in disappointment. The book or
that things 'MVO always 4 jaStell the/3154M
again tint the stronger have grown a little
kinder, and the weaker lave grown 4 little
humbler ; that the paternal governor"
has grown a little more fatherly, and the
obedient subject hes grown more filial.
Things have gone on as smoothly as they did
before, and so shall it be again, men say.
That is what they expect AS the
outcome of all this conflict end
disturbance, to little do they under-
stand the times which they live. But other
men see clearly that it is impoesible that the
old conditions, so shaken and broken, V411
ever be repaired a.nd Maud juattuitheystood
before; thee the tune has come when some
thing more than a. mere repair and restora-
tion of the old is neeeseary ; that the old
must die ane the new must come forth out of
its tomb, bringing its best spirit -with %—
preserving in it all that is really noble, and
great, and good, but yet something easere
tially and thsolutely new. It is mt. going to
be enough that the strong should once more
grow Lender, and the weak grow humbler,
The balance aud distribution of strength
and weakness is being altered, mid must be
altered more aud more. The great sources
of artifieial strength and artificial weaknes
aro being dried up ; governors and governed
employers and employed, are coming to be
codvoikers for the seine great end.
It is not the old mercies repeated, butnew
mercies going vastly sleeper than the old,—
these aro what men are beginning to see
that the world is needing, and that aro tom.
the to the world which God Invest. We
think of the world's misery; our souls aro
sick,we aro in hunger, naltednese, and want,
and wo cry out for the miracles of old. Wo
remember the Malin& from the skies, we see
the loaves and fishes multiplied by the Mas-
ter's hand, tete we wonder where is the mir-
ale-worker now ; will he who fed the hun-
gry Jews, feed these hungry Englishmen
and Americans ? We are ready to doubt
the old story of his mercy, or to think that
he has forgotten to be gracious, that he has
ceased th care for modern nations whom he
has not " chosen," as NVO say. Then, just
as we are ready to give up in despair, in one
or other of these forms we catch a glimpse
of something better, aomething which makes
us see that the manna, and the miracle
of the loaves and fishes made perpetual,
made the fulal provision for mankind,
would be demoralizing and degrading;
grading ; some new light comes in, showing
the necessity, the nobility, of independent
struggle, and we see the greater glory of the
new miracle—the miracle of advancing civil-
ization, whose purpose is not to do away
with struggle, but simply to make the con-
ditions of struggle fair and the prospects of
struggle hopefuL Into the spirit of that
miracle, if we are wise, we cast ourselves,
expecting, not to see the world's misery sud-
denly removed, but sure that at last the
world even in and. by its misery,
will triumph over its misery by patience,
and diffused intelligence, and mutual res.
pecte and brotherly kindness a,nd the grace
of God. Yes; if you expect the miracles
of the present and the future, and not the
miracles of the past, is not that the secret
of all living andprogressive life? And there
is no otber life for a man to live to -day.
The man is weak and useless who, how-
ever good he be, however devoutly he
feels, looks only for a repetition of past,
miracles, good and greet as those miracles
were ia their own day. Solemnly and sure-
ly to some men, terribly and awfully to
other men, joyously and enthusiastically, it
has become clear to many that the future
can not be in any region, what the past has
been. The world of the days to come is dif-
ferent from the world that has been;
terest of life is altered; governmennsociety,
business, education, worship, everything is
altered, everything is destined to alter more
aml more; only these two eternal elements
remain the same—God said man. What,
then, shall we expect ? Not that God will
guide =eland supply him as he has done in
all times which are past and gone; but that
the neiv gen:eminent,. the new guidance, will
be different for the new day. He Who be-
lieves in that, looks forward to changes of
faith mid life, without fear; for, under all
changes is the unchangealleness of God,
and the material of all changes is the
perpeteal nature of mankind. The ship
thoks forward, fearless, th . the . new ocean
with its new stars and its newwinds, for the
captain wilesail her there •otherwise than
here, will be only a sign of how eleepless
and watchful is his care.
' Is it not interesting to see how, sometimes'
in the typical life of Jesus --which repre-
sents the life not merely of the individual,
but of total mankind,—there has been the
same struggle withwhich we are familiar—
the struggle to let go one kind Of mercy and
pass into another? Twice espeoialer our
Lord cried out to be saved from the future
which•was just before him:—" Father. save
me from this hour ;" "Father, if it be pos-
sible let this cep pass from me." Bete of
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and etreggle enth which musthe suck-
ed ? The beat part of the world, geeing
this new history before it, is saying, Oa JOSNIS
SSW at first, feerfelly, " Father, save them
dying and then ie. again new se -
curtly,. a atreegand trusted character, edu-
cated by trial, eurieed by fire. That is what
comes as the issue of the whole—not vict-
A OMAN IMBR.
He starved Illeiselr so Om lasts:ma Left a
ehedret preaches.
from ties hour," for it does not depremate ory for yens by outeele strength, preserving
or undervalue the tereiblenetie of what la be- you from danger, loth a victorit in you, A typie,a1 raiser (lied two weeke ago in
fore it ; butthen, more boldly, more bravely strengthening you by danger. That is the Baden, near Vienua. His IMMO was 'Wits
" Foe Ws cause came I unto this hour; experience front width you go forth strong liain Wtherex. Be appeared in Baden nine
Father, glorify thy name." It does not and with a power that nothing can Mee years ago, aud rented the cheapest vacant
WA house in town. It had but one story, and
AIR if it is eo with you, why should it °ply three rooms. The Orel evening after
not also be est for the emit for which you hie arrival he went to the city park and
care ? Wrote your brother, or your friend, picked up the Acquaintauce of Therietie
or your child; you pray that he may be Leech, a 7el-yeareilej widow, engaged her to
eitielded in We world ; God has altielded keep house with hilt?, and wasnever known
him ; the wickedness of the world. WA been to speak with any OSO in the streets of Bad.
to him, as if it were on another planet ; the en afterward. For nine yeers be allowed
unbelief of men never affected his bale in iaene save her to enter the home. She
the unqueetioned and unquestionable truth bought heem the barest neemearice of life
which you have taught him ; every night daily, aud leet them on hie threshold. Ile
you have thanked God for the miratae of ate food that a. ;oggar would reject, eleei" on
preeervation eafely continued for another loose straw, mul id his one acquaintauce U
day. Then, some day, all that is over I the just one cent a _ay for her WARM He , of thieme lotit or etelen, natice.a crewmen*
never had his bouso emanee or windows 1 that are wauted seliose names and addreaeee
wells all Rein to give way together;
the lurid flame bursts elt the bewilderewashed, never changed the straw of his bed, ,ca,nnot be found in the address bureau (they
soul ; unbelief, &touting end Awakene(1, lifts and never lad, a new garmentwhile in Bed- ' have no directorien but ouly official adclres
- bureaus in St. Petersburg), and the amen
itself up, aud all the unqueetimaing faith La en.
gone ; you cry out for the old familiar mir. A few days before the beginning of his !of persens who heve servedthase ujeuntlooniars and
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meth ; it does not come. 0 terrible day 1 -lase illness a fire burned down a barn very II hew been dischergeci by
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°bitter auxiety 1 Tempe', and wise, awl 'near his shanty. The neighbore hurried. to incapacitated by the police for such eer-
breve ene you je enewsed, owe tee day higi house to help him save what. he might VieCa, iterielee these, it would, contain in.
for the old, miracle is peen yeu hopes . value amonit his appareutly valuelesti pos. i formatiou and advice to janitors About their
ancl with and pray for it no longer, sessione. He barred. the doer. however, reletious to tenants, eketehes and advertise.
se needed ui the days that are to came. but make reaey for the new inenelee and, brandielume an old cavalry sword be. 'meats. ' ..e lice gezette that is issued
Some men only let us believe in their ag. for the lielP whiell it will he Pura to binit the wimieve, ahouted that Le wo•alt1 now is not 511 meet fer ell this. The Meets
tione, epee to as themselves, and make loi render to the eon' in the new life upon width burn with hie house before he weal allow cipal Conecil therefore proposes to teke the
believe M them. .40Me Melt are satisfied to 111 13 to enter through its tem eation and its any one to rob him. - publicet len of the neee' per upon itself, but
get at God's way of worLing ; other men Wilms he fell ill be &lowed the old Wa. to make u. obligatory .er every landlord to
can not be conteut unless, through every- man who bad brought him hie foed for nine , suliserihe for it.
thinge they come to fthe himself, and, years to enter to care for him cal the emie i A petitises to tbe Governmeut !shelve eire
knowing bun in his omnipotence, Are reedy dition that the would not eharge bim extra. i• =wee he *new eneeeg peewee ee hide
to see ever woe' miracles: coming frorn hie llo hod no doctor, Z9 medicine. 11e order- lieu/en-leg,. se i.ese 3-Severn:rent as wee! al: in
from the sun. The first nue ouly looks to
to •emi the old machinery of the world •
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as '1'5' beederea and. In-dYeeli at'Idlidi w41. tiers leel epee tim trews. - The St. Peter•s•
power as ever news:unlearns come streeming
and the Church repaired and kept in given the °I4 "Mall WaS all' 1.4°1;34 .41 Ild: otererdel to it ; in Moscow, on the other
artier, the other nuin looka to see /dm through deeth, world. In his big ehese hidelen tie eer . .e erne eyes. t.wi, ra_,' nem fa
intese it; the
the world world and the Church over nuide new, Or, suppose it Is death to which we more door beneath the straw on whish he 4:404. aut)51 1 -1.3. 1:",ers ere"; 'ee-dssteend been es ses
ever bearing new testimony, with ever freth literelly give that greet and Awful name. were found $16,000 worth of mreperes, 31,01.4
and living utterances of Hint who has always you pray that your child may live. 44 God shares of Belgian railway meek at elred a " Tee 'fele -`.4'.ireieel estaliiiebed a monastery
deeper and larger manifestations of Himself be* once and i,, no epared bra life ; ean he ebare, and Eeme $49,000 In geld, &ever mei M Neva Zerelea bY way of experneent to
to make. My friends, do not be content not spare it again 1" -ou cry u on seine note-. A lost will and. testa:rem:, weeeh t'•'el ede...lefeeller the meek' "'lila ex.ereide
with believing in God's ways of workin, dreat ful nighte as you stand by your ehillirts the old Man had apparently femme, v.eis wed° e2VILSINg M teller: on 0 people in a
but in God's woe% awl actions. Iusist upon eick•bed, counting the pulse, watehing the- also found in the eheat. It beeseesefese to distant north. The experiment. produced
bellevine in God not merely for a rePetition feebler 03,(1 feebler flutter; of Go Ineetie his mother in Zierke, Germany, ii•eienits arel ewe:rabic results. Now a resolution limi lieen
of the intracles of the past, but for evernew The morning COMO (Mt no is dead. the rest to the village. s ' adoptee to establish told Menitateries in vale
mid richer miracles ; for you will feel, above Has God been deaf to your prayers? emu; polies in the Government of Arch.
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prove that the old miracle was not real, or
Wee not the best miracle for ita time ; but
the new time i$ worthy awl vapable of the
mireelea ; mid. if it rises to it full privi-
lege it &tea not met that the old &mil be
preserved, hut rather thet out of the death
of the old. new end better light may come.
And 1 bid you to think 'whet is the differs
ent and higher kind of feith -which euch a
change involvea. Tbese who, liming diet
leezarus was ill, helieved that Christ would.
come and Mtn frombie as he had
opened the blind men's eye; had faith in the
old miracle ; they who were willing that
Imams ehould die, knowing that death
could not take Mtn out of Chriet's powers
that Christ would atill do fur him what
would be best, had faith in Christ. That is
the difference—that le the everlasting dif-
ference, it seems to me—in people's faiths.
There ie the faith in what. teed has done,
which believes that God can do it again ; and
there is the faith in the God who die it,
which believes that be reit do whatever else
Eirsabethpole, Erevan, Alexandropole, She-
magh, and leases. The objeet of the theatres
should be to effect the Russianizseion of the
teans-Caucasian :subjects tif the Czar. The
money which he wiehea to have appropriated
for the perpsee is to eowie from the fund*
which the Mohammedan subjects of these
provinces pay to secure exemption from
nailitary duty. Be also wishes tohavopob,
lie libraries and reading room in the tranee
Caucasiau cities established by the Govern-
ment and eneinteinedby the reepective umnie
. .
cipalities.
The elunicipel Council of St, Petersburg
proposes to publish a "sheet for house jam -
tors," Ligtek Proratkor, in which will
be promulgated all the information which
landlords and jeuitore ought to have, ordin.
awes of the City Comma and the Felice
authorities respecting leaullords and ten,
ants, the flea and puuishineute inflicted
n jai -liters by the police comes, notices
doubt ; happy, au wise, am breve are you
if, decerniug that .11.541S had something
better to do for Lazarus than once flume to
ewe him from dying, e'outtand ready at the
tombeloor to receive him aa lie comes out of
the tomb, to loosen and teke off the grave-
clothee, to give Ifim the raiment aue Woe of
A living man, to welcome him into the new
and larger life 'which ia become poe.sihle to
you, anti beneath you, tend aronnd you, the 0, if there is a new miracle —if, beyond the
thetairaele which brings throng death, to taking Into the r own hands the salt mums
the life beyond,—then God bas not been roue men maw r 'r rrnung the of eastern Siberia, the 'Ministry of imperial
A despatch frontsays 1—Wore
inexhaustibleness of God, in whom you be- miracle which saves from'dyin , there is A BATTLE VT/TII WOLV:18.
lieve. In order to revent private monopolies
And may I say thee can not believe that
this truth width I have just beetepreaching
has some true relation to the spirit which
hes filed your great nation during the se-
parate days of this great week of Jubilee?
it. has been a high festival of grateful thee
°ley. Thiele/itch I have been speaking of is
the real loyalty, the aeceptance not merely
of the ruler's ways but the ruler's self,
the confidence in character, the as.
surance of wisdom, the trusting what the
ruler does because of 'settee the ruler is. That
loyalty eau be absolute, and unquestioning,
and complete only toward permetness, only
towitre God. It is strong and ardent toward
great constitutional systems, which seem,
however, not the expedients of the hour, but
the utterances of the fundamental ideaaand
eternal principles of liberty and justice ; but
it grows with grateful afreetion toward a
monarch. who for many years has ruled. in
purity, wisdom, and obedience, over people
who have been wonderfully prosperee her
care. It is a privilege I most bighly. value,
however I may think I have no right to
stand here, however I may think that
some voice out of your own people
should speak to you on this JubileeSunday,
—it isa. privilege I most highly value, that
I may utter the congratulation of a. sister
nation, and one that owns the same inherit-
ance from the great England of the past,
with you, upon all that has made the last
fifty years illustrious in England. The cata-
logue of wonders has been fully told, and I
need not try to tell it. It has been painted
on canvas and careen on stone, it has blazed
hi Bre on a thousand walls and been told in
burning eloquence by hundreds of impassion-
ed lips.
The most wonderful, and beautiful and
glorious of it all appears to me to be that
without which all other beauties and glories
would be only sad, --that sunplicity, and
radicalism, and return to fundamental prin-
ciples, which, behind all the apparent arti-
ficialness and complication of our • days, is
the real characteristic of our time; that
opening of life down to its depths in every
department, which, coming in tbese last
years, she has made us dare to hope fer
growths in the future far greater than any
that the past has seen. Sad indeed would
be the jubilee which had only memories and
not hopes. The day in which we live is a
day of great hope, because it is a day
of first principles, of radicalism. Be-
neath the shaking of many things, many•in-
stitutions, many creeds, many precedents,
who does not feel under his feet the things
which can not be shaken, standing firm with
a newly realized and immense solidity? Be-
hind the fading miracles of the past - who
does not see the greater miracles of the fu-
ture, dimly but gloriously issuing from the
purposes of God? The fifty years which
have done so much, are great the .fifty
years which have made eo much more
possible, are greater sail ; and if, as all his-
tory assures as, it is not good polities and
crafty calculations, but purity, and truth-
fulness; and trusting in God, and care for
man which give the world's great futures.
their best chance th be,—if it is the eternal
womanly in human lifwhich ever keeps
that human lift.',bpen to the most gracious
infhienees of God,—who ' that ern
any distance, across any ocean, looks
at the touching and impressive picture
of the Queen of England on her throrie
ef jubilee, should not , claim to offer
to her and to her people. his , exid hi
people's affectionate and respected tribute
-of congratulation and of hope? What
American especially, who remembers her
noble felling of sympathy, her tender watee-
futhees, in his own hour of distress and
danger, again and again repeated through
these fifty years, should not rejoice to say
"God bless her 1" with a grateful beetle—
:nay not say, with devout end earnest thank.
fulnese ? ' •
iangel and in the Petchorale territories.
deaf. Your child, livthg with him, speaka
back to you, and Lays "Hc who bas saved
me often, has meted me now supremely ; I reached the city the other day of a -deeper.
am alive, not frons death, but through death; eta encounter on Monday last. betsveen four
huthermen who belong to this city and a
pack of ravenous wolves in the woods Dear
Gordon Creek on the Kippesva River. John
and ;fames Barrett, Peter Murphy', and John
McManus are working in a shanty near
Bois Franc depot. All f'our had quit work
he bas saved me. The laid best=rade
has come ; I am alive ; ani saved ; 13818 liv-
ing and safe forever more."
To that last miracle eve mustall tome. A
thousawi times—yea, every periloua nem
ment—God eaves us from 'dying. There is a
moment on the way eir every one 01 188 when on Monday evening and started to return to
the preservation from dying will be possible their camp. The Barrett brothers, who were
no lunger; we shall pray, my friends will ahead, verged a little from the brush road
pray for vs, there wM be prayers in the in order to examine a trap which they had
church 1.—" Again, 0 Father, spare him, set inthewoode to catch marten. Their two
and let him live 1" And then the an- companions went on ahead, but had not
ewer width is looked for .will not come proceeded more than ten minutes when they
and be who has been so often saved heard loud shouting, mingled with ths bark -
from dying at last will die. Wel it
be a sign of God's forgetfulness? lf
so, then God has forgotten all his children
:Ind let them every onmeither as little chil-
dren or as life -worn veterans, drop through
his careless fingers ; for all have died and
will die. But, MD ! If, as we know, the real ing themselves -with their axes against a
life lies beyond, and only can be reached pack of fifteen of the ravenous animals.
through death, then the old miracles are Murphy and McManus ran to their re,scue,
nothing th this new one ; they are in it as and not a. minute too aeon, for one large
little as was the miracle by which, at Naz- animal haa torn the trousers of James Bar-
areth, Christ walked through the hostile • rett and inflicted a wound on Ms leg with
multitude and went his way unharmed,— his sharp -teeth.
as little as that miracle was to the great The four men then laid about them, and
miracle of resurrection, in which, through were appalled to see that the pack was grow -
death, the Lord of life came forth to be alive ing larger, being re -enforced by a number of
forever more. equally desperate animals. After tenminutes
Could not Christ have saved Lazarus from of this fighting for their lives seven of the
dying? Could not Christ have saved you or wolveshad been killed, which had an effect
me from perplexity, ortemptation, or doubt? upon their companions, for they turned tail
Surely these are questions which have and fled. All the men were bleeding where
their lower and their higher answers. Re they had been bitten, and when they met
could, because the power of life and Foreman Charles O'Neil and his men a short
death was in him ; but the power time afterward their blanched faces showed
to use the power is dependent upon other plainly the ordeal they had undergone. No
things,—dependent upon the necessity in doubt remained in the camp that if the Bar -
Jesus to do absolutely the best he can. 11 11 retts had been left to fight it out alone they
were best for Lazarus to die, then Christ would. have lost their lives.
could not have caused that Lazarus should
not have died. That is the sublime ineapa-
eity,—to stand with the gift of life in His
ing of wolves. They hurried back along the
path, and soon discovered the cause of the
terrible uproar.
A sliort distance off the road at the foot
of a big pine the Barrette were standing,
their backs t•ii the tree, desperately defend -
A Socialist's Opinion of n Dny'sWork..
Property advocates die exploitation of those
mines by the Government, and the appro-
priation 01 86,000 rabies for the purpose. At
present salt is sold at 70 kopecaa pe peed
ted pounatelif the Government untimethes
the mining, the price could be reduced to
00 kopecks at once, and ultimately even low-
er. In that ease elle price of Siberian wit
would he fixed. by the Mining feommissioe,
in roue:motion witb the Govenor-General of
Irkutsk, and criminals sent for hard labor to
Siberia wouldbe employed.
In 'order to preserve the foreste of the
empire, the Ministry of Imperial Property
has issued the following regulations: I.
Forests shall not be Out through, butinsmad
portions at a time. 2 When a part of the
forest is cut, the ground shall immediately
be eleared of the rubbish and fenced in, so
that no cattle eau graze there. 3. Shep-
herds are prohibited, under a heavy fine,
th build fires either in a forest, or within
the limits of a forest in places that Lave
been cleared of the woods.
On Nov. 7 (19) fourteen plans for a :few
monument to Catherine II. were exhil wed
by the Society of Architects in St, ters-
burg. The new monument is to be ereeme
13 Naghetchivan on the Donan. In all the
plans exhibited the Empress was represent-
ed in a standing position, 38 118 the moue-
ment recently erected in Simferopol. On
the base of the monument in eorne of the
plans appeared the figure of the Archbishop
Joseph Dolgorookoff. The inscription is to
be "Justice," or "Strum cuique." The sum
of 25,000 has been appropriated for the new
monument.
alepowerfel hands, to see the cry for life in The English Socialist, Mr. Hindman,
the eager eyes, to hear it in the dumb is reported as saying recentlythat physio -
appeal of the pale lips, and yet to say, "No; legless said that eight hours hard work a day
not life, but death, is best,' a,nd so te be' was too much. A horse could not be worked
incapable of giving life. That is the sub.: more than three or four hours a, day. The
lime, the divine, incapacity. • I effect of overwork was that the workine
Could not Christ have answered that classes died at just half the age of those who
prayer? No, he could not. Not because lived upon labor—namely, at 27 instead of
the thing you asked for was not lying in his 55. During periods of strike or distress the
treasury, but because, behind the question death rate actually fell below whet was
of his giving or refusing, there lay the funds,- normal, although the workpeople were ex -
mental necessity of his nature asad posed to semi -starvation." As Mr. Hyndman
his love,—that he should do for you, has not seen fit to name the physiolgoists
his friend, his brother, only the who condemn a day of eight hours as being
absolutely best. The thing you ask- excessive, or to produce the statistics whicb
ed for was not absolutely the best, but show "that the working classes died at just
only the second best; and therefore he could' half the age of those who lived upon labor,"
not give it to you. Back of how many un- i his statement nsust be taken with consider -
answered prayers lies that divine impossibi- able reserve. Should it be found true,
lity ! Is it not true againthat we must know ' however, that" during periods of strikes or
not only God's way of acting, but God hind' distress the death rate actually fell below
self, if all this can become perfectly accept. ' what was normal," a period hi which if any,
ed ? 0, the way in which we make God a , worry might be supposed to have greatest
method, a law, a habit, a way of acting, in- sway, it will necessitate a revision of the
stead of the great, dear, loving personal na- familiar saying ;eat "worry not work is
ture, all afire with affection, all radiant wile the enemy that shortens men's days."
light 1 , Such sweeping general statements as those
That was what Jesus was so full or—the of Mr. Hyndman, while theymay deceive
i
living God. He would not let God, for a the ignorant can only result n estranging
moment, seem to be a method or a law ; God the sober-minded and thoughtful portion of'
was always a life. And our theologies, and the community.
our ecclesiasticism a,nd our religions, are al -1
ways trying to beta and trample God doyen'
into a law again . How they have taken that The rleath is announced in England re
and stereotyped the range and possibility of
great word faith," and made it meth the Harr
old set of dogmas, when what it means is the
that life belongs! How they have limited roundsin 3 hours and 8 minutes., in 1854.
Poulson was 72 years of lege. When he fought
wide openness.of the life, to God, to whom
I Tn..
and yet the latter haw bcen dead 24 years.
Sayers he was 37 and his cpponent only 26,
Harry Poulson, who fought Tom Sayere 109
gth in love with him, e handsome
miracle, when only what God bus done in
some red ages they think God can do, and so young carpenter at Work assumes the most,
do not stand ready for the ever new fadoinating hews,
The Pan -Slavonic mess of St. Petersburg
and 'Moscow has discovered a new derelic-
tion of duty on the part of the Finns and is
trying to make capital of it. During .thet"
reign of Nicholas I.,the eity of Vasa in
land. weiedestroyedbv fire. The Finite ap-
plied fee ithrt-nission to rebuild it, and pro-
mised"to name it Nicoiaistaatin honor •e the
Russian Emperor. The permission was
granted them, and the city was rebuilt. But
the 'inns persist in calling the city by its
old name, even in their ottleitil (leonine:its-
To appreeiate this grievanee it mast be re.
membered. that Vasa is the natne of a Swed-
ish family of ancient nobility, which pilau°
ed men who fought against the Russians
The Xing of Poland, Sigmund Vasa (1587-
6171 vsas a scion of that family.
The polyphone, or electric trumpet, se an
original instrument. Its operation depends
on a current being periodically interrupted
by the vibration of a plate, when a continu-
ous sound of peculiar tone is produced. This
electric trumpet constitutes an apparatus
midway between the telephone and the
electric bell, for the latter of which it may
be substituted with advantage in a great
number of cases.
The most remarkable experience yet
known with the use of oil to calm the waves
during a storm at see i t het reported by
the steamer Miranda. On her recent voy-
age from St. Johns, N. F., to New York
she encountered a northwest -gale, which
erew to a hurricane. The sea became so
rough that the steamer came near founder -
mg. when it oceurred to the captain to try
oil on the waters. With about thirty gal.
10115 of pare,ffine in bags a calm sea was pro-
:limi
ed n a circle about the ship. Through
this circle the steamer made her way with
f,afety, a,u1.1 against it the billows without
broke harmlessly. The repeated success 'oE
Oxperiments uhder similar circumstances
stm :costs the propriety of including the oil
• hest miter', for the purpose among the arti,
'es made peremptory' by law for all sea-
going craft to carry.
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