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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-1-22, Page 2THE MODERN PULPIT. THOU ART THE MAN. BY Tan REV. C. V. CnENET, n. "Ant David's anger was greatly kindled against tbe ruan ; motile sale unto a than, "As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surly die ; atid he snail restore the Iamb Menotti, becauee be bath done this thing and because he had no pity.' Ana Nathansant unto David, "inou art the UAW: sant. xn. 5, 0.7. There are some things which we remem ber by their negative rather than their posi- tive qualities. The bell -tower of the great cathedral at Pisa has a hold upon the mem- ory and bnagination of manithed, not on ac- count of its rare architectural grace, but bee muse it leans out of the prepenalcu/ar. So, perisape, David is remembered by them:14er- ity of those who know his aistery, not far his qualities that were kingly, his talents as a poet, his excellence AS a man, or his faith sae ehild of God, but for the one great sin which blots his record. There are lessons in his fall whieh it. is evident that God meet should never be forgotten. 1. The account A David's great sin vindi- cans the leanness and. lustiest of God. When A, man professmg holiness falls like an estk snapped, by a sudden blast, it is an easy and aweeping method of disposing of the ewe to say that he always was a hypo. erne. When, in a hurricane, the steamship Vera Cruz foundered off the Florida coast, L0 one drew the coadusion that Axe was an uneneworthy and rotten hulk. It by no means followed. But when a Christi= mau goes down auxidet some terrible cyclone of ten:plata:in it is argned that Ise wea always rotten :A the heart. Notice how that. anginuteat applies here : had beeu de- ist:wed to he " man after God's ea% heart ?" a Is adultery, is murder, altar God's own heart!' eries the ceviller. There is a sneer upon the lips of every emeration of unbelief wben it reeds how Nathan fetid to David, " Thr Lord kWh. put atray ell thy sin." " Is this the holy Goa of whom Christiens toak ? How eaaily does he give absolution to this royel elidarr .Nov whet is the meaning of this apparent- int:0114,Stent compromising with the horri- ble guilt of Israel's king? Let as look at ealusly and clearly. It it be true that the Bible here represeuts the holy God as trill• ing with the blackest crimes, and eoutlouiug the mast raonetrous wickedness, the let us honestly aeknowledge that the Scripture IS beeonsietent with itself. But let us not ruaii hastily to a. conclusion. What lil. the Divine forgivenees of David isman a When the prophet CAW to the eonseienee- atricken kiog, Tee Lora teeth tn. away thy sin," he oahleti, " Thou elielt not the.' it. nos an a-surauta• that heel:multi not Immedi- ately be cut tet Irma amongst the living, as he telt that lite ells titeenveti. tiodewould give bins tow at " forth fruns meet tor Itmeatamea' 31(AWAVer. It gave to j)on here A heaven. It haid to 11110 that he was ma tor ever barrea out trout all reach of tat: merey. But at t1te:et:14e time Gael eloenet His hate of sin. See how He nustaitel it, wlaile Doviths life was spared. leol tnest sulfenthogeot, suiting; out Ins , anno e et the perils of battle while he re- istaisani at teem in luxe:tante ease, a ressay prey to Setan. hint Nathan :enures hun dee he hes known Isis last dee- of quiet and reel au tarth : " The sword 4ialI never de• pelt men tiae- hotsee." He hell yielded to the ea I1T1.4115 SIVay 4.1 %%bleu ful lust. He kiiSJIIIA the. Ian 1iv Ala LICA to 4e0 1214 OWII reprettneed among itis own elsilaren. He heel annulated murder, tor he had " slain Ursula tle: Hittite with the word of the ehilthen ot Ammon." He should not die, bsit ; and live to Fee the hasul of one of his same real unit the blood ad tuaother. He had rebelled, against the plainest 410181 tat the lung of Kings. He should not lest live ; anal live to eee himself fleeing from his copied eity, driven lions his throne by the rebellion of the Sot) whom lie blindly los ea olieve his other aliases!. But that is not till. David ai,1 ale at last. He a al.. gathered to hie fathers nearly thirty centurit•s ago. But the memory 01 his ein liveta. Like tee pits eplaorescenee which gleams throuell the sogla from sense dela and deate • ing tree, tie aloes the lurid light of David's sin hover t‘ht. re his grave. Her are we to- day, in a remote genet -anion stud a distant land, unable to forget the sin whieb teel put away. It is only the horrible immortality of wicktelnets. My brother, I plead with you not to be satisfied with ultimate entrance into glory. Yon are putting off becoming a Christian be- cause you believe that hi some way you will attain heaven at last. Is that enough? Will it make the last hours of earth more blessed to kuoNit feat for twenty, thirty, forty years, you live for the world instead of Christ? It may lie joyful to set sail and emigrate to a better land than that in which we live ;but will it east uo shadow on the hour of embark- ation to remernber that we have spent our sojourning here sowing thistle seeds that all posterity never can root up ? But I may not leave this branch of my subject without another thought. It is this: David's sin was the sudden upheaval of the evil nature, like the unlooked-for eruption of an apparently extinct volcano. I have no smooth wordswith which to palliate its guilt. Fire is fire, whether it lie smouldering in the walls, or flame forth with a lightning flash from the summit of the roof. A sin is sin, whether it be a secret in the soul, or a sudden outburst in the life. But I have this to say to those who sit in condemnation upon the king who had been a man after God's own heart. Do not cry out, "Here is one of those hypocrites Who sing psalms to God's praise, and yet wallow in wicked- ness." For here is hope for a man who sud- denly falls into sin which is contrary to all his previous life. It may be like the eddy in the stream, which seemed for the time to turn the current back to its source. But what about the sins which honeycomb the heart, eating into its very texture through the years! Ah, beloved, the sins which destroy men's souls are those which, unlike David's, seem to usso smallthatwenevertry to check their corroding power. They are the little iniquities with which we are never shocked and startled. You say, as you pick up your newspaper and read some sad story of the fall of one who has publicly pro- fessed the Saviour, that you thank God that you do not pretend to be a Christian. My brother, wait a moment, and hear me. Deep in your inmost soul there live, and have lived for years, low desires, bitter animosities, cher. ished purposes of revenge, habits of demi- in little things. Would you be willing to have all your methods of conducting your business put into the focus of the world's scrutiny? When men have 'praised your generosity, have you never been glad that they had no means to go behind the scenes and see the ropes that moved the machinery within ? Those things have never shocked and horrified you like such a fall as David's In that fact lies their danger. They move like an army velvet -shod. The King of Israel,, overwhebned at the greatness of his guilt, recoiled as from the preeipice's edge. In horror at the sight of himself, he fled to repentance and the repentance and the bosom of las God. But your daily and hourly sins do not shock you. Because they seem so little, you do not repent ; you do not flee to Jesus. Sometime ago, off Nahant, I saw tfle rea light on the rocky islet known as "Egg rock." Now and then in a tVelVeMonth there comes a sudien hurricane from off the wide Adautie. The rage of the great breakers makes the granite tremble. But no sudden storm ever put out the light. Yet on a summer evening, when the ocean lay pulseless as the dead, and the stars were shinuag brightly in the sky, I looked in vain for the red beams). Iii particles ofmoisture tootiny to be seen, the silent leg had climbed the rugged elitt There was no noise. There was no hurry. But the light was blotted onit. Reloirea. It. in terrible WhAlfl Slatanervr. ries the Bout by storm. It is more terrible when he wire@ With the years, and with no tread of feet. I should have more hope of some who hear me, did they fall into sin which suddenly surprised and shocked them. II. The text reveals the deceptive t of sin upon the conscience. The power of looking into one's self is one of the mysteries of the mind. We have no bodily organ which possesses such %power, I cannot with my eye behold the retina, the crystalline lens, or the optic nerve. But ex aetly taat strange ability, God has given t the minde While I think, lam museums thinking. In a word, I eau so invert the action of my toted as to watch its own operations. But the effect of sin is too de- stroy, or at least to weaken this marvellone power. It prevents a man frent looking in at hist ewe; soul. He sees other metas char- aeter axal Arnaud, and forms his judgment concerning them But his own eenduct and his own diaracter seems to be beyond the. vision of his spirituel sight. Take Me ease of David. Nathan came to him with the story of a great wrong. A. rich Mali with exceeding mauy IlelH mut herds, had spared to take of Itis own flock to give to the wayfaeing Mil that wee cosue Whim, Lt t robbed Isis pear mightier of the one ewe lamlithateonstitutealds solepnestasion. I low quickly Aloes the royal cousewuce respond te that appeal. It w:ss no wickeduessof 'disown that troubled bins, but that of another. His eye is lot:king outward, and he sees the guilt of Ids subject in all its blaekness and, mon mity. There is 310 reason to defeat Davin's- sinetnity. The eondeumation that rose to his: Nee wee the honest expreshon of Isis real feel seg. It only show:3 hoW Sin van lama anti pre - vela 1. Ise Cing444110:. state the conseience isensitive, but only to other men's sine. Dark wsss yea t .tinly alive to the wicked- nes4 of this aim Ile clearly$AW the rapacity of this tinuesetion. Ile realized he eruelte. Ile perceivea e istoottitutle to the God who that there ought to be a bottomless pit for such guilt. When France welcomes back to her embraces of forgiveness the red-handed Communists who butcbered white-haired men, and dashed out the brains of little childreu, the conscience of a civilized world creed out that no Repablie can tong endure such contempt for its own laws. The Gover- nor of New York is blind to- the tears and deaf to the entreaties of sentimental men and women who plead diet crime may be shielded and the solemn seutence of the law reversed. And the conscience of somety ap- proves the refusal, " anol all. the people say, Amen." But what has become of God's law, God's govertunent ? Ibis revolting to our modern taste to speak of -future penalty? Then it is David's case over again. Onr conscience is quick to recoil frone other men's sins. But We live without a pang, indifferent whether God's law be fulfilled or broken. In conclusion, observe that God's aim in the Gospel is to deal with men asindivid- nels. John Swart Mill has somewhere said that the most dangerous sign of our modern civ- ilization is the want of individuality. The saying is true in a different sense from that, in whieh the English philosopher meant it. • There are streets in all cities where all the houses seem absolutely alike, No man has given expression in any one of them to any thought or idea of his own. There is a tend - may of that sort in human nature. Weseem to build up character on the pion of univer- set sameness. A SIMI buys a farm and goes into fruit eulture ; but he nevertries ta make all kinds of apples Mete exaetly alike, On the contrery, if he suctieeds in aiscovering a meding Whose flavour is wholly different from any other ever produced, be feels that he has achieved a triumph uot to be forgot- ten, But when we enter on the culture of the mind and soul we seem to proceed just the other way. The plan amiss to be to merge all individual character in, the mass. It ie easier to drift with the crowd than to have distinctive eon:actions of one's tame It appeals to man's natural love of ease to make himself a part of the meat eurrent, whatever be the (Unction of its stream. Now the effect of all this is the t as of a sense of personal responsibility. Wioin 5. 1114111 is putout:al he takesrefuge in erowa. Ile loses himself its the unast of inultitutle. Ito is 0)14 (1! the great su iss, inere drop inereeti in the mighty ocean. Precisely so do men escape moral and reli- gious convictions. I am max tioiug as the world does.' or, " Public opimon is on MY Side." Orn "The people think thin, or do that," is tbe quiekest way to get rid of the trouble:seine questions which muscience puts to the individual mem I think that this state of things has been lista given this riels twat so abutulantly. He encouraged by much of our preaching anti felt the monstrems nature of the crime, anti religionsi effort- Front pulpit and press the Jus sewn of honesty revolteal at its meannese. ere is, " How shall we reach the masses 1" There is no doubt that David felt all that ht* WU inventnew methods to at expressed when bis indiguation buret forth NN e regard our churches as fThI if tfra against tIse %Aim which Nathan bad. so 110 not draw like the latest show. Heace vivialy litseritell. But can you underatand quiet religious work is despised. To try to how, all the while there sbould be no peiag panting lais soul with agony for the rapacit winch had robbed his neighbor of the wife • of Isis leasena for the cruelty which hail set the brave man in the fore -front of the hotteet tattle, for the ingratitude whieh forget that Goal bad freely given to a shepherd tatty a. monarch's splendour and authority, for tbe dishonesty whiell luta sought by mean subterfuges to conceal Isis hideous crime, e No, 'brother, do xsot de- • mine yourself. The same ilistorting of con- seience to see the wicketines of other men, -while blind to our own, is as common to- day as when Natant and David lived. There are few men who do not find their consciences rising up in stem contlemnation of what is opposed to honesty and tar deal- ing. On this most of los probably pride ourselves. And when we know of e ease in Wilieb our neighbor has withheld What is justly due, our seuse of right and bouour is touched to the quick. As with David our • anger is greatly kindled agaiutat the man. Ilut herti ettortIsa ease like this ; Your life is the gilt of God. Its pretervation has been Ilis ceaseless care. The ability to snake your way in the world has been altogether of Him. He has given yea every element that has made up the success of your eareer. Speculate about it as you will, ha secret you admit to yourself that it. ;Janice was right when he wrote, "Every gem' and perfect gift is of Goal, laud cometh down trom the Father of Lights." Is it not com- mon honesty to recognize publicly that obli- gation': Is it fair and just to seize eagerly all that God sends, and all that life gives, yet never stand out boldly and manfully as being on the side of the (liver? When, as in these days, the very being of your Heaven- ly Father is sneered at, when blasphemy steals even the Sabbath to revile the reli- gion of its author, where do you stand? Has your conscience been touched by the thought "Am I dealing fairly, justly, uprightly, to accept God's ceaseless gifts, yet stand aloof from outspoken Christianity? Ah, my dear brother, it is the oak, staunchest and sturdiest of trees, that is most frequently twisted and distorted by the winds. Itis conscience, God's witness of Himself, that the blasts of sin twist into a dwarfed and misshapen caricature of its real self. FOREIGN NOTE51. land roamed s.bout the country with well - !armed tompanions, and was most probably Breslau, the capital of Silesia, is to be killed Juan encounter with other robbers. made into a that -class. fortress. iSeveral Turkish bandits, who Nvero caught President Carnot cototemplates the entire elides° still kept in prison, are believed to demolition of the fortifioations about Paris. he implicated zu the. murder. Stotau is The latest modern improvement is to drop nova to have couutue, tae M in the abbreviations A. M. aud , that of his Aster being among theist.- - AS. for example, 11 A. and 4,30 P There Will SAM be an entrance fee of a A journalist in Pesth has use.de Koch's bane for Vatican museums. lymph the subject of a new play which will A Freneh pair of Siamese twins has been be presented shortly for the benefit of super - -born in Cannes. They are girls. annuated Hungarian actors. The Conunercial Travellere Society .beTinhgeablaoi;stg to write wrSiairhas taken to literature, e en aemunt of a tourney Francea founded ten years ago, has 7,500throug1l his country, in Fab, Mr. George Alexander, formerly Irving's assistaue now managing the St. James's Theathceikssualigdtiutoeebes, centemplating a trial of4o Mrs. Wbistline Shaw bas baa great suc- cess in St. PetAburg, The Russiaus are supposed to have a superstitious horror againet whistling, but it faded out for Mrs. Shaw's beneat. ..The Russian Ministry of Education has adopted a plantopromotepopularedueation in Bessarabia. Scboola Neill be established and teachers maintained at the expense of theGovornment in all the towns of that legion. A rani -cad line willbebuilt in the Caucasus along the coast of the Black Sea. It will run from Vladikavkas to Beau, over Granata Petrcvsk, Derbeen, and. Koebia There is also a, project for a line to be built frail Vladikenkas to Tiflis. A. company of wealthy Men has been formed to open iu St, Petersburg a " ethnological exhibition." Living specimens of the various rams and trilmax that populate the dominions of the Czar will Ire collected for $11QW, together with semples of their thvelliugs mai the appointmeut of their houses, their shrines of worship, their gar- ments, the food they live on, the prolucte of their peculiar industriesa awl even their Mantlere and habits of lite, if poesible. Should this exhibition be successful, it will be earrietl about to all the itoportant cities ot the empire. The American show of the "Wild %Vest," in Moscow arta St. Peters- burg last summer, gave rise to the plan of this undertaking. The Abghasiatts, a mountain tribe of Cau• caste, follow Use very primitive enstom of stealing wives for themselves. If a young matt kidnaps se girl he likes, he makes her his wife whethershe isagreeable to 1110 12141011 or uot This gives rise to frequent fighte between the families of the tribe, will& never end without human surfaces. But if the kidnaped girl likes the man who ba.s taken her, site nets as the saabinian women in an - dent Rome did. When her family declare war against ber groom, the runs to tueet• them and to appease them, anti if they don't listen to bee entreaties Ale joists her hut:VW in fightagainst her own kin. members. The President is M. Brisson, member of the Chamber of Deputies. The 110 -ton gun just pat on board the Sanspareil after three shots with reduced charges showed cracks in one of the strength- ening hoops, which had shifted an inch out of place. The Academy of Sciences of Cracow has just published a poem of the sixteenth cen- tury which treats of the same subject as " King Lear," The copy has but lately been discovered. A discussion upon the modern pronuncia- tion ot English leads to the observation that the letter It has ceaeed to be beard. There is now no differenm between law " and "lore." Tbe royal Saxon collection of china, the fineat lot of Dresden china in the world, has just been greatly increased by the addition to it of the 14,000 pieces of Dr. Gustev Spitzuer. The =sewn now contains about 342,000 pieces from the Meissen,factory. The rise in the price of meat in Germany has uot only inereese4 the general consump- tion of horse flesh, but in western Germany has lea many of the peasants, who benched to forego the meat market altooether, te draw blood for blood neusages every Satur- day from the Jiving swine. The blood is lot into sausage SUMS, la Crinkled with fat, and, after having thiekened, is eaten with sauerkraut for the Sunday dinner. Prince Nicholas of Montene,grohas 01512011 - el in his official gazette that every one of his active warriors shall paint during 1891 200 grapevines ; every lingaitier mustplant aD, every commander and under eommaud- er of a battalion, JO ; every drummer or calor bearer, a. Every guide, moreover) mutt plant two olive trees, aud every 004." p11141 one. The stemette calculates do in muse:pence oi this order Montenegro aill have 4.000,00 grapevines and 20,000 olive trees on next Jan. 1., save an indsvolual soul is tho small a 'hula Less. The weakness of many revivals of re- ligion lies just hem. They are attempts to push a erowd into the Gospel fold. They main to forget that Christ, the titled Stale, herd goes (sut after the one sheep that was lost. -Hence, the very souls who need the Gospel most, are waiting for the crowd. They Neill go to church when the aisles anti vestibules are thronged with a vast multi- tude repenting and believing on Christ. Now the whole Bible iswitues$ that Goa,. in His blosed Gospel, aims at juet the oppo. site to all this. He deals notwith theerowd, but with the individual. " Then art the man " is the 00110 of (sod's voice in every human soul. His aim is to set you open and by yourself, ana alone wit.* Him. lie wonla have you in this hour mallet- your isolation, your solitery respons1lar1tie4, as *Waugh no other being inbabited tI t Brother, for the moment IM Ond hen: 1i1 way with theta Let this assembly pas• frees thy view. Thou art alone with God, as thou wilt be when thou sin& go down into the dark valley. God saith to thee, " Thou art a sinner." Thou answerest, "Yea, Lord, all tnen are sinners." But God answers thee, "Thou art the man." Again His voice speaks, "Death is near thee, perhaps very near." " Ah, yes," thou. murmured, "it is no true, all men must die." "Ten, but thou art the man." Once more He speaks, "Lay thy sins on the Crucified One to -day: Christ died for thee." "1 know it, Lord. Christ died for all men." "Nay, sinner, nay. Thou art the man." But David's conscience also recognized that justice demanded the punishment of sin. In an old New England town, they pointed out to me the ancient "whipping -post." It was the ghastly relic of the barbarism that measured justice by the cruelty of its punish- ments. Hearken a moment. Thereisa solemn oath on David's lips, the oath of a royal judge, "As the Lord liveth, the man that hada lone this thing shallsurelydie." What tablet? Ah, David, that is a terriblepenalty for so small an affair as the theft of sheep. What is one ewe lamb to the death of a man made to God's image? But David was look- ing at it from a different point of view. He thougbt not of the value of the lamb, but of the grand underlying principle of a man's right to his own property. Was a rich man thus to grind the poor while he sat on Is- rael's throne? Was might to crush right? Was robbery to intrench itself in the very shadow of King David's power? There was nopunishment too severe to vindicate the outraged supremacy of law. H w (-Lula was David's conscience to recognize that at all cost the sacredness of property rights must be maintained! But, strangest of all caprices of the human mind, he saw not how his own principle condemned himselL Hit conscientious devotion to the right led him to denounce the terrors of the law against a Expense attending the movements of petty German oflitials isillustrated in the case of the Saxon commission for estimating the damages to crops during the manieuvres of $axo,rktroopi2. The commission travelled .tte infiles at an expense of all to assess 4laut*tges .estimated at at?, but subsequently anded down to 85 cent). A reportthat thia an t of bureaucratic extravagance Was fre- quent ha' i led Chancellor von Caprivi to onler that • such trips shall he undertaken in the future only when large sums of money are at stake." The Hamburg eompanien in which Capt. John OAK 0000 the Arolointe Jeletim of Austria, brewed his ship, Santa Margherita, h we announced than in case they hear nothing about him before Jan, 14, they will then pa.y over the amount of the polimes to his helve. Dr. Hertzka of Vienna has juA received front his brother, a Government cng neer in Mita a letter conedning these wonis "Oral's ship was chartered to take on 4 loaa of :saltpetre at Junin, in the pro' 131100 Tarapaca, Nrhich after the last Nvar with Peru fell to Chili. The ship has foun- dered heyoud gi1 sluelow of mamba It has g sumer with mutt and mouse, and this is .tl dee van ever be known of it-." A Wonderful Petition. There is on its way to England from India a petition to Queen Victoria which is an ex- traordinary one. It is more than sixty feet in length and bears the signatures of more than two thousand women of India who pray that the legal marriage age may be raised from its present limit of ten to fourteen years. The grievances of the Hindu women stir the sympathies of the whole English- speaking world. Something of the horrors of the life of a widow there, widowed per- haps at an age when Canadian girls are just entering upon the brightest moments of their lives, may be gathered from an extract from catechism which a recent translation of a book by Ramabai gives: Q —What is cruel? A.—The heart of a viper. Q.—What is more cruel than that? A.—The heart of a woman. Q. ---What is the cruelest of all? A.—The heart of a soulless, penniless widow. The suttee has been done away with in India, but some of these wretohed widows must almost deplore its abolition. To be burned on the funeral pyre of their husbands would. undoubtedly be a relief to many of them, condemned as they are to a wretched, degraded existence from the mo- ment the breath leaves the bodies of their conjugal lords and masters. ! Harr Agerailaw, of Copenhagen, has in- t-a211e:114 thaeloight, fire-alurtn, wlsielt is calhel ties " tulnimitm." It 0018.151 S of a small earn -alms fillea e ids a Bengel light comps/. sition, laud provided wills a fuse made from pate:Wen), chlm ate, aud sugar. On the fuse is a etyma of strong sulplutria acid. \alien the temperature of the room rises above the melting point of paraffin the sulphuric acid is liberated, and ignites themixture of tailor - ate, which in turn sets fire to the Bengal light. The device can be supplemented by a piece of fusible metal, which in melting will establish an electric current and ring a bell. A telegram from Easington dated Dec. 31, stated that the barque Iris of Grim - stoat, from London for Grimstialt in bal- last, was ashore at Kilnsen. Crew saved by rocket apparatus, but the vessel will be- come a total wreck. A telegram from Laurvig dated Dec. 31, stated that the steamer Alpha, from Ant- werp to Christiania, had gone ashore andlay badly. She was obliged to lighten by throw- ing part of cargo overboaru. Passengers saved. It had been thought that lightning could not strike a train. The theory has received a complete contradiction. At Dischau (Prussia) an express train, running at the rate of sixty kilometres per hour into the station broke down the buffing apparatus, run into the interior facade of the station, and broke up against a neighboring house. An investigation established that the ac- cident is to be attributed to the effects of lightning, which fell upon the train, kill- ing outright the driver and stunning the stoker. An immense shoal of porpoises, number- ing thousands, has been cast upon the north- ern shores of Zanzibar Island in a dying con- dition. The cause is unknown. For days past the inhabitants have been occupied in burying them. Fifteen Hours in an Open Boat. The Welsh newspapers report the ex- traordinary adventure of two lovers in an open boat in the Bristol Channel. A young pilot and his sweetheart had arranged tojoin a number of friends in their Christmas fes- tivities on the little island of Flatholm, in the Bristol Channel. Daring the summer and autumn pleasure -boats ply at intervals from the Welsh coast to the island; but steamers were not available during Christ- mastide. Nothing daunted, however, the pilot with hisficoicee embarked in their own criminal who did not wear 11 crown. The boat. Everything went smoothly untilthey crowned robber in David's palace, David's got into mid -channel, when they were sud- conscience had forgotten denly enveloped in a dense fog. Losing Shall we pour out the vials of our wrath their bearings, the blighted pair rowed on Israel's lung, or shall we stopand think about for severalhours, and eventually struck m for a moent ? The fai shion is n our day the Culver Sands a long way down the chan- t() be silent about any punishment of sine nel. They again put off, and, after hours of God is a God of love. You must not talk exposure to the bitter winter weather, reach. about His justice. When you get to certain ed the Holm shortly after midnight in an passages you must close your Bibles, unless exhausted condition, rowing into the haven. you know some interpretation that will The faithful pilot carried his prostrate lassie fritter them away. But that is when we to a cottage on the island. The young lady, are thinking about ourselvee. Our conscience who had borne the day's fatigue and anxiety about maintaining the law of God wakes up with the utmost fortitude, has since been vestigation into the murder of the Pope Sto- almanacs. sometimes when we deal with others. A confined to her room in a critical condition, janat Podgoritza has revealed an extraor- Cynieus--I know it. They • do that to Universalist paper, recording the details of but the adventurous youth has happily re- dinary state of things. It bas been shown make the people sick so they will buy their a horrible crime some years ago, , admitted covered. that Steam himself led the life of a bandit, medicines. • The press of St. la•to eiburg and Moscow have been for tome t ms figlating against the exorbitant charges for drugs at the ;apatite. aeries', Now they have found 5 caste, lo IIL A Moscow physician has peeseribed a Mon for it child Solut. oehilliortei 3 per emit— I. WO, which in the language of common mot • tals nseant the solution of one ounce la borax in a kilogramme Of water. The arugr gist charged for the lotion one rouble and sas kopecks. A reporter got leala of the pte- seriptionefound out its meaning aud discover ail that the mixture was not worth more than two kopecks. Further inquiries re- vealea the fact that every drug store basite own pri ees ; estimates for the same pre - se ript ion weresought at foerteen pharmactes in various parts of the eity, and the prices for it ranged all the way front thirty kopecks to MS rouble 'and seventyefive. Columns upon coalman are written.371 thS papers upon this subjeet and legislation to control the priees of drugs is demanded. An atrocious murder was committed on Sunday at the village of Merlimont, near Berch Sur Mer, the victim being an old lady the bride pass over it. They believe that if aged 89 years, the mother of the cure. the girl is not virtuous the Are must harm The crime was committed .while the latter her. was absent saying mass at the village chluelt. The mountain tribes of the Caucasus are After taking the woman's life the murderers threw her body on the fire, where it was afterwards found with the head half charred. Robbery was the motive of the crime, and it is believed that the police are on the track of the criminals. The Ruselau Ministry of the Interior, upon the recommendation of the Medical Commission, has &signed. a 11031' set of laws for pharmaceutic -al colleges and for drug- gists. Accordiug to those laws women will be allowed to practice in the capacity of plutnnacists. Flans are 11031 preparing for the establishment of phannacoutical colleges for women ; they will be submittea for en - previa to the imperial Cabinet. The Lista of Revel, Russia, reports that hi the neighborhood of Goldingen there are seven villages whose inhabitants do not beloog to any of the clams of society in which the subjects of Russia are divided "They are ueither counts, nor barons, nor princes, ma nobles, nor merchants, nor townsmen, nor peasants." They style them- selves Kurische Koenige, and enjoy the privileges of nobles, aids -ants they live and work for themselves like simple peasants. Up to 1854 they paid no Government taxes, and were exempt even froni military duties. In their local administration they subject themselves only 10 4.110 ruling of thew "Ober Hauptmann," without whose permission ilot even the simple " Hauptinann" may leave bis village. Historically no one knows how .hose peasantshave procured for themselves the rights they enjoy. But there is a. tradi- tion current among their neighbors diet los important services they had rendered to the first Russian conquerors of their pro- vince those privileges wore granted to them. Among themselves they cherish the tradi- tion that they are the descendants of the ancient kings of Kurland. They keep in their church a flag with the picture of a king of Kurland on horseback, Nvhich they regard as their family heirloom and their escutcheon. The same image is cast even on the old bell of their church. An interesting heathenish usage exists among the Polieshooks (a Ruthenian tribs) in Volhynia. A bride being led to tile church to be married must pass through the fire. A small fire is built for the purpose on the road, and the relatives of the groom dis- pose themselves in files on both Aides to see 11:14 AGREEABLE Gm. A Combination Thad More Tha- Ten Meta are Loohing *or. The aggreeabIe girl 1 She is sometimes rich, but seldom hand. sine, yet we all like to meet her in this w eaday world of ours. S1f meets one cordially, does not rush up hy erically and, catelang at one'a band Oz' area; Wed one with her effusive iaquir- ies, for she is in the highest and best sense well bred. ' She is always well dressed, not conspicu- ously, for that savors of vulgarity, but her areas m always ha lutrineay with the time and place. Soiled gloves and skirth with a. fringe of braid that should have been re- newed are never seem\ If one 18 111 aro my 1ut-KM:1S5 no disagree- able maned is introducebat stall jar on the sensitive nerves. 'Lent, indeed e IOWA in SO. ; but by lugs. ening to She is not necessarily br seldom, yet she ahvays bolds ciety, not by storsning at bis her keen sense of the fitness of She understands the art of lie Ahern My lady always takes pleasure in inn- ing people with like interests, mot in kee them apart that she may m000polize each turn ;for to see Ahem happy adds 10 lter e joyment• She enema newcomers in the church 02 home half way, and does not forget faces when she meets them two days later. Her appointments are always met prompt ly. If impossible to meet the eagageinent she writes a note at once and eeplains,there• by seeing much discomfort and inconven• lessen She uover addresses her gentlemen ae• amends:nem by their first name ; that lama etrity is reserved for him Nr110 has a dope claim, than Imre etemmintance. She is well versed in the current topknot the day, and does not blunder through a eonvereation with statements of which she knows nothing. Site does not inform an artist what the standard works of art- are. He is suppose to koala. Sho minds her own beehives, leaving ether tolook after theirs. A. Cilium liorrar. Chinese newspa,pcm reeeived at San Fran- eiseo eantain au ottiend report of the Gover- nor of Kangsee detailiug the penalties in. 1110(4(1 on he inlaabitants of a village near Shanghai, who had penned Dearteen soldiers iti 411101' boat and burnt them to death. Thesoltliers were officials of the salt depart. rnent, and were anthorieed to confiscate all salt whials had not paid duty. They found alteap of salt which they suspected to be vontraband, and haN-Ing partly undressed, they began removing it, aims the villagers attacked Oman thinking. they '41440 pirates. A fierce nein ensued, win& resnited in the 'soldiers ben stretched senseless. A smug- gler, whom the soldiers had previously triennia and left tied in the boat, was howl - bee for assistance, and tbe villagers, on go. iug aboard, saw theuniforms and flags lying it the bottom of the loan and discovered t hat the supposed pirates Nvere really officers. alley thereupon decided te nonceal their erime lay Iml-ning the hosiestid soldiers. Thirty villagers <tarried the soldiers to the loats, which were dragged to the mends ot, the nver and burned, every vestige of tbe erimo being thus destroyed. The Governor sentenced the ringleader to 1m beheaded, las head to be exposed at the scene of the occurrence, four of the patticipants to be strangled forthwith, and four , others to re- ceive 100 lashes each stud to life lemishea itt perpetuity. The magistrate 'who failed to report the crime was let off with SO lasbes., Some stir has been caused in social circles at Marseilles by the report that a mysterious .duel was fought ha the neighbourhood of Marseilles on Sunday, between an Austrian nobleman of high rank, living in Paris, and a leading member of the aristocracy. Two shots are said to have been exchanged at fifteen paces. The Austrian was wounded in the neck, but the surgeons succeeded in extraceing the ball. The affair rose out of a purely private quarrel. A lady who was concerned in the matter arrived too late to prevent the meeting. She endeavoured to obtain access to the room where the wound- ed men lay, but was refused admission by one of the seconds, and she was obliged to return in the evening to Fens without heaving seen him. A telegramfrorn Sofia states that the In - emigrating in large numbers to Turkey. Russian settlers are not slow to take posses- sion of their lauds. The Government has been petitioned by such settlers to, divide the lands that were vacated by the Caucas- ians into regular settlements and to estab- lish proper judiciary circuits there. But the Governor of the Kooben district has in- formed the petitioners that 'ho time has not come yet for the central Government th take into possession and to dispose of the lands of the aborigines. According th the new laws to be promul- gated in Russia, Jews will be forbidden to hold real eetate in all the dominions of the Czar in Europe and in Asia; Jewish crafts- men will not be Snowed to settle either in the capitals (St. Petersburg and Moscow) or in any of the largest cities of the empire. The Reason. • Humorist (boastingly)—Why, sir, the patent medicine men put my jolces in their Roll, BigRibber ofjordan. Ole Joshua wuz a mighty moat man, Roll big ribber of Jordato 'When Moses died, be tuk common', Roll big ribber of Jordan. The Lewd' He tole him he mus' go, Roll big ribber of Jordan, An' take de city of Jericho, Roll big ribber of -Jordan. When (ley come ter de ribber, deep and wide, Roll big ribber of Jordan, The waters rolled back on either side. Roll big ribber of Jordan. Then (ley all march roun' and blow'd em horn, Roll big tibber of Jordan, An' de walls fell down on de seventh inawn, Roll big ribber of Jordan. Then tley march right in an' had er big fight, Roll big ribber of Jordan, But de Lewd he gub 'em de city dat night, Roll big ribber of Jordan. we all gwine ter join old Joshua's ban', Roll big ribber of Jordan. Were on our way to de promised Ian', Roll, big ribber of Jordan. We've got ter fight our battles, too, Roll big ribber of Jordan But de Lawil He'll see his chillun through, Roll big ribber of Jordan. CROItt'S. Great bi,g ribber, de Lawd's own ribber, The ribber that Joshua crossed. Not a Ilan to be Trusted. Landlady—Does the steak suit you , Boarder Perfectly, madam. a Landlady—How is the coffee? Boarder—Delicious Landlady-aHow about the Muffins? Boarder—They could not be bettor. Landlady—Your references were unex- ceptionable, Mr. (e ats, and you appear like a gentleman ; but I alkali have to ask you to find a new place to board. Such replies are highly suspicious. The Worst Yet. " How strikingly this reminds ma of the words of the poet," remarked Simple, after complying With a third request to pass - the butter. " What words Mr. Simple ?" inquired tbe hostess. "Life's butter -passing dream, "was the. reply. Master (to servant whose feet are badly- swollen)--" Have you ever been treated for• those corns, Mike ?' Mike -" Niver, sor, but Oi wouldn't mind to.kin' a drink wid yer honor." It is a great thing to love Christ so dearly - as to be ready to be bound to die" for Hime but it is often a thing not less great to be ready to take up our daily cross and to lig for Him.--Vohn Caird.