HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-3-19, Page 7revolve aroune the Enea, and Jupiter or Sa-
turn five times as long, their years are five
timeas In; axeao, therefore, "Thy years
0 God," with me it mom three hundred
and sixty-nve days ; but in &tern or planet
it may mean fifteen thousand days, or any
Dy TrxE LATil aExar wARD BueuRA. other aecertainable number. Time is uot the
same, therefore, everywhere, sine it is
Jesus Chriet the sarae yesterday, to -day end measured by certain pbenomene, from such
forever,—Ilebmws 8. a change, fm one period to another per.
We, perbaps, should bave ezdd," iod-
nally the same." The Hebrew language Now, the Apocalypee .says that in the
was devoid of generic. phreees, .0 by a heavenly estate, lathe spiritual M which we
series ef particulars which renderen it mere are advanetng, 'Oxeye is no thne. Time
picture:gee, though leee philosopeically shall end. There ut no gen, 110 mom
definite, it attempted to express the Inez.- God es the light thereof, and the very
praseible, "Yesterday,' meauing all past bounds 9r terms by which we measure time
time, "to -day," ell the present, cycle, and. Melee Hoeft, heyend the night of a law
".forever" the eternity m come, the same. years we areguided only by the imagination.
There is great diffieelty in the revoke Eternity and infinity are poetic phrases:
lion of God to men; awl the difficulty does
not he in any other thing than the want +rsf to excite in us the flight of the imagination,
containing power and ineerpreting power in and not any dentine knowledge.
is. No man can understand, except in the
vaguest and remotest way, anything from
above; 04 is, any development of the rney are part and parcel of every day's ex -
higher fores, or of higher thinhing power, penmee. They are fundamental to our
or of a higher eispoeition of which he hae ceedition in human life. Ie is fuuclemeutal
pot the rudimentary elemene in himself. knowledge with us from the craele ; cluinge
The Attempt to teach the ardinabs beneath upon change, from yonth to manhood. ;
tut spends itself. purely in mechanical tricks. change upon change from nuothood
We ceunot team the most intelligent animal, to old age. Md ebange itself is
the dog, to cencatenate idea; to have a of differeut kinds and different degrees
kennel sequence of thought, There is a nod! When the idea is applied to God,
cef law ruclignenterypower ofessoeiatiosa Pow when ie is mid that He le unehaegeablei
end then in them, so that by biding without "veriablenets" or shadow of tem
a Wee they will find it when they want it inn," thet His "years shell have no
owl when they are buttery; but to be able are we to underatend change just as among
to rRiae u°eg° mid herds le quite 'herald a men ? We should remember that our know.
dog, You can tench a (log to obey cone ledge of God is limited aud that there is an
Maud; you cell teach him tban you, are good- overplus a being beyoucl cour thought,
natured, or that you are offended ; bu you Doubtlees we understend as much of Him as
cannot teach him duty, the acme of milt la developed in our euseeptibility ; but to
arid wrong. You can teach him the differ- isaythatOod ie no larger than a manntheught,
ence betweee cutting so es to win a, cares% or a mut is preposterous. -Attribute after
SO as to get 4 kick ; but when he le by hum ettribute may have mime to view with the
self and, of himaelfoyou =met teeoh 4 dog light of in knowledge, vaster in
the idea of siding right because it la right, every direetiou, not alone by quantity but
and avoiding wropg bemuse it ie weenie .Al be quality. What other ettrthutes titau
the wisdom of Socrates, of Plato and of acne which are susceptible to our tinder-
Arietotle would not help it a bit. Men, in standing exist, in the divine nature men may
all their seponnecy, with all their know- sometimes imagine, but no man can campre-
ledge and patience and tut, can do noth- hene ; and the things that imaginetion itself
beg ;
fora clog will graduate ea a dog atilt, copies forth to language is tee weak to ex -
amply becauae he ha n not gat the elemeu- press.
feu fecultim of higber perception in him.
lt in the SAMO thing when you so among
men' Yon menet by catechism, creed,
ek'quvncn or anything else, teach a Wage
much above the level of savage thought, feel-
ing and training. You have got at least to
take time. In other words„ you have.got
to develop. in hisat that acusibility into
Mantle as into a oil, inetruetion inay be
put. Teat is alone The slowest thing hi
this world is the growth of intellect and
nora1 intelligenee innhehumen rare. It its not
poesible for the conception of Gocl to enter
late the heart of the human meet except by
tbe steges of gradual unfolding in the race
Area by which men find the counterpart of
diviue life and thought in their own experi-
ence. Until they learned what truth was
they could not understand wbat truth was.
Until there was some rude apprehension of
inetieee it WS of uo use to repeat the word
ennice m connection with God, It left no
mark. It was a pencil that would not write.
Until men had tome senseof persoual purity
it ems ail in vein that inspiration Drool:timed
Godee peaty. It WaS a blank to them.
Hence the net of unfolding the nature of
God bee to elle eonsenteneous with the grand
fact of the Ihnfolding of human e0i1SeieuS-
nese, tho moral conselousnees of the race.
In the early periods me. learnee of divine
power lergely from the elemeute of nature;
nom the etOrM MUT the thunder and the
lfghtuing ; from winter and isuminer then
from the heroic among men. Zeus and Her-
culese and Goliath were gmnd old brutes,
who beat don% everybody. Their will and
thoughts and ;tete were the flats from which
mon gathered some cow:option of divine
omnipotence. It was e mane and erne]
thought that they heel of uod ; and it is not
extinct yet with many men.
But little by little, as the individual in-
creased and improved, the thought of God
mellowed and ameliorated. As men became
purer, and mankind through the ages slowly
gathered moral and intellectuae susceptible
ity, we find that the conception of God be-
gan to blossom out also. There was more to
it. There were more elements in it, finer
and more beautiful. Thus on, clear down
until you come to the philosophers—and
they made devilish work of it, —the school -
:nen of the medieval period undertook to
put into their formal philosophy the concep
tion of a Gocl and a moral government of
God over this world, and succeeded at
last hi making A ssitanie thing of it. It was
in intermediate stage. Better is the God
where better is needed. The human race
Save been taught real knowledge by illusory
knowledge from the beginning. Fancies
precede fact, and fables prepede actual
truth, in the history of man. Children learn,
twill not say by falsehoods but by fictions;
they learn whab the truth is finally. So,
)11 the way down through the whole history
of time, the human race have been learning
</Teething better while they were practising
eomething inferior or worse. We are living
now in a day when household love has be -
Qom° the stimulating centre of thought. The
divine character is emerging thus from the
shedes of an inferiorinterpretation and be-
ginning to shine with a millennial lustre.
While the new God has been brought out
through the unfolding of the human race
itself, and is still being widened and en-
larged, there are some elements in it which
we shall never understand here in this world.
For example : the extent of any single attri-
bute. You may apply as many adjectives to
Lt as yon please, but adjectives are all of
them poor. They are the crutches evhich
feebleness uses. A man's style that is full
of adjectives is full of holes,. and adjectives
ere the patches and paint, not covering but
ng where they are. So you may ap-
inea of infinity. You may say " irn-
" you may say any other thing you
that IS te. say, they are phrases whicla tend
But " eliange that we ven understand
and " unalterable—that we can understand.
Indica
ply th
meesit
please s ea yet limand lingers. " A
tlionsand years in Thy sight are but as yes-
terday" --that is a sublime thing to say, and
makes a men's romantic feelings jump in
aim. Without weariness, without shwa-
ber or sleep"—that excites us; it makes us
;aka a long breath of the imagin-
etion. Yet when we come to ana-
,yze it, what have we got? "God is
,rom ethrniby to eternity. But what is
eternity ? There we go again. No man
eau form 4 definite conception of eternity.
The laid; Hem18 this,—that we measure one
w y and God measures another. If a man
should undertake to explaiu what the con
-
Wiling power of a gallon is by a tape line,
it would be a good while before be got at it.
Any determination of liquid measure by
dry measure, or measure of length, or any-
thing of that kind is a false method as plied to that particular quantity. Day and
night, to as, are simply the revolution of
the earth. When the sun kisses the brow
of the morning it is day; and when the sun
says "farewell to the day -it is night—
light and shadow an the time ; just so many
hours turning one half, and so many more
turning the other half. 13ut we probably
f;tad alone among the planetary hosts in the
length of the day and night. 11 15 takes us
one round period of dasee 'tailed a year to
etnnet
AR that we enderstand iles within the
measure of our noanre ; hut Wee:n(1 that,
yet to be tueleettoogl, may he vest po-
tence:a to whiels we than come. Columbus
thought teat he had discoeerel a new world
when he had only diecoveregl an Wend. All
the coutineut ley unopened to his vision;
but it was there. We may*bink thetwhen
we have got as far as our horizon we have
got God, but when we ride higher we ebell
linel Gat 14 was only an out post, only
enough element to eueble us to stand and
climb beyond. While eve de understand
vertatn (vanities of the divine nature, its
extent and quality we do not unci erstand.
Amulet understand, what liquid wits if I
had never seen anytlfieg else nut dew;
I should not know what was meant
by water; but when the dew is poured
into the crystal stream that breaks out
of the eide of tho mountain I understand
about water—a good deal more. When may
rillsaincting togetherrun into a brook there
is a goal deal added to myconception of
water. By and by the spring bee:eines a
river, and the river conies to the bay, and
the bay itself embus:ghee to the ocemeeneome
passing the whole globe. The drop gives
me the idea of quality. But it dace not give
one the idea of quantity. Theimmexisity of
the divine nature cannot be inferred with
adegelate approach from anything that We
'have in our mortal experience.
Now, in speaking of God's undange-
ableneas in the light of these brief and
very insufficient qualifications, we mean
unchanueablenco of character, Ibis the un-
ohangeableness of the divine attributes, and
not absolute uneheamea.bluess, as we should
express it of inclividuls in human language.
There is a ;powerful idea borrowed from
the Greek mind that God is an unchange-
able, period being. Certainly the Apollo
Belvidere never °banged after it was once
made. The grand. work of Phidias, after be
completed it, etood inichanging, and bat
for the barbarities of war would have stood
to our day unchanged. There is an impres•
sion among many that God is not much
better than a magnificent crystalline statue;
that time, which wears all other things,
does not touch Him ; but thatwhat He was,
lie is, without a fluctuation, without an
emotion. The Greek conception was, that
if you carry up any attribute to its perfec-
tion, it cannot change except by deteriora-
tion, and that is not to be thought of in
God; and the passivity of God was
thought to be really the crowning
perfection. The whole force of Scripture,
however, from the beginning to the end,
without qualification, maintains that God is
not passive that He feels, and that His feel-
ings vary ; that they rise and and fluctuate.
As the music of the 'band heard in the dis-
tance, on a moonlight night, swells and rises
and the wind sweeps it away, and it comes
again, and all the pares have their own period
of supremacy, and settle down again that
some other part may have its turn, so the
divine nature is forever fluctuating, forever
rising or falling, forever changing, if by
change you merely mean vital action,
change of proportion, not of quality, a con-
dition never carried to absolute'-atationary
excellence, but full of vibrations, full of out-
play.
No one could love a perfect helms, who
was always unchangeably perfect. Draw
the porerait of motile': or over. You ceerish
it, it thrills you, bemuse the memory brings
up to you all the ten thoueaudpeseeges of
love, all theflashes of lip, and all the opales-
cent and evanescent qualitiee, that the °rig-
inal had. It will never change at all, and
its unclubngeableness in suggesting change is
just what melee it interesting to you. So
the unchangeableness of. Christ Jesus is not
to be regarded as a plan of things as fixed as
settled. as are the stalactites of the Mammoth
Caves, bulging in their whiteness there in
the dark, year after year unchanging, and
She stalagnites that go up to meet them,
never touching the stake tites,
The bounds of God's being you cannot
measure, ; but within those bounds the emo-
tions play, and we may suppose that within
those bounds the emotions are somethnes
those of justice, sometimes of mercy, some.
times of leniency, sometimes of love in all
its varieties; the feelings in a perpetual
change, suggesting that He is never stagnant,
but forever changing. The qualities do not
change. Truth is never other than truth;
love is neva other than love; compassion,
than compassion. The purpoies do not
change, not what may be called the struct-
ure, if we may speak of God es having struct-
ure, that has none. The structure and the
qualities of His nature may be said to be
mielterable ; but there are immense, enor-
mous and incredible and incomputable
changes froin hour to hour that make being
sweet and lovely. 1.
I had as lief write love letters to nuur -
inies in the tombs of Egypt if they were
not so horribly, homelyas think of send.
ing love and affection up to one who is what
he was and what he is to be in all the &-
tells, In all the vital elements. What is sa,
, n„ , I
She life forever new, nnolitineing as te, .ne eaw the young man who looked Allen I
yeb as versetile as life, that gives vexit to hire and loved hive Yet the divine love is The Sabbath Chime.
the imagination to roam in ell the greet 4 love tlaaegoes beyoud the reflection of its Sing penite to God who reigns abosille
circuit m which god lives, It is hardly own queliteee,and is willing to suffer in penal Tito God ot alt creation.
Tie
necessery to suppose, for iestance, that suffering and sympathetically to make the ' ttixeCI°0404,0foliplouvr°rgathlveuetigru .01love,
in
the round of ereetzon there is nothing new experieriee of every creature that is ere- With /mann balm znir steel Ire fills,
to God, no addition, no new combination of etedpare and parcel 9f its own, daily eon- '4na 'ff°114eithlese Inur4lurstil:s;
thought. To euppose that God ban no new tinning love. We have not rban, to any, To '''''' all P"'j° a4c1 Cli°r5r.'
experience, no advanee in any eway, no new mien grace me then, so that the part el the The •Angenhostt 0 Einn et Mena,
Invention, nothing that is radiating, : divine nature can be made weeny eompee- I, The' Praises for ever telling,
is to Una Ifien, In that sense teed heusible to as. Uwe this rule which, Christ leue=,:trAti,,94,1,loggIeVgriongs,
la not to any thought, urichangeableleame to make known—the reigning power Adore the wisdom which could span,
but endlessly is eleauseebble, leroduetion in ni God's love; the feet that there es atone- And nower which tormed ereationti plan
Huneelf, as well as through the expeesmon intent and that tbere la recleroptiou, I To od all praise anitgiory.
of 4
n twee givingitfomnsesid creation um; The explanetion% given tn. the New Testae . Wbat God's Aeusighty power bath made
grand sense, in essential qualities, 18 nio rein:none of what constitutes the atonement are' litearactous raercy keepoth :
excellence lu parity, in love, in admonitiveneere arguments to Jewish minds, an -that /3fitWN.xanet'fIlliev/ve"neeSetnae'gensttlxdt'
inetbod*, in eompasnon, in tentleeness, in the i they might be eletaehed from tlie law of Within the kingeom of Elsie -fight '
same sense in which onoble mother noes not/Moses, and come over to the
change to her children, bot is the sione'Christ with apostaey, Thwholearue ment.
law of Jeste$' Ise fall iseust and an is riglit ;
; To God all praise and Glory
when they are in the cradle as wheu they, about the lent and. the need of melded The Lord benever far away,
am married. In her age and in their youth it honourable is provincial and temporti But through all grief distressing,
and vigour she is the same noble mother teiary.
eieuse so God eines not change. Be atonemeut and redemption , are coarse As with emothens tender hand;
: Th° old °°°°e°tf°°4 °f the 1440uervepreacpir annatkleoetiPaannddbrenyeing .
their
never becomes a threw ; He never becomes and mechanical and therefore they have Bee leads ilis awis, Hisebosen band i
empty of common sense, as woman might be never spread very widely. But the day iii To God MI praise and glory.
supposed to do ;but as all the heroic quali- ',mining when men will be able to behold in
ties that make woman admirable holden and ;newer, larger conceptions not yet blossouted Golden Theughte ror Er Ty Day.,
ripen down to old age, and still bear fruit tmont, a view of God, that veill bring them Monday,
the very lest, and we thee have a distinct:everywhere to the Physician, to the n'ather, Amid the strong recesses of the lane,
idea in regard to the unchangeablenees of alto the Lover, to the Redeemen nixed by His word. immumble and calm,
human being, So that grand coneeptioa, lift -1 How narrow ie our conception of time, , The murmuring river all the silence,fills
ed up to the bounds of the eternan befits,as it creeps across the face of the earth! Wira its unheed°d P8altn'
of that thought in tbe fortieth chepter of the when time shall be no morel Whet 4 life Vete_te
God. We hone one of the noblest outbursts i How grand the sphere of immortality From doe:: ; to mina the goods lite up their
Prophet Isaiah : , . .
of glorious diameter and employment and' i3eeollse lila hand both uleasnve4 114em °Z
"Have ye not kuown, have ye net heard, ,4eR4tnnAlu Pleasure ttiii thot life be with...The far out-goingsof the morn reiolve
bath it not been tem you from the begin.. Christ and Glod ? Why should we hold Hie weeders to -wergili.
meg e leave ye not understood from the beck from death ? Why elcould we IneUrn 1.,h4 ,,mmiejat I •
foundation of the gun)? It is Ile that for those than am departing, or for thoa stonne, cla1di et -wrecked in distant
sitteth upou the eirele of the earth, and the thet have gone. The bud of last autumn is That wanders hoinelees through tbe glisten*
inhabitants thereof are as gm:nee/Tern efe blossoming this spring. Sball the autumn
epreadeth eut the heavens ae a, curtain, alga:weep because ite buds are going to the cone le reckoned in His purposes and forme
eines,
(Inc
etretcheth them as a tent to (been in, summation of beauty 1. The children that —Anonym:sa
and bringeth prineesi to nothing. He maketit you hove 41:en,ot 8,0 neer, to you ,fts the ehl.1* Weduesday—
the judges of the earth as vanity." 4f To ,tunee
en that yen , ainitnet A1019 neve you in When the weary, seeking rest,
whom, then, will 0 liken Me or shall I be the crystalline memory of the heevene. They
moon 17 ;meth the oly Otto? Lift u our tim are going ferth out of life ere not, „wThntii
eo Thygoodnessehmh(ynieene,cast
eyes on bigh and behold who luith created fining forth ant of life but into life. Wentititgrtlroonie5,11gliing peon*,
these thinge, and bringeth out their host by vi hen they lie in the valley of the ehadow On Thy name shall call;
number , He neneth there by names, by the of death, or travel through it, it is not for When the sinner. seeking lite
greatness of Ms might, foe thee Reis streng lle to weep and mourn, but to sing to themAt Tbe feet shall to,11 :
In power tot one feiletlf," 44 Ilast twit nut from the hither snore, with the voice of con; Hear then in love, 0 lord. the cry.
In heaven:Thy dweilinteplace on high.
Inumn ? Hest thou not heard, that the gratulation, sening " Foos ou hero; thre —etnanemous.
everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of hast served well ; thy crown awaits thee. Thursday—It is a wouderfulthing that so
the ends of the earth, feinteth note neither Sing to them, toll them to cateh the strein many, and they not reekoued, absurd, ehell
xix.101vleestrIneainT:i.ere is no seserehing of Hie from the othershore in the thunder of peace
and love and then to restfro u their labors giving them the history o their peke
entertain tn' th a ivith whom the convene by
with Christ and God. Aincri. ;and aches, and imagine suclinarrationstheir
ninon% of the conversation, This ie of all
Now to ICill Elephauts. ;other the meanest help to 4i:scout-se, and a
1.11111i.g Stanley, did you ever kill an ole- I nalk TOUSt, not think 55 511, or think himself
1
"Ole Yce, Uwe killed a rery insignificant, when he finde an aCeinint
.
good :Deny of of los headache enawered by :mother's ask -
them," replied the great explorer, evidentlyiAnsygefeviehat news in the last maiL—Riehard
" Ilow have you killed them and how; Friday—Life material is unorganized body;
would you go altout it were you going to kill body is organized matter. The anuoaphere,
0120 *IOW!'
lboivever, beingin part given from the bode,
" Well, / would shoot him, and. aa to , mown," the same general guanine of the organ.
I would go about it would depend upon the 'hen body. Soma aro grossly licentious, and
kind of elephaut be was." if their atmosphere surrouud you, it la with
"Ololll You hill him with tme bullet?" fan influence of that sort. Others, and per -
"1 have done it." :hap the larger, number, average as appe-
" It took twentyetliree, bullets to kill our1150 servers ; their thougbts COgof eeting
Zoo elephant, 4 Ctiena recently" and drinking. They are servants of appe-
" 1 read something of tbat. What kind Met They afrect you on that plane. The
of on elePhoot wog Your I Chief 1' If he hod keenly intelleetnal again fait you in an in
the concave forehead, that is, scooped out, finence that stimulates your bratu ; and zney
he WAS an Indian elephant. If he had a con- intensely weary yen without words. Them.
vex forehead he was an Afriean. Be Was an gams of the binin also atreet the atmosphere.
Ionian elephant ab
Then I would have et Love IS thus predmninant in many, mire and
him in the forebead for ti
i is • ly a short cluestened, and very vitabzIng to the bun -
cm to onr purpose. This description reach to the brain, while with an African gry. Charity or benevolence surrounds
is applied to jeSUS Christ, and =ler mama. e]elibellt an onortnous amount of muscle and such natures as Jesus, and occasionally one
s ences that. are very siginfleant—naniely, tisane is piled upon the forehead,
and whom we meet in our common life and if
that this iww the whole et the teaching. Ki
on might shoot into it all day and never
;
this be that warm large, " bene-volens " or
"Remember them have
that tho rule over 11 him. But a well-ain
irected shot , the
,, cod wishing, whiCli desires well for every -
you; who have spoken unto you the word of centre of the forehead of Chief, u ody it is well for e,verybody. The gift of
o , whose genii foams, considering the end ou are sure he was an Iudian deli's:flit,
of their conversation. Jesus Christ, the same atmosphere of this ort is more sweet and
yeeterday and to -day and forgiven.' should bave settled him. And if not, the grateful than loaves of bread and inoney.
heart, can always he reached. Yen behind Health flows out in tbe same way from the
tit° ear, too; they a,re readily killed that nicely poised, well developed organic life.—
way. Why, thi
ere s nopartioular difikulty E. .p. powea„
about killing an elephant if O. e knows how eaturday—Do you go to your graves these
to go about it,"
' Do you imagine that Chief suffered much winter days. and observe how the flowers
you tended therelast summer aro dean, and
pain -with all those bullets in nim ?" think of other fairer dead, of which those
"Undoubtedly lie did. And you mention were but the poor intimation? For the
the fact of his reaching out his trunk le an sane of all that can fill you with the ever-
afrectionete or appealing Ivey to Hateee, his lasting life, open your heart to the sense
mete, who stood near—that shows, more of thee springtide, sure to rise, when the
then in any other way, that be was sufrer- sun comes back and tell yonr soul that
ing, and it shawls, too'an alrection and is but the intimation also of the spring
-
sympathy between the two that one would tide poor David Gray sang about, as he lay
scarcely imagine elepbants to possess. That a -dying, hi the firat bloom of his life:
reaching out of his trunk and her response. "There 19 11±0 with God
as though in farewell, is certainly a very In other kingdoms ot a sweeter air;
touching thing.
" You asked if I baven't hunted the ele- In Eden every ilosver is blown. Amen."
--21nonymona.
phant in Africa. Well, yon know I did not
go there for that purpose of course. I had
too mucli else to do and no time to waste;
but, as I say, I have killed elephants and
didn't think very much of it, either. One
can't help but run on them, whether he will
or not. Why, the natives there will kill
them with a spear, or even with a sword.
Yes, sir, they will run at them and slash
them across the legs and hamstring them,
and then pierce them behind the ear with
their swords. A man will get off in front
of an elephant and brandish a, shining sword;
it flashes In the elephant's eyes and instant-
ly makes nim mad and he -will claarge.
"As he charges, -other natives will rush
out of the copse, in flank movements, and
dash at him, and even the man ahead with
the sword will spring aside far enough to
get out of the reach of his trunk, and as the
big fellow goes charging by be will give a
sweeping lash across the front of the legs
and the elephant is rendered helpless and
falls. These natives get wonderfully skilful,
something after the matador, wbo lets the
bull rush at him full tilt and then lightly
springs aside and thrusts his sharp sword
into him. When an elephant charges, be is
so bulky, you know, that his momentum
carries him directly ahead, and a nimble
and practiced man can spring out of his
way.
Queer Theory About Salmon.
It is the opinion of many people that sal-
mon on the Pacific coast eat nothing after
coming into fresh water on their way to their
breeding grounds. This abstinence from
food is not claimed for salmon in the rivers
of Eastern Canada or Great Britain, where
they are taken in great numbers with the
Ideels come and go. The lonceph
of men in maid to Gel have bunt UJs
up with pession, with great, reveugen
with perpetual alternation:I in condemn
made by propitiatory presents., by sacrilkes,
to slake their thirst for blood, these things
were fashiormel in the mingle mem "lain
not such an one," eaith Jove, "1 abide in
an eternal :sameness, always right, always
just, always pure, uever capricious, never
aellish, but tender forevermore." There are
no change:I in Rim such as exist in human
life, no changes by sudden temptation from
tenderness to cruelty, from softneas 50
=verity., from serene sun peeceful conditione
to irritable and angry excitement. These
fluctuations belong to lower nature—not to
tho Divine nature. Ile is never tired. Ho
never gives up whae Ho bas begun ; turning
back. Ho never gave up a bankrupt world,
throwing it into the fierap heap of the Uni-
emu. He knows the end from the begin-
ning, and pursue it through multitudinous
and everlasting change. The great Genesis
never changes.
The unchangeable Jesus The perislit
able elements of thee are dropped, and Ile
has gone up on high with neither ileeb nor
blood. Ile is not unehangeable ill that
regard ; it was part and parcel of His human
experience; but His SOUL His spirit, as Ile
showed them through human conduct, are
unchangeable, and the attributes which Be
made matifeet are unchengeable. Eternally
Be is a teaeher, was the light
of the world. It is the nature,
the end of light, not to thine by voli-
tion, but of necessity. His very being was
inission of light and knowledge. His
example was teaching, as wallas the word of
his lip. Be was a teacher; and the same
He is now, pouring himself out to light the
way from nascent being through all the
stages onward and upward to the celestial
realm. Eternally lie was what on earth
He was.
"Go show John 'what things ye do see
and hear."
.4nd then came the narrative of His
miracles which he built on and until the
climax. The dead were raised but more
wonderful still, in that crea'tion which
groaned and travailed in the mire of cruelty
until then, to the poor was the Gospel
preached. It was one of the brightest rays
that ever fell from the orb of the Eternal,
than He was a being who thought perpetual-
ly of the poor. It was organic in creation.
God created everything, as it were, as far
from prefection as possible, germs and seeds
with a perpetual ptovidence of unfolding
from eternity to eternity, having compassion
with the imperfect teaching them, favoring
them, brooding them, inspiring them. Christ,
who is the manifestation of God, as far as
God could be made manifest through the
flesh, came to the poor and needy, not only,
but better than that to the simple and the
infirin—by which We mean those who
have violated the laws of God without know-
ingthat theywere there ;those fox whom out-
ward influences were two mighty to be re-
sisted ; and, those who knew what was right
and would not do it, or knew vvhat was
wrong and did it, and continued to do it.
We turn such out of society, to a Very large
extent. Once pass a man through the peni-
tentiary, and it is next to impossible for
him ever to find a lodgment again within the
bounds of human society. Yet God spends
the eternity of time in having compassion
upon sinners. He said to the arrogant
priests who represented the church of his
time—alas 1 they are not alone of their time
—that thepublicans and the harlots would artificial fly. Xn the rivers of the Pacific
enter the kingdom of God before them. coast generally, and in the Columbia parte°.
He sounda very bottorn of sin. If ularly, it is claimed that sahnon eat nothing
there be on earth thing more deplorable, after leaving the salt water, at nothing is
more absolute) tlegraded than any other, it ever found in their stotnachs. According to
is the woman who againeepropriety, custom this theory, the ordinary Chinook beats
and all restraint, has gone down and traf- Tanner or Succi, for their fish come into the
ficked with her very immorality. Yet there, the Columbia as early as possible in theyear
too, was Christ. While she stile was erten --there are plenty of them in the rivers now
inal, or upen het dying bed, where tears — and they remain here till late in the Fall
Mild not Wipe away the stain, he felt for or until they die. The fact that salmon of
her. various species and all sizes are taken at the
In hat a revelation of the nature of God is falls of Oregon City with trolling spoons or
there 1 As to whether Christ indeed were with a bait of salmon, roe goes for nothing.
divine, is not our problem, or how to recoil- with the believers in the total -abstinence -
tile three in one, and answer the enigma from -food theory. A few days since a keo-
the theologians have made it to be. He was motive engineer tried fishing fotsalmon itt
God's interpreter. What was the nature of the Columbia, at the mouth of the Walla
that great God of time and of eternity, who Wallallever. le baited his hook with a live
took up creation by its vesy lowest and minnow and caught a Inc fifteen -pound
muddiest element% and wept and gave him- salmon. This is the first ever caught there
self for thein? Love Was the interpreter of with a hook so far as khown, and, for all
She divine nature; love was the axis it re- that is known to the contrary, is the first
volved upon. Christ was subject to the salmon caught with hook and line in the Cel-
ine flush andpulsation as we are. 'When umbia.
SPRING SMILES,
5. sugar trust --kisses on credit
Some of the very nest lamps in the world
are only good when they are wicked.
" Patience " should be take.; Wit monu-
ment and put at the end of a telephone.
There are few French duelists of whom it
may be said that they are worded fellows.
It requires years to make one saint, but
sinners can be turned oat at the rate of a
dozen a minute.
The man who sells beer by the schooner is
the one exception to the rule thee no man
can serve two mestere.
Maud—" George told me last nignt that
he was madly in love with me." Ethel—
"Poor fellow, perhaps he is. I've heard
that insanity runs in his family."
" What became of that Samuels girl that
Potterby was flirting with last Summer ?"
"You mean the girl that Potterby thought
he was flirting with. She married him.
He—" I don't think the worle is exactly
fair to men," She—" Why not ?" He--
" Welnthe man who has a heagl, for instance,
gets ahead, while the man who hasn't one
doesn't."
"Why, you poor malarial mortal, yon
I thought you told me your average health
was good ?' "So I did. I run to chills one
day and fever the next. The averege i
normal."
"How pleasant that lady looks 18ho seems
perfectly happy." "Yes, she must either
have found pure religion in her own heart or
the seeds of sin in the heart of one of her
neighbors."
"Large parians are also extremely fond
of tobacco smoke. You see I do not, smoke
for my pleasure alone.
At a rneetuag of the Aberdeen Steam Navi-
gation Company, an application for inter-
dict was lodged at the instance of several of
the shareholders against the directors of
She Company, to find and declare that the
balance -sheet and profit and loss accounts
were incorrect, and to interdict the chair-
men of the meeting attesting it as a correct
balance -sheet. The interdict has arisen in
connection with a pleasure trip whicla the
directors and thew friends took to Noe -
way in one of the Company's steamers last
summer and the expense of which the
shareholders protest against being paid out
of the company's funds. The meeting was
adjourned for a few hours, and on assembl-
ing, the objectors consented to withdraw
the interdict on the understanding that any
money expended in eoenection with the trip
was made good by the directors
FAST ATLANTIC FASSAOES
the history ot the 'Atketic word" becomee
4 matter of ktereat, and wepropotse to trace
its history aince 1875. We have -chosen tbat
.Tbr Era Opened by the BrUannie. Qat&
AccOlcuPilsbed by the .4).aske,
men.le, and Veee or eterlem—ine Weata
Inorease iu Speed. in the Last Six -
At the opening,ef a new passenger season
—
teen Years.
year for a beginning because we have 'been
lable to complete a table of tecord voyagea
eince that date, but .in a frteee article We
may give- some account of the etruggles be-
tween the Collins and Cunard Beers, wile
fought as keenly for the "blue ribbon of the
Atlantic)" as the modern greyhounds do now-
adays.
Beginning, then, in 1875, we find that
the task set before the shipoeniers and ehip-
buildere of that date who cleeired toattempt
a, record was a comparatively catty one.
Sixteen yeers ago something just under eight
days on a westward voyage would he oda-
cient to do this, and up to that date veeeele
of under 4,000 tone woes register and of
3,000 indicated horse power Intl doneeverye
thing that was required both in point of
accommodation and speed. At this time,
however, a distinct step forwa.xl was made.
Tile White Stier line -brought out two new
vassals, the BriMnnio and Germanic, of
ri000 tone each and of about ii,000 home
power. while the Lunen Line had the City
of Bernie e venni slightly larger and some.
what more powerful. During her first nine
voyages t he B4 itunie MS handicapped by
an experimental device for raleing mid
lowering her serow, which eveutuelly preee
ad a failure and had to be taken nut Ae
long as this remained she was a comparative
Were in point of speed. The Gerroenim
however, reduced the weatwand passage to
under eight days in July,. 1875, and on her
13th voyage the City of Berlin lowered the
record both way% ; on her outward voyage
the Wok the subetamial time 9f 5 hour* 6
minutes from tbe Geri:mitten performance.
The latter responded in. the following Feb-
ruary by reducing the eaetwercl passage by
12 minutes, end thee the' Britennic, fres
from her alterations, brought the man -and
parsage, in December, 1870, to 1 days 12
aura and 41 minutes, and then westward
to 7 days 10 home gni minutes in Aueuit,
77.
These performances of the Britamde nierkt
ed. the crest of 4 wave, and nothing ap•
poem:lied them untd the mere, builtin the
teems Fairneldenrd of Meese:7. John Elder
n Co., appeared. on the nem In 1879 the
Arizona, the fine, of these ships, appeared.
She was only slightly Urger than the Bri-
tannic, being 5,147 tons grosa register,
against 5,004, but she indicated 0,030110M
power on her trial, whereas the older beet%
horse power wen not quite an indicated home
power to 44 ten gross register. On her first
voyage the Anima en.ve proof of her mettle
by lowering the westwerd record nearly four
hours, and before she was outrun by her
ewersister the Alaska else bad reduced the
outward pas,tege to 7daya 7 hours 48 min-
utes, and the home ward to 7 days 7 hours 36
minutes, it must be noted also that in the
Arizona the principle of three cranks :set at
augles of 120 degreee was introduced, a prim-
eiple adopted in all later vessels both by her
own :inn other letilders, and one which has
largely condueen both to the wear of the
engiues and to the comfort of paseengere,
owing to the extent to which it has reduced
the vibration caused by modern high eeeetle.
But the year 1881 was remarkable not
only for the eppearance of the Alaska. It
was the year which saw the first voyages of
tile two large VeESC1S the Servie and the City
of Rome. Though these two vessels never
have the opportunity of making record
voyages, thenks to the alacrity with which
the Alaska, cut, if the expression be allowed,
the ground from under their feet, they were
in many respects most noteworthy vessels,
The City of Rome, of 8,415 tons gross, was
the largest vessel engaged in the Atlantic
trade until the introduction of the recent
twin-screw Neese's, while the Servia, herhelf
of no mean size, being 7,392 tow gross, wan '
i
the first mail steamer In the New York trad
to be built of steel. This year also SW t i
inauguration of the North German Lloyd
express Service from Bremen, via, South-
ampton to New -York, the Elbe, built also
at Fairfield, making her maiden voyage m
June, 1381, but beyond mentioning the fact
to show how universally ship builders and
owners were on tbe alert. in that year, we
cannot now refer to any but the fastest ves-
sels of their time.
The Alaska began gradually, She broke
the homeward record by less than an hour
on herthird eastward voyage, bu thine after
time she improved on herself, and when at
last a fleeter vessel—tbough built by the
same builders for her own °wile:se—displac-
ed her from the foremost position, she bad
reduced the eastward voyage by thirteen
hours and the westward by ten hours. She
was the first to cross in under seven days, a
feat which she first aecomplisbed in 3882. In
the case of the Alaska, however, the cost of
speed began to tell. She was 6,932 tons
gross register. She had no trial trip, but her
estimated horse power is 11,000, about 1.58
indicated horse power to eaish ton gross,
against 1 inclicatecl borse power to each ton
gross in the Britannic, while her consumption
is said to be 253 tons per dieni, against 06
Sons in the Britannic. The speed of the Al-
aska was about 171 knots, against a fraction
under 16 knots in the Britannic, so that it
became apparent as long ago as 1882 at what
a cost these higher speeds were to be obtain-
ed.
Men and Maniere,
Many men have married only a face.
It was enough for them, in the first insta,nnee
to have their imagination satisfied by ter,at
they considered to be beauty. As a Matter
of fact, where there ts only a face, beauty
is simply impossible. In small a case beauty
is not a question of form, or mink% or
colour; the deepest beauty, the eruest and
most abiding beauty, can only be seemed in
association with mental and moral qualities.
The forin itself may be destitute of beenty,
and yet in the very face and egure there
may be a strange and happy fascination
because ot the energy of the indwelling and
all directing life. To imagine that mac.
beauty will last, supposing it to be nothing
more, is self-delusion of the most vexatious
kind. Where face -beauty is associated with
mental beauty, so much the better. Never
forget, however, the old proverb which -
says, Handsome is that handsome does."
Beauty of character will outlast beauty ef
form and beeuty of colour. The latter may
be pleasant enough for a few days, or a few
years, but nen avail nothing in the night of
darkness, in the hour of sorrow, in the pain
and need of growing weakness. Under such
experiences we need moral qualities of the
very highest kind. Look out, then, not for
mere beauty of a facial or superficial kind,
but for beauty of soul, which shows itself
in benevolent thinking, beneficent action,
religions aspiration, readiness to serve and
help all who require the attention and eerie-
pathy of mankind,