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SIIORTENE1) laV.ES,
eCMleeleers. (+0Q1S.13Y4 TO T
lePlieee 1893,
' oeuee they have mot the anorel ender,
epee fey thet sylech j beeond the
thirty, ferid nieroiful ood will not Ab•
low them, to bo puts to the feerfal strain.
Again: There le a bleesitig in tee
lsrevieted earthly existerioe in the feet ehat
one is the sooner taken off the defeesive.
Is
i e care of
Tanen way Vora 1,M 40011 aS OSLO IS Old enOngll to -a
eihe yen to Come—Zee Nnesslosel es .1the door to keep mit the rebbere, Vire,
e biinsolf Put on g Mud, Belts on
an alearevlatea Eettegy lexisten.ce—ree pima sefee to keep off the flames. Life in.
' alitusesee Eloquent New Icea g'e"'
seen.
Betomeerte, boo. 31. -e -In the forenoon,
servIce at the Braoklyn, TaberlIa010 togley, are amity xeitcly, tO overreeeli yeti and there
Rev. D. Te.linage preached ou the eubjeee eel you home. Defenoe ageinst cold, defence
" Sheltosied Lives. or a Cheerful Good- omelette beet, defences against clickness, de -
bye to 1893." The text eeleeted was Iseiali fence against the veorld.'s abuee, defence
s 1 s ,eiShe righteous is teen away from
the evil to ome,
We heve written for the last time at the
heed of our lettere end businese documents
the figieres 16'93. With this day elute the
year. In ,7anuary lest we celebrated ite
To,dey we attend its obsequies!,
Another twelve months have been cut out
of our eaethly continuance, and ib s a time
for absorbing reflection,
We all Emend much time in panegyric of
longevity. We consider it a great thing to
live to be an ootogenarien. It any one dies
emath we say, "Meet, pity.t". Dr,
MnIj eherg in old age eyed thee the bymn
wr' n in.early life by his own hand, no
m •expreseed bis sentiment when it
eaa
I would not live always,
If one be pleaeamtly circumstanced he
never wants to go, William Cullen Bry-
ant, the greet poet. at'eigisty-two years of
age, standiug in my house in a festal
group, reading "Thanatopsis" without
spectacles waelust as anxious to ltve as
wben at eighteen years of age he wrote the
inimoptal threnody. Cato feared at 'eighty
• years of age that he 'Would not live to
• learn Greek. IVIonaldosoo at 115"yeare,
• writing the history of hie time,- leered a
• collapse. Theophrastus writing a. book at
ninety years of age was anxious to live to
complete it, Thurlow Wee4:. at about
eighteasii veers found life es great a de.
eira.bility as when he snuffed out his firat
politician. AlbeIb Barnes, en well proper -
ed for the next world, at seventyamid he
• i
would rather stay here. So it s all the
way down. I suppose that the last time
Methuselah was Oat of doors in a storm he
was afraid of gettinghis feet) wet lest it
• shorten his days. Indeed, I some time
ago preached a sermou on the bleesings of
longovsey, but in this, the last day of 1803,
and when many are filled with eadnees
at the thoughthat another chapter of
their life is closing, and that they have
365 days less te live, 1 propose to preach
to you about the advantages of an abbre-
viated earthly existence.
• If I were an egnostie I would say a man
is blessed in proportion to the number of
years he eau stay on "terra firma," because
after which he falls off the docks, and if he
is ever piekedout of the depths it is only to
be set up in dome morgue of the udiverse to
•see if anybedy will eltsim him. If I thought
de man 'tolast' Orty or fifty or a.
d years, and then he was to go into
r would say his business
o be to keep, alive and even in good
serance end fire tneurance agaturit eeeident,
Reeeipts loot you have to pay a debt twiee.
Life -boat ttgeinee stilpwreek. Westinehease
air bra kee eestinee railroad collisiou. There
• God
hundr
anniW
ought.
weatbe s to be very cautious, and to carry
an uinb1la and take overshoes, and life-
premori re, and bronze armor, and weapons
of defences ,leet he fall off into nothingness
and obliteration. „
• But, my friends, you are net a,gnosties.
You believe iuiromortality and the eternal
residence of the righteous in Heaven, and
b • tore Ifirst remarkthat an abbreviated
cai ly existence is to be desired, and is a
'ng because it makes one's life .work
ve compact. .
onto men go to business at seven o'clock'
In the morning and returrt at seven in the
evening. Others go at eight and return
at twelve. Others go at ten and retern ab
four. I have friends who are ten hours a
day in business, others who are five hours,
'others who are one hour. They all do their
work well; they do their entire work and
then they return. Which position do you
think the most desirable? You say, other
things being equal, the man who is the
eliertest time detained in busiaess and
who can return home the • quickest
is the most blessed. Now, my friend.s,
why not carry that god 'gents into
the subjece of tramsferrence from, this world?
If a person die in childheod,he gets though
his work at nine o'clock in the morning.
• If he die at fortessfi,ve years of age, he gets
• through his work at twelve o'clock noon.
' If he -die at seventy years of age, he gets
through his work at five o'clock in the
`afternoon, 'If he die at ninety, he has to
• toil all the way on up to eleven o'clook at
• night, The seener we get through our
• work the better. The harvest -all ist bar-
rack or barn, the farmer does not sit down
in the stubble field; but thouldering his
scythe and taking his pitcher from under a.
• tree, he makes a straight line for the old
homestead. All we want to be anxious
about is to get our work doneand well done;
the quicker the better.
Again ; There it a blessing he an abbre-
viated earthly existence in the fact that
• raorp.1 disaster mighb come upon the man .11
he tarried longer. • A man who' bred been
prominent ia cherches, and who had been
admired for his generosity and kiedness
everywhere, •for forgery was sent to State
prison for fifteen yeitra. 'Twenty years be-
fore there was no moreprobability of that
,e. enen's committing a commermal dishonesty.
,e The timber of men who 'fall into ruin
betweee fifty earl seventy years of age is
simply appaling. If they had died thirty
• years before it woald have been better for
all the wey clovvn to the grave, and even
the tombstone emmeeinnei is not a aufeelent
barricade. If a selldier tithe bas been on
guard, shivering and stung with the cold,
paeieg up and down the parapet with
ahouldered musket, is glad when =imams
oornes to relieve guerd and be eau go Weide
the fortress ought not that man to sheet
for ley who can put down his weapon of
earthly defence and go into the King's
castle? Who is the more fortunate, the
;soldier who has to stand guard twelve
hours? Wo have common ems° about
everything but religion, emenneri sense
abont everything but traneference fron.
this world,
Amgen themes a, blessing in an abbreviated
earthly existeuce in the fact that one es-
capes eo many bereavements. The longer
w0p the Mere ebtaehments and the more,
kindred, the more chords to be wounded or,
rasped or eunclored. If a, man lived on to
seventy or eighty years of age, how many
graves are aloft at his feet? In that long
reach el time father and mother go, brothers
and sisters „go, children go, grandchildren
go personal friends, outside the family
circle, whom they had loved with a love
like that of David end. Jonathan.'
Beside that some men have anataral trep-
idation about dissolution, and ever and
anon during fob or fifty or sixty years,
this horror of them dismintion shudders
through soul and body. Now, suppose the
Ind goes at sixteen years of age? He
emapee -fifty fueerals, fifty caskets, fifty
obsequies'fifty awful wreethings of the
heart. It is bard enough for us to bear
their departure, bub ie ib nee easier for as
to bear their depagbure than for them to
stay and bear fifty departures? Shall we
not by the grace of God rouse oarselves
into a generosity ofbereevetnent which will
practically say, tIttes hard- enough for me
to go through this bereavement, but haw
glad 1 itin that he will never have to go
through it." •• •
So I reason. with myself, and so you will
find it helpful to reason with yourselves.
David lost his son. Though David was
king, he lay on the earth mourning and in-
consolable for tome time. At this distance
of time, which do you think was the ono to
be congratuleted, the short-lived child or
the long-lived father? Had David died as
• early as that child died, he would, in the.
first place, have escaped that particular be.
reavenient ; then he would have escaped
the worst bereevernent of Absalom, his re-
oreanHOU and the pursuit of the Philistines,
and the fatigue of his military campaign,
and the jealousy of Saul, and the perfidy of
Ahishophel,arei the curse Of Saimenand the
destruction of his family at Ziklag, and
above alle.he would have escaped the two
great calamities of his life, the great sin of
nneleanness and murder. David lived to
be of vast use to the Church and the
world, but so Inc as histown happiness was
concerned, doe it not seem to you that it
would have been better for hies to have
gone early?
Now,
this, my friends, explains some
things that to you have been inexplicable.
This shoWs you why, when Godtakes lit.
tie children, from,a household, he is very
apt tobabe the brightest, the most genial
the :nose sympathetic, the most talented.
Why? It is ,beee;use that kind of natur&
suffers the Mose when it does suffer, mulls
most liable to temptation. God saw the
tempest sweeping up from the Caribbean,
and he putthe delicate craft into the first
harbor. " Taken away from the evil to
come'
Again; my friends, there is a blessing, in
an abbreviated outlay existence in time -set
that it puts one sooner in the centre of
things. • All astronomers, iefidel as well as
Christian, agree hi believing that the uni-
verse swines around some great centre.
Any one who has steeled the heav-
ens knows that God's favorite fig-
ure in geometry ts a circle. When God
put forth his hand to creete the universe,
he did not strike that hand at right angles,
brit he waved it in a circlet -Mg' systems and
constellations and galaxies and alI worlds
took that .motiott. Our planet swinging
around the SUnj other pleats swinging around
other suns, but so mewh ere agreathub around
which the great wheel of the universe turns.
Now,
that centre is Heaven. That is the
capital of the universe. That is the great
metropolis of immensity.
eonsoled you ought to feel about members
9£ your families that went early, "Taken
from the evil to come," tills book s0."Y5.
What a fortunate escape they had ! :Clow
glad wo ought to feel that they will never
have to smote threagli the aruggles 'which
We here • leed, to go tieselgh They bad
just time enough to gee out of the cradle
end run up • the opringtirtie Mlle of this
world end See 110W itlooked, and then they
started for a better stopping,place. They
were like ships that yet In et, 'St, Helmet,
eteying there long enoegh to let nauseous
go up and see the bartamke„of Nepoleon's
oaptivity, end helot sail for'the port of
their own native lend. They. only took
this world "in transitu." It Is hard for
vs, but it is blessed for them,
And ifthe spirit of this %ninon le true,
then 'we ought not to go around eighing,
aud groaning because another year hes
gone ; but we ought to go down on one
knee by the milestone and see the lettere,
and thank God that 'sve are 305 miles near-
er home. We ought not to go around with
morbid feelings about our health or about
metfissinated deeeise. We ought to be living
not according to that old marim
ItSed to hear in my boyhood, that yon
must live as tb oars% every day were the lest;
you must live as Omagh you were to lie
loreeer, for you will. Do nob be nervous
lest you have to move out of a seaety into
an Alhambra.
One Chruttnas morning, one of my neigh.
bore, an old eea, ceptain, died. After life
had departed, his:face was illmainated as
thouge he were just going • bate harbor.
-The fact was he had already gone through
the "Narrows." In the adjoining teem
were the Christmas presents waiting for eis
distsiblition. Long ago, one night when he
hacl narrowly caped with hie thip from
being run down by a, great ocean steamer,
be had made his peace with God, and a
kinder neighbor or better man you would
not find this side of Heaven. Without A
moment's warning, the pilot of the Heaven-
ly had met him test off the light-
ship. The captain often talked to no of
the goodness of God, arid eepecially of a
bine° when he was about to go in New
York harbor With his ehip from Liverpool,
and he was seddenly impressed that he
ought to put beets to pea. Under the
protest of the crew and under their very
threat, he pub back to sea, fearing at the
same time he tvaslosing his mind, for it did
seem so unreasonable thee when. they could
get into harbor that night they should put
back to sea, and the captain mid to the
mete, "You call me at ten o'clock at night."
At twelve o'clock at night the captain was
aroused, andseid : "-What deco this mean?
thought I told. you to cell •me at ten
o'cloole, and here it is twelve." " Why,"
said the mate. "I dicl call you iet ten
o'clock, and you got up, looked around and
told me to keep right on this same course
for twe beers, and then to call you at
twelve o'clock," Said the captain, "Is it
possible? I have no remembrance of that."
At twelee o'clock the captain went on
deck, and through the rift of the cloud the
moonlight felt upon the em, and showed
him a shigatreek with one hundred strug-
gling passeagers. He helped them off. Bad
he been any earlier or any later at that
point of the sea he would have been of no see -
rich to those drowning people. On board
the captaift's vessel they began to band to-
gether as to what they, should pay for the
rescue and whet they should pay for the
provisions. "Ah," says the ceptain, "my
lads'yea can't pay me anything ; I have
on board is yours; I feel too greatly
honored of God in having saved you
to take any pay." jest like him.
He never got any pay except that
of his own applauding -conscience.
Oh, that the old sea captain's God
mightbe my God and yours-. Amid
the stormy seas of this life may we home
always sorn,e one as tenderly to take care
of us as the captain took care of the drown-
ing crew and the passengers. And may
we come 'into the harbor with as little
physical pain and with as 'bright a hope as
he had, aa if it ehould happen to be a
Christmas morning when the presents aro
being distributed and we are celebrating
the birth of Him who crane to save our
shipwrecked world, all the better, for what
grander, brighter Christmas present could
we have than heaven?
Now, does not our common sense teach
us that in matters of study it is better for
us to move out from the center towards the
eircurnfereeee,rather than to be on the oir.
ournference -where our world now is? We are
like those who study the American contin-
ent while sta,ndin [Len the Atlantic beach.
The way to study -the coatinent is to cross
it or go to the heart of it. Onr stand -point
in this world is defective. We are at the
wrong end of the telescope, The -best way
to stedy a, pieee of machinery is not to
stand at the doorstep and try to look In,
but to go in. with the engineer and take oar'
place right awed the saws and the cyliedere.
ettielee- their families. The We wear our eyes out and our brains out
shorter the voyage the less chance for a from the facet we are stetlying under such
"oy olono.
There is e Wrong. theory ihroad that if fgbrenacit,vtittiVelsItitagset;isiyMititjnilglat)fotittirStfhoer
one's youth be right his old age will be moon, about the sun, about the rings of
right. Yea might DA well say there is Saturn, about transits ad occulations and
egeotgheitngt twfauultlitt"iafuotir cahesehipo'ns atahrYAteix:stPisb c°1iPsee, simply because oar • studio, mut
observatory is poorly situated. ,We are
Ocean. I have somatime.s asked those who
•
down ia the colter trying to steely the
Were itehool mates or (Joliette mew' of some down
of the universe, while gar departed
great defaulter, " What. kind of a boy was
ho? \Thee kind. 01 „yeting num was to Obrietion friends bave gone upstairs amid
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and they 'ewe said, ,"Why, wad a spen aid the skylights to tucly.
• fellow; 1 bad no idea he could go into such , Does not our common sense teach no• that,
an eeesegsen , The fast is tits great templet, it it bettor to beet the twitter than 'out on the
tion of life eomotimee comes on in mid life, rim of the wheel, bedding nervouely feet to
. or iri old ago. • the tire lest we be suddenly hurled. into
The first time I crossed tlic Atlantie light, and eteruel felicityThrough all
Ocean ib was as 'smooth as a mill pond, and kinds of optical instruments trying to peer
▪ I thought the sea captains and the voyagers in through the cracks and the keyholee of
bed alabelored the old ocean, and 'I wrote hoavoll—afraid that both doors ot the cotes -
home en essay for a magazine on "The tial mansion will be eveueg wide open befege
spite, of the seohe -het e nsvsk sfterwsra Our, entranced vision--rtishing oat among
toyed Judy° written thee thieg, fee before the apotheeary-ehops of this world, wonder.
we got home we got a terrible shaking up, ing if thie is g°6d for rhoumeeisne and that;
Th„ beet voyage Of life MUT be verysmoot. q is good for neuralgia, and semething oleo
e)ie lest may be n entrodydott, •Many •n,130 IS good for a bed eough, leet wo be sudden -
'Oat llfci in great proeperity do not end it les ueheredinto a, lend of everlaeting health,
in preepeesey. , , •whore the iehabitant mover says, I am
The greet Trosstiro of temptation comes sielt,e'es
sometime's ie tide direction; et alodut 45 Whet toms we au aro\.isefet the eir.
• years of age a nun's uorvette ,system. einteg. , euniferenee to the eentre. d het a dreadful
es anti some one tolls him he muss take thing it would be if we elionlel'be sudaenly
eteeettlento bo keoP himself eP, and Ito teltee nehered up from this wintry Waled to the
etemulente to keep him down; oe 0 -man hes Xtoettliele orchards of heaven, aed if our
been going on for thirty or forty peva in pauporima of sin and eorrove should be
• unsuccessful healaesS, ead here is an open. stulderaY beokon eP be a Presentation of
ing where by one dishonorable ttotion he an ompetor's castle stWrounded by parks
0301 Hit himself and lift his family from all with springing founteine, and pethe up arid
fb1Wuit5t erebsehlteettlent. • lleattompts to (1011111 "which wogots of Pod welk two mid
0ap the chasin and Ise falls into it. two'•
• Theo it is in after life that the groat Wo stick to the world as though we pre.
temptation el suesess coulee, 11 a ;nee ferred cold (Irizzle to thardn hithitetien,
melte a fortune before thirty ema,re of ego discora to 00,1",fai en)tle,,[(314 roet'iml
ge we preterrea e
e keys out of tune '0
ettessedeeme thetigh tint
hanged appaiml$
se gem3tallY froloW rb bofere. forty. The Pulp tr.)
toIiU and the'' pertnan ‘og for 010 with ,iour or
most partli nOt etotib n inetrum on
in mid Ifeftr bitads •
Maud, to a fallen naturewitls sinlul ele^
milts dominteting ovee it woidd izz itself
involve a teroptation tn dlsobedience; but
riot to a pure tweet, as was that Whtela re-
ceived the eoelinentl. IsTeither . touch
it. Lest by tonehieg they might be tempt-
ed to taste. Lese ye Phyelealeteeth,
morel deaths or the rule of evil; the spirit
nal death, or Vito wages of sin,
4, 5. Ye shall not surely die. A half
truth.; for deeth, as they probably
urldtrateed it, die net immediately fob
low the alsohodience. (5) A lie which
is half the truth is ever the worst of lies.
Ged cloth know. As if God were en -
Isis creatures' happiness, (7) The
wielted heart coneeives that other hearts
must else be wielted. Eyes shell be °pea -
ed. As Eve nntlersteed it opened to e
larger lenowIedge ;a &eon kuew, °petted
to %eeriest of sin. Ye than be as gado.
Better,. "as God himself," gifted with
omniscience. Knowiug good and eve.
God cen know evil withoae being tainted
by it; lett man's kaowledge of evil in-
volves an experience wheel briegs guilt.
(8) How often has curieeity to knotv led
men to sin 1
0,1. The woman sew. Three motives
influeeced her action: appetite, pleasure,
and ambition. See how these are outlined
in 1 John 2, 15. She took. Preferring the
present delight to the consciousiiess of
obeying God. (9) How little tre results
forseen whets acts ere committee I Gave
. . . unto har husband. The tempted
in one moment is transformed, into a temp-
treas. He did eat. (10) Exaatiple has
power hi proportton to the e.ffeetaon felt
for the one who exerte it. The eyes of
them both were opened. They awoke
inorelly to a realization of their guilt and
wretchedness. (11) If the eye of the soul
could look on sia before the act as after,
hoer rarely would le be committed! Knew
that they were naked. lip to this mo-
ment their bodies had been merely the
shrine of pure male. Now they realize
both spiritual and fleshly- corruption. It
is nob unlikely thet what Dr, Whitelitet.
calls "an enswatbing light of purity" pre-
viously engirt their bodies. Sewed. Platted
or twbaecl. They hadnot implements for
sewing. Fig leaves. Leafy twigs and
small branches of the fig tree. Aprons.
Better, beirdles.•
8, 9. ri:he voice of the Lord. Some
Scholars (Busk and others) think that this
indicates i het a tempest took place, as
thunder is called " the voice of the Lord "
(Psalm 29. 3-9.) C.oul of tbe dayt
4! in the breeze of the day." Hid
themselvee. Those that have sipned dreo.d
to meet God. (12) There will come an hour
when every sinner must stand face to face
with God. God calledunto Adam. • As the
heed of the new family, and answerable for
both its members. 'Whore art thou? Csed
lie4 come to seek man, since man feared to
seek God. (13) See in this question, man's
• sin and God's grace.
10.12. 1 was afraid. Adam knew God's
enmity against) sins bat knew nob God's
great love to men. Because I was
naked. He eon/eased, • not his sin, but
hie elm& a,t naked/ices. (14) So Miners are
apt to give every reason for their misery
except the true cause. Who told thee?
Whence &TOSE) the consciousness ?" God
knew the cause, but would make the einner
confess it. The woman whom thou gayest.
He blames everyone except himself ; even
indirectly making God responsible for his
fall.
13, 14. The serpent beguiled me. The
woman, like the man, was more ready to
.ottst theresponsibility of her deed on others
than to assume it herself. Unto the ser-
pent. The words of the sentence were
directed both against the anitear and against
the evil spieit which possessbd. it. Cursed
above all cattle. As it had been the in
'THE SOROOL
International Lesson, Tat. 14. —Gen. 31.
15. Golden Text. -1 Ger. 15.22.
GB1\--ERAL STATEMENT,
TRW
TO VULTURES.
fitrange Burial Oustolue Auleng the '
Fames and Their Tenvies of %lanes
Wide Nen to Birds of PreT.
MOO Stone of revalue end Coed -Rye.
Among all the etrasage burial motel -Ise
the world over there is none more horribly
interoeting than thee which is bellowed OVOU
Until to -day arneng the Permee in Iodise
There is it strangeness even aboat the very
narne—a Tower of Sileneembite place where
the Peewee put away their dead arid' leave
them for the vultures to swoop down and
feed upont There is one of teose
jeat out of Bornbate And this vast open
tomb, curiously enough, is situated in the
midst of glorious gardens,
The Doktima—to give the correct name
to the mewl Pewee sepalolores that we,
our ettey Anglo-Indian feshionseell Towers
of Silenee—is always on high ground. The
sanitary reaaoes for this ere yery obvious.
In lionihay there are them towers. They
were built at different periods, and merle
tee increase in Bombay of Parsee affluence
aud of Parsee numbers. The oldest and
and,smallest ,WaS hnilt soon oftar the fol-
lowers of &roaster had fled from Persia, to
India,
"These Pogue mortuaries were ievery
way different from what I had imagined
n
them," writes a recent visitor to the Boni,
bey Tower in the Pall Mall Budget. tIBut
After having seen what they really are, my
utmost philosophy revolta and sickens. at
the thought of the poor dead body, torn,
as it is, by the claws and beaks of the
hurestu-flesh-fed vultures, But that the
Parsee disposition of the dead is anything
but healthy, I dispute.. And the surround-
ings and situation of the Bombay DoCernits
are dignified and beautiful. When our
carriage stopped, we waleed up a graduel
• rise, gravel -paved and free -edged, to a vies• -
covered lodge.. Here we were eagerly seized
upon by oae of the halfelozen mete -keepers,.
who are glad to net as guides to the curious.
We weat on and up, paaaing groups of
graceful, luxuriant trees, and beds. of brills
lent, ilaassorted flowers.
Our geide took us intrra little house,
in which is kept a model of the Doklense
Prom this you learn what the inner con-
struction of every Parsee Doklima is • for
into no Doklinsa are you. allowed to look.
On the bottom of the tower is a thick
flooring of lime. A few feet above is the
gratifig upon which the bodies are laid,
This grating is divided. into three tiers ;
not above each other,but inside each other.
i
Each tier is divided nin
to the see wuriber
°emotions. These sections are iormed by
iron rays that spring from the centre of the
tower to its outer circumference or wall.
Hence the epartments of the inner tier
are smaller than. those of the centre tier—.
those of the centre tier smaller than those
of the outer. The onter tier is reserved
for the bodies of men ; the inner tier tor
the bodies ot children, and on the entire
tier the swooping vultures -find the bodies
of the Parsee women.
Only the attendants of the Dokhma are
allowed to enter ib with the 'dead, They
pass quickly up a narrow aisle that rata
from the doorway, and lay the dead upon
the appointed place. . -They tear the sheets
rapidly from the body, for the vultures are
waiting, and they do not wait teextely.
Only one article is left upon the *corpse—,
the knsti. The ateeadante hurry away, and
the vulturee, with horrie, cries, rutth down
upon their prey..
The vultures are kept and bred by the
• attendante of the Dokhinas, for the purpose
strument of'man's rum,it was to suffer with ,vf. cleaning the flesh from off the bones of
man. Upon thy belly shalt; thou go, • and the Parsee dead. They are only a few
dust shalt thou eat. in other words, "Thou hours, at the longest, in executing their
shalt go with pain and difficulty, and thy graesome task. The Dokinna is rootlese.
life shell be a groveling search for food." When the rain falls, it washes the dust of
15. I will put enmity. This applies to the orurabling bones down to the lirne floor -
the spiritual serpent, Satan. Between thee ing. Evoin there it gradually drains away,
and. the woman. •A prediction of the and is absorbed again into the economy of
hostility between Satan end mankind. We nature in a way absolutely harmless to the
see it in the bitter and malign influence of living. •
evil in the world. Thy seed sad her seed. A few yards front the Tower of Silence
The seed of the woman refers to all the is a. white stone. It is kept clean, and
godly, while thae of the serpent pobats to shines .up from the green grass. • Nearer
all who submit themselves to his influence. the Dokhina than. this stone no one may go
lint pre-eadnently,the expression points to save the dead and the professional attend -
One, born of woman, who abode overcome ants. It is bhe Stoneof Parting, the Saone
Satan's power. Thy head. Crush Satan of Good -by, of Everlasting Farewell. Be -
utterly under foot. Bruise his IMO. He yond it the dead muse go from those who
bruises ibeh godly in permeation and in have loved him, those he has loved—go
.wrongs e he bruised Christ in the garden alone into the place of death and into the
and on the cross; but his work is futile, something after desalt which, in Parsee
while the work of redemption will be sue- usage, seeins to us worse than death itself.
cessfal. in this eentenee is the first
'Under the leefy canopy of Eden's garden eromise of salvation given to man.
Adam and Eve dwell in innocence and de-
light, "naked and not ashamed." Into
those holy *recesses Satan crawle 'with un-
hallowed purpose, resolved to stain the
fairest part of God's creation. He attacked
the woman first and sowed in her mind
distrast of God and doubt of his justice.
He promised, in the path of disobedience,
a new light and wisdom, which should lift
male up to the level of the divine nature.
Seduced. by his false promises and false
geuanusg, Eve pertook of the forbidden
fruit, and beesene Satan's! eager ally to
,bring about the downfall of the man she
loved. 'Ai, once the face of nature is chenged
to their eyes; shame seizee upon them ; and
they attempt to veil themselves from the
eyee of • God, God's voice, suddenly
scrawling, fills them with terror, and
his gaestions penetrate theie guilty con-
soielaces. Each endeavors to evade the
-respeesibility of the dieobedienee ; the
Medi 'Weida cenSdre both the woman
and' God Wee gave him the woman ;
' eat -Wee -4'k e
'ede
"Castorlsiessowelledepteetocluedreethat
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• "The Ilse of °eateries,' is tionnivemal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
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intelligent familleswire tie not env Oast,,otia
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Wow York. Cite.
tate Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Churea.
hildren.
Craeterie cares Celle, Conetipattee,
eour Scomace, Itructottoo,
weie weeme, gives sleep, end premet di-
gestion,
Without 1n:1=1mm medication,
e For severee,, years I have reeenextend
;soar CastOrla„' and shall always continue tt.
40 Pas We ewarlebly produced bouelielel
mattes.”
Dawns eePAIMISS, 11t. D.,
"The Winthrop," teeth street and "tili Ave,
New York City.
Tea Carpel:re Cosecant', 77 lilurna-r 550
NT Tone.
-settee"
the women casts the burden on the ser-
pent But all aro involved in one sin,
each" with iedividual accountability,
and emelt receives sentence—to the serpent,
a crawling farm and an existence in the
dust; to the evil spirit within the snake,
an utter failure and a final clostraction '• to
the woman, sorrow and pain in the lite be-
fore ha, though with the hope of deliver-,
lime by is promised Seed t end to the man,
a life of labor aftee earthly objects, with
deeth unsheathing 'its sword over him.
Thus. in one hoer did sio enter the world,
with, all its woes ana penalties.
extetenewortv ago 14tACTICAL enema
Vereo 1. The eerpent. This was evident.
ly tireel serpent (see verse 14) ; if,was' it
beatt of the field, that is, neither a" creep-
ing thing" nor a d,omestieetteci tiisum1. Thea
evil spirit whom, St. John cells the Old
Serpsnt took possessioneof elle fortis of this
snelto we must infer. The inspited welter
gives ouly the superficial facts end leavee 10
to infer the cleetme truths. Subtile. Not
wise or discreet, but wily, shrewd, possee.
eed of untie:lea segecity. Possibly as the
resule of God' e entree (verse 11) the netute
of serpents has boon deteriorated. (1) Mere
cunning without conscience only makes its
pOssoseer the more liable to Satan's meta
(2,) If oven itt oareclise we find' Satan, we
need not wonder if we find hitn in our tin -
cursed World. He said unto the woman. Ile
oeldretemd het as the younger, Seee oxpetis
eiseed, ate moo onseeptible of tho pair, No
wonum in tine day could enppross her eon+
sternetiot if a Serpent epoke to her t, but
the whole woeld was new to Elite, ;Besides,
as suggested obeve, WO have nts.e.5tainty
that the limitations Of anienalS in the gaigdou
of Eden weee the setae co new. (3) &tau
oftea :fetteeke net OA 110 ahaekedA
threegh those tea eleael neereee our 11 ,tstf,
Tioth (404 seid. .4. half (Meet
\met intestiag eemetk, " te It I ;de
times tale S" (4) Satan peva I
1t 1112'AV/11m
• KING LO BBNGILLA.
The :Merry Ohl Igonareh and hi s 'Eighty
• 14u:cons (bacons.
The membera of the Colonial Inetitnte
assembled the other day at Whitehall
Rooms London, to hear Mr. Archibald R.
Colqutioun, the firetAdministrator of Mash-
onaland, read the paper on Matabeleland.
Mr. Colctuboun gave au interesting riescrip-
don of King lo Bengule, "Lo leengula—
literally 'The Defender,' and the bearer of
many grandiloquent titles, such as 'The
Great Elephant', 'The Baster of Mee,'
and 'The Stabber of the. 60 Years
of age, steers from gout, and is enormously
fe,t and anwieldly in person, vehieh tends
greatly to diminish his otherwise kingly
appearance. He is close upon six feet,
weighs' neerly twenty stone, and rctrely
takes physical exerciae'although he has in
his eterly days been active and -poWerful.
He is a men of extraordinary character and
ability, with greet power of work,
"The descriptioes of Lo Bengules per-
sonal appearance range between that of a
most truculent ami blood -thirsty eat, age,
withis deedly cruel' look in his eyes, and a
pleasant, 113 ainle red. old:gentleman,with
a winning, childlike amile. It is prebebly
wise to adopt neither of these extreme por-
traits. • His natural disposition is said by
those' who know hien well to be not cruel,
but the exeroise of unrestrained despotic
power, surrounded by intrigeos has led to
indillerenee to' life whenever ie seemed to
hitn a, matter of policy, or, as not unteldoni,
eelf-pretervatien. Bela,tions and frioncle et
the elatebele court alike have been•rettiovecl
when found to be eneoeveniente In his
cattle Itrael with hie body Wrapt in a color-
ed blanket tted foot swathed in dirty flsn-
liel bandages, iii the midet of dirt and
cliecomfort, and surrounded by skalls of
steughtered ballot:lee and tummy pariah
clogs, the King wee fregnently to be seen.
The chief Queen, Loeltay, its typical of the
eighty others. Her ntassitre form OA the
oceasion of a, 'War Darice' in 1800, was par.
tly clothed in a, colored cotton Shoot, while
frees her waist hting n blark goat•skiti kilt.
Tho heed was encircled with e, ccil of pink
beetle, the nook with tin, braes, and iron
chains, probably ethers in some of the teeny
raids on the Maelioriate who, unlike the
Uatabele, have some skill itt working in
these metals; on her auldetratid arms are
more beds, When in ettsto siren during
the 'War Dolce' the gaol preterite a pie.
thee ef blight and eilhotive coloring."
An interestieg hietoriee ' relic in the shape
of a Japanese leek 250 y ere old has been
presentee to the tan,yee en „corperation of
Deal, and placed atnongst the: •
tm'estiug
collection in the town Inat.
They Were After Bin. '
A traveller at an hotel out Weat saw an
old grey -headed ilen crawling over the page
on whim he had just registered his name.
He went away alarmed ; as it was, he set&
the first place he ever was in where the fleas
looked over the register to find out where
the room was 1
In some partss of Berlin there are spe cia
publiebouses for women.
Sir Hoary Ponsonby, ...secretary to the
Queen, disposes of the, delusion that Her
Majesty invariably makes a present of
three guineas to the parents of triplets,
The Queen's bounty le dispensed under cer-
tain conditions only. The three children
mese all survive end there must be proof
thee the parents, though respectable, are
too poor to meet the unforseen demands
I -nada upon them by the appearance of the
trio,"
lutes ..-Othors.
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