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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-1-18, Page 7001(.TaN'S POOR Yee. 'S $11111e/X0lir etle ieedS AftLeteet DelPSFISSION. the Veer Always wfibi t'- ea,l etneetion5 144 /Mole* as rld If - The Spiritual lessons ny the eituatten. nein Jemmy 7 -It seems, appro. ° Cde Dr. Teenage° should preech this her his personal contribution of teed poen& of meat and two •ves of bread to the poor who Adding, in the cold around tgie 5 th chapter, 18th verse, Where it says: any provide not for his own, and ea eel. - ally for Mime of his own house, he iath denied the faith, and is worse than an in - 6401; " or I will turn to Jeremiah, 22nd oha,pter, 19th verse, where it says "Ie shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn end mat forth beyond the aetes of Jerusalem." I cannot imagine any more unfair or meaner thing than IDE 0. man to get his eine pardoned at the last minute, cud then go to heaven and, live in a mane sion, and go riding about in a golden chariot over the golden streets, while his wife and children, whom be might have provided for, are begging for cold vietaals at the basement door of an earthly city. It seems to me there ought to be a poor house somewhere on the outskirts of hea- ven, *have those guilty of auch improvi- dence should be kept fer e, while on thin soup and gristle, instead of sitting down at the King's banquet. It is said that the church is a Divine institution, and I believe it. Just as certainly. are the savings banks eand the life linter. ance companies Divine instite none. As out of evil good often comes, so out of the doc- trine ot probebilities, calculated by Pro. Lessor Eugene and Professor Pascal for games of chance, came the calculation of the probabilities of human life as used by life insurance companies, and no business on earth is more 'table or honorable, and no mightier mercy for the human race has been bore since Christ was born. Bored beyond endurance for my signature to pa pars of all sortie there is one style of paper that I always sign with a feeling of gladness and triumph, and that is a paper which the life insurance company requires from the clergymen after a decease in his congrega- tion, in order to the payment of the pelioy to the bereft household. I always write my • , who hewn competent income' and could pros vide eorneWhae for the future, who live up to every dollen and when they die their diadem), ge to the poor home or op the Street. By the time the Wife gets the, bete. bend buried she is in debt to the smiler. for misfortune by inopportune wittiest taker and ereyediger for that which she Just as that lawyer was to make the plea can never, pay, While the man lived he that would have met him among the strong had his wine parties sue fairly stunk with men of the profession, neuralgia stuug him. tobacco end then expired, leaving his just as that physician Was to prove bes family upon the charitiee of the world. Skill ill an epidemic, his own poor health leo not send for me to come end intinesenee hum Aloe as that nierohant eenduet the obsequies and read ever must be at the store for seine deeisive and such a °armee the beautiful lieurgy introductory bargain, he sits with a Ome- n "Blessed., are the deed who die in the rustic joint on a pillow, the room redolent Cord," for, instead of that, rwill turn over with liniment. ,,What ad overwhelming the ICSNOS of the Bible to First Timothy, statistio wotild be the Story of men and woman and children inmoveriatied by sick. nese. Then the cyclones. Then the Mem sissippi and Ohio freshets, Then the stop- ping of the factories. Then the oureelios among the peach trees. Then the iaseotile devastation of potato patches and wheat acids, Then the epizootic among the horeee and the hollow horn among the herds. Then the rains that drown out everything and the droughts that burn up half the continent, Then the orange groves die under the svhito teeth of the hoer frost. Then the mai strikes and the iron strikes and the mechaniete atriaes, whioh all strike labour harder than they strike capital. Then there are the nem ssities of buying coal by the scuttle instea d of the ton, and dour by the pound inseam" of the barrel, and so the injustices are multiplied. In the wake of ell those are overwhelming illustrations of the truth of my text - " Ye have the poor always with you." Remember a fact that no one empha- sizes, a fact, nevertheless, upon which I want to put tire weight of an eternity of eseteide of divine mercy ; and. this , wide -spread eagerness to relieve the distress I iei ail etYlee ef l'usluesei e'ed 4346 t' TifF SUNDAY 80110011 Qa oue of everyibing betWeea era let 1 paid grave, and those two exceptions e _ only beemlee they have nothiug to do in naBitzuzfoNALasitm, Al 21. - baying either of them. Others aro retained 4 GEN. 4. 3-13. GOLIWI l'EXT -H.813. 11. 4. , (111.N1110 -t, STATEXENT. God and the serpent had (mob made a prophecy doneerning the consequences of eiteine the forbidden fruit, and Adam and live now find the ee prophecies both fulfilled, though neither, probably, just as they had undersitood it On the day that they ate thereof they serely died, as Cod had field - not, indeed, by at once "giving up the ghost," but by being driven far out of reach of the "tree of life,' ' whose rich fride might have indennitely perpetuated for them the felieities of Eden if they had been obedient. Their eyes were opeeed, o,od they now "knew good and evil, " -as the serpent had said -but what agony this knowledge brought them. 1 for all good wined to be the other side of the cherub's flaming sword, anettaimible forever ; while of evil they might each hams said, what Paul said after- ward ; "lees ever present with me." The three aethee in this &HMS, of the fall now turn to endure the curses. pronounced upon them by God; but the sorrows of Adam and Eve are lightened by the promise of the seed which should bruise the serpent's head • and doubtless new hopes arise as they Lek on the face of their firstborn. De- cades, if not cenburies, pass and descend- ants multiply. Adam. and his sous till the soil which had been cursed for his sake-. outside of paradise, but not TiMETER TX:14.B0 nd meat store of Brooklyn, where el was dietribatee without ticket, no recommendation required except Pe, The text tvas ; Matthew 26, ; e heve the peer always with you." said that e The ()Wet who never a anything during Eel earthly stay. (beans! His grave were borrowed, fig Re ate was from sometime else's Every drop of water He drank.wee soineoue else's well. To pay Ilia per- il tax, which was very smell, only thirty-, eid a quarter cents, He had to perform 'tele and mak ea ish pay it, All the te and de hs and. lengths and ha ef poe Christ measured in His experie , and, when He comes to desti oe, He always speaks ally, and what Ile said then is ; Ye have the poor always mend years the bread question active and absorbing q ass e people crowding up to Joseph's rehoese in Egypt. Witness the famine Samaria and Jerusalem. Witness the en thousend hungry people for whom. riot multiplied the loaves, Witnese the sled millions of people now living, m, believe, have never yet had one sal of healthful and nutritious food 11 their lives. Think of the efie great Ines in India. Think of the twenty-five toe people under the hoof of hunger year re last in Russia. The failure of the to -overflow for seven yeare in the eth century left those regions depopu- Plague of insects in .England. of rata in Madras Presidency. M of mice in Essex. Plague of locusts hint Plagues of grasshoppers in rice,. Devastationwrought by drought eluge, by frost, by war, by hurricane, earthquake, by oomete flying too near name then so they can read it I minuet earth, by change in the management of help but so say to myself; " (stood for tional hnances, by baleful 'muses innu table. I proceed to give you -three or four eons why my text is znarkedly and ethically true in this year 1894. ire first reason we have always the poor un is because of the perpetual over hug of the tariff question, or, as I shall it, the Tariff controversy. There is a d ior such a word and so I take the re. nsibility of manufacturing it. There are Iliona of people who are expecting that present Congress of the United States oeoneething one way, or the other to s discussion. But it will never end. was five yea of age I remember my father d his neighbors' in mates death is a defalcation, an outrage, a t diseuesiel this ver5. cll'estMll' swindle. He did nob die; he a,baconded. h'gle toaelf or ei tariff or no tariff hen your great grandchild -dies at There. are a hundred thousand people in rs of age it will probably bo from America to -day a -hungered through the sin er hon in discussing the tariff. On improvidence. "Bet," say some, "my ne t be world is destroyed, there will income is so antalld cannot afford to pay the premium on a life insurance." Are you sure dm men standing on the post office about that? If you are sure, then you have cue a high tariff man, another a low a eight to depend on the promise in Jere- -on, and other a free trade man oise redi the face from led m exci mush, 49th chapter, lltn. verse: "Leave thy fatherless children, 1. will preserve met ma reject. Other questions - them alive,. and let thy widows trust in quietee,,, he Mormon question, the me." But. If you are able to remember you estion, Pension question, the Civil have no right to ask God to do for your. ueetion. All questions of Annest- househeld that which you can do for them come to peaceful settlement by exation of islands two weeks' voy. yourself, Per the benefit of those young excuse e practical pereonalitye Be- y and the heat of their Toles- 'Tient ginning my life's work on the munificent veyed through pipes under the sea efal in warming our continent or on of the moon, dethroning the f Night, who is said to be dissolute, giug the lunar populations under' e of our free institutions ; yea, all uestions, national or international, nay be settled, but this Tariffic ques- t will not only never be se ttled,but it ver be moderately quiet for more than ears at a time, each party getting ewer taking one of the four years to p, and then the next party will fix it Our finances cannotget well because many doctors. It is with el* nations th sick individuals. Here is a man ly disordered as to his body. A. dem- eaned in, and he administers a febri- a spoonful every hour. But recovery tponed, and the anxious friends call tiler doctor: and Ire says: "What this t needs is blood-leeting ; now roll up sleeve !" and the laneet flashes. •But recovery is postponed, 'and a homce- to doctor is called. in,and he administers I been alive and. well and supporting their families. They got a, little sick, and. they small pellets, and says: "All the were so worried about what would become nt wants is rest." Recovery still of their households in case of their demise poned, the family say that such small that their agitations Overektne the skill of Is cannot amount to much anyhow, the pbysicans and they died for fear of. an allopathic doctor is called in and he : "What title patient wants is calm. dying. I have foe mealy years" been such an ardent advocate of life insiiro.nce, and id jalapei Recovery still postponed, my sernion on "The Cruise of not Insurs ropathio doctor is called in, and he ing," has been so long used on both sides of "What this patient wants is hot and the sea by the chief life insurance bahs, and he must have - thorn right . Turn on the faucet and get ready companies that Some People have Rule - hewer baths." Recovery still postmen. Posed that received monetarycorn- ,n electric doctor is called in, and he pensation for whet I have said and writ - ,rings all the schools to bear upon the poor hundred dollars for every penny I have ;liftmen and the poor. patient, after a What received from city life insurance company. rave stniggle for life, expires. What T. have said. and written on else sub - 1 ' Too many doctors. Andthat kilhinrdathetemicmgdeeamee. jeet has resulted from the conviction that Einem, Cleveland and eland these institutions are a benediction to the human race, But, alas for the wide -spread on Cierlisle and McKinley and and improvidence Yon are now in your eherman, as talented. and lovely charities helping to support the families of !endue. men as walk the earth, all men who had more income teem you now 'd doctors, but their 'treatment of our have. You coat depend on the iniprovi- • guishing finances is so different tbat ther treatment has A full opportunity, under the constant changes it is sun - wonderful that the nation still lives. tariff question will never be settled In- ane of the face, vvhieli I have never heard, imam recognise, but, neverthelese, the ail that high tariff is best for some people nit free trade is best for others..This fain, oontroeoray keeps businets struck broil& with uncertainty, and that timer - Leroy results in poverty and wretchedness or a vett multitude of people. If the tome gab on d this subject could have been shioned into leaved of bread, there NT ot be a hungry man or woman or child on I the planet To the one of time, the Word's of the text will be kept true by the ran& contrtiveray Ye have the poor wows with you." leather cause of perpetual poverty is muse alcoholic. The victim dem last long. Ho then orouohee into drunkard's grave. But what abotit hie and children / She takers in washieg, she can get it, or goes oet working 1 wages, because metrow and priva. eve left her ineepeciteted to do a womante work. The childeen are d and gaunt alid pale and weak, cl, cold rootes, on pitching efireet corner, andentwohing eared, bread 'When they can t lon peseerieby becomes, they O the way, Itidked (teemed that man to have looked after his wife and children after earthly departure. May he have one of the best seats in heaven! Young man ! The day before or the day after you get married, go to a life insurance company of established reputation and get the medi- cal examiner to put the stethoscopeto your lungs and his ear close to your heart, with your vest off, and have signed, sealed and delivered to you a document that will, in the case of your sudden departure, make for that lovely girl the difference between a queen cad a pauper. 1 have known men who have had an income of $3000, $4000, $5000 a year who did not leaye one farthing to the surviving household. Now that STARVING! A lergYnkith, 100 'Werth treeteliver Ole Sea" inolaTe Uls Eaeletonaltle Elects'. There genie very nearly being,. another sensation in New York's clerical circles the other day. A noted clergyman, whose gowned figlire end imposing pulpit are yen' familiar to fashiouable people, Was compelle 04 to cut his sermon abortsaddenly,becanee he was suffering from lack of food The case well illustrates the keen suffering among Gothande clergy as a reselt of the simititutieht that prevails. Fox. these Men have naturally been obliged te practice what they preach by liberal alms giving. One Pastor for instance laud ehurelt has been aceorded the adjective, fashionable), now finds himself praetioelly stripped of comforts. Hie wife and children have been living on the plainest of fare. Every pent he could scrape together has gone to the poor, His own spare clothes, and those of hie wife and little ones have been liberelly beetowed. Yet the cry for bread has not become less Intense. Many, another minis- ter of the Gespelfinde himself emberressed. Thom is a great tendency to armee at the clergy for their alleged lack of real sym- pathy. But those who care to take the trouble of investigating the present condi- tion of these men will find that numerous preachers now living in apparent luxury haw during all the present suffering been the most to euffer„ Ear they have been stripping themselves, Said One of these men upon being promis- ed the suppression of his name: "I run firmly convinced that there is a prevailing. b!I:grri)aabylfe3,I zirt.eoctlsl; tonnage, that the best way of Metering divine mercy they recogniz by the ere°. yourself and pier, children and your tion of altars and by prayerful sacrifice, so many classes helm turned the corner The arbitrary chronology which we have adopted for oonvenieuee' sake is entirely untruetwortby, end we have no definite knowledge of the age of Cain and Abel when the tragedy of thie lesson was enact- ed. Cain preeented. fruits and grain, a portion of the produce of his toil, as an of- fering; it was a recognition of God's gifts, but not a recognition, and probably an im- plied denial, of man's need of, redemption, Abel presented as a secrifice "the firetlings grandchildren against poverty and all other troubles is by helping others, I am an agent of the oldest insurance cam. peaty that was ever established. It is near three thousand years old. It has the advantege of all the other plane of in- surers:se ; Whole Life Policy, Bedew - meat, Joint Life and Sarvivorehip Policies, Ascending and Descending Scales of Pre- mium, and Tontine, and it pays up while you live and ie nave after you are dead. Every cent you give in a Christian spirt to of his flock and the fat thereof," showing his consciousness of sin and his faith in the a poor man or woman every shoe you give to a bare foot, every ;tick of wood or lump promised Redeemer. God showed his ap- of coal you give to a fireless hearth, every proval of the sacrifice which Abel had made drop of medicine you give to a pear invalid, and Cain's heart was filled with hate to- ward his brother. He smites Abel and he every star of hope you make to shine over dies, the &at of the noble army of martyrs unfortunate maternity, every mitten you knit for cold fingers is a payment on the and Cain is sentenced to a, loney, embitter. premium of that policy, hand about five ed life,though close on the heels of his curse hundred. million policies to all who will go comes a definite protection, which' carried within, we must believe, opportunity of forth and aid the unfortunatS. There are only two or three lines in this policy of Life repentance. Insurance. Psalms 41, 1 "Blessed is be wasIMITATOEMMenD PRACTIOAT, None. needed is a little present help. Why deny it from fear of pe.uperizing the poor. One. that considereth the poor •, the Lord will Verse S. In process of time. lilt"''•would suppose ft was a pleasant thing th deliver him in time of trouble." of hard times and are experiencing A return to prosperity. But the very poor have not had tens to make the turn. That they will do so very soon I am persuaded. Meanwhile they mese be helped. But no sooner does charity pour in than the cry is raised that the poor are being pauperized. It is alleged that the tramps of all com- munities are being drawn into New, York, That is not so, Every,community is trying eo help his own, and the unworthy conrse stay where they are, Beaidere why ttheolt the impulse to be generous? There are so many poor people who need just a little to set them on their feet. It is significant that so many of the unemployed have a promise of work at their trades when the holiday season is well over. That is because so mauy capitalists are preparing to in- augurate enterprises, but at present their plans are maturing, and they are non ready to come into the labor market. Bo what is the end of the week, which woe, pauperized from the'way many talk. babbath, or at the end of the year 'Which e worthy poor dread beino pauper - DIF LATEST LAND OF PROMISE, might point to a "feast of ingatliering,"e 'De 1. as anybody." .M.ore Free Farms For Americans Ex- cept in Canada. a sort of thanksgiving day. Cain. Thee _ lust -born of the fallen pair became .te eieehem-EBN LIKE! THIS murderer of his brother. (I) How soon . aide, does the seed of sin grow up to its harvest 1 ' , Fruit of the ground. He was a farmer Alyo sem- • • or gardener, and presented an oblation of ea „ - es, A. Drive With_ literses *Vein Chicago to the fruits which he had raised, An offer- --- el. the DetreIre -"veva-41m t he €auadthn ing. This word in the original is generally from a crypt in used of an obemenewemeen.. einethorgst. lelemyle • •- m - ne n 4 Prairies te the FHTEDOE'S ill. the states. The most beautiful ;Demme' The Canadian exodus is entice, Thelidaw ientiellertiee translated "meet effering," Wa8 "CentlY iltrE3""-- 41.1"4‘ 'an" crypt of St Fides's °Minh in Schletes is turned amine flaring tend, from the Re- where more correctly it would be "meal Alsatia, which had been closed up and, le public' to the Dominion, That is the basic offering:" le simply represented thanks, fact, forgotten for a hundred years or more. fact upon which Mr. L. 0. Armstrong, without prayer for pardon or confession or Sr. Fides's Church was built by members manager of the C.P.R. Colonization Office, sin. It is at least creditable to Cain that he of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in the eleventh builds a castle of romance. And the recognized the need of worship; that he romance is real. It is actually coming. to ignored the "bloody sacrifice" shows that century-. The crypt was originally in- tended. se a burial place for the princes of pass in our time. Mr. Armstrong has test he lacked true • faith in the need and effic. that house. At the beginning of the returned from a missionary tour of West- ahy of the atonement. ern Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. 4. Abel. The name means "Breath,"- twelfth century the black plague visited the town and the vaults were :walled up, With a pair of horses he crossed these "Transitory," and is perhaps that by: At the beginning of -this century the states with many a detour from Chicago to. which he was spoken of afterhis earlydeath, stone and mortar were partly removed and Detroit. Everywhere among the farmers Wirstlings. The firstborn. Of his flock. a small opening made just big enough to and artisans he preached a promised laud. He was a shepherd, yet there was'a deeper allow a man to crawl through, but the in - He told of the unrivalled pasture lands of reason than that fact for snob an offering, vestigation led to no discovery. the great North-Weet of Canada. And The blood of the sacrifice represented the principle of atoriernene, and. testified his The recent investigations were more there atemeser ' • T.,r4;••• • •",.: . _ „ tor iinfants and Childrerip n Omit orlais some, eel...meal to children thee recoememad Ode importer to enerPreeerfeeeed known Some." IT. A. .41:cittli, 111 Oxford St, Breeklyza, N. T. "The use of 'Costoria ' so universal and its merits so weleanowe teat it gee= a work of supererogetionto endorse it. Few arethe intelligent families who do not keep Casteria within easy moat." Cemem Menne, D.D., Now York City. Late raster Dloomingdele Reformed March, gogiarammommagi Cloetories email Oelki, Constipation, • flour Stotaach, Plarrhcea, Zrnotation, Fills Worms, gwea sleep, eme peoreinee ee .gestion, Wiehout injure:les medication) For several years have reemerge your Oastoria, ' Andes:al always, eonteme to do so as it ams invarestny produced beuefielal moults.' . Beensten Peranes, X. W., "The Winthrop," iOtla Street and 7th Ave., , New York Cier. Tars CENTAUR Couture, 7•7 Mourraz See.reeer, New need a powerful nourishment in food when nursing babies or they are apt to suffer from Emaciation, S;4'Catt745 Emulsion amtammimmanamity ,aamstaremailasswzmascazr of Cod-liver Oil, with hypophosphites of lime and soda, nourishes mothers speedily back to health and makes their babies fat, and chubby. POsicians, the world over, endorse it. • Babies are never healthy' when thin,. They ought to be Babies cry for SCOTT'S EMULSION. It is palatak and. easy to assimilate. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Belleville, All Druggists, 50 cents and St s Sever Papa. In Shel-lilliCied* 2 Years Cared by The DAV:Menthol Plaster. Sy wife was afflicted 'for two yea.rs with a severe pain under the left shoulder and through to the r usirg many remedies without relief,. she trier! a ''D.esL."-Menthel Plaster, it did Its work. • -r s cure hundreds of these plasters have been sold by tree here, giving equal satisfaction,. j. FL, SUTHERLAND Druggist, eiverjoen, lade •ild Everywhere* 25C. each • salary ot $800 a year and a parsonage, and the picture, he drew was a pleasant one for when the eall was pleoed in my bands, I did the tax -burdened farmers of these states to not know Mow in she world I would ever see. These farmers protest that they are be able td spend that amount of money, and overgoverned and overburdened thereby. I temember indulging in a devout wish "And now," said Mr. Armstrong, "they that I rnightnot be led into worldliness and realize t' -hat the time is past when their prodigality -by Buchan overpius a resources sons can find places in the cities and towns. and at a time when articles of food and I have met scores of young men who ho.ve,ree clothing were, higher than they are now, turned from the city to the farm, having I felt it a reigious duty to get nay life hour- discovered that there is no room for them ed, and. presented myself at an office of in memo one of the greet companies, and I stood Neither is there room for them in the pale and nervous lest the medical examiner country of the American west, nor the east, might have to say that I had consumption nor the north, nor the south. The tragic and heart disease and a ,half d.ozett. mortal rush of 300,000 men and women to get, pos. ailments, but when I got the docarnent session of some 17,000 farms, in the Clliero- which I have yet in full force, I felt a sense free strip was a striking illustration of the of manliness and confidence and quietude land -hunger seizing . the people . of the and reinforcement, which is a good thing Republic. Then the collapse of the silver for any young man to have. For the lank boom, through the -repeal of the Sherman of that feeling there are thousands of men Bill, has brought disaster to the irrigating to -day in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and farmors-on the arid lands of Colorado. . Mount Auburn, who might as well have "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm "-the refrain of the glad old Bougie no longer true The time has come, Mr. Armstrong says, for Canada's claims to be heard. And heard they were respectfully in a hundred school houses and town halls of the west. "We might learn a lesson in their schoolhouses yet. Their interiors are decorated with a view to seethed° effect, andWhe cultivation of the higher tastes of the children, and there is a flag on every school, a point we should' also note." These schoolhouse lectures were listened to with eernest attention and courtesy. Mr. Armstrong began with stating that in 183e he met the late General Sherman at a ban- quet in Winnipeg, and heard him then pre- dict that Canada. and the United States would be made one by the overflow .of American oitieens to the prairies of Canada. This would be done without sending out e, Soldier or firing a shot. And now the New York Sun sone report- ers to Mr. Armstrong's lectures, reelizing that the Anieriean exodus had begun. iiknd editorially it declared ets willingness to dence of many for the truth of my text in support snob a movement to the mid that all times and in all places : "Ye have the Canada might be made one with the great pose. always with you." , union, Another feet that you may depend upon Bar Mr. Armstrong never lowered the for perpetual poverty is the incapKeity of Canadian flag. delusions were one Many to aellieve a livelihood; You can go thing and the practical proeperity offered by through any community and find good the C.P.R, was another. This railroad people with more than usual mental culture, now offers to carry two delegates from every who have never been able -to oupport them- county in the States,through which 1V4r. selves and their houeeholde. They are a Armstrong had passes', to the Canadian Mystery to us and we say, '1 do not know- Nortli-West. Every one of the delegates what is the matter with them, but therein; a sent out from the Eastern'States had re - screw .loose somewhere," Some of these ported favorebly to intending emigrants, persons hese mere brain than thousadcla They said that the gratis lands of the Sas- who make a, spenclid success. Some are katchewaneend Peace River valleys a& as too stingeiee of temperament, ancl they gee rich as those of Kentucky, with a crop of bargains where there are none. A common °ate thrown in. All thia Mr. Armstrong minnow is to them a gold fish, and a quail ..old the schoolhouse audiences, giving a flamingo, and a blind mule on a tow -path geographical reason why Canada was thus a nueeplialus, They buy when things are fawned. The isothermal hum followed highest and sell when things are lowest, these fertile prairie belts. Wild pea's and Some oho tells them of city lets out west, votehesliourished, and the little spring where the foundation of the first house has crocus bloomed on. the fifteeeth day of not yet been bed, They thy, "What an April, the same day as it first appeared in oppoetimity I" and they put down hard Minnesota cue Northern Iowa. Therefore cosh for an ornamented deed for tee Iola we had the rioltest natural meoelome in the tinier water. They hear of a, new silver world; and hay and pasture lande were mine opened hi Nevada, and they say, what the farmers of the future wanted. The " Whaies. elismee 1" and they take the little beet wheat lig& Of Minnie Were being con. money they have in thcisavinga bank and pay vetted into pastures and meadows. The it out for as beautiful a certificate of min, fall in the price of wheat had :lone it. The frig stock as ever was printed, and the femora of the Middle and 'Western states only thing they will ever get °Oaf the would go to Canada to reiee Wool, 'mutton, investment is the aforesaid illuminated beef, pock and poultry, and to make butter and Choose. Pot mixed. fttrining it was the lend of promiee. oodor evemendoed, for which lithograph. They are always on the verge of milliotiaiteclem, and ere Sometimes Ond"P• lterattl°040,,neabyteixiti6,614,0440turatil: worried as to whom they shall bequeath their excess of fortune. They invest in :41010c or p5intinTr aerial machines, or new inventions in per- atu!.+1000-atitri • -0-44-.114-... - t 1,41,1:Eak,initiotittriloottn, tuutpcoenedibilue, thialet , ' • fbitec.e, ilreyido oeivthlmis dee .11einaettLthe direle Curious Tads from the (iatender. New Yemen day of 1893 fell upon Sunday Jeneary 1 will happen on Sunday bat once more deting.the'count I that will be in 18 r?' 1)9. In en the next ct try it will occur t II . ...,....t ., 4.,:tv.....,4e4 , AMA._ ough. Electric) lights were introduced,and faith in the coming Saviour. Hence in Heb. 11. 4 his offering is said to have been excavations were made under the direction made "by faith." (2) God's claim on limn of notedarchteologiste. It was then that is highest and first. Had respect. In a mummy, mor,e beautiful than any now in some way, but how we know not, God testi- the possession of -the great museums and fled his approval of the one offering, and collections, waif discovered. It lay in a his disapproval of the other, perhaps it grave, which had once been filled by a was by fire from heaven, as its several in- wooden sarcophagus, and its outlines had stances of Scripture history. Here we see, bveen perfectly preserved by „ a coating of in one family, broughtup with training, two sons, onerighteous the other the same ''InTehis led to the belief that the corpse wee wicked. (3) Each individual Chooses for that of a woman who died during the time himself his own character, of the black plague, for it was customary 5. Unto Cain , . . he had not res with the people of the period to cover the pect, There was a difference not only in bodies of all victims of the terrible disease the efferings, but in the character of th who in life belonged to the nobility with. worshipers,' and God saw in Cain's heart the oxide of calcium. lack of sincerity. Wroth. Instead of be- Only the forepart of the head and breast" ing humbled before God in penitence, he of the mummy could be removed in their showed resentment against bie brother, entirety, the rest broke into many 'Ames "The fine sinner had. the first sulky and has not yet been restored. The Stuns. brow."---Rambach. (4) Those who ought burg sculptor, Prof, Stienni, from a model to hate themselves, for their sins -often reconstructed.the bast of the corpse as found hate others for their goodness. show -lug the texture of the death robes and f 6, 7, The Lord said unto Orin. God deals with Cain in mercy, and does not surrender him at once to sin. Shalt thou not be ac- cepted ? Literally, "there shall be a lift- ing up "-that is, of the countenance -in the consciousness of acceptance before God. Sin lieth et the door. "Croueleeth." Sin is repdesented sea wild beast watching for his prey (1 Peter 6. 8). (5) Would that men might remember the invisible foes that lurk for them ! Unto thee . . his deeire. A sentence which had been spoken befere, though in a different application (ehay...3. 16), and probably was here given as a sort i of proverb. Of, its various nterpretations, the best seems to be, "Just like a „wild beast, sin weeds for its prey; its desire is ,for thee ; .yet if thou wilt thou mayest keep it in subsection." (6) Evary man is the master of temptation who resists it boldly. 3. Cain talked. This may refer either to A quarrelsoine, apeaceeble'or a treacher- ous manner of speech; the latter, to ll any possible suspicion in Abel's mind. In the field. In a solitary place. Slew hint. The root of his crime was hate of his broth- er, because he was better than himself. 9. The Lord said. (7) Ea who has stilted his brother's voice 'finds that he cannot etill the lips of his brother's God. 'Ve here is Abel thy brother? God's purpose was to lead Cain to penitence alai voluntary con- fession of his crime. Am I my brother's keeper? Instead of repentance Cain shows a hardened heart, remorseless of crime, selfish in feeling, and scornful of God, (8) So swift do the steps of sin tend, downward in "the way of Cain" (Jude 11). (0) The spirit of Cain te seen wherever man forgets his brotherhood to his fellowman, and his measure of responsibility for him, 10 The voice of thy brother's blood. As if every drop of Abele; blood had his own tongue to demand vengeance upon his murderer, (10) Thus every wrong to man ia seen by God's eye, and speaks to God's ear. (11) No subsequent morelity can !silence the cry of one act of sit. Ouly Chris* blood, whieli speaks mercy, atone. ment;pardon. 12. 24), can hush ite thunder tones. 11, id. °deed free.' the meth. Perhaps meaning, "Thou art cursed away from the land of lemma habitation." Opened her moittle Thenaeth, which drinks in what* ever is poured ispon it. When thee I Meet As a special math c f divine wrath, his toil in his vocation ehoeld afford hint but little recompense. A fugitive And a vagabond. Compelled to live afar from the rest of Adam's descendants, who, by this time, may have numbered Ueveral thouseatris. (12) Notioe ins Scripture history the special penalty, IINUI for the first crime of a rct e(43r... Citrin, to the position of the left arm, which was pressed against the breast. The face is that of mm. woman of about thirty .five years, beautiful and noble in out- line. The hair was coiled on the baok of the head. The corpse was originally cloth. ed, according to the revelations of the quicklime, in a long linen shirt, of wonderfully fine texture, a knitted jac- ket,- and over this linen petticoats. Around her shoulders had been a mantle draped in heavy folds. Those who saw the body when it was firstbrought to light Said it looked like an image from another world. The body is thought to be that of Princess Hildegard, daughter of Duchess Adallieid oi Schwaben, the.greatgrandrnother of Kaiser Barbaroesa, of whom the legend reports that he is asleep in the 4y£Erilieser Moun- tain. Hildegard died at Sehlettstedt at the beginning of the twelth century; after having nursed, her mother through the plague. an COLLISIOR AT SEA. The Cyplireites Does Down Atter rilttiniii the 011 Tank Steamer La h'iandre. A St. John's Nada special says :e -About noon to -day a large steamer entered thie harbor with a gaping cavity in her port quarter, and every appearance of collision. She proved to be La Flamer°'a Dutch oil tank steamer, bound from Antwerp for New York, in ballast, and seventeen days out. Yesterday morning about 7 o'clook on the east edge of the (emend Banks, some 200 miles off, she come into collision with the steamship Cyphrenes, for Liverpool from Savannah, laden with cotton. 'Very few facts can be got from the crew. The COliie- ion Seorriq to be the result of negligent keeping of watches. It was just at daybreak and somewhat hazy. The Cyphrenes had been stopped three hours durum the night, owing to fog. 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