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Bmeonree eepril 15—In the great
audience whine aseernbled in the Brooklyn
Tabernaele this forenoon were Many
atrengere. Rev. DA Telmege chose for the
subjnot of his sermon "Ilonie Religion,'
" taking hie text from Luke 8 ; 39 : "Retort
to thine own house, and show how great
thinge God hath done unto thee."
After a erce and shipwrecking night,
Chriet and his disciples are climbing up the
/ slaty shelving of the boob. Row plearient
it is to stand on solid ground after having
been tossed so long on the billows, While
the discipl a are congratulating each other
4
on their rine ocape, out from a dark
deep eaVer ten the Gadarine hills there is
e siomething swiftly and terribly advancieg.
Is it an apparition ? Is it a man? Is it a
wild beast ? Is it a maniac who hes broken
away from his keepers, perhaps a fetv rags
en his persomand fragments of stout shack-
les which he has wrenched off in terrific
, paroxysm. With wilci yell, and bleeding
wounds of his own laceration, he flies down
the hill.
Back to the When ye fishermen, and put
out to sea, and escape asseasheation. But
Christ stands His ground ; so do the Disci,
pies ; and as this flying fury, with gnashing
teeth and uplifted fists, dashea at Christ,
Christ nem "Bands off! Down at my feet,
thoa poor sufferer," and the demoniac drops
harmless, exhausted, worshipful, " Away
ye devils?" commanded Christ, and the
two thousand fiends which had been tor-
rnentieg the poor man. are transferred to
the two thousand swine, which go to sea
with their accursed cargo.
The resthrecl demoniac sits down at
Christ's feet and wants to stay there.
Christ says to bine practically, 'Do not
etop ; von have a mission in execute ; wash
I off the -filth and the wounds in the sea ;
smooth your dishevelled locks ; put on
decent apparel and go straightto your deso-
lated home, and tell your wife and children
that you will no more affright them, and no
more do them harm ; that you are restored.
to reason, and that I, the Omnipotent Son
of God, am entitled hereafter to the war-
ship of your entire household, Return to
thine own. house, ancishow how great things
God bath done unto thee."
" Yo, the house, the home is the first
place where onr religious gratitude ought
to be demonstrated. In the outside world
vie may seem to have religion when we
have it not ; but the home tests whether
our religion is genuine or a sham. what
makes a happy home ?
, Well, one would say a house with great
wide halls, ann. antlered deer heads, and
„
parlors' withVelpture and bric-a-brac, and
dining -hall with. easy chair and plenty of
light and eqravings of game on the wall,
and, sleeping apartments commodious and
adorned. No. In such a place as that
gigantic wretchedness has sometimes
dwelt, while some of you look back to your
father's house, -where they read their Bible
by the ,s4ght of a tallow candle. There
were ho fiarpets on the floor, save those
made from the rags which your mother cut
night by night, you helping wind them
into n ball, and then seat to the weaver,
who brought them to shape under his slow
shuttle. Not a luxury in all the house.
,
z ' But yoti cannot think of it this morning
A without tearful and grateful emotion.
a You and I have found out that it is not rich
tapestry, or gorgeous architecture, or rare
art that makes a happy home.
The eix wise men of tieeece gave prescrip-
tions for a happy home. Solon says a happy
home is a place where a man's estate was
gotten without injustice, kept without
disquietude and spent without re-
pentance. • Chile says that a happy
home is the place where .e, man rules as a
monarch a kingdom. 33ias says that a
happy home is a place where a man does
voluntarily what by law be is compelled th
do abroad. But you and I, under a
grander light, give a better prescription : a
happy home is a place where the kindness
of the Gospel of the Son of God has full
.
swam.
While I speak this morning there is
knocking at your front door, if He be
not :already admitted, One whose locks
are wet with the dews of the night, who
would take your children into His arms,
and would throw upon your nursery, and
your sleeping apartments, and your draw-
ing -room, and your entire house a blessing,
that will make you rich while you live, and
be an inheritance to your children after yeti
have done the last day'swork for their sup-
port, and made for them the last prayer.
It is the illustrious One who said „to the
man of my text, " Return to thine own
house, and show how great things Goa
hath done anto thee." Now, in the first
place, we want religion in our domestic
dnties.
Every housekeeper needs ..great grace,
It Martha had had more religion she would
not have rushed with such a bad temper to
scold Mary in the presence of Christ. It is
no small thing to keep order, and secure
Mem linos, and emend breakages, and
the Mono old advantageously. Expenses
;.4,.
acesi ",e economy, and control all the affairs of
will run up, store bills will come in twice
as large as you think they ought to be,
nirniture will wear out, carpets will unrav-
el, and the martyrs of the fire are very few
in etomparison with the martyrs of house-
keeping. 'Yet there are hundreds of people
in this church this morning who in their
homes are managing all these affairs with a
compoaure, and adroitness and ingenuity,
and a faithfulness which they never could
have reaohed but for the grace of our
practical Christianity. The exasperations
which wear oat others have been to you
mairitual development and sanctification.
Employments whieh seemed to relate only
to an hour have on them all the grandeurs
of eternal history.
A
You inert the religion of Christ in the
dieeiplitie of your children, The rod which
in other homee may be the first, meansused,
in youra Will he the last. There will be no
haesh epithets—"you knave, yon villain,
you scoundrel, I'll thrash the life oat of
yoe,you are the worst child I ever knew,"
All that kind of chastisement makes thieves,
piek-pdokets, murderers and the outlaws
of society. That parent who in anger
striket his child. aorese the head deserves
peniteetiary. And yet this work of die-
cipline niuet he attended te. God'e graoe
can direct us, AlaA for thou et ho come
'to the work with fierce) petal= and wreek-
Maims of coneequencen Between severity
end lexatives there is to choi0e, Both
heinous and both deetruotivo. But there
is a homItlifel meollare Which the grace of
God will show to Itee.
Thee wo need the religion of elvish to
Sep Ise in setting a good exe,rnple. Cowper
+aid of the oak ; " Time was when settled A
on tby leef a fly mild beete shalten thee
the root, Time hts been when tempe
mild not" In other words, your childr
are Very impremeible just tow, They a
elert, they are gathering impressione y0
have no idea oL Hews you not been au
prisied semetimes, monthe or years aft
some conversatioo, witioh you auppos
was too profound or intrieate for them
understand --some question of the (Mild 4
monetrateci the fact that be knew all abo
it?
Your ohildrezt are apt to think thee wh
yea do is, right. They have no ideal
trnth or righteousness but youreelf, Thin
whieh you do, knowing at the time to
wroug, theyt ake to be right. They these
this way " Father always doee sigh
Father did this. Therefore thie is right
That is good logic but bad premises. N
one ever gets oversheving had. a bad examp
tiiet him. Your conduct more than yo
teaching makes impression* Your laug
your frown, your dress, your walk, yo
greetings, your good-byes, year coining
your goings, your habits at the table, th
tome of your voice, are making an impres
ion whieh will last a million years afte
you are dead, and the sun will be extin
guished, and the mountains will crumbl
and the world will die, and eternity wi
roll on in perpetoal cycles, but there wi
be no diminution of the force of your con
duct upon the young eyes that saw it, o
the young ears that beard it.
Now I would not have by this the ide
given to you that you must be in col
reserve in the presence of your children
You are not Emperor ; you are compatio
with them. As far as you can you mus
talk with them, skate with them, fly kit
with them, play ball with them, sho
them you are sntereated in all that interest
them. Spensippus2 the nephew and suc
cessor of Plato in the academy, ha
pictures of joy- and gladness being a
around the schoolroom. You must no
give your children the impression tha
when they come to you they are playfu
ripples striking against a rock. Von mus
have them understand that you were a bo
ono yourself, that you know a boy'
hilarities, bey's temptations a boy's am
bition—yea, that you are a la'oy yet Yo
may deceive them and try to give them the
idea that you are some distant, super
natural effulgence, and you may shoe,
them off by your rigorous behaviour, bu
the time will come when they will find ou
the deception, and they will have for yo
utter contempt.
Aristotle aafd that a boy should begin t
study ab seventeen years of age; before the.
his time should be given to reereatiom
cannot adopt that theory. But thie sug
gests a truth in the direction. Childhoo
is too brief, and we have not enough sym
pithy with its sportfulness. We wan
divine grace to help us in the adjustmen
of all these matters.
Besides that how are your children eve
to become Chrietions if you yourself are no
a Christian ? I have noticed that howeve
worldly and sinful parents may be, the
want their children good. When youn
people have presented themselves for ad
mission into our membership, I have sai
to them, "Are your father and mothe
'stilling you shall come?" and they hay
said, "Oh 1 yes; they are delighted to hav
us come; they have not been in church fo
ten or fifteen years, but they will be her
next Sabbath to see me baptised." I hay
noticed that parents, however worldly
want theim children ggod.
So it was demonstrated in a police cour
in Canada, where a mother, her little ehil
in her arms—sat by a table on which he
own handcuffs lay, and the little babe too
up the handcuffs and played with them an
had great glee. She knew not the sorrow
of the hour. And then when the mothe
was sent to prison, the mother cried out
"Oh God, let not this babe go into th
jail. Is there noe some mother here wh
will take this child? It is good enough fo
heaven. It is pure. I am bad. I am
wicked. Is there not some one who
take this child ? I cannot have it tainted
with the prison." Then a brazen oreatur
rushed up and said, "Yes, I'll take th
child." "No, No," said the mother, "no
you, not you. Is there not some good
mother here who will take this child?'
And then when the officer of the law in
meecy tool the child to carry it away to
find a home for ib, the mother kissed i
lovingly good-bye, and said, " Good-bye
my darling; it is better you should never
Pee me again."
However worldly and sinful people are,
they want their ehildrea good. How are
you going to have them good? Buy them
a few good books ? Teach them a few ex-
cellent catechisms ? Bring them to church?
That is all very well, but of little final re-
sult unless you don; with the grace of God
in your heart Do you not realize that
your children are started for eternity? Are
'they on the right road? Those little forms
that are now so bright and beautiful, when
they have scattered in the dust. there will
be an immortal spirit living on in a mighty
theatre in action, and your faitlifiilness or
your neglect now is deciding that'destiny.
There is contention already among minis-
tering spirits of salvation and fallen angels
as to who shall have the mastery of that
immortal spirit. Your children are soon
going out in the world. The temptations
of life will rush upon them. The moat
rigid resolution will bend in the blast of
evil. What will be she result ? It will
require all the restraints of the Gospel, all
the strengtb of a father's prayer, all the
influence of a Christian mother's example,
to keep them.
You say it is too early to bring them.
Too early to bring them to God ? Do you
knotv how early children were takeri to
the ancient Passover ? The rule was just
as soon as they could take hold of the
father's hand and walk up Mount
Moriah they should be taken to the Pass-
over. Your children are not too young
to come to God. While you sit here and
think of them perhaps their forms now so
bright and beautiful, vanish from you, and
their disembodied spirit rises, and you see
it after the life' of virtue of crime is past
and the judgement is gone aud eternity ie
here.
1111B
to Tyraney and arbitrary decision have no
plaoe in a howiehold, If the parente love
en God, there will be a spirit of forgiveness,
re and a kludnees which. will throw its +charm
u over the eatire houeehold, Christ will
r- come into thet household, and will say,
er 4illosbands, love your wtees, and be not
ed bitter against thein; wives, seo that you
to reverence your husbande ; children, °WY
your parents in the Lord ; servants, be
obedieet to perm masters ;" and the family
, will be like a garden on a summer morning
at' —the grass*Plot, and the ilowere, and the
of vino, and the arole of honeysuckle stead-
gs ing in the sunlight glittering with dew,
be Bat, then there will he sorrows that will
n come to the hemeehold. There are but few^
t. families that escape the stroke of financial
." misfortune, Financial misfortune comes
o to a house where there is no religion. They
le kick egainst divine allotroeuts* they purse
ur God for the Metalling calamity Ahoy cannot;
II. hold as high a pesition in eociety as they
ur once did, and they fret, and they scovvl,
s. and they sorrow„ and they die. Dering
e the past few years there have been tens of
se thousands of men destroyed by their filmie-
✓ cial distress.
- But misfortune comes to the Christian
e, household. If religion has follsway in that.
11 home, they stoop gracefully. They say.
11 1; This is right. " The father eve "Perhs,pe
• money was getting to be my idol. Perhims
✓ God is going to make me a better Christian
by putting me through the furnace oftribu-
a lotion. Besides that, why should I fret
d anyhow ? He who °meth the cattle on a
. thousand hills, and out of whose hands( all
ri the fowls of heeven peak their food, is my
t Ve.ther. He clotheth the lilies of the field:,
e he will clothe me. If He takes care of the
w raven and the hawk and the vulture, most
s certainly he will take care of me, his child."
• Sorer troubles comm—sickness and death.
d Loved ones sleep the lest sleep. A
11 child is buried. out of sight. You say,
t "Alas 1 for tnis bitter day. God has dealt
t very eeverely with me. I can never look
1 up. 0, God, I cannot bear it." Christ
comes andHe says, "Hush ! 0, troubled
Y soul; it is well with the child. 1 mill
s strengthen thee in all thy troubles; My
grace is sufficient. When thou passest
le through the waters I will be with thee."
When through the deep waters I call thee to
go.
e The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
t For I will be with thee thy troubles to bless,
t And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
u Bnt there are hundreds of famili es repre-
sented here this. morning where religion
O has been a great comfort. There are in
t your homes the pietares of your departed,
and things that have no wonderful value
- of themselves; but you keepthem preciselis
a and earefully.because hands now still once
• touched them. A father has gone out of
t this household, a mother has gone out of
t this, a daughter just after her graduation
day, a son just as he was entering on the
✓ duties of life,
And to other homes trouble will come, I
„ say it not that you may be foreboding, not
*Y, that you may do the unwise thing of taking
a trouble by the forelock, but that you may
g" be ready. We must go one by one. There
✓ will be partings in all our households. We
enust say, farewell. We must die. And
e yet theresare triumphant strains that drown
-„ these tremulous accents, there are anthems
thet whelm the dirge. Heaven is full of
; the shout of delivered camtives, and to the
great wide field of human sorrow there
' comes now the reaper angels wibh keen
g siokles, to harvest the sheaves of Heaven.
d Saints win to the end endure;
Safely witl the Shepherd keep
,r Those he purchased for his sheep.
Go home this day and ask the blessing on
d your noonday meal. Imnight set up the
family altar. Do'not wait until you he-
✓ mime a Christian yourself. This day unite
Christ to your household, for the Bible clis-
e tinctly says that God will pour out his fury
o upon the families which call not upon his
r name. Open the Bible and read a chapter;
that will make you strong. Kneel down
and offer the first prayer in your household.
It may be a broken petition, it may be only
e " God be merciful to me a sinner e' but
e God will stoop, and spirits 'will listen, and
angels ssill chant, "Behold he prays."
Do not retire from this house this morn-
' ing until you have resolved upon this mat-
ter. You will be gone. I will be gone,
many years will pass, and perhaps your
t younger children may forgeb almost every-
, thing about you ; but forty years from nowp
in some Sabbath twiliget, your daughter
will be sitting with the family Bible on her
lap reading to her children, when she will
stop, and peculiar solemnity will come to
her face, and a tear will start, and the
children will sey, "Mother, what makea you
cry ?" and she will says " Nothing, only I
was thinking that this is the Bible out of
which my father and mother used to read at
morning and evening pra,yer."
All other things about you they may
orget ; bub train them up for God and
f eaven ; they will not forget that
h When a queen died, her three sons
brought an offering to the grave. One eon
brought gold, another brought silver, but
tbe third son came and stood over the
grave and opened one of his veins' and let
the blood drop upon his mother's tornb,and
all who saw it said it was the greatest
di3monstration of affection. My friends what
is the grandesb gift we can bring to the
sepulchres of a Christian ancestry ? It
is a, life all consecrated to the God who
made us and the Christ who redeemed
us. I eannot but believe that there are
hunnreds of parents in this house who
have resolved to do their whole duty, and
that at thit3 moment they are passing into
a better life ; and having seen tbe grace of
the gospel in this place to-demmon are now
fully ready to return. to your own house,
and show whet great things God has done
unto you.
Though parente may in covenant be,
And have their ,fleaven in view,
They are not happy till they see
Their chilaren happy too.
May the Lard God of Abraham and PARC
aud Jacob, the God of our &theta, be our
God and the God of our children forever 1
fi
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fa
fe
ed
family, and there are many questions that
A Christian minister Sa4d that in the
rat year of his pastorate he tried to per-
uade a young mechanic of the importance
f family worship, Some time passed,and
he inechanie came to the pastor's study
nd. said : "Do you remember that girl?"
het was my own teiild; she died this
inning very suddenly, she has gone to
od, I have no doubt, but if so, elle has
la Him what I tell you now; that' my
hild never heerd a prayer hi her fathern
OOSO—never heard a preyer from her
there' lips, Oh 1 if only had her back
gain one day to do my duty 1" It will be
tfemendouts thing at the last day if some -
tie shall say of 1181 "I never heard iny
ther pray; I never heard my mother peem."
Again I remark, wo want religion „'in
ur home serrows. There ere ten thousand
ilestione thmt come sit. in the hese regelat.
housiehold that must be eettled , Per.
ape the fe,ther haa one favorite in the
rnfiy, the mother tinother favorite in the
I ee Men
A CoriViet B inttally latIrdered..
A tragte Orme is reported from the
prison at, Nuremberg. Three oriminale
were confined in one cell--Huber,Setapson,
and Krempel. The two former had concoct,
ed a project fot 'breaking out of prison.
Iirempel, however, declined taking part in
this risky proceeding, pointing out that,
they were far more likely to be oaught than
to escape, The other two wore unable to
alter hie decision, and, tege.rding him as an
obstacle to their ploms,they suddenly threw
their beds upon him, stifled bis cries, arid
then beat hie brains out , They afterwares
esiW that it was imposisible to obtain their
freedom by their original plan, and so they
oiled the soldier who eina keeping sentry,
wibh a view of overpovrering Inin and aem.
Mg the keye. The seam?, When called,
became suepiciouse end fa turn oiled hie
supevior officer, who, lecking through the
slide in the door, sew the mutdered man irk
tho corner of the cell. The two men then
confosed their crime, and Will probably he
executed.
TINE B
ry
THE SUNDAY 801100L. who heel for so many years mourned
04 dead. Come down unto me. Prob.
ebly Jell did not foreeee any of the great
INTERNATIONAL LESSON' FOR APRI
29TH.
"Joseph IFerg1VIng 1111S Eretleren" Gen.
en 145. elolden Wenn Estlee
remelts w ich eame to pass from. this in-
Owskatar. STArsArENT.
Seven years of plenty in Egypt passed
by, and then came the years of famine over
all the lands. By the foresight of Joseph
great store had been provided, and while
other countrio were In need the people of
Egypt eejoyed a,bundance. As a result
caravans came to the favored land to gpurs
these food, and Joseph becerne indeed 'the
bread of life" to metier people. He had
been in Egypt twenty-one years—thirteen
as a shave and eighb on a prince—and was
now nearly forty years of age, when one deer
he wits startled at seeing the familiar faces
of his ten brothers. At once he decided
not to reveal himself, but to put them to a
test which would, show whether their cher-
eaters+ were as selfish and cruel as
ever, or whether they had grown
gentle and repentant He dealt with
them roughly, pat them iu prison as
eleies, and listened while they recalled the
story of his own wrongs twenty-one years
before showing remorse, if not repentanee.
He released. all, salve one, whom he held as
a pledge for the return of the rest, and sent
them home with gifts. A whole year passed,
and again the sons of Israel came down to
Egypt for food, this time aemompanied by
their youngest brother Benjamin, who
muse have been nearly twenty-five years
old, Joseph wished to learn whether they
felt toward Benjamin as they felt toward
himself, and for this purpose caused Ben-
jamin to suffer under an Unjust accusation.
To his delight he found that Judah, who
had proposed his sale, was now readyto be
sold as a sieve if he could only save Ben-
jamin. The old hotel of selfishness was
gone and a heart of love had taken its
place. They were now in a fitting condi-
tion to receive the revelation of Joseph's
brotherhood, and at once the declaration,
" I am Joseph," was made.
PRACTICAL NOTES. -
Terse 1. Joseph oould not refrain. Now
that his brothers have shown a sincere re.
pentance, and Judah a spirit of self-renun-
ciation, Joseph. can no longer restrain the
aympathy which he felt from the first His
conduct towardhis brothers hadbeeninspir-
ed by deaite to bring them into a condition
where forgiveness would be a blessing. (1)
Let allour aims for others be to do them
good. Cause every man to go out. Ha
chose to be alone with his brothers while he
disclosed himself, because of an innate re-
finement of feeling, because strangers could
not understand the scene, and because he
would nob shame his brothersbefore others.
(2) The deepest experiences of pardon are
revealed between God and the soul alone.
joseph made himself known. Why had he
not sought out his father soonenduring the
nine years of his rule ? Because the dis-
closure might have wrought only haten,and
because et was in accordance veith Joseph's
nature to await the openings of God's
wi211.. Wept aloud. From the fulness of his
emotions and in accordance with the ardent
manner of oriental expression. House of
Ptarath heard. Au evidence that Joseph
lived in or near the pelace of Pharaoh.
3. Joseph said. Hitherto he had dealt
with his brothers through an interpreter,
now ha speaks in their own tongue, with a
voice which they well remembered, and
utters a revelation whieh brings atemce joy
and terror ; joy at the knowledge that he
was still living,but terror in the realization
that they are in the absolute power of theone
whom they had wronged. Dcith my father
yetlive? He had said before, " the old
man your father," now he says, " my
father." Pie knew that he was living,
yet he asks after him with the long
pent-up yearning of a con. Thee, were
troubled, Thus far he has dealt with them
"eoughly," and they feared that the rave.
laden might be followed by severer dealings,
(3) Sin is eure to bring trouble to the sinner.
(4) To be freed erom trouble we must be re-
lieved of guilt.
4. Come near to me. In the impulse of
alarm they had shrunk backfrom his pres-
ence. A commoner nature would have
exulted inhis triumph and lengthened their
fears, but all joseph's aim. is for reeoncilia.
tion, notjudgment. (5)So our elder Brother
seeks only to save us, whatever may be his
dealings with us. Joseph your brother.
Though he sat upon a throne and they were
suppliants before him. (6) So the King of
kings is not ashamed to call us brethren
(Heb. 2. 11). Whom ye sold. This is add.
ed not to taunt them with their crime, but
to convince them of his own identity—
ani the very same Joseph whom ye sold."
5. Be not grieved, nor angry. He does
not state his forgivenesa ; this they will
take for granted, but he urges them to for-
give themselves, and not judge themselves
too severely. God did send me. He re.
cognizes a divine power overmeling their
crime for the accomplishment of his own
great designs, and with an Israelite's faibh
he regards his own iamily as under God's
guardianship. (7) So in all our troubles we
may see God's power and grace. To pre.
serve life. Their Eta in selling him as a
slave has proved to be a link in the chain of
deliverance from the famine. This did not
lessen their guilt, but it showed God's might
end mercy. And it was noble 'In troseph
thus to extenuate their crithe, as it would
have been base in themselves to have offer.
ed it RS an excuse. (8) God'e overruling
grace does not make our sin any less sinful.
6. These two years. This gives us a date
for reckoning, and shows that Joseph had
been twenty-one years in Egypt, and Was
now forty years old. Yet there are five
yeais. Stich a famine has been known in
modern Egypt, from the failure of the Nile
to overflow during several yea,rs in suo-
°ashen. Eating. Revised Versiom " plow-
ing," " To ear" is an old English verb.
7. God 5851 me before you, Joseph,
with the insight of faith, pereeives
that Ged had foreseen their needs
and sent a protector in advance of
their combats. (0) 0 for more of OM faith
which oes God over us at all times 1 To
preserve you a posterity, Revised Ver.
sion, a remnant," All the story shows that
joseph valeed his Israelite descent and his
share ha the col/mint above all his Egyp-
Mat honora. (10) Let us ever reekori the
epiritual of more worth than the temporal
8, It was not you . . . bat God, Spoken
by Joseph's brothers this would have been
wicked; bleb by joteph hienaelf it recognieed
God's power conbrolling the melts of their
evil deed. He bath made me. Seecessful
men are apt to take the holier of their pros
parity as the remit of theit own tact, fore.
eight, end industry ; bat Joseph reverently
looks to God at the builder of his fortunes,
Father to Pharaoh. That ix, preserver
end sustainer,
9. 10, Go up to my fether, nig. heart;
leave to see again the aged father,
vitatuni and the sojourn of the Israelities
Egypt, The land of Goshen, An out++
lying province of Egypt, situated between
the eastern ontlet of the Nile arid the de-
sert, From the name of its chief city it is
else called " the land of Remunes." Shale
be neer mato me. Though not en the
border of Egypt, it wee near the oepital,
On, or Heliopolis,
11. 12. Will I nourish thee. The years
of famine would thee consume all the means
which Jacob possessed,end he would need a
support, Thy household. Probably Jacob
was acoompanied by several hundred elavee
and dependents. Year eyea sem. Even
now they could scarcely believe that he
was really their brother, but they eeemecl
to be lost in amazement, ,
13.15. Of all my glory. Y This was not as
a boast of his MU anomie, but as an en.
couregement to his father. His brother
Benjamin's neek. He had left him a little
ohild, and now meets him a fall -Mem man.
Kiesed all hia brethren. The lass upon
their faces was the token that they were
fully forgiven and accepted as brothers
once more. His brethren talked with him.
Tlreir lips were at last unsealed, and they
were able to commune with him after they
had received the kiss of peace.
DREAD OF AN EVIL EYES
It Leads tO the Rem0Pal-Of the of-
fending Optical Organ.
A.H.ADSard Superstitioiat Whroughwite en a
woman is; caused to surfer Torture.
If the story told in the office. of an at-
torney Cleveland may be relied upon
Mary Dietz of that city, on account of an
absurd superstition, recently suffered the
torture of having one of her oyes gouged
out by an alleged doator from Pennsylvania,
The story was told in the law office of
Levi Bauder by James Barrows, an exmol-
dier, who served in the siame regiment witl
Bauder during the war. The superstitioh
in question is the old one about the evn
eye, and the -woman who was mairned was
eupposed to possess it. The old belief
about the evil eye was that it withered and
turned to decay every liVing thing on which
it rested. To be in the presence of an evil
eye was to be seized with a lingering illness,
followed by death and the grave, If the
mosseseor of such an eye lived on a farm the
horses, cows, sheep, chickens and swine were
seized with a mysterious disease and died.
In any local ty it was fatal to the inhabitants
thereof. They lost their appetites, became
pale and thin, and finally death claimed
them. Under the gaze of such an eye the
farmers' crops of grain stopped growing as
though a, worm gnawed at the roots. In
some parts of Pennsylvania this superstition
still exists and all those connected with the
horrible occurrence in this city are from
thab part of the country.
STORY OF THE EVIL EYE.
Mr. Bauder retold the story related to
him by his former comrade as follows: "If
I remember correctly, 13arrows married his
present wife about three years ago. She is
what we term Pennsylvania Dutch, a class
of people who are very superstitious and
firm believers in the evil eye. Well, he
came into my office a few days ago and foi
au hour and a half he told of the experience
of his wife with a woman who had the evil
eye: For a long Mine, he said, he had no-
ticed that his wife acted in a strange man-
ner. When he asked•her about it she told
him that she be/ieved she had been hoe-
dooed ' by some peraon with an evil eye.
His story was that she would lie down on
the floor and go through a series of move-
ments which were alarming. Finally, he
said, she suspected that Mary Dietz, a
neighbor, was possessed of the. evil
eye, I believe he told me that his wife
called at the woman's house and consulted
her and her husband about her suspicions.
At any rate it was decided that a dootor
who was experienced in the discovery and
treatment of eyes of that deacription should
be sent for. He said they located one in
Pennsylvania and he was promptly
engaged. In due time the somalled
doctor arrived and went to the
woman's house. My friend said that
his wife was there and she witnessed all
that took place. A,howl of water was tak-
en into the room and the woman with the
supposed evil eye was asked to eland and
look into it, At this point I wanted to
know what the bowl of water lied to do
with the matter. He then explained that
it was tided to discover which eye wes the
evil one. If either were an evil eye its re-
flection could be seen in the water. Then
he went on and told rne the story of the
destructioa of the woman's eye. While she
was looking into the water, he said, the
doctor saw in the bowl the refleotioa of the
evil eye. He looked neain to make sure
which eye it was. Then he made a qufak
movement with his right hand, which
grasped theme kind of an instrument
HE CUT OUT THE ORGAN.
" Mrs. Dietz uttered an agonizing crmind
there were blood marks on herface, which
were hidden when she covered her eye with
her hands, then she was carried into a
room and laid on a bed. The doctor remain-
ed and treated the woman until she ream,-
ered from the shook. My friend told me
that the woman's eyo soon healed that his
wife became her former self again,and that
she firmly believed that the destruction of
the evil eye had saved her life. Barrows
said that such an eye prevented prosperity
in any neighborhood where it existed. Fre-
quently, he stated, in communities where
there ten many believers in evil eyes, they
gather at some house and standing around
a Mtge bowl of water loele down on it,while
a doctor watches for the reflection. If any
of the superstitious believers suddenly have
an eye gouged they gladly welcome the pain
a000mpanying the boas of the optic, because
they prefer death to being the possessor of
such an evil organ."
Caming to I' artienlat'S.
"I am sensible of the honor you do me,
Mr. Spoonatnore, in the proposal of mar-
raige you have just made, ' eaid the young
woman with a slight curl of the lip, "but,
cireurnstences over which I have no control
will compel me to decline the honour."
"Whet aro Omen oircumstanoes, Miss
Grime henv ?" fiereely inquired the young
mem
"Your ()intimate:lees, Mr. Spoonemore.'
A family ha Oregon has a peculiar relig-
ious faith. Each. member of it takes Six
baths every twenty.fonr hours. No out-
sider is %Hewed to enter their dwelling.
They work every day for six yearn and
then abetain from labour all through the
a (Mem th year.
" I have alwayit lied presentimeet,
said alias Pelisay, "that I should ie young,'
"But you didn't have to, did dear ?'
replied Mies Alitlets, stroking her polo
brown hair tenderly.
VIE: • DOlt.li:11....ON • ...RO:IjOg:
SEVENTH PARLIANENT FOURTI'l
SESSION AT OTTAWA,
Irts0001103"s Proceedings.
'Mr. David introdueed a bill further to
amend the Act respecting the Nerth West
Territoriee. 'The bill provides that judges
who try oases not hear the same
owe in eppeal , also to remove a doubt as,
toTthhee rwtaflexrbelfe4esfirositrbeignisettrars.
Tuinn nEarnr:Os,
The following bills were red a third
tilRnees:p—ooting the ,Wood Mountain and
DQoun'Ampdp.ellieutittilAwsasyjniabooimap).any—Mr. Mc -
Respecting the Canadian and Michigan
Tunnel Company—Mr. Montague.
To again revive and further amend the
Act to incorporate the 1,indsity, Bolmay"
goon and Pontypool Railway Company—
Mr. Fairbaire.
CLAIMS or PISnsnIum1/4.T.
Sir John Thompson, in. answer to Mr,
Keulbach, said the Supreme Court of New-
foundland had deoided in favotir of the
Dominion of Canada in the suits brought by
the latter Government to recover the licence
fees emoted by the Government of 'New-
foundland for Canadian fishermen during
the SOSSOBS of 1890.1. It was expected
that the claims would be speedily settled*
The Government had requeeted the fisher-
angintnosfftohreaMreafraitnidm.e Provinces to file their
CANADIAN FISH immix.
Sir John Thompson', in answer to Mr.
Kaulbach, said the matter of making
further treaty arrangemente with Spain,
in view of the operation of the Norway -
Spanish treaty, which operates against 0
nadian fish exporters, and which woul
retain the Spanish markets to Canadian
fishermen, was under consideration.
a -
HOGS AND PORIC.
e etroceettinge,
'4111'rs C0414rr'rEn.
Mr, Laurier teeend if the hon. Firet Mite
tater Would take report of the rife.
lie A.ccounte Committee Os° Demo toe
morrow,
Sir John Thompeon said any day veould
milt him, but he cpula not zee thet any me+
tion hy the Houee Was neceesery. If he
might refer to what he had horn as the
vtish of the committee, he underetood
had decided to do nothing until certein
eircumstances transpired. 1313 he thOughh
if hon. gentlemen reed the report carefully,
they would find nothing for the House to
take action upon, Before anything eould
be done, however, the report would have
to go on the jouroale of the House.
THE FRENCH TALATY,
Mr, Foster,replying to Sir Mallard Cart-
wright, said that the loes to Ow revenue
from the operetien of the Freneh treaty
would be, on the basis of the inmortatieee
of 1891, for non -sparkling wines not ovee
26 per cent, above proof, $28,183, and fon
ohampagne and other sperkling winem
$46,129.
Sir Riohard Cartwright sulked if the
Government held that a concession givenby
a reciprocity treaty must be extended td
other nations included in the favoured
nation clause.
Sir John Thompson mild that the 'United
States did not take that view, but thet
Continental nations did, and it was knitted
upon by Great Britian.
(mum Foe SISIOXING.
Mr, Mills (Bothwell) took exception to
the duty of $5 per pound on opium prepared
for smoking. It should be on the prohibited, ,
list.
Mr. Foster—Only one half -pound was
imported last year.
Mr. McMullen moved thab the item be
struck out and placed on, the prohibited
list,
The amendment was lost, and the item
carried.
MANITOBA. naraennetens.
LN.IDIAN RESERVE TIMBER.
1,1r. Mills (Bothwell) moved that in the
opinion of this House the sale of timber
from any Indian reserve in any other method
than by public emotion after due public
notice would be highly unsatisfitetory to the
councry and detrimental teethe interests oi
the Indian bands having a beneficial interest
thSerireiJilOhn Thompson said the object of
the hon. gentlemen won very commendable,
bub it has been proved that in auction sales
of Dominion timber limits buyers could
and did easily combine to keep down the
price. The same experience applied to
Indian reserve timber sales. For this rea-
son he believed the invitation of private
tenders was the better method. He moved
in emendment thab the word "auction"
be changed to "oompetition."
The amendment was then put, and
carried on a division of 63 yeas and 45
nays. THE FRENCH TREATY.
Mr. Laurier, on a motion for a return,
called attention to the follwing statement
made by Lord Iffifferin and Sir Charles
Tupper to the French Minister on Febru-
ary 6th, 1893 :—" We take this opportun-
ity of confirming what we have already
made known, to your Exoellency during the
progrees of the conferences, viz, that the
Canadian Parliament, desirous of 'favouring
Ftrhsaenired jee.ovhe,,Inopment of commercial relations
very little ase unless there was a direct
undeestanding in the negotiations that such
a line should be subsidized. He understood.
line of steamers between Canada and
such a line, and further that it was not an
the negotiations otherwise. So far as he
could see, the Frenel treaty would be of
on this matter, when the Premier said it
agent of the Government without a
remonstrance having been made. Some
days ago he interrogated the Government
was not the intention to ask a subsidy for
not concelve that such an extraordinary
statement: should hkve been made by an
French terminus on the other." He could
tween a Canadian port on one side and a
between the two countries; has voted a
subvention of £100,000, for the purpose of
establishing a line of steamers to run be -
Thompson had no objection to
all the papers on the subject being brought
down, and they would be cheerfully pro.
duced. He submitted to the House that
what was in the correspondence wag this:—
That there was no promise from beginning to
end that the' Canadian Parliament would be
asked to vote one dollar for the steamship
connection between Canada and France, hue
simply. a representation on the part of Lord
Dufferin and Sir Charles Tupper of the facts
that then existed, namely, that in the ses-
sion of 1880 a subeention of E100,000 was
voted to secure a fast service between this
country and England, and the acheme which
the Government had in view was, to have
connection with the continent of Europe.
Those were the facts,. and they were well
known, for the advertisements calling for
tenders were in the press, so that the state-
ment made was simply a representation of
facts. It turned out, however, that the sum
voted for the purpose was entirely inad-
equate, but, nevertheless, at the time the
representation was made, the Governinent
was in hopes of souring direct steamship
connection with France, But when the
proposttlwas made that that ahould form
part of the treaty, it won promptly declined
julanthirc.e aipt eaddrgta ro_tf hCeyriaikvaedetahi.imen gar oe rimlooni tyco:nto.
FrSainrcJeo?lin Thompson—We have not made
"MY re.hro.guerioerf 13coonlitceyn.ded that the propo.
sition to establish a crosnline between Eng -
laud and Franco, as stated by a member of
the Government the other day, in anewer
to an hon. gentleman, was a violation of
the agreement. Not only eo, but uuder
bstyl:latit.dain.rre aezorrtrtaei:ungeerei7kanitztegaittifieurvr:rxeneehd, 'e:itraepthoet
would be imposed, which would be Obviated
vote of £100,000 had been the bads of the
treaty negotietiorie, end the Government
was hound to immediately eetablish the
line of steamers.
The motion was put and carried.
The noUFie adjourned at 11,15 p.m.
Mr. Martin, moving for a return of the
lands allowed to the NIanitoba half-breeds,
ailed that there was still a large area of
land undisposed of, to the great disadvan-
tage of the province, and for this the De-
partment of the Intertor was to blame.
Large areas of these lands had been sold for
taxes.
Mr. Daly said there WAS objeceion to
the return. When the Minister of Justice
had spoken the other day about the return
being very expensive he was nob aware of
he facts. As it was, its compilation would
robably take three weeks' time. There
were only 229 claims enpatented out of
6,000 applicationn
The motion was carried.
Mr, Gillmor objected to the tax on pork.
It was outrageous thet the food. of the poor
should be taxed to potect fanners or mays
one else.
Mr. alaclean was glad: speeific dutiea
were being retained, and hoped that when
the Government oame to deal with the
woollen, knitting,and wallpaper industries+,
it would return to specific duties.
The item passeds
AUSTRALIAN MUTTON.
Mr. Mille(Bothwell) asked why the duty
on mutton was 35 per cent., while that on
beef was three cents per pound.
Mr. Mara said that British Columbia
bought sheep froin the United States at a
time it could not get them from the North -
W est. The Canadian trade would aontinue,
but the American trade vsould be diverted
to Australia.
The item was adopted.
STEARINE.
Mr. McMullen objected to the duty of 20
per cent. on steariae, as it was not raw
material for farmers and was not manu-
factured in Canada. •
Mr. Foster said he was disposed to in-
crease the duty on this article, and would
do so later on, as it was manufactured in
Cadada. An American had etarted a, factory
in Montreal, and it had been operated foe
the past year.
The item passed.
'WASHINGTON NEGoTiAno3s.
Mr. Charlton asked whether the Goys
ernment had taken any steps during the
discuesion of the Tariff bill in Congress to
bring before the American Government
their readiness to rnake reciprocal arrange-
ments with that country.
Sir. John Thompson said an officer of the
Government went to Washington for the
purpose of seeing whether it was the desire
of the United States Government or of the
committee then having charge of the sub.
ject to enter into comunioation with the
Government of Canada on -the subjeet of
tariff concessions on either side of the lines
also for the merpose of ascertelning whether
information was desired with regard to the
trade of Canada, or whether they desired
the agent to be a medium of aommunicae
tion for the purpose of(receiving information
to be given on the part of the American
Governmenb or the committee having charge;
of the matter, and the irnpreseion derived
fro.nlais visit there was that as regards the
tarifl arrangement and tariff discussions
then in progreee, the tariff was being made
for the United States, and for the United
States only. -
Mr. Charlton said that the people of
Canada hid the right to expect, not that
there would be indirect advances, but when
the Democratic party came into power
there should have been overtures by ans
credited agents acting' by authority of the
British Ambassador at Washington. He
believed that in not doing this a golden op.
portunity had been lost
Mt Sproule said the hon. gentleman
contended that the present Government
failed to secure reciprocity because of the
meagreness of their offer, but yet he wan
forced to make the humiliating acknows
ledgment that the Mackenzie Government +
in 1874, with an offer ten times as great%
bad also failed to succeed. (Hear, beer.)
Mr. Mills (Bothwell) bad no doubt that
if the Government had made .a fair offer of
reciprocity to the United States it would
have been able to negotiate a treaty. 4.,
reamer comae -%.1
Mr. McMillian (Huron) took exception to
the duty of nec. stbushel on corn. He moved
that it he placed upon the free list.
Mr. Foster dented that the United
States had for the last twenty years shown
a disposition to reciprocate with Ctinada.
From 1864 opposition to reciprocity eprung
up until the treaty was abolished. Down
to 1874 Canada made repeated endeavours
to renew the treaty, and upon every we,-
sion this country was met With a refusal.
Every unprejudiced reader would come to
the conclusion that the Government had an
earnest desire to promete reciprocity with
the United States. It was only the per.
versity of hon. gentlemen opposite that
prevented them from seeing this. They
were only repeating what they had said
again and again, year after year.
Mr. Laurier said the basis of the hon.
gentleman's remark had 'been thet for the
last twenty years the 'United Stetes Govern-
ment had -never been dispoted to offer re-
ciprooty to Canada. Had be forgotten thab
the House had been dissolved in 1801 fot
the purpose of enterieg the negotiationt for
an alleged treaty with the United Statee ?
The piee of the hon, gentleman foe many
years past had beee that it would not be to
the advantage of Canada to have reoiprocity
Wren agrieultural produce. (Henri hear, )
There were many manufactured artielets
Whieh could be inoluded in the treaty with
the United States, and which would not
involve disorimination against Greet Brie
tain, Mich as planets, omelet:61 iestrumente.".
ploughs and agrieultuted implemente
',the hon. gentietnem'e efferte reeiprocity
had always been a Sham he repeated,
The motion Was pat and lost, and the
item was carded.
Whe Timm adjourned. to 11.48 p,m,