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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-5-3, Page 7111, • i',1E EXETER, FAIREST OF THE FAI. TATJ:CCIAGE'4 eeLQ4teeSN'll Wein ON amstis 0144IsT. is AntogetTeer novelye—clerist Invent en letir countenanee tient in ens liana tit lits Sobriety eu loos SeennaehT-111(e Was no retyln tkis Sermons and tle Cider nines evortc. Boomer/I, April 22.—Mrs. Prentiss' hymn, " More 'ewe to Thee, 0, Christ," waa never more effectively rendered than this moi•ning, by the thousands of voices in the Brooklyn Tebernecle,led on by organ and cornet, while by new vocebulary and fresh imagery, Dr. Talmage, presented the Gospel. The subject of the eermon was, " Fairesti of the Fair," the text chosen being Solomon's Song 5 : 16 ; "Ile is alto- gether lovely." The human race has during centuriee been improving. For awhile it deflected end degenerated, and from eel_ I can reae, for 14es the whole tendency was towards But under the ever widening end Eleeponiog influence of Christianity the tendency is now' in the upward direction. The physieal appearance: of the human mice is seventy-five per cent. more attractive than in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Erwin 'the pietures oa eanves and the faces and forms in stfulpture of those who were considered the grand looking non and attractive women of two hundred years age, I conclude the superior- ity of the men and women ef our time, Such looking people of the past centuries as Rainting and sculpture have presented, as specimene of beauty and dignity, would he in our tittle considered deformity and repulsiveness complete. The fact that many men and women en antediluvian times were «sight and ten feet high tended to mo.ke the human race obpoxions rather than winning. Such portable Mountains of human flesh did not add to the charms of the world. But in no climate and in no age did there ever appear anyone who, in physical attra,c- tiveness could be companed to Him whom my text celebrates, thousands of yearsbefore He put His infantile foet on theehill back of Bethlehem. He was and is altogether levely. The physical appearance of Christ is, for the most part an artistic guess. SOrlle writers declare Him to have been a brunette or dark complexioned, and others a blonde or light complexioned. St John of Damascus, writing eleven hundred years a,go, and so much nearer than .ourselves to the time of Christ, and hence more liken - hood of an accurate *edition, represents Him with beard black and curly, eyebrows joined together, and "yellow complexion, and long fingers like His mother." .Anoth- er, writing fifteen hundred years ago., ' represents Christ as a blonde. "His hair the color of wine and golden at the root ; straight and without lustre, but from the level of the ears curling and glossy, and divided down -the center after the fashion of the Nazarenes; forehead is even and smooth, Hettelace without blemish, and en- hanced betni: tempered bloom ; counten- alum ingenious, and kind. Nose and mouth are in no way faulty. His betted is full, of, the same color as His hair, and forked in form ; His eyes blue and extremely brilli- ant My opinion is it was a Jewish face. Hts mothentwan a Jewess, and there is no wo- manliffed on earth more beautiful than Je*. womanhood. Alas enhat He lived so long before the Daguerrefen and photogra- phic arts were born, or we might have known His exact, feetures. I know that Sculpture and Painting were boro long be- fore Christ, and they might have transfer- red from olden times to our times the fore- ; head, the nostril, the eye, the lipsi of our Lord. Phidie.s, the sculptor, put down his chisel of enchantment five hundred years before Christ came. Why did not someone take up that chisel, and give us the side tace or full face of our Lord ? Polyeenotus, the painter, put down his pencil four hun- dred years before Christ. Why did not someone take it up, and give us at least the eye of Lord, the eye, that eovereign of the face ? Dionysius the literary artist, who dew at Heliopolis, Egypt, the strange darkening of the heavens at the time of Christ's crueifision near Jerusalem, and not knowing what it was, hut describing it as e peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying, " Either the Deity suffers or sympathizes . with some sufferer," that Dionysus might have put Ms pen to the work, and drawn the portrait of our Locd. 13itt no ! the•fine arts were busy perpetuating the form and appearance of the world's favorites only, and not the Ante and aepearance of the peasantry, among whom Christ appeared. It was not until the fifteenth century, or until more than fourteen hundred years after Chrietthen talented painters attempt ed by pencil to give us the idea of Christ's face. The pictures benne that time were so offensive that the Council of Constanti- nople forebade their exhibition. But Leo- nardo Da Vinci, in the fifteenth century, presented Chrietes face on two canvassee, yat the one was a repulsive face and the other aneffeminate face. Raphael's face of Christ is a weak face. Albert Durer's face of Christ was a savage lace. Titian's face of Christ is an expressienless face. The mightiest artists, eitherwith ,peneil or chisel, have made eignal failures in attempt- ing to give the forehead, the cheek, the eyes, the nostrils, the mouth of our blessed e '11But about Ms face I can tell you sotne. thing positive and beyond controversy. I Lem sure it wv a soulful face. The face Is only the curtainef the soule It wee impos- eible thot a dispomition like Christ's should not have demonstrated itself in Eris physio nomy. Kindness as an occasional impulse may give no elluminixtion to the features, bub kindness as a lifelong habit will produce attraotivetiess of countenance as certainljr as the shining of the sun pre - duces flowers. Children are afraid of a scoveling or hardmisaged man. They cry out if he propeees to take them. It he. try to canoe them, he evokes a slap rather than a kiss. .A11 mothers know how hard it is te get their children to go to a man or rwoman of forbidding appearance. But no gooney did Christ appear 'in the domestic grotni thin there was an infantile excite. ment, and the youngstere began ta etreggle to get out of their mother's arms, They could not hold the children back, "Stand back with theme children 1" scolded some of the disciples. perhaps the- little ones May heve been playing in the dirt, and their fanee may riot have been Olean, or they may not have been well clad, dr the' giecipies may have thought Ohriet'd relig. ion Wan a toligiott ehiefly for big folks. But Christ made the infantile ekeitement live- lier by Hie eayinig that he liked childten better than grown, peeple, declaring, "EX - opt ye beeorrie tiei a little child ye °pallet ebter the kingdom 6f God:" Mae 1 foe these peOple Wile do not like children. Whey had betthe etay eat of Heaven, for the place it fun of them. Thang1 thitk, one ream 'why the vast majdrity of the Lumen ram) die in infancy. Ohriet le so fond ceildren that he taloa them to Himself before the world hat, time to de - even end havden them, and im they are now at the windews of the Pelace, and on the doorsteps and playing oil the green- Semetimee datthew 11,Ierk, or finke tells a etcr y of Christ and eely one toils it, but Matthew, elerk and Luke all join in thee Indere of °Matt girdled by child- ren, and I know by whet °marred at that time that Christ bed a face full of geniality, Not (nay eves Christ eitegether lovely in His eountenanee, but lovely. he Ilis habits, r know, without being told, that the Lord who =de the rivers, and lekes, am:Imams, was cleanly in Ilie °moms:ranee. Re dis. liked'the dieease of leprosy, not only be - (muse it was distressing but becausent was not clean, and His curative words were, "I'will; be thou clean." ,He deolered Him- self in favor of thorough washing, and' op- posed to stmerfieial washing, when He de- nounced the hypocrites for making clean only "the outside of the platter," and lie epplauds His disciples by saying, " Now are ye oleitu," and giving directione to ehose who fasted, ameng other things He says, " Wash thy face ;" and to a blind man whom fle was doctoring, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam." And He Himeelf actually washed the disciples' feet, I suppose not only to demonstrate Ilia awn humility, but probably their feet needed to ,Ite washed. The fact is, the Lord was a great -friend of water, I know that from. the fact most of the world is water. But when I find Christ in such continent oommendatinn of water, I know He was personally neat, although He miugled much among Very rough popula- tions, and tocik such long journeys on dusty highways. He wore His hair long, &word- ing to the custom of Hie land and time, but neither erouble nor old age had thinned or injured His' looks wnich were never worn shaggy or unkeineit. Yea, all His habits of personal appearance were lovely. Sobriety was always an established habit of Ills life. In andition to the water, He drank the juice of the grape. When at a wedding petty this beverage gave out. He made gallons on gallons of grape juice, but in was as unlike what the world makes in our time as health is different from dieease, and as calm pulses are different from the paroxysms of delirium tremens. There was no strychnine in that beverage, or logwood, or nux \minim The tipplers and the sots who now quote the wine.making in Cana in Galilee as an excuse for the fiery and dam- ing beverages of the nineteenth century, forget that the wine at the New Teetiement wedding had two characteristics the one that the Lord made it, and the Other that it was made out 'of water. Buy all you can of that kind and drink it at least three times a day, and send a barrel of it around to my cellar. You cannot make me believe that the blessed Christ, eirhe went up and down healing the sick,would create for man the style of drink which is the cause of disease more than all other causes combin- ed ; or that He who calmed the maniacs into their right mind, would create that style of drink which does more than any- thing else to felt insane asylums; or how He who was so helpful to the poor,would make a style of drink that crowds the earth with pauperism ; or that He who came to save the nations from sin, would create aelicmor that is a source of mostof the crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries: A lovely sobriety was written all over Hie face,from the hair- line of the forehead to the bottom of thee bearded chin. Domesticity was also Ills habit. Though too poor to have a hame of His own, He went out tie epend the night at Bethany, three miles' walk from Jerusalem, and over a rough and hilly road that made it. equal to six or seven. ordinary miles, every morning and night going to and fro. I would rather walk from here to Central Park, or .walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat, or in Lon- don clear around.Hyde Park, than to walk thee road that' Christ walked twice a day from Jerusalem to Bethany, But, He liked the quietness of home life, atd He was love- ly in His domesticity. How " He enjoyed handing over the resurrected boy to his mother, and the re- surrected girl to -her fathee, aud reconetruct. ing homesteads which disease or death was breaking um As the song " Home,- Sweet Home," was written by a man who at that time had no home so I think the homeless. nese ef Christ added to his appreciation of domesticity. Furthermore, He waslovely in His sympa- thy. Now, dropsy is a most distressful complaint. It inflames, and swells and tortures any limb or physical organ it iouches. • .As soon as a case of that kind is submitted to Christ, He, without any Use of diaphoretics, commands its cure. And what an eye -doctor Ile was for opening the long.closed gates of sight to the blue of the sky, and the.yellow of the flower, and the emerald of the grass. What a Christ He was for cooling fevers withott so much as a spoonful of febrifuge, and strafghtening crooked backs veith out any pang of surgery ; and standinie whole ,ohoirs of music along the silent galleries of ae deaf ear', and giving healthful nervous Elystem to eataleptics ! Sympathy ! He did not give them stoical advice, or philosophize about the science of grief. He sat down. and cried with them. It is spolcen of as the shortest verse in the Bible, but to me it is about the longest and grandest---"Jesue wept," Ah ! many of us know the meaning of thi4. When we were in. great trouble, someone came in with voluble consolation and quoted the Scrip. tura in a, sort of heartlesa way, and did not help iis at all. But after a while someone else came in, and, without saying a word, sat down and burst into a flood of tears at the sight af our woe,' end scmehow it help- ed US right &way. "Jesus wept." You see it was a deeply -attached honsehold, that.of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. The feather and mother were dead, and the girls . "depended on their brother. Lazarus had said to them) "Now, Mary, ' nowt Martha, stop your worrying ; I will take care of you. I Will be to you both father end mother. 'My arin is strong. Girls you can dePend on me I"' But now Lazarus was sick ; yea,. Lazarus was dead. All broken up, the sisters sit diseonsolate, and there is a knock an the the deur. " Come in," Bar Martha. "tome in," says Mihy. Christ entered, and Ile just broke down. It was too much lor Him': He had been so often and so kindly entertained in that home before mickness and death devastod it, that He choked up and s,obbed aloud and the tears triokled down the sad heed of the sympao v theta Christ. " Anus wept." Why do you hot try that mode ef lielp,ing ? trite a say, "1 arn a mon of few words ' or "I t a woman of few vvords," Why, you dear t soul, words are not noceesary. Imitete your Lewd, and go to those efflictedekomes c end oey with them. I John lelurphy Well, you, did not know him. °Ode, when I was in great bereeme- y mete, he came to my house. Kited minis. ters of the Goepel 44 come and talked beautifully and preyed vvith us, and did a ell they could to (mimic. But Johe Mute s pho, ohe of the latest effeende I ever had, a g big-soeled, glorious Irishman, came hi and r lotted into nay floe, pet out hie broad m strong hand, and (laid hoe" a word, but sat n amen and Wed with tie. ani not enotigh u of a philoeoplier to fiey iieW it Wee, or Whet was, but Somehow fecen door th door and from floor to ceiling, the rooro wae filled with. en alheerva.dieg Oomfort "Jews wept." 1 think that is evhat makes Chriet seethe Penular Ohriee. There are so many Who want syropethy. 'Fiske, the famous Nestoriao missionary, was in the ohapel one day talking te the heathen, and she was in very poor health, and so weak elle nee epee e met while she talked, and fele the need ef something to lean agetpet,Wheri she felt a woman's form at her baek, a lieard. woinan's voice sayidg "Lean on me,,, She leaned a little, bundid not want to be too cumbereotne, wben the wentan's veiee said, "Lean hard if you levee me, lean hard." .And that makes Christ so lovely• He vvants all the sick, and troubled to lean againet him and he says, "Lean hard, if you love Me, lean hard." Aye, Ile `111 close by with His syngeathetie help. Red - ley Vicare, the famous soldier and Chrietian of the Crimeae war, died because when he was wounded his reginient was too far off from the tent of supplies. He was not mortally wounded, and if bhe surgeons could only have got at the bandages ancl the medicines he would have recovered. So much Of human sympathy and hopefulness contes too late ; but Christ is alvvaya clostoby if we want Hien and has all the medicines ready, and has eternal Itfe for all who ask for tt, Sympithy 1 Aye; He was lovely in His doctrines. Self-sacrifice, or the relief of the soffering of others by our own suffering. He vvies the only physician thatever proposed themes His patients by taking their disorders:" Self-sacrifice 1 And what did Ile not give up for others ? The best climate in the univeree, the air of heaven, for the wintry weather of Palestine ; a sceptre of unlimit- ed dominion for a prisoner's bm4,- s an earthly court -room ; a flashing tier ,teene crown of stinging brambles ; a palee ett cattle pen ; a throne for a cross:* n sacrifice! What is more lovely ? 1Vlothere dying for their children down with scarlet fever ; railroad engineers going down through the open drawbridge to save the train ; firemen seorched to death trying to help some one dowo the ladder from the fourth storey of the conenming house ; all these puttogether only fain t end insufficient similes by which to illluserate the grander, mightier, farther -reaching selt-sacrifice of the "Altogether Lovely." ' DO you wonder that the story of His self-sacrifice has led hundreds of thousands to die for Him ? In one series of perse- cutions over 200,000 were put to death for Christ'Ei sake. For him Blandina was tied to a post and wild beaits were let out upon her, and when life continued after the attack of tooth and paw, she was put in a netg and that net containing her was thrown to a wild bull, that tossed her with ite horns till life was extinct. All for Christ 1 Huguenots- dying for Christ Albingenses dying for ,Christel The Vaudois dying for Christ ? Smithfield fires endured for Christ ! The bones of martyrs, if distributed, would make a path of mouldering life all around the earth. The loveliness of tho Saviour's sacrifice has inspired all the heroisms, and all the martyrdoms of sub,sequent centuries. Chest has had more men and women die for Him than all the other inhabitants Of all the ages have had die fer them. Funthermore, He waa lov4` in His ser- mon. He knew when to begin, when to stop, and just what to say.' The longest sermon He ever preached, so far as the Bible reportellim, namely, the Sermon on the telount, was aboub sixteen minutes in delivery, at the ordinary rate of speech. His longest prayer reported, commonly, called "The Lord's Prayer," was 'about half a minute. Time them by your own watch and you will find my estimate accur- ate. By which I clo.not mean to say that sermons ought to be only sixteen minutes long., and prayers only half a minute long. Christ had such infinite pewee of compree- sion that He could put enough into Ms sixteen -minute sermon and kfis half -minute prayer to keep all the folloWing ages busy in thought and action. No one but a Christ could afford to pray or preach as short as that, but He meant to teach us compression. At Selma, Alabama, the other day, I was shown a cotton -press, by which cotton was put in such shape that it Docupied in trans- portation only one cer,where three cars were ormerly necessary ; and one ship where three ships had been required,and I imagine that we all need to compress oar sermons and our prayers into smaller spaees. And His sermc ns were so lovely for senti- ment and practicality, and simplicity, and illustration; the light of a candle, the crys- tal of the salt ; the cluck of a hen for her chickens • the hypocrite's dolorous physiog- nemy ; the moth in the clothes -closet ; the black wing of a raven ; the snow bank of the white lilies ; our extreme botheration about the splinter nf imperfection in some one else's character ; the swine fed on the pearls ; wolves dramatizing sheep ; and the peroration made up of a cyclone in which you hear the crush of a tumbling house un- wisely constructed. No technicalities ; no splitting of hairs betweeii North and North- west side ; no dogmatics ; but a great Christly throb of helpfulness. I do not wonder at the record which says, " When He was come down from the mountain great multitudes followed Mem" They had but one fault to find with His sermon • it was to'o' short. God help ner of us in C'hristian work to get down off our stilts, and realize there is only one thing we have to do ; there is the great wound of the worId's sin and sorrow, and here is the great, heal- ing plaster of the Gospel. What you and I want to do is to put the plaster OU this wound. All -sufficient is this Gospel if it is only applied. A minister preaching to au audieece of sailors concerning the rein by sin and the rescue by the Gospel, accom- modated himself to sailor's vernaeither, and said, "This plank beors," Many years after, this preacher was called to see a dying sailor, and asked him about his hope and got the suggestive reply, " This plank bears," Yea, Christ wee -lovely in His chief lifeet work. There were a thousand things for Uine to clo,•but His great work was to get oerelaipwrecked world out of the breakers. That He came to do, and that he did; and He did it in three years. Ile took thirty ears to prepare for that three years of acti- y vity, From twelve to thirty years of age we hear nothing about Him. That inter - ening eighteen years I think He was in ndia. Bet He camel beat to Palestine nd crowded everything intO three yeers; hree Wintera,three Springs,three Summers, bine autanins, Our life is short, but would God we might see how much we ould do in three years. Concentraticni ! nteneificationl Three years of kind words 1 Three years of living for others Three ears of self.sacrifiee. Let he try it, Aye 1 Christ was lovely in His deneise, He had a right that last hour to deal in hathematization. Never had anyone bean 3 meanly tteated. Cradle Of straw among oats and camels--thet was the world's eeeptioxi of Hine 1 Rocky cliff, with hare. ere pounding spikes through tortured erved-- that Was the Norte el farewell ital. tatioti 1 The elsaighter of thiet soene some, TI1VIEs tnnes hides the lovelinees 0 the (teeter, Tinder the saturation of tears and blood we sometimes fail to see the sweetest Mee of earth and beeven. Altogether lovely Can coldest criticism find au unkind word He ever evoke ; or an unkind action that Re ever petfornaed, or all unkind theught thee He ever humbored ? What a. nutevel it is that all the nations of the cattle do not rise up in raptures of affection for Hirai I must say it here and now. I lift my right hand in soleran attestation. " I love Him! and. the grief of my life is that I do not leve Him more. Is it an impertinence for me to eek, do you, my hearer—you, my reader, love Him ? Ras He become a part of your nature? Have yoo corornieted your childree on earth into His keeping, as your children in Heaven are alreedy in His bosom ? Has Ile done enough to win yoor confidence? Can you trnst Him, living and dying, and for- ever ? Is your back, or your face, toward Him ? Would you like to have Ms hand to guide yoti ? His might to protect you ? His grace to comfort you ? His eufferings to atone for you? His twins to weleome you ? His love to encircle you? His Heav- en to crown you? 011, that we might all home something of the great German reformer's love for this Christ, which led him to say, " If anyone knocks at the door of my breast and says, 'Who lives there ?' my reply is Jesus +Christ lives here, not Martin Luther?' " Will it not bo grand if, when we get through this shore and rugged road of life, we can go right up into his presence and live with Him world withciub end? And if, entering the gate of that heavenly city, we ehould be so overwhehned with our un- worthiness on the one side, aud the super- nal splendOr an the other side,we get a little bewildered, and should for a few moments be lost on the streets of gold, and among. the burnished tem les, and the sapphire thrones,there woul be plentyto show us the way, and take us out of our ioyful bewilder- ment ; and perhaps the womem of Nein would say, "Come, let me take you to the Christ Whe raised my only boy to life." And Martha would say, "Come, and let me take you to the Christ Who brought up my brother Lazarus froin the tomb." And one of the disciples would say, "Come and let me take you to the Christ, 'Who saved Our sinking, ship in the hurri- cane on Gennesaret.' And Paul would say, "Come, and let ism lead you to the Christ for Whorn I died cn the road to Ostia." And whole groups of martyrs 'would say, "Come let us show you the Christ for Whom we rattled the chain, and waded the flood, and dared the fires." And our own glorified kindred would flock around us, saying. " We have been waiting a good while for you, but before we talk over old times, and we tell you of what we have enjoyed since we hame been here, an d you tellus of what you have suffered since we parted, come, come, and let us shcw you. the grea,test eight in all the place, the most respleneent throne, and upon it the mightiest Conqueror, the exal- tation of Heaven the Theme of the immor- tals, the Altogedier great, the Altogether- gool, the Altogether fair, the Altogether lovely ! Wall, the delightful morn will come, When my dear Lord will bring me home, And I shall see His face • Then with my Saviour, Brother, Friend. A blest eternity spend. Triumphant in Has grace. MANY DEPOSITORS WILL LOSE. The Decker Bank Failure Dore Serious • Than at Firstliteported—linpaid.Depos. its of $70,000. Fuller developments in regard to the affairs of the Becker Bankine Company of aterford, who assigned to E. R. C. Clarkson nf Toronto the other day, are not so satisfac- tory as at first reported. The total liabili- tiee are reported to be $112,000 with nominal assets of an equal amount, but it is pretty certain now that the assets will be subject to considerable shrinkage. Of the liabilities $70,000 m round numbers is owed to depositors, Mrs. Becker herself being a depositor to the amount of $1,4,000. The affairs of the Reliance Electric Light Com- pany ancl of Bovelby Bros., the two leading industriee of Waterford, are also said to be involved in the general complication,and the lookout for the people ofe the village is anything but a rosy one. The Bank of Comenerce is interested to the extent of $24,000, lent is amply secured. This, however, is not the gime, state of the depositorseewho are now, it . would them, bound tit lose something, and perhape a great deal. The cawe of the disaster is laid largely at the door of the junior partner of the con- cern, Mr. Slaght, who is the largest debtor. Public opinion acquits Mr. Beoerer of any fault other than that of overeocnffidence in those to whom he left the active manage- ment of affairs. The King of Dahomey. The following is an extract from a letter, written by a French lady in Senegal and. published in a. Paris newspaper, referring to , . a visit to King Behanzin of Dahomey, on board the Segond :—." The king, followed by five wives and four children, of 'Whom one is a handsome boy, then came forward in a silk mantle striped with black and blue, and elegantly draped. His head was bare, and he had on his • feet sandals held on by crossed bands embroidered in wools of many colours. lie smoked a large ebony pipe, the bowl and shank of which was circled with silver. His French is limited to bon jour and ami, and I am the first white woman he ever saw, and the sight of ine astonished him. He at first gazed at me, then roared with laughter, and when he had laughed till he was tired, looked around and asked where my husband was. The interpretee having pointed him out, he took him by the shoulder and wive him a friendly shake, which-theant what a lucky fellow you are. One of the five wives cookie She has lost all her teeth. The othere stand round the deposed king. The youngest has always in her hand a wooden boWl hlled with save - dust. It is his spittoon. She is his favor- ite. the children are very nice. Behanzin is elderly, about fifty-five, and has a white head of hair. He hardly knows how to walk, because , en account of his rank, he has been always carried," Gold Mining in South America, Statistics just publithecl show that gold mining in British Guiana is making consid- erable progress. In 1892 the .quantity of gold exported was 131,425 ounces, and in 1893 the output was 142,000 ounces. So far all the gold has been obtained- by allu- vial weahing, but mining hen now been started on quartz reefs in the northwest die. trict on the Barfina, and alete on the Dame - rare rivers. About half the eutput for 1803 Was obtained from one district comprisbeg the Potaro River, Conawaruk, end other tributariel of the Esseepilho Itiver, which district aloe.° givet employment to upward of 3,000 mein The Government has Sane. tioned a railWity t6 co'unect the Demerara and E'ssequibe rivers, so as to avoid the rapide ten the Etnequibo, , TIIE DOMINION ROWE. SEVENTH PARLIAMENT — FOURTH SESS/ON AT OTTAWA. WAD DRAM Zi GS/ Tbe following hills were read a third time . Respecting the Atlantic and Not th-Weet 0111 areal leanaaeydeLiIPtrlaine5Y1:3:12-441t , ceol eBaleral edkowenree; omPany To incogporete the Duluth, Nepigon, and James Bay Railway Oompany—Mn elaeson, The House went into Committee of Ways and Means, and proceedel with the con. sideration of the tariff. OATXSAL. Sir Richard Cartevright considered ib Was extraordinary to tax oatmeal 68 cents,. and eons, the raw material, $1 a barrel, Accords. ing to proteationiat principles that meant that the oatmeal would be manufactured in the United States. Mr. Foster--Tiaere ie no danger of any wrong following. If the hon. gentleman wants to add to it I have no objection. tnecenateton moo, rici‘e;i",r;norvaesdtetrliat°11it thee riedernuced furnomcleafinveed- tenths to three tenths of a cent. per lb,, bet not less than 30 per cent. ad valorem. Sir Richard Cartwright said this !simply meant that the Government proposed to coneinue a very odious monopoly. For the sake of maintaining 75 people the Govern. ment was goiug to inflict a tax of over $100,000 on the people of the country. e The itern passed. Mae, CLEANED. Mr. Foster moved. that the duty on rice, cleaned, be 1-4 cents per pound. In the new tareff it was placed at 1 cent per pound. The motion would make the duty what it was under the old tariff. Mr. Fraser contended that this was a tax of 60 per cent., and was outrageous protection. . Mr. Foster said the tax was well con- sidered and equitably levied. It was known that rice cleaned in Burrnah was not so cleanly. done as when Weaned by white labor in this country. ehe motion waswHozarArl,i.ed. Mr. Marbin said reciprocity in wheat with the United States would be very Md. vantageous to the farmers of Manitoba. The farmers suffered greatly from combina- tions among the local wheat buyers, which depressed the value. If we had free en- trance to the Ameerican markets this com- bination could. be overcome, as it would be practically impossible for local buyers to combine with American buyers. Mr. Campbell said millers did not want the protection of 15 cents per bushel, and 75 cents per barrel. Mr. Wallace said his hon. friend from Kent (Mr. Campbell) had come to him and asked him to use his influence in hav- ing the duty raised from 50 cents to $1 a ab naMryr ere ul: cCha ma pppblei el la Jai nid. he had never made The chairman, being appeeled to, said he did not know who should be called to order, the man wi.o made the assertion or the man who denied the asnertion. The item passedszA. Ram Mr. McMullen said it was outrageous to levy a tax of 1 1.2 cents a pound on starch merely for the purpose of maintaining an enormous and grasping industry, and also a combine, for there was a combination between the three factories that manufac. tend the article in Canada. Mr. Reid said there were eight or nine starch factories in OanadaMand that a com- bine did not exist The ibeire was carried. TEA. AND COEPEE. Mr. Foster desired to change the item of " coffee, green, when not inaported direct without transhipment from the country of growth and production, ten per cent. ad valorenne to read " tea and green coffee, n.e.s., ten per cent." Sir Richerd Cartwright "asked that the item be allowed to stand till hon. gentlemen could consider its effect Mr. Foster agreed to the suggestion. The item was allowed •to stand. ROASTED OOPPEE. Mr. Foster moved to strike out the words " without traushipment" in the item of coffee, roasted or ground, which would now read:—" Coffee, roasted or ground, when not imported direct frorn the country of growth and production, two cents per pound and ten per cent. ad valorem." The item was coalrnraieoda.y Mr. Foster said he desired to change the item reading " Chicory, three cents per pound," to the following:—"Chicory, raw or green, threecents per pound," and "chicory kiln -dried, roasted or ground, four cents per pound." This he explained, left the item exactly as before. He under- stood chicory was being eultivated in some parts of Quebec, and thought it would not be fair to interfere with the industry under - such conditions. The items as amended welerler.caFrorsietder. moved to change the item COCOA roseo. reading " cocoa paste and cnocolate and other preparations of cocoa, four cents per pound," as follows :--"Cocote paete and chocolate paste, fchir cents per pound, and chocolate and other preparations of cocoa, 25 per cent. ad valorem." The duty had been reduced on candies, and cocoa pasee and chocolate paste were much used for the coating of confectionery, and he thought it would not be well to raise the duty on these articles. The items as arnelinudTesd were (tarried. Mr. Foster said he wisbed to make a change in all the items of tuts. Some of them were too high. Re proposed the amended list to read :—" Nuts, shelled, n.e.s., five cents per pound. Almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, peoan nuts. not shel- led, three cents per pound. Nuts of idl kinds not otherwise provided", for, two cenTthsePietermpostamsda.m" ended were carried. ' Cocoa Nt7T. Mr. Foster moved that "cocoanut de- siccated, sweetened or not," be changed from four centre per pound to Aye cents per pound. The motion was carried. SPICES, Mr. Foster moved that "spices, viz.: ginger, and oploss of all kinds n. e. s., unground," he changed from 15 per cent 12 1.2 per cent. The motion was cerried. MEE TEA AND COME. Mr. Fenner ptoposed to plods nn the free list tete and greeti coffee imported direct from the oubtry of frowth and production. "This item," he said, "Ethan *chide tea and coffee purchased in bond in any country where tea and coffee are ettbject to Cue - toms duty, nrovided there be eatisfaetory proof thet the tea or ceffee se purchased bond hi such as might be entered for hoehe icsentpetiurinolataia ign eountry where !le item was allowed te etand by re- quest. ovenoncE eg aeon. Mr, eleleck iotreduced a hill to provide ccf °ororeiniternmh eiotnet eFsm CISte nwaittlele solid °II oct4tetell boyf The bill was read a first time. enneeireteerron oo Henan, Mr. Spronle introduced a, bill further to amend Wm Aet, chapter 107, R.S.0,, titled an .Ace respecting the Adulteration of food, drugs, and egricultural fertilizere. The object was to prevent the adulteretion ot honey, now eXtensively practised, and to provide for the punishineut of persons veho Bold as honey, or exposed for eale as honey, Menufacturs of sugar, glueose, or moles- ses. bill had been urgently asked for by the Bee -keepers' Associetion for several years, end ban been drawn up by the As- sociation. . The bill was read a first time. TIMID BEA33INC. The following bill was read a third time and passed :—To amend the Act to incor. earate the Steam Boiler and Plate Glass Insurance Company of Canada. POT-nuNTEEs. Sir Charles H. Tupper, replying to Mr. Wilson, Said it was the intention of the Department of Fisheries to devise some cheek upon fishing in the Bay of Quinte and Hay bay by those who 'were commonly known ae pot -hunters, but not to prevent hook and line flehing by visitors, cnou cononco mmeeme. Mr, Patterson (Huron) answering Mr. Fraser, said that the recent order of the Imperial Government respecting good con- duct medals :to officers who bad served twenty years did not apply to Canada. PRINTING VOTERS' LISTS. Mr. Costigan, in answer to Mr. Davies, said the cost of the first revision of the Do- minion voters' lists in 1886 since the Print- ing Bureau was established, on June 2nd, 1886, aud. when printing was done outside, was $180960. The second revision, in 1889, reprinting the old lists and revising, cost $124,605. The third revision, in 1891, in- cluding additional plant, cost $65,680. The cost Tor revision for next year would be the same, with whatever additional cos t that might be incurred for extra names. TRENT VALLEY' CANAL. Mr. Hughes, in moving for the report of the commission appointed to enquire into all matters concerning the Trent Valley canal, said that after a careful enquiry he had discovered that the report had been completed,and had never been presented to the House. The motion was carried. THE CATTLE TIIADE. Mr. McMullen, in moving for the papera which had passed between the High Com- missioner and tbe Government re the mettle embargo, said that the scheduling of Cana- dian cattle and the combinatien in ocean rates had been serious blows to the cantle trade. Mr. Sproule said the trade was very im- portant to the country. Cattlemen were in the unfortunate position of not knowi what to offer raisers, on ancount of the i ability of ascertainiog ocean rates. Mr. Daly said that when the papers were brought down it would be shown that the Government had exhibited all possible zeal. He was satisfied that the pleuromneumonia had never existed in the West. The motion was Carried. TRADE WITH' TUE D. S. Mr. Charlton moved for a return of all articles exported by Canada to the United States in excess of the exports of the same articles to all other countries of the world. From what he could gather the items this would cover would be the products of the mines, of the forests, fresh fish, horses, sheep, poultry, hides, bones, wool, flax, berries, barley, beans, hay, strew, maple sugar, trees, potatoes, vegetables, and other artNircrl.esw. entice moved that the motion be amended by adding the following words :-- "Also a similar comparative statement of exports from Canada to Great Britain for the last fiscal year." The amendment, was then carriei, and the motion us amended was adopted. DETECTIVE CORPORATIONS. Mr. Sproule introduced a bill respecting detective corporations and niercantile agenciee. The bill was read a first time. eoveneien'S SALARY. Mr. Mulock introduced a bill to fix the salary of the Governor-General. He COD, tendecl that the expense had grown to an unreasonable amount, and his bill proposed a substantial reduction all along thie hlienbe.ill was read a se cond oyERNMENT DAY. Sir John Thompson moved that Govern- ment orders have precedence on Thursdays for the remainder of the session. The motion was carried as amended. moment:el- oo WITNESSES. Sir Richard Cartwright moved that it be resolved that whenever any member of the Committee on Public Accounts shall declare in his place in said committee than he has examined the papers and vouchers submit. ted with regard to any item referred to said committee, that he is convinced that it is necessary in the public interest that all witnesses examined in reference to the said item should be examined upon oath, it shall be au instruction to the said committee to cause such witmesses to be so examined. Sir John Thompson deeired to inake a proposition. It was after all only a mere matter of business, and he thought they should agree not to treat it as a matter of politics, by is resolution of this kind or of any kind in going into Supply or Wage and Means but should pass an Act which would remove the subject from, the political at- mosphere, and if this was assented to by hon. gentlemen opposite who had studied the question, he would agree on the part of the Government to facilitate the passage of such an Act this eession, to be in time for practical operation in the committee before maTnlyiedlyesnhdandiepAssweade withdrawn, end. the House went into CoBmo ionnits.tee of Ways and 14eSai711. ichard Cartwright said the tax of six cents a pound on books amounted in meny mode to 45, 50, and 60 per cent, ad valli°rZillioster Ivied this was not a new tax supot knowledge, There were a, hundred other thinge as necessary to knowledge as intake. The item passed ERITUD corvntones. Sir Johti Thompson replying to Mr , Edgar, said that he had'inforined the Brit- Goveriattent inootlis ego of the intention 'not to °entitle° the collection of the authors' tax of 12 1.2 per cent., but that no reply had been reeelvdd, SnOW CAELS. efr. Neter moved that pictorial thew cards be taxed six cents per ponnd and 20 per cent The old. duty wee 15 cente per pound and 25 per cett. The amendment Was dallied INTERNATIONAL LESSON PO AY 6TiL Jrofi 1,4$1, PAVS-0111N. 50, 11.24.1. COALMEN' ,T r,..,tx—xixtoir, Xs. OPENING wOnDS. After Joseph made himself knewn to hie brethers emit there back to their fether in Hebron to bring the family info Egype. Atet Jacob could hardly believe the news. Convinced of the truth, he deter- mined to go to Joeeph, On the way be halted. at Beerelielne. The Lord there ape peered to bine and told him not to be afraid to go down into Egypt, for he would ge with hiin, and would eurely bring bis de- scenclants back to the land of promiee. Thus encouraged he continued his Journey. An he approaehed Egypt he sent Judah to announce hie coining. joseph went to Goshen to meet his father, and returned before him to make arratigements for pre. senting him and five of the brothers to the king. By Phareoh's direction Joseph placed his father and brethren, and gave them a posseesion in Egypt, in fertile Goshen, the land of Ramesee. Under Josmobee care their life in Agynt was prosperous. Jacob died 13.0. 1689, after eeventeeri years in ' Egypt, Hie body was embalmed awl buried in Canaan, according to his request, In the cave of Machpelah, with Abraham. and other anceetorse Our lesson to -day cons tinues the family history from that time until the death of Jacob. noors en oecoeolieno. I. Shadows of an Old Sin. V. 14. 31%, and leis brethren. --They did not wish to remain in Canaan, after seventeen years- in Egypt, where their families and property now were. V. 15. Peradventure.—Pere haps ; it may be, Requite.—Repay ; in this case, evil for evil. .V. 16. Messenger. —Probably Benjamin. Thy father did comma:ad.—This command is not recorded, but there is no reason to doubt their word. V. 17. And now, we pray thee.-1.'hese words seem to evince great humility and sincere repentance. They were God's true servants, and they wished to be forgiven by their much. offended brother. Joseph wept. —To eched. by the expression of their penitence, and hurt by their distrust of his past assurance of forgiveuess. V. 18. Fell down before his fa,ce.—Having heard the report of the messenger, they no* came in person, with the signs of the deep. est humility. The act of prostration again fulfilled the dream for which they hated and sold him. Christlike Forgivenees. V. 19. Fear not.—Another of the many " fon note '' of Scripture. Anil in the place of God?—Ane I in the position to interfere in the purpos-• es of God, or to direetehis plans? Mint I not rather, with you, submitmyself tolieme V. 20. Ye thought evil.—Joseph was too candid to gloss over his brother's ain, nor did he wish to hide it from themselves, God meant it unto good.—God took your sin and over -ruled it for your good and the good of many. As it is this day.—As it lei now evident. V.21.—Note the three -fold encouragement : First fear ye not next, vvill support and protect you and your families ; third he went on to comfort them with words and tones of biotherly kind- ness. III. Ending of a good life. V. 22. Joseph dwelt inEgypt.--Fifty-four years after the death of his father, or ninety-three years in all. V.23. Third generation.—Ephraines great grandchildren. Upon Joseph's knees.—Adopted as Ms own. V. 24. God will surely visit you.—Showing hie faith in the promise in Genesis 46: 4. V. 25. Took an oatio—Jacob took a similar oath from Joseph. Gen. 47 : 30, 31.- Carry up my bones from hence.—That is, to Comeau Anticipating the return of the people to their own country. See Ilebe-11: 22. V. 26. Coffin. —A chest or mummy casket made usually of sycamore wood. In the exodue the Israelites took it svith them (Exod. 13: We, and buried it in Shechem. Josh. 24: 32. CLOSING WORDS. What a beautiful life was that, the last days and closing scenes of which we have studied to -day ! Joseph's character, so far as the record goes, seems to be without blemish; in childhood and yotith, in mane hood and age, in a,dversity and. honore worthy of our admire:nen- and imite4 ee. - Observe his filial regard for his •fathentletnee honors him as his father, as the leader of - God's chosen. people, the patriarch awl priest of bis house, man werthy to statel . before kings. Remember that, like Joseph, we should love, honor and reverence our parents. Observe also his noble bearing toward his brothers. They had no reason to expect suchtreatmett. They had for- feited all claim to such attention. Yet Joseph freely forgave them, and openly acknowledgedthem as brothers, presented them to the king and provided for th'eir honorable establishment and support in Egypt. So, Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers. He will bring us at last to t dbe th f t d an eiore e ing o Inge, aceep e for his sake, if we are but willing to receive and trust him as our iviediator. Joseph was. true and dutiful, and no doubt pious, from a child. His matthood fulfilled the promise of his youth. His old age abounded with the fruitage of years usefully spent. Ob. serve also the typical resemblance betWeen Joseph and Chrise. A beloved son ; casb out by his brethren; this humiliation foie lowed by exaltation ; sold feria. few pieces of silver made the Saviour of those who had casehim out. London vs. Chicago. As IS contrast to Chicago and ite irshate- tante, Mr. Stead holds up London. The British metropolis is a larger city than Chicago, with a population almoot as cos- mopolitan, Weighed. down with a multitude of evils which Chicago are yet in the germ. Yet, in the London County Coundil, Mr, Stead ensures his readers, there is tot single boodler or any One who is even „suspected or oneused by hie avotet eneiniee of boodling ; neither is there a, ditloon.keep. er in that Council, nor a persOn of (bores putt". In it, Lord Roeobery and the Duke of Norfolk sit side by side with John Buerie end Bet Tillett. The London Couecil, Mr. Stead deelarte evithont hesitation, is the moat representative, hard.wOrking, and) at the flame time, pureet,assembly in Chris. tendert'. Thisimireclehas been aecomplished in London, says cier arthor, by itet good people going into polities and staying there with a eleterbeinetion that they would not give a bad Man a °hence. Tim London labor-unione, churthet, teetotel societice, end social rob:inners hoVe motile all differ- etniee and labored togeeher with might and Main to eecure the rebut% of candidatee of good eharrioter, Who gel' be treated to work Nyally for the sooleit Med iriotel ameliortte tion of the totaintiu*.