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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-6-28, Page 3FUTURE liEFORMATION. ItAlolVIAGE DOTS NOT THINK THE 13ROSPECT A BRIGHT ONE. Nor nese Probable Than in Thts Lite at alt Even -fl e 'levering Hope 'That heee Would be Opportunity In be Next World to correct tlie' Mistakes of Van eliOnali Therefore be abandoned. BedIttant,-June 17. -Rev, Dr Talmage Rho is now on hie reund-the•world journey, has selected as the subject for hie sermon thror3 the press_ to -day, "Another Chance," the text beingtaken froM Eccles. 11-3. "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." There is a hovering hope in the minds of a vazt multitude that there will be an opportunity in the next world to correct the mistakes of this; that, if we do make complete shipwreck of our earthly life, it will be on a shore up whicb we may walk to a palace ; that, as a defendant may lose his ease in the Circuit Court, and wry it up to the Snpreme Court or Court of Chancery and get a reversal of judgment in his behalf, all costa being thrown over on the other party, so, if we fail in the earthly trial, we may in the higher jurba diction of eternity have the judgment of the lower court set aside, all the costs remitted, and we may be victorieue defendants forever. My object in this Sermon is to show that common senile as well as my text, declares that suoh an expeotation is chimerical, You say that the impenitent man, having got into -the net world and seeing the disaster, will, as a result of that disaster, turn, the pain the cause of his reformation. But you can find ten thousand instances in this world of men who have done wrong and distress overtook them suddenly. Did the distress heal them? No ; they went right on. That man was flung of dissipations. "You must stop drinking," bald the dootor, "and quit the fast life you are leading, or it will destroy you." The patient suffers paroxysm after paroxysm; but, under skillful medical treatment, he begins to sit up, begins to walk about the room, begins to go • to bus- iness. And, lo ! he goes back to the same grog -shops for his morning dram, and his evening dram, and the drams bettveen. Flat down again 1 Same doctor! Same physical anguish, Sams medical warning. Now, the illness is more protracted; the liver is more stubborn, the stomach more irritable, and the digestive organs are more rebellious. But after awhile he is out again, goes back to the same dramshops, andLgees the same round of sacrilege against his physical health. He sees that his downward course is ruin- ing his household, and his life is a perpetua perjury against his =grime vow, that that broken-hearted woman is as unlike the roseate young wife whom he married, that Vier old schoonmates do not recognize her . s •that hie sons are to be taunted for life time by the father's drunkenness, that the daughters are to pass into life under the scarification of disreputable ancestor. He is drinking up their happiness, their pros- pects for this life, and, parhapa, for the life to come. Sometimes an appreciation of what he is doing comes upon him. His nervous system is all a -tangle. From crown of head to sole of foot he is one aching, -rasping, crucifying, damning torture. Where is he? In hell on earth. Does it a reform him? After awhile he has the delirium tremens while a whole jungle of hissing reptiles are let out on his pillow,and his screams horrify the neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, orying, "Tae these things off me 1" As he sits pale and convalescent, the doctor says' 'Now I want to have a plain talk withyou, my dear fellow. The next attack of this kind you have, you will be beyond all medical skill, and you will die." He gets better and goes forth iuto the same round again. This time medicine takes no effect. Consultations of physicians agree in saying there ia no hope. Death ends the scene. That proms of inebriation warning and dissolution is going on within stone's throw of you,going on in all the neighborhoods of Christendom. Pain does not dorrect Suffering does not reform. Whet is true in one sense is true in all senses, and forever will be so, and yet men are expectina in the next world purgatorial rejuvenation. Take up the printed reports of the prisons of the United States, and you will find that the vast majority of incarcerated have been there before, some of them four, five, six times. With a nillio illustrations all working the other way •in this world, people are expecting that distress in the next state will be salvatory.-You cannot imagine any worse torture in any other world than that which some men have suffered here, and without any salutary consequence. Furthermore, the prospect of a reforma- tion in the next world is more improbable thane reformation here.- In this world the life started with innocence of infancy. In the case proposed, the other life will open with all the accumulated bactimbits of many years upon him. Surely,it is easier to build a strong ship out of new timber than out of an old helk that has been greeind up in the breakers. If with innocence to start with in this lift a man does not become godly, what prospect is there that in the next world) starting with sin, there would be a seraph evoluted ? Surely the sculptor has more prospect of making a flee stain) out of a blook of pure white Parian marble them out of an old black rock seamed mid °racked with the storms ot a half century. Surely upon a clean white almost of paper it is easier to write a deed or a will, than upon et sheet of paper all soribbied and blotted and torn faom top to bottom. Yeb men seem to think that, though the life that began here comparatively perfeot turned out badly, the next life will suc- ceed though it itarts with a dead failure. "But," says some one, "1 think we ought to heel a °hence io the next life, becaeee thie life is se short it allOtve only a Innall opportunity. We hardly have time to turn around between the (gad's) and the tomb, the wood of one Milli* touching the marble of the other." But do you know What made the eneient deluge a neceesity It wag the longevity of the antediluvians. alley Were wore° in the second oentury of their life -time than in the first hundred yeais, and still wane in the third csenturY, and 8011 worse all the Way an to geven, eight, and nine hundred years, and the earth lied to be wathedfr and uctubbcdf and ifoaked, and anehered clear out of eight for mere than a mouth before it could be made fit for de- cent people to live in, Longevity never mires impenitence. All the pictures of Time represent him with a scythe to out, but I never saw any piceire of Time with oase Ot Medicines to heal. Seneca says that Nero for the first dye yes,re of Ins public life was net Up for an example of clemency and kindness, but his path all the way descended until at sixty-eight be- came a suicide. If eight hundred years did not made antediluvians any better, but only made them worse, the ages of eternity could have no effect except prolongation of depravity, "But," says some one, "in the future state, evil surroundings will be withdrawn and elevated influences aubstituted, and hence expurgation and sublimation, and glorification." But the righteous, all their sine forgiven, have passed on into a beati. fie state and consequently the unsaved will be left alone. It cannot be expected that Dr. Duff, who exhausted himself in teaching Ilindoos the way to heaven, and Doctor Abeel, who gave his life in the evangeliza- tion of China, and Adoniram Judaea, who toiled for the redemption of Borneo, ehould be sent down by some celestial missionary society to educate those who wasted all their earthy existence. Evangelistic and missionary efforts are ended. The entire kingdom of the morally bankrupt by them- aelves, where are the seavatory influences to come from? Can one speckled and bad apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good? Can those who are themselves down help others up Can those who have themselves failed in the business of the soul pay the debts, of their spirttual insolvent? Can a million wrongs make one right? Poneropolis was a oity where King Philip of Thraoia put all the bad people of his kingdom. If any man had opened a pri- mary school at l'oneropolis, X do not think the parents from other cities would have sent their children there. Instead of amendmenb in the other worl d, all the associations now that the good are evolved, will be degenerating and down. You would not want to send a man tosa cholera or yellow fever hospital for his health; and the great lazaretto of the next world, con- taining the diseased and plague struck will be a poor place for a moral recovery. If the surroundinga in this world were crowds ed of temptation, the surroundings of the next world after the righteous, have passed up and on, will be a thousand per centmore crowded of temptation. The Count of Chateaubriand made his little son sleep at night at the top of a castle turret, where the winds howled and where spectres were said to haunt the place ; and while the mother and sisters almost died with fright, the son tells us that the process gave him nerves that could not tremble and a courage that never falt- ered. But I don't think that towers of darkness and the spectre world swept by strocco and euroclydon will ever fit one for the tend of eteenal sunshine. I wonder what is the curriculum of that college of In- ferno, where, after proper preparation by the sins of this life, the candidate enters, passing on from freshman class of depravity to sophomore of abandonment, and from sophomore to junior, and junior to senior, and day of graduation comes, and with diploma signed by Satan, the president and other professional demoniaos, attesting that the crindidete has been long enough under that drill, he passes up to enter heaven 1 Pandemonium a preparative course for heavenly admission ! Ah, my friends, Satan and his cohorts have fitted uncounted mul- titudes for ruiii,• but never fitted one soul for happiness. Furthermore, it would not be safe for this world if men had another chance in the next. If it had been announced that, however wiekedly a man might act in this world, he could fix up all right in the next, society would be terribly demoralized, and the human race demolished in a few years. The fear that, if we are bad and unforgiven here, it will not be well for ua in the neat existence, is the chief influence that keeps civilization from ruehing back to semi -bar- barism and semi -barbarism from rushing into midnight savagery and midnight searitgery from extinction ; for it is the astringent impression of a nations, Christian and heathen, that there is no future chances for those who have wasted this. Multitudes of men who aro kept within bounds would say, "Go to, now 1 Let me get all out of this life there is in it. Come, gluttony, and hiebriation, and uncleanness, and revenge, and all sensualities, and wait upon me I My life may be somewhat short- ened in this world by dissoluteness, but that will only make heavenly indulgence on a larger ecale the efootter possible. I will overtake the saints at last, and will enter the Heavenly Temple only a little later than those who behaved themselves here. I will, on my way to heaven, take a little wider excursion than those who were on earth pious, and 1 shall go to heaven via Gehenna and Sheol." Another chance in the next world means free license and wild abandonmenain thie. Suppose you were a party in an impor. tent case at law, and yo si knew from con- sultation with judges and attorneys that it would be tried twice, and the first trial would be of little importance, but that the second would decide everything, for which trial would you make the most preparation, for which retain the ablest lawyers, for which be most anxioua about the attend- ance of witnesses. You would put all the stress upon the second trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure, saying, "The first is nothing, the last is everything." Give the race assurance of a second and more impor- tant trial in the subsequent life, and all the preparation for eternity would be "post-mortem," post -funeral, post-sepul- ohral, and the world with one jerk be pitched ofe into impiety and godlessness. Futherrnore, let me ask why a chance shoeld be given in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this? Suppose you give a banquet and you invite a vont number of friends,. but one man deolines to come, or treats your invitation With indifference. Yoe in the course of twenty piers give twenty bee:quote, and be Same man is invited to them all, and treatthem all in the same obnoxious way. After awhile you remove to another house, lerget and better, and you again invite your friende, but send no invitation te the man who deolined Or neglected the other invitations. Are you to blame 1 Has he a right to expect to be invited after all the indignities he has done you? Gad in We world has invited us all to the banquet of is grace. He invited us by His F'rov- idence and Ilia Spirit three hundred and sixty-five deem of every year, since we knew oue right hand from oar left, If we deelined it every time, or treated the ievi. eitticni wieh indifference, and gave twenty or forty or fifty yeare of indignity oh our part toward the Banqueter, and at last efe spreads the banquet in 04 mote luxurious and kingly place, amid the heavenly gardens) have wen. right tq enpeist Him, to invite ue again, and lam we a right to blame Hite If Ile tiotei not invite nel If twelve gate e of ealvation stood oppit twenty yeare or fifty year for our admen sion, and at the end of that time they ere closed, can we complain of it and say s 44 These gatee ought to be open again. Give us another chance le If the steamer le to sail for Hamburg, and we want to gee to Germany by WA line, and We read in every evening and every morning news- paper that it will *sail on a certain day, for two weeks we have that advertisement before our eyes, and then we ge down to the docks fifteen minutes after it has aloe - ed off into the stream and say : "Come back," Calve me Another <Aimee. It is not fair to treat me in tale way. Swing up ba. the dock again, and throw out planks, and let ue come on board." Such bebavior would invite arreet aa a madman. And if, after the Gospel ship has lain at anchor before our eyes for years and years, and all the benign voices of earth and heaven have urged us to go on board, as she might mail away at any moment, and after awhile she sails without us, in it common senile to expect her to come back? You might as well go out on the Highlanda at Neversink and call to the " Majestic" after she has been three days out, and ex- pect her to return, as to call back an opportunity for heaven when it once has sped away. All heaven offered us as a gratuity, and for a life -time we refine to take it, and then rush on the bowies of Jehovah's buckler demanding another chance. There ought to be, there can be, there will be no ouch thing as posthumous opportunity. Thus, our 'common senme agrees with my text: "If the tree fall to- ward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." You tee that this idea lifts this world up from an unimportant way -station to a plat- form. of stupendous issues, and makes all eternity whirl round this hour. Bub one trial for which all the preparation must be inede in this world, or never made at all. That piles up all the emphases and all the climaxes and all the destinies into life here. No other chance 1 Oh, how that augments point the value and the importance of this chance Alexander, with his greab army, used to surround a city, and then would lift a great light in token to the people that, if they surrendered before that light went out, all would be well ; but if once the light Went out, then the eattering-rams would swing against, the wall, and demolition and dis- aster would follow. Well, all we need do for our present and everlasting safety is to make surrender to Christ, the King and Conqueror -surrender of our hearts, surren- der of our lives, surrender of everything 1 And He keeps a gteat light burning, light of Gospel invitation, light kindled with the wood of the cross, and flaming up against the dark night of our sin and sorrow. Sur- render while that great light continues to burn, for after it goes out there will be no opportunity of making peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Talk of another chance 1 Why, this is a supernal chance 1 In the time of Edward the Sixth, at the battle of Musselburgh, a private soldier, seeing that the Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet, took off his own helmet and put it upon the head of the earl; and the head of the private soldier uncovered, he was soon slain, while his commander rode safely out of the battle. But in our case, instead of a private soldier offering his helmet to an earl, it it a King putting his own crown upon an unworthy subject, the King dying that we might live. Tell it to all points of the compass. Tell it to night and day. Tell it to all earth and heaven. Tell it to all centuries, all ages, all millenniums, that we have a magnificent °hence in this world that we need no other °hence in the next. I am in the burnished Judgment Hall of the Last Day. A great white throne is lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting for his arrival I hear immortal spirits in conversation. "What are you waiting here for 1" says a soul that went up from Madagascar to a soul that ascended from America. The latter says, "I came from America, where forty years I heard the Gospel preached, and Bible read, and from the prayer that I learned in infancy at my mother's knee until my last hour I had Gospel advantage, bat, for some reason, 1 did not make the Christian choice, and T am here waiting for the Judge to give me a new trial and an- other chance." "Strange I" says the other; "I had but one Gospel call in Madagascar, and I accepted it, and I do not need another chance." "Why are you here 1" says one who on earth had feeblest intellect to one who had great train,and silvery tongue,and sceptres of influence. The latter responds. "Oh, I knew more than my tellows. I mastered libraries, and bad learned titles from colleges, and my name was a synonym for eloquenoe-and power. And yeti neglected my soul, and I am waiting here for a new trial." "Strange," says the one of the feeble earthly capacity; "I knew lent little of tvordly knowledge, but I knew °Meat, and mode him my partner, and I have no need of another °hence." Now the ground trembles with the ap- proaching eharioe The great folding -doors of tlae Hall swing open. "Stand back 1" cry the celestial ushers. "Stand baok,and let the Judge of quick and dead pass through le' He takes the throne, and looking over the throng of nations, He says "Come tojudgment, the last judgment, the only judgment." By one flash from the throne all the history of each one flames forth to the vision of Himself and all °there. " Divide!" say! the Judge to the assembly. "Divide 1" echo the walls, " Divide !" oty the guards angelic. And now the immortals separate, rushing this way and that, and after awhile there is a great aisle between them, and a great vacuum widening and widening and the Judge, turning to the throng on one side, says "He that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy let him be holy still;" and then. turning towards the throng on .the opposite side he says " He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still;" and then lifting, one hand towards eaah group, He declares: "11 the tree falls to- ward' the south or toward the north, in the place where the' tree falleth, there it shall be." And then I hear something jar with a great sousid. It is the closing of the Book of Judgment. The judge ascends the dein behind the throng. The hall of the last assize is cleared and shut. The high court of eternity is adjourred forever. TITE DOKINION 1101JSE. SEVENTH PARLIAMENT --FOURTH SESSION AT OTTAWA. sfEalKaQAT InenOTION, Sir Charism H. Tupper introduced a hill to amend the Steamboat Inspection Act, which was eubstantially to remove doubts existing as to oolleOtion of dues for inspecs tion of bailers and machinery. Stemnboat owners did net objet to the provision. The bill vvas read a first time. mestere wmatesease The Sergeant -at -Arms informed the House Qt that eb 6170., LaPerseaVaeanstumenrata0ed. E.to Laro se ,appearof ab c,thtteenBdaaeneo. fethe Rouse this day, were not in Sir John Thompson moved that the Speaker do iesue his warrant for the appre- hension of the persons named, that they be taken into custody by the Sergeant -at - Arms and brought before the Bar of the House. The motiou was carried. TononTO roar mime Sir Adolphe Caron, replying to Mr. Case ey, said that F,D. Barwick, P.O. Inspector of Toronto distriet, had been dismissed for general neglect of duty and detention of certain stuns of money which came into his possestdoo. The sums, which were not public revenue, were made good on demand. The accounts of the office had been examin ed and it was shown that Barwick was not indebted to the Government,. PAsT ATLANTrO SERviOn. air John Thompson, replying to Mr. Langelier, said the Government was doing its best to secure a fast Atlantio service and hoped to make Quebec the terminal Oddly EXPrOSS011. Probably no nation in the world JO so much given to " Hibernieisme" as the Trench.i Aen which is not infrequently seen over the doors of ehops and restaurants in Paris whir& aro undergoing repairs and re. furniehinges the following : °Leann 0 ACOOnnT or itickrionnet. Env • „pAB,Wcr, rit*uns. Mr. Brodeur'moving for a select com- mittee to enquire into the irregularities at the Civil Service examinations, said that there was a current rumor in Quebec, that in November last at least 50 of the candi- dates were peraonated. Not only was this the ease, but those charged with weiching the examinations were parties in some sense to the personationa and received bribes, yet only two prosecutions had been instituted, and in both cam the persons prosecuted were Liberals. None of the Con- servatives had been prosecuted. One of them Bourassa, a friend of the Minister of Public Works, had induced one Wilson to person- ate him. He showed Wilson a letter ad- vising him to get some one to personate Lim, and that letter purported to be signed by the Minister of Public% Works. . Mr. Ouirnetasked the hon. gentleman if he intended to insinuate that he had been guilty of such a fraud. He declared he had nothing to do with the matter, and challenged Mr. Brodeur to make a charge and produce evidence. Sir John Thompson did not desire to deny or extenuate the irregularities. He regretted the delay,, hut there were good reasons for it. He would add that instruc- tions had been issited for prosecutions in every case as to which the Government had any evidence. 'Lender these circumstances he asked the House not to grant the cone. mittee. It was not the custom of the House to inquire into a niatter while the Goveynment was still acting in the premises, and, moreover, a parliamentary inquiry in this case would add greatly to the difficulties of the prosecution. The motion was defeated by 68 to 40. • SUNDAY onsenvaaroa. Mr. Charlton moved the third. reading of the bill to secure a better observation of the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday. •Mr. Taylor moved in amendment that the bill be referred back to the Committee of the 'Whole House to amend the same, so as to provide that religious publications and Sunday school publicetions may be distributed on the Lord's day. The amendment was adopted. The House went into conzmittee. Mi. Taylor moved that the words " cir- culation" and "distribution" be struck out of the bill, making it an offence to sell only. Mr. Charlton was willing to insert the word "secular" before "newspaper" which would define the clasa. of papers nc,t to be sold or distributed. Sir John Thompson suggested that for the purpose of clearness the words " Chureh and Sunday school" be inserted in the bill, which would better define the olass of papers that might be circulated. Mr. Charlton moved that the following proviso be added to the clause "But nothing in this section shall prevent the gratuitous distribution of religious pub- lications in churches, Sunday selwols, or religous meetings." The proviso was carried. . The committee then rose and reported the bill. Mr. Mara, on the motion for the third reading, moved that the bill be referred back with inetructions to limit clause 1 to the sale of newspapers on the Lord's day. After a debate, the House divided on the amendment, whicle was carried on a vote of GO yeas and 52 nays. The House went into committee. Mr. Mara moved that the words " pro- hibiting the distribution and circelation of newspapers onSunday" be struck out. The amendment was carried. Mr. Charlton moved the third reading of the bill. Mr, Langelier moved in amendment to the third reading that the present Act shall not apply to the province of Quebec. (Laughter.) The amendment was lost. The bill was read a third time on divi- sion. mums' .fo ANIATALS. Coateworth moved the House into committe on the bill to make further pro- vision as :to the prevention of cruelty to animals, and to amend the Criminal Code, 1892. Mr. McMillan (Huron) thought it was not well to give .persorts passing along a highway power to interfere with a man ili. treating a horse or other anti:nal: The clause was dropped. Mr. Tisdale moved an amendment to per- mit trap shooting for pigeone as a test of marksmanship. Sir John Thompson moved that the nom. mittee rise and report progress. The committee rose and reported pro. greed. • Tun VAST ATLA.Nrid SENViot. Sir John Thompson, in reply to Mr, Camerou, said that representations had boon made to the Government in favor of TerMinel City, Strait of Carom, Nov Soave es tho Atlantic terminusof tit 'We Atlantic *service. Hewever, vein twoeuel dt f aemreeehtilpcoinpin y deeeapeye, upon die viewe o h Vie NEW iltatfOliThlE4Or. Sir John Thompson introduced his bil to amend the Electoral Franchise Act and moved the first reading. The principal features of the bill were azplalned as fol. relation to the revision of the present year, we bring into force for the purposes of the revision the diatribu tion (tot of 1892; it will follow, therefore that the revision of the present year will b =de on the lines of the omilitituoncieg re -arranged in 1892, notwithstanding the, the redistribution act is not to come inte force for electoral rurposes until a dissolution of this Parliament. At the seine time it is our constitutional ditty to see thatthe constituencies are always in such a partition that, in case of an appeal,. the electors will be ready with the liiite revised and the constituency So ermined thatthe general elections may take place. While it is not ouly possible, but very probable, that the revision of this year will be followed by a revision next year prior to any dissolution, still, acting upon the prin. eiple which I l'av'e mentimsed, we are bound to keep in view the facto that, whenever a dissolution shall take place the conatituencies will be in a position to have a vote taken according to the distri- bution whith will then be in force. How- ever, we propose to provide for the case of bye -elections taking place in the meantime by taking care that the polling divisions will be made in Ruch a manner that, in the event of a vaoanoy occurring, and a bye. election being held before dissolution, a Het for that purpose may be made up acoording to the constituencies as they exist at present, from the new lists. Therefore, the two principles can be kept in view in the one revision, the principle of having the polling district so arranged that the list of electors for the electoral district as it now stands can be formed at any moment out of the revised lists, likewise theprinciple that the electoral lists for the constituency, according to the redistribu- tion act, may be accessible at any moment that an opportunity may arise., The change is also proposed in hia bill, which I indicated few days ago, that the question upon which so much difference has arisen in the past as to the basis of the franchise shallbe adjusted by adopting the franchises of the several provinces. While I admit that this is a new departure, 1 deny what has been so widely asserted that it is in any impor- tant or practical degree a surrender or any prineipleethe,t we have contended for in times past. The number of differences which exist between the Provincial fran- chises and the Dominion franchise as es- tablished by our OWD, Aot are so few as not to be worth, the contest and the eepense which are involved in keeping them up and the adoption of a general system which will apply both to the Local and Dominion Legis- latures has recommendations as regard sim- plicity and facilities for economy which cannot exist under a dual system such as we have been keeping up for the past few years. It is obviously one of the most desirable features in connection with any system of franchise, and to my mind an essential feature, that the system to be adopted shall be such than it can be put into operation every year. While under - the system which we now propose consider- able difficulty and labor may arise, fully as much perhaps as would arise in a revis- ion under the law as it now stands -while I admit, I say, that considerable difficul- ties will arise m making the first new list'I do claim for the principles of this bill and for its detail thee they will introduce into the electoral system a degree of simplicity which will make the working of that sys- tem very easy and simple in future revision ; so that I think there can be no doubt that the revision can be expected to take place every year. For these reasons I thiuk the bill will commend itself to the House, and that, when once we have succeeded in forming a list under the present system, we shall find this annual revision comparatively easy, and I am sure economical as compared with the preseat system. We uphold the feature which I regard as the principal feature of the franchise aot of 1885, and that is that the revision shall take place by officers under the control of this Par- liament and of the Federal Government. The great principle which underlayed the Frew:hem Act of 1885 was the control by this Parliament over matters connected with the franchise. We have arrived,after the experience of eight or nine years, at the conclusion whioh I have stated, that itis not worth the effort to keep up the divergences that exist between the two sets of franchisee, the franchise as we have it now, and the franabise as it exists in thp various provinces; but we adhere to the second branch of the principle of con- trol, namely, that this House and the electors who return the members to this House ought not to be under the coat mol. as regards the exercise of their franchise, of the officers of any other Government or Legislature whatever in the eonntry. There- fore we intend to ask the House to adhere( to that principle of Federal control over the Federal franchise. With these remarks I ask the first reading of the hill," The bill received its first reading. et DIE SUNDAY .8011011 INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 1. 1 WU AMU OP .1SSUS.,,...mis 1 -16 - Vine. es -B. 0 , 17.-ou wonder how this is -B. 0. 5, instead of A, D. 1, 1.1 lettei more than five himared years al ter the birth of Christ when the date 1 of Christian era was fixed, and an error of four years wag ; Made by the monk Pionyams Bzigutie s who made the oeleulatioe. t Piece. --Bethlehem, of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem. 33ethlehein was the town of David, and the place to whit* Ruth came from the land of Moab, Its modern name is Beit-lahm. The four Gospels. -The four Gospels are four storiea of the some bleseed Life, The writer of the first was Matthew. Be wrote his Gospel for Jewish Christians, to prove that Jesus was the promised. !Awls -lab. WOMen in Parliament. British precedents have been cited in th womaii suffrage campaign that is now being vigorously carried on in the State of New *York to show that women once occupied seats in the Imperial Parliament. A cor- respondent to the New York Sun says : "In the reign of Henry 111., 1226-1205, and of Edward I., 1275-1307, four abbesses were summoned to Parliament, viz., Seaftes- 'bury, Berking, St. Mary of Winchester, and of Milton. Also,that in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Edward III., 1361, the Countesses of Norfolk, Ormond, March, Pembroke, Oxford, and Athol were sum- moned to Parliament," The statement as far as it goes is unquestionable, but it should be pointed out that " the abbesses sat in the wit as by right of their office, not aa women, but as ecclesiastical superiors, holding property in trust, the legal status of the abbess being identical with that of theabbot. Many of the monasteries, con- taining both monks and nuns, wet() ruled by abbesses," The historian Bishop Stubbs, in his "Constitutional History of England," has said thab " these houses were frequent- ly ruled by person of Royal blood ; some of them contained both male awl female votaries, and might be rttlori by persona of either Sex." The point is an interesting - one in connection with a movement which, of suceessful, will, Esecording to the census of 1800, result in the addition of about 3,600,000 rotes to the male vote of 1,366,000 in the entire State. The new atom tug Sohn J. Long was munched at Colfingwood last week. eseesie Therefore it has a great many refer- ences to Old Testament prophecies. Mark wrote the oecond Gospel. He wrote Ids Gospel under Peter's direction for Gentile Christians. The writer of the third Gospel was Luke. John wrote the fourth Gospel. He wrote of the divinity of Christ. . Between the Leasons.-We are now to spend a whole year in studying the Life of Cheek soholaro who will follow the sug- gestions for study, week by week, reading carefully the parallel passageswill miss nothing in the wonderful store?, Hints for Study. -Bead John 1: I-18 ; Luke 1; 1.18 ; Mete 1 1-25. nut,re ll 1,EARNI11G TEM X.BSSON. 1. In Om days. -.The days referred to at the aloe of the previous chapter. CEesar Augustus. -Emperor of Rome. All th e world. ---The Roman Empire which em- braced nearly all the known world. Taxed. -"Enrolled." 2. Tbis taxing. -This waa a registering of the peoples' names so as to have a complete censue, 3. His own atty.-The city of leis ances- tors, where the family records were kept. 4. The city of David. -Joseph and Mary were living at Nazareth but were required by this decree of the Emperor to go to Bethlehem to be unrolled. Thus a proph- ecy was fulfilled which foretold that the Messiah should be born in Bethlehem. See Micah 5 2. 5. Mary. -The mother of Jesus. : 7. Wrapped him in swaddling clothes. - Strips of cloth three or four inches wide which were wrapped about the child. Laid him in a manger. -The "inn" referred to in this verse was simply an enolosed place in which pilgrims could lodge over night, paying a small suet for the privilege. The inn was full, so that Joseph and Mary had to seek a resting -place for the night in a stable, which may have been a cave. The imager was a trough, or box, possibly "of stone, from which the cattle ate their food. 8. In the same eountry.-Near Bethlehem. Shepherds abiding.-Ee.stern shepherds almostlived with their flocks. They knew their 9Thesheepan bg ye illa ofin the Lord. -"An angel of the Lord stood by theme' 'Angels are servants of God, who do his bidding. The glory of the Lord. -A briget light, symbol of the Lord's presence. They were sore afraid. -The brightness, terrified them. 10. The angel said, fear not. -There never is any reason tofear God's messengers of love to us, in whatever form they may come. I bring you good tidings. --In place of anything to dread there was everything to make their hearts glad. To all people. --Not for the jewish people only, but for all the world did Christ come. 11. Unto you is born.-" There is born to you." A Saviour. -See Matt. 1 : 21. Christ the Lord. -The name Christ means the Messiah, the Anointed One, anointed to be a King, a Priest, a Saviour. 12. This shall be a sign. -The seeing of the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger, would be the proof of what the angel had said. 13. With the angel. -With the one angel who had given the wonderful message n ow appeared the multitude of angels. 14. Glory to God in the highesa-All the honor and praise of this wonderful event should be given to God. The words "in the highest," mean the highest praise in the highest heavens or in the highest degree. On earth peace, gooe 'will toward men. -Christ came to bring peace to the world. -Rom. v: 1. The Revised Version makes a change in this part of the angels' song which not many people eareto accept. The words as we have always been used to them make better sense and mean far more than the new rendering, "peace among men in whom he is well pleased." The coming of Christ brought peace to earth and deolared God's good will toward men. -John ifi : 16. 16. Let us now go.- They set out at once, not to see if the angers words were true, but to "see the thing which had come to pass." We ought to believe implicitly every word of God; and ought to go at once to find the things which the Bible declares unto rs. 16. With haste. -Showing their eager- ness. And found. -The words mean that they found after searching. They probably had to look some time before they dis- covered themanger with the babe sleeping 10 15. Compulsory Vaeeination. In Chicago a few days ago the anti -yam& nationists held a meeting, and discussed a reaolution denouncing compulsory vacci- nation. Its proposer, Dr. Garland, said if his audience had in them any of the blood of their revolutionary fathers, they would stand for their constitutional rights, and. oppose the efforts to poison their aye terns. He said it WU superstition pure and simple, but that judgment on the question was considerably warped. Another speaker, also a doetor, read a number of extracts from medical journals purporting to show that mortality etittisties wore not benefitted by vaccination, and that skin diseases and other diseases -insanity, leprosy, and eancer -eiould be traced to the drat vaccination. We are not able to learn what medical journals were quoted, bub it is oertain that the London Lancet, than which there is no higher authority, was not one. Recently, in referring to a doeuinent issued by the Anti -Vaccination Society in Britian, it said that it must do harm, as it was based upon ignorance and =treason, and that it was a direet incitement to a breach of the law. Ever since its discovery, Vaccination has had numerous foes, but the highest Medical authorities are agreed upon its value as a preeentative, and it is setiaiste. tory to fina that the agitators in Chicago have fen, eynnpathizers, The body of the I editor of the Lerialen War in insoerdunce with his &eke "Von." Rooth, eorenuender.leaehlel ekt the Salvation Army, says, Arid raw it *At* phatioally, that ho never reads Vim news papers. 15 18 about thirty miles across town in Louden, and for that entire dietanee there le Wel to bo au anbrolm bine of residence* and stores. Hamad employee in Engeend are now instruoted in first aid to tbe injured wide* the anspicee of the St, John's Ambulance Aesociation, Sbg aerPnee OU the bellroore floor was the result of a little difference of opinion among the dancers at a ball in an Austrian village tato weeks age. The renting of portions of the sidesvalk in Perna to proprietors of oaks, who set out tables there brings in it rental to the city of 900,000 dance is year. 4. Woman bicycliet, Signora Maria Forzaii, recently rode trom Turin to Milan, a dial tence of 150 kilometres, in eight and a half hours, with one hour's root included. Colonel Arehibald, Acheson Johnston, who died lately at Torquay, was one of eight brothers all of whom reached high rank in the 13;itish army. His father and grandfather were also distinguished sold - ;era. The average density of population per acre in London is 57.7, and the average death rate ie 23.2 per thettaand. In eome parts of Whitechapel, in the tenement region, the density of population is about; 3,000 per acre, and the death rate is 41.4 per thousand. It is said that no muck farm land in Eng, land has lately been allowed to lapse from cultivation that wild animals, which ten. years ago were in danger of extinetion, are now flourishing and Increasing. The bade ger and the otter, for instance, are reported to be thriving greatly on agriculturaldee pression, Londou's "new beauty" Lady Moyra Beemclerk, is described as an exquiaitely pretty blonde girl, with an innocient ex- pression and beautiful eyes, who laughed openly at the peculiarly expressed adinira. tion she elictecl-a bit of ingenuousness ehe will outgrow. The senior Bishop of Christendom, it is believed, is Sofronius, the Pate riaroh of Alexandria, who is 95 years old, and has been a bishop for fifty-five years - Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louie, cense- crated 53 years ago, and Leo XIIL, conse- crated 52 years ago, come next in that respeot. There was great joy among the vegetari- ans in Germany last year over the fact that a vegetarian won the annual walking mete); from Berlin to Friedrichsruh. The same vegetarian pedestrian was in the race this year, and it was generally expected that be would win the match again. Bub he was badly beaten by a "meat -eater." According to the annual report issued the last of May the Salvation Army is now established in fort -two countries. It has 1,997 corps, numbering 6,443 officers, 10,- 328 local officers. and 3,331 bandsmen. The number of " soldiers" is not stated, but "Gen. "Booth claims that the army cone verts to Christianity 200,000 people every year. Fortune Henry, the father of Emile Henry the Anarchist recently guillotined at Paris, was a candidate at the legislative election in 1869. In bis appeal to the voters, he declared that he would propose a bill for the abolition of the death penalty. He was not elected, but in 1871 be was sen- tenced to death, " in contumaciam " by a court-martial; and his son Emile Ileary was executed in 1894, The Queen has taken back to England from Coburg all Prince Albert's letters to his brother, the late Duke Ernest, which are to be placed in the "secret library" at Buckingham Palace, where the whole of her political correspondence is kept. Prince Albert, corresponded regularly and Gone fidentially with his brother, who never would consent while living to return the letters to the Queen, It is proposed in London to organize an insurance company to guard house owners and tenants from entering upon or acquir- ing insanitary prorerty. The association would exclude from ite books houses in bad condition, while all property receiving a certificate of good condition, for the guide ance of investors and householders, would. be subject to periodical inspection. The Dutch have worked out the tramp question to what they consider conclusion. The State maintainafarm of 5,009 acres, and every man applying for relief is sent there to earn his living. If the man won't work he is sent to a labor colony where he has to work; but if he shows a disposition to get ahea'd, and learns how to cultivate the soil, the State rents a small farm to him, where he is lefb to his own resources. The British regular army at the end of last year numbered 220,000 men of all ranks, which was about 3,000 above the "estab- lishment." The reserves numbered 80,349 men: the militia, 124,700,; the yeomanry (volunteer co valry), 10,400, and the volunteers, 227,800. During 1893,34,847 recruits joined the army. Of these 11,582 were five feet seven inches in height or over; 11,215 measured 34 to 35 inches round the chest, and 14,224 weighed 130 pounds and upward. These weights and measure- ments are a better average them in any other recent year. The Ehglish aominittee have aecepted the design of ofJohn le Pearson, a, member of the e Royal Acaciemy,for the Tennyaoti memorier., which is to be an Iona cross 34 feet high and called the Tennyson beacon. The °teat will bear an inscription showing thet it was erected by the friends of Tennyson in Engs land and Aineriett. The beaoon, whiob wil- oecupy a commanding position near Paring -1 lord, the home of the late Laureate at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, will be 716 feet above high water, and visible many miles andwiird and seaward. The Emperor of China is not content with the respect shoWn him by his subjects, and recently issued the folloWingpeculiar order: "After bringing our saorifiee reeently to the highest being, we heard upon our return to the palace, near the mite leading to thst imperial quarters, a rather loudilOiSe oansotl by nalking. Tbis shows that the people have not the proper regard for the inajeety of the ruler, and oleo that the officers of the bodyguard heve failed to do their duty pro.. perly. The officers who were on post at the partieulargate must e' eeniehed) there' fore,by the Ministry of War. In the haute, however, all officers, high or low,must see that a noise so improper shall not occur in, our presenoe," Rtir-sict, produces 111, 049 barrels of pot* Vila= daily.