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leltetnleti is oonflagration. Wilen they seveat
they esveat great drone of blood.
When they prey, their prayer tteltee bre.
TALMAOE DISCOURSES ON "THE wi
When they die, it is a martyrdom. ou
i"sulem Gardens or tills World Moa. find e great ma" "'see in tb'e garde"'
traeted erith entriede IlleaYenly relajdel but enig a few " glant"f battle." Men
the Velitte that eArew Therm in the Church?" I say. " Why (levee you
have in the world more Napoleons, and
Been:simnel, Jely L —Rev. Dr. Talmage, Humboldts, Arid Wellingtoms?" God giveri
who is now nearing Aastralia, on his rearid. to some be talents, to another one.
the -world journey, has eelected tie the sub. g Li this gerden of the Cburoh, whech
lehrist Ilea planted, I also find the
jaet fee' his sermon through the prees to•day, drops, beautiful but coldslookleg, eeemingln
" The Peered Gerden," the text being teken 'Mother prase of the winter. 1 mettle those
front Solomon'e song 5 "e I am come late Christians who are preeise in their tastes,
weinepaedoned, pure es snowdrops and as
III garden," cold, They never ehod any tears!, they
The world has bad a greet many beautifue never get exoitect, they never say anything
gardens. Charlemagne added to the glory rashly,theynover dteapythiugnrecepttateler,
O his reign by decreeing that they be es- Their peke never flutters, their nerves
ROYAL GARDEN," WIrex41 FQ3cht a P44t4n(nt.
glit, it is a Thernioncae
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—Thome Who dee Planted 'Morel*, and anY' by (lan't Ya‘ have mare al them
never twitela their indignation 'lever boils
ablished all through the realm— deoreeiag over. They live longer Shea most people;
eVen the names of the flowers to be p1ant11 bet their life is in a minor key. They never
,
there, Heurg IV. at Montpelier, establish. run up to 0 above the staff. In the musks
of their life they have no nteocato paosages.
ed gardens of bewitching beauty andlaxur.
Christ planted them in the Chureh, and
iance, gathering into thernAlpine, Pyrenean j they meat be of some service, or they
and, French plants. One of the svveetest 1 would not be there; snowdrops, always
snowdrops.
sPote on earth was the garden of Shenstone, 1, But I have not told you of the most
the poet. His writings have made but little 1 beautiful flower in all this garden spoken
impression on the world ; but his garden, 1 of in the text. If you see a "century plant."
e' The Lease wer will be immortal. To •your emotions •are started, You say,
"Why,
the naturae ad rantage of that place was this flower has been a hundred
yeers gathering up for one bloom, and it
brought the perfedtion of art. Arbor, and will be a hundred years more before other
terrace, and elope, and instio temple, and 1 petals will come out," But 1 fiave to tell
you of a plant that was gathering upfrom all
reservoir, and urn, and fountain, here had
004 nrownini;, oak, and yew, and hang eternity and that nineteen hundred years
• ago puit forth its bloom never to winter.
• put forth their richest foliage. Th • ere was
ito life snore cliligeut, soul more ingenious Prophets foretold it. Bethlehemehepherds
ie Paulen Flower of the Cross !
looked upon it in the bud.; the rooks shook
• than that of Shenstone, and all that dill -
at its bursting ; and the dead got up in
germ and germs were brought to the adorn- their winding -sheets to see its full bloom
ment of that one treasured spot. He gave 1 It is a crimson flower—blood at its roots,
three hundred pounds fOr it ; he sold it for blood on the branchee, blood on the leaves.
seventeen thousand. And yet I am to tell Its eerfrn
ee is to fill all the nations. Its
isIfe. Its breath is Heaven. (Mime,
you of a richer garden than any Thome men. tit winds from the north, and winds from
tioned. It is the garden spoken ot in my the south, and winds from the east, and
winds from the west, and bear to all the
text, the garden of the Church, which be.
earth the sweet smelling savor of Christ
longs to Christ, for my text says so. He my Lord,
e bought it, He planted it, He owns it, and Ma worth, ie all the nations knew,
He shall have it. Walter Scott, in his out- Sure the whole earth would love hira too.
0
lay b Abbotsford, ruined his fortune ; and Again, thS7Ohurah may be appropriately
now, in the crimson flowers of those gar-
compared to a garden, because it is a place
garden which had in it no berries, no
g you see the blood of that old man's broken 1 plums, no needless, no apricots. The coars-
' heart. The payment of the last one hundred er fruits are planted in the orchard, or
• thousand pounds sacrificed bim. But I
they are set out on the sunny hillside ; butaren
She choicest fruits are kept m the d
have totell you that Christ's life and Christ's i •
So n the world outside the Church, Christ
✓ death were the outlay of this beautiful 1 has planted a great many beautiful things
✓ garden of the Church of 'which my text 1 —patience, charity, generosity, integrity;
but He intends the choicest fruits to be in
$
speaks. Oh how many sighs, and tears,
P the garden, and if they are not there, then
and pangs, and agonies! Tenure, ye women shame on the Church. • Religion is not a
OA
WhO saw Him hang 1 Tell me, ye execution mere flowering sentimentality. It is a
ere, who lifted Him and let Him down! Tel practical, life-giving, healthful fruit—nob
that
• me, thou sun that did'st hide, ye rooks Peel"' blet 0,1)Plee•
"Oh 1" says somebody.
"1 don't see what your garden of •the
g fell 1 "Christ loved the Church, and gave Church has yielded." Where dii your
himself for it." If, then, the garden of the asylums some from 1 and your hospitals?
e Church belongs to Christ, certainly Heha and your institutions of mercy ? Christ
planted every one of them. He planted
a right to walk in it; come then, 0, blessed
them in His garden. When Christ gave
sight to Bartimeus, He loid the corner-
s
these aisles, and tluck what thou wilt oe stone of every blind asylum that has ever
a: sweetness for Thyself. been built. When Christ soothed the
The Church, in my text, is appropriately demoniac of Galilee, He laid the corner
a tiful founteites, Until every roVend Tteehe
leef mid. flower were esturated. Thee like
the Church. TheChureli is te garden hi the
reedeit of 0. great deeert of eiu aud ettifering;
it le well irrigeted, for " our oyes ere unto SEVENTH PARLIAMENT— FOUHTH
131
ON
the hille trom whence eometh our help," SESSION AT OTTAWA.
From the inotinteins of Godee strength
there flow down rivers of gleelneste
There ie a river, the titre= whereof
ahall Melee glad the eityof our God. Preacb.
ing the gospel is one. of these aquednots.
The Bible is another, Baptism and. the
Lord's Supper are aqueduets, Water to
eleke the thirst, water to rewire the faint,
water to wash the tonleam, meter tossed
Well up in thelight a the Sun of righteous-
nese,• showing 11f3 the rainbow around the
throne, Oh I Was tbere ever e garage, so
thoroughly irrigeted ? You kaow the
beauty of Versailles and Ohetsworth de.
ponds very muoil upon. the great supply of
water. I otimedto the latter plane (Chats.
worth) one day wheel ;strangers are not to
be admitted ; but by an inducemenb, which
always seems as appliceble to an Englishmau. as an American, 1 got in, and then the
gardener went far up above the stairs of
E3tOrte and turued on the water. I sew it
gleaming on the dry pavement, corning
down from step to step, until it came so
near I could hear the musical rush, and
over the high, broad stairs come foaming,
flashing, roariug down, until sunlight and
waves in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my
feet. So it is With the Church of God.
Everything °ogles from above, pardon from
above,joy from above,adoption from above,
eantification from above. Oh 1 that now
God would turn the waters of selvation,
that they might flow down through His
heritage, and that this day we might each
find our plane to be "Mims," with twelve
wells of water and three score and ten
palm trees.
Hark I hear the latch at the garden
gate, and I look to see who is coming. I
hear the voice of Christ ; "1 am come into
My garden." I say, "Come in, 0 Jesus, we
have been waiting for Thee; walk all
through these paths. Look at the flowers;
look aidthe fruit : pluck that which Thou
wilt for thyself." Jesus comes into the
garden, and up to that old man, and touch-
es him, and says, " Almost home, father ;
not many more aches for thee, I will never
leave thee ; I will never forsake thee. take
courage a little longer, and I will elea.dy
thy tottering steps, and I will soothe thy
troubles and give thee rest; courage, old
man," Then Christ goes up another garden
path, and He comes to a soul in trouble, and
says, "Peace all is well. I have seen thy
tears; I have heard thy -prayer. The sun
shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon
by night. The Lord. shall preserve thee
from all evil ; he will preserve thy soul.
Courage, oh 1 troubled spirit," Then I see
Jesus going up another garden path, and I
see great excitement among the leaves, and.
I hasten up that garden path to dee what
Jesus is doing there, and la ! he is break •
ing off flowers, sharp and clean, from the
stem, and I say, "Stop, Jesus, don't ken.
those beautiful flowers." He turns to me
and says, "1 have come into My garden
to gather lilies, and I mean to take these up
to a higher terrace, and for the garden
around My pelage, and there I wilt plant
them, and better soil, and in better air ;
they shall put forth brighter leaves and
sweeter redolence, and no frost shell touch
'them forever." And I looked up into His
face, and said, "Well, it is His garden.
and Ile has a right to do what He will with
it. Thy will be done" --the hardest prayer
a man ever made.
I notice that the fine" gardens sorne times
have high fences around them, and I oan-
cannot get in. It is so -with the King's
garden. The only glimpses you ever get
of such a garden is when the king rides
out in his splendid carriage. It is not so
-with this garden—the King's garden. I
throw wide open the gate, and tell you all
to come' in. No monopoly in religion.
Whosoever will, may. Choose now be-
tween a desert and a garden. Many of you
have tried the garden of this world's
delight. You have found it has been a
chagrin. 53 it was with Theodore Hook.
He made all the world laugh. He makes
us laugh when we read his poems ; but he
could not make his own heart laugh.
While in the midst of his festivities, he
confronted a looking glass, and he saw him-
self, and said, There that is true. I look
just as I am, done up in body, mind and
purse." So it was with Shenstoue, of
whose garden I told you at the beginning
of My sermon. He sat down amid these
bowers, and said, "I have lost my road to
happiness. I am angry, and envious, and
frantic, and despise everything around me,
just as it becomes a mad man to do." Oh,
ye weary souls, come into Christ's garden
to -day, and pluck a little hearts -ease.
Christ is the only rest and the only pardon
for a perturbed spirit. Do you not think
your chance has almost come? • You men
and women who have been waiting year
after year for some good opportunity in
which to accept Christ, but have postponed
it five, ten twenty, thirty years, do you
not feel as if now your hour of deliverance,
and pardon, and selvation, had come? Oh,
man, what grudge hest thou against thy
poor scul, that thou Will not let it be
saved? I feel as if salvation must come now
to some of your hearts.
.
' dens, you can almost think or ima. gine that to niece fruitsThat would be a strange
Sem, this morning," walk up and down
stone of every lunatic asylum thee has
41 compared to a garden, because it is a place ever been established. When Christ said
O a choize fiowers, of select fruits and of to the sick man. " Tel.° up thy bed and
* thorough irrigation. walk 1" He laid the corner -stone of every
hospital the world has ever seen. When
e That would be a strange garden in which Christ said, "1 was in prison and ye
, there were no-tit:men. If nowhere else, visited Me," He laid tlae corner -stone of
; they will be along the borders, or at the every prison reform association that has
ever been formed. The Church of Christ
,„. gateway. The homeliest taste will dictate
something, if it be the old fashioned holl
is a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit.
y- g
i
-now there s some poor fruit in it. I
✓ hook, or dahlia, or daffodil, or coreopsis, know there is some weeds that ought to
but if there be larger means then you will have been thrown over the fence. I know
there is some crahappple trees that ought
find the .Mexieen cactus and dark -veined
'a to be cut down T know there are some wild
erbutelion, and blazing azalea, and duster. grapes that oil' ght to be uprooted ; but
Ing oleander. Well, now, Christ comes to are you going to destroy the whole garden
• His garden, and He plants there some of because of a, little gnarled fruit? You will
find wormeatenleavee in Fontabableau, and
if bhe brightest spirits that ever flowered upon
insects that sting in the feiry groves of the
e the world. Some of them are violets, un Champs Elysees. You do not tear down
e. conspicuous, but sweet in heaven. You and destroy the whole garden because there
et have to eeareh for such spirits to find them, are a few specimens of gnarled fruit. 1
le You do not see them very often, perhaps, ;limit there are men and women in the
rch 'who ought not to be there ; but let
* but you find where they have been by the us be frank, and admit that there are hun-
* brightening face of the invalid, and the dreds and thousands and tens of thousands
n sprig of geranium on the stand, and the of glorious Christian men and woman holy,
blessed,. useful, consecrated and trill mphan b.
a windovr curtains keeping int the glare of
i earth than the collection of Christians.
like the ranu calm, creeping sweetly along There are Christian men in the Church
a
.4, amid the thorns and briars of life, giving whose religion ie not a matter of psalm -
and church -going. To -morrow
4, kiss for sting, andenamy a man who has singing
morning that religion will keep them just as
hed in his way some great black rook of eonsisterit and consecrated on exchange"as
1 trouble has found that they have covered.it it ever kept them at the communion ts,ble,
a all over with dowering jasmine running
• in and out amid the crevices. These Chris- There are woman in the church of a higher
type of character than Mary of 13ethany.
e tians in Christ's garden are not like the
They not only sit ab the feet of Christ, but
eg sunflower, gaudy in the light; but whenever
they go out into the kitchen to help Martha
' darkness hovers over a soul that neede to irt her work, that she may sit there, too,
er be comforted, there they stand, night-
rhere is a woman who has a drunken
e blooming cereuses. But in Christ's garden husband, who has exhibited more faith,
a. thee are plants that may be better corn- and patience, and courage than Hugh
jr pared to the IVIexican cactus—thorns with -
✓ out, love lines veithin—men with sharp Latimer in the fire. He was consumed in
points of character. They wound almost twenty minutee. Hers has been a twenty
years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man who
g everyone that touches them. They are
has lain fifteen years on his back, unable
y hard to haadle. Men pronounce them
"r nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them even to feed himself, yet calm and peaceful
as though he lay on one of the green banks
r notwithstanding all their sharpness. Many'
of heaven, watching the oar men dip their
w a man has had very hard ground to oulture, paddles in the crystal river ! Why, it seems
and it has only been through severe toil he
* tenme this moment as if Paul threw to us a
has raised even the smallest crop of grace.
A very harsh minister was telking with pomologis's catalogue of the fruits growing
et
a very plead elder, and the, plemid elder in thie great garden of Chriab—love, joy,
peace, patience, charity, brotherly kindnese,
said to blie harsh ininister : "Doctor, I
do veish you would control your temper." gentleness, merey--glorious fruit, enough
O .
e, "Ab," said the minister to the elder, "1 to fill all the baskets of earth and heaven.
control more temper in five minutes than
you do in five years." It it harder for
some men to do right than for others te do
There is no grander collection in all the
• the sunlight. They are, perhaps more
et'
right. The grace that would elevate you
• to the seventh heaven might not keep your
brother from knocking a man down. I
had a friend who came to me and said : "I
dare not join the Church." Isaid : "Why ?"
he said, "1 have such a violene
e temper. Yesterday moreing I was crossing
very early at the jersey City ferry, and I
saw A milkman pour a large amount of
Water into the milk can, and said to him,
think that will do,' and he limited me,
and X knocked him down, Do you think I
ought t� join the Church 1" Nevertheless,
that very same man who was se harsh in
behavior, loved Christ, and could not
speak of saored things without tears of
emotion Mid Affection. Thorne without
but sweetness within—the best specimens
of Mexioten oactut I ever SaW.
There are others planted in Christ's
garden, who are always ardent, always
radieet, alvvaere impteadve—more like the
roses of deep bee ehab we csocaeionally
find called " &meg of battle"—the Media
Leehere, eit. Ohryeosturns, Wick-
.,
I told you of the better tree in this gar-
den, and °Leine better fruit. It was plant-
ed outside of Jerusalem a good while ago.
When this tree was planted, it was so split,
and bruised, and barked, men said nothing
would ever grow upon it ; but no sooner
had that tree been planted, than it budded,
and blossomed, and fruited ; and the sol-
diers' spears were only the clubs that struck
down that fruit, and it fell into the lap of
mations, aiad mon began to pick it up and
eat it, and they found in it an antidote to
all thirst, to all poison, to all sin, to all
deieth--the smallesb oluster larger than the
famous one of tithed, which two men
carried on a steff 'between them. If the
one apple in Eden killed the race, thee one
cheater of Mercy shall restore it,
Again, the chateh in my text, DS appro.
prietely called a garden beeauee it is
thorotighly irrigated. 11::: garden could
prosper long without plenty of water,
i
I have seen a garden n the mishit of a
desert, yet bloombeg and luxutiant. All
around was dearth and berreneas ; but
there were pipes, aqueducts reaching from
this garden up to the erioontains, wed
through& these aqueducts the water came
lifles, lebtittors, wad Samuel Samuel riatherfords, stre caning doWn and tossing up Into
'Mune READINGS.
The following bills wereread athird time
and pe,seed pea
To incorporate the N ow ltork, New Bug -
land end Canada Oornpany.
e To ineorporete the Nova &vela Steel
CIL;u.,
nciPitilYie. relief of Joshaa. Nicholas Fil,
For the relief of William blamed Piper.
For the relief of Joseph Thomeson.
For the relief of Orlando George Rich,
mond Johnson,
voRT14,WZST TERRITORIES.
Mr. Daly withdrew his bill to amend the
North-West Territories Act and. introduced
a bill of similar import. The principal
changes were that the new bill provides
thee the Legielative Assembly shalt have
power to incorporate tramway and street
railway companies and that it ehall fix the
fees of sheriffs, which are now fixed by
the Lieutenant -Governor. Ib also enipowers
the courts to deal with the subject of
alimony. "
The bill was read a first time.
-TITE PILLEY REFORMATORY.
Sir John Thompson explained, on the
mind reading of the bill relating 'to the
custody of juvenile offenders in New Bruos.
wick,that owing to the benefeotiou of Lady
Tilley and other ladies the penitentiary of
New Brunswick had been convereed into a
reformatory for juvenile offenders. The
Government proposed to lease the property
for such purpose, and the bill was to give
the requisite authority.
The bill was read a third time and pass-
ed.
MASTERS AND MATES. .
Sir Charles H. Tupper explained, on the
second reading of his bill respecting certi-
ficates to masterEi and mates, that one of its
provisions is to relieve British subjects of
the necessity of a three years' residence ill
Canada before being qualified to hold
certificates.
The bill was read a third time.
GOVERNMENT BILLS.
WEALTH OF THE WORLD,
---
The gstontsning Eat e at Watch eke Wealth
of the worldin areas es.
Few people, even among professed pond -
Clans, have much idea of the wealth of the
world or of the manner in which that wealth
is growing. Still fewer have any notion of
She potentiality of wealth to increase. • M.
Jannet quotes the elaborate calculation of
at ingenious author to show that 100 francs,
aocumtelating at dye per pent. compound
nterest for seven centuries, would be suf-
ficient to buy the whole surface of the globe,
both lend and water.
M. Japnet cites various authorities to
show that the wealth of Great Britain ex-
ceeds £10,000,000,e00 ; that of France,
£8,000,000 000; that of all Europe,Z4.0,-
000,000,000. If we place the wealth of the
rest of the world at $26,000,000,000 we
shall arrive et an aggregate of 80,000,000,
000, We ahould have we may add, to
multiply this vast sum 3(1,000 times before
we reached the total to which according to
M. Jannet's ingenious authority, 100 francs
accumulating at tive per menu compound
interest for 700 yeare would grow. The
figures we have given are so vast that they
convey uo appreciable idea to the ordinary
reader. It may assist the apprehension if
Is be added thet France cm an average pos.
reeeses more than £200, Greet Britain more
than £250 for each member �f the panel!).
Sion. jasb 200 years ago Sir W.Petty es-
timated the entire wealth of England at
only te '2.50,000,000. TWo centuries!, there-
fore, have increased it forty -fold, Bob the
chief acleieions to it have been nutdein the
hot fifty yeara mid we believe Unit we are
notfar wrong iosaythg that the SuM Whia
is eanuelly added to Greet Britain amounts
to Z200,000,00, or in other words is near-
ly equal to its entire wealth et the time of
the revolution of 16884
The following G overnmen t bills were read
a third time; and passed
To amend the Steamboat Inspection
Act.
Respecting the granting of laud to mem-
bers of the militia force an active service in
the North-West.
Respecting the seignory of Sault Ste.
Louis.
e ikth e or the ion
ex -
prevenient of the ealariee of the judieitery
did not inelede the jape of the Supreme
(Meet, It wee believed thet their poeition
would be ininrovecl by reeking provieien
that some of them •mons retire on full salary
bisected of two teirde, provided they heti
Served fifteen yeaand had reached seven-
teroll
tlYlye.ee.itiitt4egrt, Thi° W" tiro Purt)"t
Mr. Leuzer regretted thet he could nob
agree vrith the reeoletion. He eew noree-
eon why the priaciple it conteened elmuld
not Apply to all 3udgee if it 'was good for
the Supreme Court. No adequate renown
howver 1xd beeidgiven why the: judges of
the Sopreme Coure should be allowed to re-
tire on full pey. He nee think thgpro•
nasal woulkt oonunend itself to the pedg-
meat of the people of Canada.
Mr. Macdonald (Heron) toaid the judges
of the country for the poet twenty-iive
years had been a nornament to the country,
end juetified the anitement that the judice
iary was equal to any in the world.
Mr. Gilboa tedvootteed the payment of
lerger ealeries to the judges of the Supreme
Court lead also to the Ministers a the Gov-
ernment.
Mrs Mule* deprecatedthe resolution,
because it was, in his opinion, a discrimiu-
ating measure.
The resolution was adopted in committee
and reported to the Rouse,
Mr. Laurier moved that the report be re-
ceived this day six months.
The house divided on the motion of Mr.
Laurier, which was lost on a vote of 42 yeas
and 51 nays,
ELECTRICAL INSPECTION.
TUE CATTLE QUESTION;
Mr. Mulock, on motion being made that
the House go into supply, called attention
to the freight rates nu live cattle. He con-
tended that an injury to the trade was an
ingairy to the whole country, and regretted
that the Governmene was not prepared to
take up the bill upon the subject he had
placed upon the paper. Since he had
brought the matter up in Parliament, it
was said that the combination in rates had
collapsed. He reminded the Ranee thee
there was a dangerous possibility that it
had merely euspencled operations. -
Sir Charles H. Tupper said that thorough
enquiry into the facts would have to be
made before the Government could take ac-
tion with regard to freight rates on cattle.
On account of the magnitude /and impor-
tance of the interests involved,the question
had to be approached with the greatest
care. It was a most difficult question to
deal with, and Parliament would not be in
a position to deal with it until all the facts
were ascertained. • ,
Mr. Davin, speaking for the farmers of
the North-West, said he hoped the Govern-
ment would deal with the question as soon
as podsible, and in a manner which should
do 3ustfe to the farmers.
NORTH.NVEST ETTENDITURES.
In Supply, Mr. Davies drew attention to
the item of two thousand dollars for travel-
ing expenses of the Lieutenant•Governor of
the North-West Territories. Last year he
said a thousend dollars had been voted for
this purpose. An explanation should be
made of the necessity for the increase.
Mr. Daly said that last year the vote of
one thousand dollars had been found
insufficient, and some nine hundred dollara
had to be voted in aciditioa to remoup the
Lieutenant -0 overnor.
POLITICAL I:germ:mons.
Mr. Martin charged that the homestead
inspectors had taken part in polities actively
in the North•West.
Sir John Tompson said the charge should
be more specific. If he cuuld not give
details, the remark was shameful, and if he
could he should do so in justice to the
public service.
,ar. Martin said he would take another
opportunity of furnishing details.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS.
The Home went into committee, and re-
ported progress an the bill respecting the
Inspection of Electric Light and the bill
respecting the Utilization of the Waters of
the North-West Territieors far Irrigation
and other purposes.
%SURD READING.
The bill reepecting Units of Electrical
Measare was read a third time.
The House went into Comnattee of Sup-
ply.
CUSTOMS.
Mr. Landerkin, on the item of $299,850
eor (Materna in Ontario, said he understood
that Mr. Evans, harbour master at Port
Hope, had smuggled two bicycles in Can-
ada last fall, and the matter had been
brought to the Attention of the department.
He wished to know what the hop. Control-
ler of Customs had to say about ib.
Mr. Wallace said the matter had not
been brought to his attention, but would
be dealt with in the regular manner if such
a case existed.
The item was adopted.
MILITARY COLLEGE,
Mr. Mulock, on the item of $70,000 for
the Royal Military College, said the object
of the institute had been diverted from a
military training school to a general teeth-
ing institution. He wanted to know what
the country had got in return for tbe 195
graduates? Of this number 77 were in the
Imperial service, and only 13, including
two cadets, in ihe permanent corps in Can-
ada. Some 30 were in the departments of
the Government. Was the object of the
school to provide fat berths for graduates
and then pension them off? It had cost the
country to educate these 41 graduates and
two cadets per head $29,572. There was
no reason or justification for thirty
graduates who held Civil Service appoint-
ments, beingeducated at bhe Royal Military
College at such a vast expenditure. *Under
the circumstances the college had not
demonstrated. its utility.
Mr. Patterson (Huron), inreply, sada that
there were 130 graduates ot the Royal
Military College engaged inmilitary opera.
tions in Canada,. It was the intention that
the gra,daates should be employed in the
public works of the country as well as in
the military service. The usefulness of a
college could not be measured by the cost
per head of its etudents. Fortunately, there
had not been the need in Canada for the
general employment of the college gradurites
in active military operations. It was not
desirable that the college shoield be purely
for imparting military instruction. There
were many graduates who preferred to
engage in civil life, such as engineering,
rather than in military work.
The item was concurred in.
Sir John Thompson moved the second
reading of the bill respecting the -arrest,
trial, and imprisonment of juvenile offend-
dere.r.Mulock took excepti
leon to the private
trial of children. Ile did. not think the
administration of justice in corners was in
a bhird time and pass -
t h hpeubbliiicl winatserreesata.
ecl,
TUB SEI,TATE.
Sir Joh a Thompson moved the second
reading of the bill regarding the Senate.
He explained that it prievided that in the
unavoidable absence of the Speaker of the
Senate, the chair ahall be taken by another
member. There was constitutional objec-
tion to the measure, but he proposed that
it should be reserved for her Majeety'e own
assenb, and to come into forme on proclam-
ation. In the meantime her Majesty's
Government would be asked to submit the
bill to the law- advisers of the Crown to
obtain their opinion on it.
The bill was read a seeped time.
THIRD READINGS.
The following biles were passed through
committee and given a thiree reading :--
Act to further amend the Culler's Ade—
eirichhetittrt
oedileoro
f to
villet. lovised statue
respecting interest—Sir John Thompson.
Act from the Senate to animal the ace
respecting the incorporation of Boards of
Trade—Sir john Thompson.
miteenent donne.
Sir, John Thompson mend the House
into oonernittee ea the etiolation reepectiag
(Sood tan to Cut emit Amil /Kee
XI ratiolm.
If you wLlIverocmbec tesro little hints you
will have numb lose fear in goiog into the
woods this Ammer. First, poison vines,
such as the ivy, have three leaflets on one
etelle .1 therefore, bewere a touohing any
TUE IIARMLESS iv
three -leafed vis. It will be a good plan
to out out and keep the illustrations am
companying this paragraph for ce reference
at any time when in doubt The enamel
berries are also shown. Remember that the
ponenoits eumachs have white berries,
TUE TOISOli VL
those with red berries being harmless
It is safe for the city -bred people never
to eat any roots or berries found in the
fields or woods without having them first
looked over by somebody who knows abont
them.
The second hint concerns snakes. Snakes
which have circular markings, that is,
streeked rings around the body, are harm-
less; those which are striped lengthwise are
clangeroue. Should you ever go to Austra-
lia, don't stop to examine a snake, for all
varieties are poisonous. It may interest you
to know that snakes are so common in that
NTEBN1QlAJLEii
leeett of ehe WI *4
Tinee.—B. Cl, 4, ProtuablF soon a• l
the last leseon, Augustus Cour, Ravi
of Rome. Herod the Great, Xing of ;Tilde
Place,--Bethlehom of Judea, five or ab
miles horn Jerusalem,
Between the Lessons, --Nothing is re
corded, it was probably alMost 'Tomcats
ately After the return to Bethiehera from
the Presentation in the temple that the
wise men earn% This is the fOUrth reeerd-
ed event in our Lord's life, and was im-
mediately followed by the Ilfeh, tire fligltb
1050 Egypt. 1 la impottant that thear4er
of events should be well Axed in the memory,.
and all that is told in the four Goepele On*
peening them and the entire life ef our
Seviour should be oerisfully etu.died as we
go aleng.
Hints for Study. --There are no Reread,
peasages, Matthew alone giving this story.
Review the previous leeeons, and read
again lelatt. 1; Luke 1 and 2 ; John It 1-
14.
Reza% In weaned We TUE LESSON.
1. In Bethlehem.—Where Jesus had been
born. Herod—called Herod the Great. Be
was the founder of the Herodian family.
He was governor of Galileo at fifteen. He
rebuilt the temple amd gave a splendor to
Jerusalem, but hie reign was cruel and in.,
famous, See Bible Diotionary--art. Herod.
King of Judea be was king in name, but
subJect to the Roman Emperor. Wise men.
--Called Magi, a class of /earned men who
had great influence among the Pershoas and
other Eaatern nations, They were priests
and teachers among their people. Daniel
was president of such an order in -Babylon.
Dam. 2 ; 48. We donee know how many of
these wise men there were, Tradition rtaya
three. From thees,s1.1.—Probably these wise
men were from Persia.
2. Born King of the Jews.—It seems
strange that these heathen men should
come to Jerusalem to learn about the coin-
ing of the Messiah. There was at that
time throughout the east an expectation that
a powerful monarch Was about to arise in
Judea and gain dominion. over the world.
This expectation oart be traced to the
prophecies of the Jews, who were ecat-
tered everywhere. There teems to have
been more interest in this matter among. the
Gentiks than among the Jews. His star.
—A bright stag -like light appearing in the
heavens. Was it a star, or a supernatural
appearance? In -the east —In the eastern
countries from hich the wise men came.
This star had caused them to teke their
long journey to seek and find the Messiah.
God used even their superatition about the
stars to lead them to the infant Jeans. We
are guided to Christ by many differenb
things.
fee 3. Had heard these things.—Had heard
of the coming and the inquiry of the wise
men. H e was troubled.—He was alarmed
upon hearing the birth of a king, lest he
should lose his own throne. Herod was a
bad man, and his conscience made him
afraid. All Jerusalem with him.—Because
the people feared popular tumults and
Herod's wrath.
4. Chief priests.—The heads of the
tvrenty-four courses into which the priests
were divided. Scribes.—Writers who
copied, studied, and taught the scriptures,.
They were teachers also. Herod may have
called together the whole Sanhedrina, the
highest court or council of the Jews, a body
of about seventy members. Demanded.—
" Inquired." Where Christ.—The Messiah.
How should they know where the Messiah
was to be born ? They had the books of the
Jewish prophets and knew whet they said.
Thus they could learn by consulting the
rolls what was foretold.
5. They said.—The answer was given
promptly, without hesitation, as a :natter
well understood. These men knew where
Christ should be born but had little inter-
est iu the fact. By the prophet.—Micah :
2. The words here given are not the very
words of the Scripture but are a para.
phrase of the words of the original pro.
phecy.
6. Thou Bethlehem . . . art not the
leasa—Bethlehem, though a town of little
importance in itself, would be honored in
all ages by being the birthplace of the
Messiah. Notice here that the same coun-
cil which afterward condemned Jesus as an
impostor, officially testifies at this time
that his birth in Bethlehem fulfilled the
prophecy which had been uttered hundreds
of years before,
7. Privily.—Secretly, without the know-
ledge of the council, lest Ins object should
be suspected and. defeated. He had a
wioked plot in mind and must act cautious.
ly. Inquired of them diligently.--" Learn.
ed of there carefully." He got all the in.
formation he could from them about the
time the star had appeared. Be did )1)t
country that one of the first lessons a child
learns is how to bind up a wound. It is
taught in the primary schoole, and in all
the railway stations large placarda are
posted giving fall particulars and with good
illustrations showing how the arms or foot
thould be bound to prevent the poison pene-
trating the system. We have not the
worst country in the world, have we ?
MIME'S ISLAND.
Mr, Gibson, on the item of Sheik's island
dam, Cornwall canal, charged the Govern-
ment with having violated the customary
practice of awarding contracts by public
competition, in giving the contract to
Messrs. Davis & Sons. In their tender'this
firm, he stated, had made an estimate 867,-
205 in excees of what they could. do the work
for at regular rates. Notwithstanding the
exorbitant rate of their tender, the engineer
had recommended to the Minister that the
tender be accepted at a reduction of $10,000,
whereas the firm had really tendered at
about $75,000 more than the work was be-
ing done for on other sections. It was un-
warrantable that the Government should
award so large a contract, amounting to
$104,000, without making it open to public
competition. (Hear, hear.) It was time the
Government ceased awarding contracts to
favourite contraetors. Did it not look as if
there was collusion between the Engineer
and oontre.ctor
Mr. Haggart said that the plan that was
adopted was the best that could be adopt-
ed, and the only wonder expressed bythose
ho saw the work was that it was not done
before. A detailed account of the work
from its inception was read. The contract
prices of Davis and Son were as low as those
of other contractors on other parte of the
canal. This was the inforination he had
received and the knowledge he obtained
from a comparison of the figures of this and
other contracts. He knew Davis and Sons
to be a reliable and competent firm, and
further, he wished to say that the contract
was let by public tender.
He desired to correct the impression
which might have been made by the hon.
member for Lincoln (Mn Gibsot). The
tender of Davis an dSon was an extended ten-
der, made on the whole work, and was at
the same rates as other figures tendered by
the same firm, notveithstemding statements
to the contrary by the bon gentleman.
The item was adopted.
The conimittee rose and reported pro.
FAST ATLANTIC SERVICE.
SIR WILLIAM VAN HORNE HOLDS TO
HIS OPINION.
claims That the Country Needs it, and
That It will Pay ler rronerey ntandled.
It must Be of the Very nest Class in
Every Pavileedaw.
The following interesting statement was
made recently by Sir William Van Horne
with regard to the proposed last line:
"I have publicly stated my views about
a first-class Canadian Atlantic steamship
line a good many times, and I hold to those
views just as strongly as I ever did. 1
would be quite unfit for the office I occupy
had I not, with the opportuaities I have
had, become familiar with the commercial
interest of the country and with all parts
of the country. It is possible that my de.
ductions from the knowledge I have ac-
quired are incorrect, but, I believe I am
right itt holding that an Atlantic steamship
service of the highest class is the very
greatest need of the country. Indeed, I
have no doubt whatever about it, nor have
I any doubt as to its practicability, to
which I have given muele attention; o
that it will be successful if properly
established and handled. I can see
where the business is to be had to
support it, and I think I can see what effect
it will have in promoting the material in-
terests of the country; and I hold that it
should be provided at almost any cost. I
look upon it, as a necessary and natural
supplement to the enormous expenditures
Canada has made for the development of
railways and canals, and that it will have a
most powerful effect in attracting people to
the country. I hold that it would be folly
to start at this late date with a second
rate line; and in order that it may be effete,
tive and successful, it must be of the very
highest dass. It must be all that money
will make it. The Canadian Pacific Railway
Company has no financial interest, and is
not likely to hare in any echeme now under
consideration. We would prefer to see the
service established by some one of the prose
ent Canadian Atlantic lines,or by a combin-
ation of them ; but if they will not under-
take it, anybody else who does will have
our hearty cheers, provided, of course, that
the service furnished is just, Nisbet we think
it should be. This company indicated to
the Government at one time the °auditions
on which it would undertake to furnish the
service, but these conditions were not deem-
ed practicable, and the company has sinot
dropped out of the question. It should no -
be forgotten that when this eorepany move
ed towards the establishment of a firstmlass
JOhliny'S GUM,
Johnny had been studying his epelling
lesson and learning definitions, pertioulerly
el words with prefixes from the Greek, He
had defined monologue as a soliimpey, or
" one man talking to himself."
" Now Whet is a conversetion between
two persons?" asked his teacher.
"A dielogee."
"Anil between more ths.n two persons ?"
"A pollywog, answered johnpy prompt,
ln-
Yee
Elephoeite have been known to live 150
yeers,
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoris;
Pacific steamship line most of thee who
ought to know insisted tbat we ciould never
induce passengers to go to Vancouver to
take drip for China and Japan; but the re
-
sake have strikingly disproved this, and
they have proved that people who have
travelled by sea will travel by the very best
ships, from whatever port they sail."
Paderen aki °kerne that he has received
fifty thousand requests for his photograph
and his autograph from his fair admirers.
AuSociety of Women Joarnaliate" has
just been foerned, With an offioe near the
Steeled, London. A register tif women
journalists seeking employmet t wiflbe kept
there.
want his plot to miscarry.
8. Worship him also.—Thus hiding his
purpose under the pretense of a desire to
join the wise men in their honoring of, the
child.
9. Lo, the star.--Reappecering after a
long disappearance. Stood over.—Over the
very house, as verse 11 implies.
10. They rejoiced. —Because the star lost
to sight so long, had returned to guide
them.
II. The house. —Not the stable in which
Jeaus was born but a house into which the
family had moved. Worshiped him.—Hers
we see the first Gentiles coming to Christ,a
token or first -fruits of the coming of the
Gentile world to him. Then gentiles came
just before Christ died, desiring to see him.
See John 12: 21. Gold.—Offered. chiefly
to kings, This gift was providential, atid
was likely used to help to meet the expen-
ses of the journey to Egypt. Frankinnense
Myrrh --Fragrant gums,very precious.
A proverb says, 'Myrrh to a mortal, gold
to a king, frankinoenes to a god."
12. In a dream.—In the same manner as
God may have spoken to them before.
Divine airectioes were often given in
ancient times in this way. Not return to
Iterod.—So as to give him any information
about the child. Be was Waiting to destroy
him.
SWALLOWED FALSE TEETH
Asa a gursoonWas Successful lo Taloota.
Thew front the etommeit,
IVIrs. Fred Stokes, 35 years Of age, a
farmer's wife, living eight inilee south of
Canajoharie, l. Y,, swallowed her falai)
teeth a,boab a week ago while es ting break.
fast. They lodged itt het thecae, nearly
strangling her. Finally the plate With
teeth attached pinned into the atomtkoh.
Urs. Stokes was taken to Albany, where
Dr. Vanderveer performed a surgical
oneratiett, removing the teeth from her
!Aortae& enecesefully. It iS thought she,
will recover.
"Why does °holly elways °terra an UP
brolla ?' I guess 15 18 beeteuse he doer/
know enough to go in when it tains."
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