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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-7-26, Page 37:77: THE BOXINION ROUSE SEVENTH PARLIAMENT FOURTH gESSION a OTTAWA. DOMINION LANDS. .1r, Daly introduced a bill respecting Dominion lamb, which provides that per.. eons who :iztve squatted on school lauds prior to the survey, and who can substan- tiate the fact, may be permitted to home- stead. ' The bill was read a fired time. Puma° DEBT. Mr. Foster, in reply te Mr. Charlton, said the total public debt of Canada on June 30th, 1894, was $305,071,801, and tide net public debt on same date was $240,528,- 905. I with heertier odors:Mien by the buiiness men of the country than that of e festAtlean tic service. These men, he Said, were ani- mated by practical business motives, and no better testimony to the utility of the scheme could be had, Is was always the first step that cost, and he trusted the hoe. gentlemen would look at more than the mere figure of $75081r00taherd Cartwright said the hon. gentleman should have reserved his ecntis meat until he bad. brought down the facts to the Hoitse. Be would like to know something about the number of vessels probably required and the gest of each. Mr. Foster said at least four vessels would be required, at a cost of from £400,- 000 to £500,000 ea eh. The cost of the round trip would probably be $60,000 or $70,000,. Sir Riehard Cartwright said the annual oost of the service would be Z7C0,000 sterl- ing. Mr. Foster said the vessels would be of 10,000 tons burden and have coal capacity of 3,000 tons, and the same eapaoity for freight. They would carry 500 first and second class passengers and 1,000 steerage. Sir Richard Cartwright asked what the" present Atlantis] steamship companies would have instituted a 16 or 17,1ruot eer- vice between Great Britain and Canada for, Mr. Foster sate that the Allan line had offered to supply a 16 -knot service in 1889 for £101,000, Furness Company, of Great Britain'in 1890, had tendered for a 16,knot service for $900,000 and the Tre,nsatlantique Company had, in 1890, asked $750,000 fore 17 -knot service. Sir Richard Cartwright thought the hon. gentleman ought to have had tenders for A more recent date. He thought the figures must be wrong. Be was informed that for every knot above 16 per hour the cost was enormous, and theta 20 -knot service would cost twice as much as a 16 -knot serene). Be would line to know if the Government had power of forfeitut e in case the contract was not fulfilled? Mr. Foster said the contract was not prepared yet, but that this point would `oe carefully guarded. The Government did not propose to pay for the service unless they got the advantages. Mr. Laurier thought the hon. gentleman was wrong, and that the contract had been entered into between Mr. Huddart and the Canadian Government. He quoted from the conditions of the contract. Sir Richard Cartwright asked what car- goes would be carried on the new line of steamers, and what the probable rates would be. The promoters of the scheme must have figured on the rates. Mr. Foster said he could not furnish the information. The cargoes would doubtless be similar to those of steamships leaving New York. As to freight rates, the Gov- ernment never attempted to regulate them. Sir Richard Cartwright said it was evi- dent to hon. gentleman that the Govern- ment did not know much about the project or else would not furnish the House desired information. Mr. Laurier said the House possessed very meagre information. What wise to be the means of connection with the French port? Mr. Foster said he was not prepared to give definite or exact information. (Cries of "Oh, oh.") The only condition laid down was that there should be a connection with a French port, which could be accomplished. in two ways, either by the.vessels calling at a French port en route back and forth, or by a cross line between England and France. One of these plans had to be adopted, but which had not yet been de- cided. Mr. Laurier was surprised if the hon. gentlemen opposite were satisfied. with the answer. There was a wide difference be- tween the two methods of carrying out the agreement, and the House should have definite information. FRENCH TREATY'. Mr. Feiner moved the Holm into corn- mittde on a bill respecting a certain treaty between her Britanuio Majesty and the Peesident of the French Republic. The treaty did not oblige Canada to give to France preferential treatment in her Cana- dian markets. It simply obliged Canada to take off the ad valorem duty. They were at perfect liberty to take this duty off wines coming from any other foreign country, and were even at liberty to reduce the duty below that, but in such event Canada must give France equal treatment with other foreign nations. They were not obliged to withold from sister colonies the same or better treatment than was given to France. The Government did not intend to discriminate against any other wines. Sir John Thompson said the Government was considering the disability, if any', under whioh native wine growers labored, and would extend relief as it might be nee- cessary. Matters of detail, such as the manner in which the industry would be affected, could not be coneidered until Parliament had ratified the treaty. Mr. Foster fiaid the treaty simply bound Canada to let French wines of a certain grade in at a certain rate. They did not bind themselves by treaty to discriminate in favor of France with reference to these classes of wines. If the French wines were admitted at this rate, Canada was obliged, by virtue of certain treaties with Belgium and Germany, to allow their wines in at the same rate. Mr. McCarthy thought this Was a good opportunity to extend preferential rates to the sister colonies. He wished to point out that the treaty did not permit nations enjoying the favored nation treatment to export wines to Canada at the same duty as Freamalwits enabled to under the treaty, because the treaty expressly said wines of French Mr. Weldon said that under the favored nation treaty, any treaty made by Canada with France must be unconditionally kept with Germany. Mr. Foster, in answer to Sir Richard Cartwright, said the the total import into France last year from all sources of articles mentioned in the treaty was $38,000,000 or $40,000,000. He moved that the item of common :baps, 1 1-2te per pound, be struck out, as common soap meant eitatile soap. He also moved that the iternbf castile soap, 5c. per pound, be reduced to 2c. The amendments were carried. The committee reported the bill with amendments. FAST STEAMSHIP SERVICE. Mr. Foster moved the House into Committee of the Whole to consider the following resolution : "That it is expedi- ent to provide, that the Governemin- Council may enter into a contract for a term not exceeding ten years -with any Individual or company for the perform- ance of a fast weekly steamship service betvven Canada and the United King- dom, making connection with a French Dort, on such terms and conditions as to the carriage of the mails and otherwise as the Governor -in -Council deems ex- pedient, for a subsidy not exceeding the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year." The sum asked was $250,000 more then the amount originally authorized. The policy of establishing a fast line of steatners had been affirm- ed by the House. it had been found im- practicable eo establish such a line for a subsidy of $500,000 annually, and the Government had set as an outside and ultimate limit a subsidy of $750,000, in order to secure the Service. There might be a difference of opinion as to whether the Government was justified in exceeding the half million limit. Re thought so. The point had been consider- ed, and in view of the failure to obtain the service in the past for this amount, it had been decided to ask for the increase. This step would be the third and last link in a service that could not be rivalled in the world. They bad now a magnificent Paci- fic service and an unrivalled transeentin. eptal route, and now the Atlantic service complete the chain. A letter or passen- geld could be taken from Sydney,Australia, id London, Eng., from one to three days quicker than by the Eastern route, and with infinitely more comfort and maven- ience. The cost of carriage would be about the same. The conditions of contract with Mr. Huddart were that the Canadian Gov- ernment were to pay him $750,000 a year for the first ten years, and $500,000 for the second ten years. This was the extent of the obligation. Sir Richard Cartwright—Apparently this is to be a twenty-year, and note ten-year service, Mr. Fester said it was intended that the service should be permanent, otherwise it WouM nothave been entered into, Twenty years had been contracted for, and posterity would have to arrange subsequeutoondibiona, The steamiship service was to be in every respect first-claes, and with firetedass speed, capacity, and able to make 20 knots an hour ib deep sea, the trial to be over a long course. Halifax was mentioned in the agreement as the Canadian terminal port, but this Wee not absolutely pealed, St. eeetin, N. B., had Made application to be the terminal port, mid poseessed great netural eriventegee. The terroinal inert in Great Bribe': had not leeet settled upon. Arrange., mints were also in progress fore, cross line to Frau ce, or to have vessels touch at a French port. One of the advantages that Canada *mild obtain by this rommioe would be prestige. Improved postal and pas. wenger transit would be develomesi, as nell an improved freight carrying facial% Chore wee no sentiment or idea that met the consideration of the fourth rePort of the Select Standing Committee onlerivilegs es and Elections, on the case of the hon. member for Nlonerrioreney (Mr. Turootte,) The committee had found the hon. g.entle. nap not guilty of having executed eons tracts of the Government, He hacl only supplied goods to the contractor who bad the contract with the Government, which did not constitute a violation of the Dade. peudence of Perliament Act, Therefore the charges had not been proved, and he moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Edgar moved in amendinent aubstans Melly the same motion as made by him at the Privileges and Elections Committee except that portion referring to the Marine Department, as he did not propose to ask the House to Assent to the proposition that the hen, member would be disqualified for his transactions with that department. He moved that, in view of the fonts which ie had presented and proved, the "election of Arthur Joseph Tprcotte therefore be- omes void" The aniendraent was defeated by 84. DIVORCE BILLS. Mr. Sutherland moved the House into committe on a bill for the relief of James St. George Dillon. Mr. Niemen contended that there was not sufficient ground adduced tor granting the divorce, and moved in amendment that the order be discharged and the bill refers red back tp the Miscellaneous Private Bills Committee for further enquiry. The amendment was earned by 64 to 61. Mr. Davin hoped that the Governmenb would fix a maximum freight rate,„ beyond which the company could not levy. He also hoped that sufficient cold storage capacity would be provided on the vessels —(hear, hear)—and that the Government would not tie its hands as to the speed of the service, as 20 knots an hour might not be a fast service in twenty or even ten years. Sir James Grant predicted the greatest success for the project, and thought a cable line would follow. Mr. Martin hoped. the Go vernment would pay attention to the matter of ocean rates. At present through passengers from the west se.wnothing of the fertile country of the Canadian North-West in the vicinity of Winnipeg as the Canadian Pacific rail- way send them all over the " Soo " short line running through Minneapolis and St. This disposed of a good deal of the sentiment with which the Finance Minister had clothed his remarks. Mr. Kenny regretted, with the hon. gen- tleman, that through passengers were not sent over Canadian territory. There were great difficulties to be encountered in di- verting traffic from an old accustomed route, and the managers of the new line would have to display energy and ability to obtain their share. There were always enemies to such enterprises,and much, hostility from vested interests that had already made themselves felt was to be expected. He thought the establishment of the service was a national necessity. Mr. McMullen failed to see how a fast line would benefit farmers. One-half the questions put about the service had not been answered, and some information and consideration were due the House. Mr. Weldon said that as an ardent Im- perial Federationisn he favored the scheme, which would certainly promote commerce between reat Britain and Oen- aria. Mr. Hazen said that under the provision- al contract Halifax or „St. John, or both might be the Canadian terminus. Mr. tanner—How is that to be worked— by alternate trips? Sir John Thompson—That is yet to be determined. The resolution was adopted, and the committee reported to the House. ensurtaiweit ACT. Sir John Thompson moved the House into committee On a bill to amend the In- surance Act. Mr, Foster explained that the bill pro- posed to bring the old companies, with very Wide powers of investment, within range of the securities which would be allowed at presennand in conformity with the practice for the past five or six years. Certain new lines of security were added, viz., water Works, gas, street railevey, electrie light end power, and electric rathertys, Mr. Foeter, pointed out that the amendments proposed, did not invalidate any investment at present accepted, and simply limited the range of tecuritiee for the future, as the Government believed that the interests of the policy -holder should be looked after first. The bill was reported with anrietchriente. Wiriteella Oas.E FAST ATLANTIC Menem Mr. Foster moved the second reading of the bill further to amend the Act respect - nig ocean steamship subsidies. The bill was read a second time. WASHING ROYAL LINEN. The Laundry Work or the Imperial and lioYal Families orEarope. The imperial family at Berlin have all their washing done at the ordinary metro- politan laundries—a matter which is a source of much annoyance to the Empress, for, when she visited the Augusta hospital the other day she was enthusiastic in her admiration of the laundry department of the establishment, and remarked that she wonld give anything to have something of the same kind fitted up at the palace, and, on seeing the astonished looks of all those around her, she continued: "Yes, it is so ; Tam obliged to send all the washing, even that of the children, do be laundered in the city, which causes no end of inconvenience, —the inference being that the supply of linen at the court of Berlin is limited. . The members of the English royal family have all their linen laundered ata special I:establishment maintained for the purpose in the outskirts of London, near Hounslow, and, no matter where—tin-, happen to be, whether at Balmoral or Osjhorue, tee royal linen is dispatched thither. Public Weddings was drawn to this fact a few years ago by a strike of the employes, who complained of beirtg underpaid. The work is, it must be confessed, most perfectly. accomplished, and the bleaching is done m the open air only, instead of artificially, which is im- possible in London owing to the sooty character of the atmosphere. Empress Eugenie remains on record as the only crowned head parsimonious enough to have torn linen mended, and no less than fifteen seamstresses were kept in the permanent establishment of the Tuil- eries household for this purpose. At the English, Berlin, Viennese, Spanish and Russian, courts all torn linen is at once withdrawn from use, stored away, and dis- tributed in immense bales to the various hospitals and charitable institutions from time to time. • At the vetican the linen and clothing of the holy father are kept in a state of pro- per repair by a pious order 'of sisters of Mercy, all of whom are of noble birth and known as the "Ladies of Reearation." It is they who make for him his white cies- soaks, and embroider his slippers, and adorn his alter and table covers with priceless old lace. Their costume differs slightly from that of other Sisters of Mercy in that their dresses are blue with long trains. Mr, Girottard Vaccines Cartier) Moved HEAVENLY LAUGHTER, 'OMEN' TO liA1,1011 AND ,A,T WRAT TO LAI1011, If Woe. 'Would liriag rseitin to the VItt." tlan Itettgion. eieto Or. Talmage, Show Them that Ibis a Happy Religion—No Morbid Christ taait Bnomersyse July 15,—Rev, Dr. Damage, who is now in Australia on his round -the. CONSTANTINOPLE SHAKEN. Three Terrible Earibonalce Shocks 55111 Many People. The London Standard's correspondent says of the recent earthquake in Constanti- nople: "At the moment of the first shook I was in the dining room at the summit of the lofty building occupied by the Imperial Ob. toman Bank, The whole structure rocked violently. I hastened to the staircase,when there was another violent shook. I expect. ed the building to collapse. When Ireached the street, people with terror depicted on their' faces were running in all directions. People seized carriages to drive to the sub. urbs to see what had happened to their Mend Mende. Banks and other institutions'were abandoned by their employees and were forthwith closed, and shopkeepers put up their shutters. Every open space was crowded. People were afraid to re-enter their houses. The well known public gar- den on the Petits Champs in Pere was crowded with panic-stricken inhabitants who intended to camp there for the night. The streets were strewn with telegraph poles and wires. Much damage Wita done and many lives were lost in the Stamboul quar- ter, which appears covered with dust. The bazaars suffered particularly. There were three distinct shocks. Each was accompan- ied by loud rumbling. At the time of the first shock a case Nv as proceeding in the Russian court. The judge and counsel fled in terror from the court, and the case Was not resumed. The Minister of Poll superintending the removal of the dead injured and is arranging to protect aband- oned valuables. Several minarets have fallen and the facades of Many private house e are damaged." An Able ledasOn. "Do you believe in second marriages ?" Mr. Nosom—No, sir, I do' hot. "Would you mind giving your reasons ?" Mr, Nosay—I've been twine wed. A vagranb dog, that got aboo.rd the steamship Bibs at Bremen early last month, came over as a etoevevsety and Was eized by customs inepeotore at New York, as no ohe paid duty en it, was told at auctieli. The only bid was One Of of ty cents, in the interim the stowaway had stowed away eden$d Worth of foodet, teneleSere'a expense. world journey, has selected as the subject for his sermon through the press te-day, "Laughter," the text being taken from Psalm 126: 2: Then was our mouth Ailed with laughter,"‘ and Psalm 2 :4 ; "He that sitteth in the heavene shalliaugh." Thirty-eight times does the Bible make reference to the configuration of the feature and quick expulsion of breath which we call laughter, Sometimes it is born of the sunshine, and eometimes the midnight, Sometimes it stirs the sympathies of angels and sometimes the caohinnation of devils. All healthy people anti. Wheth- er it pleases the Lord or displeases Him . that depends upon when we laugh arid at what we laugh. My theme to -day is the laughter of the Bible, namely, Sarah's laugh, or that of scepticism ; Ditvid'a laugh, or that of spiritual exultation; the fool's laugh, or that of infinite condemna- tion ; heaven's laugh or that of eternal tri- umph. Scene : An Oriental tent; the occupants, old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled and decrepit. Their three guests are three angels—the Lord Almighty one of them. In return for the hospitality shown by the old people, God promises Sarah that she shall become the ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face of God ; she does not believe it. She is affrighted at what she has done. A great multitude laugh at the miracles. She de- nies it. She says, "I didn't laugh." Then God retorted with an mriphasis that silenced all disputation. "But thou didst laugh." My friends, the laugh of scepticism, in all ages, is only the echo of Sarah's laughter. God says he will accomplish a thing ; and men say it cannot be done. They say they are contrary to the laws of nature. What is a law of nature? It is God's way of doing a thing. You ordinarly cross a river at one ferry. To -morrow you change for one day, and you go across another ferry. You made The rule. Have you not the right to change it? You ordinarily come in at that door of the church. Suppose the next Sabbath you should come in at the other door? It is a imhit you have. Have you not a right to oharieeyeur habit 1 .A law of nature is God's hableendid.,way of doing things. If He makes the ladgmenew He not the right to change it at any time he itematet to change it? Alas I for the folly of ;hose who laugh lei God, when he says, "I will do a thing," they responding, "You can't do it." God says that the Bible is true—it is all true. Bishop Colenso laughs ; Herbert Spencer laughs ; Stuart Mill laughs; great German Universities laugh ; Harwood laughs—softly 1 A great many of the learned institutions with long rows of pro- fessors seated on the fence between Chris- tianity and infidelity, laughs softly. They say, "We didn't laugh." That was Sarah's trick, God thunders from the heavens, "But thou didstlaugh." The garden of Eden was only a fable. There never was any ark built; or if it was built, it was too small to have two of every kind. The pil- lar of fire by night was only the Northern lights. The ten plagues of Egypt only a brilliant specimen of jugglery. The sea parted, because the wind blew a great while from one direction. The sun and moon did not put themselves out of the way for Joshua. Jacob's ladder was only horizontal and picturesque clouds. The destroying angel smiting the first-born in Egypt was only cholera infsamum become epidemic. The gullet of the whale, by positive meas- urement, too small to swallow a prophet. The story of the immaculate conception a shock to all decency. The lame, the dumb, the blind, the halt, cured by mere human surgery. The resurrection of Christ's friend, only abeautiful tableau; Christ and. Lazarus, and Mary, and Martha acting their parts well. My friends, there is not a doctrine or statement of God's Holy Word that has not been derided by the scepticism of the day. I take up this book of King James' translation. I censider it a perfect Bible but here are soeptica who want it torn to pieces. And now, with this Bible in my hand, let me tear out all those portions which the scepticism of this day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first? "Well," says someone in the audience, "lake out all that about the Creation, and about the first settlement of the world." Away goes Genesis. "Now," says some- one, take out all that about the miracul- ous guidance of the children of Israel in the wildernees." Away goes Exodus. "Now," says someone else in the audience, "there are things in else, and Kings that are not fit Co be read." Away go Deuteronomy' and the Kings. "Now' says someone, the Book of Job is a fable that ought to come out." 'Away goes the the book of job. " Now," says someone, "those passages in the new Testament which imply the divinity of jeaue Christ ought to :mine out." Away go the Evengse elists." Now " says someone the Book of Revelation—how preposterous It re- presentee man with the moon under his feet, and a sharp sword in his hand." Away goes the book of Revelation. Now there are a few pieces left. What ehall we do with them? "Oh," says mime man in the andienoe. "I don't believe a word in the 13ibie from one end to the other." Well, it is all ;gone. Now you have put out the last light for the raetioes. Now it is the pitch darkness of eternal midnight? How do you like it? Bub I think, my friends, we had better keep the Bible a little longer intact. It has clone pretty well for a good many smogs. Thee there are old people Who find it a comfort to have it on eheie laps, and children like the stories ill it. Let Its keep it for a curiotiity, anyhow. If the Bible is to be thrown out of the school, and out of the court room, so that Men no More swear by it, and it is to he put in a dark corridor of the city library, the Koran on one aide axle the writings of Confucius on the other, then let us each one keep a copy for himself, for we might have trouble, and we would want to be under the delusions *fits consol. &teens; awl we might die, and we would Want the delusion of the exalted residence of God's right hand, which it mentions. Cl what an awful thing it is he laugh in God's face, and hurl His revelations beck at Him. After awhile the day Will Come when, they will say they did not laugh. Then all the hypercriticisms, all the mice - tures and all the learned sneers in the "Quarterly Reviews" will be brought to judgment; and amid the rocking of every- thing beneath, and amid the naming of everything above, God will thuuder: "But thou (Inlet laugh!" I think the most fascinating laughter at Christianity lever remember was a man in New England. He made the word of God seem ridiculous, and he laughed on at our holy religion un - tithe came so die, and then he said: ""My life hes been a failure—a failure demean culler; I have no children; a failure socially, for I am treated in the streets like a pirate; P. failure professionally, because I know but one minister that has adopted by sentiments." for a quarter of a century he laughed at Christianity; and ever since Chriseiemity has been laughing at him. The meanest laugh ever uttered is' the laugh of the sceptic. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible is David's laughter, or the expression of spirieual exultetion. "Then was our mouth filled with laughter." Be got very much down sometimes; but there are other chap- ters where for four or five times he calls upon the people to praise and exult. It was not a mere twitch of the lips ; it was a demonstration that took hold of his whole physical nature. "Then was our month filled with laughter." My friends this world will never be converted to God until Christians cry less, and laugh and sing more. The horrors are a poor bait. If people are to be persuaded to adopt our holy religion., it will be because they have made up thew minds it is a happy religion. They don't like a morbid Christianity. I know there are morbid people 'ho enjoy a funeral. They come early eo see the friends take leave of the corpse '• and they steal a ride to the cemetery • but all healthy peo- ple enjoy a wedding better than they do a There is no man in the world, except the Christian, that has a right to feel an un- trammelled glee. He is promised 'every- thing is to be for the best here, and he is on the way to a delight which will take all the processions with palm branches, and all the orchestras harped, and cymballed, and trumpeted to express. " Oh, ' you say, "I have so much trouble." Have you more trouble than Paul had? What does he say? "Sorrowful yet always rejoicing. Poor, yet making many rich. Having nothing, yet possessing all things." The metrics, laugh I think I ever heard has been in the sick room of God's dear children. You know how it is in an army—an army in encamp- ment. If to -day news comes that our side has had a defeat, and to -morrow another portion of the tidings comes, saying we have had another defeat, it demoralizes all the hosts. But if the news comes of victory to- day and victory to -morrow, the whole army is impassioned for the contest. Now, in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, report fewer defeats; tell us the victories—victory over sin and death, and helL Rejoice ever- more, and again I sa.yrejoise4 I believe thsr traids groan.he The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of is the fool's laughter, or the expression of sinful merriment. Solomon was very quick at simile; when he makes a comparison we all catch it. What is the laughter of ii fool like ? He says, "It is the crackling of thorns under a pot." The kettle is swung, a bunch of brambles is put under it; and the torch is applied to it, and there is a great noise, and a big blaze, and a sputter, and a quick extin- guishment. Then it is darker than it, was before. Fool's laughter. The most mis- erable thing on earth is a bad man's fun. There they are—ten men in a biersroom; they have at home, wives, mothers, and daughters. The impure jest starts at one corner of the bar -room, and crackle, crackle, crackle it goes all around. In five hundred such guffaws there is not one item of hap- piness. They all feel bemeaned, if they have any conscience left. Have nothing to do with men and women who tell imn-oral stories. I have no confidence either in their Christian character or their morality. So, all merriment that springs outof the defects of others—caricature of a lame foot, or a curved spine, or a blind eye, or a deaf ear —will be met with the judgments of God either upon you, or upon your children. Twenty years ago I knew a man who was particularly skillful in imitating the lame- ness eta neighbor. Not long ago a son of the skillful mimic had his leg amputated for the very defect which his father had mimicked years before. I do not say it was judgment of God; I leave you to make your own inference. So, all merriment born of dissipation, that which starts at the counter of the drinking restaurant, or from the wine glass in the home circle, the maudlin simper, the meaning less joke, the saturnalian gibberish, the paroxysm of mirth about nothing, which you sometimes see in the fashionable club room or the ex- quisite parlor at twelve o'clock at night., are the crackling of thorns under a pot. Such laughter and such sin ends in death. The next laughter that I shall mention as being in the Bible, is the laugh of God's condemnation. "Re that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." Again. "The Lord will laugh at him," Again "I will laugh at his calamity." ith suchdemonstration will God greet every kind of great Sill and wickednese. But men build up villenies higher and higher. Good men almost pity God, because Re is so schemed against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out of the machinery of wickedness, or a secret is re- vealed, and the foundation begins to rock; finally the whole thing is demolished. Whet is the matter? I will tell you whet the matter is. That crash of ruin is only the reverberation of Godendaughter. In the money market there are a great many good men, and a great many fraudulent men. A fraudulent man there says, "I mean to have my million." Be goes to work reolm less of honesty, and gets his first 100,000 dollars He gets after awhile, his d00,000 dollars. After awhile he gets his 500,000 dollars. "Now'," he says, "I have only one more move to make, and I shell have my million." Be gathers up all hie re- sources: Be makes that one last grand move, be fails and loeea all, and he has tot enough money of his own left to pity the cost of the oar to his home, People cermet understand this spasmodic remittal. Some said it was a sudden tate in Erie Reilway, Stook, or in Western TJnion or in Illinois Central; some said one thirig and sone another. They all guessed wrong. I will tell you what it wee, "Xe that eitteth in the heavens laughed." A Man in New York said he Would be the richest man in the city. lie left hie honest work as a re and got into the 6itr councils some way, and in ten years stole $10,000,000 teem the city government. Fifteen million dollers 1 He held the Legis- lature of the ,State of New York in the grip of his right hand. Suspicions were aroused. The grand jury presented sien dictuients. The Whole land stood aghast.. Therrien who expeeted to put half the ahoy in, his vest poeket goes to Bleekeeelde and; goes to Lucliew street jail, breaks prison, and goes across the sea, is rearrest ed and brought back, and again remanded to jail. Why? "He that eitteeh hi the heavens netighed." Rome Was A greet em- pire; he had Harehe and Virgil among her poets; she had Augustus and Constantine among her Emperors. But whet mean the defaced Pantheon, and the Forum turned into a oatele market, and the brokenswalled Coliseum, and the architectural skeleton of her great aqueducts? What -was that thunder? "Oh 1" you. say, "that Was the roar of the battering-rams against her walls." No, What was that quiver? Oh 1" you say, "that was the tramp of hostile legions." Na. :Tim quiver and the roar were the outburst of omnipotent laughter from the defied and insulted heavens, Rome defied God, and He laughed' her down, Thebes defied God, and He laughed her down. Nineveh defied God, and. He laughed her down, Baby. ion 'defied God, end He laughed her down, There is a great difference between God's laugh and his smile, His smile is eternal beatitude. He smiled when David sang, and Miriam clapped the cyrn- bale, and Hannah made garments for her son, and Paul preached, and John kindled with apocalyptic vision, and when any man has anything to do and does it well. His smile 1 Why, it is the fifteenth of near, the apple orchards in full bloom ; is morning breaking on a rippling sea ; it is heaven at high noon, all the belts beat- ing the marriage peal. But his laughter— may it never fall on us I It is a condem- nation for our sin; it is a wasting away. We may let the satirist laugh at us, and we may be made the target for the merri- ment of earth arid hell ; but God forbid that we should ever come to the fulfillment of the prophecy against the rejectors of the truth, I will laugh at your calamity." But, my friends, all of us who reject Christ.e.nd the pardon of the Gospel must come under that tremendous bombard- ment. God. wants us all to repent. He counsels, He coaxes, He importunes and Be dies for us. But a thousand of you turn your back on that, and then this voice of invitation turps to a tone divinely ominous, that sobs like a simoon through the first chapter of Proverbs, "Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretch- ed out My right hand and no man re- garded; but ye have set at naught all My counsel, and would none of My reproof ; I, also will laugh at your calamity." Oh 1 what a laugh that is—a deep laugh, a long, reverberating laugh, an overwhelm- ing laugh ; God grant we may never hear it. The other laughter mentioned in the Bible, the only one I shall speak of, is heaven's laughter'or the expression of eternal triumph. Christ said to his dis- ciples: " Blessed are ye that weep now for ye shall laugh." That makes me. know positively that we are not to spend our clays in heaven singing long -metre psalms. The formalistic and stiff notions of heaven that some people have would make me miserable. I 'tin glad to know that the heaven of the Bible is nat. only a plane of holy worship, but of magnificent -"tidied; d go around the circles of the saved ? ' 1 say, yes; pure laughter, cheering laughter; holy laughter. It will be a laugh of con- gratulation. When we meet a friend who has suddenly come to a fortune, or who has gob over some dire sickness, do we not shake hands, do we not laugh with hum? And when we get to heaven and see our friends there, some of them having come up out of the great tribulation, who, we will say to one of them, "The last time I saw you you had been suffering for six weeks under a low intermittent fever ;" or to another we will say, " You for ten years were limping with the rheumatism, and you were full of complaints when we saw you last. I congratulate you on this eternal recovery." We shall laugh. Yes; we shall congratulate all those who have come out of great financial embarrassments in this world, because they have become mil- lionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. Yes it will be a laugh of triumph. Oh what a pleasant thing it will be to stand on the wall of heaven and look clown at Satan, and hurl at him defiance and see him caged and chained, and we forever free from his clutches. .Aha? Yes, it will boa laugh of royal greeting. You know how the French- men cheered when Napoleon came back from Elba; you know how the English cheered when Wellington came back 'rein Waterloo; you know how Americans cheer- ed when Kossuth arrived from Hungary, you remember how Rome cheered when Pompey came back victor over 900 cities. Everycheer was a laugh. But, Oh the the mightier greeting, the gladder greeting, 'when the snow-white cavalry troop of heaven shall go through the streets, and according to the book of Revelation, Christ, in the red coat, the crimson coat on a white horse, and all the armies of heaven follow-. ing on white horses. Oh 1 when we see and hear that cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall laugh. Does not your heart beat quickly at the thought of the great jubilee upon which we are soon to enter? I pray God that when we get through with this world and aregoing out of it' we may have some such vision as the dying Christian had when he Saw written all over the clouds in the sky the letter "W," and they asked him, standing by his aide, what he thought that letter " W" meant. "Oh I" he said, "that stands for welcome." And so it may be when we quit this world. "W" on the gate, "W" on the door of the man- sion,,," W" on the throne, Welcome 1 Welcome I Welcome I I have preached this sermon with five prayerful wishes, that you might sea what a mean thing is the laugh of scepticism, what a bright thing is the laugh of spiritual exultation, what a hollow thing is the laugh of sinful merriment, what an awful thing is the laugh Of condemnation, what a radiant, rubicund thing is the laugh of eternal triumph 1 Avoid the ill choorse the right. Be comforted. "Blessed ere ye that weep now—ye shall laugh, ye shall laugh." THE Ilte" ' ' 240,0 Time.—a. D.April; twelve yearsate our last lesson,. ccustnS Camer, Etopimor of Rome, Copeoniue, la meg of Jedese. Herod Aniepes, Covert: rv.1 Galilee. Places. Jet:us:dere, in' 4e esenfde; Nazareth, in Galilee, Between the Lima:win—The evenne of the Previews four leesone'occurred ,in the early infancy of Jesus, Penhably the retell), from Egypt to Galilee was before he was six months old. There were then eleven and a half years of Which nothing at all is told us. Indeed, the one incident of this lesson is all that is recorded of the lime thirty years of his life, the "solitary floweret out of the wonderful incloeed gar- den" of all those years. Hints for Study.—There are no parallels, Luke being the only one of the evangelists who records this beautiful incident. Re. view former lessons and arrange in order all the facts recorded of our Lord's first thirtyyears Christ's Schools and Teachers, —It is in- teresting to think of the human teachers of , Jesus in his early childhood. First of all was his mother, She taught him to walk, to talk, to pray, to love—all those first things which a true mother always teaches her child. Think what an honor and What a responsibility it was to be the mother of the Messiah. That Nazareth home must have been very sweet -with love and holy with the breath of heaven. Think of that beautiful childhood, perfectly natural, not precocious, having to learn by study and by being taught, jut as all childhood has, yet without sin, and therefore diligent, studious, attentive, faithful, and quick to see and know. He must have been an ape pupil, and it certainly was a delight to teach him. He had other sohools besides his home. The Jewish people believed in education and. had Schools, probably, in connection with the synagogues, where the children were taught to read and write and were instructed. in the Scriptures. Two Scotch ladiee of Steenraer Were one day returning from Church, when they foond the town hall placarded with news of the victories in Spain. "Xe it no euepreiseine Kirtsie," said One, "that the Breetish aye beat the Free& in battle ?" "Not in the least, Maggie," was the reply. "Dinne ye ken that the Breetish aye pray before gattn into battle 1" "Bet cense the French pray, too I" An' wha d understand, thein, if they did I" was the contemptuousrespoinse. "jabbering bodice I" HELPS IN - LEARNING TRE LESSON. 40. The child grew.—Jeaus was human as well as divine. He developed in body and mind, just as other boys do. He learned to walk and talk, to work and think. There are three distinct phases of hie growth marked in this verse. He 'waxed strong" —that is, in his body, having healthy growth He became "filled with wisdom"—mental growth. He learned well, was diligent in his studies. He had 41 get knowledge as other boys have, through reading and study. , "The grace of God was upon him."—spirits • nal growth. His disposition and character became more and more beautiful. The divine favor was shown in the moral beauty of a perfectly holy childhood. 41. His parents.—All males of the Jews* were required to go to the annual feasts (Exod. 23 : 14-17), and many women also went. The passoven—The great feast which kept in memory the departure from Egypt and the saving of tbe first born. See Ex. 12. 42. Twelve years old.—At this age Jewish boys .-eitttionfes-0. the law, and were required to attend the festivals. At the seine age, too, they were required to begin to learn some trade. 43. Fulfilled the days.—Thirseven days of the passover feast. See Ex. 12: 15; Dent. 16: de The child Jesus tarried. be- hind.—Not intentionally. He had. probably been seeking wisdom among the rabbis all the days he had been there. On this day he was engaged in the stern -way, and Joseph and his mother, noter anovving this, supposed him to be wish the other boys of their party, somewhere in the caravan, and did not seek for him. 44. In. the company.—The people of Nazareth and that region had come to- gether in one company or caravan and re- turned in the same way. Went a day's journey. ---Without missing him. They sought him.—In the evening, when the caravan stopped for the night. 46. After three days.—One day for the journey toward home, and one day for the return and one day for the search, In the temple.—In one of the porches or chambers of the temple area, where the rabbis had their schools. Sitting. —As a learner. Acts 92: 3. Doctors.— Teachers of the law. Hearing them and asking them questions.— This Coes not mean that he was pertly puzzling them with hard questions. lie was an eager, simple. hearted learner, ancl was seeking for know- ledge. 47. Astonishect—That a boy of twelve years should show such. knowledge of' the Scriptures. 48. Thus dealt with us.—Gives us all this anxiety. A gentle rebuke. 49. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?—Or "in my Father's house." As if be had said, "Do you not know that I must be in my Father's house? Where else could I be but in this holy place?" This is the first saying of Jeeps preserved for us. Indeed, it is the only word we have from his lips during all his first thirty years. This makes it specially remarkable. Wist ye not "I—Knoer ye not? Thi ts answer to his mother reveals the conscious:mos of a divine call to him which separated him from all other children at *nue and infinit. ly. 50. Understood note—Did not fully comprehend the meaning of all that they saw and beard. 51. He went down with them,—A. beau- tiful example of child -obedience, lie must be about his FatlseMe business, bub he found that heavenly busineas iii eomneon tasks and duties in the lowly home, at Nazareth, and. in the carpenter's shop, for eighteen years more. • 5.2. Jesus increimed,--" Advanced." He grew from his twelfth year onward, just as boys grow everywhere, save that he Was witbout sin, He increased in wisdom as he increased in years. His mind and body developed together, and he was so true, noble, and lovable that be won the itoreass lug favor of God and mats. True religion is always attractive. It is marked by simplicity, by gentleness, by " Whatsoever things are lovely" in spirit, in disposition, in act,. We would love to knew more of the youth of Josue, but the veil is not lif ed to show in inoine A. Broad lila. Basely—By' George 1 1 cae't underamiede it. My credit must be gone. Business, nien don't seem to think I'll be able to peer:, Mrs. Hezely—Perhape they'd think so if: they Saw your wife dress better, A Philadelphia eeloted Man lived for, three days on nothing ben Sponger Whieln he Stole trout watering voughs Ana dtit4.