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The Exeter Times, 1894-8-23, Page 3'tree, TBI• :*'131Ti1 TIMES V. OP ALL CRIMES, T4.LMAG131 ON 'THE PREP VAILING Vannvfni, SUP:71DH. A Strong tote. Powerful Sermon 1'1'001 the Text 4' 100 whys'eir No liarnei—A Great Mine Manama and Picturesque Word Images. Buomtreg, Aug, l2.—Bev. Dr. Talmage, who is now abroad, has selected set the subject for to -day's sermon through the press the word 44 Suicide," the test e being Acts 16:27, 28: " He drew out his sword and would have killed himself, tniPposing that the prisoners had been fled, But Peel cried with a loud voice, saying, thyself no harm. " Here 'is a would-be suicide arrested in hie deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and, according to the Roman law, a bailiff him- self must suffer the punishment due an es- eilesed prisoner; and if the prisoner break- tinig jail was sentenced to be endungeoued for three or four years, then the sheriff must be eudungeonee for three or four years ; and, if the prisoner .breaking jail was to have auffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punish - The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and ' Silas. The government {had not had corifi* deuce in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there aeemed to be something strange and supernatural. Sure enough, by mirtioulous power, they are free, and the sheriff,, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers to have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and real- izing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner s axe on the morrow and suffer public disgrace, resolves to precipitate his own decease. But before the sharp, keen glittering dagger Of the •eh, erriff could strike his heart, one of the unlooseneci prisoners arrests the blade by • the command, " Dotthyself no harm." oldep Mule, end when Christianity had not intetfered with it, suicide was con- eidered 'Ignorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's ambassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian oratoes. iso - crates killed himself rather than surrend- • er to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather than submit to Julius Caesar, took his own life, and after three times his wounde had been dressed tore them open and perished. Mith- ridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Hannibal des: troyed his life by poison from his ring, -considering life unbearable. Lycurgus enicide, Brutus a suicide. After the die. estemef Moscow, Napoleon always 'tarried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex -emperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it, and 130011 after the groans aroused all the • attendaets, and it was only through the ut- most medical skill he was resuscitated from thi; ampor of the opiate. gimes have changed, and yet the Ameri- • men conscience needs to be toned up on the subject of suicide.. Have you seen a paper In the last month that did not announce • the passage out of life by one's own behest? Defaulters alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Men Toeing large fortunes go out of the world because they 'eannot endure earthly existence. Frustra- ted affection, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impatience, engem remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution,- inhianthropy are considered eufficient eauseti for absconding from this life by Paris green, by laudanum, by bella- • donna, by Othello's dagger -' by halter, by leap from the abutment of abridge, by fire- arms. More oases of "felo de se" in the lest two years of the world's existence. The evil is ntore and mete spreading. A pulpit net long' ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really any- thing wrong about quitting this life when it became disagreeable, and there are found in respectable circles people apologetic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. shall show you before I get through that bujoide is the vehrst of all crimes and I shall lift a warning ummetakeablee But in the early part of this sermon I wished to adinitthat some of the best Christiana that base ever lived have committed self-de- etruction, but always in dementia and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in his bed in the de- lirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the catastrephe is very great I charge all those who have had Christian friends under • cerebral aberration,step off the boundaries • ' of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels towards the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demoniac of Gadara and the child lunatic, and the potency with which he hushed the tempeits either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual giants, -had none grander than Hugh Miller. . Great for science and great for God. He mime of the best Highland blood, and be was is descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent for his piety and the rare gift of second -sight. His attainments, climbing tip as he -did from the quarry and. the wall of stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and lifurehison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theo- • logian and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God in the old red 'sandstone. That men elicl more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and he struck his tuning -fork on the rocks -el Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant , in divine worship., His two books,entitled • "Footprints of the Creator," and the "Testimony of the Rocks," proclaimed the • banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this • latter book he toiled day andnight through love of nature and -love of God, until he could not sleep, and his brain gave 'way, and he was found dead wieli a revolver be his side, the cruel inetrumout having had two bullets—one for him and /be other for. the gunsmith who at the coroner's in- quest was examining it and fell dead. • Have you any cloebt of the beatification of Hugh Miller, after his hot brain had miass ed throbbing that winter hi his study at Portobello 1 Among the mightiest of • earth, among the mightiest of heaven. No one ever doubted the piety of William Cowper, the author of those thtee (snail hymns "Oh, for a dieser Walk with God," "What:venous hindrances we meet," "There is a fountain filled with blood," rfllia Cowpete Mito shares with Isaac Watts aud %ado Wesley the chief lionore of Christian hymnolegy. In impeohondrie he resoled to take Ms ovVe life; and rode to the liver Themes, but foend a Man Seat- ed on some goods at the very point from width he expeoted to sprints, and rode back te his home, and that night threw himself upon his own knife but the blade broke, and then he hanged' himself to the veiling, but the rope parted. No 'wonder that when God mercifully delivered him from that awful dementia he sat down and wrote that other hymn just as memorable : God moves in a mysteeloue way ills worieers to perform; lie Meets tUs footetope in the seas Ancl rides upoit the storm, Blind, is sure to err , An scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain. While we make this merciful and right- eous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, I. declare that the man who in the use of his reason, by his own act, sipaps the bond between his body and his souls goes straight into pre- dition. Shall I prove it? Revelations 21 8, "Murderers shall have their 'part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.» You do not believe the New 'Testament? Then, perhaps, yon will believe the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill." Do you say all these passages refer to the taking the life of others? Then I ask you if you are not as responsible for "your own life as for the life of others? god gave you a special trust in your life. He made you the custodian of your life as He made you, the custodian of 110 other life. He gave you as weapons with which to defend it, two alpins to strike back assailants, two eyes to watch for invasion, and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert. Assassinatien of others it is a mild crime compared with the assassination of yourself, because in the latter ease ib is treachery to an especial trust, it is the surrender of a castle you were especially appointed to keep, it is treason to a natural law and it is trea- son to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this femme, I point you to the rogues picture gallery in some parte of the Bible, the pictures of'the people who have com- mitted this unnatural crime., All the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly s terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to commit suicide if auy man ever had—what with his destroy- ed property, and hietobody all aflame with insufferable carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it, a pestiferous wife, and four gamed- OUp people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ashes soratchng his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph:—"All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." Notwithstanding .the Bible is against this evil, and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly' spectacle of those who have hurled themselves out of life, and 'notwithstanding Christianity is against it, and the arguments and the use- ful lives and the illustrious deaths of the disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. What is. the cause? I (Margo upon infidelity and Agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter be blissful without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back the folding Moors between this world and the next ? And when our existence here becomes • troublesoine, why not press right over into Elysium? Put this down among your most solemn reflections, and consider it after you go to ypur hornes ; there has never been a case of suicide where the operator was not either demented,and therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all the ages, and I challenge the whole universe. There never has been a case of self-destruction While in full appreciation of his immortality and of the fat% that that immortality would be gloriotui or wretched according as he ac- cepted Jesus Chrisebr rejected Him. "While titie Man Wee demented he toeik hi life;" 14 the ether case say, "Hamitift read infidel hooks and etteeded infidel lectutes, whigh oblitereted from OM man's mind all appreciation of anything like future retribution, he committed eelf slaughterl" Ail I Infidelity, stand up and take thy soutence 1 In the pre50000 of Cod and an- gels and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages I Stand up, Satan, filthy goat, buzzard of the nation, leper oi the centuries. Stand up, thou monster In, fidelity, Part span, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, steed up and take thy sentence I Demi with thee to the pit and sup on the sob and groans of femilles thou heat blasted, and. rollton the bed of knives which thou hest sharpened for others, and let thy music: be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou ha.st damned I I brand the forehead of Infidelity with all the crimes of self -immolation of the last cen- tury ou the part of those who had their reariore ' MY friends, if over your life through its abrasions and its molestatiens shoificl seem to be unbearable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, do not consider yourselves as worse than others. Christ himself was tempted to met himself from the roof of the temple ; but as He resisted, so resist ye. Christ came bo medicine all ouftwounds. In your trouble, I prescribe life instead pf death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on their 'way. Remember that Qoa keeps bhe chronology of your life with as much precision as he keeps the chronology of nations, your death as well as your birth, your grave as well as your cradle.. Why was it that at midnight, just at midnight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage ? The four hundred ad thirty years were up at twelve o'clock that night. The four hundred and thirty years were not up ab eleven, and one o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The four hundred and thirt years were up at twelve o'clock, and the destroying angel struck the blow and Israel was free. And God know e just the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By His grace make not the worst of things but the beat of theih. If you must take the pills don't chewthetn. Your everlasting rewards will accord with your earthly perturbations, just as Gains gave to Agrippe a cheep of gold as heavy as had been his chitin of iron. For your ask- ing you• may have the same grace that was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from "the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." And remember that this brief life of ours is surrounded by a rim, and a very thin but very important rim, and olose up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better keep out of it until God breaks that rim and separates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm of summer insects, leap not into a y You say it is business trouble,or you, say it Is electrical currents, or it is this, omit is that, or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is the abdication of reason or the' teaching of infidelity which practically says, "If you don't like this life, get out of it, aid you will land either niitmeihilation, where there are no notes to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout toaorment, or you will land where there will be everything glorious and nothing to pay for it." Infidelity always has been apologetic for self -immolation. After Tom Paine "Age of Reason" was.publishecland widely read there was a marked increase of self -slaughter. - A man in London heard Mr. Owen deliv- er his infidel lecture on SoMialisin,and went home and sat down and wrote these words: —" Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters in history, and the Bible is the greatest possible deception," and then shot himself. David Hume wrote these words: It would be no crime for me to divert the Nile or the Danube from its natural bed. Where, then, cue be the crime in my di- verting a few drops of blood from their ordinary channel ?" And having written the essay, he loaned it to a friend; the friend read it, wrote a letter of thanks and admiration, and then shot himself. Appeta dix to the same book. Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, under certain circumstances, were apolo- getic for self-inunolation. Infidelity puts up no bar to people's rushing out from this world into the next. They tetreh us it does not make any difference how you live here or go out of this world—you will land either in an oblivious nowhere or a glorious Somewhere. And infidelity holds:the upper end of the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains 'out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day and persuade the majority of pot- pie that it does not make any difference how you go out of the world you will land Safely, the rivers would be so full of corpses,. the ferryboats would be impeded in their progress, and the crack of a suicide pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble of a streetcar. t I have sometimee heard it discuesed whether the great dramatist was a Chris - thin or not, I do not know, but I know that he considered appreciation of a future existenee the Mightiest hindrance to self- destrtietion. , For who weuld.beer the whips and scoens of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man% con- tumely, The pangs of clispis'd love, the law's delay, The theeionce of aloe, and the spume That Patient merit ofithe unworthy takes When he himself might his quinine make With a bare bodkin? Who would tardela bear, To grunt :and sweet loader a weary life, Ilut that the dread. of tomethitig after death ' The Undiscovered, ' country, from WhOSS jungle of Bengal tigers. There is a sorrowless world, and it is so radiant that the noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights up our northern heavens, confounding as tronomers as to what it can be, is the wav- ing of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors hommirom church militant to church triumphelt, and you and I have ten thousand reasons for want- ing to go there, but we will never get there either by self-immolaestin or impeintenoy. All our sins slain by the Christ who came ?ROVINGHIB THEORY, WANTED—Valet; must have good references.— Apply A. D. Goodman, King's Ready Obasee. Such was the advertisement; it appeared in tieveral of the London, dailies. At 10 o'clock the same morning a ehort, thickset man, with an extremely red nose showing that he had been a high liver in the ser- vants' hall, knocked at the door of the` house bn King's road. A neatly attired servant girl appeared on the threshold. "Is Mr, Goodman in ?" asked the caller. "He is," responded the girl, with several critical glances at the man who etood before her, "I called in answer to an advertisement for a valet." "You can here," she said, "master ionttipye "Must be some blooming etiort," the visi- tor commented. Tl' the door opened and a tall, pale gentleman entered the room in a languid fashion, picked up the morning paper and carelessly. scanned the contents, as though oblivious to the presence of the visitor. He read the telegraphic news and then the local. The servant brought in a tray upon which reposed breakfast bacon, eggs, a cup of coffee and malls. The gentleman put up his nose ancrsaid: "Jane, take away those dishes. Leave the coffee." "His appetite isn't good to -day," com- mented the caller. The gentleman sipped the coffee with apparent relish, read again the cable article from Paris and finally lighted a cigar. All this time the visite remained standing respectfully. At last he ventured to cough, and the gentleman turning to him.• • "Avi—you called about the advertise- ment .1" "Yes, sir." "Where are your references'?" "Here, sir," and he took from his pocket a bulky package. "Very well, we leave to -night. for Paris. to do that thing,. we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the 'clang of the sepulchral gates• behind ns will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. 0 God, what- ever others may olmose, give me a Chris- tian's life, it Christian's death, &Christian's burial, a Christian's. immortality ., Americanizing England. - The London correspondent of the New York Advertiser sends some interesting so- cial notes. He finds that just at present Merrie England has given Itself mg to an unexplainable craze for American sports. The lads of Eton and Rugby have tempor- arily abandoned cricket for- baseball, and some of the games recently played would do credit to the " nines" of American uni- versities. • As Tattersall's therefeee very great inquiry for trotting and. pa , eorses, and last week at Selford there weie sever- al trotting contests on a mile track which was laid out just after the opening of the Manchester canal by the Queen. The track is really excellent and the best time made, 2,121, was not one to be ashamed of, From Canada lacrosse has been imported, and has toe certain extent succeeded wolo. As the result of the visit of various 'Wild West shows, several wealthy young men, among them the titled son-in-law of Mr. Bradley -Martin, havte imported mustangs and broncos, chiefly noted for their bucking propensities. It is the delight of these young men to wager large sums on the ability of themselves or their comrades to' ride the vicious animals in which they have invested. The " Golden Gould" as the Engfith now term the son of the famous American financier has given a great boom to yachting, and because of Zitnmerman's exploits, the bicycle has become more than • ever a popular vehicle for travel. in this connection quite a controversy has arisen as to whether lady riders should wear or- dinary skirts in the interests of modesty or Turkish trousers in the interests of cemi fore A stand in favor of the latter choice of garments has been taken by the grand- daughter of Archbishop Benson, the chief dignitary of the English Church, ARBITRATION DECLINED — By !hell. S. Because or Feasible enelicul- glee With Britain, re Nica,ragun. , despatch from Washington, soma; —A feature of. Thersday's session of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs was the 'postponement of action for the present on the -joint resolution to arbitrate all differences between Great Britain and the United States for the neet 20 years. It 'was argued that in view of the fact, that the Nicaragua canal may he built under the mempiees of the United States, and complications mei/ arise • between the United States and England growing out of the different interpretations given to the Clayton.13ultver treaty, it would be better not to put this Government in a position where an adverse decieion might make it itimossible to louild the canal. Sep that everything is ready. With that the gentleman took up his hat and cane and strolled out of the house in a leisurely, 'half bored way. Two days later the gentleman. and his servants were quartered in Paris. The former had rented a magnificently furnished house in a fashionable part of the city. Try as he would, Smiler could learn little of his new master. He came and went. He usually arrived home ab about two in the morning, and sometimes Smiler had to put him to bed. • He got up anywhere be- tween 10 o'clock and noon. Soinetimen he breakfasted heartily; at other• times• he merely sipped histcoffee. Smiler was sent to buy tickets for every fashionable event, from the opera to the races, and he always came and departed in a private carriage, , ,to drew out your money and emigrate to America, %there you are deeirous Of setting LIP ip teadei Tine hee beau your dream, Smiler'the life of the honest and prosper - ops tradesnien. Am I right, Smiler? If I have made any mistakes attribute it te the feet that I am but an amateur." But Smiler was speechless. "To continue, or rather to go beck into the past, I read that you robbed all your meetees before me, only they were pot tided readers in an amateur way, and attributed the los of different things to nsteral ahrink- age. When you first entered my apart- ments in King's road your thoughts' Were regarding my werldly possemioisa. You saw tench that made you sure I was a man of meant. After I entered the room I was seemingly busy reading a newspaper. Really, Smiler, I was reading you. I did not want to see your references. They were superfluous. The man himself stood before me. There was the reference. I determined to make a little study of you. You interested me at once, fort recognmed in a thief of many years' training, a thief who had pilfered for all hie life and never been detected. Here, thought, is a subject worthy of my attention, here is a oase which will edify and amuse me. So I Took you to my bosom, Smiler, and em- ployed you on the spot. As you stood there waiting or me to address you the thoughts flashed through your mind : I can easily get away with one of those Dresden -ware vases. Re has so many of them that he never will miss It. Then he must be a careless sort of a swell, ova of those spendthrifts. He will come home, inebriated every night. If a pin, a ring, a watch or tiome other article disappears he will think he lost it somewhere the night• before. He's a swell that pays no attention to his personal effects. All he thinks oils having a jolly good time.' Am I right, Smiler? " But Smiler never relapsed from his col, leaped condition. "You began to pilfer when you purchas- ed the tickets to France. You made ten shillings on the tickets. You put aside for yourself five shillings from the purchases from the trunkmaker. Do not deny it, for it is written indelibly on your mind. I took to you right away. 'Here is a precious rascal,' I thought. 'Here is a servant worth having.' You remember I commended you for your faithfulness. And now, Smiler, do you believe in mind-reading? By the way, where are those pawn tickets, and kindly hand me your bank book." Smiler obeyed without a word. The lan- guid gentleman went to the door and usher- ed in two officers. • Smiler fell upon his knees. "Mercy, mercy," he said. "You'corroborate all 1 have said," re- marked the gentleman, with mild interest. "Yes, yes, I confess. Don't put me in "I am sorry, Smiler, but I have finished with my subject. mow turn him over to the law. Officers, do your duty." "Very well, Mr. Markham," replied one of the officers. "Markham ?" groaned §miler. " "The,same," replied the languid gentle- man. "The great English mind-reader ?" "I am he. I advertised not for a valet, but for a subject. I wanted to prove some of met theories to the society of savants here. Yop have proved a very good sub- ject. I shall write out the results of my investigation to -night, and then -if you care to hetet the law deal leniently with you you will sign it. I will then read the paper before the society. My enemies will haye to cotmede that any work is incenmagable. By the way, Smiler, have I converted you to a belief in mind-reading?" "You have, sir," groaned Smiler. ets---ese JAPAN'S FIRST STEM& GUNBOAT. quite ah elegent equipage. About this time the Perlman nevvapapees were agitat- ing the matter of the retharkable teets in spiritualism giVen before eminent gentlemen by a peasant woman in Milan. The psych- ological society was in Heston in the French capitel and the comments on the feats performed in Italy were made more inter- esting by the presence of a renowned -English mind reader. This • gentleman showed great aptitude in ferreting out criminals, and his accuracy in this respect made him feared by the wtong doers. One morning, when the gentlemen was sipping his coffee, in NO iota he had placed a few drops of cognac, he looked up from his paper and said to Smiler: "Markham, the mind-reader, has rein down another criminal,' Smiler. What do you that?" an opinion, sir, I ithinkitsmight htth t should say that it was all bosh." "All bosh, eh? May I 'ask why ?" " Well, sir, it stands to reason, sir, that no man can tell what is going on in another's mind. It's again se nature, and what's against nature can't be done, sir, My idea is, sir, that this man, this fraud; I will call him, sir, is in collusion with these fellows, and pays 'em. That's any impression, sir. A criminal, sir, can't be detected except by detectives, and they make an awful botch of ,s Jri, now'suppose that tit mite you a little practical derrionstrittion.":ttehhe YYeosu'Ilire?studied a little in that line as an amateur. Suppose, for example, I were to read your mind, Smiler ?" ,you couldn't do it, sir." ' - • I should say that you were a faithful, honest fellow, who always served his mas- ter;,sItinwtoeureldsnieht"tak e no.mind" reader to tell youthat,sir. "But wouldn't it take a mind reader to tell, Smiler, what you've got in your pocket- b-oS:nkAllis7earntuartnte n'eadpuari,P.Smiler mind, I don't pretend to be accurate, I should say that if any one should look in that pocket -book he would find my ruby scant -pin and my emerald and diamond ring." . &eller nearly went into a fit. "Of course, I have so many rings and pins that unless I was a mindreader I would never have missed these. And, let me see, Se -tiler, in your trunk you have three pairs of my trousers. Those would tot be easily missed, either. Also shout fifty neckties and. collars and cuffs innumerable." By this tithe Smiler was as pale as a ghost. ieI were to read your mind a little fur- ther as an amateur I would tell yell that on the 20th day of September you went to a pawnshop on the Rite du Rival and there disposed of two seal rings and a watch, for which you received 500 francs. They cheat- ed you, Smiler. You Should have got double that, amount. From there you went to a bank, like the thrifty, honest, frugal fellow that you are, and opened up an account, On the 23rd of September with commendable industry you added to your little horde by disposing of my gold- moutated etick, the one presented,rne by the Baron Rothschild. You carefully am liberated the names.. I commend your dilu- tion. Four days safterward you meld or rather Nevin:ad sundry articles in four dif- format places Which I Won't take time to eriu re crate. In all, you have 1600 Metiers in No traveller returns—puzzles the will. -see the bath and tweet y francs in your pocket book, together with other articles of mine Would God that the coroners would be brave in tenderitifi the right verdict, arid THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 04WERATIVO 'rho Xellenteth ettnitee INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AM, 26.jo rorni";:eAtoar::::11,4,44:r144*' otla introdeee a dotter connection m First Miracle of Jesileimaio" $it -11'. previously existed between what are . ch Tthreeoixor oAu.r Caesar, Dda, 4y2 days palefvrtee:rr outfahrle'lastmoer; '111.el ec:i .xe' ius should Peopleupldro notdhproducing gne:ta s andokoetdthet directi lel°euilZsmilAwgthhycel they Pilate, Governor of Judea ; Herod Antipas, butter, eggs, and other prodnee straight Governor of Galilee and Perea, from the feral ; why 'they shoeld not buy Plaime—Caue of Galilee, four miles north- ton in Chinn or Incur, 94(1004 at the pit„ii The daps Could Not Stop the Engines, and Steered Round and Round ail -Night o . There was a time when the Japanese hated the foreign devil as much as the Chinese do now. But the foreign devil has money, and money can make even a China. man's mare go. The mubterraneen mineral wealth of China is almost illimitable. She could supply he world with coals and iron for a thousand years. To this feet the country will owe its future advancement, for, mind you, Johnnie Foo Choo is quite as sensible of the 'value of saxpence as Sandy lte'Far- lane himself is. By the way, did you ever hear of the adventure that befel Japan's first steam gunboat? You see, on her east front Nazareth, probably at the place mouthii the wood weer, the trees hee, few, where the village of Kefr-Kenua now stands. Between the Lessons. --Immediatelyaf ter the events of our last lesson, Jesus left Bethabara (Bethany), beyond Jordan, for Galilee. His new disoiples went with . . . pertinent') in direct buying have been made is generally that,. on "the whole, it is snore convenient to buy from those who make a at ti 8 Cans,disoiplae fewsthe milesnwent e. tfurtheralsoto the wedding., w eRded to u saitnteesess attempt to collection aoone's a baying ydi distribution rai ufitrisotnband hen Nathanael, one of the disciples tuet chosen, one's self. However strong the desire to "do away with the middleman" may be, the middleman or distributor bobs serenelY up again if he can minister conveniently to the tastes, the necessities, or the whims of ; cotton piece goods and cloth from mills in which they are woven, and so on through the whole range cif the necessaries and luxuries of life. The answer to this question, given in many instancee after ex - him. When he weachee Nazereth, two or three days later, he seems to have found that his mother had gone to A wedding lived at Cana. Among the Jews a wedding was a joyous occasion, the festivities at- tending it lasting a number of days. • Be- sides relatives and friends, all the neigh- the public. Storekeeping is a very ancient business, and its roots appear to be deep in human nature. Given the retail store and the usual to sup - Hints for Study.—Bring up again th en:chwinheorYsuorfvdtvisetralbreu,ti°ans ay i)a bore usually came together to take part in the happy festivities. On one of the days of this wedding feast this first miracle was .ught, ply it follows as a matter of course. The MairtY years of growth mad eireparatione expected, those who UNDERSTAND THEIR BUSINESS and recall m order the rocorded events. This is the first miracle, the first act of our Lord's public ministry, after his baptism, temptation, and his calling of disciples. There are no parallels, John alone giving the incident. HELPS IN LEARNING THE LESSON. 1. The third day. —From the calling of and the public. It is not to the interest of society that any other sort should survive. It is demanded that he shalt know the wants of his customers and thoroughly un- derstand the goods that he sells. It would seem also that ati population increases there is reom for the specialist in distribution as Philip. See chap. 1:43. Cana of Galilee. in most other walks of life. The distributer —A village a few miles from Nazareth. There was another Cane in Asher. Josh. 19:28. The mother of Jesus was there. —She was already present as a friend, probably as a relative. She speaks to the servants as one quite at home in the house, implying a close relationship. Joseph's name is nowhere mentioned after the pass - over, when Jesus was twelve years old, and it is supposed that he had died at some who has a special knowledge of some de- partment of his heatless may pometames hold his position against great odds. It is nevertheless true that the effort to eliminate the middleman has in some cases had considerable success. One cohdition of its life appears to be density of popula- tion, and the co-operative societies of Great Britain, as now combined under the Co- operative Union afford the mostin eresting time during those eighteen years. • exemplification of the principle. here are 2. disciples. --The five or six men- in the union no fewer than 1,554 societies tinned in our last lesson, viz., Andrew, John, Peter, Philip, Nathanael, and prob- ably James. It is interesting to notice that our Lord's first public appearance was • at a marriage, and that his first miracle was wrought to add to the gladness of a feast. This ehows his interest in pure pleasures and his approval of marriage. • 3. When they wanted wine.—" When the wine failed." Perhaps the arrival of those six or seven additional guests partly caused the lack. Such a failure woeild produce great anxiety to the manly gmeng the feast. The failing of the wine illus. London, and Leicester engage in thepro-, tyates the failure of all human pleasure—it duction of boots and shims at Leicester and does not last long. lieckraondwike, soap at Durham, woollen • trial trips welted lent them a Scotch engin- eer—man-o'-war's man, of course. But on her last measured mile trial the bumptious little Jap skipper dismissed Scottie. His officers knew all aboet it now, he said. So back came our engineer, and the Japanese gunboat went off seawards, rejoicing. Neverthelessthe commander of the 13ritisher concluded he'd better hang by her a bit. It was well perhaps that he did. At dawn next day the officer of the watch—a big, hairy- midshipman—entered the first lieu- tenant's cabin. "Can't make out what the Jap's up to, sir," he said. " Why, what's the matter?" " Well, sir, she's doing nothing but steaming round and round in a circle, like a bloomin' duck with a broken wing I" Half -an -hour afterwards taking the Scotch engineer with him, the lieutenant boarded the Jap, then the mys- tery was explained, The Japanese en- gineers had forgotten how to stop the en- gines, so, as they could not enter harbour under full steam, and as theyelid not want to go to sea again, they had adopted the extraordinary expedient of steering round and round in a circle. And this game they bad kept up nearly all night long 1 Yes, the Jape are wonderfully clever, but if you want to See Jap man -o' -war officer in areal rage just ask leen about the trial trip of their first steam gunboat. A Valuable Raft. In the district of Algoma, on the Spanish river, on Georgian Bay, e gang of Ottawa lumbermen pitched their tents at the be- ginning of October rad. They were there to make a raft for a big Pembroke lumber- ing firm. This they suceeeded in tieing after thenstial hardships peculiar to the bush, and aet week the itaft in question passed down the Back river oh its way to Cap Rouge boom, where it will be sold fer ettporb to Europe. The raft was one of the lergeet and most valuable that ever passed do wn the Ottawa river, colt slating of 230,000 cubic ,feet of wally board pine, valued at 42 cents. er foot, making the total value of the tat 96,600. The total length of the reit was • 80 feet and. the breedth 270 feet. The Aneomarca, Peru, 16,000 feet ebseie which you were about to get rid of this "toothpicks" averaged 24 feet long by 18 When in the cage o responsibility they say, tilled sweaoleadA, the highest inhabited spot in miming. You have been quite thrifty, Ina stringoand were of the &met quality 4 1 and iodide of a month it was your intention of timber. , === having on their membership hats 1,127,05 persons. Theirshareof capitalis $61,310,000, and their sale of goods about $220,000,00Q a year. As instancing the accumulation of funds by co-operators it may be rnentitined that one society has invested 8400,000 in railway shares, and that $551),000 of co- operators' money is invested in the Man. cheater ship. canal. The co-operative so. Mattes have invaded both the wholesale and reta;i1 fields of business. Tints the English Wholesale Ccooperamve Society, which has headquarters at Manchester, Newcastle 4., Woman, what have Ito do with thee? —This reply is not harsh and cold, as our Common Version would seem to make it. in the "Revised Version" it is, "Woman, have Ito do with thee?" That is, it was his Father with wham he had to do. Our Lord used the same word, "‚woman," when he looked, down upon Mary from his cross, commending her to the care of John (John 19: 26, 27). But there was evidently a gentle reproof in the language, with an in- timation that she was not henceforth to suggest what he was to do. Mine hour.— The time for manifesting forth his glory (v. ii) by working a miracle. He would not do this until the proper time came and his heavenly Father's will must decide this, 5. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. —This word shows that Mary was not offended at the answer of Jesus, and did not take it as a refusal, but really as a word of assurance that what was right be would do. Shetherefore turns totheservants and bids them to be ready to obey his com- mands. When our prayers and requests are not at once granted, this is the spirit in which we should bear ourselves—sweetly and obediently, waiting Christ's time. 6. Six waterpots.—Large stone jars. These were near at hand, waiting for use. The Jews had many washings among their ceremonies,and it is not strange that such vessels should be at hand. Purifying.— Referring to their religious customs. ,See Matt. 15: 2, Luke II: 39. Two or three fir - kills.= The "firkin" containined about nine gallons. 7. Fill the waterpots with water.—The Servants were to fill the empty vessels with fresh water, that it might be known that wine was not eleeady in them. They filled them up to the brim—So that nothing else cbuld be added. There was no room for trickery or deception. goods at Batley, and manuzactures large quantities of biscuits and jams. The Scottish Wholesale Society at Glasgow, ip addition to its distributing 1311Silless, manu- factures boots and shoes, shirts, and jam, and carries on tailoring and. printing works. The largest co-operative boot and shoe manufactory in the world is at Leicester. It cotters six acres, and EMPLOYS 1,500 PEOPLE. Notwithstanding these figures the his- tory of co-operation in Great Britain has been a vaned story, and there have been many .failures. In the year 1892, for in- stance, 123 new societies were registered, but 51 were dissolved. The movement is chiefly interesting agbeing one of the meth- ods which have been adopted with a view to raise the status • and benefit the condition of labor. At the Crystal Palace festival, of the societies int/891 a resolution was adopted which exemplifies the original object of the movement. It was moved by Mr. Holyoake, one of the pioneers of' the enterprise, and was as follows: "That whilst rejoicing at the success of our "co-operative stores, we reaffirm Piet "storekeeping is not the only encrtand "aim of the co-operative movement, the' "course of winch ought to be so guided " by our official leaders as to promote "the employment of the people in self- ,govereing workshops in the manage- msahndeaartei.ofthewhich they can take a part, y results of which they awl• THE TARIFF SETTLED. • ii di , , , • a MO 8. He said unto them. —To the servants who had just poured in the water. Draw out now.—Into the tankards or cups. The gavernor [ruler] of the feast. —Perhaps one of the, guests who by general consent or by selettion of the host was set to preside over the feast. 9. Had tasted the water that was made wine.—We are not told whether all the water in the vessels became wine, or whether it was changed only as drawn off. Notice that those who are working with Christ as his helpers know the source of the blessings his hand prepares, while those who only receive the blessings are not always aware from whom they come. 10. Have well drunk. —"Have drunk freely." Tho ruler refers to feasts in general, We are not to suppose that at this feast any of the guests had drunk to excess. Our Lord would not have sanctioned by his presence nor helped on by a miracle any such use of wine. 11. This beginning of miracles.—"This beginning of his signs." Christ's miracles re all signs of his Messiahship, of his love, of his divine revealings. Did Jesus 'in Cana —This was the first miracle of all, not merely the first one wrought in Cana. Manifested forth. ---Showed; so that men saw it: His glory—His glory as the Son of God. It, was the shining forth of his deity. In this ease it was his kindness, his goodness, which Was ehoevn forth. Believed. —They were assured eow that he was indeed the Messiah. A Lively Place for Cyclists. That piece is St. Peterabarg, Russia. Cyclists there are only allowed to wheel on certain back Streets end in certain Slums, o badly patted that speed and comfort are both impossible. None under the age of eighteen may noteat a cycle, and none may cycle after dark, Think of this, my brother wheehnen I , The Fatted Mica klonse or itepresenta- tires Adopts the Senate Bill., TheUnited States Congresithatibeeninees- sion over a year and the Tariff bill has been in conference over a month—what the Re- public wanted was some kind of decision on the great issue. Every business interest in the 'Tinted States was hanging upon the issue at Washington. As the New York Tribune put it : "Home manufactures are paralyzed by prevailing uncertainties ; importers having large stocks in bond cannot set prices upon their goods nor dispose of them to retail merchants ; every industry is at a stand- still; nobody can take a tong look ahead and get his bearings. The country has had the worse shaking up since 1857." • Business men and. manufacturers were ready to welcome any result, and the House has accepted the Senate bill unchanged, and unart ended, The President has ten days in which to sign the bill. But the Whole fight is not over. The House has passed separate bills, placing sugar, coal, iron, ore and barbed wire on the free list, These are the four items on which the On ferees could not agree, and the &mete will not take kindly to these measures. We have a faint hope that the Senate may con- cede free coal but only a faint hope. Free coal and free ore will be a good thing for Canada, mid we will net olgeob if our neighbors see fit to pass it. But up to date they have been very jealous of passing any law that would benefit therneehtes $10 if they thought we'd make $1, out of it. ess— A very ample improvement in fire hoe bee been made by Which the hometian the notzle and the engineer aro put in instant communication. Thtough the fabrie of the hose tWe hasulated wires are run. They are conneeted With the metal couplings.i that as soon as tee hose t is put together in the ordinary way, signalling apparatus on the magnet and nozzle, with with a arg, battery to futeisie the outvote, oompteee the apparatua. ' ''stet:',it, • ,etti,ttte' 1 .1,