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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-9-13, Page 64r7 T1UB EXETBR 'ELIEVE AND BE WE D E • UH• TALMAGE ON "THE RES CUE" OP THE OOSPFIL, It Slughig 'Prisoners in the 11,)ntigeolt-The Iritriiitug ewe -mese of ealvatton to elite nrtelttened Wattor-A Ereentee or Sallwition ror all Agee. Illimmermer, Sept. 2.-eltev. Dr. Talmage, who is eta Absent in the Sotteh Pacifie, has selected as the subject of to -day's sermon through the press, "The Rescue," the text chosen being Acts 1631 ..-"Belteve on the, Lord Jesus Christ and thole shalt be sewed." Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places even now, but they were worse in the apostolic times. I imagine to -day we little children to come uuto Me," eves not spoken to the cluldremit was spoken to the Diseiples. The children eerie) readily enough withotte any invitation. No someer ilia Jesae appear,then the little Mete lame' ed, from them motherei arms, an aVenlanche of beauty end love, Into His lap. Christ did not isek john to put his heed down on ale bosom ; sinlatoeuld. not help but put hie heed there. I suppose a look at Christ Was teet to love Him, Bow Attractive His man- ner Why, when they sew Ohrist coming alotig the etreet they ran iato ten ir houses, and they wrapped up their invalids as q aick as they eold, and brought them out that Ho might looh at therm Oh, there was something so pleasant, so ievitiag, so cheering in everything He did, in His very look. When these sick ones were brought out did Ile say: "De not bring me these soros; do not trouble nee with these levee- ies?" No, no, there was a kind look, there was a gentle word, there was a. healing touch. They could not keep away from Him. are atandieg in the Philippian dungeon. In addition to this softness of character Do you not feel the chill? Do you not hear 'there was a fiery momentum. Hone the kings of the earth turned pale. Here is a the groan of those incarcerated °nee who for ten years have not aeen the sunlight, and the deep sigh of women who reneember their father's berme, and mourn over their wasted estates? Listen again. It is the cough of 4 consumptive, or the struggle of one in the nightmare of a great horor, Yon listen again and. hear a culprit, hie chains rattling as he rolls over in, his dreams, and you say, "God pity the prisoner," But there is another eound io that prison. It is the song of joy and gladness. What a place to sing in ! The 'noel° comes winding through the corridors of the prison, and in all the dark wards the whieper is heard; "What's that ? What's that 1" It is the song of Paul and Silas. They cannot sleep. They have been whipped, very badly whipped. The long gashes on their banks are bleeding yet. They lie flat on the cold ground, their feet fast in wood- en sockets, and of course they cannot sleep. Bat they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing with these people? Why have they been put in here? Oh, they have been trying to make this world better. Is that all? That is all. A pit for Joseph. A lion's cave for Daniel. A blazing furnace for Shadra,ch. Clubs for John Wesley. An anathema for Phillip Melancehon. A dun- geon for Penland Silas. But while we are standing tn the gloom of the Philippian dungeon, and we hear the mingling voices of sob and. green and blasphemy and hallelujah, soddenly an earthquake!: The iron bars of the prison twist, the pillars crack off, the solid masonry begins to heave, and all the doors swing open. The jailer, feeling himself responsible for these prisoners, and believ- ing, in his pagan ignorance, suicide to be honorable -Since Brutus killed himself, and Cato killed himself, and Ca,seius. himself -put his sword to his own heart, proposing with one strong keen thrust to put emend to his excitement and agitation. Paul cries out, "Stop, stop! Do thyself no harm. We are all here." Then I see the jailer running through the dust and. amid the ruin of that prison, and I see hien throwing himaelf down at the feet of these prisoners, crying out, "What shall 1 do? What shall I do?" Did Paul. answer, "Get out of this place before there is another earthquake; put handcuffs and hobbles on these other prisoners, lest they get away?" No word of that kind. His compact, thrilling, tre- mendous answer; answer memorable all through earth and heaven was, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Well, we have allread ot the earthquake in Lisbon; in Lima ; in Aleppo; and in Caraccas ; but we live in a latitude Where in all our memory there has not been one Severe 'volcanic disturbance And yet we have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is a man who has been building up a large fortune. His bid on the money market was felt in all the cities. He thinks he has got beyond all annoying rivalriea in trade, and he says to himself, "Now I am free and safe from all possible perturbatiou." But in 1857 or in 1873 & national panic strikes the foundation of the commercial world, and crash goes all the magnificent business establishment. Here is a man who has built up a very beautiful home. His daughters have just come home from the seminary with diplomas of graduation. His sons have started in life, honest, temperate, and pure. When the evening lights are struck, there is a happy and unbroken family circle. But there has been an accident down at Long Branch. The young man ventured too far out into the surfs The telegraph hurled the terror up to the city. An earthquake struck under the foundation of that beautiful home. The piano closed ; the curteins dropped; the laughter hushed.. Crath ! go all Chose domestic hopes and prospects and expecta- tions. So, my friends, we have all felt the shaking down of some great trouble, and there was a time when we were as much excited as this man of the teat, and we cried oue as he did, "What shall I do? What shall I do ?" The same reply that the apostle made to bine is appropriate to us : "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved !" So the Savior in some parts of the Bible it called" Lord," and in other parts of the Bible :lite is called "Jesus." and in other parts of the Bible He 18 celled "Christ." but that there might be no tnistake °Amite this passage, all three names come to gether The Lord Jesus Christ." Now, who is this Being that you went me to trust in and believe in ? Men tometimes come to me with credentials and cam tificatee of good character, but I cannot trust them. There is some diehonesty in their looks that makes me know that I ettall be Omitted if 1 confide in them. You ca,nnot pub your heart's confideue in a, mart tend you keow whet stuff he is made ot, and am 1 unreasonable swhen I gene to ask you who this is that you waht me to truet in ? No men would- think of venter. iug his life on a vessel going oub to sea that had never been inspected. ' No, you musb hey° the zertificate hung amidships, telling haw many tone it carries, atid how long ago it wag built, and wee built it, area all about it. And you cannot expece me to risk the cergo al my immor. tel interests an bwerd any (swift till you tell she whet 15 ie made ef, and where it was Made rind tvhat it is. , When, then, 1 Ask you who this fa you want me to traist in yew tell me he is a very attractive portent. Centemporary writers &Merlins hie whole appearance at being res - pleedent, There Was 110 need for Chriet to tell the I...lift:Item to come to Hen, "Suffer plain man with a few senors at his back, coming off the Sea of Galilee, going up to the palane of the Casettes, making that peace quake to the foundetione, and utter- ing a word. of (Remy and kindnees which throbs through all the earth, and through all the heavens and through all ages. Oh, Ile tvas a lovingChrist, But it was not effemierum i or nsipidity of character ; it was aocompanied with majesty, infinite and omnipotent. Lest the world. should not realize His earnestness, this °heist mounts the ores& You say :-"If Christ has to die, vrhy not let Him take some deadly potion and. lie en a couch iu some bright and beautiful home 1 If Be must die, let Him expire amid all kindly attentions." No, the world must hear the hammers on the heads of the spikes. The world must listen to the death rattle °item sufferer. The world must feel His warm blood dropping on each cheek, while it looks up in the face Of His anguish. And so the cross must be lifted, and a hole is dug on the top of Calvary. ' It must be dug three feet deep, and then the cross 18 laid on the ground, and the sufferer is stretched upon is, and the nails are pounded through nerve and muscle and bone, through the right hand, threugh the left hand ; and then they shake His right hand to see if it is fast, and they heave up the wood, half a dozen shoulders under the weight, and they put the end of the cross to the mouth of the hole, and plunge it in, all the weight of His body coming down for the first time on the spikes and while some hold the cross upright, others throw in the dirt and. trample it down, aud trample it hard. Oh, plant that tree well and thoroughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no other tree ever bore. Why did Christ endure it? He could have taken those rooks, and with them crushed his crucefiers. He could have reached up and. grasped the sword of the Omnipotent God, and with one clean cut have tumbled them into perdition. But no ; He was to die. He must die. His eife for your life. In a European city adyoung man died on the scenfold tor the crime of murder. Somestiene after, the mother ,of teMeyoungernen was dying,- and the priest came in, and she made confession to the priesb that she was the murderer ; and. not her son ; in a moment of tenger she had struck her husband a blow that slew him. The son came suddenly into the room, and was washing sway the woundsandtrying to to resuscitate his father, when someone looked through the window and saw him, and supposed him to be the criminal. That young man died for his own mother. You say,"Le was wonderful that heneverexposed. her." Bu.',3I tell you of a grander thing, Christ, the Son of God, died not for His mother, not for His father, bue for His sworn enemies. Oh, such a Christ as that --so loving, so patient, so self -sacrificing - can you. not trust Bios? I think there are many under the influ- ence of the Spirit of God who are. 'saying, "I will trust Him if you will only tell me how ;" and the great question asked by many is, "How, how ?' And while I ans- wer your question I look up and utter the pra.yer which Rowland Hill to often uttered in the midst of hia sermons, "Master, help 1" "Oh," says some °nein a light way, "I believe that Chris e -was born in Bethlehem, I believe that He died on the cross." Do you believe it with your bead or your heart? I will illustrate the difference. You are in your own house. In the morning you open a newspaper and you read how Cap- tain Braveheart on the sea risked his life for the salvation of his passengers.You say, "What a grand fellow he must have been.- His family deserves very well of the country." 'You fold the 'newspaper and, sit down at the table, and perhaps do not think ot that incident again. That is his- torical faith. " But now you uremia the sea, and it is night, and you are asleep, and yet are awakened by the cry of "Fire 1' You rush out on deck. You hear, amid the wringing of the hands and the fainting, the cry: "No hope! No hope !" We are lost The sail puts out its wings of fire, the ropes make a burning ladder in the night heavens, the srtirit of wrecks hisses in the waves, and on the , hurricane -deck shakee out its banner of smoke and dark- ness. "Down. with the life -boats 1" cries the captain. "Dowa with the life -boats !" People rush into them. The boats are about full, Room only for one more. You are standing on the deck beside the captain. - Who shell it be? You or the captain? The captain says "Yom" You jump, and are saved. He standa there, and dies. Now you believe that Captain Braveheart sacrificed himeelf for his passengers, but, yea believe it with love, with tears, with hob and long continued exclamations: with grief at his loss and joy at your deliverance. That is saving Meth. In other words, what you believe with ell your heart, and believe hi regard to yourself. On this hinge turne my sermon; aye the salvation of your immortal son'. You often go aerota a bridge you knew nothing about. You do not know who built the bridge, you do not know what rnaterial it is made of: but you mune to ib, arid you walk over it, and ask no question. And here is an arch beidge blasted from the "Rock of Ages." And built by the Architect of the whole universe, spannieg the dark gulf between she and righteoustiese; and all God mike you ie to vealk acmes it; and yeti start, mid you come to it, and you stop, and you go te little way ois and you atop, aed yen fall ladle, and you. experimetin You say, "Ho* do I know that bridge Will not hold met" instead of marching on with firm step, medals no questions, bat feeling that the strength of the eternal- God is under you. Oh, was there ever a prize prodeted se +beep at pardou and hosiveti are offered to you? For how much? A million dollare? It is certainly worth there than then But cheaper then that yoe can have in Ton thoesand dollaia? Less than that, rive thousand dollars? Less throe that. Cue dam.? Lee* than that. Otte berthing? Leis than than '`Without money er withoot: price." No money to pay. No journey to take, No penance to ;suffer, Ouly just one deoisive tuition of the Emelt "Believe ou the Lord Jesus Christ atidthou shalt be saved." Shall I try to tell you whet ie is "t0 be eaved ? I eannot tell you, No man, no angel can tell nou. But 1 een eint at it. For nty text bring e me up to this point, "Thou allele be saved." It means a happy life here and a peaceful death and a Meese. ful eternity. It is a grand thing to go to sleep at night and tn get up in the morn- ing and to do business all day feeling thee ell is right between my heart and God. ' There is nothing beautiful ebout it. When we stand by the white and rigid features of those) whom we love, and they give no anawering preesure of the hand and no re- turnieg kise of the lip, we do, not want anybody poetizing around about us. Death is loatheomeness, and midnight and the Wringing of the 'mare until the tendrils snap and curl in the torture, unless Christ shall be with us. 1 confese to you an in- finite fear, a cousureing horror of death, unless Christ &tall be with me. I would rather go dowe into a cave of Wild beasts or a jungle of reptiles than into the grave, onless Christ goes with me. Will you tell ma that I am to be carried oub from nay bright home and put awae in the darkness I cannot bear darkness. At the first cones ing of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the farther on in life I get the more I like to have ray friends round about me. ' To be saved is to wake up in the presence of Christ. You know when Jesus was upon the earth how happy he made every house He went into, and when he brings us up to his house in heaven how great shall be our glee. His voice has more music in it than is to be heard in all the oratorios of eterni- ty. Talk not abut banks dashed with efflorescence. Jesus is the chief bloom of heaven. We shall see the very Moe that beamed sympathy in Bethany, and take the very hand that dropped its blood from the short beam of the crow. Oh, I want to stand in eternity -with Him. Toward that harbor I steer. Toward that goal I run. I shall be satisfied when I awake io His likeness. Some one went into a house where there had been a good deal of trouble, and said to the 'woman there, " You seem to be lonely." "Yes,' she said, r I am lonely." " How many in the femily ?" "Only my- self," " Have you had any children ?" "I had seven children." " Where are they?" " Gone" " All gone?" " All." "Ali dead I' "Alt" Then she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness, and said, "Oh, sir, I have been a good mother to the grave." And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereavements of life. I point you to -day to the eternal balm of heaven. - Oh, aged men and wo- men, grace for three score years and ten. will not your decrepitud,e, ethenge* for the leap of a'hart when. you come back to look. face to face upon Him whom having ,not seen you love? That will be the. brecle- groom of the church coming from afar, the bride leaning upon his arm while he looks down into her face and says. "Be hold, thou art fair, my love 1 Behold, thou art fair 1" BRITISH COLUMBIA LEPERS. -- A. Repellent Mitt Seen at ma ti.r.u. Sta- tion, Tantonver. A despatch from Vancouver, B.C., says: -A large crate with four handles to it and 'slatted in front was lifted from a G. P. R. train the other daymewl hurried to a corner of the platform. When the train hands had 'deposited their strange burden they hurried away and rime of the loungers about the station wandered near that box except the reporters, who, in duty bound curiously peered between the slats. Only a Chinese leper, that was all, but it was a repellent -sight. The poor. Mongolian's toes had dropped off and his legs had turned black. He was being sent to Darcy Island, the home of the lepers. It was some time before four stalwart longshoremen could be induced to carry this strange package of freight to the steamer outward bound. At Darcy eeels.nd, there are many graves, but only five lepers are living there now. They have nothing to think of as they potter around their little plot of ground, but the approaching visit of the angel of death. They grow all their own vegetables, and their cottages are kept clean and neat. When one of the little band approaches his end the others attend him, and when he dies the others bury hire and plant flowers on his. grave. Flowers are in profusion everywhere, roses Muster around their wet- tages and creep up the walls converting this abode r,f living death into a bower of roses. The last victim was mining among a num- ber of Chinamen at Quesnell, when he was suddenly stricken with the disease, and his fellow -countrymen fled from him crying unclean, unclean. If the Provincial Gov- ernment officials had not taken care of him he would have nerved. AWFUL WORK OF FOREST FIRES now Hinckley wire Swept Out of Exiatence „ -Inhabitants 'Waited -in Ponds and Rivers Only to be Trampled. A despatch from Pine City, Minn., says: ss -The first good description of the great fire that swept away the thriving village of Hinckley was secured on the arrivarof the special on Monday. It seemed that forest and peat fires had been raging within a short distance of Hinckleyfor weeke,but no ap- prehension had been felt by the inhale- tante,and no preparations had been made for emergencies. Saturday afternoon the fire approached, fanned by a strong wind, the smoke grew denser as the day advanced, a.nd it soon became as dark as nighe. About 4 oicloelt the wind changed and the residents of the doomed town saw the dames were bearing .down upon them, As the alarm rang throegh the streets the people rushed from their hoetere, and when they naught sight of the red onrushing sea ot fire they became panic stricken. The fire Meet Escrows the toWn end the people fled in all direetions. The largest crowd of people rushed to the Grindstone River, a hallow stream, weich it was thought tvould Afford protection from the flames. But the Water was" too low, and all miterably,perished. There the relief patties found the &Aide lying in the Water-ancl rudely trampled by the flying cattle. Jost as the flames were raging fiercest a train 'arrived over the Eastern Minnesota, and 506 people clambered aboard. It was a Godsend to the people, who offered up prayers of thankfulness as -the engi, eer tient the trete at a repel epee& away freer the burning toWn and back to safety in Sup A DIODEB)1 A PICTURE AT THE RECENT NAVAL NAN (EU V RE S. _ %lIO0214e,Ls.,0„4,01 :L1;1;1; dl )1. 01);:o." :awns controlled, by One Mon—Sifteelt Suv A correspondent who is familiar with life ou board great British battleships writes as follows in connection with the British naval manoeuvres ieow M. progress "Tho strength of the British fleet` es shewe by the fact that thesequadrons on foreign service have.noe been orilled upon With the exception el the Mecliterraneau squadron, to furnish a siegle ship, and yet we have 4 fleet putting to Sea' composed of 96 vane's, and comprising eonie of the strongest bettleships and cruisers anti the fastest torpedceboets and torpedo boat de. strayers in theworld. ln a word, it is a, fleet that the coentry need not be afraid to pit against that of any country in the world. And this fleet has been collected without interfering with the foreign service. Small a feat could only be peeformeci by the nation that won the German Emperer's friendship by showing him fifteen miles of warships moored stem to stem. The power represented by such a fleet asithe preseut can hardly be estimated, The best way to obtain an approximate idea is to come aboard one of s the battleships, says the Royal Sovereign. Here you tind yourself in a population that would do credit to a small -sized. town. The craw numbers over 700 men, and finer men cannot be found anywhere. One of them tenders his ser- vices to thew you over the ship, and before you have proceeded far you discover that ,he is a walking eneyelopaedia as to everything connected with warships and guns. He informs you that his vessel has a displacement of over 10,000 tons and an indicated horse power of 14,000. These figures a landsman does not appreeiate, but when he is told that this box of machinery,' on which he stands runs at the rate of 16.75 knots an hour, or something like 20 miles, he begins to open his eyes. But when he takes you to the guns in the bow and informs you that they are 11,0 ton guns, that the total weight of the projec- tiles fired from them. AT 4. sworn: voereer ise5,300-potinds, and that they have a muz- zle energy of 57,580 foot -tons, you stand aghast. A blow With a force of something like 60,000 tons would, one would imagine, destemy almost anything in the way of armor or fortifications that man has ever constructed, and yet these guns can be handled as easily, far more easily in fact with the machinery at hated, than no ordin ary field gun. You are shown how the gun isworked by hydraulic machinery, the powder and projectiles hoisted out of the hold, and the charge Bred by electricity. You then visit the secondary battery and find guns thatare loaded and fired in the twinkling of an eye; and on the deck and in the tops are quick -tiring and machine guns to an extent that is simply bewildering. But now you come to the conning tower, which is by far the most interesting part of a battleship. "The conning tower resembles somewhat a bee bite in shape, being perfectly round and baying an arched roof.- The walls and roof are constructed of solid steel and iron 12 inches thick, with a narrow slit for the officer in command to see through. The archeddoorway is protected by a shield of the same thickness as the walls and curved, in order to prevent a projectile from entering. It forms a sort of oovered way openingon the deck on either side, and if a projectile were to enter by one side it would probably pass out by the other without doieg any harm. It would be impostable for it to enter the tower by the doorway. The conntng tower contains what the sailors call "THE BEAMS Or THE slur," for here it is where the captain stands dur- ing an engagement, ,and from this point he can direct operations in every part of the ship, regulate the speed of the enginee, the firing of the guns and the discharge of tom petiole while the steering of the vessel is done under his very eyes. All around are speaking tubes and electric bells for the cons veyance of orders, and over each is a little brass tablet showing the precise spot that ,each communicates with. In the centre Is a steam steering wheel, a binnacle and com- pass. During an engagement the captain has to assist him, besides the man at -the wheel, a lieutenant and a couple of mid- ahipmen, who receive his orders and con- vey them to their destination through the- speakingtubes. In this way the captain can order any one of the guns to be laid and fired, or a whole broadside, and the same with the torpedoes. The orders are conveyed almost instantaneously, and hard- ly has the order left his lips when it is car- ried into execution. It is not to be supposed though that the captain superintends tee firing of every indfrid-ual gun. His officers are distributed throughout the ship and see to the carrying out of the general orders they havereceived beforehand. They h aye alread y been told at what renge they are to com- mence firing, and for the reat a good deal is left to their owe judgment. But the man- ceuvring of the ship rests altogether with the captain, and he alone is responsible for anything that may happen. It is little wonder then that his conning tower is made at %safe as possible. But ia it really strong enough, even with its ld-inch steel wall, to resist one of those enormous projectilee from say, a 110 ton gun? Thaewould be a hard' question to answer, for these ships have never been put to the teat of actual warfare. The. probability is that if the shot struck nhe tower direct it would carry the greater part of it away, but the chances are thousands to one in laVor of it snit SING tisr,AXTine BLOW, control, of the capteie of a battleship : "Such power wad never, since the world began, concentrated under the direction of man, and all time power, the judgmelet to ime it, the will to applynt, the knowledge to utilize it, is placed in ehe hands of ono man, and erre only. Talk of Jove etit,h hia thunderbolts, of Nasinyth with his 'milliner, the fable's of mythology and the feats of latter-day science ! Where has there been anything to compare with it ?" Far down below some 30 fareacee are glowing under the blast of steam, and the prisoned pore is already raising the valves and blovving off at a proesure of 100 pounds, The ceptein has but to press the button by hie side and in a Moment ehe four great engines Will .be driving the twin screws through the water with the force of 14,000 borse power,, and the greet ship, with the deaci-weiget of 10,000 eons, Will be rushing onwards at a speed el over 20 miles an hour. Far down below our Jeanie the chambers of the great gone, lie the dark masses of the powder charges. A touch, a spark, arid in a sheet sotf,efiepheoatnwdileviith the crash et thunder the RUSH Piton Tana minzEES, speeding on their way 2,000 feee in a second and dealing their blow with an impact of 60,000 foo -tons -5,00e pound weight of metal diacharged by one toeich onthe-hand. Another tonolt and another signal will liberate the little clips which detain the four Whitehead torpedoes in their tabes. A puff of powder a olick as ,the machinery is started, and the two screws are set off whirling, and with a straight, silent plunge the long steel torpedoes will dive into the water, and at their appointed depth will speed on their way thirty miles an hour. on their awful errand of destruction. Move that switch and through the dark wall of the night a long straight beam will shoot forth with the radiance of 40,000 candles, turning the night into day. A word spoken through that tube will let loose the hail- storm of steel and lead from the quick. fining and machine gnus on the upper deck and in the tops. A discharge of shot and shell not to be counted by tens or scores but by hundreds 'and thousands, a storm before which no living being can stand, and under which all but the strongest defences vrill wither and melt, away like a snowbank under an April shower. And last, and most terrible of there is one other force ready to the hand -a -force the sum of all the others, and which, if rightly utilized, is as irresistible astheocean tide cr the hand of death. Far forward among the swirling wave which rises round the ship's cutwater lies the rain, the maeter- rible, the most fatal of all the engines of maritime warfare. Think what the power must be; 10,000 tons of dead-weight driven forward by the frantic energy of 14,000 horsepower, plunging andsurgieg along through the yielding waves at a speed of ten feet in every second, and with a mo- mentum so huge _that the mathematical expression which purports to represent it to the mind, conveys no idea to an intel- ligence incapable of appreciating a concep- tion so vast. To receive -a blow from the ram ts death,, THE IIIEETRIEVABLE tivrAsTnorlia of a ship's career. To delivers such a blow is certain victory. "Now eve come to a vessel of en entirely different class. It is the Blenheim, a fast protected cruiser. The Royal Sovereign is intended for a stand up fight, but the Bien- hieto was built to prey upon an enemy's commerce. Her displacement ia 9,000 tons and her horse power 20,000, giving her a speed of something over 22 knots. She is a sister ship to the Blake, which made such a favorable impression upon the Americans at the New York review. CHEAP NEW WHEAT. The New Crop is Coming on the 'Western Markets lis Unstinted linen/its. Notwithstanding the low price of wheat, farmers in all parts of the wotld continue apparently to devote as many &crest° that cereal as ever. The tendency of a great decline in price to cause a curtailment of production is held in check nowadays more than ever before by devices to lower the cost. This does not apply to wheat -raising o much as to manufacturing industry, yet wheat can now be raised at a lower costi than it evee could. Evan if it could not, farmers would continue to grow in for there is no other grain that would make a better return on the same ground. The THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, XII. --SEP- TEMBER 18, 1894, aaniltdoersetites: ico:starr,4 tm).:50.ror Time, -Al), 27', DeceMber, eight meths Judea ; Herod Antipes, Governor of Galileo of - Rome; Pontine Pilate, Governer of a. Place.--Samaris,, Jacobes well, near Sycher, at tee foot of Mount Gerisim. .13etween the Lessons. -Soon after the talk with Nicodem us,Jes end his diseipela loft Jerusalem. John the lismtist was still preaching. We have in chapter 3:27-30,a noble final 'testimony to Jesus from the lips of a Baptist, in reply to a oomplaint from his ewe disciples that Jews was dresvine away the people from him. When Jesus learned of the fooling of John's dieMples he left Judea and went to Galilee. His course lay through Samaria, and it was on this jsohuerwn esymtalnut thiehletawdeltil.ie conVersation with Hints for study. Bead the pesettge teem chapters 3:17 to 4 ; 42. Look np the story of Jaeoles well, its history and present state. See Gem 33 : 18-21). Find out whet' you can About Samaria and the Samaritans. HELPS IN LEAR,NIRG THE LEsSON. 9. The woman of Samaria.-Josee was weary after bis long journey on the hot roadie afoot, and coming to tho well he sat down to rest, while his disciples went to the village to buy food. While he eab there this woman came to the well. J'esue being thirsty asked her to give him a drink of water. How is it thee thou ?-Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews ordinarily treated the Samaritans with contempt. The Jews have no dealings m -There Was bitter feeling be tween the Jews and the Samaritans. 10. If thou knewest the gift of God. -- The gift which God is reedy to bestow, that is,salvation. Who it is that saith to thee ? '--Who he, Jesus, the Son ca God, was. Thou wouldest have asked of him.n-Insteacl of his asking her for a cup of water. He seem- ed the weary one and she the giver but in fact she was the ono in need and 'he the divine giver. He would have given thee.- ELe is always glad to give. Living water. -Meaning grace, the blessing °Leh° Holy Spirit with Christ gives. 11. Sir. -This word compared with tha woman's jaunty manner in verse 9 shows increasing respect for Jesus. Nothing to dra,w with. -There was no machinery at the well for drawing water, and Jesus had no bracket and line. From whence then ?- She thinks he means the water in the well, not yet understanding that he speaks of divine grace. s. 12. Art thou greater ?-She put the emphasis on "thou." Hest thou a better well than this? Our father Jacob. -Samaritans claimed to be descended trout Joseph. 13. This waten-The water of this well beside which they were talking. Shall 'thirst again. --Needing to drink often. No merely human satisfaction is enduring. 14. The water that 'shall give him. -The blessing of forgiveness and divine love. Shall never thirse -The satisfaction shall be complete. He who has Christ finds in him all he needs. A well of water. -A feunto.in in his own heart which will supply all his wants and give out blessings to others. t" "'Tis heaven alone thatis given away, 'TM only God. may be had for the asking." 15. Give me this water. -Her interest is growing, but she does not yet grasp his thought of spiritual good. 16aGe'call thy husband,-Tesus knows well what key to strike to waken her con- science. 17. Thou has well said.--Eler answer waa a confession ot guilt. His words had reached the sore of her heart. Jesus shows her that he knew all the story of her life. 18. Thoa hest hed five husbands. -But they were all either dead or divorced. 19. A. prophet.-lier estimate of Jesus is still growing. It was the knowledge of her past life which he had shown that made her think he was a prephot. 20. In this mountain. -Mount Gerizini at the foot of which they were talking. 21. Believe me. -Speaking very *sortie:A- ly. The hour cometh. -He will not dis- cuss the rival claims of the two places, but tells her that true worship depend e upon no place. Yaeee. 2know not what. -"That whieh evidence that there is not is the fact that ye know' not." The Samaritan religion product. But if the farmers are restricted IpYle agricultural was ignorant.tion is of the Jews. -The promiee of the We know. -The Jewish -is displacingNwOh Oe aTtil 1E1 slt ak:Aa religion was intelligent and pure. Saviour for for the world had been given to m the economies applicable to wheat -rais- ing, and if it is impossible for the cost of production to keep pace with the price in its downward movement, there is room few compensating' development in other Mies of agriculture, to which the farmers are giving attention. In their butter, cheese, beef, eggs, poultry, and minor products the farmers have sources ot wealth that were neglected when wheat was high. They now raise -strike aud clover -seed as well, which is a new source ot income. The new wheat crop is coming on the Western markets, particularly Chicago and Duluth, in almost unstinted quantity. Sellers have learnt the futility of ,holdffit back for a rise. Moreover, the farmers of the Western_ States have had a reality of hard times undreamt of by our farmers, and they want the money. Hence their free offerings so early in the new crop year have the effect of preventing that' rise which usually begins now and obtains for a month or two. , Tien ENGLISH. trAitHET ' IS less firm than it was, for thesame reason. People who have to buy their bread will De pleased to hear that it is not likely to be dearer during the nexe twelvemonth than te was during the last. People who have to sell their wheat will be equally sorry. But low prima for wheat are nothing new. We have had to endure them for two years. Our farmers have made some progress to- wards aecommod alit* themselves te the new conditions thus introduced. They will make still further headway in coping with low wheat prides by increasing the yielel and the number and the Indite of their products, They have stood these extraordinary low prices for two years, and they will stand them better next year. Not only have they been adjusting themsoltes to the state of thinge induced by cheap wheat, but there have beets other adjustment& such as the lower tatiff, here and in the United States. Eiren if this crop of wheat is to be sold for as little at the limn farmers are likely to be better off than they were a yeu ago. The Hero of the 11.011.r. Bobby Bright -Tommy Kelly is the meet popular boy en the block. Mrs. Beight-Jle must be the little dear who tidies the blind childeen to echoo every day. Bobby 'Bright -New, lie ain't. Ile's the feller what con fire a cracker Oft between In which case it would do very little harm. Supposing that the conning tower wore carried away it would not 'mean that the ahip would be rendered helplese. There is a daplicate apparatus on the bridge, or, failing that, there are other wheels in vari- ous parts of , the ship for steering her by. But it would mean that inetead of the whole power of the erne being concentrated in one spot, the captairs would, to a groat extent, be deprited of hie etipervisiou over the teem and each torpedo and battery 1 OTOW would be left to the direction of the offieer immedietely ever them, As Mr. II, A. Arnold.rorst r soya, in commenting upon the power hat is placed tinder' the me teeth. , the Jevva. 23. In spirit and in truth.--Wi thout regard to place. True worship is of -the heart, of the spirit, and must be sincere avd real. The Father seeketh such, -"Such doth the Father seek .to be his worshippers." God desires our'Worship, the 'expression of our love, our gratitude, a recognition of our, dependence. 24. God is a Spirit. -Has not a body; therefore he must be worshipped with love and faith in spirit and truth, 25. I know that Measles [Messiah] cont-- eth.-The Samaritans shared in the expecte- tion of the Christ He will nell us all things. Ile will be a great teacher. 26. I that speak unto thee am he. -Thus the firet clear, diatinot declaration that he was the Christ, Jesus made to this poor, sinful Woman. The wcman believed, and hastening home told her people, and they flocked to the Well to set Jesus. At their request he remained two days with them, and many of them believed on him. _ MIRACULOIJS ESCAPE. Chthl Fails Ont.of a Car Window While -the Traia Was Going Itaptcliv. A few clays ago lie No. 1 train was win- ing West of Chelmsford station on the C. P. R„ at the rate of about 25 miles an hour a child about 2 years old fell out of the win - slow of the first-class car. The mother Was sitting talking on the other side entire car, leaving the child in charete of the father, who not thinking of the window being open, went to the end the ear to get a drink, and on hi3 return to the seat the child was missing. There Was iittense exciteraent for a while, ,, The train was stopped, and the parents, Almost distracted, started bank in search for their boy, whom they never expected to gee egitin alive. To their eurpriee and great deligite they foetid hen tolling in the sand nob metered in the least. It was fertile:go, however, for the little fellow he fell where he did, for if it had occerred a few seconds later he woald have tumbled into the foaining waters of the Vermillion river, where he woald never have been recovered. They took the train next day for their home woe of Wirluipeg Aluminum is used ail a substitete for rather ins building up tho heels Of boots and hotei, • SAVED BY A DELT OP OOLD. pie emote Omni Englishman When Attack elby teenhere en Telaterti mere. "Gold has a variety of use,' said N. Thornton Docker, en Engenit engineer to a traveller who met him iiTittealula 44 but 1 fancy my experienee wheu I first smut over this route between Oaxaca and Tehueutepem was rather novel. A lot of $20 pieces 'sleeved very well as a (met of inail-so well that they- saved, ley 'life. "As I said, I was batted down to Teheautepeo for a look at the railroad a- cross tee isteinus, I had heard that the women there ese Your American double eagles for jewelry Enid paid a very high pretniem for them, se I got forty or fifty end sewed them into the form of whatyou miget oatj a porous plaseer. When I had them stitched into place on a bit of cotton there were two town across my back and a third row overlapping the other two. By patting straps over my shealders they carried very comfortably., "I got the gold up at El Paso, Tex., but in sonic wayone of the beggarly crew at the hotel in Oaxaca saw that; I was carillEg something in the 801311 of my back, and the result of that was I was followed when I set out for Tehuantepec. They allowed me to go tin unnicdested until I was Within a day of San Carlos, and then one of them Reeves to have taken a short cut through the mountains and concealed himself in the brush until I passed. Then he gave it to me with a shotgun loaded with Maga of lead, and I catigbt it in the small of the " The foidee �!the btiew knodired me down over the pmennel of the saddle, Ween there I had preitence of mind enough to keep on falling slowly, as if entirely done for. leleautirne I got one of your navy revolvers in My hand and cocked it. " eehe beggar that had shot me seeing me fall, came running from the brush, machete in one hand and gun in the other,vvhile his partner appeared around the mountain. with his horse oa the gallop. They yelled at my horse to stop and my guide to go on, and both obeyed promptly. I was still clinging to my horse's neck and could sec them through its mane very well. I let them get within ten feet of me and then dropped to my feet on the ground aid took my turn at shooting. *They were so close I couldn't miss but luckily, as I think, one caught his bullet in the knee and the other in the fleshy part of the arm, while their horse was killed ontriglit by a bullet in the head. "Seeing them both down and begging for their lives I bed a mind to kill them for their cowardice, but I lot them off with a good kicking apiece, and then called back the guide and had him carry water and wash and dress the wounds as stsell as possible. Then I gave the man -with the hurt arm a stiff horn of brandy, and Beet •him back for help, while I continued my jouiney. The slugs had bit the gold pieces -three of them. I had a lame back for a week or so. But I was otherwise unhurt. What became of thein? I after- ward, met the one that caughteit in the knee. Ho was going about the market in Oaxaca ou a peg leg peddling r ' eboses and telling people he had lost his leg in a fierce ericounter with highwaymen. He said. his partner was •on a journeynbut I fancy that he meant he had been detected in some rascality and sent to Filson." SAVAGE oRpiEs. clillent lIndians Mepplied With Tile 'Whiskey by eanadians in Exchange for Skins—A fight Inetween the in diens and.many A despatch from Port Townsend, Wash., , says :-.1.'he City of Topeka, arrived from Juneau, gives details of a fierce battle among the Chilcat Indians, which resulted in six men being murdered and a large num- ber wounded A few days previoussto ihe fight two Canadian sloops from British Columbia arrived at Chilcat laden with a vile quality o liquor. Large quantities were exchanged for. furs, etc. Then began a scene Of savage orgies. Immeuse fires were staiad, and several hundred Indians as- sembled to drink liquor and dance. Toward inornieg a, quarrel' arose over a trivial matter, whieh resulted in the leader of one faction being stabbed to death. The In- dians then divided into, two parties, -and a battle commenced. The two whiskey smug- glers, unobsersed, slipped away trom the scene. No white people knew the incidents of the battle. Settlers living a few miles distant heard yelling, and surmising the origin of the trouble, dared not venture to the neighborhood until late in the after- noon of the next day. They beheld a sick- ening sight. Dead and wounded Indians were lying all around the aillege. Some" were frightfully mutilatedeand others were suilering agonies from their treatment. A small band of survivors, elated with success andthirsting for more blood, had gone down to the beach, threatening to return and em barklwrowd of savages and annihilate the whetie saMblersein the vicinity. The white people beo,arne alarmed, and sent to Juneau for assistisnce. Just before the Topeka sailed on of the sound Deputy Collector of CuttomstStater and a poese had arrived on s the stem er Wrestler, end started few Chil- cat to arrest th s smugglers, seize theeliquor, andquiet the Indians. et-- - DOCTOR'S CHARGES IN THE WEST. rrofessional Men , Getting Bleb iss Van- couver and West m [lister. ' There is a rate war emote/ • Victoria B C 0 I dentists, and artificial masticators are so cheap that dental Stirgeons are overworked and diredouraged. High prices atilt prevail, however, in Vanconver and Westminster far higher prices, tlian the hard times warrant. The same work costs double and often treble what it does in Treater:a Canada, The satne may be said of doctor° of Medicine. 131 British Columbitt it ie possible for a medical nian or a dental,Sur- goon to become rich front, fees alone; It costs e10 to hevo a hollow filled with met- al; $1 to have' art achitig tooth extracted svithout gas, while in the medical profession doctors -charge from 5e5 to 510018 ettecie of ef midwifery, and for medical attendauce from $2 to $5 a visit. ISis possible that a professional Man becemes skilful when he , is prosperons and busy; it it a fact that pro. fessional men who have had indifferent reputations in the east have come to the province and gained reputatiots, more patients than they can attend to, rind the benign eipeoesion and corenicney that at. tend finateharpiesperity. The eatne enmities to lawyers, 'Verily, like pro ' nhets profee- eional men have more hone-. gienseS than in their own omen tr e,