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stealing was so large,
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as a einner--that is, in the
e. How many fine men hove
ned by official position It is an
hing for Any man to seek office under
ernmeut unless his 'principles of integ-
y are deeply fixed. Many a manmprighe in
en insignificant position, has made ship-
evrectic in a great outs 1 As fares I oan tell,
in the city of jerica this Zaccheus belonged
to what might be oalled the ring. They had
things their own way, suocesstully avoiding
exposure -if by no other way, perhape by
hiring somebody to break in and steal
the vouchers. Notwithstanding his bad
erik ferty
iatShall Steal aa
or eell it, he Shall re.
ex, mad four ebeep for
ief be found breaking ep,
Oust he die, there ellen ree
.1 fee hies:, If the. ama be rine
there shall be blood shed for bim,
i�uldnoire ftai reStitutiell ; if he
°thing, then be aball be eold for lais
If the theft be certainly found in his
nd Alive, whether it be en ow, or ass, or
heep, he shall restore double. If a Mius
shall cause a field. or vineyerd to be eaten,
and shall pub in hie boat anti Omit feed in
°mother man's fielti„ of the beat of his own
field and of the hest of his osvn vineyard
shall he make restitution "
You say, "Tonna meke restitution. The
perbiee whom I swindled are gone," Then I
attYg Take the money en to the American
Bible Society mad consearate it to God.
Zacohens was wise when he disgorged his
unrighteous gains, and it was his fine step
in the right direction,
The way being clear, Christ walked into
the house of Zaccheus. He becomes a
ferent man; his wife a dtaterent woman ;
the children are different. Ohl it makes a
great change in any house when Christ
opines into it. How many beautiful houles
are repreeented among, you I There are
ptetures on the wall; there is music in the
drawing -room ; and luxuries in the ward-
robe ; and a fulleupply in the pantry. Even
ii yon were half asleep, there is one word
with which 1 coda wake you, and thrill
you through and through, and that word
home 1" There are also houses of
sufferingrepresented, in which there are
neither pictures nor wardrobe, nor adorn.
ment-only aue room, and a plain cot, or
a bunk in a corner ; yet it is the place
where your loved. ones dwell, and your
whole nature tingles with satisfactou
reputation, there svere streaks of good
when yen think of ib and call it home.
about him, as there is about almost every Though the world nsay scoff at us, ad
man. Gold is found in quartz, and somepurees us, and all the day we be tossed
about, at eventide we sail into the harbor
of home. Though there be no rest for us
in the busy world, and we go trudging
about bearing burdens that vsell-nigh crush
us, there is refuge, and it hath an easy
chair in which we may sit, and a, hemp
where wemay lie, and a serenity of peace in
which we may repose, and that refuge is
home. The Engliah soldiers, sitting on the
walla around Sebastopol, one night heard
a company of musicians playing "Home,
Sweet Home," and it is said that the whole
army broke out in sobs and wailing, so
great was their homesickness, God pity
the poor, miserable wretch that has no
home.
Now suppose ()hrist should come into
your house. First the wife and the mother
would feel his presence. Religion almost
always begins there. It is easier for wo-
men to become Christians than for us men.
They do not fight so against God. If wo-
man tempted man originally away from
holiness, now she tempts him back. She
may not make any fuss about it, but some-
how everybody in the house knows that
there is a. change in the wife and mother.
She chides the children more gently. Her
face sometimes lights up with an unearthly
glow. She goes into some unoccupied
roomfor a little while, and the husband
goes not after her, nor asks her why she
was there, He knows without asking that
she was praying. The husbaed notices that
her face is brigh ter than on the day when,
years ago, they stoo& at the marriage altar
and he knows that Jesus has been putting
-upon her brow a wreath sweeter than the
orange -blossoms. She'pats the children to
bed, not satiefied with the formal prayer
that they once offered, but she lingers now
and tells them of Jesus who blessed. little
children, and of the good place where they
all hope to be at last. And then she kisses
them good -night with something that the
child feel a to be a heavenly benediction -
a something that shall hold on to the boy
after he has become a man forty or fifty
years of age; for there is something in a
good, loving, Christian mother's kiss that
fifty years can not wipe off the cheek.
Now the husband is distressed and an-
noyed, and earnest vexed. If she would.
only speak to him he would "blow her up."
Re does Dot like to say anything about it,
but he knows that she has a hope that he
has not, and peace that he has not he
knows that, dying as he now is, he cannot
go to the same place. He cannot stand it
any longer. Some Sunday night, as they
sit in church side by side, the floods of his
soul break forth. He wants to pray, but
does not know how. He hides his face,
least some of bis worldly friends see him;
bat God's Spirit arouses him, melts him,
overwhelms him. And they go home -
husband and wife -in silence, -until they
get to their room, svheu he cries out, "Oh,
pray for me? The prayer begins ab-
ruptly and ends abruptly; but, as far as r
can understand whet they mean, it is about
this: "0 Saviour I help us 1 We do not
know how to pray. Teach tut We cannot
live any longer in the way we have been
living. We start to -day for heaven. Help
us to take these children along with us.
Forgive us for all the past. Strengthen us
all for all the future. And when the jour-
ney is over, take us wiser° Jesus is, and
where the lAtle that babe we lost is, Amen?"
It ended very abruptly; but the angels
came oat and leaned so far ever to listen,
they would have fallen off the battlement
but for a stroke of their wings, and criecl
"Hark 1 hark 1 Beholcl he prays I"
Thet night there is a rap at the bedroom
door. " Who is there ?" cries the father.
Ib is the oldest child. " What is the mat-
ter? Are you sick ?". " No ; I want to be
saved." Only a little while, and all the
children are brought into the kingdom of
God. And there is great joy in the house.
Years pug on. The telegraph goes dick,
click 1 What is the news flying over the
coantry? " Come home. Father is dying!"
The children all gather. Some eome in the
last train. Some, too late for the train,
take a carriage across the country. They
stand around the dying bed of the father.
The oldest son upholds the mother, and
says, "Don't cry, mother • I will take care
of you I"" The petting blefisieg is given.
No long admonition; for he has, through
years, been saying to his children all he
had to say to theni. It is a plain" Good,
by," and the remark, "I know yori Will all
he kind to your mother," and all ie over.
Life's ditty done, as sinks the clay,
Light from its load, the spirit fliee ;
While Heaven and earth combine to say,
How bleas'd the righteous when he diet.
Mame in a very small percentage.
Jesus was coining to town. The people
turned oat en masse to see Him. Here He
comes -the Lord of Glory -on foot, dust -
covered and road weary, limpiug along the
way, carrying the griefs andwoes of the
world. ile looks to be 60 years of age
when He is only about 30. Zaccheus was
a short man, and could not see over the
people's heads while standing on the
ground; so got up into a sycamore tree
that swung its arms clear over the road•
Jesus advanced amid the wild. excitement
Of the surging crowd. The most honorable
and popular men of the city are looking
an, and. trying to gain his attentioia. Jesus,
instead of regarding them, looks up at the
little man in the tree, and says, "Zaccheus,
some down, I am going home with you."
Everybody was disgusted to think that
Christ would go home nith so dishonorable
a man.
I see Christ entering the front door of
the house of Zaccheus, The King of
Heaven and earth sits down; and as He
looks around on the place and the family,
He pronounces the benediction of the text
-"This day is salvation come to this
house."
Zaccheus bad mounted the sycamore tree
out of mere inquisitiveness. He wanted
to see how thia stranger looked -the color
of His eyes, the length of His hair, the
• contour of His features, the height of His
stature. "Come down, said Christ."
And so, many people, in this day get up
into the tree of curiosity or speculation to
• see Christ. They ask a thousand queer
questions about His divinity, about God's
sovereignty, and the eternal decrees. They
speculate, and criticise, and hang on to the
outside limb of a green sycamore. But
they must come down from that if they
want to be saved. We cannot be saved as
philosophers, but as little children. You
cannot go to heaven by way of Athens,
but by way of Bethlehem. Why be per-
plexed about the way sin came into the
world, when the great question is how we
shall get sin driveti out of our hearts? How
many spend their time in criticism and reli-
gious speculation ! They take the Rose of
Sharon, or the Lily of the Valley, pull out
the anther, scatter the corollia., and say,
"Is that the beautiful flower of religion
that you are talking about?" No flower is
beautiful after you have torn it all to pieces.
Thehtemth to heaven is so plain that a fool
-"Wend not make any mistake about it, and
yet men stop and cavil. Suppose that,
going toward the Pacific slope,I had reng-
ved that I would. stop until 1 could kill all
the grizzly bears and panthers on either
side of the way. I would never have got
to the Pacific coast. When I went out to
hunt the grizzly bear, the grizzly bear
would have come outto hunt me. Her is
a plain road to heaven. Men say they will
not take a step on it until they can make
game of all the theories that bark
Anr1 growl at them from the thickets.
They forget the fact that as they
they go out to hunt the theory, the theory
comes out to hunt them, and so they
perish. We must receive the kingdom of
Heaven in simplicity. William Penning-
ton was one of the wisest men of this
country -a governor of his own state, and
afterward Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. Yet, when God called him to
be a Christian he went in, and sat down
among some Children who were applying
for charchernembership, and he said to his
pastor, "Talk to me just as you do to these
children, for I know nothing about it."
There Mho need of bothering ourselves about
mysteries when there are so many things
that are plain. Dr. Ludlow, nay professor
is the Thelogieal Seminary, taught me a
lesson I have never forgotten. While
• putting a Variety of questione to him
that were perplexing, he turned upon
me somewhat in sternness, but more in
love, and said, "Mr. Talmage, you will
have to let God know some things that you
• don't" We tear our hands on the spines
of the (meting instead of feasting our eye on
its tropical bloom: A greaa company of
people now sit swinging themselves on the
smear/sore tree of their pride, and I cry to
you, " Zaccheus, come down 1" Conte down
out of your pride, out of your inquisitive -
nese, out of your speculation. You can,
tot rigs into the gate of heaven with coach
and. four, postillion ahead, and lackey be-
hind, "Except ye bootee as little child -
ten, ye catnot enter the kiagdorn of God,"
God has chosen the wok things of the
world to confound the mighty. Zaccheus
eaglet down, come dove 1
InOtice that this tar -gatherer accompan-
ied hie surtender to Gimlet with the rotor-
• ation Of property Meet did not belong to
• bini. says g "11 1 have taken aterthing
by falai. aceaeatien, I restore fourfold,"
That is, if / have taxed any luau for ten
thensaitd dollars Wheal he only hacl gve
tboutiand dollen' worth ef property, andput
in my own pocket the tax for the last had
thousand,,I Will restore to him feurfold.
111 toes% trent him ben deflate, 1 will give
A whole family saved forever, If the
deluge cornea:bey are all in the ark -father,
mother, sone,daeghters. Together on earth
toga ,lier in beaven. What makes it so?
Explain ib 1 Zneetieus one day took 'Testis
home with him. That is ell. Solvatien
dame to that house.
What Bound is it I hear to night ? It is
Jesus knocking at the door' of your home.
Behold a stranger at tbe drier
Ile gently knocks -ho knocked, before.
• 11 you looked out of your window and
SaW Me going up yoor rent Mapes you
Wendel not Wait, but'so yeureleif toen
the door, Will you keep ;irons etanding
on. the outside, Hie leeks wet with the
dews of the night ? This day ia nivatlo0
come to tby house, The great went ot
your house is net a neW earpet, or costlier
pictures, or lichee furnitnre-it is jou
Give yoerself no rest until your children
are the SOUS and daughters of the Lord
Almightn, Yaw son does jest as you dot
Ile triee to walk like you, end to talk like
yoe 1 The daughter imitates the Mother,
Alas I if father and mother untie 'heaven,
the children will, Oh I let Jesus come in.
to your house 1 Do not bolt the ball door,
or the peeler doer, or the kitchen door, cr
the bedroom, door against Him, Above all
do not bolt your heart.
Build your altar to -night. Telec the
family Bible lying on the parlor table.
Call together as many of your family en
may be awake, 'Read a chapter, and. then,
if you can think of nothing else besides
the Lord's Prayer, say that. That will do.
Heaven will have begun in your house.
You °an put your head ou vierpilioV
feeling that, whether you wake up in this
world or the next, all is well. In that
great ponderous Book of the Judgment,
where le reeorded all the important events
of the earth, you will read at last the stmt.
mem, that this vino the day when salvation
wane into your house, Oh Zemoheus, come
down :come down I Jesus is passing by.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
ehte
Is a fad Which. Appeals ta Certain
Highly Ilinitsanative Muds.
Christian soience, so celled, though it
isn't a acienee and it isn't Christian, is a
fad which appeal e to ciertein highly imagi-
native, greedy superstitious and ill -bal-
anced mentalities as did the black art, of
which it is a diluted, chastened, aucl eub.
limated outcropping, in earlier days when
medicine and alohetay, astronomy and
astrology were NO sadly mixed up as to
ostein the same general classification `111
the public mind, Christian Scientists of
to -day hold to the miracles of the old and
new testaments as the most valuable nom
tions'Of the book, and accept as literally
tree in this age and generation the sorip-
tural declaration that faith .oan move
mountains. If faith can move mountains,
which are very stubborn and unportable
things, so they logically reason from a
false hypothesis, it can with equal or even
greater ease remove ulcers, iaflamations,
bacteria, bacilli, and other bodily distem-
pers, which, since they are removable by
faith, can have no real existence, and are
bat phanta.sies of an imagination which is
disordered by reason of insufficient func-
tional secretions of that all-necossamy
quantity. And upon such conclusion, if a
man be e., inadequately supplied
with faith of his own secreting -the Chris-
tian Scientists who are possessed of an
overplus, would gather around hirn and,
by some sort of a magnetic induction,
carried, on through prayerful processes, and
a concentration of thought, instill into his
imperfect personality a sufficient, additional
supply of faith to counteract the effects
of his overbalance of materialism.
So long as tbey confine their interesting
treatment to adult persons of sane mind,
who voluntarily submit to it, societsrhas no
issne to make with the Christian Scientists
any more than it has with persons who pre-
fer to live on vegetable diet or persons who
refuse to bathe. But they do not confine
their treatment to adults or to willing per-
sons. They have repeatedly come into col-
lision with the authorities because they
have refused to allow medical attendance them. They were doubtless proud of their
upon sick or injured children or denied the townsman's eloquence and power until they
prayers of bedridden persons for a doctorunderstgod him to claim the Messiahship.
THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL
INTERNATIONALLESSON OCT. 7094,
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Limb spsaloth, 1225,
WIND SAL sTAriesszere.
We new bogie a, ecemad green of twelve
leeigoes from the life of our Lori. Let ue
leek beak over the ev'ents Wo have tIttidled*
The fleet six lessous (truly 1-Ategust 5) PIM-,
eented six testirnoniee(each unicitie ia ktud
to the superuoteral miseion of Him wheat
we first eee as a babe hi • the meugsr 10
Bethlehem. Angels herald his birth (Lake'
2. 8.16), A prophet, in the temple, fere
-
tells to the virgin mother her Stag high
destiny and her own heart's sorrow (Luke
2. 25-35). Wise wee, had by a star, come
from afar to pay homage to him that was
born King of the dews (Matt. 2. 1-12).
Dreatne are sent by God to direst Joseph
to Egypte° as to keep the child Jesus from
lierodts reurderoue po wer (Matt. 2., 13-23).
At the age of twelve, in the temple, " his
Father's honse," Jesus astonishes the doc-
tors by "bus understanding end answers."
In early manhood, when baptieed 'of John
in the Jordan, the heavens opened, and the
Spirit like a dove descended on him, and a
voice from heaven said, " Thou met my
beloved So, in whom I am well pleased ',
(Merit 1. 1-I1). From the banks of the
jordan, Jesus passes to the scene of his
temptation in the wilderness (Matt 4. 1-
11), They, returning triumphanthe again
receives the reverent testimony of John
the Baptist (John 1. 29-34), among whose
followers he ends his earliest disciples
(John 1. 35.51). With these as witnesses he
work( his first 'miracle at the marriage feast
in Cana(John 2. 1.11). His next act as Mes-
sialais to visit his temple in Jerusalem and
expel from its courts herd of traders and
exchangers (John 2. 13-16). At this time
oecurs the wonderful conversation with
Nioodenms concerning the new 'birth (John
3. 1-21), On his homeward journey he
pauses at Jacob's well in Samaria (John 4.
1-43), and after his return to Galilee works
another miracle at Capernaum (John 4. 46.
54). Renew appears once more among the fa-
miliar econes of Nazareth, no longer as the
carpenter, but as. the Christ. He speaks
gracious words, but receives cruel treat-
ment, and for a time leave e the city so
highly honored, yet so utterly' unworthy.
From this time our Lord made Capernaum
the centre of his activity (Matt. 4. 13). It
is best, we think, to hold this rejection at
Nazareth to be different 'from that
mentioned by Matthew (13. 54-58) and
Mara ta. 1-6). and much earlier titan that
In the later rejection he was accompanied
by his disciples, (no one seems' to have
been with him now), and there was no
attempt to cast him down headlong from a
xPLNATORY AND PRACTIOAL NOTES,
-Verse 16. Nazareth.. A. villag.e.4tretched
along the sloping side of a rovelyvale, two
miles from the plain of Esdraelon, six miles
west of Mount Tabor, and about twenty
vseat of the southern end. of the Sea of
Tiberias ; now En-Nasirah, with a popula-
tion of about four thousand. Where he had
been brought up. Where, too, with little
doubt, he had worked as a carpenter, We
may well ,s'uppose that many ot those who
were bis hearers that morning had in their
homes utensils fashioned by his hands.
Every noticeable trait and event of his boy-
hood (unknown to us) was well known to
Moreover they have now branched out in
another direction which has brought them
into collision with the 'powers or govern.
moist established by rational persons. In
a western town, where, it seems, Christian
science has a large number of devotees, the
school authorities have been served with a
formal demand that the children of the
Scientists be given no instruction, in either
physiology or geography, because, forsooth,
their progressive parents have become con-
vinced that hurnen beings are pcssessed of
no material bodies; that the earth is not
the substance it appears to ordinary eyes
or a part of a material universe, and they
-the progressive parents -do not want the
minds of their offspring cumbered with
gross materialism which might 'vitiate or
obstruct the wellsprings of that faith which
shonld be their dominant characteristic. It
is satisfying to know that the members of
the school board leave paid no attention to
this abslarcl demand, and that the children
of the Christian Scientists will continue to
imbibe knewledge am to their physical con-
struction and the physical configuration of
the earth's surface. To further negatize
bad home influences it might be wise to give
them special courses in neurasthenics and
evidences of insanity.
The Burial of the Living.
From evidence difficult to dispute, it
appears that ia the Chinese Empire, old,
incurably diseased, and hopelessly deprav-
ed persons are frequently buried alive to rid
the community of the burden and responsi-
bility of their care -taking. This arrange-
ment is the result of a mutual understand-
ing, the victims assenting to and at times
assisting in tbe preliminary ceremonies.
The usage seems to have been recognized
by the highest authorities, and the burials
have certainly been conducted with the
Sanction .of the ruling powers. Great
preparations are maderand there is much
ado, and sometimes a show of grief, but a
great deal a the latter ie evidently per-
functory, as there is an all-around feeling
of satisfaction nthe part of the spectators,
and more or less complacency in the mind
of the victim'who is comforted by the as-
surance that he is fulfilling a tradition, and
wili earh the respect of his ancestors.
TWA cusirtm is scarcely more strange -and
barbarioue than the Japanese practice of
compelling a man for certain crimes or
calamities to commit suicide, It would
at least have its compensations in that the
criminal could be made to take himself off,
and thus leave 00 implement reflections
upon the mind of hangmen or executioner.
Indians in Parliament,
Mn IVIancherjee Merwanjee 13hOwntig.
gree, the Perigee who will, ib is said, seek
parliamentary hotaore at the next general
election in England, ie not unknown in the
old eountry. He visited England in 1886
as cominiseioner for the Maharajah of
thowriugger at the Colonial anct Indian
Exhibition, and again last year in the
suite of the Maharajeh at the opening of
the Imperiel Institate. Unlike Ale.
Dadabliat therein Mr, Bbovniuggree will
seek the aufIrages of an English eonstitno
tinny as a, thionist,
chilies Were mere like these of th Selttelt than
those of a teinieter, haVing ehargp of the
keildius and it furniture, ineleding the
eaeged box Ontalaing thi. Woke o Sorip.
• ture, Set down, The Awe steed in token
of reepece while the Scripture wee read,
het eae while speakium All the discourses
of Chriet were delivered in e sitting posi-
tiou, (11) We phon14 listee with eyes as
Welt as ears to those who speak in God's
house,
21. He began to say. HIs first, weed ;
the Substance of a more expanded discourse.
Scripture fulalled. Eight hundred years
this weed was weiting, but the man fore -
showed bad owe U1 God'osten tirilo• (12)
Every eentenee of $oripture was sure of its
a000mmishrnent. (13) God rarely brings to
pass his • word in the way expected by
men. His providence is a perpetual, 0311r -
prise.
22. Wondered. At his clear inaieht
into the Scriptures at his original interpre-
tation and forcible presentation of the
truth. The whole address was a revelation.
Some who begin with wonder end in love,
hut others, coethese men of Nazareth, end
in het°. Gracious words. (14) Let us learn
at the feet of Jesus how to present Ged'e
message to our clone tenderly and affect-
ionately, es gracious words. Joseph's son;
The mame by which he was popularly
known.
23 , 24. Heal thyself, J3y this. proverb,
cerrent at the thrte they would remind him
That they could not bear, (1) 'Let us carry
Christ's cause first to those whom we know
best. • (2) Le; us not be ashamed to be his
followers anywhere. As his custom was.
He knew more of the divine mysteries than
all the scribes, but he would teaeh us by
example that (3) To worship God publicly
is the duty of every man. Frorn our earliest
child hood we should beaccustomed to at tend
God's house. (4) Our faithfulness to the
church should not depend upon our interest
in the preaching, but should be a matter of
principle. Into the synagogue. In all the
Jewisii world there was only one temple,
with its sacrificial services; but every
village or community of Jews had at least
one synagogue, or house of worship, where
the people assembled on Sabbath days.
The services consisted of psalms of praise,
the reading of a selection from the law,
and generally another from the prophets,
after which any Jew who was present could
have the privilege of speaking. Each syna-
gogue was so arr anged that the -worship
pers faced Jerusalem. The men sat on one
side, the women on the other, a wooden
partition between. In an arkof painted
wood were the holy hooka. Stood up.
There is a flutter of interest and expecta-
tion in the assembly as a young man, well
known to all present, not as a religious
teacher, but as a simple mechanic, blame-
less in life and earnest in piety, just be-
ginning to be the subject of strange re-
ports as a miracle -worker and prophet,
rises and recoests that the roll of the
prophets be handed to him.
17. The book., Each "book" of the Scrip-
tures was written oa a separate parchment,
which was rolled together on two cylinders,
beginning at each end, so that the place was
found by rolling off from one end hnd roll-
ing on at the other. Esaiae. The. Greek
form for Isaiah. The place. The first
sermon of the New Testament dispensation
finds its fitting text in the Old. (5.) Let
us revere and study the Old Testament,
whose pages point so directly to Christ
Where it was written. This passage is
taken mostly, but not precisely, from the
Septuagint version of Isa. 61. 1, 2, with a
clause from Isa. 58. 6. Our Lord seems to
have choseit those selections from the
prophet which most distinctly proclaimed
himself and his miesion. '
18,19. The Spirit of the Lord. Recall
the story of the baptism, Anointed me.
Turned into English this would be
"christened me," for ..the word "Anoint-
ed" is "Christ" in Greek ; bile it carried
"with it the idea of special consecration,
as much as does the "crowning" of a king.
Gospel. "Glad tidings," (6) Novel' let us
forget that Christ comes to bring gladness
and joy to troubled hearts, TO the poor.
(7) While the world notices the rich,
(theist domes with his special mercies to
the poor and the down trodden. 'Heal
the broken hearted. (8) Every heart hae
its scirrow, mad every sorrower finds a com-
forter, in Christ, • Deliverance to captives.
(9) The Word lies fettered in the prison
house of sin ; Christ comes to set it feee.
Acceptable you'. A. reference t� the year
of jubilee which came every half centurm
when debts were eaticeled, rilaves freed and
estates redeemed, • (10) The goepel brings
men ha* into right relations With one
ariother.
20. Cloud the book. By rolling it to.
Wither. The Minister, The chasmii Witeso
that, if his powers tare supernatural, they
can best be shown by lif sing himself and
his family from their low oondition. (15)
How utterly the world misapprehends
Christ and the Christian ! The carnal mind
cannot look through spirt tualeyes. We haws
heard. Al leitst two miracles had already
taken place, and probably others not
reported by the evangelists. Capernaum.
A. city on the northwest shore of the Sea
of Tiberias. As it lay on the highway
between Damascus. and the Mediterranean
Sea, it was a flourishing town. Now it is
complebeli in ruins, and its locality was
long in dispute. Tell Hum is the name of
the place where it probably stood. No
prophet. (16) Let us beware of that
little jealoasy which often keeps us from
estimating etners at their true worth.
25-27. Of a truth. Christ desires to
impress on his hearers the principle, (17)
That God wotks, not according to human
plans, but along the lines of his own will.
"The greatest Iwo prophets were nos di-
rected to act in accordance with the pro-
verb, ' Physician, heal thyself,' but exerted
miraculous power on Gentiles." -Alford.
Eliae. The prophet Elijah, Three years and
six months. The Old Testament story says
in generarterms " three years ;" but there
iS no discrepancy here. Our Lord merely
gives details which were probably familiar
to every well-informed hearer; for ancient
Jewish tradition specified the additional
"six months," which are also referred to in
James 5. 17, Sarepta. Zarephath, a Phoe-
nician town near the .Mediterranean coast,
between Tyre and Sidon, now Surafend.
A widow. She was not a Hebrew. (18)
God knows who are his trusty ones, though
they may be obscure and unknown to men.
Eliseus. The Greek form of Elisha. Naa-
man the Syrian. • The healing of this
illustrious leper was a singular evidence
that Elishens gifts of healing were not
"kept on exhibition," or used as means of
gain, but. for God's glory. It is as if our
Lord had said directly, "My teachings and
miracles are not for your special benefit or
glorification; rhave now passed far beyond
the limits of earthly relationship." '
28. Filled with wrath. At the disap-
pointment of their expectations, and at
being compared to Gentiles,whom they,held
in uttermost contempt. (19) Human honors
are fleeting; the applause of one hour be.
comes a curse the next (20) Christ's first
public diecourse resulted only in hatred and
opposition; let not, his workers be dis.
couraged when they fail of success.
29. Brow of the hill. The hilt under the
southern elopes of which Nazareth nestles
is not equallygentle in its descent allaround;
ft has one "clifi" at least forty feet high.
Cast him down headlong. He had, in their
,opinion, pla.sphemed God by appropriating
these special prophecies to himself. Now
blasphemy was to the Hebrew not 'merely
the worst of sins ; it was a crime also ; and
its legal punishment was the somalled
"stoning," one mode of excuting which
was to hurl the criminal down a precipice.
Horrible as was their conduct, it had a
semilegal justification from their point
of view. Nevertheless, the lew opinion ef
Nazareth expressed by Nithanael (John 1.
46) seems to hove been correct. (21.) That
Jesus grew up holy amid such surround-
ings gives example and hope to us all.
30. Passing through the midat. His
majesty disarmed them. Very likely also
his most active foes had troublesome sus-
picions and superstitions concerning him.
Went his way. Be left Nazareth, and
thereafter made the town of Capernaurn
his home. (22.) How much we msy lose for-
ever by the passion of one moment
Cook Meat Thoroughly.
It is generally supposed that cooking
meat will destroy any germs of tuberculosis
which may exist therein. Too much reliance,
however, cannot ba placed upon this belief.
Experiment has shown that these disease
germs will stand a high degree of heat.
Light cooking will not destroy them, and
in beef, as often placed upon the table in a
lightly cooked form, the living germs may
still remain. People who like their beef
rare done may wince et thisstatement. It
has been proved by experiment, that it
requires thorough cooking to destroy the
bacilli. Experiments were carried out by -
the local -government board of Great Bri-
tain with the result that meat boiled -from
fifteen to forty minutes, and afterwards fed
to guinea pigs, produced the disease in
these animals, which showed that the mi-
crobes were not destroyed by the cooking.
When the meat was cut into small pieces,
abont an inch square and boiled the same
length of time, the disease germs were der
stroyed, and guinea pigs fed upon the meat
prepared in this way, remained exempt
from the diseafge. In the report of the ego
periments, Professor Brown seys " It
appeare that thorough cooking is effectual
in destroying tubercle virue ; but it is also
evident thet such cooking as was effectual
iis this case, could not be applied to hirge
jointe, nor to any kid of meat without en-
tirely destroying its flexor." This is rather
mipleasant reeding, and •tnclicatues oreall
the great danger of using tubeecoUS meats
for food.
• Poor Thingg
Foeign Guest-" The young girls of this
country ans.:harming ; but why have the
/needed Women sueh a dragged -nut look ?"
Hoet-" Well, you see, some of them, are
worked to death because they have no
servarits arid the rest of them are worried
to deatil because they have," •
ELECTRTOITY FOR RAILWAY TRAMS.
z:lueeetar:: almaef:getive Wheels Can WOW
Nrnint. or 180 Tons at Use 1tate of ao
•
To the French belongs the honor of ocen
etrecting and operating tile drst electric
loceinotive end a notable event it Is. Tile'
inventor's name is Heilman and in honor
of Stephenson, the inventor pf the steam
locomotive, he called his engiae "The 1100 -
!wt.," as Stephenseir's locomotive was oiled.
When it is considered that electrical inven-
tors• have for years sought a means of
applying electricity directly to traetion,
brit have sbill to depend tip= steam as the
geeerator of the power, deriving it in a
secondary way and securing the supply
from power house e scattered along the
roadways and through an elaborate system
of overhead wires, Mr. Heilman's Achieve-
ment becomes interesting. He proceeded
on the principle, instead of generating
electricity at a fixed point and sending it
through a wire to the train, why not gen-
erate it on the road
ON THE rtooderoerve reseme,
converted into a rolling power house?
Instead of putting in Motion through the
msual attachments the wheels of the loco-
motive, why not use the steam engine to
operate a dynamo furnishing as it is needed
directly and on the open the, eleetric
power necessary? The details of his con-
struction have not been given, but his
locomotive is like an ordinary car. With-
in the electricity` is generated and the
current moves the wheels through small
dynamos connected directly with the axle -
trees, which are all converted into motors.
The new locomotive has been given
frequent, trial over a track 25 kilometers
in length between Havre and. Beuzeville-
Breante. The locomotive is eight hundred
horse power and it drew a train of ISO
toes at the rate of thirty miles an hour up
a heavy grade without difficulty. At
other times this locomotive has travelled,
without effort or accident, at the increas-
ing speed of 40, 50, 60 and 62 1.2 miles per
hour. The engine has no undulatory
vibrations, there are no jerks, no destrue.
tive poundings arid
TILE TRAIN BUNS SSI00TIII.1
and steadily and greatly reduces the wear
on the rails. The new locomotive necessi-
tates no change in the existing rolling stock
and is capable of --operation to a high rate
of speed where the roadbed wilt admit of it.
If all that is said about the ffeilman inven-
tion be true, we may expect shortly to see
the electric eugine supplant the steam loco-
motive. It is something which has been
looked for and it is not unexpected, so its
introduction Will not excite the remark
which it otherwise would, but it will re-
volutionize railroading so far as the front
of the train is concerned, and will beaten.
the changes in roadbed and rolling stock
which are necessary before we can have the
mile -a -minute train.
• FREEZING BY MACHINES.
An Idea That ts Yet in its Infancy. but Is
Valuable.
The superiority of refrigeration obtained
by mechanical pro'cesses, as compared with
that obtained by melting ice, appears in
the facts that by it more intense cold may
be secured, that any desired degree °Cook'
may be maintained with perfect uniformity,
that a dryer atmosphere is secured in the
refrigerating box or room, that the incon-
venienee of frequently replenishieg, ice
bunkers and the slop and dirt attendant
upon this work are avoided, that the annoy.
ing uncertainty of ice supply and variability
in its price are avoided, that space in the
rooms or boxes to be cooled is economized
by substitution of a coil of pipe on walls or
ceiling for the bulky ice bunker, and that
this refrigeration can be employed for many
purposes and places where ice cannot be
used at all. Added to all this is ahe fact.
of paramount importance, that where much
refrigeration is required the coat of a ma-
chine and its operation is far less than the
cost of ice sufficient to do an equal amount
of work.
These advantages have proved so great
in practice that every brewery, packing-
house, cold -storage warehouse, or other es-
tablishment requiring a large amount of
refrigeration contains its individual refrig-
erating plant. Where consumption amounts
to ten tons or more of ice daily the question
of economy will be ahnost invariably de-
cided in favor of the machine; if less than
ten tons be required., the cost of a machine
and its operation may exceed the coat of
iee sufficient to do a similar amount of
work. In many cases the supeeior quality
of the refrigeration obtained, its cleanliness,
reliability, and convenience, or the require-
ment of more intense cold thanice will pre -
duce, secures the adoption of the machine.
Therefore, small machines are frequently
found on shipboard, in hotels and apart-
ment houses, and in many menufaetories,
.But most of the ice gathered from rivers
and lakes or made in factories is not con-
sumed by the few who require large quan-
tities, but by the many, who severally
require less than ten tons a day:
The effort to bring this superior refrigerm
tion within the reach of small consumers
has taken two directions -the production
of small and inexpensive automatic ma-
chines and a system of supply of the
refrigerant from central stations. The first
has failed hitherto, because the balance of
constantly varying pressures, temperatures,
strength of.solution, etc., is too complex it
matter • for purely automatic regulation.
Without constant skilled ...Vendee the
machines work unsatisfactorily, while the
relatively high cost of plant, fuel, and cool.'
ing water, in operating on a small scale,
defeats economy.
4-411- •
THE MADLY °TOLD"
SEVERAL NORTAWESTERN TOWNS •
BADLY WRECKED.
Ilentsee f4Weet Away Ince Omer -One
donee With Stv Weenie elartion 30 hods.
Then 1Wresece4-A %Wetness aest Bebe
Hurled 100 ;Met. •
A despatch from Algflua, in Says t"--
Twenty•six 'persons ate reported killed in
Moseuth (Jounty, and 39 injured, sortie
fatally, while the groator part of the town
of Oyclinder, 20 innor! west, was badly'
damaged by the storm whieh swept over this
eeetion of the country Friday night. North
of Cyclinder, the family of AleseGteulden,.
four in number, were killed. Ab Whitte. '
more, 10 miles wet of here, Roberb Ste-
pheiason was killed and his wife fatally
hurt. Nearly a score of pewsone sought
r.efuge in, a house on the Durant place, • All
were more or less hurt, and one woman
will die. Near here Carl Derrick vvas injur,
ed and, his wife fatally hurt, One,of Chars
les Lee's children is dead, and...344, Lee is
badly injured.
George W. Beaver, living three' miles
north of Algona, bad just got home trom.
the fair end entered the house with his
wife and two children and an adopted boy,
when the cyclone struck the house mid
demolished it, Beaver had the baby in Ids
arms, and with it he made his wear north,
to the house of Christian Dau, his father-
in-lew, for aid. His wife was just dying
when he returned. and his little girl soon
afterwards expired.
A YAMILY °ARMED 100 Fenn.
Myron Schneek, wife and child were
carried 100 feet, said when found were lys
ing on a heavy oak lseem. •13oth were hurt,
and Mrs Schneck was unconsoious. Horeee
Schneck, Myron's father, was covered up
with a pile of lumber. Ais condition is
serious, as he is 73 years of age.
East of the river, in Plum Creek Town-
ship, the house of George Holman was
carried 30 rods and dropped with sueh
force as to -wreck it. In it were Mr. Hol-
man and wife and six children, One of the
children was killed and four were injured,
and Holman seriously hurt. An old man
named Dingman, who lived a mile north of
Holman's place, was killed, and seven more
killed northeast of Holman's. Mr. Sweepes
• and two children and infant child of Claus.
den's are dead. •
tinetnn TOWNS DESTROYED.
The town 'of 'Lowther is now a. maga of
bent timbers and splinters. The damage
done to Lowther and vicinity will exceed
$100,300. A severe wind and ram storm
struck Oelwein, and grad,ually grew worse
until 1.30, when without warning those
able to regain consciousness found them-
selves in cornfielde and on the open prairie.
The width of the storm is estimated at half
a mile, and its course due °east and west.
No deaths have been reported in Oelwein,
but three are fatally injured. It is reported
that the village of'New Haven, eight Miles
west of here, was entirely destroyed and
several killed and wounded, but the report
cannot be confirmed. -
Fish With Gill8 and Lungs.
The Academy of Natural Sciences hag
just crane into possession of a rare fish,
whieh can boast of a pair of lungs in addi-
tion to the lungs with which alone less
favored gigh are endowed. The necessity
of these two SetS of breathing apparatus is
readily Seen when the habitof the animel
are known. In Africa where the fish lives,
itinhabits lakes and ponds, Which are
often completely dried up during the dry
season. As long as the water' remains the
lung Ash lives MI do the other members of
the finny tribe, aud breathes by means of
his gills; lint when thepud,ond1 dnldry mitts :
tlisb
burrows; down into the m
round nest, where he live in a senii-torpid
condition, breathing by moans of his linige
until the rainy season relearges him again.
BARLEY AND WHEAT.
It Has 'Been Demonstrated. Tt Earley
P
ik
ays 'Better Than Wit ' t
The comparative cost of barley and wheat
now begins to be of interest to the Canadian
farmer. In the last five yeare the cost of
producing wheat has declined but little,
and that little has been many times wiped
out by the amazing fall in price. For the
greater part of the same time we have had
no market on which to gen surplus barley,
so that despite the diminishing returns
from wheat sve have increased the aoreage
formerly given to that cereal. In Ontario,
lands that used to be devoted to barley
are divided among the other grains, bub
the 1Mn's share of the division fel to wheat.
Now that it has become possible to sell
barley, that grain may be expected to
nmsnner les wen ouousrn.
It may, indeed, do more, for now wheat is
not worth so much more than barley, and
a division of the soil that represents their
present comparative value may be looked
•for. If formerly a fanner gave to barley
two-thirds the area be gave to wheat, he
will now feel like giving equal area to each:
The allotment of his land between the two
grains will depend upon cost of production
and net returns, rather than on compara-
tive price, however. The low price of
wheat is driving farmers in several c.f the
Middle and Eastern States to experiments
in barley -raising, in the hope that better
returns may be obtained. The resultof
an experiment in Maryland, at the State
Agricultural station, are worth inentioning.
They involved winter barley as well as
spring barley, and the yield of winter bar-
ley is nearly twice as great in Maryland
as the yield of spring barley, The infor-
mation rendered by the exaerimenb showed
that the cost of raising barley is $15,15 an
acre, while that of raising wheat $14.
68. A
T11121 NET Arrunlis
from the barley Were shown to be $32.63,
while from the wheat they vvere $5.51. Of
course there could not be that difference in
this country, for our spring barley would
not yield 50 bushels to the %cream the win-
ter barley in this experiment did, but
neither would oer wheat average 38.7
busbela to the acre, as the -wheat in thie
experiment did. Nor ehtmlci the cost of
raising spring barley here he nearly so
inueli as that of raising winter barley in
ielarylancl. If we could not produce either •
grain at a lovrer cot than that indicated •
in this test, we woulti eat produce at all,
for we should be farming at a loss. The ,
result, however -that barley pays better •
than wheat -is demonstrated by figures f
that apply to Maryland. It should be de,
monetrable by figares applying to Ontaiio
e.
sue
Ile Was Too Funny.
" Now$, prisoher," said the warclene " we
tonally sot Men td work in this place at
reemethittg they're used te. What was your
line of basiness ?"
"1 was an engineer," said the prisoner,
with a grin.
"Civil engineer, or
"1 engineered etrikes, sir."
"-Very well," re tuieeed the warden.
"We'll give you a hammer and let you
engineer it few strikes in our sto»ehrcakiiig
establishmerit," And then liadetioue Jim
wished he hadn't bccu'ro ;litany.
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