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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-10-4, Page 2liXWPFA TIACES Z10011E118, COKE BPI •TALTME SAYS WE EST ALL 09XE DOWN` FROM TRE TREE LIM3, iiratt Curiosity, snot °awn trad Folio Tax«Cattlierers 0 t Oid Onice-See To -dor -Heaven Isn't Iteitelted Ti Athens, ?nut Through. Itetitielt BnOOltt.YX, Sept. 23. 1804 Tielame°, who is now prep •,Auetrelie for Iudia, on hie tour, ha,s selected as hi eermon through the Golleetor's Conyers from Luke 19 n come to this Zaecheus gatherer the op the tempte Bible ertya pubiioae bee u ru awful Go rid tley's e Tex - mug taken is salvation lama said a tam honeat oiling, but stealing was so large, too trutch for him, Tim 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, Gotoux TExT See timt ye "%luso AO Wul. 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. •••,