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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-10-11, Page 2•aWeers • , 8AL9VIE, THE DANGER, AND HER DISTINGUISHED 'VICTIM. * Winked Woman's evaltrenee-arae guseinig Scenes at, Whet Mood IWO.— Who Ball-roont Then and ToeittY—Or. Talmage On Dancing and Its Con - cowl tants. Beroormew, September• 80, 1894.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his roundsthesworld, tour, has minted as the aubjeot of to -day' e eermon, through the press, " 'he Quick Feet," the text Ohm= being Matthew 14, 6 : " When Herocrts birthday wae kept the daughter a Herodias danoed before them, and pleased Herod." It is the anniversary of Herod's birth., day. The palace is lighted. The highways leading thereto are all ablaze with the pomp ef invited guests:. Lords, capts.ins, merchant princes, the mighty men of the lend, are coming to mingle in the festivities. The table is spread with all the lexuries that royal purveyors can gather. The guesta, white -robed and anointed and per- fumed, come in and sit at the table. Music ! The jests evoke roars of laughter. laiddles are propounded. Repartee is indulged. Toasts are drunk, The brain is befogged. The wit rolls on into uproar and blasphemy. Whey are not satisfied yet. Turn on more Light Pour out more win& Music I Sound. all the trumpets ! Clear the floor for a dance I Bring in Salome, the beautiful and accomplished princess 1 The door opensand in bounds the dancer. The lards are enchanted, Stand back and make room tor the brilliant gyrations. These men never sew such "poetry of motion." Their soul whirl e in the reel and bounds with the bounding feet Herod forgets crown and throne and everything but the fascinations of Salome. All the magnificence of him realm ie as nothing now compared with the splendor that whirls on tiptoe be- fore him. His body sways from side to side, corresponding with the motions of the en- chantress. His soul is thrilled with the pulsations of the feet and bewitched with the taking postures and attitudes more and more amazing. After a while he sits in en- chanted silence looking at the flashing, leaping, bounding beauty, and as the dance eloses and the tinkling cymbals cease to clap and the thunders of applause that shook the palace begin to abates, the en- chanted monarch swears to the princely performer, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me I will give it thee, to the half of my kingdom.' Now, there was in prison at that time a minister of the Gospel by the name of John the Baptist, and he had been making a great deal of trouble by preaching some very plaits and honest sermons. Be had denounced the sins of the king and brought down upon him the wrath of the females of the royal household. At the ins etignation of her mother, Salome takes ad- vantage of the extravagant promise of the king and says, "Bring me the head of John the Baptiet on a dinner plate." Hark to the sound of feet Outside the door and the clatter of swords. The exe- cutioners are returning from their awful errand. Open the door. They enter, and they present the platter to Salome. What is on this platter? A new glass of wine to continue the uproarious merriment? No. Something redder and costlier— the ghastly, bleeding head of John the Baptist, the death glare still in the eye, the locks dabbled with the gore, the features still distressed with the last agony. This woman, who had whirled so grace- fully in the dance, bends over the awful burden without a shudder. (She gloats over the blood, and with as much indiffer- ence as a waiting -maid might take a tray of empty. glassware out of the room after an entertainment, Salome carries the dis- severed head of John the Baptist, while all the banqueters hout with laughter, and think it a good joke that in so easy and quick a way they have got rid of an earnest and outspoken minister of the GospeL Well, there is no harm in a birthday festival. All the kings from Pharaoh's time had celebrated such occasions, and why not Herod? No harm in kindling the lights. No harm in spreading the banquet. No harm in arousing music. But from the riot and wassail that closed the scene of that day every pure nature revolts. I am not at this time to discuss the old ques- tion, is dancing right or wrong? but I am to discuss the question, Does dancing take too much place and occupy too much time in modern society? and in nig remarks 1 hope to carry with me the earnest convic- tion of 6,11 thoughtful persons, and I believe I will. You will all achnit whatever you think of hat style of amusement and exercise, that from many circles it has crowded out all in- telligent conversation. You will also admit that it has made the condition of those who do not dance, either because they do not know how, or because they have not the health to endure it or because through con- scientious scruples they must decline the exercise, very uncomfortable. You will also admit, all of you, that it has passed in many caees from an amusement to a dime. nation, and you are easily able to under- stand the bewilclerment of the educated Chinaman, who, standing hi the brilliant circle where there waa dancing going on Lour or five houra, and the guests seemed' exhausted, timed to the proprietor of the bouse and said, " Why don't you allow your servants to do this for you?" The feet were not given for dancing, but to walk modeetly, not to leap impudently like oismele." One of the dogmas of the atioient Cherch reads "A dance is the &vita: posseseion, and he that entereth into a dance entereth into his poseession. As maty pacers as a Man makes in claning, so many paces don he tneke to hell." Elm. • where the old dogmas declated this eveman that siegebh in the dame: is the • princess a the devil, Med those that answer are her Omits, aed the beholders are hie friends, d,ncl the music is his bellows:, and tho fiddlers are the ministers of the devil, For es when hogs are ateayeds if the hogs - heed 0,11 one ail asrannble together, to when the devil ealieth Mae atomise to sing iu the dance, of te play on 'wine musical instru. met e troseetly all the &Meets seethe e tn. eobbele" Tbis indieeriminete and uniVerael denunoiation of the exercitie came front the tot ensa utterly and ceinpletein cl But we are not to dieouss cuetorns of tire olden times, bub cusemus now, We are pot to take the evidence oi the ancient fathers, but our own Oeuseleacep eeligbten. edbythe Wora of God, is to be the sternit erd, Oh, bring no hersh criticism report the youeta, I would not drive out from their tints the hilarities of life. I do not believe that the inhabitants of anoient Wales, when they seepped to the sound of the rustics harp, went down to ruin, I belie:re Gad intended the young people to laugh and romp and. play. I do not be- lieve God. would have put exaberance in the soul and, exuberance in the body if he had not inbreeded they should in sume wise exercise ib and dew onstrate it. If a mother join hands with her ohildron and cross the fleor to the mend of music, I me no harni. If a group of friends cross and recross the room to the sound of piano well played, 1 see no harm. If e company, all of whom are known to host and hostess as repu- table cross and recross the room to the sound of musical hestrument, I see no harm. I tried for a long time to see harm in it. I could not see any harm in it. I never shall see harm in that. Our men need to be leepc young, young fop many yeera longer than they are kept young. Never since my boyhood days have I bad more sympathy with the inure:Kant hilarities of liSe than I have now. What thougti we have felt heavy burdens 1 What though we heve had to endure hard knocks ! Is that any reason why we should stand in the way of those who, unstrung of life's mis- fortunes, are full of exhilaration and glee ? God bless the young ! They will have to wait many a long year before they hear me say anything that would depress their ardor or clip their wings or make them be- lieve that life is hard and cold and repul- sive. It is not. I tell them, judging from my own experience that they will be treat- ed to a great deal better than they deserve. We have no right to grudge the innocent hilarities to the young. As to the physical ruins wrought by the dissipations of social life there can be no doubt. What may we expect of people who work all day and. dance all night? After awhile they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles. These people who indulge in the suppers and the mid- night revels and then go home in cold un- wrapped. limbs, will after a while be, found to have been written down in God's eternal records of suicides, as much suicides as if they had. taken their life with a pistol, or knife, or strychnine. How many people have stepped from the ball-roomin to the graveyard! Consumptions and swift neuralgias are close on their track. Amid many of the glittering scenes of social life, diseases stand right and left and balance and chain. The breath of the eepulchre floats up through the perfume and the froth of Death's lips bubbles up in the champagne. I am told thet in some of the cities there are parents who have actually given up housekeeping and gone to boarding that they may give their time illimitably to social dissipations, I have known such cases, I have known family after family blasted in that way in one of the other cities where I preached. Father arid mother turning their back upon all quiet culture and all the amenities of home, leading forth their entire family in the wrong direction. Annibilamd, worse than annihilated—for there are some things worse than annihilation, I give you the history of more than one family when I say they went on in tha dissipations of social life until the father dropped into a lower style of dissipation, and after a while the son was tossed out into society a nonentita and after a while the daughter eloped with a French dancing -master, and after a while the mother, getting on further and further in years, tries to hide the wrirkles but fails in the attempt, trying all the arts of the belle, an old flirt, a poor miserable butterfly without any wings. If there is anything on earth beautiful to, me it is an aged woman,her whitelocks flow inn back over the wrinkled brow—locks not white with frost as the poets say,but white with the blossoms of the tree of life, in her voice the tenderness of gracious memories, her face a benediction. As grandmother passes through the room the grandchildren pull at her dress, and she almost falls in her weakness; but she has nothing but, candy or cake or a kind word for the little dar- lings. When she gets out of the, wa.gon in front of the house the whole family rush out and cry, " Grandma's come 1" and when she goes away from us never to return, there is a shadow on the table, and a shadow on the hearth, and a shadow on the heart. There is no more touching scene on earth than when grandmother sleeps the last slumber and the little child is lifted tip to the casket to give the last kiss, and she says; "Good -by, grandma 1" Oh, there is beauty in old. age. God says so. "The hoary head is a crown of glory." Why should people decline to get. old? The best things, the greatest things I know of are aged. Old mountains, old seas, old stars and old eternity. But if there is anything distressful, it is to see an old woman ashamed of the fact, that she is old. What with all the artificial appliances, she is too much for my graeity. I laugh even in church when 1 see her coining. The worst looking bird on earth is a peacock when it has lost its feathers. I would not give one lock of my old mother's gray hair for fifty thousand such caricatures of humanity. And if the life of a worldling,- if the life of a disciple given to the world is sad, the close of such a life is simply a tragedy. You know as well as I do that the dissi- pations of social life are destroying thou- sands and tens of thousands of people, and it is time that the pulpits lift their voice against them, for I now propheey the eter- nal rniefortizne of all those who enter the rivalry. When did the white, glistening boards of a dissipated ball more ever be- come the road to Heaven? When was a torch for eternity ever lighted at a chan- delier of a dissipated scene? From a table spread after such an excited and dessecrate ed scene who ever went home to pray! At the time of a relimotie awakening a Christian young woman spoke to a man in regard to- his aoul's salvation. He Bottled out mita the world. After awhile she be - evade worldly in her Christiati profession. The MAU mid. one day, "Well, I am as safe as she is. /' wee not a Christian ; she said she Was a Chrietian. She talked with me about my soul ; if else is safe,1 tun safe." Then a sudden aecident took him off with - rest am opportunity to titter one word of prayer. Do yon tot realize, have you not eoticed, young and old—have you not, noticed that the diseipations ef social life ate bleating and deetroying a vast multi- tude 1 While the reasqtteritde ball of fife goes on they trip merrily over the iloor, gemmed hand is attached to gemmed hand, and glemeing brow bends to gleaming brow, On wits the dant:! Flush arid trade and burgh ter of immeasurable Merry. making. But efter awhile the languor of (teeth domes oz the flash and Wires the TILE .EJXB1R TINES •wet/eight. Light!: lower, Floor hollow with, sepulchrel eche. Moto saddened let° is wail, Lights lowers Now the meek - ors aro only aeon in the dina light. Noer the fragrance: of the Atswere ie like ehe ackeohig edor that comes from garlands • that have leas long in the vaults Of nine- teries, Lights lower. Mists gather in the roons. Glesses shake as though quaked by esuldeu thunder. Sieis eenght in the curtain. Scarf drops from, the shoulder of beauty a ehrovid, Lights towers Oiler the slippery boards its deuee of death glide jealousies, envies, revenges, lust, despair and death. Stench the lempswielre ehnost extipeuished, Toro gerlenas will not ball oover the ulcerated feet. Chokieg damps, Chilliness. Feet still, Hands closed, Voices huelied. -Eyes ehut. Lights out. Oh, how many at you have floated far away front God through eocial dissipations, and it is time yen termed. For I reinein. ber that there were two vessele ox the sea and in the storm. it was very, very dark, and the two vesselwere going straight for eaoh other, and the captains knew i.b not. But after a, while the man on the lookout save the approaching ship, and he shouted, " Har t1 a -larboard!" and from the °the, vessel the cry went up, Hard a-lar.r board, 1" and they turned just enough to glance by, and passed in safety to their harbors. Some of you are in the storm of temptation, and yen are driving on and corning toward fearful colli.sions unless you change your course. Hard te-larboard,1 Turn ye, turn ye, for "why will ye die, oh, house of Israel ?" WHAT WE EXPORT. Large Increase tit Exports of Cheese—The Benefit of Spraying Apple Trees. Our theme exports are steadily improv- ing, whereas our butter exports appear to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. Ac- cording to The Trade Bulletin of Montreal there have been shipped from Montreal for the season up to Sept, 14 1,057,762 pack- ages of cheese and 13,671 packages of butter, as against 934,260 packages of cheese and 38,454 packages of butter for the same period in 1893. If the decline in butter exports to'one-third of those of last season be explained by the &Birth, we are confronted by the increase of cheese ex- ports by nearly 9,000,000 pounds. If the explanation be given that butter has gone into cold storage for speculative purposes, then we may rest assured that the Canadian butter industry will receive another set- back, for John Bull wants his butter fresh, and will use no other on his table. The Canadian horticulturist for Septem- ber contains two items that should be placed side by side and examined by our farmers. The first is an extract from an Ingersoll apple -grower :—." I sprayed my apple orchard five times this summer, and I have, I think, the finest samples all through I ever saw." Tke other is from al report by a Chicago firm as to that mar- ; keit :—" Fancy fruit, from $2,4e, to $2,60 ; choice fruit, from $2,15 to $2,25 ; fair to 1 good, $1,15 to $2.25." Spraying the trees , at a cost of a few cents a tree will in many cases make the difference of $1 • a barrel. High quality 'generally means 1 high prices. I The Corn Trade News of Liverpool in its , latest issue copies an article from The Buenos Ayres Standard dealing with the I question of the cost of raising wheat in Argentina. The concluding sentence is significant Yet the Santa Fe colonist, owning his farm, implements and machines, can make a profit off wheat at eleven shill- ings per quarter at the railwey stetson." The production of wheat in Argentina at 34 cents per bushel with a profit to the grower is one 'cause of the present low prices. The United States Consular report ,for September contains the statements of ex- ports declared for the United States for the quarter ending June, 30. 1894. The total exports from Ontario were $4,013,151, as against $4,704,903 for the same quarter in 1893. The principal items were the follow- ing :—Lumber, $1,290,027„- logs and tim- ber, 981,459, beans, $215,493; nickel matte, $183,050; emigrants' effects, $166,459 ; shooks, staves, headings and bolts, $153,- 032 ; fish, 8140,987; hides, skins and furs, $122,858; lath amd shingles, $113,924. The various products of the forest amounted in all to $2,660,880. • THE SUNDAY BOHOOL; INTARNAvoNAL LESSON'. OOTOBER 14, 1894. "Thii opauott of suseo,': Luke 5, 1.1.1.— INOIDEN TEXT — Dark 1.17, neeraleet, swelegei We, Prom nnfriendly Nazareth jeaus deseends te ()epeeists:2m, ou the shore of the lake, where he reeeives a ready welcome. The Sabbath day finds hies in the synagogee, teachiag with power, The eiek are healed, the devil:)ere met out, and the multitudes gather around the wonderful propliet., As he walks heside the sea, the crowd presses s so closely thee he takes • a ship for his pulpit and teaches the throng upon the shore. At his command the disciples puth forward and drop their nets, which are at once filled with a meltitude of fish. Over- whelmed wieh wonder and awe, they- rec- ognize him as divine, and, leaving fish, nets, and boats on the eller°, they go forth, followers of Jesus. EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. Pressed upon him. His works were so numerous and his words so laetrile - tire that the multitudee thronged after hire. (1) There is a hunger in human hearts which only the bread of life can satisfy, and the people will follow after those who can bestow it. To hear the word. His message was not the dry shell of rabbinical learning, but the pine, fresh word of God, whieh at- tracted the people. He stood -by the lake. Ile had gone forth, nob to teach, but to 1 rneditete, to feast upon the scenery, and to rest on the, pebbly beach. Yet when souls came to him. for spiritual food he was never too weary to supply their needs. (2),,Let us always be ready to show to seeking hearts the way oflife. (3) God's work mut not wait on our feelings. Genneearet. Also called the "Sea of Galilee," from the province nearly surrounding it, and "Tib- erias," from its principal city. It is of oval shape, fourteen miles long by seven wide and lying six hundred and fifty-three feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea. The River Jordan runs through it from north to south. On its eastern shore are cliffs two thousand feet high, furrowed by 'ravines. On the west the descent is more gradual and the hills more distant. Once . densely populated, its shores are now alines t I without inhabitants. Its modern name is •Bahr Turbitriyeh. I 2. Two ships. Small boats or fishing smacks, each carrying four or five fishermen. I At that period, according to Josephue, there were two hundred and thirty fishing I boats on the lake. Now there isnot one, Iand silence broods over the sacred sea. Standing. Probably drawn by on thethots. Fishermen. These were the two pair of brothers, Andrew and Simon,sons of Jonas, and James and John, sons of Zebedee. They belong to the hardy ranks of toil, out of which in every age God has called some of his best workmen; (4) Christ cheeses his disciples and messengers not fcrm the idlers, but the industrious. (5) Fidelity in humble vocation is the beat preparation for a higher call. Washing their nets, Already among the disciples of Jesus, these fishers had beeu listening to his teachings by day, and then workinglor the support of their families by night, the best time for plying their trade. (6) We must care for our bodies as well as for our souls. 3. He entered. (7) Whatever belongs to the disciple is honored by tha use of the Master. Jesus expects us to hold our all subject to his service. Simon. Afterwards known as Peter. He had already become acquainted with -Jesus (John 1. 40-42), and was at this time recognized as his disciple. He resided at or near Capernaum, and was engaged at his trade of -fisherman, not yet having gone forat as an apostle. Prayed him. Asked as a favor. (8) He who is Lord of all the universe, and can ride upon the chariot. of the •whirlwind, humbles himself to borrow the use of the fisherman's boat. Thrust out. That he might not be crowded, so -closely by -his congregation that only those nearest mould Ihear his words. Sat down. The usual position of a speaker or instructor in the IEast. Taught the people. He did not deliver orations, but spoke as a teacher, unfoldina, illustrating; and enforcing the truth, so that the plain and uneducated masses could understand 'it. Out of the ship. Probably the boat lay in a little cove, on whose sloping shores the crowd sat or stood, as in an amphitheater, almost sur- rounding the floating pulpit, (9) Learn the advantage of adapting oneself to circumstances. Christ was not limited to the desk in the synagogue, but could discoutle from a rock on the mountain or the slippery seat, of a fishing smack, and could find a text in a sheaf of wheat or a tuft of lilies. (10) He whose heart is full of a theme will be at no loss for words to talk about it. . 4. Left speaking. We have no record of the discourse, but it was not lost, ,f,,ox its results remainecl in the hearts and iofluenced the characters of his hearers. (11.) The tooth of time corrodes the inscription on marble, but eternity shall only deepen that written on hearts. He said. After his discourse, though weary, be has no thought of self, but only of his unsuccessful friends. (12). Remember that Jesus ever feels more for our burdens than for his own. He knew their failure yet draws its ritory from their •own lips. (13). So Jesus would always have us tell him all our trembles and de:appoint- ments, that he may comfort and relieve up. Nets. 'Probably seines. The seine has its lower margin loaded, so ea to reach to- ward the bottom, and the upper fringed with corks, go that the net forms a per- pendicular Well in the water. Fastening one end at the Shore, the fisherman lets the net into the water, and fetching a semi- circle, inclosing the fish within its compass, returns to the shore at the , point •from which he started."—Whedon. 5. Master. A title of respect generally givee to religious teacher. Toiled all the night. It is well knoWil that certaie kinds of fishieg are generally carried on during the nighttime more successfully than in the daylight. Taken nothing. -(I4) Want of esuccees is not always the result of tdlettem, The Worker may deserve to succeed even though he fail. (l 5) Soinetiines God delays the hour t:f success.otly that he may make ifthe mote siimal. Those who toil all the night may yet obtain a more abutidaut reward in the morning. (16) God rewards nob only ban Who tiornes back bearing trophies, but thee who fOught and failed bo Wirt bli BIL At thy word I Will, NW` has witnessed Christ's miraculous wetter, and knows somewhat of his power. Though *eats, and dinouragod, los is ready to re- turn to Werk at his will, (17) Faith hi. imitate over bhe flesh, and mit of weaktres is CHARGED WITH COWARDICE. Some of the Chinese °facers in Daimger Of Losing Their Heads. A despatch from Shanghai, dated to -day, says :—The Chinese naval officers now at Port Arthur and Tien-Tsin are squabbling among themselves as to the responsibility for the terrible Chinese losses in the naval battle of the Yalu. A court of enquiry is sitting and has already found Capt. Fong, of the warship Tsi-Yuen, guilty of coward- ice in the face of the enemy. He was con- demned toi it e beheaded, and s believed b • that other offieers will lose their heads. A telegram from the Kung-Taotai at Port Arthur, received by the commandment at Wei -Hai -Wei, positively aocusea the com- mander of the Chen-Yueo of taking flight with his vessel before the battle at the first sight of the enemy's stroke. Admiral Ting who remains at Port Arthur, has oleo tele- grapbed to Wei-liai-Wei making grave charges against some of his officers. The admiral declares that the Ping -Yuen the Kwang-Ting and the Chin -Chung, together with four torpedo boats, were up the Yalu river vvhen the battle commenced. There they remained until the fighting was over. They then sneaked out and made for Port Arthur. Two of these torpedo boats how- ever, are said to be still •missing. The admiral adds: " The Japanese developed their Islam and delivered their main attaok so suddenly that we diecevered ourselves to be surrounded and attaeleed on all sides." At a Summer Hotel, Stayborne—`1Efow wad the weather where you were this summer ?" Oater—"Coel enough for blankets: every nighb!' 'My ! My 1 I envy you." "Y -es, but we hadn't the blanketa." • Ptill Directions. Guest (summer resort)--" The Water bete rsii't, fit to tirttikas Proprietor—" Yeu will find the bar et the farther end of the hall, sir, down one flight." A Frencli physician reports a ease Of him 1 comeh succeriefully treated by taking snuff tititii suede eg wusa provoked. retele strong, (18) Faith prompt § to °bath,. toe, even in the facie of reason and sight. 6, Tine done. Tbougli Jesus was MS board, there was work for the fieherMan bo do. • (19) Matt must drop his net, though God alorie will make his efforts •4110888, ful, Chriet will not do. fop us whet we 0 en do for oereelvem Multitude of fishes. (20) The same work which where wreught on our own account fails, ender (mainland of (thrift proves a success. Then let ria tette him es cue partner and director in all affairs of life. (21) Observe the aboolute and may mastery of Chrieb oven nature—meth, air, and water—ell the units verse obeys him, The enly point of resise- mace is when he I1108b8 a hUMaIl will. (22) - It le &ways safe to obey Christ even whee his commands seem unreasonable. Net brake. Literally, "wee breaking," Tho weight of the mass of fish began to break the cordageemdengering the toes of the en- tire haul. (23) The Master Would keep us reminded that success and failure are separated by only a narrow line. 7. Beckoned. Made signale without speaking) from ast•nishment and awe, or perhaps because their parents were too far to hear their voices. Help them. -What the fellow -workers can do by uniting all their energies, Jesus will not do for them. though all power is his. (24) Those who work for Jesus must work together and help each other, dr their labors will end in failure. Began to sink. How clearly Chrise would show his disciples that. (25) After all there can be no true succese in fishing for seals without absolute reliance on him. S. Saw it. Peter had witneesed other miracles and felt only wonder; now he beholds something that touches himself, and for the first time the convittion rolls upon his soul that he is in the presence of a divine Being, He feels, as felt Moses be- fore the burning bush, "afraid to look upon God ;" as fele Isaiah in the smoking holy place, conscious of his own unworthiness. (26) Every Twin in immediate presence of Gocl is overwhelmed with the thought of his own sinfulness, It is well if he can find refuge in the assurance of pardon and mercy. Depart from me. (27) The first feel- ing of the awakened conscience is that of dread and terror, often accompanied with a desire to drive away religions impressions. Many go no further, and quell the influences of the Spirit. Sinful man. (28) He who recognizes and confesses his own condition is in the path of salvation. 9. Astonished. "Amazement wrapped him round." (29) Somethnes, but not al- ways, astonishment at God's dealings leads men to seek his face. 10. James. One of three chosen diciples nearest the Lord, and witness to most of his miracles. He was put to death by King Herod (Acts 12. 2). John. The beloved disciple, anciprobably youngest of the twelve. Fie died at Ephesus, aged nearly 100 years. Zebedee. Nothing is known concerning the father of these two disciples. He was probably aged, and died soon after these events. Fear not. Though Peter had said, "Depart,'' Jesus did not take him at his word, for he heard the prayer of his heart rather than of his lips. His first words are reassuring and comforting. Catch men. A. call to leave his nets and engage in the higher vocation of winning souls. The miracle was au object lesson to teach him how this should be accomplish- ed. 11. To land. By drawing them upen the beach. Forsook all. The boats filled with fish and the nets which were their only means of obtaining a living are promptly abandoned as the call of Christ is heard. (30) They left ALL, not in the hour of failure,but of success. (31) Those who would beChrista: workers must be prepared to make some sacrifices in his service. Followed him. Companions of his journeys, learners from his lips, messengers of his word. (32) Those who are to labor for Christ need to dwell with him and learn of him. WAR FEELING IN FRANCE. Possibility That the Chinese Forces may Have to Face French Foes. China may have to face two foes. France is likely Co take up arms against the Mongolians unless full reparation is instantly made for the murder of the French customs collector at Tonquin, says a Paris correspondent. With two forces striking at China, the French from the south and the Japanese from the east, it is easily seen what the end would be. Of course, both England and Russia would have a voice in the tnatter, neither nation wishing to see France make any further inroadsinto Chine then it has made in its ascendency over Tonquin. But the French blood is begin- ning to reacts the boiling point, The outrage committed by the pirates of the Upper Mehong on the family of Collector Chaillet is being used as a text for ranguinary ar- tioles in the newspapers. They demand not only an apology and a money indemnity, but also an absolute guarantee against any more attacks on the Frenah in Tonquin. If not, they cry, then war. The deed of the pirates was most certain- ly a brutal one. They swooped down upon M. Chaillet's house at night and attempted to kidnap his wife and daughter, the latter an exceedingly pretty girl. M. Chaillet had no aid in opposing them, and was quickly beaten down and was cut almost to pieces. He was dead when found the rext morning and his wife and daughter had disappeared, undoubtedly carried off by the marauding ruffians. That they are now undergoing the most awful kind of slavery is certain, French officers in Ton- tmin insist that the Chinese authorities are In league with the pirates and aid them to escape whenever pressed by the French. It is this that causes France to ory out for reparation or war. ADatli De Luxe. All have heard of the edition de luxe in books, no doubt, but,uot everybody knows about the bath de luXe, which is nesver still. A good deal Of it is dotte in Phila. delphise Compared with the.bath de luxe the Turkish variety feint in it It starts with heating, very much in the Terkiele waywbut had electrical attachments, elec- trical ourrents being sent through the water and alto manieuring and other extrat." A Small Boy's View. Mother --4, There goes another one of those dirty tramps. I can't see why they don't keep °leen, anyhow." Senall 8on—"Niebby ev'ett they was little their mothers made them wash so often they got siok of A HUstler. Old lady (proudly)—"My bog ie a hustler all the time, bat ha is humpaig himself here lately," Vieitor—'Xt thet so? What bieycle does he ride?" vvRAT, xs GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF TIM GLOBE, Old luta New World Evellis Of Interest Brielly—litteresting Bair Penings or accent wee, e‘ reArldininebwAess:Pricao°alli.einiseol7g:::: haarse bnel:a1:2isfe°ovidhor‘ conA .) • e3111042i. of tile w°r1,d's dried Plums efrom cttseafsitaius nboralligra.ahave reoellblY proved sue' Te htiebelitbriceknebriani A tlie4i.waorld,are made bY thibofa The present King of Siam has 46 uam es but 118 48 called Chelalonkoru for ;short. Tthhee SaiLar. of Persia will not sit at a table on whicis either salmou or lobster appears. The Queen of Spain never uses blotting paper, but dries her letters by waving them in oriPckeerhtaer.ps the'most happily named an in England is Thankful Joy, a Hampshire embracing vegetarianism"wtilillabteiwco°mnieellmbeny onAthaehjiundegmemeet:eb day.b11 ev in Among t inbohuernSionag.th, Sea Islanders black ove and white striped goods are even nworn currtitiesye,esthimmalsteehdotld. hat nearly 20,000 pounds of bread are daily eaten ie the Sultan of Sir Lyon Playfair's name is pronounced tailt s aif siotrf am rtyomedwaintlai at alt. but he is not Teresita Cauzio, the daughter of General Garibaldi, is writing the story of his life in its most intimate details. Cartoonist, Thomas Nast has been engag- ed by Editor William Waldorf Astor as artist for his three London publications. Only citizens who are able to read and write have the power to vote in Bolivia, and several other South American republics. The British ship Berean, which recently rounded Cape Horn, experienced the phe- nomenon of a heavy cloud of dust at sea. When a child dies in Greenland the native parents bury 'a living dog with it, the ot he dogo else rw b ouo world, a edby the child an a guide t India:furnishes a market for large num- bers of white diamonds, as well as for yellow or colored diamonds, or stones with flaws or specks in them. The highest viaduct in the world has just been erected in 13oevin, over the River Lea, 9,883 feet above the sea level and 4,008 feet above the river. s Paderewski's hair has been falling out to such an extent within the past few mouths that his late photograph, it is stated, finds no sale in London. Old shoe throwing is done for many pur- poses. In Ireland the election of a person to almost any office is concludetaby throw- ing an old. shoe over his head. The will of the late Jose de Lavea,ga, the Santa Cruz, Cal., millionaire, provides $600,000 for a home for the blind, deaf, diunb, paralytic and aged. Japanese doctors never present bills to their patients. They await the patient's inclinetion to pay, and then thankfully accept whatever sum is offered. t The Prince of Wales says that "Robinson Crump " was the favorite book of his child- hood. Mr. tauskin's chief delight in his youth was the "Arabian Nights." , Robert Louis Stevenson's estate in Samtia includes four hundred acres Of forest land and is situated at an elevation ranging from six hundred to fifteen hundred. feet. Mrs. Humphrey Ward has made eighty thousand dollars from "David Grieve, eighty thousand dollars from "Marcella," and forty thousand dollen from "Robert Elsmere. ' The most adventurous trip said to have been taken by a woman was recently com- pleted by Mrs. Littledale, who, with her hesband, started from Constantinople and crossed Asia to Shanghai. Even to this day certain communities of Buddhists and Mohammedans pray by the hour before their favorite plant or flower. In India this species of worship seems to be the most prevalent , In China the cobbler still goes from house Vo honae announcing his approaseh wish a rattle, and taking up his abode with the, family while he accomplishes the necessary making and mending. As an indication of the thrift among the working classes of France it is stated that there are now 6,000,000 depositors in the French savings banks with an accumulated fund of 112,000,000, • Two Italian ironclads bave been ordered to Morocco, in view of the disturbed situ- ation there. The inhithite.nts of Munes, France, are very indignant hecaese the Prefect has for- bidden an announced bull -fight. Mr. Louis Gothmann, the Chicago as- tronomer, reaffirms his discovery of what seems to be a sign of vegetation in the nacon. It is reported in Shanghai that the Em. peror is dissatisfied with the coarse events are taking, and that atrair8 are gradually working towards a coup d'etat, Admiral de Gama asserts thab there has: been rioting in Rio de Janeiro, lasting eve days, accompanied by outrages on Por- tuguese merchante, instigated by President Peixoto. A feather merchant of Paris has recently received 6,000 birds of paradise, 300,000 Indian birds of various spicier' and 400,000 humming birds. Another dealer has re- ceived 40,000 birds frorn America and 100,- 000 front Africa. A Suesex, (England) correspondent era noancee on the mithority of his vicar, that Mee out of ten of the humblest brides swear to" love and honor cherries arid .0, berry," instead of the regular "cherish and obey" of the marriage service. Every year a Jewish girl in Frankforb,. Germany, reeeives a dowry of $2,500, the income 61 a bequest by Berms Rothschild. Any respectable Jewess not younger than 17 or older than 36 may apply, and lots are drawn for the prize. The death of "The Blind Wonlan of elieuzariares" hag ettracted wide attention in Spain, where.ehe Was khown from one end of the countias to the other. She wee e. poet, atel had a tentarkable talent, foe writ- ing beggieg verso, describing her misery, She was tsaid to be 013.0 of the best recitme In Speinmed Many of the most famous men in the eountre made pilgritriageri to her home tis hear het Queen Diabetics gava her it pension yeare age, She left about $60,000, THE CORN SHORTAOE! Wafture et Mc Cern oven in lite ironed, staks mu Not Effect This Country. Willie tile general husinees situation in the United Steam: has merry cheering feat, tures abeet it tbere QOM he uo question thaiethe reported, failure of the core crop . the west lias coneiderably darkened the prospects, The Washington bureau, in ita last report, calculeted the ehortege et the enormous tubal of 600,000,000 buellelis. Since the date wheat the retuens on whish that report was based were ergeoted the weather has been altogether fevorahle, and " it is believed that the October mop report will be more favorable as to the prospects for corn. Indeed, some private authorities, whose judgment and knowledge are worthy of confidence, have propheaiecl that there will be almost an average yield. • This is probably over -sanguine. If the shortage in the corn crop wee , anything like as considerable as b1e Gov, .ernment report indicated, e severe check would undoubtedly be placed on the hoped for return of good times in the United States. Not alone would there be the enormous loss to the farmers many of whom are in no. position to lima further dis- asters, but there would be also- the lose of traffic for the railways which have not re. covered from the severe reverses of the past twelve months. It is but natural that we in Canadashodld, be concerned to know what effect such a failure of one of the great staple products of theUnited States would have on our own country. A carefurreview of the situation scarcely leads to the belief that any leading interest hero would suffer even if the short- age is aa serious as the estimates of the Government statisticians indicate. Our chief industries, namely, lumbering, dairy- ing and stockraising, will not be affeeted to r. any extent whatever. If anything, the grain -growers would be benefited. It is well-recognized law that When there is a failure in any particular cereal crop there is usually a resort to some other which in price and quality forms the best substitute. The Northwest wheat crop this year is large, and there can be no doubt that the grain will supply the corn deficiency to a considerable extent. Its present price would make it an acceptable substitute for feed and for use in many industries and processes where corn is ordinarily employed. The effect of a failure of the United States corn crop would therefore in all likelihood have a tendency to hold up the price of wheat on this contineet, while the evil effects on railway transportation will fall almoat entirely on those roads which carry the products of the coringeowing States. So far as our Canadian roads are concerned it is probable that they will be fully em- ployed if the effect of the corn shortage is to make a brisker call for wheat as a substitute. Modern communities are so linked together commercially thdt business depressionen one is almost inveniably res. fleeted more or less strongly in the others ; but there seems nothing en the corn short- age, even if as great as the most bearish reports state it to be, to" cause Canadians to take a gloomy view of the, commercial outlook. e, ON TO PEKIN. The Capital of china may Be in the Bands of the Japanese Before Many Days. If the despatches that are received from day to day from Eastern Asia contain some- thing more than mere gossip and the fruits of the imagination of a few bewildered news- paper correspondents, the early indications that Japan would wage an aggressive war with her pigtailed enemies are being fulfill- ed. By their recent successes on land and sea the troops of Mikado have, got posses sion of the Corean peninsula, have hemmed in whatever Chinese forces are stationed there, and have apparently got, almost van. challenged control of the waters that separ- ate the peninsula from the mainland. They s' seem, r 'reeves., bent on availing themselves of all ta; 'advantages, that • Tun • BRILLIANT AORIEVEIVIENTS have brought them, and are about to Carry the war into the enernyai country and to the very gates of their capital. Thirty- four years ago a email army of British and French troops encamped outside the svelte of Pekin, and Prince Kling, the brother of the Emperor, chose to threw open the gates rather than have the city destroyed by the invaders. Now another army it attempting to earry old the same bold, yet feasible, desigu, but the circumstances are entirelychanged and the chances of success enormously reduced. Although the Japan- ese Officials are discreetly reticent, their plan of campaign seems to comprise two distinct movements. One large force is advancing by land from Corea towards Moukden, a city which, after Pekin, ie perhaps the moat important in China for purposes of conquest. It was planned and built for the imperial capital immediately after the ancestors of the present illmperk overthrew the ancient Ming dynasty, butait was afterward decided, to establish the dragon throne at Pekinnowards which city the other movement is proueeding by sea with a degree of celerity and spirit that bodes well (or the success of the under- taking. The idea seems to be 'to put an army ashore at the eastern side of the Gulf of Liared'ong, which will proceed alotg the coast to the mouth of the Peiho, where the Taleu forts are situated ; at the mune time a naval expedition • will cross the Gulf of Pe -Chi -Li, and the Week on the forts will be Made sitneltaneonaly ' BROM LAND AND SEA* In the eveht of suecess attending beth ot therm movements, railway -oonimpnicatibn mighteaeily be established between the tWo it:Vatting armies, for a railway kiln opera. tion from Moukden to Tien -sin, Which is the port cpf Pekin, and is only a kW Miles , from the Take forts, It is almost oertain thab this is the plan that the Japanese heve been carefully devising, but it hi impossible to 'calm from the despatches' just how far they have proceeded with their opeeations, The Chinese naval forte, it ie Safe to says will be unable to Offer any effecbual resists ance to the forte that, will ttack the Taku forts ; hot as regards the. possibility Of tits Chinese land force being able to 'cheek the ' advance linen Motikden it is impossible te form an opinitm, for China's Streligth in the' north is comparatively unknown, The Arst oil Well in Anieriea leas on es small tarns in the meunteine pi Wayne CO. 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