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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-11-15, Page 6T KVENLY flIL vrir. DR. TALMAGE WRITES OF `MR VICTORY OVgR PAIN. A 'Ovid Word "Picture ea the Jays or but enoettnity.--Consolateen. tor the 'Mart' and emtrowfut—The rains or LAVOIE Ara 4(We or ileavell. DnoOILLTE, 11(Tv. 4.—Rev. Dr. Tab:anal whit is now nearing the close of his glebe dr cling tour mid who will shortly reach Anseri- ean ;shores, tree selected ati the subject of to -day's glean= through, the prees "Victory Over Pain," the text chosen being Revela- tion xxi.4, "Neither shall there be any more pain." The firsts question that) you ask when about to chauge your residence to Any oity is the health of the place? Is it shaken of terrible disorders? What are • the. billa of mortality? Whet is the death rate? How high rises the thermometer?" And am I not reasonable in asking, What are the sanitary conditions of the heavenly city into which we all hope to move? My text Lammers it is by Baying, "Neither shall there be any more pain." First, I remark, there will be no pain of disappointment in heaven. If I could put the picture of what you anticipated of life when you began it beside the picture a what you have realized, I would find a great difference. You have stumbled upon great disappointments. Perhaps you ex- pected =hes, and you have worked hard enough to gain them. You have planned and worried and persisted until your hands were worn and your bratu was racked and your heart fainted, and at the end of thia long strife with misfortune you find that if you have not been positively defeated it had been a drawn battle. It is still tug and tussle, this year losing what you gain- ed laat, financial uncertainties pilling down faster than you build. For perhaps 20 or 30 years you have been running your craft straight into the teeth of the wind. Perhaps you have had domestic) disap- pointment. Your children, upon vhose education you lavished your hard earned dollars, have not turned out as expected. Notwithstanding your councils and prayers and painstaking they will not do right. Many e, good father has bad a bad boy. .A.bsalorn trod on Da.vid's heart. That mother never imagined all this as 20 or 30 years ago she sat by the child's cradle. Your life has been a chapter of disap- pointments, but come with me and. 1 will show.you a different scene. By God's graoe, entering the other city you will never again have a blasted hope. The most jubilant of expeetations will not reach the realization. Coming to the top of one hill of joy, there will be other heights rising upon the vision. This song of transport will but lift you to higher anthems, the sweetest chore/ but a prelude to more tremendous harmony, all things better than you had anticipated.— the robe richer, the crown brighter, the temple grander, the throng mightier. Further, I remark, there will be no pain of tvearinese. It may be many hours since you quit work, but many of you are unrest- ed, some from overwork, and some from dullness of trade, the latter more exhaust- ing than the former. Your ankles ache; your spirits flag; you want rest. Are these wheels always to turn, these shuttles to fly, these axes to hew, these shovels to delve, these pens to fly, these books to be poste, these goods to be sold? • Ale the great holiday approaches I No more curse of taskmasters ; no more stoop. ing until the back aches ; no more calcul- ation until the brain is bewildered ; no more pain; no more carpentry, for the mansions are all built; no more masonry, for the walls are all reared ; no more dia- • mond cutting, for the gems are all set; no more gold beating, for the crowns are all completed ; no more agriculture, for the harvests are spontaneous. Further, there will be no more pain or poverty. It is a hard thing to oe really poor, to have your coat wear out and no itioney to get another, to have your flour barrel empty and nothing to buy bread with for your children, to live in an un- bealthy row and no means to change your habitation, to have you child sick with some mysterious; disease and not to be able to secure eminent medical ability, to have eon or daughter begin the world and you not have anything to help them in starting, with a mind capable of research and high contemplation to be perpetually fixed on questions of mere livelihood. Poet's try to throw a romance about the poor man's cot, but there is no romance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel, unrelent- ing. But Lazarus e eked up without his rags and his diseases, and so all of Christ's poor wake up at last without any of their disadvantages—no almshouses, for they are all princes; no rents to pay, for the resideuce is gratuitous ; no garments to buy, for the robes are divinely fashioned; no seats in church for poor folks, but equality among temple worshippers; no hovels ; no hard crusts ; rio insufficient ap- parel, They shall hunger no more nei- ther thirst any more, neither shall tlimsun light on them nor any heat." No more • pain. Further, there will be no pain of parting. All these associations must some time break up. We olaep hands and walk together • sad talk and laugh and weep togetber, but we must after a while separate. Your • grave will be in one place; mine in another. • We look each other full in the face for the • last time. We will be sitting together • Sortie evening or walking together some day, and nothing will be unusual in our • appearance or our conversation, but God knows that it is the last time, and messen. gets from eternity on their errand to take nis away know it is the last time, and in heaven, where they make ready for our de- parting spirite, they know it is the bet • thole. • Oh, the long agony of etarthly separation! It is awful to stand in your nersery fight- ing death back from the couch of your ohild • and try to hold feet the little one and Bee • all the title that he le getting weaker and • the breath is shorter, and make outcry to Goa to help us and to the dOetore to saVe • /Ifni and see it is of no avail, and then to • keesta that big Vitas is gonmand that you • have nothing left but tee casket that held • the jewel, end that in tww or three days you meet even pat that away ad walk around about the house and find it desolate SoIlletiMee feeling rebelamus, Dad then to •reeolVe to fool differeutly, an4 lo resolve oi self Control, end lust as yee, hie COMO to what you think le 'perfeet stall coutrol to d etakienly wee tepee ranee httle coat or pic- ture or oboe hell wore out, arid how all the floods of the soul buret in one wild wail of noisy 1 (th, my God, how hard it is to part, to ohms the eyes ODA never cea leme merry ea out coining, to kite the heed that will never again do ea a kinduese ! I know religion gives great coueolation in such an hour, and we ought to he comforted, but anyhow and auyway you make it, it is aw- ful. On steamboat wharf and rail car window we may smile when we say farewell, hat these goodbyes at the deathbed_ they just take holi of the heart with Iron pitiehers end tear it out by the roots mita all the fiber e quiver and ourl le the torture, and drop thielt blood. These eepareatione are wine presses into whioh our beams, like red °lusters, are thrown, and theu trouble turns the windlass round ancl round until we are utterly crushed and have no more capacity to suffer, and we stop .mt ing because we have wept all our tears. On every street, at every doorstep, by every couch, there have been partings. But °nee past the heavenly portals, and you are through with such scenes forever. In that land there are .many hand claspings and embraeings, bur only in recognition, The great home circle never breaks. Once find your comrades therms and you have them forever. No crape floats from the door of that blieeful residence. No cleft hillside where the dead sleep. .All awake, wide awake, and forever. No pushing out of emigrant ship for foreign shore. No tolling of bell as the funeral passes. Whole generations in glory. Eland to hared, heart to heart, joy to joy. No creeping up the limba of the death chill, the feet cold until hot flannels cannot warm them. No rattle of sepulchral gates. No parting, no pain. Further, the heavenly city will have uo pain of body. Tne race is pierced with situp dietresses. The surgeon's knite must cut. The dentist's pincbers must pull. Pain is fought with pain. The world is a hospital. Scores of diseases, like vultures contending for a carcass, struggle as to which shall have it Our natures are in- finitely susceptible to suffering. The eye, the foot, the heard, with immense capacity of anguish. The little child meets at the entrance of life manifold diseases. You hear the shrill cry of infancy as the lancet strikes into the swollen gum. You eee its head toss in con- suming fevers that take more than half of them into t .e dust. Old age passes, dizzy and weak and short breathed and dim sighted. On every northeast wind oome down pleurisies and pneumonias. War lifts its sword and hacks away the life of whole generations. The hospitaas of the earth groan into the ear of God their com- plaint. Asiatic choleras and ship fevers and typhoids and London plagues make the world's knees knock together. Pain has gone through every street and up every ladder and down every shaft. It is ori the wave, on the mast, on the beach. Wounds from clip of elephant's tusk and adder's sting and crocodiles tooth and horse's hoof and wheel's revolution. We gather up the infirmities of our parents and transmit to our children the inherit alma augmented by our own sicknesses, and they add to them their own disorders, to pass the inheritance to other genera- tions. In A. D. 262 the plague in Rome smote into the dust 50,000 eitizet a. In 541, in Constantinople, 1,000 grave. diggers were not enough to bury the dead. In 1812 ophthalmia seized the whole Prus- sian army. At times the earth has swel- tered with suffering. Count up the pains of Austerlitz, where 30,000 fell; ef Fontenoy, where 100,000 tell; of Chalons, where 300,000 fell; of Marius' fight, in which 290,000 fed ; of the tragedy at Herat, where Genghis Khan massacred 1,000,000 mere and of Nishea , where he slew 1,747,000 people; of the 18,000,000 this monster sacrificed in 14 years, as be went forth to do, as he declared, to exterminate the entire Chinese nation and make the empire a pasture for cattle. Think of the death throes of the 5,0011,000 men sacrificed in one campaign of "Xerxes. Think of the 120,000 that perished in the seine of Ostend, of the 300,000 dead at Acre, of 1,100,000 dead in the seige of Jerusalem, of 1,816,000 of the dead at Troy, and then complete the review by considering the stupendous esti. mate of Edmund Burke—that the loss by war had been 35 times the entire then present population of the globe. • Go through and examine the lacerations, the gunshot fractures'the saber wounds, the gashes of the beatleax, the slain of bombshell and exploded mine and falling wall, and those destroyed under the gun =nage and the hoof of the eavelry horse, the buening thirsts'the camp fevers, the frosts that shivered, the tropical suns that smote. Add it up, gather Minto one line, compress ib into one word, spell it in one syllable, clank it in one chain, pour it out in one groan, distill it into one tear. Aye, the world has writhed in 6,000 years of suffering. Why doubt the possi- bility of a future world of suffering when we see the tortures that have been inflicted in this? A deserter from Sebastopol com- ing over to the army of the allies pointed back to the fortress and said, "That place is a perfect hell." Our lexicographers, aware of the im- mense necessity of having plenty of words to express the different shades of trouble, have serewn over their pages such words as "annoyance," " distress," "grief," " bitterness," " heartache," " misery," " twinge," " pang," " torture," " afflic- tion," • anguish," ' tribulabien," "wretch • ednees," " woe." But I have a glad sound for every hospital, for every sickroom, for every lifelong invalid, for every broken heart. "There shall be no more pain. Thank God I Thank God I No malarias float in the air. No bruised foot treads that street. No weary arm. No painful respiration. No beetle flush. No one cam drink of that healthy fountain and keep faint hearted or faint headed. He whose feet touobes that pavement becometh an athlete. The tirst kiss of that summer air will take the wrink- les from the ola man's cheek. Amid the multitude of songsters riot one diseased throat The firat flash of the throne wilt scatter the darkness of those who were born blind. See the lame man leaps as a hart, and the dumb sing. From that bath of infinite delight we shall step forthour weariness forgotten. Who are those radiant ones? Why, that one had his jaw shot off at Fredericksburg ; that one lost his eyes in a Feeder blast; that one had his back broken by a fall from the ship's halyards; that one died of gangrene in the hospital, No more pain: Sure enough, here is Robert Hall, svho never before saw a well day, and Edward Payson, whose body was ever torn of die - brew!, and Istiehard Baxter, who pease& through untold physical torture. All well, Xo more pain. Here, too, are the Theban legion, a great hose of 6,666 put to the sword for Chriat's sake, No dietortion on their countenance. • No Ores to hart them, or floods to drown them, or racks to tear them, All well. 'Here are the Sootoli (Ole IAD tors, none to built them now. The cleak met and. impreeatiotis of Lord Clever - TIT T THE LATE JOSEPH DUHAMEla ars EMINENT MONTREAL Q. 0 WHO DIED LAST WEEK. DitS house exchanged for temple servioe'and the pretence of him who helped B.ugh Latimer ont of the fire, All well. No more pain. I set open the door of heaven until there blows on you this refreshing breeze. The fountains of God have made it cool,and the gardens have mule it sweet. I do not know that Solomon ever heard on a hot day the ice click in an ice pitoher, but he wrote as if he did when he said: "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, ea is good news from alar country." Clambering among the Green mountains I was tired and hot and thirsty, and I shall not forget how refreshingit was when after a. while I heard the mountain brook tumb- ling over the rooks. I had no cup, no chalice, so I got down on my kuees and face to drink. Oh, ye clionbers on the jour- ney. with out feet and parched tongues and fevered temples, listen to the rumbling of sapphire brooks, amid. flowered banks, over golden shelvings! Listen! "The Iamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them unto living fountains.of water." I do not offer it to you in s. obalice. To take this you must bend. Got down on your knees and on your face and drink out of this great fountain of God's consolation. "And, lo, I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters." A STRANGE STORY The Lost Fhtv: or Itandalevana—Restora- Min of the colors. The fatal twenty-second of Jemuary,1879, when the 24th Regiment, of Chillianwalla fame, now the South Wales Borderers,were surprised in the mum at Isandhlware and the regiment nearly annihilated, ie a black. letter day an the annals of the British army, says the Pall Mall Budget. Around the cireumetances connected with the loos of colors of the regiment on that occasion a halo remains ; and not only every soldier who wears the Queen's uniform, but every Englishman, will rejoice to hear that near- ly sixteen years after the event, and in a foreign capital thousands of Miles from the scene of the disaster, one of the colors— the regimental color of the 2nd Battalion, in defence of which so many noble fellows fell—has within the last few days been re- covered. The events of the massacre are doubtless fresh in the memory, so it will only be necessary to briefly recall such as have a bearing upon the color now so strangely recovered. Though both battal lone of the regiment were in Zululand at the time, six companies of the battalion march- ed out of the camp at Isaiadhlwena at half - past four in the moruing, under Colonel Glyn, 0.B., of the First Battalion. Left behind to guard the camp with two guns and seventy men of the Royal Artillery thirtreighe mounted Infantry and Police, and four companies of the 3rd Natal native oontingena who afterwards DRONE AND FLED were five companies of the 1st Battalion 24th, and one company and a few details of the 2th Battalion, under Lieut -Colonel Pulleine, Ist Battalion; Colonel Durnford, R. E., who arrived in camp at ten o'clock in the morning takirig command of the whole. By half -past one the same day the entire force left in camp had heen annihilat- ed by the Zulus, who out -numbered the defenders, six to one. And not a white man remained alive—the last survivor, it is believed, being a drummer -boy, of the 24t,h, who was seen to ffin g his ahor t sword at Zulu. There fell on this occasion of the ,24th alone twenty-one officers, five hundred and sixty- three nonmommossioned officers and men and five band and drummer -boys. It is unnecessary, to repeat the tragic story of the colors. When Colonel Glyn's column marcbed out of lsandhlwana camp they took no colors with them, experience hav- ing shown how valueless they would prove in such warfare. The regimental color of She lab Battalion wee safe with the detach- ment at Helprnakaar, but the Queen's was in camp. .lt will be remembered that it was in endeavoring to save thi color that Lieut. and Adjutant Melville and Lieu. Coghill lost their lives, this oolor being subsequently recovered. wedged between two stones in the Buffalo River; and irt commemoration of the devoted gallantry of these two officers. THE VEENDEOORATED THE ooLon with a wreath and commanded that hence. forth a facsimile of the wreeth in, envoy should be borne on the Queen's color of both battalions of the regiment. Both the Queen's and regimental cetera of the 2nd Battalion were left in IsaridhlWaria camp when the diaster took place; and from that day utttil a few days ago nothing WAS heard of either of them. A pole and crown now in the heeds of Iler Majesty, were, togeth- er with a color ease, BubSequently found, and also it portion of the pole of the other color. But a few clays ago a flag War dis- covered in Paris, in the possession of a French gentleman, the Baron St George. Unaware of the filtered attached to it, he invited Lord Dillon, who happened to be in the French capital, and who is a known oonnoieseur of anything artistic; or histori- cal, to inspect it; Colouel Talbot, our naili- -tary attaohe, having in the meanwhile interested himself in its' identity. Both these gentlemen on arrival iu London took immediate steps to ascertaiu the history of the flag, in which they were asaistea by Major Holden of the Royal United Service Institution, who, from its description pro- nounced it the missing regimental color of the 2nd Batalion of the 24t1a Regiment,lost alt Isandhlwana. And to thesegentlemen, and to the courtesy of the Baron St. George who hes since handed the color over to Col- onel Talbot, the country is INDEBTED TOR THE RESTORATION of a relic surroimded with interest not only to the regiment, but to the whole army. Row the color was preserved and found its way to Paris iS a mystery of vrhieh it is difficult to find a solution. It is very pro- bable that the anxiety displayed by Lieut. - Col. Pulleine in the safety of the Queen's color of the lst Bettaliou extended to those of the 2nd Battalton. When it was evident that all was lost, and he entrusted the Queen's color to Lieut. Melville, similar precautions were doubtless taken to save those of the and Battalion. From the man- ner in which the crown and pole subse. qaently found were detached from the color it may be assumed that it was purposely done by some one acquainted with them. There is also evidence in the Condition of the color now recovered, that it was re- moved in two pieces from the staff, as it is sewn neatly together, and that the pole was broken in half. It is ilOW ill two joints like those of a fishiug rod. It was proba- bly preserved by some officer of the regi- ment until he lost his life, and, onoe in the possession of a Zulu, found its way to the coast, aud thence to France. It is not the first .time that colors have uudergone pecu- liar vicussitudes, but rarely has one of such unusual interest been returned under suoh peculiar circumstances. GREAT BRITAIN IN AFRICA. she ilas Calmly Pocketed Nearly All the Land of liam Worth ilaving. Until near the middle of the present cen- tury no one seems to have had the Ieast idea of the immense value of African terri- tory, When the fact was made clear, how- ever, that Africa was for the most part a fertile country, capable of supporting an immense population and of developing an enormous trade, every European Power at once hurried to gain mfoothold on the Dark Continent. As a matter of course, England was first, for she had already appropriated considerable districts, not because the Government thought they were of any value, but apperently just to keep in prac- tice. Neither France nor Germany could compete with the insular Power in this -matter, and before the world Was fully awake to the situation England had calmly pocketed nearly all tb e land of Ham that was worth having, even including Egypt. That the policy has paid can not be doubted. England has to -day in India, a territory of 1,800,000 square miles ; in other parts of Aaia, 26,000 square miles •sin .Africa, 2,570,000; in America including Canada and numerous small islands in the West Indies and elsewhere, 3,768,000; in Aus- tralasia, including Australia. 3,175,000. The total area of the British Islands and their colonies to -day is therefore 9,114,000 square miles. Besides this there are in progress of annexation a number of States, over which complete control has not yet been attained. They have not passed the "protectorate" stage, and so can not properly be reckoned as part of the British Empire. Principally located in Asia and Africa, the magnitude of the annexation business now being actually carried on ;nay be seen when it is known that the territory in the protectorate condition now aggre- gates 2,120,000 square miles, equal to two- thirds that of the United States. All this land Is destined to become a part of the British Empire, and when it does that Power will exercise control over 11,475,000 square miles of the earth's surface. se. English Railroad. Man 4 gement. We all know the sanger of comparisons says Col. H. G. Prout in Scribner's. And yet I venture to suggest, with suoh deli - mum as I can, that the management of the English railroads on the whole is character. ized by better faith in their relations with each other and in their rehttione with those who use tallow's, and by a higher sense of ' honor in their re- lation towards those who actually own She railroads, than are the railroads of the United States . and I say tine with the most profound respect for the ability and integrity, and high eeriee of honor arid duty of ehe great majority of the superior officers of the railroads of our OWD country. The trouble is thee the few individuate who lack these quelitiers are permitted to work en. ormous injury to the reputations of the greet mass of honorable men and to the pro - pestles which they adminiatet. sew Seventeen cases of smallpox are reported et Manchester, Md. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 1,8. ••••••••••••.. SertnOlt the itiount."-Xnko 01 20 31. Golden Text, Luke 6. 31. GIONERAL STATEMENT. Fos a few months Jesus was the pride of, Itis petiole, John had been set aside; but his iufluenee was permanent, and his rata foams eagerly flooked to Jesus. The elo, quenoe thet had dream the multitudes to Jobe wile eurpeased by that of the new Prophet; and hist matohlese grams, works of wonder and lofty claims won each popu- larity that his eacerdotel foes fouud it difficult at first to organize against him. Our lesson is sometimes called the Sermon ' on the Plain, to distinguish it from the Sermon on the Mount (which is given at length in Matthew, chapter e 5-7), It is not impossible that it is simply Luke's report of the Sermon on the Mount; but there are divergences that matte it more probable that the two discourses were spoken on different occasions, and there is nothing inconsistent with our highest ideals of • Christ in his frequent repetitions of parables and precepts. Dr. Farrar, however, gives quite a different explanatiou. He understands the first words of the 17th verse, "And he oani- down with them and stood in the plain,"to mean, "And, ooming down with them, he stopped ott a level place." Far more import- ant than time or place are the wonderful commands we are now about to study. EXPLAHAToRX AND PEALTIOAL NOTES. ' Verses 20-26. Blessed. This word means happy, but also something higher: "The more than happiness produced by God's eunshine in the soul ;" not a momentary joy or pleasure, but a permanent state ; not the paesive receiving of a blessing, but the active possession of a source of enjoy - meet. Carlyle has said, "One may lose happiness and find blessedness." Ye poor. Thosewho are conscious of their own spiritual need and aro eager to eatisfy it; in contrast with the Pharisees, who were self-righteous and self.satistied. All of these beatitudes of blessing are spiritual, and bestowed on spiritual states and conditions ; so here the reference is not to the humble or abject as such, but to those who feel their need of spiritual blessings. Yours is the kingdom of God. Everybody was expecting that Je- sus as the Messiab of Israel would at once set up a throne, throw off the Roman yoke,and lead the Jews to a universal empire. This was their conception of "the kingdom of God; "a kingdom for themselves, as God's chosen people. Christ tells them that the citizens of the new state should not be the ambitious and self-seeking, but the lowly and spiritually -minded. (1) Only there who are conscious of spiritual Deeds are in condition to receive spiritual blessings. Ye that hunger. Who have such an eager desire as can be likened only to hunger and thirst. Ye ehall be filled. Every one attains to the standard of char- acter which with all bis heart he seeks after, whether high or low. Men may hun- ger after gold or honor or love, and be un- satisfied, but every yearning after God's likeness shall be satisfied. Rejoice. Only Christians of the highest type can rejoice while suffering wrong. 27. But I say. The emphasis Jesus placed on his personal authority startled all hearers, and was the direct cauee of both the amazing popularity of his early minis- try and his subsequent teerseoution and murder. He was the first Jew since Moses's time who had thus spoken. "Scribes and Pharisees" hardly pretended to think for themselves. If a rabbi could find no real authority to quote, he feigned quotation, and oredited some dead pundit with his own ideas. Nothing could astonish our modern world of thought as the simple phrase, "But I say," astonished intelligent Jews. Were some learned professor sud- denly to declare that our accepted sciences are false, and that theories hitherto utterly unthought of are truly scientific, it would not be so astounding as was this mental in. dependence of Jesus ; for, after all, such a professor would be only following in the foot -steps of Galileo and Kepler, and Newton. But Jesus lived among intellectual and normal mummies. The dust of a sepulchered religion had lain undisturbed for centuries. (2) Jesus's words are as authoritative, to us as to the Galilean who firet heard them. Which hear. Which heed. Love your enemies. At first it might seem imposaible to love at command; but what is love? Three elements, it has been wisely said, are always found in a leving heart : desire • for the good of the person loved, an inclination of affection toward him, and a consecration of oneself to his interests. The firet of these is dis- tinctly under control of our will; and the second and third are outgrowths of the first. Christ commands us to love every mane:ions acquaintance as God loves the sinner, "despite his sin." Men of old hart said, "Thou shalt hate thine enemy" (Deut. 7. 2 ; 23. 6; 1 Chron. 20. 3 . 2 Sam. 12. 31; Psalm 137. 8, 9) and yet the glim- mer of that Godlike spirit which,wasperfeot. ed in Christ was already:seen in the ancient days. Read Exod. 23. 4; Prov. 25. 21, and you will see that the followers of Mos- es did not all hate their enemies. Do good. Act nobly. 28. Pray for them. Precisely what Jesus did for his murderers (Luke 23. 34), and Stephen for his (Acts 7. 60). (3) He who has kindness of heart, as well as courtesy of behavior, to those who have injured or insulted him hue learned one of Christ's hardeet lessons. 29, 30. Most commentators regard these two verses as illustrative examples of the general directions concerning enemies just given by our Lord. Smiteth thee on the one cheek. "Cheek" should be "jaw," By "smiteth" an act of violence IS intended, not merely an act of contempt. For such an offence the Jewish courts imposed a fine from a shekel upward. Offer also the other. This is a "hard saying," and it will riot do to dodge it. We should find out precisely what Josue meant, and, without flinching, mot accordingly. First, remember that this is not an additional command, but, an illustration of how the commemd, "Love your enemies," will work. Secondly, for- get not the repteated injunotion, "Resist notevil" (Mett, o. 30; 1 Cor. 6.7 '• 1 Peter 2. 19-23), which is not figurative, but in ite meaning. Lastly, watch Jesus him- self when he was smitten on the one cheek (John 18, 22, 23), and notice that "while arose divinely true to the spirit of this passage, he did net, on thee occeeion, tot on the letter of itt" It weld be wrong for one quietly to Allow hie wife or child or hie own life to be endangered by a druoken ruffian or 4 Murderous lunette. Common Bente teethes than and therefore, 'Telma needed not to repeat it, Bet coltanon swum does not teach what the Lord here ornpliter sizea, that (4) "The ills we puffer from our ezieray's abuse are nOt to be named iu 00111* parieon with the ills that come from enkin- dled malign emotiones" The verge is, se Die Farrar limo maid, a striltiug paradox toteuded to impress forever on the memory arid couscienoe of mankind the solemn duty of loving our eimmieu, Cloak. This outer mantle was of as great, value to its wearer ea any single modern artiole of apparel. It was used as a wrap both by day and night. Coat, The inner, neoessery gar- ment, Christ clooe not thy, If a man robs you of your luxuries, welcome him to your neoeseities but, wheu wropged, better suffer additioual toes than resort to wrang- ling anti quarrels. And Jesus shovels no more indulgence for lawisuits than for fisticuffs. Give. This is the third Mastro,. non of the sublime lam given in verse 27. We are so to love our enemies that neither atrocieue assault nor violent robbery nor the overreaching and greed of social and busineas life can disturb our steady purpose to do them good. Thoughtful generos- ity is to bo the habit of our lives. Some time the very spirit of this precept com- pels ua to disobey ita letter (Matt, 15. 26 20. 23). (5) It is better to lose your coat than to lose your charity. 31. Skeptics have made a great ado because something like this Golden Rule has been found outside the Gospel; but our Lord himself presented it aa a oonclen- sation of "the leer and the erophets" (Mate 7. 12). Dr. Van Doren beautifully says. "It is the primitive command of God writ- ten on the hearts of all nationt." Con. fuoius, Socrates, Aristotle, ,and Hillel each formulated a maxim similar to thia ; but theirs were negative, and this is positive. Theirs said, Do not what you would not like dons; Josue said, Do what you would like done. This rule, like every other, 1 as been occasionally misinterpreted by evii hearts and ignorant minds. (6) Like every good precept, the Golden Rule is only safe et, follow when our hearts have been puri- fied and our good sense enlightened by God's Spirit. STOCK -RAISING IN THE WEST. The Canadian North-West Produces Fluor Flavored Meat Than Does the Hog - noising Western States. The farmers of the North-West are branching out into stock -raising. This summer they sent several thousand sheep So the British market, and though the prices realized were not high they repaid the producers. Mutton -raising and wool- growing ought to be as profitable in por- tions of our prairie country as in any part of Canada or the United States. Moreover, there is now a convenrent market for the wool on the other side of the border, where it hies been placed on the free list. The oar -loads of hose that now come out of our North-West are THE 3IDRE•RUNNERS of what should become a great export trade from that quarter. Our pork -packers are likely to find room in the British market for inoreasing quantities of their products, for Canadian pork is in high regard there. The feed on which it is fattened producea finer flavored meat than deas -the corn of the great hog—raising Western States. Manitoba and the Territories de not: grow corn, nor any coarse grain. Hence their pork should be as good as that of Ontario. The price of pork has kept up more steadily than that of any other meat. At present there is probably no more profitable wayof disposing of grain than by feeding it to hogs. But the North.Westai live stook exports that represent most wealth are cattle. This season's shipments of cattle have been surprisingly large. Not only the ranches of the far West, but also THE ROLLING LAND of Southern Manitoba have yielded fine herds for export. Cattle -raising seems an obvious and natural line of development for the North-West. But the country should not confine its attention to the raising of beef cattle. It oan make good use of dairy cattle. It evideutly is not neglecting them, as it is giving some attention to butter - making, and will probably soon venture into cheeseanaking on a large scale. The farms will be the better of the live stock. It is a question if the farmers could keep up the fertility of the soil without live stock, The solution of the great problem that confronts the agriculturists of that new country is diversified farming, and it is pleasing to see the farmers applying that solution. • Purchase of Steel Rails. The Donainon Department of Railways has just closed it contract for steel rails, to be ueed on Government retilwitys. The Cockerill works, of Belgium, spoken of as the Belgian ayndicate, has secured the con- traot,throegh their agents,Mr. C. J. Desola, of Montreal, and Mr. T. C. Gordon, of Ottdwa. The Cockerill works are the larg- est of the kind in the world. The contract is for 4,300 tons of steel rails. They will require to be delivered at Halifax before une,1895, free of all costs,inoluding freight and insurance. It is understood that the price for the rails is about £4 pe r ton, or $20, a very low price, making the cost in all about $85,000. There were a large number of offers to fill the contract, but the department considered that the Bel- gian syndicate's tender was the moat favorable. It is learned at the department that 3,000 tons of the supply will be used on the main line of the Intercolonial rail- way, 1,000 tons on the Prince Edward Is, land branch, and the remaining 300 tons on the Windsor branch. Bodily Effects of Emotion. Many aerious maladies have been attri. buted to the Dation of moral influences. Sen nert believed thee fear was capable of in- ducing erysipelas, Dr. H. Tette laid espe. Mal stress on the influence of fear hi the ootitagioe parables, and, in fact, there are innumerable cases on record of emotional patients who suffered all the pain and in- oonveienee of numerous maladies, Maims twitted solely by emotional disturbances. Depressieg emotions frequently appear to play an important part in the development of tuberculosis.. Pueeperal fever is ale° ericoureged by depreasing moral emotion, "I have often", days M. Hervieux, "seen young Women in a fair way of recovery hurried into mortal illness by reproaches or mental agitation front whatever caused' This view finds very general atipport amoeg the Meitthers of the profeasien, 13ritisn and Foreign. • Chargeci with dream:mesa 388 theta be fores. single Folio? Judge is the mord one Liverpool woman. . Tank cars are now being. steed for the transportation of wine in bulk by the Paris. Lyons.Mediterranean railroad io Frame. Sir John Rigby, England's Attoruey. General, has been just, appointed, a Lord Justioe of Appeal, to fill the vacancy made by the promotion of Lora Davey as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. At A recent examination for the Indian civil.service six imam, the largest nuineer ort record were successful. Two of them were Mohammedans, one a Parsee, and the other three Ffindomi. Oa it single Saturday the football acid' ' dents in England included the assistant master of one sehool killed, ariti the head master of another laid up with a compound fraotere of a leg, and five other persona seriously injured. A white panther from the Pamirs has been presented to the lardin des Plantes by the Governor of Turkestan and Prince Gargare ine. It is an animal which has never been", seen in any zoologioal collection of western Europe. On the field of Waterloo a topaz seal set in gold WAS recently found, bearing the arms and motto of Vlsoount Berringten. It belonged to Ensign Barrington, who was killed at Quatro Bras. June 16, 1S15, and had lain undiscovered for eighty years. In spite of rernonetranoes of English officials, the two black Queens of Swazis land are going to Loudon to see the Queen. They wish great Britain to assume the proetctorate over their country, although that was expressly conceded to the Trans- vaal republic) not a year ago. Professor Carl Henry, the noted meteor, ologist and all-round soientistt estinuttea that the energy of the average lightning stroke is equal to that generated by a 100 horse power eagles in ten hours of conetant work. Amsterdam will have next year an inter. national exhibition of hotel arrangements and accommodations for travellers. Among the features of the exhibition will be an "electric restaurant," without waiters, in which viaitors will be served automatioelly with a aomplete dinner on pressing an eleo trio button. Ninety-five years ago the religious Tract Society wae founded. Since then it has printed the gospels in 201 languages ; it has issued the "Pilgrim's; Progress" in eighty-seven languages; its New Testament commentary has appeared in Chinese, Arabic'Syriac, Mithrati Beugali, Tamil, Urdo, Hindu, Cenarese, Singhalese, and Karen. Last year it emit out 06,000,000 of publications. Stations where bicyclists in trouble may find help and tools, air pumps, liquid and solid rubber for their pneumatic; tires, and springs for their saddles home been set up by the Touring Club of France. At present they have one in the Bois de Boulogne, two in tbe Bois de Vincennes, fourteen in Beene et Oise,the Department around Parimenethree are to be established in the Forest of Fon- tainbleau and two in Compiegne. Cancer has been hereditary itt the Rom- anoff family since the time of the wife of Emperor Nicholas L, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, the sister of Kaiser Wilhelm I. She died of it, as did her mother, Qtaeapi Louise of Prussia; of her children, the Grand Duchess of Leuthtenberg and the Czar's uncle Grand Duke Nicholas, certain- ly died of the same diseasemma it is believe ed. to have oarried off the late Queen of Wurtemberg. In dredging the harbor of Bizerte, in Tunis, a. silver saorificial bowl was found which ie the most valuable piece of work- roanship in the preoions metals yet discov- ered in Africa. It is oval in shape, shal- low, has two handles and weighs twenty pounds. The inner ;surface is ornamented with a design in inlaid gold representing the contest between Apollo and Marayes. The work is by a Greek artist of the &lib ' century after °lariat.' The bowl is now in. the Bardo museum. Lest May Queen Victoria visited Man. ohester for three hours to open the new ahip canal. The bills for the celebration, amounting to $50,000 are being now invent. tigated. Among the items is one of $7,000 for badges for the City Council. At the banquet they ate strawberries at 31.40 a pound, asparagus at $1 a belied', arid pine- apples at $3 apiece. It cost $110 to look after the Queen's horses and carriages. The auditor reported that Mocked as though something else had been opened be.. sides the canal, Across the Devil's Dyke, a deep ravine near Brighton, England, & cable way has just been erected and opened for traffic. From a single steel wire rope three inches in diameter, stretching 1,200 feet between two iron columns on either side of the dike, are suspended steel anchors, two feet from fluke to fluke, by wire ropes of emetic/ dimensions and of varying length, so as to bring the line of anchors on a level. On the flukes are supported two wire road cables, one inch ill diameter, on which run the pulleys which support the car. The cars are iron and wire cages, seven feet by - five, carrying eight passengere. They are moved by an engine on the bank,driving an endless wire rope to which the car is grip ped, like our cable cars. The cable is 230 _ feet above the bottom of the ravine, andAt the trip takes two minutes and a half. Death of Sir Alfred Stephen. The brat Australian member of the British Privy Council, the neither of the criminal code of New South Wales, the Right Honorable Sir Alfred Stephen, G. C. M. G., died recently at Sydney, at the age of 92. -He was born ill St. Kitts, in the West Indies, in 1802; studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and emigrated to Van Dies man's Land in 1824. In 1839 he was ap- pointed to the Supreme Bench of New South Wales, of whieh he became Chief Justice five years later, resigning in 1875, After thirty.four years' service. In 1875 he was appointed Lieutenant -Governor, and held the office till 1891; itt 1VIay, 1893, he was made a Privy Councillor, He was a eecond dousin of the father of the late Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, who did so =oh toward making an English criminal code possible, , A. Soft Answer. Customer—" That umbrella you sold nte is made of sueh miaerably poor stuff that it 'won't le,st Month." Dettlera—miteh. Ve &Ways zelle dot !tied So intellectual :nen like you. You gets to thinkitigon great subjeete, end pommels ea absent-minded you lose ititi dree veeks; and den you haf de malefaction off ktiowing dab de Man Who vinds it Val get Vabr"