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The First Sermon of Roy, Dr TO
1nef 'ere Retina the World Series.
A '6'ivi+lk Story or the **MOUS Siege as
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in Fi►ue of )1istreee aura hanger-01we-
3oeli;'s Devotion anti tentrase.
BinognxyN, Nov, 25,—Rev, Dr. Talmage
t.
oday began his series of round the world
sermons through the press, the first subjeob
selected being Luoknow, India. The text
chosen. was Deuteronomy xx, 19, "When
thou shalt besiege a oity a long time in
making war against ib to take it, thou shalt
not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an
ax against them."
The awfuleet thing in war is besiege-
ment, for to the work of deadly weapons it
adds hunger and starvationand plague.
Besiegement is sometimes neoessary, but
my text commands mercy even in that.
The fruit trees must be spared because they
afford, food for man.' "Thou shalt not des-
troy the irees thereof by forcing an. ax
against them." But in my recent journey
round the world I found at Luoknow,India,
the remains of the most merciless besiege-
ment of the ages, and I proceed to tell you
that storyfor four great reasons—to -how
you snhat a horrid thing war is and to
make you all advocates for peace, to show
you what genuine Christian character is
under bombardment,to put a coronation on
Christian courage and to show you how
splendidly good people die.
As our train glided into the dimly lighted
station I"asked the guard, "Is this Luck -
now ?" and he answered, "Lucknow," at
the pronunciation of which proper name
strong emotions rushed through body,mind
and soul.
The word is a synonym of suffering, of
cruelty, of heroism of horror smolt as is
suggested by hardly any other word. We
have for 35 years been reading of the agent
lea there endured and the daring deeds
there witnessed. It was my great desire
to have some one who had witnessed the
scenes transacted in Lucknow in 1857 con-
duct us over the place. We found just the
man. He was a young soldier at the time
the greatest mutiny of the ages broke out,
and he was put with others inside the
residency, which was a cluster of buildings
making a fortress in which the representa-
tives of the English government lived, and
which was to be the scene of an endurance
and a bombardment the story of which
poetry and painting and history and secular
and sacred eloquence have been trying to
depict. Oar escort not only had a
good memory of what had happened,
but had. talent enough to rehearse the
tragedy.
In the early part of 1857 all over India
the natives ire ready to break out inre-
hellion against all foreigners and especially
againseethe civil and military representa-
tives of the English government.
'ti- A. half dozen causesare mentioned for
titer feeling.:,of discontent and insurrection
thatwas evidenced throughout India. The
most of these causes were mere pretexts.
Greased cartridges were no doubt an ex-
asperation. The grease ordered by the
English government to be used on these
cartridges was taken from cows and pigs,
and grease to the Hindoos is unclean, and
to bite these cartridges at the loading of
the guns would be an offence to the Hindoo's
religion. The leaders of the Hindoos said
that these greased cartridges were only
part of an attempt by the English govern-
ment to make the natives give up their
religion. Hence unbounded indignation
was aroused.
Another cause of the mutiny was that
another large province of India had been
annexed to the British empire, and thous-
ands of officials in the employ of the king
of that province were thrown out of posi-
tion, and they were all ready for trouble
snaking.
Another cause was said to be the bad
government exercised by some English
officials in India.
The simple fact was that the natives of
India were a conquered race, and the
English' were the conquerors. For 100
years the British scepter had been waved
over India, and the. Indians wanted to
break that scepter. There never had been
any love or sympathy between the natives
of India and the Europeans. There is
none now.
Before the time of the great mutiny the
English government risked much power
in the hands of the natives. Too many of
them manned the forts. Too many of
them were in governmental employ. And
now the time had come for a wide out-
eak.' The natives had persuaded them-
' that they could send the English
•
which ilavelook and Outram came to the
relief of the resideuay." Shat was the way
we went. There wasa
solemnstillnessllness as
the residency.
we approached the sato of n y.
Batteredand turn is the masonry of the
entrance, signature of shot and panttua-
tion of cannon ball all up and down every-
where.
verywhere,
"There to the left," said our escort, "aree
the remains of a building the first floor of
which in other days had been used as a
banqueting hall,: but then was used as a
hospital. At this part the amputations
took place, and all such patients died, The
heat was so great and Ghe food so insufficient
that the poor fellows could not recover
from the loss of blood. They all died.
Amputations were performed without
chloroform. All the anaesthetics were: ex-
hausted. A fracture that in other climates
and under other circumstances would have
come to easy convalesence here proved.
fatal.,
" Yonder was Dr. Fayrer's house, who
was the surgeon of the place and is now
Queen Victoria's doctor, This upper room
was the officer's room, and there Sir Henry
Lawrence, our dear commander, was wound-•
ed. While hesat there a shell struck the
room, and some one suggested that he had
better leave the room, but he smiled and
said, 'Lightning never strikes twice in the
same place.' Hardly had he said, this when
another shell tore off his thigh, and he was
carried dying into Dr. Feyrer's house on
the other side of the road. Sir Henry
Lawrence had been in poor health for a long
time before the mutiny. He had been in
the Indian service for years, and he had
started for England to recover his health,
but getting as far as Bombay the English
government requeated him to remain at
least a while, tor he mould not be spared
in such dangerous times. He came here to
Lucknow and forseeing the siege of this
residency had filled. many of the rooms
with grain, without which the residency
would have to surrender. There were also
taken by him into this residency rice and
sugar and char coal and fodder for the
oxen and hay for the horses. But now, at
the time when all the people were looking
to him for wisdom and, courage, Sir Henry
is dying."
Our escort described the scene -unique,
tender, beautiful and overpowe"ring—and
while I stood onthe very spot where the
sighs and groans of the besieged and lacer-
ated and broken hearted met the whiz of
ballets, and the demoniac hiss of bursting
shell, and the roar of batteri s, my escort
gave me the particulars.
"As soon as Sir Henry was told that he
had not many hours to live he asked the
chaplain to administer to hint the holy
communion. He felt particularly anxious
for the safety of the women in the rear
dency, whoat any moment might be sub-
jected, to. the savages who howled around
the residency, their breaking in only a
matter of time unless re -enforcements
should come. He would frequently say to
those who 'surrounded his death couch
'Save the ladies. God help the poor wo-
men and children I'
"He gave directions for the desperate
defense of the place. He asked forgiveness
of all those whomhe might unintentionally
have neglected or offended. He left a
message for all his friends. He forgot not
to give direction for the care of his favorite
horse. He charged the officers saying :
'lay no means surrender. Make no treaty
or compromise with the desperadoes. Die
fighting.' He took charge of the asylum
he had established for the children ot sole
diers. He gave directions for his burial,
saying ; `No nonsense, no fuss. Let use be
buriei with the men,' He dictated his
own epitaph, which I read above his tomb :
'Here lies Henry Lawrence,who tried to do
his duty. May the Lord have mercy on
his soul.'
"He said, 'I would like to have a passage
of Scripture added to the words on my
grave, such as, "To the Lord our God be-
long mercies and forgivenesses, though we
have rebelled against him." Ian't it from
Daniel?' So as brave a man as England or
India ever saw expired. The soldiers lifted
the cover from his face and kissed him
before they carried him out. The chaplain
offered a prayer. Then they removed the
great hero amid the rattling hail of the
guns and put him down amongother soldiers
buried at the same time."
All of which I state for the benfit of those
who would have us believethat the Chris-
tain religion is fit only for woman in the
eighties and children under seven. There
was glory enough in that departure to halo
Christendom.
"There," said our escort, "Bob the nail-
er did the work.
"Who was Bob the nailer?"
"Oh, he was the African who sat at that
point, and when any one, of our men ven-
tured the road he would drop him with a
rifle ball. Rob was a sure marksman, The
only way to get across the road for water
from t h': well was to wait until his gun flash -
and then i stantly cross before he had time
to load. The only way we could get rid of
him was by digging a mine under the house
where he was hidden. When the house was
blown up, Bob the Nailer went with it.
I said to him, "Had you made up your
minds what you and the other sufferers
would do in case the fiends actually
broke in?"
Oar escort told us again and again of
the bravery of these women. They did
not despair. They encouragedthe soldiery,
They waited on the wounded and dying in
the hospital. They gave up their stockings
for holders of the grapeshot.: They solaced
each other when their children died. When
a husband or father fell, ouch prayers of
sympathy were offered as only women
can offer, They endured without comet
plaint. They prepared their own children
for burial, They were inspiration for the
men who stood at their posts fighting till
they dropped;
Our escort told us that again and again
news had come that Havelock and Outram
were on the way to fetch these beseiged
ones out of their wretchedness. They had.
received a letter from Havelock rolled up
in a quill and carried in the mouth of "a
disguised messenger—a letter telling them.
be was on his way -but the next news was
that Havelock had been compe.led to re-
treat, It was constant vacillation between
hope and dispair. But one day they heard
the guns of relief sounding nearer and
nearer. Yet all the houses of Lucknow
were fortresses filled with armed mis-
areauts, and every step of Havelock and
his army was contested—firing from house-
tops, firing from windows, firing from door-
ways.
I asked our friend if he thought that the
world famous story of a Scotch lass in her
delirium hearing the ticotoh bagpipes ad-
vanoing with the Scotch regiment was a
al
"Oh • ea!" said my escort. " We had it
, for the probability was every
oaths that they would
t.:r. it was 1,000
4the
•
BT4R TI11
er Lawyer. Loner.
There are many girls like Jennie Morrell,
and the story of her life is the story of
many a brave -hearted girl. A comfortable
home and loving parents ; a happy girlhood,
and then a business failure,witli death in its
train.
But Jennie Morrell was a brave girl, and
ound employment in writing,then type-
writing,
pe -
writing,
and finally as an expert steno-
grapher.
But she longed for another kind of life
•--away from the mechanical existence she,
was leading and beyond. the noise of the
great city. An opportunity presented itself
when, in correspondence with an uncle in
the far North -bleat, she learned that she
could secure a position as teacher in the
town school of Plainville and have a home
with, her uncle's family.
She was charmed with her new sphere,
finding her duties as teacher congenial.
She sang in the church choir, and no enter-
tainment or social gathering was complete
true story. He said he did not know but without her. And gradually it dawned
that it was true. Without this . man's tell- upon her that there was a new element in
ing me. I knew from my own observation her 1 fe which had hidinglace in her
that delirium sometimes quickens some ofa p
the faculties, and I rather think the Scotch heart.
lass in her delirium was the first to hear Among Jennia's admirers was George
the bagpipes, I decline to believe that class Keene, a young lawyer, who a'ood at the
of people who would like to kill all the head of his profession, and it generally
poetry of the world and banish all the fineT ' g Y
sentiment. They tell us that Whittier's
poem about Barbara Freitchie was founded
on a delusion,and that Longfellow's poems
immortalized things that never occurred.
The Scotch lass did hear the slogan, I al-
most heard it myself as I stood inside the
residency while my escort told of the com-
ing on of the Seventy-eighth highland regi-
ment.
" Were you present when Havelock
came in?" Leaked for I could suppress the
question no longer. His answer carne :
"I was not at the moment present, but
with some other young fellows I saw sol-
diers dancing while two highland pipers
played, and I said, 'What is all this excite-
ment about ?' . Then be came up and saw
that Havelock was in, and Outram was in,
and the regiments were pouring in."
"Show ua where they came in," I ex-
claimed, for I knew that they did not enter
through the gate of the residency, that
being banked up inside to keep the murder -
era out.
"Here it is," answered my escort. "Here
it is—the embrasure through which they
came."
We walked to the spot. It is now a
broken down pile of bricks a dozen yards
from the gate. Long grass now, but then
a blood spattered, bullet scarred opening in
the wall.
As we stood there, although the scene
was eighty-seven years ago, I saw them
come in—Havelock pale and sick, but tri-
umphant, and Outram, whom all the
equestrian statues in Calcutta and Europe
cannot too grandly present.
"What then happened ?' I said to my
escort.
"Oh I" he said, "that is impassible to
tell. The earth was removed from the gate
and aeon all., the army of relief ' entered,
and some bf`aa laughed end some cried, and
some prayed, and snfne&danced."
"But were you not embarrassedby the
arrival of Havelock and 1,400 men who
brought no food with them?" He an-
swered :
' "Of course we were put on smaller ra-
tions immediately in order that they might
share with us, but we knew that the com-
ing of this re -enforcement would help us to
hold she place until further relief should,
come. Had not this first relief arrived as
as it did in a day or two at most and per-
haps in any hour the besiegers would have
broken in, and our end would have come.
The sepoys had dug six mines under the
residency and would soon have exploded
all."
Atter we had obtained a few bullets that
had been picked out of the wall and a piece
of a bombshell, we walked around the elo-
quent ruins and put our hands into the
scars of the shattered masonry and explored
the cemetery inside the fort, where hun-
dreds of the dead soldiers await the coming
of the Lord of Hosts at the last day, and
we could endure no more. My nerves were
all a tremble, and my emotions were wrung
out, and I said "Let us go."
I had seen the residency at Lucknow the
day before with a beloved missionary, and
he told me many interesting facts concern.
ing the besiegement of that place, but this
morning I had seen it in company with one
who in that awful 1857 of the Indian
mutiny with his own fire bad sought the
besiegers, and with his own ear had heard
the yell of the miscreants as they tried to
storm the wall, and with his own eyes had
witnessed a scene of pang and sacrifice and
endurance and bereavement and prowess
and rescue which had made all this Luck -
now fortress and its surroundings the
Mount Calvary of the nineteenth century.
On the following day, about four miles
from the residency, I visited the grave of
Havelock. The scenes of hardship and
saorifle° through which he bad passed
o.much for mortal endurance, and
after Havelock left, the real -
had relieved he lay in a
' s son, whom I saw in
ere, was reading to
solatory scriptures.
ad told all nations
sick unto death. He
sage of congratulation
ver his triumphs and
such a reception as
to any man since
from Waterloo
will never
led his
conceded that be would be the next mem-
ber ter of Parliament for 1 Riding. Jennie
was pleased with his attentions, and Plain-
ville society lost no time in predicting a
match.
• One afternoon a party was formed to
drive to a small lake on the prairie, a few
miles from town, to see a mirage, which
at certain hours and when atntopheria con-
ditions permitted, appeared on or near the
lake.
Keene and Jennie led the party behind a
spirited team, which, given the rein, carried
them far in the lead and brought them to
the lake before -the others were well in
sight.
Reining up near the: weter's edge, they
satin silence, a current of magnetism shap-
ing each other's thoughts. Jennie, gazing
across the prairie, was consciousthat her
lover's eyes rested on her. Like a dream
there arose before her vision, across the
lake, tall trees where a moment before there
1 was but waving grass ; as in a dream came
to her the words : " Jennie, I love you ;
I adore you. Will vont be my wife ?"
No word she answered. Her head drop-
ped, and in an instant it rested on Keene's
breast, drawn there by his arm about her.
There was a thrill through two hearts—a
I kiss—and the sound of approaching car-
iriages rudely came to their ears.
Jennie looked across the lake to the trees
' again, but the level . plain alone met her
gaze. They had vanished ! How strange
, it seemed I
A vague feeling of disquietude possessed
' her, that found expression in her eyes, in-
tently fixed upon the plain.
Keene saw it and questioned her.
Oh, it's nothing," she murmured.
" Only just a moment ago I thought I saw
great trees yonder, and they appeared and
disappeared at such—such an odd time."
! "Why,it was the mirage we came to see,
1 and you alone have seen it, for my eyes
found a more pleasant study at closer
range. I didn't even catch a glimpse of it,
and it wouldn't have interested me in the
I least if I had—not with you by my side,
and in this supreme hour of my happi•
I ness."
I The rest of the party, dividing up,
learned the incident of the trees and
i congratulated,Tennie on having monopolized
(the mirage. There were sly insinuations ons
that if there had been alittle bird in those
trees it would have had something very
sweet to twitter about.
And the result of it all was that shortly
after the mirage hunters reached home
I everybody of any consequence in Plainville
I knew that George Keene and Jennie
Morrell were engaged.
The Plainville social club gave a ball the
f following night, in compliment to Minnie
Norris, who had just returned from the
East, where she had been for four years
attending school.
When she and Jennie Morrell met at
the ball they took each other's measure
and formed a mutual oonviction.that they
would never be sincere friends,
Joe Norris, Minnie's father, who was a
widower and just beyond forty, was a
cattle king. He hadn't a definite idea of
]how many cattle he . did own; • but esti-
mates placed their value near the million
•j mark, and Minnie was his only child.
He was at the ball, and he nd Minnie
and Keene and Jennie forme
a .sue introduce
"Mr, Keene—You tinay consider your-
self released from -your engagement to me,
without the forualit�of another visit,sit
JENNIE O EL
L.
"
Keene did not call at the 1Viorrells that
night, and on receiving the note next
morning he was dumfounded, His ring
was inol000d.
lie was false to Jeunie. Morrell in his
heart ; for Minnie Norris'e money and his
love for Jennie had had a struggle in his
breast, and the money, had decidedly the
best of the contest. Bat; what did Jeanie
know of that ?
Minnie had given him unmistakably to
understand that hie attentions would be
agreeable—but how did Jennie know this?
Keene loved J ennie Morrell as much al
one so selfish as he wascapable of loving,
and he was distressed. He resolved to see
her, at once and effect a reconciliation at
the sacrifice of ambition : and on his way
to see her he paused and thought of Minnie
and her wealth, and then retraced his
steps to his office, and wrote Jennie a letter
asking her the meaning of the note,.
lila letter' was never answered.
Keene's popularity waned, for his course
and motives were understood and heartily
despised, and Jennie Morrell, eoing oing to and
from her school with quiet dignity, was
made to feel that she had the heightened
respect of every one she met.
Joe Norris, when approached on the
subject of the marriage of his daughter to
the young lawyer,would reply with an am-
biguous smile :
"Yes, Keene seems to have taken a great
liking to my daughter, and she for him.
He is a pretty good fellow and has a good
law business, and I guess Minnie will do
well enough in marrying him. I believe in
a man being able to support a woman when
he marries her, and Keene has a decent
income and good prospects.
Toe Norris, whole-souled, and straight
forward, was a good enough man, with a
weakness or two, due to his ambition, that
required a disappointment to bring,him to
his senses.
He knew of Keene's former engagement
to Jennie Morrell, and reckoned from his
estimate of Jennie that the engagement
would have been broken without his daugh-
ter being a factor in it,
"She wasn't out for a man like him," he
mused. She's different from Minnie; she's
high-strung and sensitive, while Minnie
takes things as she finds them as a matter
of course. Jennie .Morrell would have
found the flaw in Keene sooner or later,
and I don't believe she'd marry a man that
didn't prove true blue on every inspeo-
tion.
But Plainville can no longer boast of
having as pretty and smart a "school ma'-
am" as the heroine of this sketch.
And the reason of it all is a matter of
local history in the files of the Plainville
Review.
In an issue of that enterprising journal,
of the volume of the year in which this
story runs, appeared the following an-
nouncements:
MARRIAGES.
KEENE—NORRIS.—At the Methodist
Church, on Wednesday evening, November
1, by Rev. Mr. Johnson, Minnie. Norris to
George Keene.
NORRIS —MORRELL.--At the resi-
dence of the bride's uncle, on Wednesday
evening, November 1, by Judge Brown,,
Jennie Morrell, of Toronto, to Joseph Nor•
ris, of Plainville.
In another column the Review said:
"Mr. Joe Norris and his lovely bride will
leave to -morrow for a European tour,
spending the winter in southern France
and Italy. On their return Mr. Norris
will dispose of his cattle interests in this
section and invest his capital in the East,
where the happy couple will make their
home."
In still another column of the Review
was the following :
"Mr. George Keene was defeated in last
week's election for M. P. But while defeat-
ed in politics, Mr. Keene has won the heart
and hand of one of Plainville's loveliest
daughters, and the incident of his political
defeat will not, cloud the brightness of his
honeymoon."
But there are those in Plainville who are
mean enough to insinuate that George
Keene's disappointments are little reckon-
ed by political disasters.
A Lazy Man's Consolation.
It is often said that to know where a
fact is to be found is almost as well as to
know the fact itself. This is a lazy man's
consolation, and there is not much truth
in it. In too many matters, before we
have hunted up our fact in the plea • where
we know it is to be found, opportunity for
using it has passed 'away. This principle,
however, applies perfectly to quite another
matter,—tri the experiences of other people.
We hold the student foolish who takes
nothing for granted, but wastes his time
verifying every statement, making over
again experiments made thousands of
times before, and seeking to repeat in one
short lifetime the work of all the scholars
who have ever lived, We smile at such
folly, but we are not as foolish when we
refuse to take advantage of the manifold
experiences of men and women written in
books ? Their mistakes are all deserib:,
with complete faithfulness,-aud we g
making the same mistakes. Theirs
and the way they
seeking the
1 ..Ad
THE
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Deo. 9.
Christ TeachA'aa,". Luko'$;4`15
Goldening Tebyat, Lukerb1es8: 1i.
(ilil�EltAL STATaMzi T,
The story of the life of ,Tesus runs con-
tinually on from lesson to lesson, He con-
tinued his great preaching tour, interrupt-
ed now and then by the vast multitude
which forcedhim to go into the wilderness
for isolation. Whenever he found people
gathered together he relieved their distress-
es, and whenever he had opportunity ho
proclaimed his blessed truth. There is a
wide difference between the conditions of
life in Palestine in A. D. 28 and the con-
ditions of the life in our own country in
1894. We can (erne little idea of the ins-
mouse throngs which followed Jesus from
town to town, leaving their pleasure and their
business, and willing to go without food or
sleep—without covering if necessary—
readily lured from their homes by this
latest of sensations, a wandering Messiah.
In the East to -day such crowds would
follow any wonder -worker, just as groups
of children in our cities are sometimes at-
tracted far from their homes by wandering
brass bands,
EXPLANATORY AND RRAorxa L NOTES,
Verse 4. He spake by a parable.. " The
morethe number of his hearers increased,"
says Godet, " the more clearly Jesus sees
that the t',me has come to set some sifting
process to work among them." He desires
to draw the more spiritual into closer at-
tachment and to keep the more carnal at a
distance, else his great mission in this
world will be greatly entrammeled. A
parable. Any wise saying that contains, u.
truth, as a kernel is in a nut or a treasure
in a box. It may be a story or it may be.
a mere proverb or sentence of truth, the
meaning of which does not lie on the
surface, but maybe reached by research and
study.
5. A sower. This parable was spoken
by Jesus while sitting in a boat; his hear-
ers were on the shore, On each side of him
stretched out the fields of Galilee, It was
springtime. At no great distance, in full
view of both preacher and audience, very
likely a husbandman 'toiled, scattering his
seed. The scenery of the parable was all
about them—the sower, the cultivated
hillside farm with all sorts of soil in it,
the outcropping rook, the padded footpath,
the thorny corners, and the pecking birds.
(1j "In our own country, and on every
Lord's day, how many sowers go forth to
sow 1"—Lange. The wayside. The hard
beaten paths into which no seed can pene-
trate. Pathe trodden across fields may be
said to be almost the only sort of roads in
Palestine. Fowls of the air. Little birds.
Devoured. The seed is threatened by a
double danger—the feet of travelers and
the beaks of birds. (2) "The feelingless
heart is like a hard trodden path.".—
Farrar.
6, 7, 8. Upon a rook. Stoney ground.
Thorns. Fields in the Levant are often
divided by hedges of thorns, but it is not
certain these were referredto. Porter speaks
of forests of thistles, gigantic and so dense
that no horse can break .through them.
Farrar Bays it is hard to overestimate their
iutense tangled growth. But the phrase
here seems not to refer to full-grown thorns,
for the thorns sprang up with the seed. A
hundredfold. This would be an enormous
harvest, but so large a crop has been known
in the East. He cried. He exclaimed in
a loud and commanding voice,in sharp con-
trast to the tones ot the narrative just
uttered. He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear. It would sound odd }day for a pub-
lic speaker to gravely say at the close of
his address, " Use your ears !" and doubt-
less it sounded as strangely to the crowd
that clustered about Jesus' boat. But it
is an exhortation to which we may well pay
attention. Few people more than half use
their ears. (3) Take heed how you hear.
10. Mysteries. Hidden things. That see-
ing they might not see. Jesus means that
he has wrapped up this truth in a story so
that those who desired merely a story might
have that. The majority of his hearers had
sight, but not insight. Jesus only veiled
the truth temporarily in parables. They
were intended to be used as porcelain shades
are now used—to make the light more
available by a partial obscuration of it.
He explained some, and would have ex-
plained all if the explanation had been neo-
cessary;
i1-15. Word of God, i)ivine truth,
written or spoken. Taketh away. Snatches.
"It is done in a moment by a•amile at the
end of a sermon, a slight criticism at the
church door, or foolish gossip on the way
home."—Plumptre. Lest they. should
believe. That they may not believe.
They on the rock. Shallow listeners.
Rave no root. That is the matter
with most of the boys and girls and most
of the men and women who make failures
in life ; they lack depth. All human be-
ings have faults aud have committed sins,
Thorns spring up in all soils, but thorns can
be weeded out, and trodden paths may be
plowed up ; only the shallow, rocky soil,
with its basis of stone, seems nearly hope-
less. There is 'hope, however. It is a
thought very fell of comfort that the fer-
tility of nur hearts, unlike that of the soil,
is under the control of our own wills. (4)
Surrender to God will turn the barrenest
heart into a fruitful field. Cares and riches
and pleasures. It would be hard to tell
which ruins most souls. With patience. The
queen of v' Font continuance in
welido'•on di 'ne
pow
.i
:•,.arrh,
the use of
govern your -
conga USES i lt? PAPER,
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Wood 001 i'ti1a1 Play yet finrratsli d1,ri11tor Me
War Shits anti y eiegraph a'oaeo,
Nothing of recent years has given a
greater incentive to tire exercise of the
forester's are than the discovery of the
method of making paper eat of wood pulp.
Wood pulp today supplies 20,000 weekly
and daily periodicals with paper, and each
year the number increases from 10 to 20 per
cent., making the demand upon the spruce
forests so great as to threaten their extinct
tion unless intelligent efforts are made to
preserve them, In Germany, where the
manufacture of wood pulp is even greater
than inthis country, the foresters's art is
exercised so that the forests steadily keep
up the supply. It is to the natural spruce
forests here that paper makers are trying
to buy up the large areas of woodland cov:
ered by these trees.
In the arts and trades new uses are found
for paper every year, so that the demand
increases as fast as the produoti n. Cigar'
boxes are made of paper and flavored with'
cedar oil to give the impression iha(hoy
are manufactured of cedar. Medals are
pressed out of paper and then coated with
a preparation to make them resemble either
silver or bronze. Similarly cornices, panels'
and friezes are moulded out of the paper
pulp, and, both interior and exterior archi`
tectural effects are obtained at'a relatively
low cost by this method.
The manufacture of oar wheels outof
paper is an old. story. It is probably the
good results obtained with them that sug-
gested the idea of coating ironclad men-of-
war with paper. Inventors are now work-
ing on the problem of finding a preparation.
either of compressed paper or compressed
ramie that will form a bullet-proof coating
for war vessels. The car wheels and steam
pipes made of paper admit of being moulded
and formed to suit any purpose, and it is
suggested that by using paper for coating
armor plate the surface could be formedlike
fish scales with tiny overlapping plates.
The surface could be made rough or smooth,
and besides giving more strength to the
steel armor the paper coating would protect.
the metal from corrosion.
Another queer use to which paper pro-
mises to be put is in the .manufacture of
telegraph poles. The paper poles are hollow,
and are made from paper pulp, and then
coated with silicate of potash to preserve
them. Electric conduits in successful use
are made out of paper pulp, and also steam
and water pipes of great strength and.
durability. Paper roofing material is c
common that it is unnecessary to mention.
it, and also paper pails, basins, and pans.
Undertakers are using cheap coffins press-
ed out of paper pulp. When polished and
stained suoh coffins are almost as handsome
as those of wood. They last longer in the
ground than coffins of wood or metal,, and
they can be hermetically sealed better than
the heavy metal coffins.
Paper boats are generally Iooked upon as
playthings for very small children, but
large, oomodious, stanch boats are now '
manufactured out of paper pulp. They can
resist the water, and are lighter than wood,
en or metal boats. Lead pencils and cigar
holders made of paper are in daily use, and
even carpets and mattresses are manufact-
ured in a limited way out of paper. .The -
mattresses are made of paper pulpartd or-
dinary sponge, with springs 'embedded in
the composition. Artificial straws for
drinking iced beverages, which are super-
ior to the natural straws, are being placed
on the market, and so is a peculiar cloth
paper for printing bank notes on.
BIGAMY NOT BIGAMY.
Glow a Mau Can Rave Two Wives in:
Canada.
Benjamin Plowman, the Weston tanner,
did not commit bigamy when he married
Matilda Dixon at Detroit in May, 1893, al-
though at the Buie he had a wife living in
Canada. Plowman was convicted by a jury
at the York Assizes, but Judge McDougall
reserved the case for the Divisional Court,
and it came up recently.
The act says Bigamy is an act by a
person, who, being married, goes througha
form of marriage with any other person in
any part of theeforld.
Lawyer Du Vernet argued that the por-
tion "in any part of the world" was beyond
the power of the Dominion Government,
The argument was followed by this remark
from Chief Justice Armour ; "This convic•
tion should be quashed. It appears to use
that the Government is powerless to punish
b gamists when the second marriage cere-
mony is performed in a foreign country.
The British Parliament might provide that
if a British subject married in another.
country he could be punished if he returned.
The Parliament is in a subordinate posi-
tion. Its jurisdiction is territorially limited
to within its own borders." Justice Falcon
bridge concurred.
This decision overrules the judgment of.
Chancellor Boyd in Queen v. Briefly and
has the effect of rendering unpunisbable
any married man or woman who desires to
escape the cost of a Canadian rlivorce,marry
in the United States and return,
•
Better Thtut"a;§tring,
Mother—"Johnny I On your way home.
front school, step at the store and get me a
stick of candy anti a bar of soap, "
Father -"What do you want of a stick of
•
candy?" '
^ 'r Tei,a.' enall,Y Zurich, •ononmann `
•
,it7CIi 'eI i,le1tY 34th 1895, AT ON Ifr't
P.Business i Eeoeiving the-•
...erectors' akd rcerbtare's Annual Reportsr
election of DitQetorsand other btr,iinsea fore
the rood ilAd Welfare of the Company. Alb !
membere aresemtested to attend.
JOHN T'Oli"11f1N'CJ, HENRY EILYIER,
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