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firliji CITY OF .0103/111.
V. lain TALMAGE. AMONG THE PAL-
ACES OF INOIA,
,ee 'rhino to Ste at the Ancient ()ay.- ot
Delhi—The peshmere Geete—The Palace
ef the afogaie—A Palace of Amber—The
Mock of Time.
131100=1'N, Pee, 30.—Continuing his
eeries of retina the world serrcious through
the press, Rev. Dr, Tidnutge today chose
for bis subject "Palaces in th.e text
being Amos iii, 10, "Who store up violence
awl robbery in their palaces."
fn. this day, 'when Tut sums of Paoney
we being given for the redemption of
:mita I hope to increase the interest in that
great country and at the same time draw
for all elaeses of our people practical les,
eons, and so preseut this Ofth serraon in,
the round the world series. We step into
the ancient capital Of India, the mere
pronuuciation of its name sending a thrill
threegh the Isody, mind and eoul of all
those wile bave ever read its stories of
splendor and disaster and prowess—
Delhi.
Before the first historian impressed his
drirt, word in clay or out his first word on
:raarble or wrote his first word on papyrus
Tielhi stood, in India, a contemporary of
pabylon and Nineveh. We know that
Delhi existed long before Christ's time
than we live after his time. Delhi is built
On the ruins of seven cities, which ruins
stover 40 miles with wrecked temples,
broken fortresses, split tombs, tumble
down palaces and the debris of centuries.
4..n archaeologist could profitably 'spend.
'Isis life here talking with the past through.
its lips of venerable masonry.
There are some things here you ought
to see in this city of Delhi, but three things
you must see. The first thing I wanted to
see was the Cashmere gate, for that was
the point at which the most wonderful
deed of daring which the world has ever
seen was done. That was the turning
_point of the mutiny of 1857. A. lady at
• "Delhi put into my hand an oil painting of
about 18 inches square a picture well exe-
cuted, but chiefly valuable for what it
represented. It was a scene from the
time of the mutiny—two horses at full run.
harnessed to a carriage in which were
• four persons. She said;
"Those persons on the front side are my
father and. mother. The young lady OA.
the bask seat holding in her arms a baby
nf a year was myolder sister, and. the baby
• two bombshells, and the wall above torn mistaken for a booming battery, and tlie
was myself. My raoth.er, who is down
with a fever in the n, ext room, painted voices at the different stations made me
bombshells, and the wall on the
that years ago. The horses are in full run by ten think I heard the loud cheer of the British
My right side defaced, atid scarped and plowed
because we are fleeing for our lives. at the taking of the Cashmere gate, and
Mother is driving, for the reason that my and gullied. by all styles of long reaching ,as we rolled over bridgee the battles before
father, standing up in front of the car- weaponry. Let. the words "Cashmere Delhi seemed going on and as we went
tIage, had to defend us with his gun, as gate," as a synonym for patriotism and through dark tunnels seemed to see the
fearlessness and self sacrifice, go into all
you there sea He foughtour way out and tomb of alu.mayun in which the king of
on for many a mile, shooting down the eternity. My friends, that kind of courage Delhisvvas hidden, and in my dreams I saw
sanctified will yet take the whole earth for
sepoys as we went. We had somewhat Lieutenant Ronny of the artillery throw -
God. Indeed the "missionaries now at
suspected trouble and had become suspi- ing shells whien were handed him, their
pri„e haa. Delhi toiling amid heathenism and fever
dious of our servants. .A. fuses burning, and Campbell and Reid
t int ' with fa ' and cholera and. far away from home and d Eope Grant covered with blood and
}eine then In inuy great battle Tim/men to
know of, The Crimean percentage of the
falleu was 17.48, bat the percentege of
Dclhi wae 37.0. ya that caty must be
talsert, and it cart Only he taken by awl
courtsge eab uever been. recorded in all
tee mangs or bloodshed, Every charge of
the British tegiments against the walls
and gates had been 'beaten baok. The
byeesas c iiiro.00tonx mad Mohammedan-
ism howled over the walla, and the Eng -
3Y could do nothieg but bury their
own. deed. But at this gate I stand and
watch an exploit that sn.akea the page of
history tremble with agitation.
This city has ten gates, but the most
faraous is the one before evinsoh we noW
stand, and it is called Caslamere gate,
Write the words in red iak, because of the
carnage. Write them in letters of light,
for theallustrious deeds. . Waite them in
letters of bleek, for the bereft and the dead.
Will the world ever forget that Cashmere
gate? Lieutenants Salkeld and Home and
Sergeants Burgess, Carmichael and Smith
offered to take bags of powder to the foot
a that gate and set them on fire, blowing
open the gate, although they /nest die in
&ling it, There they go, just after sunrise,
each one carrying a sack containing 24
pounds a powder and doing this under
the lire of the enemy. Lieutenant Home
was the first to jmnp into the ditch, which
still remains before the gate. As they go
one by one falls under the shot and shell.
One of the mortally wounded as he falls
hands his sack of powder, swith a box of
Wolfer matches, to another, telling him to
fire the sack, when with an explosion that
shook the earth for 20 miles around part
of the Cashraere gate was blown into
fragments, and the bodies of some of these
heroes were so scattered they were never
gathered for funeral or grave or monu-
ment. The British semyrushedin through
the broken gate, and although six days of
hard fighting were necessary before the
city was in complete Possession the crisis
was past. The Cashmere gate open, the
capture of Delhi ELUL al/ it contained of
palaces and mosques and treasures was
possible.
Lord Napier of Magdala, of whom Mr.
Gladstone spoke to me so affectionately
when I was his guest at Hawarden, Eng-
land, has lifted a monument near this
Cashmere gate with the names of the men
who there fell inscribed thereon. That
English lord, who had, seen courage on
many a battlefield, visited this Cashmere
gate and felt that the men -wbo opened it
with the loss of their own lives ought to
be commemorated, and hence this ceno
taph. But, after all, the best monument
is the gate itself, with the deep gouges in
the brick wall on the left side made by
scow aeseemietf the 40 marble steps
by which we Wended and took another
look at this wander of the world. As
thoug,ht what a brain the arehitect muet
have lied 'esti() Met built that mosgne in
ids oven imagination, and as I thought
What an •opulent ruler that must have
beenwho gave the order ter such vaetness
aed synatnetry, I was reminded of that
vebich petfectly explained all. The archi-
tect aim planned thiswas the same man
who planned tae Taj—namely, Austin de
Bordeau—and the king wlao erderecl the
mosesee constructed was the king who or-
dered the Taj—namely, Shah Johan, As
this grand mogul ordered built the inost
splendid palace for the dead when he built
the Taj at Agra, he here ,ordered built the
most splenaid palace of worsbm for the
living at Delhi. See here what sculpture habitaMens- They are followed by throngs
and arehitect can accomplish. They of people, for it is the passover season, and
link together the centuries. They success- all Galilee is journeying toward the feast
fully defy time. Two hundred and eightY So constant is the pressure of the crowd
years ago Austin de Borcleau and Shah that there is no time for food. or teat, to the
Jehan quit this life, but their work lives
and bidafair to stand until the continents Saviour or his company, At hiacommand
crack open and henaispheres go down and they quiotly enter the little boat that lies
this planet showers other worlds with ita upon the shore ; the oars are unshipped,
ashes. and ono° again they are breathing the free
I rejoice in all these big buildings, . ,
eof the sea. But their departure has not
whether dedicated to Mohammed or Brah-
ma or Buddha or Confucius or Zoroasteri been unnoticed. The orowd are so perms -
THE
SUNDAY SCIi001,.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 1$
"Feeding the Five srhotoitisd." Mark 6,
30 44, Gelaen Text Luke 1. 53.
• GENERAL srarainaar. .
While the disciples of the slain pro-
phet of the wilderness tell Jesus their
sorrowful story, the twelve apostles return
frons their mission, bearing the glad news
of eager multitudes listening to the Gospel,
and_of demons oast out of their human.
'because, as St. Sophia at Constantinople tent to hear the Teacher and behold his work
was a Christian church changed into a that they follow along the shore, keeping
mosque and will yet be changed bank the little vessel in sight, and are ready to
again, so all the mosques and temples of
superstition and sin will yet be turned welcome the Saviour as he disembarks on
into churches, When India and Ceylon the grassy slope near Bethsaida. Looking
and China and Japan are remedied, as we upon the hungry faces that press around,
all believe they will be, their religious e -
the neart of Jesus is touched he foregoee
struotures will all be converted into Chris-
tian asylums and Christian schools and hie purpose of retirement, and takes
Christian libraries and Christian churches. up anew • his task of teaching the
Built at the expense of superstition and multitude. Toward evening he turns to
sin, they will yet be dedicated to the Lord- Philip, and tests his faith by asking how
Almighty. Here ended the third lesson.
from the Delhi station and rolled out' fod. •The disciples urge bins to send them
so great a crowd are to be supplied with
As that night we took the railroad train•
through the city nowliving over the va,ster away before the daikness shall fall, but
cities buried. under this ancient -capital, calm in the consciousness of power he says,
ant had unrolled our bed, which consisted to eat," There stands in
cities under cities, and our traveling serv- "Give ye them
of a rug and two blankets and a pillow, the croyd a boy whose little scrip holds five
and. as we were worn out with the sight- small cakes of barley bread and two dried
seeing of the day and were roughly tossed fa es. These . Jesus takes into his hand
on the uneven Indian railway, I soon fell and then bids the disciples arrange the
into a troubled sleep, in which I saw and
mMgled mass of 'people in order for taeir
heard in a confused way the scenes and
feast. They recline upon the grass in their
sounds of the mutiny of 1857 which at variegated garments like flower beds in
Delhi we had been recounting, and now green borders. Now •the Saviour stands
the rattle of the train seemed to turn into with upturned face one solemn moment,
the rattle of musketry, and now the light
at the top of the car deluded me with the H
while sileneetsweeps over the sea of taxes.
idea of a burning city, and then the loud tweelbvere. breaks ehaeohbarve d and gives to the
As bread
in turn breaks off
thump of the railroad brake was in dream a piece for the one nearest, the bread is
multiplied, until five thousand men, with
their wives and children are supplied.
Then at Jesus' command twelve baskets
full of fragments are gathered, as an object
lesson that's ..Godat people may not waste
the bounty so richly bestowed.
ExPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 30. Mark's narrative, which had
been interrupted by the parenthesis relat-
ing to John the Baptist, studied lastSun.
day, is now taken up. The apostles. They
nomfort.and staying there until they dreP returned from their tour of preaching very
then who was editor of the Delhi Gazette. Nicholson. falling while rallying on the soon after the news of John • the Baptist's
into their graves are lust as brave tak-
The prince proposed to come veiled so that wall his wavering troops. And I saw dead death had come. Told him all things.
mg Delhi for Christ as were Nicholson and
o one mi ht recognize him but my regiment fallen across dead regiment and They gave him a detailed account of their
mother insisted on being present, and the 1 Home and Carmicbael in taking Delthi for heard the rataplan. of hoofs of Hodgson's
interview did not take place. A. large fish G-reat Britain. Take this for the first ser- horse, and the dashotthe Bengal artillery,
had been sent to our family anti monic lesson. four other and the storming by the immortal fourth
Another thing you must see if you go to
.. families.. the present an offering of thanks column, and the rougher the Indian rail-
.
mission what they had done (both miracles
and ordinary deeds), and whise they had
taught ; nothing could be more important
than this first statement of Gospel doctrines.
Delhi, though you leave many things 110 way became ancl the darker the night grew
came, Previously (John 6) Jesus losd ask-
ed Philip how the multittulo were to be
supplied. with (ood. This is a desert place.
Not lik.e eity, where feed coeld be pur-
ohased. ankle . , . fay NOWA, " The
day is now far speet" (Rev)sed, Version),
Send them eway. Disease the oonaregatioe
before the evenieg fells. "Hese was strong
charity, but weak faith."—Bishop Halls
37, 38, Give ye them to eat. (6) "Duty
is ineapered by Christ's commend, not by
our resources, '—Schaff. Two hundted
pennyworth. About twentreight dollars
in value, but then buying as muca tsvo
hundred dollars at the present time. It
Yeas named as the 1,0WOSS SUM Whi011 Would
buy eneugh to give all a little, How many
loaves. Thin cakes made of barley, some.
what like soda bisouite. When they
hneiv. The information was given by
Andrew (John 6. 8, 9), They say, Five. A
quaiut old preaoher has add, 'There be
five manner of 'loaves very necessary for us:
our corporeal, our spiritual, our doctrinal,
our saoramental, and our eternal bread.'
Two fishes. These were probably salted
and dried to be eaten as a relish.
(1) Christ takes notice of the toils and
seen, ss the palace of the moguls. It is an
the rapre the scenes that I had been study- trembles of his people. (2) It is good to
enclosure 1,000 yards by 500. You enter ing at ',Delhi came on me like an its. foster confidential relations with our Mas -
for the king's tecovery from a recent. sick-
ness. But we suspected poison and did
not eat the fish. One day all our sem-
through a vaulted hall nearly 400 feet b
Yeasts came lee and said they must go and
ter. -
walls once erneralded and sapphired and But the morning began to look through 31. Come ye yourselves apart. To get
long. Floors of Florentine mosaic and. ..., .
/See what was the matter. We saw what
carbuncled and diamonded. I said to the sunlight
Isaihntdow of oua jolting rail car, and the e the rest they could not have in the crowd,
was intended andknew that if the servants
returned they would murder all of us.and to receive fuller private instruction.
guide, "Show us where once stood tbe my
pouredsai nt the
bi-Iii/ h In 17 ,
Things grew worse and worse until this c and
tliin Our Lord always tenderly oared for his
scene of flight shown. you in the picture peacock throne." "Here it was," he re- Ey at h flagh 7t d. over Delhi,
digeamso ota o
e followers. A desert place. A. solitude.
took place. You see, the horses were wild sponded. All the thrones of the earth put D. sb °is :heelV7 1 where the
(3) "Solitude and society should be duly
with fright. This was not only because of together would not equal that for costli- green banner of h os em ahad waved,
blended by the godly."—Bengel. Many
the discharge of gnus, but the horses were ness and brilliance. It had steps of silver, and the to
ofht e wounded and dying
coming and going. A graphic pharse. The
etrucle and pounded by sepoys, and ropes
were tied across the way, and the savage /....and the seat and arms were of solid gold.
It cost about 8150,000,000. It stood "between seemed o e lex° anged for he voices that
welcomed soas home brighter
dbl.'
And, has returning apostles doubtless brought with
them uninvited followers ; and the whole
halloo and the shout of revenge made all two peacocks, the feathers and plumes of therradorinning lightagoI
t r atlial b lif tt- country side was in bustling preparation
the way of our flight a horror."' , which were fashioned out of colored stones. ea station n uly dic.ehIll 12111;111 i the
e 's a for the outset to the passover. No leisure
The books lis,sre fully recorded. the hero- Above the throne was a life-size parrot eut minaret b.
forrae lc it ed a iging
. 1.!1 t. so much as to eat. These seven words shed
lam displayed at Delhi and approximate out of one emerald. Above allwas a can- um e his ca 1 to ra er I seemed to • -
bl c17 ' al oha in a,repriest had much light on the environments of Jesus.
regime, but make no mention of this They show something of the intensity and
family of Wagentreibers whose flight I
ara mentioning. But the Madras Atha- .
tienm printed this:
"And now I Axe not the deeds of the
Wagentreibers, though he wore a round
hat and she a crinoline, as worthy of ire-
perisheble verse as those of the heroic pair
whose nuptials graced the court of Charle-
yriange? A more touching picture than
that of the brave man contending with.
well nerved arm against the black and.
•threatening fate impending over his wife
emd child we have never seen. Here was
no strife for the glory of physical prowess
• tor the spoil of shining arms, but a con-
quest of the human mime an assertion. of
the powers of intellect over the most ap-
palling array of circumstances that could
Assail a human being. Men have become
gray in front of sudden and unexpected.
peril; and in. ancient days so much was
courage a matter of heroics and mere in
-
Edina that we read in immortal verse of
heroes struck with panic and ffeeing be-
orethe enemy. But the savage sepoys,
with their hoarse watery and swarming
like vvasps around the, Wagentreibers,
struck no terror into the brave man's
heart. His heroism was not the mere
ebullition of despair; but, like that of his
wife, celm and wise, standing upright
that he might use his arms better,"
As an incistent vvill aometinaes more im-
press one than a generality of statement,
I present the flight of this one family from
Delhi merely to illustrate the desperation
of the times. The feet was that thasermys
had taken possession of the city of Delhi,
and they were, with all their artillery,
fighting back the Europeans who were on
the eutside and murdering all the Euro-
• peans who were on the 'made. Theeity of.
Delhi has a crenulated wall on three sides
—a wall 51-2 miles long—and the fourth
• side of the chy is defended by the river
• Jutnna. In addition to these two defenses
Of wall and water there were 40,000 se-
poys all armed. Twelve hundred British
Soldievs were to take that city. Nicholson,
the immortal general, commanded them,
• and you must visit his grath before yet/
leseee Delhi. Eas fell leading his trOoaa
Ire commanded them evea after being
Mortally wounded. 'ou will teed this hi-
•itetiptioe on his tomb
"Jelin Nicholeon, who led the assault of
Delhi, but fell in the hour of victory mor-
tally Wolisicled Mid died 23d September,
1857, aged 35 years."
With evhet guns and num G;ineral nth-
• Olson Ostia muster he had laid siege to
thio svalIed saty filled with devils. What
aearful oadol Twavo huncited, British
troops uucoverea by anY milljAry works
to take s cite attrrotinded by Men and
• high masonry, on the tap Of vehieh were
114 gum end defetaed by 409000 foliating
N"ar-fa A Ira140 PeiffiantaSte 0t trOODie fell
opy resting on twelve columns of gold, the -
hear a, chant, whethee by human or an -
canopy fringed with pearls. Seated here, gelic voices in my dream I could not tell,
the emperor on public occasions wore a
b t it ch t ab ut e and d
crown containing among other things the will to men." And as the speed of the
Kohinoor diamond, and the entire blaze ful and hopeless turbulence of Jewish life
oc coronet cost $10,350,000. This superb rail train slackened the motion pi the ear at this juncture. The people were growing
and once almost supernaturally beautiful became so easy as we rolled along the track wikl in their unrest under the injustice of
room bas imbedded in the white marble that it seemed to me that all the distress their rulers, and pressed around every new
atrain of his life ; they indicate the promin-
ence which he had already secured, and
more clearly still they point to the mourn -
wall letters of black marble, which were
translated to me frona Persian into English
asmeaning:
If on the earth there be an Eden of bliss;
That place is this, is this, is this, Is this.
But the peacocks that stood. beside t e
throne have flown away, taking all the.
display with them, and those white suer-
ble floors were reddened with slaughter,
and those bathrooms ran with blood, and
that Eden of which the Bergen couplet,
on the walls spake has had its flowers
wither and its fruits decay, and I thouglat
while looking at the brilliant desolation
• and standing amid the vanished glories
of that tbroneroom that some one had bet-
ter change a little that Persian couplet on
the wall and make it read:
If there be a place where much you miss,
That place is theais this, is this, is this.
As 1 came out of the palace into the
street of Delhi I thought to myself:, Para-
dises are not built out of stone, are not
cut in sculpture, are aot painted on walls,
ere not fashioned out of precious stones,
• do not spray the cheek with fountains, do
not offer thrones and crowns. Paradises
are built out of natures uplifted and en
nobled, and what architect's compass may
not sweep, ancl sculptor's ehisel may not
cut, and painter's pencil niay not sketch,
and gardener's skill shay not lay out, the
grace of God cast achieve, and if the heart
be right all is right, and if the heart be
wrong all is wrotig, Here endeth the sec-
ond lesson.
But I' will not yet allow you to leave
Delhi. The third thing you Must see or
never admit that you have been in India
is the mosque called Jurnma Unsold, It
is the grandest mosque I ever saw except
St. Sophia at Constantinople, but it sur-
peases that in some respeets, for St. So-
n:Ada was originally a Christian church
and ohanged into a mosque, while this of
Delhi was originally built for the Moslems.
As I entered 1,000 or MOTO Mohamine-
date Were prostrated in worship. There
are times Nelsen 5,000 may be seen her in
the same attittule. Beth stone of the iloor
le 3 feet long by 11-0 Wide and each wor-
shiper has one of these glebe for himself
While kneeling. The areal= of this
bailding restated 5,000 laborers for six
years. It is On a plateavt of rook, has foot
towers rising far into the heaven, three
great gateways inviting the world to oome
Ixi aud honot the memory of the prophet
of many Wives, 15 derma with spithe gold
tipped, told 0 minarets, What a built up
ittinuonsay or White marble.atid rd sand -
and controversy and jelting and wars of
ahe world had ceased, and in my dream I
thought we hact come to the tisne when
"the ransomed of the Lord shall thturn
and come to Zion, with songs and ever-
lasting joy upon their heads, and sorrow
and sighing shallefiee aweer.."
You visit Amber on the back of an ele-
phant. Permission obtained for your visit
the day before at jaipur, an elephant 15 111
waiting for you about six miles out to take
you up the steeps to Amber. You pass
through the awfully quiet streets, all the
feet that trod them in the days of their ac-
tivity having gone on the long journey,
and the voices of business and, gayety that
sounded amidl these abodes having long
ago uttered their last syllable. You pass
by a lake covering 500 acres where the
rajahs used to sail in their pleasure boats,
but alligators now -have full possession,
and you come to the abandoned palace,
which is an enchantment. Islo more pia-
turesque place was ever chosen for the
residence of a monarch. The fortress
above looks down upon a lake. This mon-
archial abode ina,y have had attractions
when it wanthe home of royalty, which
have vanished, but antiquity and the si-
lence of many years and opportunity to
tread where onee you would not have been
permitted te tread may be an addition
quite equal to the subtraction.
But what a solenan and stupendous
thing isan abandoned eityl Waffle many
of the peoples of earth have no roof for
their heads, here is a, whole city of roofs
rejected. The sand of the desert was suftl-
eleot excuse for the disappearance of He-
liopolis, and the waters of the Mediterra-
nean sea for the engulfment of Tyre, and
the lava of Mount -Vesuvius for the oblit-
eration of Rerculaneern, but Per the sake
of nothing but a superstitions whim the
city of Amber is abandoned forever. Gli,
wondrona India! The city of Amber iS
only orie of the marvels whieh conspel the
unliftecl hand of sueprise from the clay you
miter Ihdia until you leave it, India will
not be fully eompreheraled until sciente
has Made its last experiment, and explora-
tion has ended ita last journey, and the
library of the world's literature has closed
its last door, and Chriatiartitybasmade its
last editieVement, and the block of time
has strook its last hour.
Handkerchiefs and notetoes,
In 1700 A •hatidkerchief eest 00 cents in
Massachusetts, While a pair a ptookingg
cest /5 cents and potittoee were 30 befits
bushel,
teacher with a ferocious interest, hoping
to find a successful leader against their
hated political masters.
39, 33. They departed into a desert plaee
by ship privately. They went away in a
bodyto a solitude apart. This "desert
place" was near to the city called Beth.
amide," and as there were two places °ailed
Bethaaida, and as the boat would take Jesus
away from the Bethaaide. of Galilee, this
"desert place" must have been near to the
town of that name, whioh stood northeast
of the Sea of Galilee. The plain called
Butaiha, which is bread and beautiful even
in these modern days of desolation, is
identified with this place. Betlasaida means
"fish town," and a large share of the popu.
lation about the Sea Of Galilee were engaged
in the fishing industry, some as fishermen,
some in preserving the fish. Dr. Thoinson
is emphatic in his identification ef the site
ef this place with Butaiha, They sailed
across the head,ot the lake from Capernaum
to the plain east of the Jordan. Christ's
Galilean ministry was now concluded; from
this time on he has less to say to the general
publio and more to his apostles. Ran afoot.
Running around the curve at the heaa of
the lake. Out of all oities. The towns
around the margin of the lake; hamlets and
villages of all eizee from tivo to ten Miles
frora Betheaida. Outwent them. (4) See
the eagerness of those who have seeu Jesus
to see and know more of him. Clatno
gether unto him. (5) .The love of Christ
infolds all his lovers, and those who come
to Jaime inesitably "coma together." The
distance by land -front the place where they
started vvoulcl be about twenty miles.
• 34, When he tame Out. •When he
stepped ashore. Saw much people. Our
Lord had left these inconsideratepeople to
secure the rept so greatly needed ; but when
he saw them waiting for him, instead of
irritation, he was moved with compassion.
Tneir eagerness and their need touched his
heart of sympathy, and he gave tip for the
present his purpose of retirement, and be-
gan aneut the work of healing and inetritc...
tem (Matt. 14, 14). Sheep aot having a
shepherd. No animal nee& guidance and
protection so much as a sheep. Ohrysostom
• observes that the scribes were net so muck
• pastors 00 wolves, because by teaching
mama both by werd and exaMPle, they
pervertea the minds of the simple, Began
to teach. • He could no more than "begin'
mind° the brew of arrival, wet late.
35, 36, Ter spent. Thi e was "the first
everting," Which began at three o'clock,
T "moon& evening" (verse 47) was at
MA, whim ib fd Hewed by darkness, with
rcelv anv after val Of tWilitillL Diadiple
39; 40. Commanded them. The twelve
were sent out into the throng to arrange
them in order. All sit down. Rather, "la
recline," as they were wont to do at meals.
On the green grass. It was in Nista', "the
month of flowers," when the grass in Pales-
tine is most fresh and green. Sat down in
ranks. The word in the original means,
"like flower beds," as if recalling the pic-
turesque orientei garments in gay colors on
the green background. Markat gospel
abounds in these pictorial graphic touches.
By hundreds and by fifties. Sonia groups
consisted of the larger number and others
of the smaller. (7) Christ's kingdom is a
world of order. •
• 41, 42. Looked up, Recognizing thereby
the food as a gift from God. And blessed.
(8) Let us follow our Saviour's example in
giving thanks and seeking God's blessing
upon his bounty. Break the loaves. Which
were thin and brittle, and rnore easily
broken than out. Gave to his disciples.
Thus placing honor upon the twelve, and
illustrating the principle that (9) Thus he
feeds the world with the bread of life by
masking saved men his ministers, Did all
eat. • Afterward, in the synagogue at
Capernaum, Jesus showed that he is the
bread of life upon which men may feed
(John 6. 27.59). (1) A divine bread; (2)
An abundant bread ; (3) A satisfying
bread.
43, 44. Twelve' baskets. These were
the common wicker baskets in .which all
Jews oarried a supply of food while travel-
ing. Full of the fragments, As a lesson
in economy, and as a convincing proof of
the miracle. Thus more was left than had
been originally possessed. (10) Those who
give to Christ's cause have no lack. Five
•thousand men. One loaf sufficed for each
-
thousand. Matthew adds "besides women
and children." (Teacher, show how nauch
the young are interested in this miracle,
since a boy brought the loaves, and many
children were fed with them.) No one
needs to go spiritually hungry. A. botanist
discourses of the oharacteriatics of seed,
while the farmer eats and sows, sows and
eats. So with the Gospel. Acritic dis-
sects it; to him the letter is dead; he
neither lives on it nor feeds his neighbors ;
he neither eats nor sows. • To the disciple
of Jesus the word is both bread and seed.
QUEEN AND FAKIR,.
ROW nig FRENCH WIZARD FOOLED
ANAVALON A.
lie Flawed Ail Saris of Pranks With
ifer lilsee4iy, awl Cot ater to sign a,
Treaty Over which There will be War.
France is 1OW going to warwith Ma-
dagasoar in consequence of the latter's
refusal to put into execution the
stipulations of a treaty which was
extorted from the Malagasy Queen by
methods which were of a very amusing
character and unprecedented in the "annals
of diplomatic history. The Freach Minis-
ter at Antananarivo was in those days, as
now, M. Myre de Viliers. The treaty hael
been duly negotiated with the native
Ministers and all that Was needed wal the
signature of the Queen. But this she
hesitated About giving. Even more cap-
ricious than the most of her sex, she drove
the French Plenipotentiary almost wild
with her constant 'appointments and dis-
appointments in connection with the mat-
ter, and he was at his wits' ends,
One day, glancing through Ms letters,
he happened to learn that one of the 'most
tamoua conjurers and thought -readers of
Franee, e native of Toulouse; was giving
performances at Mauritius, whence he
proposed to sail for the Cape in continua-
tion •of his professimusl tour around the
world. It did not take long foi the Envoy
to make up his mind to invite the con-
.
juror to stop off at Madagascar on his way
South vend with this object in view he
dispatched a French gunboat to the Mauri-
tius to fetich the man.
• Meanwhile M., Myr° de Viliers carefully
sehooled the • Malagasy dignitaries and
Government officials as to the supernatural
powers possessed by the visitor whose ar-
rival was about to take plaoe. He pro.
claimed him to be a prince of the occult
sciences and of darkness, and. when he
landed at Tamatave the natives were cow
Once& that for once the French Envoy had
spoken the truth. For the conjurer was
WINDSOR CASTLE.
Bow the Queen's Winter lieme Is Lighted
And Heated.
• In a gossipy account of the tireparations
for the winter residence at Windsor of the
English Queen, a London paper tells how
the question of heat and light becomes
complicated on account of Victoria's very
decided ideas upon the matters.
For lighting the castles four methods are
available, all of which are more or less in
operation, viz.: gas, oil, candles and • the
electric light ; while for warming and
cooking, wood, coal and gas •are. used.
During the residence of the court some
hundreds of persons are in the castle besides
the royal family and the visitors; con-
sequently, the adequate provision of all
these processes is of a somewhat gigantic
nature, keeping many servants constantly
,employed.
For the general lighting and heating,
gas and coal are adopted ; but thia is not
so in the Queen's own rooms, nor in many
other of the royal apartments. .111 the
matter ef fires for her own rooms the
Queen, strictly banishets coal. She has a
confirmed preference for wood only. Speci-
al supplies of wood have to be obtained
for this purpose from the 'thickly -timbered
hills a few miles up the river above -Wind-
sor, where a numhsr of workmen are
regularly employed on this task. The
timber, when felled and roughly trimmed
on the spot, is brought down to a wharf on
the riverside, where it is dressed and cut
up into blooks of fixed sizes ; it is then
stacked to get seasoned, and as required
supplies are brought down to the castle
for consumption in the Queen's rooms.
Gas and oil are excluded from Her Ma.
jesty'a apartments. Here light is pro-
vided by means of wax candles, all of one
special pattern, their daily removal heing
the duty of- a special offieial. • In EOM Of
the other apartments psis utilized, and in
other parts oil lamps are bureed, gas sup.
piing the quarters of the staff generally.
Moreover, although the Queen bars all but
candlee for her own private Me, she has
permitted the introduction eof an electric
light plant. This is placed underneath the
north terrace, and is in eharge of aapecial
engineer, under the general supervision of
a prominent electriciAn. Thai plant has
never been largely used, but the light has
been led into and applied to the main cor-
ridors, to one dr two of the royal apart -
&teeth, and to the libiara.
• A year or so ago the original plant was
replaced by newer had snore powerful
Machinery, which would probably Suffice
to light the whole of tile (matte if the Queen
So willed; bet this has not yet occurredasor
is she likely to sanction it. Electric bells
and telephones abo mrnd tht oughoutthe
castle, but electric light is allowed very
limited
eplly
Trequired for Windsor Castle
chiefly ceases from certain collieries in llorth
Walee, brought in train ion& of perhaps
SOO tons at a time. Prom the station it is
dartecl to the eastle, in varietal parts of
which are deep and 'manhunt eellare into
which it is tipped, Thence it ie conveyed
08 required to the ditierent room and
offices, numbering SOITIO liundrede.
Through the vain webs which 'mato
sophists' Skill,plsin sense and honest mean-
ing Work their way; so Wok the varying
clouds upon the hill when the °leer (Wen-
ing brightens into the day, --Da Watte,
tall and thin, with piercing eyes and twirl-
ed up mustache. He wore a fiaming-red
_costume and was exceedingly quick and
sprightly in his movements.
Queen Ranavalona was deeply moved
•and agitated when she heard of the super-
natural powers alleged to be possessed by
the magician, and he was attended not
only by a bodyguard of French sailors, but
also by a large detachment of Malagasy
dignitaries and eoldiere when he made his
journey from Tamatave to the capital.
Shortly after his arrival be was received in
audience by her Majeaty, being presented
with much state and ceremony by the En-
voy as the "President of the League of
Peace and Truth," an imaginary philan-
thropical society edtablished at Paris, and
which, according to the Envoy, was in the
habit of sending delegates bo all parts • of
the world _where dispute zi and conflicts
were in progress in order to bring them to
an end by either natural or supernatural
means. Before the first audience was
brought to a close, the magician, at the
suggestion of Id. Myra de Valera'per-
formed three of his most marvelloustricks
in the presence of the entire court and of a
considerable portion of the Queen's subjects.
Pries4 and appeared to serieuely. thialc
Oeeoming the Dictator of Madagaeoar. BO
wound up by rein:tering himself So utterly
obnoxious, even to the Freach Anthaesealeri
that the latter wee obliged to adopt all
kinds of artifices and to make promises of
reward, as well as threats, in erder to iu.
duce him to leave the eountry.
At length, however, on the understent
ing thee he was to receive $100,000 and the
Order of the Legion of Honor as a ;reward
for having secured the signature of the
Queen to the treaty converting the island
into a French proteetorate, he returned,
France. He has since been clamoring ilt
vain for his roward,which ia refused by the
Government at Paris principally on at:001mb
of the deolination of ttie Malagasy author'
ities to fulfil the terms of the treaty.
WHITE PELLETS OF ARSENIC.
Their Ifse for Cosmetic Effects Becoming
Alarmingly rrevaleut Among WOUSOne
Arsenio, of all drugs, is wonderful in its
oosmetic effeots. After (slew months' dos.
ing the cuticle acquires a pelluoid clearness,
tree from spot or blemish, beneath which
the fine treeing of a vein or the unrestricted
play of an emotion is exquisitely pictured.
To be sure there are some obstinate Skiing
Whi011 wit yieldonly to a prolonged dosing,
but there is a further cempeneation in such
oases through the softening of harshness in
the visage and a general rounding oub
what, in this way, becomes a lovely corm.
tenance, Now this pleasing state of things,
like the ugliness of the 'sibil, is external
only. The—woman who uses araenio for
any length of time draws drafts upon the
near future, which are onlyredeemed In
the bankruptcy of her health. The languor
which externally is delicious proves inward-
ly tr torture. That exquisite whiteness of
brow, oheek, nose a.nd neokis concomitant
only with an organic' agony in comparison
with whioh thepath of virtue is triumph of
130CITS-P00IISSING A QUEEN.
. .
The first consisted in exposing himself
to the fire of the Prime Minister (the
Queen's husbenci), who aimed in vain at
his breast. The magician was not touched
and produced the bullet from the palm of
his hand after eaoh shot ; this of course
gave him the reputation of being invulner-
able. • The second feat was aocomplithed
thug: The Queen, having written some-
thing on a piece of paper, burned it and
scattered the (inshore over his head. Be
reflected for a me:neut. and thetrguessed
every word she had written. This earned
for him the title of a diviner of thoughts.
The third trick dispelled all remaining
doubt as to his supernatural power. The
magician tied up and sealed a email box,
which he placed in a larger box and then
disappeared behind a screen. "Count
five,' he said tothe Queen. This Was done,
a shot Abed; and he jumped out of the
small box dressed in a brilliant costume,
which, he declered, was 'that. in which he
appeared at all ceremonies connected with
the league at Paris of which he Was presi-
dent.
From that day he became peraona grata
at court and wet worshipped as a sorcerer.
The Queen grew to regard him as her
guide, philosopher and„friend, and, being
very superstitiotai, consulted him on • all
important matters. A certain mystery,
however, surrounded his movements, and
it was generally at night-time that he used
to go to the palace and have his interview
with her Majeety. One night, during the
course Of one of these audienees, he pro-
fessed to be able to read in the thoughts of
the Queen, as in an open book, the difficul-
ties that would arise between France and
Madagascar. • He exposed the future
machinations °Utile English, and ended by
reduchag the royal lady to such a state of
abject submission that he got her to affix
her signature to the treaty that now con-
stitutes the basis of war between the two
countries. It was he Who induced the
Queen to permit the Freteh to establish
telegraphic communication between Antan.
anarivo and the coast, and when she raised
objeotions teethe display of fireworks that
were to signalize the anniversary of her
birth, on the ground that they were the
works of the devil, the magician asaurod
her tbat he could defy the Evil One, and
the display took place in due course. He
sUcceeded insfilehing important state docu-
ments that lay on the Queenat writingotable
awaiting ,her • signature, and made her
believe that they were stolen.by invisible
spirita
sane MAGICIAN'S DEAD SWELLED.
How long this abate of things would he
lasted it is impossible to say had not the
oonjurer become en puffed up with Vanity
that he regarded himself as a far greater per.
swung° than M, Myre de Viliers himself. He
posed as the real arbiter of peace between
the two countries, assumed' official airs in
keeping with that postrspolre to the Queen
in the moot lofty and commanding mariner,
and oo one odeasion played 80 many tricks
with the treaty Which she was negotiating
With the English that she became convinced
that the document Was bowitehed and de-
clined to have anything more te do With
ne lived like a lord, Was ealuted by the
court dignitaries and officials 08 0 high
the flesh. And when the repose of the
p11 -
low affords to an ugly girl the solace of
dreams or sleep, her fair, drugged sister
tosses like a skiff in a sterns, fighting vivid
nightmares. The devil, aocording to St.
Cyprian'makes women pay for their
beauty. Arsenic, in this respect, is like the
devil. It may not be known to many men,
although it undoubtedly is to most wo,
men, that an immense business has grown
up all over the' country in the manufacture
and side of what are known asarsenic)
complexion wafers. In New York, Phila.
delphia, Chicago and Boston these goods
isre delivered in wagons to the retail drug-
gists, so great has the trade bootee. The
wafers are white pellets, which must be
taken morning and night indefinitely,
Now, these goods contain very little arsenic;,
but when a woman whose system does note,
yield reedily becomes impatient for result, a"
she has another mounts at command. This
is to persuade a medical friend to give her a
preseription for the drug or to purchase It,
on some pretense at a store.
Young girls are the most sitequent
victims of this sort. rb is a curious fact
that very few ,women over 30 are arienid °-"S
fiends in this country, which shows the
habit to be comparatively recent here. But
when a woman once 'become a user of the
drug in this wary there seems no escape for
her. The horeore set forth in "The Con-
fessions of an Opium Eater" are nothing
compared to the ordeal of the woman whe
is battling the craving for arsenic'. Even
a fevr weekta abandonment of the drug will
convert her languorous beauty into faded
ugliness. The skin assumes the tint of
ancient whitewash. Tho nose grows flabby;
and the hue which so adorns the cheek
capriciously establishes itself at the tip of
that olfactory • organ. The head grow,'
heavy and the nervous aystent, ' like the
heroine of any paper -covered romance; is
torn with contending emotions. • A single
look in the mirror makes this wretched
creature any,reenic consumer once more.
Does any man deem this an •exaggerated
picture, or that we are not 'suffering nation.
ally from the habit which is responsible for
it? Ask an authority on the drug trade
*or any active member of the board of health
of any me tropolitan centre. Moreover,
the legislation of the states is not unilorm.
But •now it is intended to prevent the sale
of the drug unlees specially prescribed and
to break up the trade in arsenieated nos-
trums. A bill has been prepared and will
shortly be introduced into various legisla-
tures 'to this end. .
• It was Surgeon General Wyman who
pointed out, when the anti-arsenio agita-
tion began, that there is danger from slav.
ery to the drug in another direction. It
gives 000asion for a inurderous use of arsenic,
and will complicate the •investigation of
suspicious deaths. Traces of anitiniOal
poison are now very weak as evidences oi
murder. The victim may have been a
"fiend." Indeed, some • of the most in.
terestingmurder cues havebeen complicat-
ed in this way. , Mrs. Maybriok owed her
peculiar type tsf, beauty to indulgence in
the luring poison, and one of the Most fam-
ous of Wilkie Collins' novel hinged upon
the same enslavement of the heroine. -
Wellington's Funeral.
In the funeral procession of lhe Duke Of
•Wellington twelve horses drew the can;
these were covered from eyes to fetlock'
in housings of black velvet with black isete
rich plumes upon their heads. The Duke's
funeral wee modelled upon the precedent
of that of John Monk, first Duke of Alba;
merle, the only change in the trappings Of -
the horses being that the animals were
Only plumed on the head, instead of carry
ing aSecond plume on the crupper, which
as:the tail was. en by the velvet clotb..
ing, has rather • A lediorous appearance.
But in the funeral of the puke of Alherrattle
'led horses forned an important Lien oaths
Prseesslea
"Mourning horses," as they were called,
draped in black • cloth mid plumed,'were
dietribUted at intervals 10 110 cortege. The
"chief mourning horse" followed the
standard of England. The funeral ear was
also followed by a cream.colored "horse of
honor " With crier -won caparisons, in the
Duke of Wellington's funeral prosessien.
The only led horse was his charger, net
Clopehhagell, bat the animal which he was
in the habit of • riding in his last years.
Vet the riderless steed, pacing behind its
roaster's bier, %Wakened the emotions of the
*gazing, tin:mis. time§ an appeal more
potent and direct than that of all the ao,
cumulated pomp which preceded it.
Hope nI ill gain It Om beginning of
—Dertionritut,