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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-1-31, Page 7tee TRE NORTTI, SQVT4, EAST AND WEST, PROM ALL PoltsiTg OF nig oomPAgs THE GOSPEL THRONG COMES, ftev, Dr.Talmage'a Sermon on Sunday, -A Purely Goeuel iermen Abounding in In, formation and 'Siocinenee-A row Ito. marks A bent Polititao Reform. • NEW YORE, .Tan, 20. --The subject of DA But I nt t t fr that am text Hollandere, and they were brought up to .Talinage's discourse was "Points of Com- 110 ° t ag love and worship God and it vvill take bnt t k th dal ono e an the there, tlieY nreraita to aide Mom 1 than the ()the the eanalbals in one 9 tbe oaverne; but, oaountiug the Vooks, they eaw a clneveli end cried out: "We are Heated. A elineehl eleurobt?' Tbe etaithl Thatmeane Irene ezttela, New Grenade, Eonader and Boli - ea. 1me eolith) That mearte the torrid, zone, with ell Its leloora and all Ito frala. age and all its exuberauee, the redolence of illirnitahle gardene, the entesie of Imande else In the Mambo and evil' accoraplieli frrnn tbe west," and f evangelistic battetiee the Paeide eoast, as they along the Atlantie coma all the mountains, all the valle isitiee are under more or less gopo ranee, and when we get enough faith 11 less groves, the lands, the seas that night consecration for the work this whole Am - by mght loak ten to the southern cross, erican continent was ere oat for Goa. Whieh in stars tranengures the midnight "They shall eome from the west." heaven as You look up at it all the way The work is not so difficult as many sup. from the Sandwien Islands to Australia. pose. You WV, "There axe the foreign "They shall come trete the soutls." populations." Yes, but many of them are pass" and the text Luke sou, 20,"They Shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north., and from the south, and shall sit down." The man who wrote this was at onetime a practicing ploysician, at another time a talented painter, at another time a power- ful preacher, at another time a reporter - an inspired reporter. God bless and Jaelp and inspire all reporters) From their pen drops the health or poison of nations. The natne.of this reporter' was Luoanus, for shalt he was called. Luke, and In my text, although stenography had not yet teen Wen, he reports verbatim a sermon of Christ vehicle in one paragraph bowls the atuld world into the light of the milieu- niuna. "They shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and abed). it down." Nothing snore interested me in my re- cent journey around the world than to see • the ship captain about noon, whether on the Pacific, or the Indian or Bengal or Mediterranean or Red sea, looking through a nautical instruneent to find just where We were sailing, and it is well to know that, thong's the captain, tells you there are thirty-two points of division of the com- pass need in tile marine's compass, there are only four cardinal points, and my text hails them -the north, the south, the east, the west. So I spread out before us the map of the vgorld to see the extent of the gospel campaign. The hardest part of the field to be takea is the north, because our gospel is an emotional gospel, and the nations of the far north are a cold blooded race. They dwell amid icebergs ancl eter- nal snows and everlastengewinter. Green - leaders, Laplanders, Icelanders, Siberians -their vehicle is the sledge drawn by rein- deer, their apparel the tbiekest furs at all seasons, their existerice a lifetime battle • with the cold. The winter charges upon them with swords of icicle and strikes ° them with bullets of hail and pounds thane evith battering rams of glacier. But already the huts of the Arctic hear the songs of divine worship. Already the snows fall on open New Testatnents. Al- ready the warmth of the Sun of Righteous- • oess begins to be felt through the bodies and mieds and souls of the hyperboreans. oomPase. Ll takes in tho east, X nave to little to persuade the Iiollanders to adopt report that in a journey around the world the religion of them forefathers. Then, there is nothing so much irapresses one as there arearnong these foreigners so many blessed, are taking the world for God. heard Thomas Chalmers thunder and or their ancestors the fact that the naissionaries, divinely of the Scotch. They The horrible war between Japan and China Robert McCheyne prey. The ;breath of will leave the last wall of opposition flat God so often swept through thebeatlaer of in the dust. War is barbarism always , the highlands and tbe voice of God has so and everywhere. We hold up our hands otten sontided through the Trossachs, and in amazement at the massacre at Port they all know how to dug "Dundee," so Arthur as though Christiau nations could diet they will not have often to be invited never go into such diabolismWe forget to accept the God of JobuKnox and Both- . Fort Pillow. We forgetthe fact that deer- well Bridge. hag the war both north and south rejoiced Then there are among these foreigners so many of the English. They inherited when there were 10,000 more wounded the same language as we inherited -the and slain on. the opposite - side. War, whether in China or the United States, is English in which Shakespeare dramatized, hell let loose. But one good result will and Miltoo chimed his cantos, and Henry cora° from the Japanese -Chinese conflict'Melville gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell -those regions will be Imre open to oivila prorogued parliament, and Welliagton ization and Christianity than ever before. . conarnanded his eagerhosts. Among these when missionary Carey put before an as. i foreigners are the Swiss, and they were sembly of ministers at Northampton, ug - rocked in a cradle under the shadow of the E land, his project for the evangelization of Alps, that cathedral of the Almighty in which all -the elements, snow and hail and India, they laughed him oat of the house. From Calcutta now on tbe east of India temPost mad hurricane, worship. Arocmg these foreigners are a vast host of Ger- to Bombay on the west there is not a neighborhood but directly or indirectly mans, and they feel centuries afterward the power of that unparalleled spirit who feels the gospel power, The Juggernaut, which did its awful work for centuries, a shook the earth when he trod it, and the few weeks ago was brought out from the heavens wben he prayed -Martin Luther! place where it has for years been kept um Frou all nations our foreign populations der shed as a curiosity, and there was me bave come, and they are homesick, far one reverentially to greet it. • About 8,000,- away frone the place of tbeir childhood and 000 of Christian souls in India are the ad- the graves of their ancestors, and •our vance guard that will lead on the 250,000,- glorious religion presented to them aright g •Will meet their needs aud fill their souls 000. The Christians of Amoy and Pekin and kindle their enthusiasm. They shall come from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota, and from the ore beds of Wyom- mosque of Mohammedanism will be turn- ing, and from the silver mines of Nevada, ed into a Christian ehnrch. The last Bud- and from the golden gulches of Colorado, dhist temple will become a fortress of and from the banks of the Platte, and the liglat. The last idol of Hindoolsm will be Oregon, and the Sacramento, and the Col - pitched into the fire. umbia. "They shall come from the west." But what will they do after they come? There is another point of the cOmpass that my text includes. "They shall come Here is something gloriously consolatory that you have never noticed, "They shall from the west." That means America re - come from the east, and the wet, and the deemed. Everything between the Atlan- north, and the south, and shall sit down." tie and Pacific oceans to be brought with - Oh, this is a tired world! The most of in the circle of holiness and rapture. Will people are kept on the run all their life - it be done by worldly reform or evangel. ism? Will it be law or gospel? I am glad time. Business keeps thorn on the run. Trouble keeps them on the run. Rivalries of life keep them on the run. They are running from disaster. They are running for reward. And those who run the fast- est and run the longest seem best to suc- ceed. But my text suggests a restful pos- ture for all God's children, for all those who for a lifetime hare been on the run. "They shall sit down!" Why run any longer? When a man gets heaven, what more can he gat? "They shall sit down." Not alone, but in picked companionship of the universe; not embarrassed, though a seralth should sit down on one side of you and an archangel on the other. There is tilt mother who through all the years sea infancy and childhood was kept running grind sick trundle beds. now Duncan preaches the gospel up in the chily. to shake up the pitlow for that flaxen in New York and preached a series of ser - latitudes of Columbia, delivering on.e ser-. mons warning young men and setting head, and now to give a drink to those S1011 nine times in the same day to asparthed lips, and now to hush the fright - forth the work that must be done lest the many different tribes, who listen and then • ened dream of a little one, and when . there judgments of God whelm this city with • go forth to build schoolhouses and church- was one less of the children because the more awful submergement than the vol - great lover of children had lifted one out =tic deluge that buried Herculaneum Alaska, called at its annexation William •• of the croup into the easy breathing of celestial atmosphere the mother putting all the more anxious cart on 'those who were left. So weary of arm and. foot and back and bead, sp often crying out: "I am so tired! I am so tired!" Her work done, she shall sit down. And that business man for 80, 40, 50 years has kept on the run, not urged by selfishness, but for the pur pose of achieving a livelihood for the household; on the run from store to store, or from factory to factory, meeting this loss and diiscovering that inaccuracy and suffering betrayal or disappointment, nev- ermore to be cheated or perplexed or exas- perated -he shall sit down. Not in a great armchair of heaven, for the rockers of such a their would imply one's need of soothing, of changmg to easy posture or semi -invalidism, -but a throne, solid as eternity and radiant as the morning after fortunes it does them heart or a life. The greatest want in New York to- night of storm. "They shall sit down." day is the transformI notice that the most, of the styles of pel of Jesus Christ to change the heart ing power of the gos- toil require an erect attitude. There are and the life and uplift the tone of mthe thousands of girls behind counters, oral many snob persons throngh the inhuman - sentiment and make men do right, not be- ity of employers compelled to stand, even or Sing Sing, but because they love God cause they are afraid of Ludlow street jail when because of a lack of customers there is no need that they stand. Then there are all the carpenters, and the stonema- sons, and the blacksmiths, and the farm - en, and the engineers, and the ticket agents, and the conductors. In most trades, in most oceupations they must stand. But ahead of all those who love and serve the Lord is a resting place, a complete relaxation of fatigued muscle, something cushioned and upholstered and embroidered with the very ease of heaven. "They shall sit down." Rest from toil. Rest from pain. nese trona persecution. 'Rest from uncertainty. Beautiful, joyous, transporting, everlasting rest! Oh, neen and women of the frozen north, and the blooming south, and from the realms of the rising or setting sun, ,through Christ get your sins forgiven and start for tbe place where you may at last gait down in blissful recovery from the fatigues of earth while there roll over you the raptures of heaven. Many of yon have had such a rough tussle iti this world that if your fac- ulties were not perfect in heaven you would some time forget yourself and say, "It is time for me to start on that journey," or "it must be time for nee to count out the drops of that mW medicine," or "I Wfl. der whab DOW attack theteis on me through the newspapers?" or "Do you think I evill save anything of those crops from the grasshoppers, or the locusts, or the droughts?" or "I wonder how them have lost in that last bargain?" or "I must hurry lest I miss t/ee train." No, no, The laet volume of direful, earthly experiences vvill fi thaatt vvere electea th be nisbed.Yea, tbe last chapter, high office the last the last paragraph, the , last sentence, the election." I got rid of that "great reform- last word. Finis! er" as soon as / could, but did not get rici of , - the impression thab Inatt like that would only Ono Instance. oure the abomination of New York about I Miss Pilikerly-You must leave adelight- as soon as smallpox would euro typhoid fully happy disposition, Mr. jagveay, foyer Qv buzzsew would eelicler Ilaydn's gsgwayeawgye "Creatien." Politics in all our cities has Miss Pinketly-Mr. Cleverton told me become so corrupt that the only difft3r- that the other night was the first time he Deraocratic paaties is that Bath iworsts ence between the Republican and had ever seen you really sober. s and Canton are the advance guard that willlead the 840,000,000 of China. "They shall come from the east" The last that a wave of reform has swept across ft . Down from Nova Zembla, down from this land, and all cities are feeling the ad - a . Spitzbergen seas, down. from the land of vantage of the mighty movement. Let , the midnight suns, down from the palaces the good work go on until the last muni- • of crystal, down over realms of ice and . cipal evil is extirpated. over dominions of snow and through hur- About fifteen years ago the distinguish. ricanes,of sleet Christnolisciples are Cora- ed editor of a New York daily newspaper ing frota the north. The inhabitants of said to me in his editorial room: "You Hudson bay are gathering to the cross. mbaisters talk about evils of which you the Church Missionary society in those' know nothing. Why don't you go with •polar climes has been grandly successful the officers of the law and explore for in establishing twenty-four gospel stations yourself, so that when you preach against and over 12,000 natives have believed and in you can speak from what you have been baptized. The Moravians have kin- seen with your own eyes?" I said, "I died the light of the gospel • all lip and watt: And in company with a commis - !Wadi Labrador. The Danish mission. has stoner pf police and a captain of police and ' •gathered disciples from arcrong the shiver- two elders of any church I explored the mg inbabitants a Greenland. 'William dens andbiding places of all kinds of crime 1 94- a gt g . arriv “Why, Lib," said the o thing, Katherine, este" "Never mind, Lili," he am glad that you don't go letters, am grateful, too, th aix heirese. Perhapa then no on you away from me." Tears came into the girl's eyes, though she said. no word, yet the thought that no one had rementbered her or oared enough for her to send her a New Year'a • card made her sad. But she foroed herself not to ory and tried to conceal the few tears that would not be kept bacleby kissing her father again lovingly on the eyes and lips. The high bailiff of Krohn, the father of these two girls, had married tvsice, His first wife, a lovely, proud bat vain woman, died soon after the birth of a little daughter and left her the whole of a large fortune. His seoond wife, the daughter of a country clergyman, brought him no wealth but a sweet and beautiful disposition. When she, tom died after a two years' married life, he felt overwaelmed, and had never since wholly recovered from the blow, Katherine, the elder of the stepchildren, had just finished her twentieth year, and, as she was aa proud, pretty and just, as vain as her mother, had already laughed at many 11. Seward's folly, turns out to be Williamana p . E. Seward's triumph, and it ishearing the I received, as nearly as I can reraeraber, voice of God through the American mis. several laindred columns of newspaper donaries-men and women as defiant of abuse for tffidertaking that exploration. erotic hardships as the old Scottish chief Editorials of denunciation, double leaded who, when camping out in a winter's and with captions in great primer type eight, knocked from under his son's head entitled "The Fall of Talmage," or "Tat: I pillow of snow, saying that such indolg- mage Makes the Mistake of His Life," or moo in luxury would weaken and disgrace "Down With Talmage," but I still live ..• the cla-a. The Jeanette went down baled- and am in fallesympathy with all move- tucle 77, while De Long and his freezing ments for municipal puriftoation. • end dying men stood watching it from the But a movement which ends with crime arum bling and crackling polar pack, but exposed and law executed stops half way. the old ship of the gospel sails asuuhurt in Nay, it stops long before it gets half way. latitude 77 as in our 40 degrees, and the The law never yet saved anybody, never one starred. flag floats above the topgal- yet changed anybody. Break up all the :eats in Baffin's bay and Hudson's strait houses of iniquity in this city, and you tad Melville sound. The heroism of polar only send the occupants to other cities. oxpedition, which made the name Sebes- Break down all the policemen in New ' tian Cabot and Scoresby and Schwatka York, and while it changes their worldly mid Henry Hudson immortal, is to be not change sclipsed by the prowess of the men and women who amid the frosts Of highest a• latitudes are this moment taking the up- per sh.ores of Europe, Asia and America 4•tor God. Scientists have never been able • co agree as to what is the aurora borealis, or northern lights. I can tell them. It is a' the banner of victory for Christ spread out and hate unrighteousness. 1 have never • ba the northern night heavens. Partially heard, nor have you heard, of anything Stalled already the prophecy of my text, except the gospel that proposes to regen- to be completely fulfilled" in the near fue erate the heart and by the influence of a lure, "They thall come from the north." that regenerated heart rectify the life. • But my textetakeein the opposite point Execute the law, most certainly, bub •of the compass. The far south has, preach. the gospel, 'by all means -in 4 Shrough high temperature, temptations to churches,in theatres, in homes, in prisons, lethargy and indolence and hot blood on the land and on the sea. The gospel is which tend toward multiform evil. We the only power that can revolutionize so- tave through my text got the north in, ciety and save the world. All else is half •. aotwathstanding its frosts, and the same and half vs:leek and will not last, In Nov text brings in the south, notwithstanding York it has allowed men who got by po- •41ts' torridity. The fields of cactus, the lice beibery their •thousands and tens of orange groves and the thickets of meg_ thousands and perhaps bunclreds of thou- aolia are to be surrendered to the Lord sands of dollars to go scot free, while some Almighty. The south! That means Mex- who were merely the edt's paw and agents :co and all the regions that William IL of bribery are struck with the lightnings . Prescott and Lord Kingsborough made of the law. It reminds me of a scene in familiar in literature-iVlexico in strange Philadelphia when I was living there.' A tlialect of the .A.ztecs; Mexico conquered poor woman had been arrested and tried by Heenan Cortez to be more gloriously and imprisoned for selling Molasses candy • sonquered; Mexieor with its capital more on Sunday. Other lawbreakers had been than 7,000 feet above the set level, looking allowed to go undisturbed, and the grog - down upoa the entrancement of lake and shops were open on the Lord's day, and the valley and plain; Mexico, the home of law with its hands behind its back walked mations yet to be bo? -all for Christ, The up and down the streets declining to iouthl That means Africa'which David molest rattily of the °Benders, but we all • bivingstone consecrated to God when he Tee° up in our righteous indignation, and ied on his knees in his tent of explora- calling upon all powers, visible and in - Von. Already+ about 750,000 converts to visible, to help us we declared thatthough •Oheistianity ±8 Africa. The south! That the heavens fell no woman Should be al- coeanS all the islands strewn by 00111i110- lowed to sell molasses candy on Sunday. • tent hand through tropical seas -Malayan • A fens eveeks ago, after, I had preached Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and, in one of the churches in this city, a man Sther islands more numerous than Yon staggered up on the pulpit stairs maudlin san imagine unless you have voyaged clrUnI5t saYieg, "I am 0115 of the reformers ereand the world. The south! That Means Java for God, Sumatra for God, •Borneo for God, Siam for God. A. ship Wee wreaked near one of these tslands, and two lifeboats put out for shore, but those who arrived in the ilrst boat were clubbed to death by the canni- bals, and. the other boat put bit& and was • somehow saved. Years passed on, and one of that very crew was wrecked again, WW1 allege, 011the Sanie rocks, Crawliner proposals for her hand -and. money. No one so far had been able to take her fancy. Lill was in almost every respect the op- posite of her sister. Small of figure, quiet and retiring, it bappened that she was often entirely overlooked. It certainly was not right of a father to love one daughter more than another. Still he did so, and it was plain to every- body that it was the soft, sweet, patient Lili whogwas his favorite. It made Katherine feel annoyed to see her .ather so gentIe.and affectionate toward her sister, for she said, with a sharp look at them both : "Vithat 1 Kissing again! I cannot under- stand how you find pleasure in always lying round each other's necks." "You are out of sorts, Katherine," said her father. "One of the cards you expect. ed has not come, perhaps. I would almost wager that among all those letters there is none from 13arou Horn Eh ?" Katherine grew a shade paler at these But party to Lill could baron asked per oracle Maeda He set the fignre in motion an the slip of paper opposite where it ate ped. "Seek her bend and buy the ring. Thy life will then be full of joy," ran the words on it. The baron tried to catch a glimpse from Lilt, but she appeared to be absorbed in the nature and diameter of the floor, and would not raise her eyes. "Pots Blitz!" gried the captain, turning to Katherine, that is fainatie ; you really muat be persuaded to try it now. Or ehall I do it for you?'' " You may do it for me," she replied, in such sharp tones that every one looked at her. The captain turned the figure and read the words: "Heat thou not often heard it said "-- He hesitated, then tore up the paper and threw it on the floor. The con- clusion of the sentence seemed to suit the noway proposals that Katherine had receiv- ed. too well for him to read it. "Yes," she answered softly, with a blush, ",And do you remember what the fortune teller told. me just now? If I bay a ring will you wear it?" He drew a deep sigh of relief as he saw his answer in her happy, blushing face. She lowered her eyes and said : "1 don't know. You must first speak to papa." wordosl Iainly expected a card from Baron Horn," she replied, trying to conceal her annoyance, "He surely has sent me one. Are you sure you emptied the mailbag thoroughly?" "Yes, 1 think so. But you had better look yourself ; it would not be the first time that a letter has remained in one of the corners." "Ah,I thought eo," exclaimed Katherine, pulling a crumpled letter out of a deep corner of the bars. She glanced quickly and sharply at the address and then, with an exelamation of vexation, let the letter hurriedly drop. "Not from Baron Horn after all?" asked her father, picking it up, "and yet that is his writing. Heavena It's for you, Lili ; it's addressed to you.". "Oh, impossible 1" said Lli, quietly, while a faint blush rose to her pretty cheeks. "It must be a mistake." "By no means," returned her father, smiling. "Here open it. Let us all see it. Oh, what a lovely card! Why Kath- erine, where are you going ?" But the father received no answer. Katherine hurriedly gathered up her let- ters and left the room in a whirlwind. * * * * * * * The above mentioned Baron Horn was a voting nobleman who had just returned from Africa. It was well known bleat he took great pleasure in visiting the Von Krohn family, and under all manner of pretexts took every opportunity to be with them. Of aouree every one thought that the attraction was the rich and beautiful Katherine, and she herself took particular pains to spread this view of the matter. Accustomed, ae she was, to a large number of enthusiastic admirers' she had never for a moment imaginedthat the baron could interest himself in her quiee little sister until she was reminded to -day in a rather unpleasant manner of the possibility of such a thing. She reati her letters through and became better humored. How stupid of me to geb so cross she said, as she smiled at her lovely face in the glees, "1t is not possible that he favors Lill when he knows me." There came a gentle knock at the door, and the servant girl came in and announced that the carriage was at the door. Katherine ateonce remembered that Bar- on Horn had promised to go for a drive with her, arid with the thought her face grew bright once again. A charitablebazaar was to be opened in a neighboring town, and as the father was not able to go, Baron Horn had offered his • escort to the two young ladies. The baron was as punctual am most lov- ers, that is to say, he came half an hour before the time, and found Katherine quite ready, tcebie greet astonishment, for as a rule ehe kept everybody waiting half an hour at least. Her purpose of frustrating 0. tete-a-tete between Lill and the baron was completely suecesaful, for she did aot move from his side until they all three were ready to get into the carriage. The father stood with besetting face on the doorstep and waved a fond farewell • after them. " This Horn hi a very :mutable fellow,!' he thought to himself, " arid 1 admire his deice. It will be very hard to loose Lilt, but 1 would let him have her rather than any one else. * * 4 * * * Although the bazaar watt crowded, tho ,arrival of Baron Hem and his two lovely compttnionSlcattsed coneiderable excitement, earl they were speedily sorrounded by acquaintances. Among them was e Captalu Linkci, e, tall, THIRTY-SEVEN DROWNED. Sinking of a Big Passenger Steamer on the Ohio. A despatch Iran Owensboro, Ky., says: - The big passenger steamer State of Missouri struck a rock and so.nk in 50 feet water on Sunday. At least 37 passengers were including a crew of 60. At Alton, where drowned. She bad on board nearly one hundred persons, the mishap occurred, the river narrows, and tbe water being high an extremely swift current re- sults. This threw the stem of the boat in towards the shore, and before the pilot could regain contiol she hit a rook, tearing a long hole in the bold at the water line. The passengers were frantio. They rushed to the upper decks, in hope of delaying the inevitable, as the boat was rapidly sinking. Women and chil- dren were trampled under in the scramble for seats in the yawls. It was a fight for li' fe in which many combatants have gone to their death. The 'firat yawl launched was sunk within twenty feet of where it struck the water. Everyone in it was drowned. A second yawl was then pushed off, containing four women. This reached. shore. The steamer gave another terrific lurch, literally broke into pieces, and in ten minutes from the moment the rock was struck nothing but the hull re - mined. The cabin and pilot house floated away, dragging down into the water everyone upon it. To the lighter freight men women and children clung, many, how-. ever, only to fall back into the ice•cold water. Several succeeded in getting into the wallows and trees, and where rescued by farmers and passing steamers. in t way of cart horses fo and there have been coninde tions of late from Canada to demand -the great future for Cenadus breeding lies in the produetion of the high- class saddle and carriage horse. The Dominion bas unequalled advantages for this purpose in olimate and food. The firiat is unsurpassed in many witer by that of any other country in the world, for to the tempered heat of summer, which fosters and nurtures the horse there fellows the cold. of winter, which miles him hardy and enduring. The great point is the breeding to correct types and the tam of the best blood. While other countriee have spent large sums in introducing the thoroughbred and other high strains -it Was only the other day that the Austrian Government paid dose upon $100,000 for the English race horseMatch box, to be used. for breed. ing nurposes in the Austrian Governmental stud -the provinces of Canada, and especially Ontario, • TOSSED TO HIS DEATH. 11. Terrible Accident at the:Hyde R'arir. Crossing in. Loudon. A despatch from London, Ont. , says: -The G. T. R. Lehigh express ran into a horse and cutter vehich was being driven by Mr. Robert lia.gyard, of Paul street, London West, at the Hyde park crossing a little "before 4 o'elook 011 Friday morning, mangled the driver and horse in a frightful way and smashed the cutter into kindling wood. The express is timed to arrive here from Sarnia 014.02 a. m., and was running to make up a little time and rushed past Hyde park station like the wind, going probably raster than 50 miles an hour. Both the engineer and. his fireman were on the lookout before reaching the latter spot, and the fireman was ringing the bell. Neither of thee:thieve any obstruction until they were right on the crossing, when a man driving a horse and cutter apy eared just in front of them. The station thus shut out the view from the engineer, and also from the man in the cut- ter, andals the latter had a cap drawn over bis ears, it would have heen difficult for him to hear the noise from the approaching express. He was fairly on the track when the locomotive struck him. The itian,horse and cutter were hurled ahea.d hy the shock and alighted about 40 feet down the track. The train was stopped as soon as possible, and the mangled remains of Hagyard were gathered together and brought to tbis city, KNOCKED SENSELESS cowardly Attack on a Young Man Who Was EsCorting, a 'Young /lady. A despatch from Georgetown, says: - Albert Turner, a young man lately employ- ed by Belisle & Co., tailors, went to Glen Williams on Sunday evening to attend church. After the service, a,nd when accompanying a young lady friend to her home, Tarner was amok a terrible blow front behind just at the base of the ektill. In felling he partly turned around, when xo reeeived another terrific oraok in the time. Turnee fell to the ground, from all appeartmees a dead man, An Marin was given, and as the people were still on their way from ohuroh, willing hands con. veyed Turner to the hotel, where he has lain ever since In art uneonsolousetete, Drs. MAIM DONE LITTLE for the encouragement of breeding. The need of good blood is well illustrated by the visit of the purchasing deputation of officers for the English army a few years ago, when auto! over 7,000 borses examined only 83 passed the critical eye of Col. Raverleill,whofound that for arrny purposes the ordinary run of Canadian horses was too short and drooping in the quarters, a defect which he considered might be remov- ed by the use of thoroughbred instead of trotting blood. The result of observation of the present field. for breeding would point to the neces- sity of founding a steed which should include in its members tbe highest strains of the best types of horses -thoroughbred, hulk. ney, Arab and trotting. There would seem to be a great opportunity for a movement in this direction, and if an enter- prising and influential company were formed to take hold of such and enterprise, it should have an excellent prospect in the future and there would be an excellent opportunity for provincial assistance, pro- vided that the right lines were followed. A GREAT MAN. Gladstone is said to be one of the best Educated men in England. Perhaps of all that was truly said in praise of Gladstone on his eighty.fifth birthday nothing was truer or more import ant than the assertion that he is one of the best educated men in England. It is not that he has translated Horace, written a Homer Primer, studied the antiquities of the Hittites,the Hivites and the Jebusites; mastered political economy, learned as much as anyone needs to know of con- stitutional law, becoming expert his knowledge of the poetry and finer litera- ture of all times, ancient and modern -it is not because of any one of these or of all of them that he can be truly called a well educated man. A man who has been edit. ce.ted is a man who has been drawn out - developed until all the good talent in him has been mane an active thee for the bet- terment of mankind. That is what bas happened to Gladstone. Whether in poetry or political economy, in translating Horace or speakings in Parliament, in teaching a Sunday -school or planning a campaign for the confusion of Toryism 'he has shown that his latent good has been developed into a factor for the good of humanity. This education has given him great intelectual strength and has supplied the physical strength. needed for its pur- poses. The like phenomena were observ- able in Von Moltke, who, in spite of his special training as a soldier, managed to give himself an eduoation inferior only to that of Gladstone among his contemporaries -an education which gave him his long life, as it did his constantly increasing influence. Such an educatio 1 as that of these two men cannot be obeained in the sohoole though they may do much to help it. It 'has the world for its book, and, be- ginning at the cradle, it ends only at the grave. HUMOR AT THE ALTAR. Some Mather Curious flitches in the Mar riage Ceremony. Some funny stories are told about the marriage service. One of them relate e how an old man, brought rather unwillingly to the altar, could uot be induced to repeat the responses. "My good man," at length exclaimed the clergyman, " lewdly cannot marry you unless you do as you are told." 13ut the man still remained silent. At this unexpected hitch the bride lost all patience with her future spouse, and burst out with last in this lease days as well as the so counts eight. Go on, you old toot! Say it after him jusb as if you wasmooking him." The same dim. may °warred in another wise. The clergy. man, af ter explaining what wasnecessery and going over the responses severel times vvithout the smatlest eaeot, stopped dis- may, whereupon the brid.egroom Immure aged hint "vvith "Go ahead, pass'n, go ahead 1 thou art dein' bravely.' Upon another occasion it Was, strangely enough, the women who could not be prevailed upon to speak, `When the clergyman remon- stated with her the indignantly replied r Your father married me twice before, end he wasn't aerie ine any of them impertinent Webster and Nixon are doing everything questa:me at all. EXPLA,NATOEY AND raeOrman Terse 28. Eight days after. An ino us sive reckoning. See "General Statement." These sayings. The convereation recorded in the immediate context (Luke 9. 18-27), in which Jesus foretold his death. -Feta. and John and James. The three apostlea whom Jesus selected to witness the creme, as. being best able to understand his deepes ing and pivotal events of hie life, proleahl experiences. "The object of this oecealati,' says Dr. Farrar, "was to fill their souls with a vision that would support their faith amid the horrors they afterward witness- ed." A mountain. In the '1 General Statement " are given reasons for this mount having been Hermon, the meaning of Whiell is "the mount." Tabor was at this time probably a "mountain aided to the top,' an inhabited and fortified place, and utterly unsuited to such a rethement as this. Besides, Tabor is in Galilee, and this mountain evidently was not. From verses 32, 33, and 2 Peter 1. 18, 19, it SIMMS plain that Jesus ascend.ed. the moun- tain in the evening, and that the transng- uration took place et night. It is a singu- lar fact that these three apostles, who were formerly partners in secular business, now became the three thosen "eyewitneeses of his majesty," and afterward were recogniz- ed by the great apostle to the Gentiles as the three "pillars of the Church" (Gal. 2. 9). 29. As he prayed. Luke. always laid stress on our Lord's prayer. See chars. 3. 21; 5. 16; 6. 12; 9. 18. (1) "It was in the act of communion with his Father that the divine glory flowed oet into visible bright- ness." The fashion of his countenance Was altered. Even with ordinary men tumul. tuous passions, like guilt,shalte, hope, and love, niodify the countenance and altet the gait. Jesus was now experiencing the closest intimacy with the Godhead of whith the human soul is capable, and his body was glorified by the excess of spirituel power. On an infinitely lower plane analogies may be found in the splendor of the face' of Stephen when before his eyes the heavens opened 6. 15), and in the glory which lingered about the face of Moses when. he descended from the mount (Exod. 34. 29). Raiment . . glistering. His very garraents were ablaze with heaven- ly light. 30, 31. Two men. Representative men. Moses stood for God's law ; Elias for his prophetic relations. The instant identifi- cation of these men by Peter, James and John gives good ground for our confident hope of the recognition of our friends in heaven. It is a singular taot that these were the two holy Hebrews whose demime was different from the "common death of all meu." ." Their presence now," says Ellicott, "was an attestation that their work was over and that Christ was come." Appeared in glory. Not merely with a halo about their heads, as painters have fancied, the brilliance of the heavenly world still lingered about their garments. Decease. Going forth, passing away. The word " decease " doubtless includes both the death and ascension of Jesus. How mouth of this wonderful conversation did the disciples understand? 32. Peter and they that were with him. Peter, etc. Such a phrase is one of many evidences of Peter's strong individuality of character. Wherever he goes he mono- polizes attention. Heavy with sleep. In- tense feeling sonietimes acts like an intoxi. cant, a soporific. But it is plain from the Greek that neither Peter nor his ooriapan- ions were really asleep. Keeping awake through the night they saw his glory, is the Renee of the text. They were burdened with drowsiness. This vision was no dream. 33. Peter said. Peter was always " say- ing" something. He was the natural spokesman for his Tess emphatic companions. Three tabernacles. Boothemlaces of shetler. He thinks only of the holy trio who Nate before him. Such mean and unworthy mortals as himself and John and James niight well spend their lives shelterleas 11 only the three immortals would remain. Not knowing what he said. He Was talk- ing without knowledge, being wild with delight.84. While he thus snake. The splendor of the heavenly vision was too great for men to endure it long. The night now over. shadowed them, and the inagnfieent vision wt1385.goAnev.oice. On two other oneasione this voice spoke' from heaven (Luke 3. 22; John 12, 28). The other gospels tell us that at this voioe the three apostles fell on their faces and remained in terror till Jesus touthed them, This is my. beloved, Son. The sacrifice of Jesus was the inlfilling of the Father's good .pleasure, Hear him, Turn front the doetrites and traditions of the teaching of the passto the teaching of the Imamate Word. Oeminine Sa,gaelty, "It's a gretit mistake," said a philoso. pher, "for &poor man to go into pglitiee olden he is Imre he eau make a livieg ab "That' very true," replied the philoso., photos wife, "bat it stems to me that a man who could 'make a living et politics eould get deb doing almost any thing else." Hogg, the poetawas a diet:herd.