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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-2-21, Page 6THE 'EXETER TIMES OUTSIDERS, ',411: ors4:11 Z.lel 1g oiremata r rad te EV. D. TALMAGE'S IpLEA. TO THOSE OUTSIDE THE FOLD, thousands or Persons Yualble to Geld Ad- - 3uktitaxime to seem, the Celebrated Olv Ise'-Ilope ter A.11—" Other Sheep I Rave 'Whtelt Are Not or 'ebbs Fold." NEW You, Feb, 10.—Three thousand tersone were turned away from the Acad. piny of IVItudo this afternoon, being unable to gain admission. A few minutes after the doors were opened the auditorium and gedieries were densely (troweled. Rev. Dr. Wahl:meg sermoo for the day was " A Cali to Outsiders," the text chosen being John z, 16, "Other sheep I have withal' are not of this fold." There is no monoply in religion. The graoe of God is not a little property that we may fence off and have all to ourselves. It is not a king's park, at which we look through barred gateway, wishing that we might go in and eee the deer and the sta., tuary and pluck the flowers and fruits in the royal conservatory., No, it is the Fa- ther's orchard, and everywhere there are bars that we may let down and gates that we may swing open. In my boyhood, next to the country ochoolhouse, there was an orchard of apples owned by a very lame man, who, although there were apples in the place perpetually decaying and by scores and soores of bush- els, never would allow any of ns to touch the fruit. One day in the sinfulness of a nathre inherited from our first parents, who were ruined by the same temptation, some of us invaded that orchard, but soon retreat- ed, for the man oame after us at a speed reckless of making his lameness worse and cried out, "Boys, drop those apples or ru set the dog on you:" Well, my friends, there are Christian men who have the church under Beware guard. There is fruit in this orchard for the whole world, but they have a rough and unsym- pathetio way of accosting outsiders, as though they had no business here, though the Lord wants them all to come and take the largest and ripest fruit on the piemises Have you an idea, because you were bap- tized at thirteen months of age and because yon have all your life been under hallowed influences, that therefore you have a right to one whole side of the Lord's table,spread- ing yonreelf out and taking up the entire room ? I tell you no. Yearn]. have to haul In your elbows, for I shall place on either side of you those whom you never expected would sit there, for as Christ said to his favored people long ago, so he says to you and to me, "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." MacDonald, the Scotohman, has for or five dozen head of sheep. Some of them are browsing on the heather, semi. of them are lying down under the trees, some of them aro in his yard. They are scattered around in eight or ten different places. Cameron' his neighbor, comes over and says: "1 see you have thirty sheep. I have just counted them." "No," says MacDonald, " I have a great many more sheep than that. Some are here, and some are elsewhere. They are scattered all around about. I have 4,000 or 5,000 in my flocks. 'Other sheep I have which are not in this fold.'" So Christ says to us. Here is a knot of Christians, and there is a knot of Christians but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold., the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Congregrational fold, the Presbyterian fold,the Baptist and. and the Pedobaptistiold,the only difference bitween these last two being the mode of iheep washing, and so they are scattered all over,and we come with our statistics and say there are so many thousands of the Lord's sheep, but Christ responds: " No, no. Ye have not seen more than one out of a thousand of my flock. They are scatter- ed all over the earth. 'Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.'" Christ in my text was prophesying the conversion of the Gentiles with as much confidence as though they were already converted, and he is now, in the words of my text, prophesying the corning of a great multitude of outsiders that you never supposed would come in, saying to you and saying to me, "ether sheep I have which are not of this fold." In the first place, I remark that the heavenly shepherd will find many of his sheep among the non -church -goers. There are congregations where they are all Chris- tians, and they seem to be completely fin- ished, and they remind one of the skeleton leaves which by chemical preparation have had all the greenness and verdure taken off them and are left cold and white and delicate, nothing wanting but a glass ease to put over them. The minister of Christ has nothing to do with such Christians but to come once a week, and with ostrich feather dust off the acotimulation of the last six days, leaving them bright and crystalline as before, But the other kind of a church iii an armory, with perpetual around of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the Lord of Malta. We aay to every applicant: "Do you want to be on God's tilde, the safe side and the happy side ? sIi so, come to the armory and get equipped. 4 ere is a bath in which to be cleansed. Here are sandals to pet upon your feet. Here is a helmet for your brow. Here is a breast plate for your heart. Here is a sword for your right arm'and yonder is a battlefield. Quit yourselves like men." There are some here who say, "1 stopped going to church ten or twenty years ago." My brother, is it not strange that you phould be the firse man I shbuld talk to to -day? I know all your oage. I know it very well. You have not been accustomed to come into religious assemblage, but I have a surprising announcement to make to you—you are going to become one of the Lord's sheep. "Ah," you say, "it is im- posaible 1 You don't know how far I am front anything of that kind." I know all about it. I have wandered up and down pho world, and I underetand your case. I have a still more ethrtling announcement to make in regard to you --you are not only going to become one of the Lord's sheep, but you Will become one to -day. You will stay after this eervice to he talked With about youe souL People of God, pray for that man. That is the only use for yOu here. I shall not break off so much 48 a crumb for you, Christians in title 444es sermoti, for I ant going to give it all to the ' outsiders. "Other sheep I have whioh are not of this fold." \ When the Atlantic went to pieces en Mare rook and the people elambered upon theNmAoh, Why did not that heroic mit:deter , beaoh, wrapping them in flannels, kindling fire to them, seeing that they got plenty of food ? Ah, he knew thet there were othera who would do that, He eaya: "Tend- er age men and wemen freezing in the rig; ging of the wreck. Boys, launch the boat. ' And now I atze the oar blades bend under the :strong pull, but before they reached the rigging a woman was frozen and dead. She watz washed off, poor thing I But he staya, "There is man to save," and he cries out:, "Hold on Ave minutes longer, and I will save you. Steady I Steady I Give me your hand. Leap into the lifeboat. Thermic God, he is saved I" So there are those here to -day who are safe on the shore of God's mercy. I will not spend any time with them at all, but I see there are some that are freezing in the rigging of sin and surrounded by perilous storms. Pull away, my lads Let us reaoh them. Alas, one is washed off and gone. There ie one more to be saved. Let us push out for that one. Clutch the rope. Oh, dying man, clutch it as with a death grip I Steady, now on the slippery places I Seeady 1 There! 'Saved I Saved! ,Tast as I thought, for Christ has declared that there are some still in the breakers who shall come ashore. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Christ commands his ministers to be fishermen, and when I go fishing I do not want to go among other ehurches, but into the wide world, not sitting along Koh o- kus creek, where eight or ten other persons are sitting with hook and line; but like the fishermen of Newtoundland, sailing off and dropping net away outside forty or fifty miles from shore. Yes, there are non - churchgoers here who will come in. Next Sabbath they will be here again or in some better church. They are this moment being swept into Christian associations. Their voice will be heard in public prayer. They well die in peace, their bed surrounded by Christian sympathies and to he carried out by devout men to be buried and on their grave be chiseled the words, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." And on the resurrection day you will get up with the dear children you have already buried and with your Christian parents who have already won the palm. And all that grand and glorious history begins this hour. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." I remark again, the heavenly Shepherd is going to find a great many of his sheep among those who are positive rejectors of Christianity. I do not know how you came to reject Christianity. It may have been through hearing Theodore Parker preach, or through reading Renan's "Life of Jesus," or through the infidel talk of some young man in your store. It may have been through the trickery of some professed Christian man who disgusted you with religion. I do not ask you how you became so, but you frankly tell me that you do reject it. You do not believe that Christ is a divine being, although you admit that he was a very good man. You do not believe that the Bible was inspired of God, although you think there are some very fine things in it. You believe that the Scriptural description of Eden was only an allegory. There are fifty things that I believe that you do net believe. And yet you are an accommodating man. Every- body that knows yoa says that of you. If I should ask yon to do a kindness for me, or if sale, one else should ask of you a kindness, you would do it. Now, I have a kindness to ask of you to -day. It is something that will cost you nothing and. will give me great delight. I want you by experiment to try the power of Christ's religion. If I should come to you, and you were very sick, and doctors had given you up and said there was no chance for you, and I should take out a bottle and say "Here is a medicine that will mare you. It has cured fifty people, and it will cure you," you would say, "1 have no confidence in it." I would say," Won't you take it to oblige me?" "Well," you would say, "if it's any accommodation to you, I'll take it," My friend, will you be juat as accom- modating in matters of religion? There are some of you who have found out that this world cannot stitisfy your soul. You are like the man who told me one Sabbath after the service was over : "1 have tried this world and found it un insufficient por- tion. Tell me of something better." You have come to that. You are sick for the need of divine medieament. Now I come and tell you of a physician who will cure you, who has mired hundreds and hun- dreds who were sick as you are, "Oh," you say, "1 have no confidence in him." But will you not try him ? Accommodate me in this matter. Oblige me in this mat- ter. Just try him. I am very certain he will cure you. You reply, "1 have no especial confidence in him, but if you ask me as a matter of accommodation intro- duce him." So I do introduce him—Christ, the physician who has cured more blind eyes, and healed more ghastly wounds, and bouud up more broken hearts than all the doctors since the time of Esculapius. That divine physician is here. Are you not ready to try him Will you not as a pure matter of experiment try him and state your case before him this hour? Hold nothing back from him. If you cannot pray, if you do not know how to pray any other way, say " 0 Lord Jesus Christ, this is a atrange thing for me to do. I know nothing abput the formulus of re- ligion. These Christian people have been talking so long about what thou canst do for me I am ready to do whatever thou commandest me to do. I am ready to take whatever thou commandest me to take. If there be any power in religion, as these people say, let me have the advantage of it." Will you try that experiment now? I do motet this point of my discourse say that there is anything in religion, but I simply say try it—try it. Do not take my counsel or the counsel of any olergymen if you des- pise clergymen. Perhaps we may be talk • ing professionally. Perhaps we inay be prejudiced in the matter. Perhaps we may he hypocritical in our utterances. Perhaps our advice is not worth taking. Then take the counsel of some very respeotable lay- men, as John Milton, the poet; William Wilberforce, the statesman; as Isaacs New- ton, the astronomer; as 'Robert Boyle, the philosepher; as Locke, the metaphysician. They never preached or pretended to preach and yet putting down, one his telescope, and another his parliamentry serail, and another bis electrioian'e wire, they all de- clare the adaptnese of Christ's religion to the wants and troubles of the world, If you will not take the recommendation of ministers of the gospel, then take the re. commendation of highly respectable) lay- men. 0 men, skeptical and stuck through with unrest, would you not like to have some ot the peace which brood e over our settle to -day? 1 know all about your doubts. I have been through them all, 1 have gone through all the curriculum. I have doubt- ed whether there is a God,—whether Christ is God. I have doubted whether the Bible was true, 1 have doubted the imnaorte1. ity of the &MI. 1 heve doubted my own existence. I have doubted everything, and yet) out of that hot demob of doubt I have (mine into the broad, luxuriant, sun, shiny laud of gospel end peace and morne fore, and so I have confidenee in preaohing to 'von and asking you to oom,e in. How- ever often you may have spoken against the Bible, or however muoh you may have carioe.tured religion, step ashore from that reeking and tumultuous sea. If you go home to -day adhering to your infidelities, you will not sleep one wink. You do not want your children to come up with your skeptioism. You cannot afford to die in that midnight darkness, eau you? If you do not believe in anything else, you believe in love—a father's love, a mother's love, a wife's love, a child's love. Then let me tell you that God loves you more than them all. Oh, you must come in 1.You will come in. The great heart of Christ aches to have you come in, and Jesus this very moment—whether you sit or stand— looks into your eyes and says, "Other sheep I have whioh are not of this fold." Again I remark that the heavenly shep- herd ie going to find a great many sheep among those who have been flung of evil habit. It makes me sad to see Christian people give up a prodigal as lost. There are those who talk as though the grace of God were a ohain of forty or fifty links,and after they had min out there was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. If they were hunting and got off the track of the deer, they would. look longer among the brakes and bushes for the lost game than they have been looking for that lost soul. People tell us that if a man have delirium tremens twice he cannot be reclaimed ; thee after a woman has sacrificed her integrity she cannot be restored. The Bible has dietinot- ly intimated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon 490 times—that is, seventy times seven. There are men before the throue of God who have swallowed in every kind of sin ; but, saved by the grace of Jesus and washed in His blood, they stand there radiant now. There are those who plunged into the very lowest of all the hells in New York who have for the tenth time been lifted up, and finally by the grace of God they stand in heaven gloriously ream. ed by the grace promised to the chief of sinners. I want to tell you that God loves to take hold of a very bad case. When the ohurch oasts you off,and when the clubroom oasts you off, end when society oasts you off, and when business modeles cast you off, and when father oasts you off, and when mother oasts you off, and when everybody caste you off, your first cry for help will bend the eternal God clear down into the ditch of your suffering and shame. There are in this house those whose hands so tremble from dissipation that they sail hardly hold a book, and yet I have to tell you that they will yet preach the gospel, and on communion days carry around consecrated bread, acceptable to everybody, because of their holy life and their consecrated behavior. The Lord is going to save yon. Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your physical health has got to be restored. Your worldly business has got to be reconstructed. The church of God is going to rejoice over your disciple- ship. "Other sheep I have that are not of this fold." While I have hope for all prodigals, there are some people in this house whom I give up. I mean those who have been churchgoers all their life, who have main- tained outward morality, but who, not- withstanding twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian advantages, have never yield- ed. their hearts to Christ. They are gospel hardened. I could call their names now, and if they would rise up they would rise ap in acores. Gospel hardened 1 A sermon has no more effect upon them than the shining moon on the city pavement. As Christ says, "The publicans and harlots will go into the kingdom of God before them." They have resisted all the impor- tunity of divine mercy and have gone dur- ing these thirty years through most pow- erful earthquakes of religious feeling, and they are farther away from God tlaan ever. After a while they will lie down sick, and some day it will be told that they are dead.. No hope I But I turn to outsiders with a hope that thrills through my body and soul. "Other sheep I have which arena!: of this fold." You are not gospel hardened. Y ou have not heard or read many sermons during the last few years. As you came in to -day everything was novel, and all the services are suggestive of your early days. How sweet the opening hymn sounded in your ears, and how blessed is this hour 1 Every- thing suggestive of heaven. You do not weep, but the shower is not far off. You sigh, and you have noticed that there is always a sigh in the wind before the rain falls. There are those here who would give anything if they could find relief in tears. They say: "Oh my wasted life! Oh, the bitter past ! Oh the graves over which I have stumbled! Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future! Everything is dark— so.dark, HO dark. God help me ! God pity me I" Thank the Lord for that hum utterance. Yon have begun to pray, and when a man begins to petition that sets all heaven flying this way, and God steps in and beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennel, and aroand about the poor wounded soul puts the covert of his par- doning mercy. Hark. I bear eorrieteing fall I What was that 1 the bare of the fence around the sheepfold- The shepherd lete them down, mad the hanted sheep of the mountain bound in, zotrze of them their fleece torn with the brarn1-4sA, some of them their feet lame witia the doeo bat bounding in. Thank God f "Other sheep I have which are not of this Treasures of' the Polar Sas. In 1809 Count RomanzoffsentIL Haden - ea om to explore the New Siberian Wands' fitting him out at his own expense. Haden, trom reached Laikoffie firet, island, and was amazed at the prodigious stores of fossil ivory it contained; for although the ivory hunters had for forty years regularly oar ried away each year large quantities of ivory from the island, the aupply of ivory in it appeared to be not in the leaet dimin- ished. In about half a mile Hedenstrom saw ten tusks of elephants sticking up in the nand and gravel, and a large sandbank on the west coast; of the island. was always oovered with elephants' tusks after a gale, leading him to hope that there was an endleas amount of ivory under the sea 1 Heden- strom and Sannikoti went on to Kotelnoi and New Siberi le and they found the hills in the former is:and absolutely covered with the bones, tusks, and teeth of elephants, rhinoceroses aud buffalos, whioh muse have lived there in countless number, although the island is now an icy wilderness,without the slightest vegetation. They also found that in New Siberia—the moeteastern of the islancts-ethe quantity of mammoth ivory was still more abundant, and to 1809 Satinikoff brought away 10,000 pounds of fossil ivory frorn New Siberia alone, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSOHi FEB. 24 "Christ end the Dan Horn Blind" John 9, 1-11. Golden Text. John. 9.5. GENERAL STATEMENT. In the life of Christ enly eight miracles are related by John, and eaoh of these presents some one aspect of salvation,veiled n an acted parablis, but readily penetrated by the enlightened. believer. No miracle is more precisely related in all its details than this, and no one more clearly presents the Gospel plan. We are introduced to a blind man, begging by the wayside, a type of the imperfeot, dark, helpless, needy condition of the sinner. Men, ask, "Why is he in such a state? Whose fault is it?" Christ shows how his misfortune may become a blessing to him and a means of glory to God. The miracle has two sides, the divine and the human; just as in the conversion of a sinner there enter divine and human ele- ments. On the one side he must come into contact with the Son of God, must feel the Saviour's touch upon his face, must have the clay of earth moistened by the Saviour. On the other hand he must believe, must confess Christ before a jeering and incredulous world. The man possemed the exquiste elements of character. He received the two lumps of wet clay upon his sightless eyelids; he walked across the oity regardless of spec- tators ; he washed in the pool whose very name was a symbol of the One sent from God, and then the light dawned upon his darkened eyes. He was now no longer a type of the sinner or the seeker, but of the saved soul transformed by the power of God, and brought out of darkness into light. A beggar yesterday, to -day he is a worker, with shining face, whioh his old friends can scarcely recognize. He begins his new life on the right be-sie, with a bold confession of Christ before all, a strong teptimony ot his experience, and a clear insight into his Saviour's personality. EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. As Jesus passed by. On some omission during the three months of his stay near Jerusalem. He saw a man. Others saw only a blind beggar, but Jesus saw one who might become a monument of mercy and a bold confessor of the faith. Blind from his birth. He. was a well-known person, who had long sat begging at hie s.ocustomed place. (1) Sin ie an inborn defeat, like blindness. (2) Christ seeks out men before they seek out him. 2. His disciples asked him. Attracted perhaps by the look of inquiry which their Master fixed upon the man. Who did sin They state the opinion of their time, that every misfortune is the result of some sin. If they had generalized, and said, "Alt evil is the result of sin," without trying to specify the particular cause, they would have stated a truth. This man, or his parents. "This man in some previous state of existence," may have been their meaning, for many of the Jews believed in the transmigration of sonls. Stier inter- prets, "This man, or, for that ia out of the question, his parents ?" 3. Neither hath this mem sinned. While the general principle is true that all evil comes from sin in the world, yet we cannot always fix a re- lation between a certain evil and a cer- tain ain as its cause. But that the works of God should be made manifest. Christ directs the thought of his disciples away from the cause to the purpose of this man's misfortune. It had come upon him that by means of it God's grace. must be all the more abundantly exhibited in his healing. (3) Let us seek rather to knovr what benefit can be gained from our troubles than the reasons why they are sent upon us. 4. I must work. Revised Version, "we must work," a better reading, since it unites the followers with their Master in the gracious work of the Gospel. The works of him that sent me. God's work of re- storation and of uplifting. The healing of the blind man is made a type or suggestion of God's work of grace in bringing light to darkened souls. While 18 18 day. Christ's "day" was the time while he was bodily on the earth. So our day is the time of our life. The night cometh. Other works the Saviour might do after he had passed with- in the veil, but not this work of miracle upon men's bodies. When no man can work. What work may await us in the other world we know not, but so far as this life is concerned our work ends at death. (4) Then let tie not omit any op- portnnity of &ping good. 5. As long as I am in the world. While Jesus was in the material world, the world of the body, he was the light of men,giving life and health, and presenting in his bene- fits to men's bodies a parable of the greater benefits he iraparts to men's souls, now that he bag passed out of the world material into the world. spiritual. 1 am the light of the world. Then he was the light eeen by the peyxml eye; now he is the light of the SM, seen by the eye of faith. 6. He oat ea the ground. Often Christ V7roght mire -else by a word; but some- times he ueed instrumentalities, perhaps in ortler to impart some spiritual teaching. Re %eft e.dgimon clay, moistened it wiela hie own :Wive, showing that the most corn - 111611 instrumentality hecomem might when touched with divine power. Anointed the epee. Upon eaele eye he places a blotch of mud from the street. 7. Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. This was to test and train the blind man's faith, obedience and willingness to confess Christ. Think of him walking the breadth of the city, feeling his way as he went, with two patches of street mud on his facel The pool of Siloam was south of the temple inclosure, outside the wall. It is still to be seen, an oblong reaervoir, with a flight of eters leading down to the water. By, itterpretation, Sent. The word " Siloatn ' means send- ing," or " sent." John hints at the thonghe that, the pool was by its very dame a eymbol of Christ, who was the one sent from God, He went his way. The after conduct of this man shows that Christ chose well the subject of his mirsole ; one who was strong in faith,ready in obedience, bold, anil even stubborn ha his confession of the Master. Wathed, end mune seeing. The sight came after he had washed in the pool which by its name represeoted Christ, who is the water of life. He came, not to the Saviour, who had hot remained at the place where he had met him, but to his own home. (5) Greater than this trans- formation is the enlightenment of a blinded soul by tho Son of righteousness. 8. The neighbors. Thos who lived neer him were the first to notice the change in the once blind. (6) So there° who live nearest) to the true convert will perceive thnt he ie a new creature. Had seen him that he was blind. Revised Version, They whioll saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar" no longer, but a worker, a good trait in this man, who appears nobly throughout the story. 9. Some said, this is he, They remem- bered, his appearance, and were sure that ho was the same man, though changed. He is like him.. The opened oyes mode suoh a ehange in his looks that many were not sure of his identity. I am he. He knew that he was the one who had been once a blind bagger. (7) So when a soul is saved there irs a new creation, ye* the same peraon. 10, 11. How were thine eyes opened? Personal experience always has an interest to men, whether it be in the physical or the spiritual life. People who oars very little for a sermon will listen to the testi- mony of &young convert. He answered. He told a straightforward, simple story, from whiohall the or oss-examina ti on of the rulers oould not make him swerve. A men that is called Jesus. Rather, "the man," the well-known man, whose name was in every- body's lips. (8) Let no one converted by Chriet be ashamed to own his Lord. I went' and washed. He could not have preached a sermon, but he could tell the facto of his experience. (9) And so can anyone who has an experience to tell. AN EXECUTIONER'S SECRET. -- Notable Instances or condemned Den 'who were Drugged. Military men have been recalling twine reminisoencee in connection with the de- grading of ex -Capt. Dreyfus, says a Paris correspondent. Lieut. Eymard, for in stance, who had charge of certain details relative to the executions which took place at Versailles in 1871, has given some inter- esting and hitherto unpublished information about the last eomments of Rossel, the engineer officer who joined the Communists and was shot with other insurgents on the plain of Satory. Roma, who was known to be a brave man, showed unacoountable cowardice in the presence of death, and appeared so be almost fainting when he arrived at the place of execution. Mr. Eymard BOW gives an explanation of thie, having kept the secret for over twenty- three years. Had he divulged it before he would have probably been tried by court- martial, but as the affair is now of very ancient date he has no hesitation in speak. ing. The Lieutenant was promoted from the ranks during the Franco-German campaign, and in July, 1871, he was attached to the Department of Military justice, under Col. Gaillard. M. Eymard had to ORGANIZE THE EXECUTIONS, prepare bandages for the eyes of condemned men, and so on. He was deeply affected when he heard that Rossel was sentenced to death. That officer, who, like Dreyfus, had bean e. Polytechnic man, M. Eymard knew atiMetz before Bazaipe's capitulation. Both M. Eymard and Rossel were among the officers who strongly protested against the Marshal's conduct. In August, 1871, when Lieut. Bymard returned to Paris, after having escaped from the prison ot Coblentz, he heard that his old friend had thrown in his lot with the insurgent's: In September, 1871, the engineer officer was condemned to death by a court-martie,l,but the decision was quashed through an error in the procedure and another trial took place in October. Reese' was again sen- tenced to capital punishment, and his ap- peal, although powerfully backed up, was rejected. M. Eymard frequently visited the prisoner, and it was through him that Rossel was enabled to see his father for the last timie On November 27,1871, Geneelp- pert, who had become head of the Military Justice Department, announced that Rossel was to be shot on the following day with Ferre, a Oommunist, and Serght. Bourge- ois, a regular soldier, who had gone over to the insurgents. The night before the execu- tion M. Eymard saw Rossel, who said that he did not fear death, but he asked the Lieutenant, as an old friend, to find out if the execution platoon was to be composed of engineers. "If so," added the condemned man, 'for God's sakget me a potion which shall have the effect of stupefying me be- fore I arrive op the ground, for 1 -dot not want to see the men whom I have commatd. edeny old companions in arms, fire at me." The Lieutenant promised to carry out the commission, and on leaving the prison he ascertained that Rossel •was to be shot by a platoon of engineers. Then he went with all haste to the house of a midwife in the Rue Notre Dame at Versailles, who gave him a prescription which was compounded at a chemist's in the Rue Golche. Half of it had the effect of stupefying in twenty- five minutes, and in much less than that time the whole of it, if taken, would pro- duce THE DESIRED RESULT. On the morning of November 28, .1871, M. Eymard went to the prison. Rossel was engaged with the chaplain, Pastor Passe, and when the prayers were over the prisoner came out of his cell, escorted by the registrars, several army offioers and a commissary of police. M. Clement, who is a well known official in Paris. While shaking hands with the condemned man M.. Eymard managed to give him the vial, whioh was small in size. Then, while all were descending the dark staircase, the Lieutenant succeeded in standing between the prisoner and a lantern carried by a warder, so that Rossel had time to swallow the narcotic unseen. When the prisoner handed back the little bottle the Lieutenant trembled so muoh that he allowed it to fall, hut, owing to the tread of the footsteps, the noise was not heard. Rossell murmured "Thanks' in a low tone, and on arriving at the place of execution M. Eymard had the satisfaction of seeing that the potion had done its work. W hen Commandant d 'Elloy lowered his sword as a signal for the volley Rossel was in it state of stupefactiou, and had no cognizance of what was passing. It was the drug, therefore, which was the cause of his apparent pusillanimity in the presence or death. ' The DifferenCe. "That man over there says tho world doesn't understand him." "That man with the fringe on his trousere "yes.” "He's off. See diet other men with the silk hat and tele patent leather shoes?" "Well, he's the one the world doesn't understand." The fountain splashed and the sparrows twittered, tot' it was in the glad sutturter time. TWO REMARKABLE RIOTS A LION HUNTER'S WONDERFUL ES- CAPE IN AN AFRICAN JUNGLE. ordx teie rntst ntartent atvteess_ aart.re lJnisr wood ThLnks iiinarin4 the ppm or Beasts a Very Easeritai.as; *nowt. Capt, Blackwood, who spent several years in Africa, tells a thrilling story of a narrow esaape by two good shots While hunting lions. He says: "While I WEB in Africa I hunted lions at every opportunity. The excitement of hunting the king ofbeasts was to Me very fascinating, but the time came when I gob enough of it to last me forever, I had gone about 200 nines into the interior from the post where I was stationed to spend a week hunting. My only companions were two native guides and my servant. In common with moat native Africans my guides were very much afraid of lions, and could not be depended on in the event of my getting into close quarters with the game I was after. For that reason I ems cautious, but my caution ultimately ;led me into the cloaest place that I was ever in during all my hunting career. We had pitched our tent and gone into oamp just outside of a small village, whioh was situ- ated within a few nines of a jungle that was said to be swarming with lions. There was no doubt that some of the beasts were located not far away, for they had killed and carried off two children from the edge of the village within a. week. The first day I went out to the jungle FORTUNE FAVORED I started up an old lion that had eaten an antelope the night before, and was sleeping off the effects of the gorge. The old fellow wits too full and lazy to run very fast, and I got a good shot at him before he had gone 100 feet. A seoond shot killed him, and when the carcass was carried into the lege the natives hailed mess their deliverer from the dreaded enemy, and a number of the men volunteered to go out with Me any time to help drive the game out of the jungle. I had had sonie experience with natives as lion drivers, ariddeolined their services. The next day I went out to the edge of the jungle with my two guides,and after an hour's tramp we found the fresh trail of a lion. The trail led along the out- skirts of the jungle for. more than a mile until we came to a spot that was fairly open. There the animal headed straight in towards the dense forest a mile or io away. "At that point the jungle was too wide and too dente) in places to send my men around on the other side to drive out the game. By this time it was nearly noon and very hot. I knew that if the lion I was after had dined well the night before he would lie down to rest in the first good shade. he oame to. Telling my guides to wait for me where the trail left the open I started to follow my game for a little distauce. I felt that there was just a chance that I might slip upon him and get it shot before he awoke from his noonday nap. The under- brush was nob very thick, and, as the ground was soft, I /lad no trouble in follow- ing the trail for a distance of a mile or more By that time I had reached a point where the trees were thick and tall and the surface of the ground was fairly clear, ex- cept here and there grew a bunch of truck weeds or small bushes. The trail was very fresh, and I advanced slowly and with mete caution. As I crept towards a small bunch of low bushes that grew in the shade of some big trees I saw one of the bushes shake. Getting behind a tree as quickly as possible I watched and waited for a few mo- ments. Looking closely into the bushes I presently made out A BIG DARR BROWN OBJECT lying on the ground, and I knew that I had sighted my game at last. /3ut the lion was not asleep. It was probably too hot for him to sleep well, anyway he was restless and kept moving about. Great caution was necessary if I was to get a shot. I was near enough for a shot when I first saw him, but I could not afford to take the chance of firing at hint as he lay there in the bnahes anima I could see him better than I could frem the place where I was then standing. Slowly and cautiously I started to make a detour around the place where the beast was lying. I had to crawl on my hands and knees, pushing my gun along in front of, me, and my progress was very slow. I had gone about 100 feet to the right, and probably 25 feet nearer to the bushes where the lion lay when I saw him get up, and, afterstretohing himself, slowly move toward me. Idropped flat on the ground and worked my gun around into position to throw it up ancleget a shot the moment the lion stepped out into the open ground. But; to my dismay, it was seon evident that he had scented danger. I was pretty sure he did not see me, „bat had probably located me by his strong dense of smell. "Instead of walking straight Out into the open ground as I thoughe he was going to do, ho suddenly crouched down and began creeping forward 1...k a cat creeps up on a mouse. I was not in,re than 150 feet away end the situation was getting inter- esting. I decided to risk a shot just as soon as his head showed clear of the bushes so they would not interfere with my aim. Just as I started to bring my rifle up to my shoulder to aim, a slight rustling of the leaves behind me caused ins to turn my head. What I saw giere me the worst fright I ever had, Right behind me and not more than 200 feet away was a big lioness, probably the mate of the animal in front of me. While I had been trailing him ..-she had been following my trail. There was no mistaking the fact that the lioness saw me and that she was, after me. She was glidiug along with her body olose to the ground, and I could see her eyes well enough to know that she wee memento, STRAIGHT AT VIE. She did not stop an instant when she saw me turn my head, but crouching a little nearer the ground as if preparing to spring, she kept doming right on. In a minute moles I know she would be close enough to reech me at itbout.three bounds, and than I knew she would net waste any time in preliminaries. I muse have looked at her for about ten seconds not knowing what to do, and for the thne forgetting the big lion in front of me, When I tufted and looked for him he hed left his hiding place and was creeping towards me teeter if anything than his mate tvaa coming fgem the other direoblon. The great dengerof theeltuablon, I suppose somehow deadened my nerves and brought tine back to my sensee in a hurry. When I realized that the two beast. Would spring forward and tear me to pieeea iu a few eeeonds if I did not aut 1 found that my hand was as steady, as if I were sheeting at a target. 'I here was only one °hawse for me, and I realized that it was no t a very bright prospeot. 1 earried a repeating rifle ot large calibre, and zny only hope was to fire and disable the lion at the first shot, and then wheeling around on the instant try to repeat the shot at the provided she was not frightened away by the report of my gun. The lion was already oreuohing for a spring, when, resting on my knees and left elbow, I took qui& aim at the center of bis breast and fired. I "did not wait to see the effect of the shot, but leaped to my feat like a flash and, turning around, faised the lioness' , who by that time was within 40 feet ofme. She, too, was just PREPARING TO SPRING, when aiming at) the some spot I fired the inatant the sight of my rifle came in line with my eye. Through the rift of blue smoke that came from the muzzle of my rifle I raw a huge yellow body bound up in , the air about four feet and fall to the ground. Without waiting to see more I turned to foae the lion again, getting ready for another shot as I turned. To my great surprise and relief the lion lay stretched his full length on the ground motionless. I went up to him and round that he was dead. The bullet from my rifle had gone through his heart. Then I looked toward the lioness and she too was stretched at full length. My second shot had been .as true as the &at. " When I realized what a aloe call it had been for me and that I was safe I tumbled over in a faint. ,It may have been the terrible heat, or it may have been the reaction of the nervous strain, but, what- ever it was, I did not come to until my guides, attracted by the shots, came up and poured cold water on my faoe. When I got back to the village and the guides had told the story of my killing two lions while alone in thelungle, I was hailed as a hero, and the chief or ruler of the town offered to make me many valuable presents of ivory if I would stay there until I had killed all the lions in the surrounding forest. " But that experience was enough for me.. I did not care for any more lion hunt- ing and got back to the post as soon as possible." OBEYING ORDERS. -- A Wound dub -lieutenant and Ills Fiancee Outwit a ColoneL A young sub -lieutenant in India left his regiment on sick leave, and put .up at the best hotel not a hundred miles from Poona, where he vies immediately smitten by the attractions of a lovely maiden who was staying there. He proposed, was accepted, and the happy day fixed. The colonel however, disapproned of the sub -lieutenant's getting married and particularly of the,: "sub" in question. As he happened to be friend of the young man's father, he thought to preyent the marriage of the fond couple by gliding a peremptory telegram, couch- ed in the following words :—" Join at once 1" The son of Mars was in despair. He presented himself before his intended with the fatal missive in his hand and anything , but a look of pleasure on his countenance ; but the lady was equal to the occasion. With a bluph of maiden simplicity and virgin innocence, she cast her eyes upon the ground, and said :— " Dear [me, I am glad your colonel ap- proves of the match I But what a hurry he is in 1 I don't think I can get ready so soon; bub I'll do my best; because, of course, love, the command of your colonel must be obeyed." The young warrior was puzzled. " Don't you see, my darling," he said, "that this confounded message puts a stop per on cur plans? You don't seem to understand the telegram. He says peremp- torily, 'Join at once.'" The lady's blushes redoubled; but, with a look of arch simplicity, she raised her lovely eyes to her fiance, and replied, " It is you, my darling, who don't seem to understand it. Your colonel says plainly, • Join at once r— by which, of course, he means, get married immediately. NS, hat else can he possibly mean ?" A look of intelligence replaced the air of bewilderment on the young hero's classio features; he accepted the explanation, and was enabled to answer the colonel's tele- gram 48 hours afterwards in these words: - 4 Your orders were obeyed. We were joined at once 1" These Live in Brown Sugar. Sugar is so cheap nowadays that the pro- portion of refined used in our households is much greater than ever before. 'Y et no inconsiderable quantity of yellow and brown sugars are consumed because of their relative cheapness. The fact is not gener- ally known that a good many of the brown sugars, which are nothing but the better grades of raw as im. P18.1 ported from foreign countries, con tain 4 large numbers o f lively , ..,- and disgusting insects, anything but pleas- IP" ing to contemplate. Prof. Cameron, public analyst of the city of Dublin who has ex- aminedsmples of the raw sugar, says these F16.Z insects known as aoari are at times exceed- ingly, plentiful and in ' no instance is the article quite free from either the insects or their eggs. He says they are never found in refined sugar of any quality becauSe they cannot pass through the charcoal filters used in the refinerieS, and beoause these white sepias contain no nitrogenous sub- stances upon which the animals can feed. The insect 18 a decidedly ugly little animal, oval in shape, with eight lege which are used in its movement from one part of a body of sugar to another. As will be seen by the accompartying out (I igs 1 and 2, bhowing both sides) the little stranger can never be • a welcome member of the house - 0 A Lucky Birthday for Him. "Yes, I hsem been a hard drinker', but haVe never seen }Makes, Iikeeorne." " You never did ?" "Row do you aecount for that ? Bra*, too strong to be affeeted 10 that way ?" ".1 was born on St. Patrick's Day."