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'THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY, BEING
UNABLE TO GAIN ADMITTANCS.
Attire Building Jellied to Oveettowinge-
'Vista Gospel re1lt-e140 eikosnee
--Cillorems Good. trw s—Av tts, or the
Unseat.
W YOATC„ Feb. 17.—Several thousand
peraons were turned away this efteraoon
from, the doors of the Academy of Mosel
after the ltuge building had beau filled to
oyerflovviug, the crowds having begun to
• assemble f ally two hours before the time
fined for opening the services s Rev. Dr.
Talmage took for Ina subject "The Glori-
ous Gospel," the text obosen being, "Ac-
cording to the glorions gospel ot the blows -
ed God, -which was committed to my
trust" (I Timothy i, 11).
The greatest novelty of our time is the
gospel, It is so old that it is new As
potters arid artists are now attempting to
fashion pitches mad cups and curious
ware nice those ot 1,000 years ago recently
brought sep frora buried Pompeii, and
snob caps and pitchers and curious ware
ate -universally admired, so any one who
can unslaovel the real gospel from the
mountains of stuff under which it has
been buried. will be able to present some-
thing that will atteact the gaze and ad-
miration and adoption ot all the people.
It is amazing what substitutes have been
presented for what ety text calls "the
glorious gospel." There has been, a hemi-
spheric apostasy.
There are many people in this and all
other large assembleges whohave no more
Idea of what the gospel really is than they
have a what is contained in the f ourteenth
chapter a Zeud-Avesta, the Bible of the
tiindoo, the first copy a which levet' saw
t purchased in Calcutta last September.
The old. gospel is fifty feet under, and the
work has been done by the shovels of those
who have been trying to contrive the phil-
osophy of religion. There is no philosophy
about it. It is a plaiu matter of Bible
statement and of childlike faith. Some of
the theological seminaries have been hot-
beds of infidelity because they have tried
to teach the "philosophy a religion." By
the time that many a young theological
student gets half through his preparatory
eourse he is so filled with doubts about
plenary inspiration, and the divinity of
Christ, and the questioats of eternal des-
tiny that be is more fit for the lowest
bench in the infant class of a Sunday
school than to becorne a teacherandleader
of the people. The ablest theological pro-
fessor is a Christian snother, who oat of
her own experience eau tell the four-year-
Olahow beautifui Christ was on earth,
and how beautiful he now is in heaven,
and how dearly he loves little folks, and
then she kneels down and puts one arm
around the boy, and, with her somewhat
faded cheek against the roseate cheek of
the little one, consecrates him for time and
eternity to him who sai, "Suffer them to
come ,.into me." What an. awful work
Paul made with the D.D.'s, and the LL
D.'s, and the F.R.S.'s when he cleared the
deolcs of the old. gospel ship by saying,
"Not many wise men, not many noble,
are called, but God. hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the
mighty."
There sits the dear old theologian with
• his table piled up with all the great books
on inspiration awl exegesis and. apoloeet-
los for the .Almighty and writing out his
• own elaborate work on the philosophy of
religion, and. his little grandchild coming
up to him Lor a good. night kiss he acci-
dentally knocks off the biggest book exam
the table. and it falls on the head of the
child, of whom Christ himself said, "Out
of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou
has perfected praise." Ah, my friends,
the Bible -wants no apologetics. The
throne of the last judgment wants no
apologetics. Eternity wants no apologet-
ics. Scientists may tell us that natural
light is the "propagation of undulations
In an elastic medium, and thus set in vi-
bratory motion by the action of luminous
bodies," but no one knows what gospel
light is until his own blind eyes by the
touch of the Divine Spirit have opened to
see the noonday of pardon and peace. Sci-
entists may tell us that natural sound is
"the effect of an impression made on the
organs of hearing by =impulse of the air,
c :used by a collision of bodies or by other
means," but those only know what the
gospel sound is who have heard the voice
of Christ directly, saying: "Thy sins are
forgiven thee. Go in peace." The theo-
logial dude unrolls upon the plush of the
eXquisitely carved pulpit a learned dis-
course showing that the garden of Eden
was an allegory, and Solomon's Song a
rather indelicate love ditty, and the Book
of Job a drama in which satan was the
star actor, and that Renan was three quar-
ters right about the miracles of Jesus, and
that the Bible was gradually evoluted and
the best thought of the different ages,
Moses and David and Paul doing the best
they could under the circumstances, and
therefore to be encouraged. Lord of hetiv-
en and earth, get us out of the London fog
of higher criticism.
The nigbt is dark, and the way is rough,
and we have a lantern which God has put
in our hands, but instead of employing
that lantern to show ourselves and others
the right way we are discussing lanterns,
their shape, their size, their material and
which Is the better light, kerosene, lamp
oil or candle, and -while we discuss it we
stud all around the lantern, so that we
shut out the light from the multitudes
who are stumbling on the dark mountains
of sin and death. Twelve hiludred dead
birds were found one morning around
Bartholdits statue in New York harbor,
They had dashed their life out against the
light -house the night before. Poor things!
And the great lighthouse of the gospel—
how many high soaringe thinkers have
beatea all their religious life out against
it, while it was intended foe only one
thing, and that to show all nations the
way -into the harbor of God's mercy and to
the crystal-liiie wharves of the heavenly
city, where the immortals are waiting for
Om arrivals, Deed ekylarks when they
Might have been flying seraphs.
Here also some, covering up the old gos.
pal of some who think they can by law and
•expoeure of crime save the world, and
from Portland, Me, aeross to San Fran-
•cieco end, back again to New Orleans and
Savant/11 many of the ministets have
gone its to the detective business. Worldly
reform by ell means, but tailors it be also
'gospel reform it will be dead failure. In
New Yoek its chief work has been to give
lie a change of bosses. We had a Deft -
boatel hen, and now It is to be a Reptila
'icon hose, but the et unreel is, Who shall
Miss Mery Stilsoft of Louden dropped
dead on Sunday afteraeon,
-a the etepnetietstie re Wes will save the
cities the se= day that eaten evangelizes
perdition.
Here comes another elass of people who
In pulpit and outside of it Cover up the
gospel with the theory that it makes no
final diffeeence what you believe or how
you aet—you. are bowed for heaven any,
how. There they sit, side by side, iu
heaven—Garfield, and Gniteau, who shot
bine; Lincoln, and John Wilke Beath,
who assassinated, him; Washington, and
Thomas Paine, who, slandered him; Nana
Sahib and the missionaries whom he club.
bed to death ae Cawnpnr; Herod, and the
children whom he massacred; Paul, and
Nero, who beheaded him, As a result of
the promulgation of meth a mongrel and
conglomerate heaven, there are millions of
people in Cbristendom who expect to go
straight to heaven from their seraglios,
and their inebriatieu, and their suicides,
when among the loudest thunders that,
breek over the basaltic island to which
St john was expatriated was the one in
which God announced that "the abomin-
able and the neurderers and whoremong-
ers and sorcerers and idolaters and all
liars shall have their place in the lake
tvshich burneth with fire and brimstone,
svhich is the secoud death," 1 correet
what I said when I declared the gospel
was buried fifty feet deep. It is buried
1,000 feet deep. Had the glorious gospel
been given full opportunity I think before
this the world would have had no need of
pulpit or sera= or prayer or church, but
thanksgiving and hosannas would have re-
sounded in the temple, to which the rearm -
tains would have been pillars, and the blue
skies the dome, and the rivers the baptistry,
and all nations the worshipers in the au-
ditorium of the outspread world. But so
far from that, as I remarked ie. the open-
ing sentence of this sermon, the greatest
novelty of our time is the gospel. And
let me say to the hundreds and thousands
of educated and splendid young men about
to enter the gospel ministry from the theo
logical seminaries of all denominations, on
this and the other side of the seas, that
there is no drawing power like the glori-
ous gospel. "Him hath God lifted -up to
draw all men unto Him." Get your souls
charged and surcharged with this gospel,
and you will have large audiences and will
not have to announce, in order to assemble
such audiences, a Sunday night sacred
concert, with a brief address by the pastor,
or the presence of "Black Pettis," or cre-
ole minstrels, or some new exposure of"
Tammany, or a sermon accompanied by a
magic lantern or stereopticon views.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
as spokeu of in my texe will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel gets
tun swilig it will have a momentum and
a power mightier than that of the Atlantic
ocean when under the force of the Sep
tember equinox it strikes the highlands of
the Navesink. The meaning of the word
"gospel" is "good. news," and we must tell
it in our churches, and over our dry goods
counters, and in our factories, and over
our thrashing machines, and behind our
plows, and on our ships' decks, and in our
parlors, our nurseries and kitchens, as
though it were glorious good news, and
not -with a dismal drawl in our voice
and a dismal look in our faces, as though
religion were a rheumatic twinge, or
a dyspeptie pang, or a malarial chill,
or an attack of nervous prostration. With
nine "blesseds" or "happys" Christ began
his sermon on the mount—blessed the
poor, blessed. the mourner, blessed the
meek, blessed the hungry, blessed the mer-
ciful, blessed the pure, blessed the peace-
makers, blessed the persecuted, blessed the
reviled, blessed, blessed, blessed, happy,
happy, happy. Glorious good news for
the young as through Christ they may
have their conalng years ennobled, and for
a lifetime all the angels of God their coad-
jutors and all the armies of heaven their
allies. Glorious good news for the middle
aged as through Christ they may have
their perplexities disentangled, and their
courage rallied, and their victory over all
obstacles and hindrances made forever
sure. Glorious good news for the aged as
they- raay have the sympathy of bim of
whona St. John wrote, "His head and his
hairs were white like wool, as white as
snow," and the defense of the everlasting
arms. Glorious good news for the dying
as they may have ministering spirits to
escort them, and opening gates to receive
them, and a sweep of eternal glories to
encircle them, and the welcome of a loving
God to embosom them.
Oh. my text is right when it speaks of
the glorious gospel. It is an. invitation
from the rnost radiant beingthat ever trod
the earth or ascended the heavens to you
and me to come and be made happy and
then take after that a royal castle for ever-
lasting residence, the angels of God our
cupbearers. The price paid for all this
on the cliff of liraestone about as high as
this house,about seven minutes' walk from
the wall of Jerusalem, where with an
agony that with one hand tore down the
rocks and with the other drew a midnight
blackness over the heavens, our Lord set
us forever free. Making an apology for
anyone of themillion sins of our tife, but
confessing all of them, 'we can point to
that cliff of limestone and say, "There
was paid our indebtedness, and God never
collects a bill twice." Glad am I that all
the Christian poets have everted their pen
in extolling the matchless one of this gos-
pel. Isaac Watts, how do you feel con-
cerning him? And he writes, "I am not
ashamed to own neer Lord." Newton,
what do you think of this gospel? And he
writes, "Arnazing grace, how sweet the
sound!" Cowper, tsrltat do you think of
him? And the answer comes, "There is a
fountain filled with blood." Charles
• Wesley, what do you think of him? And
he answers, "Jesus, lover of my soul."
Horatius Boner, what da you think of
hire? And he responds, "I lay my sinS 011
Jesus." Ray Palmer, what do you think
of hint! And he writes, "My faith looks
up to thee." ltanny Crosby, what do you
think of her? And she writes, "Blessed
• assurance, Jesus is mlite." But I take
higher testimony. Solomon, what do you
think of him? And the answer is, "Lily of
the valley." Ezekiel, what do you think
of him? Anci the answer is, "Plant of re-
• nown." David, what do you think of
bite? And the answeris, "My shepherd."
St. John, what do you think of him? And
the answer is, "Bright arid morning star."
St Paul, what do you think of him? And
the answer comes, "Christ is all in all."
Do you think as well of him, 0 man,
0
wonian of the blood bought immortal
spirit? Yes, Paul was right when he
styled it "the glorious gospel."
An then as a druggist, while you are
waiting for him to make up the doctor's:
ptescription, puts into a bottle 50 many
grains of this, and so many grnine of there
•and so Many drops of this, and so nmny
drops of that, and the ieterinixture taken,
'mental) sour or bitter, restates to health,
so msrest, the aivine phealcian, prepares
this trouble of our lifetiane, Mid that dis.
appoiutanent, ezal this perseoution, and
that hardship, and that tear, and we must
take the intermixture, yet though it be
bitter draft. Tinder the divine prescrip-
tion it administers to ceer restoration and
apiritual health, "all things workiug to,
• gether for goal." Glorious gospel!
And then the royal castle into which we
step out of this life without so muelt as
soiling our foot with the upterned ettrth
of the grave. "They shall reign forever
and ever." Does not that mean that you
are, if saved, to be kings and Queens, and
do not kings and queeus have castles!' But
Mr, Hobert Monorief a Otonabee was
killed by a falling tree On Saturday,
the one that you are offered was for thirty"
three years an abandoned castle, though
now gloriously inhabited. There is an
abandoned royal castle at Amber, India,
One hunarecl and seventy years ago a king
moved owe of it never to retuen. But the
castle still stands in indescribable gran-
deur, and you go through brazen doorway
after brazen doorway, and carved room
atter carved room and under embellished
ceiling after emliellished ceiling, and
through halls precious stoned into wider
halls precious stoned, and on that hill are
pavilions deeply dyed. ancl tasseled aud
arched, the fire of colored gardens cooled
by the snow of white architecture, birds in
arabesque eo natural to life that while you
cannot hear their voices you imagine you
see the flutter of their wiugs while you are
Passing, walls pictured with triumphal
procession, rooms that were called "alcove
of light" and "hall of victory," marble,
white and black, like a mixture of morn
and hight, alabaster and mother of pearl
and lacquer work,
Standing before it, the eye °limbs front
step to latticed balcony, and from latticed.
balcony to oriel, and from oriel to arch,
and froxn arch to roof, and. then descends
on ladder of all colors aud by steirs of per-
fect lines to tropical gardens of pomegran-
ate and pineapple. Seven stories of re-
splendent architecture! But the royal
castle provided for you, if you will. only
take it ou the prescribed terms, is grander
than all that, and, though an abandoned
castle while Christ was here achieving
your redemption, is agair occupied by the
"chief among tenthousand," and some of
your own kindred who have gone up and
waiting for you are leaning from the bal-
cony. The windows of that castlelook off
on the King's gardens where immortals
walk linked in eternal friendship, and the
• banqueting ball of that castle has princes
and princesses at the table, and the wine
is "the new wine of the kingdom," and
the supper is the marriage supper of the
Lamb, and there are fountains into which
no tear ever fell, aud there is music, that
trembles with no grief, and the light that
falls upon that scene is never beclouded,
and there is the kiss of those reunited after
long separation. More nerve will we have
there than now, or we would swoon away
under the raptures. Stronger visioa will
we have there than now, or our eyesight
would be blinded by the brilliance. Stron-
ger ear will we have there than new, or
under the roll of that minstrelsy, and the
clapping of that acclamation, and the
boorn of that hallelujah we would be deaf-
ened.
Glorious gospel( You thought religion
was a strait jacket; that it put you on the
limits; that thereafter you must go cowed
down. No, no, no. It is to be castellated.
By the cleansing power of the shed blood
of Golgotha set your faces toward the
shining pinnacles. Oh, it does not matter
much what becomes of us here—for at the
longest our stay is short—if we can only
land there. You see there are so many I
do want to meet there. Joshua, my fa-
vorite prophet, and John among the evan-
gelists, and Paul among the apostles, a,nd
Wyclif among the martyrs, and Bourda-
lone among the preachers and Dante
among the poets, and Havelock among the
heroes, and our loved ones whom we have
so much missed since they left us, so many
darlings of the heart, their absence some-
times almost unbearable, and, mentioned
in this sentence last of all because I want
the thought climacteric, our blessed Lord
without whom we could never reach the
old castle at all. He took our place. He
purchased our ransom. He wept our vvoes.
He suffered our stripes. He died our
death. He assured our resurrection.
Blessed be his glorious name forever!
Surging to his ear be all the anthems!
Facing him be all the thrones!
Oh, I want to see it, and I will see it the
day of his coronation. On a throne al-
ready, methinks the day will come when
in some great hall of eternity all the na-
tions of earth whom he has conquered by
his grace will assemble again to crown
him. Wide and high and immense and
upholstered as with the sunrise and sun-
sets of 1,000 years, ureat audience room of
heaven. Like the leaves of an Adirondack
forest the ransomed multitudes, and
Christ standing on a high place surround-
ed by worshipers and subjects. They shall
come out of the farthest past, led on by
the prophets; they shall come out of the
early gospel days, led on by the apostles;
they shall come out of the centuries still
ahead oins, led on by champions of tbe
truth, heroes and heroines yet to be born.
• And then from that vastest audience
ever assembled in all the universe there
will go up the shout: "Crown. him!
Crown himl Crown him!" and the Fa-
ther who long ago Premised this, his only
begotten Son, "I will give thee the heath-
en for thine inheritance and the uttermost
parts of the earth for thy possession,"
shall seb the crown upoti the forehead yet
scarred with crucifixion bramble, and all
the hosts of heaven, down on the levels
and up iu the galleries, will drop on their
kneels, crying, 'Sail king of earth! Xing
of heaven! Ring of saints! Ring of ser-
aphs! Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and to thy dominions there shalt
be no end! Amen and amen! Amen and
amen!"
An toxeoption.
"One thing must be admitted in favor of
our sex," annommed the advocate of fe-
male rights and superiority to her husband,
"In the time of need we are always strong.
Can you mention the name of a single
woman who has lost her heasi in time of
danger?"
"Why, there was the lovely Marie An-
toinette, my dear," suggested her husband
mildly, svith a deprecatory smile.—Youth's
neariustnion. _
Like the nine° of Wales,
An Feigns& schoolmaster promised a
crown to any boy wile should propound a
riddle that the teacher oould nob answer.
One and another tried, and at last one boy
asked: "Why, am I like the Prince of
Wales?" The meal= puzzlecl his wits in
vain and filially was compelled to admit
that lie did not, know, "Why," said tin
boy, "Ws beeieese I'm Waiting for the
crown."
The new wept for the Londonveater.
works bate been formally accepted.
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HIE SUNDAY SCROOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 8.
.1. • • • • • • ••
'The Itit'shig of Lazarus."' John lii. $0-4$
*Sodden Text, John 11.21,
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mo7tisheaesbtuodnYtingdaerf awlhat was l Pwerrell:a.hPatbth;
Chrisb. The authorities do not agree tut to
itthepewree0eiksee spite; bbvn tout: Lporrodb probably iierefroe lal 7si
waaxe
si
immediately preceded his arrest and armee,
fixion, It is not unlikely that the raising
of Lazarus was the occasion of the triumph-
al entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, and of the
determination on the part of the ecclesias-
tics to put lihn to death. This determine -
tion --.the eUitatilation of a bitter and long
hostility—was brought about by the out-
burst of applauee and reverence with which
coannon people hailed a Prophet who could
hush zooms, expel demons, and raise dead
men to life. Two days after receiving word
of the illness of Lazarus, Jesus lingered
east of the Jordan,then with his &Kunio he 1
fords the river, climbs the steep of Judean
hills, and on the fourth day of his journey
entera the little town of Bethany.
The impetuous and lovable Martha rushes
forth to her Friend with words in which
bitter sorrow, tender reproach, and strug-
gling hope seem all together united. The
Saviour makes to her a promise so wonder-
ful that it is not understood. Then cornea
Mary with her sorrow, deep as Martha's,
bub silent. The heart of Jesus was torn
with an agony that struck wonder into all
who witnessed it, and is not fully explica.
•ble ab this distance. With tears still in his
eyes he stands before the eepulther and
calls its inmate; back to life. for eighty
or ninety hours had Lazarus lain in death;
but ears that were deaf to the sobs of his
clearest heard distinctly the yoke of eur
Saviour. Life again thrilled his frame, 1
and lora' he came to tene w his interest in
the world's activities. Our moral natures
have been as dead as the body of Lazarus. ,
Christ's voice calls from the death of sin
to the life of righteousness. Our bodies '
icsls oewilal soon be as dead as his. The voice
ajsu
will call us from the silence and
night of the grave to the light and tne
music of heaven.
EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 30. into the town. Rather "into
the village." Jesus sought a private inter-
view with the sisters.
31-33. The Jews. This term, whioh
• might be applied to nearly all the actors in
this scene, John applies to the hostile
hierarchy—the leading priests of Jerusalem
and their friends. Comforted her. Beeter, ,
"were comforting her." The only sort of
comfort this world can ever offer is the '
mere echo of the wail of a breaking heart.
The Jews comforted the bereaved by upset-
ting chairs and couthes, strewing broken
crockery around, and crying louder than
those who had most reason to cry. And
while we are much more decorous and less
demonstrative than Orientals, the best
comfort we can give is very much of the
same sort. We attend funeral aervices, and
offer formal flowers, and drape ourselves in
black, and mingle our tears with theirs;
but precious little "comfort" there is in
all this. Followed her, suing. Better,
"thinking." To weep there. With much
demonstration, as was usual in the &lat.
Lord, if thou hadst been here. Ex-
actly what Martha had said. Weep-
ing . . . weeping. (1) The tears
of the sorrow -stricken stir our Lorda
tenderest sympathy. The weeping of the
"Jews which cams with her" aroused his
fiery indignation. For one was sincere;
the other false. Groaned in the spirit
better, "was angered in spirit." These
Jews were hisenemies, and he hated to see
their hypocritical or sentimental. tears
mingled with the heartfelt tsars of his
loving 'friends. Was troubled. Rather,
"he troubled himself." That is, he agi-
tated himaelf. Probably he trembled from
head to foot with emotions he could not
rep
35. They said. "They'''. are the
rje."
sisters. Jesus wept. That is, shed tears.
(2) Jesus sympathizes with all who suffer.
He always relieves suffering just so far as
relief is good for the sufferers.
37, 38. Opened the eyes of the blind.
The men who were thus arguing were very
evidently Christ's enemies. They refer at
once to the miracle which had led to open
rupture between him and the Pharisees.
Groaning. See note on verse 33, The
grave. A private burying place which
would seem to show that the family was
well-to-do, Stone layupon it. Rather,
"against it." A circular stone rolled
against the entrance to keep wild beasts
away.
39. Take ye away the stone, He could
have caused it to roll away by a word, but
he chose to exercise their faith, and make
them, by partaking in their work, believe
in the miracle more thoroughly. (3) We
cannot raise those who are dead in sin, but
we can remove hindrances which keep
Christ from them. By this time he stink-
eth. She may have thought that he de.
sired as a friend to look upon the face of
the dead, and reminds him that this would
not be consoling, but rather repulsive, for
corruption had already begun its work. In-
cidentally her words prove the certainty
of Lazarus's death, and bherefore make the
miracle more manifest.
40. Said I not unto thee. Perhaps this
itra reference to the mesaage senb to the
sisters in verse 4; perha,pe to seine unre-
corded utterances of Jesus. If thou would.
est believe, thou shouldeit see. Lazarus
was dependent upon the faibh of the sisters.
Had they not possessed the heart of faith,
a willingness to believe Christ, the miracle
would not have taken place, (4) Faith
is opirittial insight, and he who believes
tee& The glory of God. That is, a mired°
which by revealing God's power disoloses
his glory,
41. Jesus lifted up his eyes. A natural
mid expressive attitude of prayer. Father,
I thank thee that thou haat herd. Itt thie
prayer there seems to be a reference to
some previous prayer, perhaps on the way
to Bethany, oulminating in the "groaning"
before the sepulcher (vents 33). (5) There
can be no great spiritual triumph without
a spiritual struggle.
42. 1 knew that thou heateet me sawaye.
Wthid that we Might realize that this is as
true with us ae it Was with him. (6) No
true prayer remains utheard or unanswer-
ed, r,ven when to "our blinded eye " the
answer Beams denied, the true and better
answer is always given. Ileeettee of the
people *bioh stand by. The thank e were
uttered publicly for the people's sake, not
for Goire ; became God knew what was in
the bort of hie Son, while the people need-
ed to have their theughta throe(' from the
event at that moment to tease piece to God,
who was about to elleet a miracle, May
believe Ow thou haat eene me, He seal
chili before the miraele, showing abeolute
confidence in hie own power to work the
miracle, and revelation el his perpose in
working it, whish was to Ob.OW to the men
that he genie with a divine authority.
43. Re oried with a loud voice, He oould
have called the (iced forth in a whisper,
or by an ab of his will without a :melon
word ; but he wished to show to all present
—among wboin were many unbelievere—
thab the power dwelt in himself. Lazarus,
come forth. Literally, "Lazarus, hither I
out a' There is no verb in the original.
44. He that was dead Ottele forth.
Prompt to obey the call of Christ, as the
dead will obey it on the resurrection morn.
bag. Bound hand and took The body
was wrapped round end round with long
strips of cloth, the grave -clothes. It ap-
pears; to have been the Jewish custom to
wrap the dead comparatively loosely in a
winding sheet, which would have impeded,
though not prevented, arising seed walking.
Face was bound &dumb. A °loth was wrap-
ped around the face, but it is not certain
whether it covered it. Loose him and let
him go. This command broke the spell
upon those around by giving them some-
thing to do. The Gospel answers no quite -
tion about the condition of Lazarus during
"those four days," and thus shows its
truthfulness, for a fabricator would have
invented mauy stories.
KILLED IT! LION HIENT.
BROUGHT DOWN HIS GAME AFTER
HE WAS FATALLY HURT.
Surgeon Melo*, of a British, ship Wound
ell a Lion, Wfolek Sprang Chou
and Broke Ititi arme—A lama the,
Beath Shot Over the $houlder of ills
At teudant.
Lion hunting to.day is not considered as
dangerous a sport as it was held to be
twenty years ago. Experienced lion hunt.
era agree that the king of beasts will sel-
dom attack a maze unlesa made ferocious
by wounds, and with the heas.y and
s.coura,te guns now in use for such hunting
the chances are that once hit with a bullet
the animal will be in no condition to make
a fight. Occasionally, howevec, news &tomes
of the killing of a too adventurous hunter
by a lion, and such a case is that of Dr.
E. S. Mseskay, an Englishman, who recent-
ly lost his life in an encounter with an
African lion, the largest, most powerful,
and fiercest of the feline kind.
Dr. Mackay, who was an athlete and a
fine sportsman, was left by the British ship
Pioneer, of which he was surgeon, at a
village near the southern end of- Lake
Nyassa on Oct. 20. Having learned that a
herd of elephants was close at hand he
decided to try for some ivory, and, accom-
panied by two Makua boys carrying double
eight. bore rifles, and his body servant, a
Zanzibari named Musa, carrying his doiefile
.577 gun, he set out for the interior. On
the way they fell in with several Angoni
natives, who went along with them, offer-
. bag to guide them th the place where the
elephants were feeding an offer which "was
' gladly accepted. After three days of
tramping they came to a large pool stir-
' rounded by a thick jungle, and as they
crashed though the brush a lion and lioness
Who had been drinking, trotted away, the
lion looking back over his shoulder. Dr.
Mackay fired twice at the lion, the second
shot wounding the animal in the hind
• quarter, but not disabling him. On seeinz
the animals the two Makuas and the An
nu. s. RAMAT,
gonie had selected the largest trees in sight
end climbed as far up them as possible,
shouting warnings from their perches to
Dr. Mackay and Musa, who started after
the lions, the heavy rifle having been re-
loaNdoewci:
a lion in the open may be hunted,
with all the chances on the side of the
hunter, but a lion in the jurigle is another
matter, particularly a lion wounded but not
disabled. The teem men must hoots known
their danger when they started into the
tangle Of treere shrubs, and vines, bet the
surgeon was bound to get the lion, and
Musa declared his intention of following his
master wherever he went. They had
walked or rather crawled, but a few rods
when Musa cried:
"There he id, master!"
The lion, who had gathered himself for a
spring, launthed himself at the hunter as
the shot rang out. The next instant th e
animal was upon tr. Meekeet, who was
knocked down before he could fire the
second barrel, A qui& blow of the rifle
was met With a sweep of the lion's peal
that sent the weepon spinning away, and
the huge jaws olosed over the than a left
arm, ortinehieg the lemma, A seeottd blow
from the paw broke the other arm, The
huutet, lying on his beak, Enteceeded by a
powerful kiek in throwing the lion off for
a illaniallt and had his leg broken in doing
it, but thet moment probably :wed hen
front being killed then ansi there, for the
feitifful Musa, who had run back for ono of
the gurus which the Makuaii had dropped
when they tock to the trees, now fired,
hitting the lion in the shoulder. The lien,
with a men ()barged the boy, who coolly
waited ready for the ascend shot, but this
lion fell before reaching him.
• "Musa," called the Doctor, only arm and
leg are broken. Brine • e the gun."
Milking a dsturaboav thelicm, who was
slowly raising himself, the boy oarried the
gun to his mester, hub the wounded man
could not hold it up.
"Sit dewn Mena and Emit the gun on
your shoulder," he said.
Musa did as he was bid, although the lion
Was now oo his feet mid advancing upon
them. If the suet failed to kill, both owe
were as good as dead. The Doctor waited
and the lion advanced. ainsa eat as stetedy
as a rook, The rifle that rested on hie
shoulder did not even tremble. At length
Dr. Macikay fired, and the lion fell dead.
Then the Doctor fainted. Musa and the
others bound up his wounds with what
skill they had, but he told theta when he
recovered consciousness that he was fatally
hurt. They carried him to the negost
camp, where he died three days Mee, etat
as the Pioneer was potting in to get Iona
He saw the einp coming in, axe, though
his friends were too late to find oese alive,
they- did what they could by tat am the
body to the University Mission Stetion
and giving to it a funeral with full naval
honors.
CONSTAIITINOPLE.
Remarkable Changes that Rave Taken
Place There Durinit the Present Celt
tury.
There is no city, perhaps, in Europe in
which so many surprising changes have
taken place during the last three genera.
tions as in the capital of his Imperial High-
ness the Padiehah Abdul Ahmid II.
Let it be for a moment supposed that
Mr. Gladstone ha'd visited Constantinople
as an observant youth of seventeen : had he
reached Stamboul in the middle of June,
1826, he would have been just in time to
witness the last mutinous parade of the
Janissaries, bearing aloft as a standard of
revolt their historic soup.kettles, and their
final malisaore by order of the Sultan Mah-
moud. The Janissaries wore turbans and
caftans and they preferred
JAVELINS AND SORIMITABS
to the weapons of modern warfare. Twenty
years before their final annihilation they
themselves had massacred the Turkish troops
whom the Sultan Salim, to his destruction,
had subjeoted to European discipline and
clad in European uniform.
In the Stamboul which might have been
seen by the young English gentleman fresh
from Eton there was a huge slave markets
where not only white Georgian and Cirease
shot girls were openly sold, but where
crowds of Greek maidens captured by the
Turks at Seib or in the Morse during the
Greek war of independeuce were offered for
sale. Mr. Gladstone might have seen at
Stamboul that it was neither paved nor
lighted.
He would have become auquainted with
the peculiar conditions of Turkish diplo-
macy under vehieh, whenever it war broke
out between the Ottoman Empire and a
Christian power, the firststep taken by the
Turkish Government was to seize the am-
bassador of the hostile country -and immure
him in tee (Jostle of the Seven Towers. He
would have heard every day of Pashas and
Effendis being decapitated or put to death
by the application of the bowstring '• he
would have witnessed, perhaps, the publio
infliction of the hastinado, or the more
nonneeres TORTURE 01' IMPALEMENT.
Vastly different is the Stamboul which the
veteran statesman would gaze upon if he
nowjourneyed to the shores of the Bosph-
orus.
When he was a young man there was
not a single European hotel in Pere, and
British travellers had to seek hospitality
from their Censul or at the houses of
wealthy Franks. The Constantinople of
to -day not only boasts an abundance of
hotels, but it -positively possesses a railway
terminus. The Turkiah lathes are still
veiled, but they drive about in smarb
broughams instead of clumsy " aravaa "
drawn by oxen, and it is understood that
in the luxurious seclusion of the harem they
prefer to wear the toilets of Paris and
Vienna rather than those whieh Turkish
"Khanums donned in the days when
theywelcomed Lady Mary Wortley Mon -
tams. Indeed, so completely has the garb
of Ottoman rninistere and courtiers been
transformed that, there exists at Stamboul
a collection, got together by the Govern -
numb, of ley gurea dressed is, the flowitig
robes stiff with the embroidery and the
prodigious turbans prescribed by sumptuary
etiquette in the Brat years of the century,
and modelled from the garb worn by Turkish
grandees in the days of Mehemet the
Conqueror.
ONE STAMP FOR ALL COUNTRIES.
Negotiations for Issuing an InternatIona
Postage Stamp.
A despatch from Washington says :—
Negotiations have been opened by the Ger.
man Government with the other members
of the International Postal Union relative
to the issue of an international postage
stemp. According to it consular report
received by the state department from
Ghent, it appears that almost ell. the coun-
briea concerned except the United States
have agreed to the project. An official
conference of the powere conference will
soon be oalled to dimes the details of the
scheme. Amorig the advantages exeeeted
from such a postage stamp are the facility
with which small bills sairt accounts itt
foreign countries could ie settled, and
postage for reply weld always be tholosed
when information from abroad was
sought,
Not a Parallel Case.
Boy—Us boys ie pain' up a fife and
drum corpe, and •vve called to see if you
would subscribe.
Mr. Lovepeace—Hum
Boy (encouragingly) Gadd, your
imighbor, gave us a dollar.
Mr. Lovepeace--Yes; but he is goieg to
move away next week.
Expensive.
Old lYfillion—Whatoneery him? Why h
cab't bay the elothes yoti wear.
Miss Mill ion --Videll,pape,eSterybedy ca,n' t
be a millionaire,
SUFFERING IN BRITAIN.
EIGHTY DEATHS IN FOUR DAYS
FROM INTENSE COLD.
The Pour Compelled to Deliberately
Choose Between Food and Fuel—Siarv.,
red TholiSall44 Eight Fiercely For Bread
$Cate* the Famish-
ing Poor of lAverPool.
A London correspondent oables
day is the twenty-sixth day of the great
feost, which England and Europe at largo
now look upon only in the aspect of a most
grievous ealamity and scourge. When the
coroners' reports showed no less than 80
persons literally frozen to death in the oity
of London, during four days of the present
week, even Englishmen were compelled to
realize that it was time to adopt a few
additional measures for dealing with the
incalculable sum of human Buffering whit%
such severe cold adds to hueger. The peer
of London were utterly enPrepared for and
unable to cope with such weather as they
have been eompelled te endure for nearly
four weeks. ,
A temperature varying from 0 degrees
to 25 degrees above zero, which have been
the official figures most of this time recent.
ly, would be only ordinary winter weather
iu America, but it means death to theta:.
ands if long continued in England. A
London omnibus driver was frozen to
death in his seat, after 14 hours' work.
Several such tragedies have been reported
since. .A. few icy corpses have been found
in out-of-the-way corners; where the poor
wretches crawled to die. Others, by far
the greatest number, perished on their
coverless beds.
One poor Italian, who had been sentence
ed by a tender-hearted magistrate to 14
days' imprisonment for the peculiar British
crime of "sleeping out," came out of jail
homeless and penniless, and being uuable
to find shelter, deliberately stripped him.
self naked and lay down and was frozen to
death.
CHOICE BETWEEN FOOD AND FUEL.
It is literally true thab the very poor of
London and other English cities have been
compelled to make a delibrate ohoioe
between food and fuel, and it has been a
bitter dilemma for many thousaude of
destitute, English, Irish and Swath fami-
lies in the last few weeks. Tbe aid given,
from the public purse to those absolutely
helpless, is so small that it is almost a
mistaken kindness, as it serves only to
prolong the agony. Take, for instance,the
case of Elizabeth Harvey, a woman of 73
years, who was frozen to death in her bed,
in the bare miserable little room in which
she lived. in London. Her sole income was
62 cents a week, allowed by thes overseers
of the poor, Rent took 37 centg„qf that,
and she managed to exist until DOW on 25
cents a week for food, fuel and clothing.
There are many thousands Elizabeth
Harvey e in England, to whom the great
&mit thus far has been less kind.
VAST THRONGS OF FAMISHING PEOPLE.
Reports of the suffering in northern cities
are even worse, for the cold there lea been
much more severe. Tbus,in allasgoW alone,
40,000 men are idle and destitute. The
police are almost unable to cope with the
great throngs of famishing women and
children who clamor for food at the soup
kitchens and other places where a partial
supply is obtainable.
The starving multitudes in Eiverpool are
even greater, and pitiful scenes occur daily
at the places where most inadequate at-
tempts are made to distribute small sup-
plies of food. The Socialists have opened
a soup kitchen there, and a correspondent
sends an account of a typical scene yesten.
day. About 3 o'clock the large open space
was crowded with men, women ancl children,
whose sufferings from hunger were intensi-
fied by the piercing cold wind, which swept
across the local Bay of Biscay as if coming
from the region of iceberge. Women clad
in unwomanly rags shivered and cowered
before the blase, their feetnumb, their faces
livid with cold and want, while they strove
to find proteotion from the wind by gather.
ing their thin ragged garments closer. A
large number of spectators assembled on the
outskirts of the square, the crowdinoluding
maestri sites, ship owners andother prominent
citizens. The sights were harrowing. The
scramble for bread by the famishing crowd
was pitiful.
A TERRIBLE SCRAMBLE FOR BREAD.
The Socialists' soup kitchen began oper-
ations at the usual hour. The food was
wolfishly devoured by the hunger-strichen
people, who could net be fed fast enough,
although the kitchen doled soup and bread
coniineousiy for over an hour. Several
ram a loaded with bread came up, while the
sot p distribution was proceeding.
Taere was such a rash for the bread that •
'ho Socialists found it impossible, to carry
out their benevolent intentious bean order-
ly manner. In sheer deep:Ara theeepitolted
the bread into ranks of stravingroass. Then
ensued it terrible scramble. Women and
cbildren were knocked about, the strong
bearing down the weak, some going off with
three or four loaves, others left evi at
snytbing. The aecond care came wbi e the
scrthible around the first was 'going on.
The crowd surged round the now arrival, so
that anything like a fair dietributiotewae
out of the question. Those in the van were
pitchforking bread on the heads of the peo-
ple, when the police came up and took
charge. The crowd was formed into line,
end n mire effective system was inaugu-
rated.
Throughout the afternoon the eaplanade
was the scene of bewildering excitemeat.
A poor widow, withit child in her arms,
after nonsiderable wetting, got to the soup
tatehen. Overcome by hunger, she sank
down on the pevemente holding fast to the
soup howl, fearful lest a drop should he
spilt. Ultimately the revived sorgewhat
end began to feed the child, which ate seep
ravenously.
Ribbons Mean Lives.
The most inteeesting of the heathet
omples of Chine. is the Temple of Longev.
ity, This teniple seemed a perfect forest o
ribbons or long, narrow stripe of silk of alt
colors and lengths auspended from the coils
legs. Each one of these 'stripe is simpesed
to indicate the length of life of it family.
The people pay money to the prieet in order
1 hat he May sceure from the god ;eolith and
long life, end as prdef positive that the
petitioa le greeted thee° etripe aro }Meg up.
The lotgee the ptirse the lodger the ribbon
—the longet the ribbon the longer the
Such Is the accepted belief.
s