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The Exeter Times, 1895-4-4, Page 2r TIIE ICOLY SPIIiIT. MY. OR, TALMAGE DisoouRsea gle0" QUENTLY ON TONGUES OF FIRE. Obey Who Datre 'Received the Divine Pre110 mime In Their elearto Are Lifted. Above Sorrow and Mistortune-Lebors oNoted Evangelists. rtiim, to T. otuzuot needet:Stand, One Itne 01 ite 001tinenti," then for ally Man to take tles the Bible and without getting goly teleatit tUumtrnion as to ftsmeaning MY: "This book insalts 1y common %fees% I cannot wde)$t'.fl t, way with the incongruityl" No one but the Holy Ghost, who inspired the Seripturee, can explain the Sortptstres. Fully realize that, tend you will be as enthusiastic a lover of the old book as flay venerable friend who told, me in Philadelphia last week that he was reading the 13ib1e through the fifty-ninth time, and it be - (mane snore attraotive and thrilling every time he wont through it. In the saddle bags that hung aoross my horse's back as I rode from Jerusalem down to the Dead sea and up to Damascus I bad all the books about Palestine that I could ()arty, but many a man on Ms knees in the privet'y et his own room has had flashed upon him more vivid appreciation of the word of God than many a man who has visited all the scenes of Chriet's birth, and Paul's eloquence, and Petex's im- prisonment, and Joshua's prowess, and Elijah's ascension. I do not depreciate any of the helps for Bible study, but I do say that they all together come in- finitely short without a direct com- munication from the throne of God, in response to prayerful solicitation. We may find many interesting things about the Bible without especial illumination, as how many horses Solomon had. in his stables, or how long was Noah's ark, of who was the only woman whose full name is given in the Soriptures, or whioh is the middle verse of the Bible, and all that will. do you no more good than to be able to tell how many beanpoles there are in your neighbor's garden, The learned Earl of Chatham heard the famous Mr. Ceoil preach about the Holy Ghost and said to a friend on the way home from ohurch, "I could not under- stand it, and do you suppose anybody understood it?" "Oh, yes," said his Christian friend, "there were uneducated women and some little children present Who understood it." I warrant you that the English soldier had under supernal influence read the book, for after the bat- tle of Inkerman was over he was found dead with his hand glued to the page of the open Bible by his own blood, and the words adhered to his hands as they buried him, "I am the resurrection and the life; be that believeth in me, though dead, yet shall he live." Next consider the Holy Ghost as a hu- man reconstructor. We must be made over again. Christ and Nicodemus talked about it. Theologians call it regenera- tion. I do not care what you call it, but we have to be reconstructed by the Holy Ghost. We become new creatures, hat ing what we once loved and loving what we once hated. If sin were a luxury, it must become a detestation. If we prefer- red bad associations, we must prefer good associations. In most cases it is such a complete change that the world notiees the difference and begin to ask: "What has come over that man? Whom has he been with? What has so affected him? What has ransacked his entire nature? What has turned him square about?" Take two pictures of Paul -one on the road to Damascus to kill the disciples of Christ; the other on the road to Ostia to die for Christ. Come nearer home and look at the man who found his chief delight in a low class of clubrooms' hie - coughing around the card table andthen stumbling down the front steps after raidnight and staggering homeward, and that same man one week afterward with his family on the way to a prayer meet- ing. What has done it? It must be God. It must be the Holy Ghost. Notice the Holy Ghost as the salami of broken hearts. Christ calls him the com- forter. Nothing does the world so much want as comfort. The most of people have been abused, misrepresented, cheated, lied about, swindled, bereft. What is needed ft balsam for the wounds, lantern for the dark roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, a lift from the mar- ble slab of tombstones. Life to most has been a semifailure. They have not got what they wanted. They have not reach- Npw YOrk, Meech 24, -When Dr. Tal - Wage asohisded the platform of the Acad.- Only of Musio this afternoon he faced au audience quite as large as any that had 1[14mm-41)10d in the great building since these eatviaes began, while several thous- eied other whe outside unable to secure StOts or even standing room. He took Xpe hie subjeet, "Tongues of Fire," the tett seleoted being Acts xix, 2, "Have ye recleived the Holy Ghost?" 'The word ghost, which means a soul or KAM, has been degraded in common par - lenge. We talk of ghosts as baleful and friehtful and in a frivolous or supersti- tiebe way. But ray text speaks of a ghost wlao is onenlpotent and divine and. every- where piesent and ninety-one times in the New Teetanient called, the Holy Ghost. T a only 'Wile 1 ever heard this text p ehed from wp in the opening days of nay reenistxy, when a glorious old Scoteh minister came up to help me in my vil- lage °laurels. On the day of any ordina- tion and. installation he said, "If you get into the corner of a Saturday night with - vat emiugh sermons for Sunday, send for me, and I vvill come and preach for you." The fact ought to be known that the first three years of a pastor's life are appal- lingly arduous. No other profession makes the twentieth part of the demand on a young xnan. If a secular speaker prepares one or two speeohes for a political campaign, it is considered arduous. If a lecturer prepares one lecture for a year, he is thought to tiave done well. But a young pastor has two sermons to deliver every Sabbath, be- fore the saline audience,beside Binds other work, and the raost of ministers never lecover from the awful nervous strain of he first three years. Be sympathetio With all young ministers and withhold your criticisms. My aged Scotch friend responded to my rst call and came and preached from the text that I now announce. I remem- ber nothing but the text. It was the last erraon he ever preached. On the follow - tag Saturday he was called to his heaven- ly reward, But 1 remember just how he appeared as, leaning over the pulpit, he looked into the face of the audience and ith earnestness and pathos and electric r' orce asked them in the words of my text, Have ye received the Holy Ghost?" The pffice ef this present discourse is to open a 400r, to unveil a Personage, to introduce 0 force not sufficiently recognized. He is as great as God. He is God. The second terse of the first chapter of the Bible in- troduces hem Genesis i, 2, "The Spirit of God. moved upou the face of the waters" ---that is, as an albatross or eagle epreads her wings over her young and Warms them into life and teaches them eo fly, so the eternal spirit spreads his peat, broad, radiant wings over this )6arth in its callow and unfledged state and !warmed it into life and fluttered over it end set it winging its way through im- mensity-. It is the tiptop of all beautiful and sublime suggestiveness. Can you not elmosb see the outspread wings over the Pesb of young worlds? "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Another appearance of the Holy Ghost was at Jerusalem during a great feast. Strangers speaking seventeen different languages were present from. many parts ssf the world. But in one house they teard what seemed like the coming of a eyclone or hurricane. It made the trees bend and the houses quake. The cry was, "What is that?" And then a forked flame a fwe tipped each forehead, and what with the blast ot wind and the dropping ere a panic took place until Peter ex- plained that it was neither cyclone nor conflagration, but the brilliance and an- i ed that which they started for. Friends ointing and baptisinal power of the Holy i betray. Change of business stands loses Ghost. old custom and does not bring enough That scene was partially repeated in al custom to make up for the loss. Health forest when Rev. John Easton was i beomes precarious when one most needs preaching. There was the sound of a I strong muscle, and steady nerve, and rushing, mighty wind, and the people t clear brain. Out of this audience of looked to the sky to see if there were any thousands and thousands, if I should ask all those who have been unhurt in the struggle of life to stand up, or all stand- ing to hold up their right hand, not one would move. Oh, how much we need the Holy Ghost as comforter! He recites the sweet gospel promises to the hardly be - stead. He assures of mercy mingled with the severities. He consoles with thoughts of coming release. He tells of a heaven where tear is never wept, and burden is never carried, and injustice is never suffered. Comfort for all the young peo- ple who are maltreated at horns, or receive insufficient income, or are robbed of their schooling, or kept back from positions they have earned by the putting forward of others less worthy. Comfort for all these men and women midway in the path of life worn out with what they have already gone through and with no bright- ening future. Comfort for these aged ones amid many infirmities and who feel themselves to be in the way in the home or business which themselves established with their own grit. The Holy Ghost comfort I think gener- ally comes in the shape of a soliloquy. You find yourself saying to yourself: "Well, I ought not to go on this way about my mother's death. She had suffer- ed enough. She had borne other people's burdens long enough. I am glad that father and mother are together in heaven, and they will be waiting to greet us, and It will be only a little while anyhow, and God makes no mistakes," or you solilo- quize,saying: "It is hard to lose my prop- erty. I am sure I worked hard enough for it. But God will take care of us, and, as to the children, the money might have spoiled them, and we find that those who have to struggle for themselves generally turn out best, and it will all be well if this upsetting of aux worldly resources leads us to lay up treasures in heaven." Or you soliloquize, saying: "It was hard to give up that boy when tlae Lord took him. I expeotee great things of him, and, oh, how we miss him out of the house, and there are so many things I come across that make ODO think of Min, and he was such a splendid fellow, but then what an escape he has made from the temptations and sorrows which Conte to all who grow up, and 11 19 a, grand. thing to have him safe from all possible harm, and there are all those Bible promises for parents who beee lost children, and we shall feel a drawing heavenward that we could. not have otherwise experienced." Anci after you have said that you get ths,t x•ellef whieh comes from, an olixtburst of tears, 1 do not say to you, as some say, do not cry. God pit Y people in trouble who have the parehed eyeball, and tho dry eyelid, and cannot shed a tear, That makes maniacs.. To God's people tears are the dews of the night dashed with sunrise. I am so glad you eau weep. Hut you think these things you say tO yourself are only soliloquies. No, no. They are the Comforter, who is the Holy Ghost. Now, my hearers. let MO of us, whether clerical or lay workers, get such a divine visitation as that, and we could take this world for God before the °look of the twat century strikes one. How xrutuy marked instanceof Holy Ghost power! Wheu a bleak trumpeter took his place in Whitefteld's audience proposing to blow the trumpet at a certain, point in the service and put everything into derision, somehow he could not get the trumpet to Ms lips, and at the close of the meeting be sought out the preacher and, asked for his prayers. It was the Holy Ghost. What was the xnatter with Hadley Vicars, the memorable soldier, when he sat with his Bible before him in a tent and his deriding comrades came in and jeered, saying, "Turned Methodist, eh?" And a.uother said: "You I ypro- critel Bad as you were, I never thought you would oome to this, old fellow!" And then he became the soldier evangelist, and when a soldier in another regiment hundreds of miles away telegraphed his spiritual anxieties to Iledley Vicars, say- ing. "What shall I do?" Vicars telegraph- ed. as thrilling. a message as ever went over the wire, "Believe on thesLord Jess Christ and thou shalt be saved." What power was being felt? It was the Holy Ghost. And what more appropriate for the Holy Ghost is a "tongue of fire," and the elec- tricity that flies along the wires is a tongue of fire? And that reminds me of what I might do now. From the place where I stand. on this platform there are invisible wires or lines of influence stretching to every heart in all the seats on the main floor and up into the boxes and galleries, and there are other innum- erable wires or lines of influence Teaching out from this place into the vast beyond, and across continents, and under the seas, for in my recent journey around the world I did not find a country where I had not been preaching this gospel for many years through the printing press. So as a tele- graph operator sits or stands at a given point and sends messages in all direo- tions, and you only hear the click, click, click of the electric apparatus, but the telegrams go on their errand, God help me now to touch the right key and send the right message along the right wires to the right places 1 Who shall I first call up? To whom shall I send the message! I guess I will send the first to all the tired, wherever they are, for there are so many tired souls. Here goes the Christly mes- sage, "Come unto me, all ye who are weary, and I will give you rest." Who next shall I call up? I guess the next message will be to the fatherless and widows, and here goes God's message, "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me." Who next shall I call up? I guess my next niessage will be to those who have buried. members of their own families, and here it goes, "The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise." Who next shall I call up? I guess the next message will go to those who think themselves too bad to be saved. Here it goes, "Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord, who will have mercy, and unto our God, who will abundantly pardon." Who next shall I call up? I guess it will be to those who may think I bare not yet touched their case. Here it goes, "Who- soever, whosoever, whosoever will, let him come." And now may God turn on all the electric power into this gospel battery for the last tremendous message, so that it may thrill through this assemblage and through all the earth. Just sixwords will compose the message, and I touch the key of this gospel battery just six times and the message has gone! Away! Away it flies! And the message is, "Have ye re- ceived the Holy Ghost?" -that is, do you feel his power? Has he enabled you to sorrow over a wasted life, and take full pardon from the crucified Christ, and turned your face toward the wide open gates of a welcoming heaven? We appeal to thee, 0 Holy Ghost, who didst turn the Philippian jailer, and Saul of Tarsus, and Lydia of Tbyatira, and helped John Bunyan out cf darkness, when, as he describes 11, "Doin fell I as a bird shot from the top of the tree into fearful despair, but was relieved by the comforting word, 'The blood of Jest's Christ cleanseth front all sin,' and help- ed. John Newton when standing at the helm of the ship in a midnight hurricane and mightier than the waves that swept the decks came over him the memory of his blasphemous and licentious life, and he cried out, "My mother's God. have mercy on me t" and helped one nearer home, even me, De Witt Talmage, at about eighteen years of age, that Sunday night in the lovely village of Blawen- burg, N. Je, when I could not sleep be- cause the questions of eternal destiny seized hold of me, and has helped me ever since to use as most expressive of my own feeling: signs of a storm' but it was a clear sky, est the sound ofthe wind was so great teat horses, frightened, broke loose from their fastenings, and the whole assembly felt that the sound was eupernatural and Pentecostal. Oh, what an infinite and imighty and glorious personage is the Holy Ghost. He brooded this planet into life, and now that through sin it has be- come a dead world he will brood it the second time into life. Perilous attempt would be a coniparison between the three persons of the Godhead. They are equal, but there is some oensideration which at- tadhes itself to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, that does not attaoh itself to either God the Father or ctod the Son. We may grieve God the Father and grieve God the Son and be forgiven, but we are directly told that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come. And it is wonderful that while on the street you hear the name of God and Jesus Clatist used in profanity you never hear the words Holy Ghost. This hour I speak ef the Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, se a human reconstructor, as a sollace for the broken hearted, as a preacher's re - enforcement. The Bible is a mass of contradictions, an affirmation of impossibilities, unless the Holy Ghost helps us to understand it. The Bible says of itself that the Scripture is not for "private interpretation," but "holy men of God spate as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" -that is, not private interpretation, but Holy Ghost interpretation. Pilo on your study table all the commentaries of the Bible -Mat- thew Henry and Scott and Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes and Bush and Alex- ander -and all the archaeologies, and all the Bible dictionaries, and all the maps tif Palestine, and all the International series of Sunday sohool lessons, and if that is all you will not understand the deeper and grander meanings of the Bible so well as that Christian moutaineer, who Sunday morning, after having shaken down the fodder for the cattle, domes into his cabin, takes up his well worn Bible, and with a prayer that stirs the heavens asks for the Holy Ghost to unfold the book. No more unreasonable would I be if I should take up The Novoe Vremya of St. Poteeebting, all printed in Russian, and eels "Time ls no Anse. in .this pews - THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, XNTEENATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 7f Mtn,. "'the Trieunpnal iOntry." Mewls 11,11.11 Gold' en Text, entrk le, 9, OZIsilillab STATEMENT, Of The Triumphal Entry we have four accounts Matt. 21. 141 ; the present pas, sage ; Luke 19. 2944; end John 12, 12-19. To compare theee four accounts is an inter. eating teak. Matthew alone tells as that the children of the temple joined in the acclamations ; John deaotibes the orowd of friends which poured forth from Jerusalem to meet Jesus; Luke alone records the interference of the Pharisee, Christ's reply, and Christ's lament over the city, and his prophecy of its destruction. If we had only the reoord of Matthew and Lake we should suppose that our Lore cleansed the temple on the day when he entered Jerusalem, but Mark distinctly states the cleansing to have occurred on the next day. There is every evidence from all four accounts that our Lord made more elaboratepreparations for this Triumphal entry than for any other eveut in his life. Why? It cer. Mealy was a strange and solitary exception to his ordinary methods, for he had all his life constantly shunned orowds, and while he had indorsed his disciples' belief that he was the Meesiah, he had emphatioally and repeatedlyforbidden them to tell this to oth" ars. Now for the fourth or fifth time he approaohes the capital city of the nation. He has heretofore entered it as a humble °erne. an.But every Hebrew expeots that when the Messiah comes the ()aphid city vs ill throw op. en its gates and welcome him to his throne. And on this occasion our Lord enters that city in state as the Menial), orowned with aut. hority as well as with humility. The manner of his entrancs and the acolamations of the multitude proclaim him to be the King of the Jews, and no one can well read this Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. Through many dangers, toile and snares I have already come, 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me hale. erematnaefe wire screens. The Sultan of Turkey is said to possess a fire screen made of tanned human skin, exquisitely embossed and over 200 years old. The eking were those of twelve faithful servents who resoued one of his majesty's ancestors from a blazing wing In the palace, aftorWards succumbing to the effects of their burns. less grew - some but almost as remarkable fire screen is made up, not of skins but of Inman faces, these faces, 1973 in number, all photographically portraying Sir Augustus Harris at different times of his career. The rirst Coined Money. The lint coining of money Is attributed to Pheldon, king of Argos, in the year 895 B. C., 1,:lo1ned 'money Was first used in western Europe twenty-nine years be- fore the opening of the Christian era, Gold. Was first coined in England in the eleventh century, and the first round coins were not made nntil 100 years later, --$t. 142g..le story and doubt that he deliberately Mann ded that declaration to be made. We ar e compelled to conclude that he was seeking a public testimony to the fact that it was their King that the Jews were about to crucify that it was not merery the cruci- fied° ne that suffered, but the crucified King, the rejected Messiah, Cluist crucifi- ed, the hope of glory. On the Friday be- fore the passover' to which the crowds were gathering (itwas the fourth passover of our Lord's ministry), Jesus came to Bethany and took up his abode in the house of Martha (John 12.1). From Friday sun- down until Saturday sundown was the Sabbath set apart for rest and worship. In the evening of Saturday, which was the be. ginning of the Jew's first day of the week, a supper was gtven to Jesus in Bethany, and Mary, the sister of Lazarus, anointed him (John 12. 2 8). The triumphal prawn. sten, with which our lesson begins, passed over the Mount of Olives on the morning of Sunday (which we will again remind our readers was a secular day), ExPLANATOB.Y AND PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. They. Primarily, Christ and his disciples ; but on this ()cession he led the procession of pilgrims to the feast in the holy city. The bulk of these were friendly to Jesus. The healing of Bartimeus and the rumors of the raising of Lazarus would raise his popularity among them to the highest point, and if there were any hostile, such would find it the course of prudence to hold their peace. Jerusalem was a heavily fortified city, built upon. hills and surround- ed by other hills ; but men in those days, as now, could pass from the cheery bustle of the city out through the gate into the graveyard and desolation. From oriental cities no half -developed streets run in all directions, as from the enterprising new cities ot our West. But the villages about Jerusalem were always thrifty, and some of them were almost as old as the capital itself. (Read the account of David's flight from and return to the city.) So that nigh to Jerusalem came to have a very definite meaning, as referring to a region. The site of Bethphage has DOD been made out. The narrative shows that it was near Bethany, and some scholars believe that it was a term applied to a district east of Jerusalem, on the western border of which Bethany was situated. Bethany. A subur- ban town east of Jerusalem, about a mile from the summit a the Mount of Olives. It will help us to reproduce this scene if we remember that this "mount " rose four hundred and fifty feet higher than the famous temple of marble and, gold. Proba- bly Peter and John. (See Luke 22.8.) 2. The village over against you. Wheth- er this was Bethany or Bethphage or some unnamed village we can only conjecture. As soon as ye be entered into it. Probably at the door of the first house that broke the monotony of the country road. Our Lord may, in these directions, be asserting divine omniscience, but it seems to be more in accord with the simplicity of the story to suppose that he was carrying out arrange- ments previously made. A oolt. A young donkey. The Mosaic law excluded the horse from Jewry, and this led to the care- ful development of the humbler animal. He had been trained and bred into a thing of beauty, so that he was regarded as fit to carry princes. (See Judg. 5. 10; 2 Sam. 19. 26; 17. 23.) Even to -day the price of an ass in Palestine isesocording toTristram, nearly as great as that of a horse. Tied. We are not to think of him as tied to a post butes standing on three feet, unable to run away because one of his fore legs had been bended at the knee and strapped. Close to his body. Whereupon never man sat. This phrase may be added merely to imply the usefulness of the beast, but to the Hebrew, who used almost every object as a symbol for religious truth, it carried a profounder thought. Only oxen which had never worn the yoke were offered in sacrifice. (Compare Num. 19. '2; Deut. 21. 3; I Sam, 6. 7.) The mother ass was with the colt. 3. The Lord hath need of him. This may mean "God has need of him," but more probably the " Master." Ib is quite probable that the owner of the aes and oolt was already a disciple of Jesue. As the Greek hints that some one would say, " Why do ye this ?" it may be that the question and &newer had been agreed upon beforehaseer In any cage, in the presence of such a swirl of popular enthusiasm for him who raised Lazarus from the dead, no Man would be likely to refuae the loan of a colt, Straightway. One of the charac- teristic touches of Meek. Aecording te him all Ile:male life was lived. " straight- way," He will Eland him hither. There is little doubt tho,t1this is a misinterpretatiem and that tbe Revised Version here gives the true Renee, ' the Lord has need of him, and right away will return him." THE 41114EN IN FROM Orange Rotel, Cinders SOUthern Olinger Her WOMPOrar7 8egile1401,.. • t 7 Queen Victoria is now domiciled on the Riviera for a few weeks. She occupies the Gland Hotel at Cimiez, whioh has been partly redecorated, refitted and refurnish- ed for her use, Plans of the building were sent to her at Osborne some time ago. She picked out for herself it suit of rooms on the first floor, the bedroom facing the north. The drawing -room and the dining -room were furnished anew under her immediate dir- ection. An elevator has been put in espeoially foeher visit, and a private telegraph office has been fitted up. so that she may know at all times what te going on in her own dominions. The Grand Hotel commands beautiful views of the Mediterranean, the town of Nice and other interesting features of the three.miles wide strip of land between the house and the sea. It stench on a hillside which abounds in villas and gardens. The front of the hotel is plain and rather bare. The back, looking out upon the garden, the view given in the picture, is the prettier, more attractive part. 4. A place where two ways met. Better, "in a roundabout way." It has been in- geniously supposed by James Morison that the village was straggled up a road which deviated from the hill -way, but came around to it again, and that it was in the entrance to this curved road that the ani- mal stood. Loose him. Slip the leathern loop off his foot, 5. Them that stood there. Luke says the " owners." 7. Cast their garments on him, To serve OS a saddle. 8, Spread their garments in the way. To carpet the ground. Cut down branches off the trees. Twigs, rushes, and leaves from the fields. Strewed them in the way. This sentence does not appear in the Re- vised Version because it is not in the best manuscripts, and the probability is that it has been borrowed by some oopyiet from Matthew. Some of 'this crowd had toiled no the eighteen miles of jagged ascent from Jericho, some had some from beyond Jordan, from Perea, where Jesus had spent so much of his recent time, some from Galilee (Matt. 21. 11), and some had some out from Jerusalem to meet Jesus.'for, according to John's story (John 12. 12, 13), the people who triumphantly sang of the raising of Lazarus were met by a throng from Jerusalem who bore branches of the palm, a special emblem of the Feast of Tab. ernaeles, with which the Messiah's coming was always associated. . 9. They that went before, and they that followed, cried. Rather, chanted with a rythmic swing, almost like the sing -song recitation of the old-fashioned primary class, only that it was responaive, like a simple fugue antiphonal, as was the custom in singing the psalms in publio worship. hosanna. This is a Hebrew word meaning "Save now." With it the twenty.fif th verse of Psalm 118 begins. This psalm was probably composed for the great occasion of Neh.8, and was always used at the Feast of Tabernacles. The blending of the em- blems of the two great feasts, that of tab- ernacles and that of the passover, was a type of the blending of the spirit of joyful thanksgiving and anticipation and solemn sacrificial commemoration, and it must have impressed observers much as the blending of the emblems of the First of July and Christmas would impress us; or perhaps it would be better to say of Easter and Thanksgiving. Blessed is he that cometh in tho name of the Lord. Read Psalm 118. 26. The enthusiasm of the crowd was probably spontaneous, but it expressed itself in familiar rhythmic words much as if a modern company burstautinto singing, "My country, 'tis Of thee." In the name of the Lord. This phrase is not to be at- tached to " He that cometh," but to " Blessed." 10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David. Carefully note the changes made in the Revised Version. These singers believed that the King was on his way to the throne and doubtless many of them thought thel he that shouted the loudest would have a good claim to the best place in the new court. But proud as they were of "our father David, how little they knew of the spiritual truth thab even he in his twilight time stood for 2 When the King actually came they wers not prepared for him. Hosanna, in the highest. It is a pity that thie Hebrew word has been passed over to a language to which it does not belong. "Save now in the highest!" they exclaimed, and while the shouts filled the see the King rode slowly on in silence. The Pharisees bade him check these direct assertions of Ms claims (Luke 19. 39, 40). Those close to him doubtless saw the tears stream down his cheeks, and saw his lamen- tation over the coming fall of his beloved city (Luke 19, 41). 11. Entered into Jerusalem and in to the temble. The path over the Mount of Olives led directly through the temple. It was now late in the afternoon of the first day of the secular week, the very afternoon when the paschal lamb was set apart for the sacrifice of the paesover. ON GOOD FRIDAY The Stars Witt Be as They Were When Christ was Crucified. The year 1895 will be a remarkable one, both from the astronomical and religious point of view, On Good Friday next (April 12) the heav. enly bodies which gravitate around the sun will be in exactly the same position they occupied in the firmament the day Christ died on the cross. It will be the first time such a thing has ocourred sinoe that great day, just 1862 years ago. That was the thirty-third year of the Christian era,which dates from the birth of Jesus Christ. At 4:20 o'olock in the morning,Paris time (aboub 11;20 p. me on April 11, New York time), the moon will pass before Virginis (Spica) and hide that conatellation for over an hour. Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt is munificent in her charities and untiring in her good work, but she does not go upon the bowie - tops to advertise what Mho is doing for the poor. INDIAN PRINCE IN NEW YORK. A Chat With the Nawab I,ad Navrez Jung Banadiar. His Highness the Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung Bahadur of India and his wife arriv- ed in New York a few days ago. They have with them a maid and a valet, and they are making a tour of the, principal cities of thehvorld, which they propose th circle. Their trip began at Hyderabad, in the southern part of Hindoostan, where Imad Nawaz Jung Beladar is a great prince. They arrived from Asia on the steamship City of Pekin. The Newish is a rather tall, well formed man, of perhaps 40 years of age. He has a brown skin, a dark beard, the whitest of teeth, very bright, brown eyes and a pleasant face, which would be described as good-looking rather than positively handsome. His manner is that of any well-bred gentleman, and his voice is wonderfully soft and pleasing. His dress was decidedly ornamental. On his head he wore a red fez with a black tassel. The distinctive article of his attire was a long, loose red garment, looking much like a dressing gown,and fastened with silk frogs. Beneath this could be seen trousers of some light white fabric, with glistening threads of silk running through the oloth, the effect being that of the nether part of a set of glorified pajamas. On his feet were loose, broad -toed slippers'but the crowning glory ot his costume ia his hosiery. These stock- ings are of black silken textureemderneath which is a brilliant green, the effect of the green seen through the black being highly ornamental. The Prince wore on his left hand a small intaglio ring with cabalistic characters. "We are on a pleasure trip merely," said the Prince in response to a question. "We have been away from home four months, having come to this country from China where we went to Canton,Shanghai, and 'Yong Kong. We might havetravelled about China more but for the war. There is no travel in the districts where the light- ing is, and we could not go to Pekin. For a few days we stopped at San Francisco, and at Niagara Palle. That is the greatest thing I have seen here in America. "In my country we do not believe in so much crowding into the cities. It is better for the public health,better for the Govern. ment, better for the poorer clauses, better for agriculture, better for finance, better all ways that people should. not crowd together too much into cities. One thing I find strange here is your eating. ID 'Oie. we eat not much meat; a little mutton, perhaps, bub mostly vegetables and green things:but tiere you all eat meat,meab,meate You are great flesh eaters. Still, every one to his own taste. You say it so in English, do you not ?" The reporter added that it was a common saying in English and added that doubtless the Prince had learned to speak English fluently in Great Britain. "No ; I have never been in Europe," said the Prince, "and thie is my first visit to America; but I have studied English for ten months, yet I fear I speak not correctly many times. In the East everything is English. There is a little French, but English is the language of the world -English language, I mean to say." "Do you intend to learn Frenoh and German also when you visit those coun- tries I" asked the reporter. "No ; I think not. I am not travelling to learn languages or to study politics as some of my countrymen do. It is merely a pleasure trip, and 1 interest myself in social conditions, I think you call it. My wife and I will go to all the chief capitals of the world, and we map out our course as we travel. We Bail from here by the White Star line. I do not know when we shall get home again. Perhaps not tor a 'tome time." On Saturday the Princess called on the wife of the Turkish Consul, wearing a pro- fusion of superb gams on her fingers, in her dress, and in her hair. Her bonnet strings were simply lines of rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires. Monday night the Turkish Consul and his wife dined at the Waldorf with the Prinoe and Princess. ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Steigiteer1y Deforest in Dis Doings -Mato ters or Moment an4 Mirth GathOr04 from Ws Daily lieco0e.4 Four persons were seriously bUrDea an omnibus, which caught flre after being overturned near St, Cloud, Minn. The bank e in Chicago are trying to induce the Western banks to do business in that oity instead of in New Yet*. Work has been begun at Somerville, lir J., on the trolley toed which is to connect New York with Philadelphia. A plot to kidnap the eldest son of George Gould from his home at Lakewood, N. J., was diecovered end frustra tech Mrs. Lavine Bolusunon, of Kamm Oity, Mo., who eloped with a liveryman of Luray, Va., in Augnst, has killed her- self. A bill providing for the creation of a national park out of the battle field of ehiloah was reported favorably in the Senate. Governor 0. Vincent Coffin, of Conneoth out, is said to be the best dressed exentive that the state has had for manwetestra,, ColOnel Rs P. Pepper, one of the best ". known race horse breeder e and owners in , Kentucky, died at his home in Frankfort., General John Lindsay Swift, who won distinction in the civil war, died at his home in Boston, aged 67 yeara of age. Million Dollar Fire in Milwaukee. A. despatch from Milwaukee, Wisesays , -Lower Grand avenue, which is the hears of the wholesale and retail commerce of the west tide, was the scene on Wednesday morning of one of the mob disastrous fires in the hist ory of the city. Sonia of the leading mercantile institutions are in ruine. The Y.M,C. A. building was destroyed, and the rubles Library, with 80,000 %minims, wee with diffieulty saved. The heaviest loss falls on Landouer & Co., wholesale dry goods, $400,000, The total loss is estimated at more than $1,0 00,000. The fire is the worst the city has experieneed since the great conflagration of October, 1892. There wore le okay no fatalities. .At Davenport, Ohio, Dr. Carver won the third of a series of chompionehip elesott with Charles Budd. The score was 89 to 77. Brigadier General John H. Broach, who has squandered a fortune of $300,000, hail been sent to jail in New York for drunken. - 11888. Mr. Montant, the New York auotioaeer, has disposed of over $500,000 worth of silk goods this week, Swiss and German, et fair prices. Mrs, Edward Albright, the deserted wife of the son of an ex -governor of Missouris was arrested at Richmond, Va., oharged with shoplifting. The Rev. Samuel G. Jones, the father of the Rev. Sam P. Jones, the evangelist, died at his home in Cartersville, Ga., at the age of 90 years. John B. 'Williams, of Gibson' Ga., sued the Augusta Southern railroadfor $1,000 because the company revoked his annual pass. The company won the suit. Albert Whipple, the absconding presh dent of the broken bank at Crawford, Neb., had served a term as a convect in the Iowa state penitentiary at Fort Madison. Miss Ellen Tickle, of Heno, Butler mounty, Ohio, is said to be the smallest full, developed woman now living. She is 31 years old, and weighs but 28 pounds. The village trustees of Sing Sing have decided to call a public meeting for the discussion of the advisabilty of having the name of the town changed to Wescora. Parnell Fisher, of Bridgeport, Del., is g , feet 7e. inches tail,and can c two barrels of flour at owe, and trot al ettaily with 400 pounds on his shoulder. , James B. Leake, of Hannibal, Mo., has been informed that he is the heir to an estate in New York city left by James B. Leake, who died without known heirs sev- eral year!: ago. i Several hundred pass booksejave been presented to Receiver Kellogg, of the Brame County National Bank, in Bing- hampton, of which he oan find no record on the books of the bank. Rev. Timothy Dwight Hunt, who died recently et Whitesborough, N.Y. organized the first Presbyterian church in:Cantor/AA in 1849, and was one of the pioneer mite sionaries to the Sandwich Iolanda. a A .0 .4 a 1k 44. Mrs. Nannie V. Hines, of Salametioa, N. Y., who eloped with her husband, William H. Hines, of St. Paul, Minn., hes aued hire for divorce because since his rfiarriage he has eloped with three other women. In an official Bet of the physicians pre - tieing medicine in New York are the folio* ing names, appropriate or otherwise: sql, Bosch, Deady, Coffin, Ender, Gore'Herb, Kabels Kram, Lordly, Madden, Pettus, Sass and Sour. The New York civil service COMMiNi0n has decided to urge the adoption of the system of registering laborers employed in the municipal departments. If the plan is adopted it will take 5,000 places from the control of the politicians. Jacob Kinser, residing at Zion, Ky., concluded on Monday last that he Ive.8 going to die. He sent for his neighbore and a minister, selected the text, herd hiis funeral sermon preached, and theu folded his hands and died. He was 76 years old. Among the cabin passengers who arrived at New York on the Ward Line steamer Seguaranca, 1 rem Havana, Were several prominent Cuban planters ,who were forced, they say, to flee the country to escape out- rages perpetrated by Goirerriment troops on the disaffected districts of Cuba. Mrs. U. el. Grant is quoted by Southern papers es having recently given utteranee to this remarkable sentiment at Tampa, Fla.: "I loved the South, for I was raised in a Southern state-Miesouri-end I hardly knew which side to go with. But the General went with the North, and I went with thine" • Clara Louise Kellogg, whose sweMoice onoe charmed two continents, is living in New York in comparative poverty. Once she was worth nearly $1,000,000, but it has all been swept away by unfortunate business ventures. The once famous woman has lost her voice entirely, and haa no way of recouping her shattered fortunes. The senior bishop of the United States, John Williams, of Conneetiout, is an old bachelor. Although the most genial and charming of men, he has never displayed much sympathy with women nor with matrimony, and it is one of hie stock grievances that the young men of his Berkeley divinity school marry se soon as they are ordained. As he puts it, ".11.6 aeon ite they get a gown they think they must have a petticoat." Foster Belheld Vests of Chnsibnati, been notified that he 11 Re% heir to i4 large fortune. Ho ie past middle liie,Ile ran away from Louden, went to Australia, then to the EPA Inge8 and finally broeght up in Cincinnati. For years he was Well khown at beanie,. He married seeretly ti girl employed in the Grand Hotel. Not hearing from lionte for many yearli, he put his case in the hands of an attorney, Nyjn!) made inquiries in London, awl found that hie rich parents hal died and be was the only heir. Ha had ham givea up as deado 4 4.