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SERMON BY THE REV* T- RE WITT
TALKIeGE, D. D.
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Crowded Audiences -Hie Text Taken
Wrenn I, Were ws-54.
Itrzw You; April 14, 1895. -Rev. Dr.
Talmage preached twice to -day in New
York -at the Academy of Music end the
Watt Presbyterian Church -on both oc-
easions to crowded audiences. OLIO of the
sermons was on the eubjeot of "Easter
Jubilee," the text being taken from I, Cow
15.54, "Death is wallowed up in victory."
About eighteen hundred and stxty-one
Easter mornings have awakened the earth,
In France for ehree oeuttiries the almanacs
made the year begin at Easter, until
Charles IK made the year begin at Jame.
ary 1st. In the Tower of London there is
a royal pay -roll of Edward 1„ on which
there is an entry of eighteen pence for four
hundred aolored and pictured Easter eggs,
with which the people sported. In Russia
Peeves were fed and alms were distributed
on Easter.
Ecclesiastical councils met at Pettus, at
Gaul, at Rome, at Ache.ia, to decide the
partioular day, and after a controversy
more animated. than gracious, decided it,
and now through. all Christendom in some
way, the first Sunday after the full moon
whioh happens upon or next after March
21 is filied with Easter rejoicing. The
royal court of the Sabbaths is made up of
fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in the
royal household; but Easter is queen. She
wears a rioher diadem, and sways a more
jewelled aceptre, and in her smile nations
are irradiated. We welcome this queenly
day, holding high up in her right hand the
wrenched -off bolt of Christ's sepulchre,
and holding high up in her left hand the
key to all the cemeteries in Christendom.
My text is an ejaculation. It is spun out
of hallelujahs, Paul wrote right on in his
argument about the resurrection, and ob-
served all the laws of logic, but when he
oame to write the words of the text his
bodies returned to us as they are iloW. We
Want to get rid of ell their weekneases,
amcl all their suzieeptibilities to fatigue, and
all their elowness a l000motion. They
will be put through a ehemistry of soil and
heat and eold and oliengiug one out of
which God Will reeoneeruct them es muoh
better than they ere now tea the body of
the rosiestend heetthiest child that bounds
over the lawn ie better then, the sieleeet
patient in the hoepital.
Bet ae to our seals we will cross right
over, not waiting. for obsequiea, indepen-
dent of obituary, into a state in every way
better, with wider room and velooltiee
beyond computation; the dullest of us into
companionship with the very beet spirits
in their very best moods, in the best room
of the universe, the four walls furnished
and panelled and pictured and glorified
with ail the splendors that the infinite
God in all age e has been able to invent.
Victory.
Thie view, of course, makes it of little
importance whether we are cremated or
sepultured. At least a hundred thousand
ot Christle disciples were cremated, and
there can be no doubt about the resurrec-
tion of their bodies. If the world lasts as
much longer as it has already been built,
there perhaps may be no room for the
Large acreage eat apart for resting -places,
but thee time has not come. Plenty of
room yet, and the race need not pass that
bridge of fire until it eomes to it. The
moat et us prefer the old way. But
whether out of natural dieintegration or
cremation we shall get that luminous,
buoyant, gladsome, transcendent, inapt-
ficent, inexplicable structure called the
resurrection body, you will have it. I will
have it, I say to you to -day, as Paul said to
Agrippa, "Why should ib be thought a
thing incredible with you, that God should
raise the dead ?"
Things all around us suggest it. Out of
what grew all these i3.owers ? Out of the
mould and earth. Resurrected. Resurrected.
The radiant butterfly, where did it come
from ? The loathsozne caterpillar. That
albatross that smites the tempest with its
wing, where did it come from ? A senseless
shell. Near Bergerac, France, in a Celtic
tomb, under a block, were found flower
seeds that had been buried two thousand
yeare. The explorer took the flower seed
and planted it and it came up, it bloomed
in bluebells and heliotrope. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resurrected. A
traveller says he found in a mummy pit in
Egypt garden peas that had been buried
there three thousand years ago. He brought
them out, and on June 4, 1844, he plant-
ed them, and in thirty days they sprang
up. Buried three thousand years, yet
resurrected.
"Why should it be thought a thing in.
credible with you that God should raise the
dead ?" The insects flew and the vvorms
crawled last autumn teebler and feebler
and then stopped. They have taken no
food, they want none.' They lie dormant
and insensible,but soon the southwm& will
blow the resurrection trumpet, and. the air
and the earth will be full of them. Do you
not think that God can do as much for our
bodies as he does for the wasps, and the
spiders, and the snails? This morning at
half -past four o'clook there was a resurrec-
tion. Out of the night, the day. In a few
weeks there will be a resurrection in all
our gardens. Why not some day a resur-
rection amid all the graves? Ever and anon
thereareinstancesof menandwomenentranc-
ed. A trance is death,followed by resur-
rection after a few days. Total suspension
of mental power and voluntary action.
Rev. William Tennent --a great evangelist
of the last generation, of whom Dr. Arabi.
bald Alexander, a man for from being
sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms
-Rev. William Tennent seemed to die.
His spirit seemed to have departed. People
came in day after day and said. "Ile is
dead; he is dead." But the soul returned,
and William Tennent lived to write our
experiences of what he had seen while his
soul was gone. It may be found some time
ehat what is called suspended animation or
comatose state is brief death, giving the
soul an excursion into the next world, from
which it comes back -a furlough of a few
hours granted from the conflict of life to
which it must return:
Do not this waking up of men from
trance, and this waking up of grains buried
three thousand years ago, make it easier
for you to believe that your body and taind,
after the vacation of the grave, shall rouse
and rally, though there be tbree thouse.nd
years between our last breath and the
sounding of the archangelio reveille?
Phriologists tell us that while the most of
our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing and the
loss of a finger is a hindrance, and the in.
jury of a toe -joint makes us lame, still we
have two or three apparently useless physi-
cal apparati, and no anatomist or physiolo-
gist has ever been able to tell what shay
are good for. Perhaps they are the founda-
tion of the resurrection body,veorth nothing
to us in this state, to be indispensably
valuable in the next state. The Jewish
rabbis appear to have had a hint of this
suggestion when they said that in the
human frame there was a small bone which
was to bathe basis of the resurrection body.
That may have been a delusion. But this
thing is certain, the Christian scientists of
our day have found out that there are tveo
or three superfluities of the body that are
something gloriously suggestive of another
state.
I called at my friend's house one summer
day. I found the yard. all piled up with
rubbish of carpenter's and mason's work.
The door was off. The plumbers had torn
up the floor. The roof was being lifted in
cupola. All the pictures were gone
and the paperhangers were doing their
work. All the modern improvements
were being introdaced into that dwelling.
There was not a room in the house fit to
live in at that time, although a month
before when I visited that house everything
was so beautiful I could not have suggested
an improvement. My friend had gone with
Ms family to the Holy Land, expecting to
come back at the end of six months when
the building was to be done. And oh 1 what
was his joy when at the end of six months
he returned and the old house was enlarged
and improved and glorified. That is your
body. It looks well nove. Ale the rooms
filled with health, and we could hardly
make a suggestion. But after a while
your soul will go to the Holy Land, and
while you are gone the old house of
your tabernacle will be entirely roomstrueted from eellar to attio ; every
nerve, muscle, and bone and tissue
and artery must be hauled ever, and
the old etrueture Will be burnished and
adorned, and raised and oupolaed and en-
larged. and all the improltetrieete of heteven
introduced, and you will move into it On
Resurreetioet Day. "For we know that if
our earthly house of thie tabernaele were
diseelved, we have a building of God, a
house not made with halide, eternal in the
heavens," Oh, what a day When body aud
told meet again I They are eery fond of
each other, Did your body ever have a
peiti and your ecrul not iteeeello it 1 Or,
()hanging the question, did your soul ever
have any ttetible and your 'eddy not
fingers and his pen and the parchment on
which he wrote took fire, and he cried out:
"Death is swallowed up in victory 1" It
is a dreadful sight to see an army routed
and flying. They scatter everything valu-
able on the track. TJnwheeled artillery-
lloof of horse on breaat of wounded and
dying man. You have read of the French
falling back from Soden, or Napoleon's track
of ninety thousand corpses in the snowy
banks of Russia, or of the five kings tumbl-
ing over the rocks of Bothoram with their
armies, while the hail storms of heaven and
the swords of Joshua's hosts struck them
with their fury. But in my text is a worse
discomfiture. It seems that a black giant
proposed to conquer the earth. .Etta gather-
ed for his host all the aches and pains and
maladies and distempers and epidemics of
the ages. He marched them down,drilling
them in the north-east wind, amid the slush
of tempests. He threw up barricades of
grave -mound. He pitched tents of charnel -
houses. Some of the troops marched with
slow tread, commanded by consumption;
some in double-quick, commanded by
pneumonia. Some he took by long besiege -
meat of evil habits and some by one stroke
of the battle-axe of casualty. With bony
hand he pounded at the doors of hospitals
and siok.rooms and won all the victories in
all the great battle -fields of all the five
continents. Forward,march 1 the conquer-
or ot conquerors, and all the generals and.
commanders-in-chief,and all presidents and
kings and sultans and czars drop under the
fest of his war charger.
But one Christmas night his antagonist
was born. As most of the plagues and
sicknesses and despetisms came out of the
East, it was appropriate that the new con-
queror should come out of the same quarter.
Power is given him to awaken all the fallen
of all the ()enemies and of all lands and
marshal them against the black giant.
Fields have already been won, but the last
day will see the decisive battle. When
Christ shall lead forth his two brigades, the
brigade of the risen dead and the brigade
of the celestial host, the black giant will
fall back, and the brigade from the riven
sepulchres will take him from beneath and
the brigade of descending immortals will
take him from above, and "death shall be
swallowed up in victory." The old brag.
gart that threatened the conquest and de-
molition of the planet bas lost his throne,
has lost his sceptre, has lost his palace,
has lost his prestige, and the one word
written over all the gates of mausoleum and
catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and
sarcophagus, on the lowly cairn of the Arce
tic explorer and on the catafalque of great
cathedral, written in capitEde of azalea and
calla lily, written in musical cadence,
written in doxology of great assemblages,
written on the sculptured door of the family
vault, is "Victory." Coronal word, am-
bannered word, apocalyptic word, chief
word of triumphal arch under which con.
querors return. Victory ! Word shouted
at Colloden and 13alaklava and Blenheim ;
at Megiddo and Solferino ; at Marathon,
where the Athenians drove back the Medes;
at Poictiers, where Charles Martel broke
the ranks of the Saracens at Salamis,where
Themistooles in the great sea -fight cam -
founded the Persians, and at the door of
the Eastern cavern of chiselled rook, where
Christ came out through a recess and
throttled the King of Terrors and put him
back in the niche from which the oelestial
Conqueror had just emerged. Ah 1 when
the jaws of the Eastern mausoleum took
down the blackigiant,"deatb Was swallowed
up in victory.'
I proolaim the abolition of death, The
old antagonist it driven ,batik into mytho-
logy with all the lore letmett Stygien ferry
and °heron with oar anel boat. We shall
liave no more to do with death than we
have with the loak room at a Governor's
op President's levee. We stop at ouch
cloak -room and leave in oharge of the
eervent our overcoat, our overshoes, our
outward apparel, that we may not be im-
peded in the brilliant round of the drawing.
remit Well, my Mende, 'when we go out
a this world we are going to a Kieg's
leaequet, and to a receptioa of monarchs,
and at tbe door of the bond) we leave the
elpIlk of flesh arid the wrappings with
Which We meet tht3 storms of the world.
At the (dose of our earthly reeeption,under
die brush and broom of the porter, the °oat
er hat may be heedecl to us better thea
When We reigned it, and elm oloak of hew
insthity Will finally be returned to Us
impeoved and brightened and purified and
glofifieele You and / do not want nue
eyinpatleize with it, growing. Wan and weak
under the depreseing iniluenee t Or did
your soul ever hav a gledpeas, but year
body celebrated it with kindling eye arid
cheek and elaatio atep ? Surely God never
intended two suoh good friends to be very
Wog separated. Aud ao when the world's
last Eater morning abed come, the soul
will clesceud,orying, " Where is my body7"
and the body will ascend, maying, Where
is my out ? and the Lord of the reeurreo.
Lion will bring them togethewancl it ',yilt be
a perfect soul in a perfect body,introduced
by a perfect Christ into a perfect beaven,
Victory 1
SELF -ROCKING CRADLE.
arm".
An Englishmen Invents a Wieee or Pan&
tare Tbast WWI Ete a Bowe
Mothers and nurses who have been cone
polled to 'mend hours and wear out thei
arms cradling the babies to sleep will
henceforth be able to read a novel or attend
to their household duties while Morpheus
AN AUToblA0 ORADI.B.
aided by a simple contrivance invented by
an Englishman,is over coming the rebellious
senses of their little charges. The fin de
siecle cradle is automatic. The machinery
is so arranged that it can be wound up to
rock for any length of time desired and men
be stopped at will.
NEW GAS MOTOR.
TIE SUNDAY SC1100L.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APR. 28,
Lord' z fiumter," Itearie 11. 1210:W101d
en Tewt, Luke 2)1.19,
Successfully Adomed in Germany and
England -No Sinai ISOM. Engine.
A new method of propulsion for street
and suburban railway cars, by means of a
gas engine, at first applied and emit in
operation at Dresden, has been subsequently
introduced experimentally into Great
Britain.
Outwardly, the ear's appearance is pre-
cisely similar to that of an ordinary double -
decked horse car, having stairways from
each platform to the seats on the roof. All
the machinery is inclosed and concealed
from sight; there is no smell of gas, no
noticeable heat from the engine, and no
undue noise or jar when the car is stopped
or set in motion. The motor is a double
oyolinded gas engine placed under the seat
at one side of the car, and reached for pur-
poses of oiling, cleaning, or'repairs by doors
which form panels in the outer wall of the
ear, and when closed are not noticeable. The
engine is of the latest type in which the
gas is ignited at each stroke by an electric
spark from a small battery located in the
engine space, so that the car is put into or
out of service by turning a knob which
opens or closes the circuit.
The engine is kept in motion while the
car is in service, and the whole is managed
by the driver,whowtanding on the platform
has within reach the brake wheel,on which
is fixed the alarm bell and a moveable lever
which, when in an upright position, leaves
the engine disconnected with the running
gear of the car and cuts off the gas supply,
so that but one explosion takes place in one
of the cylinders at each eighth revolution,
the motion of the engine being meanwhile
maintained and steadied by the fly wheel,
which is four feet in diameter and of cor-
responding weight. When the lever is
pushed to the left, it turns on a two-thirds
supply of gas in both cylinders and brings
into engagement a friction clutch which
connects the engine shaft with the wheel
axles and gives the car a speed of four and
one-half miles per hour. Pushing this lever
to the right turns on the full gas supply
and brings into connection a friction clutch
of large diameter, which gives the car a
speed of nine miles per hour. A second
lever is provided for reversing the engine
and direction of movement.
The ordinary car is equipped with a gas
engine of nine horse power and carries
thirty.six passengers, viz., fourteen seated
ineide and twelve on deck, with platform
standing room for ten more. The car la
perfectly manageable, stops from full speed
within its own length, starts without noise
or shock, is free form heat, or smell, runs
as smoothly as a horse °aeon what would
be considered in this country a roughly and
poorly constructed track. Gas is furnished
by the street gas company in Dresden at
its usual rate, 3 cents per cubic meter, or
about $1.05 per 1,00e cubic feet. At this
price, the cost for gas consumed by a oar is
1 3-5 wants per mile.
Vaeeinating a Fire Brigade.
The other morning an outbreak of fire
oceured in one of the wards of the smallpox
hospital in Parkhill road, and information
was sent to the cettral fire ttation, says the
Liverpool Mercury. Superintendent Willis
and a contingent of firemen and members
of the salvage oorps went to the institution,
and the fire, which was not of a serious
character, wait soon extinguished. Mr.
Willis and Inspector Smith, of the salvage
corps, and the men were abont to return to
headquarters when they were told that they
could not leave the hospital until all had
been lacoluateci.The operation Wail duly car-
ried out and fresh clothes were Beet for, in
order that those the men were wearing at
the time might be thoroughly disinfected.
A Olreet StIggestion,
Joetee---The bre alarm came he from the
box on my bloele this wording and I almost
ran my lege off trying to got up to my
house.
Prown*Why don't you, have it in.
leered f
unerisnan gerATENIENT.
After the discourees on the Mount) of
Olives the Saviour returned to Bethany
with his disciples. Oae of their number
stele away from his aompanions,aud secret
ly sought an interview with the rulers.
offering to sell his Lord into their hands.
The bargain was struck, and during the
next twO days the traitor was watching for
his opportunity. Perhape his presence
checked the Saviour's utterance, for no re-
cord remaine of an act or a word on the
Wednesday of the paseover weelt. It may
be that the Saviour spent that day and the
morning of the next in communion with his
Father, preparing for the solemn scenes
before him. On Thursday two of the die.
oiples, by command of the Lord, entered
the city, and, following the tokens given,
came to a house whose owner placed at their
aervioe a large upper room. Here the
lamb, obtained already slain at the temple,
was prepared, the ie.ble was spread with the
simple food of the passover feast, and the
couches were arranged around it. In the
afternoon the Saviour walks with his dis-
ciples over the orest of Olivet, across the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and up the steeps of
Zion, to the supper room. Little dreamed
the disciples of the wondrous eveuts des-
tined to take place before they should
walk by his side again over those
familiar hills. In the room an unseemly
strife takes place among the disciples for
the highest place at the table, which the
Saviour rebukes by washing their feet,
showing himself their example in lowly
service. The couches are ocoupied, John
reclining next to his Master. The Saviour
beholds the face of Judas, and beneath it
the heart black with treason. He utters
his warning, which only one of the company
understands, but which falls with a weight
of surprise and alarm on every soul.
EXPLANA.ToRY AN» PhAcTIOAL NOTES.
Verse 12. The first day of unleavened
bread. The feast of unleavened bread
began on the day when the passover lamb
was killed, Thursday the fourteenth of the
month Nisan. For one week hereafter no
leaven was allowed in the house of the
Jews, commemorative of the haste with
which they went out of Egypt, not allow-
ing time for the making of bread (Excel. 12.
31). When they killed the passover. The
passover lamb was slain on the afternoon
of Thursday, and eaten in the evening, as
after sunset was the beginning of Friday.
There is a difference of opinion, however,
whether Jesus and his disciples partook of
the supper on the regular evening, or a day
in advance of it. Where wilt thou. The
three great feasts-paesover, pentecost,and
tabernacles -could be celebrated only in
and near Jerusalem, and were powerful
infinenees toward maintaining the unity of
the people. Eat the passover. This feast
commemorated the departure from Egypt,
and also looked onward to the orucitixion
of Christ, by the lamb slain, its blood
besprinkled (in Egypt on the houses ; in
Jerusalem, on the alter) ; and its flesh
eaten.
13. Two of his disciples. They were
Peter and John (Luke 22. 8). There shall
meet you. This prediction, seemingly unim-
portant, is given to show that Jesus fore-
saw all the events which lay in his path of
suffering, and met them voluntarily. A
man bearing a pitcher of water. A some-
what unusual sight in the East, where
water is usually drawn and carried by
women.
14. Goodman. An old English word
meaning " the master of the house." The
Master width. This would indicate that
the householder was a disciple of Jesus,
or at least one who was friendly to
his cause. Where is the guest cham-
ber? "My guest chamber" (Itevieed Ver-
sion). (1) Christ regards the poesessione of
his followers as his own. The residents
of Jerusalem opened their houses freely to
the people of the land during the week
of the passover, receiving as their only
compensation the stria of the lamb eaten by
each family. With my disciples. The
dieeiples with Jesus formed a family, par-
taking of their meals together. (2) All who
family.
gto Jesus enjoy the privilegea of his
15, 16. Upper room. The best and largest
rooms inoriental houses ere upon the second
floor. Furnished. With table and couches for
the feast. (3) Our upper room is a. heart
open to receive Christ and at his service.
Found as he had said. (4) The disciple
always finds the words ot his Master true
and faithful. They made ready. They pur-
chased the lamb, already slain, at the
temple, where its blood was poured out on
the altar, It was trussed for roasting by
being fixed upon two skewers which were
arranged in the form of a cross, a fact
suggestive to the Christian. It was
roasted in an oven Of earth, and broughr
upon the table with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs.
17, 18. In the evening.. Probably about
sunset, The lamb was killed in the after-
noon and eaten after darke, He cometh
with the twelve. From Bethany, where he
had remained for two days. As they sat.
By a comparieon of the accounts in Luke
22, 24 and John 13, 1-12, we learn that
there wag a strife for the highest
position at the table. jeans gave them a
rebuke to their ambitious desire by washing
their feet, thus assuming toward them the
part of a servant. And did eat. The Jews
anciently ate the passover standing, as if
in haste, but after the Roman eupremaoy
they adopted the cuzitom of taking their
meals in a reclining position. At the pass -
over not less than ten nor more than twenty
pertook of the meal together, each being
required to eat a piece of the lamb at least
as large as an olive. One of you . .
shall betray inc. This announcement was
made to show that none of the events now
ao near at hand were unknown to Jesus,
and perhaps to give the traitor an copper-
tunity of repentence. (5) Even to the) lest
Jesus loves the souls of men, and would
hold them back from sin if it were poesible,
Notice the Review! Vereion, "One of you
shell betray me, even he that eateth with
tne."
19. They began to be Eiorrolvful. In
30110 13. 21-30 the Beene is represented
more definitely, and a oomperisole of all
the freer goepele gives the suceeseion of
°tents as 1. .A general charge that
smile ote Will kidney him. 2. A more
definite eteternent 3, At 'Peter% Suggeio
tion John, having the place next) to Jesus,
asked who the traitor wee. 4, Jesus tudi,
cated quietly that it WaS one to who% be
eliould, give the bread dipped in the gravy
of the lamb. 6. Judas asked, "Is it 11"
Jesus gave hint "the sop," and at once the
traitor went forth to ooinplete his purpose;
while the disciples, who had not noticed
the set, give it no importance. Is it 1?
The lenguage . in the original is much
stronger, and might be translated, "Surely,
not I, Lord?"
20. Heanswered. This answer was made
qutetly to John (John 13, 21-26), and may
not have been heard, er at least understood,
by the rest of the disciples. (inc . . .
that dippeth with me. This did not
necessarily indicate the ' tvaitor, for all
"dipped" their bread in the same
dish, wording to oriental °Intern. But it
was aimed at Judas, to whom at that
moment Jesus gave a piece of bread dipped
in the dish, and he alone understood its
reference, Not weed afterward did the
other disciples fully understand what Jesus
meant by the act. (6) Our Master will
know us his own kuowledge of us, even
when he does not reveal what heernows to
us,
21. The Sonotinan . . . goeth. In this
verse we see side by side, the divine
purpose in Christ's death and the wicked-
ness of man in bringing that death to pass.
God ordained it, the on submitted to it
freely, yet the men who brought it about
were none the less guilty, for they acted
by their own will, and God overruled
their act for his own glory and the world's
good. Woe to that man. Men heve formed
excuses and ventured hopes for Judas
the traitor'but the gospels give none.
He betrayed his Lord from the basest
motives, and no palliation can be fonnd for
his crime. (7) The "wee" of the Almighty
reaches both worlds. Good-. . never
been born. An expression which would in-
dicate an eternal punishment, for if saved
at the end of oountlese ages, "he is a gainer
in the balance of existence."
22. As they did eat. The Lo'rd's Supper
was instituted during the passover meal.
Jesus took bread. One of the round thin
cakes of unleavened bread, the poly kind
used during the passover. Blessed. At
the passover it was customary for the head
of the family to pronounoe a benediction as
be took up the unleavened broad. Brake
it 'he brittle bisouits oould be more
ea et broken than out ; and the breaking
of the bread in the passover was
regarded as symbolic of the sufferings
of the Israelites in Egypt. This is my
body. That is, "represents my body." As
the paseover lamb represented the lamb
slain in Egype, so the broken bread of the
sacrament represents the body of Cheat.
(8) He is like bread, God's gift to men. (9)
He is like broken bread, crushed that he,
may become our life. (10) He is like eaten
bread, received by us., (11) Ile is like
sustaining bread, becoming a part of ue,
and giving life to us.
23. He took the oup. Four oups of
wine were drunk during the passover sup-
per, of which this is supposed to have been
the third, usually called 'the cup of bless-
ing." He gave it to them. - I1 is uncertain
whether Christ himself partook of the
sacrament at its institution, and also
whether Judas, the traitor, received it.
Commentators have differed on both these
questions. They all drank. An expression
not used of the bread, and "a sort of pro.
phetie comment on the withholding of the
cup from the laity in the Church of Rome."
-Alexander.
This is my blood. "As the grain is the
body, so the juice is the blood of the life of
universal nature."-Whedon. See Lev.
17. 14. Of the new testament . The Revised
Version has "of the covenant," which
means the same as testament, and refers to
the agreement of God with men concerning
the conditions and privileges of salvation.
The sentence means that the wine of the
eaorament represents the blood of Christ,
which is the outward token of God's plan
of salvation through the offering of his Son.
(12) How constantly do the Scriptures keep
before us the great central doctrine of the
atonement ! (13) As we partake of the
emblem of the Saviour's blood, let us by
faith appropriate the merit of his redemp-
tion. Which is shed. As the grapes must
be pressed to give forth the wine,so Christ's
blood must be poured forth to become
eftioacious. Though the crucifixion did not
take place until the next day, the Saviour
regards it as accomplished and his blood as
already shed. For many. Jesus evidently
regarded his blood as the means of saving
men from the result of sin. (14) We may
not comprehend the philosophy of the
atonement, yet we can rest upon it as a
fact. His blood was abed for all, and those
who receive its virtues by faith are many.
25. I will drink no more. This was to
be the " last supper" of Jesus and his
disciples together on earth. Ifor a time
they were to be seperated, and then all
should sit down to another supper, of which
this was a type, in the heavenly kingdom,
Until that day. The day of consummation,
after the completion of the New Testament
dispensation. (15) Thus the Lord's Supper
looks forward to the final triumph of the
Gospel, as well PM book to its beginning.
In the kingdom of God. When the Church
on earth,end the Church in heaven shall be
reunited at the end of time.
20. And when. Between these two
verses (25 and 26) belongs the last conver-
sation and prayer, recorded at length in
John 13. 31 to 17. 26. It should be read
at this point, and receives deep significance
from its time and associations. Sung a
hymn. The Jewish passover oloeed with
chanting the Haile], consisting of Psalm
113 to 118. This is the only instance of
song mentioned in the life of Christ. They
went out. From the supper room, perhaps
on mount Zion, through the streets of the
oity, quiet in the night, through the Golden
Gate, and across the valley of the Kedron.
Into the Mount of Olives. On his way to
the garden of Getheemane, there to en-
counter his agony and his enemies.
A Mout tain Always Burning,
At Wingen, in New South Wales, 204
miles from Sydney, is a burning mountain,
1,820 feet in height, and supposed to be
a large coal seam which has in some unac-
countable way been ignited for many years,
certainly long before the advent of the
white man. The course of the, fire can be
traoed a considerable distance by the
numeroue depressions or °beanie occasioned
by the falling in ef the ground item be-
neath whiele the coal has been °outlined.
se
Chicago Drainage Canal.
" A despateh from Toledo says .-The
Toledo Produce Exchange adopted a me.
mortal giving exptession to the solioltude
very generally entertained by western
commercial men, and in faot by all inters
este, oast aiid went, ceneerning the effect
of the water level of Ltske Michigan and
indireotly upon LAO Huron and Erte, of
the large volutte of water to be drawn from
the &finer lake by means of the Chioago
drainage canal.
THE PHANTOM BALAKLAIA,
RICIAINISOENOZS OP AN OLD sorinlEn.
"You may talk about your orthedox
ghosts who baunt 'ancient castles, wailing
and groaning, and carrying flaming lights
from window to window for apparently no
earthly, or rather unearthly, purpose save
that of terrifying out of his wits some poor
hind bearing home a bewildered brain after
steying too long with 'John Barleycorn' in
the village inn, but for eomething that has
forever baffled wand macle me often wonder
whether I was_ dreaming or awake, com-
mend me to what I saw, or thoughe I saw,
the night before Baleklava, OoL 25, 1854."
And my father threw himself back in hie
etinehair before the fire in the smoking-
roe/a grate as he took a long whiff of a
newly lighted cigar and gazed dreamily
into the flames that were crackling up the
chimney.
The subjeot of conversation had drifted
from the battlefields of yesterday, in Abys-
sinia and Zululand, to those of thirty years
before, when the tall, heavy formes before
us of my father and his old comrades., in
arms, Sit Langley Fetherstone and Colonel
Elmhurst, with their gray, bristling mus-
taches, their still erect gait, their uncon-
sciously imperative style and their solemn
and grave deportment, were as light as my
own, Aubrey's, or Bob Fetherstone's, that
night as we SU around listening to the
stories of the hot day when our fathers
were men as young as we.
"Hand me my memory, Aubrey." said
my father, pointing to the huge cavalry
saber that hung over the mantlepiece. The
sword that had waved over the now iron -
gray head., that was then chestnut, as its
owner with a shout of defiance bore down
upon the ranks of the Muscovites, on the
wintry plains of the Crimea.
My father drew the sword from its scab.
bard, and lovingly surveyed the glittering
blade. •
"Old 'never -failed -me' !" he said. "Do
you see that dint in its edge, Lang? Got
that crossing the Alma, off the helmet of a
Russian 'nuiraseien 1 sent the blow through
steel and skull together. There is another I
Got that the 25th of October from the com-
mander of the Cossacks that charged the
left flank of the 'heavies.' He struck at me,
I parried, there is the mark."
"And then 1" said Sir Langley.
"I ewept it round and caught him across
the throat," answered my father abstract-
edly. "I saw his body afterward when it
was terned over to his relatives, for he was
a noble, a grand duke I believe. The same
angry frown was upon his handsome fee:
tures as just before my steel entered his
jugular. And here is another -but there I
If I onoe got started telling anecdotes of
every experience that old blade went
through in my hands I would stay talking
until morning. Put it up again, Vic. 1
love to handle it whenever I setae down to
tell a story of the old days. It, as it were,
inspires me, by bringing back the events
of bygone years to my mind as if they but
happened yesterde.y."
Seeing that we were all watching him in
anticipation he again took some whiffs of
his oigar and commenced:
"It was the nighe before the never -to -be -
forgotten 25th of October. We were close
to the Russian lines, our pickets being
almost within hailing distance of the
enemy.
88"I was riding out to inspect the sentries
e ationed along the Grodno road. It was
- wet, cold night, and I clasped my great
coat close about me, and spurred my
charger along the muddy road. .As I
reached the side of the valley I drew him
iv quickly as I heard a distant rumble, like
the movingof some parks of heavy ordnance
at the extreme end. I listened. All was
still avein. An occasional stray shot from
the outposts,a distant challenge of a sentry,
a light here and there peering through the
murky mist from the doomed city, and be-
tween it and us a large uneven mass of
something indistinguishable that marked
out the Russian lines.
"I rode on. I arrived at the station of
the sentry,end 84 I did so some smartfiring
broke out toward the rear. Our pickets
were evidently being driven in, and I sent
the sentry back to hasten up the supports.
He never refurned. I subsequently heard
that he had gone on with the re -enforcement
he had been sent to summon, and been
captured.
I stayed cursing his delay for over half
an hour. When leeseain heard the same
rumbling noise I looked up the valley. All
was dark, but the rumbling seemed td be
advancing at terrific pace. As it was
coming from our lines, I thought it might
be an night attack. Although, how calvary
could be of any service at such an hour, on
such a night I failed to see. But it is the
soldier's duty to obey first, and to form his
opinion afterward, and I eagerly awaited
the oncoming of the torce.
A white streak appeared 200 feet away,
the noise crashed upon me with fullforce,and
in an instant I saw the charging ranks, and
the wild, eager forms of the soldiers, seated
on their foaming, galloping steeds. Forms,
did 1 say? Yes, forms only ! Forms pale
and shadowy. Horse and man alike woven,
as it were, out of the mut. On they came,
icy breezes rushing with them as they swept
by. My horse plunged and reared &anti-
oally. To save myself from being dismount-
ed I sprang from his back into the snow,
and, prancing and snorting, he made off
towards.our lines, giving rise to the subse-
quent rumor of my death. ,
"As I turned I saw the form of Louis
Nolan. He was sitting half round in his
saddle, his sword hangirig from his wrist,
his forage cap in his hand, which he wee
waving exultingly. Ilia face was partially
turned from tne toward the ranks, but not
a veord paseed the open mouth, with the
ashen hue on the lips, though I dould see a
blaze in the glietening eye. On they came,
hussars, latidere, deagooxis, with, all the
pomp and glory and magnificence of War
mingled with the mystery of the World MI.
known. There rode Maier Halket. Hid
proud, handsome face set firnily and un-
flinchingly, his sword clinched in his hand,
as it was found next day when they raised
hie body frotn the blood-soaked sail.
Then (wane Lord Fitzgibbon. You knew
him, Lang, and to did I, elude as chilziten
we played together in the green woods of
Mount Shannon. Ile was painting a
shadowy fingerteheadnend his attitude was
as if he was oallinit to his hussars following
close behind. As he dashed by he recog-
nized 'me, and a sad, oh 1 what a sad smile,
flitted woes the pallid fahe for an instant
at be tossed a last farewell to MON le his
careless, boyish style, and disappeared int,
the mist. Next Canle PigOtb, tbe Lovelace
of the Seventeenth. The same Serene light
in those eyes that had broken inatty a maid-
en's heart in the drawinvorms of BelgebVilet
And Haoleette-Haokett of the Fifth -Aims
saint," as we of the First) Repels used to
call him, that upright, God-fearing, great.
hearted man,whose name watt called on the
muster roll of heaven, ere the sup set next
day. His eyes were now fixed on the murky
eity above, hie face bore the calm, assured,
expectant iook that Jerome inutit' have
wern at the steke, He was galloping fter
in advance of hitt men, as it anxious to ob-
tain his recompense. In a flash' he disap-
peared into the dark.
..mee gusts of icy winds accompanying the
rush of the phantoms were now,declinrng in
their force, the rumbling 110iSe that had
risen to the roar of a tempest during their -
progrese past was now quieting down. As
the last line of charging horse passed from
my sight I saw a shadowy lieutenant of the
Guards beside me. He pointed in the die
reotion whither they had gone, a scornful
smile was on his epectre.1 twee. Ills hollow
voice echoed tauntingly in my ear:
"'Bo Major karat, of the First Royals,
prefers discretion to valor become° he be*
longs to the heavy and not to the light bri-
gade 1' "
"I aimed a blow at my traducer, but my
hand only struck into the empty air.
"He laughed a mocking laugh and again
pointing down the valley said, 'Go 1'
"The warm nose of my horse, who had
returned, was pressing against my hand.
"'1 will show you that at least one of the
"heav-ies" can do as well as the men of the
light brigade!' I cried, jamping into the
saddle and galloping off after the vanished
eave.lry. I felt like one bereft of his senses.
I galloped on an on in the dark until I saw
again the white streak approaching mein
a contrary direotion and the rumbling
echoing,dn the rear. A second and it burst
upon rny eight. Bile what a change !Horses,
riderless, terrified, wounded, maddened.
with excitement. Not a single form of a
soldier paned, Riderless horses! Riderless
horses 1 Riderless horses! here and there
opaque spots upon the shadowy eaddlee,
showing where human blood had rushed
down. I drew aside from the apparent
stampede of ghostly steeds and waited.
Tina I aavv anti ther wbite streak approaelwe
ing. It came nearer 1 It was upon mel
The fur cap, the long ridin g coat, the leg
gings, the long lances, and, above all, the e
superb horsetnanehip displayed told me
that they were the Cossacks of the czar.
But their taces were rigid as the dead.
Instead of their habitual yells, in victory
or defeat, not a sound escaped from the
tightly closed lips. As I gazed like a man
walking in his sleep I saw one of the silent
host bearing full upon me, his lance in rest,
his oold,dead eyes holding me transfixed so
that I could not move a limb. I felt my
charger tremble beneath me, but he never
made an effort to break away. A moment
more -and a. pang shot through my heert.
Then all seemed dark, save for an occas-
ional star shooting by. The stars increased
in numbers; then more and more, until
they formed a. disk like e. 1 ull „, that .
again was transfigured into E). eu717 whose
intense light almost blinded me. I strug-
gled to place my hands over my eyes, and „
as I did so I heard a voice above me say z
" 'He's coming to. My 1 hue it was a -
close call?
"1 opened my eyes, I was lying swathed
in blankets in the tent of one of the ,boys of
the Ninety-third. My limbs attr-hody
were,tingling from recent friction, and five-.
bearded faces were peering anxiously into
my half -opened eyes.
"Irecognized Heatheoate. Poor Heaths
coate that was afterward killed at Delhi,
just after his being gazetted as colonel of
his.gallant corps.
" Why, old man,' he said, joyfully,
you were near saving the Russians a job I
I found you lying stiff and stark near the
Grodno road, as our boys came along to
help the Twenty-sixth drive back the attack
on the outsposte. We brought you here
and have had a big job getting you round.
It's a wonder you are not minus toes and
fingers, but there's only the tip of your ear
frozen.'
" 'And,' added my father, touching the
uneven upper surface of his left ear, 'there
is the mark where the Russian frost bit
me,' but the vision I saw that night is, in
view of the events of the followiog day, far
more indelibly implanted inmy memory."
PEARLS OF TRUTH.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave
for his honesty, and he will receive you
into his bosom. -Fielding.
Blessed is the man that has fennel hie
work. One monster there is in the world,
the idle man. --Carlyle.
By gambling we lose both our time and
treasure, two things most precious to the
life of B. man.--Lavater.
The most happy man is he who knows
how to bring into relation the end and the
beginning of his life. --Goethe.
The Mohammedans have ninety-nine
names for God, but among them all they
have not" Our Father.": -Anon.
The fault -finder -it is his nature's plague
to spy into abuses ; and oft his jealousy
shapes faults that are note -Shakespeare.
Ovid finely compares a man of broken
fortune to a falling column' thelower it
sinks the greater vveight itis obliged to
sustain, -Goldsmith. '4,11r
There are two freedoms; the false, where
the man is free to do what he likes; the
true, where a mate is free to do what he
ought. -Kingsley.
Faith is found beside the mese refined
life, the freest government, the profound.
est philosophy, the noblest poetry, the '
purest humanity. -e-' . T. Munger.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes
of the odor, and no mem can tell what
becomes of his examples, that roll away
florn him, and go beyond his ken on their
perilous mission. -11. W. Beecher.
Some men make gain a fortune whence
proceeds a stream of liberal and heroic
deeds ; the swell of pity not to be con-
fined within the scanty limits of the tnind
disdains the bank and throwe the golden
sands, a rich deposit on the bordering
lands. -Cowper.
Signatures on Checks,
Lawyer --Is that your signature on the
back of this check ?
Merchant -I don't knot', sir. It may be.
Does it look like your eignatute?
Not a particle.
Doesn't it bear the least resemblance to
yottr aignature?
Not the least,
Then why do you think it may be your
signature Tell me that.
I might have written it with a bank
P00.
"Scaggs is getting fat,"said Willoughby.
"He's developed a doable chin"' "Well,
he heeded iti" Said Parsons. "His Oriente/
shin Wei overworked,'