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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-5-9, Page 3..• Soarcely aey ohauge mole in the levire of 4 remote/ weld. be of *tore oinnequencte throe theft made in the lawe of Fremee by the atetebe "to faeliitete rearriage" just enaoted hy the Frenoh Chamber o Deput ties, Hitherto the obeeot of French legie. latent some taboo been to make maeriage difficult, Impediments of almost every eort were pueizi the way, air it the State looked with an evil eye upon the legitimate religious and offloial union of 0. man man women. What the obstiteles were may he judged by the fact of one impotent oe0 that rernaine, leveu if this law just made goes into operation, a man a twenty•five and a woman of twentrone cannot be legally married wtthout the consent of the parentof both if the parent e are alive. It was thought that to <Mange this would be too sweeping interference with the este.b. lishecl system, As the people found rut Many difficulties in the way of regular unions they formed irregular ones and entered into whet would be called here "Memnon law =triages?' and there ie no doubt that this, which is almost a, national institution in Preece, was ea great part produced by the lege' (Infirmities. Per. haps in time a lineup in the law will make a thew in thin; but bad habits are hard to overcome. At one time early rising was thought to be a moral duty and also an essential factor In money -making ; almost all of Smile's self-made men rose at daylight, and, pos- sibly, they earned their reward, but it ie with a degree of satisfaotion thet we notice many prominent medical Men have lifted up their voices agatnst the truth of the proverb, " Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool." It is now thoroughly understood thati Young never wrote a truer word than when he (tolled eleep "nature's sweet restorer." Ib •is worth all the medic:bee in the world,and one of the reinedie,s recently proposedand found effioacious for persons troubled with the wear and tear of business in the passing of one clay a week in bed. The best fruit the mind produces cannot be raised in a foroing house. After six hours' production at the most the brein laeoomes barren. Whose who follow the literary and peofestoons are often craned idle - Nese they have apparently so much eine, but if they worked twice as long •e t output would not be larger in proper. tivni't, but of an inferior kind. The man wheiltioes to bed late should rise late Whab is mint fatal is burning the eandle at both ends. Se -453:11d Treeless 150 Years Ago. Nothing was more characteristic of Soot - lam' than its bleak, dreary, treelees land- scape. We are apt to treat the jeers of English travelers on this point as 000kney are men who say they are waiting to get glanced at the wonderful carvings on the not be afraid to challenge this whole SEEKING SALVATION. RV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES AN ELOQUENT GOSPEL SERMON. seinalle ull Length, rortratt of oh:dat— eline eo seek the tnord—eteceasity nor seentrig Rite wow—The Sinner Who wee Too nate. NeW Teen, April 28.—Rev. Pr. Talmage treclay again preaohee to a great audience in the Aoedeney o Music. As usual, neatly were turned away for lack of state. The sermon was on "Salvation," the tent seleoted being Isaiah lv, 6, "Seek ye the Lord while Ine may be found." Lena standle head an shoulders above the other Old Testaxnent authors Ln vivid dethriptiveness of Christ. Other prophets give an outline of our Savionrn features. Some of them present, as it were, the side face of Christ, others a bust of Christ, but Isaiah gives us the full length portant of Christ. Other Script:tun writers exoel in some things—Ezekiel more weird, David more pathetic, Solomon more epigranarnatio, Habakkuk more sub- lime—but when you want to see Cbeist coming out from the gates of prophecy in all his grandeur and glory, you involuu- trolly turn to Isaiah, fro that if the propneoies in regard. to Cbrist might be called the "Oratorio of the Messiahthe writing of Isaiah le the "Halleluiah Chorus," where all the batons wave and all the trumpets come in. Isaiah Was MA a man picked up out of iosignificanoe by inspiration. He was knowu and hon- ored. Josephus and Philo and Sirach ex- tolled bim in their writings. What Paul was among the apostles Isaiah was among the prophets, My text finds him standing on a moun- tain of inspiration, looking out into the future, bebolding Christ adva,noing and anxious that all men might know him. His voice rings down the ages, "Seek ye the Lord witile be may be found." "Oh," flays some one, "that was for olden Mines," No, my hearer. If you have traveled in other lands, you have taken a ciroular letter of credit from some bank- ing house in New 'York, and in St. Petersburg or Venice or Rome or Mel.. bourne or Calcutta yen presented that letter and got financial help inamediately. And I want you to understand that the text, instead of being appropriate for one age or for one land, is a circular letter for all ages and for all lands, and wherever Ib is presented for help the help comes. "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found." I come to -day with no hairspun theories of religion,with no nice distinctions, with no elaborate disquisition, but with tan urgent call to personal religion. The gospel of Christ is a powerful medicine; it either kills or cures. There are those who say: "I would like to become a Christian. I have been waiting a good while for the right kind of influences to come," and still you are waitiren You are wiser In worldly things than you are in religious things. 1.1 yell want to got to Albany, you go to the Grand Central depot or to the steinnhoat wharf, and hav- ing:got your ticket you do not sit down on the wharf or sit in the depot; you get aboard the boat or train. And yet there • THE EXETER Timns the 4M01414.6 were After them, one of the bean men amone the Coveliantersiirayen "0 Lorin we be as dead men Innesa thou, emit Vele uS1 0 LOtel, throw the tap of thy cloak over these poor thingsl" And instantly a 13oott1ell uist euVelOped, ann bed the persented teem their phrseeotors—, the promise literally fulfilled, 'While they are yet speaking I vrill near." Hove you ever tried tbe power of prayer? God tam "He is loving and, Mitieful and patient." Do you believe that? You are told that Ohniet Mule to save sinners. Do you believe that? You are told that all you have to do to get the pardon of the gospel is to ask for it. Do you believe that? Then come to Hine etol say "0 Lord, 1now that thou mast not lie. Thou hest told me to eoine for pardon and I +mold get tit. I come, Lord. Beep thy promise and liberate ray °settee° soul." Oh, that you might IMAM IP a altar in tbe eenine., in the intcheo. In the store. tlie barn, for ()twist will be willing to corns again to the manger to bear prayer. Be would come to your place of business, as he confronted, neatthew, tbe tax 00M- • missioner. If a measure should oorae be- fore congress that you thouglat would ruin the nation, bow you would send in petitions and eenzonetrances1 And yet there has been enough sin in yonr bead to ruin it forever, and you have never remonstrated or petitioned against it. If your phyaioal health failed, and you ben the means, you would. go and spend the summer in Gennann and the winter in Itale, and yoii would think it a very' cheap outlay if you bad no go all round the earth to get back your physical bealth, Have you made wey effort, any expendi- ture, any exertion, for your innriortti and spiritual health? Oh, that yeti might now begin to seek after God with earnest prayer. Some of yoii have been working for years and years for the support of your families. Have you given one-half day to the work- ing out of your salvation with fear and treroblhag? You came here with an earnest purpose, I take it, as I have come hither with an earnest purpose, and we meet face to face, and I tell you, first of all, it you want to find the Lord you •must pray and pray and pray. I remark again you must seek the Lord through Bible study. The Bible is the newest book en the. world. "Oh," you •-say, "it was made hundreds of years ago, a,nd the learned men of Ring names translated it hundreds of years ago." confute that idea by telling you it is not five minutes old, when God, be,:his blessed spirit, retranslates it into the heart. If you will, in the seeking of the way of life through Scripture study, implorepod'a ligiat to fall upon the page, nou will find that these promises are not one second old, and that they drop straight from the throne of God into your heart. , There are many people to whom the Bible does notearaount to inuoh, If they merely look at the outside beauty, whynt will. no more lead them to Christ than Washington's farewell address or the Reran of Mohammed or the Sbaster of the Ilincloos. I1 is the beware light of God's word you must get I went up to the Church of the Madeleine, in Paris, and looked at the doors, which are the =Oat wonderfully constructed I ever saw, and I could have staid there for a whole week, bnt I had only a little time; so. having bus us Ltti, mwbaeynbr f4 Whoa th15 Whoa is that? Old age? 'Yon Mae" not 804 old age. TO-morrew? Yon may pet see to -morrow. To-nigbt? Yett May not toe itetlight New 1 Oh, If I (meld ooly write on every heart lu three •Capital let- terssitnhaist wavorcalweef-3301-ndr—isenaosvey hear say with a 1,066 Of the belie and with a teivial mentor, "Ole yes, I'm a stoner." eta Is an timbal alseaSe, It Is leprosy, It is dropsy, it is consumption. le is all mor- tal disorders in one. Neve, you nnow there is a Oriels in a disease. Perhaps you have had some illustration ot it in your family. Somietimes the physician has called, and he bas looked at the patient and „ealn: "That case was temple enough, bese the orlais bee passed. It you bad, called me Yeeterdity- or this morning,. I could have cured the patient. It Is too late now; the ensis has passed." Just so it Is in tbe epieliatal treatment of the soul—there is a aisle. There are some here who can remem- ber hastaneeta in life when, if they had bonght a certain property, they would have become vein' rioh. A few acres that Would nave cost Vann inmost nothing were offered there. They refused them. Afterward a large village or (lay sprung up on those acres of ground, and they see what a mistake they made in not buying the property, There was an opportunity of getting it It never came back again. And so it is in regard to annan's spiritual and eternal fortune. There is a chance; if you lea that go, perhaps it never comes back. Certainlo that one never comes bargentlerenta told me that at the battle • of Gettysburg he stood upon a height looking off upon the conflioting armies. He said it was the most exciting moment of his life, now one army seaming to triumph and now the other. After awhile the host wheeled in suob a way that h koaw,io tire 'minutes the whole question would be dedded. lee said the emotion was almost unbearable. There is just suoh a time to -day with you—the forces of light on one side, the forces of death on tile other side. and in a few ienteorenneitn;" tne matter wen be settled for There is a time which mercy has set for leaving port. If you are on board beim that, you 'itrill get a passage for heaven. 1.1 you are not on board, you miss yew passage for heaven. As in law courts a ease is sometimes adjourned from term to term and from year to year till the bill of costs eats up the entire estate, or there are man who are adjourning the matter of religion from time to time and from Year to year until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs the man will have to pay for it • Why defer this matter, ob, my dear healer? Have youany idea that sin will wear out; that it will evaporate; that it will relax its grasp; that younnay find re• - ligion as a man accidentally finds a lost pocket -book? Ah, no I No man ever be- came a Christian by accident or by the re- laxing of sin. The embarrassments ,,are all the eime increasing. The hosts of darkness are reoruiting, and the longer you postpone this matter the steeper the path will become. I ask those men who are before me now whether in the ten or fifteen years they have passed in the post- ponement of these matters they beve come any nearer God or heaven? I would libels, and ton, regard the jests of Dr. to heaven waiting,waiting, but not with Jobeson as ponderous pleasantries, as when intelligen't waiting, or they would get on paid "a tree in Scotland is as rare is a board. the line of Chrintian influences that orse in Venice," Unfortunately in the would bear them into the tingdom of God. first half of the eighteenth century they No_ you know very well that to seek doors, I passed in and looked at the radi- ant altars and the sculptured dome Alas, that so niany stop at the outside 'door:of pod's holy word, looking at the rhetorical beauties, insteag of going in and looking Mt the altars of sacrifice :and the dome of audience, so far as they may not have found the peace of the gospel, in regard to the matter. Your hearts, you are will- ing frankly to tell me, are becoming harder and harder, and that if you come 1 to Cihrist it will be more of an undertak- were painfully ear the truth, and were a thing is to searoh for it with earnest ing now than it ever would have "been Godsineroy and salvation that hovers be - accurate on the end of the century, of the eastfore. The throne of judgment will soon be endeavor. If you want to see a certain over penitent and believing sonlsi ; coast by wheel the Doctor traveled. The man in this ofty, and there is a matter of • Oh, my friends, if you merely want to I set, and if you bave anything to do to - old woods had disappeared, and, indeed, $1.0;000 connected with your seeing biro, study the laws of Ianguageedo not Igo to ward your eternal salvation you had bet - and you cannot at first find nim, you do the Bible. It was not made for that ter do it now, for the redemption of your as we read the accounta of travelers from. Sir Anthony Welldon (who protests then not give up the search. You look irx the Take "Howe's Elements of Criticism ;,, soul directory, but you cannot find the name; it will be better than the 13ible for that. is precious, and it eeasetie forever, if men °Mild only catch one glitopee Jude:mould not have got a tree to hang Oh, himself on) to Brereton and Rirk, of the they would love him I you go in deities where you think perhaps If you want to study metaphysics, better of Christ, I know IV wo aeventeeth century we become almost) he may mingle, and having found the than the Bible will be the writings ofheart lea,P s at the sight of a glorious skeptical of their having ever existed. At art of the oity where Jae ltves, but per -Wm. Hamilton. But if you want tse or me o know sunrise Y°11r t Can you be without anrate they were wasted by raids, or not knowin the streeto nuisances. Only around farm steading u o how to have sin pardoned and at last to emotion as the Sun of Righteousness rises behind Calvary and sets behind Joseph's sepulcher? He is a blessed Saviour Every nation has its type of beauty. There is German beauty, and Swiss beauty, and Italian beauty, and English beatify, but I care not in what land a man first looks at Christ be pronounce% Him "chief among 10,000 and the one al- together lonely." The diamond districts of Brazil are care- fully guarded, and a man does not get in there except by a pass from the govern- ment, but the love of Christ is a, diamond district_ we may all enter and pick up • treasures for eternity. "To -day, if ye will hear bis voice, harden not your heart." Take the hint of thetext that I have no time to dwell upon—the hint that there is a time when be cannot be fouod. There was a man in this city Minty years of age who said to a clergyman who came in, 'Do you think that a Mart eighty years of age can get pardoned?" "Oh, yes." said the clergyman. The old erten said: "I can't. When I was twenty years • of age—I am now eighty years—tlae Spirit of God mole to my soul, and I • felt the importance of attending to these things, but I put it off. I rejected God, and since then I have had no feeling.' ' "Well," said the minister, "wouldn't you like to have me pray with you?" "Yes," re- plied the old man, "but it will do no good. You cazi pray with me if you like to." The minister knelt down and pray- ed anti commeteled the inan's soul to God. It seemed to bane no effect upon biro. After awhile the last bonr of the man's life mune, and through his delirium a erle spof intelligence seemed to flash, and With his last breath be said,. "I shall never be forgiven 1" "Ob, seek the Lord While Ito may be found,'' • burnt for fuel or destroyed by farmers eel through street after street, and from block and yon keep and lairds' houses little clumps of syoa,more to block, On searching for or ash were to be found, and even these were wedeks and for inonths. •- ' $ planted shortly after the union. The ' eon say, "It is a matter of 10.000 •lili.. p flflf• tr ground was plowed up to the very door W"" the hardiest were nursed like rareehrubs t a Y p y in gardens. u I would long ago have Him who is the joy of the forgiven spirit. We may pay- our One Hundred Years or War. ; debts, wo may attend enmesh,. we may relieve the poor, we may be publio bene - A highly interesting study of what a factors and yet all outer life disobey the hundred years of war have cost France in text, never seek Gocl, never gain heaven. human life has just been made eublie by ; Oh, that the Spirit of God would help me Dr. Lagneau, member of the Aceiderne, while I try to show you, in carrying out of , the idea of ntentext, first how to seek the Medicine of Paris. When the ,Revolution Lord and in the next place when to seek broke out France's effective army was only Him. 120,000 !nen. For the wars waged during ; I remaek, in the first place, you are to ten years in Belgium, on the Sambre, the seek the Lord through earnest and believ- ing prayers. God is not an autocrat or a Meuse, the Rhine, the Alps, the Pyrenees, despot seated on a throne with his arms . in the Vendee, and in Egypt, there were' resting on brazen lions, and a sentinel called nut 2,800,000. At the census made peeing up and down at the foot of the in the ninth punt of the Republic there throne. God is a father seated in a bower, 'wafting for His children to come and remained of these only 677,698. In killed climb on His knee and get Ris kiss and and in dead by disease the wars of the. first his benediction. Prayer is the cup with Republic cost France 2,122,402 men. From which we go to the "fountain of living 1801 to Waterloo 3057,398 men namely water" and dip up refreshment for our sufficed to fin the blanks which, n an thirsty soul. Grace does not oorae to the incessant war agelnt combined Europe, i heart as we set a cask at the Conner of France incurred at Austerlitz, Jena, Auer. the house to detail the rain in the shower. tadtFriedland, Saragossa, Bektenthl, It is a pulley fastened to the throne of e, God, which we pull, 'bringing the bless- geseing, •Wagram, Tare,gona, Stnolensk, Moscow, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Leip. ing. p zigmnd Waterloo. trader the Restoration. I do not cane 60 much what, osture Louis Philippe, and the second Republic, You take in prayer nor how large an in spite of the war in Spain (1823), the con. amount of voice you use. You might get quest of Algiers (1830), and the taking of down on youg, toe before God, if you (11(1Antwerp, France posed through a wimple. not pray right' inwardly there would bo ably° calm. The army numbered about, no response. You might cry at the top 218,748, and the mortality averaged 22 per of your voice, and unless; you bad a be - 1,000. In 1853.5 commenced the epooh of Honing Spirit within your cry world nob_ thegreat wars—the OrimemItaly (1859,60), go farther up than the shout of a plow - China (1860-1), 'Mexico (1862•6), and the boy to his oxen. Prayer must be belie,- disasters of 1870; In the Crimea, out of nag, earnest, toying. You are in your 300,268 mei], 96,615 succumbed; in Italy, house scone summer day, and a shower out of 500,000e there died 18,673; in China, coracle tip, and a bird, affrighted, darts 950, and in Cochin °him'. 48 per 1000, The Into the window and wheels about the second. Empire coat Femme about 1,600,000 room. Teel seize it. , You smooth its toldiere. Amending to Dr. Legneaun ruffled plumage. You feel its fluttering demogtephio tables, the clattery from 1795 heart You say, "Poor thittg, peer to 1895 evitneerred the 'detail in battle or by tbingl" diSease of 6,000,000 French soldiers. ! Now, a prayer gorse blit of the (norm of gain the blessedness of heaven, search the Scriptures, "for in them ye have eternal life.' When people are anxious about their souls, there are those who recommend en were as persistent in seeking ahrist I good books. That is all right But I of the mansions, while trees when' are now erslsteuce want to tell you that the Bible is the best book under such circumstances. Baxter wrote "A, Cell to the Uneonvert- ed," but the Bible is the best call to the unconverted. Philip Doddrictge wrote "The Rise and 'Progress of Religion in the Soul," but the Bible Is the best rise and progress. John Angell James wrote "Advice to the Anxious Inquirer," but the Bible is the best advice to the auxbus - treBireirble is the very book you need, anxious and enquiring soul! A dying soldier said to his mate, • "Comade, • give me a drop I" The comrade shook up the canteen and said, "There isn't a drop of water in the canteen." "Oh." said the dying soldier, "that's not what I want; feel in rny knapsack for my Bible," and his conaade found the Bible and read him a few of the gracious promises, and the dying soldier said: "Ail, that's what I want. There isn't anything like the Bible for a dying soldier, is there nay comrade?" Ob, blessed book, wit& we live1 Blessed book when we die1 I remark • again we. must seek God tbrougb suoh ordinances. "What," say you, "can't a man be saved without going to church?" I reply, there are men, I suppose, in glory who have never seen a church, but the church is the ordeirmil means by which wo aro to be brouglit to God, and if truth affects us when WO are alone it affects us more mightily when we are in the assembly, the feeliegs (Others empbasizing our own feelings. The great laweof sympathy comes into play, and a truth that Would take hold only with the grasp of a sick man beats mightily against the soul with a thousand heart throbs. • When you come into the religious circle, come only with one notion and only for one purpose—to fine the way, to Christ When I see people critical about sermons. and evident about tones of voice, and tnitical about sermonic; delivery, they make me think of a maxi in prinni. Ho. is condemned to death, but an officer of the governMent brings a pardon and puts it through the wieket of the prison and says: "Here is your paedoe. Come and get it " "Whatt Do yen expeet me to take that paedon offered with suoh a voice us you have, With snob an awkward matter as you have? I would rather die than so comprcenise iny rhotorioal no- ticxnsl" Oh, the nian,does net say that; he takes it 1 It Is his life. does not care how it is battled to him. Awl if tonday that pardon from the throne of God is offeetecl to our souls should we net seize it eenterdiess of all notioseentittle? But 1 coMe.hoev to the last Peet nf In* The Cres Of a Heflie. Dear ire, said the young Mrs. Ilanni- mune, 1 mud gee our grocer right away. What tori askedhet husband. I have rime instructions to give him. • I want to tell him 80 rnake our tieffee alibIle stronger and our intact* a little weaken Itetraceett. Tom Singleton—I hear you're engaged. • Congrebulate you, my boo, Benny Notes-. non didn't heat it quite night. I'm mar. tied. Tern Singletoie—Ohi mouse me, old unto, I this world lute the Window of God's ; moiety, and he catches it, and he feels its ' fluttering pn1ea and He puts it in His own bosolix of affection and safety. , Prayer is a warm, ardent, pulsating one tease. It is en electric) battery, which, touched, thrills te the throne of God! it , is the diving boll in which we go down i bite the depths of God's naeroy and , bring up pearia of great price." There was an instance where pranter made the waves of the Genuesatet solid as stelae pavenaent.. Oh, hove many wonderful things prayer has accoxtiplishod 1 Rave yen evor tried it? In the clays Wbert the Seetch cleveriaritcan were persecuted. and • A PROBLEM. Among the many slaves upori the plantation of a dietinguisbed South- erner during the late war Was 5 blind and decrepit old woman known as Aunt idy. Aunt nay, for some reason beet known to herself, theuglit to bet- tor her condition by taking the oath of allegiance. one of the Younger Members, hear- ing what had taken place, weed to "ole wens" to get the soltition, and after being told her friend had sworn to support the Constitution of thee Unitecl States, exclaimed : "Itte' de Lohcl 1 I don't know how Aunt Idy is gWine to tepete the 'United Staten when eh can't s'pote herself," Beef Consuniption. We notice in the market place Andother parts of town, The more that beef is going up, The less it's going down. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. — - -- MVO ATIONAL LESSON, MAY 12. " nestle lisefore the nigh retest," mar* 14 Mem nolden next, Isa, PittzelsAn STATABIBT, The doings of our preseet lertson were front tone to five hours loner than theme o the last leteon it was now the early morn- ing o f Friday, April 7, A. D. 30. Read, for parallel acosunts, Matt. '26. 4740 ; Luke 22. 47-0 ; and Jelin 18. 2-27, The acene le in the highntrieuter palace in nerunilent. The mock trial of thiepaesage 18 apparently thet Whioh John calls the hearing before Alums (Harlan), It was striotly informal, and therefore the all-powerful Heinen naturally presided, thcbgh Calapitati took the principal part. Putting the story of all the evangelists together, we find that Johan influence procured Peter's admission iato the "quadrangle," or great open court of the high priest's palace, where he left him standing by the little brazier of the blazing fire, while he himself passed into Hansen audience chamber. The friendship of ;John for Harlan at the time when Hanan was plotting for the murder of John's master is one of the moat inter. eating problems 'which the Gospel story preeents. The slave portreas, afraid of censure for having let in a friend of the penmen leaves her poet and questions Peter, receiving the first evasive denial. Restlessly trying to escape ponce, he retires into the opening of the porch, and a cook crown Mea,nwbile the 'group at the fire, including the portreas and another female slave, question him in rapid sucetession, and the second denial fon lows With an oath. An hour after, in the quadrangle, Jesus awaits the Sanhed- dun meeting at dawn'the passive object of the servan't coarse brutality. Peter is not far off, by the fire agate. leis Galilean patois is ornamented on, and Malthus's kinsman recognize& him, so the third denial bursts forth. Immediately the second cook orowe, and the Lord's tender, re. proaohful look brings the selecenfident apostle to his right mind. When the &c- ausation of blasphemy is presented against Jesus, the testimony is found to be contra, dictory. At last two men stand forth with perverted accounts of Seamns words con- cerning thetemple; these are made &smell of as possiblenbut the accusers realize that not enough has been found to condemn the primmer. So the high priest undertakes to extort a confession. Standing in his official robes, as the head of the nation, he demands of the meek captive before him whether he be indeed the Messiah of Israel. In reply Jesus declares himself to be the Christ, and that he shall one day be the Judge of the world. With a gesture as if to tear his robe in horror, the higb priest declares that no more testimony is beecied —the accused has uttered blaspherneus words. The vote is taken; the few who in their hearts favor Jesus are absent or silenced and he is judged. "guilty of death." As one condemned he is now given up to theenenials for abuse. EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL Nom& Verses 53, 54. They led Jesus away to the high priest. Dr. 3. A. Alexander very o early explains—what Mark Wieser) notice o —the confusion then existing in the office of high priest, occasioned by the arbitrary interference of the Romans so that there were several high priests Live at one time, that is, several who had actual- ly exercised the office, though the law of Moses recognized but one, Ei,nd that one the hereditary representative of Aaron. Arens was probably regarded by the atria Jews as the legitimate incumbent; but having been displaced by the Romans, and deprived of all direct of5oial power, he appears to hone secured the nominatioo of his own son and son•in-law as his sum emote, thereby maintaining indireotly his own influence, and probably the title'too, in common parlance, which accounts for Luke's mentioning both Annas and Caiaphas as high priests at the same time (Luke 3. 2), and for John's saying that they brought him first to Annan the tather-in-law of Caie.phas, who was high priest that year (John 18. 13), which does not mean that it. warenow a yearly office, even under Roman domination, but is merely an allueion to, the frequency with which the incumbents were displaced by the authorities. All the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. This has been called "an informal meeting of the Sanhedrin"—the great court of the Jews; bet it was rather a mob made up, in the main, of the dignitaries of whom that court was composed. The Sanhedrin had never power to meet for trial of capital offenses by right. "At dawn (Luke 22. 66) they transformed themselves into a formal court and passed judgment"— Plumptre. Servants. Officers (John 38. 18). 65, 56. Chief priests. Those who by birth and hafluebee were leaders of the priestly order. All the council. Isolated protests were drowned in the general cl amen Sought for witness. Judges turned prose- cutors and persecutors. To put hirn to (teeth. "Their purpose was not to ascertain the truth, but to convict the prisoner. Found none. No two witnesses who had heard Jesus utter what even the rulers could opal blasphemous words. Many bare . . . witness. What testimonies the healed ones could have given for him if they had been coaled I Agreed not. Different witnesses could aethrt different crimes, but no two who would agree in their state- ments ; they could lice stand cross-exami- nation. 57.59. There arose certain. Two per- sons (Mutt, 26..60). Bare false witness: False in spirit road coloring rather than in fact itself. :t will destroy. A perversion of John 2. 19. „Jesus had said, 'Destroy this temple," not "1 will destroy it.' There wee no blasphemy against the tem- ple in this expression, aa his enemies alleged. Made with hands. "This temple, the handenede.n Three days. A propheoy of his own reetureotion, not of the tein• plen deatreetion, Neither so • r agree. Their reports of his words do not agree. (1) Notice that a falsehood may be ID purpose, as well as in utterance of things mitre°. Many a (lenience true ID its words yet amounts to Lie hy its false coloring ei truth. 60. The high priest stood up. Having failed to eouvict by testimony, he now tries to extort an utterance by which the prison, er may convict himself. Answerest thou nothing? Jame heel said riothingnor words world be wasted on such au assembly, and such War& sa they had reported could not itentesireenl until after hie resurrection. What/ a it? What Agee this wean I 61. He1d. his peace. (2) Let us remember eur Saviour's example, and endure illierep- reeentation in Winton Art thou the %rho? The Auneintee Ono, whom all J4xw8expect. ed as their deliverer. The pew Wag to wrjuR frew Jetties the deoloretion of his Inessialiehip, and then (minima nim for it. The eon of the enema. Thin is, "of God," for this is a frequent name of God in Jew- ish writinge. 62. Jorous eaid. Solemnly, riejured by tbe high prieth, the official head of the minket, he broke the silence, and answered. I ern. The third direct eonfeasioe which Jesus made of bis divine Moine (See John .4,-25, 26, and 9, 35, 35,) This declaration insured ids death, but laid its responsibility itillY upon, the memoir. He shall see. " Ye, the cournil now judging me, shall one day be judged by inc." Right nand of power. Power in contrast with his present weak. nes& • In the clouds. With the shekieeli cloud of the auctient tabernacle around hinii dee:tending from the sky. 6'3,64. Rent his clothes. A gesture of in- dignation; tearing asunder the garments from the neck downward. Blasphemy. Had Jesus notbeeu what, he declared himself to brethis assertion of the high prieat would have been true. What think ye? A formal patting of the question to the vote of the commit. They all. Possibly neither Nico, denms Dor jeseph of Arinaethea had been celled to the coupon, (See John 19, 39; Luke 32.51.) Coodernned him. Passed the formal vote, whicht however, could not he executed without the consent of their •Roman snosters, Guilty of death. Jusily liable to death, (3) Men's judgments and God's judgments are often opposed to eaoh ether. (4) So God's omnipotence over- ruled man's crime to become the means of salvation to the world. HOME OF THE COLD WAVE. Valley in Eastern Britten coionibta NAM to Be Its Starting Place. It is frequently asked I Where do cold waves originate? The coldest portion of the North American continent, is, in all probability, in the Saskatchewan Valley, east of Mount Hooker and Mount Hood, both of which are situ ated in the Rocky Mountain range that divides British Columbia from the valley and the Alberta country. The height of this mountain range prevents the eastern trend or flow of vapor from the Pacific Ocean from crossing over into the valley, as it would were it not for the presence of this high range of mountains. Yet it must not be supposed that extreme cold always prevails here, because at certain intervals the vapor from the Pacific lbws east by way of the Alaska peninsula, through the upper valley of the Athabasca River into Alberta and the valley of the Saskatchewan, and there meeting with a more southern and eastern flow of vapor that -flows through the gap in the mountain range, made by the Bay of an Juan, it warms and expands the atmosphere, Grosses the path of the cold wave, and a warmth of from 20 to 40 degrees is the result, as we often see graphically marked on the weablier map by red dots here and there on its surface. But this does not, satisfactorily answer why it is that the cold wave leaves its home in the above mentioned valley to go junketing on a southern tour. To find the cause of those successive cold waves which we experienced from time to time last winter we will have to look in quite another direction, down to the northern tropical latitude, where the great evaporation of those warm eurrents and ocean aurfaces is carried westward from the Atlantic Ocean by the trade winds, and is massed together •betweezi the winds of the eastern off -shore wind, blowing some- times from Florida, and at the other times from Texas, but in either case promoting cyolonie action, which has the effect of en- larging the area of the !storm, and the immediate result is an enormous expate. sion of atmosphere usually denominated "low." As this "low" moves across the surface of the middle or eastern states it pours down large quantities of water in the shape of ram, n and is cow :nanny receiving accessions ofcloud matter to replenish its energies ; and thus in this manner it creates more or lees of a vacuum into which the air from the northwest is drawn with more or less momentum, and the cold wave is completed. •Silver Street. The curious Chandni Chowk, or "Silver Street," of Delhi, one of the most pictur- esque thoroughfares in the East, derives its name from the filigree wrought with unrivaled skill and taste in the nrogu- capital. Sunlight and shadow contend o maritery among irregular massea of tumble- down houses, where carved wooden bal- oonies approached by exterual stairs glow with rich embroideries, which forte but u tithe of the varied treasures found in the Chandni Ohowk. The muslin -robed mer- chants stand outside the shops to proclaim the value of the wares and to solicit inepee- tion. Dark and winding steps lead to dusky chambers, where an all pervading odor of sandalwood and musk creates the tradi- tional Oriental atmosphere, and impreg- nates the bales of silk and cashmere piled round teakwood chests filled with silver, gold, and jewels. Bargeining proceeds with Eastern deliberation, which yields to the rapid methods of the West when the adaptable Hindu mind detects a trace of dawning impatience on 1?,nglish faces. i Temptation s rife, and through tens of rubbish innumerable gems of set revrard the explorer who area afford the necessary outlay of time and money. Education in Forvagal. People who remember the prodigious pother which Portugal made, two or three years ago, when England tried to boutute her out of some territorial advantage in Africa, will be surprised to know that the population of Portugal, irmluding Madeira and the limners, is only 6,049,729, of whom 2,619,390 are females, and thee founfiiths of the population are unable to read or write. In Lisbon, where most of the fuss referred to was made, there is a populatioa of 612,000, of whom 394,338 are unable to read or write, It is not surprising that, although the censte was tinfoil five years ago, the Governmen t hen only jest made up its mind to publish these figures, whioh it would be hard to beat in any coma - try of the world claiming to be civilized. • Darkened, • Ten editors are mem)* °Tianh-ellilirese4Iti between the ExnPer* Of 263 Popes, only eleven ruled IOW; th•an eenenteen years. The estimated population of , world on gAri. 1, l8e6, woe 1,50,000,000, "There are 26 women running country. Papers in Inaneas, or of Germany and the 13ritish throne. The Wbite......T-Touse of the eoufederaCT Is now used for a colorsd schoolhouse. All ofilcers in the A.uetro-neungarian cavalry must bereaftee learn tele- gr,$1.5g:inP:oeh:/ehineiry who cut the famoua diamond Rose of Belgium is now worth ,A. man earned, Deanne tats Just passed an examination in theetogy at Trott, ian TvIr'eesreselaer, e springe of freeli Water In the Persian Gull tnat furnisb. suppliers to rtheAaanGerrnari statistician has figured Cilit utounedi tayy , ta;a. In not FridaY, Is the iNvihitIinstidahl,va,t i 0e it uisoaa .avvi the nenativeyoas ls be pa,r b se or With a, population of hardly 2,500,000 Greece has a debt of 5164,000,000, or alma $75 per capita,. The axicsients knew how to cheat. -rLaolandsot a Loaded dieserchuranu havebeenfound in the It is said that in some parts of Japan robbers are convicted on a majority vote of the community. Two thousand potents have been talc - en ernuati;atpheiral s coailantry on the rnanufact tur • The only wooden shoo factory In Iowa Is staitn Piverallnai,anthe oninotyllanderts oommun- The largest Bible in the world is a orriaannwuescgghpt4eb3r2e0orpaBuibnlaes.in the Tani - The deepest well on our Atlantic coast is that at the silk works near Northampton, Mass.; depth 3,700 feet. Two clergymen in Nebraska are at- tributing the hard times to the Sundae,' opening of tee Chicago World's fair. UP to the present time the Neoro- polls Company, the biggest undertakers iza England, have buried 126,000 bodies. Endeavors are being made in Eng - 10 establish the Sabbatica year, olie year's rest In •seven, • for School teachers The long distance telephone between day. A r each call London has over 200 calls a PitaThiaseYsa13:sh. and dittraihe rate of $2 fox' empire and its depend- • endes and colonies embrace 11;000,000 square miles, or about the size of all' Aerene iea. Vzuela, means "little Venice." The early explorers found the natives liv- ing in houses placed on plies in 'the marshes. • The new photograph of the -heavens which is being prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers, sh,oW- 68,000,000 stars. The nearest apnroacb to the north pole was pn May 13, 1892, when Lieut Lockwood stood within • 396 kites of that coveted spot. The largest woodenware works in the world are located in Bay City, Mich. The present output every ten hours is 1,800 tubs and 8,500 pails. The first of the "canals of nears" was discovered in. 1877 by Professor Schiaparelli, astronomer of the Royal Observatory at Milan. •• The Canary Islands have a Latin name, oanis, "a dog." They -were so named from the large and flece mas- tiffs bred in the islands. One of the natural curiosities of Stanwood, Wash., is a "blowing" • or. • "breathing" well, which exhales im- mense quantities of noxious gases. Japanese workanen wear, both on •their caps and on their backs, an in- scription stating their business and tin; name et their employers. In. the British Islea during the pre- sent century seven instances have been recorded in which the bride has mar- ried the best man by mistake. • Frencbmexi take the neatest boots; Scotchmen take the largest, but they cannot compete with Lobengula, 'whose size was 12 inches long And 8 inchee wide ALondon firm, which hag manurac- tured eight of the eleven cables link- ing the United States to England, makes 55 miles a cable each 24 hours. A poorly clad woman, who picked up a bag containing 1500 in Smithfield, England, the other day, was awarded by, the awner, to whom she returned 11, with a penny. Placed end to end in. a continuous line the streets of London would ex- • tend from the Menison Rouse across the entire continent of Europe and be- yond the Ural Mountains into Asia. A German has invented a chemical torcli which ignites when Vet, • It is • to be Used an lite buoys. 'When one Is thrown to a man overboard at night he can thus see the light and find the -buoy. The particles of sand, stones, shells and the like, brought me in the tallow with which the sounding lead is cov- ered, frequently furnish indications of great value CAS to the position of the ship. Tne average height of Man in the United. States is Ave feet ten end a half inches; in England, five feet nine inchee; in France, five feet tour inches; In Belgium, eve feet six aria a quarter Inchee: The • • oldest coropeny conoerued with tommerce, itt the strictest sense of the • word, is the Modem], Bay Company, - fotInded. with a charter granted by • Charles II. te Prirme Rupert a,ncleothers inl6ult Ca, ineanien Moen humility, took Its name frote Rev. Andrew Cant, min-, ister of Pitellgo, in Aberdeenshire* Who, eurtreg the tinac of the •Cevenanters, was tamed. for his whining Etna pre- tending' fervor. • Quite a sensation was produced at Bettisbon by the appeararioe In the steeets of a herae wearing .two pairs of troosers. The anxious evolve ba get a set of brown hese merle tepeeian ly for his fovorite Steed as 11 protect tion ageennt the coin, The otittook is (lark. Moodily ahe gazed in nes mirror, - Dent. Yes, dark. Yes, there wat no disputing then the outleok wee dark. And the wont of ib Was, her eye was getting blacker every motteet. Next time I bame °masa= to go deem teller, I Will teke a lamp alon g the ettid. tetaltie ' et. t,terentete,..,