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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-5-16, Page 7:th‘, THE BXBTER TIMS A IJISTUltBINSI FOltOE REV. DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUEN SERMON ON THE CONSCIENCE. Christ Before Pliate-The Fewer of th netill, Small noice"-Tite True COUVe sion-n 'Kook in the Glorious Gosp eaver--Pardoneng Mercy. New You', May 6, -Rarely dome an disoourse hold ria Audienoe with silo intone° interfuse as did that, which Rev, D Tahuge delivered yesterday afternoon 1 the Academy of Mud°. Ile chose for h sabjeot " Conscience," the text selecte being Matthew xxvii, 24; "He took wat end washed his hande before the multitud Ewing: I am innocent of the blood of th just person. Sets ye to it." At about oven o'olook in the MOIllirt eip the marble etairs of a palams and aoro the fioors of the richest mosaio, and uncle ceilings dyed with all the splendors color, and between snowbanks of whi geistening sculpture, passes a poor, pal Hick young man, of thirty.three, aimed condemned to death, on his way to condemned again. jeeue of Nazareth e his umne. Coming out to meet him on this tessela ed peteement is an unserupulous comprom . ming, timeserving, ooevardly man, wibli few traces of symathy and fair dealing lef in his. composition -Governor Poetiu Pilate Did ever such opposites meet Luxury and pain, selfishneseand generosity arrogance and humility, sin and holiness midnight and midnoon.he Tbloated-lipped governor takes th cushioned seat, but the prisoner stancle,hi wriste manacled. In a semicircle aroun the prisoner are the eanhedrists,with flash ing eyes and brandiehed fiats, proseoutin • thie Easts in the name of religion, for th s bitterest persecutions have been religiou • persecutions, and when eaten takes hold o • a good man he makes up by intensity fo brevity of occupation, lf you have neve seen an ecclesiastical court trying a man then you have no idea of the foaming infirm Enfant of these old. religioua sanhedriate Governor Pilate cross questions the grisone and finds right away he is innocent an wenn' to let him go. His caution is ale increased by some one who comes to th governor and whispers in hie ear. Th governor puts his hand behind his ears, s as to catch the words almost inaudible. I is a message from Claudia Procula, bis wife, who has had a dream about the in tiocence of this prisoner and abodt th danger of executing him, and she awakens from this morning dream in time to send the message to her husband, then on the judicial benah. And _what with the pro tests of her Wife and the voice of his own conscience, ' and the entire failure of the sanhedrists to make out their ease,Governor Pilate resolves to diecharge the prisoner from custody. _ But the intimation of such a thing brings upon the go Jtnor an equinoctial storm of • indignation. They will report -him to the emperor eet Rome. They will have him recalled. They will send him up home,and he will be hung for treason, foothe emperor at Renee has already a suspicipath regard • to Alain and that fiespicion demi iibt defied until Pilate is banished and commits • eulaide. So Governor Pontius Pilate com- e promises the matter and proposes that Christ ▪ be whipped instead of assassinated. So the prisoner is fastened to a low pillar, and on his bent and bared back came the thongs of leather, with ipieces of lead and bone intertwisaal, so that every stroke shall be the more awful. Christ lifts himself from the scourging, with flushed cheek and torn and quivering and. mangled flesh, present- ing a speetacle of suffering in which 'Rubens, s the eginterndund the theme for his greatest masterpiece, • 1 • Bee thee elinhedriste are not yet satiefied; f.rhey have some of his neryes lacerated ; they want them till leceeared. , They have • had soine of his blood ; they want all of it, down to the last o,orpuscle. So Governor Pontius Pilate, after all. this merciful hesitation surrenders to the demoniacal cry of "Crucify him 1 But the governor sends for something. He sends a slave out to get soothing. Although the constables are in haste to take the prisoner to execu- tion and the mob outside are impatient to • ghee upon their victim, a pause is necessi- tated. Yonder it cornea, a wash basin. Some pure bright water is poured into it, and then Governor Pilate puts his .white, delicate hands inte the water and rube them together and then lifts them, dripping, for the towel, fastened. at the slave's girdle, while he practically says I. "I wash zny hands of this whole homicidal transaction. I wesh my hands of -this meth.° responsbility. You r will have to bear it." That is the meaning of my text when it says : "He took water end washed hie hands More the multitude, saying: am innocent of the blood of bhis just person. • See ye to ite" Behold etie this that eereniony amounts to mothing, if there ato mot in it therms. ipondenciiris of heart awl life. It is a good thing eseevelieh the Stands. God created threeiterters of tkw world water, and in that mominanded oleanliness, and when the andl-fee edicenot talke the hint he plunged the reehole world gander water and kept it , there rior some time. Hand washing was • a religious ceremeray among the news. The Jewieh Mishna mave particular direction how elhat the heads must be thrust three times up to the wrists in water, and the • palineaf the hand must be rubbed with the 010813d fist of the other. AU that is well ,enough for a symbol, but here in the text is Daman who 'imposes to wash away the guilt of a sin widoh he does not ,mait and .of which he does not make any repetatance wash bavin was a dead failure. [Cerenioniee, however beautiful and ame ipeoptikite, may be no more than this hypo - witted ablution. In infancy we may be emainkeed from eke baptismal font, and in fresuboted we num wade into deep enter - done and yet never come to moral purifi- •cation. We day kneel without prayer, met WO without reverence, and sing without eing acceptance. All your creeds and liturgies and gaeramerits and genuflec- tions Anal religious convocations amount to bothieg uoless your heart life go lute them Whee thee brobeed slave took from tile presence et Pilate that weeh basin, he • carried away none of Pilate's cruelty, or Pilate's ivickedoess, or Pilete's guilt. Nothibg against creeds ; we nil have • them, either Written or implied. Nothing egainet ceremonies ; they are of infinite importance. Nothing aganitit saotaments ; e they ere d dinste emeinanciedo Nothing el r. is er is BB of fe 5, be is against a rosary, if there be as Many heart. felt pinyon as beads °counted. Nething against intease fleeting up from censer amid Gethic umbel, if the prayers be as genuine as the aroma, is sweet. Nothing againet gPiPlulnY or Lent or Ash Wednesday or Easter or Good Friday or Whitsuntide or Palm Sunday, if these aymbols tome behind them genuine repentance And holy reminis, cence and Chrietian consolation. Bet ceremony is only the sheeth to the word, it Is only the that to the kernel, it is only the lamp to the flame, it is only the body to bhe Remit, The outward must be sym- bolical of the inward, Wash the hand e by all means, but, more than all, wash the heart. Behold, also, as you see Governor on nis Pilate thrust his hands into this wash basin the powet of conscience. He had an idea there was blood on his bands -the blood of an innocent person, whom he, might have acquitted if he only had. the courage. Poor Pilate 1 Hie conscience was after him, and he knew the stain would tiever be washee from the right hand or the left hand, and until the dey of his death, though he might wash in all the lavera of the Roman empire, there would be still eighb fingers and ^ two thumbs red at the tips. Oh, the power of conscience 'when it is fully aroused 1 With whip of norpions over a bed of epikes in pitch of midnight it chaster guilt. Are there ghosts ? Yee not of the graveyard,but of one's mind nob at rest. And thus, Brut, amid his slumbering hot, Startled with Caesar's stalwart ghost. • Macbeth looked at his hand after the midnight assassination, and he says: ' - Will Great Neptune's ocean wash thie blood o Clean from my hands? tio ; this my hand will rather t The multitudinous seas inoarnadine, Making the green one red. a For every sin great or small, aonecienoe, ? whioh is the voioe of God, has a reproof, I more or less emphe.tio. Charles IX., re- sponsible for St. Bartholomew masses:1re, was chased by the bitter memories, and in his dying moments said to his doctor, Ambrose Parry; " Doctor, I don't know a what's the metter with me; I am in fever a •of body and mind, and have been for a Deng while. 011, if I had only spared the inno- cent, and the imbecile and the °ripple 1" g Rousseau deolared in old age that a. sin he e committed in his youth stilt gave him 8 sleepless nightie Charles II. of Spain could f not sleep nights unless he had in the room a confessor and two friars. Catiline had ✓ suoh bitter memories he was inert led at the ✓ least sound. Candinal Beaufort, having slain the Duke of Gloucester, often in the night would say "Away, away 1 Why • do you look at me ?" Richard III., having . slain his two nephews, would sometimes id ✓ the night shout from his couch and clutch re his sword, fighting apparitions. Dr. Web- ster, having slain Parkman in Boston, and o while waiting for his doom, complained to e the jailer that the prisoners on the other o side of the wall all night long kept (Marg- o beg hint with his crime, when there •were prisoners on the other side of the wall. It was the voice of his own conscience. From what did Adam and Eve try to e hide when they had all the world to them- selves? From their own conscience. Whet made Cain's punishment greater thous he could bear? His conscience. What 'Ade - Ahab ory out to the prophet, "Haat thou found me 0 mine enemy ?" Whatmade the greet Felix tremble before the little missionary? Conscience. What made Bel. shazzar's teeth °hatter with a chill when he saw a finger come out of the black sleeve of the midnight and. write on the plastering? Consoience, conscience Why is it that that man in this audience, with all the marks of worldly prosperity upon him, is agitated while I speak and is now flushed and is now pale, and then the breath ie uneven, emd then beads of per- spiration on the forehead, and then the look of unrest comes to look of horror and despair, I know not. But he knows, and God knows. It may be then he despoiled a fair young life and turned iiincemece into a waif, and the smile of hope into the brazen laughter of despair. Or it may be that he hits in his possession the property of others, and by some strategem he keeps it according to law, and yet he knows it is not his own, and that, if his heart should stop beating this moment he would be in hell forever. Or it may be he is responsible for a great mystery, the disappearance of Borne one who was never heard of, and the detectives were baffled, and the tracks were alr tovered up, and the swift homer or eho rail traite tea a out of reach, and there are only two per- sons in the universe who know of it -God and himself. God was present at the time of the tragedy and present at the retrospec- tionand conscience -conscience with sting, conscience with pinchers, conscience with flails, conscience with furnaces -is upon him, and until a man's conscience rouses him he does not repent. What made that fernier converted to God go to his infidel neighbor and say: "Neighbor,.I have four of your sheep. They came over to my fold six years ago. They had your mark upon them, and I changen it to my mark, Wanb you to have thine liheep, add 1 want you to have the interest on the money, and I want you to have the increase of the fold. If you want to send me to prison, I shall make no complaint!" The infidel heard of the man's conversion, and he said; "Now, now, if you.have kot them sheep, you are welcome to them, I.don't want nothing of those things at all. You jusb go away from me. Something has got hold of you that I don't understand. I heard you were down at those religious meetings." but the converted man would not allow things to stand in that way, and so the infidel said : "Well, now, you cam pay me the value of the sheep, and six per cent. in. terest from that time to this, and I shan't say anything more about it. Just go away from me." What was the matter with the two farmers tes In the °tie case a convicted conscience leading him to honesty, and in the other case a convicted conscience warning against infidelity. Thomas Oliver was one of John Wesley's preachers. The early pare of his life had been full of recklessness, and he harmade debts wherever he couldborrow. If VA converted to God, and then h otono opiriettoemhoaonodt „:17,yphrotpod"retybti.:ftwIlhm ei,titda immediatety set out to pay his deeita, med. everybody knew he was in earnim, end to consummate the last his home and saddl PadYmell' t he'theAl to sell coescienee. That ie convertiseleahait eWe't That is religion. Prank lee °o:nevconvert'b, Ant, a- con• vert' on rioneeller, had a Jami on hand at the tiine mount of limier.. 4- ie put all the keen and eirreensveereeeid"eles'sribi- d ohne in a wagon and t' tee taem *town in rout of the old church onverted and had ev " where he had been lie street, That orything emptied into ).hnointsedandsstaotfestdolrhe "Itg'°°' Why the sot eters, year to the conscience en easury at Washington as re at ti th po re eau there ar men VI Whin it simply torneys,e postmasters, and there are men retain there are officials who some, etn, and ,, that which does not belong to welder' • kers Men are otanverted or undee statute preesure of ,00eacieriee and make en. 11 ell the moneya put of which ehe finite and the United. States treasuries have bee ir defrauded should come back to their rightfel exohequere, there would be money enough to pay all the state debte and all the United Staters debt by day after to -morrow. Conversion amount e to nothing unless the heart is converted, and the pocketbook is converted, and the cash drawer is conr verted, and the ledger is unverted, and the fireproof eafe is converted, and the pigeonhole containing the oorreepontience ie converted, mid his improvement is noticed even by the canary bird that singe in the parlor, and the oat that licks the platter after the meal, and the dog that comes bounding front the kennel to greet him. A man half °obverted, or ouarter converted, or a thousandth part converted, is not con. verted at all, What will be the great book in the day of judgment? Conscience. Cosasoienoe recalling misimproved oppor- tunities. Conscience bringing up the past Alas, for this governor, Pontius Pilate 1 That night after the cowl had adjourned and the eanhedrists had ,gone home and nothing was heard outside the room but the step of the sentinel, I see Pontius Pilate arise from his tapestried and sleepless couch and go to the laver and begin to wash his hands, crying: 1' Out, out, crimson spot 1 Tellest thou to me and to God and to the night, my crime? Is there no alkali to re. move these dreadful stains'? Is there no chemistry to dissolve this carnage? Must T to the of my death carry the blood of this iunocent man on my heart and hand? • Out, thou crimson spot 1" The womb thing a man can have is an evil conscience and the best thing a man can have is what Paul Mile a good conscience. But is there no sub thing as moral purification? If a man is a sinner once, must he always be a sinner and an unfor- given sinner? We have all had conscienoe after U9. Or do you tell me that all the words of your life have been just night, and all the thoughts of, your heart have been just right, and all the actions of your life just right 1' Then you do not know yourself, and I take the responsibility of saying you are a Pharisee, you are a hypocrite, you are a Pontius Pilate and do not know it. You commit the very same sin that Pilate committed. You have crucified the Lord of Glory. sBut if nine - tenths of this audience are made up of thoughtful and earnest people, than nine - tenths of this audience are shying within themselves : "Is there no such thing as moral purification ? Is there no laver in which the soul may wash and be clean ?" Yes, yes, yes. Tell it in song, tell it in sermon, tell it in prayer, tell it to the hemispheres. Thab is what David cried out for when he said, "Wash me thoroughly from my sin, and oleanse me from my sin, ands cleanse me from mine iniquities." And that is what in another place he oried out for when he said, "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." Behold the laver of the gospel, filled with living fountains. Did you ever see the pictures of the laver in the ancient temple ? The laver in tbe ancient tabernacle was made out of the women's metallic looking glasses. It was a great basin, standing on a beautiful pedestal, but when the temple waa built then the laver was an immense affair ; called the brazen sea, and, oh, how deep were the floods there gather- ed 1 Ad there were ten lavers besides - five at the right and five at the left -and each laver had 300 gallons of water.. And the outside of these lavers was carved and chased with palm trees so delicate cut you could almost see the leaves tremble and lions so true to life that you could imagine you saw the nostril throb, and the cherub- im with outspread wings. That magnificent laver of the old dispensation is a feeble type of the more glorious laver of our dispensa- tion -oar sunlit dispensation. Here is the laver holding rivers of salva- tion, having for its pedestal the Rock of Ages, carved with the figure of the lion of Judah's tribe, and having palm branches for victory and wings suggestive of the sours flight toward God id prayer and the soul's, flight beavenward when we die. Come, ye auditory, and wash away all your sine, however aggravated, and all your sorrows, however agonizing. Come to this fountain, open for alrsin and uncleanness, the furthest, the worst. You need not oarry your sin half s eecond, COMQ altti i wash n this glorious gospel fever. Why, that is an opportunity enough to swallow up all mations. That is an opportunity that will yet stand on the Alps and beckon to f t illy, and yet stand on the Pyrennes and beckon to Spain, and it will yet stand on the Ural and beckon to Russia, and it will stand at the gate of heaven and beckon to all nations. Perdon for all sin, and pardon tight, away, tlitough the blood of the Son of , God. A little child that had been blind, bub through skilful surgery brought to eight, said; "Why, mother, why didn't you tell me the earth and sky are so beautiful? Why didn't you tell me ?" "Oh." replied the mother, " my child, I did tell you often. I often told yon how beautiful they are, but einii fan blind, and you couldn't see 1" Oh, if we could have our eyes open to see the glories in Jesus °helot, we could feel that the half had not been told us, and you would go to some Chriseian man and say: non "Why didn't you tell me before of the glories in the Lord Jesus Christ ?" and that, friend would say, "I did tell you, but you were blind and could not see, and you were deaf and could not hear." • History says that a great army oame to capture Einciegt Jerusalem, and when thie army got on the hill's BC) 'ailat thy 5feiv tile turrets and the towers' of Jeraselem, they gave a shout that made the earth tremble, and tradition, whether true or false, says that, so greats was the shout, eagles flying In the air dropped under the atmospherie percussion Oh if we could only catch it glimpse of the•towers of this goapel temple into which you are allenvited to mime and. wash, there would be a song juseenene ana wide resounding, a New Jeruremem seen New ,Teruealem taken,the beelanntle of otAer worlds flying midair woieee eeje tette "tinge and drop into our alotgeg eieseiaggn Agsarree iEe digaPPOntinr and fneufficieni levet of Pilatej8 Yiceoeie,j cowardite aud 11 -at 6 , I p14.0 the brazen sea of a Sem iourn egirdeinee many. He Got the Place. Plienple are not always sure 01 their own htleds ; and the boy in this story, ciMibtless, eicted upon the knowledge of that fact. Do you want a boy, he asked of the magnate of the office, standing before him oawin hand. Nobody wants a boy, replied the meg. nate. Do you need a boy? asked the applicant - nowise Abashed. Nobody needea boy. The boy would not give up. Well, say, mister, he inquired, do yoa have to home a boy The magnate collapsed. len aorry to say we do, he said, and I pees you're Atheist what we wane" The winds and vvaves are always on the eide of the ,ableatnaviseitoen-Gibliore THE SUNDAY. :SCHOOL INTERNA.TIONAL LESSON, May 19M. "Jene Serer° Pi_la_te," 1rk 15. 1-15. Golden Text Marlene 5, Gittrimaii STATottaNT. If the Jewish rulers could have wrought their will, the passage of Jesus from tile council to the croes would haverbeen short and speedy. But over them was the Retrain power, whose vexigeapoe they dared not inour by putting to death their victim. They must awaken the Amman procurator Pilate, who was trusiently in the eity, and obtain his sanction to their sentence. Before the representative of the empire of tbe world the King of Heaven stands amused. To Pilate the Jews present a new charge -that Jesus has conspired against the government in claiming royal honor. One look upon the meek face of the captive convinces the Roman that the charge is false, yeb he examines him in private and finds his own soul stirred by Jeeue's words about thekingdom of the truth. Pilate once anclagaln proclaims Jesus innocent, but from weekneem of will,want of principle, and selfish desire to advance his own inter- esta, heeitates to set him free. He sends him for trial to Herod Antipas, the tetraroh of Galilee and the slayer of John the Baptist, but Herod returns him once more. He suns to release him by a sub- terfugd, but the rabble, incited by the rulers, demand that wicked Barabbas shall be set free and the holy Jesus shall be slain. At last the Roman ruler, with a 0008OtOlieneBB of his .own wrong act, sighs the warrant for the Saviour's execution and delivers him into the hands of the guard. mcrwataTony AND PRAOTIOAL NOTES. Versel. Straightway. Immediately after the preliminary examination related in the last lesson. Held a consultation. This was the formal session, held to ratify the action of the high priest's earlier eribunal. One object of the consultation was to decide how to put Jesus to death, for the council had no power to order capital sentence. Council. The Sanhedrin, oompoeed of "ohief priest, scribes, and elders." Carried him away. To the Roman headquarters in order to have the sentence bf death given by the only one who could enforce it. To Pilate. About ten years after the birth of Jesus, Judea had been formerly annexed to the Romme empire, and afterward was governed by a succession of procurators, of whom Pontius Pilate was the fifth. His residence was at Ccesarea, but he came to Jerusalem to preserve order during the great feasts. He was unscrupulous, vacil- lating and selfish, but not essentially cruel. He was afterward banished to Lyons, in France, and there committed suicide. 2. Pilate asked him. The fullest report of the trial before Pilate is given in John 18. 28 to 19, 16. Art thou the King? They had charged Jesus with conspiracy in attempting to set up a kingdom opposed to that of Caesar, juet whatthey wished him to do but what he had not done. Pilatetook him aside and queationed him, not without some contempt for the people and anyone who might claim to be their king. Thou sayeeb it. This is a Jewieh idiom, meaning., "Sou speak the truth;' a strong affirm- ation. John's gospel shows that Jesus ex- plained to Pilate the spiritual nature of his Kingdom. (1) Christ is eking who demands the willing and joyful submiesion of his subjects. 3.5. Accused him of many things. Of conspiracy, of disloyalty, and of sacrilege, as may be seen by comparing the four ac- counts. Anavverednothing. Knowing bleat no answer would satisfy his enemies, and that his heathen judge meld noeeinderetend the truth concerning his Messiahehip. Answer • thou nothing? As if • saying, " How can 1 tidal ale bilideent Who isfueesS &dare himself so?" Mar- veled. At the conduct of the prisoner and the unaccountable hatred of his enemiee. Just at this point Pilate learned that Jesus was a, Galilean, and sent him for trial to Herod, the tetrarch of Galilee, who was ab that time in the oity. His scheme was vain, for Herod refused to judge the case and, lifter muleinglesimment him he.cleto Pilate (Luke- 23.6-12). Mt Mgt vainly try to place upon others the responsibilities and the trials which are their own. (3) The highest courage is shown by silence and self-control under unjust accusation. 6. At that feast. The feast of passover, occurring in the spring, aqd attended by millions of people fro ne all Parte of the !peevish world. He released Unto them. As a token of the general -rejoicing, and to obtain the favor of the people. In a despotic government crimes are regarded as againsb the iulernand pardon is given as a boon to the people; but in a free country crimes are against the people theinselves, and such customs have no place. Whomsoever they deeired. The people had beenaccustomed to make their own oho* of the oriminal to be rer leased. entlesen mmentlat,enseeMette 7, Hatabbas, An ancient tradietion etates that his name was Joseph ier Jesus Bar -Abbas, or 'Jesus, tem gen of Abbas." Which lay bouud. Shut up in prison, Made ourreobeen, Probably arabbas was one of the lialf.hero, half -bandit outlaw so frequonb in that age, who rbbbed and e mardered elle name of patriobism, while attempting to cast off the yoke of Rome, enfoittle,w, but a murderer, was the man diode in th place of the puke Jesus.e m This woeld explain his perteilarity with the peopise ti -pa the unwillingness of Pilate to reloatie him. Notice that be was guilty ot the very crime with which Jesus was fateely oused. Murder. Not only an 8, 9. Crying aloud. In the East the popu- lar desire is shown by loud eties from throngs of people. By such °ries many a vizier done. Reeked Version "As he was Wont to do." Pilate answered them, Seeing in has been deposed and slain to prepitiate the popular feeling. To do as he' had ever this desire another chance so save the life of Jou, whom he had already declared to be innocent. Will ye that I release? Be endeavots& to persuade them to ask for Jesus, When he might better have EPA him ree bhis own authority, as an innocent poreoe. (4) It is always beet to do the prinoiple instead of 'popularity. The fy right rather than the expediebt, to consult nig of bite jeers. A twilit at the Jewa end their aspirations after independence is clearly indicated. 10, 11, For he Imo*. From the boils duct of the leaders and the umener of Jesus. Delivered him for envy, Because the Jewish leaders Would have sympathized With die who aimed to theow off the Ro man rule, bad the charge et teditioe been true. Rance he knew their determination to put ITeaus to death, must hove some ulte. vior and secret motive, •Moved the people. The ()oilmen people had favored Jesus, but POW, by the maohinatione and misrepre- eieutatione ef the rulers,were turned against, him, and the popular cry was now loudly swelling demanding his death. (5) Often the voice of the people is not the voice of God, but of Satan. Release Barabbas. Just at that time Pilate received a new and vague alarm in the inessege from his wife (Matt. 27, 19), whom tradition hag named Claudia Preemie. (6) How hard it is to stein the tide of popularinfinenoe when a man once gives way to it 1 12. What will ye then? Re has submit- ted to the people Already, and now he must follow the current still further. He wiehed to do right as judge, end to save the life of Christ, bub he was conscious of his own demerits and misdeeds in his rule, and dreaded complaints at florae. Whom ye call, He wished to extott from the people the worde which they gave at last, * We have no king but Caw' (John 19.15), 13. Crucity him. That a multitude who two days before bad listened to Jesus vvith favor should now call for his death may seem strange, but it is not without pitrallel in the history of popular movements. We are to remember also the false reports of the leaders and their influence, and the fact that those who olamored for the crucifixion were the mob of Jerusalem, while those who shouted11Hosnna" were mostly people from Galilee, who had come to the feast (John 12, 12). 14. What evil.- Pilate had Already pro. nounced him innocent, and had washed his hands as a token that he disowned the responsibility of his death. Cried out the more. All the more earnestly because against reason. (7) The side which has the least argument is generally the most eager for persecution. 15. Willing to content the people. Will. ing to release Jesus (Luke 23, 20) he is more willing to win the favor ofthe people; even by consenting to a, great crime he failed to win the appiause which he sought. (8) Traitors, to conscience are . ever de. frauded of the price which they seek. Scourged him. The scourging is related in John 19. 1, and was done in order to ap- pease the people, and by showing Jennie in pitiable condition afterward to awaken their sympathy. It was administered with knotted cords, in which pieces of bone and 'iron were inserted totear the flesh. It was limited only by the will ot those who gave it, and often ended in the death of the sufferere. But it was all in vain and Pilate at last ordered Jesus to be crucified. A Roman method of execution, given only; to slaves and vile criminals a death protract- ed through days of ;enure. Jew and Gentile thus united in the death of the world's Redeemer. PERSONAL POINTERS. -- A Few items About Sonic or the Great Folks of the World. Lord Rosebery purchased recently a magnificent necklace, which is said to have once formed part of the French Crown jewels, and which cost the Premier some- thing like £20,000. The Marquis of Dufferin and Ave, who was at Nice, and who during hie stay had frequently the honor of dining with the Queen and the Prince of Wales, is now back at the Embassy at Paris. Mrs. Levi P. Morton and 18 other women well known in New York in various branoheif of philanthropio work have under- taken to establiEsh a co-operative employ- ment bureau.for the supply of its patrons with all sorts of help. The Duchess of Albany went to Windsor Castle laat week, and attended a special service held in the Albert Chapel in memory of the Duke of Albany on the eleventh anniversamoof his death. Her Royal High- ness filled the cross near the Duke's tomb with white flowers. •Dr. William Howard Russell, the Eng- lish war correspondent, recently celebrated his 7411h birthday. He began his work with the London -Times in 1843, and repre- sented that paper during the Crimean war, the Indian mutiuy, the Civil war in the §tistes, ejm Austre-Prussian war, and the EraiimeGeediali wan: ' Vaszary, the Primate of Hungary, is a man of the most simple tastes, and when he first entered office his task was rendered doubly hard by the fact that hitherto he had been hut a poor Benediotine monk.' He drove to the Primatial palace, at Gran, in a public oab, carrying on his knees a cage containing his pee canary. It is said that Mrs. Evans, wife of the ex -Lord Mayor of London, was, in her maiden days, a maid -of -all -work in a country inn. When Mr, Evans, then a wealthy merchant, met her for the first time, he was attracted by her modest ways, and, falling in love soon after, bad her rid meted, and married her, en mean • Dr. Matmorek,e, youngfiennese study- ing with Pasteur,is said to have discovered the bacillus that causes blood poisoning and inflamed wounds. He calla it strepto- coccus pyogenes, and says that he hair found out the antidote as well. The remedy can be used also for cases of diphtheria too malignant to be oured by serum. The Duke of Norielk, who has been superintendieg important improvements at Arupdef Castleee making London his heal duarters for the present. Hie Grace 'is tg entertain the Duke and Duchess of teitrlt, Princess Mary Adelaide one; Duke of Teak Odtheireisit see iiihefileld next month, at his place,The Farm,quite neamSheffield. President Cleveland's chief recreation at Woodley is a drive 10 the afternoon and a gaine of cards in 'the evening. The Presi- denb is a good whist player, and is also fond of penuohle. He bas been strongly verged or late to take to horseback riding for exercise, but his friends have failed to make an equestrian of him. He has been gaining flesh again of late. ...•1171111. Reason Enough. Mrs. Figg-Why do you let me call you thre e times before you answer? Tommy -'Cause 1 demerit make you stop. Perfectly Satisfied. Crack Boat Builder -Ah 1 How de do, VIr. Richman? How did that roweboat I made you last slimmer snit? Mr. Richman--Perfeetly 1 Ali ! Prri glad to hear it. I always like to give eatiefaction. Suited perfeotly, eh ? Yes. I left it in frdnt of my boab.house all simmer, ad every smilawag who tried to steal ib got upset or drowned. Not a Fault, When you talk with a dealer in horses, weigh not only your own words, but his. oueg Fastkind.-1 thought you told me this horde was veithout fault? Stablernale-So Oi did, son Young )31istkind.-1 notice one of his eyes is blind. ° Stableman. -That's not his fault, tier , ; it's his misfortunes. KITCHENS OF BIG. HOTELS mYsTERiEs or TURNING. OUT AN ELABORATE BILL OF FARE. date hotel kitchen oasts olose to 45100,040, awl the yeerieerinneoim of keepitag it in tioe running order is equivaleat to the ia001210 cbt la1i9144ireA EDIBLE DOGS. The Chefs Organized eorps-Grifing the The liright mCaufnes are Enorous Food !Supple aud coeklug Orearest DelleaeF of the Chilies° lsti iNDT It According to a 1110111.3111114 nie4, The Equipment or a Slodern Nobel Kitchen 4005t4 Nearly enesteen Horse meat is being cousumed by the poorer elaseeo of Europe more and more *Hotel kitchens are a deep myeterO to moat people who glance over the long menu three times a day and wonder where all the dishes oome from, and how they are prepared so that they can be had at a moment's notice. They , do not consider thee cooking for a houseful of guests re- quires an army of workers below stair, minute system and studied generalship on the part of the managers,who daily produce enough 000ked food to feed the population of a fairmized town. • There are two great men in the lower amnion of the big modern betel. One of them is the steward and the other is the chef. The first supplies the raw provender and the other gives it the artistic treatment which later on soothes the appetite of the guest into dreamy satisfaotion. The steward is a keen business man who watches the marketas closely as a proles. Siena' stook speculator. At nighb he makes a list of what he is to buy the »axe morn- ing. The list would read like MT OR manor to the average housewife. Ib is the regular thing.for the steward of one of the big hotels in a large city to buy each morning twenty-five different kinds of fresh fish, ten of smoked and salt fish, twenty.five varieties of meats, and the same number of butcher's miscellanies,such as sweetbreads, calf's head, etc. ; fifteen varieties of game thirty-five of vegetables, a dozen of frui and a like number of cheeses. A number of smaller items are also bought each day, such as olives, jellies, syrups, milk and eggs. There are regular days for the purchase of vast quantities of groceries, but these geve the steward corn- paratively little trouble, as they require no skirmishing about, to secure. An order is sent by telephone or messen er to the wholesaler, and the goods are delivered. Great care is taken in the purchase of milk, butter and eggs. Four of the large fashionable hotels of New York pay a con- tract price of $1 a pound the yearround for their butter, and this item alone costs each of them in the neighborhood of $90,000 a year, including the cooking butter. None of the milk supplied to these hotels is of the skimmed viiriety. It is bought by contract from. large dealers, and from each oan is taken enough to fill°, small glass jar, which is at once placed in a refrigerator at 45 degrees and kept locked up for twenty- four hours. At the expiration of that time it is • TESTED BY AN E:s:PERT to discover the exact proportion of cream and milk. The season of the year has much to do with these proportions, which for the cream vary from 12 to 22 per cent. If the cream falls below the minimum the dealer stands tbe immediate danger of losing a fat oontraot. Eggs are a tender subject with the large hotel men, and the steward invariably buys the costliest in the market An egg of bad, character may lose for the hotel one of its best patrons, and may indirectly cause others to change their quarters, as the man each year, but doge-eince the seise of Paria--bove not appeared under their own name on the tables of Parisian restamrants. At Poking, on the contrary, no good dine ie complete without a fillet or leg of deg. This custom, which seems so reptignali to us, is of very ancient origin. In Egypt, as far back as historn goes, some people used to piously embalm their dead dogs, while others judged it more economical to kill and eat them. Pluton* tells that the inhabitants of Cynopolis, where these ann. males were honored, made terrible a,nd re' lentleee war on the people of Oxyrinohie, who had committed a sacrilege of this lat. ter kind, In his book me "Diet," Hippo• orates, speaking of ordinary food, expresEses the opinion that the flesh of the dog makes =mole, but that it is DIPPICItT TO DIGEST4 "Our fathers," says Pliny, the Roman historian, "regarded little dogs as a food so delicate thet they were frequently served as an expiatory saorifice. To -day, even, the flesh of young doge is served in banquets made in honor of the gods." A little further on he says: "This meat was employed in the repast at tbe installations of the Pontiffs." According to Apicius, who has left to us a curious treatise on cooking, the Romans also ate full-grown doge, which they first fattened. The North America Indians, through scarcity of game, sometimes sacrificed their companions of the chase, but among oertain tribes, the Sioux, for example, the dog lute always been e. favorite article of food. It is eaid that before the introduction of horned cattle into Mexico the Spaniards ate so many of theme:tile dogs that, the species completely disappeared. According to Capt. Cook, the New Zealanders ate their dogs and used their eking for clothing. They preferred this meat to pork. In Africa it is a dello:toy. In Ashantee Land they eat it fresh or dried. The Greenlandere and the Kamechatkans also eat it sometimes, but only when forced to do so by tile necessitieS of famine. The Celestial "ohouchou," or edible dog resembles greatly TOE POMERANIAN 'BREED. Its forehead is broad and its muzzel quite pointed, though lessee than the Pomerania, The ear is short, 'erect and pointed for- ward, a little rounded at tho tip. The eyes are small and black, the body short aud thick. The "ohouohou" has rough, thick hair and curled tail; There are two varieties; one has long hair, which, is the higher esteemed -the dish of the. rich; the other has short, thiok hair. There are three different colors ; one entirely a bright red.; this is the aristocratio variety. The others are of different shades of a dark tawny with a black muzzle, ancl of a light tawny color with a clear muzzle. This last is the commonest variety. A general characteristic of this race is that the tongue is bluish black. This color is not natural, however, the puppies have red tongues, which begin to grow dark at the end of a fortnight or three weeks. It is rare that one of them is born with a back tongue. It is generally believed that the comesti- ble dog of the Chinese is the common variety with purple skin entirely devoid of who leaves on account of a disreputable egg hair except a little about the head, but is sure to tell about it. Not only that, but these blue dogs of China -incorrectly so it has the power to ruin scores of dollars' called, since they are encountered elsewhere worth of dainty pastry, gallons of puddings stele and custards, and generally do untold dam- in Asia and Turkey -are only a species which suffers from a hereditary skin disease. The manner of preparing these dogs for the table is the same as in valve in the case of suckling pigs, and in China there is no formal dinner or grand banquet without a "chouthou" as the piece de resistance, decked out in the same way as pigs are on European tables. All the eggs not boiled to order are broken separately by skilled assistants,making the cost of handling them a considerable item. Two hundred and fifty dozen is an average number used each de.y in a large hotel, and at tansy titres as much as 500 dozen have been handled. Breaking and judging 6,000 eggs in a day is no small task as den easily be imagined, The ultra -fashionable hostelries use English mutton to the lmost complete exclusien of the American produot, although immense quantities of the latter are daily exported to England. lt is the proper thing to call for FFOLisn MUTTON CFIOPS, although it takes a skilled epicure to dis- tinguish their delicate flavor. The sheep there are kept more carefully and the fattening process is slower and more pains- taking. It would be an easy matter for the hotel man to furnish American mutton when English is ordered, as not one guesb out, of Aft.y Would, kmognize the frffild, but hotele that pride themselves on their °Ws. ine dare bot practise such a deception. All the meat uaed is treated with artistic oare, and the " ripening ' process requires the judgment of an expert. When pur- chased io is ticketed with the date of kill- ing and the dressing, and is then packed in a cold room at 45 degrees for two weeks. When removed it is usually eovered with a thick, mould, andathe appearance of this mould to the expert is the keynote of its condition. It must be ripe, juicy and tender, and the long storage usually brings about these results. The real work at the kitchen falls to the lot of the slid and his salary ranges from $6,000 to $10,000 o, year. He hes a number of department chefs under him and each or them has a small regimeat of helpers. The next in rank to the chef is the saucier, who boils the meats and mixes the soups and sauces. After him comes the rotisseur, who broils and roasts all the meats and &h. Followingthe rotiseuer is the entremetier, who handios all the side dishes, such as vegetables, omelettea and whatever is fried. The garde a manger, next in rank, makes the salads and pre- pares the cold meats, The bouCher, who outs the meats, and the poissonier, who dresses the fish, end the cesserolier, who fills the important post of head pot -washer, coin lete the executive force of the chef. Wish awell-organized staff of aiiiiistants the main duty of the chef comes juet be- fore mealtime, wham he makes a round of the entire kitchen, tasting every article prepared. He men ,suggest some slight ohange, like the Adding of seasoning, but Ostially everything hag been thine. to his satisfaction. The bakery force is Inds- pelltienostooriftitthieottchoeff.f.he fittings, of .one of these kitehens wonld 'fill a velnine, and Were dub technical terms need it would be wholly unintelligible to the aVelrage good ousewife. Tho minim/mot , of an up -to - Mill Lighting in India. A new and interesting field for electric lighting 'has been suggested in the con- truetion of some large mills in Bombay: The proprieters of these new factory build- ings are about to have their card room lit by electricity, not for the purpose of working at night, but to supplement day- light, which in cloudy weather, and at times, even in the morning and the evening is insufficient for the proper carrying on of the work. In Bombay the ordinary pram ice 10 the construction of mills appears to haVe been t� ineke (leery etory as wide as t could be without impairing its illumine, tion by daylight. Whenever extensions were proposed, the first consideration was the utilization of daylight,and this question was allowed to dominate almost eveier other in the plena of construction. The • hampering effects of such conditions can easily be imagined. It is now found that by combining eleetric lighting and good ventilation extedsions can be made in any direction where the cheapness of land or other considerations makeit desirable. In Other words, it a factory is surrounded by buildings, and has much of the bright light which is so essential to certain textile industries cut off, its work cango on, and even in the gloom of the rainy BeaBODE neither quantity nor the quality of the pro., duct is etlected, Text Was Well Chosen. When the Duke of Ormond, whose family, name was Butler, was going to take pos. mission OA lora lieutenant of Ireland he wets, driven by a storm onto the Isle of Man, where a Rev. Mr. Joseph, a poor curate, entertained him ea hospitably aa his mean*. permitted. On his departure the duke promised to provide for hina a SOCID as he became viceroy,. The curate 'waited many' months in vain, and at last Avent over tci, Dublin to remind hie grace of bis promise.. Deepening of gaining access to the duke„, he obtained perinissiori to preaoh et the Cathedral. Tho lord lieutenant and his court were at the church, but none Of them remembered their .hurnble host till he prouounced his text, which, it must lee aokeowledged, was ws11 chosen; "Yet aid not the 'thief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him. The preaoher was et once vinevoivtiead. dtioor thimeeaetle and a f;ecli