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An InspIrtng and Noreeful netnews to
Tomer eicee.
New Yoek, May 18. -In bis studienceS
et the Academy of Music Dh. Talmage
meets many young men from different
tiarts of the onantry and representing al-
most every calling and profession in life.
To them be epeclally addressed Ms dis-
course yesterday afternoon, the subject
neing "Words With, Young Men, "
But few pople wit° /lave passed 50 years
a age are capable of giving adnice to
Teem; men, Too litany begin their court-
iieltbn forgetting they• ever wore young
men themselves. November snows eo
not understand May time blossom week,
The east wind never did understand the
eninth wind, Autumnal goldenrod natthes
anpeor fist at lecturing about early violete.
Generally after a man has rheumatism in
hie right foot he is riot competent to dis-
cuss juvenile elasticity. Not one man
out of a hundred can enlist and keep the
attention of the young after there Is a
bald spot on the cranium.
I attended a large meeting in Philadel-
phia, assembled to disouss how the
Young -Men's Christian Association of
that city might be made niore attractive
for young people, tenon a man arose and
made some suggestions with such lugu-
belong tone of voice and a .manner that
seemed to deplore that everything was go-
ing to ruin, when an old frieud of mine,
at 76 years as young in feeling as any one
at 20, arose and said: "That good brother
Who has just addressed you will excuse
me for saying that a young man would
no sooner go and spend an evening among
funereal tones of voice and fonereal ideas
of religion which that brother seems to
nave adopted tban he would go and sped
the evening in Laurel Hill cemetery. '
First get your soul right, You see, that
Is the most valuable part of you, It is
the most Important room in your house
It is the parlor of your enthe nature.
Put the best pictures on its walls. Put
the best music under its arches It is im-
portant to have the kitoben right, and the
dining morn right, and the cellar rigbt,
end all the other rooms of your nature
right (hut, oh, the parlor of the soul I
Be partioular about the guests who enter
It Shut its,doors In the faces of those
Who would despoil and pollute it. There
are princes and kings who would like to
come into it, while there are assassins
who would like to come out from behind
its curtains and witb silent foot attempt
the desperate and murderous. Let the
King come in. He is now at the dooe.
Let me be usher to announce his arrival
and introduce the King of this world, the
King of all the worlds, the King eternal,
Immortal, invisible. Make room. Stand
back. nOlear the way. Bow, kneel, wor-
ship the King. Halm him once for your
guest, and it does not make mtena differ-
ence who 0031308 or goes. Would you have
a witeranty against moral disaster and
surety of a noble career? Read at least
one chapter of the Bible on your knees
every day of your life.
Weird the next: Have your body right
"Bow are you?" I often say when I
meet a Iniend of 11117/8 in Brea' en He
is over seventy, and alert and vigorous,
and very prominent in the law. His
,
answer is, 'I am living on the capital of
a well spent youth." On the colatraiw,
there are hundreds of thousands of good
people whonre suffering the results of
early sins. The grace of God gives one
a new heart, but not a new body. David,
the Psalmist, bad to cry out, "Remem-
ber not the sins of my youth." Let a
young man make his body a wine closet,
or a rum jug, or a whiskey cask, or a
beer barrel, and smoke poisoned cigarettes
until bis band trembles, and he is black,
under theseyes, and his cheeks fall in,
and then at some church seek and find
religion. Yet all the praying he can do
will not hinder the physical consequences
of natural law fractured. Take care of
your eyes, those windows of the soul.
Take care of your ears and listen to
nothing that depraves. Take care of
your lips and see that they utter no pro-
fanities. Take care of your nerves by
enough sleep and avoiding unhealthy ex-
citements, and by taking outdoor exer-
cise, whether by ball or skate or horse-
back, lawn tennis or exhilarating bicycle,
if you sit upright and do not join that
throng of several hundred thousands who
by the wheel are oultivating crooked
backs, and °ramped chests, and deform-
ed bodies, rapidly coining dawn towards
all fours and the attitude of the beasts
that perish. A.nything that bends body,
mind or soul to the earth is inalmalthy.
Oh, it is a grand thing to be well, but
do not depen.d on pharmacy and the
&eters to make you , well, Stay well.
Read John Todd's Manual and Coombs'
Physiology and everything you can lay
your hands on about mastication and
digestion and assimilation. Where you
find ono healthy MEW or woman you find
fifty half dead. From my own experience
I can testify that, being a disciple of the
, gymnasioin, many a time just before go-
t ing t6 the parallenbars and punohIng bags
and pullies and weights I thought satan
was about taking possession of society
and the church and the world, but after
one hone of climbing and lifting and
Milling I felt like hastening home so as
to be there when the millennium set in.
Wake a good stout win every day. I find
In that habit, 'which I have kept up since
at eighteen years I read the aforesaid
Todd's Manusl, more reouperation than
in anything else.
'Word the next: Take care of your in-
tellect. Here comes the flood of novelet-
tes, ninetysnine out of one hundred belittl-
ing to every one that opens them. Here
come depraved newspapers, submerging
good and elevated • journalism. Hare
000108 a Whole perdition of minted abom-
ination, dumped on the breakfast table
and tea tante and parlor table. Take at
Meet 0118 good newspaper wit] eine edi-
torial and reporters' colt:Inns mostly oc-
• entitled with helpful intelligence, an.
flouncing marriages and deaths and re-
formatory and religious assemblage% and
celerities bestowed, and the doinge of good
people, rind giving but little place to
nasty divorce cam; and stories of oriole,
, Whion like cobras, sting thosa that touch
them. Oh, for more newspapers that put
virtue in Whab it called great primo)! type
end vioo in nonpavell et agate 1 Shove
me the newspapers you take and the
books you road, and 1 will tell you what
see our prospects foe well being in this
life, and what Will be your residence '
Let0I/Me yearteitter the star on whit% veo
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now Invenhell hyeideopped out Qt•p�
constellation. Xoever triwel on Sundsty
tinlerei it be a ease of necessity or Morey,
But last autumn I was in Indio in tt
city plague etrizok, Dy thelnanaxede the
people were dotren with. fearful Illness.
We went to the apothentry's to get some
preventive of the fever, and the p1ee4 was
ercarded with invalids, and we bad no
coufidence in the preventive we purehased
from the Hindoos. The mail train S5'88
to start Sabbath evening. I said,
"Frank, I think the Lord will excuse us
if we got out of this place with the first
train, " and,we took it, net feeling quite
conifoatable til we were Itendreds
miles away, I felt we were right in fly-
ing from the plague. Well, the air in
.many of our cities is struck through with
a worse plague -the plagne of corrupt
and damnable literature. Get away front
It as soon as possible. It has already
ruined the bodies, minds and souls of a
multitude which, ,if stood in solid col-
umn, would reach from New York Bat-
tery to Golden rxorm Tbe plague! tine
plague I
Word the next: Never go to any place
where you would no ashamed to die,
Adopt that plan, .n11(1.3,011 will never go
to any evil amusements. nor be found, in
compromising sitrroundings. How many
startling oases within the past few years
of men called suddenly ont of this world,
and the newspapers sueprided us when
they mentioned the locality and the com-
panionship.' To put it on the least im-
portant ground, you ought not to go to
any malt forbidden place, because if you
depart this life irt such circumstances
you put officiating ministers in great em-
barrasionent You know that some of
the ministers believe that all who leave
this life go straight to heayen, however
they have acted in this world or whets
Over they have believed. To get you
through from such surroundings is an ap-
palling theological undertaking. One of
the Inost arduous and besweating efforts
of tbat kind that I ever knew of was at
the obsequies of a man who was found
dead in a snowbank wtth his rum jug
close beside him. But the minister did
the work of happy transference as well as
possible, although it did seem a little in-
appropriate when be read: "Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord, They rest
from their labors, and their works do fol-
low them." If you nave no mercy upon
yourseln• have mercy upou the minister
who may be called to el:delete after your
demise. Die at home, cm in someplace of
honest businees, or tonere the laughter is
clean, or amid companionships pure ,and
elevating. Reraember that any plane we
go to may beeorne Our starting poini"for
the next world. . When we enter the
harbor of heaven and the officer of light
comes abetted, let usbe able to show that
our clearing papers were dated at the
right port.
Word the next: As soon as you can,
by industry and economy, have a home
of your own. What do I mean by a
home? I mean two rooms and the bles-
sing of God on both of them -one roam
for slumber, one for food, its preparation
and the partaking . thereof. niark you, I
would like you to have a home with thirty
rooms - all upholstered, planets' and
statuAted, but I am putting it down at
the rainimutn. A husband and wife tv/s.o
cannot be happy with a home made up of
two rooms would not be happy in heaven
if they got there. Ho who wins and
keeps the affectionof a good practical
woman lias dime gloriously. What do I
mean by n good woman? I mean. one
who loved God. before she loved you.
Wbat do I mean by a practical woman?
I mean one who can help you to earn a
living, for a time comes in almost every
inan's life when ho is flung of hard mis-
fortune, and you do not want a weakling
going ;wound the house whining and
snifflingabeut how she lad it beforeyou
married Ler. The simple reason why
thousands of men never get on in the
world is because they married nonentities
and never got over it The only thing
that Job's wife proposed for bis boils was
O warm poultice of profanity, • saying,
"Curse God and die." It adds to our ad-
miration of John Wesley when we
are told of the tuanner in -which
which he conquered domestic unhappi-
ness. His wife had slandered him all
over England until, standing in his pul-
pit in City Road cbapel, be complained
to the people, saying, "I have been charg-
ed with every crime in the catalogue ex-
cept drunkenness," when his wife arose
LO the back part of the church and said,
"John, you know you were drunk last
night." Then Wesley exclaimed, "Thank
God, thecatalogue is complete." When
a man marries, he marries for heaven or
hell, and more so when a woman marries.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself
too high. Better rate yourself too low.
If you rate yourself too low, the world
will say, "Come up." If you rate your-
self too high, the world will say, "Come
down." It is aabad thing when a man
gets so exaggerated an idea of himself as
did Baal of Buchan, whose speech Ballan-
tyne, the Edinburgh printer, could not
sot np for publication because he had not
enough capital I's among his type. Re-
member that the world got along without
you nearly 6,000 years before you were
born, and unless some meteor collides
with us or some internal explosion occurs
the world will probably last several thou-
sand years after you are dead.
'Word the next: - Do not postpone too
long doing something decided for God,
humanity and yourself. The greatest
things have been done before forty years
of age. Pascal at sixteen years of age,
Grotius at seventeen, Romulus at twenty,
Pitt at twenty-two, Whitefield at twenty-
four, Bonaparte at twenty-seven, Ignatius
Loyola at thirty, Raphael at thirty-
seven, bad made the world feel their vir-
tue or their oleo, and the biggests.strokes
you will probably make for the truth or
against the truth will be before you reach
the meridian of lite. Do not wait for
something to turn up. Go to work and
turn it up. Them is no each thing as
good luck. No man that ever lived has
had a better time than I have had. • Yet
I never had .any good luck. But instead
thereof a nind Providence has crowded
bay life with mereies, You will never 110-
complIsh inucli as long as you go at your
work on the minute you are expeeted and
step at the first minute it Is lawful to
quit. The greatly tisof ol and 811030SSft11
01011 ()Una text century will be those
Who began half an hour before they were
required and worked. at leasb half an hair
after they might have quit, Unless you
are tvilling ecimetimies to work twelve
belies ot the day you Will remain on the
low levels, and mit life will bo a pro-
longed htundintin, •
Word the men Etemembee that it Is
only a mall part of our life that we are
to pass on earth. Less than your finger,
neat Unmated with your whole body is •
the life on earth Whim tempered with the
TRE
pont 2le, 1. SuppoSe Mere are not MOM
than ball a dozen people in this evorin 100
years old. But a very few people in any
countty reach eighty, 'In aajarity ef
the buman rime expire wenn thitry.
Now, wbat an equipoise in snob, an consid-
eration. If things go wrong, M is only
for a little while. Have you not enough
moral nitwit to stinulthe jostling, and the
injustices, and the mishaps of the small
parentheses between the two eternities?
It is a good thing to get neatly for the one
mile this side the rnorble slab, but more
important to get fixed up for the inter-
mlnable miles which stretch out into the
distances beyond the marble slain A. few
years ago on the Nashville and New Or-
leans railroad we were waked up early in
the morniog and told we must take oarri-
egos for some distance. "Why?" we all
sand. But we soon saw for ourselves!
that, while the first four or five spans of
the bridge wore up, feather on there was
O span that had fallen, and we could not
but shudder at wbat might bane been the
possibilities. When your reit train starts
011 a loog bridge, you want to be sure that
the first span of the bridge is all right
But what if farther on there it: a span of
the bridge that is all wrong? How then?
What then? In one of the western eines
the freshets had carried away a bridge,
and a man knew that the expresa train
would soon come along. So he lighted a
lantern and started up the eraok to stop
the trabs. But before he had got far
enough up the track the wind blew out
the night of his lantern, and standing in
the darkness as the train came up he
threw the la,ntern into the locomotive,
crying: "Stop I Stop I" And the warn -
Ing was In time to halt the train. And
if any of you by evil babits are hastening
on toward brink or precipice or fallen
span I throw this Gospel lantern at your
mad career "Stop Stop! The end
thereof is death I" Young man, you are
caged now by many environments, but
you, will after awhile get your wings out
Word *the next: Fill yourself with bio-
graphies of men who did gloriously In •tne
business or occupation or profession you
are about to choose or have already chos-
en, Going to be a merchant? Read up
Peter Cooper and Abbot Lawrence and
James Lenox and William E. Dodge and
George Peabody. See haw most of the
merchants at the start munched their
noonday luncheon, made up of dry bread
and a hunk of cheese, behind a counter or
In a store-rooin as they started in bueiness
whioh brought them to the top of influ-
ences whioh enabled them to bless the
World with rnillions of dollars conseorated
to hospitals and schools and °hutches
and private benefactions, where neither
rigbt hand nor left hand knew what the
other hand din. Going to be a physician?
Read up Harvey and Gross and Sir Adam
Clarke and James Y. Simpson, the dis-
coverer of chloroform as an anaesthetic,
and Leslie Keeley, who, notwithstanding
all the -damage done by bis incompetent
imitators' .stands one of the greatest bene-
factors ofthe eenturies, and all the other
mighty physicians who have mended
broken, bones, and enthroned again depos-
ed intellects, and given their lives to
healing the long, deep gash of the world's
agony. Going to be a mechanic? Read
up the inventions of sewing Inachines
and cotton gins and life saving apptimatus
and the men who as arobitects and build-
ers and manufaeturers and day laborers
have made a life of thirty yoars in this
cerinny worth MOTO th8/1 the till 100
years of any other century.
Remember the greatest things are yet
to be done. If tbe Bible be true, or as I
had better put it since the Bible iebeyond
all controversy true, the greatest battle
Is yet to be fought, and compared with it
Saragossa and Gettysburg and Sedan were
child's play with toy pistols. We even
know the name of the battle, though we
are not certain as to where it will be
fought. 1 refer to Armageddon. The
greatest discoveries aro yet to be made.
.ad scientist has recently discovered In the
air something which will yet rIval elec-
tricity. The most of things bave not yet
been found out. An explorer has vecent-
ly found in the valley of the Nile a whole
fleet of ships buried ages ago where now
there is no water. Only six out of the
800 grasses have been turned into food
like tbe potato mid the tomato. There
are hundreds of other styles of food to be
discovered. Aerial navigation will yet
be made as safe as travel on the solid
earth. Cancers and consumptions and
leprosies are to le trabsineined from the
eaten -mile of Inc -create disease to the cur-
able. Medical men are now successfully
experimenting with modes of transferring
diseases from weak constitutions which
cannot throw them off to stout constita-
tions which are able to throw them off.
Worlds like Mars and the moon will be
within hailing distance, and instead of
confining our knowledge to their canals
and their volcanoes they will signal all
styles of intelligence to us, and we will
signal all styles of intelligence to them.
Coming times will class our boasted nine-
teenth century with the dark ages. Un-
der the power of gospelization the world
is going to be so improved that the sword
and the musket of our time will be kept
in museums as now we look at thumb
screws and anoient instruments of tor-
ture. Oh, what opportunities you are
going to have, young men all the world
over, under 80. Row thankful you ought
to be that you were not bora any sooner I
But tbe twentieth century 1 Ah, that
will be the time to see great sights and
do great deeds! Oh, young men, get ready -
for the rolling in of that lane/Meat and
grandest and most gloriouns century that
the world has ever seen I Only five Stun -
niers more, Eye autumns more, Ilve win-
ters more, floe springs more, and then the
olock of tbrie will strike the death of the
old century and the birth of the- now. I
do not know what sort of a December
night it will be when this century lies
down to die; tvhother it will be starlight
or tempestuous; whether the snows will
be drifting or the soft winds will breathe
upon the pillow of the expiring centen-
arian. But millions will mourn its go-
ing, for many have received from it kind-
nesses innumerable, and , they will kiss
farewell the aged brow weinkleci with so
many vicissitudes. Old utheteenth cen-
tury of weddings and burials, of defeats
and victories, of nations born and nations
dead, thy pulses growing feebler now,
Will soon stop on that Bist night at De.
ember, But right beside it will be the
infant century, held up for baptism. Its
smooth brow will glow with bright ex-
pectations. The then snore than 1,700,-
000,000 inhabitante of the earth will hail
its birth itnd pray for its prosperity, Its
reign will be for 100 yoras, and the most
of yotir life 1 think will be under the sway
of Its scepten Got reedits for it Have
your heart right; your toms eight ; your
brain right; yout digestion right We
Will hand Over to you eur commerce, cur
ineenatisin, our arta and science, our
to:doeskin% our pulpits, oue litheeitalume
liTER TX.14
A Dainty Spring Jacket.
This box -cloth jacket is made short, in
the French fashion, and in very full godet
pleats that extend far toward the front.
The collar ie in sailor shape, and, like the
revers, is edged with the box-oloth. The
sleeveare tremendously large for so ahort
a garment, but their great size le needed to
cover dress sleeveWhite peeri buttons
are in a single row on the lapped 'front. -
Toronto Ladies' Journal.
Wo believe in nom We trust you. We
pray for you. We bless you. And though
by the time you get into the thickest of
the light for God and righteousness we
may have disappeared from earthly scenes,
we will not lose our interest in your stnug-
gle, and if the dear Lord will excuse us
for a little while from the temple service
and the house of many mansions we will
come out on the battlements af jasper and
cheer you, and perhaps if that night tit
this world bo very quiet you may heal
our voices dropping from afar as we cry,
"Be thou faithful unto death, and thou
dealt have a crownl"
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 26.
"Jesus on the Cross." II4rk IS. 5241. Gold-
en Text. item. 5.8.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
The Saviour of the world rejected by his
own people, and condemned by the rulers
Of his land, is now given over to the brutal
mockery of the Roman guard. The band
is summoned, the victim's clothes are torn
off, a purple cloak is caat about his should-
ers, already merked by the soourgen, crown
°interns is pressed upon his brow, and a
reed, as if a scepter, is plaoed in his hand.
The knees of the soldiery are bowed in
pretence of submission, and he is hailed
with the title, truer far than his adverser.
les dreamed, "King of the Jews." When
the jeers and abuse have spent themselves
the Saviour is led out through the streets
of the city, mocked by the multitudes
along the way, on the sorrowful journey,
the Via Dolorosa, to the place of the
cross. The heavy beam hangs upon his
shoulders until he sinks beneath its weight
.A substitute is found in the stout Cyrenian
entering the gate, and he, perhaps a fol-
lower of Jesus, is compelled to carry
the cross. Outside the wall, the tumultu-
ous throng of soldiers, priests, rulers, and
people come to the place of Golgotha.
There the patiept Sufferer refuses the
stupefyine potion, and in consciousness of
every pang is fastened upon the terrible
tree, with a felon hanging on either side.
Before him a company of soldiers gamble
for his garments, around him is a sea of
scornful, bating faces, above him hangs
the superscription in the three great lang-
uages of the earth "Jesus of Nazareth, the
King of the Jews." During six awful
hours the Saviour hangs upon the cross a
spectacle to angels and to men. Around
him stand the multitude mocking him,
repeating and pervertmg his words, and
bidding him, as the Maslen, to come down
from his cross. The rulers urge on the
abuse, and with deeper meaning than they
can comprehend deolare that he who saved
others oannot save himself. One of the
two criminals by his side begins to join in
the mockery, but his companion turns to-
ward his Saviour in an energy of faith
which receives its reward in a promise of
glory beside his king. Seven times the lips
of the Crucified open during those six hours,
while darkness stretches its curtain over
the scene. At the "hour of the evening
sacrifice a mysterious cry is uttered, pro-
claiming at once hia Sonship with the
Father and the loneliness of Ins soul. The
mockers around repeat his words, half in
jest, and half in terror. Than with the
final words, "Ib is finished 1" the Saviour
diemisses his spirit into the hands of his
Father. The sacrifice is wrought, and the
Victim lies dead on the altar of the world's
redemption.
EXPLANATonT AND DRAoTIOAL .NOTES.
Verse 22. Golgotha, An Aramaic ward,
translated Calvary in the Latin, meaning
"skull -like". This may refer to its appear-
ance or to its use as a place of execution.
A prevalent opinion is that it is marked by
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, but
until the pickax and spade shall show
whether the old wall ran oatside or inside
of this place, the question cannot be settled.
All that can be known is that it was a spot
outside, but near, the city gate. (1) It is
far more important for us to know that
Jesus died for us than to know precisely
where he died.
23. Wine mingled with myrrh. This
was a stupefying draughtprepared by some
women of Jerimalem, tied permitted to be
green to deaden the pain. It was not the
same with the "vinegar" mentioned in
verse 36. Received it not. He refused it
because he desired to have his mind dear
during the sufferings of the croft
24. Ckucided him. The upright tiost
9/88 no higher than to raise hie feet above
the ground, and it piece of wood was fast.
+mod so that his body might root upon nor
dais the weight would tear the flesh off the
hands, whish were nailed to the crossbeam,
Parted his garments. The four soldiees
who tarried out the sentence received as
their perquisite garments stripped from the
sufferer. The outer garments they divided;
she inner oue WAS given by lot. Casting
lots. Probably by throwing dice from a
brazen helmet. Such had been the pre-
diction a thousand years before, in Psalm
22. 18. (2) Gamblers will ply their vocation
under the very shadow of the cross.
25. The third hour. Nine o'clock in
the morning, according to the Jewish
notation. John, who wrote long afterward,
used the Roman form of denoting nme
and spoke of the sixth hour (John 19. 14)
as the time when Pilate endeavored to
release Jesus, three hours before the
crucifixion. They crucified him. Death
by crucifixion united almost every form of
torture -constraint, dizziness, cramp, loss
of blood, untended wounds thirst, star.
vation, sometimes prolonged three daye
before the end came.
26. The superscription. The accusation
written by Pilatennd placed over the cross
in three languages. The King of the Jews.
Each of the four gospels gives a different
statement of its language. Probably it
was longer than any of the reports, and
more deflnitein expression. The evangelists
do not give reproductions of exact words,
but only the correct impression ot facts.
(3) Thus on the cross was proclaimed to all
nations the kingly rank of Christ.
27, 28. Two thieves, Revised Version,
"Two robbers." Brigandage was very
Gammon in that aee, though punished with
death by the Roman authorities. An early
tradition gives the names of these two men
as Titus and Dumachus. On his right
hand. Jest& was placed in the midst to
ridicule hts claim of kingthip. The scrip-
ture was fulfilled. This verse,a quotation
from Isa. 53. 12, is °nutted from the Envie-
ed Version as not in the best manuscripts.
Its omission here does not make the state-
ment any the less true ; and it is found also
in Luke 2e. 37. (4) The New Testament
and the Old bear witness to eath other.
29, 30. They that passed by. The crossee
stood near the gate, on a public roadorhere
many people were constantly paserng m
and out of the city, (5) So along the
avenuee of history the Crucified One is
113051 prominent, and none can fail to meet
him. Railed on him. Heaped vile epithets.
Wagging the heads, Making insulting
motions, peculiarly an oriental custom.
32. Christ the King of Israel. They
tauntingly quote the title above his head,
though they know that it was written in
scorn for themselves and their nation. That
we may see and believe. They had witness.
ed many miracles, but now demand one
more, and that chosen by themselves, as the
condition of their believing. So now un-
believers pass by the evidences which are
plain, and demand new arguments, "pray-
er tests," and fresh miracles, to prove the
Christian religion. (9) Not stronger proofs,
but more candid minds, are the need of the
hour. They that were crucified with him.
Froin Luke 23, 30.43 we learn that,only one •
of the robbers joined in the abuse of Jesus. I
Mark uses the expression in a general way,'
and Luke states the foot more definitely.
33. The sixth hour. Six hours after sun-
rise, or about noon. There was darkness.
This could not have been a solar eclipse,
for It was full 111000 at the time of the pass.
over. There was a deep fitness that the
saddest day since time began should be
shrouded in shadow. Over the whole laud.
This may mean simply the region around
the cross, the land of Palestine, or the
whole earth, as the same words are trans-
lated in Luke. Ancient Christian writers
appealed to heathen testimony to prove
that such a darkness did cover the earth on
that day. And there is a tradition that on I
that day the oracle atnnelphi became silent,
and gave no more . predictions afterward.
Until the ninth hour. From noon until
three o'clock, the brightest time of the
day.
34. At the ninth hour. The hour of the
evening sacrifice when the offering was lead
on the altar in the temple. Jesus cried.
He had already spoken three times from
the cross : once a, prayer for hie enemies
(Luke 23. 341: a promise to the penitent
thief (Luke 23. 43) ; and a message to his
mother (John 19. 26, 27) ; so that this was
his fourth uttere.noe. With a loud voice.
"A great voice," free from the weakuesa
of approaching death. Blot, Eloi. These
are the opening words of Psalm 02, in the
Aramaic dialect, the common speech of
Palestinian Jews of the lower orders. (10)
It is a suggestivefaet that the dying man
ot Nazareth spoke in the tongue which he
had learned by hit mother's knee. My
God, my God. Even in his deepest agony
of spirit he retained consciousness of a
divine relationship. Why haat thou for-
saken me? A sentence whose depth can
never be fathomed fully, since none oan
understand the mystery of the divine
nature. It probably represents the measure
in which he bore the sin of thd world, and
a consequent separation from God. (I1)
Whotover their meaning, for us he spoke
these words.
3o. Some of them. Not the soldierin for
they were Romans, who knee's nothing of
Elias, but ;Tows standing by. He celleth
Elia% Elijah, the prophet, to whose name
there is a strong resemblance in the original
words. Elijah was expected by the Jews.
as the forerunner of the Messiah, and in
the' minds of some there may have been a
vague fear that he was now wining ab Je.
ses's call.
THE 1111BElt UANABL
ROW THE CHIEF INDUSTRY OF
THIS COUNTRY HAS DS-
VSLOPSD.
The ProvInelat Areas -Forest Fires BUY
. be Expected noon on the Upper Ottawa
"-Mae 8444 41.0141Wit the Ternennerensitee
to the trimmer, or the Trade, in et
lawn.
Hon. J, K. Ward delivered ei leatnne in
Montreal the other evening ere "The Tim.
ber of Canada." In the course of hie remark
he said
The figures as to area and quautities are
approximate, as I consider it extremely
diffieult to estimate the quantity of good
timber on such a vast territory as Canada,
I have never seen two lumbermen agree as
to what a single limit of 50 miles continue.
In my experience of 50 years I have known
men who could find nothing on a limit
worth going after, while others hove work-
ed and done well on the same territory.
There are about 6,000 sawmills in the
Dominion, employing during the season, of
say, 150 days, not lees than 15,000 men in
and around the mills, sawing, piling, ship-
ping, ens. In the woods, during 'winter,
getting out the logs, and timber, and river
driving, there are about the some number.
Six thousand mills, averaging 400,000 per
season, makes up the apparent output of
all the mills. This quantity is sawed in a
single day by some of the larger mills, while
many of the smaller rains do not turn out
200,000 in the season. The difference in the
apparent output of the mills -that is 2,500
raillion-and that returned as cut 013 public
lands is made up as taken off private lands
and the Crown Lands of Nova Scotia, of
which we have no returns.
The area under license in the different
proclaims is about 100,000 sq. miles, yield-
ing annually -1893 -about 2,500 million
feet ban. of sawed lumber, pine and spruce
principally, and hewn timber divided as
follows among the different provinces
Ontario -7,140,000 logs, producing 728,-
000,000 feet b. m. principally pine; 40,000
pieces red and white pine, 42,000,000 feet
b. m.; 133,000 pieces boom timber, 2,600,-
000 feet b. in.; average size of pine and
spruce logs. 90 feet; ordinary revenue,
$939,000,000; ex. bonne, $958,000.00; area
under license,21,500 miles; area unoccupied,
17,000 miles.
Quebec -Ares. under license, 48,000
miles, producing spruce and pine logs, 6,-
170,000, equalling 683,000,000 feet b.m.;
producing pine, spruce and birch timber,
18,500,000 feet b.m.: railroad ties and other
wood, 22,500 12,000,000 feet b.m.; pulp,
cedar, etc., 10,000 cords; revenue, $892,-
000.
Experience showed that the forest fires
along the Upper Ottawa occur between
May and August, those months inclusive,
and his suggestion was to prohibit
TUE STARTING- OF FIRES
for clearing or other purposes within those
four months. He would also suggest the
divition of the timber lands into districts,
each under the guardianship of &policeman
resident within it. In my thirty years of
experience I have come to the conclusion
that most of the bush fires has been the
work of fishermen and hunters, who not
only destroyed valuable dinner, the pro-
perty of the public, but also the shanty
and material of the lumbermen. In view
of this being the case, I would suggest that
the government, who is most interested in
the preservation of forests, employ as many
men as are thought necessary in each agen-
cy, to look atter and trace the origin of
fires on the public domain, giving them
the power to take evidence, so as to bring
to punishment who either wantonly or
carelessly set fire to or camas the destrue.
tion of such valuable property. I would
, also suggest that no lands unfit tor settle-
ment should be offered for sale; from what
I have seen in my travels on the rivers
running into the St. Lawrence and Ottawa
from the north, a very large proportion of
such territory is of this character.
in the famous cellars of the Hotel de
Ville at Bremen there ere a dome cases of
holy wine, which has been preserved for 250
years.
The Ontario Government has recently
attempted to enforce strict precautions
against fire, and it has also appropriated as
a provincial park an enormous reserve near
Like Nipissing, thirteen hundred square
miles, of whieh nine hundred are pine
timber, situated on one of the chief natural
watereheds of the province. But a great
deal more than this is necessary if the
Canadian pine forest are not soon to dis-
appear like the tracts of Maine. We can-
not urge too strongly on the Government
to set apart all lands not suitable for mek-
mg a decent home for the settler. Much of
the land that they are tempted. ne go on
is not worth the trouble of clearings t it is
only the preeence of the lambermen, in
many oases, that enables him to exist
5110 QUEsTION or nEvENDE
is of importance, a,s well as other consider-
ations, in not destroying the forests, and
the country of its principal source of
wealth:
The product of the forest is disposed of
about as follows
Fxported sawn limber and timber, $240
000,000.
260,000,000 sawlogs, 8208,000.
Railroad ties, pulpwood, bark, U7,000,-
000.
The Brat timber shipped to Europe from
Canada was sent from Quebec to Larochelle
by Talon iti 1667. Lieut. Hocquart shipped
timber and boards to Rochefort in 1735. In
1823, 300 cargoes were shipped from
Quebec.
Touchtng on the pioneers in the business
he said:
The late Allan Gilmour and relative ot
the same name carrion on for many years a
lerge business on the North Nation, the
Gatineau and Missiesippi-Canonia-and at
Trenton, Ont., the younger branches of the
family continuing the same businees.
Philomene Wright, the .firstnumbermen
on the Ottawa river, caine from Woburn,
In the United States, Arriving at the
Chaudiere Falls -or the Astinou, as called
by the Indians -AS estly as the year 1705.
It was not till 1797 then he finally decided
to make his home iu Canada, arid on the
20th October, 1799, ho and two eompanions
pitched upon the site of the future city of
Hann Be finally quitted Woburn for
Canada on the 2nd of Februery, 1800. Be
was acoomponien by live families, and had
in his train fourteen horses eight oxen and
seven sleighs. The first tree wan felled on
the tate of the homestead on the 7th of
Mareli ot the eanle year. He brought the
square timber from the Ottawa to
Quebec in the year 1807, Me built the first
elide On the Mull tide el the river hi 1820*
He was elected the first member to reetp
gdeinetit inthlesacati 8 oiefev04teM14 11* ISM 40
Hotielntn inaeorir#
in the little cemetery on the Aylmer reeds
Philemon° Wright built. his grit saw and
grist miU in 1808; they were,Fifortunately,
burned down, but were rebuilt in 60 days.
firsAtbsoe.uwt ing hl toe: nth): OartfltaPwrai°1aradiobteheals art
at Point Fortune by a 11r, Story, It beseited
one Upright taw, and it is reoorded that
when the man in charge gigged back the
carriage for a froth out he would sit down
on the log to take his dinner'and was about
through by the time the out was finiehed.
With our present saws the same ean be
done in four sego/ads.
Among our eueeelieful lumbermen have
been the late ,Tames McLaren, of Blunts
Meninx; Peter IVIoLaren of Perth;
Bronson, Weston le Co., Polley clz Pattee,
J. R. Booth, Alex. Frazer, of VS estxneath;
W. Mackey, and the late Don of Hamilton
Bros., whose father was one of the first ill
the trade at Hawkeehnry, Ont. Ma-ny
others have takean active part in the
business, with more or lima ewes%
West of the Rooky Mountains Canada
contains vast quantities of valuable timber,
the manufacture of which is rapidly
increasing to meet the wants of the Pacifie
coast and islands. Now much of the lumber
will find its way easb into the treelee0
prairies.
As to Canada's method of lumberine,
When circumstances will permit, we pile
ekid before the snow become too deep.
When the snow is deep we draw direet
from the stump to the lake or river. Out
style of
LTV/NO IN VIE SHANTY;
and, in fact, the building itself, differs in
various parts of the country. Until very
recently particularly in the lower St,
Lawrence, the fare of the shantyrnan was
very primitive, the commonest tee, beieg
quite a luxury, and the only variety in tbe
bill ot fare was that it consisted of pea
soup, bread, pork and beans for dinner the
same, with the addition of tea, for nipper,
and either, less the pea ;lour; for breakfast.
On the St. Maurice, for many years, the
living has been good said substantial, with
comfortable shanties provided with stove,
tables and bunkinthe cooking being usually
done in an outside compartment. The
shantennan'a condition, however, is im-
proving with the times.
Our shantymen, whether English or
French, as a rule are as good axemen, as
expert drivers and canoemen, as can be
found in any country. Our people are
well up in dam building, as well as in
making slides and clearing away the rairers
to feadlitele driving. Our rivers, as a gen.
end thing, being very precipitous and
rapid, require extensive improvements
especially for the running of square tim-
ber.
Skirt with Organ Pipe Folds.
The fashionable skirt Is no longer made
to match the waist, but often in direct
contrasts to it. These independent skirts
are in many varieties, and are made of
various materials. We here give one of
the most stylish skirte now worn, which
has the additional merit of being Very
generally becoming. The gored front and
sides flare modishly at the foot, being
faced deeply with hair -cloth. The three
godets in the back are lined throughout
with the boincloth, and tacked at the
seams to a band oz elastic unuerneatit
which holds them in position. Ibt
centre godet is cut straight in the middle,
and felts on each side something like a box -
plait with rounded edges. The top fits
smoothly in front and over the hips, while
the back is arranged in small plaits. The
placket is formed . underneath the centre
plait. Rock or other varieties of °report,
velvet, grode-Londres, peau-denoie, moire
and satin antique, besides silk ann wool
mixtures of every fasnionable kind, are
used for these handsome skirts. ---Toronto
Ladies' J ournal,
Salting a Corpse.
One of the most curious burial customs
till enlisting in Iceland and in Somerset -
shire, England, is that of placing salt upon
the breast of a corpse as soon en it has been
properly "laid out" on the cooling board.
In England, where the euatom still prevails
among a people who hoot the inmutation of
being superstitious, it is claimed that it is
done in order "to prevent air from getting,
into the corpse and thus swell and bloat it.'
Campbell and Moresin both refer to the
practice as a survival of old-time supersti-
tious burial rites. They quote largely front
ancient writers to prove that early Chris-
tians all regarnea db as an emblem of
immortality and eternity, and that on suoh
accounts it was anciently used in the
manner above mentioned. Harman is
authority for the statement that the early
Germane not only put salt under the tongues
of their dead, but also put little cylinders
of rook emit in the right hands of tbe sick
aa soon as it was learned that suoh persons
were near death's door.
The Soldier's Load.
Altuniniem is to be adopted as a subebis
ute for iron and steel in the French army.
In view of the absence of roadatand the
steepness of the traoks 10 Maciagasear the
kettles and other impediments of the troops
taking part in the expedition, the trees of
the saddles of the cavalry and the stirrepe
are to ba made of aluminium. The trees
will have bands of steel let in when the
metal is in a stet° of fusion. The weight
of the French heavy cavalry saddle tree fa
now about five pounds, but with the sub.
stitutiou of aluminium it will be redeem:1 to
coneidaably less than two and a half
pounds,