The Exeter Times, 1895-6-6, Page 7TH E EXETER TimEs
ROTAS AND COMMIT,
Nothing is Mere mime, in the curious
etory et the intervention a France aud
Inermeny in the affairs of the got, than
the acmes 0 Auglophobia which it has
developed. One of the Russian journale
deolexeri that "liturstia's diplomatic triumph
la a great defeat for Great Britain," A
nrrench journal declares that France will
be the dupe a Buena unities Russia. repays
on the Maks of the Nile tete services Franco
has done her— that is to my, unleas she
• helps Ithancie turn 'England out of Egypt.
Another Frereth journel says that Japan
had the moral support of England, and
that the nullifioation of one of the olauses
of the treaty of peaces under an implied
threat from the new and singular Dreibund
Is the greatest check which the English
Policy in the far Beet has ever undergone
All this talk is absolutely without any
bath; in fact or reason. The powers, or,
rather, the nations, for the United States
does not count as a "power," which had
the greatest interests in the far East were
Great Britain and the United States. Iii is
probably fair to say that the stake ot the
two nations which have held aloof in the
peace and prosperity of China and Japan is
three tinaes as great as then of the three
powers which have interfered. While the
war was going on it seemed to the British
Foreign Office that British interests were
endangered, and a tentative suggestion to.
ward a "European concert" amordingly
emanated from that office. But this failed,
and when Japan announced her terms
Great Britain and the United States found
that not only was there nothing in them
periloue to odramercial interests, but that
those interests were direotly and powerfully
promoted. Thereupon they minded their
own business. But Russia detected a
menace to her interests as an Asiatic power
In the motivation of continental territory
by Japan, and Germany and France, eager
• to conciliate Russia, made the false pre-
tense that their little interests were ehreee-
ened and joined with her. Thereupon the
French press began to berate England for
not joining also •and taking the fourth
fiddle in a European concert under the
beton of Russia. They accused hen' of
"selfish isolation," as if that were some
kind of crime ; and so temperate a news-
paper as the Journal des Debate warned
'England that she was incurring a "heavy
responsibility."
Thie talk is all so wide of the mark that
thennhe question it raises is whyanybody
should indulge in it. It is so very olear
that a nation incurs a heavier responsibili-
ty by mixing in quarrels that do not
concern it than by staying out of them
that the motive of swill appeals is not at
first eight Apparent. It seems, however,
to hedrely that which the tailless fox in
• the fable had for advising the other foxes to
deoaudate themselves. To vary theioologi.
cal trope, it is not dignified for a gosh
nation to allow itself to be used as a oat's-
,.
paw by a monkey or by a bear. The nations
which take up thiet undignified attitude
are naturally resentful of the nation which
declines to take it. It is quite absurd to
say that Japan had the moral support of
Great Britain as against these powers. The
sympathy of the British people she un
doubtedly hadnust as she had the sympathy
of the •American people. But 'neither
British nor American interests were so
involved in the issue that either Govern.
mint would have been warranted in taking
sides, and neither Government did take
sides. Neither Goverment has been in
any wIty humiliated by the Japanese
renunciation of olsims which neither
Government advised Japan to advance and
which neither Government in any way
eupporled or was asked to support. The
only -nations that are humiliated are those
which stooped to bully Japan in order to
toady Russia.
• THE BULL KILLED THE LION.
After a Battle Lasting One Bout the Zion
Received a Death -Blow and Died In
the Arena.
The mat remarkable fight between a
bull and the man-eating lion Parnell, which
took place at Monterey, Mexico, the other
day, resulted in the death of the lion.
Parnell was the lion which killed its keeper
at San Francisco and later on muffed the
death of his trainer, George Rooke, in
leargii: He caught Rooke's arm as 'the
latter was oarelettsly standing near the cage
and mangled the man so horribly that he
died of blood.poisoning. Parnell was also
the lion whioh freight the grizzly bear
Ramidan, before the latter was killed by a
bull.
The fight between the lion and the bull
at Monterey lasted one hour. Six days
preview Parnell had killed., and oaten a
goat, and after he had digested this meg
he killed and ate a yearling heifer, them
getting bite good condition for his fight
with the bull. The fight had been exten•
eively advertised and 2,000 people aosemb.
led at the bull ring in In onterey to witness
the spectacle. It was notquite as exciting
as many of them expected, and the lion from
the flint evinced considerable fear of his
adversary. The bull rushed at him again
and again, with home down, but the lion
• cowered close to the wire fence and for a
tinie avoided the horns. Finally, however,
be was made to enter the centre of the ring
when the ball quickly finished him.
Some people went so fat. as to say that
the boasted king of beasts died from fear,
but the ferocity of the bull, as described
by eye witnesses, was mike sufficione to
put an end to his career wheh once he had
him in the open. Clol, Beene, who was the
owner of the lion, expressed surprise thee
the animal "put. up" so poor a fight, while
advocates of the Mexican bull vvere accord.
Joey doled at the prowete ot their heron te,
, upon, which they had bet eateiderable
nonny.
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TIIE GREA.T. SOLDIER.
REY,T. pe WITT TALMAGE, 0.0., TO
VETERANS On THE WAR.
fee Prpche o the Tinrteenth liegiment
—Orembee the Soldier end. 13ero — The
Crossing orthe Jordan—The (Arcot Vie-
tor—The
Brooklyn, May 26,—th the Enthean
Memorial., olvareh a lerge audience
assembleto liten to the annual sermon
of Chaplain T. De Witt Tonnage ot the
Thirteenth regiromat, N. G.S.Nt Y The
members of the regiment occupied the
body of the church, Dr, Talmage obese
or Ids subject, "The Greatest Soldier of
all Time," the text being Joshua 1, 5,
"There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thy life."
The "Galant Thirteenth," as the regi-
ment is generally and appropriately eall-
ed, has gathered to -night for the worship
of God and to hear the annual sermon.
And first I look with hearty salutation
into the faces of the veterans,who, though
not now in active service, have the same
patriotic and military enthusiasm which
characterized them, -when in 1868, they
bade farewell to home and loved ones and
started for the field and risked all they
held dear an earth for the re-establish-
ment of - the falling United Statee
government. "All that a man hath will
he give for his life," and you showed
yourselves willing to give your lives.
We hail you! We thank you! We bless
you, the veterans of the Thirteenth. Na
thing can ever rob you of the honor of
having been soldiers in one of the most
tremendous wars of all history, a war
with Grant and Sherman and Hancock
and Sheridan and Farragut on one side,
and Leeiand Stonewall Jackson and Long-
street and Johnston on the other. As in
Greek assemblages, when speakers would
rouse the audience, they shouted "Maras
thon 1" so if I wanted to stir you to
goolantation, f would only need to speak
the words, "Lookout Mountain," "Chan-
cellorsviile," "Gettysburg." And though
through the passage of years you are for-
ever free from duty of enlistment, if
European natious should too easily and
too quickly forget the .Monroe doctrine
and set aggressive foot upon this country,
I think your ankles would be supple
again, and your arms would grow. strong
again, and your eye would be keene
enough to follcorthe stars of the old flag
wherever they might lead.
And next I greet the colonel and his staff
and all the officers and men of this regi-
ment. It has been an eventful year in
your. history. If never before, Brooklyn
appeeciates something of the value of its
armories and the importance of the men
who there drill for the defense and safety
of the city. Tim blessing of God be upon
all of you, my comrades of the Thirteenth
regiment 1 And looking about for a sub-
ject that might be most helpful and in-
spiring for you, and your veterans here
assembled, Ind the citizens gathered to-
niglat with their good wishes, I have con-
cluded to hold up before you the greatest
soldier of all time—Joshua, the hero of
my text.
He was a magnificent fighter, but be
always fought on the right side, and he
never fought unless God told him to
lights In my text he gets his military
equipment and one must think 'it was
plumed helmet for the brow, grmves of
brass for the feet, habergeon for the breast.
"There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thy life."
"Oh," you say, "anybody could have
coinage with such a backing up as that"
Why, my friends, I have to tell you
that the God of the universe and the
Chieftain of eternity promises to do just
as much for us as for him. An the re-
sources of eternity an pledged in our be-
half, if we go out in the service of God,
and no more than that was offered to
Joshua. God fulfilled this promise of
my text, although Joshua's first battle
was with the spring freshet, and the
next with a stone wall, and the next lead-
ing on a regiment of whipped cowards,
and the next battle, against darkness,
wheeling the sun and the moon into his
battalion, and the last against the king
of terrors, death—five great victories.
For the most part when the general of
an army starts out in a conflict he would
like to have a small battle in order that
he may get his courage up and he may
rally his troops and get them drilled for
greater conflicts; tut this first undertak-
ing of Joshua was greater than the level-
ling of Fort Pulaski,. or the thundering
down of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of
the Bastille. It was the crossing of the
Jordan at the time of the spring freshet.
The snowp of Mount Lebanon had just
been melting and they poured down into
the valley, and the whole valley was a
raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand
on one bank and they look across and see
Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh
and say, "Alta 1 aha 1 they cannot disturb
us until the freshets fall; it is impossible
for them to reach us." But after awhile
they look across the water and they see a
movement in the army of Joshua. They
•say: "What's the matter now? Why,
there must be a panic anaong these
troops, and they are going to fly, or per-
haps they are going to try to march across
the river Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic."
But Joshua, the chieftain of tho text,
looks at his army and cries, "Foeward,
march!" and they start for the bank of
the Jordan.
One mile ahead go two priests carrying
a glittering box four feet long and two
feet wide. It is the hek of the covenant
They come down, and no sooner do they
touch the rim of the water with their feet
than by an almighty fiat Jordan parts.
The army of Joshua marches right on
without getting their feet wet over the
bottom of the river, a path of °balk and
broken shells and pebbles, until they get
to the other bank. Then they lay hold
of the oleanders and tamatisks and wil-
lows and pull themselves mabank thirty
or forty feet high, and ha.vilig gained
the other bank they clap their shields and
eninbals and sing the praises of the God
of *Thelma.
But no sooner have they reached the
bank than the waters begin to dash and
roar, and with a tetiefic rush they break
loose from that strange, anchorage. Out
yonder they have stopped; thitty miles
yondee they halted. On this side the
waters roll oft...toward the salt teas -But
as the hend of the Lord God is taken
away from the thus uplifted waters—
waters potentate opliftee half a mile—ds
the Almighty hand is taken away, those
waters rush Clown, and some of the un-
believieg Israelites say: "Alas, alas,
what a misfoviemel 'Why could not those
waters have staid patted? • Because per-
14Aus Wo Max Want to em huh'. 0 Latch
We are engaged In a risityleminess. Those enemy. Were are two long eines of fiat.
Caumnites may eat us up. Dow if we tie. The battle opens with great elaugh-
waot to go back? Would it not have ter, but the, Cannanites sOon discover
beau a more pompano aliment if the Lord something. 'rimy say: "That is Joshua;
had parted the waters to 101 us come that is the Anna who conquered the miring
through and keep them ported te lot us go
freshet and. knocked lztlaet:u
beak if we aro defeatod?". My friends, God: wan end &droned the citY of Ai. There
t.: ysousilne
makes P0 provision for a Christiaa's re- in n° uS0 nOlting'"
Canaan. To go bnoule wenn Tee gene Joshua and Iris h.ost spring upoa them
gettekeepera that. swing back the ante- like a panther, pursuing them over the
tlinetine orystalline gate of the Amami rooks, and as those Ciauteuttee wIth
to let Isteei Pees through now Winn shpt sprained anklea and gashed foreheads re-
treat. Int ewers else ham en toe may to retreat, and, as they begin to retreat
the amothysttne and orysMllene gate of
the Jordan to keep the Israelites from
going book. I declare it in your hearing
to -clay, viotory ahead, water 40 feet deep
in the rear, Triumph ahead, Canaan
aheatl; behind you death and darkness
and woe and hell. But you. say, "Why
didn't those Canaanites, when they had
snob a splendid obance—standing on the
top of the bank 80 or 40 feet high, corn-
pletely demolish those poor Israelites
devvia in the river?" 1 will tell you why.
God had made a tondo arel he was
;Ping to keep 'Viere shan not sew
man be able to stand before thee all the
days of thy life." .
But this is no place for the boot to stop.
Joshua gives the command, "Forward,
March 1" In the distance there ia a long
grove of trees, and at the end of the
grove is a city. It is a city of harbors, a
eity with walls seeming to reach to the
heaven's, to buttress the very sky. It is
the great metropolis that commands the
mountainmass. It is Jericho. That city
was afterward captured by Pompey, and
it was interward captured by the Moham-
medans, but this campaign the Lord
plane. There shall be no swords, no
shields, no battering ram. There shall
be only one weapon of Mar, and that a
ram's hom. The horn of the slain ram
was sometimes taken, and holes were
punctured in it, and then the musician
would put the instrument to his lips and
he would run his fingers over this rude
musical instrument and make a, great
deal of sweet harmony for the people.
That was the only kind of weapon.
There is only one more thing to do,
and that is to utter a groat shout. The
Mum of the victorious Israelites and the
groan of the conquered Canaanites com-
mingle, and Joshua standing there in the
debris of the walls bears a voice saying,
"There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thy life."
But joslaua's troops may not halt here.
The command is, "Forward, march 1"
There is the oity of Al; it must be taken.
How shall it be taken? A scouting party
comes hack and says, "Joshua, we can
do that without you; it is going to be a
very easy job; you just stay here while
we go 8,nd capture it. They march with
treat the catapults of the sky pour a volley
of Intilstooes bate the valley, and all tho
artillery of the heavens with bullets of
iron pounds the Caummitee against the
ledges of Beth-horon.
"Oh," says Joshua, "this is surely a
victory!" "But do you not see the sun is
going down? Those Amorites are going to
get away after all, and they will come
up some other time and bother us and
perhaps destroy us." See, the sun is go-
ing down. Ole for a hanger day than has
ever been seen in this climate! What is
the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen,
In an apoplectio fit? No. He isein prayer.
Look out when a good man makes the
Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face,
radiant with prayer, and looks at the
doses:sliding sun over Gibeon. and at the
faint crescent ofethe moon,ifor you know
the queen of the night sometimes will
linger around the palaces ot the day.
Pointing one baud at the descending sun
and the other hand at the faint crescent
of the memo, in the name of that Gad
who shaped the worlds and limos the
worlds, he cries, "Sun, stand thou still
upon Gibeon; and thou, moon, in the
valley ot Annan." And they stood still.
Whether it was by refraotion of the SOU'S
rays or by the stopping of the whole
planetary system I do not know, and do
not care. I lea,ye it to the Christian
scientists and the infidel scientists to set-
tle tbat question, while I tell you have
seen the same thing: "What 1" say you,
"not the sun standing still?" Yes. The
same anixactle is performed nowadays.
The wicered do not live out haTf their
day, and the sun sets at noon. But let
a man start out and battle for God, and
the truth, grad against sin, and the day
of his usefulness is prolonged and. pro-
longed and prolonged.
But it is time for Joshua to go home.
He is 110 years old. Washington went
down the Potomac, and at Mount Vernon
closed his days. Wellington died peace-
fully at Ansley House. Now, where shall
Joshua rest? Why, he Is to have his great-
est battle now. After 110 years he has
to meet a king who has more subjects
than all the present population of the
earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his
narterre the graveyards and cemeteries
a small regiment in front cif that eitne`i`ofthe world. his chariot the world's
The men of Al look at them and give hearse—the king of terrors. But if this
one yell, and the Israelities run like is Joshua's greatest battle it is going to
reindeers. The northern mons at Ball be Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers
Run did not make such rapid tiros as his friends around him and gives his
these Israelites with the Canaanites after
, valedictory, and it is full of reminiscence.
them. They never out such a sorryligure
Young men tell what they are going to
as when they were on the retreat. Any- do. Old men tell what they have done.
bodynhat goes out in the battles of God I And as you have heard a grandfather
with only half a force, instead of your , or great-grandfather, seated by the even -
taking the men of Ai the men of At will
take you. Look at the church of God on ! Ing fire, tell of Monmouth, or Yorktown,
and then lift the crutch or staff as though
the retreat. The Bornesian cannibals ,!11 were a musket, to fight, and show how
ate up Niemen the missionary. "nail I the old battles were won—so Joshua
back, said it great many Christian peo-
ple. "Fall back, oh, Church of God! gathers his friends around his dying
couch, and
Borneo will never be taken. Don't you! he tells them the story of what
he has been through, and as he lies there,
see the Bornesian cannibals have eaten
I his white locks snowing down on his
wrinkled forehead, I wonder if God has
kept his promise all the way through—
the promise of the text. As be lies there
he tells the story one, two or three times
—you have heard old people tell a story
tsvo or three times over—and he answers:
"I go the way of all the earth, and not
one word of the promise has failed, not
one word thereof has failed; all has come
to pass, not one word thereof has failed."
And then he turns to his family, as a
dying parent will, and says; "Choose
now whom you, will serve,the God of
Israel, or the God of the Aanorites. As
'tor me and my house, we will serve the
Lord." A dying parent cannot be reck-
less or thoughtless in regard to his child-
• ren. Consent to part witut them at the
door of the tomb we cannot. By the
cradle in which their infancy was rocked,
by the bosom on which they nrst lay, by
the blood of the covenant, by the God of
Joshua, it will not be, We will not part,
weecannot part. Jehovah Jireh, we take
thee at thy promise, "1 will be a God to
thee and thy seed after thee."
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
out. Handle him very gently; that sacred
body is over 110 years of age. Lay him
out, stretch out those feet that walked
dry shod the parted Jordan. Close those
lips which helped blow the blast at which
the walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arm
that ilfted the spear toward the doomed
city of Al. Fold it right over the heart
that exulted when the live kings fell,
But wherishall we get burnished granite
for the headstone and the footstone? I
bethink myself now. I imagine that for
the head it shall be the sun that stood
still upon Gibeon and for the foot, the
moon that stood still inthe valley of
Ajalon.
up Munson the missionary?" Tyndall
delivers his lecture at the University of
Glasgow, and a great many gocid people
say: "Fall back, oh, Church of God!
Don't you see that Christian philosophy
is going to be overcome by worldly phil-
osophy? Fall back I" Geology plunges its
crowbar into the mountains, and there
are a groat many people who say: "Sci-
entific investigation is going to overthrew
the Mosaic account of the creation. Fall
back 1" Friends of God have never any
right to fall back.
Joshua 'falls on his face in chagrin. It
is the only time you ever see the back of
his head. He falls on his face and begins
to whine, and he says: "0 Lord God,
wherefore bast thou at all brought this
people over Jordan to deliver us iiato the
hand of the Anaorites, to destroy us?
Would to God we had been content and
dwelt on the other side of Joidau 1 For
the Conaanites and all the inhabitants
of the land shall hear of it and shall
environ us round and out off our name
from the earth,"
I am glad Joshua said that. Before it
seemed as if he were a supernatural
being, and therefore ' could not be an ex-
ample to us, but I find he is a man, he
is only man. Just as sometimes you find
men under severe opposition, or in a bad
state of physical health, or worn out with
overwork, lying down and sighing about
everything being defeated. I am encour-
aged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he
lies in the dust.
God conies and rouses 'him. How does
be rouse him? By complimentary apos-
trophe? Nee He says: "Get thee up.
Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?"
Joshua rises, and, 1 warrant you, with it
mortified look. But his old courage
comes back. The fact was that was not
his battle. If he bad been in it he would
have gone on to victory. He gathers his
troops around him and says, "Now let us
go up and capture the city of Al; let us
go up right away."
They march on. He puts the majority
of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in
the night, and thou he sends a compara-
tively small battalion up in front of the .
city. The men of Al come out with a
shout. This battalion in stratagem fall '
back end fall back, and when all the '
men of Al have left the city and aro in
purauit of this scattered or soonaingIy
scatteetel battalion, Joshua stands on a
eock-si see his looks flying in the wind
as he points his spear toward the doomed
city, and that is tbe sigual. The men
rush out from behind the rocks and take
the city, and it is put to the torch, and
then those Israelites in the city march
down and the flying battalion of Israel-
ites return, and betWeen these two waves
of laraelitish prowess the rnen of Ai are
destroyed, and tho israeTites gain the
victory, and while 1 see the curling
smoke of that clestmend oity on the sky,
and while I hear the huzza of the Israel-
ites and the groan of the °almanacs,
Joshua hears sonnesning louder than it
ringing and eoilig though his sone
"There shall net any man be able te
staud before thee all the clays ot thy life."
• But this is no place for the host of
Joshua, to atop. "Forward, march l"
eries Joshua to the Weeps, There is the
city of Gideort, It has put itself tinier
tho protection of. joshuit. They sent
word, ."Thero are free kluge after as;
one mons guide; send res help eight
away." Joshua has a three days' math
more than double tinkle On the morn -
nem of the thitel den he le before tho
Pees On and Off Shipboard.
On all the large trans-Atlantic eteamers
the room stewardess is entitled to and ex-
pecte a fee of ten shillings ($2.50) frorn each
passenger upon whom she waits. The
dining -room steveart receives the same
amount. If the passenger is ill most of
journey, and but seldom at table, teen the
fee of e2.50 should be given to the deck
steward instead of the dining.rooin stew-
ard. Where there is a party of ladies,
three or four in one state -room, a smaller
amount may be given by eaoh to the room
servant. On land fees are optional but
unusual. One receives cheerful and own.
petent eervice, and a sixpence (12 coats) is
the largest fee expected for mallet service.
The railroad guarde, who hold positions
siinilar in rank to our conductors, will ao-
cept and expeee a fee if they reserve a
compartment for the traveller. One nail.
ling (25 cents) is the usual amount for such
service. The railroad porter will melte the
traveller as her cab roaches the station,
take her trunk upon his shoulder, her begs
and boxes in the hand which he is not as -
Mg in steadying the trunk, will go with
her to the booking or ticket office while she
purthases her tickets, will proceed then to
tenure the labels for her destination, will
label the baggage, and then, oarrying It en
to the platform, will put it into the goods
van of the carriage in which she herself
gets. 'or all this he is given a sixpeuce.
admirer of Edgar Allan Poe auggeats
as a means of increasing the contribetions
to the fund for the poet's monument in
Salthnore that roses be ‘grown on his grave
d be cold at feney pmces,
IND SUNDAY- —SCHOOL
INTENNATIONAL LESSON, Jane 0
1110 Wain to Emmaus." natio 24.134e
testlelen Text, Lithe IMO%
GENERAL STATEMENT,
The lain hope of the disciples a Jesus
passed away as they heard Ma dying ery
geld item the shadow of death creep over
hie face. They could no longer believe in
him as their Messiah, yet they loved. him
though, perhaps, deeming him lien.
deceived. Soon alter the incident of our
last lesson the other women, and then
Sitnon Peteneateh a glimpse cif the Saviour.
Still their hearts hesitate to believe in ntat
which seems too wonderful to be true. On
that day two of the diaciples' company,
though pot in the munber of the twelve,
walk forth from Jerusalem with fame seed
and converse grave and low. A stranger
overtakea them, walks by their side, and
enters into their discourse coneerning the
events that bave taken place, told the new
reports that are filling the air. Their eyes
kindle and their hearts burn as their new
friend opens to them the Old Testament
Soriptures, and shows them that ail them
events have beenpredicted concerning the
inlessiah who wete to come, The stranger
O about to leave them at theirjourney's
end, bet they urge him to remain, and as
he biomes the breai at their table they
recognize their Master's face. In that
instant he passes from their eight, and
leaves them to return rejoicing itt the
assurance than be is risenindeed,
EXELANATORT AND PRACTICAL NOTES.
ithe Mesaieship of nous was bis most imports
ant lima. Christ, His boldly aseuraes the
royal name of Christ, Memel:et, m relation
to himselL Beginning at Moen Showing
from Genesis to Malachi the long line ot
prophecies, historic perallele, typee, and
eytabole which foreshadowed the person
and aces of the Redeemer. (11) Christ
holds in his hand the key to the interpre.,
Wien of the Old Testament, Concerning
himself. Not only ealling attention to
detached prophecies, but showing how the
entire Old Testament points Christward.
(12) Let us with the eye of faith see Josue
on every page of the book,
28, 29. Be made as though. And would
have gone on, if they had not urged him to
tarry. (13) Christ puts our desires to the
teat, and will not abide with ne unless
we °eh him. If the disciples had been
satisfied with the truth already learned,
they would not have gained complete
knowledge. (14) God feeds with hie word
only those Wit° hunger after it. Abide
with as. The yearning nesire of every
emit which has tasted, even for one moment,
of the sweetness of Christ's presence. To
tarry with them. Not indicating that
Emmaus was their home, but their present
abiding place.
30.32. At meat. At the table, for the
afternoon meal, (15) How blessecl is
that table where Christ sits as a guest 1,
Blessed . • , gave. Assuming the part
of the host rather than the visitor. Eyes
were opened, Not merely that the attitude
and action were familiar, and recalled him
to their mind; but that by the divine will
the veil over their powers of recognition
was lifted. Vanished. Not only that he
suddenly left them, but that his disappear-
ance. was a supernatural rendering of
himself invisible; thus by his departure,
as well as by hie coming, showing it divine
power. (16) in this life our coromunings
with Christ are transient; 0 for that
eternal day when we shall me the King in
hie beauty! Did not our heart bum ?
They wonder, now, thee they had not
reognized him by the strange warmth of
heart hie words kindled within them.
Talked with us. (17) Hours of commun-
ion with Christ are infinitely preteens to
the believer. Opened to us the Scriptures.
When the word et opened to the mud the
divine fire warms the heart
Verses 13.15. Two of them. One was
Cleopas(verse 18) ; the other is unamed, but
some expositors are of the opinion that it
was Luke himself. They were not apostles,
but belonged to the general company of
believers in Jesus. That same day. The
day of Christ's reaurrection,the firm Easter
Sunday. Emmaus. "Kot springs," 4.
place of unknown location, seven or eight
miles from Jerusalem. Threescore furlongs.
"Sixty stadia." The stadium was about
six hundred feet, Talked together. Of
the seeming failure in the life of Jesus,frorn
which they had hoped so much, and of the
new reporte, which had just come to them,
that he had risen. Coininuned together
and reasoned, The words indicate that
they were not fully agreed in opinion, and
were comparing views with the purpose to
reconcile them. (1) Disciples of Christ have
always a profitable theme of conversation
in their Master. Jena . . drew near.
(2) When the followers talk of their Saviour
he is ever present.
16.18. Their eyes were holden. By a
supernatural influence, that they might
converse more freely and receive his in.
structions more readily than would have
been potaible in the joy of an immediate
recognition. (3) When Jea us withholds him-
self from us, it is only for a time and for
our good, that he may gladden us all the
more afterward. What manner. Though
he could read their inmost thoughts, yet he
would be told of them. (4) So he would
have us tell him our wants in prayer, even
though he knows them all. Walk, and are
sad. (5) Christ's followers are sometimes
saddest when, if they knew all, they would
see the greatest cause of rejoicing. (6) The
sorrows of disciples are not unnoticed, and
will not long remain uncomforted by tbeir
Saviour, Camps. A name shortened from.
Cleopatros, and not the same with Cleophas
(John 19. 25). Ile was one of the many
unknown ones, whose names are held in
their Redeemer's heart. (7) Let us rejoice
that this most precious of the risen Christ's
appearances was given to obsoure and undis-
tinguished disciples. A. stranger. "Lodgest
thou alone in Jerusaletn ?" Showing that
the events of Christ's life and death were
so publio as to be the common subject of
conversation among the people.
19.21. What things l A question yoked,
not for his information, but to place the
two disciplein a condition to receive
greater knowledge. "Now that he is
entering upon his glory, with what uncon-
cernedness he looks back upon his suffer-
ings 1"—M. Henry. Concerning Jesue. (8)
Those who tell others about Jesus will
learn more of him. A prophet mighty,
Though they no longer believe him to have
been -the Messiah, they still regard him as
an inspired prophet, and were not ashamed
to acknowledge their own love and rever-
ence toward him. Deed and word. In
miracles and- teacbinge. Our relent
delivered him. In the presence of it
stranger they venture on no judgment of
the ruling powers, but merely state the
facts, We trusted. In these words titers
is the infinite sorrow of a past faith, now
utterly dead within their hearts. Should
have redeemed Israel. By delivering
from the Roman yoke and estate
lishing the kingdom of God. The third
day. The second day, according to our
manner of reckoning, but the third by the
Jewish custom of counting the day in
which an event took place as the firm day.
Jesus had several times given intimations
that he was to rise on the third day (John
2. 19 ; Luke 9, 22).
22-24, Yea, and. They state the new
facts which greatly added to their perplex-
ity. Certain women. Mary Magdalene,
Mary the wife of Cleophas, Joanna, and
perhaps others with them. Early at the
sepulcher. The entombment ot JESUS had
been hasty. and they were bringing spices
to be placed with the body for more com-
plete burial. They came, saying. The
manner of the report shows that the two
disciples placed but little confidence in it.
Vision of angels. Not angels themselves,
but only "an appearance of angels." Which
said. Hearsay of Et hearsay. "The women
said that the angele said." Him they saw
not. They found the grave empty, but sew
not Jesus, either living or dead. The dis-
ciples were in a condition of doubt and
mystery, not *vowing what to believe.
Yet their very nitheliet only calmed proofs
to be given stronger than ever.
25-27. 0 foole. The ward in the orig-
inal here ie not the mine with that in elate
5, 12, where 11 means "godiese one." Here
it would be better translated by 'hithought•
less ones," that it, those who ifeo been in.
attentive to the words of God in Soripture
end those of Jesus on earth, Slow of heart.
.Tot herd -hearted, but slow -hearted, alum
gish, instead of apringing after the drawing
truth of Christ's resurrection, (9) God
always heners ardeet faith. All that the
prophets. Such of the Soripture as seemed
to agree with their preconeeived views they
had accepted; the rest they had pass.
ed by. (10) Our lack of knowledge in
(incite truth proceeds from failere to study
all of God's revealed word. Ought not.
The Very death ethical merited bit oontradieb
LOND ON ATTRACTION.
now 11 Draws All Things and Persons to
liselr.
Our point is, and has been ere now, that
London is more than ever centralized for
this whirl of pleasure, says the London
News. The railways and all the othei
"facilities "which it was fondly supposed
might threaten its supremacy have only
confirmed and exteoded it. In the tug of
war between the metropolis and the great
provincial cities, it is the latter that have
had to come over the line. For anything and
everything doing in this festival way, it
18 SO Mt1.011 easier to run up to town and
have done with it. You come up for a
first night, or a dinner, witla little or no
setae of a breach of continuitybetween the
afternoon's work of yesterday and the
morning's work of to -day. The first nights
are, of course, imperatively metropolitan.
If you want to see a play before your
neighbors see it, there is but one way. The
drama goes on tour m " the 'welt -mem
more than ever, but it no longer takes its
rise there. In art, indeed, a little local
autonomy is still left. There is a Gleagow
school which is fairly independent of Lon-
don. There used to be a Manchester
school; but we have not heard of it of late.
And all, if they oared to speak their inmost
thought, would confess that their eyes
were strained towards London, and their
hearts set on its verdiet.
Thia centralization of the more pleasur-
able interests, white it seems narrowing m
its tendency, is, in reality, preciaely the
reverse. London having beeome the uni-
versal provider for such delight; it is but
a railway journey, and all ie ready to your
hand in measureless abundance. A man
who had to collect his recreation by samples
gathered here, there, and everywhere,
would, as it rule, have but a beggarly store.
Life would not be long enough for it, nor
the pocket either, if he had to go to one
end of the kingdom for his art, to another
for his•drame. and all over the place for
his sports and his minor diversions. In
respect of such advantages, the Cockney
with a pound in his pocket, and a day to
call his own, ought to he as enviable as an
Athenian of the time of Pericles. He is a
citizen of no mean city. If he knows his
way about, he may take his morning walk
through the avenues of palaces bordered by
some of the loveliest gardens in the world.
While the pound lasts, it is poeitively be-
wildering to think of the multitude of
diversions that are open to him. When it
is gone he is by no means without resouroe.
His picture galleries and museums are
incomparably finer than any in private
ownership, and they enable him to feel a
tender pity for the millionaire. These ar
all to be had for nothing. And, while a
penny is left there is always the inoompar.
able speotacle of London from the top of a
WoIf Dog Teams in the North.
"One of the novel sights at Edmonton,
N. W. T.," Gaya Mr. H. H. Schaefer, of
Moneton, N. B., "was a dog train which
arrived from the math There were 160
teams, four dogs to the team, each drawing
a sledge holding about 500 weight of faro.
The drivers aud attendants of them dogs
were Indians and half-breeds. They had
travelled about three huedred miles in a
little over a week. These dogs are known
as 'huskies,' e cross between the gray wolf
of Canada and the ordinary dog, and their
average weight is a hundred pounds. They
are big, fierce looking brutes a dirty white
in color and as savage as their ancestors,
the wolves, which they greatly resemble.
These animal, despite the heavy loads
they haul and the long distances they make
each day—nearly fifty miles—are fed only
one whitefish each day, weighing not more
than a pound and a half. The food is
given them in the evening at the end of a
day's journey, and they devour the food
ravenously, Meat amulet he given themes it
makes them wild and fierce. Daring um stay
at Ednionton one of theaebrutes escaped from
the pack and ran amuck throught thestreet
snapping ae everybody and everything
it passed, and it created a reign of terror
before it was remptured. These dogs,
when broken, are valued at $25 to $50 emit!,
according to size and strength,
Solicitous.
And you say your fathee is intended
in mo? tone Mr. Stalate, greatly pleased.
Ito semis • so, she enswered.
worried about trout health;
My heslth
Yes., Re thinkyou hatie itisotunia...
A BURNING' OARGO AT CiE
SPONTANEOUS 001013STION OZTEN
TEE CAUSE Or VINES.
Thirty -TWO Tessehip Loden With V000
Have Disappeared In One TeamerMarte
etasselne Story or nurotng Shipeses.
• ReautlbulScesse to !Goole Al—The POW°
01 0Ship Wawa. In Fire noon 0Maine
Curtain.
When a ship take t nre at me, it le eonts
m only throughome act ofearelessr, eESS en th,
part of ite crew. But many ships are Mout
at ma froze the spontaneoue combuetion
of their cargoes. Ships laden with met are
Peculiarly liable to thin Gas coneets
among the coed in large quantities ; and if
the velvet be bound on a long voyage, her
hatches should be taken off ocomionally to
give this gas an opportuoity of immeintr.
If this precaution be not taken,and the gaff
be suffered to accurnultitene is ObVi0O0 that
the slightest spark may bring *boot *
terrible disaster. In one year, of late, no
me than 32 vessels, laden with coal, out.
ward bound from British poets, dies/mooed
of which seven were known to be burnt,and
probably more were. In his "Round. the
Galley Fire," Mr. Clark Russell tells es of
an American ship, the R.' B. raular, ut.
ward bound from Cardiff to Valparaiso,
with a cargo of ooels. About 10 o'clock
one night, when she was a little more than -
three weeks out on her voyage,her captain,
Mr. Thomas Peabody, was awakened in
his cabin by a feeling of :suffocation, and
found the place full of smoke,tharged with
the most nauseating °donne He rushed
on deck, sad called for the officer of the
watoh. The chief mate came running out
of the darkness forward, and, before Cap -
Min Peabody could address him, cried out
that
Tan slur WAS oN artE.
At the cry' the crew mane tumblingup from
the forecastle, and at once fail to work to
fight the enemy. Every ventilator was
cloaed and the cabin !shut tip, in the hope
of stifling the ere, and. the men then
gathered in the waist, to watch and to
wait. Not a trace of flame had yet been
seen.
In a few moments, however—tightly ea
everything was olosed—the ship began to
leak out amoke from every seam, It was
like a mist rising from the compact earth.
They now fell to work to bore holes in the
deok ; manned the lumps ; fetched hose and
bucketan and tried. to drown the fire by
pouring water into the cargo. Clouds of
Amin came up through the holes; and, as
they faded away, were regularly followed
by coils of black smoke and whiffet of
poisonous gas that forced the men to work
with averted faces. Still, not a trace of
flame was visible, but the captain gave
orders to lower the boats.
As soon as the boats were alongside, the
captiiin wishiug to fetch oerte,m artioles
from the cabin, went down with the mate
and four seamen. But they had not been
there a minute before they were forced to
run oot, some of them vomiting blood, and
lie dowa upon deck to recover in the fresh
air. After a while they managed to victual
the boate and, having braced the ship's
mainystde aback, rowed off to the distattoe
of about half a mile, and there lay on their
oars, and waited to see what the end would
be.
_VIE EIGHT WAS wan
and the ship steady. The smoke rose up
from her in a straight column, and hang
heavily above her ; but hour by hour, as
they watched, no spark or flame was
visible.
Considerieg this, they began to hope that
the fire, after all, was not so bad as they
had feared; and soon after daybreak,
though the smoke still crawled thickly
from her, they headed for the vessel again.
The captain's boat was the first to gat
alongside, and he jumped on Warn with a,
few men. The heat of the deck strack
through his boots, and he put a. hand to
the planks. It was like touching hot iron..
The very ropes were too hot to handle. A.
cry of one of the seamen, who bad come
over the aide in bare feet, raised a kind of
panic, and they all hurried back into the
boats. Even there, putting their hands to
the vessel's aide as low as the waterline was
like touabing a boiler full of steam. They
rowed back to their old position; andmow
the gathering wind seemed to penetrate the
vessel and send up thicker clouds, mingled
now for the firat time with sparks. Shortly
before noon, the mizzenmast swayed for a
moment, ane went over with a *rash; and
for the rest of the day the sparks continued
to pour from the hole thus made, tingeing
the sails forward with a dusky red.
The second night fell; and at length,
just an hour after darkness,
8. JET OF TEED FLAME
abet out of the deck abaft the main -mask
By its light the men could see one another's
faces. it sank, and for a minuto or two
seemed to have died away. Then 11 leapt
up again, higher this time, wreathing itaelf
around the maimmest Almost at once e.
second flame poured up from the fore -hatch:
aud in an incredibly short Mine the whole
outline of the vessel emit picked out with
fire. " Every detail of the gement:to mute
and yards and saile,the crosstrees, ouerig-
gen, and tops—all the funiture of the ship's
decks, the boat.davits, the cathode, the
martingale, the spritsaihyard—were ex-
pressed. in flame. Et was like the picture
of a ship dra,vne in fire upon a black our,
tain." •
The men sat silent in the boats and
watched. For a while tide picture shone
upon the night. Then, suddenly,the bums
ing hold opened • a tremendous sheet of
flame went up irito the shy; and through
the roar of it was heard the math of the
falling masts and yards: and with that the
whets vision vanished as you might blow
oat it candle." .As the boom of an explosioa
mine eullenly up againet the wind, the men
were left in darkness, broken only by the
glimmer of stars upon the black see. 'Their
ahip gone, they tested about for two days
and nights, when they tighted it sail to the
westward, and rowed in pursuit. She vraa
the barque Petrone; of London'end he
o
soon as the boats wesighted by her, she
!apt° en4 picket' the poor fellows up.
Confusions of Siang.
This is a hare language to understeud,
said the dietinguished foreigner.
What is troubling you nor?
One men tells me that riches have Wino
•Yee.
And five minutes bats' he renterivi that
wealth has to flies on De •