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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-6-27, Page 74 4 esSillessoSs•sssOWSPOSISSSPISs.sss THE QUEEN 019V0NEN DR, TALMAGE DISCUSSES A QUESTICIR OF UNIVERSAL INTEREST. l'avore Womun Snirrage,lmt Says Ills alder Anxiety Ts riot For 'this, but What woman Waal eeppreciate the Glorious Rights She AlreadY Possesses. $t, Louis, Jute 1.6. --In his sem= for t� -day Rev. Dr. Talmage, who has Veaehed this city on his westera tour, discusses a subject of universal inter- est -viz: "Woman's Opportunity" -his text being, "She shall be called wo- man," Genesis 11, 23. God, who can make no mistake, made man and woman for a specific work and to move in particular spheres -man to be regnant in his realm; woman to be derainant in hers, The boundary line between Italy and Switzerland, between .Dngland and Scotland, is not morathor- ougaly marked than this distinotion be- tween the empire masculine and the eine pire feminine. So entirely- dissimilar ftre the fields to which God called them, that you can no more compare them than you can oxygen and hydrogen, Water and grass, trees and stars. All this talk about the superiority of one sex to the other sex is an everlasting waste of ink and speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that Ire can weigh the dust of diamonds, but Where are the scales so delicate that you can weigh in them affection against affection, sentiment aga,inst sentiment, thought against thought, soul against soul, a man's world against a we - man's world? You can come out with your stereotyped remark that ma.n is superior to woman in intellect, and then X open on my desk the swarthy, iron typed, thunderbolted writings a Har- riet Martineau and Elizabeth Broevn- ing and George Eliot. You come on with your steorotyped remark a.bout woman's superiority to man in the item of affection, but I asked you where was there more capacity to love than in John, the disciple, and Matthew Simp- • son, the bishop, and Henry Martyn, the missionary ? The heart of those men was so larga • that after you had rolled into it two hemispheres there was room still eft to marshal the hosts of heaven and set up the throne of the eternal Jehovah. 4 I deny to man the throne intellectual, deny to woxnan the throne affectional. No human phraseology will ever define 5 the spheres, while there is an intuition by which we know when a man is in his realm, and when a woman is it her • realm, and when either of them is out of it. No bungling legislature ought to attempt to make a definition or to say, "This, is the line and that is the line." Mae theory is that if a woman wants to vote she ought to vote, and • a- that if a man wants to embroider and keep house, he ought to be allowed to embroider and keep house. There are masculine women and there are effem- inate men. My theory is that you have no right to interfere with any one's do- ing aneetheng that is righteous. Albany. and Washington might as well decree by legislation how high a brown thrash- er should fly or how deep a trout should plunge as to try to seek out the height and depth of woman's duty. The ques- tion of capaoity will settle finally the whole question, the whole subject. When a woman is prepared to preach she will preach, and neither conference nor presbytery can hinder her. When a woman is • prepared to move in highest commercial spheres, she will have great influence on the exchange, and no boards of trade can hinder her. / want woman to understand that heart and brain can overfly any barrier that politicians may set up, and that nothing can keep her back or keep her down bht the question of caemaity. I was in New Zealand last year just after the opportunity of suffrage had been conferred won women. The plan worked well. There had never been such good order at the polls, and righteous- ness triumphed. Men have not made such a 'wonderful moral success of the ballot box that they need fear women will corrupt it. In all our cities man has so nearly made the ballot box a failure, suppose we let woman try. But 'ere are some women, I know, of most andesirable nature, who wander up and down the country -having no homes of their own or forsaking their own homes -talking about their rights, and we know very well that they themselves are fit neither to vote nor to keep house. Their mission seems merely to humiliate the two sexes at the thought of wha any one of us might become. No one would want to live under the lawe that such women would enact or to ha.ve cast upon society the children that such wo- xnen would raise. But I shall show you that the best rights that Woman can own she already has In her possession; that her position in this country at this time is not one of commiseration, but One of congratulation; that the gran- deur and power of her realm have never yet beef" aPpreciated; that sh3 sits to- day on a throne so high that all the thrones of earth piled on top of each , other would not make for her a foot- stool. Here is the platform on which she stands. Away down below it axe the ballot box, and the congressional assemblage and the legislative hall. Woman always has voted and always will vote. Our great grandfathers thought they were by their lades put: ting Washingtme into the Presalential chair. No. His mother, by the prin- ciples she taught hirn and by the habits she Inculcated, made him President. It was a. Christian mother's hand drop- ping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophized, and Alfred the Great governed, and Sonathan Ed- wards thundered of judgment to come. How many men there have been in high political station who would have been insufficient to stand the test to which their morel principle was pot had It not been for a wifets voice that encouraged them to do right and a wife's piteyer that sounded louder than the clamor of partleanship ? The right of sdffrage, as we men exerelee it, seems to be a feeble thing. You, a Chrisitan Men, corm up to the ballot box, and aou drop yotir vote. Right after you Comes a libertine or a. t -the ofe- scouring of the street -and be drops his yote, and his Vote counteracts mere. etit, 31! iri tae quiet home life a daughter by her Christian demeanor, a wlee by er industry, 0. Mother by #iier ea, mote a Vote la the rig I direction nothillg can resist it, age! the 'in- fiesi Oe that Vete Will throb' throrigh Otetnities, IMy chief anxiety, then, Is net that woman have other rights accOrcled her, but that she, lea the grace of God, rise up to tbe appreciation of the glorious righte she already possesses. First; sae aas the right to make bome liaeMY. That realm no one has ever di -sleeted With her. Men may come home at noon or at night aria then tarry com- paratively a little while, but she all day long governs it, beautifies it, s no- tifies it, It is within her power to Make It the most attractive place on earth. It is the only cairn harbor in this world, rOu know as well as I do that this outside world and the business world fere a long scene of jostle and conten- tion. The man who has a dollar strug- gles to keep it. The man wleo has it not struggles to get it. Prices up. Prices down. Losses, Gains, Misrepresenta- tions. Underselling. Buyers depreciat- ingi Salesmen exaggerating. Tenants seeking less rent; landlords demanding more. Struggles about oilioe. Men who are in try1ng to keep in; men out trying to' get in. Slips. Tumbles. Refalea- tions. -Panics. Catastrophes. Oa, wo- man, thank God you have a home, and that you may be queen in it! Better be there than carry the purse of a prin- cess. Your abode may be humble, but you can, by your faith in God and, your cheerfulness of demeanor, gild it with splendors such as an upholsterer's band never yet kindled. There are abodes in every city -hum- ble, two stories, four plain, unpapered rooms, undesirable neighborhood, and yet there is a man who wonld die on the thresh'old rather -than surrender. Why? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it, he sees the angels of God hovering around it. The ladders of heaven aro let down to that house. Over the child's rogh arib there are the chant - Ings of angels as those that broke- over Bethlehem. It is home. These children may come up after awhile, and they may win high position, and they may have an affluent residence, but they will not until their dying day forget that humble roof under which their father rested and their mother sang and their sisters played. Oh, if you would gather up all tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banquetings and reunions, all filial fraternal, paternal and conjugal affec- tionseand you had only just four letters with which to spell out that height and depth a.nd length and breath and magnitude and eternity of meaning you would, with streaming eyes arid tremb- ling voice, and agitated hand, write it out in those four living capitals, 1:1-0e1V1-333 ! What right does woman want that is grander than to be queen in such a realm ? Why, the eagles of heaven can- not fly across that dominion. Horses, panting and with lathered flanks, are not swift enough to run to the out- posts of that realm. They say that the sun never sets upon the English empire, but I have :to tell you that on this realm of woman's influence eternity never marks any bound. Iss.b.,11.1 fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by the nation's anathema, but she who is queen in a home will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly principalities. When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you do era think of Catherine �f Russia., sea Anne of Eng- land, or Marie Theresa of Germany, but when you want to get your grandest Iidea. of a queen you think of the Plain woman who gat opposite your father at the table or walked with him arm 'in arm down life's pathway; sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet, some- • times to the grave, but always together -soothing your, petty grie's, correcting your childish waywardness, joining in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at the spinning wheel arid on cold nights wrapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying, and you saw her take those thin hands with which she had toiled for you so long, and put them together in a dying prayer, that commended you to the Gcid whom she had taught you to trqst-oh, she was the queen ! The chariots of God came down to fetch her, and as she went in all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness -that stirs the deep foundations of your soul, and you feel as much a ,child again as when you cried on her lap, and if you could bring her back again to speak just orice more your name as tenderly as she used to speak it, you would be -willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her, crying: "Moth- er! Mother I" Ah, she was the queen! She was the queen I Now, can you tell me how many thousand miles a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot box ? Com- pared with this work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, how insignificant seems all this work of voting for aldermen and common coun- cilmen and sheriffs and constables and Mayors and Presidents ? To make one such grand woman as I have described, how many thousands would you want of those people who go in the round of fashion and dissipation, going .as far toward disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so as not to be arrested by the pea lice -their behavior a sorrow to the good and et caricature of the vicious, and an insult to that God who made them women and not gorgons,,, and tramping on down through a frivolous and aissipated life tri temporal and etere nal damnation? 0 woman, with the lightning of you Soul, eerike dead at your feet all these allurernents to dissipation and to fash- ion ! Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon such garbage. God cans you up to empire and dominion. Will you have It ? Oh, give to God your heart; give to God all your best energies; giVe to God all yoUr culture; give to God all your refinement; give yoursele to him for •this world and the next. Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched, and these vices will be hushed. For the last time you will look upon this fair earth. Father's hand, mother's hand, sisters hand, child's hencl, will no more bin yours. It win be night, and there will come up a cold wind from the acne dan, and yciu must start, Win it be a lone womah on a trackless Moor ? Ah, 1o! lesti e will come up tn that hour and offer his hand, and" he will Say, "You stood by me when you were well; noW I will slot desert you when you are elek." Ont Wave of his hand, and the stored will drop, and another wave of hie hand, and midnight shallbreak into midnoori, and anther Waye of his hair& and the chamberlaine of Go will THE EXETER TIES come down from the treasure houSee of heaven with robes lustrous, blood Wash- ed and heaven glinted, In evaleth you 'will array yourself for the marriage :nipper of the Lamb. And then With Miriam, who struck thetirabrel of the lied sea, and with Deborah, who led the Lord's host into the fight, and with Hannah, who gave her Samuel to the Lord, and with Mary, who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were angels singing in the air, and. with sisters of charity, who bound up the battle wounds of the Crimea., you will, from the chaliee of God, drink to the soul's eternal reacue. Your dorninioe is home, 0 WOmeasl What a brave fight for home the women of Ohio made some 10 or 15. yea rs ego when they banded together and in many of the towns and cities or that strae • Marched in proceSsion and by prayer anti Christian songs 'shut up more places of dissipation than were ever counted. Were they opened again? Oh, yes, But is it not a good thing to shut the gates of hell for two or three Months? It seemed that men engaged In the business of clesteoying others clid not knew how to cope with this aind of warfare. They knew how to fight the Maine liquor law, and /they knew how to fight the National Temperance society, and they knew how to fight the Sons of 'Teniperanoe and Good Samari- tans, but when Deborah appeared Upon the scone Sisera took to his feet and atit to the mountains. It seems that they did not know how to centend against "Coronation" and "Old Hun- dred" and "Brattle Street" and "]3eth. any" -they were eo ' very intangible, These men found that they could not accomplish much against that kind or warfare and in one of the cities a regi- ment was brought out all armed to dis- perse the women. They came down in battle array, but oh, what poor success! For that regiment was made up of gen- tlemen, and gentlemen do not like to shoot women with hymn books in thiar hands. Oh. they found that guaning zor remare prayer meetings was a very POor business ! No real damage was done, although there was threat of vio- lence after threat of violence all over the land. I really think if the women of the east has as much faith in God as their sisteas of the west had, and the same recklessness of human criti- cism, I really believe that in one month •'three-fourths of the grogshops of our cities would be closed, and there would be aunning 'through the gutters of the streets burgundy and cognac and heid- sick and old port and sciedarn schnapps and lager beer, and you would save yOur fathers, and your husbands, and your sons, first, from a drunkard's grave, and second, from a drunkard's hell! To this battle for home let all evonien rouse themselves. Thank God for our early home. Thank God for our present home. Thank God for the corn - ng home in heaven. One twilight after I had been playing with the children for some time, I. down on the lounge to rest. The chil- dren said play more. Children always Want to play more. And, half asleep and half awake, I seemed to dream this dream: It seemed to me that I was in a far distant land -not Persia, althouele more than oriental luxuriance crowned the cities; nor the tropics, although more than tropical fruitfulness filled theegardens; nor Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air -and I wandered around, looking for thorns and nettles, but I found none of them grew there, and I walked forth and. I isaM the sun rise, and I said, "When will it set again ?" and the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday apparel, and I said, "When 'do Ora' put on workingman's garb again and delve in the mine and swelter at the forge ?" but neither the garments nor the robes did they put off. And I wan- dered in the suburbs, and I said, "Where do they bury the dead of this great city ?" and I looked along by the hills where it would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towns and battlements, but not a mausoleum, nor monument, nor white eilab could I see. And I went into the great cha.pel of the town, and / said: "Where are the benches on which .they sit ?" and a voice answered, aa e have no poor in this great city." And I wan- dered out, seeking to find the place where were the hovels of the destitute, and I found ma.tions of amber and Ivory and gold, but no tear did I see or sigh hear. I was bewildered, and / sat under the shadow of a great tree, and I said, "What am I, and whence comes all this ?" And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the flowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group, and when I saw their step I knew it, and when I heard their voices I thought I knew them,' but their ale. parel was so different from anyihing a had ever seen I bowed, a stranger to the strangers. But after awhile. when they clapped their hands and shouted "Welcome ! Welcome !" the mystery was solved, and I saw that time had passed, and that eternity had come, and that God had gath red us up into a higher home, and I said, "Are eve all here ?" And the voices of innumera.ble generations answered, "Ail here I" And while tears of gladnes.s were raining down our cheeks, and the branches of Lebanon' cedars were claeping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, we began to laugh and s'ng and leap and shout "Home, home, home !" Then I felt a child's hand on my face, and. It woke me. The children wanted to play -more, • A Coloured Man Lynehed. A despatch from Lufkin, Texas, gar: - Will Johnson, coloured, who criminally assaulted the 7.year.old child of Robe Oh affner, was captured and taken to the gaol, where the little viotim identified Johnson as the guilty man. Within 15 minutes 500 quiet and determined men Were marching to the gaol. The Sheriff made no resistance, and the prisoner was taken to the piblic square, where an ilm. provised gallows had been erected. The eides of the square were peeked with men women, and children. The trembling brute WaS quickly seized and suspended in the air, where he remained many hours, the curlew: atanding about gaping at the corpse. He Indulged. Mrs. Brown -attire you an indulge talehand Mrs. Green -Oh, yea bedeeda-he cornea home intoxicated nearlk eiSery night, ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, QUARTERLY REVIEW. Resin° nekve Itevie w Service. Supt. Give Title and Golden Teet of First Lession, Bop, The Triumphal Entry. Girls. "Ilosenna ; Blessed is he that conieth in the name of the Lord." Supt. Second Lesson. Boys Easter lesson. Girls. "ow is Christ rime from the dead, and become the first fruits Of phem that elept." Supt. Third Leseon. Boys, Watchfulness, Girls. "Take ye heed, watch and pray." Supt. Furth Lesson. Boys. The Lord's Supper. Girls. "This do in remembrance of me," Supt. Fifth Lemon, Boys. The Agony in Gethsemane. Girls. "The oup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it 2" Supt. ixth Lesson, Boys. Jesus befoles the High Prieat. Girls, "He is despised and rejected of men." Supt. Seventh Lesson. Boys. Jesus Before Pilate. Girls. "But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marveled." Supt. Eighth Leeson: Boys. Jesus On the Crowe Girls. "While we are yet sinners, Christ died for us." Supt. Ninth Lesson. Boys. The Reeurreotion of jeans. s Girls. "The Lord is risen indeed." Supt. Tenth Lesson. Boys. The Walk to Emmaus. Girls. "He opened tons the Soripturee." Supt. Eleventh Lesson. Boys. Peter and the Risen Lord. Carle. "Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou knowest that I love thee." Supt. Twelfth Lesson. Boys. The Saviour's Parting Words. Girls. "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations." . Supt. Give Lesson Story of Leeson 1. FIRST SINGLE VOICE. The Sabbath before Christ's crucifixion, as -he drew near to Jerusalem, he sent two of his disciples into the neighboring Bethany,telling them that they would find a colt tied, whereon never man sat and they were to loose him and bring him. And if any man were to ask why they did Eo,they were to answer that the Lord had need of him. They went and found as the Lord had said,and gave the answer he command- ed. And they berought the colt to Jesus and oast their garments on him, and Jesus sat upon him and rode thus into Jerusalem, while the accompanying crowd shouted: "Blessed is he that oometh in the name of the Lord." Supe. What is the teaching of the lesson? School. Jesus expeots obedience. Praise is pleasing to him. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson II. SECOND SINGLE voice. Paul writes to the Corinthians that Christ died and was buried and rose the third day, and *as seen by the following witnesses: Cephae, the twelve, over five hundred brethren at once, Jamea, then all She apostles and last by Paul himself. Supt. Visat is the teaching of the less son? School. Christ's resurrection is the foundation of the Obristiaxi faith. Christ's resurrection is a proof of our own resume - tion. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson III. THIRD SINGLE VOICE. Jesus to show the necessity of watchful- nems,uses illustrations of the goodman whose house is robbed, and the servant, left in charge of fellow servants, who smites them and eats and drinks with the drunken, saying, "My Lord delayeth his coming." And as the thief came unexpectedly to the goodmam and as the lord returned in a day when he looked not for him, so, in such an hour as ye tnink not, the Son of man com- eth. Supt. What is the teaching of this les - 500CShool. The blessedness of being ready for the Lord's coming. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson IV. FOURTH SINGLE VOICE. The first day of unleavenee bread the disciples asked Jesus where they should prepare to eat the passover. He told them to go into the city, where they would meet a man bearing a pitcher of water; they were to follow him into the house and say to She goodman, "The Master saith, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples ?" He wonld show them a large upper roomfurnished, and there they were to maize ready. The disciples found as he had said, and malle ready the passover. In the evening Jesus came with the twelve. And as they did eat Jesus said, "One of you shall betray me." They began to be sorrowful and to say, "Lord, is it I ?" He answered, "It is the one that dippeth with me in the dish." After pronouncieg a woe upon the betrayer he took bread and blessed and brake and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take, eat; this is mabody." And he took the cup and gave them to drink, saying, "This is my blood." * Supt. What is the teaohingof the les- son? School. The Lord will provide. The Divine origin of the holy communion. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson V. emu SINGLE voice. When Jesus came to Gethsemane he told his disciples to sit there and pray. Then he took with hinePeter, James, and John, and began to be very eorrowful. And he went forward a little, and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him ; neverthless, not what I will, but what thou wilt." He returned to the three dis- ciples and found them sleeping, and reproved them, telling them to watoh and pray. And again he went away and prayed, and returned to find them sleeping • and again the third time. Then he told 'them to Bleep on and take their refit, for the betrayer was at hand. Supt. What is. the teaohing of the les: soh? SoluecJ. Submission to the Father's Will. Supt. Give Loosen Story of Lesson VI, sir= engem voree. And they led Jesus to the high priest, Where were assembled all the high prieets elders, and scribes. And Peter followed afar of, into the high priest's house. And the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. And false Witnesses were found, whoise witness did not agree. When the high priest asked Jenne to answer them, he held his raft. But when the high priest asked if he were the Christ, he eaid, :tin." Then the high priest rent his clothes end declared that Jeette wee guilty of blasphemy and death. Supt. What 19 the teaohing of the lesson Sohool. Jesus was despised and rejected of men. Supt. Give Lesson Story otLesson VL Meer= SINGLE 70105. Ie the morning the oounoil bound Jesus and, delivered him to Pilate, ,who asked, "Art thou the 'King of the JeW09" Jesus answered, "Thee sikyeet it," When the chief priests stood up to wawa hits* be answered nothing. Now at that feast Pilate was wont to release a prieoner unto them. And they cried out that Barabbas be released, and Jesus be =aided. And when Pilate asked what evil he had done, they cried out the more, "Crucify him." And Pilate, to content the people, deliv. ber:ified. dorJueosnswhen he had scourged him, to lesSsounpti What is the teaching of this &shoot. Tho calmness of Jesus under attack. Supt. Give Leeson Story of Lesson VIII EIGHTH SINGLE vonee. They brought Jesus to Golgotha, and offered him a drink of wine and myrrh, which he refused. And when they had crucified him, they parted hie garments mud °eat Iota upon them. And it was the third hour. The enpersoription written was, " The King of the Jew." And with him they crucify two thieves. And they that passed by *led on him, and the chief priests mooked him thab he saved others and could not save himself. From the sixth hour till the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. Then Jesus cried, "My God, my God, why hest thou forsaken me 2" and gave up the ghost.. Supt. What abbe teaohing of this lesson ? School. Jesus died for us. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson IX. NINTH• SINGLE voI0B. Very early the first day of the week the two Marys and Salome brought sweet spices to anoint Jesus's body. They had said, Who shall roll away the stone ?" but on coming, found it rolled away. And enter- ing in, they saw a young man clothed in a long, white garment, and they were fright- ened. He said, "Be not affrighted : ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified : he is risen ;....tell nis disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee. Supt. What is the teaching of this leson School. The resurrection of Jesus. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson X. TENTH STEOLE WIC& Two of the disoiplea going to Emmaus that day were talking sadly of all that had happened,when Jesus drew.near and asked what manner of communication they were having. Mopes answered that he must be a stranger in Jerusalem not to know Jesus of Nazareth, wilom they had. trusted would redeem Israel, but who had been crucified. Certain women going early to the sepulchre had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then Jesus opened to them the Scriptures concerning himself. And when they reached the village they constrained him to stay with them. And when he sat at meet with them they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight. Supt. What is the teaching of this lesson? School. Christ reveals himself to his lov- ing disciples. Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson XI. ELEvENTH stacsaa VOICE. Jesus stood on the shore and :law his disoiples fishing, and asked them if they had any meat. They answered, "No," and he told them to oast the net on the right side of the ship, and there was such. a multitude of fishes they were not able to draw it. Then Peter knew it was Jesus. They came to land and saw a fire, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus said, "Come and dine." When they had dined Jesus asked Peter three times, 'Lovest thou me?" and when Peter said, "Yea, Lord," he gave She command, "Feed my lambs -.Feed my sheep." Supt. What is the teaching of Shia lesson! School. God's care for his own, Supt. Give Lesson Story of Lesson XII. TWELFTH manes VOICE. Jesus told his disciples that all things written in Moses and the prophets and Psalms concerning himself must be fulfilled, and that the Gospel should be preached among all nations. He told them to wait in Jerusalem until endued with power from on high. Then he led them out to Tsthany, and lifting up his hands in blessing, he was carried up into heaven. And they rettirned to jerusalern with great joy. Supt. What is the teaching of this lesson? School, The Gospel is for all nations. A Riot About Women's Hats. The ;est end of Glasgow has been greatly gitated about a question of fashion in fe- male attire, says a letter from that silty. Hitherto it has been invariably regarded as the correct thing for the girls eneployed at the mills to wear shawls over their heads, but lately the population has been sauteed by the appearenee ole few of the workers in hate. The daring innovation excited the utmost indignation, and, one niglit last week, the wearers of the hats had to be rescued by the police from the polite attentions of a crowd of about 2000 of their companicns. I imagine that, after this demonstration of popular feeling, the new- fangled taste for millinery will disappear. and thawie again become the only wear. For my part, I rather sympathize with the gallant upholders of tbe old state of things, and wisli the use of the shawl as headgear could be as easily enforced in other quar- ters. 'It would really be a vaet improvement on some of the milliner's moustrosities that are now in vogue, and to 'the matinee theater -goer, long out off from all view of the stage, the change would be a veritable bleseing. • Salt Treated Eleetrieally. It is well know e by themists that caustic soda eau be produced by passing a current of electrieity through common table salt The salt, which isohloride of sodium, s'ep- states under the action of the currentinto egdit and chlorhie, either of vehich by itself is much More Valuable than the emit from which it is produced. The prooese is a simple one, and not expensive. The salt is dissolved in water and a current from a dynamo is passed through the solution. Metal plates are placed in the salt water and attached to the dynamo wires. • Chloe. ine is set free at one pole and caustic made at the other. The great difficulty, however, is that ohlorine dissolved in water is one of the most powerful solvents known, Almost all metals aro diesolved by it. Even iliiiebon, one of the moilb unsoluble of substenoes, is rapidly attacked by ohloride and *eats away quickly. This peculiarity of chlorine interferes With the odpemeroiel preeticebil- Hy of the prooese, No substance had yet been discovered for the electric terminale which will stand the strain and yet he °keep enough for manufaetuting purpoees. PLUM OF BRITISH TARS. SOME INSTANCES OF BRAVERY UNDER VERY TRYINQ CIRCUM, SIINCES. ) Whe coolness or ciet pan itryan.-Itaried O French General Under the Guns or the Fore -Captain eloodss Propieutt to a Spaaish iGevernor and Moly 15 Daniel Bdi.yan was an old seaman Aud Oaptain of the foretop, who had been turned over from the Blanche into Sir Sidney Smith's ;ship, Le Tigre. During She siege of Acre this hardy veteran made repeated applications to he employed on shore; but as he was an elderly man and rather deaf, his request was not acceded to. Ab the flub storming of the breach by She French, among the multitude of slain fell one of the generals of that nation, The Turks in triumph struck off the head of this unfortunate officer, and, after inhumanly mangling the body with their sabres, left it naked a prey to the dogs. As it lay thus exposed, a dreadful mouton' to of the horrors of war, when any sailors who had been on shore returned to their ship inquiriee Were constantly made re- specting the state of the deceased general. Dan frequently asked his messmates why they had not buried him; but the only reply thee he received was, "Go and do ib yourself." Dan swore he would, observing that he had himself been taken prisoner by the French, who always gave their enemies a deceav burial, not like those Turks, leaving them to rot above board. In the morning, having at length obtained leave to go and see the town, he dressed himself as bhough on an excursion of plea-. sure, and went ashore with the surgeon in the jolly -boat. About an hour or two after, while the surgeon was dressing the wound- ed Turks in the hospital, in mune Dan, exclaiming, "I've been burying the general, air; and now I'm come to see the sick." Not particularly attending to the tar's salute, but fearful of his catching the plague, the aurgeon immediately ORDERED HEW OUT. Returning on board, the surgeon inquired of the ooxswain if he had seen old Dan. "Yes, he has been burying the French general." The boat's crew, who witnessed the generous action, thus related its circumstances The old man procured a pickaxe,a shovel, and a rope, and Waisted on being Iet down, out, of a porthole, close to the breach. Some of his more juvenile companions offered to attend him. "No 1" he replied, "you are too young to be shot yeti; as for me, I am old and deaf,and my loss would be no great matter." Persisting in his adventure, in the midst of the firing Dan was slung and lowered down, with hie implements of action on his skoulder. His firat difficulty, not a trivial one' was to drive away the dogs. The Frenchnow levelled their pieces -they were on the instant of firing at the hero. It was an exciting moment ; but an officer, perceiving the friendly intentions of the sailor'was seen to throw himself across the file. Instantly the din of arms, the thunder of the cannonade died away; a dead, solemn silence prevailed, and. the worthy fellow consigned the corpse to its parent earth. He covered it with mould and atones, placing a large stone at its head, and another at its feet. But Dan's task was not yet completed. The grave was formed, but the epitaph was still lack- ing. Dan, with the peculiar air of a British sailor, pulled a piece of chalk from his pocket, and wrote on the stone- " HERE YOU LIE, OLD CHOP I" He was then,with his pickaxe and shovel hoisted into the town, and the hostile fire ing at onoe recommenced. A few days after, Sir Sidney, hearing the story, ordered Dan to be called to his cabin. "Well, Dan, I hear you have buried the French general." " as, your honour." "Had you anybody with you ?" "Yea, your honour." " Why, they told me you had not." "But I had, your hon- our." "Ah 1 who was it ?" "God Almighty, your honour." "A very good assistant. Give old Dan a glass of grog." Dan drank his grog and left the cabin,highly gratified. He was afterwards a pensioner in the Roy. al Heorsp it aolu have" a tGre er i tcthe Heye spirit • of your f a tpvehrean" t.N° ealsnoincetlYo4 hie arm in the attack at Teneriffe' and after he had fallen and was carriedbee's. to his ship ; alter all the English boats had been eitber sunk by the dreadful fire from the batteries,or swamped in the surf ; Captain Hood and Sir Thomas Troubridge found themselves in the heart of the town of Santa Cruz, at the head of a few seamen and marines armed with pikes, but surrounded by some thousands of Spaniards. Their situation was most critical. It was dark and for the present the -enemy was kept in check from not being acquainted with the position or number of the invaders ; but by daylight their miserable force must inevitably be discovered. They deliberated, and "Decision followed as the thunder bola The lighteninga flash." Captain Hood immediately waited on the Spanish Governor Don Juan Antoine Gat - terry, with the fallowing laconic message : -" 1 am come'air, from the oommanding officer of the British troops and seamen now within your walls, and in possession of the principal atrutto, to say that, as we are die - appointed in the objeob for which we came (alluding to specie), provided you will fur- nish us with boats -those we came in being all lost -we will return peaceably to our ships ; but should any means be taken to molest or retard es, we will are your town in different places, aud force our way out of it at the point of the bayonet." Taking out his watch he added, 44 I am directed to give you ten minutes to censidor of this offer." The Governor wits astonished at the proposal, made with such conadence, on the part of min whom he ceheeived to be already in his power. He observed that he had thought they were his prisoners ; but, as it was not so, he would hold a eounoil with his oftwers, and let the British eommender know the result in the .coufse of an hour. "1 regret to tell you air," 000lly anowered Hood, " that I am limited to a seoond ; and My friends are anxiously awaiting my return, to reoornmehoe hos- tilities shoidd my Unread bo refused." With this he was tilting his [(Ave, when the Governor, alarmed at the probable eon- ilequenties of driving the English to extrem. ityi acceded to his proposal. Ho according. ly provided Witte, and tent the English off to their ships, where they had aimed te be expected, ladbie With trait and Various other refreshments. UNDOING MARRIAGE =S. eireat Increase or Divorce in. France», Laws er Olvexae In Exert, SabFlast anti Iturrnah-England lies Fewest fitvorces. The question of divorce seems to bell agitating pretty nearly every oivilized eouutry in the world jot now. The French statistic:tans have tackled, the sabject, and ohne, the extent to which divorce hes grown in France. From 1884 to 1894 applications for divoroes in Fraece have exceeded 45,000, el which 40,000 have been granted. M. Naquet, in urging the passage of the divorce law in France, optimistically predicted that it would pre. venb many ruptures, and that nio-rried couples would remain more firmly united froth the fad that their tie would not be compulsory. Unfortunately, execitly the Contrary was the result. The drat year after the law was paseed allowed 1,700 divorces ; last year there was over 8,000. When separations alone were perinitted they only reached 3,000, While in 1882, the proportion was only lin 1,000, to -day it is 25 in 1,000. From the history of divorce it appears Shat the proportion of unheppy marriages increases feom the day divorce is legalised in a country, lt appears among people of the highest civilisation at the period of their deciadenee ; from that time can be dated a retrogade movement in morals. In Egypt) the law authorised no divorce, except in certain oaees. Infidelity was punished severely ; the man received 1,000 stripes, and the WOMAN'S NOSE WAS OUT. In Babylon a public auction of all the girls of a marriageable age was held once a year. The untying of these knots was even more simple. Indie recognises certain causes for divorce. In Burmah the women, when marrying, do not take their husband's names, but retain their own, with the addendum of "wife of So and So." This makes it oonvenient for them to assume their previous status in public knowledge when they come to be divorced, as they are very likely to be, for divorce is easy in that country. If a Burmese wife and husband quarrel and determine to separate, the wife, who always does all the marketing, goes out and buys two little candles of equal length, which are made espeoially for their use. She brings them home. She and her hues band sit clown on thefloor, place the candles between them, and light them simultane- ously, One stands for him, the other for her. The one whose candle burns out first rhea and goes out of the house for ever, with nothing but what he or she may have on. The other takes all the property. This looks fair enough on the face of it, huh it oftea happens that the wife, on her way home with the candles, takes A TINY SORAPING from the bottom of one of them, A very little will be enough. If the husband and* the house are empty of pretty much every thing but children, she takes the shortened candle and wanes oub free and content. But if tbe house is well furnished, and the husband's possessions are considerable he gets the short candle and does the walking. The law of Mahomet admits of divorce - though it is very little resorted to by the Mahometans-but exacts four months' re- flection on the part of the husband before sending the letter of repudiation, which in this case is called tetoik boin-a temporary repudiation is called tetoik rid jee, which is used as a forewarning. The nation which grants fewest divorces is England. A special court -the court fax divorce and matrimonial cases -copes with all matrimonial difBoulties. Divorcee can be obtained for "criminal conversation," and is denied for personal injuries and neglect, A rupture of the marriage tie is granted only for infidelity, and this is known to the court as the ' specific remedy." Syritzerland grants more divorces than any other country. Since the federal law of 1874 was passed the proportion has risen from 47 to 1,000, In Sweden since 1831, in Holland since 1851 and in Saxony since the Federal law of 1875, the proportion has doubled and. even tripled. in Belgium it has multiplied sixfold. The Children of Drinkers. A distinguished specialist in chrldren's diseases has carefully noted the difference between 12 families of drinkers and 12 fami- lies of temperate ones during a period of 12 years, with the result that he found that the 12 drinking families produced in those years 57 children, while the temperate ones were acoountable for 61. Of the drinkers ati 'children died in the first Aveek of life, as against six on the other side. The latter deaths were from weaknesa, while the form. er were attributable to weakness oonvul. sive attacks, or oedema of the brain and membranes. To this cheerful record is add.. ed five who were idiots; five so stunted in growth as to be really ilwarfe ; five when older became epileptics ; one, a boy, had grave chorea, ending in idiocy; five more were diseased, and deformed, aud two of the epileptics became by inheritance drinkers. Ten, therefore, of this fifteeseven only showed dueng life normal disposition and development of body and mind. On the part of the temperates, as before stated, five died in the first week of weakness, while four in later years of childhood had curable nervous diseases. Two only showed inhale ited nervous defects. Thus, fifey were not. mai, in every way sound in body and mind. England's Oldest Colony. Newfoundland Was discovered in 1407 by John and Sebastian Cabot (or Cabotto) tali:ens, treated and trading in Bristol, foreigners prepared to do yeomen service for their adopted land. The °abets event out in the ship Matthew at their want charges, and on St. 3ohn'e Dee (Jute 24) fleet sighted the ehore, to whioh they gave the naiere of Prima Tierra Vista--"firet seen land.", Henry VII. gave tho bold Mariners his "letters patent," which au. teamed than to set up the Royal Standard, and secured the stitigy Icing it share in their profite without involving him in any share of their expenditure. Seldehneee and greed prevented the apendy perrilanent settlement of the itilattd, and have always stood in the way of its deVolopment flare basis of oand proepeeity. How many people liee mi the reputation ef the reputation they might ho,Ve made,ea Helmet.