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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-7-25, Page 3"•,,,',os, aleeeier 7,7 TOO LATE TO RECALL wakes up at 40 years of age and finds that leis youth hate been 'Waeted, and he strive° to get back his early advan- Rev. DR. TALMAGE ON WRONGS THAT togas. Does he get them back—the CANNOT BE RIGHTED. days Of boyhood, the days in college, the days under his, father's roof. "Oh,h he says, "if I could WY get those Oils Opinion of "the Unpardonable Siam- times back again, how I would improve Not Possinie ero.elay to Commit It—Some them I" My brother, you will never get them back, They axe gone, gone. Very good to rne. "You have given me Xrrevokahle Mistake:a Enumerated—The You may be very sorry aboutit and a fine education, and you have placed Signal Gun of the Gosnel. God may forgive, so that yon may at me in a fine social position; you have hest reach heaven, but you will never clone everything for me in a worldly New York, July 14.—In his sermon fer get over some a the mishaps that sense; but, father, you never told me •to -day, Rev. Da Talmage, who* is still have come to your soul as a result of how to die,. Now I am dying, and 1 in the west on his annual summer tour, your neglcet cif early duty. You may arn afraid." chose a subject which has been a fruit- try to undo it; you cannot undo it, In this category of irrevocable mis, fill theme a theological disputation for 'When you had, a boy's arms and a hors takes I place, also, the unkinclnesses centuries past—viz, "The T.Inparden- eyes and a boy's heart you ought to done the departed. When I was a boy, able Sin," The texts selected were : have attended to those things. A man my mother ueed to say to me some - "All manner of sin and blasphemy shall says, at. 50 years a age, "I do wish. I times, "De Witt, you will be sorry for be forgiven unto men, but the bias- could get over these habits of inclo- that when I am gone." And I rernem- phemy against the Holy Ghost shall lence." When did you get them? At ber just how she looked, sitting there e not be forgiven unto men. And who- 20 or 25 years of age. You cannot shake , i soever speaketh a word against the them off. They will hang to •hou to the 'Bible with cap and spectacles, and the old in leer lap, and she never said a • Son lee Man, it shall be forgiven him, very day of your death. If a young truer thing than that, for I have often but whosoever speaketh against the man through a long course of evil con- been sorry since. While we have our Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, duct undermines his physical health, k • 1- neither in this world, neither in the and' then repents of it in after life, the friends with us we say unguarded things that wound the feelings of thoSe world to come."—Matthew ail, 31,32. Lord may pardon him, but that does to whom we ought to give no - "He found no place oC repentance, not bring back good physical condition. thing but kindness. Perhaps the though • he sought it carefully with I said to a minister of the gospel one parent, without inquiring into tears,"—Hebrews xii, 17. Sabba,th, at the close of the service, the matter, boxes the child's ears, • As sometimes you gather the whole "Where are you preaching now ?" The little one, who has fallen in the family around the evening s6.nd to "Oh," he says, "I am not preaching. I hear some book read, so now we gather am suffering from the physical effects street, comes in covered with dust, and, —a great Christian group—to study of early sin, I canas though the first disaster were not't preach now; I am enough, she whips it. this text, and now may one and the sick." A consecrated man he now is, After awhile tbe child is talcen, or same lamp cast its glow on all the cir- and he moans bitterly over early sins, the parent is taken, or the companion ole. but that does not arrest their bodily taken and those who are left say; You see from the first passage that effects. !'Oh, if we could only get back those i I read that there is a sin against the The simple fact is, that nien and unkind words, those unkind deeds; if women orten ta.ke e0 years or tnmr Holy Ghost for which a man is never we could only recall them I" But you life to build up influences that pardoned. Once having committed it, require cannot get them back, You might ell the rest of their life to break down.• he is bound hand and foot for the dun- geons of despair. Sermons may be Talk about a man beginning life when bow down over the grave of that loved one, and cry and cry and cry—the white he is 21 years of age; talk about a wo- preached to him, songs may be sung lips would make no answer. The stars man beginning life. when she is 18 to him, prayers may be offered in his shall be plucked out of their sockets, behalf, but all to no purpose. He is a years of age ! Ah, no! In many res - captive for this world and a captive pects that is the time they close life. In but the influences shall not be torn away, The world shall die, but there nine cases out of ten all the questions for the world to come. Do you suppose that there is any one here who has of eternity are decided before that. are some wrongs immortal. The moral committed that sin? AB sins are Talk about a majority of men getting of which is, take care of your friends while you have them. Spare the scold - against the Holy Ghost, but my text i their fortunes between 30 and 40 ! They ing; be economical of the satire; shut get or lose fortunes between 10 and 20. speaks of one especially. It is very ' elear to my own mind that the sin.I When, you tell me that a man is just up in a dark cave, from which they shall never swarm forth, all the words , beginning life, I tell you he is just against the Holy Ghost was the ascrib- , that have a sting in them. You will ing of the works of the Spirit to the ',closing it. The next 50 Years will not agency of the devil in tirne of the apos- be of as much importance to him as the wish you had some day—very soon you ties. Indeed the Bible distinotly tells will—perhaps to -morrow. Oh, yes, with first 20. us that. In other words, if a man hada firm hand you administer parental Now, why do I say this? Is it for discipline, also administer it very gent - sight givien to him, or if another was the annoyance of those who have only raised from the dead, and some on a baleful retrospection? You ly, lest some day there might be a lit - know -a standing there should say: "This man it is nfit of oyoung men and women. I want chiseled "Our Willie" or "Our Charlie" my way. I say it for the bene- tle slab in the cemetery; nd on it got his sight by satanic power. The and though you bow down prone in the Holy Spirit did not do this. Beelzebub them to understand that eternity is aecomplished it," or, "This man raised grave and seek a place of repentence wrapped up in this hour; that the sins and seek it carefully With tears, you from the dead was raised by satanic of youth .we never get over; that you influence," the man who Said that dr op. are now fashioning the mold in which cannot find it. ped down under the curse of the text There is another sin that I place in your great future- is to run; that a the class of irrevocable mistakes, and arid had committed the fatal sin against minute, instead of being 60 seconds, the Holy Ghost. , long, is made up of everlasting ages. that is lost opportunities of getting good. I never come to a Saturday night You see what dignity and, importance Now, I do not think it is possible in but that I can see during the week that this gives to the life of all our young this day to commit that sin. I think I have missed opportunities of getting folksWhy, in the light of this sub- it was possible only in apostolic times. . , good. I never come to my birthday but ject, life is not something to be frit-- il ut it is a very terrible thing ever to that bI can see that% I have wasted tered away, not something to be smirk - say anything egainst the Holy Ghost, many chances of getting better. I nev- ed aout, opt something to be danced end it is a marked fact that our race er go home on Sabbath from the dis- out, but something to be weighed in has been marvelously kept back from cussion of a religious theme without the balances of eternity. Oh, young that profanity. You hear a msn swear feeling that I might have done it in man, the sin of yesterday, the sin of to - by the name of the Eternal God and a more successful way. How is it with morrow, will reach over 10,000 years— by the name of Jesus Christ, but you? If you take a certain number of aye, over the great and unending eter- •s you never heard a man swear by the bushels of wheat and scatter them over nity. You may, after awhile, say : "I name of the Holy Ghost. There axe a am very sorry. No*, I have got to be certain number of acres of land, you those here to -day who fear they are expect a harvest in proportion to the 80 or 40 yEars of age, and I do wish guilty of the unpardonable sin. Have amount of seed scatered, and I ask I had never committed- those sins." you such anxiety? Then I have to tell you now, have the sheaves of moral « What does that amount to ? God may you positively that you have not com- and spiritual harvest corresponded pardon you, but undo those things you mitted that sin, because the very anx- iety is a result of the movement of the with the advantages given? How has never will, you never can. ' it been with you ? You may make res - gracious spirit, and your anxiety is i In this same category of irrevocable olutions for the future, but past mistakes I put all parental neglect. We , proof positive, as certainly as anything i , portunities are gone, In the long op- thatpro- can be demonstrated in mathe- I begin the education of our children too cession of future years all those past late. By the time they get to be 10 or ; matics, that you have not committed , 1 the sin that I have been speaking of. I 15 we wake up to our mistakes and trymoments will -march, but the ahch- -. angers trumpet that wakes the dead oan look off upon this audience and feel to eradicate this bad habit and change . will not wake up for you one of those that there is salvation for all. Sees not that, u s too late. e parent Who privileges. likewhen the t t with those life- omits, in the first ten years of the Esau sold his birthright, and there boats from the Loch Earn f or the -Ville child's life, to make an eternal impresre Is not wealth enough in the treasure du Havre. They knew there was not sion for Christ, never makes it. The 1 houses of heaven to buy it back again. room for, all the passengers, but they child will probably go on with all the , 1 were going to do as well as they could. disadvantages, which might have been What does that mean? It means thatif you are going to get any advantage But to -day we man the lifeboat of the avoided by paternal faithfulness. Now out of this Sabbath day, you will have ; you see what a mistake that father or gospel, and we cry out over the sea, "Room for all I" Oh, that the Lord mother makes who puts off to late life to get it before the bend wheels around on the clo:Ot to 12 to -night. It Jesus Christ would; this hour, bring you adherence to Christ. Here is a man 4er 4 all out of the flood of sin and plant who at 60 years of age says to you, ' Means that every moment of our life has two wings, and that it does, not you on the deck of the glorious old gos- must be a Christian," and he yields his fly, like a hawk, in circles. but in a pel craft ! heart to God and sits in the place of straight line .from eternity to eternity. But while I have said I do not think prayer fh-day a Christian. None of . It means that, thouili other chariots by its full complement would number one it is possible for us to commit the par- us can doubt it. He goes home and he may break down, or drag heavily, this thousand men. ticular sin spoken of in the first text, says : "Here at 50 years of -age I Now .. one never drops the brake and never a I have by reason of the second text to given my heart to the Saviour. ow ceases to run. It means that while ea call your attention to the fact that I must establish a family altar." What? other feasts the cup may be passed to there are sins which, though they maY Where are your children now? One in us and we may reject it, and yet after , be pardoned, are in some respects irre- Boston; another in Cincinnati; another awhile take it, the cupbearers to this 4 vocable, and you can find no. place for in New Orleans, and you. my brother, feast never give us but one chance at 4, repentance, though you -seek it care- at your fiftieth year going to estab- the chalice, and, rejecting that, we fully with tears. Esau had a birth- lish your family altar ? Very well; shall "find no place for repentance, right given him. In olden times it better late than never, but alas, alas, though we seek it carefully with tears." meant not only temporal but spiritual that you did not do it 26 years ago. There is one more class of sins that blessing. One day Esau took this birth- When I was in Chamouni, Switzer- I put in this category of irrevocable right and traded it for something to land, I saw in the windows of one of sins and that is lost opportunities of eat. Oh, the folly ! But let us not be the shops a picture that impressed my usefulness. Your businees partner is a too severe upon hint, for some of us mind very much. It was a picture of proud man. In ordinary circumstances have committed the same folly. After an accident that occurred on the side say to him "Believe in Christ," and he • had made the trade he wanted te of one of the Swiss mountains. A com- he will say, "You mind your business get it back. Just as though you, to- pany of travelers, with guides,' went' and I'll rnind mine." But there has morrow morning, should take all your up some very steep places—places which. been affliction in the household. His totes and bonds and government se- but few travelers attempted to go up. heart is tender, He is looking around - eurities and should go into a restaur- They were, as all travelers are there, for sympathy and solace, Now is your ant and in a fit of reckleseness and fastened together with cords at the time. Speak, speak, or forever hold hunger throw all those securities on waist, so that if one slipped, the rope your peace. There is a time in farm the counter and aslc for a plate of Would hold him—the rope fastened to life when you plant the corn arid when food, making that exchange. This was the others. Passing along the ' most You sow the seed. Let that go by and the one Esau ma.de, He sold his birth- dangerous point, one of the guides the farmer will wring his hands while right for a mess of pottage, and he was slipped, and they all started down the other husbandmen are gathering in the very sorry about it afterward, but "he precipice, but after awhile one more sheaves. Yon are in a religious meet - found no place for repentance, though neusculax than the rest struck his heels ing and there is an opportunity for you he sought it carefully with tears." into the ice and stopped, but the rope to speak a word for Christ. You say k There is all impression. in almost broke and down, hundreds and thou- "I' must do it." Your cheek flushes every man's mind that somewhere in sands of feet, the rest went. with embarrassment. You rise half ., the future there will be a chance where _And so I see whole families bound to- way, but you cower befere men whose he can correct all his mistakes. Live gether by ties of affectieri, and in many breath is in their nostrils, anti you sag as we may, if we only repent in time, cases walking on slippery places of back, and the opportunity is gone and 4 God will forgive us, and than all will worldliness and sin. The father knoves all eternity will feel the effect of your he as though we had never committed it, and the mother knows it, and they silence. Try to get back that oppor- Sin. My discourse shall come in colii- are bound all together. After awhile tunity. You might as well try to find sion with that theory. I shall Show, they begin to slide down steeper and the fleece that,Gicloon watohed, or take • you, my friends,. as God will help me, Steeper, and the father becomes alarm- in your hand the dew that came down • that there is such a thing as tinsucoese- ed, arid he stops, planting his feet on on the looks of the Bethlehem shep- the "Rock of Ages," He stops, but the herds, or find the plume of the first fill repentance; that there are things rope breaks, ancl those who Were once robili that went across paradise, It iff &MO wrong that always stay wrong, and for them. you may seek some place tied fast to hirn by moral and spiritUal gone; it le gone forever, • of repentance and seek it carefully, but influences go over the precipice. Oh, When an opportunity for personal there is such a thing' as coining to never find le repenta,noe or of doing good passes Belonging to this class of irrevocable Christ soon enough to save ourselves, awasa you may hunt for it; you oan- mistakes is the folly of a misspent btit not soon enough to save others 1 not flint it. YOu may fish for it; it will Row Math parents wake up in the not take the hook; you may dig for it; YOUth. We may limit back to our col- lege days and think how we neglected Tatter part of lige to find out the mitt. you cannot bring it m itefember that take 1 The parelit OM's, SI have been there are arrange and sins that can cheinistry, or geolegy, or botany, or toe lenient," or,,,,S1 have been severe in never be ocarebted; that our privileges mathematics. We may be sorry about • the diecipline, of Tr& children, Xf 1 had fly not in ofroleis, but 111 a. straight line; it 'all. Our days. Co.n We ever get the the little ones around me again, 'hem that the lighteingsahavo not as swift discipline or the advantage that we Would haste had had we attended to different I woad do 1" tett will never feet tut our privileges when they are • gene. and let an oppOrtUnity of lialVit- thoee dietles' in eatly life ? A nian TRE EXETER TIMES leave them a,r0Und again, The Work is done, the beat to tbeecharacter IS giVen, the eternity is decidetIVI say Mei to young parents—taose who are 25 er 85 years of age—have the family altar to -night, Row do 7,011 suppose that father felt as he leaned over the coueb of his dying child and the expiring son said to him : "Father, you have been V1101.11INW , tion bY the an inert,. the one Mine evident that Hobab yielded to Moaes's clredth part of an atoll, the millionth entreaty, aud that his deem:Wants were part of au inch, and no man can over- ineorporated with Ierael. The great reason take it, Fire winged seraPhin cannot for the earnestness of 'Moses is to be acme come up with it. The eternal God him- in the next Clause. We are to encamp in self =met catish It. the wilderness. How fraughb witb dangers I stand before those who have a gio- thismaybeeeenfromtheGeneralStetement, rious birthright. Bettu'e was not so It would be hard to find oompsny leap rich as yours. Seel orese. and you adapted ho wildernes rwendering them were the Hebrews. The very bulk and bigness sell it for ever; I remember the store' of the lad Stewart Reiland. A vessel gists how they the lad on the exotic some years ago-- againet it as to long puzzle saohmolo- of the crowd was ageinet it, so much could. !awe been fed crashed into the Arctic in the time of a (teoegh that question is more (Wily answer. fog, and it was found that the ship ed ziow the wilderness of Sinai has been must go down. Some of the passengers more carefully explored). In the seoond got off In the lifeboats, some mot off on place, they had been slaves and toilers in rafts, but 300 went to the bottom. Dur- nthoenemoulf stthoef Eingsytipate'stsoiovfilinzoamtioadms.an dT Their Ing all those hours of calamity, Stew- none arid their strength were alike art .Holland stood at the signal gun, oharaoteristio of permanent people. Thou and it sounded across the sea, boom! m iyest be to us instead of eyes. Whet boom! The helmsman forsolt his place, need. had., Moses of eyes except to see the and the engineer was gone ancl some eliding pillar of fife and aloud? If the faioted and some prayed and some blas- feraelities were miraculously guided to plierned, and the powder was gone, and Palestine, what was the need of an addi- they could no more set off the signal tional shrewd Midianite? The answer is gun, The lad broke in the magazine ready: (5) No promise of divine guidance and brought out more powder and , designed to supersede the use of the best again the gun boomed over the 'sea. t natural helps within reaoh. The miracle, Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough bus oloud showed the general route, but seas of life, some have taken the warn- it needed the experienced desert wanderer ing, have gone off in the lifeboat, and , to point out the pastures and shade and they are safe, but others are not mak- I water, Besides, without doult Hobab was ot service in quite another way; he ing any attempts to escape. So I stand . powerful pribe, who at this signal gun of the gospel, sound- knew a thief of a new well the oharaoteristics of the ing the alarm, Beware beware! "Now • ' Arabs, and both as a warrior and a atrate. llisytehle accepted time; now is the day of • salvation." Rear it that your soul, may gist his presence would be useful. Revi- valist:3 have not shown as ready disposition to fehow the example of Moses in his sec- oradhogument as they have always done in his first. Moses does not (Utter Hobab with the notion that he can confer a favor on God—that mode of reaching sinners is • a- as mistaken as it is oommon—but he clear- ly shows what advantage he may be under God to God's people. (6) God turnishes superhuman helps when human helps can- not bereached,but not till then. (7) One of the surest ways to make men thorough Christians is to encourage them in the per- formance of the lesser Christian duties. Young people should be Christians not only because thus they may reach heaven, but because God has work in this world which only they after conversion THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 28. "Journeying to Caunan." n 10, 29-30. Goiden Text. Num. 10,29. GENERAL STATEMENT. We have had two lessons from Exodus and one from Leviticus; now we turn to the book of Numbers, from which Lessons IV. and V. are taken. It is the fourth book of oan do. the Pentateuch, and reoeives its name from If thou go with ue. It is interesting to two numberings of the people described in note not simply that Hobab did go with them, but that he went just as Moses asked census near the beginning and a oen- him to go, as guide and scout. Judah was sus near theatnd of the forty years wan- the foremost tribe in the march from Sinai tiering. The Israelitee have now started to Canaan. Hobab and. his tribesmen would naturally march in front of Judah, and we from the plain of Rehab, at the base of find oenturies later that the sons of Hobab Mourit Sinal,and are journeying northward dwell among the sons of Judah. What through the wildemees to Kadesh-barnea, goodness the Lord shah do -unto us, the on the southern edge of Palestine. The same will we do unto thee. (8) We can give nothing good to others that we have calculations of chronologists place this not first received from the Lord. (9) Al- inoiden t about the middle of May,B. C. 490. ways those that suffer with the people of A very trying experience was evidently be- God shall reign with them. fore the people. The desert is intensely hot, 33. They departed. On a journey eleven days long. The mount of the Lord. Sinai. bare of vegetation,rough, visited by terrible Three days' journey. Before they atopped sand storms, and haunted by hostile tribes ; for any length of time, The ark of the the Israelites started on their journey with oovenant. The 'golden box whioh contained but bright hopes, for they felt confident of the law writte sn tables of stone. That law was Gd4 covenant wibb the Israel - rest and oomfort in the land to which they ites ; hence the name. We must not journeyed. Our Lessou Hymn gives& beau- suppose that the people walked seventy- tif ul picture of the progress of the tribes as two hours without halting, but that there they followed their "awful Guide in smoke and flame." That Moses should urgently ask Ho bab's companionship and guidance was moat natural. The simple chants, "Rise up, Lord," and "Return, 0 Lord," nay always be said to have been the be- ginning of Hebrew psalmistry, and the first chant was assuredly the inspiration of Psalm 68. The children of Israel had been at Sinai for nearly a year. Probably no year I90.3 ever spent so full of civilizing processes. They had come from Egypt. a herd of barbarians; they left Sinai nation at least half oivilized. Aocording to the usual understanding of the census given in the first two chapters of Numbers, there were about two million of the children of Israel. There were, that is to say, count- ing the Levites, six hundred and twenty- five thousand five hundred aud fifty men twenty years old and upward. But it has been suggested by Professor Beecher that the numbering was " technicsl," and not was tie' permament stopping place for the ark until the three day's journey had been made. The ark was vvrapped in purple - cloth, and was carried separately' from the rose of the seared furniture in front of the whole army. Usually it was placed in the midst of the host. A resting place for them. Kibroth-heate.avah, where were the "graves of gluttony." Here where so many died an immense number of graves have been found, 34. The cloud of the Lord Waa upon them. Rather, above them, rising while in the way, It is possible, as some scholars have suegested, that the upper part of the "pillar" of cloud floated back and spread out as a protecting shade over the whole procession. Repeatedly in the East (tare - vans and armies have followed a conspicu• °us flame carried high in the front as a signal. By day, when they went out of the camp. In the morning when they started on their march. 35. When the ark sea forward, . . . Moses said. What Moses said was a sort of publio prayer for his nation. The begin - individual; that is, that the army was ring and the closing of every day of the divided into thousands and hundreds much march were marked by publics devotions. likeourown"ureginsents"and"oompanies," Rise up, Lord. Be ready to help us. Much but that these were often deficient in num as the millions of Hebrews moving over the bora so that to say there were six hundred tracklees wilderness needed help and thousand men only means that there were guidance, a God who would " rise up" and six hundred groups of men, eaoh of which march with them, their need was not greater than is oura, their future was not as dense- ly hidden as is ours, their way was not harder to find than our way. through tbe ordinary • trials of life. (10) Christ is our Verse 29. Hobab, the- son of Re.guel, pillar of oloud and fire, Let thine enemies Raguel should be Reuel, as in the Revised , be scattered. Not the Hebrews' enemies Version and in Exod. 2. 18. It aeems to be .ab all, but God's enemies. This warning reasonably certain that Reuel and Jethro ' watchword was warlike. were thesame. "Jethro" means Excellency, 36. Return, 0 Lord. The evening watelo and should be so translated • it was a title word was restful and festal. God was of Reuel. Rehab was either a son or a 1 leading them through a desert of privation, younger brother of Reuel ; the phrase but even there he provided them a ith "son" is indefinite. The Midie.nite. Midian guidance and rest, and "will he not much was the region in which Moses had spent ' more care for you?" the middle forty years of his long life, and where he found his wife. It is &wide desert with patches of grazing. Father -hi -law Foreigners in Franee. migh t be translated "relative by marriage." To check the influx into the country of The word may be used for either father.in• fs law or brother-in-law. We are journeying.oreign laborere,the French government ha About to journey. The march was just adopted a series of stringent measarea, the beginning. The place of which the Lord chief of them being compulsory naturalize, said, I will give it you. So had the Lord• said often (Gen. 12. 7 ; 13. 15 ; 17. tion and oompulsory service in the army 8 ; 28 13 ; Psalm 105. 9-11 ; Reed. 3. 8.) for all the foreigners ho are unable to It was a very desirable country, "an prove that they have oomplied with the the road to everywhere." its frequent ; laws regulating military service in the land changes of mesterei in later times of their birth. It is now oontended that show how important its possession was to the world's conquerors. Conte thou with thee naturalized French subjects are a us. ()) Those who are bound for the heaven- meal and a political danger, and that, ly kiugdorn should encourage their friends although naturalization has, in many cases, to come along with them. We will do the been forced on therp, they should be good. (2) No one can associate with tail .barred of the political and social ad van - religious without receiving good..Whatever tape which should accrue from. the blessing Iarael enjoyed should be shared acquisition of French nationality. To by llobab—manna,pillea of fireaniraculous systematize this ostracism of thenaturalized ease EXPLANATORY AND PRAOTIOAL NOTES. PURELY CANADIAN NEWS. •INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. 'mg RIOHT OF WAY. 4 01110010 taw in Thlit Country sad ital iand—a. singular Parallel, By the common law of England, which has validity in thie as Well tea in the mother oountry, persons using a pieee of attentio to the Pacific, (fathered tram 'Various Points trona i 0 ground or a footpath, unforbidaen by the owners, for a certain term of yeare, acquires Ottawa has another bicycle club, a legal right to it. This law has produced Alexandria. Bay wants water.works. some singular vaults, Shad flies greatly trouble Brookville. A large nortien of the moat fashionable Burglars heve been by in Midland. quarter og London belonge to the private Acton is asking for better fire protem estate of the Duke of Portland, who, during tion. toba. alsoursoadisythille ectitreobwdyeedar,arruelg, atTeshiaenedebuser: They are fighting grasshoppers in Mani - mute assertion of his rights preventi JoThutifis.Patrons will have a store at St. these thoroughfare:a from becoming the Moose have been seen recently near Port park belonging to another Euglish duke. its natal day lase ProPestY 01 tbe public. Halifax celebrated A few ploughmen thirty years ng p going Friday. from a village to rorkshire to their work, London has a pest of white moths and millers. • made unheeded, "a short cut" through a Severn, When, two yeetra ago, he proposed to The Pembroke Separate school is to be build a palace on his estate, it was found enlarged, Lanark oounty has refused to build a thbraotugthhiathfoeoticirpaawthinew-roottolmd. p mil: d 1rectl offeredy poorhouse. to buy it from the villager's at a high price, A Presbyterian church is being built at but they obstinately refused. The palace Uphill. is not yet built, and probably never will be on that site. At Palabogie a new Catholio. ohuroh is to be built. In the most crowded part of Philadelphia The electric light is being introduoed at where every inoh of ground is of great value, the stranger is surprised to see, be. Eganville. At Alexandria Bay there are 2,000 sum- itnwgiaa. lini:taleal gy: attennd toweringwooden d optotzneopbeuniiindo- mer visitors, into a passageway too narrow for two men The Shainrooks, of Kinghorn, have a to walk ahreaet It is a right of way football team. acquired in the days of Penn by the owners of certain property to "reach Oka green Stratford's fair will be held September fields." The fields are now dusty streets, 24th and 25th, crowded with vehicles and trolley -oars. Work on Sarnia's new hospital was be. Estates often lose a large percentage of gun this week. their value because of a right of way heed. Ardtrea is trying to get a mail three lessly granted by some pod -natured owner times a week. long ago to his neighbors. Grey flies are killing horses and oettle This curious point of cornmeal law has a singular parallelin the law of Mir own lives. near Qu'Appelle. Woodstock has voted to build a new We thoughtlessly give au entrance into market building. them to bad thoughts or wrong habits, and awake to find that theinerudera are owners Phelpston farmers talk of building a co- of the way into our souls, and oan never be operative mill. The old Irwin House at Dufferin Bridge forced out. Or there come into our characters ;ellen has been torn down. we are ohildreo habits of prayer, of cheer - Lindsay has voted $1,500 for an isolation fulness, of telling the truth that are held, hospital there. and remain until me.tiarer years. N o trouble, Many country mills have been stopped no rtgewill ever drive these good angele for want of water. out of our lives. The village of Zephyr will probably have they will;keep it. We have given them the right of way,and, a brass band. Mr. L. Rissell lost six horses in a recent fire at Renfrew. HEATHEN CHINESE OUTWITTED. Some Schomberg women parade the streets in male attire. Caledonia is moviug to eloae all its stores at 7 p. m. daily. Ottawa motormen and conductors inus pay fare when off duty. Barn mishap are now frequently attend- ed with horse raoes. Of the five London Presbyterian minis- tere three are bicyclists. -- Indian Gambling -mouse Raided by the Supposed corpse of a Policeman. So twat, as John Chinaman drifts into "on the make," so tamely, says the Pall Mall Gazette, does the empire have trouble with him. Accordingly the empire has haa trouble lately with Ali Sin. He lived in the Barra Bazaar ; he grew fat, Last week a Renfrew preacher got 40 and seemed prosperous ; but the sources of cents as a wedding fee. his plumpness and prosperity were not ' The New Mennonites have just had a camp meeting at Berlin. visible to the naked eye of the inspector of Kingston's water -works will have an police. Of course, the inspector, knowiug additional puinping engine, the proclivities of his suspect, knew well The R. T. of T. are organizing a public whenever the inspector came to take a enough that he ran a gambling table. Only, library at Schomberg. hand, Ah Sin happened to he only giving a A aold medal buried for many years was little dinner party, and the most uncere- unearthed at Vespra. monious investigation failed to discover lost the sight of his left eve. anything more. It thus became clear to the intelligent Ex -Mayor James Cowan, London, has offioer the.t Ah Sin must have a regular Chatham will vote on a by-law to buy chain of telegraphists between the police the water -works for 8145,000. Rev. Mr. George, pastor John street station and the bazaar. This conviction had such an effect upon the inspector that church, Belleville, hes, resigned. - Lambton County Council has voted to known to anybody, having taken the pre - he put himself to death one morning, unbe- establish a House of Industry, caution to bring down four polioemeo from an up -country station, whose faces were Oil Springs wants a Government own - minion to inspect its finanoes. unfamiliar to the telegraphists, to Carry him on a oharpoy to hie burial. He himself A new English church at Richard's was, as usual, covered With a sheet. The Landing, Algoma, has been opened. The expense connected with the extent- telegraphists took no notice. At Ah Sin's door in the bazaar the oorpse jumped off tion of Chattelle was_less than $40. the charpoy and ran upstairs the four bear- Great.quantities of sturgeon are being era following. That time they all took a caught in the river at Point Edward. hand, So Mr. Inspector is Ms. Saperin. The new hotel on Well's Island will be tendent, and Ah Sin adorns the Ands, - Hill's hotel, at Churchill, narrowly es- mans. An Unwilling Acrobat. the largest on the St. Lawrence. caped destruoticat by fire last week. Manitoulin Island is shipping great quantities of railway ties to Midland. There are 55 applioations for the vacant pulpit of Knox church, Mitchell. soiCi.onstable W. N. Cook, Chatham, has been appointed deputy chief of Inger. Canada's export of eggs to Great Brit- ain bas increased $420,000 in three years. Frank Daniher, aged 14, of IVI aid. stone, was killed by being thrown from a Thehorse. Arlington Hotel, ViToodstook, has been bought' by Jacob Zimmer, of Pres- ton. There is serious trouble among the teachers in the Napemee collegiate insti- tute. A party of English children have just arrived at the Marchmont Home, Ballet viiLles.st week the Berlin Swedenborgian church celebrated its nineteenth anniver- sary. John Forbes, T. R. representative at Harrieton, has been appointed agent at Berlin, R. Denison has retired from the daft of the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders' Asso- eiaTtiherhestate of George McNab, killed by falling from his horse at London, is worth $50,000. A Glanford man has two cows that, holp, hely law, inheritance in the atomised atratiger, several bills have been brought , within a day of each other, gave birth to lana. The Lord bas spoken good concern- forward in the Chamber of Deputiee. One twin calves. ing Israel. God alseays iipeakii good eon- of them, devised by Count de Pontbriand, The Carleton county teachers want the cer8101,u Gw°1(111130PorgPO.e. The mere invitation ehermitted to hold the rank of officer or it is in the town. roposes that no naturalized foreigner shall Rester vacation as long in the ocuutry as •is often insuffipient to bring our friends to non.comMiesioned officer in the army, Christ. (3) The things of this vsorldayhioh although liable to serve as a private, and are nen, draw strongly from the pursuits that no naturalized foreigner shall be of the other world, which are not scan. 1 eligibie for any legislative or administrative will depart to mine own land, and to my fuzee -eon, unless it so happens that his kindred. It is to be remembered that to go nateralization goes back for three genera - with the Israelites meant to Ilobab tions. The bill of M. de Poutbriand is much more than a long and itioonveniene supplemented by another, introduced by M. journey. It meant partiolpatlon in a series de Mahy and 'Viscount de Monifort which of desperate atrugg Os ; it meant n change la only alightly less hareh. Acoorcling to from the life of a noMad to the life of a the amine o11891, the number of nature - citizen; and, more than either of these, it lized foreigners in France is only 170,704 meent the thorough commits' of himtielf to while the gonomairalteed foreignore number the newly formulated religious creed of not less than 1,1f10,211, 31. Leave us not I pray thee, (4) Even -a deoided refusal:nay be overcome by earnest The greatest events dawn with no Imre persuasion. We say "overcome" because beam Min the morning Oar Makes hi rho from Judg. 1. 16 ; 4. 11; 1 Sam. 15. 6 it is beg. e-Becoher, Last Sunday Rev. George Fuller was inducted into the pastorate of the Stratford Congregatiottal church, The commisaiop appointed to look into the bridge and toll-roadbutinese of Ontario has began its work. Another election must be held to deter- mine whether Islorth Bay, Mattawe or Sturgeon Be.y shall be the county town of the Nipissing distriet, Dr. Roeldfok, of Montreal, has preeented the Peter Redpath museum, in that city, with an ICIgyptian mummy 2,500 years old, which waa exeavated from the tombs :at /Imam et Maktae l'ayoun, Egypt. The mummy, *hi* is that of a lady of mule, is in a remarkable state of preservation. HI : CABBY1" "YESSIR 1— 'syphon To ?" No Escape for Milks. Wielre—How is it Binks doesn't, get along better t Miriks—Poor Binks I Hee etaleatecl ter life. Eli? Zeta ? When he was yOUng he let a good triarty people do favors for him, and now it Itaa pa him poor paying 'em neak.