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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-1-16, Page 7; 1 CURRENT NOTES. Sir Charles M. Kennedy, in an ad- dress on "Diplomacy and Internetional • LaW," at University College,' Bristol, last autumn, used. the following lan- guage which bas e1oria,1 significance at • the preseinee time: "International law . existed les a necessary consequence O f the.existence in the world of separate states holding intercouxse with eaeh other. The form which it had assumed, derived from the content of nations, Was no less a necessary consequence of the past history of the vrorld. Its evi- dences were found in rec,ognized rules, maxims, • prinelpies and usages, in offi- •del document% and in the writings of publicists. Its autbority was enforced by morel no less then by phydeal sane - tions that had been approved by prece- dent and confirmed by time. The ends for which international law had been accepted among states were national ietuxity, the advancement of civilization, the ?extension of commerce and Wes- t; A purse between nations, the preservation of peace, the mitigation of war, and the repression of violence and. wrongdoing. It rested on public opinion. It applied to new questions principles deduced from past events, (ft progressed like all other law; and like all other law, hada foundation welch deeper than mere usage. The greater regularity wbich now characterized international trans- actions, and. the greater respect now paid, to international duties and obliga- tions, formed bright inddents in this century's closing years. We must, how- ever, be satisfied. with cautious meas- ures. Nations realized the little per- manent value of undue pressure or ad- vantage; they no longer rushed into • war on trivial provocation or. for snaell cause,s. While acknowledging fully benefits conferred by enlightened public opinion and. rulers, we must not leave Dut of sight the consequences of deliber- ate policy, of gusts of popular passion, or of rashness and. incapacity, whiab had repeatedly led. to wax, and might do so roan. The first Napoleon regarcledin.- capacity (inabectillite) as the most dan- gerous factor in human affairs—the only motive power with which it was not pos- eible to reckon." Dr. Bernardo, the apostle of the slums, who as a result of once interesting him- self in the ease of a single homeless lad was led to found a colony of outcasts, was presented recently in Exeter Hall, London, with an illuminated address and a, cheek for £3,417. Lord. Kinnaird presided, and tendered these testiraon- leis on behalf of friends of .the instals, tions Dr. Bernardo bas founded. The magnitude of this charitable work ap- pears from the fact that the public sub- scriptions one time or another made to it hetee now reached a total of nearly eight and a half million dollars. About toripfive thousand rescued waifs are being 4. -- for in the eighty-four Bernardo A ne,•e The boys are carefully taught In fourteen different handierafts, while the girls bee brought up in cottage life to domestic lea•vice. Some seven hun- dred children tete every year sent to • Canada and. the dieteorties. Of the 8,044 • emigrants over ninety eight per cent, it is claimed, have turned out satisfac- torily. The cost of maintaining the small army of children now in the Bern- ardo institutions is $700 a day for food alone. • THE PRINCE IMPERIAL Sante Incidents in the Life of the Son or Napoleon us. Archibald Forbes, in his "Memories • of War and Peace," says that the prince imperial, the son of Napoleon III., "took back" to his Spanish ancestry; that he had. all the pride, the melancholy, the ardor of shine, the courage bordering on recklessness, of a true grandee of Spain. Hoe; perfect his self-restraint could be is easily seen from an 'incident of the time of his studying at the govern- ment school in Woolwich, England. He one da.y heard that a Frenchman was visiting the academy, and sent out to say that he should be glad to see his countryman. The person, .who happen- ed to be a bitter anti -Imperialist, was presented. and the prince asked from what part of France he came. • The visitor looked. the youth straight in the face with a sarcastic wsmile., ut- tered the ord "Sedan," and grimungly awaited the effect of his brutality. The prince flushed and. his eye kind- led. Then he controlled himself, and • quietly remarking, "That is a very prettypast of France," he closed the interview with a bow. His dignity and self-control were fine- ly manifested when, a lad not yet sev- enteen, he followed his father's coffin, as chief mourner, along the, path lined by thousands of French sympathizers; and his demeanor was said, to be truly r- Loyal when, later on in that trying day, i'he masses of French artisans hailed him with shouts of "Vive Napoleon IV. I" He stopped. "My friends," said he, "I thank you, but your emperor is dead. Let us join • in the orr of 'Vire in France!'" Then he bared his head and led off the cheering. _ • SWORN 1,200 TIMES. This Widow Biased the Bible During •Three Whole Days to Softie ller band's Eqtate. A woman in Germany the other day had to be sworn twelve hundred times in a suit in which her deceased hus- band's estate was involved. The hus- band bed been a lumber dealer, and during 'his long business career a cer- tain cabinet-maker had kept anuaming account with him. Their business re- lations were so complicated at tire time of the merchant's death that there was • a difference • of opinion between the execators and the cabinet-maker as to the amount the tatter owed the e.stale. The matter was brought into the conne, and at the trial the reading of the defendant's affidavit consumed twelve home. Then the widow was cited before the magistrates, and during her te.stimony, so a foreign paper says, was obliged to make oath twelve hun- dred times, once for ascii of the twelve hundred litigious points involved in the suit. This took three -elide sittings of tib 4 b t b the su t. THE EXETER, TIMES 1 RID ON HIS HAND. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. ljeW 1.11100 on a Familiar Story—The lifeboat Bing Ever Flashod on the Via. ton IS That Which Oar Father ruts on a Forgiven Soul, Washington, ,Tan. 5,-1n his sermon to -day Rev. Dr. Tabliage took for his subject the return of the tirodigal son. The text chosen was Luke xv., 22, "Put a ring on his hand." 1 veil' not rehearse the familiar story of the fast young man of the parable. Yon know what a splendid horae he left. Yon know what a hard time he had. And you remember how, after that season of vagabon.dage and prodigality be re,solved to go and weep out his sorrows on. the bosom of paren- tal forgiveness. Well, there is a great excitement one day in front of the door of the -old farm house. The ser- vants come rushing in and. say: "What's the naatter? What is the matter 1" But before they quite ar- rive the old man ories out, "Put a ring on his hand." What a seeming absurdity! What can such a wret- ched mendicant as this fellow that is tramping on toward the house want with a ring 1 Oh, he is the prodigal SM. No more tending of the swine trough 1 No more longing for the pods of the carob tree! No more blistered &al Off with the rags! On with the robe! Out with the ring I Even so does God receive every one of us wben we come back. There are gold rings, and pearl rings and emerald rings,' and diamond rings, but the richest ring that ever flashed on the vision is that which our Father pets upon a forgiven soul. I know that the impression is abroad among some people that religion be - means and belittles a man; that it takes all the sparkle out of bis soul; that he has to exchange a roistering independence for an ecclesiastical straight -jacket. Not oo. When a man becomes a, Christian, he does not go down; he starts upwards. Religion multiplies. 1 by 10,000. Nay, the multi- plier is infinity. It is not a blotting out; it is polishing, it is axe arbores- cence, it is an efflorescence; it is an irradation. When a man comes into the kingdom of God, he is not sent into a menial service, but the Lord God Almighty from the palaces of Heaven calls upon the messenger an- gels that wait upon the throne to fly and "put a ring on his hand." In Christ are the largest liberty, and brightest joy, and highest honor, and richest adornment. "Put a ring on his hand." I remark, in the first place, that when Christ receives a ooul into his love, he puts upom him the, ring of adoption. While in my church in Phila- delphia there came the representative of the Howard Mission of New York. He brought with him eight or ten obit- dren of the street that he had picked up, and he was trying to find for them Christian homes, and as the little ones stood on. the pulpit and. sang our hearts melted witlain us. At the close of the service a. great hearted, wealthy man came up and. said, "I'll adopt this little bright-eyed. girl, and I'll adopt her as one of my own children." And he took her by the band, lifted her into his e.arriage and went away: The next day, while we were in tiae church gathering up garments for the poor of New York, tide little child came back with a bundle under her arm, and she. said: "There's my old dress. Perhaps some of the poor child- ren would like to haVe it," while she, herself, was 18 bright and. beautiful array, and those who more immedi- ately examined her said, she had a ring on her hand. It was a ring of adop- tion. e There are a great many persons who pride themselves on their ancestry, and they glory over the royal blood that pours through their arteries. In their line there was a lord, or a duke, or a prime minister, or a king. But when the Lord, Our Father, puts upon us the ring of his adoption we become the children of the'Ruler of all na- tions: "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called. the sons of God." It matters not how poor our garments may be in this world, or how scant our bread, or how- mean the hut we live in, if we b,ave that ring of Christ's adoption upon our hand, eve are assured of eternal defenses. Adopted! Why, then, we are broth- ers and sisters to all the good of eartb and Heaven! We ha.ve the famly name, the family dress, the family keys, the family wardrobe. The Father looks after us. We have royal blood in our veins, and there are crowns in our line. If we are his children, then princes and princesses. It is only a question of time when we get our coronet. Adopted! Then we have the family seorets. "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him." Adoeted I Then we have the family inheritance, and in the day when our Father shall divide the riches of Heaven we shall take our share of the mansions and palaces and temples. Henceforth let us boast no more of an earthly ancestry. The insignia of eternal glory is oin• coat of arms. This ring of adoption puts upon us all privilege. Now we can take the words of Charles Weeley, that prince of hymn -makers, and sing: Come let us join on* friends above Who have obtained. the prize, And on the eagle wings of love To joy c,elestral rise. Let all the saints terrestrial sing • With those to glory gone, For all the servants of the King In Heaven and earth are one. I have been told that when any of the members of any of the great secret s.ocieties of this country are in a dist- ant city and are in any kind of trou- ble and are set upon by enemies they have only to give a certain signal, and the members of that organization will flock around for defence. And when any raa,n belongs to this great Chris- tian' brotherhood, if he gets hi trouble, in trial, 18 persecution, inetempta.tion, he has only to show this ring of Christ's adoption, and, all the armed cohorts of Heaven will come to his rescue. Still further, when Christ takes a soul into his love, he pils upon it a marriage ring. Nov, that is not a whim of . mine—Hosea, li, 19, "I Will betrbth thee unto me forever—yea, will betroth thee unto me in right- eousness, and in judgment, end in lov- ing kindness, and in mercies." At the wedding altar the bridegroom puts a, rhao upon the hand of the bride, signi- fyiug love and faithfulness, Trouble may otene upon the household, and the carpets may go, the pictures may go, the piano may go—everything else may go. The lint thmg tbat goes is that xna,rriage ring, for it is consideredw sacred. In the burial hour it is with- drawn frona the hand. and keet ie a casket, and sometimes the box is open- ed on an anniversary day, and as you look at that ring. you. see under its arch a long procesmon of precious mem- ones. Within the golden circle of that nng there is room for a thousandsweet recollections to revolve, arid you think of the great contrast between the hour when, at the close of the _"Wedding March," under the flashing lights and enaid the aroma of orange blossoms, you set that ring on the round finger of the plump liand, and, t hat, hour when, at the close of the exhaustive watobing, when you knew that the soul had fled, you. took from the hand, which gave back no responsive clasp, from that emaciated 'finger, the ring that she had worn so long and worn so well. On some anniversary day you. take up that ring, and you repolish it until aLL the old lustre comes back, and you can see in it the flash of eyes that long ago ceased to weep. Oh, it is not an umneaning thing when I tell you that when Christ receives a. soul into his keeping he puts on it a, marriage, ring! He endows you from that mo- ment with all his wealth. You. are one —Christ and the soul—one in sym- pathy, one in affeation, one in hope. There is no power on earth or hell to effect a, divorceraent after Christ and the soul. are, united. • Other kings have turned out their companions when they got weary of them and erent them adrift from the palace gate. Alla- enema banished Vashti. Napoleon for- sook Josephine, but Christ is the hus- band that is true forever. Having lov- ed you. once, be loves you to the end. Did you not try to divorce Margaret, the Scotch girl, from Jesus? They said, "You must give up your religion ?" She said, "I can't give up my religion." And so they took her down to the beach of tbe sea, and they drove in a stake at low- water mark, and they fastened her to it, expecting that as the tide wane up her faith would fail. The tide, began to rise and came up higher and higher, and, to the girdle, and to the lip, and to the last moment, just as the wave was washing her soul into glory, she shouted the praises of Jesus. Oh,, no, you. cannot separate a soul from Christ 1 It is an everlasting mar- riage. Battle and storm and darkness 'cannot do it. It Ls too much exultation for a man, who is but dust and ashes like myself, to cry out tbis moment, "I axe persuaded that neither height nor depth nor principalities nor pow- ers, nor things present, nor tbings to come, nor any other creature shall separate me from the love of God which is in Christ. Jesus, my Lord! Glory be to God that when Christ and the soul are married they are bound. by a chain, a golden chain if I might say so—tie:bale with one link, and that one link the golden ring of God's ever- lasting love. I go a step further and tell eou that when Christ receives a soul into his love he puts on him the ring of festiv- ity. You. know that it has been the custom in all ages to bestow rings on very happy occasions. There is no- thing more appropriate for a birthday gift than a ring. You delight to bestow suoh a gift upon your children at such a time. It means joy, hilarity, festiv- ity. Well, when this old man if the text wanted to tell how glad he was that his boy had got back, he express- ed it in this way. Aotuelly, before he ordered. the fatted calf to be killed to appease the boy's hunger. he command- ed, "Put the ring on his land." Oh, it is a merry time when Christ and th6 soul are united 1 Joy or for- givenessl What a splendid thing it is to feel that all is right between God and myself. What a gim•ious thing it is to have God just take up all the sins of my life and put them in one bundle, and then fling them into the depths of the sea, never to rise again, never to be talked of again. Pollution all gone; darkness all illuminated.; God reconciled., the prodigal home! "Put a ring on his hand.?" Every day I find happy Christian people. I find some of them with no second coat, some of them in huts and tenement houses, not one earthly com- fort; afforded. them, and yet they are as happy as happy can be. They sing " Rock of Ages" as no other people m the world sing it. They never wore any jewelry in their lives but one gold ring, and that eva,s the ring of God's undying affection. Oh, how happy re- ligion makes us 1 Did it make you gloomy and sad? Did you go with your head cast down? I do not think you got religion, my brother. That ie not the effect of religion. True reli- gion is a joy. "Her ways are ways of pleasantne.ss, and all her paths are peace." Why., religion lightens all our bur- dens; it smoothes all our way; it inter- prets all our sorrows; it changes the tar of earthly discord for the peal of festal bells. In front of the flaming furnace of trial it sets the forge on which sceptres are hammered out. Would you not like this hour to c,orne up from the swine feeding and try this religion. All the joys of heaven would come out and meet you, and God would cry. from the throne, "Put a ring cm les hand I" You are not happy. I see it. There is no peace, and sometimes you laugh when you feel a great deal more like i crying. The world s a cheat. It first wears you down with its follies; then it kicks you. out into darkness. It comes back from the massacre of 1,000,000 souls to attempt the destruction of Your soul to -day. No peace out of God, but here is tbe fountain that can slake the thirst. Here is the harbor where you can drop safe anchorage. Would you not like, I ask you—not perfunctorily, but as one brother raight talk to another --would you not like to have a pillow of rest to put your head on? And would you not like, when you retire at night, to feel that all is well, whether you wake ap to -morrow morning at 6 o'clock or sleep the sleep that knows no .waking? 'Would you not like to exchange this awful uncer- tainty about the future for a glorious assurance of heaven ? Accept of the Lord Jesus to -day and all is well. If on your way home some peril should cross the street and dash your life out, it would not hurt you. You would rise up immediately. You would stand in the celestial streets. You would be amid the great throng thatforever worship and are forever bappy. If this night some sudden disease should come upon you, it would not frighten you. If you knew you were going you could give a. calm farewell e to your beautiful home en earth • and know that you are gomg right into the companionship of those who have already got beyoxid the toiling and the weeping. You feel oh Saturday night different from the way yea feel on any other night of the week. 'You come home from the bank, or the store, or the office and you say, "lVell, now my work is done, end to -morrow is Sun- da -Ye" If is a pleasant tbought, There are refreshment and reconstruction 18 the very idea,. Oh, bow pleasant it will be if, whea we get through the day of our life, and we go and lie down in our bed of dast, we c,an realize, "Well, now the work is all done, and to -mor- row is Sunday—an everlasting Sun - dale, Oh, when, thou city of my Gods Shall 1 tIty ecnrrts ascend, Where congregations nenr break up And Sabbatirs have no end? There are people in this house to -day who are very near the eternal world. If you axe Christians, I bid you be of good eheer. Bear with you our con- gratulatiOns to the bright city. Aged. men, who will soon be gone, take with you our love for our kindred. in the better land, and when you see them tell there. that we are soon coming. Only a few more sermons to preach and hear; only a few more heartaches; only a, fees more toils; only a few more tears. And then—what an en- trancing spectacle will open before us! Beautiful heaven, where all is light; Beautiful angels, clothed in wbite; Beautiful strains that never tire, Beautiful harps through all the choir; There is.ball I eoin the chorus sweet, Worshipping at the Saviour's feet. Aed so I approach you now witb a general invitation, not picking out here a. man, or here and. there a woman, or here and there it child, but giving you an unlimited invitation, saying, "Come for all things are now re,a,dy." We, in- vite you. to the warm, heart of Christ and, the inclostue of the Christian church: I know a great many think that the aura does not amount to much; then it is obsolete; that it did, its work and is gone now, so fax as all usefulness is coneerned. It is the happiest place I have ever been in, except my own borne. I know there are some people who sey they are Christians who seem to get along without any help from oth- ers, and who culture solitary piety. They do not want any ordinances. I do not belong to that class. 1 cannot get along without them. There are so marry things in this ;world that take my attention from God. and Christ and heaven that I want all the helps of all the symbols and of all the Chris- tian associations, and I want around, about me a solid phalanx of men who love God. and keep his commandments. Axe there any here wbo would like to enter into that association? Then by a childlike faith, apply for ad.- m• ienon into the visible church, and. you will be received. No questions asked about your past history or pres- ent surroundings. Only one test—do you love Jesus? Baptism does not amount to ay - thing. say a great xaany people, but the. 1,ord Jesus declared. 'He that be- lieveth and is baptized ehall be saved," putting baptism and faith side by side. .And an apostle declares, "Repent and be baptized. every one of you." I do not stickle for wane particular mode of baptism, but I put great emphasis on the fact that you ougbt to be bap- tized, _yet no more emphasis than the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Head of the Church, puts upon it. Some of you. have been thinki.ng on this subject year after year. nu have found out that this world is a poor portion. You want to be Chris- tens. You have come almost into the, kmgdom of God, but there you stop, forgetful of tbe fact tbat to be almost saved. is not to be saved. at all. Ole nay brother, after baying come so near to the door of mercy, if you turn back, you will never come at all. After all you tam heard of the goodness of God, if you turn away and die, it will not be because you did not have a good offer. God's spirit will not always strive With hardened, self -destroying man. Ye who persist his love. to grieve itlay never hear his voice again. May God Almighty this hour move upon your soul and bring you back from the husks of the wilderness to the Father's house, and set you at the banquet, and "put it ring on your hand." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 19 '96 "The Ministry of John the Baptist.' Luke 3.1-30 Golden Text. --John 1, 29. GENERAL STATEMENT. Eighteen years have paseed since our last lesson, and thirty-one or two since Lesson I. These years have brought many changes to Palestine. Galilee. however, continues under the rule of Herod Antipas, and nearly all of Jesus's life was lived ander the civil administra- tion of Antipas and of Pilate, the proc- urator of Judea. An intense longing for moral relief pervaded Palestine, and was felt fax beyond its bounds. The people who sat in darkness were search - mg for light, when suddenly John's voice was beard. We should thoroughly un- derstand the storray background against yvhicli the rugged figure of this "great- est born of women" stands out in bold relief. Public and personal depravity, oppression of the poor, subservience to e despotic foreign power, a formal and hypocritical hierarchy, an combined to make the common people eager to hear and attend to his words. Brought up in the wilderness, he became an ascetic, dressed like a barbarian, and lived with utmost simplicity. His rhetorical fig- ures were homely, taken from coarse, simple life in which he had been trained. The thousands flocked to hear him— people of every class. He condoned no vice, feared no authority, taught no new doctrine. "Live justly, love mercy, and waik humbly before God," was his mes- sage to high and low. When in Eferod's presence he softened no tone, 'but de- nounced his luxurious vice. As a con- sequence (in March, A. D. 28), john was put into prison, and eventually ilered . The most remarkable day m john's life was that on which was xe- vealed to hina "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin. of the world." EXPLANATORY NOTES. Verse 15. TJae people were in eopecte- time Zo expectatioxi of the coming of the Meseiah. Not only the Jews, but Romans, Greeks,.Egyptians, and men in the fax East thrilled with this strange feeling, and now that a, reformer, redie.ally different in character and methods from any priest oe scribe whore they, had. ever heard, carae to the front, it was a very natural supposition that he was the Christ. , 16. John answered, A deputation had come from the Sanhedrin to ascertain his dams (John 1, 19-28.) The Answer was to these men. 1. indeed baptize yon with water. He cleansed them by a simple teremony and. symbol, but their evil nearts required ulna more than symbols and ceremonies, His wont was syrabolicaa and. by water; the nressiah's work roost be real and. in., _spirit. Oire mightier than cometia. 'Irlightier to effect what my baptism is powerless to Produce." The latehet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. Or, as we might say, "I am not worthy to untie the thong of bis sandals, to loose isa shoes, to button his gaiters. In epiritual power I am as far beneath him as in soda standing a bootlack is beneath a prince." He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, John could, lead his fel- lows to repent and to long for and strug- gle after a change of heart, but tbe Christ was to charge their hearts. And with fire. The emblem of purification. The story of Ise. 6. 6, 1 in a beautiful illustration of this. 17. Whose fan is in his hand. Not a fan in our sense.—a. great wooden fork rather, with which the farmer threw up the thre,shecl grain against the wind so that the light particles of chaff miglit be blown away before the grain fell back to the earth. Christ was to win- now the people, and very worderfully he did it. He will thoroughly purge his floor. Truly cleanse it. The wheat. The good.; those wile, love goodness. The chaff. The worthless ones. Burnwith fire unquenchable. "Unquenchable" Meal:LS that cannot be put out. Set the dry chaff an fire, and. the work of the flame will be so swift it cannot be ar- rested. The word seems sixaply to symbolize final and utter destructron. 18. Many' other things in his exhort- ation .preetbed he. He discusses all "live mires." Hie was applied Christ- ianity. Ile told the soldiers, the publi- cans, the beggars, and the king him- self with equal directness what it was their duty to do. 19, 20. And this state of things went ou for a year and xaore. The Incident narrated in these two verses occurred thirteen months after the baptiara of our Lord, which is reported in the fol- lowing two. Herod the tetrareb. "Tet- rarch" means "ruler of a, fourth part," and Herocin principality was one-fourth of the older provurce of Syria, He had. now reigned about thirty years. His government extended over Galilee and Perea. Herodias his brother Philip's wife. Our note an verse 5 of Lesson I identifies tbis "brother Philip" with Herod Philip I, who lived the life of a private gentleman in Rome. He was one of the less harmful of the sons of tbat royal orimiaml, Herod tire Great. When Herod Antipas, the tetrarch, bad oceasion to go to Rome to make sure his claim to the tetrarcht• he became the guest of this Herod Pbilip. When. he left he not only had. secured the tetrarchs' but he had robbed his brother and his wife and. daugh- ter, who were both as wicked as they were beautiful, His *rime, wbich was not only adulterous, but by the Mosaic, law doubly incestuous, wits an abomina- tion to the Jews, and public opinion against him became much bitterer when be east off his forraer wife and plung- ed his country into war with her father King Aretas of Petra. To have the most popular preacher of the time denounce bis conduct was more alarming to Herod than were the troops of Aretas. Ile could not afford. to be reproved at such O time, so he shut up John in prison. This was a most iniquitious orirae, and led logieally to a worse crime—the mur- der of john. And yet by a comparison of ibis story with Mark 6, 17-20 and Matt. 14. 3.5 we are persuaded that —napes svas profoundly impressed by John's righteousness, and it is probable that one of several mixed motives in the shutting him up in prison was to make him safe against the plottings of Herodias. 21. Now when all the people were baptized. Ntrhen the day's crowd had been baptized and the public ceremony was over. Jesus also being baptized "It became him to fulfill all righteous: ness." Praying. Jesus himself needed prayer. It was when he prayed that the heaven was opened; two years later, when he praved, the great trans- figuration occurred; later still, when he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, angels tame and confronted him. 22, The Holy Ghost descended in a. bodily shape. To permanently equip him for the work (Acts 10. S8; John 1. 28; 3.34). Probably the general under- standing is correct, that the form of a dove hovered over the head of Christ; although the other interpretation—that " like a dove" alludes to the manner of descent and not to the form—may be correct, Voice . , from heaven. An articulate voice. Thou art my be- loved Son. Literally, Thou art my Son, the Beloved." This implies the doctrine of the blessed Trinity. PIANO TONNAGEK An Estimate of the Average Outlay of Force „. lit an Bowes Playing or Chopin. The amount of power expended in playing on a piano has recently been figured out in a, way which, if not al- together accurate, is at least interest- ing, Commenting on the stateraent made that it requires more force to sound a note gently on this instrument than it does to lift the lid of as kettle, it is easy to verify it if one takes a small handful ;If coins and piles them on a key of the piano. When a sufficient quantity. Is piled on to make a. note sound they may be weighed, and the figures will be found to be true.. If the pianist is playing fortissimo, a much greater force is needed. At times a force of six pounds is thrown upon a single key to produce a solit- ary effect. With chords the force is generally spread over the various notes sounded simultaneously, though a greater out- put of force is undoubtedly expended. This is what gives 'demists the won- derful strength m their fingers that is often commented on. A story used to be told of Paderewski that he could crack a pane of French plate glass half an inch thick merely by placing one hand upon it as if upon a piano key- board and striking it sharply with his middle finget. Chopin's last study in C minor has a passage which takes two minutes and five seconds to play. The total pressure brought to bear on tbis, it is estimated, is equal to three full tons. The average "tonnage" of an hour's piano playing of Chopm's music varies from twelve to eighty-four tons. Wagner has not yet been calculated along these lines. Betrayed. Take back the ring which thou gayest, n is much too cheap for me, Though it sparkles bright as a train headlight The price -tag betrayeth thee! dolutal DEaetehlaelroirlig_t:alomfasyn.tiy' ou..know Miss Peewee -flow can you be so cruel to poor Jingo.? Love nee, love My tiONV why I detest .Jingo. A STANLEY AMONG' WOMEN MISS KINGLEV'S REMARKABLE. TRAVEL THROUGH AFRICA. She raced Fierce Cannibal; and Owners -- Climbed Mountains, Shot Gorillas, lip-, set From Mer Canoe and Saw the Sava - tees Diane in Her liouor. Greatness may run in a family, or it may not, but at all events the niece of one of the most celebrated of this cen- tury's Beglishmen, has made for ber- self a record in the field of exploration that ban never been equalled by wo- man in modern times. • Clad to her boot tope in ordinarY walking skirts, without fuss and feath- ers, and little thinking of what she was to accomplish, Miss Nary IringsleY, the niece of the Rev. Charles Kingsley, writer and divine he who wrote "West- ward. Rol" and. "Hypatia," has just re- turned from a long journey or explore, tion in We.st Africa, Miss Kingsley as- cended great raountelon wandered. through undiscovered te.reitory and hob- nobbed with fierce cannibals and dwarfs. A strangely modest and =Pretending little woman she is withal, and. now that she is back in England she is as- tounded at the notoriety that has come to her and at the praise. the English are bestowing upon her. She seems quite unable to see that sbe has aceomplished A REMARKABLE FEAT. The English press is ranking her with Livingstone, Stanley, Spoke, Grant, Burton, Cameron, Thonapson, Johrtson and Selous, the more beconse, while most African travellers bane a large re- tinuenefrom 75 to 100 persons usually —this brave, coolheaded young woman made her jouxney with but eight or nine. She travelled through that part of West Africa from Old Calabar, through the French- Gaboon, exploring the go- rilla country in the interior, and up the Ogowe River to N'Djole. It is dangerous and a waste region, and in- habited, by many savage tribes. The Ogowe River is a tortuous stream, and contains perilous rapids. Near by lies the Fangwe country, inhabited. by a tribe of the most revengeful cannibals in all Africa, whose custom it is to de- vour their own dead. Through all this M158 Kingsley went without a tremor, and performed this great exploit of as- cending the Caraeroons and. the almost unknown Runabi ranges. Notwithstanding all the vidssitudes and dangers, the hardships and fatigues, she had no sickness or fever. Her hard, forced marches and the constantly men- acing natives afforded. splendid incid- ents for her diary, which, is said to be • a very valuable work, ethnograpbically and. geographically. The trip througb the interior, from the coast back to the coast, took two months. So perilous was the undertak- ing regarded by the French autborities along the Gulf of Guinea that they were more than astonished when tide daunt- less English woman returned safe and sound. HER CHIEF EXPLOIT was that of navigating the previously unexplored Lake N'Covi, erossmg the little-known mounta.in range of tbe Sierra del Cristal, and. canoeing down the all but unknown Rumbi River. On the great volcanic upland, 13,700 feet above the level of the sea, she slept in the opezz air without a tent. This was during her ascent of the Cameroon Mountains, the highest peak of which no woman had ever climbed before, and very few white men. Ber most exciting adventures weee with the Fangwe cannibals. There is one fact that shows precisely the ex- traordinary characteristic of this tribe There is not it single cemetery in the Fangwe country. As soon as a man or woman of these people dies or is killed in battle, his body is at once put care- fully away for food. In most of the na- tive mud huts Miss Kingsley found pieces of human flesh carefully dried and laid away with the sarati precision that civilized people store up meat in their larders. Miss Kingsley bad great difficulty in saving her irk& attendants from being eaten on the spot. She did so only by the exercise of diplomacy, sometimes by threatening the savages with the an- ger of the French Government, some- times by offering them presents and sometimes by pure and simple persua- sion. She learned that she was quite safe herself for the reason that she was regaxded as some peculiar sort of a. charmed woman whom it was altogeth- er too much of an experiment to at- tempt to eat. In her train were three Fangwe ele- phant bunters upon whom the Fangwe tribe had designs and whom they 'wish- ed to devour. She was unable to per- suade them to accompany her until she had absolutely guaranteed. their safety, but without elephants there was no way of thoroughly expolring the country. She also came across a tribe of dwarfs in the deepest recesses of the forest. These pigmies are even more savage than the Fangwe cannibals. They shot with POISONED ARROWS, poisoning them by sticking them into a three days' old corpse. She learned frora conversation through an interpret- er with these dwaxfs that the corpse must be exactly three days bid, nellber more nor lees, or else tbe poison would not take effect. All through the dwarf country she came across corpses stuck full of arrows and hroring, she said, "like hedge -hogs." 't In an interview in Liverpool she said: "Oh you've only got to put your nose the wind in that part of Africa to know in whet direction a village lies, though it may be ten miles off." She had many a serious capsize in African streams and frequently waded for hours knee deep through ittora.sses The most of tbe time she lived on the diet of the country—manioc, the cassava plant—being unable to obtain meat ex- eept at rare intervals. From wild beasts she was in little danger, seeing no lions or tigers throughout her entire trip, though pleaty of leopax.ds. There was a great deal of big game in tbe savage country, however, ele- phants, hippopotami and gorillas, She herself assisted in many an elephant hunt„ and her men killed among others, one gorilla wide% measrued 5 feet 7 inches in height. Two of the monster's teeth she keeps as trophies. • They say that & woman's wit will al- ways achieve her end, and in Miss Kingsley's ease a woman's wit certainly conquered the savage. After frequent batt es with them—verbal battles—the t bon. friends arid gave for Ilex 0098041 beegio• fit some fine savage balls at short no- tice. "They ,jnirt cleared the rarnitme out of tire main street," SilOr $4,3r.Sy "rub- bed tberaselves over •eitir. red %Idle whipped on their ma,„sles and deuced evil howled for hours in the most weil-in- tentioned wale" Mies Kingsley,wilI publish her diary et length. So far frora bailee disil- lusioned as to exploring, she says that oho intends to return to Airica, very soon and go over a, good deal of the same ground. Oetsule of IKme. Ida Pfeiffer, who travelled about raoet of the globe alone, and Mrs, Frenele Sheldon, Charles Kingslers niece stands absolutely alone as a succeseful woman explorer. When it comes to be considerea tbat she was the &antler white person all through the ,journey, dependent entirely an her own cleverness and diplomacy and such occasional assistance end advice as she could get from one of tho white trailers she, met occasionally, it is quite likely that her exploit is after all the moat riotable that the world has ever known. 11116, TEE ARMENIAN MASSACRES. Vow the Clitiatians Are Treated by Die Brutal Turks. The city of Erzeroum may be called. the capital of eastern Turkey. It Is the seat of a Turkish Governor-General, and has a large garrison. It is also the residence of English, Russian, and, French oinsuls-generat The pomile- tion, a.bout 40,000, is overwhelmieglY Turleish, the Anmeniaas numbering not more than one-fourth of the total. The latter have been, however, among the moot Progreesive of their rase, and their sobools have gained a reputation in Europe as well as in Asia,. They have been a prosperous community. Almost the whole trade of the city, transit as well as local, has been in their bands. With prosperity bee come coaservatisra, a‘nd the machinations of revolutionists found little eneouragement among thean. If any community ever deserv- ed well at the hands of its ruler, the Armenians of .Erzeroura deserved. pro- tection at the hand.s of the Sultan. The massacres in Trebizond and the BitlLs region early in October created a great feeling of uneasiness. The Governor. hosvever, repeated his assur- ance of protection, and, consuls and, mis- sionaries sought, to quiet the people. At about noon of Ootober 30th the b ow fell like a, thuncler-bolt, The first vic- tim was a, priest from a neighboring village, who, while se,eking audience with, the Governor, was shot down by the soldiers in the court -yard of the Government House. Then through the streets in every .qya.rter of the city the soldiers went, Joined by other Turks and Kurds. THEY SHOT TO KILL. The bullets went straight, and meet dropped in their steps. There was no resistance. A few women and children were out, down, but in general the order, or at least. taro agreement, was, "Kill the men; the womee and childxen will fall to us." After four hours of carn- age, in whieh not less than 400 men were killed, the looting wren:termed. Not a shop, and few houses were left. What the Turks could not carry a,way they destroyed. Pepper and acids were thrown into the flour, and the bread was trampled underfoot. Tile days that followed were scarcely less terrible. Th.ere was, first, the duty of burying the dead. Then came the search for tire missing. Occasionally friendly Turks, eves at personal risk, had shielded Armexians, and under cover of the darkness these returned to their homes. But the multitude never eame back, and they included the wealthiest, best -educated men of tiae community. Then came news from the villages. From the plains, east, west, and south, ha.ggerd, men. dishevelled women, and staggernig children came to the city for protection. To -day it is full of those who, unless relief oomes quickly, will die of star- vation. Relief is already being -sent, and a, national committeet has been or- ganized, which, it is expected, will work in connection with, the Red Cross So- ciety. The best estimates place the total eumber of killed at not far from 50,000, while neaxiy, if not suite, 500,- 000 are destitute and suffenng. Il LOOKS JOH LIKE WAR, "GET READY" IS THE CRY THROUGH OUT ENGLAND. irritation Inereashig—The War Wave in Spreading in England—Ifireleas A.etiv- ity at the Admiralty and War Depart. lnentA ALondon correspondent telegraphs from. London:—"Get ready" is the try which is ringing tle ough England in tones which have only one meaning. The country has suddenly been seized with the idea that war is at its very doors. The danger is undoubtedly exaggerated in the popular mind, and perhaps in the official mind as well, if one may judge by the reports of tireless activity at the Adeniralty and War Departments. I say that tb.e danger is es-aggerated on the assumption that the astounding re- port is false which comes from Berlin, to the effect that Emperor William has assured Dr. Leyd, the representative of the Transvaal Government, that Ger- many will support that Government in defence of the Boer republic, and will send a Minister Resident to Praetoria, in place of the present Consul. Should thia report prove nem, the first step taken by the Gerielan Emper- or would be followed by a. declaration of war by Great Britain. The sending of a minister to a State which ranks,. es a dependency of England. would be a. di- rect denial of the British suzerainty, and, according to Secretary Chamber- lain's declaration or the British porky on Saturday, this country would peomptly attempt to enforce its sover- eignty in the Transvaal. This rumor regarding the latest ac- tion of the Emperor has not yet beer; There la is no aatement of the publiern° and official feeling over the Imperial sentment manifested against the Boers. published in London, and no eonfirnaa- tion is yet received. telegram of congratulation to Pre,sident hourby in intensity. These is little te- a popular elan:tor for war which it raey It is all directed against Germany, arid it is fast assuming the proportions of be beyond the power of any Govern - meat to control or resist. Kruger. On the. contrery, it grows Overloaded. Boy—Say, mister, shall I cozy yer satchel? Do it fer a dime, Thide—My satchel is not heavy. Boy—Well, let nre carry Sear carte Fangwe finally •became ber devoted ens.