HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-1-23, Page 7C ("PR/S.41'7 NOTES.
Tlie Gerraart government es steadily
increasing the severity of its meaeure
against. the Soeial Demoorats, and is
plainly deternatned to destroy the or-
ganization and, if possible, to silence
a party which includes nearly one-tbird
of all the electors in the empire The
task would be an impossible one, evert
were the governuaent ai autatiracy,bee
the effort is being made, a recent ae-
ter diasolving the Central committee
anatorgardzations of the party in Ber-
lin, and prohibiting their re-establish-
ment under any conditions wbatsoever.
The dissolutions of the district conamit-
teen and unions throughout Prussia will
necessarily follovv, the taarty being tbus
left without organization or recogniz-
ed leaders, save its members in Parliae
=tent, and without the right of assem-
bly for the discussionof policies and the
norninadou of party and Parliamentary
casadideles. Nothing eon be more sub-
, vereIve of Iree,dom or more -unjust, for
*file Cthaservatives stillretain their
Party organization, and have all the
privileges of assembly and discussion of
whieh the Social Democrat's ere depriv-
ed. Moreover, its effect can only be to
weaken Germany as a nation, by in-
ereasing the Socialist strength, for
multitudes of intelligent.Gerinans who
care nothing for Socialistn as a priteeple
will see in these repressive measures
the destruction of all liberty.
Alrea,de their effect on the &vial
Democrats has been to olose up all dif-
ferences, and so to add to their arength,
and to restore party control, witch in
the dissensions of loral. leaders was be-
ing lost to the Socialist members of
Parliament. This new power will in
their bands be a potent source of trou-
ble to the government, for tlaey can-
not be deprived of the privilege of
speeeh in Parliament, they will know
how best to present the Socialist pro-
grarame and the best points of attack,
and as they will virtually nominate the
Socialist: candidates at the next election,
they will bring the ablest speakers and
the most skilful managers to the
' front, How any government in this
day should make such a blunder is in-
comprehensible, especially a govern-
ment in sehleh the sovereign is held re-
spell:eine for everything, and whose
authority must thus be affected by
any administrative measure adopted;
and yet it is now enforcing measures
whic1t must bring upon the emperor
the eonterapt and dislike of half his
subjects. It is the more unwise because
no knowneMeessity exists for such ac-
tion, the enipire never having been
stronger and more influential in the
onna seem mem pee Attire one pexcee
devoted, and. the emperor more free
and visible, and bis authority more un-
tittesticieted. The suppression of the
frectraftilifibe press, though equally re-
trogressive, Le more easily understood;
Some raonarchical, govertments always
4 attributing undue powieses of conversion
to newspapers, and. feeling to see that
their respectful methods, of criticism
must modify the critical methods of
the people, while some sovereigns can
never rid themselves of the notion that
any criticism of their action raust in-
• dicate a lack of loyalty. Both are, of
.course, raistake,s, and in this instance
the more foolish beca,use there is hard -
n. govereunent that would be less
affected by temperate criticism than
Germany, and. because they directly op-
pose German tradition, whieh is tbat
all action must be officially supervised
but opinion be free.
GRAINS 91? GOLD.
Blessed is the influence of one true,
loving human soul on another.—George
Eliot.
Get together a hundred or two men,
however sensible they roay be, ancl you
are very likely to have a =ob.—John-
• son.
Tie less yoii c,arn enjoy, the poorer
and scantier yourself; the more you en-
joy, the richer and more vigorous.—
La.vater.
One et the mistakes in the conduct of
human life is to suppose that other
• men's opinions are to make us happy.
—Burton. •
None are so seldom found alone, or
are so soon tired of their own company,
as those coatearabs who are on the best
.terms with themselves.—Colton.
Steel 1 to be sure they may, and, egad
serve your best thoughts as gypsies do
stolen children—disfigure theta to make
them pass for their own.—Sheridan.
The light of the world would go out,
eiel- despair would darken every home
it it, were net for some who have learn-
ed to suffer and be strong.—D. March.
The best protection of a nation is its
men; towns and cities can not have
surer defense than the arowess and
end virtue of their hibabitants.--Babel-
.
ass.
The &erecter of sarcasm is danger-
eues • although this quality makes those
laugh whom it does not wound, it,
levertheless never premixes esteem.--
1xenstiren. •
The Providence that watches over the
kffairs of men works out their mistakes,
it times, to a healthier issue than could
here been accomplished by their wisest
torethought.—Froude.
Great designs are not accomplished
without enthusiasm of some sort. It
is the inspiration of everything. With-
out it no met is to be feared, and with
it cane despieed.—Bovee.
History, is a voice sounding aoross the
centuries the laws of right and wrong.
Opinions alter, manners changes create
rise and fall, but the moral law is writ -
tee on the tealets of eteriiity.—Froude.
iillelAein it as • we may, a martial
streeti,. veill urge a, man into the front
de-
xo, ka fine anthem excite his
' 'f tis sooner than an argu-
secertstiely than a logic,a1 die-
,, eeile esitermata.
,
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will be
11111 CRY OF ARMENIA,
DR. TALMAGE RELATES TIIE ROR•
ROBS Olo TIIE I4ASSAORB.
The setae maces eto Value '41 tbe life Dr
etireatint—Rerote were or eitssion-
aetee—euty or the Natieus to Stop rev
seeetiou—chesstaneones Apathy-.
Washington, Jan. 12.—It was appro-
priate that in the presence of the claief
men of this elation and. °tiler nations
Dr. Talmage should tell the story of
Armenian massacre: What will 1* the
extent or good, of such a discourse none
cat tell. The text was If, Kings xix,
37, "They eacaped into the laud et
Armenia.,"
In Bible geography this is the first
tirces that Armenia appears, celled then
byethe same name as now. Armenia
Ls ehiefly a, tableland 7,000 feet above
tre level of the sea, and. on one of Its
peaks Noah's ark landed, with its hu-
man family and fauna that were to
fill the earth. That region was the
birthplace of the rivers which fertil-
ized the garden of Eden when Adam
and Eve lived, there, their coaly root
the crystal skies and their carpet the
emerald of rieh grass. Its inhabitants,
tbe ethnologists tell us, are a superior
type of the Caucasian race. Their re-
ligion is founds& on tbe Bible. Their
Saviour ia our Christ, Their orbzae is
that they will not become followers of
Mohammed, that Jupiter of sensuality.
To drive them from the face of the
earth is the ambition of all Moham-
medans. To accoraplish this, murder
is no crime and wholesale massacre is
a =atter of enthu,siastio approbation
and governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest
Mohainanedae authority and recited
every (ley tbroughout Turkey and
Egypt, while styling all those not Mo-
hammedans as infidels, is as follows;
"0 Lord of all oreatures! 0 .Allah,
destroy the infidels and polytheists,
thine enemies, the enemies of the re-
ligion I 0 Allah make their children
orphans and defile their bodies! Cause
their feet to sin, give them and tbeir
families, their bouseholds and, their wo-
men, tbeir children and their relatives
by nearriage, their brothers and their
friends, their possessions and the race,
their Wealth and their lands as booty
to the Moslems, 0 Lord of all erect -
tures!"
The life of an A.rrnertian in the pres-
ence of those who make that prayer
is of no more value than the life of
a summer insect. The Sultan of Tur-
key sits an a throne irapersonating
that brigandage and assassination. At
this time all civilized nations are in
horror at the attempts of that Moham-
medan Government to. destroy all ;the
Cluktians of Armenla. I hear some-
body talking as though some BOW thblg
were nappertimg, and that the Turkish
Govern's:ant had taken ai new role of
THE EXETER, TIMES
Praeer" int o Turkish. Seventeen Ar-
inemanis were sentenced. to 15 'care'
irepresonraent for rescuing a Christian
bride from the, bandits. 'lees 18 t
way- the Turkish Government amus
itself in tune of pea,co., These are the
deligets of Turkish civilization.
But when the days of maseacre
come then deeds are done whioh may
aot be unveiled in any refined assem-
blage, and if one speak of the horrors:
he must do so in well poised, and c,a,u-
tioust vocabulary. Hundreds of vil-
lages destroyed! You,ng men put in
piles of brushwood, which axe then sat-
urated with kerosene and set on fire.
Mothers, in tbe mast solemn hour tbat
ever comes in a woman's life, burled
out and bayoneted! Eyes gouged out
and dead and dying hurled into the
same pit I The slaughter of Lucknow
and Ca,evepore. India, in. 1857, eclipsed
in ghastliness! The worst seene of
the French revolution in Paris made
more tolerable in centra.st 1 In many
regions of Armenia, the only under-
takers of to -day are. the jackalseand
hyenas. Many of the cluefe of the
massacres were sent straight from
Constantinople to do this work, and
having returned were decorated by the
Sultan,
To four pf the worst murderers the
Sultan sent silk banners in delicate
appreciation of their services. Five
hundred thousand. Arraeuians put to
death, or dying of starvation! This
moment, while 1 speak, all up and. down
Aratenut sit many. people, freezhig in
the a.slies of tbeir destroyed homes,
bereft of meet of their households and
awaiting the club of assassination to
pat the.m out pi their misery. No won-
der that the physicians Of that region
declared teat among all the men wad
women that were down with wounds
and sickness and, under their care not
one wanted to get well. Remember
teat nearly all the reports teat have
come to us of the. Turkish outrages
have been inarepulated and modified
and. softened by the Turks themselves,
The etory is not half told, or a hun-
dredth part told, or a thousandth part
told.
None but God and. our suffering
brothers and sisters in that far off
land know the whole story, and. it will
not be known until, in the con:methane
of Leaven, Christ shall lift to a special
throne of easy these heroes and -bare-
ines, saying, "These are they who eame
tragedy on the stage of nations. No,
'no! She is at the erne old business.
Overlooking her diabolism of other cen-
turies, eve come down to our century,
to find tb.at in 1822 the Turkish Gov-
e,rninent slew 50,000 anti -Moslems, and
in 1850 she slew 10,000 and in 1860 she
slew 11,000, and iu 1870 she slew 10,000.
Anything short of the sla,ughter of
thousends of human beings does not
nut enough red wino into her cup of
ettominai era to meke it worth quaffing.
Nor is this the only time she has prom-
ised reform. In the presenc,e of the
warships at the mouth of the Darda-
nelles she has promised the civilized
nations, of the earth that she would
stop her butcheries, and the interna-
tional and hemispherical farce has been
enacted of believing what she says,
when all the past ought to persuade us
thee she is only pausing in her atroci-
ties to put nations of the track and
then resume the work a death.
In 1820 Turkey, in treaty with Rus-
sia, promised to alleviate the condi-
tion of Christians, but the promise was
broken. In 1839 the then Sultan prom-
ised protection of life and. property
without reference to religion, and, the
promise was broken. In 1844, at the
demand of an English Minister Pleni-
potentiary, the Sultan declared, after
the public execution of an Armenian
at Constantinople, that no such deatli
penalty should again be inflicted, and
the promise was broken. In 1850, at
tile demand of foreign nations, the
Turkish Government promised to pro-
tect the Protestants, but to this clay
the Protestants at Stamboul are not
allowed to build a church, although they
lia.ve the funds ready, and the Greek
Protestants, who have a church, are
not permitted to worship in it. In 1856,
after the Crimean war, Turkey prom-
ised that no one should be hinderedin
the exercise of the religion he pro-
fessed, and that promise has been
broken. In 1878, at the Memorable
treaty of Berlin, Turkey promised re-
ligious liberty to all her subjects in
every part of the Ottoman Empire, and
the promise was broken. Not once, in
all the centuries, has the Turkish Gov-
ernment kept her promise of mercy.
So far from any improvement, the con-
dition of the Armenians has become
worse and worse year by year, and all
the promises the Turkish Government
now makes are only a gaining of time
by which she is makirig preparatiens
for the complete extermination of
Christianity from her borders. •
Why, after all the national and. con-
tinental and hemispheric lying on the
part of the Turkish Government, do
not the warships of Europe ride up as
close, as is possible to the palaces of
Constantinople and blow that accursed
geve,rnment to atoms? In the name of
the eternal God let the nuisance of the
ages be wiped' off the face of the earth!
Down to t.be perdition from which it
,smoked up sink Mohammedanism! Be-
tween these outbreaks of massacre the
Armenians suffer in silence -wrongs
that a.re seldom if ever reported. They
are taxed heavily for the inere privi-
lege of living, and. tbe tax is celled
" the hurailia,tion tax." They are com-
pelled to give three days' entertain-
ment to anyMohammedan tramp who
may be passing that way. They must
pay blackmail to the assessor, lest he
• report the value of their properte too
highly. Their evidence in court es of
no worth, and if 50 Armenians saw a
wrong committed and one Mohamme-
dan was present, tee testimony of the
one Mobammedan would be taken and
the testimony of the 50 Arnaeniets re=
jeeted. In other words, the eolenan oath
of a thousand Armeniane would not be
strong -enough to overthrow the per-
jury of one lefoha,mnaetlan. A professer
Was condemned to death for traiklat-
ime i he eleglisth "Book of Common
out of great tribulations and had tbeir
robes washed and made Needle in the
blood of the Lamb! My Lord and
my God. Thou. deist on the cross suffer
for tbeen, but Thou surely, 0 Christ,
wilt not forget how emelt tbey have
suffered for tbeel I dare not deal in
inmercation, but I never so much en-
joyed the imprecatory songs of David
as since I have heard how those Turks
are treating the Armenians. The fact
Ls, Turkey has got to be divided, up
among other nations. Of course the
European nations must take the cbief
part, but Turkey ought to be com-
pelled to pee" America for the American
mission buildings and American school
houses she has destroyed and to sup-
port, the wive. end obildreri of the
Issaerieaus ruined by this wholesale
butchery. When the English lion and
the Russian bear put their paws on
that Turkey, the American eagle ought
to put in hie bill.
Who are. these Araerkan and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
hounded among the mountains of Ar-
menia by the Mohamraedans? The no-
blest men and women this aide of
heaven, some of them men who took
the highest honors at Yale and. Prince-
ton and Harvard and Oxford and. Edin-
burgh; some of those women, gentle -
and most ehristlike, who, to same peo-
ple they never ett.w, turned their backs
on luxurious homes to spend their days
in self expatriation, saying gooti by to
father and mother and afterward good
by to their own thildren, as circum-
stances eanspel them to send the lit-
tle ones to England, Scotland or Am-
eriett. I have seen these foreign mis-
sionaries in their homes all around tbe
world, and 1 stamp with indignation
upon the literary blackguardista of for.
eign correspondents who bave depre-
ciated these heroes and. heroines who
are willing to live and die for Christ's
sake. They will have. the highest
thrones in heaven, while their defam-
ers will not get near enough to the
shining gates to see the faintest glint
of any one of the twelve pearls which
make up the twelve gates.
This defamation of rnissiona,ries is
agumented by the dissolute English,
American and Scotch merchants, who
go to foreign cities, leaving their fam-
ilies behind them. Those dissolute mer-
chants in foreign cities lead, a life of
such grose =morals that the pure
households of the missionaries are a
perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did
believe in doves, and if there is any-
tbing that nightshade hates it is the
water lily. What the 550 American
missionaries have suffered in the Otto-
man Empire since 1820 I leave the arch-
angel to announce on the day of judg-
ment. You will see it reasonable that
1 put to much emphasis on American -
lam in the Ottoman empire when I tell
you that America, notwithstanding all
the disadvantages named, has now
over 27,000 students, in day schools 18
that empire. and. 35,000 children in ber
Sabbath schools, and that America has
expended in the Turkish Empire for its
betterment over $10,000,000. Has not
America a ' right to be heerd? Aye! It
will be heard! 1 am glad. that great
indignation meetings are being held
all over the country. That poor, weak,
cowardly Sultan, whom I saw a few
years ago ride to his mosque for wor-
ship, guaeded by 7000 armed men, many
of them mounted on prancing chargers,
will hear of these sympathetio meet-
ings for the Armenians, 12 not through
American reporters, then through some
of his 360 wives. What to do with
him? There ought to be some St.
Helena to which he could be exiled,
while tlae nations of Europe appoint
a -ruler of their own to clean out and
take possessidn of the palaces of • Con-
stantinople. Toenigbt this august as-
serablage 18. tbe capital of the TJnited
States, in the name of the God of
nations, enclicts the Turkish Govern-
ment for the wholesale assassination
in. Armenia and invokes the interfer-
enc,e of Alizragetty God and. the protest
of eastern and western hemispheres:
Bat what is the duty ot the hour?
Sympathy, deep, wide tremendous, lin-
mediate! A religious paper,
The Chris -
ton. Herald of New York, laas Jed the
way with munificent contributions col-
lected front subscribers. But the Turk-
ish Government is opposed to any re-
lief of the Arraenian sufferers, as I per-
sonally knees. Last August, before 1
had any idea of becoming a fellow -
citizen. with you. Washingtounans, "450,-
000 tor Armenian relief was offered me
if I would personally take the relief
to Armenian. My passage was to be
• engaged on the City- of -Paris, but a
telegram was sent to Constantinople,
asking if the Turkish Government
Would grant xne protection on such an
errand c -ie mercy. A cablegram said the
Turkish Government wished to know
to what points in Armenia I wished to
go with that relief. In our reply four
cities were named, one of them the
scene of what had been the tihief mas-
seere, A cablegram came fromCone
stantinople seeing thet I had better
send the meney to the Turkish Gov-
ernment',s mixed commission, and they
would distribute it: So ft cobweb of
spidere propesed a reitef committee
for unfoctun.:te flitiel Welt, amen who
would start up through the mouetrans
of Armenia with 450,000 and no Gov,.
ernment protection would be guilty of
monumental foolhardinesa.
The Turkish Government hes
every possible way hindered Armenian
relief. Now where is that aegel of
raeroy, Clara Barton, who appeared on
the battlefields of Frederiokburg, An-
tietam, Falmouth and Cedar Mountain,
and under the blaze of French and
German guns at Metz and Paris and in
johnetown floods, and. • Cbarleston
earthquake, and Miceigan fixes,. and
Russian famine ? It was oomparatively
of little iraportance that the German
Emperor decorated her with the Iron
Cross, for God, bad decorated her in
the sight of all nations with a glory
that neither time nor eternity can den.
Born in a Massachusetts village, he
came in her girlhood to this city to
serve our Government k the patent
office, but afterwerds went forth from
the doors of that patent office with a
divine_ patent, signed and sealed by
God, Himself, to heal all the woutias
she could. touch and make the horrors
of the flood and fire and plague and
hospital fly her presence. God blees
Clara Barton! Jut as I expected, she
lifts the banner of the Red Cross.
Turkey and all nations are pledged
to respect atid defend that Red Cross,
although that calor of cross does not
in the opinion of mealy,. stand * far
Christianity'. In ray opinion it does
attract for Christianity, for was not the
cross under which raost of us worship
red with the blood of the Son of God
red with the best blood that was ever
shed, red with the blood poured 'out
for tbe ransoxa of the worldThen lead
on, 0 Red Crossl And let Clara Barton
carry it! The Turkish Government is
bound to protect her, and the claariats
of God are 20,000. epd their charioteers
are angels of deliverance, and. they
would all ride down at once to roll
over and trample under the hoofs of
their white horses any of her assail-
ants. May the $500,000 she seeks be laid
at her feet! Then may the ships that
carry her across Atlantic and Mediter-
ranean seas be gelded, safely by lIine
who trode into sapphire pa,veraent be -
stormed. Galilee 1 upon soil inearnadin-
ed with martyrdom let the Red Cross
be planted, until every demolished
village shall be rebuilded, and every
Pang of hunger be fed, and every
wound of cruelty be healed,. and Ar-
monk stand with as much liberty to
serve God in his own way as in this
the best land. of all the earth we, the
descendants of the Puritans and. Hol-
landers, and Fluguenots, are free to
worehip the Christ who came to set all
nations free.
It ha$ been said. that if we go over
there to interfere on another c,ontinent
ilia will imply the right for other Da -
titans to interfere with affairs on this
continent, and. so the. Monroe doctrine
be jeopardized. No. no 1 President
Cleveland expressed the sentiment of
every intelligent and patriotie Ameri-
can when he thundered from the White
House a warning to all nations that
there is not one acre or one Inele more
of ground on this continent for any
transatlantic government to wimpy,
And by that doctrine we stand now
turl shall forever stand.
But there is a, doctrine as much high-
er than. the Monroe doctrine as the
heavens are higher than the earth, and.
that is the doctrine of humanitarian-
ism and sympathy and Christian help-
fulness wilith one cold Deoeriaber mide
night, with lou.d, and. multitudinous
chant, awakened the shepherds. Wheres
ever there Is a. wound. it is ctur duty
to ward. off the blade. Wherever men
are persecuted for tbeir religion it is
our duty to break that arm of power
whet her it be thrust forth from. a. Pro-
testant Church or a Catholic) Cathe-
dral or a Jewisb synogogue or a Mos-
t -me of Islam. We all ree.ognize the
right. on a, small scale. If, going down
the roan, we find. a ruffian maltreating
a child, or a human brute insulting a
woman, we take a .hand in the contest
if we are not covvuels, and though we
be slight in personal presence, because
of our indignation we come to weigh
about twenty tons, and. the harder we
punith the villain the louder our con-
science applauds us. In such cases we
do not keep our hands in. our pockets,
arguing that if we haerfere with the
brute, the brute might think he would.
levee a right to interfere with us and
so jeopardize the Monroe doctrine.
The fact is that that persecution of
the Armenians by the Turks must be
stopped, or God .eilmighty will curse
all Christendom. for its damnable in-
difference and apathy. But the trumpet
of resurrection is about to sound for
Armenia. Did I say in opening that on
one of the peaks of Armenes. this very
Armenia, of which we speak, in Noales
time the ark landed, according to the
myth, as some think, but according to
God's "say so," as I know' and that it
was after a long storm of40 days and
40 nights, callect the, deluge, and that
afterwards a dove went forth from that
ark and returned with an olive leaf in
her beak ? Even. so now there is. an-
other ark being launched, but this one
goes sailing, not over a deluge of
water, but a deluge of blood—the ark
of Armenian sympathy—and. that ark,
landing on Ararat, from its window
shall fly the dove of kindness and
peace, to find the olive leaf of return-
ing prosperity, while all the mountains
of Moslent prejudice, oppression, and
cruelty shall stand. fifteen cubits unaer.
Meanwhile we would like to gather all
the dying groa,ns of all the 500,000
victinas of Mohammedan. oppression
and intone them into one prayer that
would move the earth and the heavens,
hundreds of millions of Christians'
voices, American and Europeen, crying
out, "0 God. Most High! Spare thy
children. With mandate from the
throne hurl back upon their haunches
the horses of the Kudish eavalry.
Stop the rivers of Wood,. With the
earthquakes of Thy wrath shake the
foundations of the palace of the Sultan.
Move all the nations of Earope to com-
mand ceesation of cruelty. lf need be,
• Iet the warships of civilized, nations
boom their indignation. Let the cres-
cent go down betore the cross, aud the
Mighty One, who hath au His vesture
and on his thigh a name written 'Xing
of leinge and. Lord of Lords,' go forth,
conquering and to e,onquer. Thine, 0
Lord, is the kingdom 1 Hallelujah!
Amen 1"
THE
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON JAN. 26.
',Tine Lady MIntstry of Jesuit," Luke 46
• 1442. OOldea Text, Luke 4.31.
GENERAL STA'IBNIEYST.
Great events have taken place in the
eighteen months sines the voice a the
prophet emuided from the shore of
Jordan. Already the Baptist's work is
finished, and. the door of Herod's prison
by the Dead. Sea has closed imou Mae
The carpenter of Nazareth now stands
before the people as their promieed Re-
deemer. The declaration oi the 'fore-
runner and, the, voice from- heaven Pro-
claim bine to be the Son of God, and his
mighty works and wonderful words at-
test his divinity. Frans the baptismal
stream Ile has gene down to the wilde
ernes,s, and proved Ida Purity and his
power of a victory over the tempter.
Agak, at the. Jordan, he is pointed eat
by John as the Lamb of God, and a few
disciple.s gather around him (John 1).
At, a wedding feast itt Cepa 02 Galilee he
first shows his miraculous power, and
soon after, by driving tbe traders from
the cottrt ot the Leraple at Jerusalem,
18 asserts divine authority (John 2).
The fame of the new Teacher resounds
through the lend, but as already the
Pharisees of Jerusalem look coldly upon
him, he turns his footstep towards his
OWn. Galilee. Besting awhile by the
patriarch's well, he wins tbe soul of
the Samaritan, woman (John 4), andtben
pessee on his way, preaching in the
synagogues and teashing by the way-
side and the lakesbore. Once again he
stands among the familiar scenes of
his boyhood et Nazareth—not uow the
carpenter, bat tbe propbet of renown.
The village synagogue is crowded with
his former neighbors and. workeellows,
and every eye is tu.rned toward the
young man of whomesuela etrange things
are tole He reeds the prophetic, serail,
Proclaiming the acceptable year of the
Lore, and. calmly appropriates the pre -
dictums to himself, while the hearts of
Ids listeners wonder at his gracious
words, and are filled with scornful un-
belief at his lofty claims.
EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL
gerMany's Idle Gold
During the celebration of the twenty-
fifth anniversary of the events of the
great France -German war special per-
mission was granted to a few favored
ones to visit the ya,ults at Spandau,
Prussia, in wb.ich the sum of 120,000 000
marks (00,000,000), a part of the war
indetanity of $1,000,0012,000 paid by
France, hes lain idle, drawing eo inter-
est whatever, for a quarter of a cen-
tury. Vile board is reserved to defray
the expenses incident to the immediate
mobilization of the entire. German
Army, whexiever occasion may take
that, necessary. It 18 all In gold, in 10-
• mark au& 20 -mark piecas, 750,000 pieces
in all, put up in purses of 10,000 marks,
each dozen purees being inclosed in 0
box, mailed anci sealed.
men •know letters, having never
learned?" Tile place wbere it was
written. Ise. 01: L 2; 18. 10. The quo-
tations in these two verses are made,
not front our Old Testament, which is
translated front the ancient Hebrew,
but trom tee Septmegint, a Greek ver-
sion whieh was widely circulated in.
Palestine at this time, and whick was
used on oceasion by both the Lord and
his apostles. There are variations in
this quotation from both authorities.
18. (The words to set at liberty- them
that are bruised do not OM= in Isaiah.
Our Lord wed this comforting passage
as a sort of summary of whet he in-
tended to do. It was generally un-
derstood to refer to the return of the
Israelites from their bondage. Many
believed, however, that it was still pro-
phetic, the -golden glory which it points
ed out bailing never been reached by
Israel. Bat they were tot prepared
for Jesus' eratenctent, that tbese things
were fulfilled in their ears. Many of
the variations have beau explained by
some scholars as being a running wen-
ment made at the time by our Lord;
they were extracts from, his sermen,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. To
• a special and peculiar degree. To
preach the gospel. To proclaim the
good news to the poor, who were ne-
gleeted 'm the ancient East as they are
nowhere negleeted in modern Christen -
dorm To heal the avolten-bearted, We
have, been converted for no other pm. -
pose than to perforni, the six duties
mentioned in this verse and the next.
Recovering of sight to the Wed. Our
version reads, "Opening of the prison
to the bound."
19. To preach the acceptable year of
the Lord. The allusion of Isaiah was
to the yeer of jubilee, the keeping of
whicb was ordered, in Lev. 25, 8-1.0. That
yeer of jubilee was generally under-
stood to be a type of the great jubilee
of the kingdom. of God. lia spite of vari-
atone of phraseology, it will be observed
that the spirit and tone of the paseage
quoted. by Luke and the oorre,sponding
passagc ear lesson are identical.
20. Closed the book. -Rolled it up,
It was made up of vellum skins, sewed
together, and fastened to a long wooden
,roller at each end, Hebrew is read
from right to left, so that tbe reader,
by rapid movements of the fingers. is
continually unrolling with his left hand
what he rolls up with his rigla. hand.
When he concluded he placed the two
reale together and gave it certain to the
minister, and at down. This mast have
profoundly surprised his auditors. Tlie
second lesson always contisted of twenty-
one verses; Jesus had read two, then
su.ddenly stepped. Sitting on the plat-
form of a synagogue was equivalent to
rnountbag the pulpit steps ni a modern
ten:vele and th, c irpent a there anti t ben
publicly a:Qaunied the fuzee ions of teach-
er. The minister was an officer of the
synagogue who took care of tbe books.
21. Began to say. Hie sermon was an
emplification of this sentence. This day
is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
22. Bare hira witness. They scorned
his claims, but seem to ham° had a local
pride in his eloquence. Wandered.
Were astonished. Gracious words.
'Words of grace. They said. It Was per-
reetle proper and conventional of them
to thus speak out in meeting, for the
eynagegue wes not a Aria* tor formal
worehip, but rather apiece for reverent
discus -eon, more like b. Bible class than
a Sunday morniug sermon. Is not this
Joseph's son? Thee son of the carpenter
was no fit teacher for them. The mirac-
ulous birth of our Lord, if it had ever
been heerd a by his townemen, was cer
tainly net credited by them, Very
guieltiv the preacher (*aught the mind
and feeling of his audience; be felt its
scornful challenge before a word was
uttered. Verse , 23 tend 24 tell us how
he met this chellenge.
NOTES
Verse 14, Jesus returned in the pow-
er of the Spirit. He returned froitetTer-
usalem by way of Jaeob's well. The
manifestation of a divine indwelling
which had been slowly growing througe
the years, reaching its fullness at the
hour of his baptism, and thenceforward
5. mighty power rested upon him
through all his ministry. Galilee. The
northern province of Palestine, at this
tuna under the rale, a Herod Antipas.
Fame of him. Such power as he pos-
sessed must attraet notice, especially at
e time when the land was feverisb itt
its expectation of a deliverer from the
Roman yoke. His miracles, though few
as yet, and hie reeent expulsion of the
traders from the temple would swell the
fame. This fame was not an 'unmixed
advantage; it precipitated several per-
elexing problems.
15. He taught in their synagogues. The
synagogues arose after the return from
Babylonesh captieity, B.C. 530. They
were places in wheel the Jewsgather-
ed every Sabbath (Saturday), Monday,
and Tuesday, and often on ether spe-
cial occasions for worship, the readies
of the law, and its exposition. Glori-
fied of all. "Honored by all." •All
recognized his inspiration and author-
ity, and multitudes fhieked to hear his
words. It was a brief period of uni-
versal popularity, soon to pass away
and turn into hatred, as the principles
of the new kingdom were revealed to
unwilling ears:.
10. He came to Nazareth. Whether
this visit was the same as that related
in Matt. 13: 53-58 and Mark 6: 1-6 is
=certain. The order of the narratives
counts for little, because all of the
evangelists vary at times from strict
chronological sequencualany high au-
thorities maintain that this visit is un-
recorded except in this passage. From
the other gospels we learn that his
disciples were with him, and that a few
a his townsmen bad sufficient faith to
bring their sick, but he could not heat
really because of their unbelief. Where
he had been brought up. lf any other
man had come to Nazareth with a spirit
of righteousness, wisdom, truth, and
grace such as Jesus displayed, the
whole town would have turned out to
do him honor. If a priest, glistening
with jewels, had come down from Jer-
usalem, every word he uttered would
have been. memorized and his
blessing craved; but this mall
was the town. carpenter. The
boys who had played with him
and the men who had hired hira were
his audience now, and they felt dis-
posed to say, " We all know as much as
Jesus does; carpenter, stick to your
bench and tools." His eastern. None
can be excused from the public worship
of God sire* our Great Exemplar re-
garded it his duty. Probably until
that time he had sat as "a silent wor-
shiper," and not presumed to teach.
The synagogue. The word " the " in-
dicates that there was only one in Naz-
areth. There were few villages with -
oat at least mae. Stood up for to read.
The Holy Scriptures were kept in an
ark or box curtained froni the rest of
the room, and each book"wa,s written
on a. separate roll. The congregation
squateed on the floor, the richer ones
reclining, on cushions, and the sexes
were separated by a lattice which ran
down the center of the room. All the
people faced Jerusalem, for no Jew
could pray with his face in any other
direction than toward the holy house.
The reader or preacher stood up to
read and sat down to make his com-
ments. There were no recognized min-
isters in our modern use of that term
in a synagogue, Priests, and Teevites had
no official conn.ection with it.
17. There was delivered unto,laira the
book of the prophet Betties. There -were
two leSsons read in each Sabbath's ser-
vice, the first of which was always tak-
en from the boot= of Moses, -which were
usually put up on one parohment roll,
and the second from the prophets, each
of which was on a roll by aaelf. Tbe
prophet Beaks, of Isaiah, was therefore
heeded to our Lord unopened, -which is
the cause of tbe second sentence in
this veree—when he had opened the
book, ha found the place. This "place"
evas very probably a regular lesson of
the day, like those of the modern Pro-
testant Episcopal prayer book, but this
is not at all certain The text was in
Hebrew, a language with the characters
and sense of which the Jews were fusi-
lier, but which was itself deadand un-
known to them; so either the reader
himself or an interperter had to turn
it, .sentenee by sentence, into the Ara -
mak dialeot, which was spoken through-
out Galilee. And this makes plain the
meaning of the eneer, "How cloth this
,111••••••••••
DEBT BURDENED SPAIN.
ROUND Tilf WHOLE
WHAT IS GOINU ON IN THE POUR
CORNERS OP THE (11.013E.
Old and New World Simnel al laterost Orem*
lcled Briefly—Interesting Happenings of
Recent Date.
The Duke of Saxe. -Coburg and Gotha
plays the fiddle with fervor and akill
Hungary is to celebrate next year the
millennium of her existence as a State,
The Pope has sent another liege con+
tribution to the relief of the Armenian
sufferers.
The sale of set diamonds during tha
last three- roonthe be London is said to
have been enormous.
The late Charicellor Briscoe, vicar of
Holyhead. England, left hie entire fore
tune of 410,000 to the poor of that cite,.
Mr. W. X. Courthope, the nevr
professor of poetry at Oxford, is 52 years
of age, and is an official of the British
Education, Department.
Coal dust is sueve,ssfully used. as fuel
for boilers by a, process invented by a
German. It as fed to the furnace 441ItOo
meticallys and only ordinary chimney
draught 3.8 needed.
Two minkturea of joen of Are, by
contemporary artist, now in a Private
collection at Isertheine, in Alsace, are
said to be probably portraits at the Maid.
of Orleans from. life.
It was latelyemmoured that Romney*
portrait of Peme bad been found, but
the pieture proved. to be unlike Paine,
though sold. at Messrs. Christie's with .
his name ma the frame.
Pederewski's invalid son is an unus-
ually brilliant boy, d.espite lite hopeless
condition. He is much further advanced
in his studies than the average child a
• twelve, having already mastered four
languages.
Adelaide Ristorl, wbo Testae her first
appearance en the stage at the age of
two months, at which time, it is to be
hoped, she, did not take a "speaking,
pert," is now 74. She will epend the
winter in Rome.
The Orleans family bought ha all the
real property of the late Comte de Paris,
which was liquidated recently. The Duo
d'Orleane bought the chateau and woode
of Eu. for 01,000,000, the Due d'Auraale
the chateau of Autonne for $80,000.
Eugene Xranz, an Aleutian, has held
the pcsition of dell in the household of
the Czar of Russia for some years, and
he is said to be one .of the most accom-
plished cooks in, the world. His staff
numbers some twelve hundred persons.
It is rumoured that the infant child
of Prince Adolphus of Teck has been pro-
nounced blind for life. The Queen and
the Duke of We,stmineter, the infant%
grandfather, summoned specialists frora
far and near, but their verdict was that
nothing could be done.
small Revenue, Large Expenses, and the
War In ruble
At the present time the debt of Spain
is $1,250,000,000. Spain hos about 16,-
000,000 people. The purchasing power
of money is much greater itt Spain than
it is in this country, and the standard
of wages is very much lower. The net
debt to eleh inhabitant in Spain is $75.
More than half of the present debt of
Spain, $750,000,000 in amount, is what
is known as the horae debt, held = Spain
without other security than the promise
of the Government to pay it, while $400,-
000 of the Spanish debt is held by the
subjects of other Governments, and is
protected. by franchises or monopolies
guaranteed by the Governraent for the
better security of the bondholders. The
balance of the Spanish debt is of the
variety known as floating debt, upon
which a large amount of inte,re,st has
to be paid, and not a little is the variety
known as demand debt, payable at the
preference of the holder. The annual
interest charge on the debt of Spain is
$55,000,000. In 1882 the Spanish Govern-
mant compounded its debt by a. summary
settlement with its creditors, which,
while it did. not 'impair the only security
which existed for payment, scaled clown
the face value of the claims against the
Government. For many years Spain
has been in a bad. way financially, end
its ereditors have been compelled to com-
pound at the best terms they multi
secure their manifold claims. The Span-
ish eyetem of finance is not such as
would Inspire confidence among inves-
tors.
In Spain, the total governmental re-
ceipts from duties ecalected at the
Custom House (and smuggling is an of-
fence not. nelenoven et the Spanish
monarchy) amounts to $35,000,000 a
year, or $20,000,000 less than the annual
interest charged. on the debt. Then
there is the army and naVY to sustain,
costing on s, peace footing (and. of course
on a. war footing the amouttt is very
natioli larger) $40,000,000, and then there
are the Va110118, public departments to
sustain, public buildings to pay fors a
large civil lis4 to meet, rola the dignity
of the Spanish Government to preserve.
There axe pensions and. allowances,
salaries and stipends, and altogether it
coats $20.0,000,000 a, year to pay the ex-
penses of tile Spanish Government. Tar-
iff taxes not sufficing, the Spaniaeds
hieve it land tax, a tobaceo tax, a stamp
tax, and an exeise tax, but ell these cone
bine,d do not yield enough for the expen-
ses of the Government. Th.ere is now
the edditional burden of the money re-
quired to meet the drafts upon the
Spanish treasury made by Gen. Maxtbaez
Campos and his associates fox• the vigor-
ous prosecution by /and and Saa of the
warfare against the Cabana at, a distanee
of a thousand miles frem Spain. The
maintenance of an army at such a dis-
tance from. affearid is an item of large
cost, and many Cubans are sanguine of
the outcome of the flight, basing, their
c,onfidettoe upon the crippled and dis-
abled corelitim of the Spanish treasury
rather than on the success of the Cubans
in War, fOr the latter, fiehting cou their
own soil and acelimatecr to Cuba, can
prolong their struggle indefinitely
whereas the Spaniards, if they do not
win soon in Cuba, will be confronted by
the spectre of national bankruptcy in
Madrid,
Queen Victoriamikes an especial pet
of Berne. Cale*, the geftel singer melee-.
ing an unusual amount of royal favour*
The latest little attention on the part
or Rer Majesty was to coramksion the
Countess Feeera, Gleithen to execute a
bust of Mine. Calve in marble.
There is ttetrong Buddhist revival go-
ing on in the Japanese Empire. The
church hue been stirred up by the ixtva-
sion of missionaries, and within recent
years Buddhist papers have been organ-
ized, and the Japanese press is full of
article.s about religious matters.
The ex-Empxess Frederick of Ger-
many, in her early married life, era-
broidered a piece of tape.stry, onwhich
all her children knelt when confirmed;
the late Emperor's ffin rested upon
it; the present German Emperor, and
Princesses Charlotte, Sophia, and Vic-
toria, were married standing on it.
Agricultural returns from. this county
of London have a queer sound. Yet of
the 75,1142 awns, on. which its population.
of 4,232,118 lives, no fewer than 14,401
are cultivated, besides 267 used for gra-s-
ing, making nearlyone-fi .7th of the Whole
area ueed for farming purposes. Between
1893 and 1895 five hundred acres were
lost to cultivation.
The Prince of Wales and the Due de
Chartres have just exchanged birthday
presents, aecordmg to their custom of
many years past, as their birthdays fall
on the same day. The Orleans Prince
is the elder by a year, however. The
Prinee sent the Due a fine gun, while
the Duc's souvenir to the Prince was
a gold cigarette case.
It is stated definitely that the vacant
see of Chichester has been accepted by
Dr. Wilberforce, Bishop of Newcastle.
Right Rev. Ernest Woland Wilberforce
isason of the late Right Rev. Samuel
Wilbe,rforee, some time Bishop of Ox-
ford, and afterwards the Winchester,
aml, a grandson of William Wilberforce,
the slavetrade abolitionist.
London is to have another Oriental
visitor, the Nizam. of Hyderabad.. He
rules 15,000,000 subjects and 100,000
square miles of territory. His Highness
Asa,f Jah, is a man of email stature,
very reserved, but most ho,spitable to
all Europeans who visit Hyderabad. He
entertained. the late Duke of Clarence:
with great magnificence six years ago.
Some of the papers are speculating as
to whether the Queen. will. open Parlia-
ment in person, her Majesty -not having
done so for ten years. It ts quite cer-
tain that the Queen will never again
open Parliament, as ber inability to
walk up or down a, staircase is an in-
superable obstacle to her taking pert
in the eeremony—unless, of course, a
lift were ez,nstracted for her Majesty's
aecommodation, and this could scarce-
ly be raa,naged. at Westminster.
A New Railroad Signal.
The Boston and Albany Railroad has
adopted a device that other railroads
will not be slow to accept. Whenever
a train for any reaaon is forced to stop
at at unusual spot a brakeman is sent
back with a flag by day or a lantere by
night. The lantern is not at all times
conspicuous, and many rear -end col-
lisions have occurred in consequence of
the inability of the flagman to get far
enough back on the track to sufficiently
warn tee oncoining train. A ftsee has
been invented to meet this emergeney.
lt is attached to a peitted rod, which
is stuck into a crossing between the
tracks. I4 iS igeited by the simple pro
ease of unscrewing a. friction cap,
whereupon a bright red light, which
neither wind uor rain call extinguish,
burns for fifteen minutes, making an
illumination visible for a full mile.
Not Neeessarily Cheap.
What did you buy tells piec,e of ramie
for? asked Mr. Dailey, crossly, as be
took up a, sheet from the risme
I bought et eer a song. implied. ides.
Darky, sweetly, ,