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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-2-20, Page 7"e•-• • - -V CURRENT NOTES. -- It has alwaye bern our opinion that. ft is the duty of every elauech iro give fair pay to the minister whose services ib procures; iin4 if any church Ls unt able or unwilling to do that, its minis- ter has a -right to resign. In raany country places -Yhore ro.oney is scarce, it is customary for the people to fur- nish tlaeir ministers with family sup- plies, so that large salaries are not ne- cessary; and we are free to think that the custom es not a bad one. We have heard •that by this method the minis- ter's leader is pretty sure to be kept full. Our religious contero.porary, the Chris- tian Register, spoke temperately upon this subject, After saying that. "all ministers are not pen their full worth," , it a ds: "Yet ministered salaries have stea ily increased in this country, 'and • the minister is supported in a degree of comfort which does not compare unfav- °relay with that of members of other professions." "It cannot be said," We . quote from the Chrietian Register, "that the ministry Le hieing its influence in ; the money market." Though the words of this last sentence are not happily" ehosen, they are prolxibly the truth,. Another of OUT religious conterapor- • axles, the Watchman of leeston, also makes some remarks upon this subject. This paper says that a ridnister should never be spoken of as a "hired man," • that he ought not to be regarded as one whose pay represents his value, and that, so la,r as his salary is concerned, it is often but a meagre rewerd for his service. If it be expected that he shall preach with spiritual energy, and lav- ish the wine of the spirit in fellowship with his people, he must be treated otherwise Ulan as a rnere hireling. wrhe hard, rommercial way of looking at the pastorate," says the Watelunan, which is a. Baptise organ, "reacts unfavorably both upon ministers and churches; it ruins the more deliceee aspects of the pastoral relation." ,We feel sure that this remark must be true; and it is more satisfainory o ar than many other remarks upon. the subject presented by religious papers. In any et'ent, the min- ister must live if ha is to preach; and it is the duty of the people who engage his services to see to it thet he is fair- ly paid for them. "lime ranch pay'?" That is a question which aunt, be de- termined ley the partiee in interest. Thellergyman. of one of the churches of a large city recently delivered. a ser- mon, in which he scolded his congrega.- tion for their failure to support him in proper style. Ue argued that his sal- ary of $5,000 a year did not represent. the velem of his services, and that it ought to be at least twiree as inueh as that. lie told his people that he could make more money if he were to take up some other business, and he spoke words of warning to thexu which are said to have had an effect upon the authorities of his church. This partic- ular preacher belongs to the class known as sensationalists," and we in- fer from what we have heard about his sermons that it would be well for him to look for a job outside of the pulpit, more especially if he can get higher [Jay elsewhere. • OVER AIL FOREITERi" fessorshir knees. kneiriertellewtenzeha-ne- Chrfist tilr these loaves of .brealll aM THE EXETER TIME $ THE TESTIMONY OF THE SAVIOR AND HIS WITNESS. The Deilierce Who Clone at the Appoint- ed Thee -The Gospels oi Ms Life on sartii the literal. Trath-elo Other en- teitigent expicination or Them. Washington, Feb. 16. -The large au- dience assembled to -day listened with rapt attention to a powerful discourse by Rev. Dr. Talmage, wha chose for his subject "Over All Forever," the text selected being Romans ix., 5, "Christ came, who is over all." 1 or 4G00 years the world has been waiting for a deliverer -waiting while empires rose and fell. Conquerors came and made the world, worse in- stead of making it better still the cen- turies watebed and waited. They look- ed for unu on ion in palace, looked for reties, looked. for him armies. At last they barn. The cattle stoo than the angels, for in the «cleaning stall were in Lae clouds. peaeautry. No roora in.u, because there was no one to pay tne expense. Yet the pointing star and the angelic cantata showed tbat heaven map up in eppreciation of his worth weat the world lacked. "Christ •came, we° is over all, God. blessed Lor - ever. Amen." I But saw is this Christ who camel I As to the difference between differeett I denominations of evangelical Chris- . tians I have no concern. if I could, ' by the turning over of .my band, de- cide whetner ell the world shall at last be Baptist. or Methodist, or Con,- ' . gregatioual or Episcopalian or Presby- terian, I would not turn zny hand.. But there are doetrines which are vital to ! the soul, If Chriet be not a God, we !are idulatore. To this Chriatologied 1 question I devote myself this more - 1 ieg and pray God that we may think aright and do arieht in regard to a 1 question in while" mistake is infinite. 1 I suppoee that the majority of those . here to -day assembled believe the ' Bible, it requires as much faith to be ' an infidel as to be a Christian. It is faith be a dilferent direction. The ' 1 Chrietian has faith in the teachings of 'Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, 1A -reties. The iniklel her faith in the Ifree thinkers. We have falai in one class or men. They have lath in an- . other chtee of men. But as the um- . jority of those -perhaps all or those ' here assemblea-are willing to take the Bible for a. standard in morals and in faith I make this book nay start - exegete aaye that all the miracles were myths. The great French exegete says that all the miracle,s were legends. They propose to take everything su.- . immature' frora the life of Christ and i everything supernatural from the Bible. They prefer the miracles of hu- man nomeente to the glorious miracles of Jesus Christ. ' They see that there was no miraeul- t as birth en Bethlehe.m, but that it is 1(111 a. fanciful story, just like the story ' of Romulus, said to have been born of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. They say no star pointed to the mange.r; it • was only the flash of a passing. lantern. They say there was no miraculous making of brea,d, but that it is the corruption of the story that Elisha • gave 20 loaves of bread to a hundred men. They say the water never turn- ed to wine, but that it le a corruption of the story that the Egyptian plague turned the water into blood. They say it is no wonder that Christ sweat groat Inif.at air and was taken suddenly ill. of blood; he had been out In the They say there were no tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples at the Pentecost, that there was only a great thunderstorm and. the air was full of electricity, which snapped and flew all round about the he,ads of the disciples. They say that Mary and Martha and. Christ felt it important to get up a.n excitement for the forwarding of their glritgicety, itaad so they dramatized a er and Lazarus played the corpse, and Mary and Martha played the weepers, and Christ was the tragedi- an. I put it in ray own words, but, this is the exact meaning of the state- ment. They say the Bible is a spuri- ous book, written by superstitious or lying men, backed u.p by mon who died for that which they did not believe. Now, I take back the limited state- ment which I made a few monaents ago, when I said it requires as much faith to b.e an infidel than to be a f,sith to be an infidel as to be a Chris- tian. It requires a thousandfold more faith to be an infidel than to be a Christian, for if Christianit,y demand that the whale swallow Jonah, then skepticism. demands that Jonah swal- lowed the -whale I I can prove to you that Christ was God not only by the supernatural appearances on that Christmas night, but by what inspired men. said of him, by what he said of hineself and. by his wonderful achieve- ments. "Christ came, who is over all." Ale does not that prove too much I Not over tie Caesars, not over Freder- ick, not over Alexander the Great, not over the Henrys, not over the Leases ? Yes. Pile ell the thrones of all the ages together and nay text overspans a mountain top. "Christ came, who is over all." Then he must be a God. The Bible says that all things were made by him. Does not that prove too much ? Could it be that he made the Mediterranean, that he made the Black Sea, that he made the Atlantic, the Pacific, that he made Mount Leban- on, that he made the Alpe., the Sierra Ishevaclas, that he made the hemis- pheres, that he made the universe? Yes, The Bible says so, and lest we be too stupid to understand, John winds up with a -magnificent reitera- tion and says, " Without him was not anything made that was 'natio." Then he was a God.. The Bible says at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow. All heaven must c,cene down on its knees. Martyrs on their knees, apostle's • on their knees, hia in imperial a,t the heed of found him in a d. nearer to him the former were while the latter A parentage of Lor him in the Within a few months we hlve had news of two cases in which ministers left their churches because of dissatis- faction. with their salaries. There was on.e miaister who gave up preaching to start a beer saloon, in which, as we learn from the reports, he has found prosperity; and there was the other minister who gave up preaching -to es- tablish an undertaker's shop, in which, as the reports have told, he is doing a profitable business. But neither of these ministers had an income of $5,000 a year. In. truth, the salary of the first man. was only $500, while that of the other man was not any larger; and both of them complained that they were hardly ever able to colleat the amount due. It :would be too rough, as things go, to censure these men for making a change which they believed would. be advantageous for them. The first, for example, declared (.bat he could not f maintain his rciwing family upon the slime whiceetrere takeir up at the col- lectionineeed certainly it was his bound: en deity to support hes wife and chile We have not a doubt that if • her of them hed held the $5000 pul- pit, he would have been abundantly contented, and would never have thought of laying a complaint before the church. A Shot Through Plate Glass. Prof. Boys, of London, reeently de- livered. an illustrated lecture, in which he showed photographs of the Lee -Met - ford bullet les it passed through a quar- ter inch! sheet of glass. just before the bullet touched the sheet the air wave out a disk. of glass about hell an ineh in diameter clean oat. At the same time the glass around the bole was crashed into powder and driven book a,t extre-mely rapid rate. The glass stack to the bullet for a short, time after it had passed through, the disk 'being driven out in front of the "bow wave." In this experiment the waves caused bythe vibrations of the glass were plainly shown. A photo- graph of the bullet after it had clear- ed the glass by 9 inches showed the re- mainder of the glass intact, but whet. the bullet had proceeded another 16 inches the sheet of glass was seen to breek and fall hi fragments. A Broken Ideal. ,efeenrcia-And so he complained of p our biscuits, did he? 'Well, wouldn't mind; you will soon learn to make bet- ter ones, and then you will please him." Now Wife --But it is not that, mam- ma; I don't mind his 'finding fault with my cooking, But to think that love, wheel I rempteeed was a sentiment of Lb e heart is mile affaix of the stern- achl • ing point. ; suppese you are aware that the : two paeans who heve marshaled the the great armlet againet the deity of Christ are Straues and Ronan. The number of their slain will not becounte ed uatil the trumpet of the archangel sounds the rail cail of the resurrection. Those men and. their sympatbisers saw that it thy could deetroy the fortress or the utireclee they could destroy Christianity, aiel they were right. Sur- render tem miracles,. and you surren- der Christianity. The great Gerraan • • orm a miracle y which e fe nays every tongue shall confess-Bor- you. the lad lost fo th re man ? No. He is a God? The Bible 000 famishieg people., and I warrant nothing. r e neaten Malayan, Mexican, Italian, were 12 baskets of fragments taken up, Spanish Persian, English. Every ton- and if the boy had five loave,s at the gue stall confess.. To whore ? God. start, 1 warrant you lae had at least The Bible svs Christ is the same Yes- 10 at the close. terday, to -day and forever. Is that The Saviour's mother goes into a characteristic of humanity? Do we neighbor's house to help get up a wed - not change? Does not the body en- ding party. By calculation she finds tirely change in seven years? Does out eb.at the amount of wine is not not the rated change? Christ the same sufficient for the guests She calls in ye.sterday, to -day and forever. els Christ for hell) and Christ, not by the must be a. God. slow decay of ferraentation, but by a Philosophers say that the law of • e eaa Marius achievement! He turns a kes 130 gallons of pure wine. gravitation decides everything and wer that the eeetrlp etal and centrifugal whole school of fish into the liet forcers keep the world from claslang and from demolition. But Paul says men who were mourning over their that Christ's arm is the axle en. which oor luck until the boat is so full they ave to halloo to other boats, and the everythine turns, and that Christ'a oliler boats arc hind is The socket en which every- lade,a to come the watePs edge wiirh the thing is set. Mark the words, "Up - game, so. thee tile sailors have to be holding -upholding all things by ttet, cautious m going front laxbord to star - word of biz power." Then he must bord lest they upset the ship. a God. Then look at what Christ says of him -Then there comes a squall down selfNrtainly every one rough the raountain gorge, and Gen - ow, cemust understand himself any- mco a trough and sieve a sea, and. the better than i you where you. Were born, anyou tell nesaret with long 100r.S of white foam * looked Lor bum i one else can. understand hixaa If I ask rises up to battle it, and the boat drops ' me, "I was born in Chester. England," loosened sails creek in the tornado. !or "I was born in Glasgow. stehenet, and Christ rises frona the back part hr "I was bora in Dublin, Ireland " or of the boat and conies walking° aeross the prow, and. there he wipes the epeay ed Stater'," you being a man of tegri- ; Taittely<ri pounds you edentql on 1.0 knee of litis omnipciclence. was been 15 Naw oritaus, ehilieuite the staggering ship until he c Ines to !tee I should believe You. If I aSked freal his brow and hushes the crying Who wrestles yus %a say you csoote t t o down t eureei yet? should believe you. It is a matter per- sonal to you.reelf. You know better Let philcrsopliers and auatomists go than anyone else can tell you If I ask you. how much estate you are worth, and you, say $10,000 or $1.00,- •000 or e500,000, I believe whet you sae'. Y pound.s or 2 0 porinds or pound% Whose feet trampled the roug a i- 1 to a suiootb floor? o Westminstev Abbey and try towalte iv Queen Elizahetb. or Henry VIII. No human power ever walmeed the dead. There is a dead girl in Caper- ou know bet(.or than anyone eLse. mum. Wiacit does Owlet do? Alas, Now, Clarist must know better than that she should have died so young anymee else who Ile is and what Ile is. and when the world was so fair,- Only • ,When I ask him how old he is, he,soys, 12 years of age. Feel her cold brew ' Before Abra.hern was, I am." Alma- and cola hands. Dead, dead! . ham has been deed 2028 years. Was house is full of weeping. Christ comes. • Christ 2028 years old? Yes. He says he and he takes hold of the hand of the is older than that. "Before Abraha.m dead girl, and instantly her eyes open, was, I am." Then Christ says, "I am her heart starts. The white lily of • the Alpha." Alpha is the fust letter death blushes into the rose of life and, of the Greek alplaabet, and Christ in health, She rushes into the arms of that utterance declared. 'I am the A her rejoiebate kindred. Who woke up of the aleabet ,of the c.enturies." Then that death? Who restored her tolife? Cen a man Le in a thousand places .Blooiningdale Asylum, It was Ch.rist at once? Cbriet says he is in a thou- the God. sand places at once. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." This everywhereativeness, is it eharacteristio of a man. or of a God. And leet we mieht think this every - he rust a. God"A man?TdU that to the lunatics in But there *times a test which more thau anything else will show whether , he WaS God or man. Yoe remember that great passage which says: "We must all appear before the judgment sea,t of Christ: The earth will be es hereattveness wceld cease he oes on stunned by te jblow time will make ,it and he intirnatee that he will 1.11 in alt etagger in raid -h a, en the stem willcir- 0 V 0 the cities of the earth -he will be in ole like dry leaves in an eq,uiriox. the Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South ' earth will unroll the bodies, and the Pmerica, the day before tbe world , see will unroll the spirits., and soul iarne up. Lo, I am entla you always, i and flesll will come mw meorruptilele even unto the end of the world. wilY•iconjunction. Day of smoke and fire then, he must es a God. and darkness and triumph. On one •. Beeides that he takes divine honors.. side, piied up in galleries of light. the . He decieree jeimself Lord_ (.4 men,. meet gm hundred and ear gets and devils. is he. If he is, he le sand -yea _the quintillions-ofand feurtrhetherv-- a God. If he is not he is an imposter. ' el. On the other side, the frowning A man comes into your store to -mor- , the glaring multitude of those who re- ' row morning. lie says "I am the great ! teeted hod. THE SUNDAY SCROOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 1. "Jesus theillessinit." Luke 9, 18-21. Golden Text, /When, 35. GENERAL STATEMENT. We rause not suppose teat the his- toric divisions which raodern students ..of our Lord's life have marked so clear- ly were at all noted by thoae who liv- ed with hirn. Each new -day their ears were startle,d, sometimes were stunned, by teachings suoh • a.s men had never imerd and by deeds such as men had never seen. When great, men smiled on tee Galilean Rabbi his deseiples Jailed beyond easy counting; when the hostility of the authorities was felt mane turned away from him whom elley heel for a while adored as Messiah; but the steady current of his life flow- ed. on, in full view of friends and foes, hardly marked by such partitions as have become familiar to us under the titles "Year of Popularity" and "Year of Obscurity." Now approaches the close of "The Galilean Ministry." which, • you will remenaber, lasted a little more Oran a, year and a half. Since tbe rais- • ing of Jairus's daughter our Lard had (in day -school language) "promoted" his disciples. From rapt learners cluster- • ing about hie feet they had been chime - ed into age,ressive workers-beralds or "missionaries" we alight call them, who sbipimiltie.r of Liverpeol. I have builtI Betsveen these two piled up galleries hundreds of ships.' He goes (in to a throne, a high throne, a. throne give his experience. You defer to him standing II atwo burnished .pillars - s a e'en ot large experience and greal i hbetter hide yau.r eye leet it be justice, merey-a throne so bright you , potseteaone. But the. next day_you fin out that he is net the great shitilii,111(1- ex tt.aim ad er of Liverpool; thet he never built a . ie is -usnewith exceset visionBut a• ship; thee he never built anything. 1 ' and takeernitPutYp d s . Ithrwonme. yell:01r wll come What is be. thee? An bamoster.. "Ah no!" you say. "I am but a Christ says he built this world; _he - child of dust. I would not dare to built all things. Did he build them? climb that throne." Would Gabriel If he did, he is a God. If he did not, he is an imposter. ce d 't? H climb it. • He dare not. Who will as- 15 man camas into your place of to us. Ile goes up step aft.erlist.epba,heikshist business, with a. Jewish countenance above height, until he reaches the and a German aceent, and says: "I am Rothschild, the banker ot London. ar Then he turns around end faces a nations, and we all t..ae who it is. I have the wealth of nations in my It is Christ the God, and all earth, and pocket. 1 loanedthat laege amount all heaven,and all hell, kneel, crying: to Italy and Austria in their pexplexi- "it is a God I It is a God! We must ty." But after a while you find that he . all appear before the judgment seat of has never loaned any money to Italy , . . t. or Austria; that he never had a large ee Oh, I am. glad that it is a divine estate; that he is no banker at all, that- e_who comes to pardon all our hh e OWUS nothing. What is a? An being sena to comfort all our sorrows. Some - imposter. Christ says he owns the cat- tames our griefs axe so great they are tle on a thousand hills; he owns this beyond any human sympathy, and we world; he owns the universe; be is the went Almighty sympathy. Oh, ye who banker of all nations. Is he? If he is, cried all last night because of be- reavementor lonelmess, 1 want to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who is When the children are in the house and the mother is dead, the father has to be more gentle in the home, and he has to take the office of father and mother to your soul. He comes in the strength of the one, in the tenderness of the other. He says with one breath, "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitioth them that fear him." •he Is a God. Is he not? Then he is an iraster. A man enters the White House at ' Washington. He says: "I am Emper- or William of Germany. I am travel - nig incognito. I have come over here for recreation and pleasure. I own castles 15 Dresden and Berlin." But the President finds out the next day (.bat be is not Emperor William; that he owns no ca.stles at Berlin or Dres- den; that he has no authority. What is he An imposter. Christ says he is the king over all, the king immortal, and then with the next breath he invisible. If he is, he is a God. If he is says. "As oece whoin hes mother come • not, he is an imposter. forteth, so will I comfort you." Do Stramet saw that alternative, and he You not feel the hush of the divme tries to get out of 14, by saying that la e ? , Christ was sinful in accepting adora- Ohput your tired head down on the tion and worship. Ronan tries to get heaving bosom of divine compassion out of it by saying that Christ -not • through any fanit of his own, but through the fault of others -lost his purity of conscience, and he slyly in- timates that dishonorable women had timates that dishonorable women had damaged his soul. Anything but be- • lieve. that Christ is • Gad. Now, you believe the Bible to be true. If you do not, you would hardly have appeared in this church. You would have gone over and joined the Broadway Infidel Club, or you would go to Boston and kiss the foot of the statue of Thomas Pain. You would hardly come into this church, where the most of us are the deluded souls who believe in a whole Bible, and take it all down as • easily as you swallow a ripe straw- berry. • I have shown you what inspired men said of Christ. 3. have shown you what Christ said to himself, Now, if you be- lieve the Bible, let us go out and see what his three wonderful achievements -surgical, alimentary, marine mortu- • ary. Surgical achievements! Where is • the medical journal that gives any ac- count of suph exploits as Christ wrought? He used no knife. He car- ried no splints. He employed no com- press. He read° no patient squirm under cauterization. Ile tied. n.o artery. Yet, behold him! With a word he stuck fast Malchias' amputated ear. Ete stirr- ed a little dust and spittle into a slave and with it, caused a man who was born blindand without optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens to open his eyes an the sunlight. He beat • music mi the drum of the deaf ear. • He straightened a woman who through contraction of muscle had been bent almost double for well nigh two decades. He made a man who had no use of his limbs for 38 years shoulder his mattress and walk off, • Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Val- entine Mott sexid powerless before a -withered arm; but this doctor of om- nipotent surgery comes 15 and sees the paralytic arm, useless at the man's side, and Christ says to him, "Stretch forth thine hand,' and he stretched it forth, whole as the other. $0 was a God. Alimentary achievements! He found •alad who had come out of the wilder- ness with five loaves of bread fora speculation Perhaps the lad had paid ftve pennies for the five loaves, and expected to sell them for ten panties, and so he would double his money. while he puts his arms around you and says: "0 widowed soul. I will be thy God, 0 orphaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do not cry." Then he touches your eyelids with his fingers and sweeps his fingers down your cheek and wipes away all the tears of loneli- ness and bereavement. 012, what a tender and sympathetic God has come for us! I do not ask you to lay hold of him. Perhaps you are -not strong en- ough for that. I do not eric you to pray. Perhaps you are too bewildered for that. I only ask you to let go and fall back into the arras of everlasting love. Soon voa and I will hear the click of the latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong men will take us in their arms and carry us down and lay usin the dust, and they cannot bring us baek again. I should be scared with infinite fright if 1 thought I must stay in the grave, if even the body were to stay in the grave. But Christ will come with glorious iconoclasm and. split and grind up the rooks and let us all come. forth. The Christ of the manger is the Christ of the throne. •-•••^".......` • A Battle -Field Lamp. A new laanp, the invention of Mr. Ludwig Darr, of Bremen, is being tried by the English military authorities. "The light is originated by evaporation and superheating of the vapors from ordinary petroleum. Air is drawn into the lamp between the gasifier and an external cylinder, and a smokeless flame of great brilliance is produced. In short, vapors are produced by intense heat and converted into gas, which, upon being burned, yields a light rang- ing from 8500 to 14,000 candle-power. The apparatus is self-acting, and does not neoe,ssitate the employment of com- pressed air. It is so constructed that a lamp and reservoir capable of holding ten liters of prtroleum, and supplying a 3500 candle-power light, can be strap, - ped on the knapsack of a soldier. The Tamps can be carried about when burn - Ing, or may be fixed in any position." • Sure of It. Forxester-Our baby doesn't ory all the time. Lancaster -How do you know? Ton are away fro= henate a good part of the y• Forrester -That's how I knew were sent out in couples to proclaim the coming of the "kirelgora of God." Our Lord endowed them. with healing pow- ers, of which they had known nothing before, and their errand, thus made easy, was faithfully performea-though WO know nothing in detail of their ad- ventures. The winter and spring of the year 29, so fax as we can now dm- eetangle the chronolo,gy of the gospels, was thus spent. When they returned to Jesus, with them came the sad news of the beheading of John the Baptist. Soon after this the five thousand were miraculously fed. Then came a ulna- ber of miracles (told. by other evauge- lists than Luke) -such as Jesus's walk on the waves, the cure of a deaf and a dumb mate and the cure of the blunt man of Bethsaida. To about this time also must probably be referred Mat- thew's story of the feeding of the four thousand. The pepula,rity of Jesus grew so high that all Galilee uprose. and if it could have had its way would have made him king by force. All these events, and the teaching which was con- current with theni, bring the record down to the summer of 29, and bring; our Lord, on his slow advance north- ward, into the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi. His journey had. been in- terrupted by two or three brief detours but he hart a la.st reaehed the foot- hills of the great mountain on one a whose peaks he was shortly to be trans- figured in the presence of the chosen three. While pausing here for a day or two he took oceasion to declare to his disciples, without reserve, his claim to the Messiehship. But he did this not by any statement of his own, but So- craticalty - drew the declaration right out of their own logic and, conviotions. He showed them also the necessity of covering up this holy secret for a while, for iroin that very hour the Son of man must be on the defensive. The months of popular triumph were now past, though not one of the disciples had suspected this. If any man would "come after him" now, he muse expect fetters, a crown of thorns, and a cross. But, then, the way of the OTOSS leads to glory. How emphatic sounds our Golden Text when read in close con- nection with this 'mon 1 PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 18. He was alone praying. Xn- steact of "aLme." read "apart.' Study our Lord's constant habit of private prayer. As We look back upon has life we can see no time when he needed the help of prayer more urgently than jest at this juncture. These weeks are pivotal. His disciples were with him. This raay mean that at the close of his prayer they gathered about him; but no oriental could ever understand. how !Any one could. be disturbed m prayer .11by thpeeeprlesee gest of othe!rs. Temen o Whomythe f . whom he asked this were fresh from their tour among the people, and. had had rare opportunities for noticing pop- ular attitude and feeling. But the ques- tion was asked to set his disciples to think profoundly. That there were many conflicting views of Jesus is evi- dent. Notice what Herod s.ald Mark 6. 16); what the Nazarenes said (Mark 6. 3); what the scribes said (Mark 3. 22). 19. John the Baptist. The people dere I not assume the Messiahship of this nn - warlike carpenter Rabbi, but apply the common doctrine of transmigration, and find in hixn some old national hero aris- en from, the grave. Their first conjec- ture may have been a mere echo of what was talked of at Herod's cou.rt;but there were, in truth, certain superficial points of resemblance between ;Jesus and. John -the great crowds, the simple preach- ing, the bold rebuke of wicked rulers. Elms. The Jews fully expected. the great Elijah to return to earth. See Mal. 4. 5, 6. One of the old prophets. Some great preacher and miracle worker of uncertain identity. He was anybody, in short, but Messiah; but he had too bit- terly disappointed the expectation of the masses by not assuming royalty and easting off the Roman yoke to be gen- erally reoeived. as "the Christ." 20. But whom say ye that I am? 0.) What do you say, student? Peter. He was perhaps the oldest, as he was one of the first, of the disciples. He had the many excellencies, as well as the faults of a passionate nature. The Christ of God. Or, better, "God's Anointed One." Matthew adds, "the Son of the living God." (2) God will surely lead his stn - core followers to the fullne.ss of truth. (8) The neerer we live to Christ the stronger will our faith become! Mat- thew tells us of the beautiful blessing which Jesus poured forth upon Peter in acknowledgment of this confession. 21. He straitly charged them. Better, "strictly" he spoke solemnly, almost sternly, for this charge was very im- portant. A Messiah would be to the hated Roman government what Moses was to Egypt, what David was to the Peoilistines. And if this man could feed thousands with a few loaves and fishes, and quell a storm by a frown, how long would it take him to send the Roman legions flying and. erect Syria into an Israelite state? This was popular log- ic, and had already lbeen so asserted as to trouble the Master. Evidently the multitudes were not yet prepared for Peter's great discovery. (4) Those who preach the gospel must exercise wisdom m presenting its truths.- Neither were the apostles themselves quite ready for the full proclamation. Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, .and Pente- cost were all needed "mime even Peter really and.erstood what now from his heart he professed. 22. Must -suffer. Not, however, by the mere compulsion of circunastanees, but by his own will. He had previously gtven. °bemire imitations of his pas- sion and death (Mat. 10. 38; John 3. 4), but plain speaking was now nee -d - ed. Many things. Too many to enu- merate, too painful to speak of in de- tail. Elders and chief priests and serilies. The Sanhedrin -the great coun- cil of the Hebrew nation. So the great- est and beet of Jame <in the opinion of the dmciples) would reject their Master. Be slam, awl be raised. "Yes, I am the Anointed 'One; .but I can only en- ter rny kingaine through the gates of death; but -death to me is eternal life." No wonder these fishermen did not at once understand. hina.1 23. He said to them aIL Callingthe crowds to hear (Mark 8. 84). Wishes; determines. Cora° after ._ me. To lettere my kingdom. Deny himself. Ahriman so that the divine will may reign alone. belf ut Christ's chief rise al. 1)evotion to self is the essence of all sin. "Let my follower do as I do. and. he will find that the Via. Dolorosa readies not merely from the judgment Hall to Calvary, but to the skies." Take up bas cross. lerobably every one who listened had in other days seen some poor white-faced wretc•h stagger by, guarded. by Romans, and with a great timber cross strapped on his back, and had th that ciiiss would bear thee. name to death; but probably nobody yet under- stood these worth as a prophetic allu- sio11 to the manner of Jesus's death. Follow inc. "Take me as Example and Leader; view life as do" (John 4. 84; Matt. 20. 28). 24. For. This word introduces the first reason for taking up one's cross. Whosoever will save bis life shell lose it. '' Life" here meees worldly life as contrasted with spiritual life. "It" stands for life in the ampler sense (John 10. 10); spiritual life. Whosoever will lose his life for my Bake the setae sball save it. His loss Le an almost uncon- scious sacrifice, incurred as part of work that absorbs all his thoughts. leor Christ's sake, "to die is gain" (2 Tim. . Though love repine and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply, "Tis man's perdition to Le safe When for the truth he ought to die." he ear. Tuts mtroduees the second meson for taking up one's crass. What is a man advanteged ? Wit:at profit hes he ? If he gaia the whole world. Prob- ably the keenest of all the temptations . that ever came eveu to our Lord him- self was just this -to win the world and escape the (mutes. It is a tempta- tion that comes to every mora,1 being. Is the argument here oar Lordts.de- seending to the sinner's selfish mew. In one sewn it Ls lardy coneeivable for a man to gale tee wiles world, but we will suppese that by denying to his spiritual life its rights one 'Ivey pro- vide ono's self with every vartety of worldly gratification U John 2. 6): how terrible and loathsome does such gratification haws to him who finds that by it he loses himself I Cast away. Utterly lost. 26. leor. Here is the third renewn for taking up one's eross. Ashamed of me. "0 what I am, whit I say. and what I stand for." The thought of a 'Mes- siah executed by law cut the descipies to the heart with unspeakable sbante. And to-daythe game ideals affect men's mind' in the same way. Owlet's teach- ings are attraetive to the natural heart up to the point where he demands self- sacrifice, but there the natural heart recoils. Let us not blame the old dis- ciples for tendeneies that we may find in our own hearts if we carefully ex- amine them. Of him shall the Son of Mall be ashamed. The Judge of all men must inevitably disown the selfish.ease- loving soul who chooses his portion in this life. When he shall come in his own glory. See Matt. 24. 3; I Cor. 35, 23. When the full revelation comes the character of Jesus will be seen as it really is-" altogether lovely." In his Father's, and of the holy angels. This sentence is rendered with less awk- warduess in the Revised Version. Sure- ly God an.d the angels form a "public opinion" of far greater importance than any that prevailed on earth in Jesus's tine, or any that prevails now. 27. There be some standing here which shall not taste of death. By an oriental figure death is often depicted as a bitter cup .pressed to the lips. The lat- est survremg apostles saw the king- dom of God. in. the establishment of Christianity upon the earth. This ver.se must ever be a knotty puzzle to those who do not recognize that in our Lord's teaching the end of the first age is a constant type of the end of the second. The kingdom of Gocl came, in deed and in truth, when the hole city was de- stroyed and the new spuitual Jerusa- lem uprose from the flames of the old. The kingdom of God exists wherever de- vout souls look upward; whenever, by the dissemination of Gospel truth, any localizing of the worship of our Father in heaven becomns impossible. ALADDIN QUITE °TIBOR GIANT PALACE TO SPAN THE NIA • GARA CATARACT. It is Practicable and Assure4-.$10,080,000 afruciure Which. Ilas Its Origin in the Grain of a 1(.ache,ster.:5h.e. Niagara barnessed would, it is elateet ed, have the energy to furnish the motive power for all the machinery in the world. And Mr. Leenerd Hankie. a Rochester, N.Y., has a project to utilize the 10,000,000 horse -power that the mighty falls generates every second and, that too, without marring their natural beauty, but even enhancing 14 ,bya.wionfiaerrfastsetzlreft.is are tb.at to be awcacoftini it His scheme also has tbe advantage of divertbag no water from the rIVer end it is regarded as so thoronghlyt fecisiVe that New York and Toronto capitalists have guaranteed the interest on $40,000,000 and the work will begin in July rcext. Mr. Henkle proposes hotbing less than the ereetion of A sta- pendous structure, to be called "Tete Greet Dynamic Palace and leternational which will bridge the great . cataract. This palace, located about fifty feet above the brink of the Horseshoe Falls, will be at least hall a mile long, and in width 1,600 feet; the heiebt will be 600 feet, the cen.tre, however, rising to about 1,000 feet above the river. The lower part of the building will .average forty-six stories, and in the centre something more than FIFTY STORIES. The structure will be supported and anchored by two massive stcrie towers, fixed with heavy steel meteors, each laced 900 feet from the, bank. These owers will be each forty-eight, feet in thiekness. 1.609 feet wide. 420 feet high and will weigh nearly (00,000 tone apiece. The materials of construction prOvicied in the specifications are stone, granite, A.lexaten onyx, black and white na.arble. aluminum, copper, steel, iron and glass. The structure will be divided into three parts. the east and west wings and the main building. The wings wtU each. be 902 feet in length and tbe een- tral portion 836 feet long. The exterier will consist of block stone fretted and. ornamented. Tbe building will be supported by forty • huge columns, which are to be present- ed. by the nations of the world. Prom- ' ises Inve already been obtained from SUMO of them that the columns will be ; furnished. limy will be ricbly seulp- turcit and the 'nett° of the nation pre-. senting each will be inscribe1 at ite ,base. They will alp have the name of the, melon set ttt gold, silver or aluminum letters at the top. Eight hundred =miler •columns, composed of Mexicaa onyx and aluminu.en will also baAntWtill'e American end of the building, above the main entrance, will be In- ', scribed: "United States of America." !and at the Canadian entrance, 4'Onta- 1 rhe Dom.:lion of Canada." Above the central entrance will bit the word 'Unt- taries." Insido the building STEEL GIRDERS will be used for the purpose of support; • iron columns wal also be placed between the &o -s. Forty-seven million, five hundred and twenty thousand feet of fire-prcof flooring will be required, • which. it is estimated, will oast at least $175,200. The structure will have 11,- 932 windows and a correspondingly ; large number of doors. 1 The first ten stories win he used for • dynamos and other apparatus for gene- rating electricity. At the extreme lower front of the building proper there will be 552 twin turbin wheels, capable of developing about 8,300,000 horse -power a minute, • which will run over 7,000 dynamos. ! Immediately below the first story, an immense arcade will furnish a passage • from the United States to Canada for • the Grand Trunk, West Shore and other railways. This will be lighted with thousands of aro and incandescent lights. • Atone the tenth stery and up to the • forty-fifth, the building will be used for commercial purrioses, among the most 'iaimkpoesr.tant that of grinding the Western • wheat which comes ,down from the The interior of the building will be chiefly of carved stone and Mexican onyx. The forty-sixth story will be an enor- mous hall, extending the length of the . cling, with a seating capacity of 70,000, who may be addressed by one speaker by the uss of electrical intone. tors. This hall will be the most beauti( ful in the world, and will he devoted exclusively to internationalreligious and social meetings and conventions. It is expected that each of the nations of the world will furnish a design for a window, and it is estimated that the furnishings of the hall will cost $5,000,- 000. • ANATOMY OF THE YAWN. The Artificial Yawn May be Produced by sianule Means. A yawn is either natural or artificial. Among th3 natural are the things called "gaps," which ars not true yawns at all, ansi must be carefully distinguished from them. The artificial article has a number of purposes. Sometimes it is a,ssurated as a hint to the visitor who stays too long, or to the man who talks politics in the presence of women, or talks. sh•aet or tells an old story, or makes himself a general nuisance. Women have a habit of yawning in the face of the male individual who talks enthusiastically. to them about other women. This is one of the most arti- ficial of yawns. It. has not even the pretense of reality about it. The most essential difference between the real yawn and the assaraed one is that the former is contagious and the latter is not. One has only to indulge in this physical act unwittingly in a car to see it pass up on,e side and down the other. The majority of those who follow the first; example do it evithont noticing where the initiative came frcan or (.bat they are following it. On the other hand, an artificial yawn begins and ends with the person whoperpetrates it. It has none of the subtle, initiative of the real artiole. Next to being able to understand a yawn, the most impor- tant social accomplishment is to be able to stifle one. This can be done only after long practice. Where this art has not been attained to the best thing to do is not to apologize. Such an ex- plamation is an insult to the intelligence of the person spoken to. A real, soul - felt yawn must be lived down; it can not be explained away. Say nothing and your :neighbor may obviate all ,trouble by iraiteting you. In that cane one tra.nsgression offsets the other. Of Course. It was an hour or two agt midnight and Mr. Sagway was f ihithaing about in the hallsvey, and Muttering angrily to himself. "What's the matter ?” call- ed out Mrs. Jagway, from the floor above. "There's two hatracks here," he answe.red, "an' I don' know vetch one to hang m' hat on." "You've got two bets, haven't you ?" rejoined Mrs. Jag - way; "hang them on both." MR. HENKLE. who is responsible for this gigantic b'un- bodertakine was rn in Ohio, but spent his boyhood m Iowa., whither his family moved in 1840. His playmates were little Indian boys, and he still speaks their language fluently. His days of schooling were limited to three months in all. Mr. Henkle has invented, EU12021f; other things, the tubulax lanterns for street illnrnino.tion, a time -look for safes, the Rochester lamp, model build- ings and an improved oil -heating and cooking stove. He conceived his pre- sent design for the palace as, far back as 1881. With regard to the practic- ability of hes scheme, he says: "After disposing of 200,000 horse- power at the, falls at $10 per bore - power per annum., 5 per cent. is assur- ed on $-40,000,000, which leaves 31,000,- 000 horse -power, which., at $10 per horse- power, would insure an income of such vast proportions as to pay an annual arid perpetual interest on it sum ot money sufficient to build rail -ways from California to Maine, and from British Columba., to the St. Lawrence, each touching at Niagara FalLs, also to build a line of steamships from the outlet of the St. Lawrence to every port of the world." It is proposed to issue stock certifi- cates for the lull amount of the capital, $40,000,000 to be offered to the public in denominations of $2, &P.5 and 810. i,Tdiodt Noencebsusayrtib13,i-sC,phieceaepof What fore asked Mr. Darley-crossiy, as he took up a sheet from the- pianu. bought it for a song, replied IL's. Darley, sweetly. Where Ile Showed Hie P011811. De Jones---IVhat sort of a fellow is, this De Trollope that' Mise Guesie is engeged to --is he polished? , 3')e, jones---efes, pelished es a laillierd 1a1,and einter as haler •