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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-3-5, Page 3THE HARVEST IS &PE. REV. T. DE WT T TALMAGE, D. D., ON RINGING IN THE SalEAVg.S. The mighty wales rev The Iteeptag of The Gaspe' liarveet-Peeacatnia Song and /Prayer Mighty Agencies in Saving Brands r/OBt the Burning. Washington, D. C., Feb. 23. -"Bring - Mg in the Sbeaves," founded upon Joel 3, 13: "Peet ye in the siokle, for the harvest is ripe," was the subject of Rev. Dr. Talmage's sermon to -day. He said: The ewer(' las been poetized, and the world has celebrated the sword of Bollivar, the sword of Cortez, and the sword of Lafayette, The pen has been properly eulogized, and the world has celebrated, the pen of Ad• - dison, the pen of Southey, and the pen a Irving. The aaltit- ter's pencil has been bououred and the world has celebrated the pencil of Mur - ell of 13lerstadt. The sculptor's eleisel has come in for high encomium, and the world has celebrated Chantrey's chisel and Crawford's chisel, and Greenough's chisel, But there one instrument about which I sing the first canto that was ever sung -the Sickle, tbe sickle of the Bible, the sickle that bas reap- ed the harvest of many centuries. Sharp and bent into a semi -circle, and glit- tering, this reaping book, no longer than your arm, has fornished the bread Lor thousands of years, its suceees has produced the wealth of nations. It has had more to do with the world's pro- gress than sword, and pen, and. penell, and Weisel, all put together. Clarist puts the sickle into exquisite sermon- ic) simile, and you see that instrument flash all up and down the Apocalypse, as St. John swings it, while through Joel in my text God commands tbe peo- ple, as through his servants, now he ocannaands them: "Put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe." Last November there was great re- joicing all over the land. With trum- pet and cornet and organ and thous- and -voiced psalms we praised the Lord for the temporal harvests. We prais- ed God for the wheat, the rye, the oats, the cotton, tbe rice, all the fruits of the orchard, and all the grains of the field, and the nation never does a better thing than when in the autumn it gathers to festivity, and thanks God for the greatness of the harvest. But I come to -day to speak to you of richer harvests, even the spiritual. How shall we estimate the value of a raan? We say he is worth so many dol- or he has achieved such and such a position; but we know very well there are some men at the top pf the ladder who ought to be at the bottom and some at the bottom who ought to be at the top, and the only way to estimate a man is by his soul. We ago anew that we shall live forever. Death cannot kill us. Other crafts may be drawn into the wbirlpool or shiver- ed on the rooks, but this life within us will weather all storms, and drop no anchor, and ten million years after death will shake out signals on the bigh seas of eternity. You put the nendicant off your doorstep, and say se is only a beggar; but he is worth tll the gold of the mountains, worth ell the pearls of the sea, worth the solid earth, worth sun and moon and stars, worth the entirc raaterial uni- verse, Take all the paper that ever eame from the paper mills, and put it side by side, and sheet by sheet, and. let men with fleetest pens make figures on that paper for 10,01/0 years, and they will only have begun to express the value of the soul. Suppose, 1 own- ed Colorado, and Nevada, arid Austra- lia, of how much value would they be to me one moment after I departed this life? How much of Philadelphia :toes Stephen Girard own to -day? How mueli of Boston property does Abbott Lawrence own to -day? The man who to -day hath a dollar in his pocket hath more 'worldly estate than the mil- lionaire who died last year. How do ou suppose I feel, standing here sur- nunded by a multitude of souls, each one worth more than the material uni- verse? Ob, was I not right in saying the spiritual harvest is richer than the temporal harvest? I must tighten the girdle, I must sharpen the sickle, I must be careful how I swing the in- strument; for gathering the grain lest one stalk be lost. One of the most powerful siokles for reaping this spiri- tual harvest is the preaching of the Gospel. 11 the sickle have a rosewood handle, and it is adorned- with preci- ous stones, and yet it cannot bring down the grain, it is not much of a sickle, and preaching amounts to noth- ing unless it harvests souls for God. Shall we preach philosophy? The BODO, Waldo Emersons could beat us lieeett that. Shall we preach science? Agassizes could beat us at that. Ilee minister of Jesus Christ, with weakest arm going forth in earnest prayer and yielding this sickle of the Gospel,' shall find the harvest all around him waiting for the angel sheaf -binder. Oh, this harvest of souls! I notice he the fields that the farmer did not stand upright when he gathered the grain. 1 noticed he had to stoop to his work, and I noticed in order to bind the sheaves the better he had to put his 1 se upon them. And as we go forth an this work for God we cannot stand upright in our xbetoric, and our metaphysics, and our erudition. We have to stoop to our work. Ay, we have to put our knee to it, or we will never gather sheaves for the Lord's garner. Peter swung that sickle on the day of Peal - cost, anct three thousand sheaves came In. Richard Baxter swung that sickle at Itidderminster, and McCheyne at Dundee, and vast multitudes . came into the kingdom.o± our God. . Oh, this is a mighty Gospel 1 It cap- tured not only John the lamb, but Paul the lion. Men may gnash their teeth at it, and clinch their fists, but It is the power of God and the wis- dom of God unto salvation. But, alas, if it is only preached in pulpits and • on Sabbath days 1 We must go forth t into our stores, our shops, our bank- f Mg -louses, our factories, and the I etreets, and everywhere preach Christ. o We stand in our pulpits for two hours on the Sabbath, and commena Christ • to the people; but there are 168 hours In the week, and what are the two hours of the Sabbath against the 166? i hours of the Sabbath against the 166? a Ob, there nornee down the ordination t • a Gael this day apon ail the people, Y .......- 1 Ili& will eve your soul. Though you nip SUNDAY ' be soaked ea evil indulgences, though' A AAJto Your feet have on in unclean places, THE EXETER TIMES men who toil with head and hand, and foot -the ordination conies uoon all merehants, upon all mechanics, upon all tellers, aud God says to you as he says to me: Go, teach all na- tions. He that believeth and is baptiz- ed shall be saved, and he that be- lieveth not shall be damned." Mighty Gospel, let the whole earth hear it The story of Christ is to regenerate the nations, it is to eradicate all wrong, it is to turn the earth into a paradise. An old artist painted the Lord's Supper, and he wanted the chief attention directed to the face of Clnist. When he invited. his friends in to crtticize the picture, they ad- mired the chalices more than they did the face,. and the old artist said: "This picture is a failure!" and he dashed out the picture of the cups, and said: "I shall leave nothing to detraot from the face of the Lord; Christ is the all of this picture." Another powerful sickle for the reap- ing of this harvest is Christian song. I know in many churobes the wbole work is delegated to a few people standing in the organ -loft. But, my friends, as others cannot repent for us, and others cannot die for us, eve oannot delegate to others flee work of artists shall take the (lents and exe- artists shall take all chants, and exe- cute the more skillful music, when. the hymn is given out let there be hun- dreds and tousands of voices uniting in the acclamation. On the way .to grandeurs that never cease, and glories that never die, let us sing. At the bat- tle of Lutzen, a general came to the king; and said: "Those soldiers are singing as they are going, into bat- tle. Shall I stop them 1" 'No," said the king, "men that can sing like that can fight." Oh, the power of Christian song 1 When argue here you may argue back. The argument you make against religion may be xnore skilful than the argument I make in behalf of religion, But who can stand before the pathos of some uplifted song like tbat which we sometimes sing; Show pity, Lord, 0, forgive! Let a repenting rebel livel Are nob thy. mercies large and free? May not a sinner trust in thee? Another mighty sickle for the reap- ing of the Gospel harvest is prayer. What does Gad do with our prayers? Does he go on the battlements of hea- ven and throw them off? No, What do you do with gifts given you by those who love you very muca ? You keep them witli great sacredness. And do you suppose God will take our prayers, of- fered in the sincerity and love of our hearts, and scatter theta to the winds Oh, no! He will onsater them all in some way. Oh, what a mighty thing pro.yer isl It is not a long rigmarole of " oh," and. "ah," and "for ever and ever, Amens," It is a breathing of the heart of God. Oa, what a mighty thing prayer is! Elijah with reached up to the clouds and shook down showers. Witli it John Knox shook Scotland. With it Martin Luther shook the earLh. And when Philip Melanethon lay sick onto death as many supposed, Martin Luther came in and said, ' Philip, we can't spare you!" "Oh," said he, "Mar- tin, you must let me go; I am tired of persecution and tired of life. I want to go to be with my 'God." "No," said Martin Luthee, "you shall not go; you must take. this food and then I will pray for you." "No, Marlin," said alelancthon, "you. must let me go." Martin Luther said: "You take this food, or I will excommunicate you." He took the food. and Martin Luther knell down and pray.ed as only he could pray, and convalescence came and Martin Lather went back and said to Lis friends: "God has saved the life of Philip Melanothon in direct answer to my prayer." Oh, the power of prayer! Have you tested it? Dr. Prime of New York, in his beau- tiful book entitled, "Around the World," dese,ribed a ma.usoleum in In- dia, which it took 20,000 men twenty-two years to build -that and the building surrounding -and he says :-." Standing in that mausoleum, and uttering a word it is echoed back from a height of 150 feet; not an ordinary echo, but a prolonged music as though there were angels hovering in the air." And every Nord of earnest prayer we utter has an eoho, not from the marble cup- ola of an earthly mausoleum, but from the heart of God, and from the wings of angels, as they hover, crying: "Be- hold, he prays 1" Oh, test it 1 Mighty sickle for reaping this gospel harvest, the sickle of prayer. It does not make so much difference about the posture you take, whether you sit, stand, or kneel, or lie on your face, or in your physical agonies lie on your back. It does not make any dif- ference about the physical posture, as was shown in a hospital, when the chaplain said, as he looked over the beds of suffering: "Let all those wounded men here who would like to be prayed for lift the hand 1" Some lifted two hands; others lifted one hand; some with hands amputated could. only lift the stump of .the arm. One man, both his arena amputated, could give no signal except to say, "Me 1 me 1" Oh, it does not make any difference about the rhetoric of your prayers; it does not make any difference about the pos- ture, it does not make any ciffference whether you. can lift a hand or have no hand to lift. God is ready to hear you. Prayer is answered. God is waiting to respond. "Lift up your eyes upon the fields, for they are white already to harvest." How many have you reaped for God? Do you ask me how many have reap- ed for God? I cannot say. Now, can you say how many you have reaped e I hope there are some who have been brought into the kingdom of God. through your instrumentality. Have there not been Not one? You, a man thirty-five, forty, fifty years of age, and not one? I see souls coming up to glory. Here is a Sunday school teacher bringing ten or fifteen souls. Here is a tract distributor bringing in forty or fifty souls. Here is a raan you hive never heard of who has been very useful in bringing souls to God. He comes with one hundred and fifty souls. They are the sheaves of his barvest, How many have you brought? Not one -can it be? What will God say ? What will the angels say'? Bet- ter crouch down in some corner of heaven and never show youxself. Oh, that harvest is to be reaped now ! And that is this instant! Why not be reaped for God this hour ?" "Oh," says some man, "I have been going on the wrong road for thirty, forty, or fifty years' I have one through the whole catalogue of crimp, and must first get myself fixed up." Ah, you will never get yourself fixed up until Christ takes you in charge. You get worse and worse until He Comes to the rescue. "Not the righte- ous; sinners, Jesus came to call," So you see tele the very worst case here is. It there is a man here who eels he is all right in heart and life, am not talking to him; fee he is robably a Itypocrite, 1 will talk to him some other time. But if there is a, man who feels himself all wrong, to im I address myself. Though you be voundecl an the hands, and wounded n the feet, and wounded in the head tid wounded in the heart, and though he. gangrene. of eternal death be upon ou, ,one drop of the elixir of divine, though you have companioned with the abandoned and tbe lot, one teach of divine grace will save your soul. I do not say that you will not bave struggles after that. Oh no But they will be a different kind of strug- gle. You •go into that battle., and all hell is against you, and you are alone, : end you ifgbt, end you fight, weaker and weaker and weaker, until at last you fall, and the powers of darkness trample on your soul. But in the other case you. go into the battle, and. you fight stronger Fold stronger and strong- er, until the evil prepensity goes down, and you get the motory through our Lord Jasus Christ. Oh, come out of your sins! Have you not been bruised with sin long enough ? Have you, not carried that load long enough? Have Youolgilin?o t fought that battle long ten- t rattle the gates of your sepulchre to -clay. I take the trunmet of the Gospel and blow the long, loud blast. Roland event into battle. Charle- magne's army had been driven back by the three armies of the Saracens, and Roland, in almost despair, took up the trumnet and blew three blasts in one, of the mountain passes, and under the power of those three blasts the Sara.cens recoiled and fled in ter- ror. But. history says that when he had blown the third blast Roland's trumpet broke. 1 take this trumnet of the Gosnel and blow the first blast: "Whoeoever will." I blow the seeond blast: "Seek Ye the Lord while he may be fouud." 1 blow the third laasta "Now is the accepted time." But the trumpet does not break. It was handed down by aur foretellers to us, and we will bend it down 'to our ohildren, that after we are dead they may blow the trumpet, telling the world that we have a, pardoning God, a loving God, a sympathetic, God, and that more to Him than the throne on which be sits is lac joy of seeing a prodigal put his finger on the latch of his father's house. MALAY PIRATES OF TO -DAY. Still in the Business, But Not Advertising it So Much us Fortner/1s In the Malay peninsula piracy bas declined considerably since the expedi- tion of twenty years ago, but Perak. Salangore, and Rainbow still dietin- g -Mall thenaselves now and again by a little undisguised business of this kind. In China the two great hotbeds of buc- caneers are the places whicb have been celebrated in this direction for centux- ies--Amoy and Canton. The Amoy peo- ple. proper, who epeak the Amoy dia- lect and live in the walled oity, are very quiet, peaceable, and orderly, and have a pronounced antipathy for fight- ing, whether on sea or shore. But back of Amoy is the mountainous district of Tongan, It is connected with the ocean. by _many arms of tbe sea. Its soil is sterile and its resources are very few; its people, like all mountain- eers, are thin, musoulax, brave, and resolute. Even to -day they preserve a semaindependence of a, military nature. These make their living by piracy. They and the men of Canton have learned wisdom by experience. They no long- er cruise the wide sem, attacking any craft. that may come along. There are too many gunboats patrolling the eoat-.t�o many rifled guns and too naiany yardarms. Law and order, in the past half ce.ntury, have shot, hang- ed, drowned, blown up, or burned at least 100,000 followers of the " blaok flag." To -day the work is done on a smaller scale, but a far shrewder and safer basis. They. keep. spies ae the various places in their naghborhood, who report to headquarters whenever some Junk is about to leave that has a rich cargo or earrie,s a large amount of money. Along with this goes the information of who commands the boat, how large a crew it carries, and how it is armed. The pirates then plan to intercept the craft in.some river or arm of the sea, or else in some shoal water near the coast, where there is no cha,nce of meet- ing a. gunboat and where, after the rob - eery, they will have a safe means of escape. Their calculations are carefully made, but come out right only once In four or five times. It may be that a for- eign or Chinese gunboat suddenly ap- pears on the scene. It may be that the junk they are after goes past their rendezvous with a European steamer or river launch, or mayhap the prospective victim is delayed by adverse winds and tides, and so does not appear at the time and place figured upon. When they do make a capture they are not so brutal and cau.el as in the old years. For the rest, any one who knows China and the Claine,se will not need to be told tbat bbs booty 18 easily disposed off without rieke or questions asked. A MLLENNIUM YOUTH. , -- Bad Boys and Girds to W Made Forever Good by hypnotic Suggeshan. Away with your prisons and refor- matories! Out upon dark cells cat-oa nine tails, bread and moaer and all the other old-time methods of teaching the naughty young idea how to shoot in- to the bull's --eye of reform. A new genbus has n, bbs loye.l roxtd to rethemation has been dalcovered . and henceforth bed boys and girls will be made good while you wait, like old shoes. In a recent number of a metaphysi- cal magazine a new genuis tells how to do it. "Mental .suggestion" is the • coming method. Hypnotism succeeds the clerk cell. All yoit have got to do is to take a young rascal and mentally suggest to him to be good and the th mg is done be a. jiffy. The writer says tha.t he has treed it and that it work,s. He would be willing to tackle any youthful offender against the laws, O. and sooner or later convert hien into s an eatieciable citizen. " Some cases of t moral infirmity are reached in ten i minutes," he says. "Others may take 1 ten days, weeks or even longer. But is we must not be discouraged." t Never give a negative suggeation, cries this learned Pundit. Always a positive one. Suggest to a boy that he is going to be honest and ixtdo.stri- ous. That will fetch him. To suggest the negative is repellent. It does not catch on. That is the great fault with teachers and parents. They do not take the right side of the matter. They should lead, not attempt to drive. Just as soon xis the hypeiotists have a elianee to get in their Am work there will be a naillenniura among the grow- ing generation. Three cheers! SCHOO4. and .under forms of Litoo vat() are a$ L There are men whonaander ad bueiness gelidity in Gentesaigat as were these. The diecherger of hundreds of laborers evbo had been enaploYed in rebudlding the temple greatla inereased the number of higlevaymen in our leners time. Stria - ped him. Took his horse (on • donkey), money, and raiment; and treed to take Ids lite. Ralf dead. 'Unable to bete hdreselL Yet with a obane.e ter Ule, if f assisted. e 31. 13Y ehanee. The Greek word . means "coincidence." There is no such thin as chance (7) What a ears to f be c ance is really providence leaf -re - 1 amide (8) Human character is best revealed by 'aOaenelea" AL certain priest. - Going back from his fortnight of ser- , vice in die temple; kind-heartednees e might: surely. be expected of haw Twelve thoueand prpsts and Levites are eeeld to v residedin Jericho, Saw ma. (9) Every man is responaible for every t onemg he sees and can remedy. Passed e by. No doubt he lead a thousand excuees for doing so. On the other side. His nerves eould not bear ±0 look g0-4= om o tho eases of need a ays who, like dallaaY nor liNenA. to and poor, and even stay from church . • darelieve. They kyese.p away from the sick f 32. Ieeate. AL servitor of the lamehe e a position not qedbe so honorable as that of the priest. Carne and looked. He doubtless dropped: a sautimentil tear,but INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. S. "True• acme to One's Neighbor." lime 10. now. Golden Text. lame 1.0.81. GENERAL STATEMENT, atelyistocilibaapyytienrg aintdeotnlateaienigahtreicerunordecloa teachings and events the ehronologY 0 which cannot be satisfaetorily tixed iloteheristasave only a vague outline o hour wheltlehacehrinefgassefdrott tchreowenveonfftfeur ed bine by the entlansiasr Galileans til andbien gtrose instructt rfe(IGof doh las On season ne s af liernopmrtoha ceP uhdbeleoip the Feast of the Tabernacles be vven Ito Jerusalem, where he probably re malted till after the Feast of the Dedi cation, when he was mobbed. and Ile from the capital to Perea-that region "beyond Jordan." where he spent th greater part of the last year of his life Nearly all that wonderful series o parables which give broadest, views 0 God's love foe us and our duty to loy our fellow -men were spoken there. Iii one of the Pere= villages, probably this parable was spoken, Perbaat in November, A.. D, 29, near the close o the third. year of our Lord's publi ministry, and about five morals befor the crucifixion. A man learned in the written and traditional laws, and possessing a deeper penetration than most of his order, offered to dispute with Jesus, and asked the old question how immortality might be won, Christ asked the lawyer for his own theory He responded with the theory, love to God and his neighbor, which Jesus him- self had declared embodied all the ce` naandments. "Do this." said Carla, "and thou shalt live." Still intent up- on dismission, the lawyer asked, "But who is my neighbor, that I may love him?" The great Teacher gave no direct answer, but told the story of a traveler waylaid by robbers, neglected by the people of his own religion, and succored by an alien; and theu bade the questioner follow that alien's example, and count as his neighbor every needy man he met. The, parable is the most effectual rebuke ever a.dminietered to the system of caste. Its teaching is oar ourin amdvenanteime tines. the general practice PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 25, Lawyer. Not a barrister, but a professional teacher of the Mosaic law and the rabbinical comments, which had grown to be more extensive than the law itself. "Differiug little from the scribe." -Farrar. Tempted hira. "Put him to the proof." Invited him to "a keen encounter of wits and profes- sional knowledge."-Whedon. blaster. Teacher; this old use of the word sur- vives in our modern "schoolmaster. What shall I do. He was not a needy soul struggling for salvation, but .a theological controversialist eager to aar his learning. De inherit eternal life. He assumes at the outset that more than mere descent from Abraham is needed. (1) The deeper hunger of the human soul. is for ifumortality. 26. What is written, Instead of giving detailed precepts, Jesus sends him back to the la,w ol. which be wa.s "professor." (2) God's word contains an answer to every question of the soul. How readest thou? The lawyer expect- ed Jesus to eite texts, but is now con- strained himself to give them. (3) How we read. Is of more importance than what we read. Ten persons may read the same book, and no two of them may bring out of it the same results. 27. He answering said. Christ had given the same summary on another oc- casion.It is found in Deat 6 5. 10 12; and Lev. 19. 18, and a copy' of it was commonly carried about m the phylac- teries. It adds to the dramatic strength of this passage to recall that this lawyer probably wore at this very moment one of these phylacteries on his brow, with his answer -written inside it, and Jesus probably wore one at prayers. Thou shalt love the Lord. Only the Hebrews and the Egyptians, of all antiquity, taught that God. desired the love of his worshipers. Love involves communion, fellowship ; it embraces every other be- nign affection. He who loves God loves all the charaoterieties of God -power, wisdom, enemy, s. Love ol alt the divine attributes, in their propee relations, produce.s in a man symme- trical "godly" character. And thus love as the fulfilling of the law. at a y heart. "re e o psalmist prayed, "Unite my heart to fear thy name." Let God be the first and un- changing choice of oux affections. With all thy soul. With all of your will ower and indivictuality of character. ith all thy strength. With the ut- most intensity. With all thy mind. In- telligently ; let your love be the tribute of reason as well as a holy passion. But in action no num can well distinguish between heart., mind, and will. Thy netalabor as thyself. When men love their neighbors as themsete es the Gold- en Rule will stand instha.d of jails, police„Mries, judges, and law, and the millenmuna will have dawnece. 28. Thou hast answered right. Jesus receignezes and commends whatever he finds worthy, even in an enemy. ,This do. A personal application. (4) Our Lord's words are always addressed to the individual, and are definite in their directions. () Few Men act up to their 1 theorie,s. And so the debate seemed to ' end, the disputants agreeing. One may imagine the disappointment of the eag- er hsterners; but the lawyer resumes his 29. Willln. Desiring, determining. I To justify himself. To "maintain his ground;" to redeem his reputation by •getting the better of his antagonist. He cad not like our Lord's shifting of the uesteon. ham intellect to practice. Ab - tract questions were more to his taste ' ban direct applications of truth. Who s my neighbor? We agree on the ob- igation of neighborliness, but to -whom. it due -to kimmen, Or townsmen, or Hbesmen, or to all Hebrews ?" Steele a question could only be asked by it man who wanted to know who was not Me neighbor. 30. Jesus anewerixig, Literally, "Jestes, taking him ap," tells a story. A cer- tain man. A Jew, of course. Went down. The jotuney is a continuous de - same (three ;thousand three hundred feet h). eighteen miles) through the wildest of ravines, in all ages haunted by rob'bers. It was c,alled the Bloody Way, Jericho. 1 A very ancient city. Just before Chrlist's day it had been a,dorned by Xing Herod, and it was at this time a chief place of residence of the jewish priests. Thieves. Highway- men. Modern civilization has largely got rid of such robbers as these; but (6) flO pennies, (10) Tru.e sympathy spends itself not in feeling, but m aatime. He may have said, "neat truly good man. the priest, did. not feel bound to help c him, and of course it is nee my duty." e But if a better man than you negleet sYtQuitabablindo°- a duty, there is all tbe more reason for 38. A certain Samaritan. A.ethelien umility is a bitioc(killoRmalseanyh. by ram and a heretio by religion, under the curse of every. righteous Jaw. He was sprung from the heathen who in- liabited raicidle Palestine after the cap- tivity of the Ten Tribes. They had ea- tablisbed a temple on Mount Gerizirn, .18 which they worshiped God with semi- ' "ithen rites. (12) There may be true ,s in a, false Chureh, and true faith oased on a defective creed. Saw him. It any f,,fr fnr 1 he Saraaritau to waeh away the blood and bind up the wounds than it would have been for the priest. Had eompassion. His creed was imperfect, but his heart waa tender. We mu.st not suppose that all priests and Levithe were cold-heart- ed, or that all Saraaritane were gener-- ous. Jeeus had irecently experioneed most, unkind treatment in Samaria. 1 he ieexstsroeumcnsloca.reeeimaispreeTskivlozed to make the 84. 0:1 and wine. The ancient rare- edy for flesh wounds. "Oil" came to be used as a generic term, much as we use the word "medicine" to -day (see James 5. 14). His own beast. Our Lord's hear- ers would picture all three travellers, almost as a mat ter of course, as mount- ed on donkeys. Brought bira to an inn. As he did so his heart must have thump- ed, for at any minute those robbers Might return. This was probably not an oriental khan, a mere enclosure by the wayside, where the traveler must I provide and prepare his own food. Rom- an "mariners and customs" lad been measurably introduced into Palestine and with them probably, "inns" (tav- erns) and "hosts.' (1.inillords), Took care of him. Better than all raoiaey was this kind personal attention. 35. When he departed. Business duties and benevolent purposes were charmingly intertwined. in this man. Two pence. The average pay of a lab- orer for two tays-enough for a rneal foe a dozen mea (see Mark G. 37). When I come again. He speaks as if he was a customer, will repay thee. If the gooce Samaritan had not been in the habit et promptly. pa.ying has debts, this "certain man" might now have had a hart time. (13) Every virtue makes the practice of every other virtue easier. 36. -Which . . thinkest thou. Jesus leads the lawyer directly to a consciousness of bis own duties. (14) The egospel was given not as a series of specific precepts for cases of conscience, but to establish fundamental princi- ples by which conscientaous men are to direct themselves, Was neighbor. at as neighborly. Never mind who is your neighbor ; find out whose neighbor you are. 37. He that showed mercy. The law- yer is too haughty to name the despis- ed Samaritan. Goe and do. Stop de- bating about the limits of your duty, the best methods; and so on. Whoever needs your help is your neighbor; belp him. OUND THE WHOff WORLD. WIIAT IS GOING ON IN. THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and New World Events of interist Cbron lcled BrIefly—:interesting Happenings Recent Date, THE EOPHONE, Ships May Now Go Ahead 10 sews' , lug it Fog. Tigt probability of collisions and wrecks due to fogs has been ticceotett as a sort of unavoidable evil, whioli most become greater 'as the numbs and speed, of vessels increase, But the ^• inventive genius of man could not let sucb a condition of affairs continue 1 without attempting to dO %WAY With it, 1 and there has been perfected lately a simple instrument, called the eopbona, ti by which the (areal= from which te sound proceeds can be determined with absolute accuracy in fog or darkness, The simplest description of the ix:stru- m:ant is that it consists of two belle Berlin has a 36,000 -pound candelab- rum. Seven-eeghtbs of the bread, baked i London homade of foreignamaheat. Tolstoi is 67 yea.rs old, but he rides a bicycle and cubops down trees every day. The aluminura vessels now in use aa the French areay are found to: wea very little. Fifty thousand Belgian dogs areeat. ployed La dragging enaall carts abou the streets. There are forty-four eellies under tie name of /Weed Austin in the catalogu of the British alumina. Hereafter telephone charges in Franc axe to be five cents for three minute within 'a radius. of 15 ;miles, In one year an average of 42,002 ves- eels pase in and out of Liverpool, Whil the daiey average is 129 vessels. The Brie islemuseeun recently tie turret a sword, a watch arid a goat stud box once belonging to Edward. Gibbon. Rev. ler. Elias lteege, a missionary o the Auenican laated in Constantinola though 85 years old, is still in active work, lalee Jewett memorial fund. for tbe e mouthed receivers, eeparated by a mu teal diaphragm. The sound receive t are connected to the two ears, aa when pointed directly. at a source e sound, the noise is the same in e e ear. Wben turned away tbe eeetita heard in only one ear, 8 On shipboard the sound catching and dividing part of the instrument ex- tends above the top of the chart house. e The tubes are brouglat within the chart house, and the instrument. may be I turned from below to point any de- sired directiou. The, eopaone leas now f been perfected, there being many pinta e for which numerous experiments, last- ing over several years, have been ee- 1 quire& in order to determine the best form, especially with the sounding endowment of sebolaxehip at Ballio College, Oxford, has reached the sum of 41%000. The. English "Peter Parley," the.p.seu donym to coacead the identity of Mr William •regg, died recently in his eightieth year. Although S:dney Cooper, the English artist, is ninety-three years old, be is painting ietures for the springxh'b'e tion at the Academy. M. Legouve, the "Father" of the French Academy, is eighty-eight years of 4g'. and has Just been made (Trend Officer of the Legion of Honour. In London and in other European cities various kinds of pavement have been torn out and replaced by wooden blacks on it stone fouudation. It is the dietinction of Lord Chelsea that he hes tele flame collection of eagles' eggs in England, and he has col- lected them all with his own hands. Eighty priests recently decided, in conclave wiLb the Bishop of Solothurn, to call upon the authorities a Lucerne to torten tbe use oi secular music: in Catholic churches. A nephew of Washington Irving is the laneloed. of the old fashioned hos- telry Rumaiogliam, England, which s much patronized by Americans visit - ng the auctlani cepital. Dr. Herinan Weber, of London, has given eti2,5e0 to the Royal College of lehysicuens to found a prize to be offer- ed every two or three years for the best essay on tuberculoeis. THE SULTAN'S PALACES. They Are All ltaaniliernt. But lie Favors But One, The Sultan has no confidence in any of his palaces except that of Yildiz, which he thinks he has so fortified that revolution cannot endanger him. He was frightened almost to death when the Czar Alexander II. of Russia, was assassinated some years ago, and his life has been one of continuous unrest. i He has, all told, from 30 to 40 palaces, a number of which are on the banks of the Bosporus. Yildiz is situated on a. hill, and ite grounds contain acres of ravines, of forests and lakes, of parks and gardens. Not far from it is the great Palace of Dolma Bagtche, where Abdul Azle. , the brother of this Sultan, committed 1 suicide in order that another brother I named Murad might be raised to Lhe throne Muria was 11 1 d b other conspiraLors, who declared that he MS crazy, and it is said that he is " pining he the dungeons of one of Um m constant thought will overflow words uneoosciously.-Byron. 411 Among Dr. Lionaelam. Smith's discov- eries la the region of Lake Rudolph is that ot the esestence of fifteen new tribes of Afrioans, one of them of dwarfs, none over five feet in height. Women will henceforeh be permitted to becodie regular se uuente at the Ilun- gaetan universities, and special -taw -attics will be granted to those who wish Le Leconte doctors or pharmacists. At Monte PIM, in Lhe province of Piss, on Mateo:an. cemetery has been diseovered, whieh has yielded so far a number of terra cotta vases and a gold- en butte with two figures on it repre- senting. Pada and Helen. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the famous German his- torian, Leopold von Bunke, was cele- brated the other day in Jena, the old universay town. wh !re &hider was once teofeseor of history. Ranke died in 1886. The Napoleonic ;Museum at Ajaccio is about to be enriched with a collection of paintings and various other curiosi- ties relating to Napoleon L They were bequeathed to the town of Ajaccio by the will of Lhe late Baron Hippolyte Larrey. Baron Von der Goltz Pasha, who in 18de left the Prussian service, in which he held the rank of lieutenant -colonel, for the purpose of reorganizing the Turkish army, hernia resigoed hem the Turkish service has been metered to the Prussian army as a lieutenant -general. The Queen of Portugal has just pass- ed the examination qualifying her for pmetice as a physiman in the land of her adoption. It is the first instance on record of a lady of sovereign rank winning for herself by means of diligent study the diploma of a Doctor of aledi- eine. The Countess Fedora Gleichen, one of Queen Vietoria's mother's German de- seenddnts, who dabbles with sculpture, has been commissioned by her Majesty to make the bust of the late P. Clark, John Brown's nephew and successor as Highland attenda,nt, to adorn the cor- ridor at Balmoral. THE PARASOL ANT. The Greatest linoun Curiosity of Insect tire. The greatest known curiosity a in- sect life, so far as habits are concern- ed at least, is to be found in the queer parasol- or "unibrelle" ant, so com- on in aU parts of tropical America rom Texas to Venezuela, The common name by which the area- ure is known has been bestowed be- palacee along. the. tkaporm. • Abdul Am furnished this Dolma Bagtche Palma He spent Ma000 it year on his heeeno and within 12 ! t months expended a120,000 on pictures ea alone. The roems-and there are scores of them -am walled with satin, a while the hall is ornamented with orys- tr tal posts as large around as the body of ry a man, and more than 6 feet tail. The palace has luxurious couches and mag- be nificent furniture, but Abdul Flamid se has feared it beceuee it w t the water, and he has only used it for fo public receptions, 11 is said that Abdul of Azle warned him to keep out a it if he in should ever become Sultan, and the so result is that he has confined himself la to the Palace cit Yildiz. uee ef a, queer habit this species Of nt has of stripping certain kinds of ees and shrubs of their foliage and car- eeg the leaves to their neses. An array of them ents evedca have ea off on A foraging eapedition pre - at the quaanat sight unaeanable as cOlantas by twos, urs and sem.% eac holding the stem a teat fil his jaws, the leafetself shad - ±18 little insect's body lilke. a pane - 1 does the faop and shoulders of a da. • The early naturalists aotigined that these ants carried leaves for the gate purpose of .protectiiig themselOes against the rays of the tropical sten, but recent investigation by the 1)fieetor of eegra culture, Trinidad, shcima that. they have another use for the bits of green they gather. Tat leaves accoreteg ." to our automata are only wanted as soil Up- on. which to grow a antata species of fume, which the .parasol ant vera fond of. The agricultural leneistigator aamtioned above :game a detailed ac- count of hie obsexeratione At a pexasol ant's hese, aiaxe frinaus growing 'ap- pears to have been the chief aidnaery. Ctdy tho base believe what the base. Oalay• atter.-Beiler. e ' • Just the Other Way. What are all those knots tied in your handkerchief, Stimson? Oh, they represent • various errande my wife commissioned me to do. And you. made there on purpose to remember? Not in One Instanee, Anyhow. My wife is a woman who is very hard. to please. She has never given any evidence of it. Man is name of honor for a, king, - Chapman. , tubes and ear-pleces. Various refine- mente, soca nuerephones toad device 1 adding to the complications, but not • trecrit,proving the use, have been tailiainat- To illustrate the character of the ' trials which have been made with tap eoplione, one was plaeed on the liglate house tender Lilac, and in it dense to a whistling buoy was picked up at distance of a nail°, and tta direction. in- dicated correctly, althougli every ef- fort was made to confuse the observer by change of course. Ordinarily, tbere is great difficulty in picking up. it whisHing buoy in a fog, Another test, showing the merits of the eophone in a striking way, was made by blindfolding the observer and then chasing another vessel by sounds of its whistle, the vessel pursued doubl- ing and twisting in every pussible way. .No diffieulty whatever was found in Allowing the vessel uuder sucli cira curastances. Spar buoys can be leick- le,dtisitire. from tae echo of the boat's ' A reesel running 'lose to land would, get the echo from her own whistle in ! ease there were hills or tall houses. 04 . dark nights the ripple of oars or the 'slight noise of it torpedo boat would be accurately located by the eophorie so that it is as important from a military ! point of view as it is necessary. in ordin- ary navigation. The eopimne Is prob- ably ono of the greatest inventions of the day, BS it is destined to becouie as , much a part of a ship's equipment ea I the compiles. The larger vessels will ! have two, and just as now there are distinetive lights on shore, there will be distinetive whistles, so that in a tog not only can vessels avoid danaer, but they can determine their location and .go safely into harbors. Ferryboats will be enabled to go straight across to their ' elipe by knowing their particular belt or signal at either end. The echo from an =colleen._ s leanly apparent. The dime . Invention of Mr._ . Frank de la Torre, a S'it-.4t2St, of Baltie more. Ile has spent a numlitivor years in perfecting it, and has been elided in the development by the advice and critioism of some of the greatest pbysi- cists of Europe. Tbe eophone can be , placed upon any vessel without altera- tion in Lae arrangement of the ordinary ' chart, house, it is. not expensive: .it adds practically nothing to the weight and 'it can not. get out of order, and as its ; efficiencyhas been demonstrated by ; actual trials it is sure to be universally mit:peed for use on board ship and at all lighthouse signal stations and. ferry slips. BRITISH ARMY OFFICERS, cher Allsiffound hen Tbau lite Olds tesaioned Officers. The old-fashioned Captain was very often kindly and popular and had ex- cellont abstract intentions as regards bis soldiers, but he raver took the trou- ble to get realty en rapport with them. Now the Captain knows his company as a specially active curate helmets his section of the parish. Ca course, sorae officers are better than others ea the work of getting a hold on their raen, but, take the army as a labale, a very high standard is maintained in this rt- spect. Betweexi tbe intelligence and ' knowledge of the l3rithaa officer of the present day and of purchase thneethere con, of coursa be no sort of comparison. In old days many of the men WhO bought conunissions fax' their eons did so purely for eovial reasons. Hence loaf the nom who took to the army had no genuine vocation for soldiering as it pro -e feadoa and conld not be expected to ' manic at it as if it were the real bud- atee of their lives. Besides, men who had bought a conuniasion es a sort of luxury had the feeling that they had it right to do Whet they would Wita their mom It is, indeed, not too nmele to say that the abolition Of purehase dal even nipre than its advocates dar- ed to hope in the matter of finproving the professional capacity of .the British offkar. It was ple.eeably argued by the defenders of purchase that ' the exam- ination men would be a set of Oney prothewors inseeetteelee,, who mould ! kanny a great mama: foteeen languages aad a heap of mathematics, but evouta be utterly unable to sit on a horse or play a game of cricket, and to whom boxing and other athletic sports would be unknown. These fears have proved groundless.. The modern officer, Instead . of falling behind in atbletaee is dis- tinctly a better all-around athlete than his predecessor, and if he can nee tit- • ford to keep SO menet horses, is, never - toeless, 'quite a$: much at home inothe saddle,. "Queer Combination. The, Man Behind.-Parclon me, miss, et can see nothlieg owing to your hat. The Woman na Front. -True 1 There is nothing owing. I have paid for it in full. Where Larders Are Full. Young Tramp--lieLa break intc) the kitchen of that big house to -night, and git something to e.a.t. Old Tramae-We wouldn't find much there. Thera. 'teaks, mate on too much stehe. Git into' tlae kitchen eleady- goine old-faeleamedafelks ef yer want ter strike a banduat, 'ts .;