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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-4-30, Page 31r THE EXETER TIMES .01101111•11/..1111..1101.1.1.1, ita a low all y and d b ut hi hand. 1 d bite K[EP A 6000 MAN DOWN .4.„ us a mere au P, son the go d, ea - ot a preteeder at painting, or would be eield. turned to hen and seed: "loaCh take us down into the corridor land that if you duel That bielonga ta the ShOW 0,1 tbe Ruben:: and the Itapliaels Lordjeaus Christ." And the ruffian d th as e what• is the art of pamtueg? Commence! The ruffian bad a pistol, he would point to the works of these but Whitefield shook- at him the finger great in and say, "That is peent- of down. Do not think you eau hide mg," Now, you propose to find the, any great and protracted sin in your caricature of religion, to seek after that heart, my brotter. In an unguarded which is the mere pretension of a holy raoment it will slip off the lip, or some life, and you call that religion. I point sliglit action raay for the moment set you to the splendid men and. women ajar this door that you wanted to keep ed and crowned. Look at the master- you hide it, and you get along with pieces of divine grace if you want to this transgression buseuing in your know what religion is." * heart, as a ship on ffee within for We learn also from this story of days binders the flames from bursting Joseph that the result of persecution out by keeping down the hatches, yet is elevation, Haden not been for his at last in the judgment that iniquity being sold into Egyptian bondage by will blaze out before God and the urn - his malicious brothers and his false verse. THE IFE 0 SEPH IS FULL 0 an e, 11fichael ngelos? When. we slunk into the forest. Conscience! PRACTICAL LESSONS. , lt itiestratepi the Pact what iloW,ever OLI pressed. It GoMan Will MaWill itise and Thal the World hi tnattpelled to Boner Christian Character, W a ehi no ton, -April 19. -The. sermon of Rev. .Dr. Talmage to -day is full of stirring and practical lessons fox- all. Washington bas many men who. like the' hero of tbe texts, started from al- most nothing and rose to high Plates. The texts chosen were: Genesis =cavil, • ,28, "They drew and lifted up Joseph •oat of the pit and sold joseph to the isluoaelites fat 20 pieces .of silver." Geneels xlv, 26, "He is governor over all the land of Egypt." . You cantioi keep a good. man down. God has decreed for him a certain point of ielevation. He will bring him, to that thigh it cost him thousand worlds. You 'sometimes find men fearful they will not be properly appreciate& Every man comes to be valued at just what he is worth. You cannot write him up. and. you cannot write him down. Tnese facts are powerfully illustrated in my subject. Le would be aa insult to sup- pose that you were not all familiar with the lite of Joseph -bow bis jeal- ous brothers threw him in a pit, but seeing a. caravel' of Arabian merchants trudging aloug on their camels, with' spices and gums that loaded. the air with aroma, sold their brother to these merchants, who carried bim down into Egypt; Joeeph was there sold to Poti- Oar, a• bate Of influence and office; bow by Joseph's integrity he raised. himeelf to high position in tbe realm, until, under the Wee charges of a vile wretch he was hurled into the peniten- tiary; how in peison be commanded re- epect and confidence; how by the in- terpretation of Pharaoh's dream he was freed and beeame the chief man in the realm, the Bismarck of his cen- tury; how in the time of funineJoseph had the, control of a -magnificent store- • house which he had filled during seven years of plenty; how when his brothers, who had thrown' hire into the pit and sold him into captivity, applied for corn he sent there borae with the beast of burden borne down under the heft of the corn sacks; bow the sin against their brother wbioh bad so long been t hidden, came out at lost and was re -1 turned by that brotner's forgiveness and kindness, the only revenge he took. You. see, in the first place, that the world is compelled. to hot= Christian character. Potiphar was only a man, of the world, yet Joseph rose in his es- timation until all the affairs of that rent house were committed to bis go. pe as ease an closed. But suppose that an this life imprisonment, Joseph never .would r - • tom. this subject that have become a governor. Everybody areaeo eiso ere be accepts the pronaise, "Blessed are tbey tw-een es an inseparable connection - all events, bowever, remote. The that are persecuted for righteousness universe is only one thought of God. sake, for theirs is the kingdoro et Those things winch Seemed. fragmen- heaven," but they do not realize the ' -- fact that this p rincinie applies to test and isolated are only different parte of that great thougta, How far worldly as well as spiritual suecess. apart seemed these two events-joseph It is true in all departments. Alen rise eold to the Arabian merchants and his to high official positions through mis- rulership of Egypt, yet you see in what representation, Publie abuse is all that my.sterious way God connected the some of our .public men ha,ve had to two into one plan. So the events are rely upon for their elevation. It has linked together. You. who are aged brought to them what talent and exe- men look back and group together a cutive force could not hove achieved. Many of those who are making great thousand things in your life that once seemed isolated. One undivided chain effort for place anclepower will never of events reaches from the garden of succeed,. just because they' are not of enough unportauce to be abused. It io Eden to tIte cross of Calvary and thus the nature of men -that is, of all geeer- ' PP to the kingdom of heaven. There ous cold reasonabie men -to gather to a relation between the timeliest in- sect that hums in the sunamer air and about those who are perseouted and defend them, and they are apt to for- tbe Archangel on His throne. God can get the fault of those who are the sub- trace a direct ancestral line from the Rots of attack while attempting to blue jay that this spring will build drive back the slanderers. Persecution its nest in the tree behind the bouse. is elevation. Helen Stirk, tbe Seaton to mores one of the Do* of birds which, martyr, standing with her husband at lelaen Noah hoisted the ark's window, with a whir and dash of bright wings the place . of execution, said: "Husband, went out to eing aver Mount .Ararat. let us rejoice to -day. We bave lived. together moot ham years. This is The tulips that bloom in the garden the happiest time of MI our life. You this sprung were nursed by the snow - see we are to be happy together for.. flakes. The farthest star on one side ever. 13e brave now -13e brave. I will of the universe could not look toward not say 'Good. night!' to you, for we the farthest star on rhe other side shall SOOn be in the kingdom of our of the universe and say, "You are no Father together." Persecution sbows relation to me," for from that bright other departraent, and I find that those the heroes and heroines. I go into an- tehrob akeavvottnces, ofrleingphorndwinolld rtiegxesa,cr),osses, great denominations of Christians which we are sisters." Nothing in God's uni- bave been most abused have pread verse swings at loose ends. Accidents the most rapidly. are only God's way of turning a teat in the book of His eternal decrees, No good man was ever more vio- lently maltreated than John From. our cradle to our grave there is Wesley - belied and caricatured and slandered,parn alt ar ou London,and amen arose in the audience other event iri our life. Our losses in our iife counected with every t.ac even • until one day he stood in a pulpit in and said: "You. were drunk last night." inag'Y be the most direct road to our and John Wesley said: "Thank God, gain. • Our defeat and our victory are the whole catalogue is now completed! twin brothers. I have been charged with ever thing • The wnole direction of your life was ut that. His followers were ooted , changed by sometluog winch at the at and maligned and called by every dee time seemed to yea trifling, while testable name that infernal ingenuity , some crecurence wbich seemed tre- could invent, but the hotter the persee oalendous affected you but little. God's aution the more rapidly they spread, Plans are magmfieent beyond all com- until you know what a great host they prehension. He molds us and turns bave become- and wbat a tremendous and directs us, and we know it not. force for God and the truth they are Thousands of years are to Him as the m431(1111g. all the world over. It was flight of a shttttle. The most ternfio persecution that gave Scotlaad to Pres- occurrence does not raake God trern- e arge. From his servant no honor or byterianism. It was pee.sectetion that I ble. The most triumphant achieve - confidence was withheld. When jos,. gave our land first to moil liberty and , meat does not lift Him into rapture. epli was in prison he soon won the heart 1 afterwards to religious freedom. Yea, I, That one great thought of God. goes of the keeper, and though placed there might go farther baok and say it was out tbrough the c,entuxies and enations for being a scoundrel, he soon con- persecution that gave the world the rise and fall, and eras pass, and. the viewed the jailer that he was an. inno- great salvation of the gospel. The mi.- : world changes ,but God still keeps tbe cent and. trustworthy man, and, released Paid raookeryabe bu.ugegmg and thirst- 'undivided mastery, linking event to from close confinement, he became gtio. , ing, the unjust charge, the ignomm- event and century to cetoury. To Goa eral superintendent of orison affairs. ; ions death, when all too force of hell's tbe y are all one event, one history, ono Wherever Joseph was Placed, whether , fury wrie hurled against the moss, plan, one developmeut, one system. a servant in the house of Potiphar or , was 'the first introdaotion at that re- Great and marveloue, are Thy works a =ismer in the penitentiary, be be - carne the first man everywhere and is an illastration of the truth lay down - that the world is compelled to honor Christian character. There are those who affect to despise a religious life. They speak of it as a system of phle- et. botomy by which the ruin is bled. of all his courage and nobility. They say he has bemeaaaed himself. They pre- tend to have no more confidence in lam since his conversion than before his oonvergion. But all this is bypocriey. There is a great deal of bynoonsy in- side the church, and there is a great deal of hypocr' outside tbe churoh. " It is impossible ox any man not to ad- mire and confide in a man who shows that he has really become a child of God and is what he professes to be. You. cannot de:spise a. son of the Lord God Almighty. Of course we have no adralration for the sham of religion. l• was at a place a few hours after the ruffians had gone into the rail train and demanded that the passengers theow up their arms, and. then these ruffians took the pocketbooks, and satan comes and suggests to a man that he throw up bis a.reas in hypocritical prayer and pretension, and then steals hi,s soul. For the mere pretension of religion we lave abhorrence. Redwald the king, after baptism, had an altar eef „,Chrlealein saorifice and an altar for sacrifice and-the:4_ jnanY • men now attempting the same thing - half a heart for God and half a beart for the world -and it is a dead failure, and it is a caricature of religion, and the only successful assault ever made o doueriserooto ege Alpreirlatio 110 its professors. You may have a con- tempt for pretension to religion, but when you behold the excellency of Jesus Christ come out of the rife of one of His disciples all there is goad and no- ble in your soul rises up into adroira- tion, and you cannot help, it. Though that man ix. far beneath you in estate as the Egyptian slave of whom we are discoursing wee beneath his rulers, by an irrevocable law of your nature Poto phew and. Pharaoh will always esteem • joiseph. Wben Budexia. tbe empress, threat- -stifled Chryostom with death, he made •the reply: "Tell the empress I fear notbing but sin." Such a scene as that eompels the arboiration of the world. There was something in Agrippa and, Felix which deruanded their respect for Paul, the rebel against government. doubt not they would willingly have yielded. their office and dignitty for a thousandth past of that true heroism, which beamed in the eye and beat in the heart of that unconquerable apos- tle. Paul did not cower 'before Felix. Felbr cowered bdore Paul. The infi- del and worldlings are compelled. to. honor in their hearts, although they may not eulogize with their lips, a Christian firm in persecution, cheerful ID poverty, trustful in losses, trium- phant in death. I find Christian men m all professions and occupations, I find them respected and honored and successful. John Frederick Oberlin al- leviating' ignorance and distress; How- axd passing from dungeon to lazaretto • with healing fox- the body and the soul; Elizabeth Fry going to the profligaoy of Newgate prison. to shake de obdur- ake as the angel came to the prison at Philiepi, driving open the doors and snooping loose the chain, as well as the lives of thousands of followers of Jesus who leave devoted themselves to the a- temporal and spiritual welfare of the race are monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the world lasts. A man said to me ia the cars: "Wbat is religion? Judging from the character of many professors of religion, do not admire religion." 1 said: "Now, suppose we went to an artist in the city of Rode and while in his gallery aeked hnn, What is tbe art of mina:rig? Would he take us out ligion wbich is yet to be the earth's Lord God Alraightyl I was years ago deliverame and our eternal salvation. in New Orleans at the exposition The state sometimes said to the olrarch. ' rooms, when a telegram was sent to ,"Come. take my hand, and I will help the president of the United States, at you." What was the result? The church Washington, and we waited some 15 I went baok and. lost its estate of belie or 20 ramutes, and then the president's t ness, and it betame ineffective. At i answer came back, and then the preside i other times the state said to the ing officer waved bis handkerchief, and ;church. "I will crush you." What has : the signal was sent to Washington I been tbe result? After the storms have that we were ready to have the ma - spent their fury the chureb so fax h- . , .. peso 3 • , i • inoreased and is worth infinitely more electric button, and instantly the great from having lost tiny a its force, has the president put his finger on the . after the assault than before. Read Corliss wheel began to move-rumb- all history, and you will find that true. ling, rumbling, rolling, rolling. It was The churchis far xnore indehted to the overwhelming, and 15,000 people clap - opposition of civil goventraent than to its approval. The fires of the stake h. ped and shouted. Just one fineer at ha.ve as only been the torches winch Christ e held in his band, by the light of which eoinerY, hundreds and hundreds of the cburch has marched to her present chinery, hundreds and hundreds of glorious position. In the sound of racks ' miles away, and I thought then, as and implements of torture I hear theI think now, that men sometimes t rumblueg of the gospel chariot. The ouch influenees that respond in the far distance, ee tears awe no„, 50 rare scaffolds of martyrdom have been the from nme., 1000 yeeee from new_ stairs by which the church mounted. 000 years from now -one touch, eound- Learn also from our subjeot that sin big through the ages. will come to exposure. Long', long ago We also learn from this story the had those brothers sold joseph into Egypt. They bad made the old father propriety of layina- up for the future. believe that his favorite child was ming the seven years . of plenty. Joseph prepared a crowded storehouse. dead. They had suppressed the crime. The life. of most men in a worldly re - secret is out. The old. hither hears amo. seven that years of plenty. During his sun is ill Egypt, laving been those seven years N•our business bears sold there by the malice of his ewe' ' a. rich haxvest. Yon scarcely know brothers. How their oheeks must haxe twhere all the money comes from, it bona: and a tphreoirfou,nheard secret kwealtl kept by the brothers. But suddenly the spect is divided into years of plenty and famine. le is soh:lora that any coxnes so fast. Zvery. bargain you flaming out of this dorea suPeressed I make seems to turn into gold. You crime. The smallest iniquity as a 1 contract few bad debts. You are as - thousand tongues, and they wi.-1-1 blab : tonished with large dividends. You in - out exposure. Saul waas sent to destroy I vest more and more capital. You the Caxtaanites, their sheep and theirI wonder how men can be content with oxen, but when he get down there 1 a few hundred dollars, while you reap among the pastures he saw some fine , your thousands. Those.are seven years sheep and oxen, too fat to kill, so bola plenty. . Now Joseph has time to thought he would steal them. Nee. prepare for the threatened famine, for body would know it. He drove these I to almost every man there do come stolen sheep and oxen towards home, seven years of famine. Yon will be bat stopped to report to the prophet how he had executed his mission,when ID the distance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen to bellow. The secret was out, and Samuel said to the blushing and confused Saul. "What meaneth the bleating of the sheep that I hear and the bellowing of the cat. tlef" Ah, ray hearer,you cannot keep an iniquity still. At just the wrong time the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. Achan cannot steal the Ilebylonish garment without being stoned to death nor Arnold betray his country without having his neck stretched. Look over the police arrests. These thieves, theseburglars, these counterfeiters, these highwaymen,these assassins, they all thought they could bury _their iniquity so deep down it would never come to resurrection, but there was some shoe that 'answered to the 'print in the soil, some false keys fouoct in their possession, some bloody knife that whispered of the death,and the pablio indignation and anathema of outraged law hurled them into the dungeon or hoisted them on the gal- lows. Franeis I., Ring of France, stood counseling with his officers how he could take his army into Italy, when Anaeril, the fool of the court, leaped out froze a corner of the room and said, "You had better be consulting how you will get your army baok," and it was found that Francis I, an; :of these investmen.to. There are not Ameril, was the fool. Instead e" .n this house men who if they lose consulting as ta the best way of get e every dotter they have in the world ting into sin, you had better consult would be millionaires tor eternity. as to whether you will be able to get They mark the spiritual investment, out of it. If the world does not expose but the man who devotes none of his you, you will tell it yourself. There is gains to the cause of Christ and looks an awful power in an aroused con- only for his own comfort and luxury science. A highwayman plunged out is not sale, I care not how the money upon Whitefield as he rode along on is invested. He acts as the rose if it hoesebaok, a sack of money on the shc,ulti say. I will hold ray breath, horse -money that he had raised for and none shall have a snatch of frag- rance from me 'until next week, then sick, you will be unfortunate, you well be defrauded, there Neill be hard time*, you will be disappointed, and if you have no storehouse upon which to fall back you may 'be fa.mine struck. We have no admiration for this deny- ing oneself all personal comfort and luxury for the mere pleasure of hoard- ing up, this grasping, grasping for the raere pleasure of seeing how large a pile you can get, this always being poor because as soon as a dollar comes ID it is sent out to see if it can find another dollar, so that it can carry it home on its back. We have a, con- tempt for all those thirties, but.there is an intelligent and noble -minded fore- cast which we love to see in men who have families and kindred dependbeg upon them for the blessings of educa- tion nod. home. God sends us to the insect for a lesson, Whichi while they do not stint themselves in the present do not forget their duty to forectest the future. "Go to the ant, thou slug- gard. Cleasider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overseer or • provideth her meat in the sum- mer and gathereth her food in the harvest." Now, there are two ways of /eying up money. One ot these is to put it ID stook and depot:it it in bank and invest it on bond and mortgage. The other way to lay up money is giving it away. He is the•safeit who makes orphan asylums -and the highwayman will feet all the .gerden afloat with my aroma." Of course, the rose re- fre.shina to breathe, died. But above , all lay up treasures in heaven. They ' never depreciate in value. They never I are at. a discount. They are . always ea.vailable. You may feel safe now with ecnir.$1000 or $2000 or $10,000 or $20.000 UteOrhe, but what wilt such an become , be worth after yoi are dead? Others will get IL Perhaps some of them will quarrel about it before you are buri- ed. They will be so impatient to get t. hold of the -will they will think you should be buried one day sooner than yon are buried. They will be right glad when you are dead. They are only waiting 'for you to die. What • then will all your e,artbly accumulae t. times be worth. If you gathered it all in your bosom and walked up with it to heaven's gate, it would not, pn.r. cbaae your adivisaion, or it allowed to enter it could zot buy you a. crown or a robe, and the poorest saint iri hea- ven would look down at you and say, Where did that pauper come from?" May we all leave treasures in heaven. Amen DOGS THAT CHASE MEN. Bloodhounds as Aids to the Police in Tracking rugkives Prom Justke. Modern investigation has proved clear- ly that a, bloodhound will follow a man's tracles even in tbe streets of a. city. where the scent is crossed. by thousands of other footprints. In this case tbe scent must be fresh and strong, or the dog will not trace it. The futility of puttbeg a bloodhound on an old scent was sown M tbe time of the White- chalet/murders, When Sir Cbarles War- ren, thief of the London police, fail- ed in a series of experiments with some of the beat dogs in Faiglanel, selected from the kennels of Edwerd Brough. Rosemary, one of the hounds used in the Whitechapel experiments, is now in J. L. Wincbeirs kennels at Fair Haven, Vt., end he has studied closely the ac- tions of blood -hounds as man -chasers. The village boy a are always willing to 'aot as the quarry for the old. or young bounds, for tbey know tbat ellen the dogs at last find their place of refuge. °rose fields and woods, they will bay and bark until assistance comes, with- out attempting to bite. It is evident that while bloodhounds emy not be ser- viceable, except as a new scent, in traeking men in a. t4 t, where passers- by are frequent, they should be of use as detectives in country neighborhoods. In England the rural constabularysin some cases, are asking for bloodhounds to aid. in the detection of poachers and criminals. To show that good results would follow, the Superintendent of Po- lice of a country district has sent to the Field the following .ATTESTED NARRA.TIVE, published in the issue of March 28. "Som etime thie year a constable was out in the early morning, when about 6:30 a.m. he came across a couple of no. torious toachers wbo were evalkbeg along a footpath, through some fields. They, seeing the constable, celled out in alarm as a signal to their compani- ons, who were no doubt coming behind. Owing to the darkness, the latter es. coped; but the constable took some rab- bits and nets from the men he had met, for being in the possession of which under such circumstances they were lat- er on duly punished. At daybreak the constable, accompanied by a. youn bloodhoundreturned.to the place, an was able to distinguish the footsteps of a number of men wbo had. come out of • turnip field. , They had separated, some going in one Birection, others in • another. The hound. was put upon the tracks, and with her nose to the ground e e hunted Ibem across . wo e s, go- ing straight up to sundry bags of game which had been hidden in a hedgerow. So far so good; but the constable was not yet satisfied, and he took his hound baok to where she had originally been laid. on 1 he line. This time she went off in another direction, and 80Ott left the pol- iceman far behind. He following up, however, ultimately found her standing at another hedgerow, where more tags of game were found concealed. These were secretly watched all day, but tbe poachers must have 'smelled a rat,' for none of themselves or their families came near. This is rather to be won- dered at, for the bags were numerous and thir contents valuable. At night the constable of the lessee of the shoeing concealed themselves near the place where the first lot of game was discovered. Now they had not long to wait, for in about half an hour there came a sound of approaching footsteps, and two men appeared, who immediately appropriated the bags and •their contents, which included nets and th.i usual poachers' p.araphernalia. They were at once recogruzed and, the spoil taken from them, were allowed to go. Sumraonses followed in due course, and, when the case was heard, a plea was set up that they had not taken the game themselves, but had been sent for it by their mates. Fines a 40sand costs , were imposed or, failing the payment, a naonth's imprisonment." REAL MARRIAGE LOTTERY. In. the church of Santa Maria Annun- elate, at Naples, girls assemble once a year for the purpose of being chosen in marriage. On the day of Our Lady, be- fore its altar kneels a silent row of thirty girls dressed in black, and with folded hands. They are orphans of the neighbouring foundling asylum, and oleos a year those who have reached the age of 18 have a obance of being chosen ID marriage be any honest roan whose character is good. .At the door leading to the sacristy duals a grey-haired priest, the head of the foun.dliog insti- tution. By and by a young man ap- proaches him., and hands him a packet of papers. These the priest reads care- fully, and, being satisfied, leads the can- didate towards the row of girls. The man walks slowly along the row. At islet be stops; his choice is made, and he stretches oat his hand. The girlrises, puts her hand into that of the stranger by way of consent, and together they disappear into the sacristy. The ice having been broken,others follow, and this goes on. until thesuitors are ex- hausted, or all the girls have been chosen. SOMEWIIA.T SIMILAR. Wickwire--Sonaetimes I tiaink it would be a good. idea if a man could' ID treated like a horse -shot when be geltt.salath°sleyo-ldit.thisw4rket.tY near that way now When a man gees too old to work he is fired. , DIE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 3. o' Faith." Lune Tr. 5-10. Golden Text. lathe 11.5. GENERAL STATEMENT. Our Leeson Committee bee selected for our lesson to -day one of the most startling ot our Lord's conversations and one of the most -startling of his miracles, which indeed stead side by aide in Luke's record, but whicb can hardly bave bappened near to each other in time or place. Very wisely we have been recommended by tbe Com- mittee to carefully read the entire eleapter in conneetion with this ies- son. It is likely that self-sufficient comments mark by the disoiples upon hearing the parable of the rich man and. Lazarus led to the administration of the kindly but severe rebuke con - contained in verse 3 and 4. Our Lord warns them that they muse never tire in the exercise of forgiveness. They feel their inability to obey, and call oat for an increase of faith. But there is only one way to inmease faitb, and that is by obedience to the Master's will. After the advice of verses 6 to 10 Cainea the story of a miracle whith had probably been wrouglet ;Me time be- fore this, but which Luke has bis own reasons for recording now. Our Lord was walkbag eastwesd along a provin- cial boundary line. To the north and to bis left was Galilee, in wialen most of his life on eaxtb bed been passed, and most of nis miracles wrougbt* to the seutb aad to his right was Samaria, the middle section of the couatry, bot at this Lime• politically united with the province of Judea. It took its name from the ancient capital of tbe Ten Tribes. Its mongrel =habitants, with their debased worship and baveterate prejudices, had little in common with the Jews. As Jesus walks along tbe frontier of these two provinces he meets a, little group of lepers, who beg for leis mercy. He does not tell them that they are healed, or that tbey are going to be healed, but, assumiog that they will be, commands them to go - boldly to the priests and demand tbe privileges of healtb. Some faith they must bave had, for they obey and are instantly cured. But nine of them. in- tent only on the healing care little for the Healer, impa.tient to be restored to a normal life, they hasten to the priests. One only stops to acknowledge gratefully the goodness of Him who has wrought this wonderful change; and he was a Samaritan. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 5. The apostles said unto the Lord. Increase our faith. The most dif- ficult of all commando had just been uttered by the Master: they must fore give an offender even though he sin against them. seven times a day. They sincerely, desired to obey; but bow could they lt was too much for poor hue man nature. But their Master bad told them of the godlike forcefulness et peritot faith; and perhaps he who could do so many miraculous things could telt enough faith to what they already had to -enable them to obey bus eranuand The prayer is not to the highest df fere • intelligent, as we shall presently ,- but it nit ha re a etly Christian, in barmony with the Spirit of the Master. (1) Without great faith none can meet high moral require - Inert ts. 6. And the Lord said. His reply to Ibis prayer reaches from verse 0 to verse 10. The comparison of small things to a grain of m.ustard seed, is not proverbial among the Jews, was at least a favorite one with Jesus. Ye might say unto this sycamine tree. Not the sycamore but probably the black mulberry tree, which is cultit- vated in different places from 'Lebanon to Jerusalem, and is valued for its fruit as well as a food supply for silkworms Our Lord was now near to the Sea of Galilee (probably), and as usual takes local features for illustration.A moan,- tain is not in sight,as one was when last he sexike of faith, so be mentions the syeamaie, whida (grew on evexy hand. This reply to the pathetio prayer of the apostles is really a kindly reproof. (2) There is something unreal ina prayer which asks a gift for that which really comes only through active obedit- ence. Be thou plucked up by the root. The sycamine is exceptionally deeply rooted. It should obey you. This, like many of our Lord's teachings. is hYreat ' bole; that is, an intentional exaggere ation of form, without, however, any exaggeration of the truth. (3) Faith can remove the greotest obstacles of all sorts. Our Lord's words, taken in connection with the coramand concern., big forgiveness wbich had just been given, teeth us that (4) Even a very little faith, if. it be genuine, will be sufficient to keep us from offending against love. 7, 8. Whiob of you homing a o ser- vant. Here comes the parable of the Plowing Slave, by which our Master teaches that (5) The highest faith is never a supexnatural endowment give en in a raoraent of time; it is the sure reward of patient, faithful toil for Gad. A slave, busy all morning in the 'field, returns at noon, not to rest and dawd- le, but to prepare dinner for his mast- er. He does not receive special thanks for this, because it, Ls his special duty The phrase "which of you" is one of several incidental tokens that the apolt- tle,s were not such poor men as we some- times fanoy: The sons of Zebedee at least had hired servants (Mork 1. 20), and this phrase shows that the supe position of easy circumstances was not absurd as applied to any of the group. By and by, Old English for "immediately;" the passage may be reed as follows. "will say unto him when he comes back from the field, Go forward immediately and recline at table." There is no harshness at all in this pbraseo. logy. Gird. thyself, and serve me. Bet - ter, "minister to me." In Luke 12, 37, our Lord promised his disciples that he would "gird himself" and minister to them; but he also requires a service. 'What can we do which can be compared to the usefulness of this servant in giving meat and chink to his master? It is our Lord's meat and drink to do his Father's will, and (6) When we bring about tbe will of our heavenly Father we have bast served our Saviour and ministered to his great pleasure. 9. Doth he thank that servant. Does a master thank a slave? The daily ser- vices of dependents are not favors. The great lessoos that the disciples had to learn at this period was the les - on of humility. See Mali. 19. 19; 20.21. trow net. 1,Vhen we have done our best we have done no mote than it is our duty to do. These is, indeed, an- other side of the picture which it might be well for teachers of mature classes to present incidentally to their schol- ars (see Luke 12. 37; Rev. 3. 20;) but that side is not in any way contradictory to this; and the direct teaching here is tbat (7) We cannot make the High and to beoly our re debtor. betnrbahabitetle eternity to 10. When we shall have done all. But we never ean do all. See PealinS 143.2. a As he went to Jerusalem. If this incident had been told in the fifty- seventh verse of the ninth chapter it would probably be in its proper obrono- olgie:al place.; it is here used by Luke as an illustrate= of the thanklessness of man to contrast with the preposterous claim to thanks from God wleich the Virtually proud make ne their bearts. nciG ub! aP"selditlherZugHbe pthaess,Tddown °oaad f Sarna - ria or river -bed which lies between tne bor- ders of Galilee end Samaria, and which extends to a bridge over the Jordan, andthus reearctabi4Ferevt ilAeiage. unknown. Ten men that were lepers. Full of sores, with itorn clothes, bete heads. and upper lipscovered, crying "Un- clean, unclean.', Those afflicted by this terrible disease were herded together. See 2 Rings 7. 3. Which stood ante off. They kept apparently to tbe traditional hunt of one hundred paces. It is sad to ootice bow leprosy obliterated re- ligious distinctions and =de it possible for Jews and Samaritans to associate. (8) Mutual trouble roakes name forget end Mobamneedans live together to -day usatheieeni. onitios of race and creed. The only place in all this world where Jews oh, easy terms is the leper house In Jer- 11 Lifted up their voices. So as to ID heard at a distance. Jesus, Master, have meroy on us. "Master" is else- wbere translated "Rabbi." It is pos- isnibmleattitast.12.bey knew of the story told 14. When be saw them. ?is eym- pathies were aroused by their forlorn ecodeanditrinnson. tgeehsaluntifir. ePdeRrabeenapsh . pe,shatounwt. yourselves unto the priests. The law of Rev. 14. 2, was made to prevent the return of the leper to society before he was really cured; he must be officially ediseidennointendeeartnpwreonveorun, clean.cetndvtneruTherz feepelulr 143.0 atli?ererif wheQuwidentthteo t at all .he went to the teraple on Mount, Sanahe temple Ceerizine; and the Jews could go to any Priest uee any town, who could inspect and decide on tbe completeness of the cure. The comraattd for ther,e levees= start on their journey to the priests ivas an implication that they were cured; but the probability is that they did not recognize the cure by nay sense, and that there was no touch or ceremorty to sustain their faitb. Suddenly tbewea- r:ise ssir watelea:trts from their frames and the test. and God's salvation equal to their flesh becomes like the flesh of in- fants. Their faith had proved equal to 15, 16. Witie a, loud voice glorified God, Oh We should likewise give God public praise for sin forgiven. Ile was a Samaritan. Dr. Plum tre says, "Poe - Way the nine leprous Jews thought it was more their duty to show themselve eh to the eniest than to thank the led'- em-, while with the Samaritan the ime pulse of gratitude was more than cere- monial observances.',The "loud voice" and the prostration on the ground are ikeetapirebngeravint. hterthe demonstrative ore an 18. Stranger. Ittan of another race, alien. (4.0) The deepest seated and nainost tuitnule.rsal of all human vices is gra 19, Go thy way. To the priest, 'with'. out whose certificate he could notbe ' saRretanyttehrn oaretdueteth to and religious life. ee wbole. Literally, Hath a IT WAS A WEIRD VISION. Story orn Staggering Phantom -The Becomes Beal. A celebrated psychic researcher, liv- , big in England, reports aweird case oc- curring to a friend of his. A few years ago she was staying in Paris with a relative of hers, a very distinguished lawyer, and a man of excellent phy- sique and. handsome face. He was alightly ill at the time, and there was ' no other persons but him and her stay- ing in his apartments. He had retired • early, and she was alone in a room, , t deeply occupied in translating an ar- tick. frorn a French paper into Eng- lish. She was absorbed in her work, and had not previously worried over her relative's health. Without raising her eyes, she noticed the room door slowly • open, and, thinking that he had chang- ed his mind and returned, she continu- ed her translation, and began to talk . with bim. Receiving no repty, she look- ed up and beheld an awful siglat. • Staggering into the room moved a , figure, the likeness of her relative, ap- parently in the last stages of imbecil- ity. He had shrunken to ball his , height. His legs seemed paralyzed and unable to support his emaciated form. His expressionless fees was drawn,his jaw was drooped and his eye beamed ID a -hideous, vacant state. The pima- • toiai continued to stagger across the I room, groped for the handle of a door, a looked around at her several times, and then, opening the door, tumbled itself 1 into the next room and disappeared. Frozen with hon -or, the woman hur- ried to her relative's room, where she found him calmly asleep, with no sem- blance of this fearful personality upon his features. Shortly afterwards he be- gan to grow worse, paralysis and sof t- enin,g of the brain set in, and when last heard from, only a month or two ago, he was confined in a .private hospital, continuing to develop mto a real being resembling the ghastly visitor which appeared. to forewarn his condition. ALL ABOUT A TELEGRAM. What is in Sarah? It's a boy, mum, with a tekgraft. A Telegram I Oh, ask him if James ID killed He says he don't know, mum. He says that all he knows about it is that there is the telegraft, and he wants his money. Oh, dear 1 oh, dear 1 What shall I do? Here, Sarah, here's the purse. Pay him -pay him whatever he asks. Oh, my poor James! I just knew something would happen to him before he went away this ramming. Will they bring him home hi an anabulance, Sarah ? J. s',pose so, mum. Maybe you'd bet- ter read the telegraft. I can't, I can't. Oh I it serves me right, for not kissing him but three times when he left. And we've been married such a short time, too! Why don't you open the teIegraft, Well, I suppose I must; but, oh, I can't tell you how 1 dread it. (Reads tellrifr i:ting friend home to dinner. James. 0 AS USUAL. Agatha -Charley is tickled with his nOW mustache, isn't he 4 Marie -Yes. but (with a shy blush) not balf as much tes I am. • COCAINE ORBS IT IS A VERY GOOD SERVANT, B AN UGLY MASTER. Spread or the Cocaine Habit sad Disestrona Coasequeuees-DolWoo ot Overdose -its itakelicout A writer in tbe New York Wes says; The cocaine habit is spreauiin Ever zeinee the peouliar, pain+-ahlayir properties of this drug botarne generok ally known a few years ago, it bon been in steadily inoreasing demaild, un - 111 tender the sale of this medloieen alone Whigs a neat profit to tbe dealer. Ordinarily druggists will not sell a solution of cocaine stronger than 10 per cent. without a, doctor's presaripa, tion. And there is excellent reason toe this pe,eoriution. Cocaine is ft tine ser- vant, but a very ugly master, in whicth respect it is much like opium and most plane. It is frequently applied extort. zany for the relief of toothache anti neuralgia, and in this way it cannot do much damage. But when taken irk ternally it may work serious consete quer.cea, WHAT IT DOES. The effects of an overdose of the IQ per neut. solution of the hydrochlors ate of cocaine (the solution usually sold in drug stores) are as follows: The pee tient suffers immediately from vertigo and then epileptio convulsions; the teeth are firmly linched, a,nd the face and lips become bloodless. Ther0 is apparently no suffering, as the brain bee,oines numb and the patient loses consciousness. If the dose is sufficient?. ly large death will ensue. There are ouraeroua recorded cases of fatal poisoning by cocaine. Among these are the case of a woman seventy-one years of age, who died five hours after the subeutazieous injection of two-thirde of a grain; and the case of, amen ire whom the bejeotion of one and onee third grains was followed by a fat4 result. One ease is also ou record where death occurred in a female after tlu.e0 grains and a half had been adratuietere ed hypodermically. It is stated that a man died almost immediately atter swallowing twenty-two grains. The first published oase was that at a man to 'Own was given by mistake twenty grams. Ile diedin an hour. fatal case also occurred in Russia, train a dose of twenty-two (rains. A melon. • LI the surgeon who in mistake prescribed this overdoee immediately aitervrardig committed suicide. • Some remarkable reooveries Imve been effeoted after very large doses taken into the stomaoh. Tiae raost notable ease of the kind was that of a men who swallowed. forty-six grebes and re- covered. On tbe other band, serious syreptores, of poisoning have been ea - (*maned by the hyperaemia administ- tration of suoh doses as the seventh of a grain and less than half a grain. There is one interesting case *a record of a girl to whom oneetwentleth of a grain was given subcutaneously. Al- amuxing symptoms followed, and ;rave fears were entertained for the patient's ealety, but she eventually recovered. On another occasion one one,-nundtredtle grain applied patient aged fourteen years caused symptoms of peisoning. From an examination and tomparisou of all the records obtainable, an Eno- lish physician has eoraa to the concluse• ion thee, the fatal dose of cocaine is about fifteen rains. He states, howev- Ted, that " the present state ot know- ge, in it is practically impossible to say what is the smallest. dose that will • produce fatal results, seeiog that a. dose of twoetbirds of a gram has caus- ed deatb, ad so minute a dose as a hundredth of a grain has given rise to symptoms threatenuag IN GREAT DANGER. Playsimans agree that the present habit of "self dosing" is particularly) harmful when the patient begins to treat himself with cocaine. The ilotion appears to have gone abroad that the stutf is quite harmless, and is a cure for all puns. It certainly possesses ree markable powers in deadening nerve sensations, and it has been invaluable ID surgery. That it is not harmless; however, is quite evident, and the dif- ficulty is Diet no two patients seera to be affected in the same way. Thus it is impossible for physicians to adopt a stand and to know exactly how much to prescribe be an individual case without careful experimenting. It can be readile, seen that when ape« tient takes the matter into bis own hands and doses himself regardless of consequences he is deliberately piaci. ing hunself in danger. TOOTING ONE'S OWN HORN. You Must do It Now,a-Days if You Wish to Sueeeed. To be a success in these times we must own a horn and toot it continu- ally. To get a front seat we must walk in, push our way past slower men, and take the seat; and we must look as if we not only owned it, but had a. mortgage on all the private boxes, and could occupy any one of therm if we so desired. The man who wants to succeed must struggle foe a front seat, even if he - has to jostle the real owner and put his umbrellu down on his soft corn. Once in a. while he may be set back where he belouge, but he will get in front oftener than if he should wait to be invited forward. The world has not time to analyze character, weiob merit and to decide as to the relative ability of men. This is a fast, hurrying, rushing world of oure, and it is very much influenced be, the value that a man sets on him- self. If he says: "I ane a great orator, or a noted scientist," the world is apt to• take it for granted that he ia rather than go to the trouble of holding a. civil service examination of his merits. If he says : "1: am. bat a poor, weak worm of the dust," the world will say: "You look like it ; get out of the way." We have taken a practical, worldly view of the axtetten and the aulatint of moral ethics in this article may seem to you thane:el, but there is truth enough in it to bulge oat at the edges. and split up the seams. A GOOD DIAMOND TEST. There is an easy, simple way to tell if a diamond is genuine, Make a small dot on a piece of paper with a lead pen- cil, and look at it throagh the diamond. If it shows but a Singe dot the dia- mond is ironed/ie. If it thows more than one or the enerk appears scatt- ed it is false. no molter what it cost.