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OREATEST OF EXILES,
SOJOURN OF THE KING OF HEAVEN
UkON GOD'S FOOTSTOOL. ,
e expatriation or Cheat, the voluntary
exile -The tong Who tart a Thorne,
nosed a Palace *lad Went to Me ut at
illostne Country.
7r,
ever saw anything In the painae of your
heads, No ether, no chloroform, no
naercifal anaesthetic to dull or stupify ;
but, wide awake be aaw the obscure -
Lion of the heavens, the anbelancing
of the rocks, the countenances quiver.
1n witb rage and the eachinnation dia-
bolic. Oh, it was thehostile as well as
the barren island of a world!
1 o farthea, and tell you, that this
exile was far from home. It is 95,000,-
000 miles from here to the sun, and
all astronomers agree in saying that
T
God can assuage. Land of Goldsmith's
rhythm, and Slaeridaa's wit, and O'Con-
nell's eloquence, and Edmund Burke's
statesmenship, and. O'Brien's seorifice,
A.nother Patinas with its apocalypse of
blood. Yet you mina think of it to-
day without havialg your eyee blinded
with em.otion, for there your anew, -
tors sleep in graves, some of whieh
they entered for lack of bread. For
•this royal exile of my sermon I be-
speak the love and the service of all
Irieh exiles. Yes, some of you are from
Washington, April 26. -It Ls wonder- our solar system is only one of the Germany, the land of Luther, arid
tul to how many ttuaes the gospel may smaller wheels of thegreat machinery asaine of you. are from Italy, the
be set. Dr. Talmage's sermon to -day land
of the universe turning around some of Garibaidleand some of you are from
on reat centre the tentre so far France, the land of John Calvin, one'
shows another way in whieh the earth- distant it is he'yond all imagination of the three raightiea of the glorious
ly experience of our Lord is set forth. and calculation, end if, as some think, reformation. Some of you are de -
His text was II. Samuel, xv, 17, "And that great centre in the distance is seendantsof the Puritans and they were
hea.ven. Christ came far from home exiles, and some of you are dee
the king went forth and tarriefl in a when he came here. Have you ever scendaxas of the Hollandorefugees, and
place which was far off." thought of the homesicknese of Christ? they were exiles.
Fee up and far back in the history Some of you know what boneesickness Some of you were born On the banks
wben is when you bate been only a few of the Yazoo or the Savannah, and, you
of heaven there came a period
its most illustrious citizen was a,bout tall; itwasltitelfrom the domestio circle. .axe now living ha this latitude, some
34 years away from home. of you. on the banks of the Kennebec>
to absent hircis•elf. He was not going Some of yea feel homesickness when or at the. foot of the Green mountains,
to sail fron:t beach to beach. We have you are 100 or 1000 miles a,way frdm the and you. are here now, eorae of you. an
domestics circle. Christ was more mile the pra,ries of the west or the table -
often done 'Haat. He was not going lion miles away from home than you land; and. you. are here now. Oh,
te put out from one hemisphere to an- could count if all your life you did how many of us far away frona boatel
d"ther hemisphere. Many of ua have nothing but count. You know what 1 Al] of us exiles. nisi is not our horae.
done that. But he was to sail from it is to he homesick even amid pleasant Heaven. is oux home, Oh, I am so
waaass,attititrsethraisntaste was a-.
glad w -ben the royal exile went back
world to world, the spaces unexplored ' Vicrir° ltalC1,1th a- he left the gate ajar or left it wide
and the immensities untraveled. No hungered, and he was on the way from open. "Going bowel" That is the
world has ever hailed heaven, and being born in. another inan's barn to dynig exclaina,tioia of the majority of
-heaven has never, hailed any other being buried in at:lather mans grave, Christians. I have seen raany Chris -
have read how the Swiss, wheo tions die. I think nine out of ten of
EXETER, TIMES
THE SUNDAY SCROOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 10.
itessons on Prayer." Lula. 18, so?. cold.
en Text, Luke Pe la.
Again we axe recommended by 'oar
Lesson Committee to study the yelaole
chapter, and the teacher %specially will
find the beat approach to the lesson in
the first eight. vereea of Luke 18. As
we study, we recall Leseon XL of the
believe that the Pharteee was correct
in bis estiraate of "other men ;" but how
much worse than. "other men" was he
who could masyro.pathetically ciongratu-
late bineself that be was better tban
tbey.
12. I fast twice in tae week. 'Tbe
law of MOSES ordered one fast day in
the year, on the great day of Atone-
ment (Lev. 16. 29); in the time of Zeohe,
riab the fasts had been increased to
four %Ica year (Zech. 8. 19). but the
Plaarisees imposed a burden petty° fasts
eaeh week, ort Monday and Thursday. I
give tithes of all that I poettess. Better,
of all that I acquire. In tbis, too, he
Firet Quarter, with its teachings about goes beyond Moses, who ontY (=amoral"'
prayer; but while they harmonize with till ti?neds et:Wee grij.lhs' gingVlaeitclit:
the teachings here given tbey are entire- holy tax upon 'even mini, anise, and
ly different from them The story of cumin, but he has nothing _to say about
the widow and. the unjuet judge is told. ids sins. Such boasting -differs widely
by oar Lord as a, lesson in contrasts. God /Irani the limsetrmasfsorttoaaleett. jorb laoot
is just and tender; the judge was nei- 29. 13, 16), and from the seltaoriscious
Cher; and yet the judge granted juatice patriotism of Nehernia.b tNeb. 13. 14;
Viva to tbe widow. God is our Father; ta.lmal..1)14 Dr. Farrar ff quotes froxuriatithit
the judge bad no intere,st in the widow; which isasgracToseie' omerseplilteertoa
and yet he granted her request. God our text that evidently we artheahteeoei
is goodness, and by his very nature ie studying a epecimen •of a class:_"I
enemy of all the eneraies of the devout given thunk rat he
a desire to be delivered from annoyanee; early like others, but it is to study the
and yet that poor niotive was strong eeei:rasi9th eternalv etb a, : hinsteada"re
soul; the unjust judge bad no ince ive bat of running t ro g h shops.is
alastvionoott_fo t ends.
enough to secure the grantirg of the and they waflubluliotlt ..t.emhtaell:ulateaakareellt-reaofudihelt,
widow's prayer. Shall not God "much 1 for the future life, while they _witl
world. I think that the windows and they are far away from their native them In the last moment say, "Going may arrive at the pa, of destruction.
more" avenge his own elect which ery
balconies were thronged, and that the country, at the sound of teeth national home." Going home out of banish-
peaxly beach was crowded with those air_ get_ so homesiole that.they fall into ment and sin and sorrow and sad-
ettiVc'tTileY ho=teles*neTsettlLet they .61: fie,..7.0fGaouturg haorepanetstoainauinr trarbirersid,
who had come to see him sail out of the 'nun
harbor of lied into the ocean beyond, bomestieknea, of Christ. Poverty horaere children whPo have already departed,
sickness for celestial riches. Perseeue , Going bonae to stay. Wbere are yotu•
()at and. out and out and on and. an
and on and down and down and dowu VooranehsticriatesLierkresfff Iliosaam• nesniactkWfarintteere loved ones tliatit ditd in Carist? "Y.ote
le, xei e oughttohopmo v
he sped, until mac night, with °MY one gel's) and archangehe coraparnoonnslunp'..' roiy.11 tt-Lit are .;.n e„ and contempt for the less favored,. He turn V. paten 40, 1., arld final y reottii,d
to greet him when. he arrived, his dis- Homesick to get out or the night and They are home! OL, what a 'time it rebukes this spirit by the picture of the i unzrdaeretandititingdoruatItviit'udehsavoef aprtgiyer
embarkation so unpretending, so quiet themstoirof aend ss siTlei world's exiercrationa will be for you when the gatekeeper
that it was not known on eaeth until rl°
as long aris a nil °nth anedaiiveetee' nas seelt , lo,of uhglavenndsatall 1,,,z: j'aaTuarkwev offentdial Pharisees and the Pubilcan-the one I Among tbe Jews. They stood, with
boasting of his godlinese, the other con -tams outspread, the patois, of the hands
the excitement hi the cloud. gave intie mei that the three decades of Christ's Put down that saber. The battle's fessing his sins and pleading for mercy; '
!, titirinsetdheupwosafudz,,eaV lice seoyur flitioltseol. a
13 Th 1' 't d' f off
day and night unto him? The lesson is ,
The- Pharisee stood by hirneelf from
one ot faith and inaportuxiity. The par- pride, the publican stood afar off from
able ot the Pharisee and the Publican. shame. If the publican bad ventured
might have been wanted. Would
the holy place or to the Vaal:
to whiell we now turn, was addres.sed to IsiZr:eritnq
those who, despite the Lord's teachines, not lift up eo inuell as his eyes unto
manifested a spirit of self-righteousnees heaven. .Reaci Psalm 129..1;2. then
mation to the Bethlehery. rustics that festlenoei of teartth nmethi have eeelilned won. Put off that iron coat of mail the one going home uneonerious that he I body, that is of importance. Smote
,0*.t7."eoru jaaaivges ' and that
saimething grand and glorious had hap- 9.
oiten tilezah. mineaesurielithee of itioin,mvieeroz;;u"
ogr:latehtf ';titeira has added to the weight of his condemn- ;: upon bisbreast. See Luke 23. 48. This
eo mueh a form as an involuntary phy-
ot inteetee sorrow; not
pened., oomes here? From what of Christ, but you have never trfed to to -day, only reading I.d.ee tender cyan- ation, the other with heart light iit the was artical
port did he sail? Why was this the
place of his destination? I question the
shepherds. 1 question the oared driv-
ers, question the angels. I have
raeasure the magnaude and ponder:- : tas translated from tize If you aesuranee of divine grace. Apart f
oeity of a Saviour's hoixtesickness. 4' ever heard anything' sweeter, 1 never from sleet act to relieve- mental suffering.
tbe origin of this elary, it is one of the God be merciful to me a sinner. Bet -
1 take a step farther and tell you did, although I cannot adopt all ita
that Christ was ixi an exile tylaeh He theology: racst beauticul in ail literature. Having i ter. "God be propitlitted for me, the
• - repeated it, the evangelist turns to. an sinner as thouga he knew that he
was the chief of tanners.
equally characterietie ineident. :Mothers lA At
brought their infants to the Nazarene - WITe.they'X'ellt igeltivatou,searstraifiiieedd
?RESIDENT JAS, MONROE,
THE 011IGIN.ATOR OF UNCLE SAM'S
MONROE DOCTRINE.
Died in Neglect and Vandals Robbed *lee
Or:eve-His Old Home a Stutely
ilieart Broken Oat ohm
James Monroe, the immortal expound-
er of a doctrine that is to -day the mini -
tee of Uncle Sam's national destinies,
died in beggary and neglect in a lit-
tle house that stands in the eity a
New York. The house is old and
crumbling. Like the notable person-
age wito died destitute there in 1831, it
is enduring a destitute and decaying
old age, and. no one pays any heed. to it,
The hou,se stands on the north-west
wiener of Prima and Marion streets, in
New Yoxle The ground floor is eon-
verted into a cheap foreign eating
house. There Is a carpenter's bench
upstairs. The side walls are placarded
with posters, and. the paveraents are
littered with refuse. •
In the second -storey front room af
this battered old residence, James Mon-
roe, fifth, and, in some respeetia one
ef the greatest of the Presidents, died,
on July 4, 1831, so poor that his son-in-
law borrowed money to bury him Nvith.
James Monroe wanted the neressaries
of bis feeble conditiou during his last
days. Ills death was hastened by
tbe poverty that forced bine to go hun-
gry for want of medicinal food.
LEFT POOlt BY OFFICE.
The entire neighborhood of this old
Louse is rich in historic associations of
Monroe, who lived here with his sou-
Sato.uel L. Grosvenor. Mr,
Grosvenor belonged to a fine old fam-
ily, but he was uot rich. He cheerful-
ly gave the forraer President a home.
for .Monroe had actually no other place
to lay his head. He hall given utt his
Virginia. residence, and official life had
SIGNS 0
Orkin or iireng
Selmer eteee stud 431
The hat eareivore of the o
signs are few; but they cling to I
tenaciously that the probebiltee
they will stay for good. The old ety
swinghig signs that protrade from:
the aides of the atoosee, and on windy
days had an unpleasant baleit of crash,
ing down on the beads of any oitizelea
who las.ppened to be straggling bornet
have happily been ewept awary by the
mina of progress. Bet we etill tame
with as the barber's pole, the pawn-
broker's golden globula,r triplets, the
tobaceonist% wooden liadian, and the
goldbeater's gilded arse, wfth abirt
rolled up to the shoulder, disclosing a
massive muscle, wit.h sinewy fingers
grasping a goldbeater'a hammer. The
origin of those signs a,re matters ot
great interest to the people who peas
them daily and know nothing of the
eigeificanee of their construotion.
An interesting story is told in con-
nection with the faneiliar red, Yellow
and green vases that brighten the win-
dows of drug stores. The cuetone ofi
placing them there originated with an
apothecary who found himself one lai
minus the red light with which tr
men a tas class were accustomed to
ornament their store froota, To make
up the deficiency he gat a, bottle of red
liquid and placed a. candle behind it.
The, effect pleased. him so well that be
decided to improve it by placina a, sec-
ond red light a.t tbe vetnelow with the
aid of another bottle of red mixture
and an additional candle. This sign
made such a brave showing that ari
envious rival oast about for tneans
improving the sign. He hit upon the
(scheme of.placing a bottle colored with
yellow fluid beside the red one, and tben
surpassed bis previous effort and car-
ried all before him by placing a, greeu
bottle beside the yeilow. alio three
made a sign that caught the town, and
completely oraneed his resources. all the druggists_quackly fell into line
The most delightful and interesting The bottles were in time replaced. with
accounts of the life led by James Mon- the
roe in his New York refuge are still i HANDSOME' VASES
Jnew would end n assa. extant. He was a country gentleman' at present in use,
found out. Lle was an exile. )3ut the man Hunt, the master painter, has a , 1 as wbispered one morning in hea- of the old school, and was of couree i and. tbe drugged%
• "r v
picture iu nada he represents Jesus; , .
vete saga vvas here to sta.y to brighten the
world had plenty of exiles. Abrabam, ions tue little ‘e,bild angel May, deeply respected by all his neighbors dingy streets of town and village.
( uri are -t e saws, e amr:In.the sbade of the great. white portal,
rP'3 th h His dwviplf.s, 1 up,in tem and frowned upon the Phan- as an ex -president a the Lrated State% Few among the many unfortunates
Mist. in the Nazaxene ca. nter ebop. Marin Tor late bles.snig.
an exile froixt Haran; jam, an exile Armin i H4 ii
from Ephesus; laosciuslto, an exile mem, the axes, the drills of careen,- Sat sorrowing night and day ; mu.cli as tbey loved aim, understood the :: see. awry one that exalteth himself He daily walked down Marion street as , who pees beueatb the
' better the, the - c • I • " Meth . a eonstitutioeal exercise until his •
spirit of other rabbisn e - led be abased , and he that hum : - - ' into the sorrowful interior ot a. pawn -
three gilt balls
..
from Poland.; Moazini, an exile from trY.- The picture represents Christ as . How she said to 1 he stately warden
from the car ter'e workina He of the key and. bar; - ' wederstood hie, and rebuked the moth- ' laniself shall be esalted, (5) God bas health gave out eompletely. Oddly broker's ell stop
I
/ pray vou ,ers for their presumetion• Hut great promotions for humble souls. The enough, the neighborhood eti , meaning of the ye low sign.; and they
or, to e-onsider the
Rome; Emmet az exile frcuze Ireland.; rsing . Pun a . "Oh, angel. sweet au el, 11 retains
Vivito- Hugo. an exile from Prance; arms as one will after being in core- 1 Set the beautiful gates ajar; Jesus called Use children, caressed ; Greek word for "abaced" and "hum- the ,quaint, old-f.a,shioned, almost C01- Would. find little comfort in tbe luveste•
'anon d • • a .t. h' t li*
ee ur, and Only a, little 1 pray you,
Kassutle an exile front Hungary. But tracted or uncomfortable .post
tbe Halo of that pioLure et> arrangri
tbis one of Noboru I speak to -day had
Set the beautiful gates ajar,
such resounding farewell and earue of Christ. wearily , „,. can. bear . , weeping,
elrettjejtaidtir tr together with Ins , A
into such chilling reception -for not hod' , throtovron the wall the ehadow : AShi? isloieelyiarshine°eteb`ils
even a hostler went out with his Jan- of he erase. Oh, ray .frien.ds, that . f Ight itaheterd rukenes
I thadow was on everything in Cbrist's ' Wben the gates shut. 1 . _ themselves that thee were righteous.
tern to light him in, that be is more
lifetime. Sbadow of a cross on am Oh. turn me. the key sweet oxig?1, . Perhaps we ebould read "cenieerniag
them and blessed them, and deeiared bleth" is the same, and to read hum- anal thaiacter had during James Ration if they did. The pawnbroker's
Monroe's time. symbol came, from the sign used by the
Marion street as you leave the door Lombard bankers, uho took it from the
of the immortal doctrine% expounder, eign lieeed. by the Medici family of Flor-
that the posseseion of a. childhke spirit 1 bleth in both eases increases the
was the only passport into the kingdom ,3 etrength of the text. (6) We ought to
of God. 3 remember in studying this parable that
PRACTICAL NOTES. it is ptresible to otter the prayer of the
Plearisee in the spirit of the publican.
Verse 9. Unto certain which trusted in and
. to offer the elyer of the publican
to be celebrated than any other- ex- Bethlehem swad.dling clothes, shadow o.„ te warden nn,,,,,,,,d
The splendor will shine so far:
patriated exile of earth or beaven. tbree fugitives rled into Egypt; shadow a":"det-telieiaanTif-uiga-le-s-,a.j'alr." ' certain." Righteousness with the Jews
First, I remark that Christ. was an of a Cress on the road over which the ' dare not
(1)cheitsteoatotfhat,taliitreatiolathwt't q'nrCrriCeetriee;
imperial exile. He got down off a of a cross on Lake Galilee as Christ. Spoke. low and. answered, "I dare not n io
throne. He took off a tiara. He closed walked its motetio floor of opal tind., Set. the beautiful gates ajar," athtughrt(egtukileithirliasey paidelftrl°!'at'lent13toinir
O iyalace gate behind bim. His familY emerald and erystal; shadow of el Then up rose Mary, tbe blessed leo. etyheIrloorfaieir '1,1,,I.V: monfwthmeiurerrege.
at -4/e princes and princesetes. Vashti coves on the brook Reclean, and on the'
was turned out of the throne room by temple, and on the side ot Olivet:; eh* Sweet Mary, the mother of Christ, 'In
Ahasuerus. Devid was detlaroned by dow of a e Her band on the band of tbe angel Afrecans worslap a fetich. Who these
"certain" were we may only guess;
rose on sunrise a,nd sunset,
Absalom% lafaray. The five kings Constantine, marching with his artuY, Tt8trhne'ePwIda.rs the key in the portal, .
and her toueb sufficed.
. Lajr s'Isaol=irl:tlYilelatig.cesii'SeIRIT:;iseaiille
;and supercilious and tell -centered. Sueh
On a rough journey we ebeer our.
. were jostled on their thrones by die- selves with the fact that it will end' ZIZ' the bet,totiful galls feaar,
!jewe in all ages (see Prov. 30. 33; Isa.
ere hu led •into a;ea,vern by Joshua's saw just once a cruse in th.e sky, but ; Fell ringing the golden bar,
land arid eonee of the Louis of 14'rance And' 1in 1111' cbild's fin"' nu
were eommon among the
vourage. Some of the Henrys of Eng- Chriet saw the (+roes all the time. littte
bracts But Christ was
'telitet` sue eapular, th t H. h lb would end at a,
nt!ver more omioret • marcd in wenn hospitality, but Christ knew] Stood tbe beautiful gatee ajar,
or er more loved than t e day 1 he left d isdrong
e o e tree wi o
P‘1111 Ut one le.af and
65a), and are to be found hi Christen -
1
! dont to -day. (1) Self-rig.liteousness la
counterfeit righteoueneee. Despised
heaven. Exiles have suffered severely, with only two branehes, banana fruit rotbers. I3etter, 'counted as nothing, all
hut Chriet turned himself out from of seal bitterness as to human lips GRAINS_OF GOLD. the rest." The Pharisee,: were accus-
thrum, room into sheep pen and down had ever tasted,. Oh, what on exile, •termed. to spe-ak 01 the rank and file of
from the top to the bottom. He was Starting in an info:nay without any. fthousand forests'
inThe creatioxi o a is
Israel as brute -folks and earthen people,
not pushed off. Ile was not manacled evadee and ending in atsatainalionav one acorn.-Emereon.
for foreign transportation. He was Thirst without any Nvater, day, with- 1 13, ty wahout kindness dies unen- as ther
eueh highflonn titles as "Light-of-Isra-
complimented eaeh other with
not put out because they no more out any sunlight. Tie, doom of a, deer • &au ' 1
loved and un e ig mg. o nson.
1 d 1- hi' -J h •
el." and "Glory -of -the -Law." (2) No
wanted turn in celestial domain, but perado for more than angellie excele• Men more easily renounee their inter- true Christian despises otbers, no mat -
by choice departing and de:Tending lence. For what that, expatriation and., eets than their tastes.-Roehefoucauld, ter how degraded the others may be.
into an exile five times as long as that exile'? Worldly pod sometimea • A man takes contradietion and advice 1 10. Went up into the temple. Mount -
that of Napoleon al. 'St. Helena, and comes front worldly evil. The accident- mueh mare easily than people ibink, ed the slope of Motiali and traversed t he
1000 times worse; the one exile suffer- tab glance of a sharp blade from at only he will not bear it when violently
ing for that he had destroyed nations, eaered courts; they were on a level with
x-azor grinder's wheel put out the eye given, even though it will be well found- the roofs of most of the city. The He -
the other exile suffering because he of Garnbetta and EXChed sympathies (el. Hearts are. flowers; they op.en. to brew title of the temple was "The Hill
earne to save a world. An imperial wbich gained him an education and the soft -falling (tete, but shut up in the of the House." . To pray. The
exile. King eternal. 931"sing and started him on a career that made his violent downpour of rain. -Richter. temple, erected as it was for ritual
halm and .glory and power be unto name more majestic among-. Frencla Art thou a man, and sharast thou not • service,
him that satech upon the throne." men than any other name in the last to beg, to priatiee such a servile kind had • by a very. beautiful
But I go farther and tell you he was development become preeminent ly the
26 years. Hawthorne, turned oat, Of of life? Why, were thy education ne'er "house of prayer" for all Jews. To 11
an exile on a barren island. This the office of coleretor at Salem, went so mean, baying thy limbs, a thousand they went at the hours of prayer, if
world is one of the smalleat islands of home in despair. His wife touched fairer courses offer themselves to thy they
ligia in the ocean of immensity. Other hina on the shoulder and( said, "Now were newatoward it they looked, if
stellar kingdoms are many thousand is the time to write your book," and election. -Ben ;Johnson. they Nvere distant. (3) Every house
theca are r than this, Christ came to
this small Patmos of a world. When
axiles are sent out they are generally
sent . to reeeions that are sandy or cold
or hot -some Dry Tortugas of .disagree-
ebleness. 'Christ came as an exile to
a world scorched with heat and bitten
with told, to deserts simoon swept, to
a howling wilderness. It was the back
dooryard, seemingly, of the universe.
Yea, Christ came to the poorest pert
of this barren island of a Nvorld-Asia
Minor, with its intense summers, unfit
or the residence of a foreigner and
in the rainy season unfit for the resi-
dence of a, native. Christ came not to
such a land as America, or England, or
France, or Germany, but to a land
one-third of the year drowned, another
third of the eear burned up and only
one-third of it just tolerable. Ohl it
was the barren island of a world. Bar-
ren enough for Christ, for it gave such
small ;worship and such inadequate af-
fection and such little gratitude. Im-
perial exile on the barren island of a
world.
I go farther and tell you that he was
an exile in a hostile country. Turkey
was never eo much against Russia,
France was never so much against
Germany, as this earth was against
Cbrisle It took him in through the
door of a stable. It thrust him out at
the, point of a spear. The Roman Gov-
ernment against, him, with eveey. wea-
pon of its army, and evexy decision of
its courts, and every beak of its War
eagles. For years after his arrival the
only question was how best to put hira
out. Herod, hated bim; the high
priests hated him; Gestas, the dying:
thief hated him. The whole email
warningly turned into a, detective to
watch his steps. And yet he faked
this ferocity. Notice that most of
Christ's wounds were in front. Some.
'scourging on the shoulder, but most of
Christ's VireUXLCIS in front. He was not
an retreat when he expired -Foxe to
faze with the world's sin. Face to
face with the world's woe. His eye
on the raging cottmtenances of his
foaming antagonists when he expired.
Wben the cavalry officer roweled his
steed so that he might earne nearer up
end see the tortexed. visage of the suf-
fering exile, ()heist saw it. When the
spear was thrust at his side, and when
the hammer was lifted for his feet
and when ;the reed was.raised to strike
deeper down, :the spikes of thorn,
Christ watched the a -hole procedure.
When his hands were fastened to the
moss they were wide open still with
. benedieLtion. Mind you his head. was
not fastened. He could look to the
right; and he could. look to the left,
and he could look tip and he could look
ilown. He saw when the spikes had
been -driven home, and the hard, round
iron heads were in the palms of bis
hands, He sew the/xi as plainly as you
his famous "Scarlet Letter" was the
brilliant (=sequence.
Worldly good sometimes comes from
worldly evil. Chen he. not unbelieving
when a tell you. that from the great- can. solace their miseries and can cure Ina ) e ,
gradually lost nearly all spiritual chart
est crime. of all eternity and of the their faults.-Rochefoucauld.
acteristics except spiritual pride. Their
whole universe, the murder of the Son How soft the music of those village name has been derived by some schol-
of God, there shall come results which bells, falling at 'intervals upon the ear ars from the word tartish, which means
shall eclipse all the grandeurs of eter- in cadence sweett now dying all away, to separate; in every sense the Phari-
The blindness of men is the most dan- Tear now he a temple, for all the earth
seems to is holy ground. A .Pharisee, And there-
gerotes effect of their pride; it
deprives fore (almost certainly) a man vain of
nourish and augment it., it
them of knowledge of remedies Nybich his "godbness.". The Pharisees, (wig-
, •
nity past and eternity to come. Christ
an exile from heaven opening the way
for the deportation toward heaven of all
those who Nyt11 accept the proffer. Atone-
ment, a. ship large enough to take all
the passengers t at will come aboard
it.
For the royal exile I bespeak the
love and service of all the exiles here
present, and, in one senee or the other,
that includes ell of us. The gates of
this continent have been so widely
opened that there are here many
voluntary exiles from other lands.,
Some of you are Scotehmen. we it
in your high cheekbones and in the
cotor that illuminates your face wben
I mention the land of your nativity.
Bonny Scotlandl Dear old kirk I Some
of your ancestors sleeping in Grey-
friars churchyard, or by the deep
lochs filled out of the pitchers of
heaven, or under the heather, some-
tinaes so deep of color it makes one
think ot the blood of the Covenanters
who signed their names for Christ,
dipping their pens into the veins of
their own arms opened for that pur-
pose. How every fiber of your nature
thrills as I mention the names of
Robert Bruce and the Campbells and
Cochrane. I bespeak for this royal
exile of my text the love and the sere
vice of all Scottish exiles. Some of you
are Englishmen. Your azacestra, served
the Lord. Have I not read of the
sufferings of tbe Haymarket? And
have I not se,en in Oxford the very
spot Nyhtere Ridley and Latimer mount-
ed the red chanot Some of your an-
cestors heard George 'Whitefield thun-
der, or heard Charlee Wesley sing, or
heard John Bunyan tell his dream of
the celeetial city, and the cathedrals
under the shadow of Nvhich sane of
you were born had in their grandest
organ roll the name of the .Messiah
1 bespeak for the royal exile of my
sermon the love and the service of all
English exiles. Yes, some of you came
from. the isla.nd of distress over whieh
hunger, on a. throne of human skele-
tone, sat queen. efforts at ame-
lioration haltecl by massacre. Preece-
sion of families, procession of mertyra
dome marching from northern channel
to Cape Clear and frora the Lath sea,
across to the Atlantic. An island not
bounded as geographers tell us but as
every philanthropist knows -bounded. on
the north and the south and tbe east
ana the west by woe which no human
politics cen alleviate and only Almighty
•
now pealing loud again and louder still,
clear and sonorous it opens all the cells
where memory slept. -Cowper.
Bigotry has no hea.d and can not
think; no heart, and cannot feel. When
sees held themselves apart from -the
common people. With easy fancy we
may watch this man as he stands, tvith
ebin in air and a supercilious smile up-•
on his lips, with a broad blue fringe on
she moves it m wrath; when she paus- his garment and phylacteries (eon' -
e, it is amid ruin; her prayers are curs- taining Scripture passages) on his brow
esa-ber God. is a demon -her communion and left arm. A publican. Who might
Is death -her vengeance is eternity -
her decalogue Nyritten in the blood of
her victims; and if she stops a moment
in her infernal flight, it is upon a kin-
dred rock. to whet her vulgar fang
for a more sanguinary desolation. -
Daniel O'Connell.
CORK PAVEMENT.
A pavement now in use in Vienna,
consists of granulated cork .mixed with
mineral asphalt and ether cohesive sub-
stances, compressed into blocks of suit-
able size and. form. Among the numer-
ous advantages set forth in its behalf
are ele,a,nliness, noiselessness, durability,
elasticity, freedom from slipperiness,
Nvhether wet or dry, and moderate
wet. Unlike wood, too., it is nonabsorb-
ent, and conseguentle inodorous. It pre-
sents the minimum resistance to trac-
tion, and being elastic under passing
loads, does away with the vibration
caused by heavy teaming. The blocks
are embedded in tax, and rest upon a
concrete base six inches thiok. When
taken up for ex,arraination they have ex-
hibited, when compared with new ones,
a reduced thickness by Nvear of less
than one-eighth inch -this in the case
of a section of a London street leading
to the Great Eastern Railway station,
subject to contin-uous heavy traffic, the
blocks having been in use nearly
two years. .
OF COURSE.
Irishman (at telephone) -Sind me up
tree bales of hay and wan bag of oats.
Feed Dealer -A.11 right. 'Who for
Trishraan-There now, don't get gay.
For the horle, av corse.
AS IT SKEIVIED TO HIM.
Child -Papa, what is a king?
.
Papa -A king, nay child, is a person
yviaose authority is practically unlimit-
ed, whose word is law, an el whom every
body retest obey.
Child -Papa, es mamma a king? -
with equal ease a identified by hes
dress and crestfallen manner. Publi-
cans were. regarded with utter con-
tempt by all who counted themselves
good Israelitee.
11. The Pharisee stood. Standing was
the ordinary Jewish attitude of pray-
er. See note on verse 13. Prayed thus
with himself. This does not mean that
he said things to bimself or silently. The
.Tews were not accustomed to pray in
silence; no orientels are. Probably the
meaning is that he stood by himself,
away from the "vulgar," to touch whose
garments would cozitaminate him. The
verb for "prayed" is in the tense -which
implies continuance, and might be tran-
lated "was praying;" that is tio say, in
the following words mey be foiled a
condensed account of the prayer. God
I thank thee. His thanksgivmg comes
before his confession; but without cont
fes,sion of Sin thanksgiving is merely
an utterance of spiritual pride. I am
not as other men are. He aesumes with
perfeot complacency the moral of
the rest of mankind. aExtortionere.
This was a. direct, stroke at the publie
can, who was very unlike his efellowe
tax -gatherers if he was not an unprin-
ci led and avaricious man. A current.
Hebrew proverb was, "Six publicans
equal half a dozen extortioners." They
had no limitation but their own "ten-
dert-mercies," wbich were "cruel;" and
they had the Roman army behind them
to enforce their most unreasonable
claims, But oor Lord, a,t least, knew
that they were not the woeet execu-
tioners of that time (Matt. 23. 25; Luke
11. 39). Unjust, 11 publicans were un-
just, so too were Pharisees. See 1Vtatt.
23. 23. Adulterers. Publicuns being' out -
oasts, irTegularities of life among them
might be expected. But both Joseph -
us and the Talmud charge the Phar-
isees not only with adultery a the
grossest sort, but also with specious art
gutn,ents in justification of this sin. Or
even as this publican. "This," says St.
Augustine, "is po longer to exult, but
to insult." He hears the poor
man's overflowing penitence, but
has no word for him except of contempt.
11 is profoundly sad to be eorapelled. to
Mon -
£I1 the spirit of .'i, Pharisee. (71 The
Is still eeettilted by the houses which ence. The founder of the bouee had
stood there 1831. These bouees be- been a medieue or physician; his de -
long to old familiee, among A110.131 Mon-
roe% name is it personal eet 1 n. The secoulants became bankers and brokers,
and the sign they adopted was based on
key that opens tbe gates of blessing is sons and daugbtere of the children who
humility. glayed about the door can tell you about. the pills that were dispensed by tbeir
the pills should express something rnore
The blessing of rabbis was greatly' they saluted him.
coveted by devout parents. (8) Tile HIS HOUSE IN RUINS. ; than the- Inere decoctions. of a. physie
!elan, so they were done in gold nnd
bighest honor parents tan confer on
their children is to bring them to By a singular stroke of fortune thLe ' in that shape the tbree "'pills" can be
Jesus. When bis disciples saw it, they old house, with its three stories and seen swinging over the premises ot
rebuked them. Aetuated, doubtless, by auk, is still strong and intact. The , every pawnbroker to -day. The golden
American. people acre very ready to Pills were used as a coat of arms for
n reverence for thea Master. Rabbis contribute to the preservation of Car- the deseendants of the Medici farallY,
had not generally. the tenderest regard
scarcely any illusion to children in all We's house. in London, while to -day who beertme noblea but it is not pro -
the hereto of t he man NN bust, name habit, that any family of noble larth
N1s.h4rldp.oetry in ethice of the ancient is on every one's lipe, and whose ereed caul tip -to -date ideas has continued the
is their natienal policy, is utterly xis- use of the three halls as its heraldic de -
16. Called them. Called the mptbere. gleeted. Congrees has not a word to ; vice
Suffer little ehildren to come unto me. with reference to the preservation Among the armies of unshorn hull -
and forbid them not. Mark says that ;sae*
, of this Monroe relic. New York has eiduale who daily seek the familiar red
jams was displeased. Ilie love of child- allowed it. to rot far many years. Very and white sign of the barber, few'
ren depended not on human relation- soon, in the ordinary eourse of events, know th,, meaning of the partiecolors on
slap, but kiwi -else they were the ehild- '
kingdom of God. That is, the king.; it is better see While it stands it a, hundred could wit you himself what
15. They brought unto bim also in- lonroe bis .stoekings and stock, be- ; aigueettta- dtAisidtigheiT whatduebeeeessaomrey trujeaht
rants. This was not an unusual act. cause he saluted their parents and --
the edifiee will be torn •down. Perhaps the 'pea,. Prolate!, not 'one barber in
nen of his alsather. Of such is the
doese: thee- are must always be a reminder to the Am- the rotors signify. The origin of the
m et God, helongs to thfd , "lean people that thee- allowed. one of sign dates bach to the days when bleed -
its citizens. Mark adds, ' He oltletheir presielents to die in destitution. log was 'the favorite - remedy of physi-
them in his arms, and laid his hands, up-
It was only nattixai that. during the ems for most of the, ills that flesh is
on them." This blessing of the ehildt ' period in which Monroe lived at this . beir to. When a little blood-letting
ran was not in mere sympathetic eerie- ! decaying house. men of eminence was prescribed, the barber was the man
piianee with the fund wishes of tbelltuw
should come to visit'. him. Among them to do it, as he combined the business of
pirents. (9) Christ would never have was John Quincy Adams. He recorded tonsorial artist wit h that of surgeon.
blessed little oneif they had not been ,
• the visit very niinutely in his diary, The barber's sign was adopted, as it
measles 01'receiving t he blessing,. and essiumented feelingly upon is in existence to -day, because the red
17. Receive. A child is emphatically ; _symbolized the blood that the barber
a recipient; it gives nothing, and takes; 11114,3 aIISERAbLE CONDITION
drew Trona. his patients in the interest
everyt bring. So with 118' follower of ; hi veiei g e
God, he must receive Goda blessings as , ei \ M )1 t' aosultindaethe ex -president.
* of the public health, while the white
ed very ill and on the poles stood for the white band-
001irf,), tuna w
deserving them. in no wise enter ' e. His condition was so Nvretch- age with which the wound was bound -
therein. (10) No man inherits mem, i (.7t in view of his extreme poverty, tied up after the clumsy operator bad drawn
bership in God's kingdem, In jo n Quiney Adams drew a. very move the- prescribed quantity of red. fluid.
then, (11) Pei -session of the ebildlike i • ti
brief, ;
, log portrait of the old man. He men-
tion, ent husiasm, wholeeheart ed was, t
traits - litunility, teachableneee, affec- i \irned the former magnificence of .
trust -is the tondition of entrance irea ' “E.trt't'' and'
; peessent indigence, madecontrateting it with his
various reflec-
fortunes. Those who are curious on MINUTE WaRtemeesame
to the kingdom of heaven. I tune upou the mutability of human In the twentieth year of Queen Eliza-
beth, says an English contemporary, a,
. sueh topies may eonsult Adams' letters - '
Monroe died at ast, with the cannon • a, lock consisting of eleven pieces of iron,
—
booming all about lam in honor f h
o t e steel and brass, all ,of which, together
The Large Number or Rouses and Other '
, nation's birthday. His son-in-law, Mr.
PrOPertY ONVIled by tier Majesty'.
, Grosvenor afterwards 1 t h
THE QUEEN'S REAL ESTATE. and (lianas with profit. blacksmith naraed Mark Scaliot made
tolda tou t e
melanehoty of the old malt Whose heart,: Praia a gold. He also made it chain
It was discovered a few years since ,
with the key to it, weighed but one
tiara the Queen ownea six hundred had been broken by his tOuntry's ne-, 1 of gold, consisting of forty-three links,
houses in various parts of England, eject. Congress had, Nvith. great parsi- i and haying fastened this to the before
his elitims. Monroe Nvas buried. in Sec- chain round the neck of a flea, which.
property, and that about sia thousand end street cemetery, where his remains.; drew them all with ease. All these to -
houses had been built by crown lessees lay utterly neglected and unmarked far getber, chain and flea, weighed only
on building leaseholds held of the years, until the Legislature of Virginia one grain and a half. Oswoldus North -
appropriated funds for their removal to ! ingerus, Nye° was more famous even
Queen.. She then had also rents from his native state The usual buffeting f than Sealiot for his minute contrivanc-
maxkets and tolls from ferries, besides fort f 11 -d. a o
fortune o owe them, for vandals es, is said to have made 1,600 dishes of
the proceeds of mines and other works stole the bronze from the .grave after turned ivory, all perfect and complete
upon her property or the crown pro- the interment in Virginia. Of all in every part, eat so small, thin ana
perty. She had large e -states in York- their Presidents, Monroe has been the slender, that all of them. were included
least honored by memorials. at once in a cup turned out of a pepper -
shire, Oxfordshire, and Berke, valuable
not royal residences, but reed -yielding inony, refused payment of certain of mentioned lock and key, he put the
lanin the Isf Man and in Alder- comn. of the common si
ds le o
ze.
ney Scotland Ireland and Wales. Of
the New Forest there are two thonsand
acres a absolute and sixty-three acres
of contingent a croton property. Her
Majesty enjoys income from the, Forest
of Dean, from several other forests, and
from rich properties ua and about
London. Osborne, on the Isle of
Wight, and Balmoral, in the High-
lands, are the private property of the
Queen, an.d are maintained out of her
own income. But she has the use of
a few royal palaces besides, and these
are maintained by the nation at an an-
nual expenditure ranging from $2,500
to $50,000. The Queen is in the occu-
pancy of Buckingham Pelage, Windsor
Castle, the White Lodge at Rielimond
Park, and part of St James's Palare.
The remainder of the last /Mined palace
is occupied by other members of the
royal family, Other royal palaces
maintained as such, althougb not in the
occupancy of the Queen, are Kensing-
ton Palace, Hampton Cour t-whioll,
according to a, recent estimate based oix
the statistics of eight or ten years, costs
the nation on the average over $70,000
a year -Kew Palate, Pembroke Lodge,
the Thatched Cottage and Sheen Cot-
tage, Rid:mond. Park, Bushy House in
EleshY Park, and Holyrood Palace.
When ehe visits the Continent, she has
one great house or another, with what-
ever repairs and refurnishings are
necessary to fit it for a temporary royal
occupant, although for an this she pays
out of her own income. Bagshot House,
Gloucester House and Clarence House
and palatial dwellings, occupied by veal -
MS members of the royal family. The
Queen Ita,s four rather old-fashioned
yachts, an whir& she makes her sea
journeys, although the oldest of them
probably is used seldom or never. The
four cost originally about $1,875,000.
JUST REVERSED.
An old. Irishwoman, who has received
many benefits at the hands of a bene-
volent minister and his wife, is so
shiftless that occasionally the large -
hearted couple lose all patience with
her; but she had such a senseof humor,
and such it beguiling tongue, that she
never fails to amuse them and finally
to win them back.
At one time when money was given
her to buy warm underclothing with,
she wasted it upon it large plush pho-
tograph album. The minister spoke to
her with considerable severity, as did
also his wife, and for some time Bridget
received no calls from either of them.
One afternoon, laowever, the miaister
relented and stopped at Bridget's door
on his way to see a sick woman.
Shure, and it's mesilf that dreamed
about you last noight, Misther Wil-
li:tuts, said Bridget, with a beaming
smile. 01 dreamed that you and Missus
Williams came here to see me, and says
you, How are you off for tay and cof-
fee, Bridget? and Oi says. It's niver a
drop of ayther (hare got in the house,
Misther Williams! And thin you pre-
sinted me wid a pound of tay, and Mise
sus Williams wid it pomid of coffee on
the shpot 1 Yis, sorr, that was me
.?411311, Bridget, Said the minister, striv-
ing not to smile, you know dreams are
stud to go by contraxies.
Shure, and that's fwhat 01 said to me -
silt, exclaimed alriclget, triumphently.
Said 01, Misther Williams in the Watt
that'll be giving rae the coffee and Mis-
sus Williams the tay 1, Than was xey
very tbouglits, sore.
A REIGN OF TERROR.
A special from St. Petersburg, says
the governors of the Russian provinces
are being instrueted to arrest all pol-
itical suspects on the spot. A -round
up" is lame inauguraxed in ail parts
of the empire; nearly one thousand
men and women have 'been put in jail
and will be confined there until after
the coronation. Any attempt an then
part to appeal is impossible. Hundreds
of students from the various universi-
ties have been forced to choose between
going home or to prison. Martial law
has been declared iu Moscow. The Czar
is not going to Nijni Novgorod for fear
of assassination. A plot to murder
him at the fair has just been ebacoaer-
ed.
4; EVERY -DAY HAPPINESS.
Our chief happiness does eot come
from the great things of life any more
th.an our greatest misery from the
hardest blotvs of fortune. The evils
which break men down, which make
bitter hearts and misshapen lives, ere
the petty, grinding, wearing anxieties
and. torments of every day. To offset
this, tbe great bulk of Inman balmi-
ness is made up of small daily ordinary
pleasures and compensations witich ste
often despise, and generally overlook
and neglect. To make our yersonal
happiness outweigh our depression there
is frequently needed. but the percep-
tion of this fact, and then OM, we
aot on the knowledge. To throw oure
selves into these small thing's with exit,
thuslasm. and heartiness Wii4 rkhly rel.
pay T/Se