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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-6-4, Page 7THE EXETER MAN'S BROTIIERMED You crowd, e too hard It 's eretthag dark in the room." * 1 t Again ur wevou to shun the coin- - . panionshm o idlers. There are men PROVED BY AN INHERENT TENDENCY! hanging around every store and office IN MEN TO SIN TOGETHER. and shop who have uothing to do, or act as if they bad not. They are apt to come in when the firm are away t warning Agitate!. Bad conspaine Re- and wish to ex:sane you in conversation eanse it is coatentons dud. Few. There 'while you are engaged in your regu- tee mho escape the eteral Disteaseig lar employment. Politely suggest to Generated by the wicked. such persons that 31ou have no Utile to ;ire them during business hours. Noth- Waebbagton, May 24. -Rey. Dr. Tal- ine would please them 'so well as to mage °twee for his subjeet, "Bad Com- have you, renounce your occupation pany," the text selected being Proverbs ,tttltdeamoecyfa,toeutnilehatrhoetiimn.d 'wee i, 15, "Walk not thou in the way with engine houses, or after the dining (bean." hour stand upon the steps of a fasts - Hardly any young man goee to a place of diseipation alone. Each one is accompanied. No man goes to rain alone. He always takes some one else with Una. "May it please the court,'" said a gonvicted criminal when aeked if he had anything to say before sen- tence of death was passed upon bixa- "may it please the court. bad company bas been ray ruin. I received the blessing of good parents, and in re- turn, pronaised to avoid all evil associa- times. Had I kept my promise I should Natei been saved. this shame and been free from the load of guilt tbat hangs around me like a. vulture, threaten- ing to dreg me to justice for crimes yet unrevealed. I, who one,e moved in the first circles of society and have been the guest of distinguished public men, am lost, and all tlarough bad -company." This is but one of -the thousand proofs that evil associations blast and destroy. It is the invariable rule.' is going on at the theatre, when eud- Tbere is a well man in the wards of a !do -4 there is a scuffle in the top gal - hospital, where there are a hundred lery. What is it ? A policeman has corae in, and, leaning over, has taeped people sick with ship fever, and be on the shoulder a,young man, saying, will not be so apt to take the disease "I want you; sire He has not work - as a good man would be apt to be ed during the day, but somehow has raked togte'd ir a shilling or two to get smitten with moral distemper if shut into the ts eallery. He is an idler. up evith iniquitous companions. 13 The man on' his right baud is an idler, olden times prisoziers were herded tte . and the man on his left hand is an gether in the same cell, but each one idler. learned the vices of all the oulprita.so During the past few years there bas that instead of being reformed by . been a great deal of dullness in busi- carceration the day of Itheration turn- nese, tWotueg men have complained ed them out upon society beasts, pot that they have little to do. lf they men. t have nothing else to do, they can read We may, in our places of business, and iraprove their inbads and hearts. be compelled to telk and raingle with %hese times are not always to em- bed men, but lie wile deliberatelyn tinder. Business is waking up, and • ehoosee to emaciate hinaself with vim,' the superior knowledge that in this ou.s people is engaged in carrying on a; interregnum of work you may obtain courtehip with a. Delilah whose shears will be worth $50,-000 of capital. The will elip off all the lecke of bis !area fortunes of the next 20 years are etriniteth and he will he tripped into having their foundations laid now by perdition. Sin is eatching, is infectious the young ixien who are giving theni- tt epidemic. L will let you look over selves to self-improvement. I went the tuillione of people now ixtbabitingi into a store in New York and saw five the earth, and I challenge you. to show men, all •Christitins, eating around, saY- nte a good man who, after one year, ing that they had nothing. to do. it has made choice and consorted with the is an outrage for a Chrienan mu to wicked. A thousand dollars' reward have nothing, to do. Let him go out ior one slut instance. I care not how and visit the poor or distribute traete, Strong 'your character may. be. Go or efo and read the Bible to tbe siek. with the corrupt and you will become or take out Ins New Testament and eorrupt; elan with burglars, and you! be making his eternal fortune. Let will I ecome a burglar; go among the hint eo into the baek office and pray. unelean. and you will become unclean.. Slinnk back from idleness in yourself Many a young man has been destroy- ' and in others if erou would maintain a ed ier not apperciating this. He wakes , right position. Good old Ashbel Green up some mornnea in the great city and • at more than 4.40 years of age was known no one except the persons into found busy writing, and some yomig whownempioy ne has entered. As he man said to him: ni Wby do you keep goes inter the store all the -clerks mark busy ? It is time for you to rest." Ile bine measure him and discuss hira. The aneeered, " I keep busy to keep out of upriglet young men of the store wish mischief." No man is strong enough well, eut perhaps wait for a. formal in -Ito be idle. troduction and even then lame some Are you fond of pietures ? If sce 1 delicacy about inviting him into thetr will show you one of the works of an aesociations, But the bad young men old master. Here it is "I went by of the store at the first opportunity an- the field of the slothful and by the P.tittelr 1 effete their services. aTeY vineyard of the man void of under- patronize's him; they profess to know standing., and, lo 1 it was all grown all about the town; they will take hilt. over with thorns, and nettles had an:tee:11"re he wishes to go -if he will covered the face thereof, and the stone pay the expenses -for if a good young wall was broken dawn. Then I saw man amI a. bad young man go and considered well. I looked upon it to eome place were they might. not the and received instruction. Yet a little geed Young roan lees invallablY to Pay sleep, a little slumber, a little folding, the charges. At the moment the tic- of the hands to sleep. So shall thy ket mud for, or the champagne set- tled fou the bad young man feels poverty come as one that traveleth and around in his pockets and says: „I thy want as an armed. man." don't know of another sentence in the Bible have forgotten my pocketbook." In 48 hours after the young man has roore explosive than that. It first, entered the store the bad fellows of hisses softly, like the fuse of a can - the establishment slap him on the non, and at last bursts like a 54 pound- er. The old proverb was right, -" The shoulder familiarly and at his stupid- devil tempts most men, but idlers ity in taking certain allusionssay: "My tempt the devil." young friend, you will have to be bro- A. young man came to a man or 90 ken in," and they 'immediately pro- ceed to break him in. Young man, years of age and said to him. "How have you made out to live so long and . in the name of God I warn you to be- be so 'seen'?" The old man took the ware of how you let a bad man talk youngster to an orchard, and point - familiarly with you. If such a one ins to some large trees full of apples, slap you on the shoulder familiarly, said, "I planted these trees when I tura round and give him a withering was a boy, and. do you wonder that now look until the wretch crouches in your I am etermitted to gather the fruit of presence. There is no monstrosity' of them?" We gather in old age wbat wickedness that can stand unabashed we plant in our youth. Sow to the .under the glance of purity and honor. wind, and we reap the whirlwind. God keeps the lightning of heaven in Plant in early life the right kind of a his own scabbard, and no human arm Christian character, and you will eat eau wield them, but God gives to ever Y luscious fruit in old age and gather young man a lightning that he may these barvest apples in eternity. use, and that is the lightning of an I urge you to avoid the perpetual leanest eye. Those who have been close pleasure seeker. I believe in recrea- observers of city life will not wonder tion and arausement. God would not why I give warning to yourtg men and have made us with the capacity to say. "Beware of evil. compamons." laugh if He had not intended us some - I warn you to shun the skeptic -the times to indulge it. God hath hung young man who puts his fin,gers in hts in sky and set en wave and printed on vest and laughs at your old-fashioned grass many a roundelay,- but he who religion and tarns over to some mwse chooses pleasure seeking for his life tery of the Bible, and says, "Explain work does not understand for what that, my pious friend; explain that." God made him. Our amusements are And who says "Nobody shall - scare intended to help us in some earnest Tue. I am not afraid of the fixture. I mission. The thundercloud bath an used to believe in such things, and so edge exquisitely purpled, but with did my Atelier and mother. but I have voice that jars tbe earth it declares, got over it. Yes, he has got over it, "I go to water the green fields." The and if you. sit in his company a little wild flowers under the fence are gay. longer you will get over it too. With,. but they say: "We stand. here to make out presenting one argument against room for the wheatfield and torefresh the Christian religion such men will, by the busbandmen in their nooning." their jeers and scoffs and caricatures The stream sparkles and foams and destroy your respect for that religion, frolics and says, "I go to baptize the which was the strength of your fath- moss. I leave the spots on the trout. er in his declining years, and the pillow. I slack the thirst of the bird. I turn of .your old mother wben she lay a- the wheel of the mill reel in ray dying. crystal cradle muckshaw and water Alas! a time will. eorae when this lily." And so whild the world plays, it blustering young infidel will have to works. Look out for the man who al - die, and th.en his diamond ring. will ways plays and never works. flash no splendor in the eyes of death, You will do well to avoid those as he stands over the much, waiting whose regular business it is to play for his mutt. Those beautiful locks ball, skate or go a -boating. All these will be uncombed epee the pillow, and sports are grand in then places. I the dying man will say, "I cannot die never derived so much advantage from -I cannot die." Death, standing ready any ministerial association as from a beside • the couch says, " You- must die. namisterial club that went out to play You -have only half a minute to live. ball every Saturday afternoon in the Let me have it right away -your soul." outskirts of Philadelphia.. These re- " No" says the young infidel, " hereare creations are grand. to give us muscle my good rings and these pictures. Take and spirits for our regular toil, .1 be - them all." "No," says Death. " What lieve in muscular Christianity. A do I care for pictures? Your soul!" man is often not so near Goxi with a " Stand back"! says the dying infidel. weak stomach as when he has a - "I will not stand back," says Death, strong digestion. But shun those who e for you have only ten seconds tow to make it their life occupation to sport. live. I want your soul," The dying There are young men whose Indus - man says, "Don't breathe that cone air try and usefulness have fallen over - into nay face, You crowd me too hard. board from tbe yacht. There are men It is getting dark in the room. 0 Godl" whose business fall through the ice of " Hush T says Death, " You said there the skating pond and has. never since was no God." "Pray for me!" ex- been heard of. There is a beeuty in claims the expiring infidel. " Too late the gliding of a boat, in the song oh to pray," says Death. "But three more skates, in the soaring of a well struck seconds to live, and I will count. them ban, and. I never see one fly but I off -one -two -three." He has ;gone! involuntarily throw up my hands to Where ? .Where Oarry him out and catch it, and, so far from layieg an bury him beside his father and mother, injunotion upon ball playing or any . who' died while holding fast. the ,Chris- other innocent sport, claim them all eian religion. They died •singing, but as belonging of. right te those of us who the Yining' infidel (why seid " Don't toil in the granct industries of chureb breathe thee, eold air into my face. and state. gamble hotel or an elegant restaurant, .wishing to give you the idea, that that is the place where they dine. I3ut they do not dine there. They are sinking dome lower and lower day by day. Neither by day nor by night !have any- thing to do with idlers. Before you. admit a man into your acquaintance ask hire politely, " What do you do for a living?" If he says, n Nothing; I am a gentleinan," look out of him. He may have a very soft nand and very faultless apparel and have a high sounding family name, but his touch is death. Before you know it, you will in his presence be ashamed of your work dress. Busi- ness win become to you drudgery, and afterward you. will lose your place, and afterward your respectability, and, last of all, your soul. Idleness is next deer to villainy. Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shoplifters and assassins are made frora the class who have noth- ine to do. When the police go to bunt up and arrest a culprit, ehey seldom go to look in at the busy carriage lee - tory or behind the counter where dili- gent elerks are employed, but they go among- the groups of idlers. The play AVOID UNHEALTHY STISILILAN'TS. This sin works ruin filet by un- heniliditui stimulant:3. Excitenaeet is Pleasurable. Limier every sky anl in every age men bave souglat it.. The Chinaman gets it by emokina his opiuna, tbe Persian by chewing has- heesh, the trapper hi a buffalo hunt, the sailor in a squall, the inehriate the battle and the avaricious at 1 be gaining table. We must at times laave exeiteraent. A thousend voices in our nature demand it. It is right. It is healthful. It ia inspiring. It is a desire God. given. But anything that first gratifiee the appetite and hurts it back in a terrible reaction is de- plerable and wicked. Look out for the egttatton that, like a rough muswian, in bringing out the, tune piays s'.1 hard he breaks down the instrument. God never made man strong enougla to en- dure the wear and tear of gambling exeitement. No wonder if, after hav- ing failed in tbe game, men have be- gun to sweep off iniagnaegy gold from the side of the table. The man was sharp enough yawn be seamed at the game, but a maniac at the close. At every gaming. talile sit on one side, ec- stasy, ent husiasin. roman •e -t he fr. iizy of j ty; on the other side, fiercencrsar tumult. The professrmal er seho biniself into apparent quietneee. The keepers of guesting room.; are gera entity fat, rollieking and obese, but thorougb and profeesional gamIders, in nine eases out of ten, are pale, thin, wheezy, tremulous. and exhausted. A young men having eudJenly in- herited a 'arge property sits at the hazard tables and takes up in a dice Lox the estate won by a father's life- time sweat and stakes and tosses it ite ay. Int emir; ran• e in st igraat izes its victim -kit -king him out a slavering foitl, into the' cinch, or sending big). with tbe drunkard's hiccough. stag- gering up the street where his fatuity lives. But garaging does net in that way expose ite vietims. The gambler may be eaten up by the gambler's: pas- sion, yet you only discover it by the greed in hie eyes, the hardiness of his features, the nervous restless/cies, the threadhear coat aud his embarrassed business,. Yet be is on the road to hell, anti no preacher's voice. or start- ling warning, or wife's entreaty, can make hire stay for a moment bis head- long career. The infernal spell ait on him; a giant is aroused within, and though you may bind him with cables they would part like three/Land though you faeten him seven times round with chains they would. snap like rusted wire, and though you piled up in his path heavee high. Bibles, tracts and sermons and on the top should set the eross of the eon of (inel, over them all, the gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks on bis way to perdi- tion. A man used to reaping scores or hundreds of dollars from the gaining ta will not bsi content wens slow work. He will eav, '''Whee is the use of my trying to niake these $30 saY estore when 1 can get five timee that in ball an hour down at Billy's?" You never knew a confirmed gambler that was industrious. The men given to tbis vew spend their time, not actively eng.aged in the game, in iele- nese or intoxieation or sieep or in warrupting new victims. This sin bas dulled the carpeuteret sae and cut the band of the faetory %slap], sunk the cargo. broken the teeth of the farm- er's barroe and s-nt, towing" lighn- ing to sbaa et the battery of the plulosopher The very firs`t idea, in garaing is at war viith all the in- dustries of etteety. Auy trade or oe- eupation tha is of use is ennobling. The street s.veeper ads anew the in- terests of senety by the .eleanntss feeted. The eat pays for the frag- ments it eats b,v cleaning the house of vermin. Tbe fly thai. takes the sweet- ness from the dreg,' of the eup coni- peneates by purifying the. eer and keeping bark the. pestilence. ilut the gambler gives not anything for that which he takes. 1 recall that. sen- tence. He does make a return, bet it is disgrace to the man he fleecee, des air to his he t, ' 1 h' • I s ness,ariguish to bis wife,shatite to his thildren and eternal wasting away of his soul. He pays in tears and blood the agony and darkness and woe. What dull work is ploughing to the ermer ehen in the village saloon in one night he makes and tome the value of a summer harvest ! 11,1i t will want to sell tape and measure nankeen end cut garments and weigh sugars when in a night's game he makes and loses and makes again and loses again the profits of a season? John Boraek was sent as mercantile agent from Bremen to England and this country. After two years his employers mistrusted that all was not right. He was a de- faulter for $87,000. It was found that he had lost in Loral ard-street, Lon- don, 44.'9.000; in Foulton-street, New York, $10.,000 and inNew Orleans $3,000. He was im.prisoned but afterward es- caped and went into the gambling profession, He died in a 'lunatic asy- lum. Tbis (while is getting its lever under many a mercantile house in our cities, and before long down will come the great establishment, crushing re- putation, home comfort awl immortal souls. But the life business of pleasure seeking always makes in the end a criminal or a sot, George Bruramel was smiled upon by all England, and his life was given to pleasure. He danced with the peeresses and swang a round of mirth and wealth and ap- plause, until, exhausted of purse and worn ouc of bady and bankrupt of re- putation, and ruined of soul, he beg- ged a biscuit from a grocer and de- clared that he thouglat a dog's life was better than a man's. Such men will come into your office, or crowd around yoer anvil, or seek to decoy you off. They will tell you of .some .people you must see, of some excursion What you must take, of some SabbatJa day that you ought to dis- honor. They will tell you of exquisite !wines that you must. taste, of costly operas that you must hear, of wonder- ful dancers that yoa must see, but before eou accept their convoy or their companionship remember that while at the end of a useful life you may be able to look back to leindnesses dorie., to honorable work accomplished, to poverty helped, to a good name earned, to Christian iafluence exerted, to a Saviour's cause advanced, these pleasure seekers on their deathbeds have nothing better to review than a torn playbill, a ticket for the races, an empty tankard and the cast out rinds of a carousel, and in the delirium. of their awful death they clutch the goblet and press it to their lips the dregs of the cup falling upon theie tongues will begm to hiss and uncoil with the -adders of an eternal poison.. Again, avoid as you would avoid the death of your body, mind and soul any one who. hes m him the gamb- ling 'spirit. Men who want to gamble will find places just suited to their capacity, not only in the underground oyster cellar, or at the table back of the curtain, covered with greasy cards, or in the steamboat siewking cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings in his eers deals out his pack and winks at the unsuspecting traveler - providing free -drinks all around-tbut in gilded perlors and axed gorgeous surroundings. Tbe whole werld ronbed! Wbat is most sad, there are no consolatioes for the loss and suffering entailed by gaming. if men fail in lawful busa nese, God pities and socieey commiser- ates, but where in the Bible or so- ciety, is there. any eonsolation for the gambler t Prone what tree of the forest oozes there a ballet that can. soothe the gamester's heart? In that bottk where God keeps the tears of his cbildren are there any tears of the ganibler ? Do the winds that mine to kiss the faded cbeek of sickness and to cool the heated brow of the. laborer whieper hope end cheer to the emaci- ated vietim of the g.ame of hazard? When an honest man es in trouble, he Ina sem atlay "Poor fellowl" they say. But do gamblers mine to weep at, the agonies of the gambler ? North- umberland. was one of the finest estates in, England. Mr. Porter oweed iternd ' a year gambled it all away. Having loet the last aere of tbe estate, he came down from the nitwit and got into his carriage, went back, put up his horses and carriege and town house and played. He threw and lost. Ho started for home, and on a :side alley met a friend, from whom he lea - rowed. ten guineas. He went beek 10 the saloon and before a great while hut won £20,000, He died at late a beggar in St. Giles. How many gamb- ers felt- sorry for Mr. Porter? Who consoled Min ott the loss of his estate.? What gambler .subseribed to put a stone over tbe poor WS grate ? Not one! Furthermore, tins sin Ls the source of uneounted dithonesty. The gHaomwenozafnhay zard itself le often a cheat. tricks and deeeptions in the dealing of tbe cards! The opponent's hand is ofttieues found out by fraud. Cards are marked so that they may be designeted front the peek. Expert gamesters bave their aceomplices, and one wink may deeide the game. The dice bave been found leaded with pla- tine. so that doublets ciente up every time. These diee are int lei hued I ly t he gaxablers unobserved ey the bonest men W110 C0111e into the play. and ibis accounts for tbe fact that 99 out of 100 who gamble; however wealthy when they began, at, the end are. found to be poor, mingable, laggard wretches that would not 110W 1W, allowed to sit on the doorstep of he house tbat they artm owned. In a gaming house in San Francis - en a young man, baying just come from the mines depoeited a large sum upon the ace and, wort $2:2,000. But tbe tide turns. Intense anxiety remes upon the countenanees of all. Slowly the cards were forth. Every eye is fixed. Not eound is beard, until the ace is retie:slat favorable to the bank. There are shouts of "Pout. foul! but the keepers of the tattle produce their pistols, and the uptmar eilenced and the bank has wen 95,000 dollare. Do you call this a game of cleincen Tbere is no cherwe ahout it. But these de-lionesnes in the earreeng on of the game are nothing when com- pared wieb. the frauds that are com- mitted in order to get money to go on with the nefarious work. (enabling, with as needy hand. bas snwebed away the triiiew"; mite and the portion of the orphans, has sold the ilciughrer's virtue to get the means to (continue the game, has written the taunt erfeit is eignalltre. erupt ied t he banker's money vault and wielded the aesassin's dagger. There 19 no depth mettenstes whiell it will not ;stoop. there is no cruelty whieh it is ap- - palled. There is no warning of God , that it will wit etre. inerteless. un- uppeasable, fiereer awl wilder it blinds, hardene, it rends, it Meets, it crush- es, it danme. Have nothing to do with gamblers, whether they garahle on large scale or email scale. Cast out them' men. from your com- pany. Do not. he intimate with them. Always be petite. There is no demand that you ever et-serif/tie politeness. A young mau amosted a Christian Quak- er with, "Old ehap, how did you make an your money?" The Quaker replied, "I3y dealing in an artiele thin thou ruayest deal in if thou. wilt -civility." Always be courteoue, but at the same tune firm. bay "No." as it you meant it. Have it untierstood in store and shop and. street that you will not. stand in the companionship of the ekeptic, the idler, the pleasure seeker, the 1 1 , Rather than enter the companion - .1) 1 100 o a letter feast. The promises of God are -tbe fruits. 'The harps of heaven are the music, Clusters from the vine- yards of God 'lave been premed into tankards. The eons and d.aughters of the Lord • Almighty are the guests, while standing at the banquet to fill the cups and divide the clusters and coramand the harps and welcome the est is a daughter of God, on whose in whose ethheekhl is- the flu.ela of celes- ' tial summer. Her name is religion. THE SUNDAY SC" 0 OL . INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 7. " Warning' to the Disciples." Luke tt.3.24-31. tttoiaten Text. Phil. 2.5. GENERAL STATEMENT. In last Sunday's lesson we studied the awful doom of Jerusalem as fore- told by the Saviour. Its words, we conjecture, were spoken on April 4, A. D. 30. That evening Judas and the chief priests conspired to kill Jesus. Of Wednesday there is no record. On Thursday afternoon Peter and John were sent to Jerusalem to prepare for the passover, and in the evening the other disciples with their Master joined them in an "tipper room," to eat the passover. The "strife," of which our leeson speaks led also tea beauti- ful acted parable, the wasbing of the disciples' feet. Judas may have 'with- drawn before the words of our lesson were spoken. The Lord's Supper was instituted before the warning of verses 31, 32 and 34 was given. True great- ness in Christ's kingdom Is secured by service. The Christian is he who lives for the good of others. Even the Say - leer of the world was "reckoned am- ong the transgressors." PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 24. There was also a strife among them. It has. been supposed that this strife was a dispute as to their places at the supper table, which trifling ,as it would seem. to some cif us, would be of ver3r greet importance in the ancient East.; it is, indeed, of importance in all state banauets at the prment time, especially in the mon- arohies of Europe. But the gist and kernel of the dispute wai as to the rel- ative superiority of the disciple,s-their respective poettions in the "kingdom of heaven." One answer to this strife was given in the incident deseribed in John 13, 4-17; another answer follows this verse.. That t,he strife was in some sense chronic May be seen by re- ferring to Luke 0, 49; Matt. 18 I: Mark 9, 34; Mete, 20, 23; Mark 10, 37. Which, of teem. Very likely avlaich of two or three. Accounted the greatest. For three years they had lived together most of the time, and all of them were enthusiastic supporters of their Mas- ter, Wnicb bail done the most for him? W.hich coutd he trusted with the largest responsibility? -White) bad stood. before hira and before the public ruasovtellenelnwts3t repreeentative of the new 25. The kings of the 0.entiles exercise lordship over them. They wield the Paluxiwuetr to Walisekli erunitellisntkexcleInta.nz uln°a; ask, But did not the early kings of the J ews exercise lordship over them? No, not tbose who lived up to the ideals of the thecieraey. David, tfod's anointed, ruled. Gude, people as God's vice-gerent; and so dhi the best of his sue- eessors. It was to establish the lorclehip of the Lord of busts that their fortrease.s were built. and t heir a rnaies organized, and. t beir courts made centere of eplendor. "Ex- ercise lordship" would le better trans - .1a, tell "lord it over I hem," as in 1 Peter 5. 3; it implies an exereise of auth- ority in the interest 4).0 tlit. rulere and not of the subjects-whieh is wrong. They that exercise authority upon them are called lenefamore. Literally so. Euergetes, whieh means "Benelux:tor," was a title approprieted by niveral ty- rants who were univereally hated, and espeeially hated by the Jews. 26. Ye shall not he tee In the king- dom of heaven the greasest, is the hum- olifierest;relejltit 6h: 1 Ilkigi.°IfbkitIngissglise attirstsearnisiZt you, let him be as tbe younger. In the Oriexit espiwially. and in all the menastic life of We.etern Christendom, , -spacial honor has leen given to older men, and speelat work, to younger. No - tire the phrase "lei him be" in this verse, and contraei it Willi the phrase "'are called" in the last. The lords of 1 he Gen: nes pretend to la benefa -tore (that is, good-workeren you. natenhers of the Chetah of Christ. are to be good - workers in deed anti in truth. He that cloth serve. Tbe verb here bast the ,same root as that from within our 1 werd deafen has conte -"he that dean- !°11117z.es1.1"Vherla.r is painter. lie that eit. I milt at meat, or he that eirrvetle That , is, in eo dal gradings do we not always 1rank the munpered and imbilged one i as the bighesi, and the waiter as the "lowest ? But I. Fags the Lord of men. 'because of my eupreme eentrol cluesee to be the waiter. On that eery even-. ' mg he bail, like a slave. girded himself i with a linen towel. and wattbed the feet !of the disciples. How strange the* aft- er sixth an example they still needed itlais rebuke! i 28. Ye are they whit+ have cantinu- ed with me in my temptations. They t e ere anittit lout; and j reams and uneitirii- i ual, nut aftet all they bed continued; i 1 hey were loyal without swerving. SG tenderly alum-ea:wive is the Ma ewe r heel eleven timid followers shall at least be raieed that thee too are not Judasee. here ie. never a 1111 of gieidness in us -generosity, Or patienee, or layette- . n t a on . approval from our God. The word i"temprations" here must 1* taken in 'its wider sense of 'Hats. 28. Appoint mittle almost be trans- lated "mvonanted." I pledge to elm a Acingdom. They bad shared his afflie- t ions they were to ithare his gime:: and he himself suffered before he hnter- -endured the times befOre h" ente * * ed into hie own gloi:v (1 Peter rel Will): to tbe joy Mel). 12. 2: Phi. 2. 8. 91. It is best to iiperpret the ermine:. ise this verse as referrine esti-sonny collie on earth. the. kingdom of t had over ments hearts. 30. This verse ext ends t he rev, a rd from this world,. wbere it Was to Ise - gin retiree 291. to t be next world; and for ite ehararterwatien our Lord uses the favolt e old Jewnh pi 'tuns of a h 'evenly hammer , and he promited a speteal place' of honor In the heavenly realm to each of those chosen faithfel <mew We are not to take the greet -a. of t hie verse too literally. 11 es very euregieseste tbal such a promise could le.gwen at , the moment ellen apparent failure was close at hand. I31. Simon, Simon. 'Wag warning. ac - wetting to :Met thew. Me ric and Luke, was ietven to Peter eels the Lewes Supper had been instituted. Thit is a mystericar verse. In place of "Satan iat i t t sire a 1, N 3i 1 . 1 7111f., , be tranelated, "Satan obtained you by 1asking, that he might sift you." Ben- i gel makes a tenement here of Wanting force -"Nor. earn ent wit h Judas." But are sueh appeals being eonetently made against me en the spiritual worlti? How ea:meetly then should we pray to our °Father to deliver us from the evil one! i32. But I have prayed for thee. Sa- tan prayed for a gyeat temp(t,ationbeet I ar all ! Dt7A110Yel, 6-12i 2. 'lent Zech. 3, 1-.5, for ' scenes something like that in which our Lord seems to have participated. 'the word "you" is plural. as if the ehaff was , to be separated. from the wheat thro- ughout the entrre company of diseipl- 1 i es. When thou art. tronverted. When thou. art turned around; when the sift- ing process is over, and the wheat alone is left. Strengthen thy brethren. When one does hie best in weakness he is made able to strengthen others. Do not make the mistake of explaining the word "'convert" here in the technical sense in which it is elsewhere (in our prayer meetings, for example) properly used. 33. Such confident enthusiasm as this verse shows is rarely separated from. weakness. The etrongest men, moral- ly as•well as physically, do not usually edvestiee their strengt h. Nevert helees et was the resentment of a conischniely honeat soul that. caused this exclama- tion. i 34. I tell thee. Peter. One would. understand from. the narratives of Mat- thew' and Mark that the boast of Pet - and this predictien of his Master weee made atter the disciples had begun their walk toward Gethsemane, but Luke and John seem to place it earlier. Thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest rae. 'This prediction is one of the few statements of our Lord that are given by an four evangelists. Before thee our Lord had said that he who denied him, be himself would deny before the angels No%f_asGotht.is1What an awful prophecy then . 53. \Vben I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any- thing? The purse stood for ready mon- ey, the scrip or wallet for the daya food, and shoos were that part of cloth- ing most needed fox journeying all day over the dusty roads of the East Our Lord reminds th.e.m that, when they first represented him among the Galil- ean villages they were welcomed and receivea ertoney, food, and clothing in abundance. ft beautifully illustrates the love ot our Lord . for bis disciples that he now- turns away from his own imminent tragedy to the future trials of his dear ones. DANGERS OF Tin GUM HABIT. Miss de Sweet -"I'll never touch an- other chew- of gum as long as I live." Proud Mother -I am glad to hear you say so, my dear; but what lam re- formed you so suddenly?" "Last evening Mr. Richfellow propos- ed to me just at the moment when my jaws got stuck so I couldn't say any- thing, and he went off." EVA'S WHISTLING- LARYNX, THE WONDERFUL NATURAL MIMI- CRY OF A LITTLE GIRL, ecullar Equipment °Um. Little New Haven liiri-ishe eau Whistle With Aier Month Closed. One of the most remarkable instanc- es of peculiar anatomical development known to the irtedical science has just been discovered in New Haven, Conn., The circunastaricee are as yet unknowe to the New Ifaven physiciene and sur- er,eoes, but a leading professor of anus- ic,s to wbose attention the case has been brought. pronounces it the most nomerkable he has ever observed. The case. in tbe tayman's parlanoe, ie known as that of the whistling larynx, thou.gh the doctors have a teelinical tame for it. winch is at once sounding and con- fusing to the average intelligence. The individual in whom. thie peculiar- ity hue developed is the little daughter of Mr. and errs. W. Ii. Spear. of 312 Columbus avenue. Eva is eight years old, and, notwithstanding her youth, e eace is remarkably well developed. n plain terme, ibis little lady Li able to wbistle without the use of her lips, larynx. palate or cheelcs, all of which are brought into play' by the ordinary whietIer. EttntRAORLINARY WHISTLE. Eva gave the first. manifestation of ber larYngettl whistling ability wlitia nbitzial. et Na‘ ut a311.1nrsg ()lite l'ileglift; , ‘,..s:Itirft.' 11.61)sevtrs iviNt'illed; apt, at nairnicktng eouvereatione letween the metal:ere of the faratly. On one oc- truster, he repeated. a remark wade by Mrs. Spear to Eva. Mr. Spear was as- tunished sit bear the li!tle one repeat the minaret in an exact mutation of tee. ruanner in wind, it wits repeated Ily the hird. Her astouielinient eutountert to amazement. velem the intle one mimieiaie the whittle of the parree ap- parently without the slightest effoet. it was apparent. thltu that the wbis- tie was not produced le- the lips and tongue, ass people orilitiarily whietle, liut by the throat or smite part of it. Eva rapidly developed the aline y to se luetle ha this peculiar manner, until she now I:whistles popular airs, .tir Such emit des i of them 04 she hears, without using, ; ter lips. 1 , Prof. Bonney. the musteat inetructor, A. 'MEDICAL PHENOMENON. i was gnatly lutes:tested upon leurning of ,Evate whining; airilit,y and at once " manifested a tiestre to investigate the ; ca-. Lie 1istene.1 to an impronint u pet-- foratitatte liy the little girl. and re- ., quested another. lie pronuunces the i ease worthy of the. attentitan not only Itlilatmiltv4;11111ens1111erlelciliT:Ite.ripgiI.1.,411?:21 of; vt!i1.60 a, %rill:titling is yenta:eel to tivee snatehes :. tit polluter salute; elite], taw bears her sts; ens pi 4y . oil the piauo awl to the hymns it hien are. et! muntiou in the • bouseholti. She lias no teehnical •-, leer." V. hen tale is (hang' ,so nei' liPs • Itnowledg,e of not%ic, inp vi,hi.11es ••i3, !are .as they would he v. heu at perfeet t re T i ' •-• - t 1 . -1' rh - a , ... . . ., .. ntram ion of tire). or any movement. . She whiet les equally ucll wit it her mout If t ightly t•if s•eti. 1,ptou at tempt- ing a h:glt 1101e, :•lio 11110/11SoloUrAy 4t1Wrin '' her mou:h as a einger would in attem.- : piing ilw earne thieve Hoeevert there ., 1ti !10 • tql.trg061:M11 Of singing in her , a .. ' g. , AN ODD ACCOMPLISHMENT. I The irapreesion tionsweed to the lis- ' tener ie iemilar to that produced by one prgleient in niiinieking the notes ! of a hone though of a inutile finer and. ' elearer tone. 'the notes are .elear and ! full, the low ones with a volume and ; tone sellout or never beard in •ordmary i whistling, and the high ones AVith a ! clearness awl fullness eeyond anything t produced by the most artistic whistler of the ordinary kind. While nothing of the fineness of the .ordinary whistl- ing is lost, .th.. strength and volume of the sound are far greater than that ordinarily produced, and from this faet would be a vast improvement over or- dinary whistling when performed in the pretence of en audience Eva ii.: somewhat shy in exhibitings her aecompliehnient !afore strangers, but amuses hermit avid her parents and , .sis.ters with it in the family, as any ' boy might, by whistling in the time- worn fashien common to boys. No attempt has ever leen made to tune- ! vate in as Eva has only begun to take lessons on the piano, but even. note ; there ie a suggestion of an extraordin- ry • lent, 1 e f nn d'ff' It • le • when the little One attempts such - melodies aet nThe Whistling Coon" or the "ttoirking Bird." Slae. has a range of two and a half octaNst, tweeted that she ean beistleSheveehnaes-hdeisni" • holding the tongue between the in- dex finger and the thumb. i i HOW GOLD IS DEPOSITED. t - ; in A11,41.81E:nes experiments Which May 1 . Be of Insportance. : An exhibition of the greatest inter- est to mineralologists and practical min- , ers in relation to the 'much -argued , question as to how gold. was originally I deposited in auriferous quartz will shortly be seen ,at the Imperial Insti- tute, says the Edinburgh Scotsman. Mr. J. C. le Johnson, of Adelaide, vi -ho has given great attention to the eubject, ' has lately brought to this country a number of specimens of previously non- : gold -bearing stones, in which he has MURDERS IN vAmorrs L ly at the /lead of lite Lhit es Regards the imecurily of Li Italy has long had tile %wenn b distinction of a larger siverege ber of murders le a year than other country in Europe, tbe averag a year being about 2,900. Spain follow- ing with 1,200, Prance arid Germany witli 700 each, datetria (exclusive of Hungary) with 500, and Greet Brit- ain with 250. Da Greet Britain the av- erage number of murderis is leaet he Scotland, where this crime is very rare. Au Italian profemor teamed. Garofalo has recently delivered an addrees in Rome on the subject of murderous pro- pensities of individeabs in various nee tiorts, and European medical inert are discussing his statement that the num- ber ot killiegs iu Italy really amounte to 4,000 a year,which is equivalent to a Jaoraicide in that country every two hours. There are, however, sone levies to be taken into consideration re- garding this showing Medi mitigate it to some extent. Mane of the 'violent deaths brouglat about in Italy are not properly murdere, but eitber in eelf-defence or under provoeation am- ounting in law, to eelf-defeetee. The Italians, especially those' in the extreme southern end of the penineula and in the adjacent island of Sicily. are we passionate race, and insults which in . other countries or in other pa.rts of Italy would Parra the basis of civil ac- , tions for damages are eettled in aurora CUP:1010.0 way. Prat. Garatalo attributes muck of tbe tendency to homicide to the exietence of 41, THE VENDETTA, which bas lingered Imager in Italy tban auy other cou.ntry, and to the prat: - tie* of duelling. It is generally 'be- lieved that the emforcemeets ot lawa regarding murderous assaulte is very lax ie Italy. but tbe latest reports sbow that the number of cuaideumed persexia :is quite as large there as in other exam- " tries where tbe erime of murder la much rarer. For ealOil murder cases, the average in Italy. the convictions number 2,100 in a year, though the penalty in many cases seems dispro- portionate to the gravity of the of- fence. The number of thurtiers, and bona- cidas in the United States. the popula- tion of weich iiearly douLle that tif the Itailan edingslum - probably two and a half times" larger -amounts ha a ever to 7,590, and the =niter of legal executions to but a feateitai of the whele 111111110er of ronvietions-about. 100 in a year. It is a reproach to the Am- erican eystera of tie...ling with mur- derers, to wiaiele ieweever, Europeant ateliorities refer NQUelV hat vaguely, that tbe number ot Jewelling.; in the United States ineerialtly exceals each year the number of legal executtons. ln other worde. there are more. cases every year in whieh the population of the neighteshood where a crime bas been commit ted "take the law into their own hands"' than there were cas- es in whieh the law performs the sante function. A European country wbich vies with Italy in the nuntlier of mur- ders committed. mime in the heat of paseton. and ettliout aremeditation, Hungary. but the criminal statietics of that country are not carefully collated, and the Hungarian stet istielans. wIdle regimenting on the high rate. of bonei- vide exieting in Indy, forbear tto in- st it ute any corripa rison. Efaii0111:4, le. Lan of Nature, and the Old Dame Wont,. Nothing Wasted. NO WASTE THERE. Some scientists have asserted that Nature never intended that any of her products, no matter how humble they might be, should le wasted. This be- lief is Lemming more generally veri- fied as some hitherto useless substance is .suddenly discovered to le valuable in the manufacture of certain articles of trade. Look at that dainty lady lolling lan- guorousily on her g.orgeous couch. She takes out her silver -topped sweat bot- tle and luxuriously inhales the deli- cate perfume of the scent. Aseuredin such an odor was distilled only from the fairest. and rarest of exotics. The wastings of coal gas and the dirt of t he street supply that delicate emelt, while the eame materials are us - de to flavor Ilene manges and puddings ;such as epicures: love. , Of course. some, indeed many, per- : fumes are extracted from flowers. But far more are made of such abominations las fusel oil, rancid butter, oil of vitriol land the like. 1 Not many years ago a problem which ! cause-cl much trouble was as to bow t gas tar, that mos: inconvenite: of waste Imatter, could be most effectually des - swayed. It could not be thrown into rivers on account cif its polluting in - 1 fluence; neither could it be buried in ; the earth, lee/twee vegetation died ar- 1 ound its grave. Burning it was the only thing to do. 1 And now what an invaluable ingeed- knt. in commerce is the once -despised gas ear. Here are a few of its uses: In the .preparation of dye stuffs it. is almost indispensatie, red, blue and pur- ple leing the colors which can be made equally well from it, while aniline, a product width exists naturally in coal tar, has become a most prolific source of coloring matter. Saccharine, a su.bstance 300 times sweeter than sug- ar, and a valuable medicinal property, is made almost entirely from gas tar, while coal tar soap and tar water are now household words. These are but a few of the uses of the formerly hated gas tar. artificially introduced gold interstices and on the face in such a manner as to defy detection, even by skilled experts. Some of these specimens were shown privately to several distinguished geo- olgins, who expressed great surprise at the remarkable character of the ex- hibition. ! The discovery some years ago that gold could be induced to deposit from as nnneral salt 1A the reetalic state on any suitable. base, such as iron sul- phide, led Mr. Johnson to experiment with various salts of gold, and he has obtained some extraordinary results. He has, for example, found it practicable to produce most natural -looking speci- mens of auriferous quartz from stone whieh previously, when assayed, con- tained no trace of gold. Moreover, the I gold, which pentrates the stone in a, 1 thorough meaner, assumes some of the 1more usual natural farina. , I. in one specimen shown !the gold not only appeare on the surface, but pene- trates each of the laminations, as was iproved hreaking. One needs hard- ly point out the importance of the ex- ! periments in relation to the gold -mine I ing industry; fox, having found how the muchniestred metal may have been deposited in its matrix, the knowledge should help to suggest hoe. it may be ecanomicaliy extracted therefrom. • THE DOG DIED. An inspector of meat in Paris has been. experimenting on tobacco as a fla,voring for meat and he finds that the results are peculiarly deadly. A dog-, when offered the tempting morsel of beef wheel has been subjected to to- bacco fumigation, declined the delicacy most emphatically. But when the;meat was eut up and. concealed within the bread, the dog was betrayed, and suf- fered in coesequence. Twenty min- utes after eating tbe food. it dieplayed distressing symptoms, and. died in great agony. MANAGING A BOY. Husband (tt literare man) -"I wisb you reroute stop watching ntrie Diek for a while." Wife -''But if f don't watch him htr''lYI tibliatrIleiqtrs.-hiliae*.; mean. When hets raischat he's quiet, and I want to vrriter"