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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1896-8-13, Page 3URRE NT ATTER. We are sorry for the poor aninsals that are viviseeted, and we are sorry for the people we° defend the practice. It is a fair question whether anything a real value is even learnea by such operations. Sir Charles 13e11, for exam- ple, declares that vivisec.tion. "Ims done more to perpetu.ate error than to en- force the just views taken from ana- tomy and natural science." The satis- fying of the curiosity of a medical stu- dent who inay for some poor animal victim be turning a laboratory into a hell is not necessarily the same thing as promoting Use progress of science or developing the theory of life. And the hardening effects upoa the oper- ators of sueli torturing of helpless ani- mals may have not merely a demoral- izing influence morally, but also an in- jurious result professionally. A bru- talized practitioner is not apt to study his pateints sympathetically and with dual care. One physician remarks, re- gsalning the training of medical students at the present day: "It is too mater- ial. Vivisection. bardens." And these thin ge we say in spite of the fact that the Outlook recently quoted an illus- tration front Prof. William James, which it called "pertinent" and "strik- ing," the gist of which is that if a dog undergoing vivisection, who Ilea strapped on a board and shriekiag at his executioners, could only be made to Welt a glimpse of the buman inten- tions at work in the process "all that is herolo in him would religiously ac- quiesce." Of course it is very easy for a well fed, professor or an editor com- fortably ensconced in his office to the- orize as to the potential religious capa- cities of a canine, but we think that until the dog acquires a religious sen- sibility o suck an exalted nature it would be as well for the surgeons to spare the poor beast tee horrible tor- tures. Every bealthy man ought to live to Pc a hundred years old, So says Dr. \lecher of the International Institute of Statistics. Unfortunately, the Ina- jority do not live so long, but, we are told, that, is their own fault. However, it is at kaet consoling to fin,d that, ac- cording to carefully prepared statistics, the live chaps, of to -day are six years better than their fathers and grand- fathers who lived at Use close of the last century. In other words, the average of human life is six years long- er than it used to be in the good old days. M. Vacher gives 78 as the aver- age figure for those who have round- ed the rough and dangerous point a of certnin periods in life. After passing these points men have comparatively easy sailing in the Indian summer of their existence. At the end of alite Walt ceutelio figured in a fashion some- otbeirticailar to that of Dr. Vacher, fix- ed life's average limit at 67. But we met eot mi,sintexenet these figures; they cannot be taken as the general average, which is extremely low, on account of the high death rate among children and young persons ap- proaching the dangerous period of twenty. But, all things considered, it Is fair to presume that the man who at the present time has reached the tige of 30, without contracting any serious malady, has a chance to reaoh the age of 73 years; that is to say, he has added to his possible score six years snore than his grandfathers had.; and all this in spite of trolleys, cable ears, and scorchers! The reason for this is simple enough It is to be found in the wonderful advance of medical sci- ence, which is rolling back theepidemics teat ravaged the world one hundred years ago. In this country just now, according to the testimony of those who remem- ber, xnen of fifty and sixty are far more vigorous and better preserved a than their predeeessors of the same ages who lived forty or fifty years ago. And our girls, bless them and their beauty, are far taller and fatter than the old-time belles. Our athletes, too, have smaahed the old records all to pieces. We can run faster, box herder, march longer, and row better than our grandfathers ever could; and we are still improving. Perhaps the most =wising fact of all is that the average height and weight of the soldiers in the colossal armies of Conti- nental Europe to -day are equal if not superior to the standard that was re- ' eteuired in the smaller armies of the (lest century, for which the recruits were carefully picked from antong the ' most able bodied in the population of each country. Surely we are great fellows I ONE WAY TO DO IT. Rev. Mr. Coldwater (vehemently)__ No, sir; this country will never be fit to live in until it has more churches than dram -shops' Alderman O'Donegal.—Well, who's hinderin' yez from buildin' more ohurches11 •••••••••..m. • MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD. Taking all the ordinary food stuffs, the one which would bestfulfill the requirements of life and strength would be substantial slices of whole meal wheaten bread, eaten with the crust and spread with good butter. Practically all the constituents necessary for the support of life and the building up of tissue are contained in this food. It as the further advantage of being ex- areraely satisfying. If fresh milk or buttermilk were drunk taith it an al- most complete diet wouldabe obtained, eo far as the mere sustaining of phys- ical health and strength was concerned. john R. Stevens, consulting engineer In succession to Jobn Hayes Hammond for the companies operating in Johan- nesburg, is in Roseland, B.C., examin- ing the prineipal mines. ANCESTRAL POWERS, THE PHYSICAL PROCLIVITIES WHICH ARE DUE TO HEREDITY. tem They May be overcome That One Spiritual. triethelly May Be Won, anti How We May Become Sons and Dangle tow or emineetaitty. Washingtou, Aug. 2..—Rev. Dr. Tal- mage chase as his text I. Samuel evil., 58, "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" Never was there a more unequal fight than that between David and Goliath; David. 5 feet high, Goliath 10; David a shepherd boy brought up amid rural scenes, Goliath a warrior by profes- sion; Goliath a mountain of braggae doeio, David a marvel of humility ; Go- liath armed. with an iron spear, David armed with a tiling with smooth stones from the brook. But you are not to despise these latter weapons. There was a regiment of stingers in the Assyrian army and a regiment of stingers in the Egyptian army, and they made terrible execution, and they could cast a stone with as much ace curaoy and. force as now can be sent by Ishot or shell. The Greeks in their army had stingers who would throw lea- den plummets inscribed with the irrita- ting words. "Take this!" SO it was a mighty weapon David employed in that famous combat. A Jewish rabbi says that the probability le that Goliath was in such contempt tor David that in a. paroxysm of laughter lie threw Lis head back and his helmet fell off, aed David. saw the uncovered forehead, and hie opportuuity bad come, and taking his sling and swinging it around his head two or three times and aiming it at that• uncovered forehead crashed it like an eggshell, The battle over, behold the tableau: King Saul sitting; little David standing, his fingers clutch- ed into the hair of the decapitated Goliath. As Saul saes David stand- ing there holdiug in his hand the ghastly, reeking, staring trophy, evi- dence of the complete victory over God's enemies, the king wonders what pareutage was honored by such hero- ism, and in my text he asks David his pedigree, "Whette son art thou, thou young mo.n ?" The king saw' wiaat you. and I see, that tbis question of heredity is a mighty question. The longer I live the .more I believe in blood—good blood, had blood, proud. blood, humble blood, honest, blood, thieving blood, heroic% blood, cowardly blood, Tee tendency may skip a generation or two, but it is sure to come out, as in a little (Mild you sometimes see a similarity to a great grandfather wbose picture hangs on the wall. That the pbysical and tnesntal. and tnerea onteeheee "tee*ein his eyes open, Tbe similarity is so striking sometimes as to be amusing. Great families regal or literary, are apt to have the cisaracteristies all down through the generations, and what is more perceptible in elute families may be seen on a similar scale in all fam- ilies. A thousand years have no power to obliterate the difference. The large lip of the how* of Austria is seen in all the generations awl is called the Hapsburg lip. The bouse of Stuart always means in all generations cruelty and bigotry and sensuality. Witness Queen of Soots, witness Charles L and Charles IL, witness James 1. and James II. and all tee other scoundrels of that line: Scottish blood means per- sistence, English blood means rever- ence for the ancient, Welsh blood eueans religiosity, Danish blood means fond- ness for the sea., Indian blood ineans roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity, Roman blood means con- quest. The Jewish facility for accum- ulation you may trace clear back to Abralsa,m, of whom the Bible says, "he was rich in silver and gold and cattle," and. to Isaac and Jacob, who had the same characteristics. Some families are characterized by longevity,. and tbey have a tenacity of life positively Me- thuselish. Others are characterized by Goliathian stature, and you can see it for one generation, two generations, five generations—in all the genera- tions. Vigorous theology runs down in the line of the Alexanders. Tragedy runs on in the familyof the Ketables. Lit- erature runs on in the line of the Trot - lopes. Philanthropy runs on in the line of the Wilberforces. Statesmanship runs on in the line of the Adamses. You can see these peculiarities in all generations. Henry and Catherine of Navarre religious, all their families re- ligious. The celebrated family of the Casini, all mathematicians. The cele- brated family of the Medici, grand- father, son and Catherine, all remark- able for keen intellect. The celebrated family of Gustavus Adolphus, all war- riors. This law of heredna asserts it- self without reference to sooial or po- litical condition.for you sometimes find the ignoble in htgh places and the hon- orable in obscure place. A descendant of Edward I, a tollgatherer. A de- scendant of Edward Ht. a doorkeeper. A descendant of. the Duke of North- umberland a trunkmaker. Some of tbe mightiest families of England are ex- tinct, while some of those most hon- ored in the peerage go back to an an- cestry of hard knuckles and rough ex- terior. You know as well as I know that you can make the centripetal force over- come the centrifugal. and you can make the centrifugal overcome the centripetal, as when there is a mighty tide of good in a family that may be overcome by determination to evil— as in the ease of .Aaron Burr, •the lib- ertine, who had for father President Burr, the consecrated; as in the case of Pierrepont Edward% the ecourge of New York society 80 years ago, who had a Christian ancestry—while, on the other hand, some of the best men and. women of tbis day are those who have come of an anceetry of which it would not be courteous to speak in their presence. The practical and use- ful object of this sermon is to show you that, if you. have come of a Christian ancestry, then you are solemnlybound to preserve and develop the glorious in- herita.nce, or, if you have come of a depraved ancestry, then it is yoltr duty to brace yourself against the evil ten- dency by all prayer, and Christian de- termulation. And you are to find out the family frailties, and in arming, the castle put the strongest guard at the weakest gate. With these smooth stones from the brook I hope to strike you. not where David truck Goliath, LU the head, but where Nathan struck THE EXET1111 TIMES David, in the heart, "Whose son art thee, thou young man?" There is something in all winter hol- idays to bring up the old follet. I think meaty of our thoughts at such times are set to the tune of "Auld. Lang Syne." The old folks were so busy at such times in making us haepy and Perhaps on loss resource made their sons and daughters happier than you on larger resources are elle to make your sons and daughters. The snow lay two feet abovet 'heir graves, but they shoals off the white blankets and mingled in tlae holiday festivities—the same wrinkles, the same stoop of shoul- der uuder the weight of -age, the slate old etyle of dress or coat, the same smile, the same tone of voice, I hope you remember them before they went away. 11 not, I hope there are those who have recited to you what they were, and that there may be in your house some article of dress or furni- ture with which you associate tad.: , memories. I want to arouse the most; sacred memories of your heart while I make the impassioned interrogatory in regard to your pedigree, "Whose son art thou, thou young man?" First, 1 accost those who are de- scended of a Christian ancestry. I do not ask if your parents were perfect. There are no perfect people now, and I do not suppose there were any per- fect people then. Perhaps there was sometimes too inueb blood in their eye when they chastised • you. But from what I know a you, you. got no more than you deserved, and perhaps a lit- tle m.ore chastisement would have been salutary. But you are willing to ack- nowledge, I think, that tbey wanted to do right. From whet you over- heard in conversatione, and from what you saw at the family altar and at neighborhood obsequies, you know that they bad invited God into their beart and their life. There was something that sustained those old people super- naturally. You have no doubt about their destiny. You expect if you ever get to heaven to meet them as you ex- pect to meet the Lord Jesus Cbrist. That early association has been a charm for you. There was a time when you got right up from a house of iniquity and walked out into the fresh air because you thought your mother was looking at you. You beep never been very happy in sin because of a sweet old tare that would present itself. Tremulous voices from the. past attcosted you until they were seemingly audible, and you looked around to :tee who spoke. There was an estate not mentioned in the last will anti tete a - meat, a vast estate of prayer awl holy example and Christian entreaty and glorious memory, The survivors of the family gathered to hear the will read, and Otis was to be kept, and thet was to be sold, and it leas "share and share alike." I3ut tbere was an unwritten will that read something like this: "In the name of God, amen, 1, being of soma mind, beq,ueath to my children all my pray- ers for then salvation. 1 bewarith to them all the result's of a lifettme's toil. I bequeath to them the Christian re- ligion, which has been so much com- fort to me, and I hope may be solace Lor therm I bequeath to them a hope of reunion, when the partings of life are over. ' Share and share alike • ma they inherit eternal riehes. 1 bequeatxi to them the wieh that thee, may avoid my errors and copy anything that may have been worthy. In the name of God, who made me, anti the Christ, who re - •If they oneet, %wee sanctifies roe, I make this my last will and testament. Witness all you hosts a heaven. Witness Cline, witness eter- nity. Signed, sealed. and delivered in this our dying hour. Father and Mother." You did not get that will proved at the surrogate's office, but I take it out to -day and read it to you. I take it out of the alcoves of your heart. I shake the dust off it. I ask ifyou will accept that inheritance, or will you break the will? Oh, ye of Christian ancestry 1 You have a. responsibility vast beyond all measurement. God will not let you off with just being as good as ordinary people when you had such extraordin- ary advantage. Ought not a flower planted in a botlsouse be more thrifty than a flower planted outside in the storm? Ought not a factory turned by the Housatonic do more work than a factory _turned by a thin and, shallow rnouneam stream? Ought not you of great early opportunity be better than those who had a cradle useblessed? A father sets Lis son. up in business. He keeps an account of- all the expendi- tures—so much for store fixtures, so much for rent, so much for this, so much for that, and a,11 the items ag- gregated—and the father expects the son to give an account. Your heavenly Father charges against you all the ad- vantage of a pious ancestry—so many prayers, so much Christian example, so many kind entreaties—ail these gracious influences, one tremendous ag- gregate, and he asks you for an ac- count of it. Ought not you to be bet - ten than those who had no such ad- vantage? Better have been a found- ling picked up, off .the city commons than, with such magnificent inherit- ance of consecration, to turn out in- different. Ought not you, my brother, to be better, haviug had Christian nurture, than the man who can truly say this morning, "The Bast word I remember my father speakieg to me was an oath; the first time I remember my father taking hold of me was in wrath; I never saw a Bible till I was 10 years of age, and then I was told it was a pack of lies; the first 20 years of my life I was associated with the vicious. I seemed to be walled in by sin and death ?" Now, nay brother, oughtyou not—I leave it as a matter of fairness with you—ought you. not to be better than those who had no early Christian in- fluence? Standing as .you do between is the generation that past and the generation that is to oome, are you going to pass the blessing on, or are you going to bave your life the gulf in which that tide of blessing shall drop out of sight forever? You are the trustee of piety. in that ancestral line, and are you going, to augment or squander that solemn trust fund Are you going to disinherit your sons and daughters of the heirloom which your parents left you? Ah, that cannot be possible—it cannot be possible that you are going to take such a position as that ! You are very careful about the life insurance, and. careful abont the deeds, and careful about the mort- gage, and careful about the title of.your property, because when you step off the stage you want your children to get it all. Are you making no pro- vision that they shall get grand- father's or grandmother's religion? Oh what a last will and testament you are making, my brother! "In the name of God, amen. 1, being of sound mind, make this my last will and testa- ment. I bequeath to my cbildren all the money I ever made and all the houses I own, but 1 disinherit them, I rob them of the ancestral grace and the Christian influence that 1. inherit- ed. 1 have squandered that on my own worldiness. Share and share alike inuat they 'in the misfortune and the everlasting outrage. Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of God and men and angels and devils, and all the generations of earth and. Ilea - yea ;mil hell, July, 1890." Oat, ye of highly favored ancestra, wake up this morning to a, sense of your opportunity and responsildlity I think there must be an old cradle or a fragment of a cradle somewhere that could tell a story of midnight, sun- pieta:Um in your behalf. Where is the old reeking chair in which you were sung to sleep with the holy nursery rhymeP Where is the old clock that ticked away the moments of that sick- ness on that awful night when t here were but three of you awake—you and God and mother? Is there not an old staff in sortie closet?. We beg you to tura over a new leaf tlais very day. Oh, the power of ancestral piety, well illustrated by a young man of New York who attended a prayer meeting one night, and asked for prayer and then went home and wrote down these words: "Twenty-five years ago to-nigatt my mother went to heaven, ray beautiful, blessed mother, and I have been alone, tossed. up and down upon the billows of liftes tempestuous oeeart. Shall I ever go to heaven? She told me I must meet her in heaven. When she took toy hand in hers and turned her gentle loving eyes on me, and gazed earnestly and long into my face, and then lifted. them to heaven in• that last prayer, she prayed that 1 might meet her in heaven; I wonder if ever I shall? My mot her's prayers! Oh, my sweet blessed mother's pray- ers! Did ever a boy have sueli a mother as I had? For 25 years I have not heard her pray until to -night. I have heard all her prayers over again. They bave heel, in fact, a terrible re- surrection. Oh, bow she was wont to pray! She prayed as they prayed to- night—so earnest, SO importunate, so believing. Shall I ever be a Christaint She was a, Christian. Ole how bright and pure and happy was her life! She was a cheerful and happy Christian. There is my mother's Bible. I have not opened it for years.; Did she be - neve 1 conld ever negleet her preeioue Bible ?i She surely thought I would read it much and often. How often had. she read it to net! HMV did she cause me to kneel by my little bed and put my little irante up in the at- titude of prayer! How has site knelt by aus and Over me, and I. have felt her warm tears, raining down upon my bands and face! "Blessed mother, did you pray in vain for your boy ? It shall not be in vain. Ali, no, no; it shall not he In vain! I will pray for myself. Wile has sinned against so much instructive as have—against so many preemue prayers put up to heaven for nu? bY one of the most lovely, li-nder, eanfiiiing, trusting of mittliers in her heavenly Father's Stare and grave? She never doutetel. She Itetieved. ehe al- ways prayed as if tea did. My Bible, my mother's Bible and my eonscienee teach what I am and weal. 1 have made rayself, Ol, the bitter pangs of an ,,neeusing conseienee: 1 need a Sevi3aur mighty te save. I must seek Hun, I 1 ani oa the see of ex- istence, and I ecu never get off from it. I mil afloat. No anehor, no rud- der, no conapass, no Welt of instrue, lions, for I have put them away from me. Saviour of the periehing, save or I perish!" Do you wonder that the next day he arose .in prayer meeting and said t "My brethren, stand be- fore you a monument of God's =ax- ing mercy anti goodness.' Forever bless - ea be His holy nautet AU 1 hare and A Sal.t-i4our,man(11 me°yntsleoedr.1"t1. 011 jttelsituisitotam-eyr of ancestral prayer. 'Bear it! hear it! But I turn for a moment to those who had evil parentage, and I want to tell you that the highest thrones in heaven and the mightiest triumphs and the brightest crowns will. be for those who had evil parentege, but who by the grace of God conquered—con- quered. As good, as useful, as splendid a gentleman an I ever knew had for efather a man who died blaspheming God until the neighbors had to put their fingers in their ears to shut out the horror. One of the mast consecrat- ed and useful Christian ministers of to -day was the son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide of evil is tremendous in some families. It is like Niagara emends, and eyet men have clung to a rock and been rescued. There is a ramilv in New York, whose wealth has rolled up into many milLions, that was founded by a man who, after he had vast estate, sent back a paper of tacks because they were 2 cents more than he expected. Grip and grind and gouge in the fourth generation, I suppose it will be grip and grind and gouge in the twentieth. gen- eration. The 1 horst of intoxicants has burned down through the arteries of a hundred and fifty years. Pugnacity on combativeness characterizes other families. Sometimes one form of evil, sometimes another form of evil. But it may be resisted.; it bas been resist- ed. If the family frailty be avarice, cultivate unselfishness and chaaity and teeth your children never to eat an apple without offering somebody else half of it. Is the family frailty com- bativeness, keep out of the company of quick tempered people and never answer an impertinent question until you have coutated a hundred both ways, and after you have written an angry letter keep it a week before you send it, and then burn it up. Is the family frailty timidity and cowardice, cultivate backbone. Read the bio- graphy of brave men like Joshua or Paul and see if you cannot get a little iron in your blood. Find out what the family frailty is and set body and mind and soul in battle array. Coo - quer your will. I think- the genealogi- cal table wee put in the first chapter of the New Testament not only to show our Lord's pedigree, but to show that a, man may rise up in an ances- tral line and beat back successfully all the influences of bad heredity. See in that genealogical. table that good King Asa wae born of vile King Alma. See in that genealogical table that Joseph and Mary and the most illustri- ous Being that ever touched our world, or ever will touch it, had in their an- cestral line scandalous Rehoboa,m and Rehab and Thamar and Bathsheba. If this world is ever to be Edenized— and it will be—all the infected families of the earth are to be regenerated and there will some one arise in each ofaamilly a and open a new genealoga There will be some Joseph to .arise 12 the line and reverse the evil influ- ence of Reboboare, and there win be some Mary to arise in the line and reverse the evil influence of Bathshena. Perhaps the star of hope may point down to your manger. Perhaps you are to be the hero or the heroine that is to put down the brakes and stop that long line of genealogical tenden- cies and switch it off on another track from that on which it has been running Lan a century. You do that and 1 will Promise you as fine a palace es the architecta of heaven can build, the arcetvay inscribed with the words, "Moro than conqueror." But vrbatever your heredity, let me say you may be sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty. Estranged children from the homestead, come back through the open gate of adoption. There is royal blood in our veins. There are crowns on our escutcheon. Our Father es king; our Brother is king, we may be kings and queens unto God forever. ('unix' and alt down on the ivory .beneh of the. palace. Come and wa,sh m the fountains that fall into the basins of crystal and alabaster. Come and look oui of the upholstered window upon gardens of azalea and amaranth. Hear the full buret of the oreheetra while you. banquet with potentates and vic- tors. 011, when ttte text sweeps back- ward; let it not stop at the cradle that rocked your infancy, but at the cradle tbat rocked the first world! And when tbe text sweeps forward let it not sten at your grave, but at the throne on which you naay reign forever and ever, ”Whose son are thou, thou young man?" Son of God, heir of immortality, take your inheritancei THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 16. "Davide Confession and Forgiveness." Psa. 32, 1-iI. Heiden Text, Pita, 31, 10. ••••••••• GENERAL STATEMENT. David was now about fifty years old, and had reigned as king nearly twenty years. The nation was highly prosper- ous. There were no rebellions at home. The brilliant victory of our last lesson was sucoeeded by the siege of Rabbah in the following spring. Then, when "all Israel" was nmesed at the metrop- olis of the Amraonites, striking deathly Wows for king and country, -David tar- ried at Jerusalem. This was oue se- cret of bis downfall. From tie youth he had. been. a man of war. No call "to the field" needed. repetitiori. Now when he could. hear it and sleep he was morally sick, though he knew it not. Prosperity had brought sloth and self- indulgence in its train. Tait double eritties of adultery and naurder were committed (2 Saul. Sonia months after Uriah's death Joel) bent to David the mt.ssage contained. in 2 Sara, 12, 27, 213. The king- went to Itabbah, was euccessful, awl returned. Bathshe- ba's child was born a. little later, and then came Nathana visit. By a beauti- ful parable Natiroi got the king by con- demning another to cumin= bhuself unconseiousl,y. The sentence pronourie- ed by God and the suitsequent death of the child brought 1.t Id to the deepeet, axid sincereet repentanee. In Psalm 51, suppotten to have even written at this time, we read the earnest pleadings of a ',Token antt contrne heart, aeknowl- 4.dging terriele guilt aud praying for mercy and eartiun. Having ()teemed fur- gate:tees, he tieseribes 12 unday*s lesson the hapIiint's o one teetered to the divine la.vor ite coutratatel, in his own experience, web the ixtteery of an Im- penitent concealment of sin. Like Paul (1 Tim. late he repreeeute ids tevu experience of torgiveuess as designed to be an example and encouragement to others. lite crime muet be judged from bus times, hie surroundings, anht from tits standpoint of las repentanee and sorrow. If the Mule uuveils the sin in bold details, it also shows how David's whole efter-life was darkened by the shadow of that great eclipse. It even that even in the case of God's friends "sorrow traeketh wrong as echo follows song, ore on, ou.'".the chief ten- phasee should be placed on repentance, pardon, and tho effort to help cabers. 'rime from the dark depths of bleak- est ein the way will be revealed to thorough foreavenese fullest joy, and subsequent u.sefuluess. By Augustine this. psalm WitS licellICLI se precious that uring his last Illness he caused It to be written upon the wall of his chamber, opposite his couch, so that his eyes ralght easily rest upon its comforting sentences. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verses 1, 2. Illeesed. The word is plural, 0 the blestednesses denoting the multitude of bitewings which accompany pardon. (1) Though ours may not be the joy of angels who have never sin- ned, we may pastes the blessedness of the forgiven. Trausgreesion means crowing a Itoundare; "breaking faith;" Lalling away; breaking God's law by en- tering the forbidden fields of sin. Sin is, literally, missing a mark; deviation from a. path. The word for iniquity conveys the idea of distortion, "perver- sion/ and contrasts the crooked ways of smilers with the straight line of duty. (2). However varied the aspect of sin, its oreginal is the same. To meet these aspects of sin we have a. threefold des- cription of forgiveness. Is forgiven. The burden of sin is taken away and the heart made to feel glad and free. When this takes place the sinner is re- garded and treated as if he had never sinned. The teacher should make plain to the scholars how forgiveness is ob- tained for them. Covered. So that its foulness no longer meets the eye of the judge. "Hidden," not from mem- ory, but from. judgment. Imputeth not. As the canceling of a debt which is no longer reckoned against the offender. (3) Let us not brood over sins which God refuses longer to look at. In whose spirit there es no guile. No deception of himself; no dissemblingtoward God. (4) There can be no forgiveness with- out sincerity on our part. 3. This verse and the next shed light on David's history, and show that be- fore Nathan approached him with his pointed parable (2 Sam. 12) his con- science was active and his life wretch- ed from remorse. Kept silence. Sil- ent before God, but not silent to him- self. My bones. His guilty secret wore away his life's foundations. 'Youthful spirits departed, and old age came sud- denly, because of, mental agony. Roar- ing. The chained lion seemed to be an apt figure of his own inward groan- ing because of unconfessed sin. 4. Day and night. Through the day his royal robes covered an aching heart; night brought heavier shadows to his burdened soul. Was heavy upon me. Partly by remorse of conscience, part- ly, perhaps, by ectual sickness. God's chastisement is always in love. My moisture, Like a plant that is shriv- eled and dried up by intense heat. In Palestine green valleys are quickly ren- dered parched and desolate by intense heat. (5)Every pain sent by God may be turned by us into an angel to beck- on us nearer to hire. If a child burns his finger with fire or cuts it with a sharp. knife, the pain is very great. This es to guard htm against the fire or knife next time. If no pain ensued he might be so careless as to cut or burn his hand so severely as to lose it for life. So God sends suffering after sin to deter from sinning,. It is uncertain whether the e.xpresnons of verse 3 and 4 are figurative, referring to mental anguish only, or whether they. suggest that David's trouble of conscience re- sulted in illness and. physicial suffering. 5. I acknowledg%L ed. is was during Nathan's visit (2 Sam. 12. 13). About a year elapsed between the commission of the, crime and. its confession. Have not hid. By the two psalms written at this tiroe (one of which was given to the xnusteia,n of the temple service) be publiely made kisown Ms sin 'and corifession. Nothing was palliated or withheld. Thou Forgavest. The orig- inal expresees the immediateness of the pardon. (0) Thorough healing will de- pend on thorough probing and remov- al of the evil tbat caused- pain. (7) Goa's forgiveness bas a breadth and power what man's cart never possess. 6. For this. Rather, Therefore let every one. Dated presents bis own ex- perience of pardon as an encouragement to ()there. Mayest be found. Literally, in a time of fiading. The meaning is, let no one delay, for there is a time of not finding (Prot!, 1. 28) The great waters. Conviction of sin and punish- ment come like an overwhelming moun- tain torrent. Penitence will arrest tbe nu eeding judgment; persistence in siu wxU cause the offender to perish. Not come nigh. He will be safe like the one wee stands secure on a rock out of reacls of tee raging flood. (8) If we seek the Lord early we are sure to find him. 7. Thou art my hiding place. Au allusion either to the terror-strieken rawnslayer and the city of refuge, or to the rocky crags which were inaccessible to an enemy. Compass me about. A. little while ago every event of life was an accuser, but now wherever he turna he finds a new song. "It suggests the center of a circle of joy."—Van Dyke. (9) Some of the richest lessons of wis- dom are learned under the rod of dis- cipline. 8. 1 will instruct thee. David ire ad- dressing another godly person over- taken in tranegression, mad offers to point out to luta that path of ado y. (Compare Luke 22. 32, and Pealin 51, 13.) With mine eye. The Itevised Ver- sion bas, "I will counsel thee with mine eye upon taee." Tee idea is that of was who is teuing another what way he is to take to reach a certain place, antl he says he will keep an eye upon Itim, he wdl not let lam go erong. Tim popular view whieli represents Jebovah as the speaker ea this veree and the next steins to as forced aud inaccurate, al- though it is upbeld hy a few sato/ars. 9. Be ye not as the, horse, or as the mule. The mule is a preverbial type of stubborn persistency. Bit and hridle. If ellen will not be governed by reason, God. will use force. Lest they come near. Better, "else they will not come eear"—will not be sulkiest to your con- trol. (1.0) Saints are drawn to God by love, sinners by fear. 10. Many sorrowe. .Frorn them there is no escape and in them no victory while he remains whited. He that, trust- eth. Thie imitate: that he has con- fessed and forsaken els sin, txt.I MAY Rivets lairaself up to God in truetful tees thence. Compass hate alaut. :surround- ed on all sides by mercy, harm can Collie to !Mu from. no direetion. II. Be glad in the Lord. The cam% for exultation is it the knuwledge. etre- seesion, and enjoynient of Guth Shoue for joy, all ye. The eived cannot re- frain a hearty outburst of ,sonses, and kindred spirits name ehere the joy of a pardoned soul, (11) 1 here Ls no need to seek for pleaeure in the way of sin, wbile there is each fullness of joy at God's right hand. SUMMER SMILES. "Fame,' said Uncle Eben. "am jes' swingin' in er hammock. Ilit am dieteegsititrei•nggotanelafutlinattpf soyemr.e.,body, dean' cut "Do', your family sympathize with you when. you have Lustannia ?" "Yes. When 1 can't sleep I sit up aU nigh.t and praetiee on my accordion." "1 V.olat to take a quinine capsule this Inaopt,rntingit, jann utlatm,t obulatte carathinewiti.3 d"eeAdb,r,that as a bitter parting, in- Willie—al Grandpa. tell rae a. story," Grandpa—" Once upon a time before faePeoyu.s.:_latest‘okleriFif_ht„ oohf ,Iniairrdeoingu.t fitrvan1110313- "I suppose your are fond. of Shaks- Peare," amid one legitimate actor to an- other. "01 course I am." "Then why in ta4hetinnaginbeisopflahrt,seatnity do .you insist ori.Just like our hopes Which often vanish in vapor, Are the candidate's promises; Strong—on paper. Mechanicse" I bave just been mar- ried and would like a raise in my wages." Employer—"1 am scary, but the company is only responsible for .acei- dtheentsfateitalyt ha.,, ppen to the men whde m aaa eTudilhoene.hr,oetis'stishainklon."inaeythslg:ae.";s11511-alrontggoodhinntg.gout Hicks.o" Waggles—" 1 thing. It doesn't seem to trouble 'aim " It seems to me, Mr. Stillson, that your new home is laeking in a judicious use of fretwork." "Well, my wife will fill that deficiency just as soon as site gets her eye on those measly closets." He—" I a,m going to pay you the high- est compliment a. man can pay a -wo- man." She—" This is so sudden." He— "1 know it, but I came away without my pocketbook—can you leaaa me a dol- lar until to -morrow?" "And how is your papa, Eddie?" ."Pa - ea. 12 feeling ever so much better to- day." "I suppose it's the change in the weather?" "No, ma'am, 'taint the weather. Mamma has decided to start for the seaside to -morrow." First Wheelmatt—" I always get rat- tled when I see a woman crossing the street ahead of me." Second Wheelman —"So do I. They have so many pins in their clothes that if a fellow colledes etvureith athetirrne.he is almost sure to purics "No," said Memel Dawson, in answer to his benefactor's question, "hard times is not the best for our business. Nor yet good times. The times that suits work ain't too plenty, nor money too scarce." me best is about medium—when. the "Once for all, girl," he hissed, "once Lor all, will you marry me?" "Yes," she said, "I'll marry you, but I don't know about the once for all part of it. 1 guess yciot,uyeb,a.ven't lived. here long en- ough to catch the spirit, of our enter- pnisixxg Fuckly— ' Snapshot was showing me a lot of photographs he has taken. They are only passable, but to hear Snap- shot talk you would think them mar- vels of the photegraphie art." Duddy— Yes, Snapshot esn't much of an art- ist, but then his views are better than his opinions." WORLD'S DEATH RATE. It has been computed that the, death rate of the globe is 68 per minute, 97,- 920 per day., or 35,765,280 per year. The birth rate is 70 134).' minute, 100,800 per day, or 36,817,200 per yeaxe reckoning the year to be 365 1-4 days in length,. BOBBY'S GRIEF. Bobby, what are you sti unhappy about? I'm. mad 'came eve ain't got no big famay ; over at Billy Hopkins's house he's got two gramenas an' three aunts ter help him git his own way. IGNORANT MINERS. Many ltose Their Xives Through Not liaidOW-, ing What To Ho. Scientifie inquiry Ls being directed- tO the sa.ving of launtan life in slab* explo- sions. Dr. Haldane bas established, the fact that the loss of life in colliery so- aidents is far greeter then it need be whea those who work in the mince and tbose who manage them heve elearer knowledge of tae right thing -to do in the face of the ea/amity. In is recent naive explosion, where 57 men and 30 horses were killed, the cause of death 1 itt every carte was prove4 to be not the want of oxygen in the air of tlui pit atter the epiosion, but to comparative- ly slow poisoning by carbou monoxide. Su/fit:tent oxygen to support life was bat La the airways all along the, tracic of the expiosum. It appears that men from want of knowledge now go straight to their death in endeavoring to escape. Dr. Haldane 12. convinced that atundeeds of men lost theutlives by hurrying bainca, ly toward the shaft, or by not rettring toward the face when they met the • after -damp. In many parts of the mule there will be, beyond. the limits of the explosion, abundant* of aur to effect di- lution of the poisonous carbon -monox- ide ,on breathing winch the men sud- denly loee the Use of their limbs and fna fly cobsciousness. So that a man who waits for the rescuers, or long en- ougn for the after -damp to diverse, Will be able to escape either by the intake, or, if this is blocked, by the return. air- ways. WELL -PACKED TRUNK, The marvel of packing. paeleing of clothes, I mean, is that it is so simple, when you we for the first time a, pro-, fessional French packer put u.p your best gowns you feel sure you will come to year journey's end without a, rag to wear, says a. writer. He puts three timee as many things in the same space as you would. Of course, anyone can pack well enougb if she eas the room —a, separate box for every waist, a tray for every skirt. Then, too, some goods wrinkle so badly that no ca,re can avert catastrophe; they COMO to grief even in the hands of a French maid at home. Test everything you, buy from point of view. With mater- ial not given over to evil you earl learn to rank ext that your clothes won't tell • the tale of their prison house. The cardinal point is to wrap lap every delicate garment separately; of • couzett it should be folded amootbly, and to teach bow to fold. tate hes in print is not easy. Any good dressmaker, bow - ever, tan give you points on that. and the wrapping is the more important thing; pin towels or sheets of tissue pared.' about your garment, but re- ' member that -newspapers are what you sbould fold between each layer of pret- ty things in the trunk. Nothing else iii so gotta; it is so unyieldiuts that wrink- les and protuberanees cannot make themselves felt through it to mark the fabrics beneath them any more than it you had used sheet iron. it is use- less to try to arrange heavy things at tile bottorri,llglit on top.; the laggag,e smasher knows no top and no bottom; just concentrate eourself on keeping a smooth even surface for each successive layer. Bows and sleeves cam be stuffed put with newspapers better than anything elee. Be sure that your wrappings are pinned firsnly so that there will I* tio coming undone, they are your bulwarks. In packing breakable articles it is ea- tonishing how many people will jara them down in corners and sides where they get the full form of every concus- sion against the unelettling walls. Tie on your corks w 11 with bits 01 rage and taint, and. put your bottles near the middle of a compartment. and you xnay carry ink and shoe dressing in safety around the world. In packing shuch things as delicate hats, bonnets and fancy waists of such a frou-frou nature. that rto pressure ean be allowed on them it is still better to fill up the empty spaces of the boxes allotted them with lightly twisted. sheets of tissue paper than to give there a. chance to move, and with all due res - pea to the best packing in tbe world it is still well to unpack., as soon as you can. IVES, THE BILLI.aRDIST, Frank Ives, champion billiard player of the world, can. strike a billiard ball with a, eue harder than any other living man. With one blow he can drive the ball around the table until it has strut* eleven. cushions. Fitzsimmons can bare- ly touela nine cushions, whileorhett can touch one lass. Ives thbaketeratitis peculiar ability is due to some unusual construction of his arm, and he has just made a well m which he directs that at his death his right arm should be severed from his body and sent to his physician for dissection. The rest of the body will be cremated. Ives, by the way, has aloe! 300,000 during his career. CALLS HIMSELF A FOOL. Wbere are you going, Colonel? asked Mrs. Yerger of her husband, as he put on his hat to go out. Look here, Mrs. Yerger, a sensible , woman never asks her husband wbere he is going. But, of course, the sensible husband bas the right to ask bis wife where she is going, when she goes out," re, - torted Airs. Yerger, scornfully. A sensible man, responded the Colon- el, never does ask his wife where she is going for the simple reason that the sensible man never has a wife, and with a triumphant smile he put on his hat and sallied forth. ---• SAME OLD PICTURE. What landscapes is there about your hotel, landlord? The same they have at all resorts; The summer girl entertaining her beau. Mother—" Mary, that youn.g Spinners has been paying a. great deal of atten- tion to you of late. Do you thistle he means business?" Mary (with a far away look)—" I am afraid he does, moth- er. He is an agent for a bicycle firm, and he has done nothing but try to sell me a eyele ever since be has been com- ing here." LIFE-LONG DEVOTION ASSURED. Mrs. Sosial—And so Miss Flirtie is en- gaged to your son. Do you think she wffl be true to him.; Wise Dame—Oh, she'll be true to him xis long as other women admire him, and. I guess lisal be handsome all his life. WIDE AW.A.EB, George, can you sit un 'with me to- night? My dear wife, are you ill? No; but there's to be a silk sale toe morrow morning at Bargain & Coes, and 1 wave 12 be on theta.