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GROSTLY:WRESTLE,
THE SEVERE STRUGOL11 WHIOH THE
PATIlIARCH JACOE HAD.
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Sperity nme--Trotimes save.
Waebingtou, Nov. 22.—Out of this
strange scene or Bible times Dr. Tale
mage, in his sermon to -day draws re-
raerkable lessons of .good dieer and,
triumph. The text Genesis xxxii, 25,
26: "And when be saw that he pre-
vailed not against him he touched the
hollow of lea thigh, and the hollow of
Jacob's thigh was out a joint as he
wrestled with him. end he said, Let
me go, for the day breaketb. And he
said, I will not let thee go except thou
bless me,"
There is acloud of dust frora.
_toweling herd of cattle and sheep end
goats arid camels. They are tbe pre-:
sent that Jacob sends to gain the
goodwill a les offended brothel-. That
night Jacob halts by the broek Jabbok,
But there is no rest for the weary mae,
no shining ladder to let tbe angels
down into his dream, but a severe
struggle that lasts until morning with
an unknown visitor. They- each try to
throw the other. The unknown visitor,
to reveal Ms superior power, by a
touhle wrenches jacola's thigh bone
from its sweet, perems maiming him
for life. As on the morning sty the
clusters of purple (Ilona begin to ripen,
jacob sees it is an angel with wham
he has . been contending and not one
of his brother's coadjetors, "Let me
go," cries the angel, lifting bimself UP
into increasing light; "the day breek-
ete."
You see in the first place, that God
allows good people sometimes to get
int,o a terrible struggle, acob was a
good men, but there he is alone in the
onclalight to wrestle with a txeraexe
does influence by the brook Jabbok,
Por joseph, a pit; far Detect, a wild
beast ..den; for David dethronement
and exile; for John the Baptist, a
wilderness diet and the executioner's
ex; for Peter, a prison; for Paul, ship-
wreck; for John, desolate Pattnes; for
Christ, the cross. For whom the racks,
the gibbets, the priso,ns, the thumb-
screws? For the sons and daughters
of the Lord Almigbty. Some one said
to a Christian reformer, "The -world is
against you." "Then," he replied, "I
an. against the world."
I will go further and say that every
Oheistian has his struggle. With finan-
401 misfortune some of you lave
liad the inidnight wrestle. Redboh dis-
asters have dropped into your store
fromloft to cellar. What you bought
you could not sell. Whom you trusted
fled. The help sou expected would not
came. Some giant pamic, with long
'Items and 'grip like deafer, took hold
of you in an awful wrestle, from which
you beve not yet escaped, and it is
uncertain whether it will throw you
or you will throw it. Here is another
soul in struggle with some bad appe-
tite. Re knew not how stealthily it
was growing upon him, One *hour he
woke up. He said, "Por the sake of
ray soul, of my family, of my children
and of my God Imust stop this!" And
prayers. When 1 bad my rent te Pay
and nothing to eay it with, and bread
to buy and nailing to buy it 'with,. I
use4 to sit down and cry, But now
I do not get discouraged. If I go
•along the street, when I come to a
corner of the street, I say, "The Lord
nelp .me I" 1 then go on Midi. X oome
to another cros.eing of the street, and
agaie t say, "The Lord help me!" And
so I utter a prayer at every croasing,
and since I have got into the habit 9f
saying these cross prayers I have been
able to keep up my courage'
Learn again from this subjeet that
people sometimes are surprised to find
out that what they have beeu strug-
gling with in the darkness is really
an "angel a blessing," Jacob found
in tee morning that this strange per-
sonage was not an enemy, but a God.
dispatched. messenger to promise Pros-
perity foe him and. for his thildren.
Mid so many a man at the close of
his trial has found out that he has been
trying to throw down his own blessing.
If you are a Christian man, I will go
back in your history and find that the
grandest things that have ever hap-
Pe,ned, to you leave been your trials.
Nothing short of scourging, imprison -
meet and shipwreck could have, made
Paul what he was, When David was
fleeing through tbe wilderness, pursued
by his own son, he was being prepared to
become the sweet singer af Israele'nee
pit and the dungeon were the best
schools at which joiseph ever graduat-
ed. The hurricane tbat upset the teat
and killed Job's childree prepared the
meal of Ile to be the eubjece of the
magnificent poem,. that has astonished,
the ages. There is no way to get the
wheat out of the straw but to thraeli
it. There is no way to purify the gold
but to burn it. Look at the people
who have always had it their own way.
They are provide diseontented, useless
and unhappy. if you want to find
eheerful folk, go among those who
have been purified by the fire. After
Rossini bad rendered "William Tell"
the five hundredtb time a .company of
musicians came under his window In
Paris and. serenaded him. They put
upon his brow a golden crown- of laurel
leaves. But amid all the applauee and
enthusiasm Itossini turned to a friend
and said, "I would give all this bril-
liant scene for a few dere of Youtid
and love." Centred the melancholy -
feeling of Rossini, who ead everything
that this world could give him, with
tbe joyful experience of Isaac Watts,
whose eorrows were great, when he
says:
The hill of Zion yields
4. thousaald sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
behold be found bimself alone by tbe
brook of Jabbok, and it was midnight.
That evil appetite' seized upon him,
and he seized upon it, and, oh, the hor-
ror of the canflict 1 When once a bad
, hebit bath roused itself up to destroy
a man, and tee man hath sworn that
by the help of the eteroaal God he will
destroy it, all heaven draws itself out
In long line' of light to look from
above, and all hell stretches itself in
myrmidons of spite to look up from
beneath. I have seen men rally them-
selves for a struggle, a.nd they. have
bitten their lip, and clinched their fist,
and cried with a blood -red earnest-
ness and a rain of scalding tears, "God
help me I"
From a wrestle with habit I have
seen men fall back defeated. Calling for
no help, but relying on their own re-
solutions, they have come into the
struggle, and for a time it seemed as
if they were getting the upper hand
of their habit. But that habit rallied
again its infernal power and lifted
tee soul from its standing, and with
a 'force borrowed from the pit hurled
it into darkness.
But, thank God, i have often seen a
better termination than this. I have
seen ane•n prepare themselves for such
a wrestling. They laid hold of God's
help as they went into combat. The
giant habit regaled by the cup of
vaan3c dissipations, came out strong
and defiant. They olinched. There were
the writhings and distortions of a fear-
ful struggle. But the old giant began
to waver, and at last, in the midnight
alone, with none but God to witness,
by the brook of Jabbok, the giant fell,
and the triumphant wrestler broke the
darkness with the cry, '."Thanks be
mato God, who giveth us the victory,
through our Lord Jesus' Christ."
There is a widow's heart that first
was deselated by bereavement and
since by the anxieties and trials that
cane in the support of a family. It is
a sad thing to see a man contending
for ie livelihood under disadvantages,
but to see a delicate woman, with help -
lest little ones at her back, fighting
the giants of poverty and sorrow is
mere affecting. It was a humble home,
and passersby kneev not that within
those four walls were displays of cour-
age more admirable than that of Han-
mloal crossing the Alps, or in the pass
of Theranepylae,.• or at 93alaklava,
where • "into' the, jaws of death rode
the six hundred.' These heroes' had
the whole world to cheer them on,
but there was no one to applaud the
struggle in that humble home. She
fought for ,brea•d, for clothing, for fire,
for ahelter, with aching heart and
weak side and exhausted strength,
througla the long night by the brook
Jabbok. Coald it be that none would
give her help? Ihed Cod forgotten to
be gracious ? No, emending soul. The
midnight air is full of wings coming
to the i•escue. She bears it now, in
the sough of the night wind, in the
ripple of the brook Jabbok the promise
made so long ago, ringing down. the
sky. "Thy tat herless children, I will
preserve them alive, and let thy wid-
ows trust in it i' Seine ono said to
5, very pcm wenian, "How is it that
in such (Ilene; you keep cheerful ?"
She said; "f (lo It whatI cell cross
THE SUNDAY SCROOL over °wIc'vk ts' and tmP VERB 1JE N UR E ,THE aoRsr,
up.. this fair world. and know that ble s a t 17 A
we shall never &earn see its blossoming val. toward the sordid ideals of Alex- jja 11.)
spriat at,s autemaial fruits, its lark- 'ander and Napoleon. So that, jeavel Something MAU the etellate
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'mks rearms and tosay farewell to hose be Christian standards, even by h .h - see agetteese ereee,
wit whom played in childhood or INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 0 Mosaic standards, the heart of Dayid BRITAIN' AND THE STATES BOTH .
emu:melted in manhood, • Iaer,tshleat night
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bike 'Ta-eob• mar niouin
bave wreatie ‘scavi's S." gs 4ea. Gown elmeure• But there was One 13aelaciPle
bat God. vvill not (Ave us unbleased. 1 Klie
to wlecla David was ever true. Never ---" Tattereall's, the fenena jaerae
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dying soul cried. unto God, for help, but e, lee iverwmax et races were e •,
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be turned to keep out the sun, or a
book eat to dine the light of the mid- The akin a tbe horise is velea,ble ter e
nieht taper, or the room may lae filled ,
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with. the cries of orpbanage or widow- . • •
a., true. In •relegaous loyalty e never it claims to be a complete Summary' of Taio first English redaLeila ansideltoY . •
hood, or the church of Christ Mae ___beee tberns, or a fig thistles, or
wavered, In, the ohaetpionseip of ''Je- the agreement regarding the VeneZue- Was founded by Willem elle tl
mourn over our •going ; but, if Jesus fountain send. forth at the same Igace bovah he was never infirm, In thougbts
calls, all is well. The streng wrestle' sineet water ana bitter? But of God he was never impure Si
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h Ian question. The articae is f3ntitiedt In feleristian are tho eoree, syTe ,
GENERAL STATEMENT.
The folly and vice of Solomon's ma-
turity startle U2 after the wisdom. and
virtue of his youth. Can an &eye tree
stood. no this world to therapoe the
cease a Jehovah, to confirm Jebovall's
laws, to exalt Jebeivall's vrorship, to
increase the territory of jellovah's cult.
To this one great Ideal ,was ever
aeteee
Tben let our aongs abound
And every tear be dry,
We're marthingethrough Ironaanuel'a
Igeound
To rawer worlds on high.
izes
1 o'olook in the mornieg, 2 o'clock in sudden as at first it seemed. From them, and with tears returned th Je- —tw"elEterVdse:efzuaelaran°:leGfireaagtr6m13xiteallint *89adjaeSs and g°11"°aitLY'
hovel, crying, "Against thee, and thee tee settlement of the Venezuelan
hours of deatles night will pass alonge-
tete raornine ceelook, in tbe morning the very outeet of his career the ()beer- only have 1. sinned." In affection -
o app
P oP
ing, by the brook will cease. The sothommes
Moral downfall was not so committed; but he bitterly repented
the day biareakethe
So I would have it when I die, I ain
vant studeet notices signsf roadie -
in no haste- to be gorve. I would like danger. The frequency of God's
to stand blare 20 years and preach this warnings suggests the flow of an 1.131 -
gospel. I Axave no grudie against this dercurrent of unfaithfuleess. No man
world, • The only fault have to find
with this worl4 is that it treats roe
too well. But when the time comes
to go I trust to be ready, nay everldiy
affairs all settled. If I have 'wronged
others,I want then to be sure of their
forgiveness. In that last wrestibig, ray
dem enfeebled with sicknese anct me_
headfaint, I ' want Jesusbeside me. II
there be bands on this side of the flood
stretched outto held me back, X want
It is prosperity that kills and trouble
Mali saves. White the Israelites were
on the march amid great privatians
and hardships they behaved well. After
awhile they prayed for meat, and the
sky darkened with a great flock oa
quails and these quails fell in great
multitudes all about tbean, and the
Israelities etre and ate and stuffed them-
selves until they died. Oh, my friends,
it is not hardship or trial or starve -
tion that injures thesoul, but abundant
supply. It is not the vulture of trouble
thee eats up tbe Christian's life. It is
the quails. It is tee quails, You will
yet foldout tbat your midnight, wrestle
by the brook Jabbok is with an angel
of God come down to bless and to
save.
Learn again that, white- our wrest-
ling with trouble might be triumphant,
we must expect that it will leave its
mark upon us. Jacob prevailed,but the
angel, touched him., and bis thigh bone
sPraeg from his socket, and the good
men went limping on les way. We
must carry through this world the
mark of the coraeat. What plowed
these premature wrinkles in your facet
Wbat weitened your hair before it was
time for frost? What silenced forever
so much of the hilarity of your house-
hold? Ab, it is because the ngel of
trouble loath touelied you that you go
limping on your way. (You need not
be aurprised that those who bave
Paseed through the fire do not feet as
gay as once they did., Do not be out
of patience with those who come not
out of their de.spondeney. They may
triumph over their loss, and yet their
gait ahala .tell you that they have been
trouble touched. Axe we Stoics that
we can unmoved see our 'cradle rifled
of the bright eyes and the sweet Lips?
Can we sta•nd unmoved and see our
gardens of earthly delight uprooted?
Will Jesus, who wept Himself, be angry
with us if we pour our teaxs into the
graves that open to swallow down
wlvat we loved. best I Was Lazarus
more dear to him than our beloved
dead' to us? No. We bave a right to
weep. Our tears must come. You
shall not drive them back to scald the
heart. They fall into God's 'bottle.
Afflicted ones have died because they
could not weep. . frhank God for the
sweet, th,e mysterious relief that comes
to us in tears. tender this feentle rain
the flowers of bope eat forth their
bloom. God pity that dry, withered,
parched, an consuming grief that.
wrings its hands,. a_na. grinds its teethe
and bites its 335.1:5 into the quick, but
cannot weep. We may,bave found the
comfort of the cross,andy.et• ever after
Show that in the dark night and by
the brook Jabbok we were trouble -
teethed.
Again, we may take the idea of the
text and annourice the approach of the
day dawn. No one was ever more glad
to see the morning than was Jacob
after that night of struggle: It is ap-
propriate for philanthropists aaid
Chreetiaas to cry out with els angel, of
the text: "The day breaketh." The
world's prospects are brightening.
Superstition has had its strongest
props knocked out. The tyrants of
earth are failing flat in the dust. The
church of Christ is risieg up in its
strengte to go forth, "fair as the morn,
clear as the sun and terrible • as an
army with banners." Clep your hands,
abi .ye people, "the tidy breaketb."
As I look around. about me I see
many who have passed througb waves
of trouble teat came up higher than
their girdle. In God's name I pro-
etaim, cessation , of hostilities. You
shala not always go saddened and
heartbroken,God wild lift your burden.
God *will bring your dead to life. .pod
stanoh the heart's bleeding. I
know He will. Like a father ptieth
his children so the Lord pities you.
The pains of earth, wile end. The dead
will rise. The manning star trembles
on a brightening sky.The gates of
the east begin to swing open. "The
day breaketh."
Luther and Melanchthon were talk-
ing together g•loonally and about the
prospects of the church. They could
ace no hope of deliverance. iefter
awhile Luther got up and said to Me-
1311011/len, 'Come, Mille, let us sing
the Farty-sixell Psalm, 'God is our re-
fuge and etrength in every time of
trouble.' "
Death to meny—nay te all—is a strug-
gle aud arwreetle. We have many
friende whom it would be (hard to
leave. I bare not how bri ht our future
hope is, it ie a bitter thing to look
whose biograpby is given in the Bible
received anything like so many and so
solemn warnings of the results of de-
parture froni. high moral standard as
did Soloraina. Then, too, we note„ even
in hie prime, repeated transgression of
the very law by virtue of Whieh he
ruled. Take three of four examples.
the heavenly bancls stretched out to First, turn from Dean 17. 17, th,e king
draw nee forward. Then. CI Jesus, help shall not "greatly multiply to himself
me on and help me tip 1 Ihafea,ringe un- see" and how' to 1 Etugs 10. 14-25,
doubting,. may I Istep Tight out into ,
the light and, be able to look built to where an amazing account is given of
my kiedred and friends, who would the metallie Splendin• of Solomon's
detain me here, exelaiming: "Let me court; an annual tribute of 666 talents
got Let me go 1 The day breaketh." of gold; 200 targets of "beaten" gold,
each containing 600 shekele; 300 shields
MAKE LIFE ENJOYABLE. • of "beaten" gold, each, weiglangelaree
Within the last few years the "em- pounds; a great throne of ivory over-
ancipation of woman," as it is ogled, laid with the "best" geld; drinking
has made very rapid strides in Prange. vessels of "fine" gold.; vessels of the
It is not only thee women are more House of the Forest of Lebanon of
freely admitted, to share in the labour "pure" gold; the navy of Tbarshish
of life and to occupy posts in the pub- every third year bringing gold and sil-
ver, besides other luxuries; "all the
lie offices, banking 'houses, merchants
establishments, eta, which were form- earth" seeking Solomon with presents
erly reserved exclusively for men, but of "ve,sseas of silver and vessels of
they are demanding loudly to be per- gold;" while as for silver, "the king
mitted to exercise political rights. made it to be in Jerusalem as stones."
Tills, however, is by no means all. SewndlY, turn to Deut. 17. 16, the
Since they share in the labour which king must "not multiply horses to him -
was formerly performed by the stronger self," nor send to Egypt to purchase
sex, they deraand, and are assuming, horses, and thee to 1 Eines 10. 28, 29,
independence in the pleasures of life. where we learn that Solomon import -
The bicycle has done a very great deal ed horses from Egept, buying at the
rate of 150 'shekels of silver a.pleee.
to aid the Parisienne to obtain it.
After learning how to ride, the wife Thirdly, in Deuteronomy the king is
of a shopkeeper or clerk began by forbidden to "nmitiply wives to him -
timidly accompanying her husband on self, that his beart turn not away ;"
excursions wben they happen to be but the first three verses of the chap::
both free. Little by little, gaining ter from which our lesson is taken tell
confidence, the wife no longer waits for usthat Solomon gatheredfor his harem
her husband, but takes a turn in the 1,000 wives and concubines, Here were
Bois de Boulogne alone, or even ex- three conspicuoue departures from \valet
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time far into the country. roabennr at
e:constitutional thekking." g.,,
tends her excursions hunter, ooroo- amapwpea_trhsetolegbaalv ,e,
New it is announced that, competing A. fourth item of disobedienc,e was more
with men, the leaders of the woman's likely to be imitated byhis subjeets,
emancipation movement, have establish- end more serious in its immediate ili
ed a club, situated in the Rue Duperre. effect. In Bead, 34. 16, end again in
It has already sixty members, among
Daut.a7,1-3,wao2amisraelites are
heHittite,f°rbiclde
n
whom are Mme. de Yarsy, tbe presi-
te rnrryenfrom
dent; Mine. dtA,uxelle de Pailadine, the tisha
eheao,onitperw
et,and.eottearnMaliernetivs
tribes; nips
Comtesse de Lanaotte Pc:lecher, tbe h
Coratesse de Mettle, and the Marquise wive,s were "strange women," that is,
"Moabites, Ammonites, Edamites, Zid-
de Tallenay. onia,ns, and Hittites." It is true that
The regulations of this club, the erea-
al purpose his heart was perfect.
5. Solomon, wen t alter, That is, he
re,gardea the idetaeriee mentioned witb
boundary question as agreed upon be-
tween Great lariteen and the United
States of America," There a•re foie'
approval and eneouraged them. faie heads. Under the first the appoint-
toretb tee goddess of the Zidamaes. the , _ , to de_
Zidonian.s are the Phoenicians, for Zid- 444 erwereaaoll.tronallaa.
iP7hgoswericiroae°,:aiecnidaQnfins GotfhrteeeennleabaendaidrligLtha:tiltni:wsarzialotefi Umateer7d:r:rt
the appointmeat of a tribunal
bathe. setereb7adacl rYbelsadluPQr3rolvdieeidonfoisr.
An inscriptioxi discOvered in tee reeled
zidoe
in 1855 rotors to 0, tete.* oe Ash. of five members, two to be nominated
toreth which etood there. 'This god- by the Supreme Court of the United
dese was matched with Baal in weer- States, two by the Supreme Court of
ship, and was sometimes adored as the Great Bitabi
' fifth member
planet Venus, sometimes as the moon,
sometimes in forms of carven wood; but istobeYajuriswthisebeth°
leote
d by the other
always she was the embodituent of tbe members. In the event of these four
productive power in nature, and the
rites of her worship were impure, Men
cam the abotainetion or the Ammon-
ites, "Abomination" bere means the
hateful, detestable idol, it is probable
that Miltom is the saxue as Moleeti
If se, he was the fire god, and was wor-
shiped by the sacrifice of children,
though that horrid crime is not men-
tbieotoerde asatehadvainysg obreeAnlaawzrought in judaie
6. This verse whieh is a repetition of
tbe latter part o,f verse 4, seems to pre-
clude the thought that Solomon ever
meeibers to agree upon the se-
leetiort of the fiftb. member, Xing Oscar
of Sevettee and ltierway wiel select him.
The fifth member will be President. of
the tribunal, and. he raay be a Judge
of either the Supreme Court of the
United States or the similar coert of
Great Britale. Duder the third head
the tribunal is direoted to exeroine alt
the facts neeenkary to decide the we-
troversy regarding tbe territory known
becarae an idola.tor in prepuce, He to belong to the Netherlands 'and the
went not fully in the right way; he tole Kingdom ee span when eeeee Britain
erated and favored idolatries. a Course • •
acquired. Guiana. Under the fourth
thee was irreconcilable with true fidel-
ity to the Lord; but be never discarded
the his
of Jehovah. To the end
(Allis reign he would seem to have of-
fered his solemn sacrifices on. the great
altar thrice a. year. When kings served
false gods the Bible directly says so, as
for ins -tame in 1 Kings lb, 31; 22, 53;
2 Kings 16, 3. What Solomen did was
to lineage and patronize the idolatries
of his wives. It may be worth while
to notice in passing that every one.of
these was a 'laughter of a king, with
royal assumption, ateustomed to have
her own way; and among seven hun-
dred it would not be strange if he found.
one or two as raanaging and maaterfel;
biraself. So that Solomon's sin, in
the last analysis, was weak consent of
tate sies of others—a, disposition to
take tbe easier eourse rather than the
right course. (2) Jehovah will be all
m.all, or nothing, and Solomon's wor-
ship of him was worse than thrown
away. (3) Idolatry in its last analysis
is devotion to something else than
Goed.
'7. A higb place. Ancient altars were
often erected on top of pyramidal piles,
each a sort of four-square staircase;
an a teraples nearly alwaya stood on
hilleides. Like the modern church
Knee this typified. the effort of human-
ity ato get a,s near as possible to heaven
anoeGod. But, sad to say, it was often
typecal also of things anethoughts less
noele. Chemoah, the abomination of
Made Although Cheinosh is usual -
lar Put down a,s the god of war, it is
passible that Cheinoeb, Baal, Moleoll,
Pad Ashtoreth were origbaaely dif-
ferent. names for one great god.
worshiped. under different attribules
end. with various rites in different
countries, until at last they cense to be
regerded as different gods.. "Asetaxch-
eraosh" is mentemed on the Moabite
stone; and we lmow that. Ashter was
the masculine form of Astarte; so tbat,
lik,e the others, Chemesh was probably
weashiped in peat, at least,. with sensa-
te practicae. ete hill that is before Jer-
usalem. The Mount of Olives,. one peek
of which has been, for centuxies
larly known as the Mount of Scandal
or the Mount of Offense, from a, leg-
end. thet II was the sight of an idolat-
rous teraple. Molenh,k the abomination
of tam chieiren of Ammon. Protra.blie
this is to be regarded as a duplication
of "Milcom the abomination of the Am-
monites."
8. Likewise did Iva for all his strange
eyives. There would have been, trouble
in that household if he had not, Ana
to offend three or four hundred wives
at once, Solomon did not dare. Burnt
incense and. sacrifice unto their gods.
Soloman built the altars; his wives ever-
shiped. "No hitt aboult Jerusalem was
free from a chapel of devies."—Eall.1
9. The Lord was angry with Sotom-
head it is provided. that the arbitrators
shall ascertain all the facts necessary
to arrive at a proper deesioe. TheY
must he governed in their findings by
TILREE SHORT RULES,
the most important of Weida provides
a preecreptien of 50 years. The arbi-
trators may give effect to the right of
settlers. In esta.blishiee the facts the
ordizary ranee of law shall prevail.
The agreemeat is dated Novemlaer 12,
1896, pad is si,gned by Secretary of
State Olney and. Sir Julian Paunce-
fate, the British Aro.bassador to the
United States. The Ceroniete auds
Mali the foregoing wita be tbe basis oil
the Anglo -Venezuelan treaty,
Treating of the settlement of'the
Venezuelan question Tbe Daily News
comments epon certain Tory. .om-
ze
plaints that Lord Salisbury c "Abed
down fram the position first :tuned
by him, which was that there "no-
thing to arbitrate," and adiso upon the
complaints of some French. and Ger-
man critics that Lord. Salisbury has
improperly exalted the -United States.
The paper contends that there is no
doubt that Lord Salsbury did climb
down somewlest, but the Secretary of
State Olney did likewise. It adds that
Lord Salisbury bas in nowise admit-
ted. the new version of the Monroe doc-
trine either theoretically , or formally,
hut that Air. Olney has succeeded to
some extent in establishing
evil& be interesting," inc News cone
oludee, "to see how far Mr. Olney or
his aitccessor is witting to follow up
the etop."
A special cable despatch from Lon-
don to a New York evening paper says:
—"No better evidence is possible of
the strong undercurrent of English
feeling in favor 'of the olosest Anglo -
accord than the outburst of
genuine satisfaction over the Venezue-
laa arbitration. No event in foreign
affairs during the present generation
has evoked such widespreed.
NATIONAL APPROVAL.
All parties and all classes are united,
aimost without a dissenting voice, in
paying no heed. even to tee New York
teak of an Engliah backdown. Per-
haps the English joarnalists are in-
fluenced. by ear. Smalley's plea in The
Titiae's that the idea of an English back -
down ought not to be discouraged, as
it would help the Senate to nommend
the treaty to Amertmen jingoe,s.
At al events, Adele Lord Salisbury
seemed to try to Iran -maze the facts,
Enifesh public opinlon finds in it the
opening of a new era in Augle-Ameri-
can history. One enthusiastic writer
bids the anti-Englisb. cabals in Euro-
pean chancellories to tremble no that
England and Ainerita, are friends.
These European Chancellors certain-
ly are showing a.larm. at England's
assent to what they regard as a Unit-
ed States suzerainty over South Am-
erica. The Paria Temps decilitres that
Europe cannot accept as a precedent
such a serious derogation of the right
of South American nations. The Col -
• Gazette and The North Germ=
Gazette, voicing, it is thought, the
views of the. Gerruan Foreign Oefice, re-
mind the United States that Germany
has large commercial interests in Cen-
tral America, and Venezuela, and re-
gards the German settlement in Brazil
as an Eldorado for tbe surplus German
populetion. "We wish,' says the semi -
organ, "to take the first; °ppm
tun* to deelere that the precedent Ls
at most an English, and m no way a
European, precedent, Germany wile
never tolerate the intervention of a
foreign State in the protection of he
baterests in Beath and Central Ameri
In the reign of Itiehard. Ill. the use -
of poet horses began in England,
The famous Flying Chiadera '4'70,
ran four miles under saddle 0.48`.
Cease observers declare that the Weal) '
really ahede tears when grieved.
The hoof and cartileg'es of the home
make an. excellent quality' of glue.
In the soutbern districts of China
thorse-sliosaa are made a cane or bam-
boo, .
Few animals possess the sense of
smell in a greater degree nlia-o tba
horse
The favorite war horse of the Duke
a W0.11424;011 was named "Capenlia-
igen."
Wild horses are found in great num- -
leers both Asia, North and Saab,
Araexica.
As late as the ninth century Euro- '
peen borses -were shod only in the win-
ter time,
It, LS Sad, by cempetent persons Omit e
over 100,000 horses are every year Ira). -
ed Lor fowl in Peels.
Assyria,n raonemental xecords bDw
teat cavalry and war chariots were
used et least 2500 B. C.
The fixst Xing in England to es-
tablasla a royal stable for !breeding
purposes was Henry VIII.
Studeuts of the etilline race declare
that the mule has all the faults of both
hie ancestral kialeo.
it is a tradition among the Jove,
that Solomon had. 40,000 chariot horses
and 12,000 cavalry,
The Arabian lenses have from the
earliest times, been noted, have,
tbeir
fleetuess and. endurance,
Boreeehoebag witla iron was unkhowu
Ragland uetil introduced atter the
Norman conquest in 1066.
Historians believe that the, horse was
first domesticated either in Central
Asia or Northern Africa.
Fossil aniinals, bearing a close re-
semblance J our horses, bave been
found in many parts of the world.
The trotting korse is an institute=
of the present century. Before 1800
running was the only method or ras-
ing.
It is said by scientific men that tbe
hair from the tail of the horse is tbe
strongest single animal thread known,
In. most countries of Europe borses
were not employee in agricultural la-
bor until a eoraparatwely recent
period.
The best ktown borse of Napoleon.
was Marengo, From first to last,
Napoleon bed nineteen horses shot un-
der bim in battte,
As a rule, wild horses, though not so
large as the domesticated animals, are
more muscular and can beitter endure
protracted. labor,
tion of which is likely to be follovved marrieree with. Ammunites ana elcabites
are sufficiently strict. They .prohibit
by others of a less select character, was not, so far as we know, expressly
strong
forbidderi by the eerily law; but so exceed's 15 years, although his natural
The working age of a horse rarely
;vas the feeling against the twice this period.
life sametinaes extends to more than
the Israelites were ordered Deut. 23. Accordix' lg. to Simmonds, Europe liad
all sorts of political and religious dis-
impropriety of union with them, that
ing candidates present the written con- c30,11tgorergeaftuseion tgun, receivethemttheenmth into genera-
in 1890, 31,B65,000 bones; Asia, 4,443,000;
.eirica, 721,000; America, 21,020,000, and
oussions. Married women are accepted
as members, but they must on becom-
however, prefer widows free from any mationrr."iageThiswitifigheaortohusen pisauhaibbuittiiodnantioyf Australia, 1,520,000.
Indtatus was the horse of Emperor
sent of their husbands. The organizers,
tied by to -day's lesson ; for if for- Caligula and. was made priest and con-
sign wives caused Solomon to sin, it sul. It had an ivory manger and drank
matrimonial trammels.
have been less easily influenced. So wine out of a golden pail.
The object of this company is evident- ilia
immoral were most of the foreigners Tbe education of the horse es easy,
ly to make life, as enjoyable as possi-
is not likely that his subjeots would
tent themselves with making their es- restrange women"—that is, foreign wo- compared with that a Many other an-
imals, as the Masse has an excellent
memory and is quick to apprehend.
ble for its members. &rims discus-
sions being banished, the members of
the Ladies' Club do not intend to con-
esident in Palestine that the term
sip but are already organizing a series sons of professioneay evil life. On the "Oder," the racer of the Raman Em -
of 'fetes, to which it is said men, who,
surface it might seem thee, like many pe Verne, was fed an almonds and
tablishment the rendezvous for ges-
mea—laad become synonymous with per -
on ordinary- oc,casions are forbidden to a bright and promising modern youth, raisins, was covered with royal per -
cross the tlareshold, will be admitted
wad ruined by sensuality; but ple, and stalled in the imperial palace.
as guests. It is. said that some of the. §ot,
lis9n1ponerfectler clear, as Dr. Joseph Tbe greatest picture of Benjamin
Hammond has said, that it cannot have West was his "Death on. the Pale
ed in masculine attire. been mere sensuality that led to his Horse." Wheaa first exeibited, meal
.members of the club frequent it dress- '
enormous error. The greatness of the sight.
turned pale and women fainted at the
Euro -
married them, show that his object was The horse differs from all other
number of his women, and the fact that
rather to enhance his dignity and re- gu.adrupeds in apparently having but
700 of them were princesses when he
no. Great as was Selernon's wisdom other being disguised in the lioof.
one toe, though he really has two, the
in some regard:s, he never avoided a A. Welsh Jaw of the Middle Ages f.or-
Even in his worship at Hebron bade the horse to be used in plowing,
bron in purer days Ms pomp and osten- this agrieultural occupation being per-
fata weakness for swaggering display.
tation are evident; and now, with a formed by the aid a donkeys and oxen.
blin.dness of spiritual vision preifoimdly As early as 1607 in England, a fam-
sa,d, he conctudes that his superiority aus raze -course was established. near
aver all monarchs is not f-ully won till Yorke The victor's prize was a little
he exceeds them in armies, horses, and golden beIl, whice he hong cre nis
wives, as well as in wisdom. The adep- horse's neck. •
tion of the pagan worship of his prim- The long hairs IA the berse's mane
ceases wa.s naturally the next step; but and tail make an article of cloth vale
it is herder likely that he negleeted uable for many purposes, while the
the temple of Jehovah on -Mount short hair is useful to plasterers and in
Moriah when he erected temples to other ways.,
does the whole transaction bristle with During the most heavily armored per -
heedless boastfulness. He who has celerity were exeouted by infantry, the
iod of waefare all evolutions requiring .
false deities on Mount Olivet. Rather
more horses and tribu.tary kings, more eavalry being the slow-moving arm of
wisdom and fame, than any sovereign the service.
more silver and gold and splendor,
on earth, why should he not have more The Frencb army on a peace footing
wives and gods too? Seeking many has 60,_000 horses in the cavalry and -
things, he missed the "better part." 35,000 in the artillery. All told, the
PRACTICAL NOTES. number of horses employed in the
Verse 4. When Solomon was old,. "To- Praia army is 125,019.
ward the close of his life.' He died at When Napoleon crossed. the Niemen
sixty; so we may fancy this note of age an his marela into Russia the draft and
to be about fifty-five or fifty. His cavalry force comprise'd 100,000 horses,
wives turned away his heart after other from Moscow..
of which 95,000 died daring the retreet '
Salmon has to do with -his toaerance The hosses of Taxtery are small, not
of idolatry rather than with his poly- lar,ger than the mustangs of Ainerica,
gods. This reference to the old age a
gamy, which was indulged in on a enag- but are exceedingly tough and capable
nificent scale throughout his royal ea- of travelliaag long idistances without
reer. Notice that it was his 'heart" food, water or rest.
some habits of worship. It is nowhere The German army on a pew footin
said that he "served- other gods, as 26,000 with the artillery. Every borse
has 63,000 horses witti .the .cavalry an
that was "turned away"—not his per -
many of his deecendants did. His sin, in the German Enepire is registered and
being thoroughly vile, like "tbe sin of available for servoce. , .
IN CONFIDENCE.
bad as it was, is never spoken of as
Jeroboam." Now, Jeroboam dicl not,
turn' away from Jehovah; his sin con- Lipson—I tell you, it is only the man
sisted in leading his kingdom. into who ba,s gone through a tough ea -per -
schism ; and. if Solomon had comraieted eerie:ice that can advise another.
Kittson—I suppose so. 1 notiee that
personal idolatry, surely such iniquity
all ray married friends advise me to
should have been ranked even greater
heart with all diligence, for out a it remain a bachelor.
SENSIBLE WOMEN.
"I never go to a seaside place where
I have a number of friends," said a dis-
tinguished lady journalist the other
day. "I go to somas thoroughly un-
fashionable resort where there is M-
ate or no 'society,' in the ordinary sense
of the word.
"You ask why. The reason is very
simple. I go to the seaside for rest—
rest from work, and rest from ordin-
ary forms of a.mu.sement.. I go for fresh
air,. sea bathing, and all the delights
of outdoor life. Therefore it- is that
I do not go to a place where smart
frocks are de riguer in the morning,
visiting and tea drinking in the after-
noon, and dances and receptions in the
evening. One gets .quite enough' of all
that sort of thing in town.
"Society is extremely exacting in its
demands bn its votaries, and it is an
immense relief to escape from its exac-
tions and re.sponsibilities for a month'
or so every year. When you are in the
country live as the country people do
—sinaply, quietly, restfully—and your
holiday will do you* heaps of good.
That's my advice."
WELL TO REMEMBER.
What Is good for one is not always
good for anotber. This is illustrated
in a short tale told some time ago
about a Frencb medical student. While
in London on.a visit the student lodged
in the house with a man very sick with
a fever, Who was continually besieged
by his nurse to drink very nauseating
liquids which were lukewarm. The
sick man found 'this almost impossible
to do, =tit one day he whispered to
his nurse:,
"Bring nae.a salt berritig and I will
drink as anueb as you. please. -
The woman indulged him in his re-
quest; he ate the herring, drank the
undervvent the required pers-
piration and recovered,
The French student,. thinking this
very clever, inserted in his journal,
"Salt herring cures an Englishman a
iever.r
On his retetrn to France he prescrib-
ed the same remedy to his first pa-
tient with a fever. The patient died.
On- which 'he inserted in his journal:
"N. B.—A Salt herring cisme en Eng -
Heiman, but kills a Feenchman."
A codfish reeentlY caught off Elam -
borough Bead, England, had inside of
Ppcitn"or.Ptu°(Eart4)it
eirthe given to illbe
ioa to LiinhVgliada.vtlasn°ntagesat sin
dlsepin-
nor (Amos 3, 2; Luke 10, 12-15). The
Lord God of Israela whioh had appear-
ed unto hien twice. (See 1 Kings 3,5;
9, 2.)
10. Andhad eoramanded him concern-
Ingthis thing (1 Kings, 9. 6). That he
should not go after other gods,to any de••
dree, or to elease anybody. He kept
not that 'which the Lord-eammanded.
As a steward, he was unfaithful to his
trust.
11.Wherefore the Lord. said unto Solo-
m.on. 'Whether by a third. vision or
by a prophet, we know not.
Thou hest not kept mi cov-
enant. But Sclleraone vvisdoin and
Lame, his wealth, and. splendor, every
royal subject, every shekel of gold, was
an evidence that Goa. had kept -his cove-
nant. 1 will surely rend. "Despite thy
great power and megnificence, thy
fortifications and munitions of war."
—Dr. Hammond. Will give it to thy
servant. Thine employee. After all,
this vast treasuxe which had. made Jer-
usalem an immense treasure -box had
been gathered together for a servant,
a heeding. (See Ecclea. 2. 18.)
12. Notwithstandieg. Here comes a
aneroiful limitation of the punishment,
It' should not be inflicted until after
Solomon's death. (See 1 Zings ' 21.29;
2 Kings 22. 20.) .Por Daeld thy fa-
ther's sake. God. had rriede a covenant
with David also 42 Sam. 7. 13), and
David had been faithful on his side.
13: Howbeit. Here is a second mer-
ciful limitation. One tribe to thy son.
"Judge not the Lord by feeble 'sense,
But trust him for his grace;
Bellied a lemming providence
He hides •a' smilin,g face."
11 Gee had not taken part of the
kingdom away from Rehoboam there
is reason to believe that he would have
been lese faithful, and that the, vv -hole
nation weiald• have sena deep into Leo-
latry. But if, an the other hand,
had not reservea one tribe for Iteho-
beam, Terusaleria would have ceased to
be, the xeligiteni capital, and .that
would have brought inore 111- conse-
quences than we cae well outlieae.-
.
oa."
FOR GLOVES,
The raising of kids for the akins is
a leading industry among the French
mountaineers, who obtain no small poet
of their eabeistence from this source.
Softness, delleacy ef texture, and free-
aom from blemish are prindpal factors
in the value of kid skins, and to secure
these essentials great pains are taken.
So soon as tee young animel begins to
eat .grass the value of the skin declines,
for with a grass diet its skill immedi-
ately begins to grow cowed' and lard-
er in texture, and its chief merit van-
ishes. It is therefore kept closely pen-
ned, not only to prevent it from eating
grass, but eleo to secure the skin from
accidental mjuey from scratches or
bruises, -which impair its value. When
the kids have readied a certain age at
which the iskinis are in the best condi-
eion for the use of the glover, they
are killed and the hides are sold to
traveling hawkers, tiarougla whore they
reaehethe great ceeters of the tanning
industry.
than that of Jeroboam. (1) Keep thy
A GOOD 0133MOT.
are the issues of life. His heart vvas
not perfect with the Lord his God.
This seems more profoundly sad when A learned professor was in Eeinteargh
we remember what he had said to, his one wet Sunday, and, desiring 'to go
people at the dedication of the tem- to church, he nixed a cab. On reach.,
pie: "Let your heart be Eerfect -with,
mg the church deor lie tendered p., shill-
ing.—the legal fare—to cabby, axle was
tbe Loed your God." The eart of Da- somewhat surprised to hear the cab-
vid bus father was a turbulent heart. . .
maxi say, Twa she:11ms, sir.
rt. swelled with wrath at Nabal'e dais- . • .
The professore tieing his eagle eyes . e
tieess, and led David close to violent upon the extortioner, derearecled. why- ..
bloodsned. It was an easy prey to.
lie cbarged 2 shillings. ,
Bathsheba's beauty, and made David an Epee wind, the eafenane hill, -was- ..-:-
adulterer and a murderer. It. • waxed , . .,
weakly feed of bea,utif•ul children, and weretl, 'We wish to discouxage travel- ee,
ing en tile Sawbath as watch eepoeellerte ee
turned David into a criminelle inclul- .
' exit a ent It uffed up with pride
MOST VALUART,E FUR.
The ;most valuable of fur Ls that of
t,he sea otter. Ono thousand dollars has
been paid for a single skin, of this ani-
mal not more than two yards losig by
Most natures are insolvent; can not
satisfy their OWn wants, have an ambi-
tion out of all prreortion to their prac-
ticer force, and so do leen and beg day
and tight continually. ,
three euartera of a yard -wide
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