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&eh anceeeding yeen envies tro broad-
en tee teseetating work a bringing to
*0 lintt, by the use Of the spade, an
etudisputable mord of the past. Fro=
Egypt to Babyloinia the scientific, leboa
f devotion goes lora-end steadily, e,nd
the eau in these times ot the exca,va,-
tions of twelve months is enough to
a taro. volkmat. The recent back --
ward extemitio ot ancient history in
EaltYlania by several thousand years is
now a faliaillar narrative. Interest in
excavatloos lately has shifted to the
Coliseum at Rome. While some work-
men were making a sewer last xnontla
tom tee 'meth side a the mat rum
they came upon the floorof two rooms
belengieg to an early period of the
Roman Empire, The Calamine is built
at tee base of tat, Esquiline hills, on
the site of au ornamental lake em-
ote -slated by Nero. When Vespasian
and Titus erected the C/oliseune, in the
first century ot the Christian era, one
o f their ideas was to obritera.te the gar-
dens a Nero, and othertviee wipe out
hie memory.
froat of this lake Nero built his
goldei house, and the mosaic lloors
found by tee workmena few days ago
S2 e believed to have been a Part of
that famous Office. One a tbe room,s
is paved with -tubes a cream -white
=Goan, interspersed with, blocks 2 -ince -
ea square of red, green airel bluish
marble Tee 'attaining room its Paved
with, marbles eat in simple geometria
patters, triangles, squares and pen-
tagons, 5 or 6 ineheis in length, Be-
tween the two apartments is a epees
paved with grayish weite marble, with
a depression where a door worked on
a pivot. Neres fad for rare 'marbles
shoal", in the remains of his gola-
en house* end /all the varieties he used
are valuable ire Roane to -day, The splen-
dors a that structure, and of the other
buildings around tee Jake, are reeorded
in history. About two years ago the
enotnad of earth north of the Cane=
wa.s cleared away eled the roads around
the amphitheater were laid bare. Tbey
were paved with the polygonal blocks
of bluish /eve conanonly used by the
old Romans. The discoveries of last
month were made underneath one of
these roads.
In Greece diming the pest year the
Primal 4avt watilMett their eaeava-
done at belphi, adding to their hut -
decide of specimens a sculpture and in-
aniptions. Their most important find
is a life size bronze statue of a ohar-
Meer, dating from about 465 B. C. Tim
Germans are still busy near tne Acro-
polis, and have deg out a traa cov-
ered with ancient buildings, haterseet-
ea by marrow, crooked streete, like the
poorer quarters of Athens at the pres-
ent time. English exe,avaters at Atte-
ens have been rewarded by finding the
toundatioe of a gymnasium, and the
Greeks are digging slowly on, the north
side of the Acropolis. At Corinth, it
will be remerabered, a theater Ins been
reached by the spade. When an impor-
tant find is realle the scientists enjoy
themselves immensely in looking up its
otecure points. The bronze charioteer
fano. Delphi, for instance, was the sub-
ject of debate ata very spirited ser-
ies of meetings, and there was a warm
contention as to whether the. figure
was Libyan or Syracusae- Though ex-
etterat-ors may wrangle, they get over
R easily, and always curb themselves
before arriving at the stage of ex-
cited interest teat &erupted the so-
ciety on the Stahislaus.
A YOUNG GIRL DIPLOMATIST.
411=11.1.11•11
eirteen-Year-oid Maid Conducts the Seg-
ues% or Russia at the Court or china.
Diplomatic circles of Europe are won-
dering at. the great success of Count
Cassini la tee far East. :He made his
debut at Peking five years ago by in-
sisting on presenting his credentials
personally to the Son of Heaven, and he
speedily threw the Gernian Minister,
then in the ascendant, and all the
other foreign diplomatists quite into
the shade. Owing to his prestige, the
Count was allowed. to travel across
Chinese territory from Peking to Kla-
tch -tit by the rotate reserved for man -
auxins only, oecomplishing the first
Stage of his long journey in a mule
chair, and the rest in a tarantass.
The mystery is now explained. Count
Cessinas niece, a girl of less than fif-
teen years of age, is his mascot. She
has been of the utmost nse to him in
larnaging negoba,tions wit)] the Tsang-
Innalaen to a head. Jner mastery of
Chinese is remarkable, and. she has the
fairailiarity peesessed by inest educated
Russians with English, _French and
Gerxnan, so that her 'uncle has no need
of an interpreter in dealing with deli-
cate matters of state. Russia has al-
ways offered a fine fiedd for female:tine
diplomatists, and Mlle. Cassini, begin-
ning teas early, ought to have a great
future before her.
HE MEANT NO HARM.
A ,tottelon exquisite had gone into
a West End restaurant, and was far
from pleased w'itih the way in which
his order was filled
Do you call that a veal outlet tbe
demanded of the waiter. Why, such ,
a, cutletas that is an insult to every '
eetneespeoting calf im -the Britise,
Me waiter hutnte, hes head for a ma- •
meta, but recovered himtelf and said.
i n a tone of rein) eotful apology :
1 reale- didnft iettend to insult you,
sir.
f TO GOLDEN CALL"
THE IMAGE OF AMERICAN IDOLATRY
LOCATED IN WALL STREET.
ountiag-Roont Resits and EireProorSates
Are Its Temples—The staving et the
Stack Exchange Is the Very worship oi
tee eau men.
Rev, Dr. Talmage preached ta ser -
'non peculiarly appropriate to the
money making spirit of the times. The
sakteet was "The Gad= Calf," from
tee text Exodus 32; 2e, "Ad he took
the calf which they had made and burnt
it in the flee, and ground it to
powder and strewed it upon the water
and made the claildren of Israel drink
of
People will ,have egad of !some kind,
and they prefer one of their own reek-
ing. Here roma tae Israelites, break-.
ing off their golden earrings, the men
as well as tee woltien, for in those
tines there were znatioaline as well
SS fa-Minh:Le decorations. Where did
they get teese beautiful gold eaarings,
dmeaemirntel "ObiasthetYale'Y'hortio4werom athtel:
of the Egyptians when they left
Egypt. These earrings are piled up
into a pyramid of glittering beauty.
"Any more earringts to bring?" seas
Aaron. None. Fire is kindled; the
earrings are melted and poured into
a mould, not of an eagle or a war
charger, but of a calf ; the gold cools
elf; the mind is taken away, and the
Idol is set +Ilion its four legs. An
alter is built ia front of the seining
calf. Then the people throw up their
arree and gyrate, and shriek, and
dance mightily and worship, Moses
Ian been six we.eles on Mount Sinai,
and be comes beat and bears the
howling and sees the dancing of these
golden calf fanatic.s, and b'e loses els
patience, and he takes the two plates
o stone on winch were written the
Ten Cemmandraents and flings teem
ES hard against a rock that they split
all to pieces. When a man gets mad
he vexy apt to break all the Ten
Commandments 1 Moses rushes in and
be takes this calf-giod and throws it
int° hot fire, until it is melted alt
out of shape, and then pulverizes it—
tot by the modern appliance of nitro-
muriatio ackl, but by the ancient ape
pliance of nitre, or by the old-fasha
ioned file. He znakea toe the people
p. meet nauseating clanuent. takes
this Pulverized and throws it ein
the only brook wthith is acceseible,
and the People are compelled to drink
of the brook or not drink at all. But
they dtd not aria* al] the glittering
staff thrown on tee surface.. Some
of it flowta on down the surface of
the brook to the river, and then Howls
on down the river to the isea, and the
sea takes it up and bears it to- the
mouth of all tee rivers, and. when the
tide sets back the remakes cif this
golden calf are carried into the laud -
eon and tate East River, and the
Thames, and the Clyde, and the Tiber,
and men go eat and they skim the
glittertng surface, wad tatey bring it
ashore and they make another goldee
calf, and California and Anistralia
breaks off their goltren earrings to
augment the pita and net tee fires of
financial excitement and struggle all
these thitage are melted together, and
weile we stand tookires; and wondering
what will become of it, lo I we find
that the golden oaf of laraelitise wor-
ship las become the gorlden calf of
European and American tverealiP.
I shall desnetbe to you the god
spoken of in ny text, his temple, his
altar of sacrifice, the mast° that is
made in bis temple and teen tee final
breaking up of di; whole congrega-
nen of idolaters.
Put aside this curtain and you see
the golden calf of modern idolatry. It
Is not like other idols, made out of
stocks ef stone, but it has an ear so
sensitive that it can hear the whispers
on Wallestreet and Third street; and
the footfalle the Bank of England*
and a. flutter .of the Frenchman s
heart the notuase. It has as eye
leo keen that it can see the east on the
farm of Michigan wheat and tee in-
sect in the Maryland peacheoyclaed,
and the trampled vain under the hoof
of the Russian wax charger. It is so
mighty that it swings arty way it will
the woelda shipping. It las its foot
on all the merolantmen and the
steamers, It started the American
Cavil Wax, and under Gni stopped it,
and it decided the Turkic; RUSSilke con-
test. One beoker, in September, 1869,
in New York shouted: "One hun-
dred and sixty for million!" and
the whole continent shivered. This
golden calf of the text, has its right
frent foot in New York, its left front
foot in Chicago, its right back foot in
Charlettown, its left baokt foot In New
Orleans, and when it Shakes itsett it
slitakee the world. Oh 1 this is a
mighty god—the golden calf of the
world's worship.
But every. god must have its tem-
ple, and this golden calf of the test
is no exception. Its temple is vaster
than St. Faurs of the English, and
St. Peter's of the Italians, and the
Athambra of the Spaniards, and the
Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Tai
Mahal of the Ilindoos, and all the
othea cathedrals nut together. Its
pillars are grooved and fluted with
gold, and its ribbed arches are 'lever-
ing gold, and its chandeliers are des-
cending gold, and its floors are ta,sse-
leted gold, and its sprees and dories
are soaring gold, and its organ pipes
are resoulading gold, and its pedals are
trampinggold, and its stops pulled out
are flashing gold, while standing at
the head of the temple, as the pre -
eating deity, are the hoofs and semen
dere and eyes and ears and -nostrils
of the, calf of gold. •
Further, every god must have not
only its tereaple, aut its altar of sacri-
fice, and this golden calf of the text
is no exception. Its altar is not made
oat of gone as other eaters, but out
of counting -room desks and fire -proof
safe.% and it is a broad, a long, a
high altar. The victims sacrificed on
t are, mouterierable. What does this
god care aboet the groans and strag-
gles a the viname before it? With
gold, metallie eye it looks on and yet
lets them suffer Oh! heaven and
earth, what an altar 1 what a eaori-
flee of body, nand and soul? The
phyncal health of a great multitude is
leuna en this sacrificial altar, They
ms LEMITATIONS.
Poor soul! exelabned tee sympathetic
houeekeeper. Whet ever drove you to
this way of making livingl
Tbat's a long stain, MfelQ, replied
Tuffold Knott, reaching for another
doughnut,. an' can't talk on a emp-
ty etiumanek.
' Zone Lawreatee, master of tee Llang.
tater heat, in Monnimith. Wales, has
bunt al continuously for sev.enty years,
ne ' o aged R.
TRE EQLEIT.Elit TIMES
cannot sleep, and theytake chloral
and rearphine and intoxicants,. Some
of them straggle in a nightmare of
stooks, and at, 1 onlook in the mein-
ing suddenly else up shouting: "A
thousand shame of railroad stook—one
hundred and eight and a half 1 take
it 1" until the whole family is affright-
ed, and ttte speculators tell batik on
their pillows and sleep until they are
awakened again by a "corner" or a
sudden "rise* in something else. Their
nerves gone, their ingestion gone, their
brain gone, they die. The olergyraan
comes in and reads the funeral ser -
!ice: "Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord." Mietake. They did not
'tale in the Lord;" 'he golden mat
kicked them I
The tremble is, when men eacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in
the text, they not only sacrifice them-
selves, bat they sacrifice their fami-
lies. If a man by au ill comet' is de-
termined to go to pe.rditiont Suppose
yea will Aimee to let him go; but
puts his wife, and children in an equip -
ego that is the amazeitient of the
avenues*, and the driver lashes the
horses into the whirlwinds, and the
spokes flash in the sun, aud the gold-
en headgear of the harness gleams,
until Black Calamity takes the bits
ot the horses end stops them, end
elmats to tee luxurious occupants of
tee equipage: "Get out 1" TheY get
residence, when there are only thirty') eireeE
thousand dollars biome, will not pay; lilir: ii
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INTERNATIONAL LESSOL APRIL 11.
not pan. We ltad. a gaeat national
tumor, lia the shape of fictitious pro- 0
sperity, We called it •nattonal en.. conversion at ivorttellits," Act* IQ, 00-44
largement ; instead of calling. it en- aolden Text. Acts he 43.
large:merit we might better ha,ve call-
fatteogneolloinutinigt il mpt r out—hasln'eIestoilT:rulri odoarVyass'"'Nsve/Vle .:3:4°.:117tenith°eUrr Idays
partsYei notagg°t:haeThe.: ai 8 ,rvraaa* -y-
out, and the nation will get well and tive, See verses 9, 29, 24. Most of two
coroe beck to the
fathersand granafathers weext twice
three made six instead of sixty, and eel•-tween, Caesarea, and joppa. I was
when the apples at the bottom of the fasting. This doete not mean that he
at the ton of the barrel. and e silk
barrel were. just as good as the apples Ina fasted for four days either before
or after God sent the vision t it raeaVer
ha.ndkerchief wee net half cotton, and
a man whowore a five -dollar coat paid rather, that at the time of Ins vision
for was more honored than a man who he had been fasting up to the same
wore a fifty -dollar Goat not paid for. bent at which he was nnw speaking,
one of the text, is very apt to be made wv41 a
The golden calf of our day, like the ...t_io_
wasprobably midday, "the sixth
out of borrowed. gold. Those Israe- lour:" for if Peter started from his
lites of the text borrowed the earrings midway stoppieg-place early in the
of the Egyptians atzizic. mwealytedolloiemgoirdng nilort...,:engiorhexte w000nw.
filailnyt ihSomgleakdeeepenrsoA:odtaypsa.yinAg fogrrethaet truer to tlio locualiOrnugeacr oBhittbCahleertalierxeertaetihaaartnee
articles they get, borrow of their gro- is tate Revised Version At tee ninth
cel- and the baker and the butcher e „,... . -
and the dry goods seller. Teen the re- 'Leer, lttlawan nu tee afternoon, not
Sailer borrows of the wholesale dealer. very ter front three o'clook with as.
Then the weolesale dealer borrows of So that the ViSi011 bad come about three
hours after Cornelius ead stopped bis
fast. The livery of angels and saints,
x prayed. 1, "Prayinte breath' iis never
spent in vain." In eny louse, 2. "When
thou ba.st seut thy door, pray to tey
Father which la ia Secret; and tby
uFwathed rtthevrehlocphentiseeyth., in secret shall re -
the capitalist; and we borrow and bor-
out, they get down. abet husband trove until the community is divided
and father flung his family Se hard into
NVOS two classes, those who borrow
they never got up again. There
and thime who are barrowed �f ; and
the mark on them for life—the mark
of a split hoof—tee deathalealing hoof after a while the capitalist wants his
money, and he rusbes upon the whole -
of the golden ealf.sale dealer, and tee wholesale dealer
Soloragn offered be one sacrifice, on wants hismoney and be rushes upon
one occasion twenty-two thousand ox -
She retailer, and the retailer wants
en and one kindred and twenty taloa- le
, we
en Moneta and he rushes upon the
sand sheep; that was a tame sheep customerand all go down tegeth-
sacrifice coupared with the multitude er,
of men kivho are sacrificing tLeraselves There is many a man in this day
e who rides in his carriage and CAVE'S
on the altar of the golden calf, an*, the blacksmith for the tire, an,:l the
eacrificing families with iheill,
The soldiera a General Havelock, in
India, waked literally ankle-deep in
the blood of the "house of massacre,"
'where two bundred women and child-
ren lied aeen Wain by the Sepia's;
but the blood azound this altar of the
golden calf flows to the knees, flows
to the girdle, Dowel to the seoulders,
flowneo the hip, Great God of Heav-
en and earth, have mem! The gold-
en calf ens none.
Still tee dearer:leg worselp gees on.
and the devotees kneel and kiss the
dust, and croes tli emelves with the
blood of their man saerlften- Th,e
panic rolls an unier the arches; it
is made of clieking silver and clink-
ing gold, and the renting specie of
tlite hanks and brokers' shops and the
voice.; of the exchtirges. The soprano
ea the vrorship is carried by the
thead voices of nine weer have just be-
gun t ospeculate; while the deep basses
rolls out from tame we° for ten years
of iniquity have been doubly damned.
Ceorus of yams rejoicing over what
they have made. Chorus of voicee
wailing over wiliat they have lost.
81. ['thy prayer is heard. 'What the
aetaile of that prayer were we do eat
for the wheel., wad he har-
tlae ei
ei
poratively know. but the narrative
wheeleight anmad wagesand troeht it a
gly intimates t as for more
a -
driver far ,
ness maker for the bridle, and the light and spiritual guidance. Thine
furrier for the robe. NvItile from the alms are had in. remembrance. There
tip of the carriage tongue eleax back a
no"saving merit" in good deeds,
to the tip of tee seawl fluttering out. .
of the back of tee vehicle, everything A mast who is aunty of one sin cannot
is paid for by notes that have been ear:alone eis guilt by doing any virtu -
three times renewed.
It is this temptation to borrow, and
borrow, and borrow, that keeps the
people everlastingly preying to the
golden eall for help, and just at the
rainute they expect the help the gold-
en calf treads on them. The judgznents
of God, like Moses in the text, will
rush in and break up his worsbip ;
and .1 say let the wark go on until
eveY Man shall learn to speak truth
with his neighbor, and those who
make engagements seen feel them-
selves bound to keep them, and ween
a, man wee will zot repent of his bnei-
nem iniquity, but goes on wishing to
satiate the cannibal appetite by de-
vouring widows, houses, shall by tee
law of the land be compelled lo
exchange his mansion for Sing Sing.
Tats temple a wheel I speak stands golde,n calf perish!
o day and nigitt, and there is) ahe eePet. my friends, if we Inve made
eels world our god, when we: came to
ittering God will his four feet on die we will see our idol demolished.
°token hearte, and there le the smelt -
victims Row much of this world are you go -
ever Y Moment on it, and there are Wil] you eave two pockets—one in
the kneeling devotees; and the doze -
logy of the worsizip rolls on, while ea.11 side of Year shroud?' Will you
cushion your coffim with bonds and
Death stands with mouldy and skele- mortgages and oertificates of stook t
tan arm 'beating time for the chorus
—*Wore raore / ire 1"
Some people ar very mita/ sur-
prised at the ar t of trak .on abe
Stock Exthasage. Indeed, it is a scene
sometimes that inealyees description,
and is beyond the imagination of anY-
one whio ems never looked on. What
snapping of finger and thumb andwild
gesticula.tion, and raving like hyenas,
and tramping like buffaloes, and
swaying to and fro, and running one
upon another and deafening uproar
until the president of the Exchange
strikes with his mellet four or five
time"), crying: "Order! order 1" and
the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that he has es-
caped tram a pandenionium. 1,Vhat cloee
it all mean? I will tell you what it
inenns. The devotees of every hea-
then temple cut themselves to pieces,
and. yell and gyrate. This voeifera-
tion and gyrate:in of tee Stook Ex-
thenge is all appropriate. This is the
worship of the goilden calf.
But ray -text suggests that this wor-
ehip. must be broken up as the be-
haviour of Moses ire my text indicated.
There are those weo say that this
golden calf spoken of in lay text is
hollow, and merely plated -with gold;
otherwise they say M,oses could not
have carried it. I do not know Shat;
but somehow. „perhaps, by the assist-
ant* of his friends, he takes up this
-golden calf, which is an open insult
to God and man, and throws it into
the fire, and it is melted, and then it
comes out and is cooled oft, and by
some chemical epptiance, or by an old-
fashioned. ftle, it a pulverized, and it
is thrown into the brook, and, as a
puniehroent, the people are compelled
to drink tee, nauseating stuff. So,
my hearers you may depend upon it
that God will burn and Be will grind
to pieces the golden calf of modern
idolatry, and He will co,mpel the peo-
ple in their agony to drink it. If not
before, it will be so on tbe last day.
I know not where the fire will begin,
whether at the "Battery," or Central
Park, •wheteer at Brooklyn Bridge or
at Bruabriviek, whether at Seoreditott,
London. or West End; but it will be a
very hot blaze. Allthe Government
.seourities of the United States and
Great Britaira will curl up in the first
blast. All the money safes and de-
positing multe will melt under the
first tench. The sea will burn like
tinder, and the sbiipping will be aban-
doned forever. The melted gold in
tbe broker's window will burst
through the melted window gla.ss and
into the, street; but the flying popu-
lation will not stop to scoop it up.
The. cry of 'Tire" from the rnoutietain
will be answered by the ery of 'Tire"
from the plain. The conflagration will
burn, out from the continent toward
the sea, and. then burnt in from the sea
tow-ard the land. New York and Lon-
don with tene cut of the red scythe of
destruction will go down. Twenty-
five thousand miles of conflagration!
The earth will wrap itself round and
taunt). in a shroud of flarae, and lie
down to perish. 'What then will be-
come of your golden calf ? Who then
so poor as to worship ? Melted,
or between the upper and tee nether
millstone of falling motintains grouna
to powder. Dragon down 1VIoloch
downi. auggeruaut dovirn. Golden calf
deem - -
Bat, ray friends, every day is a day
of juagme,nt, and God is all the time
raiding to pieces the golden calf.
ercha.nts of Brooklyn and New York
and London, what is the characteristic
of this time in which we live? "Bad,"
you say. Professional :men, what is
the tharacteristie of the times in
which we live? "Bad," ,yeu say.
Though I should be in a minority of
one, I venture the opinion that these
are the best times we have earl for the
reason that God. is teaching the world,
as never before, that old-fashioned
eonesty is the only thing that will
stand. We have learned as never be-
fore that forgeries will not pay; that
the spending of fifty thousand dollars
on country eeats and a palatial city
tee Mosaic ritual as sin indispensable
Preliminary to Christianity; but it is
stetinge—astoniseing—teat even after
tine clear statement by Peter lie hera-
self wavered cannoning this doctrine.
36. The word eatiioli God sent. "The
censtructioe here," say's Canon Cook,
"le peculiar and sornewlmt obseure. At
this great epoole ia the history of the
Church the breaking' down of the mid-
dle wall of partition, in which, SQ prom-
unentpeat had been assigned. to Peter,
he, with the marvelous preparation for
it wince had been granted to him,
must have been under the influence
of a very deep and strong emotion. And
IS seems as if be made an earnest and
perhaps hurried effort to give utter-
ance to thouglits by whieh his mind
was not only filled but overpowered.
'The word,' in verse 36,, means the
teaching or message which God sent;
'that word,' in verse 87, means the
subject or basis of that teaching, the
facts which took plaee throughout all
..Tudea." Preathing peace. "Preece-
ing good tidings of peace." See
rsa• 52te 7. This has been explained
°31.118 L° mean Owe between Jews a
Gentile,s, an emphatic reiteration. t
NOTES ON FAXOITS BELLS
USES TO WHICH THEY ARE PUT
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
•••••••••
Proolectie nen or vittela--Janauese LUll
want—leen or the laresaithe
Itells are and always have been ul-
timately assoelaten with national as
well as individual joy and sorrow, says
the London Daily Grapele. When a
great victory is won tee bells crash
forte the glad tidings frora a thew -
and steeples, while they perform alike
office, though of course in a different
key, in the Mie of a national disaster.
Bells in England, bowever, have not
become, like some in other countries,
hoary with ages of superstition.
But Spain ha ,s a bell that is its pro -
by phet. It is its soothsaye,r, oracle and
rg guide- This bell, the famous Valeta,
teaching, of verse 34; but it is P
bable that it means meek mare 511
bets. "Peace with God through o
Lord Jesus Cbriist." He is Lord of a
Of Jews and Gentiles alike; much mo
than a rabbi, much more than Pr
Owe
07. Meet word, I son, ye know.
note on verse ao. The facts had be,
publielY discussed and generally a
cognized, and Cornelius doubtless 13
been in Cae,sarea svhile Pellip resid
has hung for centuries in the historic
ro-
an castle, keeping watch over the nation.
ur It is the most celebrated bell in, Eur-
ope, Its fame rests not so much upon its
re
0.. note.s, though these are high-pitclied,
soft and clear; nor upon its size, for
SfAl there are other bells in Spain much
larger, but upon its personality. The
ae Villela is a Spanish bell that for yeara
ed has foretold any impending trouble to
there, pertain eveo when Jesus hi
self taught in its aeighborhood, AV
Published. Better, •'whirl happened
Throughout all Judea, and began fr
Galilee. This is meant -to include t
W1303 area of our Lord's teaching, a
Miracles.
88. How God anointed. The force
the text is not very distinctlybroug
oat here. There are three things tli
is the teaohing of God—Gospel do
?atm' saYs Cornalles knows; the fir
trine. verse 36; the second is the tau
whieh are the basis of that teaching
earning the favor of God; but, 3, Alla5 Jesus, the*
' see istory, verse 37; the thud is
really the expreesiou of the yearning
me act, There is no sucle thing as ,l'eellsaliree, itthinasette verse 38. As to thh
and good deeds in general, if they are ling the
the outcome of a sineere heart, are in mai tee decent of .the Holy Spirit,
themselves prayer. They are just as st ihaebe toff VII e
some to the ine ate= itself same to
phrase to our Lord's' baptism
Iloglf differ, some refer-
vb h God had "anointed
are the most eloquent petitions. lt is ch4ildn!f titr :ess;P:f 3fricre
of the human heart to please God. as verse contains the roost bea,utiful con.
ever been made. Oppressed a. Bet-
densed portraiture of our Lord that has
au unspeakable comfort to remember
that. 4. Every little thing we have evidently •taliting to men whom he
ter, "tyrannized over by„" Peter was
ever dome tor tbe sake of Goa's great atiderstood to be pretty well acquaint -
love for us, either in gratitude for ed with the Jewisla Seriptures.
'What we have, or in longing for what nessegi. Officiany scT. The ie,ne of the
89. We. The apostles., Are wit -
we have ere, bee been tIone in the Jews. Better,. "the countty of the
sight of God, mid will never be for- Jews;" that 1Sp j'Ildea• "rUSa'161n.
)31e; the natant. When the father of little
"a Alfonso died, the Villela, began ton.
03;a ing in tbe night, and tolled until =ru-
be. ing light, In tbe ten years' Guinea:laver
nd the bells struck awful tones on the
ot nights of defeat. Aod when great fires
IA have touched, the (made, and sioknese
at or. imurrection threatened the throne,
st the Villela has lifted up its voice.
13-
ts The Villela has tolled again, and only
— a. fortnight ago. It was one shoraquick
stroke, Only a few heard it, but they '
ran to tell
THE DIREFUL TIDINGS.
gotten, by him. : • , Which was regarded almost as a pro-
' vitice by itself. Slew and banged. Slew
32. Send therefore to Jenne "The by eartiging.
angel had, no commission to give in- 40. Showed him openly:, The Rom-
struction. He oely directed Cornelius tram Catholic Bible here gives be
bitter
to the heathen vesael to whiell the tree- Inalli:st;121
teac.b. Per4 but referred him to Arlan- 41. Not to all the people, "mis is
"gave lam to ,e
sure of beavently truth had been com-
mitted. So our Lord did not himself 0,0
visits are not so distinctly recogoized announcement which no imposter
ies."--Bishop Jacobson. Though an els' would ever have inade."--PaleY. "Aa -
Ala I no. The ferry boat. that crosses
thisJordan carries no baggage—noth- 1 Row as were one or two in New Tea-
time* times, areoisely.the same policy Lmroor.atemlYeedthatann°Navitigutatitwuadse of or
mte°ertime lot:
Perhaps, take five hundred dealers
bag heavier than a ph -it.. Yaa may, 1
, prevails now- as
“ then in the warts of God. Peter repeatedly refers to tle on
' Cook, Wittn•emes atosen before of
flee of theepostles as witnesses .totee
with you two or three miles, in the '
dijIrecayet:d; many an inquirer to you and
dcamaiet's .rnan,Y an angel has resin -rectum of aeons., -Os. weo ala
wood, but you will bee& to leave them
seal* of thateral trappings to Green -1
me, as Cornelias was direeted to et.eir.
there. It would not be safe for you. , 21 12.
eat and drink with hire after he rose
from the dead. Luke 24.80, 41-48; John
and Saul to Ananias. 5, Ihe Christian
or a diamond ring; it would be • a ,
to lie down there with a gold watat aileuld be always ready to help tan 42. He commended us. Better, "he
imquirer. Lodged in the house of onT
week's lesson on what this fact implies. charged us." Unto She people. • The
temptation to the pillagers. Ah, nay . Simon antanner. See our note ein les
' ' to tee Tli - ds b uild
al ho, wheal be cornett', seal speak up- jteel;:s—"
idol ground to pieoes b,y our pillow, . -
' die we win see our '
e. ese a or s o be omit- God;ItQuisitkhe Asiviliveicb.
he which was ordained of God. • Bet -
beginning at. Jerusalem." It is
ofroir god,
11 we wheave de this world ,
4$. To hint gave all the prophets
,is ordained of
witine,ss. AU, by the general drift of
Peter certainly deserved these thanks tileetairmeted,acIrthloptesosuacy. e, by direct and very
Barnet dinze rit, podoesucriohoe,
shsppea it an his days in Ins dying
when he for be was as prompt in responding
til their:1811;1f ! as the Roman soldier had been in ba- . tbent whicb beard the word. By som
'interrupted. The Ray Ghost fell on a
visible manifestation tle coming of tb
I went you to elinnge temples, and i viting. All here preeent before God.
to give up tee worship of this unsat- , Sally naanuseripts differ as to the ex-
act wording- of this verse; some of the Holy Spirit was recognized, God di
not even -wait for baptism; there w
isfying and cruel god for nee se,rviees no laying on of hands. .
of tee Lord Jesus Christ. Hero is the oldest and beet naake this read "present
gold that will never cruinable. Here before tbee," that is, °Peter. But one
are securitiee that will never fall. statement is as true as the other, and
Here are banks that will never break. the trate contained be the Authorized
Here is an altar on Whice there has Version is especially solemn, and de -
been one sacrifice once for all. Here ' lightful, end comes bike a repeated Inu-
its a God who will comfort you when Aka' refrain after the closing words
you are in trouble, and soothe you • of verse 81. It is pleasant to think
when you are sick, and save 'you when of the converted 'heathen remember -
you die. Wh•en your parents have ing in feat. hour of intense interest
breathed tear last, and the old, teat, not even the apostle himself was
wrinkled, and trembling bands can not. as olose le him as was the great invis-
be pat upon your bead for a ble,ssing. , ible God. To hear all tiling% that are
Re Will be to you father and mother ceramanded thee of God. Thai should
both, giving you the defence of tee probably read, "of the Lord*" he al. Sunday,.hy, the }knish -tank steatite
one and the comfort of the other; and ready assumes the Messiahship of Je- Kasbek. Capt. Reed of the Oakes, o
wine your ceildren go away from you, sus, and asks Peter to inform them his arrival in New York, told a terribl
the sweet, darlings, you will na kiss of hie'teareins. 6. The presence of God
story of death, suffering, end priva
them good-bye forever. He only is a delight. to all who love him. •
wants to bold them for you m little 34. Opened his mouth. This peculiar
whilie. He will give them back to phrase is employed in the New Testa -
You again, and He will have them all raeni. to introduce subjects of. unusual
waiting for you at tee gates of etern- weight ain't importance, and in 'mar-
e/ welcome. Ohl what a God He is! 'ly every case "gives special solemnity
He will allow you to come so cloge to what follows."—Alford. See Acts 8.
this morning -• hat. you can put your 35; Matt. 5, 2. Of a truth. This phrase
arms around His neck, while Be in re- has the same force as our Lord's "Ver -
sponse win put His arms around your , ily, verily." I perceive. "An infer -
neck, and all the windows of heaven ewe from God's having beard the
will be boisted to let the redeemed, prayers of a Gentile, baying deem -
look ou tend see the spectacle of a re- ed him werthy of the light of
joieing fatter and a returned prodigal the Gospel, and baying sent an angel
locked. in glorious embrace. Quit wore : to direct him to it. %neat the onas-
shipping the golden calf, and bow this , tile was now witnessing was more dis-
day befota Hirai in whose presence we •ninetly eatisfactory than the vision it -
must all appear when. the world, has self had been." --Bishop Jacobson. God
turned to ashes and the scorched ie no respecter of persons. Peter is
parchment of the sky shall be rolled
together like an historic scroll.
an we will have to drink, 'it in bitter •
regrets far the wasted
of a lifetirae. Soon we will he uppartuttninge. 5033tioalme.inTediblotehlya8. t Hwieislligol,Nn,e.zeivalooloostt.
0 this is a fleeting world, it a teens expression of gratitude. Thou art
dying world. A in who bad wor- • come. Inora a biume point of view
44. 1, 1,1e Peter yet spake. He was
Did it mean more ,disaster in Cuba ?
Was the war to drain the royal vaults
beyond penury to debt, The Villa%
would not tell, but it sent out its warn-
ing note.
Russia has a coronation bell, the
eat in. the world, and weighing 250,000
Pounds. It hangs in the Kremlin, and
le the emperor's bell, being rung only
in boner of him. At the coronation
It pealed forth as the emperor entered
tee thumb, and its volee announced
the c,onelusion of the ceremony to tee
whole of Russia. The coronation bell
is rung by a. bellringer blessed by the
emperor as tee head of the church. The
bellringer doe e no other work, and le
always on duty to tell of important
events in the imperial family. Ile is
pensioned, end iti ever poliehing up tee
bell in ease of need. He rings the bell
weer% his majesty goes to church, and
In ease of the death of a Russian mon-
arch. The Kremlin bell tolls constant-
ly between the death and the time of
the funeral.
As is well known, to Russia belongs
the largest unrung hell in the world.
This bell now oatoupies a building in tbo
Kremlin., It was cast two centuries
ago, but was found toe heavy to re-
move brow ither ri „ The yawn—, 3440A
groins. brie after anottier, tried to ha.ve
it lifted, and dozens of lives were sac-
rificed be the ohifting pit of sand. Fin-
ally fate intervened. A raging' fire
broke out and /mated the bell in its
pit. A quantity of cold water flowed
exeunt it, and a great piece, the size
of a door was broken out, The Rus-
sian czar immediately ordered it to be
lifted on a pedestal and set within the
Kremlin, where it is sometimes used
as a tenap/e. Its walls a,re ttvo feet
thick, and it is twenty-five feet blab.
THE BELLS Olt NOTRE DAME,
11 in Paris are the largest bells of sweet-
• ness tee world. One of them weighs
• 85,000 pounds. The maker who cast it
d would never disclose the secret of its
as loud, sweet tone.
As a Ilatiom, the Japanese eave the
largest bells, but the crudest. So un-
skillful are they, that many of teem
will not ring, and so they are obliter-
ated from the list of bells. The best
belle made, even if cast: correctly, have
two small hammers. Or they are made
to sound like tin, and the hammer does
not strike roundly. One of these, the
"Little Giant," bas never been weigh-
ed. It is saki to weigh comparatively
little, being of some light ;Japanese
; hut it la thirty feat across. It, is
used to ameounce births or deaths in
the royal family. Its clapper is a small,
elongated Wan that strikes the bell
n with a, double sound, and the " Little
e Giant '' is easily reoagnised when heard.
The bell of Notre Dame in Mantre,aI
A PERILOUS VOYAGE.
••••••.•
•
Eight "Months at Sea Battling With Furious
Weather.
The long over -due American clipper
ship T. 1'. Oakes, which left Rong Kong,
on July 4, 1896, with a general cargo,
for New York, and whiee had been giv-
en up for last, was -towed into port on
DECLINE IN PEATILS.
thinking of the re,spect, paid to the
Jews by a Jew. Most of the Phari-
sees would expect God to pay more at-
tention in the alms and prayers of any
Jew than to those a the holiest Gen -
A curious effect ot the pla,gue tn- tile. The expz:ession "no respecter" of
persons °mare in Dent. 10, 17; 2 Chron.
dia has been a sudden increase in the 19. 7; job 34. 19, but with an entirely
number of pearls reaching the London different meaning from that whirl it
market, and aconseent marked fall bais here. It there meam,s that God's
in prices. Thitms is nut dee to unusual adman& retain of ;nista% shall be ab-
solutely fate; it here unans that the
industry on the part of tee divers, but distinction between Jews and Gen -
to the fact that the native dealers at tiles has been done errant 7) "It the
Bombay have been in slue haste to things clane are good in theraselves,
quit the stricken city thee they have tthheeray .teBiroapilyaotgooveyd whoever doea
To Peters
eagerly disposed of their mares at far 6nrine,se all sorts et people are eeena-
below- the customary market value. One
ed e
English finn of importers at Indian equally admissible to the privileges
pearls has accumulated a stoat which, a the new dispensation.
a:In eveTYnaei7.Andneverif placed suddenly on the market, t is den%Dation;rinvryreligion, alag;
estimated, would send down quotations but this does net Theely by any means
fully 25 per cent. -chat creeds and beliefs are of no con-
sequenee; rightlyunderstood it eine
hasizes thini
e mportance He that
LITERAL CONSTRUCTION. .1)eate tit Jilin. He wh,o.dues his duty to.
Jane, said thie mistress, when that ward God. And worketh righteousness,
door bell rings I want you to drop He who does his duty ,toward his neigh -
everything arad attend to it. Don't let bon. But the experience a nineteen
me bave to tell you. again, , centuries is that (8) Duty toward God
Fifteen minutes later there was an eta towaed neighbors is not done ex -
awful crash of chine and jane hurried °apt as men believe in Jeans. Accept.
-
to the door. She had obeyed orders. ed with him. Better, "acceptable to
-- him:" Very wisely indeed does an
eLEarEnt, weeyeAR eminent English divine say this means
"capable of becoming a Christian when
What in the ev'oeftd Is that °entrap. the opportunityiegranted, rather than
tion you have on eachof yoor pockets, capable of obtaining salvation without
Spendlyt Christianity." It is net at all strange
0, that's a little 'invention of my that for awhile the apostles inimader-
wife. 1 cam Itut mosey in pay Pockets, stood theia Lord's words, and regarded
but I can't get it out again, circumcision and the full obiservance of
time The Oakes left Shategbai, on tie
17511 of• lest May, and after complet
ing her cargo at Hong Kong sailed
from that port. The crew were appar
ently in the best of health. When
about six days out .in the China sea
terrific typhoon was encountered,laste
hag several days, during which the fore
is the. largest bell in America, but not
e tee sweetest. This attribute is claim-
- ed by the biggest bell of Trinity's
chimes in New York, which is sloe:nes-
- ing in delicacy and penetrating in its
pureneen It is cast in E flat.
The countries of Turkey, Greece,. 15-
5
and mate topmasts were sprung. Th
vessel was obliged to run before te
gale, watch had no sooner blown itsel
out than it was followed by a seconi
typhoon, whit% blew with great fury
for twenty-four da,ys. The vessel ha
then got well out in the North Pacific
and so far off the regular course tha
Ceptaia need decided to take Cap
Horn rather than the Cape of Good
Hope, (tee route), hoping thereby to
make better tinae. The weather re
mined good until Cape Horn was
rounded, 167 days out. in the mean-
time six members of the crew had died
from various causes.One by one the
other sailors were obliged to quit w)rk,
until en March 1st only the second and
third mates, the captain and his wife.
were able to be about. Al! tt ere well
nigh exhaueted, and when a strong
nerteerly gale sprung up on that day
She brave women wee obliged to leke
the wheel., and far eight limes, with-
out relief, and without as much es a
datink of water, she kept the ship en
her course. The provisions were run-
ning short, and the crew were left with-
out other than the barest necessities
A sharp lookout was kept foe passing
vessels, but nothing was seen entil the
Kasbek hove in sight, on the evening
of antral 14. The laaebek manned a
boat, wane started for the distressed
vessel, Lie order to make fast the tow
lines, but owing to boisterous weather
tee MOW were unable to accomplice)
teeir purpose and the Oakes drifted out
of sight. As soon as daylight broke
the Kasbek began a search for the
Oakes, and about mem on the 15th inst,
sighted the distressed vessel. A beret
was again manned, and this time the
arew succeeded in making fest the tow.
The crew of the Oakes were eu,pplied
with food, writer, and clothing, and the
vessel tow•ed to New Yoke Tbe sur-
vivors appear to be oa the mend, but
are still unable to leave their bunks,
a y, an Egypt brive not many famous
bells. Bells axe not in good repute
there, from the fact that criminals wear
emlaz:141-ndDeck' reda are
strung e thein, In t temples tbe
e high peiests decorate their robes with
small jangling bells, and. this is emote-
, er reason why bells cannot become cam-
' MOIL In Turlten they are. conspicuous
ly unpopular •, indeed, that country is
d the only one that positively forbids the
ringing in of the new' year by means
t of bells.
- Quite a queer case of tem majeste
LP:SE MAJESTE.
was that of Adolf Hamburger, in As-
chaffeubturg, Prussia. During a con -
venation in the tenor shop ot his fath-
er he Made a rude remark abouti crazy
Xing Otto. One of Leese present was
a deaf and damn worleman, who, of
course, had noti heard this rema,rk, but
vrho, ne icing the look of consternation
Ori the faces of the others, had it trail--
seribed for him on a piece on paper.
Several, years passed. and nothing came
of it, until one day the deaf mute quar-
reled with the sou of his etmployer,
and then went and denounced him, 'The
oCioxiumotosueatet the young man to jail fors.
IN A. PIG'S STOMACH.
A peasant living near Milan recent-
ly bought a pig, which, when killed,
was found_ to have swallowed a ;metal
mateeibox containirrg two notes of the
value of §250. The finder took the
money to the Mayor to be held by
him for the loser.
SOMETIMES TOO TRUE,
Nettie—He's seat a deep man. That
is way he is so successful ins busi-
ness. Nobody can fathom his thoughts.
Laura—Pshaw! I have inost of hip
thoughts at Jxty finger tips.
Nettie—You delft say?
Laura—I'm hie typewriter."