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ET GOD BE TRUE,'
. DR. TALMAGE ON THE PLAGUE
OF INFIDELITY.
ue levideoce That the Christian Re-
ligion Is nythine Bat a Huge Blunder
—The Fruits or the spirin-Cod's
Veracity.
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on San-
ta? on "The Plague of Infidelity,'" tak-
ing for his text, Romans, 8,, 4,; "Let
God be true, but every man a liar."
That is, it God says one thieg and
the whole human race the opposite,
Paul would accept the Divine veracity
Bat there are many in 'our time who
have dared arraign the Almigety for
falsehood. Infidelity is not only a
plague, but is the Mother of Plagues.
et seems from what we hear on ale
eides that the Christian religion is a
huge blunder; that the Mosaic aecount
of the oreatiele is an absurdity large
enough to throw nations into rol-
licking guffaw; that Adam and Evel
never existed; that the ancient flood
and Noah's Ark were impossibilities;
that there never was a miracle; that
the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of
murder, of polygamy, of all forms of
beim crime; that the Christian religion
is woman's tyrant and man's stultifi-
cation; that the Bible from lid to lid
is a fable, a cruelty, a humbug, a
thane a lie; that the martyrs who
died for its truth were miserable dupes,'
that the Church of Jesus Christ is pro-
perly gazetted as a fool; that when
Thomas Carlyle, the sceptic, said: "The
Bible is a noble book," be was dropping,
into imbecility; that when Theodore
Parker declared in Minie Hail, Boston,
"Never a boy or girl in all Christendom'
hut was profited by that great book,"
he was becoming very weak-minded;
that it is something to bring a blush
to the cheek of every patriot, that.
John Adams, the father of American!
independence, declared. "The Bible Le
the best book in all the world," and
tbat lion heart ed Andrew Jackson
-turned into a snivelling coward when
he said, "That book, sir, is the rock ori
which our Republic rests:" and that,
Daniel - Webster abdicated tee throne
of his intellectual power and resigned,
his logic, and from being the great
expounder of the Constitution and the
great lawyer of his age, turned into
an idiot, when he said, "My heart as-
sures and reassures me. that the Gos-
pel of Jests Christ must be a Divine
reality. From the time that at my
mother's feet, or on my fateee's knee,
I first learned to lisp verses from the
sacred writing. thay have been my daily
study, and vigilant contemplation, and
if there is anything in my style or
thought to be commended, the credit is
&dile to my kind parents in instilling
into my mind an early love of the
scriptures:" and that William H. Se-
ward, the dipitenratist of the century,
only showed his puerility when be de-
clared, "The whole hope of human'
progress is suspended on the over-
growing influence of the Bible;" and
that it is wisest fon us to take that
book from the throne in the affections zn
of uncounted ueritudes and put it
under our feet to be trampled upon
by hatted and hissing contempt; and
that your old father was hoodwinked,
and cajoled, and cheated, and befool-
ed, 'when he leaned on this as a staff
after his hair grew gray, and his
hands were tremulous, and his steal
shortened as he came un to the verge
of the grave and that your mother
sa, /with a pack of lies on. her lap while
reading of the better country, and of
the ending of all OUT steles and pains
and reunion not only with those of you
who stood around her, but of the chil-
dren she had buried with infinite heart-
ache, so that she could read no more
Until she took off her spectacles, and
wiped from them the mist of many
tears. Alas! that for forty and fifty
years 'they should have walked under
ethis delusion. and had it under their
pillow when they lay a -dying in the
back room, and asked that some words
from the old boo'k might be cut upon
the tombstone under the shadow of
the old country meeting -house, where
they sleep to -day waiting for a re-
surrection that will never come. This
book, having deceived them, and hav-
ing deceived. the mighty intellects of
the past, must not be allowed to de-
ceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more
stupendous intellects. And so out with
the book from the court -room, where
it is used in the solemnization of tes-
timony. Out with it from under the
foundation of Church and asylum,
Cat with it exam the domestic circle.
Gather together all the Bibles—the
Children's Bibles, the family Bibles,
those newly bound, and. those with lid
nearly erten out and pages almost
obliterate re by the fingers long ago
turned I-recluse—bring them all together
and let us make a bonflire of them, and
by it warm our cold criticism, and
after that turn under with the plough-
share of public indignation and polluted
ashes of that loathsomie, adulterous,
obscene, cruel and dealeful book which
IS so antagonistic to men's liberty and
woman's honor, and the world's happi-
Wean
Now that is the substance of what
infidelity proposes and declares, and
the attack on the Bible is accompanied
by great jocosity and thlere is beefily
any subject about which more mirth
• is kindled than about the Bible.
like fun; man was. ever built. with
a keener appreciation of it. But there
is a laughter whish is deathful, there
is a laughter which bas the redound
of despair. It is not healthy to gigele
• about God,- or thruckle about eternity
or smirk about thie things of the im-
mortal soul, '
First, I cannot be an infidel because
infidelity line no good substitute for
the, consolation it proposes to' take
away. 'You know teene are millions
of people who get their chief • otheo-
.3ation from tees bade. What would
YOU thiuk of a crusade of this tent?
Suppose' a maii should resolve that lie,
would organize coespiracy to de-
stroy all the medicines from all the
apothecaries -and from till the hespitals
of the earth. The work is done. The
medicines are taken, and they are
thrown into the river or the lake or the
$ea. A patient wakes up at rreiodnight
in a paroxysm of &stress, ane wants
n anoayne. "Oh," sa:Ve the 'nutse,
"the anodynes are till destroyed, we
have no. drops to give you, botnistead
of that o road you a book on the
elmurdities remedies," 'But the
THE EXETER TI1VIES
man continues to writhe in pane and lenishinf the wardrobe of her son
eau some discourses on anodynes, the kneeling at the foot of the mountain
.
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the nurseue says; "Pll oontinto read muel, he prophet. Here is Abigail,
cruelties of anodyneis, the Indecencies
of anodynes, tee absurdities of ano-
dyne.s. For your groan I'll give you
a laugh." Here in the hospital in a
patient laving a gangrened limb am-
putated. He says: "Ob., for steer.
Ole for chloroform." The doctors say:
"Why, they are all destroyed; we don't
have any more chloroform or ether;
but I have got something a great deal
better. I'll read you. & pamphlet
against James Y. Simpson, the discov-
erer of chloroform as an anaesthetic
and against Doctors Agnew, and Ham-
ilton, and Hosack, and Mott, and Har-
vey, and Abernethy," "but," says the
man, "i must have some anaesthetics."
"No," says the doctors, "they are all
destroyed, but we have something a
great deal better." "What is that?"
"Fun." Fun about medicines. Lie
down, all ye patients in 13ellevuellos-
pital, and stop your groaning—all ye
brokereheerted of all the cities, and
stop your crying; we have the Catholi-
eon at last! Here is a dose of wit,
here is a strengthening plaster of sar-
casm, here is a bottle of ribaldry that
you are to keep well shaken up and
take a spoonful of it after each meal,
and if that does not cure you, here
is a solution of blasphemy.'which
you may baulari, and here ye a tincture
of derision. Tickle the skeleton of
death with a repartee Make the King
of Terrors cackle! For all the agon-
ies of all the ages, a joke! Millions
of people `Willing with uplifted hands
toward heaven to affirm that the Gos-
pel of Jesus Christ is full of console. -
Lion for teem, and yet infidelity pro -
paste to take it, away. giving nothing,
absolutely nothing, except fun. le
th,re any greater height or depth, or
length, or breadth, or immensity of
raeanness in all God's universe?
infidelity 19 a religion of "Don't
know." Is there a God? Don't know!
If we should meet each other in the
future. -world will we recognize each
other ? Don't know! A religion of
"don't. know," for the religion of "I
know." "1 know in whom. I have be-
lieved." "I know that ral Redeemer
Beetle" Infidelity proposes to substi-
tute a religion of await negatives for
our religion of glorious positives show-
ing right before us a world of reunion
and eestacy, and high companionship
and glorious womhtip and stupendous
victory, the mightiest. joy of earth not
high enough to reach to the base of
t Himnlaya of uplifted splendor
awaiting all those, who, on wings of
Christian faith, will soar towards it,
Furth:more, I cannot be an infidel
because of the false charges of infidelity
is all the time making against the
Bible. Perhaps the slander that has
made the most impression and that
some Ceristians have not been intelli-
gent extant to deny is that the Bible
favors polygamy. Does the God of
the Bible uphold. polygamy, or did Het
How many wives dui God make for
Adam? He made one wife. Does not
your common sense tell you when God
started the marriage institution He
started as He wanted to continue? If
God bad favored polygamy He could
have created Adam five wives, or
ten wives, or twenty wives, just as
easily as He made one. At the very
first of the Bible God thews Himself
in favor of monygo.my and antagonis-
tic to polygamy. Genesis ix.: 24
" Therefore shall a man leave his fath-
er and mother, and shall cleave unto
his wife." Not his wives, but his wife.
How many wives did God spare for
Noah in the ark? Two and two the
birds; two and . two the cattle; two
and two the lions; two and two the
'human race. If the God of the Bible
had favored a multiplicity of wives. He
is have spared a plurality of wives.
When God first launched the human
race He gave Adam one wife. At the
second launching of the human race
Ile spares for Noah one wife, for Ham
one wife, for Shem one wife, for Japbet
one wife. Does that look as though
God favored polygamy? In Leviticus,
18; 18, God thunders His prohibition of
more than one wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; just
as He permits to -day murder and theft
and arson and all kinds of crime. He
permits these things as you well know,
but He does not sanction them? Be-
cause the Presidents of the United
States have permitted. polygamy in
Utah, you are not, therefore, to con-
clude that they patronize it, that they
approved it, when, on the contrary,
they denounced it. All of God's An-
cient Israel knew that the God of the
Bible was against polygamy, for in the
tour hundred and thirty years of their
stay in Egypt there is only one case
of polygamy recorded—only one. All
the mighty of the Bible stood aloof
from polygamy except those who, fail-
ing into crime, were chastised within
an inch of their lives. Adam, Aoeron
Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, mono-
gamists. But you say: "Didn't David
and Solomon favor polygamy?" yes,
and did they not get well punished for
it? Read the lives of those two men
and you will came to the conclusion
that all the attributes of God's nature
were against `their behavior. David
suffered for his crimes in the caverns of
Adullara and Messada, in the wilder -
nest of Manbanaina, in the bereave-
ments of Ziklag. The Bedouins after
him, sickness after him, Absalom after
him. Abithopel after him, Adanijah af-
ter him, the Edomites after him, the
Syrians after him, the. Moa,bites after
him, death after him, the Lad. God
Almighty after him. The poorest pea-
sant in all the empire married, to the
plainest Jewess was happier than the
king in his martial misbehavior. How
did Solomon get along with polygamy
Read his warnings in Proverbs, read
his self -disgust In Ecclesiastes. He
throws up his bands in loathing, and
cries out: "Vanity, of Vanities, all is
vanity." His pev en hundred wives
nearly pestered the life out of him
Salomon got well paid for his crimes—
well paid, I repeat that all the mighty
men of the Scriptures were aloof Front
polygamy, save as they were pounded
and flailed and out to pieces for their
insult to holy rnatriage. If the Bible
is the friend of polygamy why is it
that. in all the 'awls where there is no
Bible it is favored? Polygamy all over
Mine, all over India, all over Africa,
lall over Persia. all over heathendom,
save as the missionaries have done
their work; while polygamy does not
exist in England and the United States,
except in defiance of law. The Bible
abroad, God honored monogamy, The
Bible not abroad, God abhorred poly-
gamy. ,
Another false charge which infidelity
has macie against the Bible is that it
is antagonistic to woman, that it en-
joins her degradation and belittles her
mission. Under this impress on many
women have been overcome of this
Plague of Infidelity. Is the Bible the
enemy of woman? Come into the pic-
ture gallery, the Louvre, the Luxem-
bourg of the Bible, and see 'Mita pic-
tures are the more honored. Here is
Eve a perfect woman, tie perfect a
woman as could, be made by it perfect
God. Here is Deborah, with her wo-
manly arm bulling a host into the
battle. Here is Miriam, leading the
Isreaelitish oecheetra on the Banks of
tbe Red. Sea. Here is motherly Hane
gab, with hew awn beetle band re -
meta the four hundred wrathful men,
at the sight of her beauty and prowess,
belt, halt—a hurricane stopped at the
eight of a water lily, a dewdrop dash-
ing Niagara. Here is Ruth put-
ting. to shame all the modern slang
about mothers-in-law as she turns her
back on her home and her country, and
faces wild beasts ana exile and death,
that she may be with Naomi, her hus-
band's mother, Ruth, the Queen of
the harvest fields, Ruth, the greed -
mother of David, Ruth, the ances-
ters of Jesus Cexist, This story of
her virtues and her life -sacrifices, the
most beautiful pastoral ever written.
Here is Vitehti, defying the bacchanal
of e thousand drunken lords and.
Esther, weling to throw her life away
that she 'may deliver her people. And
here is Dorms, the sunlight, of eternal
fame gilding her philanthropic- needle,
and the woman with perfume in a box
made from the Mile of Alabastron,
poaring the holy chrieen on the head.
of Christ, the aroma lingering all down
the corridor of the centuries. Here
is Lydia, the merchantess of Tyrian
purple, immortalized for her Christian
behavior, Here is the widow with
two mites, more famous than the Pea -
bodes and the Lexoxes of all the ages,
*line here comes in slow of gait and
with easeful attendants and with es-
pecial honor and high favor, leaning
on the arm of inspiration, one who is
the joy and pride of any home
so rarely fortunate as to have one, an
old Christian Grandmother, Grandmo-
ther Lois. Who has more worshippers
to -day than any being that ever lived
on earth, accept Jesus Clariat? Mary.
For what purpose did Christ perform
his first miracle upon earth? To re-
lieve the embarrassment of a womanly
housekeeper at. the failing short of a
beverage. Why did Christ break up
the sEence of the tomb, and. tear, off,
the shroud and rip up the rooks? It
was to stop the bereavement of the
two Betba.ny sisters. For whose com-
fort was Christ most anxious in the
hour of dying excruciation? For a
woman, an old woman, a wrinkle -faced
woman, a. woman who in other days
had held Him in her arms, His first,
friend, His last friend, as it was very
apt to be. His mother. All the pathos
of the ages compressed into one utter-
ance, "Behold thy mother," Does the
Bible antagonize woman?
Futhermore, rather than invite I re-
sist this Plague of Infidelity because
it. has wrought no positive good for
the world, and is always a hindrance.
I ask you, to mention the names of
the merciful and the educational insti-
tutions which infidelity founded and is
supporting, and has supported all the
way through; institutions pronounced.
against God and the Christian
and yet pronounced in behalf of suf-
fering humanity. What are the names
of them?
There stands Christianity. There
stands Infidelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare ttheir resources.
There is Christianity, a prayer on her
lip, a benediction on her brow; both
hands fuel of help for all who, want
help; the mother of thousands of col-
leges; the mother of thousands of
esteems for the oppressed, the blind,
the sick, the lame, the imbecile; the
mother of missions for 'the bringing
back of the outcast; the mother of
thousands of reformatory institutions
for the saving of the lost; they mother
of innumerable Sabbath Schools bring-
ing millions of children -under drill
to prepare them for respectability and
usefulness to say nothing of the great
future. This is Christianity.
Here is Infidelity; no prayer on her
lips, no benedietion on her brow, both
heeds clinched—what for? To fight
Christianity. That is the entire bad-
ness. The complete mission of Infidel-
ity to Eget Christianity. Where are
her wheels, her colleges, her asylums,
of mercy?
Is Infidelity so poor, so starving, so
mean, so -useless? Get out, you miser-
able pauper of the universe! Crawl
into some rat hole of everlasting noth-
ingness. Infidelity standing gto-day
amid the suffering, groaning, dyingena-
tions and yet doing absolutely noticing,
save trying to impede those who are
toiling until they fall exhausted into
their graves in trying to make the
world better. Gather up all the mer-
ciful work that Infidelity has ever done,
add it all together and there is not
so much nobility in it as in the smallest
head of that sister of charity who last
night went up the dark alley of the
town, put a jar of jelly for an invalid
appetite on a broken stand, and then
knelt on the bare floor, praying the
mercy of Christ upon the dying son.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes no bread for the hun-
gry, shakes up no comfort for the sick,
rouses no comfort for the bereft, gilds
no grave for the dead, While Christ,
our Christ, our wounded Christ, the
Christ of the old-fashioned Bible—
blessed be His glorious name forever!
our Christ stands this hour pointing to
the hospital, or to the asylum, saying,
"I was sick and ye gave Me a couch;
I was lame and ye gave Me a crutch,
I was blind and ye physicianed My
eyesight, I was orphaned and ye moth-
ered My soul, I was lost on the moun-
tains and ye brought Me home; inas-
much .as he did it to OM, of the least
of these, ye did it to Me."
LUCKED HER IN A llgAIVER,
PUNISHMENT ADMINISTERED BY
JOHN VANDERSTAADT TO HIS WIFE.
The Drawee, the Bottom One of Boreal.,
That name from iloliand—Butsband
Thought inciting lep Ine Wire woe Bet-
ter Than Beating Ben and. It Was a
Kind or a. noire Too,
One of the liecrloords which John Van-
derstaadt brought over from Holland
with him is a very big and. handsome
mahogany bureau, almost as tall as a
malt and longer than it is tall. When
John settled in a little house at Hale -
don, which is a, sort of side -hill suburb,
of ,Paterson, New Jersey, he installed
the bureau in the best room, as it was
his most impressive piece of furniture.
He also brought from Holland, his wife,
Lena, and. an idea that in the New
World there was absolute freedom for
a man to do just as he pleased. with
all hie belongings, among which kiln,
classed his wife.
In Reiland Lima had always been sub-
missive enough. She never questioned
any of her husband's judgments or dis-
puted with him, or so ration as thought
of talking back. But with the arrival
in the new country, she actually bad
the temerity to develop a mind and will
of her own. Now John approved of en-
tire freedom for himself, but any such
thing for his wife was quite eat of the
reokoning. That is how the bureau,
which has been in the Vanderataadt
family for three generations, came to
play a part for which it was never in-
tended, and how John Vanderstaadt
came to find himself confronted by the
majesty of the law invoked by his wife,
the meek and mild Lena. If the bureau
itself had. danced upon its curiously
clawed feet, out through the door, and
so over the hills and far away,. John
couldn't have been more dumbfounded.
"I shouldn't think it could. happen;
I shouldn't think it could happen," be
said over and over, shaking his big head
in sorrowful perplexity, and that is all
that could be got out of him„
It did happen, however. This is bow;
Some few weeks ago John and his wife
had. a difference of opinion. The cause
was unimportant; the fact highly oth-
erwise. That there could be any dif-
ference of opinion, that Lena could have
an opinion of her own, was a matter up-
on which her husband. smoked several
pipes; smoked. them in the best room,
too, where the big bureau stood in sol-
emn magnificence. He had never done
that before. Meantime Lena had gone
out with her nose uplifted, and an un-
familiar look of indifference on her
small faee. On her return her husband
called her into the best room.
"Lena," he said, ponderously; "I have
some things to say to you. I—"
He stopped. short. 'Was it possible
that his wife was sniffing at him in
scorn? Certainly she had. sniffed. What
is more, she kept on sniffing,
"I will have you to understand," he
began again, when he was unceremon-
iously interrupted,
"John Vanderstaadt, you've been
smoking in this room."
He didn't attempt to deny it, Even if
he had. tweeted to, amazement at the
tone of the accusation had deprived him
of speech.
"In—the—best—room," continued his
wife with severe pauses. She threw up
the window with a bang. john jump-
ed.
• "You'd better jump," she said. "Take
your dirty pipe out of here; filling the
place all up with smoke."
Here John recovered his voice and
saved. himself from apoplexy.
"Do you know wile it is you're talk -
leg to?" he shouted.
Then be said it again, and a third
time. Nothing else occurred to him to
say.
"Pooh," said his wife scornfully, and
Jahn rose out of his chair, as if it had
become metamorphosed into a bed of
nettles.
"Don't you pooh at me!" he whooped,
shaking his fist two inches from the
impertinent nose in front of him. "Don't
you pooh at me! I'll show you whether
you're my wife or not."
"If you hit nae," she remarked calm-
ly, "I'll go away to Paterson and. you -
'11 never see me again."
Leaving him this for a subject of
thought, she walked out. In the course
of an hour or two he had an idea. It
was connected with the bureau and was
the outcome of some very solid, and
painful thought. Being Holland -born, he
spent a day or two thinking it over.
During that period his wife ran the
house to suit herself, and. hid. his pipe.
Retribution was on her track. When
John had finished thinking the matter
over be demanded his pipe. She had
the temerity to hint that she multi pro-
bably find it on condition of an agree-
ment that he should not smoke it in the
best room again. He looked up an old
clay pipe, filled it up with tobacco, went
into the best room, sat down and smok-
ed. She followed him upbraiding.
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself!
filling up this room with smoke. Isn't
there enough places outside? Go out
in the yard with your pipe."
There was an ominous silence on his
part as he stepped over to the bureau
and opened the bottom drawer. It was
a. very capacious drawer, as big as a
small bed, almost. Nothing was in it
except a few towels.
" What are you doing that for ?" de -
mended. the wife. "I suppose you want
to drop your ashes all over the towels.
Can't you—Oh-h-h Let me go I"
For with one step her husband had
caught her and gathered her up in his
arms. Three steps more took him to
the bureau. He coolly pat her in the
open drawer, tucked her in, and closed
the drawee. Then he resumed his seat,
and his pipe. For a time she lay quiet,
but tiring of this she began to scream.
There is no house within a long dis-
tance, and her screams didn't disturb
John. Presently she began to kick also.
This caused the big drawer to open a
creek. John stepped over, closed it, and
locked it. More silence followed. Then,
"John."
No answer.
"Jo-o-o-olin !"
Sante results.
' To-o-o-o-olea I Have you gone away?"
" No; what do you want ?"
"I can't breathe. There's no air
here."
GOLD BEATING.
The process of preparing gold until
it is reduced to a thithiness of 1-280,-
000 of an inch is necessarily elaborate.
The gold is first cast into ingots linches
in length and 1 inch in width, which
weigh from 10 to 17 ounces, according
to thickness. It is then passed be-
tween polished rollers, worked by steam
until it forms a ribbon 28 yards long,
and. 1-800 inch thick. These eibbons are
then cut into 180 pieces, 1 inch square,
and placed between vellum, and then
the real business of the gold. beater is
begun. He beats for half an hour wtth
a 20 -pound hammer, making the inch
square into 3 inches square; then these
pieces are quartered, becoming 1 1-2
inches square. He beats strain for one
and a quarter hours, until the 1 1 -2 -
inch square beeomes 4 inches square.
The 4-tneh pieces are again quartered
and beaten and finally cut to proper
size, viz., squares of 8 3-8 inches, of a,
thickness ( or rather " thinness ") 1-
280,000 of an inch, and. in this shape the
leaf is lifted. into books of tissue pa-
per .
GAELIC IN THE UNteEl) KINGDOM,
It is natural to imagine that English
is the universal language in the Unit-
ed Kingdom, ad although it is very
nearly so, yet the number of people
using Gaelic as their native tongue is
considerably over a million. It is re-,
corded that there are 660,000 persons
in Ireland, 350,000.in Walee, and 230,000
in Scotland', wbo commonly address each '
tether in Gaelic. It is not unusual in
visiting remote villages in these court -
tries to find the adult population tieing
theie obildren—whe learn English in
the public schools—as interpreters in
then- intercourse with strangers.
The man pulled the key out of the
keyhole, "Put your nose to that," he
said obligingly.
Then he smoked for half an hour.
Mrs. Vanderstaadt devised a bit of
strategy. It censisted in stuffing the
wadded -up corner of a towel in her
mouth,
"John I" the call came in muffled,
choking accents that started the phleg-
matic sinokert.
"What's the matter with you?"
" johd I" the call came in muffled,
Barely in time she got the wadded
towel from her mouth as the drawer
was opened.
"I guess you had enough," said, her
husband, allowing her to climb out, if
you do it again the drawer is there."
But the matter of air troubled him,
Suppose he should lock her up on a
future occasion and then go outdoors
and, forget her. She might smother to
death. He fixed that by boring holes
through the back of the bureau to let
in air. Thereafter the punishment of
the bureau became a frequent one in
the Vanderstaadt bousebold* for Lenars
spirit was net crushed; so frequent
that she put a pillow and. blauket in
the drawer and took naps to while away
the home of imprisonment. This sort
of thine might be going on yet had not
a neighbor come in one day recently
while John, having locked, his wife up
because of an undarned hole in his sack,
WM out, The neighbor, finding the
house empty, wandered into the front
room. There she was terrified almost
out of her senses at lag accosted by
the bureau as "John,"The real John,
appearing ,explained matters. Later the
neighbor got Mrs. Vanderztaadt alone,
and. denounced :he practice as an out--
rae.
"Suppose the house got afire while he
was away." was one of her arguments.
It so worked upon the wife's fears
that she finally decided to appeal to
the law. Vastly amazed was John van-
derstaadt at being haled before Jus-
tice Levy of Paterson to answer his
wife's charge of cruelty.
"She's my wife," he protested. "Can't
I do whet I want with my own wife ?"
"You can't lock her up in a drawer
replied the Justice, "Don't you know
better than that?"
I. think it's a kind of a joke, anY-
way," said the prisoner.
"Your wife doesn't think so, does
site?"
"Well, she didn't seem to like it at
first," admitted John, "hut she likes
it all right now. She has to do what
her husband tells her."
"I don't want my man to go to pri-
son," put in Mrs, Vanderstaadt. "It
he'll promise not toput me in the draw-
ee* it will be all right."
" promise that, Judge," agreed the
simple-minded Jobe. "If she don't do
what I tell her now, I'll beat her."
"If you dm I'll see that your sent to
prison, for six moths," replied Juetice
Levy. emphatically.
" Not lock her up: not beat her ; not
do anything?" cried John, pathetical-
ly. " Who is the husband, me or My
wife? What am f in my own home?"
This problem he debated all the way
home, and found no answer thereto.
That is why John Vanderstaadt, with
a 'sorrowful countenance, sits and
smokes his pipe an the kitchen) and
broods over the crimes which are com-
mitted in freedom's name.
THE SUNDAY S
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 18.
" 1CUtlIC5 Converted.at Antiech," Acts In
been Golden Text. eels
PRACTICAL NOTES -
Verse
.ar.ola4‘risl
0-. They reWinieheolevreert:hocatwter-
edb
were compelled toflee when Saul led
.ettiolleeperreaseedue tor. "tribulation," p;x`p ear::
Phoenicia, the 'seacoast country about
Tyre and Sidon. . A region where there
were many Jews. Cyprus. An island.
in the Mediterranean Sea in full view
of the coast o tPliceniela in fair wea-
ther. The people there were largely
Phoenicians, but there were many Jews.
Antioch. One of the great cities of an-
tiquity, with a population of halt a
ntelion. It was the capital of the great
kingdom of Syria, and is to be carefully
distinguished from Antioch in Piddle.
It was about one bundred and eighty
ellofilpeshoneclificthia.onfutdb‘evan5orotnilleyrnexebi.oeuededdariny
importance by Rome and Alexandria.
20. The Grecians. This should he
"the Greeks." It does not mean Greek -
speaking Jews, but Gentietes. It 18 evid-
ent that where there were at. many
Jews as resided in Antioeb their wor-
ship would Attract a great deal of pub -
he attention, and teentilte would. be
more apt to attend Jewielt 'services
there than in some other place.s.
21. The band of the Lind. His pow-
er.
22. Tidings of these things eerie Un-
to the ears of the church which was
in Jerusalem. It is not improbable that -
some members of the church which was
in Jerusalem lived in ehronic apprehene
siou of the effects of the zeal of some
of their brethren. Statements in Acts
concerning Stephen's aggressive behav-
ior are meagre, but they imply that the
whole church did not 'agreewith them.
The prompt sending of two apostle* to
Samaria to supervise the work done on
the outt*ast race. and the quick carry-
ing of the news of the. baptism of Cor-
nelius and his household, seern to- in-
timate that the (lurch felt that there
was real danger in the, aggreeelve zeal
0 fsome of its member*. On the other
band, the fact that they sent. forth so
aggressive a man as Barn -aloe ehows
that an excellent -temper and
sion ,p,raesvakillieoclivinn Vote ifia* glt...uutst t.01 e preaching liaa-
the Gospel to. Gentiles, Asote 13. 1, 2.
We have no definite know edgeof' the
rennin.. dates .of the ineidente given in
the net two or three chapters: but it
is probable that Peter had already made
I),isrtesuo z;t. a
eaonnce rt g atIhreeat;lyonon versiof
(one
auditors bad extementid. "ThertoPitchues
aGnecnet iaensde God granted repent -
23. Ile was a good. man. A morally
excedent num, a man of itonoratile and
lovable ammeter. Full of the Hole
tallest and faith. A 'ileteription -which
suited Stephen also. Acts' 0. 5. The
Holy Giant ,seas to have been frequ-
ently thought of by Luke and the writ-
ers of the epistles, as here, as a Spirit
of Dower, makieg in this ease, Barna-
bas's exhortation peoniarly effete lee.
"Faith" carries both the ideas of de-
pendence and of faithfulness. Much
peopte wee added unto the Lord. Men-
tely cionfessed and morally creme...en
people in crowds became einetore and ac-
tive Christians. lee hy Been uee ani
nnusua.ly good man. with unusual ab-
ility as an exhorter, was exerocieing smolt
unusual faith as i oreceive an unusual
measure of the support of the Ho,y
Ghost.
GIRL FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
Took the Shallow of a flunk for the Pre
settee of a Man In Mee ROOM,
Elizabeth Paulson, aged eighteen
years, is dead at Chicago, from the ef-
fects of fright. Such is the opinion of
the attending physicians and the Cor-
oner's jury after listening to testi-
mony of her family.
Miss Paulson, was the daughter of
BE.. and Mrs. Peter Paulson, respected
German people. She was a comely
young woman and ‚was the special care
of her parents.
Last Friday evening Elizabeth and a
younger sister, Thera, were alone with
their mother. When the two girls went
to their rooms to retire they took no
light with them, because their chamber
was but a step irom the living rooms.
Thom found occasion to go harm to the
other part' of the house, and left. her
sister for a moment,
An instant later a frightful scream
came from the room and Elizabeth
rushed out, calling piteously for help.
Mrs. Paulson ran to her assistance, but
it was some time before the girl could
speak plainly enough for her mother to
understand the cause of her sudden
terror. At length she was able to say
there was a strange man in her room.
By this time other members of the
family had arrived, and they joined in
making an -investigation of the room.
A woman's cloak and hat, which hung
on the wall so that the light from a
neighbouring gas lamp cast a strange
Shadow, was what Miss Paulson had
seen and caused her terror.
For a time the matter was taken by
the family as a good. joke, but all ef-
forts to calm the girl proved futile and
her condition became serious. She seem-
ed to be in constant terror and nothing
could relieve her of that frightful
vision. Symptoms of epilepsy developed,
the periods of unconsciousness grew
more protracted daily, and Friday she
died.
The attending physician said:
"There seem to he no doubt, Miss
Paulson's death was caused by fright.
She was of a nervous disposition."
Mr. Paulson, time father of the young
girl, said that he had no doubt that
she was scared to death.
How RP, PROVED IT,
When Sir Christopher Wren was
building the town hall of Windsor, a
fidgety member of the corporatien—so
the story goes --insisted that the roof
required further support, and desired
the architect to add more pillars. In
vain did Sir Christopher assure hint tbat
the danger was imaginary; lie knew
better. The alarm spread,and the
great architect was worried into adding
the desired columns. Years passenand,
in later times, when architect and pat -
Tone were dead, cleaning operations in
the root reveale,d the fact that the sup-
posed additional supports did not teeth
the roof by two inches, though this was
not nerceptible to the gazers below. By
'this ingenious expedient did Wren pm-
ify his critics, while vindicating his own
architectural skill to future genera-
tions.
iENRICEIIED BY A DREAM.
Henry Small, a farmer of heighten
Township, Pa., dreamed twenty years
ago that a deposit of lead ore was lo-
cated an the atm of David Irons, on
Brady's Inure Four years eater he
secretly Proepeoted and found a de-
posit et lead. For sixteen years he bas
been negotiating for the lease and has
just sumeeded in closing it.He in-
tend e to develop the lead mina
25. Then departed Barnabas. Re-
vision. "And be went forth." For to
se..k Saul. With 'whose intelligent pow-
er and thorough consecration Borne -bas
was famiiiar. His journey to Tarsus
would be probably by water a melee
hours' ente or he could go overland
eighty 111Lee.
26. When he had found him. Evid-
enty after search. A phrase which may
intimate that Paul was not at this time
a conspicuous factor in len Jewish, life
of Tarsue. Ile brought hem unto An-
tioch. ennere doubtless many of those
who had. fled in terror from his perse-
cution in Jerusalem were now waiting
awaiting his coming and earnestly
praying for God's linseang upon his en -
den on'. That a whole year. Revision
"That often for a whole year." They
astemble themselves. Revision, "They
were gaibered together." With the
church. abould be "in the church,"
and refers Imre to a place of meeting,
as well as to the gatherineof the /Re-
clines. Taught much people. Jewsand.
Gentiles alike, who could be attracted
to the meetingpeace. And the dis-
ciples. This should in- "and with the
disciple -b" for it closely connects with
the preceding sent eines. 'rinse two
things "came to pees," that for an ell -
tire year Paul and Barnabas labored as
evangelise: in Antioch, and the disciples
received the name "Christians." which
they and their followers were to bear
for nine t een centuries aft e rw rd. 'Were
catled. Bore the name. They had been
ea led by their enemies "Nazarenes„"
and by the people at large "Men of the
'Way." They kheenselves knew each
oilier as "disciples" of Jesus, Acts 1,
15; as "brethren." Acts 9. 30; as "saints,"
Acts 9. 13; and as "belieivers." Acts 2,
44. The fact that this name was, given
in Antioch is of itself suggestive. It
is a nickname that could not have been
thrown at 1 be disciples by the Jews,
to mit -there is any e:ement of derision
i nit it is no tagainst hells but against
the Christ, the Messiah, win& all time
Jews reverenced. , One of the early
Christian liturgies says. "We give thee
-thanks teat we are caned by the name
of thy Christ, andare thus reck-oned
as thine own," Jemes (2. 7) speaks of
"the worthy name by welch ye are call-
ed.e Ileolycorp Cited saying, "I am
Christian." There were many Greeks in
Antioeh, and the Romans were in pow-
er there, both civil and military. The
forna of tbis word is Latin, like "Pomp-
elans," "Herocliaaae," "Ciceroniame," etc.
.•
OPENING OF AN OLD BALLROOM.
-
A. bell will be given by the Bencher -9
of Gray's Ina in the great ball Of the
in to celebrate Queen Victoria's an-
niversary. The last beta there was 800
years ago, when Queen Elizabeth
danced.
PNEUMATIC BOXING, GLOVES.
Pneumatic laming gloves are en,ixri-
prevenient over the old stele, as they.
mail be meet 'hard or soft by forcing
air into their backs through a valve
in the wrist, ,
Some Items of Into
Business
The condition of winter
South and South-western S
to be much belovr the are
date.
Canadian Pacific has been
better demand sing* tbientutlelt
the favorabonn %tenement for
The steals of wheat at Poe
and Fort William, are 2,900,51
as against 3.428,081 bunbols
The stock of Waleat at To
174,300 Lush 'is as against: 184
els A week ego. and 33,000 a
Money in London ie amide
aunts have been released by
of England on Japanese and.
verities.
The directors of the Ankle'
Telephone Company have deal
crease the capital stock 10
or an increase of 82,305,000 tc
000.
A petition has been present
Government at Ottarira from
tree.] Board at Trade asking
establishment of a mint in C
There is renewed activity
treat Street Railway stock, E
led wee, a sharp advance
meeting of the seoca'
for April 14th t
of new stock. —
The visible supply c.
United States and Cane
busbies, a decrease of 1,4
for the week. A Year .
was 61,018,000 beekeees. Tie
afloat to Earrepe,esq„,8,500,000
decrease cif eila for the? wi
iviable and amount afloat.
57,563,000 imshels as agaleij
huslaele a year ago, deer
705.000 bushile.
Te- tiusiness situation at
pretty much as reported '
Theo general sentiment has, ii
intproved„ ulna, is due to
oennions that no ro.clira
to be made in the tariale
of uncertainty Lae existed In
of importers and =nut
this subject, and the did
industries for sante time
attributed to. lack of con
however, we are -
gradually disappearing -
demand for manufactured
at band, and t
factory. Gen
.
diee the
retail deal
and with
to firm
(Ty trade
this wee
ne ive me
ies ral
fair.
uneb
good
easy
per
disec
by
the
ren
exPe
other
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physio,
wound in
brine. He w
the actual effect
bral (emulationel
increase in the size of t
The effect on the cerebral
was variable. The vessels
times constricted and some
ed. At other times no off
duced.
Binet and count
ed nun musician. ksala
in unisorralld etinen
Both major chords steal,
'manner and discords qou
spiration, the latter
Minor chords tended to
lion. When melodies
found that al. whethe
produce quickened re
inoreased action of the It
in tunes produced
tion.
The subject also so
solously endeavored to at
respirations with those
In rallentando and dim
ages tthe respiration
'Where the sound was
plicated by emotional idea
notes or chords. the hear
ance,erated, but not in ea
gree as when a melody e
gay was played. During
or those we -el known to t
acceleration attained its
subject -bad a strong.
lary pulse. The Influent:
the caphlary eireulat ion
a, piethysmograpb attach
band. The capillary t
showed -a diminution of
diminution WasOcasion
of single notes,, chords
sad melodies, 1.
there Nms atunasl,
en lively airs the
ed. 1
Az the L
the. Great
he is the
Cabinet win
side of Gree
Wolsey WafS
with him'
thereby has
ion of ma
is a double sil
ten wax is pout
is required for
once used for e3
Lord Chancell
trig, in 3
Scottish
Deedless
party so
and bid
diatress
lost. He et
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