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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-5-6, Page 7RE TOW* IN WillCli JESUS LIVED THIRTY YEARS. • --- Great Green nowt eceeeedout ot the eaney for erivaey nen separation-- e I,esson to the Weald of the Need or ereparathan. Rev. Dr. Talmage preaelaed on Sun - ay from the text, Luke 4, 16, "11e 'me to Nazareth, where He was rought up." ollowitug is the sermon: What a sple,atlid sleep I bad one bet in a Catholic. convent, when I on my tour through Palestine, sleep wiehin doors since leave ealeen, and all of us as kindly th,ougb we bad been, the colle;ge of cardinals pass - y. The geeial Sisterthood the convent ordered a hundred brigeyed Arab children brought out to sing for me, and it was gloeious 1 In the =rang I come out. on the steps of the convent and look upon the most beautieul village of all Palestine, its houses of white limestone. Guess its narae 1 Nazareth, historical Nazareth, one a the trinity of places that all ristian travelere roust see or feel heat they have not seen Palestine namely, Bethlehem, ,Terusalem, Naza- reth. Babyhood, boyhood, mamboed of Rim for whom I believe fifty million people Would now, if it were re- quired, mamoh out and die whether under the axe or down in the floods or straight tbrougb the fire. Gra,nd old village of Nazareth, even putting aside its sacred associations. First of all it i cleaa; and that can, be said of few of the Oriental Its neighboring town of Nablous is the filthiest town I ever saw, although Is chief -industxy le the manufaeture of soap. They export all of it. Naza- reth wee perhaps unusually clean the morning I speak. of, for as we rode sato the village the afternoon before, lee ehowers whicla had put our meek- seteehes to the test bad. poured floods hrough all tbe alleys under oammand f the clouds, those thorough street missioners. Besides that Naza- le has been the scene of battles essing it from the Israelites to Mo- ammedan, tied from Mobammedaa to snam the meet wonderful of bat - les beteg that in nencla 25,000 Turks core beaten by 2100 Freneh, Nonolean onapoxte commanding, that greatest Frenchmen walking these very ets through avlaiela Jesus walked or nearly 30 years. The morals a the wo, the antipodes. The snows of Bus - la writhe plagues of Egypt appropri- ately followed the one, the doxologies of earth and the hallelujahs of heaven aPpropriately following the other. And then thin tawa is so beautifully situ- ated in a pleat green bowl, the sides of the bowl, the surrounding 15 hills. $"'T.Iiie God of nature, who is the God of tbe Bible,evidently scooped out this van ▪ ley for privacy aad separation from all the world during three most important decades. the 30 yeer.s of Christ's boy - boo d and youth, for of the 33 years of Christ's stay on earth, He spent 30 of tbe en in this town, in getting ready- -, er a startling rebuke to those whb have APOPIMMPOSOPI,IPM.Miimm....quimorog THE EXETER melte, and In atter years H saye: "Lee not4..ip foe yourselves treasures an eaelth where !moth doth corrupt." In childhood Re had seen a mile of flowers, white as the show, or red. as the flame, or blue as the sea, or green as flee, tree tops, and no wonder mills manhood sermon H - said: "Consider the, lilies." While one day on' a high point, where now etads the tomb of eine 1sinai1, Ile had seen winging past Him so near as tamest to flurry His hair, teepextridge and the hoopee, and the thoush, and the osprey, a,nd the mane, and the raven, and no won- der afterwards in His manhood ser- mon, He said, "Behead the fowls of tbe air." 1,a Nazareth and on the. road to it there are a great many camels. see them. now in meanory making their way up the zigzag road from', the plain a Esdraelon to Nazareth. Familiar was Christ with their appearance, also with that small ineect the gnat whioh Ho had. seen His mother strain aut from a. crap at wia,ter or pail of milk, and no wondeen Re beings afterwards the large quiadruped arse the sentll in- sect intoRiesermon and, while seeing the Pharisees careful about small sine and reokless about large ones. cries out, "Woe unto you, blind guides, wiaiob strain Oat a gnat and swallow' a, camel." e no patience with the long Teens of et preparation necessary when thee en- ter on any speoial xnission for the , Church of the world. The trouble is ,; with most young men that they want to hunch their ship from the dry-dock "e befotoe it is reedy, and hence so anaaay beanie in the first. cyclone. netay in the store as a subardenate until you are thoroughly equipped. Be a good em- ploye in your trade until you are qualified. to be are employer. Be con - teat with Nazareth until you aee ready „tor tee buffetings of Jerusalem. You may get so glortottely equipperl in the 9 Teams, that you can do more in three • lea= than most men can accoraplish an a prolonged lifetime. These little suggestions I am apt to put into ray sermon, hoping to help people for this world while 1 am chiefly anxious to hive theta preparr,e for the next. All Chriet's boyhood. was spent in this village and its surroundings. There Is the very well, called "The Form - Mita of the Virgin," to which by His molthex•s side He trotted along holding hea• hand; No doubt about it ; it is the oaly wen in the village, and it has been the only well for 3000 years, This morningewe visit it, and the mothers ve their children with them now as bent Vie work of drawing water in „all ages in those meanies has been woemen's work. Scores of them are waiting for their turn at it, three „geese and everlenting springs rolling out ento tied well their barrels', their laidgehea,ds of water in floode, glorious- ly abundant. The well is surrounded by olive gtroves and wide spaces in winch people talk and childeen wear Nag charms on their heads as protec- tion against the "evil eye," are play- ing, and women with thew strings of coin on eithete iside of their face, and in skirts of beim, and. seerlet, and. White, nna reeve an with water jars on tbeir beads. lVfa,ry, I suppose, al- most always took Jesus thle boy with her, foe she bad= one she coula leave Him with, being in humble circum - seances, ane havnag• no attendants. 1 do net belireen that there was one of the suaroundling 15 leWs that the bon Christ did not range from bottom to tOfp, OT one cavieen in their sides lle did not explome, nor ate species of bled flying aoress the tape that He could not call by name, or one of all e the species ol fauna Inewserfe: on these A'rf3teeps teat- he had. not rece,genized. Yee see it all tbeaugh Ma sermon. If a, alien becomes - a. public speakex, in his (nations or discourses you dis- cover bis early whereabotuite. 'What man sees between 7 and. 17 always stiok,s to him. When, .the Apostle Peter peeaches, ycei see the fish-, ing nete wib whioh he had, from his eel -Bent days been familiar. 'And when. Amos delivered his prophecy youx neon it in the bleatimg of the 'herds- -which lie had in his boahood.atitended. Ana in oeuer Load's sermons and con- vereationes eon see all the phases of Village life, and. the monrut.airiou,s life •sterreancling it'. They raise their own chickens in Nazareth, and in after time he, cries; '0 jerusalettn.1 Jerusalem! hew often woald 1 have gathered thee es a ben gethereth hsr ebickene ,in.. der her wings!Ile had seers les ince then open the family ti entree:), r; i close of enema and the moth millers Being one, having dceti•oyed the gay - witbe the surplus? Ale it was just eneiF were a lhOut to etart houseke,epeng, SUNDAY SCHOOL like ou Lord! Tense young lieePle and their means were limited, and I1NTERNATIONAJ, LESSON NAY that big supplY, weether kept an their pantry, or sold, 'will be a enelny help. You see there was no etrycbnine, or -AN seq. tia earame :cart ro •pacheenore erage, and, as tbe Lord made it, it would keep. He makeinountaine mad seas that keeps thousands ot years endeertalnly Hie could make a bever- age that would keep four or five years, Aneene the aets and inventions of tbe future I hope there may be some me that can press, the juic,es from the grape and so mingSe theca andwithaut one drop of damning alcohol that it will keep for years. And the more of it you take tee clearer -will be the brain and the healthier the storaach. And her is a remarkable feat in my recebat journey—e trevelled through Ray and Greene; and Egypt, and Palestine able Syria, and leu.rkey, and blow many imboxioaled people do yon think I eaiw in all those five great imams? Net one We =mit in our Christianized Lends havte, got bold of some kind of beyeelrogle tient Chent did not mons. , But we must beaten on, far 1 do not mean to close, my eyes to -night till I ;see, trim a mosentalin top, Lake Gali- lee, on wheee banks next Sabbath. we wfill woxeleip, and on whew; waters the follawang nacerning we will take a sell. On and up we go in the severest allimb of all Palestine, tbe ascent of the Mount a Betatatuden,, on the top Of avbeicla Cheese _preached tied famous omen= ma the Blesseds Blessed this and Blessed than tip to their knees the horses plunge in mob hiles,anda surfece that settee 'weer at the first tenich Of the hoof, and Again and even the tired beaete halt, as anueb as to say to the Tinders, lit s unju.st for yet to make, us climb these steeps," On and up osier meoluntainsidee where, in the latter seeeore hyacinths and daisien, and poxes, and anemones kindle their beauty. On and up until on the rocks a black basalt we dis- mount and climbing ta the: highest eeak, Iodic out an am e,nehantment of scenery that Wenn to be the Ileati- tudiesthemeselves embed into skienand rounded into valleys, and eilvexed into waves. The view is like haat of Ten- ets -use and Near*, Garonne from the toe of Lookout Monatain, or like that of Vermont and New Halneshire from tbe top of :Mount Washington. hills of Galilee! Hail Lake Gennesa- ret, only foes miles awayl Yonder, tar ne and mestoenspiouous, Sa- (sled, the very aity wbich' Christ pointed for illustration ba the sermon preached here, seeing, "A. oity set on a hill cannot be hid.' Thereare rooks around me on this Mount Beatitudes, enolugh to build the highest pulpit the waled ever mew. Aye, it is the highest pulpit. It overlooks all time and eter- nity. The velley of Hattie,* between here and Lake Galileo, is an ameba - theatre% as thenge the natural contour of the earth bed invateed ell nations to aome and sit diown and hear Christ preach a. sernalon, in ethical there were more estartlieg novelties Ovenware an - in all the, sentaints thee were ever preached. To those who haled Elim on tern very spot Hisword must have seemed the contreadiatien of enerytining tent theY bed ever heatrd or read or experienced. The wor1d'e4 theory hod been, Ble.ssead are the wino - gime blessed etre the stupercillous; blessed arre the tearless; blessed nee teme that Ilene everything their own way; blessed are the ware eagles; Mese - ed axe the persecutors; blessedrare the eoeular; blessed axe the Herbris, and the lea.eteers, and the Limbs. "Not nol nol" says Caplet, with a violate that reit% neer these reeks and through Vendee valley of Haien and dawn to the opelitn,e Joke on ono side and the saephere IVIedilbegramean en the other, and aorloes Duteepe ll ane way and (unease Aesia ila !the other 'way, and amend tine eierth both wane, till the globe shall yet be girdlled wit,h the nine beatitudes: Blessedare the Poor; bless- ed am the moultinful; !Awned are the meek; beleseed are the hungry;blesse are the meanifrafe blestsen are thepure; blessed are the peacemakers; blessed are the pereecuted; blessed awe the falsely 'reveled. Do you see haw the Hole' Lead and the Holy Book fit each atlaer? God with His left hand built Palestine, and with His right wrote the Scriptures, tee two lands of the same Bein.g. And in proportion as Palestine is brought under close insepection, the Bible will be found more glorious an(1 more teue. Mightiest book of the post! Mightiest book of the future! Monarch of aniit- eneturel HARD WORKED WASHERWOMEN% Ha had int boyhood seen the shep- herds .get their flocks mixed up, and to one llot familiar with the habits of shepherds and their flocks, hopelessly mixed up. A-140:1 a sbeep stealer appears on the seene and disbonestly dolmas some of these sbeep, when he owns roe one of them. "Well," say the two honest shepherds, "we will soon settle this matter," and one. shepherd goes nth in one direction and the other ehepherd goes out in the other direc- tion, and. th,e sheep stealer in another direction, and eaoh one calls, and tbe floaks of each of tbe 'wriest shepherds rush to their owner, while the sheep sfealens call, and call again, but gets not ane of the flook. No wonder that Christ, years after, preaching oU great occasion, and illustrating His own sbepherd qealitiese says, "When XIspeutteth forth His own sheep Iie goeth before them, and the sheep tal- low in far they know His voice, and the stranger they will not follow, for they know mot tbe, voice of the stanng- eer." The, aides of these hills are ter- raced for grapes. Tbe boy Christ had often stood with geea.t round. eyes watching the triennia/1g of the grape- vines, Clip goes the knife, and off falls a branah. 'The child Christ says to the far,mer, "Wbee do yeti do that for V" "Ob." says the farerner, "tbat isa dead banneh, and it is doing nothing and is only in the way, so 1 oat it off !" Then the, farmer, with his sharp knife. Palenes from a living branch this mud that tendril and the other tendril. "Bat," says tbe child Christ, "these twigs that yoat aut off now are not dead; whet do you do that force" "Oh," says the faamer, "we prune off these that the main branch raay have more of the, sap, aad so be more fivitful." No wonder in after years Christ saki in Hies sermon. "1 aan the true vine. and my Father is the husbandman: every branch in me that beareth not reale He taketh away. and every bra,neh that beareth fnut Ris p•urgeth it, that it emay bringforth more fruit." Capital! No one -tvho had not been a country bo' would have said that. Streaks af nature all through Christ's sermons and conversations 1 'When a pigeoa descended upon Christ's head at Ills baption in. the jardena it was not the, hest pigeon Re had seen. And then nehas ouch wide sweep of dis- coarse as you may imagine trona one who had mood oa the hills that over- look Nazareth. . 'As far as I under- stand, Christ visited the Meditate- ean Sea only 'once, but any clear morning Ine, cotuld run up a, hill near Nazareth and look off to the ,west and. see the Mediterranean, while there in the. :eolith is snowy Mount Lebanon, clad as in white robe of ascension, and !yonder on the east and so,utipeast notialt Gilboa, Mount Tabor and Mount Gilead, and yonder in the south is tbe Plaltn of Esdraleon, over which we rode yesterday on our way to Nazareth. Those mountains of His boyhood iin Ins memory, do you won- der that Cerise wben Ile wanted a good, pulpit made it out of a mown teen— 'seenig the Multitudes He went up into the mount:tee" And when He wante,d especial etexianuaaion with God He took .Taines and John and Peter into a. "mountain apart." On this December morning in Pales- tine on our way out from Nazereth we sew just such a carpenter shop as Jesus worked in, supporting His widow- ed mother, after He was old etaough to dose. I looked in, and there were hammer and saw and plane and auger vend vise and measuring rule and chisel and drill and adze and tvrencai and bit andall the tools of carpentry. Think of it! Be who Smoothed the surface of the earth, shoving a plane. Hewho cleft the mountains by earthquake, pounding a cbisel. He who opened tbe Mammoth caves of the earth, turning an auger. Ile who wields the thun- derbolt etrieeng with a hammer. He who recooped out the bed of the ocean, hollowing a, ladle. He who flashes the morning on the earth, and makes the midnight quiver with aurora, con- structing a window. 1 oannot under- stand it, but I believe it. A sceptic said. to an old clergyman, "I will not believe anything I cannot explain." "Indeed 1" said the clergyman, "You will not believe Anything you cannot explain I Please to explain to me why seams cows have horns and others have no horns." "No," said the sceptic, "I did nate mean exactly that. I mean that I will uot believe anything you have not seen!" "Heve you aback bone.?" "Yes," said the sceptic. "How do yeu know?" said the alergynaan. "Have you ever seen it?" Tale mys- tery of Godshead and humanity inter - joined 1 cannot under.stand, andel can- not explain, but I believe it. In about two noon we pass throu,gb Cana, the village of Palestbse where tee !nether of Christ and our Lord at- tended the wedding at a poor relative, andthaving come over from Nazareth for that purpose. The another of Christ —for women are first to notice such tbings--found that the provisions had fallen short, and she told Christ, and to relieve the erne:tura-sem:lent of tbe lapeneekeeper, who bad isrvited more guests then the pantry warraeted, be- carroe the butler of the occasion, and out of a cluster of a few i'sympathetic weeds squeezed a, beverage of a hun- dred and twenty-six gallons of Wine, in which was not ona drop of intoxi- cation . We got off our horses and ex- amtned some of those water jars at Cana, said to be the Very ones that ?lean the plain water that Christturn- ea . into, the purple bimetal of an especial mintage'. 1 measured noels), and found them 18 inches from edge to edge,aed 19 inches deep, and declieed to accept their identity. But we realized the bee inequity of a supply of 126 gallons of wine. Weat was that for? Probably one gallon wouldhave. been enough, fer it was artily an additional install- ment of what had already been pm- vided and.. it is probable that the enneekepeer mulct not bave guessed more than one ga.11on out of the NiraY• But 126 gallons! What will they do "Paid TITSChtflg to the Jews." Acts 12 a 26-39, Golden Text Acts 13: 38. Verse 26. Brethren. With cour- teous and affeetiouete address Paul be - gine the second division a his speech. Obeldren a the stock of Abraham. And therefore inheritors of the pro - raises. Whosoever amoag you fear- eth God. God-fearing Gentiles In the opening of his argument also, verse 1.6, Paul had, addreseed 'non -Hebrew', as well as Hebrew worshippers, Cixcuan- oised proselytee had of course ceased to be Gentiles, and. were included among the "children of the stock of Abraham." But many Godly Gentiles whoshraiak froine the forms of prosely- tism regularly attended the eynagogues and "feared" the God af the Hebrews. These Paul now specially included, but with courteous tact be avoids tbe word "Gentile's," whish would surely arouse tbe antipathy of the Jews. To you. The Revised Version, following the best texts, renders, "to %1St" The word of this isalvatiem. The announce - recut ot (salvation by Jesus of Naz- areth. Sent. When 'was this word emit? Now. Frceri Whom?' From God. See verse 33, I3y wham? I3y Pend ond companions. V. The bogicaI cotanection of this. verse with the last is thus traced by Dr. Meyer: "To you wars the doctrine of salvation sent; for in Jerusalem the Saviour has been rejected; therefore the ereaebing must be brouglat to those outside of Jerusalem, snob as you are." The Jews a foreign parts, such as tbe Antiochares for "instance, had no respon- sibility for the murder of Jesus. lie - -came they knew tem not. "A mild judgment, entirely in the spirit of Je- sus, Luke 28. 31; therefore mot too len. lent for Paul."—Meyer, Peter said, "Through ignorance ye did it." But 1, Ignoranas is no excuse when it is one's duty to know. One (law in every seven, voiees of the pro- ehets, telling how the Cbxist would be treated wben he came, were eagerly listened to by tbese prejudieed raligion- ist.t; but neither the law noir the pro- phets were rightly understood. Those who crucified Jesus were by their pre- iadices blinded and deafened to the facts. And this was measurably true, ol the disciples thatour Lordmet near Emmaus; nay, even of the Twelve themselves. Read every- Sabbath day, Formolly and pu.blicly, en the synago- Rues. They have fulfilled them in con- demning him. 2. Pew men whobave fulfilled prophecy dreamed at the Urns that they were doing so. 28. Arad though they had found no cause a death in him. Pa.ul is Oa^ 38. Forgiveness of eine. "Paul here glees east a glimpse of the greet don trme of jrustifioatioo, of whicb be had euch vveaderful things to say." - 3 39. Are juebified. "Men can book an offenee, hat God's forgiveaess baxplies dealer:deg from spirittual (ear- reuntion, or the utter destructioa of the, aims whia ane prarnionede and this dense oftreektarn from guilt, of dee stem:tem of eine, Paul's ewn expe,r1- wins bad taught hien could only be hound in Christ, the haveor from sin. hence, in the most inneartant part of his first recorded sermon, Paul lays sex ess on his favorite doctrine a ifination, or the declare,d acguital fr,om tbei guilt of sin—a, thing not olbt,aine through the Mosaeo law, but only threw:gill the death and Tieing again 01 Otenst, aind throntgb the sinner's trust in Christ's saving werk."—Linele say. T,he hardest -worked washerwomen in the world. are the Commas. They have to wash about it dozen dresses for their husbands, and, inasmuch as every man wears pantaloons or drawers so baggy that they come up to his neck like those of a dowse they have plenty to do. The washing is usuallydoine in cold wa- ter, and often in running streams. The clothes am pounded with paddles until they shine like a shirt front fresh from a Chinese laundry. The Japanese rip their garments apart for every washing, and they iron their clothes by speeading them on a flat board and. leaning this up against the bouse to dry. The sun takes the wrinkles out of the clothes, and some a them have quite a lustre. The Jap- anese woman does her washing out of doors. Her washtub is not more than six inches high, and. is about as big round as the average dish pan. She gets the dirt out orthe clothes by rub- bing them between her hands. She sotmetimes uses Japanese soap, which 1,9 full of grease, arid works away with her bare feet. The Chinese girls ideetheie washing in much the same way. The pretty short -haired beauties of Siam weer their gowns when bathing 18 tlie big river, and wash them while taking their bath. When .they have fiaisheed, they trot up the steps of their floating houses, and, \yapping a clean sheet rou,nd their bodies, they slip off the wet clothes and wring them out to dry. The avaslabag in Egypt is usually done by the men. Tbe Egyptian wasberman stands naked on the tanks of the Nile, and slaps the wet olothes, with s noise like the shot of a. pistol, on the smootb stones at the edge of the running wa- ter, and such Fellah *amen as wash, pound the dirt of their elothes in the same way. • French peasant women pound. the dirt out -with paddlers, often slapping the clothes upon stanes as tile Egyp- tians do. DOING IT. Yon should melee an elleoavanee for goer seen at &liege, Grimly. Most young men bite to sow their witkl date. Make an alien -once? I've eotunIed 14 since he eterted • Mary Ellen Inown, colored, has be- come a !notary" public at Georgetown Ey. PERSONAL POINTERS. aea slower interest About some orbits Great Folks ot the World. Nansen's American tour well 'begin in October. He is said to be very successful as a lecturer. Ile has a goed cominia,nd of Englisle, and len sp„e.ndiel physique and powerful voice command attention even in the largest bails. Jug Pilate now. The So.nhedrba's ver- dict ot guiety on the charge of blas- phemy was reached without proof. 29. When they bad fie:dated all that was written. of him. 3. The most per- fect fulfillment a God's words does not modify the moial character of any act. 'elle wicked words a nainkind have in all ages been used. by God to work out righteousness, but the wicked are -never credited with the unintended righteousness of the resuats of tbeir deeds. They took hem dowse frora the tree. crass, and laid him in a sepuleher. Both jose.pla of Aritmatheo. and Nico- dernu.s, the rulers who buried our Lord, were friendly to him; but Paul is here rapidly summarizing the adjuncts of the crucifixion.; his eye is net search- ing for accusacy of historic detail so mach as for those massive facts con- nected with our Lord's physical death which formed a. black underground to his glorious physical resurrection. 80. But God raised hien from the dead. Man condemned, bine, crucified him, buried hira; God raised him frora the dead. Jesus was "declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of tidiness, by the resurree- tioaa from the dead." 31. He was seen many days, several days, of them which came up with hall Iran' Galilee. Jesus mingled with men for forty days, but not publicly; the disciples who had eempanted with him were those who mostly met him. Who are Ins witnesses. "Witnessing" was the special work of the apostles. Many men who had seen Jesus atter his re- surrection were stied alive. It is as if Paul seed, "If you, gentlemen of Antioeh, wirsh to dispute this question. have numbers a eyewitnesses who can be brought here to testify." 23. We declare unto you glad tid- ings Empeasize wis amid you'. "Them which came up from Galilee" were Jesus's ewilthesses unto the people" —that is, u.nto the Jews; but Paul and Bannabas were not of the nemebee of "thern wleieb come up LA= thensiSoire their missicto was not to the .Tewist people—or, ratb,er, mot to the people of Jewel. They, the apostles, are now witnessing to the Jews in lealestbae; we ere prearceing to you. Glad tidings. Good neve—Gospel. 83. Habil euefilled. "ClompIetels ful- filled;" so tbat hope is now to be sup - 'insetted. by faith. ;Unto rus their chile area. Re,elised Version,. "unto our eleiedeein." Ais there is nothing in the Genetic to correspond to "'again" many of olur bie.st commentatoxis believe that this "Tweed up" relfers ;to the life of Jessie, not to lie teelsurrectioni. But accoraing 10 Professor Lindsay, and we think his explanation the beet, tbe One of thotught es: " 1. anus 'wets in- nocent, but the Teeve sleeee.nd buried hem. (as, aso; 2. eet jesus, slain and lisitied, was reeeln after his burial aver and ever again by his apostles, who are witnesses to the fact—hence God must havte teased him from the dead (SO, 31.1*; 3. by this renierectien Gold bas oampletely lbuiiIhtUsci tbe proinises (83, 349; 4. and tee Jesus Who has been thine raised from the deed wee never egailm die (3148)1." 34. Paul's- quotations are from Isa. 55 and Pealim 16, 10, ancl he shows that they ovule not refer to Dewed, who died and was "laid eerie his fethere," lent, that they were perfeeteer in him who was "the awe mercies of David:" Itevised Version, "the holy and sere bileestingis.e The kingdom of emus was tin be sternal, thereforeits rater could not remain under the tenser of death 85. Woe/reeve he swine "Because he smith." Thole shoilt not suffer, give, thine T-Iele One to see corruption. Bue Medd had epee corruption awl did roe reline meleetee, power crt death. Fell on sleeve Old English SOT "fell aeleep." Mr. Gladstone is a.bou.t to add an- other aeries of "Gleanings" to the seven volumes so entitled, which *re- presented work done between 1813 and 1879. The initial volume of the new series vela be made up of essays, most- ly on theological subjects, and may be looked for during the spring. Tbe picture of Louisa Blaine the Hun- garian niglatingele, as slues hes been ea:led since her fleet appearance a,t the Buda Pest.b. Vacs theatre, is to adorn the new 1,000 -gulden note, and it is thought that this 'may belp to raise her ea..ary from. 1,000 guldens weak to 1,000 a night. Max* Twain is in London, living, we are informed, in every modest lodgings, going nowliere and seeiug but one or two friends, working all day and every day at a lestory of his trip around tbe world, With the proceeds of this book he bopes to be able to pay off his creditors and leave sorrateliing for his family, A new biographer of Ibsen bsa.ys the dramatist spends an hour twice a day at a Christiana hote reading the pa- ipers. On his right band he bas a glees of brandy, an don his left a glass of beer, and train them ne takes alter- nate sips as he reads. Another hour of the day he passes walking, clad all in black, on the main street. Ile is rarely seen in any man's company, and. never at the theatre. The late Postmaster -General von Ste - of Germany, was the inventor of postal cards, and the founder of th.e Universal Postal Union. He was also the originator of the Internationaa Quinquennial Telegraph Conference which wee meet this year. Lori Armptbill once said that he was almost the only example in Germany of a self-neade man rising to a blab position in the Government. Mr, Andrew Lang tells an amusing story of an effort of his to get a cer- tain remark into print without the interference of th.e proofreader. He had written "The want of historical per- spective, which makes tbe moment bide the greet abysm of time." The reader queried "a,bysee," and Mr. Lang noted "Shakespeare" on the proof as his authority. The passage appeared "makes ths naoraent hide the great Seakespe,are of time." HOW TOL1ND OUT. !THE BATTLE GREECE LOST, **ade or Weallh and Fashion Finds Ple . sure In Christian Worh. Ahnong bbs coogregation that listen- ed every Sunday to it pastora words was a fashionable woman. tehe was in wea.t is called eociety, the anietrese of a lux- urious home and waited upon by a bevy of servants. Tbe minister had refrained from speaking to -ties woman. He was a, Yonea Irian, devoted, enthusiastic, but dumb as eo many are, before cynicae, (vulture, or wealth and fashion. But he noticec1 that the lady seemed absorbed by what be had, to say in chum* and atem service one Sabbathe be spolse to her Upon the topio of the serraon. Quite to bee surprise she liseened to bine both seriouely and. eagerly, "The feet is," she said, "I don't un- derstand myself. 1 121aVe a general in- clination to be good; but I don't know whether I am wood or not. I don't think I an so awfully wicked, either," she added with a constrained laugle "May I say.," replied the minister, DETAILS OP THE ellEAT VIRE? NORTH OP THE SALAMYRIA. Au Artillery Duel That Xvoted Mae Moira •,--Thee the trilY Turk Pushed rao,t to Tiara the 'Creek F4St neak—The treat Sounded po the Surprise of the Greek Troops, "that it seems to me you ought to know somewhat the ebaracter a the motives teat govern your lifer "I don't, and. I don't see thow 1 Can," neer 1, thelady. clergyman beeitated. What could Ire Say? flow slaneld be shed light up- on this groping soul? Then an inspiration came to him. "Do you. think you can find. any in- terest lie visiting tbe poor? Are you. aceastoa'aed to Jeep people'? 'Would Yon care to give a rittle time to charitable work '?" The lady considered a moment- then she said: "I Wale I shouted like to try; only I don't know whether I am good enough." "Never mind abatis. that. Let others decide it for yea. I will call to -morrow Morning and give you a little outline of whia,t you. can do for one or two needy families, if you, axe willing to see me," In a short time the lady was at work ataireig the, poor and unhappy: Her old friends spoke of b.er entbusiasm as a. "fad," but bar new friends, tee bumble ozes who felt her kindness, began to can ber "our angel." Even the indif- feeent and worth,ess learned to value her motherly interest in their neglect- ed little cons, and give her gratitude. To a visitor, who was onee it lady of (asleep, but who has been, like her - eta, for the laet six years a lady of re- lief, she said: "On the street I sometimes pick up children whose parents have thrust them out to beg, and bring then) into my home. There I feed there o„nd teacb them how to read and sing. To be lov- ed and cared for opens a new world to the poor thnigs. Aline is no doubt often ths only kiss these unfortunate waifs ever receive." et part a the weekly work she hos taken upon herself to do is the teaoh- ing of poor mothers to cook and sew, ten1 it he supervising of the schooling of their Children. In every praeticable way she esimmys her time and wealth for thebenefit of the friendless Her former fashiotia,ble friend's think sbe is following a. foolish bobby. Her miter epeaks of her as the one who Jms "found herself." Prole:413: no one will ever eontradict hum. See, at least is too busy, in her new-found content, to stop and find a. name for it. It may be that her self- etfaceuaent and active Christian love have mane her feel if she cannot hear, the answer in the question that once perplexed ber: "Ye are My friends if ye do w,haisoever I command you." Many now living in "ennable idle- ness" aught cure their moral unrest by following her example. The ono hundred and fourth birth- day !if Sergeant Victor Balliot, a sue- vivor of the battle of 'Waterloo, has jiiret been celebrated in the little vil- lage of Carisay. Tali, centenarian lives with his daughter and son-in-law, aged respectively 67 and. 70. Baillot enjoys good healthathe only drawbaok to his 'happiness being deafness, the result of cannonades, as the sergeant was an artilleireman. James Bryce, the English statesman, author of the "American Common- wealth," pays a fine compliment to Lora Eweh Cede, san of tte Marquis of Salisbury. He says that he "unites with unquestioned intellectual pewee a certain nobility of feeling and elevation of character that remind as now and then of what, by the testi- mony of his contemporaries, the young Gladstoiee must have been." Mere axe be France 2,250 women au- thors and. journalists, and about 700 women artists. The provinces contri- bute most of tee writers—about two- tbirdse-While Paris is represented 18 tes same proportion among the AN EFFECTIVE TIETHOD The Losielon Deily Malaies conreSpou., dent wilt& tIlin Tarkiele army ltescribes, the decisive battle on thee delft flexile of the Greek army tenth raged between Mai and the village of Derell, whtoh sealed the fate of the Greeee fosees ueetbi TUMMY and awes folilawed 'On their retreat across 'the .0ala,mvr1n River to Pharsala. Derail, is a. little place near the north bank) a the tiliale smartie. Beyer, a little eoutliewest at Rensane and about Sire male.% east oil Mate. It will be recellea that wheel the right flank of the Greek array withdrew fir= Nezerop, ilt retired. to HaPSalile, anti then to Dereli. The Great line extended. /from near Dereli west to near Milouna Pass. The Turkish Iine extended, from the hilts toward MR- ouna Pans to the pass titself, whexe it was elosely confronted by the left flanle01 4 ele Greek army., The Turkish guile, wheal: were posted on the ridges, opened fire at long range. Nothing could be seen or heard at feint taut THE BOCA/ OF THE! GUNal FORT ERIE LABOURERS DRIVE ITALIANS BACK. Free Fight at the Fort Erie intee Track-- Glieop itanalo Labourers Sent llome ou the Rios. A gang of Canadian labourers, em- ployed. by Craig & Craig, of Ramilton, who have the contract for grading the new race -track at Fort Erie, drove back a gang of Italian workmen who were hired in Buffalo, and taken by boat to Fort Erie on Wednesday to help with tbe work. When the boat drew up at the Canadian shore, and the men landed, they were soon undeceived, for a short ,distance up the street, a mob artists. Among tee writers 1,000 are eoveliets, 200 are poets, 150 education- al, wniters, and the rest writers of various kincle. The artists comprise 107 sculptors and t.be others are painters, ranging over all branches of the pictorial. ext. The late Jules Joey, who wrote many of the most famous songs of the Paris streets was a Parisian of the Pari- sians, aad bad been a, copieue contri- bettor to comic papers ever since be Id taught himself to write, for he ee- clewed the merest elementary eduta- tion 18 youth. He first attracted no- tice by les ballads at the Chat Noir tevern, and subsequently composed many, Socialistic and political squibs in yerae. He was one of the anost de- termined opponents of General Bon. la,nger. The Pope bee received, through the Countess Maria Festeties, ,xnaid of hon- our to the Empress of Austria, a some- what rernearkeble p.oetrailt of the Em-. peror Francis Joseph. It is wrougbt 10 silk and cotton, and its production in valved. an enorramts meets= of labour aeon expense the effeet of light and shade bung- produced by only two col- ours. Tte factory from which it corees is the femme, wee of Wknstadt, 10 Bohemia. The portrait which Leo Ellt, is baying plac,ea in his library received e gold medal at tee Chicago World's Fair. TESTING STEEL. new methol of testing the hard - mess of steel belle has been devised in Germany. The, balls are dropped from a fixed height crii, a glees plate se. at an angle; if properly teropered they rebound tato one xecepeacle ancl if they aire too soft they droll into; another. the accompanying spurts of smoke, and the whiz of the shells. Later the loud (nook 01 arapnel burstieg over the Greek lines could be heard. The coxireeponilent adds "It wee not splendid, 'it was not in- spiring, and it was not desperately bloody. It WAS eothing hike the de- seriptions of betties in books, There was only an incessant boam Tante!, tbe individual booms became indistinguishe able and were manged into a dull, deaf - suing war. The guns were already. clouded witli dust. "Tbe Greels were replying to tbe fire of the Turks. Now and again a. wounded artillexenazna crawled upward with painful slowness, moaning- elitngitreg with tee =air of tbe ar- tillery came a grinding, crackliug noise bbs tee jarrnag of heavy (*Lig wheeld running at terrific speed. It was tbe rifle fire of the two armies Tbe Greeks did not shoot well. Their shrapnel flew over our guns or ex- ploded sheet of them. "Gradually tbe Greek guns slaekened fire, and our infantry gathered for a ohorge. Our guarincreased their fire, raining Shelia upon the Greek lines wad the two villages fax below. "Word carne to assault the enemy's positions. The Turkish bugles sounde& and we rode forward to a positionveer the guns, I could see the lines of gray infantry below wave their fezes. 'The spectacle was magnificent. Scattered about the pla.in were patches of blue smoke where the Greek infantry were "The centre of the Greek defence was lauge, square house. ,A.II around it1 swarmed soldiers, who appeared like ante. They fired steadily upon. our advanaing skirmishers, who were scat- tered in open order. Behind them were masses of troops a:reeving for- ward mechanically and remorselessly. Behind these was a trail of PROSTRATE FIGURES. "Slowly our skirmishers neared the little hill on, which the house was situated, moving alt the thne with Ma- chine -like precision. "Now the ants around the house showed greet perturbation. r They scurried to and fro, sw-ayed back, and retreated, and we had -taken the centre of the Greek position,. There was no waiting far a bayonet attack. There was no work with cold steel. Tbe am- bulances drove forward to collect our wounded. Edhem :Pasha pushed on behind the victorious troops. "Oarr losses were remarkably small— few of tee latter seriously. fe erof the ea.tter seriously. "In tbe Greek- lines there were many dead and wounded. The effects of our artElery fire were hideous. Bodies were nun into a bloody pulp, trunks were stripped of their member, and uniforms were charred. , "We took f ifty prisoners, who were miserable and discauxaged. eneerne.diately after the battle the Greeks evacuated their position at Brit - lei. (a height in front of Milonna Pals in the patine leaving Turnavo at our mercy. They aesio abandoned their en- trenchments in the centre of the plain. Their whole line, in faot, retired. "We. pressed forward immediately. The Greeks no longer offered any resist- ance. Their tlig.let seemed te be de- generating into a routR.ifies, cart- ridges, kieonseoks, and all thee debris of it battlefield were strewn along, the of retreat." of fifty or sixty Canadians had col- lected. "There tbey come boys," silent - ed one of them. " Let's drive them in- to the river." He started on. a rim. followed by his fellows, and as they reached the Italians one of the mob knocked. the first one down and the next one kick- ed him. MOWS fell like rain, and tilt: terrified labourers were too terror- stricken. to think of anything but flight. They ran for tbe ferry land- ing, and tb.e howling mob followed them, kicking and punching every man who was not fleet enough to distance his pursuers. Down the hill the frightened Ital- ians ran, and they dived into the boat like rabbits in. it warren. After the battle the men in Canada whe had headed the riot walked. up the village streets, making threats against oontractors Craig & Craig, and tell- ing what they would do to prevent any Auteritmee labourers from working on the new track. Some seed that they would kill the first Italian labourer who ems brought across the border, and others threatened to burn down the homes tbit had 'been. built upon the grounds for the accommodation of the workmen. MAREING- LINEN. Tbe snarking of linen, is quite a busi- ness in these days of sumptuous trous- seaus. la stores which make a sped - alty of fine napeey orders are token for the working of letters when the lin- e,n is selected, so that it eau be sent home in boxes ready for use. One fi- ancee well choose two unpretentious in- itials placed aide by side and worked in plam raised satin stitch. Another chooses largo' letters, to be intricately interlaced arid elaborately worked with both solid and open laoed stitches. Huge ornamental monograms are also con- seem:alp in napery and bed linen, as well as on tea clothe. Three letters are a good rule in case of amuse (linen, one for the respecters initiate of the Ohris- Ulm none of the bride and groom( and the third for the family nem°, Infectious diennes axe unknow Greenland. ere enele , EXPLOSION IN LONDON. Car in tbe Vniterground RailwaT RION111, to Atomq. A despatoh felon London says:— A tremendous explosion occurred on tbe underground railway on Monday, as a train fille.cl, with men from the city eves making it usual sten at the Al- deregate station. The gia,se roof of the station was blown aubi, and tbe plat- form was strewn with debris. Many of t.h.e gaslights in the waiting -rooms and on. ths platform were extinguished, and 'the statien eyes left in semi -dark- ness. A general panic ensued. When comparative quiet had been restored it wa,s lamed that a first class coach had been completelyevaacked, and that i to occupants were lying around maim- ed end bleeding. Ten of the injtered were Loused to be in a precarious. cone (linen, and we -re removed to hospitals. A tu;raber ot pereens write were stenele log on ths platfon:a were ale° hurt. Much ot bbs witeicke,ge was burled names:the statien. 'Ilea cense of the explostion, is not known, bat is believed to bars been the eesult of a collection of gas wheel 'beeline ignited in some Wee. Many Pee:eons, howervietr, believe that the disaster was 'net nue to aoci- cledt but was caused by tbie explosion sef. a bomb which liad been placed in tee siatilon with the intention of ivreen- log it. ' An ebaecioneel aurob in a Veeetern town. beate 'over the menace the in- seriptione "This is the Gate of Reave,n." Beneath it is it ...,he,1;iff's notice con- tain:bait tbig line,: "Cle$eci by orae r of the Anaci•ite Loan Cemparey."