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Sermon,
Dr. Talraa,ge preached froro. Daniel iv,
83, "The same hour was the thing ful-
filled apon Nebuehadnezzar, and he was
driven from men and did eat grass as
oxen, and his body was wet with the
dew of beagen, till his bair was grown
like eagles' feathers and his nails like
birds' claws."
Better Made your eyes else they 1 e
put out with the splendor of BaLylon,
as some morning you. walk out with
Nebuchadnezzar on the suspension
bridges whicb hang from the bouse
tops aad be shows yoz the vastness
of his realm, as tbe sun kindles the
domes with glistering is almost lend -
terabits,. and the greet streets thunder
tip their pomp into the ear of the mon-
arch, and armed towers stand around,
adorned with the spoils of conquered
empires. Nebuchadnezzar waves bis
hand above the stupendous seene and
exclaims. "Is this not great Lsa.bylon.
that I have built for the house of the
kingdom by tbe might of my power,
and for • the honor of Tay majesty ?"
Beet in an instant all that eideltder is
gone from his vision, for a voice falls
from beaven. saying: "0, King Nebudn
adnezzar, to thee it is spoken. The
kingdom is departed from thee, and
they shall drive thee from men, .and
thy dwelling shall be with tbe. beasts
of the field. They shell mane tleee to
eat grass as oxen, and seven years
shall pas over thee, until thou know
that the Most Higb ruleth in the king-
dom of men, and giveth it to whom-
scever He will." Co hour from tbe
time that he made the boast he is on
the way to the fields, a mazian and
rushing into the forests he besomes one
of the beat., t overea with eagles' feath-
ers for proteetion from the cold, and
his nails growing to lines' claws in
order that he might. dig the earth for
roots and climb the trees for nuts.
You. see, there is a great variety in
the Scriptural landscape. In several
diseourses we have looked at ELIGUL-
talus of excelleuce, I ut now we look
down into a great, dark deism oe
wickedness as we come to speak of
Netuchanneezar. God in His Word
sets before us the beauty to. self-denial,
of sobriety, of devotion, ot courage,
and then, lest we shan't: not thorough-
ly understand 11;in He hareem:ed. Dan-
iel and Paul and Dchorah as illuetra-
eons of those virtues. God also seeaks
to us in His Word as to the natefun
nese of prile, of folly, of impiety, and
lest. we should riot thoroughly under-
stand he introduees Netembacinezzar
as the impersonation of these forms
of depravity. The former style of
character is a lighthouse, showing us
a anty into a safe haver, ana the latter
style of character is a black limy,
swimming on the roeks, to show where
vessels wreek themselves. Thanks
unto God for hoth the buoy and tbe
nghthouse ! The host of Neetichad-
nezzar is thunderiug at the gates of
Jerusalem. The cruen uf that eaered
city is struck into the dust by the hand.
Babylonish insolence. The vessels
of the temple which had never Leen
deseerated by profane touch, were
ruthlesely seized fer sacrilege, and
transporta non. Oh, what a ad Lour
when theJews, at, tee coninein 1 of
the invading army, are obliged to
leave the home of their nativity! How
their hearts must have Leen wrung
with anguish when, on the day they
departed, they heard the trumpet from
the top of the temple a:alum/ming the
hour for morning sacrifiee and saw the
smoke of the altars aseenaing around
e huly hill of Zion! ear eeli they 7
knew that in a far distant land testy
would never hear that trumpet call
nor behold the majestie anent of the
sacrifice. Behold those captnes on the
road from Jerusalem to Babylon!
Worn and weary, they dare not laalt,
for round a,bout are armed naen urg-
ing theni on with hoot and shout and
blasphemy.
Aged men tottered along on their
staves, weeping that they could not lag
their bones in the sleeping pine of their
fathers and children wondered at the
length' of the way and sobbed them-
selves to sleep -vvhen the nigat had fall-
en. St seemed as if at. every step a
heart broke. But at a turn of the road.
Babylon suddenly springs upon the view
of the captives, with its gardens and
palaces. A. shout gees up from the army
as they behold their native city, but not
one huzzah is heard from the captives.
These exiles saw no splendor there for
it was not home. The Euphrates did not
have the water gleam of the brook Ke-
dron or the pool of Siloam. The willows
of Babylon, on which they hung their
untunenharps, were not as graceful as
the trees which at the foot of Mount
Moriah seemed to weep at the departed
glory of Judah, and all the fragrance
that descended from the hanging gar-
dens upon the great city was not so
srvveet as one breath of the acacia and.
frankincense that the high priest kindl-
ed in the sanctum of Jerusalem.
On a certain night a little while after
these captives had been brought to his
city, Nebuobadnezzar is scared with a
night vision. A bad man's pillow is apt
to be stuffed with deeds and forebodings
which keep talking in the night. He
will find that the eagles' down in his
pillow will stiok him like porcupine
quills. The ghosts of old transgressions
are sure to wander about in the darkness
and beckon and hiss. Yet, when the
retuning cams he found that the vision ,
bad entirely fled from him. Dreams drop
no anchors and therefore are a.pt to sail
away before we can fasten them, Ne-
buoliadnezzai calls all the -.vise men of
•the land into his presett .dereanding
that by their neeroraaney. ey explain
Ms dream. They, of tiouree il. Then
their wrathful king iesite edict with
a$ little sense as raerey ering the
slaying of all the learnt' man of the
country. But Daniel the'prophet comes
in with the interpretation just in time
to save the wise men and the ltewiah
captives.
My friends, do Sesu not see that pride
and ruin ride in the same saddle? See
Nebuchadnezzar on the proudest throne
of all fins earth, and then see him graze
with the sheep and the cattle. Pelee is
commander; when plumed end comparn
soned,but it leads forth a dark and
frowning host. The arrowsfrom the Al-
mighty's quiver am apt to strike a znan,
when on the. wing. Goliath shakes hie
greet spear in defiance, but the smooth
stones from the brook make nim stagger
and fall like an me under a buteher's
bludgeon. He who is down ca.nuot fall.
Vessels aeudding under bare voles do not
feel the forte of the storm, while those
• with all sails set capsize at the sudden
deseeet of the temeest.
Renaember that we van be as proud of
our humility as of anything eke. Antle-
istlienes walked the streets of Athens
with a ragged cloak to demonstrate his
humility, but Sovrates declared he could
see the hypoerisy through the holes in
his cloak. We evould ell see ourselves
smaller than we are if we were as phile-
screbie as Severn% the enmeror of Rome,
who said et the, 'dose of his life: "I: laave
been everyt bine, and everytbing is noth-
ing." And when the urn. that was to
contain his aehes was to his command
broueht to hra he sae " tle urn, thou
slmlr eoniain one for whom the world
WSS too little."
Do 'you not also learn from the mis-
foi•tune of this king of Babylon what a
terrible, thing is the loss of reasone
There is 110 calamity that can possibly
befall U3 in t his world so great as de-
rang:gees:or of intellect—to have the
beely of man and yet to fall even be-
low the insiinet of a brute. In this
world of horrible sights t he most hor-
rible le the idiot's stare. In this world
of horrible eounde, tae most horrible
t'he mania", laugh. A veesel driven
on he men when a bun -Area do down
never to riee and other tundrede drag
their mangled and Shivering bodies up-
on the winter's beach, is nothing com-
pared to tbe foundering of intellects,
full of vast hopes and attainments
and capacities. 'Christ's heart went
out toward those who were epileptic,
falling into the fire. or Insniarve cut-
ting themselves among the tombs.
We are accustomed to be more grate -
fes physical iaealth than fur the
proper worteiug of our :nisei. We are
ant zu Like a ser grained tine the in-
telleee has: een ed. us so well will
always. be faitiefal. We forger. that an
engine of suen tremenduae power,
n Isere the wheels have e.uch vastness of
lec
circle and ets ewifeness ot motion and
the leaet impediment might put it out
of gear, eau only be x0p,. sn preper hal-
au
ee by ditine hand. No Munan heed
could, eugineur 'the Irma oi immortal
fa.ulties. How eteange st is that. uur
memory, op.wheets moulders all the
iniefortunee, teee eneeesses and occur-
rences of a. lifetime are Placed. ed-euld
not oftener breast down. and that the
seales judg•ment, whleh have been
weigaing so mutat and aeu long, eboulti
no, lose tbesr ittljuenment, and that
fancy, which Wan da,ngeroue wand
sbuuni net eonnessues useaseiously wave
h, orieging into the heart forebodings
ant hattusinakione the meet at:peeling!
is it not etraege that ;hie mind. whish
teepee so niu.e.: ite mighty leaps kir
tee attainment of its tiojeete, should
ace lie devilled to pieces 011 its disap-
i.oattlnent.s: 'i'.. ug o delicately tun-
ed. thee instruznent on untold harmony
plaee on, though fear shakes it and
eel:anion rack le and sorrow and joy
amt lose and gain in quiek succeseson
teett out of it, their dirge or toesfrom
t. their entheni. At morning and at
ingat, when in your erayer you; .re-
hearse the causes of your thanksgtvIng,
next to the salvation of Jesus Chriet,
praise the Lord for the preeervation of
your reaeou.
See eke la this story of Nebuchadnez-
zar the use that God. makes. of badmen.
'the astion.s of the wieked axe used as
instruments for the euniehment of
wickednees in otters, or as the illustra-
tion of eome tain.iple in the els ine gov-
ernment. Nebugnannezzar subserved
both purpasen Even so 1 will go back
with you to the hietory of every re-
probate that the world has ever :seen.
and I will show you how to a great ex-
tent nis wickedness was limited in its
destructive power and how God glori-
fied Himself in the ovezthrow ana dis-
grace of his enemy. Babylon is full
of abomination, and wieked Cyrus de-
stroys it. Persia fills the cup of its
iniquity, and vile Alexander puts an
end to it, Macedon must be chastised
and bloody Emilius does it. The Bas-
tille is to be destroyed, and corrupt
Napoleon amomplishee it. Even so sole
fish and Irkked men are often made to
arcomplish great and glorious par-
eoees. Joseph's brethren were guilty
of .superlative perfidy and meanness
when they sold him into sla.very for
aboue $7, yet how they must ha.ve
been overwhelmed with the truth
that God never forsakes the righteous
when theysaw he had become the prime
minister of Egypt .Pharaoh oppresses
tee Israelites with the raost diabolia
tyranny, yet stand stili and see the sal-
vation of God. Lae plagues deseend, the
lormeis, and the hall, and the deetroying
angel, showing that there is a God who
will defend the cause of His people, and
finally, after the Israelites have passed
through the parted sea, behold, in the
wreck of the drowned army, that God's
enemies are chaff in a whirlevinl In
some financial panic the righteous suf-
fered with the wicked. Houses and
stores and shoes in a night foundered on
the rock of bankruptcy, and healthy
credit, without warning, dropped dead
in the street and money ran up the long
ladder of 25 per cent., to laugh. down
upon those who could not climb after it.
Again, let us learn the lesson that
men can be guilty of polluting the sacred
vessels of the teraple a.nd carrying them
away to Babylon. The sacred vessels
in the temple at Jerusalem were the
cups end plates of gold, and silver with
which the rites end eeremenies were
celebrated. The laying of heathen hands
upon tlaekn and the carrying them off
as spoils was an unbounded offense to
the Lord of the temple. Yet Nebuchad-
nezzar committed thts very sacrilege.
Though that wicked king is gone, the
sins he inaugurated walk up and down
tihe earth, cursing it from century to
century. The sin of desecrating sacred.
things is coanmitted by those who on
sacramental day take the communion
cup, while their conversation and. deeds
all. show that they live down in Baby-
lon. How solemn is the sacrament! It is
a thine for vows, a time for repentance,
a time of faith, Sinai stands near, with
its split clouds, and Celvary with its
victim. The Holy Spirit broods over
the scene, and the .gloey of heaven seems
to gath.er in the sanctuary. Vile indeed
must that man be who will come in from
his idols a.nd unrepented follies to take
hold of the sacred vessels of the tem-
ple. 0 thou Nebuehadnezzar1 Back
with you to Babylon
Those also desecrate sacred thi ngs wlao
useethe Sabbath day for any other tba.n
religious purposes, This holy day was
let down from heaven amid the hamlet,
eeourlaxities of the week to remind us
that we are immortal and to alloev ua
preparation for anendless state of hap-
pinees. It is a green spot in the hot
desert of this world that gushes with
fountains and waves with palm trees..
This is the time to shake the duenfrom
the robes of our piety end. in the tents
of Israel sharnen our swords far fiature
conflict. Heaven, that seenns so fee- off
on other days, alights upon the eerth,
and. the song of heavenly choirs- and the
•
hosanna of tbe white robed seem to
mingle with aux earthly worship. We
hear the wailing infant of Bethlehem,
the hammer stroke of the carpenter's
weary son in Nazareth, and tb.e prayer
of Gethsemane and the bitter cry of
Golgotha, Glory be unto the Lord of
the Sabbath! With that one nay ha seven
God divides this great sea of business
and gayety, so that dry shod we may
pass betweea the worldly business of the
past and the worldly business of the
future.
Every week we bo,ve just enough
work given us to do in six days. God
makes just. enough breaks in our con-
tinuoue occupations to thrnst in the
Sabbath. If you have not before noticed
observe bereafter that when Saturday
night comes there is almost always a.
goodstopping place in your business. All
things secular and spiritual in provid-
ence and revelation seem to say, "Re-
• member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy." /Viten the six days of creation
had passed God stopped working. Not
even a pure flower or a, white cloud
would Ile make, because it was the Sab-
bath, and given an example to all fu-
ture time% He rested.
He who breaks the Sabbath not more
Inevitably continuous desecration of the
:sacred day ends in either bankruptcy
or destroyed health. A great merchant
said, "Had it not been for the, Sabbath
I have rio doubt I should have been a
maniac long ago." This remark was
made in a company of merchants, and
one of them said, "That corresponds
with the experience of ray friend, a
great importer. He often said, "The
Sabbath is the best day of the week
to plan successful voyages." He bas for
years been in an insane bospital and.
will probably die there."
Those also repeat the sin of Nebuchad-
nezzar, who in anyway desecrate the
Holy Scriptures. There are men wig:
use the Word of God es an instrument
of aiagry controversy. Bigots at heart
and zealots. in the advocacy of their re-
ligious pecularities they meet other
sects with the fury of a bighwe,ytnae,
thrusting them through and throtrgh
net h wbet they consider the word of the
spirit. It is a wonder to ma that some
men were not made with learns to book
with, and hoofs to kick with, and with
claws to grab with. What Christ mid
to rash Peter when he struck off the
ear of Malchus. Ile says to every con-
troversialist, "Put up again thy sword.
into its place, far all they that take
the sword ital.' perish with the sword."
Rev. William ,ISty met a countryman
wita said to him: "1 was extremely
alarmed this morning, sir, It was very
foggy, and I thought I saw a strain:*
moneter. It seemed in motion, but I
'could. not discern its farm. I did not
like to turn back, but my heart beat,
and the more I looked the more I was
afraid. But as I approached I saw it
Was a man, and who do you think it
was?' "I know not." "Ole it WV my
brother John." Then Mr. Jay remark-
ed. "It was early in the morning, and
very foggy, :lad hew often dn we thus
mistake our Christian brethren."
Juet in proportion as men are wrong
will they be boisterous in their relign
ous contentions. The lamb of religion
is always gentle, while there is no
Ilan so fierce as the roaring lion that
goes about seeking whom he my de-
vour. Let Gibraltars belch thew war
flame on the sea, and the Dardanelles
darken the Hellespont with the smoke
of their batteries, but for ever and ever
let there be good will among those
who profess to be subjects oe the gas -
Del of gentleness. "Glory to God. ill the
highest. and on earth pea.ee, gond-will
to men."
What an embarrassing thing to meet
in heaven. if we have not settled, our
controversies on earth. So I give out
for all people of all religions to sing
John Fawcett's hymn, In short meter,
composed in 1772, but just as appropri-
ate in 1897:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love,
The fellowship of kindred minds,
Is like to that above.
From sorrow, toil and pain
And sin we shall be 'free,
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.
WILD BOAR AGAINS T TIGER.
The Tiger's Only Aim seeined to be to Jump
Out of Reach of the Rog.
A gentleman recently traveling in
India describes a fight he witnessed
while there between a wild boar and a
savage tiger. The fight was pulled
off in a pit ten yards in diameter, with
a. sanded floor and 16 -foot walis. Sev-
eral trap doors served as entrances
through which to introduce the ani-
mals. A trail of grain through one
of these doors served to decoy a 2 -year-
old boar into the arena. A. tiger,
nearly full grown, that for a year had
lived an. inoffensive existence in a
cage, was forced down a plane from
another floor, and the two beasts were
together.
The tiger wanted to get away. His
head hung down Iike a whipped dog's,
and his tail dropped. The fight was
apparently going to be a fizzle, when
the natives began to throw things at
the tiger. Then the beast began to
growl. Suddenly the boar dived at
him. The tiger leaped into the air
and the boar rushed underneath ancl
went half a dozen feet beyond. It puz-
zled the boar imruediately to have the
tiger get away from him in that way,
but he turned and made for bis anta-
gonist again. Three times the tiger
leaped above the boar, but the fourth
time the boar threw up his head and
the tiger got a rip with the tusks that
drew blood. Then the cat turned on
the pig, grabbed him by the nape of
the neck and shook him as a school-
master shakes a small boy. This done,
the tiger dropped the boar and walk-
ed away. The tiger had merely in-
tended to punish the little beast.
The boar got his breath and re-
covered somewhat from his dizziness,
and, facing the tiger again, made for
him, just as if the tiger wasn't several
times bigger. The tiger eluded the
charge easily. Then a trap door was
opened and the tiger bolted thro h
it at full speed, leaving the boar wild
for a fight.
TFIR, QUEEN'S DOUBLE.
Her Majesty, the Queen, has a dou-
ble in the person of an elderly lady
who ocoupies—or occupied—a position in
the Middlesex Hospital, where she was
known as the " Queen of Mtddlesex."
She is the exact age of the Queen, and
became a widow in the same year teat
the Queen lost her consort.
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UNDER CONTROL,
Year wife tells me, Grimly, that she
has perfect control of her temper.
Yes, she can let it loose on a ram-
page far an hour at a time and then
recover it,
ME SUNDAY SCHOOL•
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 6.
Masorete Tongue." James 3, 1-13. noiden
next, Ps in 34.18.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. My brethren. The apostle's
standpoint, says Dr. Whedon, is in the
Chrictian synagogue, Be not ,any
masters. Revised Version, "many
teachers." This seems to refer to the
exhortation of James 1. 19. "Be' slow to
speak." It is a reprehension of self -
conceited and self-appointed teachers
of doctrine who maintain their personal
notions in public and in private, and
deprecate and sometimes malign those
who cannot conscientiously agree witb
them. It does not forbid or check
Sabba,th school instruction or the ex-
pression of Christian experience. Oe
of the perils of the Jewish synagogue
was its familiarity with controversy,
which often became angry and led to
public scandal. We. "We, the teach-
ers." Shall receive tbe greater con-
demnation. Itevised Version, "the
heavier judgment." We shall be call-
ed to stricter account. In their foibles,
as well as in their holier attainments,
the primitive Christians were evidently
like Christians of the present genera -
don,
2. In many things we offend all, Al
beautiful spirit is shown by the utse
the pronoun "wee' by whicli Ja,mes here
joins himself to the persons he re-
proves. Instead of "offend all," the
Revised Version reads "we all stum-
ble," We all have some frailty; we
all are 114IVISS; Sat are apt to make mis-
takes, even when we set ourselves Up
as teadeers of others. "In many
things" means not that we offend many
people, but that our weaknesses are of
mann seas. If any man offend not, Re-
vised Version, 'If any stumbleth not."
In word. Especially in Ins words as
a teacher and debater in the synagogue;
but atm in gutter life. The same is a
perfeet man Is able to control every
faculty, for Jarues's thought is that the
to.ngue is the barclest faculty to con-
trol The whole body. "The body, as
the organ of th soul. with its suseep-
tibilities to temptation, and. Its instru-
ments' of right doing and wrong do-
ing."--Weedou. Probably more people
who profess to be religious have their
profeesions belied and refuted by their
words tba.n in any other way. This is
emphatically true of controversy, of the
telling of anecdotes, and of gossip. Plato
need to say ;that except an argument
was held in with bit and bridle it would
be sure to run away; but a "good
story" needs brakes n.s well as bridle;
and WS for talk about other people, it
le akar madness even to start it, for
sinless gossip is a rarity.
8. Behold, we put. bite in the homes'
mouths. Revised Version: "Now, if we
put the horses' bridles into their mouths
. . we tura about. tb.eia whole body
also." MogirisMehrush. with full forte
of action along moral paths into whkla
their tongues first hesitantly ventur-
ed. Bridling the tongue bridles the body
to a degree that few of Ms recognize.
That they raay obey us. To get the
full meaning, realize the rimier:el pic-
ture. It is as if James said, 'The way
torturn the bade', the life, is first to
turn the tongue, the word.e. Control
yourself neurally as you control a horse
enysically. Evekyone hoe observed how
a: body of lieteners, evem a \Viable na-
time hos been turned frarn one set of
convictions and activities to another
by the tongue of one men. And our
individual tongues are as influential on
our personal lives as are the tong-
ues of the nation on the nation-
al life. Of course, in all this
Jamee is presenting just one side of
a truth. There ts often as we have
:said in the introductory note, wicked -
in silence. The grace of God is a
spur to a man as well as reins; but
the special evil against which the ap-
ostle here warns us is that of careless
talk.
4 Behold also the shies. This figure
is all the stronger when we think of
sailing vessels, the only kind to cross
the sea, in James' day. Although an-
cient ships were in general small in
comparison with: modern ocean steam-
ers, yet they were large in bulk, great.
The ship which conne.yed Paul to Mal-
ta containe.d 276 persons. Then, too,
they were driven of fierce, or, an the
Revised Version bas it, "rough" winds.
The forces of life toss us as roughly
as the winds toss a seagoing vessel.
Yet are they turned about with a
very small helm. Revised Version,
"rudder." In ancient vessels it was
an oar worked by a handle. Whither-
eoever the govern,ar listeth. Revised
Version, "Whithersc'ever the impulse
of the steersman willeth."
5. Thelongue ie a littlemember. Do
not confine this contrast to the smallness
of the tongue and largeness of the body.
Rather, take the tanguet for what it
stands for, of casual remark, conver-
sation, argument, curse, blessing. Pro-
bably no other part of any one's activi-
ties is as little thought about or tplan-
ned for as what one says. Boasteth
great things. Claims much. Behold,
how great a matter a little fire kin -
(Beth. Revised VS:lesion, "Behold, how
much wood is kindled by how small Is
Lire!" and according to the margin it
may read, "Bebold, how Feat a for-
est is kind1ed.1" All of which is h most
lively and graphic picture of the im-
portance of little things.
6. The tongue is a fire. To warm and
eneigbten or to destroy. A world of
iniquity. "An organism 'containing
within itself all evil essenee."—Marvm
R. Vincent. "A; complete repertory of
all wickedness."—Alford Ilt defileth
the whole body. For wbeaa a man has
spoken an evil word be is ready to
commit a correeponding evil act. First
we think, then we speak, then we act.
Often, too, a suggestion is made in con-
versation, espectially in story -telling,
which does not consciously degrade the
speaker, but "defiles," or "sets on fire,"
him mho hears. Setteth. ' Sets
the whole world on fire." The Greek
word was used of a circuit of fortifica-
tions and. of circles or zones of land and
sea. It is set on fire of hell. The evil
word has its origin in the evil heart,
a,nd the evil heart is only evil because
Satan's seat is there.
7. Every kind of beasts. Revised
Version (margin), "every nature." "The
natures of the four great orders here
enumerated 13S,V6 been brought under
control by the nature and. genius of
maa."--esesneelon. Is tamed and hath
been tamed by mankind, Dr. Marvin
R. Vincent would translate "by the no
AllitalINVIIIIk
AIMINOMMIIIIMIMMINIMINft,
beasts which we now speak of as dora- THESULTAN'S•GUERRILLAS
Lure a maneNearly all of those
estie animals are savage animas tam -
boar, and buffalo. d CIRCASSIAN EXILES DO NOT FORGET
THEIR PROTECTOR.
ed. The terse, and do d
Pig, toad CM were originally as wild
g, an cat, an
....—...
as the zebra, and welf, and tiger, and
"No one of men." But God can. No
tame. end.e.tatigabie warriont Nebo Serve without
8. The tongue can no man
ed it; no human being ever tamed hira- 3°.kraateilritsnederset'ktItY411171VrItilar Willt RUSSIU—
.aY oe Commiesarv Supplies—Snevevore
Wild beast ever tamed itself, neon tam -
Unsettled, restless evil, incepable of re- genta,, used to :say that " no areay need
self. God tames him. An unruly evil. Marshal MacMalion, the victor of Ie-
Unsettled,
full of deadly poison. The stand-
h.uman life. deepair ars long as there is a chance
erer and the temevil pter to evpoison
of its opponents committing a serious
9. Therewith bless we God, even the mistake," and nations neve now and
Father. Revised Version, "the Lord.
used, elsewhere. Therewith curse we good luck. When Dielaitsch crossed tbe
then been saved by a similar freak of
and Father," a combination of terms
men. Ile is including himeelf by °our- Balkans, the conquest of European Tur-
tesy among the men be reproves. Verb- key seemed to be only a question a a
al abuse of our felloweneen is practical =
cursing. Made after the similitude of few years, and the Sultan's fir:Bans
God.. The likeness ot. God in which man would now proba,bly be dated from the
was made bas moor been destroyed, easter/a 'snore a the Dardanelles, if in
though it is marred, We ought to rev-
erence in ourselves and otbers the 1873 the arch-end:des of his empire had.
rem-
nant of the image of the Creator. not committed the blunder of banishing
•
bles"81,Zitaoildtheuerssainingeelm'ilTthhePr°tomned,gu?,11" t.50h00,010s0,ortthe hardiest highlanders in
says Aesop, "is at onoe the best end
the worst of things." My brethren, The war of extermination against the
G
these things ought not so to be. We =tines of the Eaetern Caueasus began
cannot Serve od, and mammon.
11. Sweet water and bitter cannot under the reign of the Empress Cather -
come from the same sprine. "Not only ins' Le" mere than .100 years aga' and
efeo'uesutt,alissayasucDei. saanurtesStanolys, gee seemed to have eaded with the capture
not in the Ea.st, but hardly in
opflattbzuhoefoG-chbui enfitba.ins,epStheammbyelr, 6on 18t5h9e,
their birth, as those which fall into
tr'eacainns anbYe
ullt ten yea= after the highlands of
seen so clear, so full-grown even et e
the Jordan and its lakes throughout the great mountain range were in re -
ns whole conrse /rota north to south." vole again, and the grandfather of the
There are brackish streams in the—
East, as elsewbere, but no one stream present erne at last decided to purchase
Peace at line expense of the next cen-
is at once sweet and brackish, and no pea
tongue is at onee pure and foul, at once sus retures. "Submissiou or exile" was
kind and cruel. le may seem so, nut his ultimatuin to the council of the
the moral character of the owner of T 1,,,,, •
the other. • "either surrender your horses, arras,
g an and. Daghestan mountaineers,
the tongue is of the one sort or of --se'
12. Can the fig tree, my brethren, and able-bodied warriors, or migrate
bear olive bermes? either a vine figs?
No tree can bring forth fruit ba,con- en masse to the dominions of the Sul -
mentions the fruit trees most familiar fuge in the Provinoe of Aelrianople."
tan, who has consented to give you re -
mentions
with its own nature, James
in Palestine. So can no fountain both
itsianized tribes of t
yield salt water and fresh. Much ter- The tetbe west -
ser i sthe Revised Version, "neith- ern foothills advised an unconditional
er can salt water yield sweet.' Read the capitulation, but the Padisba, too, had
story of the bitter waters of Marah,
Exod. 15. 23, and the unwholesome sent an envoy, and religioue sympath-
epring al deride°, 2 Kings 2 19-21. The les at last prevailed. "Let we go and
Great Salt Sea was but sixteen miles send bade our souls to Allah free," saki
from Jerusalem.
13. "Who is a wise man and. endued the old Emir Ayoub. and an exodus re -
with knowledge among you. Remember iseanbling the departure of the Moors
that Jamedarted out to peak of the from Southern Spain repopulated tbe
work of public teething. His cousider- sparsely settled uplands of the Balkans.
e; s
ation of all other uses and abuses of
tbe tongue le incidental to thatand THE REFUGEES
be here sage that if in the Chureb wise were given temporary freeholds in
;
persons are found they and tbey only — .
should be selected for the office of Northern Salm:ace. and Adrianople, be -
conversation. Let hien pour forth like lod of ten years, but alrready repaid
teaeher. Let hien show out of a good. ing exempted from taxation for a per -
a fountain " by hisgood" now limited . •.' life," Revised
Version. "Conversation.the hoennalite of their new neighbors
to talk, originally meant the whole ate- in; 11376, when they volunteered for the
tierity of life. His works. His ads of defense of tbe mountain passes, and re -
piety. Witb meekness of wisdom.
sifted the desperate attacks of Skobe-
" With meeknees," which is a proper
attribute of wisdom.
o meeknespd, says left "the modern Suevarroff," for a
Dr. Ila•milton, "is love at school—love month and a half.
at the Saviour's school. It, is the dis- The Ruesian lavadere had no dead-
eiple learning the defects of his own
D
eharader and taking hints from hos- - -e —
r foe. ,Their quarrel with the Turks
tile as well as friendly monitors. It had. for centuries been a give-and-take
is tbe disciple praying and watching game of hard blows, rarely disgraced
for the improvement of his talents, the
of his character. It is the Chris- by unfair inequalities of numbers, but
the Circassians remembered them as de -
mellowing of his temper, tbe ameliora-
tiontian learning of 'him who is meek and vastators who had overwhelmed. their
lowly, and finding rest for his soul." highlands wan all the available con -
DISRAELI AND GLADSTONE,
Two Remarkable Men, Very Different In
(harae iu1 Temperament.
I heard nearly all the great speeches
made by both the men in that parlia-
mentary duel which lasted for so many
years. My own observation and ju.dg-
ment gave the superiority to Mr. Glad-
stone all through, but I quite admit
that Disraeli stood up well to his great
opponent, and that it was not always
eas.v to award the prize' of victory, The
two men's voices were curiously unlike.
Disraeli bad a deep, low, powerful
voice, heard everywhere throughout
the house, but having lit±be variety or
music in it. Gladstone's voice was
tuned to a higher nate, was penetrat-
ing, resonant, liquid, and full of an ex-
quisite modulation and music 'which
gave new shades of meaning to every
emphasized word. The ways of the
men were in almost every respect
curiously unlike. Gladstone was al-
ways eager for conversation. He lov-
ed to talk to anybody about anything,
Disraeli, even among his most intimate
friends, was given to frequent fits of
absolute and apparently gloomy sil-
ence.
Gladstone, after his earlier parlia-
mentary days, became almost entirely
indifferent to dress. Disraeli always
turned out in the newest fashion, and
down to his latest years went in the
get-up of a young man about town.
Not less different were the characters
and temperaments of the two men.
Gladstone changed his politnal opinions
many times during his long parnamen-
taxsy. career. But he changed his
opinions only in deference to the force
of a growing conviction, and to the re-
cognition of facts and conditions which
he could no longer conscientiously dis-
pute. Nobody probably ever knew
what Mr. Disraeli's real opinions were
upon any political question, or wheth-
er he had any real opinions at all.
Gladstone began as a Tory, and gradu-
ally became changed into a Radical.
Disraeli began as an extreme Radical,
under the patronageiof Daniel O'Con-
nell, and changed nto a Tory. But
everybody knew that Gladstone was at
first a. sincere Tory, and at last it sin-
cere Radical. Nobody knew, or, in-
deed, eared, whether Disraeli ever was
either a sincere Radical or a sincere
Tory.—Justin McCarthy in Outlook.
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MRS. aAMPBELL SURPRISED THEM
A despatch from St. Louis, Mo., says:
—May Campbell, a variety actress, who
carne here from Cincinnati, hid in a
clothes closet in Maud Devere's room,
on Tuesday, and listened while her hus-
band and Miss Devere arranged for an
elopement. Then Mrs. C'ampbell emerg-
ed with a revolver and !teat: five bullets
into her husband and one into Maud
Devere. She then walked to the Four
Courts ande gave herself nti. Campbell
was taken in a dying condition to the
city hospital. When a detective brought
in his wife and a,sked him to identify
her as his asseilent he refused to do
SO, and kissed ber affectionately. Camp-
bell is fatally shot through the lungs
and in the throat. The woman's wound
Is not belteved to he fatal.
1810•11•Mili
sea -flits for a vast empire, and sealed
their conquests with wholesale massa-
cres and the destruction of orchards
and corn fields. Revenge upon such an
enemy was a luxury that could offset
the lack of other compensations, and
reconcile the conscience of the fierce
exiles to rather unusual methods of
warfare. In the defile of Kallireh the
vanguard. of Gen. Godoliten was sud-
denly stopped by a conflagration of
pine brash niled in hillorks at the nar-
rowest point of the pass. and. when a
Jam of baggage wagons had complet-
ed. the blockade, the overhanging rocks
began to echo a murderous fusillade of
Circassian bush -whackers, an almost
continuous hail storm of rifle balls and
slugs, till the wild glen was choked
yeah corpses, and the frigbtened com-
mander yielded to the expostulations
of his guides and ordered a retreat.
The .8 urvivors attempted to rally,when
a ehrill sound of the bugles was drown-
ed by the thunder of a. rock avalanche,
and tbs entrapped invaders raised a
white flag. "Remember Dargo 1" came
a voice from the cliffs, and. Godolitch
at once ordered a rush for life against
the rock blockade. A few of the best
climbers might clear the obstruction
and 'run the gantlet of the defile un-
scathed; in a corabination of skill and
raregood luck there was a hope of
survival; in an appeal to mercy there
wan none. Dargo, or Margo, was a
stronghold of the Circassian patriots,
at political highland village which, by
order of Prince Baryatinski, had been
UTTERLY DESTROYED,
together with all its defenders, and to
the relatives of those martyrs the op-
portunity for retribution had become
as irresistible as the oha,nce of the is-
la,nd man -trap to the victims of Hern-
ando Cortes. About one-fiftb of the
blockade-runners escaped; th.e rest were
shot down or cut to pieces by the re-
morseless highlanders.
Tbe Circassian guerrillas are not on-
ly superlative strategists, but in stress
of circumstances bave proved their ab-
ility to emulate the tactics that won
the battle of Auersfeldt against des-
perate odds, and oree,erve their pres-
ence of naiad in moments when the for-
tune of the day depended upon ac-
curate marksmanship.
The uplands of the Balkan range
would not repay the toil of ordinary
foragers, but the survivors of the Cau-
casian anan-bunts have been trained in
ram school of thrift. Alter it suc-
cessful skirmish they encamp on the
battlefield to emoke-cure bags full of
horse -meat, anelthey defy the spite of
luck for a week or two, -They will
make shift with dried berries and roots
and possess the art of bakiag bread
from all sorts of seeds and wild -grow-
ing nuts, and even frolm the eweet ac-
orns of the highland ferests. When the
French conquerors pushed the cam-
paign against Alenel-Kader into the
foothills of the Atlas mountains one of
their officers was caught in an ambush
and dragged to the camp, where his
eartors Invited. him to ahem their fru-
gel supper of berries and durrba cakes.
Re .clid contrive to swallow a handful
of berries., but the ash -baked mime, re-
sieterl the attempts at mastication.
What 1" grunted. a 'battle -steered old
Sheikh, " you fellows can not eat our
bread and yet you came le filch 11.1" 1
The Peteasian captives of the Circassian
beehive ackers often made themselves t
liable to it Manlier repeater:le They
found it it lone time between drinks
it they waited for vodka, and hunger
itself could not persuade them to try
their teeth on the ashgrizzlecl com-
pound of corn meal and ground acorns.
They might as well bane led to chew
up pine Wangles, but thole' capters of-
ten relied for weeke upon the spontane-
ous preclude of the wilderness. Dur-
ing the last two moans of the conclud-
ing campaign the followers of Shamyl
are said to have subsisted oniony or
Toasted.
BEECH NUTS AND WATER.
Like the hardy Aral:teams of South-
ern Chili, they prefer "dark bivouacke,"
serving out cave -lairs and filling them
with anotss aztel dry leaves instead of
squatting near a fire that seorehes its
feeders on one side and lets them freeze
on the other. In that way they also
avoid nocturnal surprise parties, while
their own 'sharpshooters are past:etas—
tens iti the art of creeping within dead
shot 'range of a hostile encampment.
The Cossacks of the Terek Valley who
served in the campaign of the Caucasus
stuck to the belief that their nigtiland
neighbors were wizards and could set,
an the dark, and used to tell strange
stories of picket, se,atries being killed
by ita.visible foes in nights when the
eyes of common mortals could. not tell
a white rabbit from a black cat.
But tbe surprise attacks a the Cir-
cassian guerrillas are not. limited to
tb.e ghost hours. "Don't you think your
men are getting a little more than
their fair share of the fatigue?" J()S-
"e1311 Bonaparte asked his irrepressible
brother during the first Italian came
Peiga,
"Yes, we are doiog double work eTA.
try day," Kidd the restless Corsican.
"but how can we help it if we leave to
figbt such outrageous odds? I have not
men enough to forego the advantage
of choosing my own battle -grounds,"
The Circassian highlanders, too, have
learned to appreciate tbe benefits a
superior topographical knowledge. They
are restless prowlers, studyiog the
tend of river, valley and mountain
ranges with a keen instinct of strate-
gy. In the mountains of Phillipiada a,
correspondent of tbe 'Trete Freese"
saw them "rush uphill at wolf speed,"
to head off a detachment of Grecian
regulars that had beea forced out of
their entrencinnents and were trying
to save themselves by a tiraely xetreat.
" Tbey scrambled up a hillside of at
least 500 feet vertical elevation in
about ten mhautes," he says; "then
reelei along the level crest of the
range
LIKE DEER BOUNDS
mi a hot trail. and half an hour after
the crack of their long rifles rould he
beard in the glen of the Balanka, at
least three miles further south. They
had got the flank of the retreating -
invaders, and opened fire at snort
range from behind bushes and wayside
cliffs. -
" They mould fight arehangels," he
aide, "rather than not fight at all, but
besides, they suspect that their old ene-
mies, the Ru.ssio..as, are somehow behind
Greece in this matter, and do not ob-
ject to have some fun at the expense
of the miebelievers, who nave depriv-
ed the peotector of their faith of his
beet provinees."
The Circassians are Mohammedans,
anti *erica abstainers from alcoholle
stimula,nts, but do not share the dietio
prejudices of their orthodox friends.
With so xnany involuntary fasts they
do not alb* it neeessaey to stick to
the Lenten fare of the Ithanutdan sea-
son, and eat strange meats—rabbits and
tree rats not excepted—whenever they
can get them, and, in times of war,
may not always draw the line at park.
Their notions of property right seem
likewise to be a little vague; still,their
Turkish friends could not have invited
a colony of moos useful allies. The
thrifty highlanders have spread all over
the upland pastures of the Turkish bor-
der mountains, and after their exper-
ience in the icy summit regions of the
Caucasus, are getting along quite well.
i
Then now pay taxes n the, form of a
levy on the inerease of their herds, and
riever fail to respond to it eall for vol-
ar without the hope of
nay, or even of government contribu-
tions to their slender commissariat.
They wear no uniform and carry no
maim kettles.
In xecognition of their services as un-
paid partisans they are granted exemp-
tion from red tape formalities, and their
martial efficiency has, indeed, little to
do with discipline in the ordinary sense
of the word. The. motives of their mil-
itary enthusiasm are the thirst of re-
venge and that leve of excitement
which turns from tamer field sports to
man thunts.
A MOTHER'S TRIUMPH.
"Willie 1"
"What you, want ?"
?" I want you to get right up I"
"All eight," says Willie and turns
over foe another nap. Half a••• hour
passes and then—
" Willie I"
" Y -a -a -a -s," yawningly.
"I want you to get right up."
"
Fifteen rainutes later.
"You Willie!"
"Well?"
" You goivag to get up to -day?"
" Well be about it then. You march
yourself eight down here."
Twenty minutes elapse,
" 1,V11lie 111"
"What you want ?"
"If you ain't up in five rainutearli
come up there and. rout you out in
short order! You mind that 1"
"I'm a coming."
"You'd better, sir, if you know what's,
good for you 1"
Fifteen zninutees later.
" Will! If you're not out of there in
ten minutes I'll douse you with cold
water, see if I don't 1 Get right up!"
Willie comes down half an hour lat-
er and the triumphant mother says:
" Aha, young man, I thought Pe rout
you out I You may just as well un-
derstand first as last that when I speak
you have to mind. Remember that 1"
• RE KNEW.
The butchee's boy who had called te
deliver a parcel, thoughtlessly left tbe
garden gate open, and the seven-year-
olderuler of the house called after him
to come beets and shut it.
The butcher's boy stopped, but showed
no imolination to obey the command.
I don't have to! he shouted, defiant -
Yes, you do, brisiebed the seven-year-
old. You come right back and shut
it, or soinebody's going to get the worst
licking be ever had.
Lhe by:loners boy came messing back
full of fight.
Re is, eb.? he said, Well, who's go-
ing to lick him, en? ,
• Mother is, calmly responded the-
youngeter. If you leave teat gate open
I'll be certain to go out into the street;
mother'll see me, a.nd. I'll get licked.
Shut it tight, please, so I can't get out.
And the butehee's boy shtit it