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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-6-17, Page 5a - nese. teeWeateeneeiooet mot VINGSSERATIIIIII, 1 nes‘sidnOertir ffuei.ht aeftluiivnionses aanietall NtrculorV,ous(s, Ui Gaften nahng missteps, so • a en going in the wrong direction. knowing SWIFT, ASPIRING, RADIANT AND every step, the patriarch saying, "Thou BlelYANT SERAPH. eettest a print on the heels of my feet." I Crimes of the hand, crimes of the ton,gue ; crimes of the eye, crimes of the ear, not 'Thu Exalted Theme That Rev. Dr. Talmage Worse thau crimes of the foot. Oh, we want the wingsof humility to cover the made U Practical and llseful Thing. Offeet ! Ought we not to go into self -ab - meow velocity and the Rustle tit Angels negation, before the all -searching, all- egations. scrutinizing, all -trying eye of God? The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on Sun-, seraphs do. How much more we? "With twain he covered. the feet." cloy from the text Isaiah vie 2, "With AR this talk about the dignity of hu - twain he covered. his face, and vvitli man nature is braggadocio and sin. Our twaio he covered his feet, and with nature started at the hand of God regal, two= he did fly." but it has been pauperized. There is a well in Belgium which once had very In a hospital a leprosy good King pure wt Uzzia.h had. died and the wholein land w! s tanneer , and a- d ler't iCvkmbnuttnttlitTvutnelr af- shadowed with solemnity, and theologi- terward became tne centre of the battle cal sod phophetic Isaiah was thinking of Waterloo- At the opening of the about religious things, as one is apt bsuanattplealltehde tsialeldiearsr,dewietrh their.. sabres, to do hit time of great national be- Sylsom, to droof. water Out of itahMe Nvireoll reavement, and, forgetting the presence for them, and it was very pure water. of his wife and two sons, who mode util lehuitf the battle raged and 300 dead and. hia family, he had a dream, not like the quick dead were if3luuregl,intodi,hte for dreams of ordinary character, which of refreshment bent:nine 41(36411 of edewath, generally come from indigestion, but and long after people looked down into - vision most instruotive and. under the sktheulisvelL., end they saw the bleached toureh of the hand of the Almighty. soul W•as but wnenll lOtter.cl,Sbniettlilt human The place, the ancient temple. build- of sin have fouglic around it and '.orunigliniZ across it and been slain, and it has be- ing grand, awful, majestic. Within that adoemade areveell of skeletons. Dead hopes, temple at throne higher and grauder than that occupied by any czar or sul- dead oanallinotnir d oppoirtuigtiesn. tan or emperor. On that throne the le o Christ shall remannanannalep(uNgy and eternaChrist. In lines, surrounding t t as the well of Belgium never was. l that throne, the brightest celestials, not Anothuncleaneuncleanr seraphic. posture in the text the cheruaina, but higher than they, "With twain he covered the face." That the most exquisite and radiant of the rneane reverence Godward. Never so heavenly inhabitants—the seraphim. alueib.0..(idirrevorence abroain the world They are called burners, because they statuarat' Tou see it in the defaeed in the cutdne. out of the age ,P look like fire. In addition to the fea- ures fromTh tuxes and the limbs, which suggest a, of monuments for a moment°, 111 the f t sugfest the lithest, the swiftest, the theatertre 0 Letwoln and. Garfield, and huanaz •being, there are pinions, which die that mitilterY guard must stand at o sha d 1 L d wn aunt buoyant and the most inspiring for firewood, though 500 George P. More .of all unintelligent creation, a bird. rioes beg the woodman to spare the tree, ,of the wings for a different purpose. Deith seraph had. six wings, each two and that calls_ a corpse a cadaver, and iat speaks of geath the majority an substnintutgensilogr othveerrten- Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with verend terms father and mother "the these pinions. Now folded, nowspread, tele ntanaoand "the old woman" and eiow beaten in locomotion, " With linas npthing impressive in tb,e ruins 0 Brialbee or the columns of Karnali, twain he covered his feet, with twain and sees no difference in the Sabbath he covered his face, with twain he did feonet other days exeept it allows more is cal jediohntgahner erreiattiltsistmhe, ittvnhant. so. were not all used at once, Ile sera.ph some fine things in tit. Irreverenee standing there near the throne, over- never so nautili abroad. How inanY whelined at the insignificance of 1130 itana44Tetiljtme of (Mil in yen, how miihy_ I paths his feet had trodden as vompared ty Net .,nyrilingsailoaixilttuvietilcrt'd‘tImm 11115 with the paths trodden by God, and world, they roll up on idea of sentim- with the lameness of bis locomotion, emalitY and huinanitareinism and im- I Peideace and imbecility and call it God. amounthig almost to deeripituile nags o reverence over the fate, no compared. with the divine veloeity, with taking off of shoes on holy ground. You feaLhery yeti of angelie motlesty hides can tell from the way they talk they could have made a better world than ' the feet. "With twain he did cover his het." this, and that the God. of the Bible shocks every sense of propriety, They Standing there, overpowered by the talk of the love of God a way that overmati.hing splendor of God's glory shows you they believe it does not make and uenehle longer with t heves to look (1(....0:f.tfnieneinneeathilv ai man its hero wiflupon them and wishing thne eyes stead- talk of the love ot (letinngttgenvoi.ly. evh121 The probablaity is that these wings tbo word of God., bub a inaking good boos with THE EXETER TIMES You wrap around your hand a bin. ribbon, five times,. ten times. You THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ow it is five handbreadths, or it is ten handbreadths. So indicates the prophet. God winds the blue ribbon of the Sky around His hand. "He mi- teth out the hinveos with a span." You know tbat boaanceo are made of a beam euspended in the middle vrith two leaden at tne extremity a equal heft. In that way what vast heft hoe been weighed. But what are all the balances of earthily manipulation com- pared with the balonoes Isaiah saw suspended when he saw God putting into, the scales the Alps and the Ap- penines and Mount Washington and the Sierra Nevada. Yoa bee the earth had to be ballasted, It would not do to have too much weight in Eu.rope, too muoh weight in Asia,, or too .muoh weight. in Attica Or in Am- erica, so when God made the moun- tains He weighed them. The Bible dis- tinctly says so. God knows the weight of the great ranges that cross the continents, to tons, the pounds avoir- dupois, the ounees, the grains, the mil- ligrams—juet bow much they weighed then, and how much they weigh now. "He weighed the mountains in scales owl the hills, in a balance." Oh, what a God to run against ! Oh, what a God to desobey! Oh, what a God to dishonor! Ob, what a God to defy! The brightest. the mightiest angel talkes no familiarity with God. The winge of reverence are lifted. "With twain He covered the face." Antather aerephic pasture in the text. The seraph must not always stand still. Ile must move and it must be without cluansmess. There must be celebrity and beauty in the movement. : "With twain he did fly." Correction. exhilaraticao Correction at our slow i gait, for we only crawl in the service wthen we ought tO fly at the divine Exhilaration in t he fact that the soul has wings, as the seraphs have, et Ines. What is a slang? An inetrunte.nt of loconaotion. They may not be like seraph's wing, they may not be.: like bird's wing. but the soul as le inos. Gol says so. He shall mount up on wings as eagles." We are ' made in the divine hnegine, and God has wings. The Bible says so. "Under whose wings hest thete come to trujt.' T.he soul, with ; folded wing now, wounded wing, bro- keali wing, bleeding wing, caged wing. Aye. II have it now! Caged; within bars of bone and under curtains of flesh, taut one day to be free. I hear! the rutele of pinien le '.-4eagrave's poem, which we tOMetime.s sing: Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings. • hearh • . • o Alex- ander Pope's stanza., where he says: ". I mount, I fly, • 0 death, where is thy victory? A dying Christian not along ago cried • out, "Wings, wings, wings!" The air is full of teem, cenung and going, com- ing and gcang. You have seen how the dull, sluggish chrysalis becomes the , bright butterfly—the dull and the stu- pid and the lath:ugir turned into the alert and the beautiful. Well,. my friends, in this world we are in the chrystilid state. Death will unfurl the I wings. Oh, if we itould only realize • what. a grand thing it will be to get rid of this old clod of the body and mount the heavens! Neither seagull nor lark, nor albatross, nor falcon, nor (fonder, pitching from highest range of Andes, so buoyant or so majestio of stroke. See th� eaI in the inounlain neat? It looks so sick, so ragged. feathered, so worn out and so half asleep. Is that eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will te 1 you it is the molting season with that bird. Not dyin,g, but molting. You see that Christian sick andweary, and worn out, and seeming about to spire on what is called his deathbed? The world says he is dying. I say it is the molting season foe his soul— the body dropping away, the celestial pinions coming on. Not dying, but molting. Molting out of darkness and sie and struggle, intro glory and into God. Why do 7ou not shout? Why do you sit shivering at the thought 1eath and trying to look back and wish- ing you could stay here forever and epeak of departure as though the sub- jeot were filled with the skeletons and varnish of coffins, and as though wyolung ?preferred lame foot to swift Oa people of God, lee us stop play- ing tie fool and prepare for raptur- ous flight. When your soul stands on the verge of this life and there are vast precipices beneath and saphired domes above, which way will you fly/ Will you swoop, or will you soar? Will you fly downward, or will you fly up- ward? Evexything on the wing bid- ding us this day aspire. Holy spirit on the wind. Angel of the New Coven- ant on the wing. Time on the wing, fly- ing away. from us. Dternity onthe wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! Silva so near to Christ, that when you are dead, people standing by your lifeless body well not soliquize, say- ing: "What a disappointment Memos to him how diverse he was to deoart- ure; what a pity it was he had to die; what an awful calamity." Rather, standing there, may they see a sign more vivid on your still face than the vestiges of pain, something that will indioate that it was a happy exit — the clearance from oppressive quaran- tine, the cast off chrysolid, the molt- ing of the faded and the u,seless and the ascent from malarial valleys to bright, shining mountain trips, and be led to say as they stand there contem- plating your humility and your rever- ence in life and your happiness in death, "With twain he covered the feet, with twain he covered the face, with twain he did fly," Wings, wings, wingsl from the insufferable glory, the pin- shwa you they think it Ls a general I jail delivery for all the abandoned and OW gather over the cou,ntenance. 'With twain he did cover the face." tb scoundrelly of the universe. Nopunishment hereafter for any wOong- rhen. as God tells this seraph to go to doing here. the farthest outpost of immensity an The Bible gives two descriptions of. message of light and love and joy and. God., and they are just opposite, and get back before the first anthem, it does they are both true. In one place the not take the seraph it great, while tolacstiiasays _God is love. In another Bride says God. is a ccausuaniog spread himself upon the air with unim- Pine The explatuition is plain as plain agined celerity, one stroke of the wing can be. God. through Christ is love. God out of Christ is fire. To win the equal to 10,000 leagues of air. "With one and escape the other we have only twain he did fly." ; to throw ourselves, body, mind and The most practical and. useful lesson soul, into Christ's keeping. "No," says eee you. add me -...when we see the see- irreverence, "I want no atonement; I aph spreading his wings over the feet Dont; Inav.i..77..rduonu; Ianwdailat noos Guittearnvani —is the lesson of htunilito at ime wiTchillengge }lige, and. I will defy Hita perfection. The bkightest angels of and I will ask Him what He wants to God are so far beneath God that He de with rae.." So the finite confronts charges them with folly. The seraph tare leainite, so aback hammer tries to thooderbale, so the breath of so far beneath thee, and we so far be- human noineels defies the everlasting neath the seraph in service, we ought God, while the hierarchs of heaven bow to be plunged in humility, utter and tilt and bend the knee as the complete. Our feet, how laggard they angic; tu• crnasr aowag os bembuy,seand eatnhenuatrecnh: have been in the divine service! Our dure the splenroyr, and thke e chorus of all feet, how many missteps they have the empires of /leaven comes in with taken! Our feet, in how many paths foil diapason, "Holy, holy, holy!" Reverence for sham, reverence for the of worldiness and folly they have walk- old merely because it is old, reverence lad! for stupidity, however learned, rever- Neither God nor seraph intended to ence for incapacity, however finely in- put any dishonor upon that which is one angurated, I have none But we want of the masterpieees of Almighty God— more reverence for God, more rever- the human foot. Physiologist and ana- ewe for the sacrements, more reverence tomist are overwbelmed at the wonders for the Bible, more reverence for the of its organization. "The Ridgewater the humpure. more reverence for the good.an foot. Physiologist and ana- of its organization. "The Ridgewater Reverence a characteristic of all great natures. You hear it in the roll of the Treatise,' written by Sir Charles Bell, master oratorios. You see it in the on the wisdoin and goodness of God as Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandaios. illustrated in the human hand, with a You study it in the architecture of the result of the $40,000 liequeathed in the last will and testament of the Earl of Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Do Bridgewater for the encouragement of not be flippant. Do not joke about dearth. Do not make fun of the Bible. Christian literature. The world could Do not deride the Eternal. The bright - afford to forgive his eccentricities, est and mightiest seraph cannot look though he had two dogs seated at '11115 table, and though he put six dogs alone unabashed upon Him. Involuntarily . in an equipage drawn by four horses, the wings come up"With twain he " and attended by two fobtnien. With his covered his face. largo bequest, inducing Sir Charles Bell„ Who is this God before wbom the ar- to write so valuable a book on the wis- rogant and intractable re,fu,se revere dom of God in the structure of the hu man hand, the wocrld could afford to forgive his oddities. and the world could now affor& to have another Earl of Bridgewater, however, idiosyncratic, if he would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write a hook on the wisdom and goodness of God in the construction of the human foot. The articulation of its bones, the lubrication of its joints, the ingenuity of its cartilages, the de - limey of its veins, the rapidity of its muscular construction, the sensitive- ness of its nerves. I sound the praises of the human foot. With that we halt or climb or march. It is the foundation of the physical fabric. It is the base of a God poised column. With it the warrior braces himself for battle. With it the orator planta him- self for eulogiutni. With it the toiler reaches his work. With it the outraged stamps his Indignation. Its loss an ir- reparable disaster. Its health an indi- , last, the ooly. Hie has one telescope, vidual equipment. If you went to know with which 13e eees everything—His its value, ask the man whose foot par- ! conscience. He has one bridge with alysis hath shrivelled,or marahinery hath eviaich He oroeses everything -His om- erushed, or surgeon's knife hath aanpu- nieresence. He has one hammer with tined. The Bible homers it. Especial which He bulide everythiog—His "Lest thou dash thy foot against nipotence. Put two tablespoonfuls of ence? There was an engineer of the naane of Strasierate.s who was in the employ of Alexander the Great, and he offered to hew a mountain in the shape of his master, tbe emperor, the enormous figure to hold in the left band a city of 10 f01 inhabilante, while with the right hand it was to hold a basin large enough, to collece all the mountain torrents. Alexander ap- plauded him for his ingenuity, but for- bade the enterprise because of its cost- linees. Yet I have to tell you that our Sing holds in OMB hand all the oiti' of Ile earth and all the oceans, whiie He has the stars of Heaven for His tiara, Earthly power goes from hand to hand, from Henry I. to Henry IL and Henry M. from Charles I. to Charles II. from Louis I. to Louis II. and Louis 111, but rrorn everlasting to everlast- ing is God. God the first, God the •a stone,” "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved." "Thy feet shall not stum- ble." Especial oharge,."Keep thou foot when thou coast to the house of God." Especial peril, "Their feet shall slide itti due time ' Connectedwith the world's dissolutio a "He shall set one foot on the sea and the °their on the earth." Give me the history of your foot, ad I will give you the histoly of your life- time. Tell me up what steps it bath gone, down what declivities and in what roads and in what directions, and Twill know more about you than I want to (Irnow. &One of us could endnxe the scrutiny. Our feet not alveays in paths of God sometimes IV paths of worldli- water en tbe palm of your hand and it will overflow, but Isaiah indicates that God auto the Atlantic and the Pacific and the Arotio and the Antarctic and the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and all the waters of the earth in the hallow of Has bond. The fingers the beach olni one tilde, the wrist the beach on. the °Mex. "He holdeth the water in tio3 hollow of His hand." As yen take a pinch of salt or pow- der bletwe_en1 polar the ela and two gurs, sO rental% Wilco God takes up t]so earth. fee IMetieures the dust of the earth!, elle Original there intlicat- ;tag that God takes! all the continents lvtvr,s,ea* trlie Oita ssid iftvo fingers. -NTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUKE 20. " Persona I Responsi bit ity." Bout. 14, 10-21' Bolden Text, Ram. 14.21. PRACTICAL NOTES.. Verse 10. Why dost thou, judge thy brothel'? Revised 'Version, "Thou, why dost thou. judge thy brother ?" There are among the Jews many peo- ple given to rigorous self-denial. The Essenes as o party were as ascetic as the purer monks of the Middle Ages. Many of these tevere-miaded people, becoming Christians, brought over in- to Christiarnity their sentiments and methods. But many other Christians were converted from the most self-in- dulgent idolatry, which reveled in feasting and drinking -and even sena seal indulgence. They, when convert- ed to God, dropped, a course, their sin- ful iodulgerice, but retained neverthe- less a more generous and genial de- light in the good things of earth than the others. These two parties dif- fered widely, gulled far apart, and their hostility to each other rent and tore somo of the early churches. The converted theathen, knowing that the gods they used to worship were no gods at all, felt that the food con- secrated to there was consecrated to no- thing, and. were quite willing to eat that food. The converted Eseenes, be- lieving that the idols were inhallted by devils, had an =speakable repugn- ance for the food that had Leen offer- : ed to them. Paul regards these as the , weaker brethren. Evidently his per-- sonal judgment is nearer to that of the first rams; but be warns both class- es against lack of charity; wail this t first question is addressed direetly to , the "wealker brother," the man who blames another man for indulgences I which he himself dare not take; What; business hive you to judge? Why dost thou. set at naught thy brother ? This on the other hand, is addressed to the stronger deo; : Why do you de- spise the conscience of the narrower - minded man who is shocked by your behavior? For we shall all stand be-, fore the judgment seat of Christ. The' strong and the weak, the liberal -minded 1 and the merrow. We may pose as ; judges here, but we shall be on trial , Ver - ed THE SUNFLOWER. The Many Fses to Which the Seeds Are Put. The sunflower is a native of Ameri- ca. In 1569 it wan introdu,ced into Eu- rope, and. is now extensively cultivat- ed. there, particularly in Russia, where it has been grown for fifty years, prin- cipally for the di containece in its seed. The seeds, after the shells are removed, contain 81 per cent. of oil. This oil is clear, light yellow, nearly odorless, and of a peculiar, pleasa.nt, and mild taste. It is said to be superior to both almond and olive oil for, table imrposes, and is u,sed in making soap and. candles. In South Africa the seeds are used in the preparation of ,jam. In Russia the larger seeds are sold en immense quan- tities to the lower classes of the people, who eat the kernels as we do nuts. The stalks furnish; a valuable fertilizer, while the green leaves are dried, pul- verized, and mixed with meal as food for ooves. The stalk produces an ex- cellent fibre. It is said that Chinese silk geode commonly contain more or less sunflower fibre. The so-called Nig- er seed oil is made from a spedes of the sunflower family which is a. native of Abyssinia,' It fu,rnisbres the common lamp oil of upper India, where it is largely cultivated. • sion of "God." 11. It is written. Isa. 45. 23 As I live. mita the Lord, The Hebrew is "By myself I swear." Every knee shall how to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. The time is coming when God's will shall rule despite all obstacles. Bowing the Imes may refer to kneel- ing, formal homage; the confession of the tongue, to prayers offered from the heart. 12. Every one of us shall give an count of himself to God. Revised Ver- sion, " Each one." The account is not, then, to be given to our fellow -men, but to God. No influence counts ba that court. There is no evasion, no slighting, no bribing; no mortal could bear to face that piercing judgment were it not that "we have an Advo- cate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Our lives, if we trust in Christ, are hid with Christ in God. , 13. Let us not therefore judge one ' another any more; but judge this rath- er. Here is a witty turn which brings out a profound truth. "Let us not make believe any longer that we are judges a.nd censure our neighbours, but let u.s rather bring in one judgment." And what that judg- ment is the rest of this verse tells. That no man put in a stumb- ling -block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. The "stumbling -block" and the "occasion to fall" are almost synonymous. . 14. 1. know-, and am pere,uaded. There is no doubt lett in the apostle's mind. By the Lord Jesus. In; consequence of his identification of soul with that of Christ. There is nothing unclean of itself. Defiled or "coma:tone" That is, intrinsically unfit for the service of God. The a-nostle has the Levitical view in mind, which regarded -certain things as holy and pure,, and the rest as common or unclean. But to h•im that esteexneth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. This is not diffi- cult to understand. It is in accordance witha newel lo.w everywhere recogniz- ed. A man. determines tio tell a lie, or what he think& is a lie, but what he says is really the truth. Now, that man bas not deceived his fellowmen, for he has told the truth, but he intended to deceive him, so he is guilty of a lie. A. man determines to steal certain things from a rich ne•ighbor. Unknown to hien certain legal proeesses have made him heir to that rich 'neighbor, and so the goods that he takes with sneak- ing care are really his own. When that is proved in a. court of law he cannot be punished, for he did me steal, he only took his own; but he intended to steal, and morally he is guilty. Now apply the test as Paul wougd apply it. I cannot help feeling that it is wrong for me to eat the meat and drink the libations that have been bffered to jupiter ; for though I have become a true Christian I can never eoet rid of a sentiment that regards japtter as a person. But an- other man—and Paul evidently thinks that that other man is wiser in this matter than 1—says, "Jupiter is no- body and nothing, and that food is as good as any other." Nevertheless, so long as I have a feeling that in eat- ing that food I ain rendering homage to a devil, who claims to be a god, I am really rendering that homage, and the act is wrong to me which would be right to another. Let ius take a walla case in .modern life; and we will not choose wine or brandy, because there is such a wide scientific testimony of the almost universal evil results of alcoholics liquote that there is no long- er great disagreementaborut the dan- gers of drinking them; but let us take something far less harmfuLIVER may be eating, or drinking or smoking, or go- ing to a place of amusement, or induag- ing in a game. It has been proved over and over again, we will suppose, that the act is intrinsically innocent, and some man with much greater intellec- tual power than we may laugh at the idea of any one hesitating to do it. But I cannot do that thiing without 'weakening my sense Of right; I can- not get rid of the feeling that the act "To hina that esteemth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean." a. laut if thy brother he grieved with thy meat, now walice,st thou not oharitably. Revised. Version, "For if because of meat thy brother is grieved thou walk,est no longer in love." We will continue our "make believe." Sup- pose now, that you and I are no long- er the "weak" people whose consciences are so easily hart; suppose rather that •ive are the "strong" people, who see clearly that to go to a certain place or to do a certain deed is not wrong; but we know at the same time that the poor Christian weakling, that lives across the street believes that it is wrong. 'What then? ttVhy, according to Paul the ap- ostle, who writes under the direction of the Spirit of God, we are not walk- ing in love if we "go" and "do," and we are not walking in love when we think of OULe neighbor as a "poor we,aking Christian." "Grieved" here means "made to feel pain." "It is a hurt to conscience, which, while not neeessarily fatal, may lead to violation or hardening of conscience. and finally to a fall."—Marvin R. Vincent. .To walk charitably, that is, in love with our neighbors, is only half of our. duty as Christians, and it is the inevitable outflow of the other half, walking in love with God. peastroo not him with thy zne•at, fax whom Christ died. "Meat" means food in general. 16. Let not then yaw good. be evil spken of. "Your good" Imre stands t r y, your • not stand up for your milts if by maintaining them you weaken some- body else do not let the Gospel doe - trine be discounted by your pertin- acity in maintaining an insig- nigicant principle. 17. For the kingcloen of God, which laere really means the cause, of religion, is not meat and drink. Not ritual, Rot form. It is neithererformance nor a stention. It is •, t eaven y sphere of life, in which God's word and Spirit govern."—Lange. It is right- amen:less, and roue, and joy in the Holy Ghost. alittual concord and a moral gladness of heart; reetetu. e, harmony, and. gladness in God's pees - ewe. emnetimes, as a witty English theologian has said, Christians seem to thin'k that. God dweIle with us for tbe purpoet of enlarging our spirit- ual bill of fare, and for the purpose of giving us the privilege of tektng what we please. This is only parb of the truth. Our joy in the Holy Ghost ant our harmony with the brethren are as real instruments and ae m.o.:oar, instruments to work out Grail's will in this world as is rectitude of .ohavior. 18. For he that in these things serveth Christ. Revised. Version, 'He that herein serveth Christ." referring to the threefold Christian life that we breve just observed. Is acceptable to God, ond approved of me,n. Revised Van. slow 'well pleasing to God." 19. Let us therefore follow after the things which nia.ke for peatn, ant things wherewith one may edify another, Fol- lowing some ancient aut horities, this verse might read, "So even we follow the things of pews and the things of mutual edif feat ion." 20. For meab destroy not the work of God. Revised Version, "Overthrow not for meat's Bake, the work of God." "The, apostle seas in whatever tends to violate a brother's conselence the in- cipient destruction of God's work."—Dr. Brown. All things intleed ore pure. Clean. All ritual disit inet ions are et ao end. The principle which the "strong" party in the Chueeh maintained is a tree principle, but, like most other true priumples, it is capable of very fal- lacious practice. But it is evil for that man who wrath with offense. "There is criminality in the man who so does as to stumble the weak brother."—Dr. Brown. We ate alt lights, examples; other e follow us. 21. This verse the Revised Version closes with the word "stumbleth." which indeed includes all the thought given in our version. This sentence cov- ers in itself the gist of the lesson. It is a wa.rning against the too full use of Christian liberty. A COOL SCOT. Elow Ile Beat a Footpad at Own Game. MT. McGregor, a Scot who resides in San Francisco, is said by an exchange to be one of the most argumentative of men, and one of the calmest. Early one morning, as he was returning home, he was addressed by a man who empha- sized his words with a. pistol: "Throw up your hands 1" "Why ?" asked Mr. McGregor, calmly, "Throw them up!" Burt what for t "Put up your heeds!" insisted the footpad, shaking his pistol. "Will you do what I tell yoult" "That depends," said Mr. McGregor. "If you cao show me way reason why I should put up ma. Mends, I'll no say bu,t what I evull; but yer mere request wed no justification for me to do so absurd a tilling. Woo, why should you, a complete stranger, aok me at this oor o' tbe mornitoe on a public street ter pat up ma hands?" "If you don't quit gassen' and obey orders, I'll blow tne top of your head off 1" cried the, robber. "What! Faith, man, you, must be oot o' yer head. Come, noo, poor buddy," said McGregor, soothingly, cool- ly catching the pistol and wresting it with a gmek twist -out of the man's hand. "Come, noo, an' I'll show ye Where they'll take care o' ye. Hech 1 Dania ye try to fecht, or edict, I'll shoot ye! By the way, ye might as well pat up yer hands, an' just walk ahead o' me. That's it. Trudge awe', noo." And so Mr. MeGregor marched his man to the city prison and handed him over to Ctiptaio 'Douglass. "It wane be a. bad idea to put him im a straight-jacticet," he said serenely to the off neer. "There's little ctoot but the buddy's daft." And he resumed his homeward walk. FAURE AS A HAND -SHAKER. President Felix Faure has, the Lan- don Chronicle says, beaten the record of every sovereign and predecessor by journeying all over France since the beginning of his septennate. He has met with personal ovations in eaoh eity and department, with the faint and dis- cordant cries of "Down with the Sen- ate 1" at Lyons and Marseilles. M. Faure has assisted at manoeuvres and carefully inspected hospitals. Emperors, kings and queens have treated bird aa a colleague and an equal. May 11 the Chief of the State accepted the invita- tion of Gen. Saussier to a soiree at the Cerole Militaire. The scene recalled that memorable evening when Gen. Boulan- ger was escorted by cavalry bearing torches and lanterns to open the dub wbioh was Originally intended. as a cen- tre of his own following in the French is wrong. Very well, then, it is wrong, A Career of a Girl Two months ago a widowed mother of a eretty young daughter died sud- delli. The supposed wealth of the nto- ther eas proved within a week to have been etolen from her by a. rascally partner of her late husband. The only cbild was therefore penniless. Ten days ago this plucky girl called at our house to say good" -by. She had chosen the profession of a nurse, had already been with a, fanaous physician in hi sprivate sanitarium, for a month and was now about to begin a formal school training. She preferred, for erasons of delicacy which we could not quite understand to go to a stranae city, where she would be less likely to meet many old society friends. Yet she was not ashamed of her self-supporting effort. She would be ashamed to ask any friend of former day a for a loan, and nine times out of ten be told. how "awfully sorry, don't you know, I am to tell you that I am supporting my ' great -great-grandmother's fourth cous- in this year, and I haven't a cent to spare dearest friend." awl' replies she could not bear to hear from any of ) the wealthy friends of other days, be- cause she bated to hear them lie so ingeniously. No, she went because she wanted to confront the stranger world without any traitor memories rising to , weaken her as efere, now and then she ,passed a .xig mansion or raet a• person.gwho would br tbbs er days, that was all. Wbach tooYhat did she expect to earn? UndoubLedly twenty- five dollars per week for all lie a jrweeks she had strength to work i ear, when once she got her diploma. She will do better than that, I know a young woman who earns forty dollars per week as it professional nurse. She is very strong, physically, unusually bright, pleasing in person, finely edu- cated and brilliant talker. She is of sterling character, and known in her (church for her very large contribu- tions to all benevolences. She has trav- eled all over the world, and indeed holds herself in readiness at the offices of several physicians to start at a. mom- ent's notice, with a wealthy family, who are taking some beloved invalid to the ends of t he earth, perhaps, for cure. Wee is a Paris graduate in massage. Her knowledge of medicine has grown , in all these gears, till she is capable • as many physicians. But it is in surg- ery, of course, that she has acquired ' must knowledge by obervation. All the capital operations she has seen ; many times. The absolute womanliness' with which she impresses you is, how-,! ever her most valuable possession. Yout would trust her strong. kind, sweet Mae.' She has authority. The patients obey her. Physicians know this. This is a ! great point in selecting a nurse. Care should not be simply the watching of I a patient, for no one can watch every ; possible move. The siok one must love , and respect the nurse too much to seek to evade directions and do one's self harra. Emecially is this true in ment- al and nervous ills, which, by the way, pay the highest price for service. The nurse who becomes a companion. must know how to amuse the convalesc- ent. The days of getting better are the days of the cream on the milk. It is I then that an unwekome nurse is sent home. It is then that it beloved nurse : is retained day after day, week length- ening into weeks for the recovering sick one has come almost to feel that b.er society is indispensable. If so, she gets forty dollars per week for reading a book, driving in the park, going to , the mountaina, just the same. She ) sleeps at night at this stage of the ! proceedings. In fact, the gets her re- . •ward for being a true and gentle ; friend. Such nurses will make friend- ships as lasting as life. They are wel- comed. in society, they become dignifi-; ed with the blessed honors of mercy.' I The social reward is all that can be de- sired. But it means evidently suoh ed- ucated devotion to one's calling as is necessary everywhere for great success.' In the new world of woman's work: Is there anything more fitting? .A man's hand can never be as soft as a woman's. No symparly is so quidk, no preceptions so sharp as hers. The , eduranc eof woman is confessedly great- , er than man's.q She herself bears pain ' better. She can help others to bear it better. Her voice is gentler, more modulated, her caress is more soothing. I Undoubtedly there is by nature, in ev- ery woman's heart, a motherly instinct, which rises unbidden at sight of suffer- ing. It is distinet from what I rught call the fatherly instinct. All these are her stook in hand to begin with. Wom- an is therefore better equipped by na- ture in adopting the profession of a nurse, than her brother. She does not, it may be added, feel the imprisonment of the house like man. There are in the profession many things that corres- pond with housewife duties. Poetry and song alike in all history have as- signed her to these heahn tasks. She never need regard. with fear the secul- ar shock that women of delicacy often feel in competing with man for their living in the marketeplaoe. The racket and roar of the arena is not heard in the siok-room. The dress of woman be- fits the siok room. The regulation cap of white is often as becoming as a coronet above her brow. The angel of a sick day, who doeonot recall her? Who can forget bow e 3 beloved nurse sat by and held a fev- ered hand, or spoke beautiful, strong words of cheer in midnight darkness? Who ever heard her pray, and could doubt the power of such prayers as they breathed through the sick -chamber? The power that such a woman has to do good, to encourage affrighted friends of the siok by her strong assurances. The frantic wife bangs upon what the nurse says, the weeping children kiss her hand and stammers their questions as she emerges from the sick -room. mother sighs, "God bless you! Bless your gentle hands!" The simple fact remains that in the last few years physiaians have come to almost insist on the professional nurse, if the patient can possibly afford it. C-onsequently, the demand for this work is steadily increasing. The future will find no more sure work for woman, ft is in fact, in the nature of a new profession of unfailing reliance, and it is especially, I repeat, woman's work, if she please to take it.—Barkley Harker. PRINCE AND EXPEitalt WHY THE PRINCE OF WALES SNUBS EMPEROR WILMOT. Row the Miner Acted at the Prince's Wed. ding -lilts Disgraceful Treatment ef 1111 rareu ts--Tbe tate Czar Mid No Love for otim—Otueen Victoria% ennuence. Fomeror Williane 15 cordlly deteett. ed itt England. The English now re- gard him as the ctiet foe of Great Britain, not only in Europe, but in eve ery part of the world. So it is pro- bable that the Prime of Wales was prompted by a feeLing of deferenco to the openly expressed sentiment of his countryman When he declined to enter. 1115 yacht Britannia tor the Jubilee CV of tiee Etmperor. Indeed he refused to take bari this year in, any match itt which the. EninerorO vessel was ere- tered. It would ha idle to deny that the Princie experienced ottisfaetion 15 bee Hiding this public slight, upon his im- perial nephew, for between them the roost bitter ,atalmosity exists. The an- tagonism dates bcole to the boyhood a the Emperor, wile was never it plea- sant or amiable lad. At the wedding of the Prime he amused haneelf during the ceremony by biting the legs of his uncles, who were in Highland costume- 'What most an- gered 'the Prince of Wale.* againeL ham was his puelling, forward nature, and his profound fondness for prising. As long as "Unser Fritz" e as alive Emperor William took a "bolt seat." Until a couple ot years before his death the late Kaiser was generally believed to be perfeetly healthy, ond so the prospects of young William sue- ceeding to the throne iyeeraed exceed- ingly remote. The Prince of Wales therefore veld very little atteation to his nephew, except to mutt hint itt ev- ery emesible opportunity. He made no secret of the fact that he regarded him as a little cad. THE EMPEROR'S. CONDUCT. Whim Emperor Freelerith became at - (Meted with the terrible malady that killed him hie' con William allied him- self to his foes, and shocked all Europe by has extraordinary unfilial behav- ior to his parents. He even went so foe as to head a clique at Berlin, which aimed to deprive "Lanier Fritz" of the suceoneron to the crown, on the ground that hie was. offlieted with on ineura- ble malady, William apparently for- getting that he himself timid have been debarren from the throne on anal- ogous grounds. Forturiately old Emperor William put his Mot down and would not allow either his grandton or his Chanohlloa to subjeet "Frederick the Noble,' as bae. still is called in Germany, to thia at of injustice. But the feet remains that young Williaiui sided throughout the el ting years of his father's life , with the latter's bittareet enentienand , after his death. excited the indideadithirti` of all Euxoea by his disgraceful treat- ment of his teldrered motht‘r upon whom he heaped every kind of until his own wild extna,vagance and her inheritance of the enormous for- tune of the Duchasai of Galliera made him, to a. certain extent, financially de- pendent upon ber. The Prior* of Wales is very fond Of bis elder sister, E'lmeress Frederick anti when shortly after his acoession to the throne. the young Emperor SEIZED HIS MOTHER'S PAPERS to see whether there were not seoret docuientee of state amongst tbem,and a iniprisoxiedfriends including Prof. Geffken. the Prince suca including Prof. Gefrgen, the Prince pro - Deeded to Berlin and remained there for several weeks, with the avowed. purpoee of shieldii3O his sister against her undutiful son, who affected to ig- nore his presence and neglected all the customary official courtesies due to the. rauk. of the Prime. The antipathy of the Prince for Em- peror William, which was shared by Albert Edward's brother-in-law, the late, Gees ; by the K.Srg of Greece and by all royalties faille are eomtempore aries of Wales, is likely to influence the r,,olitical situation of the future. AA long as Queen Victoria lives he will bea. restraining influence. not only up- on the. English. hut upon the Germane. who cannot forget that ehe is their Emperor's grandmother, that Mlle spanked him freely when he was a boy, and to this day, possibly in con- sequenin thereof, she is only per- sosi in the world to vo ore e is re. opectful. TRUE TO HIS ORDER. The Lady—I'll give you a good meal if you will cut Up some of that wood. The Tramp -Sorry, but I can't ac- commodate *sem madam. Too lazy to work, I suppose? Not that, madam, not that. I would be false to my trust. You see, I'm a ntetaber of the Society for the Preser- vation a the Foreete, and we never mg. any wood. ENGLISH VILLAGE ODDIt. No Two of the Towns Are Alike in Any ES401I11a1 Parocutar. Undoubtedly the most extraordinary, township in England is that of Skiddavn isa Cumberland. It contains but one house, the occupier of which is unable to exercise the Briton's privilege of vot- ing because there is not overseer to pre- pare b voters' list and. no church or other place of worship or assembly whkh to pablish on,e. The most remote village in England. is that of Earley-cuan-Pitton. This tinily rural spot is thirty miles and, a half from the nearest railway station, .A.s a contrast to thie may. be mentioned the laamlet of Ystrael, about ten inikee from Cardiff. This tiny settleinent possesses two important main roads, tW,C) railways and two large rivers. A very uoigue feature is exclusively' claimed. by Trimley, a smelt village lk Suffolk. In the one ohurchwardof the parisfh two cburehes are to be seen. Sere vice is candurted tleree times a. week in each of these churches at the same hour. deepest well in England is found at Hamilton, in Hampshire. It stretehes 350 feet below the surface ot the earth. Aboutt half way down this well shaft is a. subway, thine miles in length, whbeh leads to the seacoast. On the tap of the parish theaub tower in Bicknoller, Soraersetshire, is a yew tree, now five feet high, and still grow - Bug in a hardy fashion. It is generally Aire believed that the tree owes its origie to a seed. dropped by a. bird. Perhaps the most splendielly deem ed anode in the kingdom is thiO Whitley Couxt, Worcestershire. entirely constructed of white no the pews are chaetely eareed anct pulpit is of genuine Oerettra merle. really paneled with precious storms. On the village green ot lYferiden, Warivinkshirez there is a, large stone er ()as, which is stemmed, to maxis the, central point of England.