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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.
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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
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look like fire. In addition to the fea- ures fromTh
tuxes and the limbs, which suggest a, of monuments for a moment°, 111 the
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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
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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 • .
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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
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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.
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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.