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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-5-27, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES 13EA,IITIFUL REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON "THE HARBOR OF HOME." A Grand Theme in which Home as a TEO or character, m a sitieguited, as a Scheel and as a Type et Heaven—Maine's signi- ficance. Rev. Dr. Taisnage took for his text on Sunday. Meek v. 19; "Go tioncie to ttih,feleedis a‘nd tell them bow great things the Lord bath done for thee," and preached a ringing old-time ser- mon.• He mid:— There are a great many people long- ing for some grand sphere in which to emit God. They admire Luther at the Diet of Wmans, and only wish that they had some suoh great opportunity in which to display their Christian prow - es. Tbey admire Paul makeng Felix trexable, and they only wish that they had. some sum grand occasion in which to preach righteousness, temperance and juelgrneut to come. All they want is an opportunity to exhibit their Christian heiroitine Now the apostle comes to us, and im txmotically says; "I will show you apiece where you can exaibit all that is grand and beautiful and. glorious in Christian character, and that is the domestic circle," If one is not faithful in an insignific- aut, sphere, 14 will not be faithful in a ensounding sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at the gate of the tem- ple he will never be able to preach 3000 souls into the kingdom at tee Pentieost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct le the way of salvation the sheriff of the Philippian dungeon, he will never make Felix tremble. He who is not faithful in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon, The fact Is, we are all placed in just theposition in which we can most grandly serve God, and we ougbt not to be ohiefly thoughtful about some sphere of use- fulness which we may after awhile gain, but the all absorbing question with you and with me ought to be "Lord, what wilt Thou bave me (now and here) to do?" There is one word in my text around which the most of our thoughts will to -day revolve. The word is home. Ask ten different men the meaning of that word a.nd they will give you ten dif- ferent definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, it means plenty at the hearth, it meanplenty at the table, Industry at the workstand, intelligence at the books, devotionat the altar. To him it means a greeting at the door and a smile at the chair. Peace hovering like wingsjoy clapping its bands with laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed an the ripples sleep the shadows. Ask another man what home is and he will tell you it is want looking out of a 'cheerless fire grate and kneading ejeseest---benrilie in an empty bread tray. The damp air is shivering -vvith curses. No Bible on the shelf. Children, robbers,and murderers in embyro. Vile songs their lullaby. Every face a picture of ruin. Want in the background and sin star- •, ing front the front. No Sabbath Wave • rolling over that doorsill. Vestibule of the pit. Shadow of infernal walls. Fur- nace for forging everlasting chains. Fag- gots for an unending funeral pile. Aw- • ful word! It is spelled with curses, it • weeps with ruin, it chokes with woe, it sweate with the sleath agony of de- • spair. The word home in the one case means everything bright. The word home in the other case means everything ter- rific. • I sball speak to you of home as a test of character, home as a refuge, home as a political safeguard, home as a soliool and home as a type of heaven. And, in the first place, Iremark that home is a powerful test of character. • The disposition in public may be in gay costume, while in private it is in dis- habille. As play actors may appear in one way on the stage and may appear --- in another way behind the scenes, so private character may be very different from public character. Private char- acter is often •public ohmmeter turned wrong side out. A man may receive you into his parlor as though he were a distillation of smiles, and yet his heart may be a swerap of nettles. There are business men who all day long are mild and courteous and genial and good- natured in commercial life, keeping back their irritability and their petulance • and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding pours forth in floods and freshets. Reputation is only the shadow of character, and a very small house some- times will caste very long shadow. The •- lips may seem to drop myrrh and cas.sid, esee, and the disposition to be bright and • warm as a sheaf of sunbeams, and yet they may only be a magnificent show window to a wretched stock of goods. There is many a mat who is able in public life and amid commercial spheres who in a cowardly way, takes his anger and his petulance honle and drops them in the domestic circle. - i The reason men do not display their i bad temper in public is because they do riot want to be knocked down. There are men who hide their petulance and their irritability just for the same rea- son that they do pot let their notes go to protest—it does not pay. Or for the same reason that they do not want a man in their stock company to sell bis stock at less than the right price, lest It deereceate the value. As at sunset the wind rises, so after a sunshine day • there may be a • tempestuous night, • There are people who in public act the • philanthropist wee at Jamie act the Nero with respect to their slippers and • and their gown. • Audubon, - the great ornithologist, yvith gun and pencil went through the • forests of Amerma to bring down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and after years of toil and exposare completed his manuscript and put it in a trunk in Philadelphia for a few days of re- creation and rest and name back and fouhd that the rats had utterly de- troyed the maouscript, but without any discomposure and without any fret or bad terap3r, he again picked up his gun and pencil and visited again all the great forests of Arnerich and re- produced his immortal work. And yet •there are people with the ten thousandth part of that loss who are etterly irreconcilable, who, at the loss af a pencil or an article of raim- ent, will blow as long and sharp as a northeast semen. Now, that man who is affable in 'tub- e° and wiao is irritable in private is making h fraudulent overissue of stoe and he xts as bad as a bank that mig have $400,000 or $500,000 of bills circulation, vvith no specie in the van Let us learn "to showpiety. athorae If we have it not there, we have it n anyivhere. If we have not genui grace in the family mole, a,11 our ou ward. and publio naere springs from a fear of the world or fro the slimy, putrid pool of our own se fishness. 'tell you the home is a mighty test of claaracter. What you are at home you are everywbere, whether you de- monstrate it or not. Again, I remark that home is a re- fuge. Life is the United States army on the national road to Meek°. a long mareh, with ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At eventide we pitoh our tents and staek our arms. We hang up the war cap and lay our bead on the knapsack. We sleep•u,ntil the morn- ing bugle calls us to marching and action. How pleasant it is to rehearse the victories and the surprises and the attacks of the day, seated by the still campfire of the kome circle! Yea,life is a stormy sea. With shivering masts and torn sails and hulk aleak, we put into the harbor of. lime, Blessed harbor 1 There we go for re- pairs in the dredock of quiet life. a he candle in the window is to the toiling man the light -house guiding him into port. Children go forth to meet their fothers as pilots at the Narrows take the hand of sides. The doorsill of the uhnominodeins, the wharf where heavy life is There is the place where we may talk of what we have done without Laing charged with self adulation. There rs the place where we may lounge without being thought ungramful. Mame is the place where we may express aft eetion without being thought silly. There is the place where we may forget our an- neYanees and exasperations and trou- bles. Forlorn earth pilgrim I No home? Then die,. That ie better. The grave is brighter and grander and more gioripus than this world, with no tent from marchings, with no harbor from the storm with no place to res' from this scene of greed and gouge an loss and gain. God pity the man o women who has no home I Further, I remark that bora° is sohool. Old ground must, be turned u with subsoil plow, and it must be bar rowed and rebarrowed, and then th crop will not be as laage as that of th new ground with ie.ss culture. Now youth, and obildhood are new ground and all the influenees thrown over thei heart and life will come up in after lif luxtuiantly. Every time you have giv en a smile of approbation all the goo obeex of your life will come up agai in the geniality of your children. An every ebulition of anger and every un contxollable dieplay cu. indignation wil be fuel to them disposition disposition 20 or 3 or 40 years from now—fuel for a ba fire a quarter of a century from this You praise the intelligence of you child too much sometimes when you think be is not aware of it, and you will see the result of it before te years of age in his annoying affectee tem% You praise his beauty, supeos- ing he, is not large enough to unaer stand what you say, and you will find him 'standing on a bigh chair befor a flattering mirror. Words and deeds and examples are the seed o Character, and children are vezy apt to be the second edition of their laments Abraham begat Lsaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the ancestral line, but Eferod begat Archelau,e, so iniquity i tranernitted. 1Vhat vast responsehility comes upon parents in view of thas sub ject I Oh, make your home the brigbtes place on earth if you -would charm your eitizen was about to absent himself. He hint blraeasehneti vgeeintiga vete ortelin fxdrae that, Ilenntoe le was not going to put out from any hemi - e, sphere to another hemisphere. Many of et is have done that. But He was to sail ne from world to world the spaces unex- t.. plored and immensities untraveled, No le world has ever hailed heaven, and hea- jet von had never hailed any other world. r think that the windows and tee bah COMOS were tbronged, and that the pearly beach was crowded With those who had come to see Him sail out of the harbor of light into the means be- yond. Out and out and out, and on and on and on, and down ani down and down He aped, until one night with only one to greet Him. He arrived. His dis. embarknaent so unpretendieg, so quiet, that was not known on earth until the excitement, in the cloud gave intima- tion that sometleng grand and glorious had happened. Who comes there? Yawn what port did He milt Why was this the place ot His destipationi I question the shepherds. question the camel drivers. 1 question the angels. I have found out. He was an exile. But the world has had plenty exiles. Abraham. an exile from Ur of the Chaidees; John an exile from Poland; Afazzini, an exile from Rome; Eramet, an exile from Ire- land; Victor Hugo, an exile from France; Kossuth an exile from Hun- gary. But this one of whom speak to -day had such a resounding farewell and (lame into sixth receptiou— for not even a hostler went out with his lantern to help Ilan in—teat He is more to be celebrated than any other expatriated one of earth or heaven. At our best estate we are only pil- grims and strangers beret "Heaven is our honie." Death will never knock atI the door of that mansion, and in all tint country there is not a single grave. How I glad parents are in holiday time to I gather their children honle again. Buti have noticed that. almost always there is a son or a daughter absent—absent• from home, perhaps absent from the country, perhaps absent from the world. Oh, how glad our heavenly Father will , be when He gets all his children home with Him in Maven! And how delight - r Iful it will be for brothers and Meters tomeet after long separation! Once a' they parted at the door -of iranaortality, P, Once they Raw enly "through a glass "Id kl ;" now it "f• 8 ruption, incorruption ; mortality and e immortality. W‘aere are now all their sine and sorrows and troubles? Over- • whelmed in the Red Sea of death while re they pass through dry shod. e jOne night, lying on my lounge when - , very tired, my children all around a about me in full romp and hilarity and W , laughter—on the lounge, half awake a and half asleea, I dreamed this dream: " ; was in a far country. It was not Persia, although more than oriental ea luxuriance crowned the cities. It wa.s not the tropics ; although more than • tropical fruitfulness filled the n gardens. It was not Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wandered around looking ni for thorns and nettles, but I found that none of them grew' there, and I I saw the sun rise, and I watched to "1 ace it set, but it sank not. Ad 1 saw the people in holiday attire, and I said, e "When will they put off this and pet ' • on workmen's garb and again delve in ;. tbe mine or swelter at the forge?" But they never put off the holiday attre. • And 1 wandered in the suburbs of the • city to find the place whexe the dead sleep, and I looked all along tet line of s the beautiful hilks, the place where the dead migbt most blissfully sleep, and 1 " saw tower's and castles, but not a rnau- , soleura or a monument or a white slab e could I see. And I went into the chapel THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 80, O brume same tends to Good 'Works." dailies 2, 14-23. cloaca Text, James tette PRACTICAL NOTES, • Fens 14, What doth it profit? "What is the use ?". This verse is a summary of the entire leseon. "What cloth it aro- fit ?" is enlarged upon in verses 15-17; "though a snail say," in verses 18, 19. "Can that faith save him r in verse 20. —Wesley- Though a men say he bath faith. Tins does not =eau that he says he has it without really baying it ; he is expressly credited with faith in verse 19. The entire argument which )201V beirine proceeds cm the supposition that "a man" possesses faithRue his faitli is not much, more than theoretical be, - lief, for it is ascribed elfio to devils. See verse 19. Paul uses the term "faith" In a larger and. more comprehensive I sense than Jame -s does here. Have not I works. Merely ceremonial works are not alluded to ; it ie not merely the keeping of the lawt; but those eoly and benevolent acts which are proofs and fruits of faith in God; an active i life of practical morality. Can faith save hitara ;,,laTTheciues esenseitiso, nisnot asked "Caaianhis aiietahd n save earning all mankind, but concerning this paaticular man, who has a cer- tain sort of faith, which does not pro- duce holy living. Will his correctness of doctrine, without boly living, save hie soul 15. If a birothar or eister be naked. Suffering from cold and chagrin. Des- titute of daily food. Hungry; under- fed. Bad as are the conditions of modexn poverty, and awful as is its prevalence, nakedness aid starvation wexe more frequently found in ancient thaae,s than now. Notice that it is a "brother or sister" eveci is raention tioned, not a "man or woraan;" as if a. fellow -Christian would present the serongeet possible appeal to the sm.- pavhy of one wbo had any morsel of Ceristian faith. 16. One of, you say unto them. "Some one from among you shall have said unto them." Go in peace. A Hebrew expression of gracious farewell, implying that the desires of the visitor are satisfied. See Judges 18, 6; 2 Sam. 15.9. 13e ye vvitrmed and filled. "Warmth" instead of naked- ness; "filling." instead of hunger-. Not- withstanding ye gave aim not those things which are needful for the bode. "Ye eve thorn orgy wand., words, words." W.h,at doth 14 profit? It pro- fits quite as muoh es any profession of faith anaccempanlea by fruits 'will profit in the day of judgment! Pro- tpifessroliet,nswithout performances never 17. Faith, if it kith not works, is dead. Ais a emit tree that. bears no fruit. Being ..alorte. "In itselt," as the Revised Version ccirrectty has it; dead in itself; absolutely dead.. ' 18. Yee. "But." A man may say. Men actually have said such things through all the centuries of Christian- ity. And it is right so to say. It is impossible, it would be even unfair, for one to look uon a p • tian without naming bis "works," or heck of them, however kindly the no- tice may be; for the Christian is the man who has publicly taken the per- fect Pattern on which to model his own life; and his profession is a sort of humble comparison of himself with his Lord. Thou hest faith and 1 have words. "You make a profeesion of faith; I make no profession at all, but I do good things." Very often, however, the man who says this is not good in his own life. His crithism is well based, but is a paltry apology for his own spiritual and, moral shortcom- ngs. See the close of this paragraph. Show me. Not prove to me, but ex- hibit to me. Thy faith without thy vorks. Or "the works" wbith should accompany it. Of course, such an ex- ibition would he impossible. One annot see faith, or bear faith, or taste aith, or feel faith; the only trust- worthy- indication of faith 15 the good works it produces. Therefore the critic goes on to say, I wiel show you my faith by my works. Sale absurdity which James here so sherply denseunce,s many peofessest Christians ha,ve doebt- leas tallea into; and it is well to have this wholeaome lesson inepreesivelly teugbt to scholars. But let the teareee ear fiemly fix in his naind the coraple- enentary tenth, peciaehed so powerful- ly by Paul and with which this le.s- son does not to the slighteet degtree conflict, that noel/ faith an elb,rtist and theeeseten ef chalet, as well as ,hotly Christ, deade for are necessary to sal- vation. childxen to the high path of yirtua and rectitude and religion I Do not alway turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light whieh puts gold on the gentian aed pipets the pansy pour into your of the great town, and Isaid, "Where do the poor worship and where are the s hard benches on which they sit?" And the answer was made me, "We have no poor in this country." And then Iwan- dexed out to find the hovels of the de- stitute, and found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but not a tear could I see, not a 61,0, could hear, and. I was bewildered and sat down under the beanches of a great tree and said: "Where am I? And wb,ence conaes all this scene'?" and then out from among the leaves and upthe flowery paths brights reams ere came a beautiful group, thronging all about me, and as I saw them come I thought I knew their step, and as they chotued. I thought I knew their voices, but then they were so gloriously array- ed. in apparel; such as I had never be- fore witnessed, that I bowed as stx-ang- er to stranger. But when again they clapped their hands and shouted, "Wel- come, welcome!" the mystery 11 van- *4 fished, and I found that time had gone and eternity had come, rind we were h all together again in our new home in c leaven. And I looked around and 1 f said, Are we all here?" and the voices of many generations. responded, "All here 1" And while tears of gladness were raining down our cheeks, and the bran - hilts of the Lebanon cedars were clap- ing their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, we all together began to leap andshout and sing, "Home, home. home 1" dvrelling. Do not expect the tittle feet o keep step to a dead mane. Do not cover up your walls with such pictures as West's "Death on a Pale Hawse," or "Crinteretto's "Massaere of the Innocents." Rather cover them, if you have pictures, with "The Hawk- ing Party," and "Illtue Mill by the hrouetain &email," and "The Fox Elluet," and "The Children Amid Flow- ers," and "Tee Ilea -vest Scene," and "Tee Saturday Night Marketing." .Above all, ney friends, Lake into -your homes Christian people. Can at be that in any of tbe camfoetablehomee in my congregation the voice of prayer is never lifted? What I No oupplication at night for. protection ? What I No thunksgiving in the morning for care? Hew my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the day of judgment withreference to your children? 14 via plain question, and therefore I ask it. In the tenth cea.pter of Jeremiah God says he will pour out bis fury upon the families that call not upon His name. Oh, parents, when you are dead awl gone and the moss is covering the inscription of the tombstone, will your children look back and think of father and mother at family prayer Will they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of tears and contrition and tears of consoling pro- p:nee, wept by eyes long ago gone out into darkness? Oh, if you do not incul- cate Christian ptrincipleeen the hearts of your thildreneand you do not warn them against evil, and you do not invite them to holiness and • to God, and they wander off into diesipatiow and into infidelity, and at last make Shiewiceck of their inamortal souls, on their deathbed and in the day of judg- ment they will mese you I Seated by the register or the stove, what if on the wall shoeld come out the history of your children? What a history—the mortal and immortal life of your loved ones! Every parent is writing the history. of his child. He is writing it composing it into a song or tuning it into a groan. • My mind runs back to one of the best of early homes. Prayer, like a roof over it. Peace like an atmosphere in it. Parents, personifications of faith en trial, and comfort in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly home long ago crumbled in dust. But shall I ever forget that earthly home? Yes, when the flower forgets the sun that warms it. Yes, when the mariner forgets' the star that guided him. Yes, when love has gone out on the heart's altar and memory has emptied its urn into for- getfulness. Then, home of my child- hood, I will forget thee—the family altar of a father's importunity, and a mother's tenderness, the voices of af- fection, the funerals of our dead. Father and mother, with interlocked arms, like interwining branthes of trees, winking a perpetual arbor of love and peace and kindness, then I will forget thee; then, and only then, You know, ray brother, that 100 times you have been kept out of sin by the memory of such a soene as 1 have been describing. You have often had raging temptations, but you know whet has held you with super- natural grasp. I tell you a man who has had such a good home as that never gets over it, and a man who has had a bad early home never gets over that. Again, I remark that home is a type of heaven. To bring us to that home Christ left His home. Far up and far backein the histoxy of heaven there came a periodwhen lie most illustrious TREE GROWS FROM A TOMB. Gmrdwr mysterious Life of Vegetation's...a Dark and aiteleut English Virarek. k). The little parish of Keteapeey is one oe the moat picturesque in England. 14 ishsituated on the banks of the Severn, about four miles from Worces- ter. Itts prouneet feature is the little church which hats been standing no- body knowe how long, but whicb was calrefully relstored in 1865. His seamed lease of life, theiriefo,re, slates beetle easlier than the bieth of many a ven- erated sanctuary. In thes church there is a monument bunt of solid stone and curiously carved, erected to the memory of Sie Edmund Wyede, wbo died in 1620, at the age et thirty-two. The reoumbent sigiure or ane gnight iles under a seone canopy, 'supported iby two .ernall fluted pillars. Hie hands are folded on his breast, With his sword • between them, and hie helmet is by his.nide. The inscaiption above him tells that "he was solemnly here in- terred with gxe.at lamentation," also that he was 'thought worthy the hon- our to be High Sheriff of this county." Many yeasts ago the village school- cailaren ussed to sit on benthes in the chancel and play with berm chmenuts. One ilay a nut fell in a ereitioebehind the tomb and charmed. to shrike soil fentele enmesh to cause et to smemt. Yealr by year le has grown, until now it in a full-grown treee, easting its shade over • the form of the stone leneght. frthe mye,tery of its living and thriv- ing have never been solved, but in all the daelkneies arid mustiness of the ancientthumb, the teee grows, and • yearly buds, leaves and blossoms with • the unfailing inseinct which abundant soli, feequent rains, and generottssun- shine are alone sue sed to tooter. Th bath trempsey proudly cherish their historic tree, and. at the lime of •tee ohurchls resteration the little ed cheetnut tree was carefully boarel- up to prevent it felons inju re. raratli',1 fvaPdatsh tTe oT‘eattelPuedrefttelitre CHINA'S EYES OPENIli God, and truet in teed, and leyal obed- ience to God, and love for God. and had its coasummatimi in an act of ab- solute submission, Therefore his right- eousness was the righteousness which is by faith, not "legal righteousne,ss." Leading Men Now aroused to the Neeesslar '23. The Scsieture was fulfilled. Was or lemming English—More Favor Shown tte,„ verse. Imputed. "Reckoned." The "tuallY and realized. Abraham' oi tatristionity—Work for MiSslonaries belteved God. See note on previous in '1'eliehing—A. Chinese Magistrate's friend of God. It is a singular faot e e ineesebret tlhivsteexheast noer ioteletiyesseeepittuller inint vone- eraplesPfoieteeigtnhewrPesitBeinarsistoien vOiehlwsna,ofthseevi; eion of that text. 14 13, however, the s' an Mohammedans, and was eery udgment that tbe Marquis Tsang Jew faith in the awakening of China was favorite title of Abraham among both judgment probably a popular title for the patri- only an enthusiast's vision, the result stance of it to be found in the eeve aIreh' in the time of 'Tamest The sub" of the war with japan have brought eral passages of the Old Testament, changes whice would be remarkable in No man ever had a reputation higher any Europeau country and are little than tbls, to he called. the "Friend of short of miraculous in so conservative God." The whole passage carries theexaire as the Middle Kingdom, sass thoguht of being loved by God, rade •n er than of merely loving God. a Shanghai letter. At first it was dif- ficult to -convince even intelligent Chin- ese that China, had su-ffered at the THE GREATEST WATER PURVEYOR. bands of Japan one of the most crueh- bag defeats of modern times—a defeat He is the Honest Farmer, audile Gets Good more shameful and humiliating than Prices roe It. France endured, at Sedan, because ja- More water is sold by farmers than pan is not much laxger or stronger any tithes substanee, and it brings a than any one of a half dozen provinces higher price in proportion to cost than of the nation that she conquered. any material known. Water is sold But after Viceroy Li returned and in so /many forms, however, that its the Acts became generally known value varies daily. A ox•op of green among the educated classes tbere was clover contains 1,600 pounds of water a revulsion of feeling which, in the per ton, and when a ton of dry clover slow way in which all things move in hay ire hauled to market 200 pounds of China has now brought about results the locul comists of water. EiOry him- that would have been regarded as vise ared pounde of milk sold contains about loners' two years ago. The most ime 87 pound% of water, and the mixed sta- portant result is the edict ble manure welch is spread on the No matter how dry or well cured the MAKING ENGLIse COMPULSORY fields is more than one-half water. bay and fodder mops may be, from the in the higeer schools of the leading farmer's point of view, there will be province,s. Even the Marquis Tseng would not have had the hardihood to predict suon a reform as this tee. years 'water to haul that is contained in the predict 575 pounds of water, and even ' f West after he wente, his famous review ar ticle. And this edict included a cone-- plant. A to of oured corn fodder con - salt hay, which is usually apparently mend for the teething oeien sa- es dry as if passed through a kiln, contains aver 100 pounds of water per ton. The faaaner sells this water, and tate more weter he cam sell the larger bis profit as all bitrogenoue and min- eral matter taken from the soil by the plants is a &heat loss unless the price at. which the crop is sold is euf- fielently large to reimburse the farm- er for bis loss of plant food, as well as affouni him a profit. Tbe greatest profit from the use of SOME STRIKING RESULTS OF TR WAR WITH JAPAN. POPULATION OF THE PLANETS. of Worlds of 'Slidell No Two Are E the Same. ewes. This radical change of system has been produced by the war, but i may not be amiss to ask how much o it is due to the slow influence of the English, American and other foreign missionaries who have been laboring hor yeti= to open the minds of the Chin- ese literati to the defects of their na- tional intellectual training. Many travele,rs and a fetv publicists have spoken flippantly of the meagre results of missionary work in China. The diecovely of the peilosopbeest stone, eupposing that phrase to imply a working scheme for transmitting an lilyltperiroderurticeetwinitlog gbeolydo, uNytid VdpeprrIto)abaobot temilale economic confusion, or Peeing:al a vast and disastrous, because over -rape id, transfer of property; but the at- tainment of certainty that sentiment begias with corporeal incaeemente, act- ing by effort and net by pure volition, existed in any other planet, would only enlarge the range of human thought and the force of the human imagine- ation. Seca a certainty would either increase to an extraordinary degree the reverence for the Creator—for we ars all so limited that we reverence. pow- ers which. we see exerted. snore than Poweas evbich we know in theory Must •exist—or would compel materialists to revise and widen their whole theory of the relation of matter to mind, it he- ing evident that eentience could. exist under conditions hitherto deemed im- possible. Thea -e are certaiale millions, and. pas- W3ly billions, of worlds of whith no • two are the same, and it sentient be- ings were found. past question in one other world than ours, the ,presumption that they existed under a variety of oonditions, and probably, therefore, in a variety of forms practically unliin- reitediecetwtotuelduibeery evmsoulloslenoont tbebatrt4.1 garded. as an evidence of a foolish pop- ulax Reasbit of disbelief in the unseen. Man has some internal dislike to be- lieve that limited beings with Sentience can exist under conditions other than his own, and babitually aesuine,s that a world without air is a dead world, or at all events an empty world; yet there is no proof that the ether, which we know to be everswhere. CANNOT SUPPORT LIFE, oxo that eircumstances of which we know nothing xnay modify either ite I intoleauble mid or the effect of that t 1 co Inl d . Mars itself, theee ie some Potele.e3r at work which, to the despair for the moment of texrestial science, produces 4• warmth where cold ought to reignper- manently supreme. It is as certain al ; anyeleduotion from analogy can be that aim an Mars, though. it exists, is as ' rare - 1 erset. and that consequently the nor - Pied as it would be at the top of so mountain twice as 'high as Mount Ev- mad and permanent degree of cold , ought to be terrible. " The thermal I income of Mass is less than half that •1 of the earth, and its theoretical mean 1 temperature is consequently—taking into account its low"' albedo,' or reflect- , tgreessotCoeanitorloaadtee boeflmomarrofrieserozinutit's' olroewt It reflect- ive power per unit of area—thirty de - certainly melts rapidly—that is patent • to tbe telescepe—vapor certainly rise. : --that is clear from the spectrum en- , alysis—water flows, and there are en - 1 ("mations, if not proofs, that a sudden vegetation follo'n's the sudden thawing : of the snow. What warms the air is •-unknown, but it is warmed past all question or doubt, andel' arguments, , therefore, as to the inevitableness of cold.. in other worlds must be pronoune- ed imperfect, es are also those which , show tbe impossibility a sustaining cor- poreal life. All we can say with cer- tainty is that if sentient beings with corporeal frames exist in Mars, the re- lation be identical with their relation in man, ; an impossible exercise of the imagine ' which, as we are aware of fishes, is not , • atiou. of the lungs to the body cannot water as an ingredient of farm pre_ On the surfa,ce much of teak acrid corn - ducts is when the lamer grows sueh oneiat seems too true. When an esti- craps as beets, crLrots, potatoes, and mate of the converts is made it pee - turnips. aa they can be utilized on the Isents.a pitiflu'. figuil beside le ex - term instead of entailing cost of tran- Peezndwiteloee of lifeeee, nteeiserilasm lea by Inn anse ma° y stportation to minket. /While these mission societies. Yet any old mis- csops contain a large amount of solid isionary in China will tell you of scores matter, in proportion to the yield per is of insea.nces.of the humantzing.quality acre, their chief value in the water, afetreeileig thouast lanpopteraurcet diont saysosnede nt hien robe acerb- as the water is a valuable of all the better impulses.Especially AO TO DIGESTION upon the young this religious teach- ing had had a deep influence, and not a and contains the nutxitious matter in single one of the periodical outrages solution to a larger extent; hence the against missionaries has been without some noble example of the devotion water is not a useless substance weich of converts to their teachers and guides adds Ptve i gut, only, but is as desirable in the new Christian life. in the Iorm in w,nieb, it exists in the TNT! NEW M0VE1VIENT. plant as the solid portions, but while lin English education in China is sure tbe solid portions cost the farmer to increase the importance of the Eng- sotaetimea, the water does not, and he lisitgiaond Ameus rica,sn eflestoenaereinet.resThol, that es an imeertant consideration . education, in English, in science, and w,hicia naust net be ovexlooked. The in foreign literature, and an opening water in plants cannot be supplied ar- vuigrsheamntrdgeovernessuees10 i.ITILfparomlitefnof tificially. Everyone knows that there men in China nave long felt the neces- is a ditference between green apples sity of a. knowledge of English, and and apples that have been dried and most of them understand the language cooked in eyelet, it is tele same with fairly well, though theymay make no d i vegetables ana-oots. We can dry effort to speak it. This s the case with them and resider them juicy again by old Li Hung Chang,who picked up many cooking teem in water, but we cannot things not intended. for his ears, by regain the condition in womb the wa- his pretence that he could not under - ter existed in tee plant before drying • stand English There are many for- • or evaporating it. it is more value, eign posts open to Chinese who know ble than that which is supplied. English ancl French, and even in 01.. Beets and carrots contain 1,800 Rola' posts in Chinese cities which have pounds of wattex per ton. A. crop of a foreign quarter the ability to speak twenty tone ot beets per acre denotes English is a great advantage to -Vice- that the farmer has taken from that roy or Taotai. marc, a,sa orop, 36,000 pounds of water, The peening. of schools in the vas - anti such a yield of beets is not as large bus missions in China is sure to ,give one composed with results frequently religious teachers a far stronger bold obtained. Turnips, one of the staple than they have ever been able to se- c.rops on the farm, contains but little care over the best class of youths. It less water than beets or carrots, and is the working classes. mainly, to whom potatoes are bold at good prices some tib.ey have appealed, but now they will years, although there is about 1,500 he eSons fh brought the otoin pounds of water in every ton. The pro- official laotlerelationsasowith.Howgr thgreat has been the change in sentiment portion of water in fruits is much among the literati toward foreign mis- greater, espeeially with grapes, straw- berries and cherries; in fact, water °ion° and Christianity is shown in a letter recently sent by a city magis- in fruits brings a higher price than trate cf Sungkiang te the Rev. W. B. is obtained for any material, as a box Burke, a missionary of that place. Mr. of strawberries selling at 10 cents would allow less than a cent for the Burke had sent the Chinese offieial a solid matter contained leaving 9 number of books published by the So - cents foe the water. To clety for the Diffusion of Christian and seeureGeneral Knowledge, including the Rev. this crop of water, however, the farm - T. Rieleird's book., which reviews the er will be compelled to use care d social and admi.mstrative feetures of ago:tient. It comes from the clouds, several Western nations, with sugges- t is true, but there are periods when tons in regard to their introduction the plants cannot store it; hence tbe in China. Tbe magistrate declared he nit and vegetables do not grow to e,d erfection and tileo farmer will lose READ THE BOOKS CAREFULLY, Piapderwitielnl 13eaftvelanePwater,-alrereadygivenuweihiline ehries and had then given them to hie sons hen the pa-oportionate supply of min- to read. Ho dwelt on the principles of al matter. The moisture must be the old Chinese morality, based on Con- onserved as a marketable substance. fuciuse teachIngs, and expressed re- gret that Chinese, through ignorance, tx mustodnottobeflostvoleanwaaywabyecaboyedsowebbos have spoken harshly of Christianity. Ja- urface soil is hard, baked, and imper- pale he cited as a country that was once ious. Loosen the soil, allow it greater Buddhist, but is now half Christian, portunitiers to absorb the valuable and he attributed much of the remark - water, then close the poresi of the soil 4 19. Thie verse es a direct address to .11 the adveeate of faese teeth. Thou be- iievest that there its one God.. Bevis- 44. red Version, "Thou betlievest that God ee, is one." Youe creed, thten, is correct. The devils ahso believe mu' erexable. The Revised Veeition is raore forcible 4. —"shudder." See Luke 4.41. Belief of " thiie sort depends on facility and cap- " aoity for knowledge, The devils have good oepottunities to knotv, and there - fere eleee appreleensiola of truth; but their faith doek not make them either good otr latippy. Thie identification of e faith in question with the faith °P of demonaleaely shows at once its nature and its; insufficiency. sri 20. Bat wilt thou know? A'at thou r ready to be bistruitted? 0 vain num. 1° 0 empty man—empty of kiaoweedge and empty og spiritual life. Teat feith without worke irs dead. "Faith apart 'from works its "baere,n," as the Revieeel Version has it; useless, fruit- less. The veree its addressed to amen a levity, a clutracter 'tvithout deep eexioueneem. •121.- Was nbt Abrahem our father justified be weeks? That is, as Dr. Adam Clerke Says, "'Did not the conduct of Abeabtara in offering up his son Isaac on the altar sufficiently eirene that be believed in God, and that it was his faith in Gad that led him to tbis extraordinary act of obedience 1" Ab- raham is described as "-our father" be- cause boti the writer ,and thoee to ahem he wrote were Jews, "Justified" means accounted righteous before God. Compere the ward "save " ie verse 14. As a matter of fact the offering. Team) upon the altar, was an act, a deed, not an sertic,le of creed; bUt it sprang 'from preeminent faith. 0.2. Seest thou? The best authorities ahan,ge this sentence tro/31 the farm of euestion, to that of direct -assertion, ' Thou seest," which means that the ta,ct about to be stated is iridisputable. Faith verought with his works, and by te d a.j.bal . the cultivator ana thus seal anePerif leg rtesso thefactfact that their nain•ds development of the etai,n for use a supply of water -when 13a n bad. been awakened by this new re- eriods oa draught occur. ligion, so that they were able to meet foreign nations on equal terms. His let - tee closed with the hope that Me. Burke may make many converts to Christian- ity and. promote closer relations be- tween China and the Western nations, Such a letter as this weld not have been written by a prominent Chinese official ten years ago. Equally strong proot of recent &lenge in sentiment is furniehed by the chief examiner of the province of Hunan, :who is laboring to. introduce the English books which the magistrate of Sungkiang so warmly eommeaded. What this means may be undenstood fully when 14 15 added that Hunan for many year was the centre No. See has had to help her mother. of anti -foreign prejudice and was the How old was your boy before you atop- lest province to permit the introduction ped threshing him? of th,e teleh system. It was also Well, I thrashed him pretty regu- the home 01 Chou Han, who publiethed laxly until he was nearly grown up. the tafanious books attacking Christi - 1 am eatiefied: m I. Wuseb. outrages on missionaries. The anity which led to the Szechuan and So a reading of god English books mom - HIS OFFENCE MAGNIFIED, ises to acelomplish mare in the next The charge against you prisoner, said decade in awakening China than all the magistrate, Is that you were caught other influences combieed. It is sure in theact of purloining haberdashery, to teforon their methods of edncatien It ain't so, yer Honor, snivelled the and it may even put honesty into their abject wretch, an de cop knows it. All ,sysitean of government and justice into their admmistiation of the lirthe I was dein' wus stealin' neckties. HAPPINESS ASSURED. First Paterfamiliae—Beg pardon for intruding, but the fact is your son has proposed for the band of my daughter; a,nd as the two families axe almost strangers, you knowing nabbing of my daughter and 1 noth- ing of your san 1 thought it would be a sensible thing to come around and compare notes. Second Paterfamilies—Excellent ideal Has your daughter always had every- thing she vvapted—dresses, jewels, weitinig-maids, and so on?" CONVERTS BY ELECTRICITY. Novel /Beans of Inducing Sinners to Give up EvU Ways. _Rev. James MacKenzie, a Scotch min- ister, who is traveling through the F.rencli cantons of Switzerland, on a missionary tour, has left he his path a flambee- of converts, who were made to see the error of their ways by ori- ginal and strictly up-to-date methods. The missionary is one of the liberal - minded men of piety who believe that any raeans to get a man to repent of . his evil ways are the right means, if ,• the end is successfully attained. Next I to the Bible, Rev. James MacKenzie values an electric battexy that is his , chief aid. on a inissionaxy tour. When he =eves at a village whose inhabitants he considers are in need I of a little religious medicine, the mis- siona.ey takes hie stand in a proMinent spot, fixes his electric batteey in plac,e, and invites the unsuspecting villagews to ttgewangeralvvemsn. io sleek for the good o Any Ale who has held the handles of this instrument of torture knows teat it le impossible to deep them while the current is on. With a writh- ing victim firmly attaehed to the ban- dies of the galv-anic battery, Reveramee MacKenzie opens fire with his Gospel gun. Brother," he will say to the shock- ed individual at the battery, "sin is just like that in its effect on man. I4 makes him writhe and squirm to be free, but it holds him hard aeld fast, and he can not let go. I put an alit - 413 more force and you get an addition- al shock. Just so the enemy of :man- kind does with his victims. I reduce the force, ansi you think you are about to be released, when I put on still mare, and you writhe again. Another illtts- teration of Satan's raetheds. "He plays -with men ansi makes them wretched, just as you see this sinner here. Now, hrother, won't you promise to repent aral be free?" • When the wretched sufferer has gasp- ed out an assent he is released a,nd allowed to go his way. Should. the oth- er villagers decline the galvanic road to salvation, the minister packe his out- fit and moves on to the next town. , His plea to sectwe converts is novel / and original, and like all navel and original things, is successful. Whether or not those who are shookee into ae- ceptieg ealvation axe made life non- wertsia questionable, Rev. James Mae - Kenzie is content to make converee No guarantee goes with his galvenie mode of converting the ungodly. HER POST-GRA.DUAT,E COURSE. Paughter—Yee I've graduated, but now I must inform myself in psychol- ogy, philology, bibli— Practioai Mother.—Stop right where you are. I have arranged fee you a thorough course in reettology, boilo- logy, stitcholegy, e igy, patehea ogy atid genera e instleology. Now get 00 yetlr Wor,kin;r: clothes.