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Great Bietain hag begun to extend
furtbet a form of prote,ction for
.aports, perticularly against torpedo
Mats. The basis of this form of pro -
tion is the. boom, to be accompanied
* batteries for covering it against an
nemy's attark, It Is really, as Eng-
lish papers have pointed. oat, a rever-
goo to a. method in vogue generations
and even centuries ago, as the most na-
tural defence against ships trying to
force a waty tbraugh a channel. One
a its earlier forms was to stretch a
chain aeross a wa.tere ay narrow enough
to allow it, between two forts. This
could be raised againet hostile vessels,
and let fall for allowing egress. The
modern systems are more complicated.
and those whish are wed at various
British Channel ports are of two sorts.
le one, pontoons or rafts of heavy tem-
ber are "boulnd together with wire ca-
bles and spiked." These pontoons are
to sections, so as to be easily detached,
and. gunboats are added to help oper-
ate and proteet them. On one occasion
a. gunboat was sent against a boom
to try to break it, but was itself perfor-
atecl by the spikes, and the tnew barely
saved themselves in boats before it
sank.
•1011.11.00.0••
TIE HORNS FLO,
THE CROSS OFJESUS THE STANDARD
OF THE CHRISTIAN.
Rev, Or. Tannage Saye Ile nates War Rut
• Admires the Proper Spins — A Wow-
s:se and r teturesque sernson on Ensigns
and FiligO•
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on Sun-
daty from the text: Psalm ,ix, 5, "In
the name of God we -will set up our
banners." He said:,
I hate war. In oar boyhood. we may
have read the biography of Alexander
or of some Revolutionary hero until
our young heart beat high and we wish
we had been born over 100 years ago,
juot for the glory of stritki-ng down a
Hessian. For rusta swords bung upon
the rafters and bullets cut out of log
houses in which they were lodged dur-
ing the great strife we had. unbounded
admiration, or on some public day,
clothed he oux grandfather's soldierly
accoutrements, we felt as brave as Geri-
baldi Miltiados. We are wiser now,
for we make a vast distinction be-
tween the eioetry end the prose of
war. The roll of tbe drusns and the
call of bugles and the champing of
steeds foaming aud pawing for the bat -
tie, 100,000 muskets glittering among
Another form of boom described by tee aannog plumes, "God save the
the St. james's Gazette consiets of see- King." waving up from clarinets and
eral thick wire cables, stretehed across trumpeLs and rung back from deep (te-
tte barbor -in three seetions, "with the files or the arches a a
ventral sectione and the outer ends of distant capitals of kingdoms illuxuinate
prostrate city,
the land stations fastened to gunboats. ed at, the tidings, generals retarning
these cables teal be sta•etehed above and home ender elameng arches, and show -
below the water iltne at nterails, and ering amaranths and the shoat a em -
will be interlaced with smaller cables', pieee—that is poetry,
network fashion, sons to provide a snaall Chilled and balf blanketed, lying on
but flexible obstrucition." it eon be the wet earth; feet sore with the march
more readily plaved in position than the and bleeding at the slightest . tomb;
Pontoon boom, and, by the. aid of win- Imager pulling ou. every fibre of flesh
One on the gunboats. can be tiglitened ' or atteniptiug to satisfy itself with a
or slackened, according to Um purmee re alley and spoiled ration; thirst licking
of closing or opening the harbor. The up t be dew or thanking out of filthy
ports already provided eith defenves and trampled pool; thoughts of home
of tree or the other kind are Devon- and kiudred far away while just on the
port, Portland, Portsmouth, Plymouth, e‘ p ,d a deadly metro whore death may
Shearnese, and fiennhampton; while leap on him from any one of a
now the SYkte•In is to be extended le tired beyoutts • the closing in of two
Falmouth, Berehaeren, Lough Swine< armies, now changed to .100,01/0 maniacs;
and tbe fe.cilly 'sine Of *nurse the the ground slippery eith blood and
prime purpose of these obstructions is shattered flesh; falling onea writhing
to keep oui. terpetto Loats. llie main under the hoofs ot unbridled chargers
delete es enalent battle ships are the maddened Meta pain; the dreadfulness
ate ehall be greeted by. the buzzes a*
glorified kingdoms. It is not the world.
against which en, contend, but its
transgressions. Whatever is obstinato
in the will, degrading in passion, harm-
ful in custom, false friendsbip, hypo-
critical in prolession—against .all this
Christ makes onset. From false pro-
fession lie would tear the mask. From
oppreesiole Hie would snatoh the rod.
From pride He would rend off the
plumes. From revenge He would ex-
orcise the devil. While Christ roved
the world so much He deed to save it,
He bates sin ea well that to eradicate
the last trace of its pollution. He will
utterly consume the continents and the
oceans. At the gate of Eden the de-
claration of perpetual ennaity was
made against the serpent. The tumult
roundabout Mount Sinai was only the
roar and flasb of God's artillery of
wrath against sin. Sodom on fire was
only one of God's flasning bulletins an -
flouncing ho.stility. Nineveh and Tyre
and Jerusalem in awful ruin mark the
track or Jebovah's e.dvanoement. They
show that God was terribly in earnest
wben He announced Himself abhored of
all iniquity. They make us believe that
though nations belligerent and re-
vengeful may sign articles of peace
and come to an amicable adjustment,
there shall be no cessation of hostili-
ties between the forces of light and
the forces of darkness until the king
-
dome of the world have become the
kingdoms of the Lord. Affrighted
by no opposition, disown:aged by no
temporary defeats, shrinking from
an exposure—every man to his posi-
tion, while frotm the top of our sahools
and churches and seminaries and asy-
lums in the name of Go& we will set
up our banners."
Again, it was the ou,stom in ancient
tim.es for the purpose of gathering arm-
ies to lift an ensign on the top of
some high hill, so thAt all who sew
it would. feel impelled to rally around
it. In more modern times the same
Plan has been employed for the gath-
ering of ao army. Thus it is that
the Church of Christ lifts its flag for
recruits. The cross of Jesus is our
standard, planted on the hill of Cal-
vary. Other armies demand that per-
sons desiring to enter the lists of war
shall be between each and such an la,g%
lest the folly of extreme youth or the
infirmity of advaaned age be a clog
rather than an advantage. But none
is too young for Christ's regiment; none
can be too old. The band that is
strong enough, to bound a ball or
trundle a hoop is skilled enough 'to
fight for Christ, while many a hand
trembling with old age has grasped
the arrow of truth, and, with - dim
eye close to it, takixeg atm, has sent
its sharp poiot right through the
heart of the King's enemies. Many
of you have long ago bed your names
written on the roll of celeatial troops,
and you like the service well, although
you now bear the sears of multitudin-
heavy game mounted in feats and the
• suarne sane lel nen toget her with tor-
.
• 1.e pod° nets reed fleets of powerful v ea-
sele.
The lere.neh bicyclists are linking for
a patron saint, a lid they < an I tell e Mon
to cetnee. The !non prominent candi-
dates are Faint Catilieri»e and Saint
errnain, wit h' he odds for Catherine.
Stant uedital men bae e deela red that
1he use of the wheel vibe a man of t lie
mete for ruatriniony, and the wags in-
sect nett Relit ratheilue ought to he
eelected by the hieyclists, bemuse she
is the patron of old maids. The. saint.
' e eondenined le the w heel and died on
a, but the legend telle. ue that she es-
caped the tortiure; that an angel came
down and set her free. At Bourgen
tome time ego, tourists could see tatint
Catherine's nheel, upon which the fol-
lowlen legend tests e eaten :
"amend. cette roue tournera
' Celle que j'aime neaimera."
--
The euggestion of Saint Germain as
the patron eaint of \theaters is due to
the old legend of the huge dragon that
devastated Norniendy, and had its abode
in the cavern of Balignant, on 'the
shores of Flarnanville. It ie related of
him that he dernauried ehild for his
food at least once a week. One morn-
ing the inhabitants of _tannins, alit -
Ile seaport about twenty kilobietres
from Cherbourg, were astonished to see
a Bishop, with a mitre on his head and
erozier in his hand riding over the
waves upon a cartwteel. He had come
to fight the dragon, and kill it he did.
" The intrepid Bishop watt Saint Germain
still called "Saint Gerrnain of the
WiteeLe When tin seals entre, eee.fisti-
d ermeu :of Dielette are stillenonfident
• that they see on the water the track
of Saint Gernaainn wheel.
MADE THE PEASANTS SICK.
iiiittNi1111 aeon onteerN Relieved Then, co
rettuary Ars-tier in n Itemarlgoble way.
A taxies of trials completed the other
day in Moscow shows that Russian min
easy officers have beetn guilty of
strange offences. The Russian peasant
as leug practised mutilation to incap-
• int:self for military service, but
officers in question devised means
eeing the recruit, after be had en -
the rank e for SUMS varying from
o 3200.
t clerk who made out. the returns
.ons tired with the junior doetors in
< e of the naditary hospita.1 to effect
he ...release of privates by producing
:erten diseases. A erivate desirous of
' from niilitarv service applied
of night that cumee dawn ohne the ous confluts and can recount many a
etriie is over; the struggle (rf the long march and toll of siege guns
opened on you that you thought never
wonsatted crawling out over the would be spiked. Ian there may be
orpoes ; the long, feverish agony of the some who have not yet enlisted.. Your
crowded barrack and homitai, from obeuisitt Yaonttli .aroux e seat
whose matteresses the fragments of tention makel me hope you La only
men send up their groans, the only looking for the standard to be hoist-
.01Usit. Or Carnage and butchery; deso- ed- Will you not, 100 of you, with all
banns and brothers and sons eent off; while "in the ain.e od v. se
antalb tinglaccrl ofdiurratnnklai,p
late homes, been N% b /eh fathers and hes- It.inisii:e,arcoouseeaboeun
without giving any dying message ot b. . e.
sending a kiss to the dear once athemee
tumbled late eoltliene grave treneh,
and helmets whieh a few weeks before
anbroleen fainile circles rejoieed, now
pliengett at the great. sorrows of wid-
owhood, and orphanage. 'thee im prose.
liat there ie now op the meth a king-
dom N%thiktil has set itself up for con -
Mete without number. In its march
it, tramples no grainfields, it sacks no
(elks, it inmoveashes no treasuries, it
fills no hospitals, it bereaves no fam-
ilies:. The courage and victory of eel-
ferino and. Magnate without carnage.
The kingdom. at Chien against the
kingdom of elatan. Thut is the strife
new rageng. We will offer no axmi-
saves. We will make no t.reaty. Un -
till all the revolted nations of the earth
eczema, to King Emmanuel, "In
the name <a God we o set up our aan-
flees:*
Every army has itts ensign Long be-
fore the time when David wrote the
text they 'Were utse. The hosts of
lereal displayed them, the tribe of Ben-
jamin carried a flag with the inecription rs rt banner of victory. There was a
of the nolf the Lean of Dan a reins- time \then the. religion of Christ • was crown of victory on our head and the
f scepter of dominion in her band in the
eentation of cherubim. Judah a lion not. considered respectable. Men o
wrought into the groundwork. of obit% learneng and positioxi frowned upon it. 'name of God shall set up her banners,
pantie, erianson and blue. teuch flags Governments anathematized its sute I Then Himalaya, shall become Mount
troin theer folds :amok fire into the. Inners. 'Po be a Chrietian was to e t Zion, and the Pyrenees Moriah, and the
Inure, of such aumbers as were ito the au •uuderling. But mark the _ differ- cenans the walking place of Him who
field \then Abijah fought egainst Jeho- encs. Religion has compelled the trod the wave crests of Galilee, and the
mato:nit there were 1,200,0U0 soldiers, world's rennet. Infidelity •in the tre- great 'leavens betanne a sounding board
of exultation to the earth till it. re-
bound again to the throne of the Al-
heightet• Angel of- the. Aeoealypse, fly,
fly ! Foe. win will stand in the way of
thy might Or resist the sweep of thy
wing?
have scarcely •yet begun to acooro,plieh
what they propose. It takes some time
to dig the trenches and elevate the
standard and direct the' areat gun.
From what I hear I think they are
about ready now. Let but the. great
captain wave the signal and the rmging
of celestial weaponry s,ball quake in
every dungeon of hell and sound ukeene-
ong the tbrones of heaven. Pagodas
and. temples shall tumble under the
shocloand besotted nations flying from
their idols and superstitions shouting
like the coolounded worshippers a
Real: "The Lord, He is the Cnell The
Lord, He is the God I"
Now the church goes forth bearing
precious seed, but after awhile it will
be the sheaf heading and reaper a.ngels
shall shout the harvest home. Now it is
tents, and marching and exposure, but
then, in the ranks of prostrate iniquity
and on the very walls of heaven, "in
the name of God. we will set up our,
banners."
The earth sends up its long, deep
groan of pain and clanks tbe great
chains of its bondage, and. cries by the
voice of sea and land and sky, "How
long, Cr Load, how long." There was a
tradition on the other side of the water
that the daughter of Lir was trans-
formed alto a bird of the eir, and tbat
she wandered • for hundreds of years
over river and lake until the arrival of
Christianity, and that at the stroke of
the first cathedral bell her spirit was
freed. 'Uncounted millions of our rate
by the power of sin and eaten bave
been transformed into a state of wret-
chedness, and they wander like the poor
daughter of Lir, but they ,shall after
awhile be releaard. When the great
church of Claret shall in these darkened.
lands from its tower ring out the glad
tidings of the gospel, then millions of
wainderimg souls shall find rest in a.
Saviour's pile and a Saviour's love
transported from the kingdom of sat -
1L8 into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
My subject has ta.ught you that in
this contest we are not without ensigns
and rotors. All we want now is men
to carry them. Before I sit down I
must propose to each of you this great
honor. Becoming a Christian is not so
ignoble a thing ass many have thought
it. "It makes a man stoop," you sa.y. I
know it, but it is only the stoop of an
hex of royalty, wbo his lenees is to
receive a mown of dominion. We want,
standard bearers in all pulpits, in all
places of business—everywhere. do
not a,sk you how old you are, nor how
Yonne. how eak or how strong, how
dull or how sbarp, nor what your home.
nor who your ancestors. Without any
condition ,without any reserve, in the
name of the God of Israel, I offer you
the honor of carrying the church's en-
signs. Do not be afraid of the assaults
of a world whose ranks you desert, nor
of deviis who will oppose you with
Infernal might. It were more blessed
to fall lune than stand anywhere else.
It were more of an honor, engaged with
Christ, to be trampled underfoot with
this army of banners, Lhan, opposiog
Christ, to be buried, like Edward L. in
Egyptian porphyry.
The propheeres intimate that there
shall before the destruetion of the world
be one great battle between truth and
uprighteousnese. We shall not probably
see it on earth. God grant that we may
see it, leaning from the battlementsof
heaven. On the side of sin shall be ar-
rayed all forms of opposition and cruel-
ty, led on by infamouskings find gener-
als; the votaries of aganism, led on by
THE SUNT SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 4.
Through natuxal modesty do you hold
theie priests: the su jeets of Mobaanme-
back and say, "L will be of no advan- (holism, following the command of their
sbealts. And gluttony and intemperanee
and iniquity of every phase shall be
largely represented on the field. All the
wealth and splendor and power and
glory of wickedness shall be concentrat—
ed on that one decisive spot, and, mad-
deoed by 10,000 previous defeats, sholl
gather themselves up for one last ter-
rible assault. With 'hatred to God for
their cause and blasphemy for the bat-
ele-cry, they spread out over the earl
in square behind square, and legion
heyond wbile in some overhang-
ing cloud of blooknese foul spixits of
hell watch this last struggle of sin and
darkness for dominion.
Scattered by the blasts of Sehovah's
nostrils, plunder and sin end sata.nio
force shall quit the field. As the roar
of the conflict sounds through the une-
verse all worlds shall listen. The am
shall be full of wings of heavenly co-
horts. The work is done, and in the
presence of a world reclaimed for the
crown of Jesus and amid the crumblieig
of tyrannies and the defeat of satanic
force, and amid the sound of heavenly
enalamations, the cburch shall rise up
in the image of our Lord, and with the
Owe to Christ. tune too awkward to
learn the ht.e4) of' the host, or to be
of any serene in the shock of battle?"
To you 1. make the reply, Try it. One
hour under Christ's drill, and you
would so well underetand His rules
that the first :step of year maroh hea-
venward would make the gates of hell
tremble on their hinges. We may not
he polished and trim as many
Christ inns bave known, and we may
not as well understa.nd sharoshooting,
hie there is rough work whioh we can
all arcomplish. We may be axmen and
bew a pathway through the forests. We
may bespadeemen and dig the trenches
or throw los the fortilloations. We do
net eare where, we do n.ot care what
—if we can only help in the cause,
of our King, and :shout as loudly as
any of them at the completion of the
eonq nest.
Again, when a grand. victory has
latam won, it is customary to announce
it by flags floating from public build-
ings, and frtun tree% and from the
masts of ships. They are the signal
for eulogy and reeoicmg and festivity.
So the ensign which the church hoists
"fleet Converts In Europe. Ads ite, one
eannoreesnose
sons emblem to melee us believe that
"Paul immedia.tely on coming to Trotre
came into close companionship .. wieb
the Macedonian Luke, and that in vis-
ions of the night he beheld him beciton-
dott,him onevard to his own countey."
PRACTICAL NOTES. Version beseeching him." Come over
into Mecedonia, and help, us. The un-
sahlea Text, Psalm Am •: ise
Verse 6. Now V$111011, they had. gone uttered cry of sorrow-strneken and sin -
throughout Phrygia. A midland dis- seek humanity thrills every heart tbat
has been touched by Christ. "It is
death to the Charch, and death to the
triet of Asia Minor. not far frorp. An. Christian, either not to hear this un -
cry of heathendom and
ten& a Pisidia. Its boundaries are un- conscious
defined. It included two a "the seven abandoned Christendom, pr, honing
heard it, not to heed it." Riddle. Mace -
churches a Asia," Laodicca and Thya- donia, at this time, had 'rhessaloniea
eira, and. also the church of Colosse, us its calatal. This ptovince stretched
to which eleven or twelve years later
across the great peninsula porth of
Paul wrote an epistle. Allid. the region ears as In
eeahrolmy e Gorfeebka Fhb aisrtiournys, i tlater
of Galatia. This p,h,rase has generally as the seat of the kingd,om of Philip.
been understood th refer to th.e great Alexander the Great made it the centre
tableland northeast of Phrygia, a rough of tbe world's power. It continued in-
fluential among the 'nations of the
district without trees, peopled by the earth until absorbed by Rome. Later
Guaelad by Gauls
al:lsbakitarbeee: tta:etfireuGuaasisnd saciaitt.it was the centre, or near to it, of the
eEnaisptierren otecingere,u a rrdrks;lar mstill z f this
Celts of Europe) in doe earlier part of writing he roughly defined as Turkey
history was turbulent. Twenty-five ' 10. After he had seen the vision, im-
S,
the third century before Christ. Their in Europe.
No -
years before the Christian era the mediateLY we endeavored to go. No-
tice the change in the pronoun:—"he
Romans formed the province of Gala- had seen;" "we endeavored." It has
on inhabited by the Gauls, but Lyme-
itdiarav'eleEsdaaa
nia also, and parts or Phrygia and. Pis- clan Luke. "Immediately" is cbarec-
inthletioy at this 'timc• with the phyel-
Gal. 4: 13-15 men have led to his
supposed that Pa,uts severe ill-
tia, which included, not only the regi- been
Paul thhaiss tile: osvusprpoisheisd ptroovbainvoee phterisrotoimstrpicyd;titultue.7 all men who have made
ttecIpnteiatvhort.ell, (i)tmgo(..sit
and founded the churches to whieh aft- points to the efforts they made to
ervvard he wrote "Galatians." Tbe secure means of travel, which were
outlite •a hls journey, as usually gly- not at hand in those a.ncient days as
en on maps, took him to the towns of sumed days. Assuredly gathering. The
now. Search for a, ship may have con-
Aneyra and Tanana in the middle of verb has the sense, says Dr. Farrar,
— msay. Prayed bine The BOVIS8
ante•more than eate000 were. la t., dead. menthols effitire •has made to mush
't ifeee ensigns- gave:hero- it. has coneplienett tee. its power.. :- And
ism tostoh nunitiers as were -aissenthled thee* is not, no- a single C.I.VIleXed
11431 Asa fought against, Zerah, and nation but, in its constitution or • laws
there were Janata° troops in the battle. or proclamations pays home.ge to the
1 -,he Athenians carried an inscription of
the owl wiech was their emblem oL
wiedom. 'la' flags M. modern nations
are familiar to you all, and teeny of
them eo propriate for the character
of the natione they reitreeent. it mould
to enumerate them. These der his manageine.nt, he said: "Call
ensigns are streasiere itorne on the Point out Haveloek's saints. They are never
of ti We iLlId on the top of wooden drunk and Havelock is always ready."
Shafts. They are earned in the front That Christianity which gathered. its
and rear of armies. They unroll from first trophies from. the fisherman's
the Malin' top gallant. inastheati of an huts on the shores 01 Galilee now has
among other ships of the same s
tine ' Samsonian strength thrown upion its
admiral's flagship to- dieting
egad.. shoulders and has carried off thegates
ron. They are the objects of nattoual science . and. worldly power.
pride. 'Oho. loas of them on the field We are. mighty in this cause, for we
is ignominious. have the help of' the picue.dead. Messen-
The- theee banners of the Lenin best • gent of salvation fewn high heaven. they
are the. banner of pruelamation, the vieit the field. neva stand behind us
ban nee of recruit. and. tbe banner of to keep us from irygnominou.s retreat.
rigbts infringed. or its honor insulted, strife -
They go' before ta I 0 t.neourage us in the
The McCheenes and the. Pay -
vie tory. W hen a nation feels iLs
wben its eitizene have in foreign climes sons, and the' Manyna and the Brain -
been oppreased, and no. indemnity.. has erds. an • uncounted multitude of the
lateen offered to the inbabitant; of the glorified are the coadjuters. Have you
republic or kingdom, a• Proclamation of heard the Swiss tradition? The herds -
war is uttered. On the top of batteries men say that three great leaders of the
,Helvetic nation, though seemingly dead,
are enly- lyittig down under the ground
ita their old time dress, refreshing them-
selves with. sleep, and that if at any
time the liberties cif t heir eountry are
in danger (beywillinmiediately "spring
to their feet and. drive :back theseneme.
May f not have the thought that if ever
the church- of the blessed Christ shall be
threatened with. tleetruction by foes
which- edam too great foe the st•rength,
the._ Loin: lianself will not only cenne
to the deliverance, butthosegreet . an-
cients -103.0 have seemed to be sleeping
among the '<lead shall intriediately hear
the trunipet, blast of the .cburch mili-
that and .10.11 armed spring 'back •-to
-thee old positions in the rank's of God
'witheetbe liattle 'ere, "More .than con -
religion of the other. In tbe war in
India, when Sir Arehibield Camp -bell
found in an hour of danger that the
men he ordered to the field were in-
toxicated and asked. for the pious men
whom the Christian Havelook had un -
at the ficepital where the conspirators :Ind. annelids and otatom• louses and
la maw: of drugs Predaced tar:ous revenue offices flags are immediately
„incenses, ending by tveakenina the. tiF\ ung out. AU who took upon thein
The chief doctors then trealize the (act.- that, uncompromising
- heart's action.
siened. certificates to the 'effect that war is deelared. Thus it is that the.
lee pwons were unfit for service. Church of Jesus Christ jealousfor-the
ahe pea was distiovered upon honor of its &Imo tegn and deterntined
death of a cleric who abet himself, af- to get back those who have bee,n (ferri-
te'. leaving in writing a full omits- orf captive Otto the bondage of eaten
• Aor bie Colonel, and. naming his aria intent upon the destruction -of
hyena Bight ine,n have been sea- these mighty wrongs which have so
d to punisionents ranging. from long cursed the earth. and bent upon
annibilation Nvith two yeand sere the e.xteresion of the ciaviour's reign
113 disciplinary battalions. of mercy, in the name of God sets up
rded as equivalent to slow its tanner of pro-elan:cation. „
eitente of eight months The eleurch makes too „assault, upon
'vice without loss of civil the world. I do not believe that God
• . ever noid.e a better world than this. It
YOUTH..
e old judge to the son,
)
th him, you told me
• work on evidence and
ot cut.
yawued the vereatine
edge ;buckled with de-,
ughe stint a lawyer tbe
e.
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is magnificent ite emus. Let us stop
talking so netich• against. the world. querors through Hon that hived us.
God pronounced it very good at the be- a Although we have already inueli to en-
ginning.Though a wandering child of courage us io the work of 113 world's
God, I see in it yet the great Father's evangelization, yet we must confess
lineaments. Though tossed. and driven" that much of our time hae been con -
by the storms of 6,000 years, she sails mimed in planting our batteries and get -
bravely yeti and as at her launching in Ong ready for the oonflict. We have
the beginning the morning star sanknot. yet begun to preach. We have not
together and. all the sons of God shout-. yet begun to pray. We have not yet
ed. for joy, so at last, when coming begun to work. Cm the moats of heath -
into the mem harbor of God's mercy endorn are InissionarY stations. They
thee table -land. Earlier commenta_ of coming be a conclusion from 4iut-
tors were fond of tracing Celtic traits ed. the intimations of Providence as well
ting things side by side. Paul watch-
tors
the faults scored by Paul in his as listened to tbe messages of the Spir-
epistle. But later scholarship has ad- it. The Lord had called us for to
vanced quite another theory, which Purntochtleheafaso!pelcdonetanntsa them. Tbaaceirs:
now bids fair to be generally accepted. tained first that the Lord had not call -
He who carefully reads the Epistle to ed him to preach the Gospel at that
time in Arsie. or in Bithynia, and, like
the Galatians must notioe, especially in
ftroomGalaatseiavefrore ititelepssu,rpaonsdelotfisreacrogeuereYd an impetuous current, he flows through
the first channel that opens.
Gal. 4. 13, that Paul seems to have gone
ceadenwoeitteh ttestfIght co
11. Lowing from. "e:ettIng sail." We
that he could not have ventured f or island of the Aegeadn"SSae-aufirsileiliiraleea;sla.Ai'lline-
such a purpose into so barbarous and seaport of Philippi, in thwetionia. The
furthermore, we bale no account of the • livatmety sixty-five mutes
l'.roas toceleeagil itiis NtiTes
rough a region as northern Galatia;
ality. The lathr view is that Paul and
founding of any churches in that loc- same as Newtown. Dr, Stalker calls
his companions come to Perga with the salowtim:ixd-!oy•vordaeNaolanige.s." irmesens 1 he ,
attention to the importanve of this
view of evangelizing tem next place on arms ancti%tthern,s,i7v.k.tliferatenicliet rhoifesat(ozirr7ey it ho
their route, and that suddenly the plan to the heart of Asia.; ehen Cacao:.
was altered and they passed over the olumbus thseoveaed a nee woria. ..e•
re on the shores of Britain; eine
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
A Brief conelderanorc of Mairlies from Ifit4
Point of View.
"There js this to be said in favor of
the suipb,ur motet," said the retired
Mfrglar, "that it is noiseless when
struck but its odor is decidedly against
it. More than once wh,en 1 have struck
a sulphur snatch in the hall, I have
heard some light. sleeper, when the
pangeant fumes of the sulphur per-
meated the atmosphere turn in bed in
the adjacent room. I stuck to sulphur
matches for a long time—naturally en-
ough, 1 suppose,—but finally I caeors
to use parlor !matches altogether. They
are noisy, but, odorless, and it may be
possible to scant& them when teams
are passing, or when the wind is blow-
ing or there is some other noise
abroad.. At any. rate, I tame to pre-
fer, from experience, tae noisy. odor-
less niatah to the silent sulphur.
"Of course the ideal snatch for any-
body in my business would be one that
Should be both silent and odorless. It
is a wonder to rae that nobody has in-
vented sucth a match; it is greatly
needed, and I should say that it would
be comparatively easy of invention.
Now that I have tretired, maybe will
clevote myself to the invention of such
a match and do tomethin,g to promote
the intexests of an arduous and' none
too remunerative calling."
• PERFECT SOCIETY MANNERS.
Earling—elasn't Miss Ottinger perfeet
society manners?
eloskionotn—Yes; she can say unpleas-
ant things more pleasantly than Deny -
one I know.
DRIVEN TO IT.
Clara—Did you have any trouble in
getting bim to propose?
Maude—No. suggested thof. you
were after him.
Pamph.yltan lowlands and the lasithart event was of lees importanee thee the
. thence, into soaring vats. rhe quan-
mountaisa lands to Antioch. This in- arrival of Paul at Sermons. tity of dirtwhich the proeese removes
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of our mind, and Our spirituel life is
live io our heart. An 013411 Bible for
the teacher and on open Iowa foe the
scholar are indispensable.
15. And when she was asoelesel. Just
as aeon as she believed vim made a
public profession of ber faith lo the
way appointed by God. And her house-
hold. We cannot tell, fox we are not
told, of what this household consisted,
If ye have judged me to be feathful
to the Lord, which they bad done, as
was evidenced by their baptizing her.
Come into my house. Ta found a church
there and to establish intimate friend-
ly fellowship with its inmates. She con-
strained us. Her first motive, doubt -
lees, was that of Christian hospitality,
so lovingly produced wherever 2hrist
reigns. Another reason, htnvever, may
be that these good men, free of charge,
might propagate the Gospel in the city.
Up to tiara time tb,e evangelists had
probably supported themselves by
their work. Paul we know was a
tentmaker, and Luke was a plorsiciair.
Dr. C. S. Robinson very beautifully en-
umerates five evidences of Lydia's con-
version: 1. An open heart. 2. An op-
en mind. 3. An open mouth., 4. An open
hand. 5. An open house,
IS THE GRIST MILL DOOMED?
New made Orreesly From tese
Wheat,
The German chemists are busy at
work on almost every conceivable sci-
entific problem.. Their latest vietory Li
said to he the discovery of a process
for making dough directly from wheat,
the milling procesee being entirely dis-
perused eitle The following interest-
ing feet.% in regard to the invention
are translated f nen the German news-.
paper. "Die .Neue Heilktens." Accord.-
ing to that Journal a flattery running
under the new system has been estab-
lished at Aitona, and tile. trade done
thereat is so great. that additions to
the plant have. Leanne necessary. The
enact itery not only transforms whole
grains direetly into dough, but also o.t
the same time kneads it, no grinding
or tuilliet,g proves being employed a.t.
all. After the. wheat Ls first tborough»
ly eleaned in the dry state, it is plan.
cot in running water until tbe Jetta'
is no longer twee& and it Ls then al-
lowed to soak for a few hears in a tem-
perature of fifty degrees to fifty-two
degrees centigrade. In the slimy con-
dition in nee •11 it itc then found it is
plated in the dough machine. where it
goes through the peterited process,
wberehy the mass is vigorously squeez-
ed anti at the some time passed through
a neve. The tionehy mese is then force
ed. through a serve with finer meshes,
finding its any into menden borne and
intent Is
texprets the phrase "region of Phry- 12. Thence to nub-PO"nte
- A 'taOL
gia and. Galatia" to include a country
101.bat t?or tr ornoi
ii ittr ..ril-t.:tsrlitrtfire(m11 al:
more southerly and healthful than that 'W hieh is the thief eity iif that art ca
marked off con our maps. The towns of 3e1aeedonia. It had teen Item ed by
the great Philip. In obat sense it was
Norta Galatia lay far a:art., and there the chief city or that part of Mem:Ionia
were few Greeks and. Jews there. The it is hard to eay. the Revised 'Version
whole story as told in Acts and alluded makes it the time a the I sistria ; it
to in the epistles seems to' favor whatmay simply mean that Philippi oae the
first city whicb the apostle and his
Ls awe known as the South Galatian companion reaterea titter inoeeing the
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theory. This theory is strongly min- hills from Neapolis; it may inea.n that.
Mined by the Rev. W. F. Moulton, in it was the elnef el i y: or t he eistli.•( ;
an article on this subject. Were for- ttilltini
tt (1111=„irlileenxii•u4eitliet•ii'trVizarlits;
bidden of the Holy Ghost to preach for the rev as a .iiative niight ha.ve,
the. word in Asia. Forbidden, perhaps, had for it. A ailing. Revlon V prelim.
by what we now call "Providence;" Reelan "1°n)% • 14ee -°r5dblele
perbaps by a direct message of the the days between their arena' and The
Holy Ghost to the evangelists. "Asia" Sabbath, they can be dealt with by persons o
33 Oa the Sabbath If our supposition weak digestion. Finally, the new pro..
of the last senten te be correct this . once is saki to be most. economical.
was the first :Sabbath after Paul's ar-
rival in Philippi. We went out of the ;
city. Revised Version, "We %A ent forth
isms,' page 402. Certain days. Possibly
from the grain is sant to be frighten-
ing, hoth in eleansing the dry grain and
tluxiag the. (toughing process, when the
surfaee of the water irs covered with
a diegurning layer of stuff made up of
WeNtS and the ejections of miee
and biota all of wItich the machine is
saki to thorou.ghly remove. The writ-
er of the artiale claims that the bread
made by this proaes 114 1.101 only ina.ltb-
ier and more palatable then that a
ordinary ninnutteeture, but also more
nutritious. AU the nutritive -pore
time are preeerved, espeteally those
nearest the meter surface, which it Is
el:dined are lost by milling operations.
That none of the nitrogenous substances
are reniovai is proved by the feet that
the all laninold ratio of the bread is
1.5, antl even the moot fibrous or woody
portions are in surh a condition tha
was a preAnce bordering the Aegean
Sea, and included the timelier provinces
of Mysia, Lyllia, and Carla. The ques-
tion why theievangelists were forbid-
den to preaela the • Gospel in Asia is
well answered by Dr. Cowles, "The
Lord had many apostles, but one Paul."
No other man was so well adapted to
introduce the Gospel to the great
thought -centers of the age. Philippi.
Athens, Corinth, Rome, all lay out-
side the forhiddem circle. Other men
could and did very thoroughly spread
°tbe Gospel throughout "Asia;" Paul
was destined to fill out the great flow-
er of his life in the great European
capitals.
7. After they were come to Mysia.
A province on the Aegean; part of
Asia. .Assayed. Planned., proposed, de-
sired. To go into Bithyma. A provinoe
of Asia Minor, on the shore of the
Black Sea. But the Spirit suf-
fered them not. Revised Ver-
sion, "the Spirit of Jesus." Only
one route retmained open to Paul—to
the seacoast and to Eueope. Again we
axe in. doubt. as to the method of the
prohibition, but its reason, strange as
it murst at tbe time have seemed to
Paul, soon beca.me clear. The reniote-
nees of Bithynia and the large number
of important cities in proconsular Asia
would have served to postpone the. -ev-
angelization of Europe had Paul first,
visited them.
8. And they passing by Mysia came
down to Teoas. "Passing.. by a. means
not remaining or preaohing in it. Trans
wa.s a Greek town about four miles
from the site of ancient Troy. It 'MIS
the port at which the merchant vessels
running between Mavedonia and Asia
Minor barbered. " They " "came down"
to it because it was on the level coast
lands, and they had been journeying
on the high lands. The harbor of Troas
may still be traced.
9. A vision appeared to Paul in the
night. To an astonishing degree the
deoisions of Paul's life seem to have
been pivoted on visions. From his con-
version until he passes from view in
almost every emergency he sees it holy
vision or hears a holy voice. Professor
Ramsay, with a beauty of ima.gination,
that reminds one of -Professor Plump-.
tire, suggests that the man of Mace-
donia, was Luke, " the beloved. physi-
cian." While this theory is "incapable
of either proof or disproof" it throws
light on the relationship of these two
men, and it Ls • not without
GUN FOR BICYCLISTS.
without. the gate.'' By a riverside, ,
o --
where 'atone was wont. to be Tuade. •
There was a "place of prayer," wheth- • illxxr131.1,10c4.%11Pitlit,11,13tettetitn misebter.
warn or
e'hfrohttejedbilei;esillattLnifignw°h:O:hinnejountvcir notn111:;:nryi, fsoenkedinno ttoti.
heThel gkun. [hat every wheelman has
en looking or has at last come into
establishing their places ef orehip
near to a stream, because of the for- existenee. if the inventor's claim is to
be relied upon. It is made of rubber
mal ablutions conneeted wit ti heir
worship. We sat down, mid stelize en- anti shoots ammonite, lett in so deadly
to the women. Dr. laindeay explatns a Olt:Ilion that, a man email quite as
the absence of man by the leant de-
cree of Claudius, Innishine male Jews soon Le hit with it bullet, provided the
from Roman colonic's. Paul always charge strink his eyes. The pneu-
sought the acquaintanee of the devout mate., ammonia pistol, whit+ irt its full
Jews first on his -entrano.* into a eity. name. in nieely construrted of hard rube
was ffior:ntiZe bisslialL,enhvflit;;hainwl,ealuiretnneks
ber and regaires no tools to keep it In
prayer meetiag. perfect form save .an ordinary. bicycle
14. Lydia. Iler storyns told in this wreneh and pump. Inskle is a rubber
and the following woos. She was a bag whirl' will hold several ounces ot
seller of ourple., that ie or the Terian ammonia. With the eel of compressed
purple dyes, • end • of goods dyed air, enough ammonia. to form what is
with them Tee Tyrian dee tan called a single ehot is forcibly ejected
threugh inanoe tints and ;diodes, front thin pat e distanee of nne hun-
from rose re -d to fen great and deep deed feet, provided so long a shot is de -
bias. It Wati one of t he meet highly sired. This indicates with what ter -
valued produete of ancient eandicraft. , rifie force the annnonia must dart
In all countries to be teethed in pur- forth from the muzzle of the pistol.
pie- was a sign of weeith and. high The ammonia pistol is in the form
blood. At imers it NV :IS a crime, pann, of -a cylinder with a nozzle something
ishable with death. for tiny but eover- like that of a small oil can project-
eigne and supreme judges to weer gar- .ing from tbe front. It carries twenty
mente dyed with Tyrian dyes. eti cost- diaries. At the rear an eleetric but-
ly NVUS it. at thee time that it pound. of ton is set in the mouth of a small pipe
of wool double dyed true worth 8270. that starts out at you to the. extent
Lydia was a native Of Tio at ire_ an of about a quarter of an huh. 'When
Asiaeie city. God movies in a mystera the pressure on the button is released
ous e ay surely o hen his Sena enf• the discharge of ammonia is shut off
vents bie apostles preaellifig the Gni' automateally by a steel spring which
pel in Thyatira, trod sands than to a -rests inside the eseape valve or nozzle
European city where the fine hospl- en the form of a, tail. When it be -
table beart they meet has come from comes necessary to refill the air them-
Thyatira. Which worshipped. Clod. ber of the pLetol all the remaining air
This expression shows that I.ydia vas is forced out by pressing theplunger in
not it Jetsam ; it is only us.d of Gen- the air valve or by unserewnig the air
tiles who .had forsaken idolatry. Heard valve. This allows the soft, flekilile
us. Great stress is laid in the Bible on rubbsr bag eontaining the ammonia on
hearing. "Faith coaneth by hearing." the. inside. of the casing to collapse. The
In our modern times men may read rubber bag is attached inside to the
tbe Goepel also, but except the Gospel lower ena of the eseape valve or noz-
be preached by Word and printed page zle and meet not be taken out for re -
the world. cannot be converted. See filling.
attended. abe eagerly laid hold of tte
great truths she heard ; applied Goe-
pel- inixth. to box CM 71 case. Many pm -
pie hold moral. umbrellas over their
heeds by which to save themselves from
the showers •of convietion .and gram,
and elieO wetth -the droppings of the
sanctuary being teaurect out over their
neighbees. This is all wrong.• There
some substantial reasons for . basis. can'he no good got froin wors.hap witb-
.
out close unfailing attention to the
words of God. whether written in the
Holy Scriptures or whispered. Ai -
natty to tbe heart. "Let us therefore
pay the more earnesi heed to the things
which we have heard." " Hear, andattur
souls shall live." Whose heart the Lord
opened. The word of God is effective
in• paoportion as it is blessed by the
Spirit of God. The Lord will open every
Man's heart if he be welcome to do so,
but God always respects man's free
will. Observe that it was not Bret of
all her intellect that was opened. The
"thoughts of the heatrt," to use a Bi-
ble obease, are the items which deter-
mine aur moral claret:ter. The /meld
of physical bea-uty with whioli we are
surrounded is (- a product of the
earliest intimate= of Luke's peesencethoughts of God's mind., So our earth
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4.. Lastly, there is a strong connection life in its heghest and noblest phases
of Luke with Philippi, These four than COMICS -within the realneof the thoughts
1. The Ones is really a certain
man,'' though neither the Authorized
Version nor the Revised Version indi-
cates thie—a phrase wbich would indi-
cate that the man was personally
known to Pa.uil. 2. The inference that
early commentators drew that a 'Ma-
cedonian would he recognized by his
dress is now understood to te in part
mistaken. It is true that generally
"each nation had a dress of its own and
it distinot type of countenaote," but
at this time the Macedotnias were anx-
ious to be regarded as Greeks and would
dress accordingly. So in all probabil-
ity "the certain man" in the vision
was known to Paul as a Macedonian.
3. Notiee also the first occurrence of the
pronoun "we" in the next versa the
Barrels.
They really are the most useful ar-
ticles in the household repertoire.,
Among fifty ways of utilizing them
here is one:
Fasten ie the lower barrel -head se-
eurely. Take out tha upper one to
allow a Sitielf to be fastened in the 'mid-
dle, Naha+ should follow the 11811' 01 the
barrel, excepting on one aide, where
the circle must be. tapered. When this
shelf k securely set in, fasten the sec-
ond harreabead back againandtigh-
ten all the boops. Now eaw out a gen-
exonsesized door in (be re.itro of tete
barrel. When it open,: the shell with
SQIULTR side sbould stand aorcas the
middle of the opening. Put hinge.% on
the door, and then you have a come
!eatable little. pantry for cottage use,
nr, if WilliPlinStand$ ftTf3, not plentiful, this
inventiou will nerve inimitably as one
if draped eo tint the banal shape alone
k visible.. A MAIM towel., or, }otter
yea towelling eat in n <eerie, :v'.
at the. barrel -40p, necele cA71C1.
the • draeery below.
.4 HON-