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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-7-29, Page 3Go04..m.orrot, NOTES AND COMMENTS THE EXETER TIMES While there can be very little doubt that the trouble. the English Govern- ment is experieneing in India with its Yfussulman subjects is the work of agi- tators deriving their inspiration from the neighborhood of the Bosporus, there Is no reason to believe that they would have met teen the partial success they bave but for the plague and the fam- ine, Te Sultan has before this made efforts to stir up sedition among tee Mussulnaans of India.. but without suo- aim to different parts of India, to preach and propagate disaffection to English rule, but they were promptly recalled alter Mr. Goschen, who had been sent to Constantinople by the Governmeet of Mr. Gladstone a.s High Commissioner, had notified the Sultan a his knowledge of the facts and the ; ;ernes of the emissaries, and. had threat- ined extreme measures. The Sultan wooded long and moodily over, th,e con- *.ented subraission of the effussulmans a Iodia to foreign domination, and on more than cone *melon, contided his re- flections, on the aubjecl. to peewee in, his confidence. One of these persons put them on record in a diary, and one day the volume of the delay containing them was stolen, and report said, found its way to an interested embassy. What troubled the Sultan most was the contrast between the material con - 'titian of the Mtussulmans from India tett those undies' his own rule who met euring the pilgrimage to Mece.a. It be- came a topic of conversation in the places of public resort in the homes of the returned pagrims:and the ubiqui- tous eavesdropper carried. the reports to those who conveyed, them to the Sul- tan. During the Egyptian campaiga of 1882, when a laxge contingent a the radian array. mainly composed of Mus- sulnaa,ns, was sent to fight the Egyp- tian nationalists unde,r Arabi, an at- tenapt was made to rouse religious sym- patby among the Indians, but ineffec- tually. No se-rape:ea of active disaffec- tion showed iteelf among them. It is very likely that the intrigues now on foot in Indite wound have had little succe.ss but for the violence done to lau,ss.uhnan and Hincloo religions and social. prejudice by the invasion of domicile by order a the sanitary au- , leorities. This afferded m,aterial and opeortunity to tee eigittators to agitate, and. in certain local:item. they appear to have met with suceess. et is to be remarked, however, that so far, the aotave disagection boa shown itself only in those localities where it might most naturally be looked for, at and in the neighborhood of the two seaport cities of 13embeiy and Cia.lcutta, and at Peshawar, close to the A,fghan fr'ontier, all within easy reach of outside influ- ence. Although disturbances are re- ported. at Strata, thetre is sit yet no in- dication of anything like an organized general insuereetion as in. 1857, pro- bably due to the population being un- armed. and to the vigorous executioa of the .Arms mete. All the same the position is nne cailling for great vigil - nee on the part of the English auth- brities ie. (Indio, and eaanot brat be, the source of considerable anxiety to the Government in esoaden with so many troublesome complications to be °easel.- ured anta,rer home. The total Europiean population of In- dia, excluding English troops, is undter 'lee hundred thousand, scattered shroughout a native population of about 287,000,000. Fortunately for the ionenant, true, the native population is homogeneous neither in rape nor re- ligion; and as yet tee nationell spirit , has not suffioiently developed to bring erahmins, Mussulmans, and Buddhists into accord. against their conqueror. At the gime time the Indian authorities save not neglected peeparatiens against poesible meet, en'd plums of refutge have been erea,ted at numerous points throughout the country to which gtkropteain4 in the Anterior can resort at the eircst sign et danger. Some de- pendence le also placed on sutioor cone nereuption of 'the, Suez Canal route. riln the wh,ole, the progpact that the eultan's influence dan stilt up a gen- eral 'revolt against Englitsb rule in In- let, nualeps et is sepported by some eisible, tangible, demonstration of force al the Indian frontier, is remote. :Tee nobilization of the Afghan arney and its concentration toward Peshawar and Oandalievr 'would afford the required support to a Mussulman rising in Northwestern Tilden but the Ameer is most unlikely to give the British Gov- ernment; a pretext for reducing him and `his reentry to vassalage, unless in his turn he were busked up material- ly by power nearer (="abut than Con- stantinople. The Sultan, therefore, may be taking no more for his traufble in in - °thug the Mussulroant of India to re- volt against English rule than to make the Government in Lone= more reso- lute than over to diminish his prestige and strip him of what power and influ- dem remain to ban. The only thing 1 hat waled mako the oriels n India, really dangerous for England Would be th,at some povvereut European Govern- ment or allies:toe should be behind the Sultan. Of thee tare ts, $o tax, no peed. EXPLAINED IT Proprietor of Resteurant—I shell give you •1ff3. &ergo, Yes oonte in here and eat and drink the best of evert/thing and than tell me you have no money,. How is teatl eel:plower—Well. pee see, I had to tip the z THE USE OF TROUBLE THE BEAUTY OF FRIENDSHIP WHEN IT IS SORE NEEDED. The undying Attachment or Ruth and noes a 'epic of Interest to the Church In Ali Ages — A. Sermon Fun or Me Breath 0 the Fields, Rev. Dr. Ta,bnage preached en Sun- dae from the text: Ruth ii, 3, "And she went and came and gleaned in the field atter the reapers, and her hap was to light ore a part of the field belouging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimeleoh." The time that Ruth an"I Naomi arrive at Bethlehem is hervest tirrie. It was the, motet"i when a sheaf fell from ai load in the harvest field for the reapera to refuine to gather it up. That was 44 be. left for theepoor who might happen' tocome along that way. If there were haadfues of grain shattered' across the field after the main harvest had been rea,ped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now, it 'was by the custom of the land let 1111 itsr,lace, so that the Peer coming along that way might glean it and get their bread. Bat you say; "What is the utio a all these harvest fields to Rath and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sum, and can you expect that Ruth, the young aaad tb.e beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister her hands in the hars vest field?" Boaz owns a large farm a.nd he goes clue to see the reapers gather in the grain. Corneae there right behind the swarthy, suneseowned reapers, be be- holds a beautiful wonaaan gleaning—a woman more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon a thirone than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, that was an eventful dee. It was love. at first sight. Boaz forms eta attachment for the womanly gleaner—an attachment fuller untlying interest to the chexch of God, in all ages, while Ruth, when an ephah, or nearly a bused of barley, goes home to Na.arat to tell her the successes and ad- ventures of the day. That Ruth who left her native land of Moab in darknese and traveled, through an undying arra>, tion for her mother-ineaw, is in the harvest field of Boaz, is affianced to rate of the best families ineudah andbee comes in eftertime tb.e ancestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord otGlory, Out of so dark a. night did the,re ever dawri so bright a morning? • I learn, ina the first place, frorn tete sabject how trouble develops character. It was bereavement, poverty and exile tint developed, illustrated and an- nounced to all ages the sublimity of Ruth's character. That is a very un- fortenete men who ham no trouble. Ili wets sorrow that made .Tob,n Bunyan the better dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, and O'Connor th.e better orator, and Beshop Hell the hetter preacher, and Hrevelook the better sol- dier, and Kitto the better encyalopedist. end Ruth. the Letter daughter -Ln -law. I once asked an aged mania regard to hes pastor, who was a very brilliant m.an, "Why isit that your pastor, so very brillianat, seems to have so little heaxt and tenderness in his sermons'?" "Well," he repliest, "the reason is our pester has never had any trouble. Vi hen raisrortanes come upon him, his style will be different." After awhile the Lord. took a child oat, af that pastor's house, and, though the preacher was just as brilliant as howas before, oh, the warmth, the tenderness of his dis- course! The fact is that trouble is a great educator. You see sometimes it musioitun sit down at an instrument, and hie execution is, cold and informal and unfeeling. The reason is that all his life he has 1 sen prosperous. But let muhfortuine or bereavement come to this man, and he sits down at the in- strument, and you discover the pathos in the firet, sweep of the keys. Misfertenes and trials are great edu- cator"). A young doolor comes into a. siek room where there is a dying child. .Perhaps ho is very rough in his pre- seription and very rough in his manner, and. rough. In his answer to the mother's anxious questions. Dim, years tea on, encj there has Leen one dead in his oven Loess, a.nd now he comes into the sickroom, and. with a tearful eye he looks at the dying Weld and says: "Oh, hoe this lemmas me c1 uy C'hicrlie!" Trouble, the greet educator. Sorrow —I see its touch in the gra.nde:st paint- ing; f hear its tremor in the se eetest song; 1 feel its power in the mightiest erg mein t. Grecian mythology said that the foun- tain oC Hippmeene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I have often notioed in life that the brightest and most beantiful • foun- tains of Christiaa comfort and epirit- ual life have been struok out by the iron shod hoof of disaster and ealam- ity. I see Daniel's courage best by the flash of Nebuchednezzar's furl:Laos. I sea Pale's prowess best when I find him on the foundering ship unde,r the glare of the lightning in the breakers Meleta. Goa crown.s His children, amid the howling of wild beasts and the chopping of bleed splashed guile - tine, and the cracking fires of martyr- dom. it took the perseoutions oe Mar- cus Aurelius to develop Pelyoaxp and Justin iefertyr. it took all the hos- tilities against the Scotch Covenanters and the fury of Lord Clave,rhouse to develop James Renwick and Andrew. Meleille, and Hugh MoKail, the glore. ous martyrs' of Scotch history. It took the stormy sea, and the December blast and the desolate New England coast and the warvvhoop of savagesto show forth the prowess of the pilgrim fathers— When amid the storms they sang, And the stars heard and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim wood, Rang to the anthems of the free. It took all our past national dis- tresses, a,n.d it takes all ow present national borrows to loin up our nation on that high cerear where it will march long after the foreign aristo- cracies that have mocked and tyrannies that have jeered shall be [swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God, who hates despotism, and who, by the the strength of His. awn strong right arm, will make all men free, and. in the Church, and in theworld, that throup',11 darkness end sterna and trous ble, runt women, churches, nations; are deeroped. Again, 1 sea in my text tho beauty of unfaltering frienethip. I suppose there wore pleney of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity', but of all her acquaintances how many were will- ing to trudge off with her towardJe.- W, when she had to maks that lonely journey? One, the heroine of my text. Otto, aibsolubely one. I suppose when lesteraes husband was living, and they had, plenty of money, and all things went well, they had, a great many callers, but I suppose that after her husband, died, and her property went, and she got old end poor, she was not troubled very mush with callers. All the birds that sung itt tlus bower when the sun shotte have gone to their n.ests, now the night hes fallen. Oh, these beanteful sunflowers that spread out their oolor in the morning hour. But they awe always asleep when the sun is going down! job had plenty of friends When he was the reebest men in Uz, but when his pro- perty went and the trial came, then there were none tto much that pestered. as Eliphaz the Temanite and. Bildad the Shahite an.d Zopher the Nemeth- - Life often seems to be a meregame, where the successful player pulls dosynt all the other men into his own ly. Let su.spicrion mese about a raan s obaraeter ant he becomes like a bank in a pante ant&t all the imputations 'rush on, him and break i down n a dile teat oheraoter which in due timewould have had strength to defend itself. There are reputations that have been half a. century in building which go down under one push, as a vast' tem - Pie is renowned. by the touch of a sulphurous melee. A hog can uproot a century leant. In this world se full of heartlessness and hypocrisy. be wthrilling it is to fund aeons friends as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity) David haft such a friend in Ifushat; tee Jews had such a friend in Mardecat, who never forgot; their mate; Paul .had. mob. frien.d. ea Onesiphorm, who vis- ited. htna. in jail; Christ had suoh in the Marys,whoadhered to Him o'n. the cross; Naoral had such, a one in Ruth, who cried out: "Entreat rue not to leave thee or to retura trout following after thee far whither thou guest will go, tuna whither thou lodgeet I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God, eel:ere thou then. will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more ala, if aught but death part thee and me." So very often. in. our worldly business O�' in our spiritual career we start off on a very dark paths We m,ust go. The flesh may shrink back, but there is a voice, within, or a voice above, say- ing, "You must go," mad we lave to drink the gall, anct we have to tarry the crass, and we have to traverse the des- ert, and we are paunded and flailed of misrepresentation and. abuse, and we have tome° our way through ten thou- sand obstavies that have been slain by our own right arm. We have Lo ford the river, we have to olirab the moun- tain, we have to storm the castle, bet, blessed be God, the day a rest and re- vvard will come tb,e tiptop of. the captured battlements we will shout the viotory, if not in Leis world, then in that world lettere there is no gall to drink, no leurdens to carry, no battles to fight. How do I know itt Know it! I know 13 leucause God says so. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst no more, neither shall ihe sun light on them, nor any haat, for the Lame whith is in the midst. of the throne shall leed them Lo living founeaine of water, and. God. shall wipe, all tears from their eyes." 11 was vary hard for Noah to end.ure the scoffing of the people in his day, a,nci. was every morning quizzed about his old boat tbat woad. never be of any practical use. But when the de- luge. came, and the tops of the naoun- tains disappeared like the backs of sea moneters, and. the elements lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a droweed world, then Neel in the ark rejoiced en his own satety and. in the safety of his family, and looked out on the wreok of a. ruined earth. Christ, hounded of persecutors, denied a pillow, worse raaltreated thee the thieves an either side of the cross, hu- man hate smacking its lies in satisfac- tion after it bed been draining His last drop of blood, the sheeted dead bursting from ithe, sepulchres at His crucifixicre, Tell me, 0 Gete.semene and Golgotha, were there ever darker times than these? Like the booming of the mid- night sea, against the roek, the surges of Clarist's anguish beat against tee gates of eternity, to be echoed back by all the thrones of heaven, and all the dungeons of hell. But the day of re- w.ard oornes for Christ.. All the pomp and dominion of this world are to be hu:ng befere Him on whose head are many crowns, and all his celestial tear - ship us to come up at His feet, like tee humming of the forest, like the rushing of the waters, like the thund- ering of the seas, while all heaven, ris- ing. on their thrones, beat time with their scepters, "Halleluiah for the Lord God, omnipotent reigneth." Tbat song of love, now low and tar, Ere long shall swell from star to star; That light, tbe breaking day which tips The golden spired Apocalypse. Again, I learn from ray subject that events which seem to be most insignifi- cant may be momentous. Can yen im- agine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab lo Judah? Can you imagine anything more trivet than the fact that this Ruth just happened to alight—as they say—just happened to alight on that field of Boas? Yet all o:ges, all gener- ations, have an interest in the fact that she was to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and .all nations and kingdoms, must look at that little incident with a thrill of unspeakable and. eternal satisfaction. So it is in your history, and in mine, events that you thought of no importance at all have been of very great moment. That casual conversation; that accidental meeting—you did not think of it again for a long while. ;But how it changed all the phases of your life! It seemed to be of no impartance that Juba -1 invented rude instruments of music., calling them here and organ, but they were the introduction of all the world's minstrelsy, and as you hear the vibration of stringed instrument even after the fingers have been tak- en away from it, so all mask now of lute and. drum and cornet is only the long contieued strains of Jubal's harp and Jabal's organ. It seemed to be a matter of very little importa,nce that Tubal Cain learned the uses of copper and iron, but; that rude foundry of an- cient days las its eche in the rattle of Birmingham machinery and the roar and bang of factoeies on the 'Marra the household Or to the community, and although there are so earthy woes alt around about them in tbe world, they spend 'their time languishing over a new pattern, or bursting into tears at midnight over the story of some lov- er who libot hienself. They would not deign to look at Ruth earryin back the barley On the way horn() ber motheren-law, Naomi. All this testicle business may seem to do very well while they are tender the shelter of their fa- - there's house, but when the sharp win- ter of misfortune comes, wb,at of these butterflies? Persons under indulgent parentage may get upon themselves ha- bits of indolence, but when theY come out into practical life their soul will recce.' with disgust and chagrin. Tlaey will feel in their hearts what the poet so severely satirized. wben he said: Folks are so awkward, things so impo.lite, They're elegantly. pained from morne jag until night. Through tha,t gate of indoLence bow many men and. women have marched, useless on earth, to a destroyed eterni- ty, Spincea said to Sir Horses, Were: "Of what did youe brother dial" "Of THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON. AUG. 1. " Paul's Ministry, in Corinth." Coldest Text, 1 Cur, 311*. Acts 1S, 1.11 PRA.CTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. After these things. After the visa to Athens, xerorded in the last lesson. Came to Corinth. The Roinan capital of Greece, its largest city, and the center of its cotamsurce. It stood ilPen the Isthmus at the narrow tongue eacktitdadabeeitiwasseannathpeetzpoompaxnestsusof. G inretece he cente.r of the city was a. rooky height strongly fortified, called the Acro- Carinthus. Its population were of all races mingle& and were so addicted to sosial vices that "to Oorinthianize " was a current term for ixanaorality. Yet in this city was founded a ehurch having nothing. to do," was the answer. of Chrise to which Paul addressed two ..e.e le said ehmoth othete heowhe to of les longest and. most important ep- pok Liss] iabnleY ignetnelersalivor'of world, he0rell'tbe:x•ne list hsea isertet much suffering to be alleviated, ma(1)yeaVbhauerneasinaisoahounds, there much darkness to be. enlightened, an711 2. A Certatn Jew. Probably, but not iso many etude= to be carried, that certainly. Already a discipline of Christ there is any person who cannot find when Paul met lihn. Aquila. "Eagle." 1 anything to do 1 .1 . Once more I learn from my subject Ever afterward one of the most con- . the value of gleaning stout friends of the apostle. Born in Pontus. One of the norteern provinces of Asia Minor, bordering on tb,e 131aolt Sea. Come from Italy. We rice here illustrated the roving habits of the Jews of the Dispersion, who removed stra,we until she got enough to make a from one end of the Roman Empire to the other according to the opportunities sheaf. Patting that down shs went of business or the necessities of per - and gathered more straws, until she bad anottier sheaf, and another and ' scent i IV fin Aquila d his wife on. e d a,n another, and than sihe brought them, at Ephesus soon altex this, and again all together, and. she thraseed them, at Rome later. His wife Priscilla. Who out, and she had an yeah ofbarleY. is ofte nigh a buehel. Oh, that we might all n naraed berme her husband; be glerane.rs I possibly the more energetic of the two. Elihu Burritt learned many things (2) Rainer is that tome where united while toiling in a blaoktunith shop, Ab-, beads are one in Christ. Claudius. Tee eroromble. the world-renowned Phila." sopher in Scotlandand he got his pelt- fourth Roman emperor, , door of the siekroom to open. Yet bow a man of schlo- , 0-10PhY, or the, chief part of it, while as arty tastes, somewhat weak in nature, e. physician he was waiting for the called to the throne after the murder znany there are in this day who say of Caligula. The modern estixaate of , they axe ee bu,sy they halve no tirae, for , s arac er an xes hi eh t d ign i considerably , Lkgain, I see in my subject an illu- stration of the beauty of ferraale in- dustry. Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field arder the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers or eating the perished corn, which Boaz handed to bor. The customs of sooiety, of course, have changed, and without the hardships and exposer° to which 'Rath was subjected evexy intelligent woman will find zoniething to do. I know- thex.e is a siekly sentheental- ity on this subject, In some families there are peeteas of no real service to Ruth going into that harvest field. might bave said: 'There is a straw, and there is a straw, but what is a straw? ca3a't get any barley for my- self or my mother-in-law out of these separate. straws." Not so said. beaute ful Ruth. She. gathered. two straws and she put the to .t , d mental or spiritual improvements.; above the 'ancient. He reigned from A. The great duties of life cross the field D. 41 to 51. Conunanded all Jews. The like strong reapers and, carry off all ' the, bou•rs, and there is only here and Roman hisksian of that period says there a fragxneet lett that ts not worththat the Jews were banished from Rome gleaning. Ali, my friend,e', you could bemuse riots arose among them, 'Lusti- g) into the, busiest day and busiest gated by " one Cla•estus." This opprob- ' week or your life end find golden - portunities Which, gaeherecl, might at ebb' indieates that the Gospel had Last maks a whole sheaf. far the Lord's reached Rome, and that the Jewise ' garner. It is tele staety opportunities Christians were opposed by their un- clad the stray privileges which, takeu believing brethren to such an extent up and bound together and beaten out, will a,t la,st fill you with inuch joy. , that the Beaten rulers interfered. To Tbere are a few moments left. worth depart fi•om Rome The decree was not the gleaming. Now, Ruth, to tett fisell long in fotroe, for Paul found many May each. one have measures full and Jews in Romer eight years after this. running over ! Oh, you gleaners, to th,e field! And if there be. in your house- Acts 28. 15. Came unto them. It may hold soa aged minor a sick relative that have been either their common trade is not strong enough to some forth and car common faith which brought Paul toil in this field, then let Ruth take' and Aquila togetheir. home to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning: "He that p•,oeth forte ancli a. Tbe sa,me cratt. Revised Version, weepeth, hearing pee:thus seed, shall "trade." Every Jew, however high his doubtless eome agaili withrejoicing,1 bringing his sheaves with him." Maystation, wet required to teach his son the Lord God of Ruth and Naomi be;'a trade; and the greatest rabbis were our portion forever! ABOUT SWIMMING. Alt Boys and Girls Should Learn Th14 Ae eemplishmeni. It is both sensible and humane to urge upon all who have the physical training of 'boys ent girls in charge that they teach these young people the art of swimming. The fact that water is not the natural element in which we live is argument enough to use on this point. Water occupies so laxge a pro- portion of the surface of the globe that no one can travel far without having to cross river, lake or ocean. The utility at the accomplishment ap- pears in a. painfully strong light when we read. the reported wrecktof esteem.- er on the coast of Scotland, vvhere any one could swim the distance of sixty feet was able to save himself, and. yet eighty lives were lost. Most of the public schools of England are provided with a. swimming muter, and his training is not left optional ith the boys In those schools near rivers 'where boating is a form of ex- ercise and recreation, the boys are ob- liged to pass a swiraming test before they are allowed to enter a boat on the river. It is said that in the gram- mar richool of Chester a boy must be able to swim in his clothes four tiines round the city swimaning-bath before he is allowed to go into a. boat's crew on the Dee. Suoh requirements would be as rea.sonable here as they are in, England, because our boys are as well worth saving a,s English boys. _ 'WEIGHTY 13RDIES. Throughout the Empire of Morocco and in Tunis there are villages where tele elder inembers of the adult popula- tion follow professionally the pursuits of fattening young ladies for the mat- rim:Louie]. market of Barbary, says the San Francisco. "Chronicle." The Moors, like tee Tetras and moist other Orient- als, give a decided preterenee to "Moon- faced" wives over learn ones, and are ,mors 'solicitous as to the number of pounds Which their brides weigh than about the, Mick f accomplishmeints they peewee. A girl is pret ',Auder tee proems of felt -teeing when she is eboat 12 years of age. Hebr hands are tied behind her ant ghe is seated on a carpet during go many bows every day,. while her 'papa' stapes over her with a ma - tractile, or big stick, and her mother a,t timepops into bar mouth a hell of coruiscoussou, or stiff maize porridge, kneaded up with greaes end just large enough to be swallowed without the patient choking. If the unfortunate girl declines to be staffed see is compelled, so that ere long, the poor girl resigns herself to the torture and gulps down the boluses lest she should be beaten. In lera,zil corpulence tsetse consider- ed the, essential pent Of female beauty, and the greatest complim.e.nt that can be paid to a Brazilians lady is to tell her that she grows fatter and fairer every day. , A men can never thrive who consid- ers the present longer than the future also shoemakers. tailors, or other hand- loreftemen. Abode with them, 0, rare privilege of that lowly home to have Paul as its guest for more than a year! 3. We, too, can have hive in our home by his written thoughts, which are the bast siert of a great man. And wrought Though Paul asserted in Inc epistles the right of an apostle to be supported by the Churah, yet he labored for his own living, partly because the churches were smell and poor, partly because he , would have men see tha,t he sought them and not theirs. Tentma,kers. Es trade wee the weaving of the, ooarse , cloth out of which Lents were made. ,It was a simple and common work, not requiring close application like the ' finer qualities of cloth, end, while the wages were not large, gave him; oppor- tunity for thought and conversation. 4. Paul in the workshop is nor less noble ' than Paul preaehing on Mars hill. 5. Every men .needs both work and wor- ship, and both for the health of body , and. eoul. 4. Reasoned in the synagogue. Every - 'where the Jewish worship gave him, an audience of devout people, familiar with the Scriptures, both Jews and Greeks. Every Sebba.th. The Jewish sacred day, Saturday. Persuaded. Literally, "strove to persuade." His method was by showing the fuleillment of Old. Test - armed; propheele,s and types in thepe,r- son of Je.us. The Jews end tthe Greeks Tee latter were the thoughtful Gen- tiles who had rejected idots and were inquiring alter the truth; a class very cnmiluxla. evi.ouss that age, and eurnirshing ti, -0 largest element Lor the. Christian b. Silas and Timableas. Both had been left to Berea, and the latter had gone, thence to Thessalonien and now brought tiebrags of tha Chureh in that pease, welch induced Paul to write from Corinth the First Epistle to the Thee- mlunians, the earliest of his letters. bets 17. 14; Velem. 3. 2. From Mare - dente. 'fhe northern province, where ' Peed bad labored at Philippi, Mace- ' d,ciala,, and Berea. Paul was pressed. rlievised. Versicla, "constrained by the word" tancouraged by the coming of he friends. Panel felt more then ever a zeal for the Gospel, and gave henself anew to his work. Jesus was Christ. Not merely deplared the truth, but pre- sented. it in all its relations, and show- ed clearly that Jest's came as the Mes- siaa of Jewish hopes. 6. They opposed. Literally, "set themselves in array against him," as 111 at war with his doctrine. Blastpheans ed. (6) Bitterness of spirit often leads to words of cursing. Shook his raira- men.t. Ain expressirve gesture, as if shaking off contamination, and expres- stye of entire septara,tion. Your blood. The responsibility for their loss of priv- ilege and,' far the toes of the* senate would n,ot rest upon bine for he had. given them every Opportunity tO ao- ceipt the Goepel. Unto the Gentiles. This referred to his minestry at Cor- inth only; elsewhe,re he addressed ,the Jews first with the message of salve - 7. De,pexted thenice. It marked a stage ina Christian history when the disciples first seperated /ram the Jewish worship and framed a syna- gogue of their own membere. Certain mattes house. Not to live, but to te,aerh end warship. That most have been a stoaall ehherch which could meet in a hmtse. Justus. Revised Version, "'Liens Justus." We know no rolore df him than that he was a Gentile, a resident a Corinth belong - ming to the better class, and a devout main. One that worshipe4 God A terni uSed only of Gentiles whlo had forsaken irdolatry, butt had net yet joined the Jewish ChUrch, aind hence were called "proselytes' of the gaits." Head to the synagogue. This made is etnevenient for Fault's pareose. 8. °revue the chief ruler, President of the Board of Mere and therefore a main of prominence. He was one of the few whom Paul personally baptized. With all his house. Lae eenversion of an entre Jewish ta,raily ettreeted attention and led tor an extensive re- vival, Many a the Corinthians. The organization of a distinct body of be - Reveals ha Christ resuaLed in large in- crease. From. Paul's writing we learn that =ow them were Gams, Sieeee- anus and has family, Chloe, a deaconess, and Erastus, tee, treasurer of the city. 9, 10. Then spoke, the. Lord. Probably et a time of depre,ssion and anxiety. By a. vision. Mane than once after his conversion at Darmaisces the LordJesus visibly appeared to obteer his faithful weaker. Aets. 22, 17, Be not afraid. 7. Even the boldest of God's people bove need of divine encouragement. 1 am with the. 8. Our Lord sees and sympathizes with the trials of his fol- lowers. I have reach people. Teut Ecird knew how manay hearts in ,Atere Yeaaning for deliverance ai would accept the news of salvation, and he counted them by anticipation as al- ready his own. 9. Who is alone when his Savion.r is by his side? IL Ho continued. Eneouraged by the vision, he remained at Corinth longer then at any previous place of mission- ary labor. A. year and aix months. This was the length of his entire stay at Cceinth, re:It after the visiou only. REVIVED MEMORY. armor. When we Grow Old WO 'Levin the Thill3b sr Long A go. About seventy-five years ago, upon a rainy dey, a small boy who had reach- ed the mature age of six was sitting with tie mamma, and bemoaning the state of the weather and accomparteirte ahserice of novel entertainraent. Mam- ma were on her finger a beautiful ring that was it family heirloont, and ae sbe sewed patiently the jewel glitter- ed on her little white hand. The small boy regarded the bright bauble for sorae time in silence, and. then sweetly re- quested toaa,rama to take it off and let him play with it. It was a weak thing, to do, perbaps, but she complied. I dare say there are mothers at the present day who can sympathize with her, for human nature is t,he same, though fash- ions cbangeend when the "dear child" i looked up n her fare pleadingly, he looked with papa's eyes, and papa was dead. So he got the ring and lost it. as might have been expected. He al- ways insisted. that he had "put it away to Ireepe but he could never remember where. The years went on- The gentle young mother went out into the great un- known to find. the light of her life that shone in "papa's eyes," and the century and the boy having been young togeth- er, grew old in company, too. Finally, age began to tell on them; the 'century got troubled with it complaint desig- nated fin de sieclee and the boy lost his memory for the things of to -day, but became abnormally reminiscent in regard to the past. His thoughts often turned back to the, younginother long dead, a,nd in thte decline et life he had as clear a. =enact picture of her as els boyish cares had ever seen. One even- ing, having pushed hie spectacles on top of his head and hunted everewhere Lor them vainly, he sat musing before the fire, when suddenly it flood of Light illuraineted that dark earner of his memory where hung the pieture of that small edition of himself losing or "putting away" Veering. He sprang to his feet with an excited cry: 'erhe Ting! The ring! I slipped it down the crac.k in the window casing. The one that looks out on the. °reamed I" Upon investigation the ring twee brought from its long hiding place, wet& was the exact spot the old. man bad described. UNUSUAL MARRIAGES. It is well known that a man may not raarry his grandmother, and yet, says a correspondent, I am acquainted with a gexitlennan who dimd lead his grand - mamma to the altar—the said lady be- ing both youin,g and pretty. This is how it came about: Grandpapa, write -s my correspondent, had a daugh- ter, who married a widower with growarup-sons, long before she was pro- vided with it stepmother. 'Wheal he died, his widow espoused one of the saki sons, thereby beeorming her own grandchild—at least, I suppose iia, only One is apt to get a trifle mixed in these relationuthips. it is not ofteu that an aunt marries the lover of the niece, but last Janury such a. wedding oecurred at our church. The eccentricity a this anion lay in ths feet that the aunt was hard featured, angular, and poor, while the nieee was pretty, graceful, and rah. Now, how could stieh a mar- riage have been effected.? About a week ortwo ago 1 read a description of a wedding between a deaf and dumb bridegroom and a blind bride. The writer, who was an eye -witness of the ceremony, said it was a most affecting and em.pressive sight. He also observ- ed that, for obvieus reasons, quarreling oneraa,trimonial tiffs, would be an im- possibility between the happy pair. BEAUTY REQUIREMENTS. A pretty woman must first of all have olearly-oet, regular features. She must have full, deer eyes. She must heve a sada that is above reproach, un- toutched by rough or powder. She must letve glossy haer that has never touched by rogue or powder. She is like seeable column for her head. She must heve a good figure, plump enough, yet slender euough, though never suggestive at an angle. She must have a white expressive hand, preferably a small ons butt not of nec- essity, if it is well kept and White. She inust have small ears and a throat that must knIOW 'Mee to put on her clothes, on. she. Loses half her beauty. She inust fully understand whet best suits her ea the, -way af hair -dressing, and ding closely to that. SCRIPTURAL SANCTION. poker Powell, sooffing,— Yer canet make, me. b'leerve keerds ear wicked. Dr. Thirdly—Why aott pray? Poker Powell—Don:et it tell in the Bible 'bout Gabriel's trunterf • AS THEY SPEAK IT AT 'OME. Why does Miss Van Pelt have an English footman? Oh, 1 suppose see wenatts to learn the laingeage. FREAKS OF A TORNADO. &moos opened a Foceenicenlellaeoupled Cars mad scooped lip Cattle. A tarmac' whieth eweet ever the. Lyle Minn., district a week or so ago, and didf30,000 damage was one of 'tee Moot freakish on record. Tbere were several remarkaeile es- capes, among thlean were thaw ri4 the Fetes Hanson fatally, hviesg lh Lyle. Hie was building a house and with les family at six and theta visitors Was eating supper la Wee eaxte welch awe just west of the new house. The storm blew the barn, family sad, house scram the prairie. All were carried over fifty feet, while the entree of tee buildinee were carried a quarter of a mile. After striking the Peter Hanson house the eta= dodged around Dr. Frazier's xessue,enee, brealcinit a Am; windows there arid tately demolished the new bouse of eharies Chriseeneon. Dr. Elrazieres barn, howeverwelsh adross the prairie xrt sunali ,pieoes, 4. cow weighing 1,1.0 peencle was curled, a. hundred feet and so badly injured that alio hail to be killed. 4.„ enew that stood Week. a and was also carried away, estaped without a, saratch. .E. Bryaz saw the storm cone, ing and Lose his freeily to tee eellea and had Lbw= btaud aga.nst the west wall. Every team< ot tenher 54 tho houte eas blown away and, &ll escaped unhurt, excerpt Aix. eryen, who had a big rook blown against his loot as be stoad in the celler, At Henry elansmee house was a tightly Closed. Vooketbook, containing $140. The poketbook was afterward. found open aim lying beside it was a elu bill. The *180 had. been blown away. lene rotatiou of the funeel ,split six freight cars Line two divisions, send - in; three down the traok aud the other three up; while it broke the txmpling the ears were uninjured.. The tornado traveiled like a bounce eag rubber bell, etracing in one place, thee riehag and de...vending again. At - ter striking Christiaasone place, it roue up and dropped egain, half a mile east, when it struck two berns, then rose. again and came down, taking a barn and. granary two miles east of Lyle. Prove there an the sterna sem= have broken and einnply blown as a heavy wind, having lost its rotation. BIZ A STS, BIRDS AND FISH. The descendants of a single female wasp will oftea numbe,r 25,000 in one season. Flea,s will never teeth an epileptio and will instantly leave a dead or dye bag person. A bumble bee, has beexi known to die-. Lance a locomotive going twenty miles an holm, Tho fly lays four times each summer, and eighty eggs each time. Female spiders are mach larger and more feromeue then tbe males, and. often devoux their husbands. Several species of moths never eat after attaming a perfect state. They have no mouths, and live but a few borers. A Birmingham, England, tradesman has turned loose in the streets a pair of herons With advertisements attached to them. leesps are the most inveterate, enem- les of flies. Reamer says that he has knOWn ens way to kill 1,000 flies in a. day. Two sextota beetles will bury a mole inan hour, a feat equivalent to two men interring a. whale in the same time. A. female queen ant is always attend- ed by one or more servants to carry off her eggs, of which she lays irate 5,000 to 10,000 a year. Two white -winged crows make daily visits to Robert Mullins farra at Ie. chaster, Md., but so far they have elud- ed efforts to captu,re them. Attempts lueve been made to proauce, spider silk, but have failed, the fero- cious matures of these insects not pere metting themn to live together in cora- mime ties. Faux years ago, when wool was low, a Jonesboro, Me., man sold all his sheep but one, which each year since has raiss ed a, black la.m13, utitil this year, when it had a pair of white ewes. ABOUT INTRODUCTIONS. A society writers lays down these rules: Yotuing women, when introduced to young men, should not offer to shake hands. When an introduction is given the name should be pronounced in a clear, distinct tone. It is bad form to Introduce on the street or lin a paaoe a amusement. Im the introduction of elderly people ths younger should be introduced to the elder—not the reverse. The form of making. an introdurtion is the following: "elle. — allow me to present —;" or, "MI's. A., Mr. B. desixes the honor of knowing you." Two ladies ma shake hands on being introduced- It is considered good forin. BEG BLOCK OF GRANITE. The pedestal. for the new statue of Peter the Greet, whirl has recently been erected. itn St. Petersburg, consists of it block of gratnite welch weigh - leant 1e17 toes. In order to get te its destine -Lien it had to be carlierilqiir miles overlrend and thirteen mlie,s by water. For the overland journey e railway was used censistin.g 02 tam lame' of thnber funais,hed with hard -metal grooves. Spheres of hard, brass about me inches in diameter -were placecl be.. • tween these, erooves, and on the spheres, the framework containing the block was naoved by means of siety men. A SURPRISE PARTY, What's Mrs. lire,ezely in such a stet*, about? 1 Sbe asked the pleasure of Lieut. Slick's company to tea and ,he ap- peared on the scene with forty of his men.• • ALMOST AS BAD. Eastern Boy—Did you ever play foots; ball? Western Boy, Watching the game— No; but I once got ectughtu in a drove of stampeded invites. IN THE RIGHT PLACE. The Summer Girl—Ohl I love main,' set 1 " The Farneere-Well, teess, thugs as nachera.1 around bete as they art "Anywhere.