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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-8-5, Page 7..4VOITS AND COMENTS. 'proposed visit of 11T, Felix Faure to tho A great deal hats been said about the Czar ; bit after all, tee project may be abandoned. Emperor William is the troubleefete. He wants to go, too, ma •M. Faure doesn't want to meet him. Thies German Emeeror, it is reported, wrote a letter to the Czar, telling how •greatly he veculd be pleased if his ar- rival at St. Peterabterg "meld. coin - cede with that of the Pr•esident a the French Republic." lentraediately on re- ceipt of this letter Nicholas II. sent for the French: Ambassador, M. de libutebello, and. received eine in the castle of Peterhof, where .hes showed him the Keiseces letter. Montebello wee astounded. He declared that the thing was impoissiblee This was also the 'Czar's opinion, and, he advised the French Ambassador to bring the in- citlent to the, attention of Pre.sident Faure. Teat very evening M. de Mon- tebello started, for Paris. in order not to hurt tee feelings of the German, Emperor the report was eirculeted that personae motives, or rather family affairs, formed the soles reason for Mon- tebello's return to Paris Naturally 'enough, the news which the Autbassa, dor brought there, put ad, Faure in a fix. Empe,ror William would certainly be furious if bis advenoe,s were openly repelled. It was necessary to remove the, difficulty with gentleness and de- , biota bendlisag, The Government in official notices announced that the i 'much -talked -of visit was merely a peojeets o,nd othing more. At alle meats it could. only occur during the pasliareentary holidays and more-; ever M. Faure had an engagement , to meet the citizens of Dauphine in erojeice tend suatettig more. ,At all the Czar's reply was mede easy. He simply regretted. that it wee iinpos-1 slide. for hirm to comply with the desire of his itmpesial cousin. But Wihiam' would not be foiled. He laid his plans to capture tee President in German waters, as it was expected that the trip would be made, by way of the Bal- tic. To avoid this danger the Frenoh Geverninene repeated that the voy- Lae would he made ria Odessa. It is very likely that the Kaiser still holds in reserve some surprises for the would- be visiting President. Indeed it has already been hinted that William II. eherishes the, hope of forming a. new triplice against the empire of his mat-. • gratadtmetteler. Foreign news may become intereebing before the end of the summer. OVER W DRUB LIVERS. Irmo. • REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE HEALTH OF THE BODY. moral impression Are mostly nue to the Hard evoked condition of the or- dinary Liver — me Says Take Care or It and be inorauy Weu. Rev. Dr. Talmage preaohed on Sun day frosn the text, Proverbs vile 23, "Till a• dart strike through his liver!' Solomon's anatomical and. physiolog- ical discoveries were so very greattha he was neaelY 300 years ahead of the scientists of his day. He, more then 1000 years before Christ, seemed to know about the circulation of th blood, which Hervey discovered 161 years after Christ, for when Solomon in Ecole,sitiates, describing the hirrnall body, speaks of the pitcher at thee:ma tain, he evideatly means the thre . canals, leading from the heart, that re- ceive the blood like pitcherts. When he speaks in Ecclesiastes of the silver cord of life, he evtdently means th : spinal marrow, about wheat, in ou 1 day, Drs. Mayo and Ceepenter and Dalton and Flint and BrowneSequar have erperimented. And %lemon re cordecl in the Bible thousands of years I before scientists discovered it, that in j his time the spinal cord relaxed in old age, producing the tremors of bend, , and head, "or the silver cord be, loos - THE EXETER TIM ES Moral and Physical," in which he shows how different the same things may appear to different people. He says; "After the great battle on ithe Almelo In 1859 between the Frame and the Sardinians on the one side and the Austrians on the other, so 61s - estrous to the letter, the defeated array retreated, followed by the vic- tors. A desoription of the march of each army is given by two correspond- ents of The London Times, one of wbom traveled with the successful host, the ether with the defeated. The ditferenee in views and statements of the same place, scenes and events is remarkalle. The farmer ar esaid to be marclung through beautiful ain.d luxuriant count - • try during the day and at night en- camping where they are supplied with an abundance of the best provisions and all sorts of rural dainties. There is , nothing of war about the proceeding e except its stimulus and excitement. On 9. the side of the poor Austrians it is just the reverse. In his letter of the owe date, desoribing the same places and mama over the same road, the j writer ea,n scarcely find words to :pet forth the suffering, impatience and dis- gust existing around him. What was pleasant to the former was intolerable to the latter. What made all this dif- ference asks the author. One condi- t' e 11 d ,, once in your physical conditions makes it look different, and therefore, the two reports you have given of yourself are as widely different as the repor s in The I,ondon Times from the two rorres- ci cl , Payson, " so far up on the mount that itseem ed as if the oentri teal force of earth Fau d no longer ho d bun, sometimes rough a physical disorder was so far own that it seemed as if the nether world would clutch him. Poor William Cowper was a. most excellen.t Cbris tian and will be loved in the Christian eleu li as le it sings ii beginning;(.:"There11l'i . his Mel. s fountain with biome" "Oh, for a closer walk with God," "What various hindrances we meet," and "God moves in a mys- terious way." Yet washes() overcome by melancholy or black:pile„ that it was only through the mistake of the caletriver, who took him to the wrong .places instead of the elver bank that ne did not commit suicide. Opiritual condition so mightily affect- ed by the physical state, what a ,great oppoetehity this gives to the Christian physician, for he cam, feel at the same - tim,e both. the pulse of the body a,ad pulse of the soul, and he can administer to both at once, tend if medicine is need- ed he oa:n give that, and it spiritual counsel is needed. be can give that—an • earthly and. a divine prescription at the 'same time—and call en not only the apothecary of earth, but the,phcirinacy larhIalvvVillt at bOa:•hglissidtel-8 okniigh)af,t acoacx; i ! 1 Lan n ta humph are vie ,or ou the Austrians have bon defeated." So, my dear brother, the road you ar traveling is the same you have been tra.veling a long while, but the differ promise to pay my Rea 80 yeare from date at the, bane of the grave," says every infraction of the laws of your teal being. t Well a, manes body never com- pletely recover from early ditssipationi et this world.? Never. How about the world be come? Pea -tape God will fix it 1(p th the resurre.otion body so that it will not have to go limping through all eternitY. Beit get the liver thor- oughly damaged, end it will stay,dam- aged. as long as you are htsre. Physiciens call it oirrheets of the liver, or inflam- mation of the. liver, or fatty degenera- te:en of tee liver, bu.t Solomon puts all these pangs into csee figure and seers, "T111. a. dart strikes through the liver." Holed seeined to heves isome hint of tbes when he eepresented Pometheuss for his crimes, fastened to a pillar and an: eagle feeditng on his liver, which was renewed agein *soh night so that the devouring went on untilfinelly Her- cules slew the eagle axed rescued Pro- metheus. And a dissipated early life assures a ferocity peckitag werey and. clawing aw,ey at the livor year in an.d year out, and death h. the only Ilier- ouiles who CatI2 breele the power of its beak or uinoltnah: its claws. So also others wrote fables about vultures preying upon the liver, but there are those lime with Whom it is no fable, but a terrible reality. ehat youing man snaokine cigarette end smoking cigars bas no idea tbat he e ts getting for himself smoked liver. That youngg man hae no idea that by early dissipetion he has so depleted his his energie,s that he will go into the battle only half armed. Here Ls anoth- er young man, who, if he put all his forces against the regiment of you.th- full temp:tattoo, in the strength of God, neight drive them book, but he is ale - ownag them to be ree•nforeed by the whole array of micilife temptations, and what but immortal -defeat ea,n await It is not surprising to learn that the extent and ecet of the recent parade at ships tat Spithead will probably in- duoe the British Admiralty to curtail, this year, the annual naval manoeuv- res, or to forego them altogether. • Certainly a mobilization wbich brought out 165 vessels, ranging from the tor- pedo boat to the 15,000 -ton battleship, and a force of 38,000 train•ed officers and. men, was a sufficient test of the readiness of the home fleet. And not in number alone was the fleet impres- sive. The aggregate horse power on 130 of the vessels, as one observer noted, was nearly a million—in more exact figures, 914,000, or an average of over 7,000. In fact, joined with the prim- ary purpose of a jubilee pageant was the very practical idea of giving foreign observers a notion of the sea, power of Great Britain. And yet in furnishing forth this majestic parade, not a single ship was brought from the foreign sta- tions, where there are no fewer than 125 pennants. It was solely an exhibit of wbiat England has in her home wa- ters. In four days, as one naval au- thority remarked, 120 of these vessels could be at Gibraltar; in nine days the Channel squadron, twenty-nine strong, could be et Halifax ; in twenty-seven days at Table Bay; in fifty-eight days at Hong -Kong. England has been most wise in the persistency with which she has striven for the mastery of the sea, and heir enornaouts expenditures upon her fleet have been mioney well laid out. Her navy constitutes atonee the surest defence bf the British Isles, her source of aggression against foreign en- emies, the safegu,aed of that vast com- merce svhich is the source of her wealth, her assurance of a food supply from foreign larders, a,nd the guarantee giv- en to les. colonies, spread all over the vvorld, that (she can and. will protect them. Onlooking nations, had, there- fore, much to learn in the Spithead dis- play as to the source of England's rise to power and her vigorous determina- tion to bold her own. , • COOKED /3Y COLD. Any one who has ever picked up with a bare hand a piece of intensely cold iron knows that the touch burns al- most; as badly as if the metal were red- hot. Indeed, the action of great heat and extreme cold are so similar that a Hungarian chemist has turned the lat- t e• • In the text he reveals the fact that he had studied that largest:gland, of the human system, the liver, not by the electric light of the modern dissecting room, but by the dim light' ot a 'com- paratively dark age, and yet had seen its important funations in the God - built castle of the human body, its selecting and secreting power, its curious cells, its elongated. brenohing tube, as divine workmanship in central and right and left lobe, and. tee hep- atic arte•ry, through whioh flow the crimson tides. Oh, this vital organ is like the eye of God in that it never sleeps. Solomon knew of it and had noticed either vivisection or post mortem what awful attacks sin and dissipation made upon it, until the fiat of Almighty God bids the body end soul separate, and oae it commends to the grave,1 and the other it sends to judgment. A javelin of retribution, not glanoing off or snaking a slight wound, but pierc- ing it from side to side "till a, dart 8trikes tirough his liver.' n and Hippocrales mortise to the liver the most of the world's moraa depression, end the word meleneholy means black : bile. 1 I preach to you the gospel of health. In taking a diagnosis of disease of the soul you musi also take a diagnosis of , diseases of the body. As if to recog- nize this one whole book of the New Testament was written by a. physician, I Duke was a medical doctor and he dis- courses much of the physical eonditions, and he tells of the good Samaritan's' medication of the wounds by pouring in oil a•nd wine, and recognizes hunger as a hindrance to hearing the gospel, so' that the 5000 were fed. He also re- I cords the sperse diet of the prodigal away from home, and the extinguished: eyesight of the begger by the wayside tencl lets us know oe. the hemorrhage of ; the wounds of the dying Cerist, and the miraoulous post mortem resuscitation. ' Any estimate tjL the spiritual conditiou! that does isot conclude also the physical condition is incomplete. When the dooreeeper of :Congress fell' dead from excessive joy teseause Bur- goyne had surrenaered at. Saratoga, and ethilip V. of Spain dropped detain the news of his country's defeat in battle, ' and Cardinal WoIsey Laded away be-, cause of the result of Henry VIlles en- athe,mie it was demonstrated that the body and soul are Siamese twins, and when you thrill the one with joy or sorrow you thrill the other. We may as well recognize the tremendous fact that there are two mighty fortresses in the human body, the heart and the ' liver;, the heart, the fortress of the graces; the liver, the fortress of the furies. You natty have the head 1111 - ed with all intellectualitiest and the ear with all musical appreciation, and • the mouth with all eloquence, and the hand with all industries, and ' the heart With all generosities, and yet "a, dert strike through the liver." First, let Christian people avoid the mistake that they are all wrong with 's God bemuse they suffer from depression of spirits. Many a consecrated man has Lound his spirituel sky befogged and his hope of heaven blotted out and himself plunged chin -deep in the slough of de- 1 Oh, ray youing brother, do not make th,e mistake that thoustunds are making - tn opening the battle against sin too late, for this world too late, dad for the world to come too late. 'Wbat brings that express erten Front Se. Louisintojersey Vitro pours late? Toy lost fifteen minutes early on the route, and that effected them all the wet", and they had to be switched off Isere and switehe.d off there, and detained here and detained there, and the man who loses time and strength in the early pa,rt of the journey of life will safer for it all the, way through— the first twenty years of life damaging the following fifty :years, I MY hearers, this is the first sermon you, have heard on the gospel of health. . and it may be tee, last vottwill ever ' hear on that subjeot, and / charge you. in the name of God and Christ and use- fulneas and eternal destiuy, take better care of your health. When some of you die, if your friends pui on your tombstone, a truthful epitaph, it will read: "Hero lies the victim of late sue- r:: ;;Jal,.ditativinilicl?etglifen.L tlivol1411tOZ:D1)8.,' man ;'' or it will be, ''Ten cigars a day closed my earthly existence ;" or it will be, " Tbought I could do at 70 what del at 20, and lam here;" or it will be, Here is the consequence of sitting a half day with wet feat;" or it will be " This is where I have stacked. my har- vest a wild oats ;" or insteed of words tee stonecutter will chisel for an epit- aph on the tombstone two figures— namely, a dart 8,nd a liver. not only count out the right number of drops, but who can also pray. That is the kind of doctor I have had in my house when sickness or death came, I do not vvant any of your profligate or astheistic doctors around my loved olds when the balances of life are trembling. A (lector who has gone through the medical college, and in dissecting room has traversed the wonders of the hy- men mechanism, and found no God ia any of the labyrinths is a fool, and cannot doctor me or Deno. But, oh, the Christian doctors! What a com- fort they have been in many of our households! And they ought to have a warm place in our prayers, as well as praise an our tongues. I bless God thnt the member of Chris- tian physichtes is multiplying and some of the students of the medie,a1 colleges are here to -clay, and I hail you and ordain. you to the tender, beautiful, heaven -descended work of a arks -Ilan physidan, and -when you take your di- ploma from the medical college to look after the perishable body be sure also to et a di lom from th -* t k after the imperishable soul. Let all Christian physicians unite with minis- ters of the gospel en persuading' good people that it is not because God is against thein that they sometimes feel depressed, but because of their diseased body. I suppose David, the psalmist, was no more pious when he called on everything human and angelic, animate and inanimate, even from the snowflake to hurricane, to praise God than when he said, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto Thee, 0 Lord;" or that jeremiah was more pious when he wrote his prophecy them. when he wrote his :'Lamentations;" or job when he said a 'I know that my Redeemer levetle," bhan when covered over with the pus- tules of elephantiasis as he sat in the ashes scratching the scabs off with a broken piece of pottery; or that Alex- ander Cruden„ the coneordist, was a better man when he oompiled the book that has helped. 10,000 students of the Bible than when under the power of physical disorder he was hand -cuffed and. strait-waistc,cateci in Bethnal Green rnsene Asylum- "Oh," says some Chris- ia,n man, "no one ought to allow phy- sical disorder to depress his soul. He ought to live so near to God as to be always in the sunshine." Yes, that is good advice. But 1 warrant that you, he roam who gives the advice, has a ound liver. Thank God for a health- ul biepatic condition, for as certainly a you lose it you will sometidies, like (David an.d like Jeremiah, a,nd like Cow- er, end like Alexander Cruden, and ike 10,000 other invalids, be playing •a ead march on the same organ with which now you play a staccato. My object at tins point is not only o emolliate tire criticisms of „those in ood health against those in poor ealth, but to show Christian people fho are atrabilious what is the matter vitb, them. Do not charge against the earl the crimes of another portion of your organism.. Do not conclude be- oause the path to heaven is not arboreci with as fine a foliage, or the ba•nks spond, end has said, My heeet is not right with God end I think I must have made a mistake, end instead of being a child a light I am a child of darkness, t No one can feel as gloomy as I feel and be a, ,Chriseian," And he has gone to his minister for consolation, and he has • collected leavers books, end Cecil's ' books, a,nd read and read and read, and prayed andprayed and prayed, and wept and wept, and wept, and groaned and groaned 8,nd groaned. My brother, your trouble is not with the heart. It s a gastric disorder or a rebellion of ' he liver. You need a pleysicia,n more er o account to prepare meats for t food. He subjects the meet 'to 60 de- s grecs of frost, end then seals it sie in b air -tight ten cans. The result is that e the meat, which is practically "cooked by cold," will keep any time, and can be ea,ten with very little further pre- c pazation. eautifully snowed with exquinte Wary- panthemums as once, (het, therefore, ou are on the wrong road. The road hen you do a clergyman. It is not in that blots out your hope of Ihea,ven, ile. It not only yellows your eyeballs, n.c1 furs your tongue, and makes Your head ache, but swoops upon your soul n dejections and forebodings. Ilhe 'evil is after you, he has failed to de- ---1-feC01101., AND DierEaTioN. Some experiments have lately been h made in England to test the effect of h alcohol in various quantities upon di- gestion. It was found that absolute al- , a cohol stimulated digestive action by a ' fraction of 1 per cent, when the amount L of tacohol present did not exceed 2 per P cent. When more than this was added the digestive activity was greatly re- Y, duced. Three per cent. of Alcohol reduc- ,L ed the power of digestion over 17( per oent. Pure rye whisky, containing 51 a Per cent. of tacohol was found to have almost exactly the same result. Evee r the addition of 1 per cent. of whisky e reduced the digestive activity by 6 per cent. Bra.ncly, rum and min tzave prac- ° tically the same results. n spoil your character, and he does the next best thing for him—he ruffles your peace of mind. When he says hat you are not a forgiven soul, when Le says you are not right with God when e says that you will never get to hea, en, be lies. If you are ba Christ, you re just as sure of heaven, as if yeti were there already. But Satan, find - ng that 18 cannot keep you out of the romised land of Canaan, has deter- mined that the spies shall not (bring ou an yEschol grapes beforehand and hat you shall have nothine but brick - y pear and cratapple. You are just s much a Ohristian now under the loud as when you were accustomed to ise at 5 o'clock in the morning to ray and sing "Halleluiah, 'Us done!" My friend, Rev. Dr. joseph Eel -ones f Philadelphia, a transiated spirit ow, wrote a book, entitled "Man, will bring you out ,at the same gate whether you walk with the stride of an athlete or come up on crutches. thousands of Chiistiane, morbid about heir experiences, amsi morbid about t. heir business ana morbisi about the resent, and morbid about the future, eed the sermon I am now preaching. Anotbier ptractioal nee of this subject s w n for the yowng. Thee theory is abroad that they mast first sow their wild. oats ad afterward efielsigan wheat. Let ie break the detest:ion. Wild oats are getvera,lly sown in the liver, and they an never be pealed' up. They so pre- occupy bleat organ that there Jerre room ar the implentation of a right,eous rap. . Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of 'squatter soveresn•ty" to tbiose who went aue west and took possession of ainds and held them by right a pre-oc- ligation. Let a mak of sins settle on trouir liver before you get to 25 yearit of a.ge, and they, will in all probability keep poissession of it be en infernat quatte,r soviereignty. "I proneise to ay at the bank $500 six mcynths from data," says the peonessory note. "I i There is e kind ot siekness that is beautiful tylien it comes from overwork for God, or one's country, or one's fam- ily. I have see.n WOUTICIS that were glorious. f have seen an empty sleeve that was more beautiful than the most muscular forearm. I have seen a green shade over the eye shot out in battle, that was more beautiful than any two eyes that had, passed without injury. have seen an old missionary worn out with the malaria. of African jungles, who looked to me more radiant than a rubicund gymnast. I have seen a mother • after six weeks' watching over a family , of children down with scarlet fever, with a glory around eer pale and wan face that surpassed the angelic, It all depends on how you got your sickness and what battle your wounds. If we must get sick and worn out, let it be in Goa's service, and in the effort to make the world. good. Not in the ser- vice of sin. No, no One of the most pathetic scenes that I ever witness, and I often see it, is that of men or 'women converted, in the fifties or sixties or sev- enties wanting to be useful, but they so served the world and tietan in the ear- lier part of their life that they have no physical energy left for the service of God. They sacrificed nerves, muscles, lungs, heart and liver on the wrong al- tar. 'They fought on the wrong side. and now, when their sword is all hack- ed up and their ammunition all gone, they enlist for Emmanuel. When the high mettled cavalry horse, which that man spurred into many a cavalry charge with champing bit and- flaming eye, and neck clothed with thunder, is worn out and spavined and ringbone.d and sp•rtnghalt he rides up to the great Captain of our salvation on the white horsis. and offers his services. When such persons might have been, through the good habits of a lifetime, crashing their beetle axe through the helmeted iniquities they are spending their days and nights in discussing the best way of curing indigestion, ansi quieting their ja•ngling nerves, a.nd rousing their lag- gard appetite, and trying to extract the dart from their :outraged liver. Better convertec1 late than never! Oh, yes, for they will get to heaven. But they will go afoot when they might have wheel- ed up the•steep hills oe the say en Eli- jah's 'chariot. There is an old hymn that we used to. sing in the eountry meeting house when I was a boy, and I remember bow the old folks' voices trembled with emptien while they sang it I have forgotten all but two lines, but those nee -are the peroration of my sermon ; :"Twill save us from a thousand snares To mind religion young." THE PEACOCK AT HOME. The real home of the pose:oak or pea- fowl is bn India. There they were and are hunted, and their fleet is used for food. As these birds live in the sante region as the tiger, pea:cook hunting is a very dangerous sport. The long many suppose, but is composed of fea- thers whiola grow out just above the tail, a.nd are called (he tail coverts, Peacooks ,have been known for many hundeed years. They are mentioned in the Bible; Job mentions thiem, and they are mentioned, too, in i. Kings, 10. Hundreds of years ago in Roane many thousand pea,coelcs weals killed for the great feasts whioh: the emperor made. The, brains of blee pea/cock were =skewed a great treat, and Delany had to be killed for a single feast. BEFORE THE BARGAIN) SALE. • New Salesman—I teteleretaud that no purchaser is to have more than 10 yards. Bat suppose a, lady comets back after one puecthase shall erefuse to sell her any moire? Floor Walker -elf youfre tired of your position.. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AIM 8. " 'Working and waiung for elitist." 1 'Mess. 4: 9, to s itsoiden Text, John 3, • PRACTICAL NOTES.. Verse 9. As toueleag brotherly love. The "brotherly love" bf the Thessalon- lane was fresh in Paul's mind, for Tim- othy bad recently arrived with "good tidings" of their "faith" and "charity," and their warra affection for their "fa- ther in Christ." Ye need not that I write unto you. The tender vonfidence tees clause contrasts strongly with the beseeching exthortation to Outstay Im- mediately preceding. Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. Love is the first indication of spiritual life. Geuuine Cbristeauity caunot lix- isti without it. 10. Indeed ye do it. Tbe more in- tense is one's godly love the wider will be its scope. The beginning of Chris- tian lite is often solicitude for one's owe soul; then comes love for God and Lor family, claurch, neighborhood, The Christian has spiritually grotve, who knows no denominiettonal or national limit to his love, The hffection of the Thesselanialts had jurapea ever the geograp/alecil edges, andd, they were al- ready warmly in love with all the bre- thren which are In all Macedonia. We beseech you, brethren, that ye increases more and more. A. request that telps to make plain Paul's itheology as well as his personal !temper. 11, 12. That ye study to be quiet. The out-of-door of &the ancient world and, the disposition of both Hebrew and Greek mind to philosophize on spiri- tual matters early led to a sort of re- ligious gossip and random discussion that did much kerne "2.11sYhadies"' 2 Vi•tliTirlaiesbAsatziantigaAltIrtTsitN. w.t.Loomang come with direct authority from heav- Appa.rently in the apoe•tlee mina "we" PRESENTIMENTS Oii DEATH on. tTe which are alive and remain. means latimselt and the Therssalollians. But the question of whether or not the SOME EXTRAORDINARY FUTURE apostle expected the iseneedite•te 'nom- EYENI'S CLEARLY SHOWN. tr,g of Christ" Le, and probably will be, teem muoh. disputed. It has no bearing,. as we have already tieent on his inspire,- Ms's' Garivet's '9'eala"—Stvauga Advent*" tion,. Shall not prevent them which its meaning sine this trenslation made; the meaning is, "shall not pre - are etsleep. "Preven,t" lhas changed was There is a very interesting Palter en or a French Coalmine mattes Cumbteg et elotiotain — Scientists Are Interestese, ""Adst"ep" here "s1811 iS before, means orneaanshe'a'dcleaar' Prehe4see, ta:rianribelnets—Pasruisiggfeisrt:—%.°4tebollaIsseiata 16. For the Lord himself. 3 -ems and reliable periedicat, the Journal dos Christ is his own. person. Shall de- scend from. heaven. The picture is that Debate. 11 18 from the pen of M, Hen - of ,Tesus in auman form •breaking ri de Parville, than whom theie is ne through the blue sky ;with supernat- greater authority an. matters relating order," a word or loud caramand, such eyes. ' 'With a shout. Better, "with an. ural ;glory and plainly 'seen. by raortal and, kindred ;subjects, to hallueimation, second sight, obsession as an officer gives to a file of soldiers. First the fact is noted that Mane. As Dr. Dr. Curry wisely said, "To attempt lie Go,rivet, one of the victims of the to give the word. of this commaad, or fire, had a clear presentiment af her to =mire by whom it is to be uttered, is worse than useless." The archangel. death. linen she tbeele her itrineds The head of the angelic order, concern- goodby on the morning of the fatal dee ing which we have in the Bible but it was evident that she never expected, few' poLute Tate trurap of God. The to see them again. She said that Mlle fall of Jericho might serve as a pre - How far these details are parabolic or frightful nightmare, aced that she had. figurattort of the advent here described. ing the night she ha,d suffered fram at figurative trbo shall presume to deeldee dreamed a being burned alive. Reuel- , verse 15. Caught up together with 17. Wes which are valve. See note ou IY abegalea. woe the recent experience, them iu the douche to rneet the of a Parisian doctor, Tee gentlertian Lord in the air. It is significant vine takisig a walk ane afternoon when that Pita does not say "to meet eaeh suddenly the thought struck him that other." He passes over the claange hie hoots might catch fire during beg that shall turn earthly bodies to celes- tial bodies. 1 Cor, 15, 52, 53. 'Ills whole absence. Taere was apparently no pas.sa.ge is a woven web of solemn rays- reaso1a Why any each accident sbould. teries.• So shell we ever be witb the take piece; nevertheless, the doctor, hurs °textile union with the Xing. Lord. The greatest joy of beaven will be ried home, and sues enough, as he a,p- words, A most beautiful conelusion. 18. Comfort one another with tbese peottehed the dwelling be saw volumes a smoke pouritag from one of the chine - Paul Ins just given, " by the word of the Lord," a vivid description of the retYs• llu,shiiag ins lee found, that the sublimist and rityfulest scene that ever flue in the room. adjoin:ling his own had can be. The voice of the archangeLehe caught fire. 'Thanks to his presenti- trump of God. the descending lefeseab, Qui settieg of the judgment seat, the e mead, ins was soon able to quence, the rising of the deed—what can be more earatea. fearful than these?' But to the bunaa,n TWO NOTAIRT.E CASES. betng who feels that he is God's child, I . The Annales des Sciences Psycliques that he has an advocate with the Fath- sT recounts two similar examples of ex - optional value. President Linooln„ it says, lhad an unerring presentiment that he would be asses 'sleeted. During the night preceding his death he dreams ed that he walked dawn a flight of stairs 'which were draped, with Wadi cloth. When he asked, the cause of this mourning lie was told that the -Presid- ent, of 118 Drafted States had been .kill - 01 at the opera house. He tem. Mrs, Lincoln of his dream, and she begged him, but in vain, not to go to the tneae tre, that eventing. ale melted at her fear 042A Went calmly Mgt to meet lakt doom. %he, second story. regale the royst rie aus tragedy ot Lotus IL of Bievaela.' a mad neena,rela threw himself into 1$e Storaberg Lake, which surrounded his palaces, and dragged dean to death( with hina. his pbysicia.n., Dr. You Gude den, who had plunged into the water in, tete hope of saving him. Now, a fevit days before his death, Von Gudden had dreamed that he was ttrugglimg 18 118 3vat,er while vainly trying to save an- other man from drowning. He tad: hie wife about the dreene and after his death she told the story to the Anth- er is mile& the "canang" or "presence" rnpological Soclety of eleinioh. of God, and any signal display of th(' l�mi.Liy elm:getter are the stories told. power of Christ would be naturally re- about M. de Lerizolle.s. This gentleman ferned to by the Nestles as "the day „ was recently crossing a. raou.ntain at et of the Lord." so )42 2 Thess- 2. 8, tag little dietates from. his home when he intermaition of God's province to die-, suddenly received, as it were, a severe comfit the, deafens of the devil is spokeri shock which plung01 hien into the deep- est melaneh�ly. ele fejt as though be had been struok by a clinehect fist, and for a. few minutes his anguish was ex- treme. able first thought was that peate alluteens to the certatn climax. of Chirkst ianity, concerning whieet some terrible c.alamity had happened tit nevertheless, there is less of revelation him or his family, and that he would: it o than a mystery; tles is preeminentlh y hoe 01 e ome. a his arrival at hle wb:at you please—"the ena of the pres- ent dispensation," . "the "the ocimiing of the Lard." Call it ' dawn „ the a despatch announcing the death of his father. threshold of les home when he received was right, elardly had he crossed the 'limas., 3, 11, 12, were lmany, and, the immediate result of their "business" was silly wrangles, while fatal here- sies were a. later consequence. Paul seems to have ,cherished for the enfant church ideals like to some wbush are being developed by the modern insti- tutional oburch. He repeatedly takes pains to divide the activiteis of the "body of Christ" among its members ; to favor the des- ignation of certain brothers and sisters as feet, others as eyes, and still others te do duty as other organs 01 the complete body, every part of which Was of servioe to every other part. The direct moiling a the injunotion Do your own business is "Let eacle • perform with fidelity the par- tioular duties the Church has relegated to him." S•ee a, beaueitul expaneioa of this doctrine is Rom. 12.1-8 But the next clause. Work, with your own hands, shows that Paul regarded secul- ar indotry also as u Christian duty. That ya may. 'week honestly. Becom- ingly, decently, respeotably, consistent- ly. Sloth and. its consequent pov- erty wield being disgracce on axistian, ity. Toward them that are without. hneonverbed Gentiles and JEAVS. Whi> woued be attracted toward Christian doctrilne by the purity, gravity, use - Leafless, end. love a Christian lives. That ye may have lack or nothing. Thessalanioa was firmeass for its manu- factures; and fresh meaning comes te these verses if we assuane that the Thee- sehmian Christians belonged to the iniitiatrial classes, and were especially exposed to the: temptations which be- set everyeay 1volt:ors. There is an in- dependence wbeekt is tel be coveted for Christ's sake. 'While God's -providence makes many dependent upon others, these who can earn their own bread. by honest 'saber, without indebtedness to others, are in: the strongest possible moral position. 13. I would not have you to be. "Would not wish e'en]. to be." Ignor- ant. As all but Christians are. Them which are asleep, Or, as in verse 14, "them which sleep in Jesus," those who had died in the faith ot the. Gos- pel. A death which ends in life is only a, sleep, just as a sleep fromj which there was no awakening would be death. There was evidently much ner- vous apprehension among Thessalonian Christians lest departed loved ones would by their early death be preclud- ed from participation in the glories of the advent. The apostle here combats this notion, as les does also in 1 Cor. 15, and emphasizes the fact that the holy of eaeth leave us to abide with Christ eternally in heaven. Ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. The great world in Paul's day had no hop. The inscriptions on Ro- man and Greek tombs are always affec- tionate, often poetic, but utterly heart- broken. "He sleeps," is a. frequent in- scription in the Christian catacombs; but "Snatched away," was the common heathen inscription. The grief of those who could never hope to meet their loeed ones was often violently expressed —they shaved their heads, sat in ashes, cuttheir flesh, howled,' and often hir- ed others to help them howling and in tears. Only over those who see the sunshine of God's promise through their tears of sorrow does the rainbow of immortal hope bend in, glory, 14. For if we believe. Seeing that we believe." Jesus died and rose again. The resurrection of Jesus is as cer- tain a fact, as is his death. He "died;" but because 18 "rose again' we only "fall asleep ;" his resurrection changes the character .of our death. Even so. It certainly will follow. Will God bring with him. Thet as, with Jesus. The direct implication is that the Chris- tian dead shall be restored to active life when Jesus comes, but that is not the only meaning ,nor does it seem, to be the deepest meaning.. The resur- rection of Jesus incluaed, in the pro- foundest sense, the resurrection of all that are "18 him." He who strives to lose his will in the will of the elaste.r, to love what Jesus loves, hate what Jesus bates, live for Jesus and die for Jesus, no matter whether the "article of death," to use the old phrase, be in martyrdom or in physical peace and comfort, cannot really die. Otherwise, the coining of Jesus woulsi be of no use to the world. He that has lend t"in him," and died "in him," shall rise 15. This e 'say unto you by the word of the Lord. It its net easy to decide whether Paul here asserts the direct special Inspiration of the statements that fallow or refers to words spoken by Jesus while on earth; see especially Matt.. 24. ea; Mark 11, 27; John 6. 39. But In either case (mid just here is Paul's empitasis) the state- ree•nts that follow are not theoretic, but of God accepts htm, there is unspeakable comfort in the expectation of this SCeller. 1. If Paul bad been present witb the hessaeomans—talking instese of writ- • tag—probably the first question that they would have asked ben after hear- ing description of the eonsarnma- tion of all things would. be. "When shall these things be?" Paul replies as Jesus had replied Matte 24. 3 44; 25. 13) .t has been. suggested that in Paul's mind. ae in the mind of our Lord, the destruction of Jerusalem and the final jteigment were eoupled, and that the Passage wheel now follows refers ra- ther to the overthrow of the boly city than to the erel of the world,. No aeed tbat 1 writs man you. Those who always watch are always ready. 2. Yourselves know perfectly. Because Paul hadtaught theme But whet did they know perfectly? That the chrnactic date is unknowable.. The day of the Lord. Usually explained as meaning the dawn of the second advent—"the coratng a the: Son of man." It is welt ta call attentson to three different -uses of such phrases. 1. In the, Old Testa- ment any stgnaa disolay of God's pow-• of as the 'brightness of his coming. 2. Death in its approach to the personal Christian is in a very true sense "the coming of the Lord." 3. There are re- millenniu.m, the consummation of all thinge," "the day of judgment ;" em- BrANY DE.A.eue FORETOLD. rhestze whatever phase of the reveal. - tion appeals to you most, this supreme- ly awful end supremely comforting fact continues to stand before tbe Church; one, I say utnto• ell, Watoh•." There ' cording the, words of Jesus: "\Vhat r say unto I her dear friend,. , las she had constantly before her eyes been able to sleep during the night, Alme. de B., who, ae- and coneerning it we beer perpetually seexas indeed to be a need of obseurity i ins—. to the vision, seemed to be dye in this matte,r, lest aux minds should, tee As Mute. de B. was suppoed t,o be diverted from •the practi,cal duties jaeenred hie wife m excellent health, M. de Lerizalles a the hour. But conce,rning three jeigeen„n„ in h„ waking dreams Bid that there was no things we may be assured; whenever j we personally or the Church se would not be convinced, and at large needs a speeial manifestationlia. deed. a letter came in a few days tell - of the person of Christ he will 00100;, rsg teem of Mmm Mm. de B. ost uxtex- down to die he -will come to receive us; , pected death. Eight hundred cases, somewhat sim- evh:e.n in the feith of the Gospel we lie and in the hour for which fall hours are il.ar to this last one, are recorded in made, to the utter overthrow of all a book publiseed some time ago in Eng - evil forces, end to the inexpressible joy land. In each ease scene person. saw a of all who trust in him, whether they ghost or apparition. of some, living re - be "alive" in this world or not, he will lative or friend at the preoise moment when this relative or friend was on the poent of dying. • If it were not for a. presentiment --.. Mozart would !probably never have co -m, posed. his immortal 'Requiem." One day, while he was sitting alone, lost in a. melancholy reverie, a stranger en- tered the room, and, having a hand- some sum of money on the tablet re - guested him to compose a "Requiem" in memory of a, clear friend, who had just died, Mozart agreed to do so aud he began week at once. Niglat and day he labored with extraordinary zeal, until finally his strength gave way and ha became ill. 'When. his wife tried to cheer him he said brusquely;—It's no use. I composed. that 'Requiem' for my- self ala.dit will be playesl at my funer- al." Nothing could rid his mind. of this idea.. Nay, he was even convinced that the stranger was a visitor from. the other world, who had come to warn him a his approaching end.. So he worked at the "Requiem" until it was finisteed, but when the stranger c.aind for 11 Mozart was dead.. On another occasion M. de Lerizollea was travelling with his wife, and she remarked one morning that she had not came, and his coming thus will fulfill 01 iChristia,u hope. As a thief in the night Suddenly; unexpectedly. , BICYCLE HEALTH METER. Doctors Can Now Tett the Aliments oC Their ratients wins. Accuracy. The very latest Invention, one which is just now,' at the height of sumanee, interesting medico scientists, is called the bicycle health meter. Anather meter 'is not particularly for bicycle people„ but is intended to rec,ord the respiratian, and thus give doctors the information which enables them to tell about the physical condition and pro- spects of the .patien.t. The first met- ee: is made af two atrips of steel., so thin as to be fleitble. These are fast- ened together with pivots, about one- fitbh ot an inch long.. Between the ste,e1 plates or strips is the mechanism, and foe:Weed to the peed= of the steel that comes against the wrist is a thim ;strip of what looks and feels for all the world like oilea silkan, a mor- tise at the tap at th:e meter one sees aetrtain. figures!, Which change from time to time with, the phyetcal condi- tion, jot as the mercury le the ther- mometer indicates the chnnaces in the weathee. This is the way that the &actor pro- ceeds. Before he begins the experiment he carefully rescerteens by means of the health meter the exact :physical oda- cli.tion of his patient. ittirst comes the templerature. Then. a cnote is taken of the color of the faeg, enieatnisag as to whether or no it bas the hue of health. Then he feels the pulse, listens to the beatinag a the hast, notes the rate of breething, how long dit takes to take in broth atria how lea* to expel it. This done„ he puts the patient through a. condo which will briing about fati- gue. When that is aver he takes the same note of the patient's condition as in the first place. Then he reads the health meter figures and knoevs ex- atetlywhet changes oemerred in the interim, between tee begineing of the exercise wed the conclusion. THE BABY' a PRESENT. At aeibeauville, in France, the Cap- tain of the local fire brigade recently became a happy father. With one ac- cord the brave firemen sacrificed the hirsute adornments which were theist glory, to fill it velvet cushion, and this unique gift was duly placed be the baby's ensile, with a diploma a honorary membership of the corps. HE KNEW THE FEELING. Saissionairy, devoutly—Death has me terrors for me, six. I shall welcome it wible a smile. Cannibal Irting, sztounaed -- Great skull and cross-loones You must have cmore wives than I've got. THE BEST WITEET, F011 IIT.M, Barrow—That's a tlandy wheel yeti have theses, old. men. I'D take a little spin on it some day. By 118 way, what kind of a wheel do you think 1 ought to rides? (Marrow -00e of your own.