Exeter Times, 1897-9-9, Page 7THE
EXETER 'TIMES
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
!Mr. William Ogilvie, DominionLanc'
'aurveyer, carries a level head througb
ell tbe Klondike excitement. He is
the only na,an on the upper Yukon whc
se,asoned, against the gold fever. Com
mending anly the small income of a
surveyor ,he has not washed out a pan
of dirt or staked out a °lake except
when surveying claims for others. His
.labors for years have been of great
value to the miners, among whom he
abou.t the only man who has tattle
prospect of acquiring wealth It is
really time that Ogilvie went on a
.strike: Them he h'as been far a
large part of the time sinee 1887, among
the dreary Yukdn wastes, sighting his
theodolite While others are piokkag up
nuggets, tialling anxious miners whe-
ther they are an United States or
•Canadian eon, and settling their dis-
putes with his instrumetats when they
are quarelling over claim boundaries;
and when the authorities in Ottawa
sent bine permission to go home, late
last fall, he made answer that the price
of dogs was so high he did not aeon
justified in putting the Government to
the expense a a. teaia with which he
might sledge out a the country.
If they discover another Klondike up
there, it should really be named the
Ogilvie. With Ins pay at only $150 a
month end rations, he should have at
least the xneed o honer, He deserves
It. No other man has begun to give
us so much accurate information about
the Yukon gold. region, in all its
aspects, as Ogilvie has done since ;1887.
Canada has just issued a pamphlet of
information about tla,e Yukon district,
-end sixty-two of its sixty-five pages
are filled with extracts from Ogilvie's
reports. The misters have confidence
in aim. He has helped them in various
ways. Mere was trouble brewing on
the Klondike when hundreds a excited
misaers began tostake out their claims;
but contentment reigned after Ogilvie
acid marked the corners. On many a
creek west of the Yukon, miners have
been really anxious to know Whether
they were digging in Alaskan or Can-
adian dirt, and they have depended
npon Ogilvie to tell them where the
141st meridian erasses their valley or
gulch. They know that his determin-
ation are only provisional , but they
accept them ch'eertully. This man has
attended etrictly to da.ty at a tiim.e
-, sand in a region when an ordinary per-
son wouid. be attempted to throw up
kis poorly paid job and begin delving
for dust with the rest of the trowd.
LABOR CONFLICTS.
Dow the Two Great Battles arc lbclisg Con-
ducttd at the Present Time.
The greatest battles of modern times
are fought by and against the forces
of organized labor. At tlue time we
write two great contests of this sort
are going on—one in England, and the
other in the United States. In both
cases the fighting has been "fair." The
armies arrayed agaimst each other are
engaged in warfare, and they deal as
heavy blows as they can, but no "foul"
blows have been delivered.
Although such contests bear a gen-
eral resemblance to one another, the
organization both of labor and of em-
ployers is more perfeot iin England than
it is elsewhere.
The engineering strike for eight hours
began quietly. In London one firm aft-
er another had substituted eight for
nine hours until a majority of employ-
ers in that trade Were on that side. The
allied trade -unions ordered a strike in
three large workshops where the work-
ing day was( nine hours.
The employers in the United King-
dom have a central council organized
like a headquarters staff. This council
;perceived that if the strike were suc-
cessful, other London firms would be
ooerced and the eight-hour movement
would spread to other industrial cen-
tres. The council decided to make a
resolute stand against the eight-hour
cause.
The masters through the council gave
notice that one-fourtjr of the members
of the unions which had ordered the
strike should be suspended from work
throughout the kingdom. The engin-
eers' union replied. by ordering out the
remaining three-fourths of its members.
Within a fortnight about one hun-
dred thousand workmen were thrown
out of employment in the shipyards
and machine -shops. B,oth sides were
full of fight, and prepared for conflict.
The trade -unions were ready to pay the
strikers and locked -out men one hun-
dred thousand dollars a week while the
campaign should last. The allied em-
ployers were equally determined to
meet heavy losses in business rather
than to surrender to the trade -union-
ists.
While battle was joined with resolute
courage it was net necessary for the
authorities in any city to strengthen
the police force or to call out troops.
The striking engineers had no intention
of doing anything unlawful. It was
simply a trial of endurance on each side,
without scenes of disorder and violence.
War of any kind is wasteful, and
every man who has been engaged in a
long strike knows how Aeplorable a
labor war is. But if arbitration fails,
and if hostilities must be carried on,, it
Ls on every account to be desired that
the conflict be waged without violence
or lawleseness. This is, happily, the
history to the present time of the two
great strikes now in progress.
UP AIND DOWN.
I wolneler what Grinder's wife gets
him vie at such an: unearthly hour in
themorning for?
Sof ehtell have more tune to call him
doWn, I guess.
DECEIVED.
Cruel, heartless woman I cried Lord
Ceshibroke. You told me that you
lovet me, aed yet 1 discpv,er that your
fatino is e' bankrupt. °
THE PHYSICAL BUB!.
poem
ALSO A SUBJECT OF GOD'S CARE,
WHOSE TEMPLE IT IS.
Why Earthly Physicians Could Not Cure
the Gout or a King — The Almighty in
the Realm oillediciate—The True Doctor
Blessed.
On Sunday Rev. Dr. Talmage's text
was II. Chronicles xvi., 12, 13: "And
As, in the thirty and ninth year of his
reign, was diseased in his feet until his
disease was exceeding great; yet in his
disease he sought not to the Lord, but
to the physicians. And Asa slept with
his fathers."
In my text is King Asa with the
gout. High living and no exercise bave
vitiated his blood, and my text presents
him with his inflamed and bandaged
feet on an ottoman. In defiance of God
whom he hated. he sends for certain
conjurors or quacks. They come and.
give him all sorts of lotions and pana-
ceas. They 'bleed him. They sweat
him. They manipulate him. They
blister him. They poultice him. They
scarify him. They drug hire.. They out
him. They kill him. He was Chuly e.
Young man, and had a disease vehich,
though very painful, aeldom proves
fatal to a young man, and he ought
to have got well, but he fell a victim
to charlatanry and empirioism. "And
Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his
reign was diseased in his feet until
his disea.se was exceedingly great ; yet
in his disease he sought not to the Lord
but to the physicians, And Asa slept
witli his fathers." That is, the doctors
killed him.
In this sharp and graphic way the
Bible sets forth the truth that you have
no right to shut God out from the
realm of pharmacy and therapeutics. If
Asa had paid: "0, Lord, I am sick,
Bless the instrumentality employed for
my recovery!" "Now, servant, go and
get the best doctor you can find"—
he would have recovered. In other
words, the world wants divinely direct-
ed physicians. There are a great many
such. The diplomas they received from
the academies of medicine were noth-
ing compared with the diplomas they
received from the Head Physician of
the universe on the day whea they
started out and He had said to them:
"Go heal the sick, and cast out the
devils of pain, and open the blind eyes,
and unstop the deaf ears," Gad bless
the doctors all the world over, and let
all the hospitals and dispensaries and
infirmaries and asylums and domestic
circles of the earth respond, "Amen."
Men of the medical profession we
often meet in the home of distress.
We shake hands across the cradle of
agonized infancy. We join eaoh other
in an attempt to solace where the
paroxysm of grief demands an anodyne
as seen as a praper. We look into each
other's syrapathetic faces through the
dusk as the night of death is lalling
in the sick room. We do not have to
climb over any terrier to -day in or-
der to great each other, for our pro-
fessions are in full sympathy. You, doc-
tor, are our first and last earthly
friend. You stand at the gates of lite
when we enter this world and you
stand at the gates of death when we
go out of it. in the closing moments
of our earthly existenee when the
hand of the wife, or mother, or sister,
or daughter, shall hold our right hand,
it will give strength to our dying mo-
ments if we can feel the tips of your
fingers along the pulse of the left
wrist. We do not meet to -day as on
other days, in houses of distress, but
by the pleasant altars of God, andI
propose a sermon of helpfulness and
good cheer. As in the nursery children
sometimes re-enact all the scenes of the
sick room, so to -day you play that you
are the patient and that I am the
physician, and take my prescription
just once. It shall be a tonio, a se-
dative, a dietetic, a disinfectant, a
stimulus and an anodyne at the same
time. "Is there not balm in Gilead?
Is there not a physician there?"
In the first place, I think all the
medical profession should become Chris-
tians because of the debt of gratitude
they owe to God for the honor He
bas put upon their calling. No other
caling in all the world, except it be
that of the Christian minister, has
received so great an honor as yours.
Cbrist Himself was not only preacher,
but physician, surgeon, aurist, ophthal-
mologist, and under His mighty power
optic and auditory nerve thrilled with
light and sound, and catalepsy arose
from its fit, and the club foot was
straightened and anchylosis went out
of the stiffened tendons, and the
foaming maniac became p:acid as a
child, and the streets of Jerusalem be-
came an extemporized hoseital crowd-
ed with convalescent victims of case
uality and invalidism. All ages have
woven the garland for the doctors
brow. Horner said:
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds
to heal,
Is more than armies to the public weal.
Cicero said: "There is nothing in
which men so approach the gods as
when they try to give health to other
men." Merles IX. made proclama-
tion that all the Protestants in France
should be put to death on St. Bartho-
lomew's day, but made one excepition,
and that the case of Pare, the father
of French surgery. The battlefields of
the American Revelution welcomed
Drs. Mercer and Warren and Rush.
When the French army was entirely
demoralized at fear of the plague, the
leading surgeon of that army inocu-
lated himself with the plague to show
the soldiers there was no contagion in it
and their courage rose, and they went
on to conflict. God has honored this
profession all the way through. Oh,
the advancement from the day when
Hippocrates tried to cure the great
Pericles with hellebore and flaxseed
poultices down to far later centuries
when Haller announced the theory of
respiration and Harvey the circulation
of the blood, and Ascoli the uses of the
lympathetic vessels, and jenner balkecl
the worst disease that ever scourged
Europe, and Sydenham developed the
reamerative forces of the physical or-
ganism, and cinchena bark stopped the
shivering ague of the world, and Sir
Ashley Cooper, and Abernethy, and
Hosac,k, and Romesei, and Griscom,
and Valentine Mott of the generation
just past honored God and fought back
death with their keen scalpels.
lf we who are laymen in medicine
would understand what the medical
profession hes acconaplished for the in-
sane, let ue look into the dungeons
where the poor creatures used to be in-
carcerated. Madmen chained naked to
the wall. A kennel of rotten straw their
only sleeping place. Roomleaventilated
and =lighted. The worst calamity of
the race punished with the worst pun-
ishment. And then come to look at the
insane asyluans of Utica and Kirkbride
--sofaed and pictured, libraried, con-
certed, =tit all the arts and adorn-
ments come to coax reoreant reason to
assume her throne. Look at Edward
Jenner, the great hero of medicine.
Four hundred thousand people annual-
ly dying in Europe from smallpox, Jen-
ner finds that bythe inoculation of
people with vaceine from a cow the
great scourge al nations may La arrest-
ed vaoinnation ; small wits caricatur-
ed. The minister of the gospel denounc-
ed Edward Jenner as riding in a great
procession on the back of a cow, and
grave men expressed it as their opin-
ion that all the diseases of the brute
creation wou,k1 be transplanted into
the human family, and they gave ba -
stances where, they said, actually horns
had come out of the foreheads of aa-
nocent persons, and people bad begun
to chew the mull But Dr., den,nerthe
hero of medicines, went on fighting
for vaccination until it has been esti-
mated that one doctor in 50 years has
saved more lives than all the battles of
any one century destroyed!
Passing along the streets of Edin-
burgh a few week.s after the death of
the.photo-
graple of the doctor in all the windows
of theshope and stores, and welt might
that photograph be pat in every win-
dow, for he first used chloroform as an
arniaeecrtelioetdiou,uagheanint,e,Ine poatihnerbydatyhse thhaez
heesh of the Arabs and the madrepore
of the Roman and the Greek. But it
was left to Dr. James Stimpscei to in-
mastroduoer ethhleorwofroirtmialinaisg salt% jecantsaesthe
of the of sta-
tic.
cal depao
tar that wet sponge or vial in the hand
PaY in other centumee I Blessed be God
pretraraetnitgoisuirhgeeomnedinicati.hceoicilei5nea.
or in the sickroom of the domestic cir-
aclnedsof aatp
, oronthuretabtaiotntlse.field amid thous -
Napoleon alter a battle rode along
the line and saw wader a tree, stand-
oinpgeraintinthgu.6spnoonwt,hde
Ee awrrou(In.td,
he surgeon,
Napoleon
Puseed on -and 24 hours afterward came
along surgeon
meoppelrartingthesameandhatesawtlie
ule
Place, and he had not left it. Alas
for the battlefields without chloroform.
But nosy the soldier boy takes a few
breaths from the spouge and forgets all
the pangs of the guxushot fracture, and
while the surgeons of the field hospital
are standing around him he lies there
dreaming of home and mother and
heaven. No more parents etanding
around a suffering child, struggling to
get away from the Sharp instrument,
butt mild slumber instead of excrucia-
tion, and the child wakes up and says:
"Father, what's the matter? What's
the doctor here to -day for?" Oh,
blessed be God for James Y. Simeson
ehanidorofthoarnahe.aven descended mercies of
•
The medical profession steps into the
courtroom and after conflicting wit-
nesses heve left everything in a fog.
by chemical analyses shows the gain
or innocence of the prisoner, es by
'mathematical demonstration, thus add-
ing honors to medical, jurisprudence.
This profession has done wonders for
public hygiene! How often they have
.stooc1 between this nation and Asiatic
cholera, ancl the yellow fever 1 The
monuments in Greenwood tend Mount
Auburn and Laurel Hal tell something
of the history of those, men who stood
face to face with pestiee,nce in sauthern
cities, until, staggering in their own
sickness, they stumbled across the
corpses of those whom they had come
to save. This profession has been the
suecessful advocate of ventilation, sew-
ernge, drainage and fumigation, unlil
their sentiments were well expressed
by Lord Palmerstan when he said to
the English nation at the time a fast
had been proclaimed to keep off a great
pestilence: "Clean your streets or death
will ravage, notwithstanding all the
prayers of this nation. Clean your
streets, and then call on God for help."
See what this profession has done for
human longevity. There was such a
fearful subtraction from human life
thee there was a prospect that with-
in a few centuries this world must be
left almost inhabitantless. Adam start-
ed with a whote eteruity of earthly
existence before him, but he out off
the moist of it, and only comparatively
few years were left -700 years of life,
end then 500, and then 400, and then
200, and then 100, and then 50, and then
the average of human life came to 40,
end then it dropped to 18. But medi-
cal science came in, and since the six-
teenth century the average of human
lite continties to rise until the aver-
age of human life will be 50, and it
will been and it will be 70, and a man
will have no right to die before 90,
and the prophet of Isaiah will be liter-
ally fulfilled: "And the child shall die
100 years old." The millennium for
the bodies of men. Sin done, disease
well be done—the clergymen and the
physician getting through with their
work at the same time.
But it seems to me that the most
beautiful benediction of the medical
profession has been dropped upon the
poor. No excuse now for anyone's not
having scientific attendance. Dispen-
saries and infirmaries everywhere un-
der the control of the best doctors,
scone of them poorly paid, some of them
not paid at all. A half-starved wo-
man comes out from the low, tenement
house into the dispensary and unwraps
the rags from her babe, a bundle of
ulcers and rheum and pustules, and
over that little sufferer bends the ac-
cumulated. wisdom of the ages from
;Aesculapius down to last week's au-
topsy. La one dispensary in one year
150,000 prescriptions were issued. Why
do I show you what God has, allowed
this profession to do? Is it to stir up
your vanity ? Oh, no. The day has
gone by for pompous doctors. with con-
spicuous gold -heeded canes and pow-
dered wigs, which were the ancompani-
ment in the days when the barber used
to carry through the streets of Lon- I
don Dr. Beockelsey's wig, to the admir-
ation and awe of the people, saying: 1
"Make way. Here come s Dr. 13rocken
sby's wig." No, a announce these things ,
not only to increase the appraciation
of laymen in regard to thework of ;
physicians, but to stir in the hearts1
of the men of the medical profession al
feeling of gratitude to God that they
have been allowed to put their hand
to suoh a magnificent work and that
they have been called into such illus- I
trious company. Have you never felt 1
a spirit of gratitude for this opportuni-
ty ? Do you not feel thankful now?
Then!, I am afraid, doctor, you are not
a Christian, and that the old proverb
which Christ quoted. in His sermon e
may be appropriate to you, 'Physician,
heal, thyself."
Another reason wile 1 think the reeds o
ical profession ought to be Christians I 0
is because there are so many trials and; a
annoyances in that profession that need I
positive Christian solace. I khow you
%MOW
have the gratitude of e great many
good people, and E know it must be
grand thing to walk intelligently
through the avenu.e,ss of hu,m.an life
and with anatomic skill poise yourself
on the nerves and fibres whioh cross
and recross this wonderful physical
systemit suppose a skilled eye can
see more beauty even in malformation
than an architect can point out in any
of his structures, though it be the
very triumph of arca and, plinth and.
abacus. But how many annoyences
and trials the medical profession lia,vel
Dr. Rush used to say, in his valedie-
tory addresses to the students of the
medical college: "Young gentlemen,
have two pockets, a small end a big
Pooket ; a smell pocket in which to put
your fees, a hinge pocket in which to
put your annoyances."
In the first place, the physician has
no Sabbath. Busy merchants and law-
yers and mechanics cannot afford to be
sick during the secular week, and so
they nurse themselves along with loz-
enges and horehound candy, and then
say: "I must have a doctor." And
that spoils the Sabbath morning church
service for the physician. Besides that
there are a great many men, who dine
but onoe a week with their families.
During the secular days tlaey take a
hasty lunch at the restaurant, and. on
the Sabbath they make up for their
six days' abstinence by especial gor-
mandizing, which before night makes
their amazed digestive organs ory out
for a doctor. IA.nd that spoils the even-
ing church service for the physician.
Then they are annoyed by people
earning too late. Men wail. until the
last fortress of physic,a1 strength is
taken and death has dug around it
the trench of the grave, and then they
run for the doctor. The slight fever
which might have been cured with a
footbath has become virulent typhus,
and the honking cough killing pneu-
monia. As though a captain should sink
his ship off Amagansett, and then put
i
ashore n a yawl and then come to
New York to a Marine office and want
to get his vessel insured. Too late for
the ship. Too late for the patient.
Again, the medical profession ought
to be Christians, because there are pro-
fessional exigencies when they need
God. Asa's destruction by unblessed
physicians was b. warning. There are
awful crises in every medical practice
when a doctor ought to know how
to pray. tt.Ib the hosts of ills will some-
times hurl themselves on the weak
points of the physicial organism, or
with equal ferocity will assault the en-
tire line of susceptibility to suffering.
The next dose of medicine will decide
wbether or not the happy home
shall be broken up. Shall it be
this medicine or that medicine
God help the doctor.
B
the five drops and the ten drops m'eay
be the question of life or death. Shall
it be the five or ten drape? Be careful
how you put that knife through those
delicate portions of the body, for if it
swing out of the way the sixth part of
an inch the patient perishes. Under such
eircurnstances a pbysician needs not. so
much consultation with men of his own
calling as he needs consultation with
that Gocl who strung the neryes and
built the cells and swung the crimson
tide through the arteries. You wonder
why the heart throbe—why it seems to
open> and shut. There is no wonder
about it. It is God's hand shutting,
opening, shutting, opening, on every
heart. When a man comes to doctor
the eye. he ought to be in communica-
tion with Him who said to the blind,
"Receive thy sight," When a doctor
comes to treat a paralytic arm, he
ought to be in communication with Him
who said, "Stretch forth thy hand, and
he stretched it forth." When a man
conaes to doctor a bad case of hemmor-
hage, he needs to be in communication
witb Him who cured the issue of blood.
saying, "Thy faith lath saved thee."
Another reason why the medical pro-
fession ought to be Christians is be-
cause there opens before them such a
grand field for Christian usefulness.
You see so many people in pain, in
trouble, in bereavement. You ought to
be the voice of heaven to their souls.
Old Dr. Gasherie De Witt, a practition-
er of New York told me in his last days,
"I always present the religion of Christ
to my patients, either directly or indir-
ectly, and I find it is almost always
acceptible." Drs. Abercrombie and
Brown of Scotland. Drs. Hay and Fo-
thergill of England, and Dr. Rush of
our own country, were celebrated for
their faithfulness in that direction.
say the medical profession, "that
is your occupation; that belongs to the
elergY, not to us." My brother, there
are severe illnesses in which you will
not admit even the olergy, and that
patient's salvation will depend upon
your faithfulness. With the medicine
for the body in one hand and the medi-
cine for the soul in the other, oh, what
a chance! There lies a dying Christian
on the pillow. You heed to hold over
him the lantern of the gospel until its
light streams across the pathway of the
departing pilgrim, and you need to cry
into the dull ear of death, "Hark to the
song of heaven's welcome that comes
stealing over the waters." There lies
on the pillow a dying sinner. All the
morphine you brought with you can-
not quiet him. Terror in the face. Ter -
or in the heart. How he jerks himself
Up on one elbow and looks wildly into
your face and says, "Doctor, I can't
die. What makes it so dark? Doctor
can you pray? Blessed for you and
blessed for him if then you kneel down
and say: "Oh God I have done the beet
oould to cure this man's body end
I have failed! Now I commit to Thee
this poor, suffering and affrighted soul,
Open paradise to his departing spirit."
But now I must close, for there may
be suffering men and women waiting in
your office, or on the hot pillow won-
dering why you don't come. But before
you go, 0 doctors hear my prayer for
your eternal salvation. Blessed. will be
the reward in heaven for the faithful
overwork, or from bending over a pa-
tient and catching his contagious
breath, the doctor comes home and he
lies down faint and sick. He is too
weary to feel his own pulse or take
the diagnosis of his own complaint. He
is worn out. The fact is his work on
earth is ended. Tell those penis in
the office there they need not wale any
longer; the doctor will never go there
again. He has written his last sub-
scription for the alleviation of human
pain. The people will run up his front
steps and inquire: "How is the doctor
to -day?" All the sympathies of the
neighborhood will be aroused, and there
will be many prayers that he who has
been so kind to the sick may be com-
forted in his last pang. It is all over
now. In tvvo or three days, his con-
valescent patients, with shawls wrap-
ped around them will come to the win-
dow and look out at the passing hearse
and tha poor of the city, barefooted
and bareheaded will stand on the street
orner saying: "Oh, how good he was
to us all.' ,But on the other side of
the river of death some of his old pa -
lents, who are forever cured, will come
ut to welcome hina, and the physician
f heaven, with locks as white as snow,
ccorcling to the apocalyptic vision,
will come out and, say, "Come in, Willa
11. 1 was sick and ye visited me!"
HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONALLESSON, SEPT. 12.
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" Christian Living." nom. 12, 9-21. Golden
Text, Boni, 12; 21.
PRACTICAL NOTEG.
Verse 9. Let love be without dis-
simulation. Revised. Version, "hypo-
crisy ;" not formal, merely, but sincere;
not human courtesy, merely, but di-
vine authority. The parlor pretenses
of the etiqu.ettioal heve no more moral
standing. 1 Peter 1. 22; 1 John e. 18.
Abhor that which is evil. "Ye that
love the Lord, hate evil." Cleave to
that which is good. Literally, cohere,
glue yotirselves to the good. You can-
not find words which express loath-
some revulsion and energetic loyalty
more forcibly than "abhor" and, "cleave
to."
10. Be kindly affectionate one to an-
other with brotherly love. The true
children of God are brothers and sis-
ters. The love a home ;which fills
the hearts of children of one household
tmewhot
is ha goodfigrutz oftheGohemdutual. love of
ee honor
preferring one another. Literally,
"anticipating each other," Not rival-
s
ivneg welfare
a the li other other.
11,
candidates for posi-
tion and. dignity, but each seeking the
If
11, Not slothful ia business. "Sloth -
full ii busiaeas" fa a contradiction of
terms, but it is a contradiction that
comes over from the Greek, which has
been literally translated thus, "In your
speed be not indolent." Give your
whole heart, mind, and strength to
the smallest task. "Whatsoever thy
hand findeth to do, do it with thy
might." Be tremendous in everything.
Fervent 111 spirit, "Boiling in spirt."
An.d now notice the olixaax to which
the apostle is steadily working. In
conduet we are to be energetic; in
the spirit that leads to that conduct we
are to be seething bot; but the pur-
pose of all this "business" or conduct,
and of this spirit. is serving the Lord;
busy for the Lord; fervent for the
rLyorudo.
Lord; serving the Lord. We are to
be ready for every "chance" to glori-
12, Rejoicing in hope. The sunshine
of heaven lighting our foreheads,
warming our hearts, and brightening
our minds. The Christian's hope can
never te disappointed. It is an anchor
sure and steadfast. A Cbristian should
be joyful. 'Well sing the Sunday
schoo.s. "How can I keep from sing-
ing?" Patient in trieulation. Remem-
ber the origin of our word "tribute, -
tion." It is made up from the, name
of the three -pronged threshing sledge
used by the Roman farmers. IL means
not merely bodily pain, or domestic
distress, or the helpless inativity of
disease, but inoludes all the afflictions
that press down the human soul, and
which rightly used are the .means of
riding the true grain of -God a the
chaff which leas incidentally grown
up with it, The sorrows that
come to us in life are to
be endttred with patience because
they work out for us afterward the
fruits of righteousness. Continuing in-
stant in prayer. The thought of Jesus:
"Pray without ceasing." Not every
minute, not even every hour, can a
men define his petitions by words or
even think them out with precision;
and neither our Lord nor his apostle
teaches that we are to neglect any
duties for prayer; but, as has been oft-
en said, prayer in its last analysis is
attitude of soul; "Prayer is the soul's
sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed."
The prayerful soul is the receptive sout,
a,ncl he who is in condition always to
receive suggestions and !helpfrom heav-
en is really "continuing instant in
prayer." The soul is a cup which may
be turned bottom up, to reject the grace
of Go& but which, used as it was mtade
to be used, receives divine !blessings
"brimful and running over." Prayer
has a very helpful. influence on all our
qualities of mind and heart. Are we
to rejoice in hope? Prayer will chast-
en this hope and,make it immeasurably
more tender, and loving,and beautiful.
i
Are we to be patient n tribulation?
Prayer will sustaion this patience. It
will fit us for every experience of life.
13. Distributing to the necessities of
the saints. We have already. studied
the meatireg of the word "saints," as
it is used, tia the Acts and the epistles.
It was used by Christians to describe
fellow-Christiaus, and means the holy
anon or those that have been set apart,
the consecrated ones. But even the
thoroughly consecrated Christian gets
hungry at meal times, cold in winter,
and weak when exposed to storm; he
needs food„ clothing, and shelter. Paul
does not ask us to distribute to the
luxuries of saints, but to their neces-
sities. For "distribruting" the Revised
Version beautifully reads "communi-
cating." Given to hospitality. Liter-
ally, "pursuing hospitality;' earnestly
making a point of this gracious ac-
tivity, In the ancient world there
were few inns: and no boarding hou.ses
ready for strangers who came to a
reat city, and many a person, of com-
fortable means while at home, was ex -
rased to danger and privation when
e foreign city. This turned the
entertainment of strangers into a
grace and beneficence; and it was so re-
garded by Jews and pagans. Christian-
ity wee held in general contempt by
all elapses, and a Christian who alight-
ed in town was less likely to be enter-
tained than almost any other man ;
hence the grace of Christian hospital-
ity is peculiarly emphasized in the
epistles; but it is a beautiful and help-
ful quality in every age of Christen-
dom;. and though few Christian visit-
ors have the same needs now that most
had then we may still gain for our-
selves a special blessing by pursuing
bospitality. "Some nave entertained
angels unawares." ,
14. Bless them that persecute you.
Act in your daily life according to
the Sermon on the Mount. Remember
what Jesus said, as reported by nuke,
'Love ye your enemies, and do good,
and lend, never despairing.' In Paul's
day all Christians were persecuted; not
all are now. The world has a very
high opinion of Christian virtue so
long as it does not criticize the world's
faults.
15„ Rejoice with them that do re-
joice, and weep with them that weep.
Dr. Curry renders this phrase, "Laugh
with the laughing, and sorrow with the
sorrowing." We should aeek to be rich
in sympathy.
16.. Be of the atae mind one to-
werd another. This verse must be stu-
died all together. Tn each of its three
cdauses &male fermi of the word rendered
"mind" oecurns. We are to have a har-
monized mind, each with the other; an
impartial naiad, loving the low as well
as the high; a humble mind, not swag-
gering about our own. wisdom. We
c.arinot agree in all opintons ; God never
meant that we should,. We are limited
in our mental powers; cacti of us is ex-
pected by God to carry as naticb of
divine truth as our little souls will
hold, but no more. The Revieed Ver-
sion substitutes the word "things" for
"men" in the second clause. but that
does not greatly alter the meaning. We
are to accomodate ourselves to all the
conditions of life. One cap hardly read
this verse without thinking of another
written by the same apostle, "The
greatest of these is charity." With
hearts overflowing with love we shall
find it easy to barmenize with others,
find no one below our sympathy, and
no one from whom we cannot learn wis-
dom.
17. Evil for evil. "An eye for an
eye, a. tooth for a tooth." Provide
things honest in the sight of all men.
Notice the thought brought out by
the change in the Revised Version. Paul.
lowman. It is not a sign of goofiness to
be inattentive to public opinion, but we
inattentive to public opinion, but we
are not to allow public opinion to sway
us from our duty.
18. If it be possible, as much as lietb
in you. Two conditions which remind
us of our Master's tender words, "Not
every one can receive this saying."
But see Klerk 9. 30; 5 Con 13. 11; 1
Them, 6. 12, 13. asive peaceably with
all men. If your life is right it will
be a. rebuke to many, but it twill not
needlessly provoke any.
19. Dearly beloved. 'There was noth-
ing conditional in this, but the out-
pouring of the apostle's affection. Av-
enge not yourselves. This is tbe firat
clause of verse 17 expressed in differ-
ent verbiage Tee punishments of civil
law are not vengeance; the discipline
of the Churoli has ie it no spirit of re-
venge, and even in private life a num
may be compelled by justice to do
things or to say things to vindicate
righteousness. A person who has been
wronged is naturally- inclined to be
his own avenger; but give piece unto
wrath. `For it is written. Deut. 32,
35., Psalm 94.1. Vengeance is mine.
We wrong God ilea' oureelves when
vve try to wrest it from his hands.
20. Therefore. Because God has pro-
mised to repay, and Lecause God never
delegates to any creature the rieht
to require the wrongdoer. If thine
enemy hunger. See Prole 25. 21, 22.
Feed him. Difficult perhaps for you
to feed him, not nearly so difficult as
for tim to be fed. This is the mean-
ing of in so doing thou shalt bean coals
of his fire on his head. The raost see '
vere and overwhelming punishment
that a wrongdoer can receive collies
in acts of kindness and love from the
person he has vvronged. But if sueh
acts are done for the sake of heaping
coals of fire on the wrongdoer's head
they are just as wrong as if literal
coals of fire were used.
21. Be not overcome of evil, but
overcome evil with good. This has to
do primarily, probably, with the last
phrase, the retaliation of wrong.
But it also applies to our entire mor-
al lives. Life is a struggle, a battle.
In it some one must be overcome, eith-
er Myself or the Evil One. It is possi-
ble to overcome the Evil One and se-
cure a triumph for God and goodness.
11. itSilARKABLE A.NufAL.
"JIM KEY," A HORSE WHICH CAN
READ, WRITE AND 001INT•
•••••••••
De Dandles Boner, NAM Change 8D4
Earnestly DeclaDe res Obie
rttl to Work
—11as One Thousand Tricks.
One of the party of men in lar.
Field's stable in. East Twenty -WW1
street, New York, the other afternoon
asked a horse wh,at his name was. Thei
answer came peonaptily, "Jim Boy."
Of course the horse did nlot speak.
That would be too great a feat even(
for Jim Key; to whom, however, almoet
all things else mem possible, bat hs
made known his name by spelling it,
mei discussed President McKinley by(
first peeking out his name from manyi
others and teen disoussing hixi by neg-
ative and affirmative shakes of the
head.
Jim did all this behind a wire screen
and under festoons of five thousand
rabbits' feet. Nob that Man taken
amok stock ia the potency of these de"
°orations, but his matiter, "Dr."
Key, believes that without theml
all the fates would be against him
The "doctor" pins particullar faith ini
tte ra.bbits' feet he keeps in.a rusted
iron pot, =earthed in a remote spot
ital the Sou,th witlu $2.500 la goad- in iar
HOW HE G011 THE TITLE.
This faith tells for itself that "Dr.
William" is coldred. He is venerable
now. He was the property before the
waofln"lKey'atPm5ent4
Washington, al when freedom eand
to him, having been a "voodoo" celee
bbyravtediue.arahoorigestatlibeilahneedgroeshimaroseunif di4Slitehlee
.cineusyealledhinidlineootor, Mat is why;
It is intere,sting to know that "Dr:
William" 18 reported tel be worth$42,-,
0000. a"Dr.iWn.gilliaanausii,"tvarslivetoto wiltheoravaIr
f
aseaxtba‘z
could expatiate Oa the marvellous vir-
tues of his medicines, got an Arabian
Tntrterk% atnzudiaelibhietedr tA)herd
sureessful project and to it the "Doc-
sfolvvotaanderrkfalteb
places throughout Tecoineesee. It was
tor" owes his weattle„ When the mare
' died eight years ago he left. an only
son, ,Tiro, Key, who* farther was a Ham.
bletonlan. "Dr. William" took Jim,
in, hand at the anti c>f two months to
train, him in the footsteps of his
mother. Ble seas Jim is smarter thao
his mother ever dared be.
SLEEPS IN THE STABLE.
The Doctor" is so attached. to the
animal that he hardly ever leaves him.
and sleeps at night in the stable close,
to the animal's side.
Jim was displaying his achievements
at the Nashville exhibition when A,
R. Rogers, of New York, saw him end:
arranged for his purchase. Jim and:
"Dr. William" arrived in, New York
kist Monday, and on Saturday Mr.,
Rogers invited a. few men to a private
easter was strapped to Jim, who was
tC1,(1 tki get a dime and register it. The
horse picked out the coin. from the oth-
era and carried it in his mouth to hie
master, then tending down and seiz-
ing the strap attaohed. to the register,
rang the beli twoce. Foe a nickel he
rang once, for a quarter five times, for,
a penny not at all. He did not once
make a mistake, in. selecting the coins
named to him or in registering them
properly.
He took coins from tbe ledge, car-
ried them across the exhibition, space
to a cash, box, opened the drawer, re -
exhibition. of the animal before remov-
ing him to his country pawn in Orange,
N. J.
"Dr. William," with a short whip in
his hand, stepped into the centre of,
the, exhibition, piece, which was about;
twenty feet square, and, called to Jan.
The hone without halter or any piece
of harness, came from the rear and,
took his place beside his master. So
perfealty is the animal trained. that
the trainer does not touch him with
hand or whip. First of all "Dr. Wil-
liam" tont Jam to begin the deer be
ringing the rising lsell. The horse,
went to a. corner, opened a box with
his n.ose, took out a. bell, rang it and
replaced it in the box. Teed to an-
nounce breakfast, he took a smaller bell
from the box, rang and returned it.
SOME OF HIS TRICKS.
"Dr. William" next carried on a con-
versation with Jam, tbe letter ans-
wering yes or no by head shakes. Then
a dozen coins, from a penny to a quar-
ter, were placed oxt a shelf by the spec-
tators. A cash box with a bell re-
gistered the sum he was told to leave
there, .picked out the cell -sect change
virtsitiLbsisterli.eips and rturned with it to
h .
A telephone against the wall rang,
Ten walked over te it, took down the
receiver, apparentay listened to some,
body at the other end, hung up the re-
ceiver and rang off. He plleyed an
organ. by turning a. orank, making hie
head move in a circle, a motion said
to be most difficult for a horse. He
went to a letter leex against the wall
with thirty pigeon holes in it, got the
papers from any box mentioned by
number, carrying them to his master.
He walked over tol a pail of water and
picked a silver dollar frond the bottom
without drinking any of the water.
Jim, was asked. at this point if he
womb& like a drink cut of Griffin's bot-
tle. Griffin is "Dr. William's" assis-
tant Jim nodded his bead "Yes," and
going to the rear of the ring, nosed,
around in his straw until he found
a black bottle. Three lei carried to hia
master, wive head et while Jim drew the
cask. Then the horse took a drink
wit]i apparent enjoyment
There's a man here who wants to
bun you,' said "Dr. William," "De
you want to leave me?"
"No," answered Jim. His master ase
suand him the melee way he could keep
from being sued was to pretend tuat he
was Wound, whereupon Jam limped
painfully around the rin'g.
"Tim man's gone," said "Dr. Wile
lia,m," Jim pranced gayly, and, asked if
he was all right now, nodded his head,
Wnw
sell:si
Be t to a blackboard and wrote
after this andeperformed other trioka
his stook seeming limitless. Jim can
perform one thoulsand feats, accordinn
to "Dr. William," wbko! taugat him all
of them, ulseung only; patience and kinde
Deem ire VIM task.
THE CAUSES OF SUICIDE.
Views or a Famous Specialist as to tile Pre -
sell t Wave of Self -Destruction.
Hew are we to aocount for the pre-
sent epidemics of suicides, and by what
means can it be c,bmea.ted? These
questions have been addressed to the
leading specialists in Penis, and. from
most of them very interesting replies
have been received. That inforraation
on this subject is desirable, cannot be
denied. Not only in this country, but
also in Europe, there has of late been a
formidable wave of suicides, and it is
of the utmost importa.nce for us to find
out the causes of this mania for self-
destruction, and, if possible, the means
by which it may be checked.
Here is the opinion of ,an expert:—
Dr. Dumontpallier, member of the
French Academy of Medicine :—"Tbe
remit suiaides are the result of a moral
epidemk. In other words, it has be-
come the fashion to coramit suicide. At
one time one method of self-destruction
is used; at another time another. Men
and women foemerly used vitriol a
good dealoa ow they use their weapons.
In a similar manner men formerly de-
lighted in many kinds of spores, but
there its now a universal mania for
bicycles and hc4eseleas carriages. .
"The spirit of imitation is so strong
that if a desperate soldier commits sua-
cide while on guand at his sentry box
you may rest satisfied that several oth-
er soldiers will choose the same manner
of death. There is only one remedy—
namely, to deseroy the aosursed sen-
try box and to replace it by another
erected at a greater distance. Again,
many persons commit suicide because
they are tired of life. They say to
ti.ernseaves:—"We are not happy; we
are constantly in need of money, and
we have more than our share of other
eroubles," and then one fine day they
put an end to themselves. For such
a condition of things there seems no
reanedy. • Education is mainly to
blame for it. We have no longer any
religious belief, we educate our child-
ren to become freethinkers, and, as a
result, they are tired of life before they
know what life really is. Nothing re-
tains them to this life. They have no
hope, no fear, and they fancy that only
through suicide can they obtain relief
from their petty troubles. In those
countries where religion hos not yet
been replaced by infidelity suicides are
practically unknown. There are places
where there ere not three suicides in
ten years, and the reason is because all
who live there have an object in liv-
ing.
"In Petrie the number of children be-
tween fetuteen a,nd sixteen years of
age wha commit suicide every year is
very great They do not choose any
particular season of the year, though
as a rule, their elders seem to prefer
June, jun, and August. Doubtless the
reason is because the heat during these
months play havoc with the brains of
these unbalanced persons, oausing con-
gestions and delusions, ianpelliiag them
to imitate thoee unhappy beings of
whose end they have read in the uews-
papere."
TOOK THE. WRONG SHIP. •
Old Veiend, greeting Mrs. Lakeside,
on her arrival in Europe,—Are you not
glad to set foot on Terra firma?
Mrs. Lakeside—Terra firma / Land
sakes! I thought this was Queens-.
town
IHER QUANDARY.
Mrs. Weed—Are you one of those
men who regard all widows as danger-
ous?
Mr. Green, edging away—Ne, I don't
think they're all dangerous. Some of
them don't become widows until they
have passed the danger point.
Mrs. Weed, after he has left -1 won-
der if he meant that 0 e tompliment
or not