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Exeter Times, 1897-7-22, Page 34.20.44144.042;111in..10.d.4dr0IPX1.1.141,10.4.447.411140.. tiALLS A RATION TO ITS KNEES, 'REV. DR. aAL,MAGE ON THE SUBJECT OF PRAYER FOR RULERS. "ley MOM. in Authorey should ite reateed ecor le' 0,e mattes ta the reepie -- A tfleany eerv1ee-4 New conseeral ten. Rev. Dr. Talmage pretteihed pc Sun- day frozu the. text 1. Timothy ii., 1, "1 (here're. that, first of all, sup- THE EXETER TIMES ..agenowesmacostanutekragamw - I . theyhave no qualification, as we hear God &hewers prayer, You may get a• people eivg, "I Went to be an angel," letter,and tiecesell .forgettulneee or wheel .tleey offer the poorest - material levet, of tame am. etiewer itt but God. poesible for, enigelleouti-letors waiting to never' gets a, gametes letter thet he be aesd to foreign palaises as embassa- the lent make reply. Every genuine dors, •atie nien without tiny business Prayer is a• ebriltee enter to has ',leaven- q,uolifientions wanting to be, consuls tct le Father, and tie. will exiewer it, and foreign ports and. illitertites, capable in theugh you may get many letters from one letter of tercels:Mg all tee laws of rear child • before you respond., some . orthoeraphyeeed .syntax, desiring Lo be day you say : "ithexe 1 .1.. have ret put into poeitions where .most of this oetved ten letters from. my daughter, work is doze ey cortespendeneeif di.- and I will auewer theta ali now and vine beep is needed in. any place in the world., it is in those. plaisee where pa- tronage is distributed.. 'In years gone by awful Mietake,s have. been made Only Gol. who Matte the world out Ot chaos, Gould, out of the. crowded 'pigeon - bales of public men. develcm symmetrie cal result. For this reasau pray Al- mitt:lay Goa. for all those, in authority. l'iven there are the eatteeteiplexttiet of. our relations with 'foreign goveit - Ments. b'or directions he mall affairs the, God of patents -shoula be implored. Tim demand of the people is sometimes $o heated, so unwise, thee it must not be heeded. Hark to tlus boom of. that gunwhich sends from the. Ametiinn steamex San jaeinto a shotacross the bow of the. British merche.rtt steamer Trent, Nov. 3, 1861. Two dietitiguiseed southern% with their secretaries and families, are on the way to England anti Frame to..officially exiliet tham for thee Southern Confederaey. After newel protest the coramiesioners. who had. em- barked for England and Frani.* surre.ri- dered and were taken to Fort Wareee. !leer Boston. The eaeture tra.s a p oen invasion a the lawe of na.tiolas and an- tagonist to a exineiple for the cetate theme:sat of whivh tite United aides goveroment hadfought in other days. However, so great was the exciteMent Cleat the eecretery a the United States navy wrote an applauditors letter to Captain Wilkes, cominander of the San Jacinto," fox his " prompt. and decisive, action!' and the bouseet repreeentatives paesed a resolution of thanks for %vete. adroit anti patriotic' conduct," and the millions of the nurtli went wild with entilusiastiL area all the new' versand cliurchee joined in ties lauzzie tingeturi and 'tram* protested the former de- manding that unites ties ilittineuish'll l'rlfqnleTd $11011111 he sureguleri•ii and apology made for inetet to ties Brltish flag within ten days, Lord Lyene must. return to Louden, tekiret all tile' '-tr- eel v'eS a the, laitee legation. Wee ii it 11 Engi.i net and Franoe et:en:ltd. inevit- able awl war wee itegland and I: tames at that tine amileates teen a re- stored Arm r lei n na t ion impoesi Isle . for it long while, if not 'res .'i'. Teen Glee yams to the reeme aril hellsil the Prete tient atel bit ce'retary. of mete. Against tiek a 311.M.ht 0W1 iiiMOUg e..nt i. went of tee people •of the north the dike biguitle'd Confedera t es w e r.• sur- renteseteL ties law of witione was 'kept inviolate: the lite.' 110,W was not lilt- ed to ;strike the eaglee beak. ;ma ter- hape Iles worst detester of emiturive MIA avoileed. There canto another mist; within the last. two years,. When InilliOnd of ',agile demandea that American war veseels sell into Turkish waters end step t he atrovitee: again:it the Armeniane. The reople at large have no 'Alec of tbe pr' Miro brought upon the government to do this rase thing. Missionaries end otter prominent Anierieties in and a eimnd Conet,t1 Ili i melte aileentliled at tliR 0!;li'e Of the Anieriean latation and. de- nt indea teal our ininisttsr plenipoten- 1 la ry call to Washing, ton for 1 e ni t ea Statee she's of war, and. they sueiteet.- kei the worile for t he eaisieg rani. Had our seieN trone into those weters the ,,..e.ine of foreten mitten e et ereiet ingly ettions Of 11;4, Willild haus been turn- ed egaiest our elepping, and our navy, wit hill a few 1,1ny'd 1!.,;nn., 4r.4 tiVect able in power, would, have crawled plieetione, pt-ayers, intercessions and 'giving of thanks be made for all men, for tinge ate] for all 'teat are in au- thority." That which Lon.den. Ls to Englend Paris to Frame, Berlin to Germany, Rome to Dale, 'Vienna to Austria, St. Petersburg to Russet, Washiegton is to the United States repu.blie. The people who live here see more of the thief mon of the nation than any who live any- where else between Atlantic) and Pacific oceans. If a senator. or member of the house of reoresentatives, or supreme court justiouor secretary of the cabinet or represea.tative of foreign nation en- ters a public assembly in any other city, his coming auci going are remarked up- on, and unuetial deference is paid to him. In this eapital there are so many political celefteias in our churches, our streets, our hells, that their coming and going make rto excitement. The Swiss seldom look ee to the Matterhora or Jungfrau or Mount Blum., because these people are used. to the Alps. So we at this capital are so accustomed to walk among mountains of officials and eolitical eminence that they are not to ad a great novelty. Morning, noon and night we ineet the giante. But there is no place on earth where the lemortance o fthe Pauline injunetiou to prayer for those in eminent places ought. to be better apprecieted. Iwould like to quote nay text withwhole ton- nage of emeiretts-words written by the evirred neissioaary to the young theolo- gian, Timot hy, each e't „i he re 1 ore. 11111.1.. first of all, sepplieations, prayers, int er- cessions and giving of thinks be made for all men., for kings and. for all that are in authority." If 1 'nye the time and do not forget some of them befure I get. through I will glve you four or five reasons why the people of the United Steles ought to make earnest and tantinuous prayer for thoee in eminent places. loiret, because that will put us in iiroper attitude tuward the successful men of the nation. After yeti hive prayed for a man you will do him jus - ace, There le a bad. streek 01. humen uature that demantle us to ziesail thuse thatare more sucetee ui than ourselves. it shows itself in buyeauci when the lads, all running Le get their ride on the bitek. of it carriage, awl one mite on those, failing to get on shout to the driver. "Cut, behind!" leneweessful mew beldam like thoee who ta any de- partment are eucceestul. the cry is "Ile is a politioal eceidentl" or "Ile baught, hie way up!" or "It just. happea- ed. so!" anti there is an impatient waiting for him to come down MOV0 rapidly tuna he went up. The beet cure for euth cynicism is prayer. After we 'lave rieen. frees. our anees we will be w telling the udielai guise. instead of evil. e will be hyping for him bene- dietiou rather than malediction. if he makee a mistake, e e will call it a. mis- take instead. m Malfeasance in office. And, oh, hew much :happier we will es, tor wishing one evil is diabeliebut Mi.4118g ene good is saintly, is angelic, is godimiel When the Lord drops elnall into depthe buena wheel there is no lower depth., He allows him 1.0 put on 0.11 investigatleg committee with the one hope of finding something wrung In. general aesemblies of the leresbytere an church, in conferences of the Meth- odist church, in conventions of the Epis- copal church. ite the house oil repre- sentatiyes toad the senate, of the United States there are men. always glad to appeinted on the committee or mal- odors, while there are those who are glad to be put an. the committee of But- ogiums. After you. have prayed, in the wards of zuy text, for all that are in authority, you will say, ".Brethren, gentlemen, Mr. Chairman., exouse me ,rom serving on the committee of mal- odors, for last night, just before Ipray- ed for these At eminent position, 1.read that chapter.; of Corinthians about charily which hapete all things' and teinketh no evil. ' Committee of mal- odors is an inaportent committee, but f. there now deelare that those are in- competent fee its work, who have, not in spuit of oceventleteelity, but in spir- it of earnest ianportunity, prayed. for those ita high poeitian. cannot help it, but I do like a St. Bernard better than a bloodhound, and I, would rather bee humming lead timing honeysuckles than a eraw swooping upon field car- casses. Anether reps= why we seemed pray for those in eminent place is because they have such naultiplied perplexities. This city at this time, holds hundreds of men Who are expectant a preferment, and United States mail bales, as never before, are full of applicattons. Letene say I have no eympatlay with. either tee uttered Or printed sneer at what are called.,"affice seekers." If I bad not aiready received appointment as minis- ter plenipotentiary from the high court of heaven -and I lead at my Lace a family far whom I wished to achieve a, liveliheod, these is no employwer whaie services I would sooner seek than city, state, or United States Government. Thoae. governments are the peomptest in thee: payments, paying just as well . hoed times as in good times and dur- ing summer vacation es during winter iverk. Besides that, many of us have been paying taxes to city and. state and nation for years, and, while we are in- debted for the protectton of govern- ment the. government is indebted to us for the honest sueport we have render - 'ed. it. So I wish success to all earnest and competent men who appeal to eity .or state or nation for a place to work. But haw many men in high piece in fatty and state and nation are at their 'wits' erad to know whet to do, when for some places there are ten applicants and far others a hundred I Perplexities arise from tee feet that citizens sign petitioas without reference to the quail- ' fica,tioas of test &epee:ant for the places appliea for, 'Vac,. eien the application because tee arpLcant is your frame. People, eareetienes went that for whiolec earthquake, anid inside that corner stone pee the elermona on the Mount end a scroll containing the names of all the men and women. who have fought and. prayed and toiled for the good. of tbis nation, from the first mar- tyr of the Amerioan Revolution, down Lo the last teatime who bound up a soldier's wounds in the field. hospital. A.ad let csome eine, worthy to do • so, strike the stone three times with tee gospel hammer, in the name of God at once, emu llamh not us. eust, the the lather, Glad the San. and (rod tee way that elle hopes for, 1 will do it en Holy Olivet. Then let the building rise, the ban way,. anti though site as m fur a silted et musts:, L will not glee it to her, for 1 cio got like the music, 81>01i en or. 1,11,t 1 will send, her a deed. io14. hateee and, lot, to be hers forever." dr Clod does not in all cases answer ila tiiii wee those who sent the prayer hop - tor, bu, elle in en. cases gives what is. asked. for or sonie.thing eetter. So preyere went up from the nurth and. the south at the, time of our civil lir-ar, and they were all answered at. Gettys- leuxg. You conuot uutke nae teat. Goj answeredonlythe northern preeers, for twj here ere utst as devout entreats answered south of Mason and 1)1 voles line as north of it and, God gave whet wive asked for, or something as much more valuable as a house and lot axe worth more then aeheet of pause:. 1 here la not. a gooti and intelligent man teeeteen the tear of Alexia> one the St. Lawrence River who does not be- blieve that. Gott didthe best thing pos- sible weep. lee stood this nation down in Ititi5 a. glorious unity, never to Le rent, until the natem of the Ohio and • the Savannah, the lluidieue and the Ala- bama, are licked tia by tee lung, fire tongu,es of &world on fire. Yea! God isometinies answers prayers on a large stale. In worse predicament nation never wee tha.a the Israeliteele nation on the isitulas of the, Red Sea, the rattling shields and the clattering hoofs of an overwhelming Lose close after them. An army email just as easily -wade through the cetlentie Otesan from New York to Liverpool, ati the Israelites could hese waded through tee Red Sea. You neea to sail on ite %Netters to reae Liza how big. it; Ls. liow was the cross- ing offietee By prayer, Exodus 15. " And the Lord eaid ante Moses. Wheretore eras: thin ludo nee Speak units tee Children, of Lintel, that thee go fOrV4 '-1.1.1.A.1 is "Stop preying ;tee take the meeker," And then the eaters 14 ,1I1 to i* agitated anti swung thie wee- ,,tel that way. and the rieele heurne 44 1 41.13.0W,, aaa the billow '1in1)- 14,1 otlur illows, and auw they reit in- to e :elk of ate phire 4114 181(410 t row. els maseei 1.11,,110 1111.0 Dimness, and the wale; teoutue like mountains, toppea and turreteel end domed with crags of. ereetal auet God terows au inviellee eleen around the fs et of those Inuune tains. so teat they are obliged to stand still, and there, reed Lefere the Israel-, Lash army. iri a turnpike roali with all the summate ga 1 et se ung wide open. The passing host did not, even get their feet nOt. 'limy passed. dry shod, the lentoeu or the sea, as hard as the gave - meld of Pettily& verde avenu.e, or New York's Brietievay, or London's Strand. Ole what, aCtoit they had! Or I think 1 will thaege that and say, " What e, Goa we have!" What power put its heeds upon as-. (1'0.1Ldny 1n 4101,1.1114'S time, and made the ;suet and 1110012 Stand still? Jush- 144 12. Then. spakts Joshua unto the Lord." Pretver As get 111. Wilt take tete er four greet glubee end in as - Lounging meet dUing then this way or that or hole two ot them at arnes length, :et the Omnipotent does as Ile wilt with the great orbs of worlds, with oonstellietions anti circling galaxies, Winging eiteily star around star, or sun. and moon held out at arm's length, end. perfeetly ;dill as in ans- t.0 4.10t41014.1'd prayer. To uod. the largest, eorld is a piseble. eauther ration why we should obey the Pauline injunetiun of tee text unit pray for all teat are in auelierity .1s that to mueli ot our unfl lausperite and happiness are invulvea in their doings. A selfish reasen. you; say. yes, but a righteous eelfieliness like thee which leale you to take etre of your own health and. preterve ,your own life. Prosperous government. means a pros- percsue ptsople. Damaged government minus a damaged people. We all go U1 together or we all go dowa to- gether. When eie pray for oar rulers, we pray for ourselves, for our homes, Lor the easier gaining of a. livelihood, Lor better priest:eels for our children, for the hurling of these herd times so far down the embankment they ean never climb up again. De not look at anethiing that pertains to public in- terest as having no relation to your- self. We are tousheti by all the events tie oar national history, by the. signing of the ('cenpatit in the cabin of the efatyl-, flower by the small ship, the Half Moen, sailing- up the Hudson, by the treaty of William. Penn, by the hand that made the "Literty bell." sound its first stroke, by ()Id tronsides plowing the high seas. And if touched by all the events of the past America, cer- tainly by all the events of the pre- sent dayt. Every prayer your make for our rulers, if the prayer be of the right stamp and worth aneething has a re- bound of benediction for your own body, mind and soul. Another reason fur obedience to my text ie that the, prosperity of thiscoun- baektvard in deter:tee,. The eroposit ion to do what coule not be dons was. iner- elfully withdrawn. There will not be a year between new and. the next 10 yeare when those who axe in authority will not. noel the guiciseee of. the Goa a 00' 110114. God only inn tell the right time for natione to do tee inelit thing. To do the right thine; it the wrone time is es bad as to de •..e weeng thing at any time. Cuba will one day be free. but it will be weer she hes shown her- self capaele of free .governanent To eceenowledge Cuban independence now would lie to twkatowledge what does net exist. In aet minima alfaire there Le clock. The hula.; of that creek are not always seen l'y hunein eyes. But, God. sees them, not only the hour hand, bat the minute hand, and. when the hands =noun's.? that the right hour has come the clock will strike and. we ought to be in listening attitude. "The Lord reigneth. Let the earth rejoice: let the multitude of the isles be frlacl thereof." You see, there axe always in places of authority unbalaneed. men who want war, beestiute Ltesy do not realize what war is, or they ars deeigning men, who want war for the same reason that evreckers like hurrioanes and. founder- ing shies, because of what may floe: ashore -from the ruins. You gee that men wh,o stet wa,rs never themselees get hurt They make the epeaches a,na others make the self-saerifices. Notice that all those vvao inetigated our civil war never a.9 a consequence got so much as a splinter under the thumb nail, anti they all dted peeeefully in their beds, 1 had two friends -as thor- ough Lrierials as old man can be to a young man -Wendel Phillips and Rob- ert ,Toorabs. They w,ere n'ot among those who expected anything advan- tegeoue from. the strife, but took their positions conscientioasly. They both had as much to de with the starting a war between the north end. the south as any other two men. A. mil- lion brave northern and southern dead were put in the gruve trenches, but the Iwo illustrious honest mon I have mentioned were in eocel health long 'utter tee ending of things at Appom- attox, and. if tease who advocabecimee, sures recently that would have btrought on, 'war between our coucntxy and Spam or England or Turkey had been successful in bringing on the wbole,sale aturder, they themselves would now have been above groulnd, as I hope they will be. to celellerate the birth of the twentieth °eatery. If God. had not. interfered eve 'would hia.ve had threawars witilain the lest two years -war with England, war with Spain, and ever with Turkey, this last joined by other nations transatlantic>. To preserve the peateful equipoise whioh suoh men are disturbing, we need a dIvine belienoing, Per whech all good m.en on both sides of the sete ought to be every Clay praying. Again, mayor to God for tUaose in authority is OUT only: W4Y a being of eels pra;otioal sexvioe them, for the most. cart at inapeetineece. Thee have all the fiesta tee wee cannot have them, and they see the fetbjeut in. all its bearings and tve can be of no help to thesm except through the supplica, tion tbat outr text adedelee. In that wee we may he infinite re -enforcement Tee mightiest thing you ran de for a man le to prey for hien. If the old Bible he truie, end it it la not teue it bass been the °eta imposition that ever I teal the world., terniing barbarieni into civilindion, a,rid tyranniee into re- ettlallos-if gay 11 the old Bible be true, one wall laved by the Pacific Ocean, and the other washed of the Atlantic, until the capstone shall be laid amid the shouting of all nations, by that time as free as OUT own divinely founded, di- vinely constructed, diviuely protected republics, the het thrane of oppression having fallen flat into the dust, and the last shackle at tyranny being hung uP in maseum as a retie of berbarie ages. The. Dreyer that the great expounder wrote to be put in the corner stone at the exteneioa of the capital ejaculate as aux own supplication, "God save the United States of America!" only add- ing the words with which Robert South was apt to close his sermons, whether delivered before th.e. court at Christ- church chapel or in Westminster Ab- bey, anniversary of restoration of Charles If, or on tue death of Oliver Cromwell, amid the worst tenapest that ever swept over England: To God be rendered and ascribed, as is most due, all praise, might, majesty and do- miniten, both, now and forever. Amen." LION TAMERS. 414.4.4 eliey mast Be men or Sober liabits a /IR Fearless Wel Muutwertriv THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INURNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 25. "Paul Preaching In Athecis." Acts re 04-ae Golden Text, John 41246 PR,AktfICAL NOTES. Verse 22. Mars' hill. The Areopagus, or hill of Mars, waa an eminence in Athens, northwest of tee Acropolis, a,nd rising sixty feet above the valley. Here sat in council' the most distinguished citizens of Athens. Before them stood the apostle, not on trial, but making O clear statement of Christianity at the request of philosophers who bad. pre- viously heard elm. The report of Paul's address is very meager, thougle pre- cise, and gives only the line of thouget in what was without doubt an extend- ed discourse. Men of Athens. Paul be- gins his speech by a dignified form of address employed by Athenian orators. Too superstitious. Better, "very rever- ential and religious." This was not an • accusation, 001? yet a compliment, but a recognition of the fact tbat the Ath- enians were a worshipful people. There were at least thirty thousand statues in Athens, all objects of worship. (1) Notice that the disciple of Christ can see that there is a germ of truth in the heathen teems of religion. 23. As I passed by. In walking from the seaport to the eity he may have passed several altars with the inscrip- tion referred to. Several ancient writ- ers ref.er to them. Beeeld your devo- tions. Not the worship itself but the things evershipped. An atter. The Geeek altars, which were. usually beau- tiful marble struoturee smell but eighty ornamented were to be found everywhere and [bey stood in /aouor of unnumbered gods an dgoddeeses. But in all the Hebrew' world there was only one, place of sacrificial worship. To the unknown God. Suee worehip arose from feeliaag of uneertainty and a. deep desire to omit no divinity from their devoi ions, Whom thereture, ete. In all tear ignorance they were germ- 1,ne after Got and now the apostle was about to proelaim the very Being whom they sought.. Paul's opening words showed a great skill in attracting at te ntion, erapliiyinfit a illuetratien, aed cearge of introducing a nee - aka werlehie, reeognizing the ele- mod of truth in their religion and yet not Revering tbe standard of the Onemel. 24. Goa that made the world. Paul begins his argument wiLh the declare, Lien that there is a personal God, nut personificatien of nature. (2) We must. see God if we wreak" worshei lam aright. Lord. of heaven.. Paul presente no pie - tare of Olympus with ids feesteng deities, but one God over all. Dwelletti, nof in. temples. The moue beautiful temples ever wrought by human hands nee eefore Paul, as he evoke,. yet he declares teat they do zot enshrine God. (3) The only fit temple for Godee in- dwelling preeenee is tent of the heel welch God has creiated. 25. With meres hands. The popular heathen oonception saerifice wee that the gods needed food and drink, and were dependent on num for such servioes; the Hebrew doctrine was that the sacrifice represented man s conee- cration to a higher power and the coming of the Redeemer. Seeing he giveth. Sint* our all comes from God. and we ene alesolutely dependent upon him, it fellows that, while he cannot need. us, we need him. 4. We worship own. not for his benefit, but for our 216. Hate made of one blood. Here Paul etteeks another of the ideas root- ed in tbe Greek mind, that they were a ;people of nobler origin than other races. 5. The unity of man is the nat- ural inference from the unity of Gad. 6. Since all are children, of one Father all are brothers, Determined the limes. "Their appointee. setteons." God has given to eaeh people the sphere of their activity, their d.uxation, and their mis- sion in the world, au that all history shows his peen. The bounds. How far their dominion shall extend, and. bow they ,ought to use it. 7. Let our no, ittsionnroebmleemhebre&atah:t God, has bestowed 27. That they should seek the Lord. The great °Weld of all this divine deal - keg with. the world is to bring Men 1.0 a 'knowledge of God. If haply. The word "haply" indicates a contingency not likely to happen. Notwithstending all Goes dealings with the world fe.w lion tamer, and he had a lion stealth followed him about like a dog. ilis skill was not appreciated, however, for he was banished by tee republic, be- cause it was deemed that a man who could subdu.e so muele ferocity must needs be dangerous to the etat, says the London Graphio. Ptolemy Plailte delpeus, Xing of Egypt, .13.C'. 235, had twelve.' chariots drawn by lion. Biel* Anthony rude &out Rome in a, claari- at draw a by a pair of lions. :Demean had a lieu that ecconapanied him uut hunting. Bernice, Queen of Egypt, had. a teems lion whiee sat at table with stories, umet of course, be takeln'ilferr her and helmet her cheeks, What they are worth, Let leaet they eliew that lieu taming was nut un- known in those bygone days. in our own country the ort has been prac- tked with con,eiderable success. Eerier la this century Ducrow, the famous eiqueeeriaat, brerod'aced into his ex- hibition a lion and a tigress with sorae bybrid. cube belouging ene Atkins. The novelty was very popular, and Du- orow 'WAS summoned to Windsor Castle to exhibit his animalea 'fee. keeper us- ed to lie down in the cage with the lion on one side of elm. and the tigress on the other, while the cube played and. GteltletOLED AT HIS FEI.IT, One of the raost celebrated lion tam- ers of the century was 'Vim tenaburgh, a. Dutchman, who came to this eountry before the Queen. began her reign. Ile has been munortalized, by eir Edwin Lanaeeer, who painted a picture of him in the midst of his lions. Van Amburgb once told the Duke of Wellington, who had asked if he was never afraid of his lions, that he had never felt any fear of them, but, if he ever suspected that Llaey had cieased to fear him he would at untie give up the business. Besides fearlessnees the trainer rewires infin- ite patience. Hie usually begins by feed- ing the beasts from outside the bars, and then, at leiegth, ventures into the cage. Lima it is seed, like to be strok- ed., and may be tickled into su.bmission. Another requisite qualgity of a train Another regutsite quality of a trainer is that of absolute sobriety. The resort to "Dutch courage" bas been. the cia,uise of death of numbers of lion tamers. An triebmast named Macartney, who was exhibiting in Menders' Menagerie in 60s, was a sad example di this fact While exhibiting at Bolton, elacartn- ey went into the lion's cage when he was met quite sober. He began chasing the lions round their large den. One of them. sprang at him, seized him by the hip, and dragged hira to the ground. Then the other beasts joined in., and the unfortunate man wee soon torn, to pieces. After Wombevelre death lais menag- erie split. up into two end three shows. One ofg these ha,d a "lion king" nam- ed. Lorenazo, who used with a lion to perforra tee classical story of Alndro- cies. This was, it will be reraemberea, a tale of A GREEK SLAVE wee, flytng from the cruelty and. bar- barity of his Roman master, plunged into a. forest -where he encountered o, try is coming, anci we want a hand in, lion with a thorn in his foot.An- helping an its conning. AL any rate I (10.1 drocles extracted elet %learn and won It is a matter of honest satsfaxtion loot, the beast's gratituderteltaing recaptur- soldier, after some great battle had beets ad, lee was condenaneaele be th,rown to fought and, seethe, great victory N'VOU to a lion. Tee veritableetelast which he be. able to say: 'Yes, 1 was therel I was had befriended happened to be the one in the brigade that stormed these caught and brought to the amphitheat- heights, I was in that bayonet charge er. The lion recognized A.ndrocles and that put the enemy to flight." Well licked his hand, refusing to hurt him. the, day will come, when all the finan- )Lorenzo, in his little play, used, to de- cial. political and moral fese,s, of the light erowded audiences for years. No republic will be driven baok and driven mention of lion -tamers would be cone down by the prosperities that are now plate if reference were not made to on their way, but which come, with John Cooper, who rivals Van Amburgh slow tread and in "fatigue. dress" waxen far the first plat* in. his craft. Mr. W441 event teem to take the "double Ceopar, is, we believe, still alive. He quick." By our peayers we may dtand began his experience of anim:als at a on the mountain top a.nd beckon them very early age, joining Batty's circus on, and, show them a shorber cut. Yea, at the age of 10. On.os, when he was in &newer to our prayers, the Lord God ', still a mere boy, tee circus was exhib- mounted. troops ever took the field at; Yount; .ticheannsi iitoinligentagt Leeds, and a eavage lion be_ to the show slipped its collar. coma Meat. may ymf rfoorarwtaivrd& hserighif teeth" Eylau or Austerlitz. been en Cooper, alth,ough he had never I the cage before, without a. word The cornea. stone of our republic' eves to any one, went to tale lion and fixed fis-st laid in 1776, and. at the re-estab- bee collar on again. Mr. Cooper has lishment of our national government I traveled all over Europe end performed was laid again in 1865. But are we noti before several "Grow:wad heads," from, of a broader and higher national life? : e413A:S• of which he has received pres- ready for tee, laying of a corner stone,' mane tee has had someterriblemaeenx; We have as a nation received so much ' Perienoes and melees, n from God. Do we not owe new cense- marks of teeth and claws of the animals oration? Are we not reaely to becosne he has trained. He ignored the usual to. !better Sabbath -keeping, peaoe-lov-1 lines of train:ling .and used to walk straight into the cages of strange lions. Bed UNHAPPY YOUTH. mg, virtue -honoring, God -worshipping nation? Axe we not ready for such a corner stone laying? Why not now let it take place t With long procession of enviers, moving from the north and ,,e: 40 old. story of parison. Isouth. the eaet and the west, let ' s auleatine, relating Nee, scene be mode august beyond. corn- i the prientions of his early life-emany The God of makes, who hate' dealt strap 'weal up very tight about the the time ba,ve I been compelled to waist in order to experience even the roortmoutetstetraanymee.ptom of being too full t --------_-- 'Pis net the roan whose firewor,ks boom, stone be the masoning together of the , Whose patriot soul es most awake; two granite table; one wheel". the law 'Pis he who sits in silent gluoin teas written wheu Sinal shook witb the And bears it for his country's sake. Many tee time, 01811(111.80, said Papa with us as with no other people, will preside at the selenenization. By the evade and th,e level and the plumb of the everlasting right let the corner stone be adjusted. Let that corner itaudseeleGod. 10. God's call to the world to repent is ct, command to the Chime to aend the Gospel to the world. 31. Becaufse he bath appointed. The reason why men should make haste to obey the cox/amend A day. God's. ju.d- obey the comraand. A day. God's judg- ment, then, is not a continually reour- ring fact, bu.tr event. to take place mean afixed day. He will judge. Most aptly spoken on the place of judg- ment, the Areopagus. In righteous- ness. This will constitutes its greatest terror, tee feet that every sin 'will then revise its just eenaltet By that man. Paul enapathasizes the humanity of Paul emphasizes the humanity of Christ rather than his divinity because ids heathen auditors were likely to mis- apprehaud any declaration of (lad's appearance alien the earth. 11. Let us not forget that our judgment is in tee hands of One. edits is still our broth- er. Given assuranee. God marked out Jesus Cerist as his chesen one among meal ley the fait a his resu.rrection. Raited him from the dead. The resurrection showed test Jesus was the Son of Goa tint his teaebings were divin.e and authorative, and that there is life beyond the grave. 32. When they heard. Donbtless Paul spoke aL length on this subjeet of the resurrection and showed its relation to the scheme of Cexistian truth. Some enoeked. Showed by look and gestare that they did not believe Paul's teach- ing, The schools of philosophy at Atb, ems either denied all future life or be- lieved only in a dim and doubtful ex- istence. The conception of 4 resurrec- tion never entered their views. (2) LOW' often bas human learning put aside the revelatiou of God tus a thing of naught. Hear thee again. A .polite. dismissal of the subject, yet sbowirtgehat the truth had made some impression upon their minds. 33, 34. Paul departed. His labors at Athens, though net, interrupted by per- secution, evere far less successful then a,t most places, and he never referred to the eity la his letters. Certain anon Nave. Evideritly sraall number, per - baps not enough to reinstitute a church. Dionveius. An early writer reports thatle was afterward bahop of Athens and died a martyr. -kreopagite. .A. member of the high ernirt of the Are- opagus. Daeatiris. N'othing is known of leer history. Others with them. If O church was founded it Wad t00 email to attract notice; yet in four eenturies the idol temples of Atimns were dos- ed, awl the Partletion berarne a Chris- tian (Itasca. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 0,1s Rapidly Decorating Om Torq.ao or Trade - Jealous Oeleranny. ZretWithetataing eel the diffieultiee foreigners find in atasterine the Eug- eels language, that tongue is become leg the enetdmaid. of oornmeree tbs world over. Sir Memel hate elaewri thee et all the seven Europeeet languages the English alone has in- ereased in use since the beginning of the century. And. tee figures tell ac story not of nominal incre,ase, but of jumping !up to more than double the peroentage befog frbta 12 to 27. Three great oountries within a single year ha.ve ordered the teaching of Eng» lieh in tee schools. This was the first thing Li Hung Chang saw to when be reeurned from his trip around. the world. IJepan is giving to tele study of English literature and language more time than her own tongue. Presi- dent Diaz leas compelled tee study. of English in all the schools of Memo. The queer and somellines awkward features of English orthography are the only bloeks to the general acceptance of ma tongue in commeroial dealings. Thee ten, there is no court of last resort to welch differences of opinion, ea these disputed meets oan be car- ried. This es the kind or arbitration; that the world needs most, say people wheat trade brines them in contact with all =tens. Amerlea's great euminercial °prime - aloe, Gernaoaay, is the moet active to • efforts to displace Enelish by the Ger- raa'a leugliage, by some new and univereal tengue. Naturally Ger- many opposes the advent of such a, court of arbitration as is proposed by' tradeemea, far that country realizes it would inverialee- lead. to Lee oboice ot English and drive out tee mother ton- gue. "JESUS SAITH," Illiporlant Discovery of au Ancient ropy - vas in the Libyan Desert. 41 London correspondent wires : - "Several weeks ago I cabled the news of the wonderful daeoveries made in January last by Messrs. Orendell and Runt on tee borders of the Libyan de- sert of the oldest piipyru,s known bearing the words Christ. The value of thie kind. in tee interest it will arouse in the whole Christian world proves inestinamble. It comprises a, dozen leaves, eitelx 51-21 he 31-2 inehes in size, remarkably well preserved, and elearly written in unical characters of the ancient Greelt. It dotes about 60 years after the crucifixion. "It has easily been translated, and is found. to consist of detached say- ings of Cheist, without eontext, rave begen.uing with the. words, 'Jesus saith.' A translation will soon Ise pub- lished by the Egypt exploration fund, An immense edition at a few /*nee iser cope- will be provided, so as to reach everybody. "Prof. Petries' winter explorations in THE DEEPEST HOLE, Ills in Silesia, mid Extends Into the Ground Over n 314lle. The deepest hole in the ground. is more than a. mile in depth, and is situe atoll in the neighborhood of Rybrick, in tipper Silesia. To le atrietiy accuxe ate, it 18 6,571 feet deep, or 1 mile 430 yards 1 foot-elose ma a mile and a. quarter. It was leigun for the purpose of searching for cute. and 88 different seams were diseovered. ..et the sur - fate, the diameter of the lorhag was a foot, but thits was reduced to a little more than eight inches at a depth of 230 feet. Here t 18 blue maxi which was found was so (dose, teat, the diamond drill had, to Le, employed. As the boring proceed. ea tee weight of the Wring rods natur- ally Lennie greater and. greater, un- til at last at a depth of 6,560 feet the tools alone weighea over 30,155 pounds, or close oni 14 tons. The breaking of tee, ro(t nes cousetmently liy no means • infrequent, and. at hitt aepeece af steel broke ofC 'Meth it 4448 imposeible to remove. This Flopped, the wore, after neerly eentet had been. spent in the construetien of the hole. While the temperature of the ground was about 56 degrees Fahrenheit, it reashed 157 degrees at tee bettora of the tele, where the diameter was only two and three querter inehes. Egypt have aLso been wonderfully fruitful. The bulk of his collection is in two groups, separated ey a gap ' of more than thirty centuries, the later documents being an enormous mass of papyri from the Roman city of Behnesa, west of the Nile, about one hundred miles south of Cairo, ana the earlier a, great variety of objeete which throw a, flood. of light apon the habits of a, people, evedently in a. high etate of civilization, who occutpiesa Lower Egypt centuries before Abralatun, and almost as far beek as the. date assigned by Archbishop lessher to the creation of the world. "The papyri comprise. 4,000 docu- ments. They were not found Ina se- oret chamber or fs. 04.170, but were mix_ ed up with the soil. Evidently they represented the clearing out of a., Miran-. The rolls represent a wide range of literature, history, law, and ethies. Beside, there are a number of eerlier Christian documents., among them, login and anecdotes which were current in the churches at a very early date, and in; some cases may have been consulted, by the authors of the four Gospels. "The contents of this library prob- ably ranges from the first to the sixth people out of the heathen raves, with - It hos furnielie.d to the aut revelation have ever obtained e. century. feel literaee archaeologist at least as many after him. .As a. blind man gropes after rue knowledge ot God. Might papyri as have hitherto existed in the t whole of Europe. The diecoverer ex -.an object eo, melded by revelation, acts that ten or twenty pears will the best minds, like a So -mates and a P oe occu,pied. before the papyri are Sene,ca, seem. to be leaching out ignor- fully clecepltered. fax." taxa y'relltolis akeghhneUtf beaV antler toward God. He is near Bether, " us, seeking us, yet we fail to fi d len be nuse. b our ini uities WO seperate ourselves from hen. leroin ev- ery one a ills. Even those who are liv- ing godless lives are yet followed by the influences of God's spirit. 1211 1 0 him we live. Oar natural life is. dependent anon God. and still more does our spiritual life came from him. Your oevn noets. In addressing a peo- ple who knew nothine of the Hebrew Scripture. Paul appealed to the Greek poets, thus at once showing his know - from his hearers. We are also his off - statue. A sentence front the writing's of Axatus, a Cilician poet, who lived. 272 13.C. (8) Eveui those without the light of revelation can perceive teat man has some relation. to God. 29. Forasmuch. the. If we are like God. then the Godhead. which is above us cannot be like that whee1 is below us. The Godhead. Around Peal were standing Teeny statues of the Grecian divinities-son:leaf them of marble, cov- ered with gold. But Paul boldly de- clares that to consider those as images of God. degrades both (nod and man, God's offspring. 30. The times of this ignorance.. 'the ignorance of men in euppoming that God. could belikened to images. God wink- ed at. God pe,rmitted to pass, and. 'id- mitted it so far as it was sincere seek- ing after eiraself, until a clearer reve- lation should b ernade. ,But now. ;Now lation should be made. But now.; Now that Christ has mune and. the Gospel is preached to Gentiles as well as Jews,. Genunandeth ell men. Not only those who have worslitimed. God, as the jews, who have worshiped God. ass the Jews, but those wlao have sought God. through visible forms, as the Greeks: 9. In- eretieed knowledge beings higher obli- gatioue. To repent. Not merely to re- gret the pest, but especially to renounce -14 THE EVIL Belt. In spite. oe the evidence trought for- ward at 'het itrique.et as to the eause of the ea ta,strophe of the Rue Jean Goujon, a rumor its current in certain circles in Paris that it was due to the presence at the baza.er of 1.18 Papal Numeio's Seeretaxy. 31. ie believed, that this Secretery has am "evil eye," what the ltelia.ns call the Jetta tare., anti that ene.rever he goes he. is the cause et mischief and ill luck. When he went for the first time to Naples the cholera immediately made its appearance. The. same Secretary 11.1.144 sent. to Moscow ler the coronation festivities, ain,d the dreadful stampede of the Kailiaisky fields took place And, Wetly, he went to the Rue Jean Gou- jen bazaar, where he remained. 10 leen- ates, and had scarcely left when the fire broke out. DOlv'T NEED 'El& Some Paris or the minnan Anatomy Entire- ly Superfluous. "I' have. pest had a physteian cut 'my tonsils out." said, a travelling man the other day, "and 1. feel better already: My tonsils bad a habit of bee.enting in- flamed on the slightest provontion and giving rue a good deal. of trouble. Every doctor I ever consulted advised to have them removed, but I hadn't done so before for fear that their ices would in some way affect my speech. All of them assured me to the contrary, however, and. to -day I: submittal to the. operation. "Sieve inquiring into the subject I havelearned teat tonsils are wholly useless organs, if such they .may be called, and -the medical profession Is at a loss to know for what purpose they are, put in the human throat. Thee are a souree of annoyanceand pere form 210 known funetion in the human organization. I have also learned (.bat we. have a couple or other useless and troublesome, organs. One is the spleen and the other is the vernaiform ap- pendix. Learned physicians tell ma , that they have been unaltle to discov- er any IMO for either of these organs, and. but for the danger of the opera- tion would insist upon all of their pa- tients having them removed. It leeks ate tf natere, has been e. little too pro- fuse in the, plans anti specifications for the human structure." USES FEET FOR HANDS. There is a bright little boy living in Portland, Ind., who uses his feet and toee quite a,s cleverly as most boys uses their handle Throe years ago he was born without erms. He has been taught to feed axid wait upon himself, however, end maneges to get into as much miachief as moat little boy e of his ego Whee offered money the lit- tle "elute grasps the coirts with tho toes of both feet and beide theni as tightly as any one could with both lianas. The I boy can IMO a pencil with eriee, and it is believed that' he will soon be able to write. TO LA.UNDER SHIRT WAISTS. If there are any unwa.shalale buttons ar trimmings, remove them, brush the dust from the se,ams and throw the shirt into cle,ar, cold water for an hour. 11 you are afraid. of the color running add a handful of salt. Aftex waabing bag in warm suds and drying it, make your stare'h by diesolving a tablespoon-. ful of dry starch in a quart of water. Thiel; cambric blouses should be unly eterehed at the colla.ris and cuffs and down t,he front hem. To the starch should be added halt a teaspoonful of gum axabui diesolved 410 wat.ex Nvil.11 a • little. borax. Wriug the shirt dry out , of the rinsing wete.r and hold it by the baok of the neck. Gather up collar, cuffs and front hem and work in the ' starch, after which wring these parts in, a towel ami rub them thoroughly ; roll up tightly and leave them for half an hour at the end of which they axe reedy for ironing. Iron first tee yoke then the collar, insides and outeicie, then the back, front and last of all the . sleeves and cuffs. A shirt board ae.d. ' sleeve board are very helpful, and, in - 1 ' deed, the letter is a neoessity. 7I1E ART OF LIVING Ilbe aleoret of tee curt ot living to , eliminate 'the ugly, to preserve the beautiful, to cultivate the agreeable, ; to elite:nate the unnecessary, burdens, • to preelerve strength, And to secure letsure., alba test of wisdoii is to make • thei nevito,ble minister to the wbole ! life by the seleet Me. 'wheat it is etioepfte • ea. The heaviest leter.den may he the ' foundation oi eu.'CreNS if put tintle.r the • Deer, hue it 'wet render ye b.eleitses ell , carried. in our hands 11c41''etha 10d04. stone or the eyes of the vixile