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THE STILLING
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The Simes. despateh whtch gave the
toeses ineurred, up to date; by the Brit -
eih forces no -w engaged in the fighting
-on the frontier wee the first indica,. REV. DR. TALMAGE TELLS OF THE
(inn at hew envere tent fighting has SEA IN A STORM.
been The killed, numbered 190, include
OF THE WA1TES,
'athartettartaetteittetereeet reetiteteenle'ennahdah"
'THE EXETER,
TIMES
ing 14 officers, and nee, tvoanded 580, A Bible Ran' That Is Fula lir Dramatic
inetuding 34 officers. The most strik- Interest and power—The Inclacut limed
to Point a Shane lit the Case 01 the
in thing in theare figures is the die-
0
r. ilLoory stormy Life or thellutlividual
proportion botweetn We killed and
Rev, Dr. Talmage on Sunday morn-
woueded. In ordinary• fighting_ irl ing preached frpm the text, Mark iv.,
times past, means in very excepthoha) 36:
"And tbere was also with Him
eircultnetances, the proportion of killed,
other little ships, and there arose a
to wouinded wits one to seven or ten.
great storm of wind. And the wind
The proportion, in the present eOn- ceased and there was a great calm."
oonhict between the Britisb and the
Tiberias, Galilee, Gennesaret—three
froxitier tribes is -nearly one to three,
names for the same lake. No other gem
which shows that the Vetting is prin..
ever had so beautiful a setting. It lay
cipany hand. to hund and exceptionally in a scene of great becuriance; tbe
Revere. The tribes appear anto to be surrounding hills high, terraced, slop-
enned with modern weapons to a ed, groved, so many hanging gardens
greater extent than was supposed, for of beauty; the waters rumbling down
tthe'net reports on the subject state between rocks of gray and red lime -
neat many of the fighting men were stone, flashing from tbe hills and
furnished with Lee-Metford rifles, as bounding into the sea. In the shore
well as Martinis. This explains the were castles, armed towers, Roman
meaning of the thefts of the Lee -Met- baths, everything attractive and beau -
ford rifles and aramunition which were tiful; all styles of vegetation in sbort-
t continuality reported from the fron- er space than in almost any other space
tier stations garrisoned by the Brit-
irsh regiments, and it shows that pre-
parations for the present movement
.,. among the tribestnein have been going
on for a lemg time. The loss of of-
ficers is aano remarkable In compare. and it hung and swung from rock and
in all the world. trona the palm tree
Wbat a bright sky' this i& How de -
of the forest to the trees of a rigorous
upon the uncertainties a this life: -ie*
has no God to belp him. Atter awhile
the storm comes and, tosses off the
Masts of the ship. He pets out bis
lifeboat. The sheriff mut the auction-
eer try to eelp, bim off. Teey can't
help'him off. Be must go down- )1°
Christ in the seipt Here are youitg
men just starting out in life. Your
life will be made up of suhin
nse and
shadow. There man be in it arctic
blasts or tropical tornadoes. I know
not what is before you, but I know
ihfah.ao.oelle, ave Christ, vvitia you all shall
Yoe ou
may seem td get along witht
the religious. of Christ while everything
goes smoothly, but after awhile,
when sorrow hovers over the soul,
when the waves of trial dash other
at
over te hurricane deck, and the
bowsprie is shivered, and the halyards
are swept into the sea, and the gang-
way is crowded, with piratical disas-
ters—oh, what would you then —
do
-without Christ in the siaip? Yotiug
man, take God for. your- portion, God
for your guide, God for your belp ;
then all is well; all is well for time,
all shall be well forever. Blessed
is that man elm' puts in the Lord
fhoinandtedrunt. Ile shall never be con-
.
But my subject also impresses me
with the fat that when people start to
follow Christ they must not expect
smooth sailing. These disoiples got
into the small beats,, and I liave no
doubt they said, "What 'a beautiful
clan this is. Wbati a smooth sea 1
liglatful is sailing ht this boat, and as
oliraate.
• for the waves under the keel of the
It seemed as if the Lord had launch- boat, why, they only 5/stake the rootioti
ea one wave of beauty on all the scene of our little boat the more deliglit-
ful." But when the winds swept
down and the sea was tossed into
wrath, then they found that following
Christ was not smooth sailing. So you
have found it; so I have found it. Dint
you ever notice tbe end of the life
of the apostles of Jesus Christ ? You
would say that ii ever men ought
to have had a smooth life, a smooth
departure, then, those men, tbe dis-
cfpil:tse. of Jesus Christ, ought to
have had suob a departure and such
a
St. James lost his head. St. Plailip
was hung to death on a pillar. St.
Matthew bad his life dashed out -with
a halberd. Se Mark was dragged to
death throu,gh the streets. St. James
the Less, was beaten to death with a
fuller's club. $t. Thomaswas struck
the tempest! John Huss in the fire;
through with a spear. They did not
find following Cbrist sraooth sail-
ing. 011, how they, were all tossed in
Hugh Mahan in the hour of martyr-
stabidoilmeo
smooth tsent; the Albigenses, tbe Waldenses,
lefnogiranters—did they find
But wby go to bistory vthen, I car,
find all around me a store of illustra-
tions of the truth of this subject? That
young man in the story trying to serve
God while his employer scoffs at Chris-
tianity, the young man in the same
store antagonistic to the Christian re-
ligion, teasing lake, tormenting aim
about hie religion, trying to get him
mad, saying "You're a pretty Chris-
tian!" Does this young roan find it
smooth sailing when he tries to, fol-
low Christ? Here is a Christian girl.
Her father despises the Christian re-
ligion. Her mother despises the Chris-
tian religion. Her brothers and sis-
ters seoff at the Cbristian religion.
She can bardly find a quiet place in
which to say bar prayers. Did, she
find it smootb sidling when she tried
to follow Jesus Christ? 011, no, All
wbo wauld live the life of the Chris-
tian religion must suffer persecution.
If you do not find it in one way, tyou
will get it in another wily.
son with that in tbe other rapes,
partieuterly when the limited number
of Brinell officers in the native regi-
ments is considered. It is altogether
mut or tee amnia proportion, and can
only be explaiued by supposing- that
the troops need exceptional leading, or,
as ins indeed been hinted, that oppor-
tunity is taken by men -with grudges
against their officers to pick them off
Lu the beet oS cantle:it.
'Met there is disaffection ainotig the
native regireente composed ot Mussul-
Eames is shown by tile fact that during
UM recent, fightiug numbers of figures
dressed in the uniforra of the Indian
Army were seen in the enemy's ranks
and directing the movements. A, cora-
Ott° change in tactics hoe also been
reported aemeg ibe aholesauncts and.
Ahridis. Instead of coining on in a
will endiseiplined ruse as formerly
Me attacking 'hoe advances in suexes-,ixi a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with
sive ruebes covered by the fire of the much speaking to large multitudes, is
main body. This is evidence that put into somnolence by the rocking of
itheeithave been trained by tee desert- the waves. If there was any inotioe
era, wbo, eines the ohtbreak, have been at an, the sbip Was easily righted; if
going over i.n considerable numbers to the wind passed from one side, from
tbeir revoitted. co -religionists, and giv- the starboard to the larboard or from
inn- them the benefit of the experience
they therneetves bave gained in tbe
British service.
The pause wbith bas taken please in
tee British operations is, no doubt, due
to the uncertainty as to the temper
tbe Muesultnan troops in the native/
army and to the exceptional' difficul-
ties connected with the transpost and
supplies required for a, large force.
The transition also from tbe scorthing
beat of suraraer to the chitty days and
cold nights on the elevated country in
hill and oleander. Roman gentlemen
in pleaeure boats sailing the lake and
countrymen in fish smaeks coming
down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shout and laugh-
ter, or swinging idisr at their moor -
hags. Oh, what a wonderful, what a
beautiful lake!
14 seeras as if we sball have a quiet,
nieht. Not a leaf winked in the sir;
not a ripple disturbed the face of Gen-
neseret, but there seems to be a little
excitement up the beach„ and we has-
ten to see what it is, and we find it
an embarkation.
From the western shore a Dotilla
pushing out; not a squadron or deadly
arnmanent nor clipper witb valuable
merchandise, nor piratic vessels ready
to destroy everything they could seize,
hut &flotilla, bearing messengers of
life ad ligbt and peace. Christ is in
the front of the boat. His disciples are
the larboard to the starboard, the boat
would rock, and. by the gentleness of
the motion putting the Master asleep.
And tbey extemporized a pillow made
out of a fisherman's coat. I think no
sooner is Christ prostrate and His
need touching the pillow than He is
sound asleep. The breezes of the lake
run their fingers through the leeks
of the worn sleeper, and the boat rises
and falls like a sleeping child on the
bosons of a, sleeping mother.
Cahn night, sterra iiig,ht, beautiful
night. Run up all the sails, ply all the
tveieh the treoesevonte nee themselves oars, and let the large boat and the
alljlaoat glide over gentle Gerinesa-
in ant
advancing toward he Afghan fron- arat
go -
tier, wild require aedilional clothing, to lite tah oe hasailorsngesof a,;,43 attrers
re
equipment, and fuel', winch must be even the passengers can bear the moan -
carried from India up to the army, , mg of tbe storm as it comes on with
as it is altmeert non-existent in thief lhoun4josatTliadeluvivitdbarirrel the tsfyroi;s of
coentry to be traversed. It was the boat trembles like a ndeeer. at baey tree?:
stria Observance by the tribes of blieg among the clangor of the bounds;
their engagements to the British Gov- great.patches of foam are flung into
enfdsth:rva:leteelitirspr,
erne:tent that atone kept the British tahned tbe Thearsailswf
'Army under Lord Roberts from dis- tols ; tbe smalgr boats like petrel poise
aster during the east Afghani war, and on the cliff of the waves and then
lunge, Overboard go cargo, 'Ma-
tt is only by a full understanding of
this time the importance etr their pre-
sent defectioa can be appreciated. Alt
ready the motley eclat of the operations
up to date reaehes something like i$25,-
000,000, and as yet noi prolgress has been
made in eubjugatleg the tribes along
the western frontier. An expedition
advance; to utoune picket, strikes a blow,
and retires, after' burning vildages and
Wowing up• towers of no military util-
Ky. With, the arrival of the artillery
reentrorcerimete now on their way,
there -wall probably be a change, in the
state, of affairs.
THAT CAM NEXT.
A. young doctor had among his first
patients an uncommonly dirty infant
brought to his office in the arms of a,
mother wbose face showed the same ab-
horrence of soap. Looking down up-
on the child for a raoment, he solemnly
said: "It seems to be suffering from
laydropatbie bydrophobia.' " "Oh, doc-
tor, is it as bad. as that ?" cried the
mother; "that's a big sickness for such
a melte. Whatever shall I do for the
child ?" "Wash its face, madam," re-
plied the doctor; "the disease will go
off with the dirt." "Wash its face—
wasb its face, indeed 1" exclaimed its
mother, losing her temper; "What
next, I'd like to know f" 'Wasla your
own, madam—wash your own," was the
rejoinder.
NOW IT' GOT II'S NAME.
In making the round of his garden
for the first time, Adam's attention
was attracted by a rich looking, down -
covered fruit, growing on one of the
trees, Be pulled one of the specimens
that hung within easy reach and took
a bite of it.
Well, he exclaimed, rapturously, you-
're s peach.
NOT A KICK, BUT—
Wise Mother, from head of stairs,—
My dear. I wish you wouldn't sit Up
hell the night reading novels,
Pretty Daughter, from the parlor,—
ing and masts, and. the drenched dis-
ciples rush into the back part of the
boat and lay hold of Christ and say
unto Him, "Master, caxest Thou not
that we perish?" That great person-
age lifts His head from the pillow of
the fisherman's coat, walks to the
front of the vessel ane looks out into
the storm. All around Him are the
smaller boats, driven in the teropest,
and through it conies the cry of drown-
ing men. By the flash of the light-
ning I see the -calm brow- of Christ as
the spray dropped from His beard. He
has one word for the sky and. another
word for the waves. Looking upward
He cries, "Peace!" Looking down-
ward He says, "Be still!"
The waves fall flat on their faces, the
foam melts, the extinguished stars re-
light their torcbes. The teraptest falls
dead and Christ stands with His foot
on the neck of the storm. And while
the sailors are ballion out the boats
and while they are trying to untangle
the cordage the disciples stand in
aniezement, now looking into the calm
sea, then into the calm sky, then into
the calm of the Saviour's countenance,
and they cry out, "What manner of
man is this, that even the winds and
the sea obey Him?"
The eubject in the first place im-
presses me with the fact that it is
very important to have Christ in the
ship, for all those boats would have
gone to the bottom of Gennesa,ret. if
Christ had not been present. Oh, what
a lesson for you and for ine to
learn! Whatever voyage we under-
take, into whatever enterprise we
start, let us always have Christ in
•
And. they are affrighted, whenever they ITU SUNDAY SC11001: Lear it. "They will also hear." Matt.
oberebes.
see a revival taking bold or the 21 es
i-- 21). Thi verse is not to be found in
As thougla a ship captain with 5,000
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 1 P *
'the be,st manuseri ts
bushels et wheat for a cergo should 30. The whole years. This season,
B", some tate coming upon deck,
_ even in our day of legal delaye to be
"Throw overboard ell tee cargo," and "Vanes aimistry nonie," Acts 28, 11.7-31. a very long time to wait for trial; but
the sailors sbould say: "Wby, caPtahh44ohleu Text, hoot. 1 le.
what de you mem t Throw over ail Roman legal processes were proverbi-
ally tardy. The accusers must ap-
the cargo?" "Oh," says the captain,
PRACTICAL NarEs.
i
"we bave a peek of chaff that bPearn person and confront the accuse
as got —
into this 5,000 bushels of wheat, and verse 17. After three days. If, as
the only way ito get rid of the thail is probable, the Jewish mode of rook-
ie to throw ell the wheat overboard." oning is here adopted. this interval was
Now, that le a great deal wiser than. t
as long as three or foer days. but
tlie 'talk of a great mane Christians not
who want to throw overboard. all the it was all that tbe zealous apostle could
thousande and tern of thmthands of spare for rest after travel, for inter -
souls who have been, brought in course with friends, and to settle his
through great arieakenings. Throw own lodging place. The chief of the
all overboard. because taere is a peck
of duff, a quart of thaff, a pint of Jews. The representative man. Rome
laet day. The Lord will divide the
d'aff1 saY, let tbera stay until the bad a large population of Jews. Wben,
fifty men to complain of the raisrule
Ole that these grees from 'Mamma'
arabir ftorawneneobp tdharyouogahaaliul othuarredhui3arexhieesrl saofaAarczbeewlaisuhs, rneosidleaanstathoafn thsouup:
saw in England and Robert IVIeCheyne
.Thu81124,11 Edwerde saw in Nortlianap-
saw in Dundee! Ota, for snob days as 04/E'ted-
Claudius, had, it is true, banished male
that complaint. The Emperor
ton 1 I have often heard rey father Jews from Rome, but his law was not
tell at the fact that in the early part le .
of this century a revival broke out in ng operative. and. tbroughout Nero's
Somerville, N.J., and some people were reign the Jews in Rome multiplied and
ver much agitated about it, They prospered. To the "thief of the Jews"
sat , "Ole you are going to bring too Paul now makes four statements con-
roanY People into the cluren at oncel"
to get J,:earri Livingston to stop the re- chains and bis appeal to the emperor
"ruing himself; 1. spite of Ins
and they sent down to New Beinaserick
vival. Weil, there W48 no better soul
lin all bhe world them John Livinge- he bad been neither unpatriotic nor
irreligious as a Jew; 2. Ben= courts
ton. He went up. He looked at the
revival. They weaned him to stop it, had declared him innocent from any
Ile stood in be pulpit on the Sabbath breath of Roman order; 3. He bad ap-
and looked over the soleam auditory,
and, he said.: "This brethren, is iv re- Pealed to Caesar, not against his coun-
ality the work of God. Beware bow trYMen, but as the only means of sav-
you try to stop it." And be was an leg his life; 4. His onty °rime was bis
old man leaning heavily an his staff, belief in Jesus as the. Messiele arid in
a very old mete sena he lifted that --- as
• and took bold of the small end bis resurrection as a, proof of his Iles -
of the staff and began to let it fall siahship and. of a general resurrection.
very slowly through, between the fing-
er and the thumb, and, he said: "0 thou Paul's old life had. ceaseni on tbe day
ing away from life, failing wben he was rescued from a Jerusalem
ixnpenitent thou art falling now—fall-
away from peace and Ithaveri, fall-
ing as certainly as that cane is falling
through my band—felliing certainly
tbougb perbaps faniing very slowly."
And the cane kept on falling
through John Livingston's hand. The
religious emotioe in the audience was
overpowering and nem saw a type of
their doom as tbe cane kept falling and
falling until. the knob of the cane struck
Mr. Livingston's hand and he clasped
it stoutly and said, "But the grace of
God can stop you as I stopped that
cane," arid than there was gladness all
through the house at the fact of partneri:
and peace mad salvation. "Well," said
the people after the service. "I guess
yOU had better timid Lirviogston home.
He is making the revival worse," Cat,
Lor the gales from. heaven and Christ
on board. (be ship. The danger of the
thurch of God, it; not in revivals.
Again, my subject impresses me with
tee fact that Jesus' was God and man. ihe
in the Same being. Here He is in the 19. T was co,nstrained to appeal unto 'lessly outnumbered as to be unable to
bark part of the boat. Oh, how tired He Caesar. This was a horrible action! win egtanst them.
looks, what sad dreams He must bevel to the. mind of a Jew. It seemed It is evideutt bat Britain's military
Look at His countenance; He must be to be an appeal away from' "the Judge 'Position is peculiar. If she is to be
thinking of the cross to come. Look to a heathen. tribunal; it seemed to ready to ta.ke part in European strug-
at Hem He is a man—bone of our be a surrender of national independence. gles she should bave an army of
dhaff from the wheat. some years before this, Jerusalem sent
The question wits &eked, "'Who are
those nearest the throne?" axidtbe an-
swer came back, "These are tbey wet,
came up out of great tribulationgreat flailing as the original bas it;
great flailing, great pounding—"and
had their robes washed and made white
in the blood of the lanab." Oh, do not
be disheartened. 0 ohild of God, take
courage! You are in glorious uneven-
ionsbip. God will see you through all
the.ee trials, and. He will deliver you.
My subject also impresses me with
tbe fact that good people sometimes
get very muth frightened. In tbe
tones of these disciples as they rushed
into the back part of the boat Inn&
they are frightened almost to death.
They say, "Master, carest Thou not
that we perish?" They had no reason
to be frightened, for Christ was in the
boat. I suppose if we had been there
we would. have been just as much
affrigbted. Perhaps more.
In all ages very good people get very
much affrighted. It is often so in our
day, and men say: "'Why, look at tbe
bad. lectures. Look at the spiritual-
istic societies. Look at the various er-
rors going over the church of God. We
are going to founder. The church is
going to perish. She is going down."
011 how many good people are affright-
ed by triumphant iniquity in our day,
and think the church of Jesus Christ
and. the cause of rigbteousness are
going to be overthrown, anti are just
8,s much affrighted as the disciples of
my text were affrighted. Don't worry,
don't fret, as though iniquity were go-
ing to triumph over righteousness.
A lion goes into a cavern to sleep.
He lies down with his shaggy mane
covering the paws. Meanwhile the
spiders spin a web across tire mouth
of the cavern and say, "We have cap-
tured him." Goesamer thread after
gossamer tbread is spun until the
whole front of the cavern is covered
with the spiders' web, and the spiders
say, "The lion is done; the lion is
fast." After awhile . the lion has
got through sleeping. He rouses him-
self, be shakes his mane, he walks out
into the aunlight, he does not even
know the spiders web is spun, and,
the ship. Many of you in these days
' vvith bis voice he shakes the monntain
of revived commerce are starting out - . ' . . .
in new financial enterprises. I bid men. spinning their sophistries
you. good cheer. Do all you; can do. Do and skepticism about Jesus Christ.
it on as high a plane as possiele. He seems to be sleeping. Tbe3r say:
You. have no right to be a stoker in "Ne have captured the Lord. Be will
the ship, if you can be an admiral of 1 never come forth agaih upon tbe ba-
the navy. You have no right to be time Chrtht is captured and captured
a colonel ot a. regiment if you can I forever. His religion will never make
command a brigade. You. have no any conquests among men." But
.
right to be engineer of a boat on river
banes or near the coast if you can
tr- the ocean steamer from New York
iverpool. All you can do, with
utmost tension or body, mind and soul what is the spiders' web to the
you are bound to do; but oh, have aroused lion ? Give 'truth and error
Cbrist in every enterprise. Christ in a fair grapple and truth will cote off
every ship! victor.
There are men litho ask God to help
after awhile the "lion of the tribe of
Judah" will rouse Himself and come
forth to shape naightily the nations
forth to shape mightily the nations.
hem at the start of great enterprises But there are a great many good peo-
Why, ma, I na not reading, Mr. Lilt- t
white is here. . , , . .. . _
Wise Mot e Oh, I beg his pardon. the Past. ple will get affrig,hted in otber re
e ee. • He has been with them in
I thought you had gone, Mr. Liliwbite, No trouble can overtbrove them. The spects. They are affrighted in our day
stornis miglat come down' frora the top about revivals. They say ; "Oh, this
and 1 was afraid my daughter was in- et mount etheeee. end is a strpng religion e gale. We are
juring ber eye' reading. It seems 1 et into -foam and into agony, but • it
lash Gennesar-
anyaid the church of God is going to
was mistaktn, Probably the noise I took could not hurt them. Put here upset, end there are going to be a great
to be the front door closing was only it . another zee wee starts out in uaan.y people brought into , the charch
t " - a b d ends that are going to be of no Use to it."
mob by the Ithierin captain. Since then
the weeks bad. hurried past—week s of ent's notice. Now, the system winch
intense interest and varied dangers; European armies have adopted is to
his life was tucked in between that riot trained uaee. The typical regiment in
great raumbers of partially
indeed, the most venturesome part of rely on
Europe contains a few bundred priv-
in Jerusalem and this arrival at Rome.
It must have been a great privilege ates' 8011e of wb°1-n bave t -en more
tha.n two or three years in the regi -
for him again to address his country-
men. He takes up the accusations where
the mob laid them, down, and denies nmro.haeonnmit,saavalroedScrraruitas.hallb,fhetorlaomthenirtd oaf
tbe reports which he assumes have into a soldier thee istsnenroeff teOlerneart
come from Jerusalem to Rome. Was I titteelaver..ettTimheentinaspternintgaeonpr ilnateoaktsw000urt
delievered prisoner . . into the
hands of Romans. In exact fulfillment I bereePt Ausereallatiremerneaeithtlertfetar 1111,'"vue-
of the propbety of Agabus. Acts 21.11. been away front the colors'fo‘r who
!years, and who are therefore to some
exten18. There was no cause of death in
man for
The 33var of 1870 sbeived
me. Compare the words of four flerloin s:lhiateers,
proraineut Roman officials. Acts trained accarrjcilinung tete
ecl; and to search them out in Jerusa-
lem and to bring theta to Rome would
necessarily be A lengthy process. the -
sides, as Dr. Howson suggests the of-
ficial report of the case. and the doou-
meats connected with it, were probably
lost in the shipwreck. At the expira-
tion of the two years It'aul was prob-
ably liberated. That he went to place
es which, so far as we know, be had
Dot visited before his first imprison-
ment, is evident from 1 Tine 1. 3; 2
Tim. 4. 13-20; Acts 25.0; and Titus 1.
15; 3. 12. During his imprisonment
at Rome Paul had the fellovrship of
Luke, Aristarchus, Timothy, Tyclueus,
Epaphroditus, and Mark. His own
hired house, or room. The pretorien
eaaxip was very large. and the "hired
house" was probably within its coe-
fines. To meet his expenses Peel ac-
cepted gifts of money from the church
at Philippi. Al! that earae in unto
bine An intimation that be was not
allowed to go out of the camp.
31. Preacbing the kingdom of God.
As we, have seen, this preaching bad
deep and wide effect. No man for-
bidding' him. He had bore a freedom
of speech which, very evideratly, he bad
not bad at Caesarea. By his activity
in Gospel preaching other Cbrietians
were stirred up. Phil. 1. 1244.
THE BRITISH ARMY,
Sir Charles Opinion us to Who
Should Be Done to Strengthen Dt,
Britain bas to maintain in India, in
a deadly climate, and thous-
and e of miles away from borne. alarge
army in a perfeetly efficient condition
and. ready to take tbe field at a mom -
23. 29; 24, 23; 25, 18, 10, 25; 26, 81,1wexe superior to the soldiers thtis pre-'
Lone , fleeb of our flesh. Tired, Be falls
asleep. He is a man. But then 1440(1
Christ art the prow of the boat. I
bear Him say: -Peace be stilt," and
I aee the storm kneeling at His feet,
and the tempests folding their wings
in His presence; He is a, God.
If I have sorrow and trouble and
want sympathy, I go and kneel down
at the back part of the boat, and. say,
"0, Christ, weary one of Gennesaret,
sympathize with all my sorrows man
of Nazareth, man of the cross." A
man, a man. But if I want to con-
quer my spiritual foes, if I wiant.
et the yietory over sin, death and hell,
come to the front of the boat and
kneel down and I say, "0 Lord Jesus an,d trevel. was so &Moult, that if any possible task, and tiic ,eresent 1UtU1.
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Christ, Thou wbo dost leash the tenn letters ba.d been sent from. Jerusalem down is due to tbe atthanfit to unite
be reached Rome before they aids The into oue system such incongruous i.
brethren, in this verse, are Jews, not raents.
Christians. • Sir Charles Mike makes the bold
22. We desire to hear of thee what suggestion tbat practically two armies
thou. tbinkest. These Jewish elders be maintained—one a long -service
sincerely desire a stateineet of Paul's army for foreign service, composed of
doctrine from his own lips. This sect. men who- may be styled professional
This party. There is nothing of, con- soldiers, and the other a short -service
tempt in the pbrase. Three or fouy army of tbe European terne fax par -
poses of home defence. It is not a new
idea. Sir Charles baying advanced it
as far back as 188. 'While of course
haps, and yet all loyal Hebrews, the problem. is one for the people of
Christianity was a ne.w party. It Great 'yawn to work out. an und-
erstanding of the questions which our
was very strong in Jeruselena,
but everywhere it is spoken brothers there have to face cannot but
aut in the prometion of sympathy be -
against. Now that one of its leaders
has come to Rome they will hive hint tween the component parts of the
empire.
the hal) elpoit Art,1,1king ten.
Paul weans it understood that be is , THE EUROPEAN PATTERN.
on the offensive. (with fairly large numbers of men with
20. The hope of threat The nation- a certain amount of minters'
a. resurrection. from the dead. Bound train -
al hope of a. IVIessiah, and the hope f
°- i ing. laa Asia quality is everything. as
:Englishmen bave proved time and time
with Ins chain That be deeply felt , again,: front Plessey to the latest ()li-
the ir,dignity of chains is shown by , orations against the Pathans. In Ase
many passages, for examPle. BO. 3- la latic, warfare the first blow raeans es' -
1; Phil. 1. 13; 16; Col. 4. 18; Pbilena ' erything, and so the trained soldier
1. 9, 10, He was ohained to a soi- 140 a11 -important. How diffieult it is
21. We. neitber received letthrs tett Ivide a. force of seasoned. experienced
dier. with one and the seine army to pro-
of Judea concerting tbee. There wos warriors for service in a distant land
no occasion to write to the Bowen and a iarge army of moderately traile-
d -ewe atieat Paul while he was inpris- ea short -service men Tun 'le. partly
on in Caesarea. And he was started neesieed by., even the eiviliart mini.
off for Rome so soon after his appeal, in point of t it seems -to be an int -
pest, husb all my grief, husb all my
temptation, husb all ray sin." Amen,
a man; a God, a God.
I learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush a tempest. It
dirt seem as if everything must go to
ruin, The disciples had given up the
idea of managing the ship; the crew
were entirely deraoralized; yet Christ
rises, and Re puts His foot on the storm
and it crouches at His feet. Ote Teel
Christ can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it
was the little child taken away from
you—the sweetest child of the house-
hold, the one who asked the most cur-
ious questions, and. stood around, you
with the greatest fondness—and the
spade cut down througla your bleeding a fair hearing. it seems strange, ae
heart. Perbaps it was an only son, and first siglat that the existence of a.
your heart has ever since been like a Christian' aura at Rome is not even
desolated castle, the owls of the night hinted at. Se as is likely, the Chris -
hooting among the falling rafters and tia.ns of Rome were of the poor ana
the crumbling stairways. lowly ethsses, these "chief Jews," ar-
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You istocratac and learned, would regard
always went to her with your troubles. them with Indifference. But Paul was
a, rabbi himself, as learned as any; be -
She was in your home to welcome your
children into life, and when they died sides be was treatea with very peculi-
ar respect tbe imperial officers who
she was there to pity you; that old
hand will do you no more kindness; I held custody. Everywhere
that white lock of hair you put away in , spate! against. The rapid spyea:1 of
Cbristienity IVEp a source ot astonish -
the casket or in the locket did not look
fea delight to its friends end of con-
es well as it usually did when she
eternation to its foes. Et outmarched
brushed it away from ber wrinkled
brow in thie b.orue circle, or in the come even the armies of Rome. From all
classes its ranks were recruited, and
try church. Or your property gone,1
all sorts of .people deneuxiced it, Tac -
you said. I have so newel bank stock; retie Seetoraus aryl Pliny, among the
I have so many government securities; literate and the mobs of every city,
I have so many houses; I have so many
farras; all gone, all gone.
Why, all the storms that ever tram-
pled with their thunders, all the ship-
-wrecks bave not been worse than this
to you. 'Yet you have not been com-
great parties already existed In Juda-
ism—Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, —
each antagonistic to the others, per -
alike.
23. His lodgings Not the hired
house mentioned in „verse 30. but bis
stoppine place, probably at the house
of a friend. The home of Aquilla and
Priseilla, who were now in Rome, ap-
pletely overthrown. Whr ? Christ hush- parently, bas been suggested by arm-
ed the tempest. Your little one was aginative commentators as a likely
taken away Christ says, "1 have tbat piece for him to lodge. To whom he
little one. I can take care of lathe as expounded. To whom he expounded
well as you can, better than you can, the matter." And testified. "Testify -
0 bereaved mother 1" Hushing the tem- bag." The kingdom of God. The new
pest! When your property went away, interpretation of that kingdom, 'which
God said, " Thereare treasures in heav- originated with our Lord Jesus. Paul's
en, in banks that never break." argument was that the "bope of Isr-
There is one storm into which we eel," for wbich he was bound with
will all have to run the moment wben chains, was founded on the uniforzu
we let go of this lite and try to take teaching of the Old Testament, both
hold of the next, when we will want' the law and the prophets.
all the grace we can have. We will 1 24. Some believed . . and some
want it all. Yonder I see a Christian believed not. ''The ;Jews must bave
soul rocking on the surges of death. been startled and perplexed wben they
All the powers of darkness seera le1 found that one who was in bonds for
out against that soul—the swirling all that they 113.0St revered end loved
wave, the thunder of the sky, the was a new teactier of a new seat.
screaming wind, all seem to unite to-
gether, but that soul is not troubled.
Plenty of tears in the rooro at the de-
parture, but he weeps no tears, calm,
satisfied, peaceful. All is well. Jesus
bushing the tempest! By the flash of
the storm you see the harbor just
ahead and you are making for that
harbor. Strike eight bells. All is tvell.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide,
We're home at last, home at last,
'Softly we drift, on its bright, sibery.
tide,
We're borne at last, home at last,
Glory to God, all our dangers are
We stand secure oe the glorifierl shore,
Paul's quotation seems to imply that
the majority were unbelievers."—Cook.
25. They departed. They, the unbe-
lieving majority, dissolved the meet-
ing. This they had a right to do, for
it was they who had "appointed the
day," verse 23. One word A final
statement of the responsibility of these
Jews for their own; mental blindness
and of the sure acceptance of Christ
by the Gentiles. Well spake the Holy
Ghost by Esaias. Isa. 6, e, 10. Quoted
by our Lord himself. adatt. 13, 14, 15;
Mark 4. 12; Luke 8, 10.
28. Therefore. Because of your hard -
Glory to noa, ere eve] shout evermore, ness of heart. The salvation of God.
We're home at last, home at last.. "This salvation of Go&" They will
STEAM PIPES.
HOME LIFE IN DAWSON CITY,
Crlinersualas, 441414440o, Louie Deals, a144 a
Womaa's 'Woy of Earplug: ltouey,
A Seattle woman whin left lain Mandl
for the Yekout gond Bela% cOmprinel
wit& her husbend, and son, bee write
ten frequently to Ler daugbterin
Seattle sinee. ear departure. Extracts
from ber letters give a glirapse ot
Dawson City life front woraares point
of view. One of them, dated at lia,we
son City on July 17, is as follows; "We
are all well. We have our house near..
ly completed; it will take abot three
days more te finish it Wean I be
glad to move in 1 We bane lived its
a tent or on a. boat ever sinee we left
home last March. and I am thoroughly
tired, of gypsy life. Our house is six-,
teen by twenty-three feat in sizes
It is larger than most of tee /aortseS
here; but, as we heve twe stoves, I
think we will manage to keep it warm
and comfortable during the winter.
wit/ tell yo a all about the house in my
next letter, As to furniehing it—well
don't know.
'The weather has been very warm
lately, and every afternoon we have
rain and thunder and liglitiaing. 1
have not started a bakery as I intend-
ed, for the reason that we could not
get a lot dewntoeve. We have a rath-
er Pretty front lot on the riv-
e . It cost us only 41250. We sold
one-fourte of it to a maxi for 075-e
the back part—and are going to sell.
the other half for $175. It is a core
er lot and it lies well. The man who
bought one-fourth of it has a wife and
a• little girl 6 years old. His wife isnot
companionable nor congenial. She is
very peculiar. 'They are Russian
Finns. They are clever and. good, ree
speetable people, but
NO COMPANY FOR ME.
"I expect to go up to tbe mines halo
fall. The meta have not been out pros-.
pecting yet. Papa will go out as soon
as our bouse is finished. I home al-
eady earned 475 in gold dust taking
care of twechildren. One of them is 10
years old and the other is 6. They are
regular little terrors. I wash them
both six times a day and bathe them
all over in a. tub of water twice a week,
and teen they are always amutty. TheY
are both girls and as ugly as sin. Their
mother is a woman from Juneau, Rob-
ert says: 'Why don't you, weals them?'
Re says I am altogether too easy with
them. I have not whipped them yet,
and I won't. I don't expect to have
them long. They are Cateolies. There
Is a. Catholic ehureh, a school and a his-
pital building just below where we are
living, and wben they are completed
I expect the little ones will stay with
the sisters. The sisters are expecte
ed here on the next boat from St. 'Mich-
ael, whieh, if there is water enough
for it to get up the river, will be here
in about a month. The girls say they
don't want to live with the sisters ;
that teey want to lii e with me anti
go to school here. They lived with
the steers injuiaeau, and tbey say the
sisters tire not so good to them as I
am; tbat they make them work and
that they whip then. The little ones
appear to like rim very ramie They
call me auntie and father, papa.
"Robert is working Bettye; store,
while Harry is heimaag papa in the
house. Night before last Harry work-
ed all night and made $8 at unloading
tbe boat.
"Well, to -day is Saturday, and I baye
been bakieg ircead. Meet Pet lovelyt
bread. 13aked seven loaves, four pies,
and a. batch of ginger snaps. We have
been ha,ving a lot of the most delicious
fish—king sabnon. There are two fish.
ermen who live on the river bank just
below where we do, and I guess they
must have taken a fancy to me, as they
send us fish every day. They sell
their fisb. for
ati CENTS A POUND.
but they don't ebarge me anything for
them. Yesterday they gave me ten
or twelve pounds, $5 or $6 worth, and
to -day they gave me another large
piece. I give them a loaf of bread and
a pie once in a while. To -day I took
them a loaf of bread, a pie, and a lot
of ginger -snaps. My, but they appear-
ed so grateful! I love to give to them,
for they appear so grateful for such
trifles. There are two of them—a
father and a son. They have a lot of
dogs, eight large ones and seven small
ones. There are more dogs to the
square yard here, I guess, than in any
place on earth. We have deg concerts
every night. Such lugubrious howls
as these native dogs give utterence to;
and the exotics soon strike the key and
become Irritated. It is something
fearful.
"I am starving for vegetables and
fruit. This is a terrible place to live
in. It is as hot as blenes in summer
and as cold as Greenland in winter.
And the raosquitoes—oh they are ter-
rible. They make life a burden. But
been exa,ggerated—the half has never
been exaggerated—the half bas nevre
been told. We will have some of it
before we leave.
"P. S.—I get $100 a month for taking
care of the cbildren. Their mother
furnishes their bedding and a tent for
them to sleep in. I think that is pretty
good pay. Well. I must close, as it is
nearly time for the boat to go."
They Will Cause ignition To Wood in
Thur.
The question bas been much discuss-
ed as to the liability of steam pipes
to cause ignition of wood with which
they come in contact. That such lia-
bility is lergely a matter of time is ob-
vious from the fact that it takes a very
high teniperature to ignite wood im-
mediately, as wben it is set on fire by
contact with flame ; a teraperature,
too, of some 400 to 600 degrees Fahren-
heit is required to char wood within a
reasonably short time, and -these tem-
peratures are above those of ordinary
steam. It is a frequently observed
fact, however, that wooden logging ap-
plied to steam pipes and engine cylin-
ders becomes tharred after a long ex-
posure to the heat, everx at these low-
er temperatures. a a paper read be-
fore the Federated Institute of Min-
ing Engineers by A. L. Stevenson, au-
thorities are cited showing that the
lower the temperature at which char-
coal is produced the greater its power
of absorption and the more readily is
it combustible.
JOURNALISTIC LUCK.
Country Editor, out West—This bas
been a lucky day for me.
Faithful Wife—Has some one beeo in
to pay a subscription?
Editor—Well, e -o, it wasn't as lucky
as that; but I was shot at and missed,
A. TREASURE
Mrs. Winks—What kind of a girl
have you now?
Mrs, Minks—A very nice one—ever
so much nicer than the othees. She
deosn't seem to object to baying us
live in the house with her at all.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Mrs. Spriggins—Where's your daugh-
ter, Mrs. Wiggins?
Mrs. Wiggins—She's gone to the cook-
ing -school. And tbat renainds me, I
must go into the kitchen and get sup-
per, for she'll be as hungry as a bear
When see gets bone.
CURING CONSUMPTIO1V1.
The Penally or Cooper Medicni, Coliege Say
a lartueds Ras Been. Found.
Much discussion has been causedin
San Francisco by the fact that the
faculty of Cooper Medical College de-
clared that sixteen patients have been
saYe4 tram consumption by Dr. Joseph
0. Hirschfelder's remedy. This cure is
oxytuberculine, made from veal welch
has been eaterated with toberculine.
Hirsebfelder has been experimenting
three years to secure this lymph.
Among the patients whom he has ured
is Thomas H. Wililants Jr., tho Wealthy
horse -breeder. All the other patients
were carefully exa.mined, andall were
declared cured. Some were fax ad -
vetoed ba the disease when they began
the treatment. OztiltubertMline is in-
jected, and soon r itores vitality and
heals the lungs.
aOW the magnitu.de of our country
justifies itself. When one section feels
Stress, another rejoices in eleindan ie,,
and so a common mean is ret:ntained.
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