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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-12-2, Page 7e.,,.. NOTES AND COMMENTS. hen, One a the humore of the Turkish ituation in the insistence of the sul- tan in a rerent aroular to the powers, that an end shall be put to the mis- erable and disgraceful condition of aa - fairs in Cretee. That there is urgent need that aometbing should be done, and done immediately, admits of no nestion, atl accounts agreeing that, the island could hardly be in a. worse nonclition, not a single reform under- taken by the powers when they inter- fered to prevent Greece from effecting •its deliverance baying yet been car- ried out. Autonomy has not been es- tablislaed, the Turkish troops have, not been withdrawn, a governor has not been appointed, nor a gendarmerie formed, nor has any power been willing to lend or guarantee the money needed to put the new administrative machin- ery Into operation. As this condition directly- and indirectly, wholly the resuit of Turkish misrule, the huraor a-thicloitan's circular nee in the re- quest of the oppressor for deliverance from the consequences of bis own op- resslon, as well as in the plan he pro- poses for the accomplishment of tbat end. This is that he shall appoint the governor, who shall be a Christian and an Ottoman subjeot, that the whole Cretan population shall bei dis- armed, and that the Turkish garrison shall be Increased, that is, in °fiat, that all arrangements shall be made to facilitate a general massacre. The coolness of suoh a proposal on the part a a sultan who has alreeely agreed to the Turkish evacuation of the island, takes one's breath eway, end shows that if tbe powers really mean to permanently restore peace and good government to Crete, they will not only have to give direct orders to the Porte, but see that they are carried out. The Hungarian premier said a fortnight ago in the Reicbstag that the concert was stile pledged to secure autonomy for tbe island under tbe suzerainty of the sultan, but what it means by autonomy, and whetber its intervention is to be limited to academic suggestions or backed up; by foroe, bas yet to be known. The fire ta --before the powers is to compel assent to the evacuation to which Turkey bas already consented, after which an autonomous government must be organized by the appointment of a governor, chosen from one of tbe minor European powers, say Swed- en or Belgiam, and the formation of • corps of gendarmerie, at least half of which must be foreign c Until such a force es created, the Ottoman troops will have an excuse for remaining, and as the Christian population will pot disarm until the,y go, anarchy and mur- der must continue. This done, a loan must be made under European guaran- tee large enough to carry on the gov- ernment and to help the people to a new start in life, the/ prolonged con-, flict and chaos in the island having exhausted all means and destroyed all industry. To accomplish all this should not, if the powers mean nese, be a difficult matter, nor re - %lire . much time; and the idea that .hey should hesitate to Undertake it would, in view of the fact that they prevented the Cretans from putting an end. to Ottoman misrule, and so are morally bound to fulfil the task them- selves, be scouted, bad they not so often proved their ineptitude. Of the chief difficulties in the way of their effective action the latter la the most formidable, for though the question is simply one of establishing order and good government in a former Turkish possession, and has been fully solved - • in Bosnia and elsewhere, the failures of European diplomacy thus far in Crete give little proraise that anything • of value will be accomplished. The fact that the sultan • has in his ciroular • ignored the pledges of the powers, shows bow little weight he attaches to them. ammat...mare • NOT A. MORAL LEVER. There was an old lady in the city of Glasgow who greatly admired Doc- tor Chalmers, says an excbange, and she never willing missed one of his sermons. No doubt they clid her good, but now and then they were somewhat 'nover her head," as the common ex- pression is. - • One day she went home from church in great perplexity. Doctor Chalmers had dwelt reach on a " moral lever," with which be nished to uplift human •tature. 'What a" moral lever" was the lit- tle old. woman could. not divine. A friena took the poker and placed it on the bars of the grate, trying to illus- trate the idea and make the imagery palpable.; • The old woman was not helped, She thought of the indignity done to the -pulpit, the subject, the doctor and her- self by so gross a materialization of he "moral lever," and bursting with tion, she asked.: n mote to tell me that Doctor s would preach for an hour hettehlx.% eacer ? nont. TaTE LONE GUEST. There wa,s an alartn of fire the other night. A clerk of one of the local ho- tels, being told the fire was in the imeaecliate neighborhood, pushed the button for the porter. ' I wish you would wake up the gueets, Joe. • Yes, sah; I would like to, soh, but he ain't dune gone to bed. PRAISING THE LORD, A CONSIDERATION OF THE 'MUSIC QUESTION IN CHURCHES. Rev, Dr. Talmage Invent Consecrations' dtaXing -- Importance of Sacred Iluste and. Somo or the Obstacles to Its Ad- vancement. •Rev. Dr. Talmage preaohed ont Sun- day morning from the text II. Chron- icles, v., 13; "It eaane even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound, to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord." The temple was done. It was the very chorus of all magnificeece • and pomp. Splendor crowded against splen- dor. It wa,s the diamond, necklace of the earth. From the huge pillars crowned with leaves and flowers and rows and snuffers made outt of pure gold, everything was as complete as the God -directed architect could make it. It seemed as lf a vision from hea- ven had alighted on the mountains. The day for dedication came. ‘hradi- ton says that there were in and , around • about the temple on that day two hundred thousand sil- ver trunapets, forty thouse,ncl harps, forty thousand tirabrels and two hun- dred thousand singers. So that all modern demonstrations at Dusseldorf or Boston seem nothing compared with •••iimmil• THE EXETER eartmeteetentelesor • glory? Dear old souls, how they used r Another obstaole in the advancement to sing! And. in those clays there were of this art has been the erroneous no tunes married to certain tion that this pert of the service coned hymns, and. while they have lived iti be conducted. by delegations, Onarehes peeve a great while, these two old have said, Oh, what an easy brae we peepte, o.n.d we have no right to di- shall have I The minister will do the vorce them. Born as we leave been .)-retie.hing and the choir will do the amid this great wealth of church mu. singing, and we will have nothing to sic, angmented by the compositions of clo." And. lot/ know as well as I that antists in our day, we ought not to be there are a great multitude of churchee tempted, out of the sphere of Chris- all through this land where the peo Lan harmony and try to seek uncon- ple are not expected to sing. no NN -hole secreted sounds. It is absurd for a work is done by delegationof four or millionaire to stealsix or ten persons and the andienee Many of you are illustrations of what are silent. In such a church in Sy - a sacred song can do.. Through 'it you rams% an old elder persisted in were brought brought into the kingdom of je- bag, and s6 the choir appointed a coin sus Christ. You stood. out against the mitteee to go and. ask the elder if he warning and. the argument of the pul- would not stop. You know that in pit but when in the sweet words of , many churches tbe choir are expected Charles Wesley, or John Newton, or to do all the sliming, and the great Toplady, the love of Jesus was sung rasa of the people are expeoted to be to your soul, then you surreeder, as silent and if you utter your voice you an armed castle that could not Fe ta- are interfering. In that church they ken by a host lifts its window to lis- stand, the four, with opera glasses ten to a harp's trill, ' dangling at their side, singing , 'Rock There WU a Scotch soldier dying in of Ages Cleft for Me," wlth the same New Orleans, and a Scotch minister spirit that the night before on the stage came in to give him the consolations they took their part in the "Grande of the gospel. The man turned over Duchesse," or "Doo Giovanni." on his pillow and said. "Don't talk to lary Chfistian friend, have we a right me about religion." Then the minis- todelegate to others the discharge of ter began to sing a familiar hymn this duty '.s hi God demands of us? that waa composed by David Dicken- Suppoae that four woodthrushes pro son beginning with the words: pose to do all the singing some bright day when the woods are ringing with • Oh, mother, dear jerusalem, bird voices It is decided that four When shall eOnie to thee? ' e-oodthruahes shall do all the singing He sang it to the tune of Dundee, and in the forest.. Let all other voices keep as he began to sing the dying soldier silent. How beautifully the four war - turned over on his pillow and said to blel It is really fine music, But how the minister, "Where did you learn ; long will you keep the forest still? thane' "Why," replied the minister; Why, Christ would come into that for - "my mother taught me that," "So did 1 est and look up as He looked through mine," said the dying soldier, ana the ' the. olives, and Ine would. wave His hand very foundations of his 'heart was up- and say, "Let everything that bath that As thie great soundsurged up turned, and then and tbere he yielded bxsth, praise tbe lord'' an keej amid the precious stones of the tem- • theself to Christ, OW it has an ir- ing time with the stroke of innumer- resistible power! Luther's sermonshave able wings, there would be 5000 bird ple, it must have seemed like thehiver been forgotten but his Judgment voices leaping into the harmony. of life dashing against tbe amethyst Hymn sings On through the ages and Suppose this delegation of musical of the wall of heaven. 'ate sound arose vent keep on singthe lentil the blast performers were tired of heaven. Sup - and God, as if to, show that He was Ic-e the' archon ers trumpet shall brine Pose that four choice spirits should. try pleased with the music which His children make in all ages, dropp- children make in all ages, drop- ped into the midst of the temple a cloud of glory so overpowering that the officiating priests were ob- alma that very day which the hymn to do the singing, of the upper temple. celebeates. 1would to God that you Hnsh: now; thrones and dominions and woulh, take these songs of salvation principalities! David; be still; though as mossanes from heaven, for just as you were the "sweet singer of Israel;" eel:the-111Y Rs the bird brought food to Paul, keep quiet; though you have come Elijah by the brook Cherith so these to that crown of rejoicing. Richard winged harmonies God sent flying to Baxter keep still, though this is the your soul with th bread of life. Open "Saints' Everlasting Rest." Four spir- liged to stop in the midst of the ser- Yealh m ths and take 0 hungry Elijah! de now do all the singing, but how vices. au It, long would heaven be quiet? How long? There has beep mutat discussion as ere _ I have also ni etced the power of sa- "Hellelujah I" would, cry some glorified here music, was horn. 1 , think . memayeong to soothe perturbation. Yoe, Methodist from under tbe altar. to have come in here with a great 'Praise the Lord!" would sing tbe that at the beginning, "when tlae iztorn- Inharnhyapeelraritahieentsand anxieties. yet martyrs from among the thrones: erten you lost them all. Yon singing of the first "'Thanks be unto God, who giveth us nave the victory I" a great multitude of re - Ing stars sang together and all the. • Phe ear the echo. The cloud. oa which h react in the Bible of, Saul, and bow deemed spirits :would cry; myriads of sons of God shouted for ioy," the earth the angels stood to celebrate the create • tte_ywi.;t:viscrearanneclinauagiarpplaanyd how the voices, coming into the harmony and spirit out of him. A Spanedish theiteiveigl the 144.000 breaking forth into one ac- c'arnation. Stop hat loud singing! ing was the birthplace of! song, The . ; was melancholy. The windows were Stop! Oh, no. They • cannot hear me. stars that •glitter at night are only all closed. Tie sat in the darkness. You might as well try to drown the so mama keys of celestial pearl on Nothing :could bring him forth until tbuneer of the sky, or beat bank the which God's fingers play the music of 1 Zenteecemenie f(ag discoursed music roar of the sea, for every soul, in heav- the spheres, Inanimate nature is full; , fourele day he looka: en, has resolved to do its own singing. of God's stringed and instru- 3 Suptoal winged! inim.,e(rt taarl as that eve should have tried on earth INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 5. activist's llonillity and Gs:illation." Phil. 2, 141 Golden Text, Phil. 2 :5. PR.A.C1TICAL NOTES. Verse 1. If here does not •express doubt but stands for " as" or "since," to emphasize the affirmation, Paul ex- pected soon to return to the Philip - plane. With pleaeure be thouglat of tbeir bearty joy at again meeting him. Phil. 1. 26. Tberefore. Because of this happy prospeot of the renewal of in- timate associations be pleads that their affectionate joy should find expression in holy deeds. Consolation in Christ. The Revised Version changes this to "comfort in Christ." Better still would be "exhortation." By his holy life, by his conflict with evil, by his patience in suffering, Christ constant- ly exhorts us. Comfort of love. The con- solation of tenderness aul affeetion- ate compasaion, Fellowship of the Spir- it. Crearhunion with God, who is a Spirit, and who, if worshipped at all, must be worshiped in spirit and truth, must be worshipped in spirit and in truth, and who regards as the most acceptable bureau worship such inti- mate communion of soul as lavers have . reth joiced, and the windows were thrown at which they cannot do in heaven, meats. Sitepee itsele_eereeet silence : open and that which all the splendors and instead of joining all our voices --is only a musical rest in God's great • of the court could' not do the power in the praise of the most bigh God. ; of aong accotaplished. If you hohe delegating perhaps to unconsecrated anthem of worship. 'Wind •anaong the ie tbe ties and worriments try this men and women this most solemn and leaves, insect hummine in e summer ' ahheaxvenly charm upon them. bo not most delightful service. e -, air, the rush of billow. upon the beach, . sit deem on the bank of the hymn, Music ought to rush from the audi- the ocean far out sounding its shore ; but plumge in that the devil of care ence like the water from a rock—clear, lasting psalms, the bobolink on the ; maybe brought out of you. . bright, sparkling. If all the other part edge of the forest, the, quail whistling • It also arouses to aettore Do you of the church service is dull, do not tin froni the grass, are music. 'While not know that a singing church is al- laa•ve the music dull. 'With so many visiting Blackwell's Island. I heard, ways a triumpliant church? If thrilling tbings to sing about, away a, cone coming from a windotv a the lunatics • gregation is silent during the exer- with all drawling and. stupidity! There is aseenta, a very sweet song It was cises or partially silent, it is the nothing makes me so nervous as to sun rx by one who had, lost her reason, se - lance of dea,th. If when the hymn ja sit in a pulpit and look off on. an audi- eae e have come to believe that even given mit you hear the faint hum of ence with their Ji s almost shut mumb- the deranged and disordered elements here and there a father and mother in ling the praises of God. Dewing nie ble in judgment of others, one will recent absence I preached to a barge. push Ws C'hristian neighbor teward su- of nature would make music, to our Israel, while the vast majority are si- lent. that minister of Christ wee" is audience, and all the music they ramie i parlor positions rather than to seek ear if we only had acuteness enough to listen. I suppose that even the Presiding needs to have a very strong together did not equal one skylark. c.onstitution if he does not get the People do not sleep at a coronation. Do I them for one's self. . 4. Look not. Do not attentively gaze; sounds in nature that are: discordant . and repulsive make harmony in God's t : ehills. He neednot leus sleep when we cos not only the grare of • me to a 1 aim not Every man on ,his own ear. You know that you may come God but nerves like whalebone. et Saviour's crowning. In order to a pro -i things. Re not self-centred. "Do no - so near to an orehestra that the is amazing how some people with voice per discherge of this deity let us stand thing through self-interest in the enough to discharge all their duties up, save as age or weakness or fatigue , things of nee?, sounds are painful instead of plea- But every man a'so surable, and T Oink that we stand ha the world. when they come into excuse,s us. Seated in OM easy pew we ' on the things of others. !Another re - the house of God have no voice to dis- cannot do this duty half so well as so near 1 devastating storm and !petition. Strife in the Phieppian charge this duty. T really believe that when upright we throw our whole frightful whirlwind we . canna . church gave Paul much uneasinces, and. hear that which makes to God's ear serves to explain, to some degree, this , if the church of Christ could rise up boey into U. Let our song be like an and sing as it ought to sing, where acclamation of victory. You have a exhortation. 'Whitt the quarrel was and the ear of the. spirits above us a eve have 100 souls brought inte the right to sing. Do not surrender your ! about is not known. The Christians :music as complete as it is tremend-: tive. ous. j kingdona of Christ there would be 1.000. preroga/ of Philippi were poor, and were just I propose to speak about sacred , T -Tow was it in olden times? Cajetan We -want to rouse all our families up , now in special troubleprobably from music, first showing you its inn:0A- , said, ‘‘Luther conquered us by his on this subject. 1,Ve want each family persecution. 2 Cor. 8. 1, 4; Phil. 1.28 - alms and then stating some of the ! songs." of our congregation to be a singing 30. Some phase of these afflictions may obstacles to its advancement. I But I must now speak of some of school. Childish petulance, obduracy have led. to discussion; or their 1! lour - 1 draw the first argument for the / the obstaele,s in the way of advance- and. intractability would. be soothed if , ishing progress es a church may have importance of sacred. music from the i anent of this sacred music, awl the first we had more singing in the household, caused spiritual pride and led to rivalry fact that God commanded it. Through i is that it has been impressed into the and then our little ones would be pre-. and jea, ousy. Paul He tells us tol admonish one an- ' service of eetan. I am far from be- pared for the great congregation on 5. Let this mind be in you. "Think other in psalms and hymns and spir- i lieving that Music ought always to be Sabbath day, their voices uniting with this in yourselves." Which was also in itual songs; through David He cries I positively religious. Refined art has -our voices in the praises of the Lord. Christ jesus. Who is our Example as out, "Sing ye to God all ye king.: opened places where music has been After a. shower there are scores of , well ad our Redeemer. doms of the earth." And, there are eaculanized, and. lawfully so. The streams that come down the mountain . 6. Who, being in the form of God. . hundreds of other Passages 1 might ; drawing room, the concert, by side with voices rippling and silvery, The simplest explanation of this re- name, proving tbat it is as muchthe gratification of pure taste and the pouring into the river and then roll- . fers it to our Lord's existence before a I man's duty to sing as it is his dutyproduction of harmless amusement and tug in united strength to the sea. So his life on earth. "Form" here does to pray. Indeed I Wide there are ! the improvement of talent, have be- I *would. have all the families in our not mean shape, but upturn character, more commands in the Bible to singcome great forces in the advancement church send forth the voice of prayer made of manifestation, and differs from ! than tbere are to prayGod not only of our civilization. Maio has as much and praise. pouring it into the great the word rendered "fashion." Here it . asks for the human voicebut for the right to laugh in Surrey gardens as it tide of public worship that rolls QT).• and seems intended to deseribe the mode. , 1 instruments of musicHe asks fax has to pray in St. Paul's. Tn. the king- on to empty into the great, wide heart by which Gad. expresses his essential . I the cymbal and the harp and. the !dam of nature we have the gia.cl fifing of God. Never can we have our church persona.litn. He who afterward mann trumpet. And I Suppose thain th. of the wind as well as the long meter sing as it ought until our families sing fested himself in human nature, verse t, e days of the church, the, harp, the lutepsalm of the thunder, but while all as they ought. 7, manifested himself originally as, God ,' the trumpet and all the instrumentsthis is so, every observer has noticed . There will be a, great revolution on —manifested all diviue perfections. The ot music that have givew their chief , that this art, which God intended for this subject in all our churches. God. "form of God" was laid aside by, Christ aid to the theatre and bacchanal , will, the improvement of the ear, and the will come down by His spirit androuse in bis inearnation. Thought is not rob - be brought by their masters and laidhelmand the head and the heart, has up the old hymns and tunes that have bery to be equal with God. "Deemed ' , down at the feet of Christ and then, adan beenimPressed into the service not been more than half awake since not his being on an equality with God. ' sounnded in the churchtriumph on of error. Tartini, the musical composer, the time of our grandfath,ers. The sil- a. thing earnestly to be desired." It 's her way from suffering into e I dreamed one night that satan snatch- ent pews in the church Win break forth was better to lay it aside so as to be praise 'lorv. Him; ed from his hand an' instrument and. i•nto, musie, and when the conductor identified. with humanity. "Christ's with your voices. Praise .11iM "Praise' ye the Lordl" with] played upon it something very sweet takes • his place on the 'Sabbath day great object was to identify himself —a dream that has often been fulfilled there will be a great host of voices, with humanity; not to appear to men . lin our day, th!e voice and the instru- rushing into the harmony. My as divine, but as human. Tlad he stringed instruments and with or-. ment that ought have been devotee to Christian friends, if we have no taste come into the world emphasizinee his gans. . I draw another argument for thel the Christ captured from the church and for this service on earth, What will we equality with God, the world would importance of this exercise from plied to the purposes of sin. ao en heaven, where they all sing and. have been anaazed, but not saved. He bnpressiveness of the exercise. You.; ap know something of what secularAnother obstacle has 'been an inor- sing forever ? I would. that our sing- did not greap at this; the rather he , criticism.. The vast ma- big to -day would be like the Saturday counted humanity his prize, and so mm uti ds leo i thsasimaperheisesviel upYeohu gkenv eorwLai te nhtaes, i fliainr jett; offeeprfeoople singing in church nev- , night rehearsal for the Sabbathmorn- laid aside the condition of his pre -ex - upon lawsupon literatureupon whole/ er want anybody else - to hear them ing in the skiea, and. we might begin istea state.and. became inene'—M. R. , , generations One inspiring- national air . sing.. Everybody is waiting for some now, 'by the strength and by the help Vincent. . is worth thirty thousand- men as a1 body else to do his duty. If we all sang of God, to discharge a duty •whichnone :7 Made himself of no reputation standing armyThere comes e time then the inaccuracies , that are evident of us • has fully performed. And now "Emptied hiniself." " `Himself,' is the , I in the battle when one bugle is worth when only a few sing woald be drown- what more appropriate thing can.' do emphatio word here, net the verb. He I anthousand musketsIn the earlier ed • out. God asks you to do as well as than to give out thi doxology of the not only did. not enrich himself, but s . . , you, can, and then if you get the wrong heavens. "Unto Vim who bath loved he emptied. himself. , He used his equal- per:- of our civil war the government UI keep wrong timulle leen:for-. u.s and washed us from our sins in ity with God as an apporbunity not for proposed to . -economize :in bands of, Fitch with ln c•11 0".33..,_mrTet;•,_ dor t a frie God. dose Tendej ing e els we and a now. 2. Pl of the joy wi that t these "Full casket of flesh that men when they raet labia were lea to expeot Borne - thing. better tben humanity, axid were surprised to find him so• inuot like other inene "Whea be sew him there wee no beauty that we 'should desire him." Isa. 2.2. lie humbled ltimeelf. A further act of eelf-denial. ,e.nd beoame obediertt unto death, even tbe death of the cross. His obedience reached ev- en to death, which was its climax; tQ the death of the cross, the most cursed of deaths. 9. Wherefore. Because of this self- hurallia.tion. God also bath exalted him. Made him superinteadent„ Given bine a name which is above every name. "Name" often carries in the Bible the sense of charecter, and sometimes if person; here, /aowever, it is to be un- derstood literally of "Jesus. the name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease." According to Eph. 1. 21e 21 the man Christ jesus "is exalted to the right hand of God, far above all .:1'""e'PeMEIM!fenieet ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Few Items wrath nay leeseve Worth needing. Shoee made of porpoise /eather are absolutely impervious to water. The loftiest cliff on the coast of Enge land is ••Bettchy Head, the height of whict is 564 feet. In Puerto Limon, Caste Rita, the whiskey is so bad that the yellow fever will not ettaok any body who drinke it. Twenty-seven onions, the combined weight a which was sixty-five pounds were raised this season by .T. R. Doug-, las, of Albany, Oregon. The trees in the streets of Paris are lb0000kkedbeaauftteirfulb.y a. • publio official aPe pointed just for that purpose, and therefore the Parisian streets alwaye named, not only in this world, but also Under this treatment a persoia live0 meInnt some fompuarrdter °ifs Calkleine:letebnne ePsisl.niTS111211; nine or ten days. prinepality, and. power, and rnmght and dominion, and every name that is • culprit is kept awake until he dies. in that •whieb. is to come. knee should. bow. One purpose of the euperetainent exaltation of jesus wee ofAtlhlemthehasvteretbietttoaer_rbsoxines Daeista:toeir :a Iowa., pass the post -office, and mann 10. That at the name of Jesus every 1 ethfiaetreina.hilhhnhaturigseienvehreyaeperha.yeehrctahtahlilegbee ,i letter or other mail matter can be in earth and things under the earth. , sm4lpeedd etto recYeivninitt. end the ear 14 This is an oriental WILY of saying all intelligences. They may be cla.ssi- fled if one so choose, into the angels of God, living men, and dead mene'the glorified Church, the sslitavviender dnaneriilaiortfatenadtrlCarahneenorrec.tp, reecturhnednrysti,ehee un- saved ery tongue. Every one of Philippians were a source of constant joy to Paul; his epistle to them' has been fitly called a lave letter, for in very few letters of the seine brevity are there to be found so many endearing phrases. The third verse of the first chapter—"I thank my God upoie every remembrance of you"—souads the keynote of the epis- tle. But, much aa ne loved them and proud as he was of them, be could not help observing that "they did not walk in perfect unity." If now they so walk his joy will be "fulfillect" • filled full, completed. Being of one ac- cord. elarmunized. Of one mind. le unit in sentiment. Chrysostom ex- plains Paul's tautology here by say- ing, "He repeats himself leicause of his exceeding great earnestness." 3. Let nothing be done through strife. "Never act from separate in- terests;" have no factems; entertain no thought of self-seeking or vainglory. Lowliness of mind. The opposite of all pride, whether of family, wealth, learn- ing, or ability. Let each esteem oth- er lietter then themselves. "Lowliness of mind" wilt lead to tins, for if one is honest in self -judgment, and charita- Lewis • Weaver, aged seventy, oa Mount Pleasant Pa., has just hurled his second wife, which metes the twen- ty-first funeral in his family. He bas had twenty-seven children and buried nineteen of them. John Hyman, of Loogootee, Ind., IS proud of his calling, which is that of the classes nanae& Should a, cooper. He leas bad carved for hie • Should acknowledge. That monument marble barrel, with a keg) atria is Lord. Absolute on it end the barrel bears thee° wordst . See 1 • Cor. 12. 3, "A. Cooper by Trade." Tory of God the Father. 'Whict Elizabeth Bowles, aged seven years, sue arid result of all this eon- of •New York, was carrying a siphonl ne the great end of our Lord's on. John Calvin writes, barters 5 and. 17 of John's a you will have the exposi- tbis text." OYAL 3.11ATOH-MAKER. rn is a srnell country, wbieh it hare a large part in the goers; but its toed is an im- reettant one by reaeon of its marriage alliances and the personal influence of the kine and queen. Whenever there is a oeurt heel at Copenhagen, mac of the livelent den e.s is Nine Christian IX. whe sal 0,111r9: co heart. al- tbough close to his eightieth year. His wife Queen Louise, is his senior ny several months and has ceased to darr e in the royal quadrilles. She hae been one of the most succesnful of seltzer water. While ascending the stoop of her home, the siplaon fell frone her hand and exploded as it struck the stone step. A piece of the glass cut open her windpipe, ceasing death. Art immense horseeztaokerel. eight feet long and weighing 500 pounds, V7116 lately caught in a, trap at Gardiner's Island, •off the eastern end, of ',oast Island, N. Y., by Captain Frank Tut- hill. Before being subdued, it leaped. into a. rowboat, which it smashed into three pieces. Humming birds are domesticated by Owing in their cages a =inner of paper flowers of tubular form contain- ing a small quantity of sugar and water which must be frequently renewed. Of this liquid the birds partake, and queerly become apparently contented. with their captivity. An anti -swearing society has been organized in Owingsville, Ky., For every oath uttered by the members, match -ma -kers in Europe, and still takes keen interest in this royal sport.. the treasury. Nine of them engaged the queen foun I a suitable pertner er night, and the oaths rattled out For her olde t son. the crown prince,: in they have agreed to pay five cents into a warm political discussion the oth- oolndleay, be ame the Prin •ess or Wales, awl her revenue of $F1.170.r6i5(ia, has T in,0eatwrilye ,tcliiairutihtyeerareei tahgeo KiningPerfinseNessve_ brought 1 den and :Norway. Iler oldest, daughter eerond daughter the Nvife of Alexan- a, pet gator, twelve feet long'. T. p Her sec -on 1 son. after his eleetion as Diekbason had a pet pelican. The al- alli Tear of Ruseia. to a, few days ago, Ids neighbog, Mr. der Me anti mother of the present King of Gree es married a Ru-sian ligator took a fancy to the peliean and grand duchess. With one grandson on bird's tail feathers disappear as the entreat closed its huge jaws. devoured it. Mr. Dickinson saw the Duke of York deetinecl to reign in ' trip from Pensacola to Choctawatehie, t he Ru s an t hrone an 1 another, the 1 The steamer Florida, on a recent . England. and with two other grand- I sailed as tbe gra,ndmother of four had a lighter lashed alongside. In 'ons heirs ti the crowns of Denmark ' emperore and kings. some way a. tarpon berame fast be - and Greeee Queen Louese may be de - Two other marrievree this a•troit tween. the steamer and the lighter, and match -maker ha-. arranged. Her third, in trying to effect its release it leap - ECM Prince Wel...enter, married Prin- weighed 175 pounds, and was six feet four inches in length. ed on the steamer's deck. The fish Duo de Cha tree, and her th'rd (laugh- • cess Marie 41'0x/teens daugbter of the I A pretended oculist called on Mrs. ter becarae the wife of the Duke of R. Hawkins, in Perry, Ohio, and per- give any deficiency of the ear and. ira- His own blood, to Hain be glory for self -exaltation, but for self-abasement," perfection of the yoke. Angels will ever 1" —Alford. But of what did he enapty himself? "Of the "form of God," men- - tioned in the last verse; not the es- sential nature of God, but the manner HIS AFFECTIONS ASTRAY. of its marafestatien. Took upon him Lawyer—On what grounds do you de- the form of a servant.. Nature char - sire a divorce?acter, mode of manifestation, as be Mrs. Youngwife—We went to the fore. He now expressed his godlike - mountains on our wedding trip and he 11282 in a slave's body and with a fell in love with the scenery1 slave's environments, This shows • that what Christ deemed "a thing to NOT IMPRESSED. earnestly desire," verse 6, was no music and inany of them were sent home, but the generals in the army sent word to Washington, You. are making a very ,great mistake. We are falling back and falling back, We have not enough music,' I have to tell you •that no nation, or church can afford to severely economize in music, Why should we rub the programs of worldly gayety when we have s� many not laugh' if you should lose your place in the muisical scale or come in at the close a bar behind. There are three sehools of singing I am told—the Ger- man 'school, the Italian school and the French school of singing. Now, I would like to add a fourth school, and that Ls the school of Christ. The voice of a contrite, broken heart, although it may not be able to stand human critic - i appropria,te songs and tunes compos- not makes better music to God's ear 'ed in our own day, as well as that magni ficent inheritance of church psal- then the most artistic performance mody whichhas come down fragrant when the laeart is wanting. Goa calls with the devotions of other genera- 90 the beasts, on the cattle, on the :stsirohnese—eteurne:eennotgmreoereafawt-bhienrs ouetlimthbaend dnroatgetiloehtee btjerhaiin8ae Htlaime,caatntclieWaenrgthhet 1.11) 0,I1 them from the church pew to dragons. • divine sovereignty but divine service. That tenor of ours has a marvellous Made in the likeness of men. Born voice. He Call hold one of his notes for into the world. half a minute. 8. I3eing found in festion as a man. Faugh! Eve held one of his notes ,As if his divine goodness shone oat for two yearsso brightly even throngh the heavy bave been King of England. if suaded her to permit him to examine Cumberland, a great-grandson of 1 Queen Victoria had died in her girl- her eyes and those of her granddaugh- ter. He hypnotized both of them, and George III, of England, who might hood. These were tranriages which lrought • compelled Mrs. Hawkins to bring to great fortunes into tbe Latish fare- him $57 from a place where it was con- cealed in the house. The hypnotio heiress ail the Duke of Cumbe 1 d* , spell lasted twenty-four hours. NI fa7sotherich0.rleans princess was an! Two young men. hilarious with strong r 831 Queen Louise. laving married ()flail cider, were conveying four young ladies i across a creek in a boat, at Hamilton, Inures for her grandchildren. Her Ala. One of the men, in the exuber- her children with marked suecess, has theory hae aeen that the reigning once of his merriment. stuck a pin in begun to arrange a neve series of al - house of a feeble country like leen- the other. The latter bounded from. mark can be converted into a centre I his seat, and in the aa lost his oar4 of infelence in Eurepe by div net 1 ut , The boat drifted to a whirlpool and ambitieue ma-riages. She acted upen sank, and the four girls were drowned. grandsen, the Crown Prime of Greecel ThVe AgRlsesOtUisSn KIehaNviDaSg 013' LACES. as this principle when she, alvised her . peror. to eearry a sister of the German Em --1 one queen is nob only to the kinds of laces known, it lazy a, match -mak-. be. said that their names are xnany. A etaracter and a goed mind. Her in- Albisola and conclude with Ypres, as flu,ence has teen felt in the fa.mily1 lollowse uricils of toyalty throughout Europe. I bead - weight to her advioe. C•openhagene Albisola,, Alemican, Antevierp, Ap- Ares, Auvergne. Ave Maria, Ba-. The late Tsr and. the present Em.- I hete been tbe capital where for two , Plicille' mily have been frequettt visitors d ed-, Beggars, Bilinent, Blond, Bisette, Bourg ,Ar- tteror of Russia leas attached great , generations the Heenan imperial fa- by. Balloon net, BasketeBayeux, Bead - where they have thrown off the cares1 gentel, Bride, Broad, 33russels, Buck - Bobbin Bone point, Border, In. September Queen Lou.isen eiaglan."-t- ' inghanE Bilrar"). Cadiz, Carnival, Car- ieth birth 'ay was celebrated. by a re -1 tilly, Chenille, Ouny, Cordover, Cork, tisane, Caterpillar paint, Chain, Chan - of state. • Cretan, -Crewel, Crochet, Crown, D.al- ecarlia,n, Damascene, Darned, Devon- e- also a woman of great force of partial list of laces would. begin with union et her descendants and relations in Copenhagen. It WM a large fam- ily party from many courts in Europe and she rec,eived the congratulations of nearly all sovereigns on the con- tinent. shu-e, Diamond, Dieppe, Dresden point, Duchesse, Dunkirk, Duteh, Ecru, Eng- lish point, False Valenniennes, Flat point, Flemish point, Fuseau., Genoa, Grauunont, GueeW•se., Guipure, Hendri- quez, Rollie point, Floniton, made in Devonshire, Eng., Jesuite, Knotted, Lille, Limerick, Macrame, Meehlin, MI: - EXPLAINED. greinette, Miercourt, Needle point, Oyah Ned—Why does Jack Brokeleigh Parchment, Pillow, Plaited point, Pot, refer to his rich wife as his' from pattern introcluced, Powdered, 'rays 91e113- covered with small flowers and dots, meet Saxohy, Spanish, Statute, lace made in Ted—She helps him meet all his bills. accordance with sumptuary laws, Tam- bour, Tape, Three& Torchen, Trolley, Valenciennes, Ypres. FINANCIAL. jack, would you mind lending me $5,000? Certainly not; if you can ever run across me when I hae-e that phrenologist said he had. a great lo -re mat. • for little children Because the lomp the professor was feeling was caused. by a baseba,11' with whion a small boy accidentally struck Grumpy. He's been laying for the lad ever since. • --- KEEPS WELL TN FRONT. Is your new clergyman progres- siv e? I suppose so. He attends funerals on his wheel. TAKING 0 CHANOFS, Farmer Cornfed-1f I give you e meal will you help me a little with tiaY milking? Sunset Sim% cautiously --Da de- pendon w'ot. kind o a puma eon tuie. THE PROFESSOR'S MISTAKE. What made Grumpy so med. when the , NOTHING- TO G-RAB HMI BY. Mrs. Ganbleton—I ain told that Mrs. Hennypeck has lost all hold on her husband. Old Aunt Broadhead—Yes; I've notic- ed that he has shaved off his chin whiskers. A MISFIT VICTIM. She—What is meant by going from bad. to worse? He—Getting mareied a second, time. - • A merchant offers substitutes be- cause he makes a tat of money on them. Good artieles canna be put on the market at a tigh prpfit.