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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-12-16, Page 2eleeD CaiidireeNtS. awe Zee preparations that are being' made eat all sides by the British Government •show that'it does not intend to be taken unawares in ease a war, Among the most important are the National Harbor, as it is called, which is to be constructed at Daver immediately ope posite Calais on the French coast at • the narrowest part of the Channel. A contract for this great work .has just beea given to a large Eiaglielt The amounj to be expended on it Is only a little under $20,000,001 There it is proposed to establish the head- quarters eel a large squadron of fast cruisers, torpedo-boat destroyers, and torpedo boats, supplenaented by coast- defeose battleships, to guard against the possible landing of an invading army at eny point within easy striking dietanee of London from the south. An important addition to the number of battleships ia the navy has also been decided on, and the Admiralty bas or- dered the immediate layiagt down of three ships of that class at the dock eards of Portsmouth, Chatham, and Davenport. They are to be 10,900 tons displacement each, with a speed of 18 1-2 knots. Except that they are to be furniehed with improved quick -fire ing gums, their armament will be the same as that, of the Majestio. The Government has praeticall gun another important improve whi di has long been urged on it. Is the transfer of the chief depo manufacturing of Government material from. the banks of the Tb at 'Woolwich to the centre of land. Birmingham, and its neig bond. Although the !mouth o y be- ment That t and unsheath the corn fromthe husk, and war toss it into the golden heap. Then the antes wagons will come along and take it to Eng- ' tbe tornerib, hheee How vividly to all those of us who 1 the IJJIILL OF THE FROSTS. FOLLOWED BY BLESSINGS AND CON- SEQUENT GLADNESS. Rev. D. Teenage Draws Inspiration From the Corn reed — yoga Pea Picture or the museum nee — Death ea Deal Iy tee Blessing ot new/stags. Rev. Dr. Telmage preached on Sun- day morning from the text job v, 26, "As a shock of corn cometh in in his season." Going at a rate of 40 miles the hour a few days ago, I caught the sermon:. ef you have reetettly been in the fields of Pennsylvania, or New jersey, or New York, or New England., or any of the country districts, you know that the corn is nearly all cut. The sharp knife struck through the Stalks and left them all along the fields until a man came vvitti a bandit) of straw and twisted a few of these wisps of straw into a Lauri and then gathering up as much of the corn as he could compass with his arras he bound it with his wisp of straw, and then stood it in the field in what is called a shocia It is estimated that there are now several billion bushels of corn standing in the shock, waiting to be husked, Some time during the latter part oe next month the farmers will gather, one day on one tame another day on another farm,and they will put on their rough husking apron. and will take the husking peg, eirbith is a piece of iron with a leather loop fastened to the hand, and with it Thames is well defended, there i ways danger that an enemy's v might run up the river and with ern. high explosive e intent se damege on the establishment at it wien. Birmingham and Sheffield, centrally situated inland. are not greet manufacturing points fax inerial of all kinds, and the fa has jast been. conneeted teith La by an elaborate under -ground sy of teeephozie and telegraph w while Loadon itself is being forti anti bus its OWX1 special organize for defence. orn in the country- comes the S ale remembrance a husking time! We eesels waited for it as for a gala, day of tbe mld- having for the most part shed their year, It was vatted a frolic. The trees Vool- foliage, the farmers waled, through the !I both fallen leaves. and came through the f v the keen morning air to the gleeful coun- war try. The frosts, which had silvered. eve riper erything, during the night, began eo m ndon melt off of the top of the corn shocl• stem IVhile the farmers were waiting fitlit ire% others, they stood. blowing their breath fled, through their fingers or thrashing A tion their arms around their }wain to keep up warmth of circulatio. Roaring mirth greeted the late farm- s ere- er as he crawled over the fence. Joke en wee and repartee and rustic. salutation el:. been. abounded. Alt ready, now I The men th eipt take hold the shok. of corn 'and hurl thetoprostrate, while the moles and mice , r whith have -secreted themselves then( cad may for warmth attempt escap. The withe 0. ofaf straw is unweund from the corn th atcsek, and the stalks heavy with the !the THE EXETER TIMES branches of the tree. Frost in the air. Frost on the bands oL the hunk- ers.. You. remember we used. to hide behind, the corn shocks so as to keep off tbe wind, but still time remember how shivering was the body and how painful was the cheek and how be- numbed were the hande. But altar awhile the sun went high up ancl all the frosts went out of the air and. joy "Alla. from th of y ex- iling, is far conies • they mbed and "teeing uies, 0 r it?" a the ndwe A sea of u orary ping p cent- a hub t li ;tisteetee hilarities awakened tbe echoes an from one Qom shook ,went up, aha," and was answered by joy another corn shock, "Aba, atm!' So we all realize that the des our friends is the nipping of man pectations, the freezing, the chi the frosting of our hopes. It from being a south wind. It from the frigid nortb, and when go away front lie we stand. leenu. ,bodyend benumbed in mind. heniumbed in soul. We stand our dead neighbors, our dead font hand we say, "Will weever get eve Yes, we will get over it, amid shoutiags of heavenly reunion a will look back to all these distres bereavements only as the temp distresses of husking team. "Wee may endure for a night. hut joy eth the morning.e "Light, and for a moment," said the apostle as he clapped his hands. "light and but for a moment." The chill of the frosts foe - lowed by the gladness that cometh tn "like ae shoele of core cometh in in his season." Of course the husking time made rough work with the ear ot corn:The husking peg had to be thrust in be bard thumb a the husker bed, to come down on the swathing of the and then there was a pull and a ruth- less tearing and then a complete s ping off before the corn was free, if the husk could, have spoken itw have said: "Why do You lacerate Why' do you wrench met" Ale friends, that is the way Goa bas ranged that the ear and the husks part, and that es the way he has separate. Yo You can afford. to ranged that the body and soul thal,!li av your physical distresses when yo% know that they are only forwarding the sours liberation. Every rheuenalie itain is °ray a plunge of the busking peg. Every neuraigio twiuge only a twist by the husker. There is gold. o you that must come out. Some way be elnickel must le broken. Some way heweluit must be launched for heavenly voyage. You must let the heavenly Lust andman husk off the mortality rom the immortality. There ought to le great consolation n this for all who have chronio ail- ments, since tim Lord is gradually and are mildly taking away from you! hat which leaders your soul's 'Hera - 'on, doing gradually for you what for laxly of us in robust health perhaps. e will do in one fell blow at the last. t the close of every illness. at the lose of every paroxysm, you ought o say: "Thank God that is all past ow. Thank God, I will never have to offer that again. Thank God 1 ant so uch nearer the hour of liberation." au will never suffer for the same ain twice. You may have a new pain an old place, but never the same Din twice. The pain does its work and then it es. Just so many plunges of the o,vbar to free tbe quarry. stone for he building. Just so many strokes of e chisel to complete the statue. Just many pangs to separate the soul om the body. You. who have chronic manta and. disorders are only .paying instalments that which somel of have to pay in one,payment evla we pay the debt of nature. Thank G therefore, ye who have chronic. disci ders, that you. have so much less s tering at the last. Vitiate God th you will have so muelx less to f in the way oe pain at the hands the heavenly Husbandman when "t shock of corn cometh in in his 8 son," Perhaps note- this may be an answ to a question which I asked one Sa bath morning, but did not answe Why is it that so many really go people have so dreadfully to suffe You. often find a good man wit enough pains and aches and distress you would think to discipline a who colony, while you find a man who perfectly useless going around wi easy. digestion and steady nerves an shining health, and his exit from t world is comparatively painless. Ho do you explain that e Well, notice in the busking time that' the huskin peg was thrust into the: corn and the there must be a, stout pull before th swathing was taken off of the ear an the full, round, healthy, luxurian corn was developed, while on the other d there was corn that hardly seem - worth husking. We threw thittinto place all by itself, 'and we. called it bbins." one of it was mildewed and some of was mice nibbled and' some of it great promise and no falfement. cobs and no corn, Nubbins! After good corn had been, driven up to barn. we came around with the n basket and we picked up these bins. They were worth saving, but worth rau.ch. So all around us e are people who amountoto teeth - They develop into no kind of use - mg. They are nibbled on one side he world, and nibbled on the other by the devil and mildewed all Dame, Lend they came is thea ver bhinoonv,ananddthtehr eacolameeffrroorarejlieeatioon and three miles around. Good, reigned supreme, and there great haectehakings, and there carnival, and there was the red the brightest experiences in all livest and there was a neighbo entuilon, the memory or winch makes alt the, nerves. of tay body tremble with emotion as the strums of a harp when tthhee ofilinorgdesre of a, player have swept The husking time was the ti neigheorbood reunion, and so 11 will be just that. There they coni They slept in the old village eh yard There they come up. The cliaed amid the fountains and seuipture and the parterres of a cemeteay. There they come up! They vent down when the ahip foundered ft Cape Hatteras, They come up from 11 sides—from potter's field and out f the solid masonry of Westminster bleey. They come up! They come pi All the hindrances to their better nature husked off. All their hysicalaiirctents busked, off. All their piritual despondeacies husked off. All heir hindrances to usefulness husked ff. The grata, the golden grain, the od-fashion.ed grain, visible and con- piettous. Some of there on earth were ueh disagreeable Christians you could ardly stand it in their presence. Now n }leaven they are so radiant you ardly know them. The fact is all eir imperfections have been husked. They did net mean on earth to be disagreeable. They Meant well enough, but they told you how dolt you, looked, aad they told you how net' many hard things they had heard o.bout an,d, you, and. they told you liow often they este bad to stand up for you ill some bat- Inef ties nAtil you wished almost that they mei had. been slain in sumo of the battles. ar- Goad, pious, conseerated, well meaning hall etisagreeables, Now. in heaven all their offeneivenes has beeo husked off, Emile one is happy as he can. be. Every one he meets as happy as he cart be. Heaven one great neigeborbood reunion. All longs and, queens, all eougsters, ell millionaires, all banqueters, God, the father, with his children, all around Mei; Isla."goodby" all the air. Na y best or having. died at hapleazard Planted at nsdtekhroti jrtitgolitttliteirareighut ustenkeea, Paltow;clatjuttte eirtigthht spirit time. Garoered at just the right time were Coning in, in your season. was 04,1 wise that the billions of bushels tat of of corn now in the fields or on the their way to the seeboard might be a type rhood of the grand. yield of honor and glory and immortality, wheo all the shooks conte I' do not know how you are conste, tilted, but I am so constituted that ' ng that so awakens rem- zne of tencences in me as the odors of a corn.. eaten, field when I arose it at this time of e up! year after the corn has been' out and arch- it stands in shooks. And so I have y re- thought it naight be practically useful the for us to -day to cross the cornfield, city and I have thought perhaps -there might be some reminiscence roused. in ceer soul that might be salutary and rellht be saving, In Sweden, a prima donna, while her house in the city was being repaired, took a house the country for temporary residence, and she brought out her great array of jewels to show a friend. who wished to see thern. One night after displaying tbe jewels and leaving them on the table, and all her friends had gone, and th and. ear. :Then in order to free the Gov merit from the Indian. frontier trott as soon. as possible, orders have sent eat to Twine that the Carp against the Aeriells and the muuntain tribes must be brough conelusion with as little delay as be cempatible with the assertio British supremacy. Foot and ino disease has broken. out among uth wealth of grain. are rolled into two Tx). transport animals on the lines of corn - it strikes the corn, a.nd then t 13 dOw.n. The husking peg is thrust tin in munication, and is seriously impeding ngers rip off the sheathing of the ear terially increasing the cost. Already corn is snapped, off from. the husk, and bndles. between whieb the huskers sit all the operations of the army, besides ma- and here is a Creek at the root of the the money obtained at the beginning of the gtxj.iain, dienrisoned, is hulled up ur- ade 118 me snag, and SOnie tanter, and in some tease a neighbor for a romantio rale along the edge of the vvoods ia an eventide, in a carriage that holds eme but two, and some prophesy' as to the number of bushels te the field, end oth- Y. ers fa into corapetition as tto which ers shal rifle the most. corn shocks before sh- sundown,. the After awhile the dinner horn sounds idh. from the farmhouse, and the table is surrounded by a group of jolly and he hungry ram From, all the pantries ns- arid the cellars and the perches at fool ee on the place the richest dainties come, and there are carnival and neighbor- ag hood reunion, and a scene which fills ng our memory, part with smiles, but raore eti, with tears, as we remember that the farm belongs now to other owners, and he other hands gather in the fields, and e- raq the canipaig.a is exhausted, and a f ther loan a 1.2,500,000 hrist to be ne for immediate requirements, wit large sterling loan to follow early Lha coraing year. Wesi Afrina the raising and a ing of native: levies, officered b large corps of special service offic sent out from England: is being pu ad forward with all speed to check French advance toward the Brit Niger and West Coast possessions. T difficulty in this case is one of tra port, the native bearers, conscious the value of their services, deraa.ndi full rations and. high peg,. and goi on strike when they are not grant In. South Africa, uncertainty about t future is manifested in the steady pr potation. going on in the Transvaala the Orange Free State for defence, and in the approaching despatch of mare British troops from England to the Cape of Good. Hpe. The questin. rais- ed ia England over all these war pre- arations, is wthethier in the end the game will be worth the can.die. FRENCH CHRISTMAS DELICACIES. Liver puddings, well truffled and. plentifully seasoned with garlic, to- gether with the national poulet, are seen an every Christmas table in France, accompanied. especially in th south, by• the celebrated Leagued stew, which is composed, acoording t M. Colomidie, of tete following. mate iota: Take beef, lean bacon, a clove of ga lee a, small olden in which is ineerte one olove, the third of a, quart of win a small glass of tiognac and some sal Cut the beef into square le- ad nto e sun h The air is eo tnic, the work is so very exhilarating the company is so' blithe, that Borne laugh, and some about In all the lls, River erystal rolling over bed, of pearl, an awn& of chrysopra.sus, into the sea glass nainglea with fire. Stand at gate of tbe granary and. see the gr come in outer the frosts into the sbln, out of the darkness into the light, out of ehe t.eiering. and the rip- ping, and the twisting and the wrench - tog, and the laerating, and the husk - ng time of earth into the wide open tloor of the En's granary, "like as a sheek of corn cometh in in his season." Yes, heaven. a, meat sociable, with joy like the joy of the husking tie. No one there feeling so big he declines to speak to some one who is not so large. Arch-anwel willing to listen to smollest clierub. No bolting a the door of caste at one heavenly mansion to keep out tbe citizene of a, smaller Mansion No olique in one corner whispering about a clique in another corner. David taking none of the airs of a giant killer. Joshua. 'making no 008 halt until he passes because he made the sun, and moon halt. Peal making no assumptions over the most ordinary. preeeher of righteousness, Nauman, captain of the Syrian host, no more bonored than. the captive maid who told eim where he could get a dostor. 0, my soul, what a count. ens; try1 The humble,st mo.n a, king. The od, poorest womaa a qixeen. The meanest re, house a. palace. The shortest lifetime eternity. And whet is more strange au about it ell is, we may all gat there, eel "Not I," Says Seine one sta,nding back Of under the galleries. Yes, yeti. "Not he I," says some one whut bas not been; ea- in church in 15 years befre. Yes.; you. "Not I," says some one wbo has er been, for 50 years filling up his life b. with alt kinds of wickedness, Yea. you. r. The are monopolies on earth, mono- od polistic railroads, monopolistic tate- r? graph companies and. monopolistic • grain. dealers, but no monopoly in re - es ligio. Alt who want to be saved. may le savei, without money and withou is price." Salvation by the Lord. Jesus tb • lee d canziat expect to get to heaven by' go g Ing in an opposite direction. Believe the: in the Lord. Jesus Christ and thou e shalt be saved. Through -that one d gate of pardon and peace all the race 1 may go in. "But," says some one, "do you really think I would. be at home in that sup- peraal sooiety if I should, reach it?" I think you. would. I know you would. I remember that in the husking time there was a. great equality of feelin aniong the neighbors. There at one corn shook &farmer would be at work who owned. 203 acres of ground. The man whom he was talking with at the next corn shook ownea but 80 acres of ground, and perhaps all covered by a mortgage. That evening, at the oloee of husking clay, one man drove home a. roan span so frisky, so full of life, they got their feet over the traces. The other man walked hom. Great difference in education, great differ- ence in worldly means. but I notic,ed at the husking time they all seemed. to enjoy eiech other's society. They did not ask any man how mueh property he owned or what his education had been. They all seemed, to be happy to - in those good, t' And so it will lee in heaven Our e n s had gone—oe suramer night—she sat thinking and looking in- to a mirror just in front of her chair, when. Oe sew in Mae mirror 'the face of a robber looking la at the window behind her and gazing at those jew- els. She was in great fright, but sat still, and hardly knowing why she did SO, she began to sing an old nursery song, her fears reeking the pathos of the song more telling. Suddenly she noticed while looking at the mirror that the robber's face had gone from the window and it did not come back. A few days after the prima donne received a letter from the rob- ber, sa,ying, " heard that the jewels were to be out that night and came to take them at whatever bazard, but when heard you sing that nursery' song witl which sip motber so often sang me to sleep, I could not stand it and I flea, and I have resolved. upon a .1:taw and honest life" 011, my friends, there are jewels in peril richer than those which lay upon the table that night. They are jewels of the iramortal soul. Would God that s of some song rolling up out of the de - der serted !winery of your chilbood or some of song rolling up out of the cornfields, tee the song of the huskere 20 or 40 years paagohs, inoigflistultrinigllthocurpfueetbtsocart rofigthlt eousness. Would God that those mem- ories wafireliaa oclor or song migbt start us thee moment with swift feet toward that' blessed place where so many of our lov d twee have already preceded us, 4' a shock of corn com- et:1i in in h' or a people. Of course, use coalmen. sense in this matter. You cannot expect to get to Charleston by taking ship for Portland, and you ose who mingled. in that han merry husking scene bane themselves ed been relined "like as a shock of corn a tometh en his season." There is a difference of opinion as to s "nu svhether the orientate k -new anything it about the carp as it steads in our Weide, wee but recent discoveries have found out a he Hebrew knew all about In- dian maize for there have been grains of the eorn piticed up out of ancient crypts and exhumed from hidineplaces where they were p ut down many cen- turies ago. and they have bee,n ln . Al the the tor nub not ther in our time and have eonee urt just ing, such Indian ninizt as. we raise in New pee York and Ohio. So I am right whea I by say that my text may refer to a shock sale e of porn just as you and I bound it • • as you and I threw it, just as you ee and I husked it, There may come some practical and useful and coneforting lee- r- sons in all our souls, while we think • of comin,g in at last..ante a shock of r- corn corning in in his season." d It is high tirae that the king of tar- e, rors +were throwa out of the Christian t. voembulay. A vast xaultitucle of peo- ple talk of death as though it were the disaster o disaster instead of being to a, good man the blessing of bless ings. It is moving out of a, cold.ves- tibule into a warm temple. It is mi - grantee into groves of perpetual fruiage. It is a cbange from bleak Mareh to roseate elm. It is a changed of nianacles for garlends. It is the traneraating of the iron bendcuffs of early incarceration into the diamonded wristlets of a bridal party, or, to 'use the euggestion of rey text, .ii; is only husking Can. It is the tearing oft of the rough sheaf of the body that the brighe and the beautiful soul may go fre. Coming in ellke e shock of corn ecenete in ie his season." Christ broke up a funeral, proceesion al; the gate of Wain inaking.a restart -at ioe tine' Lar a enueg man and his mother,- And wouid that 1 could, break up your sadness and halt the long funeral pro- ceesion of the workin grief. by SOBle cheering and cheerful view of the last transition. We all know that hasking time waa a time of frost. Wrest on the n',-.,.-..1 smell, and put; the erhole iato a small earthen pot, the bottoxn of which in tined with thin slices of bacon. Cover • the pot with thick paper closed at the edges by flour paste made with cold water, put a, plate over ail and let it simmer for six hours. CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY. That Bethlehem is the city of Christ's nativity there is no dubt, bat that the grotto in the rock is the spot where es was born there are many who ques- tion. They coxitend that the gospel L'0 s no aothority for this, saying that the manger belonged to an inn or khan; that it was because the rOODIs altrwe were filled with guests that the hely fao:lee were compelled to take up their temporary abode in the. court, lased stabte the males aria the horses. But, until tte &Reuters can prove that gime othr spot bas superior elaires to this the world wilt go en revering the aitie grotto beneath the Churoti of the lea eivity, over. Great promise and no fiefil raent. All cob and no corn. Nb - bis! • They are worth saving. I ,suppose many of them will gen to !leaven, but they are not worthy to be mentioned in the same day with, those who went throagh great tribulations into the kingdom of God. Who would not rath- er have the pain.s of this life, the enis- fortuneis of this lif—who would not rather be torn and wunded, and lac- eraed, and wrenehed, and husked, and at last go in amid. the very' best grain of the granere, than to; 13 proriounoee not worth husking at all? Nubbinet In other words I want' to say to you people who have distress of body and distress in bueiness and distress of all sots, the Lord has not any grudge against you. et is not derogatory. it Ls complimentary. i'Whm the Lord loveth, Ire chaeteneth," and it is proof tio61tive thee there is somethingi valu- able la you, or the Lord would not have husked you. You reinerober elso that in the time 02 huskiag it was a neighboring re- union. ey the great fireplace iu the winter, the fires roaring around the glerified back -logs on an old-fashioned heartn which the modern stoves and registers a,re only the degenerate descendants, the farmers used to ga,ther and spend the evening,and es-ouid he mule soiality; bet it ot anything like the• joy of the ng time foe then e11 the farmers there wee Frost on the fnc. Frost on tee bare hilstil Fathe mm and some will a will t will a htm a Here with la is its y one wi at I buried in Greenevood, anti allithe after years of my life were shadowed with: desolation, Just look at her ! She doesn't seem as if see 13,4 been sick a minute. Greet sociality. Great. neigh- borhood kindness. What tbugh john 'Milton' sit down on one side and Sohn Howard sit down an the other side, No 'embarrassment. What though Charlotte Elisabeth sit down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other side? No einbarrass. ment A monareb yourself, why be em- barrassed among monarchs? A song ster yourself, why be embarrassed amid glorified sone.sters ? Oo in and dine. r will gather His children around aid the neighbors will come in, he past will be rehearsed. And one will tell of vietory and we 11 celebrate it. And sonae one, ell of great struggle, and vett 11 praise the grace thaili fetehee ut of it, And some one will Say-':. is my old father that put away eertbreak. Just look at he, hie owe; as any of tis!" And sortie 1 sa,y, "Here is my clarline child ICELAND TO HAVE A CABLE. It is. intended next summer to lay an ocean. cable from tbe northern end of Scotland to Ielad, taking in the Fa,roe.Islands on ithe way, This eriter7 prise arouses much in Le ree t among menof scienee, because fcelend is fill- ed with wonderful, natural phenomena and particularly becautte it is thought 'that' meteorological stations connected with the proposed cable naa,y be able to enlarge our knowledge of the course and peculia,rties of storms crossing the ocean. A REASSURING NAME AT LEA.ST. ,Mrs, Handout—Here is a piece of loaf -cake, I hope you will like it, • Groggy Grugen—I hope I will, teddy, ef it's ingredients are as delielaus ter de taste as its name is ter de ear, • A WELCOME. Niece—Altret, tine is our new ,miiiAlt be eheeks commie in their see- Oid Iady--Indeed, I'm glad to Persi?Il.„ son. Oh, yen Le their seasoof . Not wee eeti you, sir! 4110 1 bops you will ca,11 we "a' you having died leo soon t a F1 biter, t.r.b,o• • has carted to see vair. rut SUNDAY SC1100L. INTERNAVONAL LESSON, DO, 19. "Johan ineetage menet- site or starva- tion." 1 atale 1, & to 2.8. Cloirt ea Text. 1 John 1:9. PRACTICAL N0T113. Verse 5. This then is the message. There ()elate this message. John never uses' the word Gospel. Which we have eard of him. The Son and the Word of Life. " Message " has the sense of promise. " We " is not to be confined to joho biraself ; Pete, 1 Peter 1. 10, 11, had heard the same message. Declare xit° you. Announce the tidings to you. God is light. Tbis entire epistle i$ an exposition of walking in the Light as he is Spirit and as he is Love. It is definition in a metaphor. All in- telligence, all enlightenment, all thee we are accustomed to term. "light," whether with the pbysical or metaphy- slet meaning, comes from God., Light is tilinsicid glory, intellectual truth, moral holiness. God is always mane. fested io. light, the burning lamp which passed between the portions of the sec- tfice which a.brahaue offered when God made a Nivel/eau witn him, in the pil- lar of fire, in the tlasbes of flame, on the crest of Singe, in the glory which rested in the lialy of holies. Iu him is no darkness at all. We have discov- ered in our steely of Pa.urs epistles eeculiarity of that writer, a tend-. ency to repetition far tbe sake of eon phase. John has a peouliarity (tethe as noticeable, a disposition to express the setae idea positively and negatively. eLloolkthr:ugh his gospel and hie epistles and we eviel fine. that peeuliarity ev- 7ite e. If we. . .walk in darkness. So that babitual course of our life is in elarknes, in moral gloom in a condi- tion of tuicertainty and doubt on re- ligious xi:tatters. We lie, and, do not the truth. Positive and negative again. If we walk in darkness we do not the truth. "Right action," says Bishop Westvate "la 'tre thought realized. Every fragment of right done is so mace truth made visible." 7. we walk in the light. If we tic about as in verse 6, having the urce of our life in God who is abor- t light, As he is in the light. But is so of his own nateire, perfectlyso, tshangeably so. We are advancing m dawn to noonday, erore glooro glimmer, from glimmer to the full- s of gospel truth. "The path of the is as the shining light whiell shine more coad more unto the perfect ." Fellowship one with another. is is a -strange 'ogee] result. From at precedes we should think that Ve Walked, in, tees light as Gad is in light, the result wouli be fellow- !, between our souls anti God, and it is; but the result of that action ellovvship between other Christians us. The blood of Jesus Christ his cleanseth us from all sin. The blood Zesu.s is available fon all men. eanseth " nteansmore than forgives eans removes. Attain, So we have other parts of the New Testament, patience, all wisdom, all diligence, 1 sin" means the ver y< principles of and therefore its manifetations, word "Jesus" brings outi promin. ly the thought of the; human ne- e of Christ. IT we say we have no sin. By the of the word "we" the discipht i es himself. The form of expression used occurs frequently in the New anaent—to have faith, to have to have peace, to have boldness— always expresses a more distinct anal realization of the virtue or t or sentiment than if "have," O omitted. To haere faith stronger than to believe, to sorrow is more than to ow, and so to have sin means more to sin. It refers to deviation the perfect law of right. We ve ourselves, end the truth is not • , We lead ourselves astray, and re to blame for so doing. "Truth" des the whole Gospel, Jesus Christ, le and his message. We are out armony with that truth if we as-. perfection, in the sense of fault - 888. But this is very far from deny - the blessed possibility of living of complete consecration and tete acceptance byGod, so that hall never be conscious of a desire is n.ot in harmony with God. Iva 50 no, he 1111 fro to nes jus eth iday Th wh if the shi BO is f and Son of Or 01 In "Al It, The ent tur 8. use clad here Test love and pers faall wer is have sorr than. front decei in us W8 a 1517115hews h sume lessn lives eente we s that 9. If we confess our sens. This means confess them to Geld, ht a spirit of humility—reognize the faultiness sinfulness of our nature. He is faith- ful and just to forgive us our sins. He keeps faith with himself, he is true to his own nature, he will disappoint no one. For "just" the Revised leer- sioa reads "rigerteous." To forgive. To dismiss, to remit. Our sins, . Sin is sometimes regarded as a coa- dition, sometimes as an act. God. Ls faithful end 'just to forgive both. To cleanise us from all unright- eousness. Not only to forgive, but to remove from us all things that are con- trary to his nature end which woold render fellowship with him impossible. • 10. • If we say that we have not sin-, ned. The allusion in yerse 8 was to the eandition or principle of sin, this at - Ludes to sinful seen tern make him a lir. Because Ms Spirit and his word alike convict us oft ransgression of the law. Contrast this with the statement of verse 8, which saws, if we san We have no sin we lie ourseleest weekruiev better; our own conecienoes etriteeee our infirmity ef nature, • His wordees. net. en, us, ;Here else is a striking contrast with verse 8, If we deay the sinful- ness of our human nature we have droppecj the truth et God out of our hearts; if we deny our own sinful acts we have dropped. ma oh our memories the very words that Gd spoke. 1. Lithle children. A term of affec- time, though John's exteeme age may have led him to regard those 3,boitt him 5.8 comparettvely children, , That ye 'SgiorrineriQin toAfkOl- rthtiteexpPtillTioasteif'tLE has settijelzeign the diseiples froat sin. ff any man sin we have an advocate with the Feiner: n "inc eenge from the indefinite third aiety mate: to the first person e Is sigaiticant, By Entne have. ads on tbe part of Christi bauselt in common with their reirarnon need 01 113 i of the divine a.dvotaten-11,1 ent. "John preferred himself in the number of si that lie raight have 0hre5t vocate, rather than pet /11 advocate instead of Christ, Lound among the proucl."—A An• "advocate" is a counse pleads our case. ft is the ea word thee is itanelated "coa john 14. 16. With the Fath then a. lawyer pleading with but with a tender parent. 2. He is the propitiatioo sins./ Conciliation for our Canon Westcott says, "The so coneeption of the word is not appeasing one who ia angry personal feeling against the o but rather of altering the Oa of that which, from without, occ s a. necessary annation, end interp 041 inevitable obstacle to fellows There is no such thing in the Bibi th'e thought of propitiating God, 0 Goa (a any case being reconcile mane but main is reconciled to through Jess. For the sins of whole world. Leave out "the si for thle whole world. "The pr Ca" says Henget, "is as wide anis" 3. Hereby we do know t him. In this we perceive ct we bave on what tollows, "le we keel) his came come to know him. The rase bangs mandrcients." Keeping Gd's command. went gives us an experience day by day, winch enables us to see to recognize* qaut irvrinet haavkenzqieudigreedof aGxoidd. are still 4. Saih, r know him, and keep- . not bis coutmandmet, Talks right, and twee wrong. Is a /tar ells life is a lie. nut truth is not in hirce The truth could not be in a person who intentionally; professed, to possess the knoveed,gie oe 'God and intentionally defied him. 5. Whose keepeth his word. "Word" means substantially what is expressed, by icommandments in the last verse, only that those are segara,te inunc- tios, this is the revelation as a wholiii In him verily is the love of God perfect- ed, The Revieed Version changes the tense, ".bath the love of Go& been per- fected. Tn verse 4 we were taught tied he who claims a knowledge of God and. habitally lives in disobeeience lies. Here we are taught that he who claims that knowledge and habitual1y! seeks to keisp his coraraaadinentsel wea,t? Lives in the truth? No. The epee, tle goes farther and says in such a one the love of God has been perfette ed. That is, the charaeteristio 02 113 otedient children a God is a life of love. In Paul's *phrseology the love of God always means the love whicle proceeds from God., Here it eeems to me "1.13 love of whieb God is th'e object. Herder k that we °green hi fort to keep dod's comumadinen cause a the lova we haye toward, hien is proof that we are ientifj8d with him, his servants, ° childrn, his best beloved. 6. He abideth in him, Bengel notes the climax here. Verse 4 speaks a knowing Grod, verse 5 of being in him, vere 6 of abiding in him, wbieli Ben. gel interprets as knowledge, fellw-e ship, and constancy. Ought himse also so to walk, even as be wal. That is his duty, his obligation.. . . NOT FLATTERING.. Some people have a facultyt for tk- ing off the edge of a. neighbor's plea- sure. A writer gives a case in point -..,tee It happened to a doetor of divinity who waa preaching some special sermons!, He had scarcely got into the vestry after one of them, wheni in rushed well-dressed man who greeted him ibst effusively. Delighted to see you, doctor, he aaid, You have given us a grand serraon, It bee beea a treat—a real inspiration to us all. The doctor smiled and expressed his gratificatin, and the man left the vestry. No sooner was the door closed, however, than one of the deacons look. ed up and remarked: You must not take a,ny notice of him, doctor— he's got softening of the brain. The feelings of bite doctor, must have been akin to those of another rainister who was preaoleng in Rohdale. The morning was fine, and the congrega- tion large. At the foot of the ptifpit stairs one of the officials( met him. ,We've had a very large congrega- tion, this morning, Mr. Brown, reenarker-- etee e dytehse, sir,pr arcohp fed the guileless'and out- spoken brother, a, very fine congrega- tion. You see, sir, we wasn't expecting you this morning. A SITN COOIUNG BOX, An East Indian lois invented what he calls a cooking box. It is made of wood and lined with' reflecting nair- rrs. At the bottom of the halo .wete,riet, is a small copper boiler covered wit1! glees to retain the beat of the rays concentrated by mirrors upon the boil- er. In tbis receptacle any kind of food rciay be quiekly cooked. The dish is a stew ora boil if the steam is retained and. a bake if the steam is diseharged, It is claimed that in this device the heat may be augmented indefinitely, by hecreasing the diameter of the box. Ai/other sun xneehine has been used in Algerafor dLstillixtg . water. It con- sists of a simple arrangement of boil- er and concave mirror, the stant gen- erated being condensed in a coiled tube within a water jeeket. LIGHTS OUT BY CLOCK, Among curious •eletric1 tnventions is enutherateci a Nir;ib11'whtch 00i attached to tlife nieehanism of afcloci in 'Snobb Mariner tha:t when the clok' hands point to any desired hour the electric lighbs will immedia tely go out of their own accord, ---- TIIE e'ROPEle It was the beginning 0.f their weer • ding trip. • Dear, she inquired, anxiously, "in the excitemeat of leaving, dirt you say good -by to papa and mamma No, he replied; 1 said 'au. revoier. ._........... . • likeEtENITENCE, indigtiant Uncle—t'il cut you off 'with', ''a a eleillihg, you eoung raecal. • Unrepentant Nephew—flo you mind sssinful letting me 'lave the shining now, line utues e th pcs41Jillt'Y 6E. eit eitat: