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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-1-20, Page 71V07'4.8 eleVD coaarzurzy.• In England diseuesion. ot the pro- Pasaie for increasing the 13ritiell artaY, whiell the government will m).1-. mit to Parliament. on its reassembly, is already growing werne. What the government contemplatee is merely the addition of eight new battalions to the present foree, lvith some slight changes as to pay and service, that is, a development of the preseot sys- tem, without topeibing the PriedPies on which the ermy is organized. The opponents of this plan on the other 'hand, ergo that the existing eystcon is all wrong,,that what is needed is not its improvement and development, but a radioat reform whieh shall not patch but reconstruct. The present organization of tbe army was, like that in other states, largely prompt- ed, by the German sucoesses in the Franco-Prussian war, and has for its basis the shoxt-service system and the principle of connected battalions, each of which is to serve alternately at home end abroad. The system con- templates, in effect, the existence of two armies of, seventy bettallons eacit, the whole establishment being placed at two hundred. and six thousand men, seventy-three thousand of whom ere stationed in India, and about twenty- six thousand, in the colonies, leaving about one hundred, thousand forborne service., Of these letter, it was ex- pected that sixty-five thousand would be available for the various military expeditions in wbigh Great Britain is constantly engaged throughout the world, their place being taken by the reserves and volunteers, and more- over, that from; them Men could be drawn to fill, %up the depleted ranks of their connecting battalions abroad. But the system, has it is alleged, brok- en dawn, partly because of the ex- pansion of the empire and the conse- quent draft upon its military res sources, but mainly because of the difficulty of getting an adequate sup- ply of recruits. AMUSEMENT R13 Should Be at) Healthful and SO Innocent THAT PAREETB IJOBLII VIEW IT. i'reaciles entail Irnituonee came eine, and lee Civet; a sitresfeet 10 meals — EvIl moms er feature and now to Surely (ammo- 'Menu, Washington, Jan. 9. '7 This! ing Rev, Dr. Telmage preached from the text, IL Sam.u.el, U., 14, "Let the young men nowl arise and, play before us." There are two armies ensamped by the pool of Gibeon. The time, hangs homily on tbeir bands. One army proposes a. game of sword fencing. Nothing could be more healthful and Innocent. The other army accepts the challenge. Twelve men' against twelve men, the sportopens. But something went adversely. Perhaps one of the swordsmen got an unlucky clip ort in some way had his ire aroused, and that which opened. ,sportfulness ended in violence, each one taking his eonteste ant by thet hair, and then with the sword thrusting him in the side, so that that which opened. in innocent fun ended in the. raassacre of the twen- ty-four sportsmen. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then and is tree now, that that which Is innocent may be made de- structive? At this season of the year the club- houses of our towns and cities are in full play. T have found, out that there is a, legitimate and am illegiti- mate use of the clubhouse In the one case it ine,y become a healthful recrea- tion, like the contest of the twenty- four men in the text wheo they began their play; in: the other case it be - homes the massacre of body, mind and soul, as inl the case of these contest- • ants of the, text when they had. gone too far with( their sport. All intelli- gent ages have had their gatherings tor political, social, artisiic, literary purposes—gatherings characterized. by In the absence of conscriptionand. tt,:e ,I.),Iunt, old, Anglo-See:on designation , of sufficient inducements to adopt of et1-11'h If you. heve read history you know the army as a career, class distinc- that there was a Wing's Read, club, dims in England so operate against Ben ,Tonson club. a Brothers' claim, sea, Steriditna ride, or the noonday Party ot the farmers under the trees, roemieg deer pursued by the hounds In the Aclirondaeks or the sheep on. the tiewn. On this fade there are reaclin ' rooms where You find all newepape end imagazinee. On that side thereAs library where you and' all beaks trout licaMeneuttea to the fairy tale, Coming In arta out there are gentlemen. E011.10 of whom stay ten minutes, others stay many boors. Some of these are from luxurious homes, teua they have excused themselves for awhile from the cloanestic circle that they may enjoy the larger sociability of the clubhouse. These are from dismembered households and they have a plain lodging some- where, but they come to this club room to have their chief enjoyment. One blackball amid tee votes will defeat a man's becoming a member. For row- dyism, for drunkenness, for gambling, for any kind of misdemeanor, a mem- ber is dropped out. Brilliant club- houses from top to bottom. The chan- deliers, the plate, the furniture, the compenionship, the literature, the m- etal prestige, a complete enchantment. But the evening is passing on, and so we hasten through the ball and down the steps encl into the street and. hem block to block until we come to another style of clubhouse. 'Opening the door; we find the fumes of strong drink and tobacco something almost intolerable. These young men at this table, it is easy to understand what they are at from. the flushed cheek, the intent look, the almost angry way of tossing the dice, or of moving the "chips" They are gambling. At another table are mean who are telling vile stories. They are three-fourths intoxicated, and bet'w'een 12 and 1 o'clock they will go stairgering, hooting, swearing, shouting on their way home. That is an only son,. Oa him all kindness, all care, all culture has been bestowed. ale is pay- ing his parents in this way for their kindness. That is a young married man who only a few mouths ego at the altar made promises ca kindness and fidelity, every one of wbieli he has arokeni Walk through and see for yourself. Here are all the implements of dissipation and of quick death. As the hours of the night go away the conversation becomes imbecile and more debasing Now it is time to shut up. Those 'who are able to stand. will get out on the pavement and balance them- selves against the lamppost or against the railings of the fence. The young man who is not able to stand will have a bed improvised for him in the clubhouse, or two not (elate so overcome with liquor will conduct him to his enlistment tha t racily good materi 11 , which Swift . •annot be got for the. service. The iah result is that elthough the minimum XETE1 et Weren't divalent of the six nights. In the next room. Then there is a I. 'Will take three for the club and, three rattliog of the night key in the door* ak other purposes." X tremble, Here and the returned father comeit ate up- s. man who says, "Out of Use six se- stairand sea the empty cradle and cedar eights Of the week I will devote the window up, ire nye "What is tae five to the clubhoute and. one to the matter?" In God's judgmeut din' he home, which ;debt 1 will spend in will find out what was the matter. aeowlioa like a March sgeall, wishing Oh, men astray, Uod help youl father's -house, ancl they will ring the doorbell, and the door will open, and the two itmbecile escorts win introduce into the hallway the ghastliest • and most hellish spectacle 'that ever enters a front door—a dminken son. • If the dissiputing clubhouses of this country would make a contract with the infer- no to provide it 10,000 men a. year, and longed; a Literary club, which BUM, for 20 years, on the condition that no more should be asked of them, the club - age. and Goldsmith, and. Johnson and. Bose . of enlistment is eighteen, fully a I well made immortals. a Jacobin club, third of the recruits are only sixteen I , e Benjamin Franklin Junto club — or seventeen, and so not fit to be Sent some oC these to indicate jUStice, Some abroad, and that' with the other two - to favor the arts, some to promote "circle constantly drawn upon to main- . good manners, some to despoil the lain the efficiency of their correspond - I habits, some to destroy the soul. If fag battalions abroad, there is scarce- , one \11 write an honest history of iy a regiment in the United King- the clubs of England Ireland Scot dem fit. for active service. As the ma- land, France and the United. 'State; jority of the troops are wanted forcer- : for the last one hundred years, ha' ' will write the history, of the world.. vice abroad, not at home, and the re- I The club was an institution born on giments are by' the drafts made upon English soil, hitt it h t'4111;lcilo shall mensteadily losing their efficient , in American atmosphere men, when the home battalions have tell how many belong to that kind of . club where men put purses together in any emergency to be sent ahroad, ; , and open house, apportioning the ex - the whole force must be sifted to se -1 pease of caterer and. servants and room, cure a full complement of effectives.' and having a sort of domestic estrale Even than there, are not enough, and: lishment—.a style of clubhouse which ionrditny opinion is far better than the as under the rules men under twenty , object now house? But twannot be sent abroad, the war office i my peak of club - has to evade the regulation by calling I houses of a different sort, such as the the colonies, such as the Cape and Ber- i Cosmos or Chevy Chase or Lincoln I club Da this capital, or the, Unien mutat, places at home, not abroad. Int -League a mayly cii i.,s ..,t130 U led Zerges"—g—frafea—tba-witiaatamta -Of• tBeavicet tali -Of 1,On-SOW - thesf, --t21A—Of overnment police,- insist that the New York, where journalists al°ralne t - sculptors, painters and. artaes g system has broken down that mats, ' from all branches, gather together to discuss newspapers, theatres and. ela- borate art, like the Americas, which wimps out in summer time, dimpling the pool with its hook, and. arousing the forest with its stag hunt; like the Century club, which has its large group of venerable lawyers, and poets, like the Army and Navy club, where; those mu- te a scare merely to embarrees gonettehe land or the seal now come h r to talk over the days of earn government bat the advocates of age; like the New York Yacht . club, rm. insist that the army must le with ite floating palaces of beauty, up- hestered with velve' snd peneled with available army, and that to this is needed is a thorough reform, emodelling a the army, and es- ly that the difficulty underlying vhole matter, that of securing a usable body of recruits, shall be ously 'grappled with. Apparently, 3 is no indisposition to vote ads - e, engaged in warlike service once e credits for the army, or to Y having all tat - s—we • tes of every man on the rolls must be aeelna bee, *and of 'gaslight and of ' nineteen and. sound in body. There king's pantry one pleasure boat cost- ing' three thousand (tellers," another ovvever, no objection to the 'enlist - fifteen thousand data* anotber thirty b of young recruits to be Placed in thousand. dollars, another sixty-five 1 training camps until they reach thousand dollars, the fleet of plea age. sure boats belonging to the club bar- ing cost over two million dollars; like the American jockey club, to which belong men who have lb passionate fondness for horses, fine herses, as had ;rob when, in the Scriptures, he. gives HONEST ..SWEDItal. • Sweden a cleans is an event: , particularly is very rare.. Hoe- us a, sketee of that king of toasts, the as the tundamental totality of the arch of its eeck, the nervousness of its is nacurelly recognized end offi- foot, the inajesty of its gait, the whirl- eounted upon. In this 'respect wind. of its power, crying out "Hast Stoskholmers ' show a confident thou. clothed. his nook with thiteder? he esenets which is always a ear- glory of his nostrils is terrible; be e to etrangers and causes them mieveth in the valley and rejoinethlin e u.neasiness, .1n the theatres and his strength, he saith • among the cert halls there arc large cloak- trumpets ha! hal and he smelleth the ms, where hew and furs are left battle afar off, the thunder .of the bout the smallest eefeguard. The eaptains, ' and the shoutine;" like the ormance ever, ecu Ii one again takes Traveler& club, the l3loesom club, tthe ession of Ms effests, nor does an Palette club, the Commereiet club, the cident " ever eecur. The inhale! e , Lieerel Mine th,e Stable (tithe 00, the s are aeottstorned to expect ti reeip- Ameteur Boat plub, gamaling 1.1. probity in the franeactions ev- the wine clubs, the Hubs of all sizes, Say 'Upon most of the tram- the clubs of all morals, clubs Its good a in atokhol.m. meth:dors have been good can hs P1111)8 as had as ensc :1 with . . ,The messenger him- tact ean be. clubs n n am prates. During deposits ten, ore in a till placed at the day they are comraratively lazy end of the vehicle behind the places Ilere and there an aged man reading a newsi ater. co, an, employe, I 1 ,Lne,....4 it sofa or a clerkwr ing up Ite.OTa AitOUT 1898. the aecounts, hut when the eur Lain of 1' the night, fain on the tuttural day then MOM about aim for Len years. and e Yeer 189•8 Ii iii end will 'ell'', the curteen of the clubhouse. e hoists for wilt write his histery if he be still tiaardatt ' the entertainment. Let. us buten up alive.- The Man IS a wine zelem, his will have six eclipses, of ! now the marble st :Ors. When ati Ine wife broken hearted or prematurely houses could afford to make that con- tract, for they would save homesteads, save fortunes, save bodies, minds and. souls. The 10,000 men who would be sacrificed, by that contract would be but a smell part of the multitude sacri- ficed without the contract. But It make a. vast difference between clubs. I have belonged to tour clubs—a theo- logical club, a ball club and two liter- ary clubs. I got from. them. physical rejuvenation and. moral health. What shall be the principle? .IaGod will help me, I will lay down three principles by which you may judge whether the club where you. are a member or the club to which you have been invited is a legal.; mate or an illegitimate clubbouse. First of all, I want you to test the club by its influences on home., if you have a home. I have been told by e prominent gentlemen in club life that three-fourths of the members of the greet clubs of these cities are married. men. The wife soon loses her influence over her husband. who nervously and foolishly looks upon all evening absence as an assault on domesticity!. How are the great enterprises of art end lit- erati -aft, latra&tnnetteatmee,Azetaweblic weal to be carried on if every malt' is, -Se have his world bounded on one side by his front doorstep and on the other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own attic or nothing lower than his own cellar? That wife who become s jealous of her husband's attention to art or literature or religi- on or charity is breaking her own scept- er of conjugel power. know. an inst- ance where a wile thought that her hus- band was ening too many nights. to Christian service,to charitable service,to prayer meetings and to religious convo- cation. She systematically decoked him away lentil now he attends no church and is Jai a rapid way to destruction, his morels gone, his money gone and, I tear, his soul gone. Let any Christian wife rejoice when her husband. conse- crates evenings to the service of God, or to charity, or to art, or to anything elevated, but let not men sacrifice home life to club life. T can point out to you a great matey names of men who are guilty of this sacrilege. They are as geniel as an was at the clubhouse anti as ugly as sin at home. They are generous on subjects of Vi /ate sup - pare, yachts and fast horses, but: they are stingy about the wife's dress and ite children's shoes. That; man has made that which might be a healthful recreation a, usurper of his affections, end he Iris married it, and he is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this process the wife, whatever her feature% be- come uninteresting and homely. He bet -lames critical of her, does riot like the dress, does not like the way she arranges her hair, is amazed. that he ever wee. so unromantic as to offer her hand and heart. She is always wanting money, money when she ought house has never been the same place to- be discussing Eclipses and Dexter gine,e. Your wife has never brighten - and Derby day and English drags with ed up. She • has not got over it, six horses, all answering the pull of she never will get over it. How one "ribbon." long the evenings are, with no one I tell you. there are thoutande of to put to bed and no one to tell the houses in the cities being clubbed to beautiful Bible story! What a pity it death. There are clubhouses where ts that you, cannot spend more even- memberalnie always involves demesne ings at home in trying to help her bear shipwreck. Teti me the t man bwe that sorrow! You can never drown Pelted a certain club, tell me nothing that grief in the wine cup. You can never break away from the little Dams that used to, be flung around your neck when she used to say, "Papa, do all talaether, and h B. The /1111V a i'fart I Ile Lansaw, stay home to-night—do ;stay home to- enough hold fast iiestwraenr,idi strong pure man. or woman WAS cateful in night." You will never be able to wipe No, perform the Net detail of the Jewish away from your tile the dying kiss Win Lake the -8e sta ndit and I will ritual with prayerful mind; the I was out epeading it as I had 'Vent The iafluence which some of. the the etherfive. That man's obituary otab-bouees are exerting is the more evergetsrigtettea'so Not oatea'StiaQeatwrong rocio. the very heat men. The admission tee , MO° that, to be deplored bemuse it takee down ever stops, Gradually his health will sifts out the penurious and leaves only fail through late, hours, and through the beet fellows, They are frank, too Jewell stimulus. , He will be first they aro generous, ow are whole soul - rat -a prey for entail:etas and riletaaa" ed, they are talented. Oh, I begrudge itt inwg)ifiltba: heart, The glanceTsiletme ditaeitsari noteomoiliallt Vela fareaVnilk SieTkh wija' Pirgioze '011.Aifteartha:fillelee present a:tense be must fight, but and the features will be haggard, and years of Oat living. The clergyman, Wberl talking to you, instead of look - for the sake of the feelings of the fam- ily, my the Amaral day will only only tea big you in the eye, they will look down and every morning the mother will Ni'ivnrish or:gliritk'switbuts 1.yachtIieetrgeneralities. iteehsbe obsequies: They 1,11117:PI: aio,1%.iaaticdels3ro ask latene"134.a lastnight?"answer,' or aoatin:IdCheeplite willwYol will seed, flowers to the coffin lid and fey, "That's my business," Then some amid their wives to utter words or sym- time he will come to the store or the elsewhere, thpoletytiallevhaervecoemngeagentExeinntsg 11.1aegnkleectirosmans aendduttey1ogagnedd,aaftnedr bewill ollan'a ligealtireelawatcleateatiralt ant.riadn'ts."e‘laiiltaellthlt, nothing to do he will come down at he will lose ale place, acid then with t"130.1.,-iise .2,0, .blayeondseaayd, 1,,V,thhostdiv?..oiunld not. 10 o'clock in the mowing to curse the be appropriate., eywt me die the servant becauee the breakfast is cold. Ithe lad. who was clerk in the cellar lina death of the righteous, aad. let my lost ewneuchibed. like iiii.s., appropriate.", '1 ' :retell:lit who ran errands for establishment;ihtetilhebeaYgninagthumscm°311gaont- grnoetr et ioe3b be eh chief clerk give me the mallet and, the chisel acid I will cut ea honest epitaph, "Here to be cashier; theusarias of the young men who were at the foot of the lad- ihitruseth.e°' victim' of a' dissipating club' der have got to the top of the ladder, I think that damage . is often done oy msleuttilliwereelixgboelosueeth,ewviitchtimet4ogfgetrhiee staggering leap- NtIviirlo SGbeiolontegatosoatuene oefralsteosceradtliscsilflaaratiinlyg and, bloodshot eye and mud bespattered hat set sadetvise on a shock of greasy clubhouses. People coming up from hair, his cravat dashed with cigar humbler classes feel it. an honor to be- ashes. Look at hint! Pure hearted. long to the same club, forgetting the young man, look at him! The clubhouse Sons thatmanyme eienrgy eofeotmhemseornesimaluedettbriltinehd: did that. I know eine sueh who went the whole round, and, turned out of Meats of the last generation are now, the higher clubhouses, went into the as to mincl, imbecile; as to body, dis- tower clubhouses, and on Own, until tavaolsilaildt hstasve to mathararaulsihrtitetaairL• Peoplehretyy satnoar ynti viglintdoilwa to leaped.endhiswretchedness.Qfatliithird long ago if they had had full possession be - of it, but the wily ancestors, who earn- Lee me say to fathers who are ed the money by hard knocks, foresaw corning dissipated, your sons will fol - how it was to be, and they tied 1111 iltpaNNOwY.oula.eYkonuotirhainakIlYstolamoruatointdareShnav°et everything in the will, Now there 'is heard men, who say, "I am Profane, nothing of that unworthy descendant but never in the presence of my chin but his grandfather's name and roast drea." Your children know you swear. beef rotundity. And yet how many steamers there are which feel honored. I have heard men say, ' I drink, but to lash fast that worm eaten. tug, never in the presence of my children." though it drags them straight into the Your' children know you drink. I de - breakers. scribe now what occurs in hundreds of households in this country. The tea Another test by which you can find hour has arrived. The family are seat - whether your club is legitimate or in ed at the tea. table. Before the rest legitimate—the effect it has on your of the family arise from the table the macular occupation. I can understand father shoves back his chair, says he bow through such an institution a man has an engagement, lights a cigar, goes can reach commercial 'successes. I ce ' comes back after midnight, and know some erten have formed, their best twat is the history of 36t' nights of the business relations through such a year. Does any man want to stultify channel. If the clue has advantaged himself by saying that that is healthy, you in an honorable calling, it is a legi- that that is right, that that is honor- timateo club. But has your credit able? Would your wife have married failed.? Are bargain makers more you. with such prospects? cautious how they trust you with a, bill of geode? Have the men whose Time ill pass on, and the son will names were down in the commercial be 16 olr 17. years of age, and. you will agency Al before they entered the be at the tea. table, and he will shows club been going 'down ever since in back and have an engagement, and he commercial standing? Than look out 1 wili'llght his cigar, and, he will go eat you. and I every day know of cora_ to the clubhouse, and you will hear menial establishments going to ruin nothing of him until you hear the night through the social exce,sses of one or key in the door after midnight. But • two members, their fortunes beaten to his *physical constitution is not quite death with ball players' bat, or cut so strong as yours, and. the liquor be straipships by the front prow of the drinks is more terrifically drugged regatta, or gang dawn under the than that which you drink, and so he swift hoofs of the fast horses. or will catch up with you on' the road to drowned in large potations of cognac death, though you got such a long start of him, and so you will both go to hell and monongaliela. Their clubhou.-e t eth .r. was the -"Loch Earn." Their business In a 11041Se was the "Ville du Havre." They The revolving Drunamnond light in struck, and the "Ville du Havre" went under. . A third test by which you may knew whether the club to which you belong, or time .club to Whose membership you are [u -cited is a legitimate club or an illegitimate club is - this: What is its effect on your sense of moral and re- ligious obligation? Now, if I should take the names of all the people in may audience, and put tbem on a roll And then I should lay 'that roll beak of the organ and. 100 years from new some - acne should take that roll and call it from A to Z, there would not one of on answer. I say that any associa- dote aent makes e•e, foreet ,that fact is a bad. aits"aotatititaie- atabitiattiraaftaes, 'wen the cities there but two routes, and you can take ' the Pennsylvania rail - toad or the Baltimore and Ohio; but suppose that 'I hear that on one route tae track is torn up, and. the bridges a -re town down, and the. switches are unloekeda It Will not take me a great while to decide which road te take. Now, here are two 'roads into the fu- ture, the Christian and the un-Chrts- Han, the safe end the unsafe. An in- stitution or any aesociation that con- fuses my idea in regard eo that fact is a bad institution and a bad associa- tion. I had. prayers before I joined the club. Did I have , them after? I attended the house -of, God before I connected myself with the •club. Since that union with- the club du I absent myself from religious influences? Which would. you rather have 'in your head when you come to die, a peek of cards' or a 13ible? Which would you rather have pressed to your lips i wthe closing moment, the "up of P.elshaziew • se 'wassail or the chalice of Chris- tian —",-; "`: 'Who would you ra- ther hart - - . ,elllearers Um eld- ers of 'eche ., web. or the com- N Panion aaheta t , al, creation was full of elan ' lad ,eintende? Who - would you rat c eve foe your eternal com- panions, thee men who spend their eeenings Letting, gambling, swear - tug, carousing and telling vile stories or your little child that bright girl Whom the'. Lord. took? Oh, you would not have been away so much nights would you,, if you had known she was -going away so soon? Dear me, your IRE SUNDAY SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 23 The neatioade$1," amt. 143. elelden Text, Irate e. se. PRACTICIA.L NOTES, Verse 1. Seeine the multitudes. "These muititudee." Those mentioned in the last verse of our lest lesson. He went Op into a mountain One of Many witicla are close to the Sea of Galilee, The country that spread out around these mountains was at that time ow of the mast popitions, prosper- ous, and beautiful in the world. The "Horns Hattin" are the tradition- al site a the Sermon on the Mount. When he waa set, When he had. seat- ed himself. In the East teachers sit. His diseiplea came unto him. Not the twelve only, though probably ineluding most et them, but a large circle of fol- lowers, who had been attracted by his Drees:Ming and miracles 2. Blessed. The blessings or beat - !tildes which follow are nine in numb- er. They set forth nate features of the spiritual character, and pronounce hap- piness, for that is the meaning of the word, on those who possess these charneterietics They are all traits of the true citizen of the kingdom of heaven. 3. The poor in spirit, Jesus begins with the very beginning of religious exPerienoe—penttence, Ior 'poverty of spirit inaplies a sorrowful sense of our guilt. It is, ts Or. Watson has said, the root of all true faith or trust in Goa. In this beatitude, as given by Luke, there is uothing said about the spirit, and the blessing is pronounced on outward poverty as being a less perilous staee than that of riches; but here the blessed ones are plainly those who, whether possessed of money or not feel in their hearts that they have no- thing of their own, end depend on the boutity of God. This experience is at - the bottom, of all sptritual excellence, and is the one means by which we can ever reach the riches of Christ. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "The very sense of their poverty is riches beguns"—Dr. Brown. 4. They that mourn. The entire uas- sage points to spiritual conditions, and the implication is that the mourning here referred to concerns the evil that separates them from the God of love and verity. There is a sorrow that worketh death, 2 Cor. 7. 10, but there is a sorrow of the godly sort which has for its fruit eternal joy. The sec- ond Beatitude is development of the first. They who recognize their seir- itual poverty lenient bitterly,but they shall he comforted; they shall receive beauty. for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. These are they who, sowing in tears reap in joy ;these are they from whose eyes God shall wipe away all tears. 5. Blessed are the meek. The third Beatitude is as closely conneotei ith time second as is the second with the front of a hotel, in front of a locomo- The first fruit of holy mourn- fulness is that gentleness and hum- ility may flash this way and flash that which lead one to associate gladly with the meanest of those who fear God. The apostle Paul urges Titus to teach his parishioners to be "gentle, showing all meekness unto all men." Jesus said, "Take my yoke upon you, and. learn of me, for I am meek and lowly fa heart." Peter regarded as the chief adornment of the human character a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight de God is of great price. They shall inherit the earth. This is an allusion first of all to the inheritance of Canaan by the Israelites. It is a sort of religious adaptation of elutes of osier and. birch grow on the an historieal fact, and thus resembles hot tape ea tiadloaette-Snechattan, but manY a pure heart and an honest life' thriva' in a dissipating clubhouse—never! The way to conquer a wild beast is to keep your eye on him, but the way for you to conquer your temptations, my friend, is to turn your basar. on them and f13.• for your life, Oh, my heart arise! T see men strug- h .al ha mon i see, etre are parlors old, his fortune gone, or reduced and ;January 7 end. Dee:ember 27 will ''Pern ., „, , , , t L.,_ • ,h • . . on ene,Silt , Wall the uptimetery o the his.OM a. mere name in a directory. sliale to N°111' .4-Iseriaa. se,,ITCeeerdie d the Tuileries, and here nare are six secular nights in the tt Sunday in "'ant' IfebriaarY ' a - ere. di ala halls that challenge you to week. "Whet shell 1 clo with tatent" Sunday, April 9; Easter aunda,y, I mention , Y luxury that they cannot eayi the father and the husband. "I -16; ' ' ' 1 afford, I bore, it,re galleries with will give four of tamee, nights to the afebrew yeer 5659 will begin at aculptere il ' I' 4 and litho 'le mhe improvement and eaten 'ailment of My t t on Priday, September 16. I anti (newel wit , the weer ef areas, family; ,either earl:tam or in good , .tover. TIe went, away. adore heeget It aolead alla roalla th four seasetie eel a tegin On theselerepwy ene d t and, C ' eand nettatbeihooel, a ii wt devote one to a back at retard/let the eyes had.: won eaehieing chest, atid ble, jAmt,1 A e• 1, . , : closed, the ., , . .. , • , the- rope 0 14 .1898: apring, Me rs h 201 Rain-, (31' tV.i,•ry' &Arita. ow 01311," ' C 0. 1 , ,W111 devote . eloeed, the Mu ei telsewatutd .done lee one end of lhe mep to t June ,e1; autumn, iaeptember 'oned or 'eine te • who e agratulate you. I work, and the wife worn Out with ' the other end to you. P, """alwor, the , nerv8 13 e' ria‘iai ' ' "I will make l' three weekta Watehing,"'ley unconscious • Pall fot aattrlife‘ I rali r, Wetteitaien ale . e upon the mountains, upon the ravines. upon. the city, hut I take the lamp of God's eternal truth, ana I flash it upon all the clubhouses of these cities', so that no youtg man shall be deceived. By these tests try them, try theml Oh, leave the dissipating! Paid your money, have you. Better sacrifice that than your soul. Good fellows, are they Un- der that process they will not remain such. arollueca reas be found. 200 fath- oms down beneath the Norwegian seas; Siberian stag get fat on the stinted growth of Altaian peaks; hedysarium grate amid the desolation of Sahara; developed we see God rally. Those, ere pure accoeding to the meenin of the Pacerieses were the only one Perrnitted to enter. time Mat o the temple at Jerusalem; Sir -Oita the Pure in ,heara Shell enter Cod'e ual eanatoary. • P. The peacemakers. The more of beavenly atamempbere a man bee al him the MOPES stronger does hie dis- liceition become to adjust eafterences and reconcile those who con' I. They shall be slatted the ehildren God. They who study peace and dift it are like. the Lord, who is aletad in limg-euffering, goodnewe awl in forgiveness of iniquity 4 Peacemak- ers are recognosed as the children of God, beea.ase of their faesilY lake- O the I,Ordi ,our familiar prayer -meeting idleveywtettzetalt.Linga hitsi.hrasteee'colilersoilrte. .03 . .. . of his heart, and, the v fact of tie- CAarri:Psetnateis . : . . . • • • 783 lighting in the Lord charile ' the de- FAR OVER THE A.VERAGE. sire of one's heart, so that arweetretet Innkeepers. Industrial districts 2,030 (tie who have the least from one point of tvr, . eetel servants. . . 1,971 ness. 10 Those whieh are persecuted for righteousness' sake. That they suf- fer because they are good. Straoge that goodness should bring euffering on any- one, but it does And eersesittion for righteousness' sahe ie not limited to barbaric ages. The unregenerate human heart hates God wed goodoess; and all those who live, godly in Jesus ChrIet must suffer persecution. Theirs is the kingd.om of heaven. The spiritual kingdom of God in this world; and by 1 cal sequence the kingdt 'ii of glory, !eh is our reward, It is at this point profitable th look bask over the Beatitudes which we have studied, and observe how success be eacti ease is at- tached to what in the judgment of men would bring failure. Men in their hearts bless him that is rich, our Lord's blessing is upon poverty of spirit; not the laughing, but the pensive; not the resentful, but the meek and quiet; not, the avaricious, but those who long for spiritual blessing; not attentim to one's rights, bat the developtrnent of mercy; not assertion of religion, but purity of • heart; not fighting for Principles bat making peace. Our Lord came to turn upside down the prevalent moral convictions of the world. His work is not yet acne, eith- er in the world at large or in the Church of Christ. When men sball revile you and persecute you. Any sort of pereecution, either physical or men- tal; but remember that when evil is said against u's for the sake of Christ it must be falsely said if it bring s reward. "Righteousness' sake in verse 10 and "my sake" in. verse 11 se. are identical. Jesus was bound up with righteousness—was righteousness In- carnate. 12. Rejoice. Exult. So persecuted they the prophets. Be like the prophets in their holiness and in their suffer-, bags, and you will be like them in. your reward in heaven. iv BUSINESS AND LIFE. Eng114b Sint isms showing xxpectations el turgidity lit Varioilt; Trades." What effect has your occupation up- on your expectation of life? The new supplement of the registrar general's re- port referred to in the Daily News le- cently does not exactly tell you that but it gives a "mortality figure" fox many occupations that helps one to judge of the vitality of the workers as a class. ;This figure is based an cal- culations limited to the forty years elnded at age 65, ee that the years of boyhood. and of old age are not allowed, to water down the figures applicable to the working years. It is when judg- ed by this standard that. the clergy are found to have the safest lives taken as a 'whole class, although a certain class ot farmers have still safer lives. 'Turk -- lug 1,000 as the mortality figure for all males from 25 to 65, you. can see from the following list how much bet- ter or worse oft than the average male the men of certain callings are: WELL UNDER THE AVER.A.GE. Farmers, in agricultural districts 606 CleegyMer, . . . . 533 Gardeners. nureetanen and seed - teen . . . . 568 Agrioulturists. Teachers . . Farm laborers. . . Lace manufacturers. Tanners . . . • . 602 . £04 . 632 . 709 . 766 • 778 • . 1,810 view have the most from another but - area . • 1,706 n42 aPert from this meaning there re•• Lead gling against evil habits, and they another truth, that, 2, the in- Pat want help. I have knelt beside them.ioaartaat and I have heard them cry for help, l leek in general is a fulfilment, Of rGleas. Of wealth ana power to • the wale, _ arid then we have risen, anta he heal aa what might almost be called it natural tweet put one hand on my right shoulder and! law. The everamious and pretentious sea the other hand on my left shoulder ity of earnestness which the judgment I day will have no rower to make me, whoee success are laid broad and de t infin- I may go further in. quick twill:a-Rion, but it is tbe gentle the foundations e9af..1 and looked into me face with an "The meek are the only rightful occu- forg,st, as he has cried out with his For such there is ' Pants of a foot of ground or a crust of Lips scorched in ruin, " Go I help ore pants help except in 1 bread in. this world, and they are the T the Lord Goi. Almighty. I am going! hoairs of all "ming things."—Dr. ea to Make a very stout. rope. You know ; arraey whi,,,h do. hunger and thirst. eh w that semetimes a ropetna,k r will tea These words were spoken. by a man who Ph , e se , very small threads and wind them to-; short time before had hungered wee gether until after awhile they become only thirsted for for forty days and nights. c ship cable. And 1 am going to take Et5 knew the pain of physicea hunger, ww some very small, delicate threads and anat he pronounces a, blessing on those leer wind them together until they make Aith have a similar yearning and erays Iiiihe a very stout rope. I will take all the I for goodness. They shall be fill- Tea memories of the marriage day, a thread( meg' "They shall be saturated." He i sone of laughter, 'a thread of light, a thremad awtoae, deepest longing is for spiritual of music, a thread of banqueting, shall have them to the full lialloeet,.t thread of congratulation, ant T tsvist i blessing them together and. I have one strand. mid- to rararbitr°w• This aa°Iaasa is I Di mot to be narrowed_ to mean merely I ww Then I take it thread of the hour of attd.,e approwitu,d,gjitn. ttecard.tayu,itiilau)tefreninoerws ! cachm.e06., the first advent in your bouts, a thread , soul et the of the darkness that preceded, tine a t thread of the light tbat followed, and t° evert' tlerelolanant and bleating ; r se- nate. child used velath tbe spiritual natute can receive. , rt''.,,e a thread of the beautiful semi that to wear when the No om can hunger and, thirst after bounded out at eventide to greet Yoit, erttgilinrieltea'sputifilitIli livithe,b, hal gn4fotcl Ziliireettlidje, li ette and thee a threw) of the buena-al dines surrectioa. And i hen I twiet all these is an. indiattion or health. a i 7. The neereiful. They .who enter in- ., • tire In which you laid her away for tae, re - threads together, anti T hew: another to the-, miseries of hitlh•rhlagtheitoerre'inTehreeyY ,',4,i strand. Then I. take a thmewl of the shall obtain atereY. scarlet rale of ,,,, suffering Christ, and e fnitiIi shows to another God will ,re.-: 2,..!,;. 1 , this truth is preseoted in *Tames Li. 13, aarta pees bim in fulli. The other side of atarleatst'h 11()i; on a thread of the will 'S raiment of your , loved ones before 'string or the harp eh of the harp seraphic, tubie, and a string It hard to' see how' a. true Chneteatt and I twist ilee, can be anything but merciaii. And the strand. dieeiple should be like his Lord, tea- third ca your little girl. twist them -together, an,c1 one entl of pit.re neenwincl women. cif. modern tilnet, 0.soildatinn Of a dissipating olub- that rope. I will fasts t the weenie fromene etwee farm of ewh house is so great that sometimes a Minion table, for it s mil be removed, ..sllitsittstlilnePtiherltaYslleeuteeere'TrctrIttic'!7mtnhesiirned his baekonhis)rirohoiilatoftiorgeo.oettat ayarypavtetltitaittut,initc> wofhiehijavasdyiagaeartt ivihi ertmbiit;teetos,2etivini everythitiathet cross of nes:Ont le utipleasant Mm ugh!.of Goa, eying fan em10,1 IlVZ, Shan see God. Yet s.'e SIM" threw taroagh a. glees, der v, hut io iota bold Of puttioe tbe parity or roi heaven! • hwirts is 1 i fe.