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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-3-3, Page 2*4..1 42V1) COMAr,ENTIgi, imme Tn the February number ot the For - sem, ll/Er. F. 0. Penfield, lately United. States diplomatie ageut at Cairo, des - exiles the extent to sybieli •the agried- titrel resources of the Nile Volley, letve teen developed by Brittsb, admstra- tion: His testimony is the more trust- worthy because he is by rio means one of thoee who thitik thee England's oc- eupation of Egypt is defeusible from 0, moral point of view.- At the same tirae he considers that to discuss the legel or ethiete right a Great Britten to control Egypt, is pow, et the end o eixteen years as superfluous as it would be for a lawyer to argue that . the State has no power to arrest hie :Bent when the later is already a pri- soner behind the bars. Mr. Penfield believes that the British Government intends not oely to retain possession o Dtmgola, which has been recently °coupled, but also to recover the whole ef the eastern Sweden, and. that with • this territorial extension is connected • anindustrial programme of great im- portesieee, We are remieded that the well-known exrloier, Sir Samuel Baker, atter des- cending the Nile from its source to its mouth, expressed the opinion. that the river -might be so controlled that the enormous volume of water which now • rusbes uselessly into the Mediterran- ean, might be rade to transform the Nubign desert into cotton fields that would render England independent of America. As a matter of fact, the Delta of the Nile is already a great cot- ton field, the cultivation of the plant having doubled since the British occu- ration of Egypt began. New irrigation svorks are being constructed continu- ally, and as these increase the cultiv- able area. the soil reclaimed, is planted with cotton. What gives Egyptian cot- ton its peculiar value is the length of its fibre, an inchand. a half. Owing to this element of superiority, lest year's erop, which amounted to i100- 000 bales of 500 pounds each, WaS sold at a price 2 oents per pound. in excess of quotations for American upland cot-. ton. The Egyptian fibre has become a necessity not only in Europe, but also in the United States, for the latter country buys 100,000 bales of Nile cot- ton annually, and. in New England the consumption of the staple is increas- ing. A EIRATFIIII PREAMIER, XIEV. DR, TALiAGE ON PRESS AND PR LPIT EL&TI0N$, TICE GREAT POWER OF TUE PUSS The Noted lietvine cononteraerates the e,01.1011t ruelicatten et We *omens itty Timety Senate' remit a 111[0.4 Valaaa ud ApaarClatiy PrOXfaetke VOX% The, Text et ihe Press, Washington, Feb. 20.—Itey. Dr. Tal- mage this morning preached from the text. Nahum ii. 4, "They shell seem like torches ; they sheet rue like the light - zings," He wed: Express, rail traisi and telegraphic communieation are suggested, if not foretold, let this, text, and from it I start to preach a sermea in gratitude to God and the newseeper press for the fact that 1 have had. the opportunity of delivering through the nesvspeper presa 2,000 sermons or religious addres- see, so that. I have of many years been allowed. the privilege of prettelang the gospel every week to every 'neighbor- hood in Christendinn and in Many lands outside of Christendom. Many have wondered. at the process by which it has come to pass, and. for the first time in public place 1 state the three causes. Melly years ago a young man who has since become eminent in his professic was then studying law in a distant city. •He cane to me and said that for lack of funds he snuet stop his studying un- less through stenography I would. give him sketches of sermons that he might by the sale of them secure means for the completion of his education. I positively declined because it seem- ed to me an impossibility, but after some months had pealed. and. I had re- flected, upon the great sadness for such a,• brilliant young man to be defeated in his ambition for the legal profession, I undertook to serve hem, of course free of charge. Within three weeks there came a request for those stenograph- ic reports from. mealy parts of the con- tinent. • Time passed on, and some gentlemen of my own profession, evidently think- ing that there was hardly room for them and. for myself in this continent began to assail me, and. became so vio- lent •in their assault, that the chief newspapers of America, put special cor- respondents in my church Sabbath by Not only is the Egyptian cotton sup- erior to that grown by Southern plant- ers since the practical abandonment of the Sea Island staple, but there are ether advantages on the side of the fellebeen product. The fertility of the Nile soil permits the harvesting of a crop averaging nearly five hundred weight per acre; there is no dread of frost; and. the requisite labor may 'be secured for 15 to 18 cents a day per man. As it is, Egypt now derives from cotton, for both staple and. seed, near- ly e55,000,000 a year, and. this is likely to be increased by some 40 per cent., if Mr. Penfield is justified, in the cam- petation that the Nile Delta, fire yeers eerie% will produce a million apd a ealf bales. The revenue at present ob- tained. from cotton suffices to pay the nterest on an enormous debt. and to carry on the Covernnaent ; 'indeed, there stewed be a surplus in the Trea- sury but for the cost of the military expedition up the Nile. It is not only in respect of cotton that Egypt's prospective development may well attraCt attention. Mr. Pen- field points out that when the prov- ;was of Dongola. and Berber are re- stored to productiveness, huge tracts will he opened to the growing of bread - stuffs, and the Nile Basin will become once more, as it was from the days of the Pharaohs dere n to Saracenio times, , n3 of the granaries of the world. The iication of those provinces to such rinses will permit, on the one hand, whole of Lower Egypt, including .e Fayoum, to be devoted to cotton culture, aad on the other hand, the whole of Middle and Upper Egypt, from Beni Souef to Assoutte, to be given up el sugar growing, It appears that in the last two years, and especially since the destruction of the Cuban sugar es- tates, the cultivation of the wager nine has been rapidly developed in that part of the Nilo Valley; The Egyptian sugar is said to be of excellent quittity, a,nd there was enough of iL in 189(i axe( 1897 to bring to Egypt as !wish es $8,000,000 a year. According to Mr. Penfield, the area alloted to the sugar • vane will be doubled, if not trebled, in the (nurse of a short time, so that here- after statisticians will have to hike the • Egyptian ercip into aceount. • Sabbath to take •down :such reply as I might make. I never made reply, ex- cept once for about three minutes, but those correspondents could not waste their time, ane so they telegraphed. the sermons to their particular rapers. Af- ter awhile Dr. Louis Klopsch of New York systematized. the work into a syndicate, until through that and oth- er sy.nrlicates, he has put the discourses week by week before more than 20,00.0,- 000 people . on both sides of the sea. There have been so many guesses on. this subject, meaty of them inaccurate, that I now tell the true story. I have not improved the opportunity as I ought, but I feel the time has came when as a matter of common justice to the newspaper press I should make this statement in a sermon commem- orative of the two thousandth full pub- lication of sermons and religious ad- dresses, saying nothing of fragmen- tary- reports, whith would run up into many thousands more. There was one incident that I might mention in this connection showing how an insignificant event might in- fluence us for a. lifetime. Many years ago on a Sabbath morning on my way to church in Brooklyn a representative of a prominent newspaper met me and said, "Are you going to give us any points to -clay?" I said, "What do you inean by ' roints?' " He replied, "Any- thing we can remember," I said, to my- self, 'We ought to be making points" all the time in our pulpits, and not deal in platitude and inanities." That one interrogation put to me that morning started in Me the ,desire of making points all the time and. noth- ing but points. . And now how can I more appropri- ately comraemorate the two thousand- th publication, than by speaking of the newspaper press as an ally 'of the pul- pit and mentioning some of the trials of newsraper men? The surseoaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, forum, all in one. Anil there is not an interest—religious, literary, commercial, solentific, agri- cultural or mechanical—that is not within its grasp. All our churches, and schools and colleges and asylums and art galleries feel the quaking of the printing press. The institution of newspapers arose in Italy. In Venice the first newpa- per was published, and monthly during the time Venice was warring against Selyman IT. in Dalmatia, it, MIS print- ei for the purpose of giving ttalitary and commertial information to the Venetians. The first newspaper pub- lished in Englanci was in 1588 and cull- ed the English Mercury. Who can es- timate 1 he political ; scientific, commer- cial and religious revolutions roused up in England for many years past by the press 1' The first attempt, at this institution in France was in 1.631, by a pep -Irian, who Published the Nesse:, for the aalUtat- inent and health of his patentee The French nation understood fully bow to appreriate this power. So early 1114 ifl 1820 there were in Paris 160 joarnale. But in the United States the newspaper has reuse to unlimited se a1r. Though in 1775 there were but 37 in the whole e.ountry, the number of published jour - nada is now counted by thousands, and to-day—we may as well -acknowledge it es not—the religious and seeu.lar riewspa,pers are the great; ecluotttor§ of the country. • But alas, through what struggle the newspaper bas come to its present de- velem:Tient:I just as soon as it began to demonstrate its power superstition arid tyranny shackled it, There is.to- thing that despotism so much fears and hates as the printing prase. •A great writer in the south of Europe deckled that the King of 'Naples had made it nesefeefor him to write an any atilbelsot fleet" nattiral history. Austria ALITMENUM COOKING- UTENSILS, lt•ecent experiments show that aura - :own is a safe meta for cooking. uten- els. Some slight eorrosion, takes phiee it.it soon ceases, as an insoluble coat - ng seems to form on the metal which %rettsete it This is anelogotis to prate°, ;lee deposits on iron boil•er plates and teal water -pipes, • which are often •eroduced by water con,tsOning salts. It 's• announced that smarty all the ut,- - rotes carried by soldiers or the Frencia :truly ott the marcub'. will be made lusee- sfi r *r CrrItTOTTS O�TNCWENOIL • By a curious coincidence the number rd Live, Met at sea durieg 1890 tBrie netrehant mbips is returned as et - Idly 1897. TE TI1VCES I could not bear Xessethie joureelistic end stop aa hour. From the editorial Pen pleading for the. reelemPthon of and reportorial rooms all the follies Hungary, Napoleon I., wanting • tei and temple a the world are seen day !wisp iii$ Wren heel, on the neek of na- awls, said, that the newspaper wee the regime of /liege and, the Poly safe plisee to keep an editor was in prison. Bot the great battle for the freedoro, of the preae was foaglit in the court -rooms of England awl the United States be- fore this century began; when Hamil- ton made his great sneeeb, in helialf et the freedom of j. Peter Zenger's Gazette in Ameresa, and when Esselte% taade Ms great. speech in behat of the treedom to publish Paine's "Rights of Man" in England. Those Wen the Maxatboa and. the Thermopylae where the battle was fought whiott deeided the feeedont of the press in Englaad. and. America, and all the powers of earth and hell will never again to able to put; upon the printing preesi • the handcuffs and hopples of literary and political depotiem. It is remarkable that Thomas Jef- ferson who wrote the .Declaration of Tridependenee, also wrote these words, "If I had to choose between a govern- ment without newspa,pers awl- news - Papers without a government,'would prefer the latter." Sheag by some new fabrication in print, we come to write or speak about an "unbridled printing sneeze' Cur new book ground up in unjust. criticism, we eome to write or speak about the "unfair printing press." Perhaps througli our own in- dietinetness of utterainee we are re- ported as eaging just the opposite or what we did say, an.d there es lineal riot of semicolons and. hyphens •, and commas, awl we come to write or talk about the "blundering printing press," or we teire up a newspaper full of soc- ial scandal and of cases of divoreeand we write or talk about a "Ciltineiseur- rilous printing press." But this morn- ing, I ask you. to consider the immeas- urable and everleating blessing of a good newspaper. I find no difficulty in accountinrs for the world's advance. What has made the change? "Books," you, say. No, sir! The vast majority of citizens do not read books e Take this audience or any other promiscuous assemblage, and how many histories Isteve they read? How many treatises on constitutional law or 'political economy or works of sci- ence? How many elaborate poems or books of travel? Not many. In the United States the people would not av- erage one smolt book a year for each individail. Whence, then, this interne, genre, this capacity to talk •about all themes, secular and. religious, this ac- quaintance with science and. art, this power to appreciate the beautiful and grand? Next to the Bible, the news- paper, swift winged and everywhere present, flying over the fence, shoved. under the door. tossed into the count- ing house, laid. on the svorkbench,hawk- ed. through the. cars! All read it — weites and black, German, Irishman, Swiss, Spaniard, American, old and young, good and bad, sick and well, be- fore breakfast and after tea, Monday. morning, Saturday night, Sunday and. weekday. I now declare that I- con- sider the newspaper to be the grand agency by which the gospel is to be preaohed, ignoranee cast out, oppres- sion dethroned, criine extirpated, the glorified. In sad, heaven rejoiced. and. God In the olanking of the printing' press as the sheets fly out I hear the voice of the Lord. Almighty proclaiming to all tbe, dead, nations of the earth, 'Lazarus, come forth!" and to the retreating surges of darkness, "Let there be light!" In many of our city newspapers, professing no more than secular information, there have appeared during the past 30 years some of the *grandest appeals in behalf of religion and some of the most effec- tive interpretations of God's govern- ment among the nations. There are only two kinds of news- papers—the one good, very good, the other bad, very bad. A newspaper may be started with an undecided ehar- acter, but after it has been going on for years everyeody finds out just what it is, end it is very goad or it as very bad. The one paper is; the eta- bodimeat of news, the ally of virtue, the foe of crime*, the delectation of elevated taste, the mightiest agency on: earth for making the world better. The other paper is a brigan:d among moral foroes; it is a besliener of reputation, it is the right arra of death an:d hell, it is the mightiest ageaey in the universe for making the world worse and bat- tling againet the cause of God, the one en: waged of intelligence and mercy, the other a, fiend. of darkness. Be- tween this aroh-angel and this fury is to be fought the great bettle which is to decide the fate of the world. If you have any doubt as to which is to be victor, ask theprophecies, ask God; the chief batteries with which he would vindicate the right and thunder down the wrong are now unlimited. The great Armageddal of the nations by day, and tbe teneptatioe is to be- lieve :neither in God, men, 210),! wortion. It ts 40 surprise to me that in your profession: there are Some skeptkeil men. I only wonder that you believe anything. Unless an editor or a re- porter has in his present or in his early home a model of earnest charaeter, or lie throw himself' upon: the upholding grace of God, he may make temporal. and eternal shipwreok. Another great trial .of the newspaper profession is the diseased appetite for unhealthy intelligenoe. Yon blame the newspaper press for giving suele Prom- inenee to murders and scandals. Do you snPpose that so enemy papers would give Prominence to these tbingst if the people did not demand them? If. I go tate the meat market of a foreign city, and I find that the butehere hang up on the most conspieueus hooks meat that is tainted, svhile the meet tbat is fresh and savory is put away without IsPecial care, I oo.ro.e to the conclus- ion thee the people of that city love tainted meat. You know very well that if the great mass et people inthis country get hold of & ,newspa.per and there are in it no runaway matches, no broken up families, leo defamation of men in high positions, they pronounoe the paper insipid. They say, "It is shock- ingly dull to -night." I believe it is one of the trials of the newspaper press that the people of this country demand mor- al slush instead a healthy and intel- lectual food. Now, you are a respecta- a.ble man, an intelligent man, and a paper comes into your hand. You open it, .aad there are three columns of splendidly written editorial, recora- mending some moral sentiment or evolviag some scientific theory. In the next column there is a miserable, con- tein,ptible divorce case. Which do you. read first? You dip into the editorial long enough to say, "Well, that's very ably written,' and you read the divorce the top to the "nonpareil" type at the top of the "%nonpareil" type at the bottom, and then you, ask your wife if she has read it 1 Oh, it is only a case of supply and. demand! Another temptation of the newspaper profession is the great allurement that surrounde them. Every occupation and peofesseen has temptations peoaliar to and the newspa.per profession is note an exception. The grea.t demand, as you know, is on the nervous force, and. the brain is racked. The blunder- ering political speech must read -well for thhe sake of the party, a,n,d. so the reporter or the editor has to make it read well, although every sentence were a catastrophs to th,e English languagn. l'be reporter must; hear all that ea inaudible speaker, -sable thinks it is vul- gar to alleak out, says, and it must be right the next morning or the next night in ths papers, though the night before the whole a.aclience sat with its hand behind its eer in vain trying to catch it. This unen must go through killing night work. %Be must go into heated assemblages and kite unventil- ated -andienee rooms that are enough to take tee life out of Mae He must visit courtroosns, which are almost al- ways disgusting with ram an.d tobacco. The.must expose himself et the flee. He matte write en fetid alleyways. Adde& to all that, he must have hasty mastica- tion and la -regular habits. To bear up under the tremendous nervous strain they ere temptecl to artificial stimulus, eed how many thousa,nds have, gone down sunder theia• pressure God ,only knows. They must halve something to counte,reot the wet, they must have something to keep olet tbe chiel, and after a, scant night's sleep they must hare sormethentg to revive them for the morn:lag's work. That is whet made liftnnee Greeley sucli a, stout temper- ance snatnn I said to him, "Mr. Greeley, vtley are you more eloquent on the sub- ject of temperance, than a.ny other subject ?" He replied, eI have seen so many of my best friends in jou,rnatlism go, down. under intemperance!' Another trial ce this profession is the fact no one seems to cage for their souls. They feel bitterly about it. though they blush. People sometimes laugh the loudest when they feel the worst. They are expected to gather up religious proceedings and. to discuss re- ligious dcetrines in the editorial col- umns, but who expects them to be sav- ed by tbe sernuotne they stenograph or by the doctrines they discussin the ediemial columns? The world looks up- on theca as professional. :Who preaches to reporters and editors? Some of them came from religious homes, and when they left the parental rope, whoever re- garded or disregarded, they eame off with a father's beneciletion and. a mo- ther's prayer. tThey never the* of those good. old times but tears come into their eyes, en& they move through these greet •cities homesick_ Let ene.ask men, cenneeted with is ma to be fought w th swords, but the pleat -mg press that they help us with steel pens; not with bullets, hut more an,d. more in the effort to make with type; not with cannon, but with lightning perfecting preeses, and the. I charge you in the the world better. &inters, and tbe Moultries, and the nilMe af G°C11, befu.'re 'whom Yule must for the tremendous influence Pulakis, and the Gibraltars (el the a-4°3unit conflict will be the editorial ..and re- Yot alohl iin title country to conseerate portorial rooms of our great news, Yourselves to higher endeavor. You paper establishments. Men of the er,3 the men to fight tack this invasien.. press, God .has put a more stupendims of corrupt literalure, Lilt up your hand and swear new allegiance responsibility upon you than upon right any other class of personsWhCt tothe cause of phiegahropy and. re- g y legion. And. militate at /est., standing on Ienstrides our profession has made i4 up !tat to"deutbAbliowlbooteideed. rao" eta! ltineee and And now before I °lose this sernion, thanitfully couneemmative e of the '"Tevo, Thotteatulth" pebiloation, I Wish more fully to eeknowledge the serviees rendered by the seenlar press in the matter of evangelization. An the sec- ular newspapers of t,be day—for I aM eot speaking this morning of the relig- loas newspapers—all tbe secular news- papers of the day disouset all the ques- tions of God, eternity and the deed, and all tbe questions of the past, pres- ent and future. There is not a single doctrine of theology bat has beendie- cussed in the last' ten years by the secular eewspapers of the oountry they gather np all the, news of all the earth bearing on religions subjeots, and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the Apocalyptic angel. -mbiB eynxider of the Christian- ized printing press will be the front Wheels of the Lord's chariot. I take the music% of this day, and I do not mark it diminuendo—I mark it cres- cendo. A pastor on a Sabbath preacn- es to a fenv hundred or a, few thousand people, and on Monday or during the week the minting press will take ths same sermon and preach it to million% of people. God speed the printieg press I God. save the printiag press 1 God Christianize the printing pressl When I see the printing press stand- ing with the eleetrio telegraph on the MO side gathering u.p material and the lightning express train on the other -side 'waiting for the tons of folded sheets .of newspaper, I ;pron- ounce it the mightiest force in our civilizatioe, So I comniend yoto. to pray for all tlfose• who manage the newspapers of the land, for all type- setters, for all editors, for all publishe erse that, sitting or standing in posit- ions of each great influence, they. may give all that influence for God. and the betterment 'of the human race. An aged woman making tee living by knitting unwound the yarn from the Veal until she found in the centre of the ball there wee an old, piece of newspaper. She opened it and read an advertisement wheel announc- ed that she had become heiress to a large property and that fragment of; newspaper lifted her up from pauper- ism to affluence. send I do not. know bat as the thread. of time unrolls and u:nwinds a little farther through the silent yet speaking newspaper may be found the vast inheritance of the world's redemption. Jesus shell reign where'er the sun' Does his successive journeys run. His kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more. in influence and power since the day, whea Peter Sheffer invented cast metal type, and because two books were found just alike they were ascribed to the work of the devil, and books were .printed on etrips of bamboo, and Rev. Jesse Glover originated the first Am- eritan printing prese, and the .com- mon cow:tell of New York in solemn resolution, offered $200 to any printer no would come there and live and ween the speaker of the House of Par- liament in Englond announced with in- dignation that the public prints had recognized some of their doings, until in tiles clay, when -we have in this coun- try :many newspapers sending out cop- ies by the billion. • • One of the great trials of thisnews-, paper profeesionis the fact tbat they are compelled to see more of the shams • of the -world than any other profession. Throagh every newspaper office, day lsy day, go the weakness of the world, the • vanities that want to be puffed, the revenges that want to be wreaked. ail the moitakes that want to be cor- roded, all the dull speakers svho want to be thougtit eloquent, all the mean - nese that wares to get its wares notic- ed gratis is the editorial columns in order to save the tax of the advertising re -slaws, all the men who warn to be set right who never were right, all the crack brained philosophers, with story as long as their beer, and as gloomy aa the palaee gate; Wee nowt;' The glove their finger nails, all the Diner:tedious news! That there is; pardon for all bores Who come Le May Sive minutes guilt and teinfort for al trouble, Set the plates of judgment, you toek out uipoin the unnumbered thronge • over whom you bitve bad influence niay 14 be found that you were among the migh.tieet enargies tbat left men aeon th‘e exalted pathway that leads to the renown of heaven. Better than to have sat lin editorial eliair, from, which with the finger a type, you decidea the des- teeies of empires, but deeirlerd. them syrong, that you had been, same dung - wined exile, who, by the light of window iron grated, on scraps of a New Testa - !nevi:: leaf. pieked up from the eerth spelled out the story of him. who tak- ebb, away the sins of the world. In et- eraity Deves is the begene. Welt, my friends, we will all soon get through writing a.ncl printing auct proof-reading, and publieherig. What then? Our life is a book. Our years are the clupters. Oar months are the pareneaphs. Our days are bhe sentences. Our doubts are the interrogation points. • Our ;Anita,- tilon of others the quotatien ma.rke, Our attempts at di5pla a daeh. Detetb the period.• Eternity the peroration. 0 God, where will we spena ht ? you beard the news, wore startling than any found in the journals of the last six 1V.fakS 1 It is the tidings that man le lost. • Herta you heard the news, the glederet thnt was ever anrsounced waning this day from the throne of God, lightning roureers leaning from WHAT WAS THE SONG-. An AntataIng Exantple at the Want at e Musical Ear The, musician can scarcely conceive •how iit iS passible for a, human being to be so devoid of in,usicaa ear as not to know one tu,ne from another, but instances of smile deficiency are ex- eeedingly common,. Answers Giles an amusing example. Two sailors returned from a long voy- age, strolled into a. public house near th.e docks. Abeve the rumble of the traffic in the street could be heard at intervals th.e lona; unmusicel voice of a luicksber. After listening intently for a minute one of the sailors turned to his companion and. said: "Eh, Jack, led; it's a. long time since we heard that song." "Whet song ?" • "The one that feleoiw's slinging in the street—`The Light of Other Days.'" "Stow it !" ejaculated the other, gruf- fly. "That fellow ant singing 'The Light of Other Days' at all, man. I've been listening to him. He's a -piping 'The Banks of Aldan Water.'" Each settee was certain he was right, and with ciharacteristic contempt for money, a wager was made—a month's wages depending on th.e resat. "Here, Tommy I" called oat one of thenruen. to this little son of the land- lord., "rein out atnd get to knoi. what that 'fellow's singing.' Tommy deperted an his errand., which did not take many minutes. "Well," demanded jack, when the youngster returned, "which of us is right?" "Nayther of ye," repkied, Tommy,griate ning. "The feller's not singing. He's hawking flypapers I" No 4...*••••••• RARE SAPPHIRE. ITIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Wawa. Contains an Opalescent Sear That Change It Positiono. • A Ceylon sepphitre, now in that cite, the property of Major-General 'Robley is not less remarkable for 1ts size than for iits transluee.ney end the brilliance of the optical effects it nen show, The weigsh.t of the gem. is 688 auras, and it is of a dark, milky blue color, perfectly transparent and flawless. Larger step - pietas have been known; they have usu- ally, if not al wa.ys. been dull and Muddy instead. a baying the 'clear, translucent color of this specimen. But in addition it possesses a property occastopaly fundin slightly cloudy or milkyCy- Ion stippleres--aad sometimes in other gems, too—which greatly enhances its value be the eyes of believers in bhe oc- net powers of prat:Sows stoties to con- fer health and good fortune on their wearers. It is tr, star sapphire or ast- eria. That is, beirng mit en caboeholi, itt, displays a beautiful opalescent star, dividing its six rays at the apex, which changes its position aecording to the moveinent of elm source of light • by which et ts VieW.Eal. By. employing two or three sources of ligh,t, twoor three of• these stets can be sienulteneously eeen in t,he gem. • Jey further cutteng, 5,4 es said that the beauty of this stone could. be still more increased, bttl; of course, at the expense of its size, a INTERNATIONAL, LESSON, 1YIAR, 6. 6.1testis and the Sabbath," natte se. egs, Golden Text, mitt. Ma. • PleAreriCAL NOTES, Verse 1. At that time (Seasou). Luke gives the time as the "seeond-firet Sabbath,". whatever that means. 14 is teen, that the event of our lesson m- atured between the,' Passover and the Pentecost, "between the' begiening of the barley and. the end of the wheat 1.(arvest." 'Went on the Sabbath day. gogue. Through the corn. Through hivideritly on his way from. .synee the wheat, the restriction: .of the word "corn" to ,:indian corn is an American idiom; rye, and-witeut, and barley in England are. called cora, Mark says, "Began to make a path, pluelting the ears," whioh bringe, to our no - ties the leek of both fences and. "made mauls" in Syria. His disciples . were ahungered. Pious 'Telma were arcus - tamed to go to morning prayers at the synagogue before they had eaten any food. Began, The use of this word shows how eager the .Pharisees were to find fault with Jesus; thee* began their ormeipra, just as soon as the disciples began to. eat. To pluck the ears of corn. Luke says, "Rubbing them in.tbeir hands," It is not unusu- al in the East for countryman. to eat a, little wheat and barley witheat grinding or welting. 2, When the Pharisees saw it. Pro- bably these Pharisees were those who had. been sent down from Jaru.sa,lem to measure the influence of' the new Teacher, and report. They were eot friendly observers. jesus did tbings that shocked them. He assumed to forgive 'sins; be ate and drank with Publicans and sinners ; from their poled of view he taught men to dishonor Use Sabbath. No wonder they were alert with their criticism. Thy di is, Every rabbi bad his followers Nvho ex- emplified his teachings; so that the criticism. on a rabbi's disciples was really a criticism on himself. That which is not lawful to do upon the Sab- bath day. The "law" here referred to is not to be found in the "1 a" Looks. It had its origin =Ong the Pharisees themselves. So intent were they to avoid transgression. of the Mos - ale law that they made many minute and. troublesome regulations clear ov- er the edge of Moses's commands, and held. that it was as wicked to disre- gard these man -uncle regulations as to break God's law. This led our Lord on another occasion to charge them with "making void the law.' The pluoking of even one ear of c.orn, they said, was reaping; to rub it with the hands was to thresh; to catch a flea. was to hunt; even to cat a fresh egg on the day after the Sab- bath was a. doubtful act, because the hen. Might have laid it en the holy day. Seth quibbleng shows an. utter lack of understanding of the loving purpose of God's law. Notice, however, that there W9.4 knio objection made to the plucking of th eears; only to its being dnne on the Sabbath. According to our modern. laws, whiela are Homan, pagan, in their origin. it might be 'counted an intrusion, even robbery, for a per- son; to help himself to the product ee ainother's field, but the Mos aie law made special previsiom. for the way- farer. Deut. 23. 24. 3. Have ye not read what DaNrid did? The story Is told in 1 Sam. 21. 1-17, which, according to Dr. Farrar's bril- liant conjecture, for which he gives some reasons, had .beet read in the synagogue as the appointed Scripture that very moroing. Jesus did reot need any indorsement from Devid, but he used the Pharisees' weapons against themselves ; they were worshipers of the letter of the law-, and he shows them that the ideal Hebrew of earlier times on a pivotal occasion of Ms life broke one of the directest lasvs out- right. He k:aew the Pharisees dared aot indorse this act of. Devid's, and they dared not criticise it. But if 'riot then why should they oriticise the dis- ciples af Jesus, Whose act was not di- rectly illegal 1 4. The house of God. 'Which was the tabernacle at Nob. Mark, 2,16, *men- tion,s Ablatlear as the name of . the high priest; the record ia Samuel calls ben Abimeleche - The shoe-bren.d. TI coasisted of twelve .cakes or loaves, placed in two piles on a golden table every Sabbath, end on each pile, or else between the two was laid &golden cup of frankincense. These stood forth perpetually ia the presence of the Lord, as one of the most sacred and beautiful emblems of the ancient wor- ship. " Deems," says ler. Morison, "tt significant and sublime symbolism, de- noting that Jehovah was the provider of his people's food." Every week when the new bread. was put/ upon the tales the old rakes were reraoved, and the law forbade any to ent of these but the priests. By thus instancing Da;v- • id's breach Of Moses's law our Lord woula teach that when eiod's collets/mils seem to enme Mtn collision meth the real needs of mankind, as they in ust on rare oCcasions in a world of infirmit- kg, it is eneres needs that have the right of way; for God's commands ex- ist On account of those needs. The Jew- ish toiler, vrhe, to the peril of many, refused to touch the helai on the Sae bath, when a wild storm' was raging, was . a eerily mistaken morn I hero, if not, rather, an unsonselous ereninal, God rioes not need EWAN-bread to NIA; Oa. does not need a Sahl'a tit to rest ; Gee does not need the money given to the 'Church; hut me,n need to rest, anti men need to give. Every law , like hthe law of the Sale:tele wee made fey SPECTA1 let PRE,P e.etieD. • Young. Wife (on her first marketing expeciltioe)-1 clOn't knosv, bub it seems to me that's a. pretty high price for ramll•mert • GeorClerk—This • meal is made from hand-picked corn, • Young Wife—Vireil, I'll take about a gallon of As we advainoe in life we lewd, tile limit of otter abilities.—Frotele man. 5. Have you nol read in the law?' See /Sumo 28, .1. priests tn the temple profame the Sableth, By doing work %titian the temple which on general principles had been forbidden; for in- stanee they 'removed the show bread, they lighted the. fires and even slew the Vietians of ancrifiee. .The Sabi at..b was their busiest day., But Who would Warne them? They served Jeliova.h. 6. Thei 1 say unto you. This phrase ,Toeue repeatedly teed., 'nue!. Ineve jarred. harshly on the'Pha,rieeeei ears; for they were forever .quotime preced- ent and authority; what settee dea(1 rab- bi had seid was of rar ;more importance to t.ham, 'then any fresh thought, ,. Tri thie place 15 one greater tha,n, the temple. nu bterally in this phrase referred to our Lord himeelf, Our bodies are temples for the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 6. 19, mad surely -the Son of man „.. 91 MS ratli paystran perSoll was a Vat - feet itemsxle nf Gott, i Bet our Itor meant more than Merely (het lie hien self was greater then the Wimple; more eyen than that the ImIntan 'body of e, believing Christian is a better teraPle than any thet can be bait of Marble and gold. The deeper meaning of ine (deceit:lent is thee tbs. Principle lia,now ,declares is a greater 'prin. eim1e than that for whiteh the temple' etaod. For the better , treuslatiort . "Ilere .is som.ething greater than the temple." .I1, whether we eat, or, whether we drink, or whatever We do, we de all to the glory of God, we there- in perform the highest and holiest ser- vice ; and Our bodies become fit tem- ples for the IlbLy Ghost to dwell in. .7. If ye hact known what this meat,- eth. If ye bad undersbood Hosea 6.0. have mercy and not sacrifice: Thire '4:tweet:ion had been given bellere. Matt. 9.13, it teaehest in other plara-e- olozy, the very doctrine. that Jesus ba,d just taught. " There is something more binding than the lame a:ea that is th ptiaciple which underlies the Carr. "Mercy " is bettee than "sacri- fice ;" deeds are more important than ceremonies; love is better than anye command based on the, duty Of love. The Pharisees Itabitually inverted the. proper order of things, anct made the form of more consequence thanthen power, Ye would not have condemned the guiltless..When ,Tesue defends his own he does lt net by halves; Isere is the argument of & vigorous debater. 8. The Son of ellen, A phrase which': probably was understood by our Lord's hearers as implying that, he was the Messiah. Lord even of the, sabbath clay. tke Messialawas governor of all Sabbath laws the Pharisees, Probably would admit, bub that Jesus was the Messiah they denied. 9. When im was departed thence, At fiest sight this would indicate, and the natera,tiive of Mark conveys a similar kupression., that Jesus left the piece where the pharisees were, and straight- way went itato a, synagogue with which those Pharisees were connected; but Luke states t*hae the heeling we are about to study came on another Sala 4 bath. It is very likely, however, tha,t it also took 'Plates 15 Caperneum. • M. There wee a, main ess-bieh bad. his band withered. "His right hand."— Luke. It was peralyzed. An ancient tradition says he was a mason. walla had hunt his htund while mattes With stone. They asked him. They evident- ly expected that he woad heal the accuse him of breateli of the law. It. tni,ght be inferred from. this incident tied the rabbis generally regerd•ed as sinful all efferts to heal on t.he Sabbath day. But this was not the case. In cases of life anddeath they taught that physielae should be called; but any „ Uerninnent; disfigurement or pain they thought shoulci be endured without re- lief op the Sabbath ; ehronic sufferers must not take. medicine; nor raigt a dislocated borie be set. Is. it lawful to heal on the Sabbath clays/ A formal question, asked simply tbat they might aCCUB3 Mtn. of lireaeli of the law, and so put a stop to his career as a rabbi and as they supposed) as a candidate for the crowns . 11. What man shall there be among o you, etre To 'relieve an animal that had e ranee into a pit was regarded as law - fat even by our Lord's crities, but some of the rabbi's taught that to pull a sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath day was a sin, while. to let food down to it was a good. deed. In Mark and Luke we have the question in a somewhab different form, "Is it lawful to do good. on the Sabbath elay or to do evil? to save life or to destroy it ?" Pbani- seso would answer, "To do nothing at all tin the next day." But our Lord's teaching is tbat it is never right. to leave a good. deed undone. It. has been well said, "Not to do good when it lies in our power is praetically to, do . • 12. How much then is a man better then a sheep.? The. argument here is mud; mare ssmple end direct than thet in Mark and Luke. - Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. That is, to do good on the Sabbath days. re No truly good deed is out of order ever. • 13, Then saith he to the man. Atark adds, "Looking round about Lira, be- ing grieved at the hardnees of their hearts." Stretch forth thine hand. The man was called upon to do what he seemeci incapable of doing; just so . the sinner is called upon to believe his sin taken away. He stretched it forth; and it wae restored whole. After all their questions eel anxieties the cure WWI performed -without nny labor at • It is easy to figure moral natures a,s tha,ving eyes to see, and ears to her. • and hands to work for God. There are maay withered hands in our churches; let theirt repels out in action in obedi- ence to our Lord's command, andeehey will find power to work. • ALLOON ASCENSIONS. • Made liy Aeronauts 031 Horseback -StoP1333 • in tattland by The Palter. '.Citere are at least five well authentic,- ated cases of aeronauts having made LISMISLOUS on horseback. - In 1828 Green, the aeronant, went up from, tb.e Eagle Tavern in Oleg Reed, London, seated on a pony, whien stood on a platform suspended from the 14011. laL- Thu pony was not is the lease . disconcerted, and a ' safe descent :Was made al. Beckenham. In 1850 Mr. Green repeated this experiment. Lientene,0 Gale lost his life in the settee year in. attempt:bug a similar ascent at ilor- (Leung.. In 1852 llerne..Polteven. who is credited wit li several' such exploits wee up from Creme:me Gardens, • and in 1858 she aseended frern. Paris on horee. back and was very nearly drewned iri the, sett steer Malaga. :Previously to this equestrian aecents in Englant had • hoeii stopped by the po,ece. It nuty remarked.that the first four -legged 0.11" mat that went; up in &hello:la was a sheep; which, 15 connatnywith a ecok. and n duck amended from Versailles 1783. ' AVIIIEN 1111 BItATN GROWS, A. prominent educator balking to mo- . sayethat wieh alT ehlildren there are nascent periode--that is, there are certain times when a ehild can eitrik to do thilngs cateler and . better than at'ottiters. The, growth of •the breen iu nett generally understood. . There • is, 110,33emer an ebb aid flow of tamest, The chikiren apply theeeselvee asseen °stay forix. time, then comes arrest, end c.ducatoes ere stow disputing whether to urge the Mild tames oe after the ebb wen for the tartans retirees a, intenat lit their •work,