HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-5-26, Page 7NOTES AND camauvrs.
Spain ie the modern "foes para -
+Cosa with a government and a Peoltle
'that' have no perallel °retail° of opere
botiffe, Notwithetaading the elense ig-
norance of the populace, the 'coaling
Men have been credited with a degree
, of intelligence whieh reoeut eventhave
Ishowle they do not possess. They isave
straPly been inasq,uerading in the °hare
enters of statemen and iloldier,s, end
seem to ifave no real conception of the
lAmerican nation on its people. What
could be move ridiculous than the " pro-
noncianaento," et the Spanish Gover-
nor General ot the PhiliPPineSr issued
a sveele ego, wherein the American peo-
ple were denounced. as "social exotics -
"a nation a adventures, with-
out eoleeeion or history, offering only
infamone ttedittons and ungrateful
spectacles, in which appear insolence,
defaanation, cowardie,e and cynicism?"
The sailors of Coramodsere Dewey's
squadron were pietured es "foreignars,
possessing neither iustruction nor disci-
Pline," who had no other motives than
"robbery, lust and the laying a in -
pion; hands upon the temple of the
true Go&" "'Vain designs ridiculous
boastings!" On a, par witla this is the
official cabinet annou,neement that the
lArnerican victory in Manilla harbor
was "a sad but glorious day for Spain."
It almost passes comprehension that
ex -Captain General Weyler shouldser-
Lously propose to the qu.een regent a
plan for him to invade the United
States at the hea,d, of anarany of 50-
000 men. In a well-disposed people
such a display a ignorance would be
pitiable, but in a representative Span-
ish type like Weyler it is simply comic.
Mae coro.edian-in-chief of the Spanish•
offieials, however, is Captain General
Blanco ot Cuba. The withdrawal of tho
American cruisers after they had bom-
barded and razed the fortifications un-
der construction at Matanzas is herald-
ed. by Blanco as a victory for the Span-
ish arms. The return of a scouting
boat frorn any point near the Cuban
coast to the main squadron outside Haw
ana harbor is h.aHed as a naval triumph
and. made the occasion for forensics out-
bursts in the public square of the city.
• The humoxous part of it all is that
he Spaniard axe serious in what they
say and do. They refer to Americans
as "pigs" because they believe them to
be a. gross, unmannered, unintelligent
sordid people. They mistalke forbear-
ance for cowardice, and being wholly
incapable of appreciating an unselfish
at ,they believe that in the pre,sent
war Americana are inspired only by
mercenary motives. . In all seriousness
they consider themselves a very super-
ior peoplis The chivalry of which -they
boast seems real to their imperfect vis -
tote They do not realize their degen-
eracy, but cling to the faded glories of
their, savage past. Clad in rags and
tatters and. crowned with tinsel, Spain
struts upon the stage to enaet a royal
andheroie part. Blind to her ludicr-
ous appearance, she is surprised. that
instead of applause she is greeted only
with laughter.
THE SITUATION IN ITALY.
'General Poverty the Cause of the Dangeron
twairaer.
The state of nary, as described in
despatches, is only a little short of re-.
volutionlary. The saving, feature of
the situation, so far as the Government
is concerned, is that the troubles do
'not appear to be the result of any
solidi political organization, bu.t are
due to the hunger a the population.
If this proves to, be the case, they may
be got over with comparatively little
difficulty. There is, however, a dan-
ger that they may develop into a polit-
ical movement, if the immediate wants
of the people are not appeased, more
particularly in the north. Besides the
Socialists, whose chief centre is at Mil-
an, there are the Irridentasts, who
have only' been restrained by the exig-
encies of the Txiple Alliance, to be
counted with. There is also the Re-
publican element that has been gain-
ing in strength year by year through
the 'unpopularity of the monarchy,
arising from the ever-increasing bur-
den of taxation. Should all these ele-
ments combine and find a common bas-
is of action the situation might easily
become very serious for the Govern-
ment. se,
There are of course many causes at
the bottom of the present troubles of
Italy, but they may be narrowed down
to two principal one, the military ex-
igencies. of the Triple Alliance and
Criept'S Afideau aclvetitu'res, The ex-
cessive taxation requixed to Pay flo'a
these two policies are responsible for
the present difficulty, and it will be
interesting to. see haw the Italian Gott -
element Will wnrk its way out of it:
International:complications may easi-
ly ensue if the troubles are allowed
to gain headway, for the bulk of •the
Italian debt, which now amounts to
over $2,590,000,000, is held. in Prance;
and the Italian Government has cer-
tain engagebaents With England re-
garding its riavy that would be serious-
ly 'interfered with by prolonged inter-
nal or a change in the form
of goVernMent.
As to' the other causes of Milan dis-
• order they have been less visible to the
outside world, but they have been not
• the lese sure an their operatiOn. The
privatione endured. by the poOrer eirtees
es have 'been steadily fsxtencling to the
entire populatien, an Several yeaas
ago it was nothing uncommon to find
families aritong the latter where more
than bete tuli meal, a day vele an OX -
caption. This was especially the ease
southern rtaly, Zt.appeats now Co
eptead; over the whole •countrywith
the reeult weOw edet s
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SWINENG FOB LIFE
FuRNISIIE, THE REV, DR, TALMAGE
WITH A TEXT.
Speaks of God as a Strome Swimmer -Oar
nave In a Sinaloa Comilllon-Clorist
Sarong Ont 011ie Deep to ative its -Two
Mighty 4/itesi1ous.
"Washiagton despatch says;—The
Rev. 'Dr. Talmage preached from the
wards:—"He shall spread forth Hie
hands in the midst of them., as he that
swinereeth spreadeth forth his hands
to sivian."--Isaiale xxv, 11.
The fisherman seek$ out unfaequent-
ed nooks You stan4 all day on the
hank of a wide river in tae broiling
sun, and fling out your line and catch
nalhing, white the expert augler breaks
through the jungle, ana, goes
by the shadow of the solitary
rack, and. in a place where no
fiehernaan has been for ten years
tarows out his line, and. comes home
at night, his face shining and hi a bas-
ket; lull. I do not know why we mini -
tars of the Gospel need always be fish-
ing in the sam.e stream, and peeaching
fron the saxne text that other peo-
ple preaele frottn. I cannot understand
the policy of the minister AIM:. in
Blackfriars, Landon,_ England, every
week for thirty years preached from
the Epistle of the Hebrews It is an
exhilaration to me when I can come
across a theme which I feet has not
yet been treated, and my text is one
of that kind. There are paths in God's
word that are well beaten by Christian
feet. Wheu men want to quote Scrip-
ture, they quote the old passages that
everybody hes hefted. When they
want a chapter read, they read a
chepter that all the other people have
been reading, so that the Church
to -day is ignorant of three fourths of
the Bible. Yoa go into the Louvre, at
Paris. :You. confine yourself to one
corridor of that opulent gallery of
paintings. As you come out your
friend says to you: "Did you see that
Rembrandt ?" "No." "Did you see
tbat Reabens1" "No." "'Did you see
that Titian ?" No." "Did_ you see
that Rapheel?" "No." "Well," says
year friend, "then you didn't see the
Louvre." Now, friends, I think we
axe too much apt to confine ourselves
to one of the great corridors of this
gallery of Scripture truth, and so
mach so, that there are not three per-
sons in the' house to -night who have
ever noticed the all -suggestive and
powerful picture in the words of ma
teat. •;
This text represents Gld, as a strong
swimmer, striking out to push down
iniquity and to save the souls of men.
"He shall spread forth His hands in
the midst of them, as he that swim -
meth spreadeth forth his hands to
swim." The figure is bald and many-
sided.' Most of you know how to
swiTa. Scans of you learnedit in the
city schools, where this art is taught;
ecime of you., in boyhood,. in the river
near your father's house; sorae of you
since you came to manbaod on woman-
hood, while sununering on the beach
of the see, You etep down in the
wave, you. throw your head back, you
bring your elbows to the chest, you
put the palms of your hands down-
ward and the soles of e our feet out-
ward, and you. push through the water
as though you had. been born aquatic.
It is a grand thing to know how to
swim, not only for yourself, but be-
cause you will after awhile, perhaps,
have to help others. I de not know
anything, more stirring or sublime
tha,n to see some nia.n like Norman Mc-
Kenzie leaping from the ship Madras
into the see to save Charles -Turner,
who had dropped from the royal yard
while trying to loosen the sail, bring-
ing him. back to the deck amid the
buzzes of the passengers and. the crew.
If a man has not enthusiasm enough
to cheer in such circumstances he de-
serves laimsell to drop into the sea and
have no one help him. The Royal
Humana Society of England was es -
established. in 1774, its object
to applaud and reward those
who should pluck up life from the
deep. Any one who has performed such
a deed of daring has all the partieulars
of that bravery recorded in a public re-
cord„ and on his breast a medal done
in blue ancl gold, and bronze; anchor
and monogram, and inscription telling
to future generations the bravery of
the man or woman who saved a soul
from drowning. But, my friends, if ib
Ls such a svorthy thing to save a body
from the deep, I,a.sk you if it is not
a worthier thing to save an immortal
soul? And you shall see to -,night, the
Son of God step forth for his achieve-
ment, "He shall pread forth His
hands in the midst of them, as he that
switnmeth spreectoth forth his hands to
In order to understand the full force
of this figure, you need to realize, first
of all tbet our nee le in a sinking con-
dition. Yoe Ars/natio:Les hear people
talking otewhat they consider the
most beautiful words in our language,
One man says it is "home," another
man says it is the word. 'mother," an -
&het says Lt is the word "Jesus;" but
I will tell you the bitterest word in all
our language, the word Most angry and
baleful, the word saturated with the
most trouble, the word. that lemmas
for all the loathsothenese and the pang,
and. the outrage and the harrowing;
and that word is "Stn." You spell it
with three letters, and yet those three
lettets deseribe the circumference and
pierce the diameter of everything bad
on earth and in peraition. Sin! it is
a sibilant word. You eannot pro-
nounce it, without giving the siss of
the name or the hiss of the serpeet,
Sin And then if you add three let -
tete to that werra it describes every
persore in this hottse, and, every one in
the everld--sinner, That is you arid nee,
We have atitraged the leva of God;
not occesiorottly, or now end there but.
perpetually', The Bible deolares it,
Meekl it thundere, 'We claps. The
heart is deceitful (Oboe all things, and
desperetelY wieked," soya that
alhheth,, it obeli die," What tile Bible
our own conscience affirtee. After
alags Korgeh bad sentenced Ladyjane
Grey to death, his conselenoe troubled
him so much for the deed, that he be -
(mum insane, and ell through his in-
sanity ae kept saying; "Take leer
away froen Mel Lady Jane GreY. Take
her away! Lady Jane Grey," It was
the voiee of his conseieuee. iSend. no
Men over does anything wrong, how-
ever groat or small, but his conscience
brings that matter before him, and at
every step of hie misbehavior it saYe:
"Wrung, wrong. Sines a leprosy, sio
is a paralysis, sin is a coasuraptioni
sin is pollution, sih is death. Gi,Ye it
a fair chance a,na it will swamp You
'body, mind and soul for ever, .Cn this
world it only gives a faint intimation
of its virulence; but after for a thous-
and quadrillion of years it has ran-
sacked your soul—w-hat then? You
See a patient in the first stages of ty-
Ptak/ fever. The cheek is somewhat
flushed, the hands somewhat hot, pre-
ceded, by a slight cane "Why," you
say, "typhoid fever does not seem. to
be much of a disease," Bet wait until
the patient has been six weeks Under
it, arid all his energies have been wrung
out, and. he is too weak to lift his lit-
tle finger, and his intellect le gains,
then you see the full havoc, of the dis-
ease. •Now sin in this world is an ail --
Plea which is only in its very first
stages; but after the grave, it is rend-
ing, blasting, all -devouring, all-con-
sum.ing, eternal typhoid. Ole if we
could see our unpardoned sins as God
sees them, our teeth would chatter, and
our knees would knock together
and, eur respiration wouldbe choked,
and our heart woold break. If your
Sins are unforgiven, they are bearing
down on you., and you are sinking—
sinking awaa from happiness, sinkbeg
away from God, sinking away from ev-
erything that is good and blessed, sink-
ing for ever.
Then what dos we want? A swiimmert
A strong swimmer A swift swimmer
And, blessed be God, in my text we have
Hun announced. "He shall spread
forth His hands in the midst of there,
as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth
his hands to swine" You have noticed
that when a swimmer goes oat to rescue
any one, he puts off his heavy apparel.
He must not have any such impediment
about him if he is going to do this
great deed. And when Christ stepped
forth to save us, He shook ,off the
sandals sof heaven and. His feet were
free; and He laicl aside the robe of
eternal royalty„, and. His arms were
free; and then He steppecl clown in-
to the ware of our transgression,
ancl it came up over His wounded feet,
and it carne up above the spear stab
in His side,—aye, it dashed to the lac-
erated temple, the higb-water mark of
file anguish, Then, rising above sthe
flood, "He stretched forth His hands
in the midst of them, as he that, swim-
nswieLtrehh spreacteth for th , his hands .to
If yea have ever watched a svvinimer,
gout notice that his whole body is
brought into play. Tae arms are Dek-
a& his hands drive the water back, the
knees are active, the head is tossed back
Lo escape strangulation, the whole body
is in propulsion. And when Christ
sprang oat in the deep to save us He
threw His entire nature in it --all His
Godhead,. His onmescietnce, His good-
ness, His love, His omnipotence—head,
heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were so
far out on the sea, and so deep down
in the waves, and so far oat from the
shore, that nothing short of an entire
God could save us. Christ lealied out
for our rescue, saying: "Lo ! I come to
do Thy will," and all the surges all hu-
man, and Satanic bate beat against
Him, and those who watched Ebel from
the gates of heaven feared. He would go
down under the wave, and instead of
savingt others would. Himself perish;
bu.t putting His breast to the foam, and
sh,akinee the surf from His locks, He
came on, on, until. He is to -night with-
in the reach of every one here. Eye
• omniscient, heart infinite, arm omni-
potent( Mighty to. save, even unto
the uttermost. Oh, it was not half a
God that trampled down bellowing
Gennesaret, It was not a quarter of
a God that mastered the demons of
Ged,ara,.. It was 'not tiwo-thirds °fon
God' that lifted up Lazarus into the
arms of his over-joyed sisters. It was
not. a; fragment of a God who offered
pardon and peace to all Ube race. No.
This mighty swimmer threw His gran-
deur, His glory, ilLs might, His wisdom,
His omnipotence and His eternity into
this one act. It took both hands of
God to save -Imo -both feet. How do I
prove it? On the cross, were not both
hands /tailed? On the cross were not
both feet nailed His: entire nature
involved in our redemption!
If you have' lived much by the wat-
er, you notice also that if any one is
going out to rescue the drowning, he
must be independent, self-reliant, able
to go, alone! There may be a time
when he must spring out to save one,
and he cannot get a life -boat, and if
he goes out and he has not strength
enough to bear himself up, and bear
another up, he will sink, and instead ot
dragging one corpse out of the torrent
you will have two to drag out., When
Christ sprang out into the sea to de-
liver as He had no life -buoy. His
Father did not help Trine Alone in
the wineaprests., Metro+ in the pang
Alone in the distknes,s. Alone in the
rneuntarn. ,lone in the Eea. +0, if
Ha saves us, lie shell have all- the
credit, for "there was none to help."
No oar. No wing, No ladder. When
Natheniel, Lyon • fell in the battle
charge in front of his troops, he had
a whole army to cheer him; when Mar-
shal Neyspren,g into the contest, and,
pranged in his spo rs till the horse's
Hanka spatted, blood, all Fiance ap-
plauded him. But .Tesus'alone I "Of i
the people there was none to help." All
foreook Him and fled." 0, it was riot
a flotilla that sailed down- and saved
us. It was not a cluster of gondolas
thet came Over the wave. It was one s
Bataantndependene and , alone,
et`t`o:t4reswsuar:mdini:le,Engieroesilit)cellaidsethhaniodsohehmiosthegantidss
•
(Behold, ther to -eight the appatacle
ot a drowning soul and Christ the lc
savimmer.,I lealeve it was in 1848, when k
there wet% six Engaisli poldiets of the c
Fifth latsiliers who were hanging to g
the bottom of a capsized boat --a boat r
thet had been apeet by a squall three t
miles from shore. It was in the night, t
bulti One, Elmo Swann Inight4 fax the I
beach, guided by -the dark mountains i
Unit lifted their tops through the
nighle liet came to the beaeh, ale
foetid, shoreman who consented te t
go with hine and salted:he other Men,
and they put out, It was 80InD thee
before they eottici Had the place where 0,
the men vivre ; but after awhile they a,
BXETE TIMES
beerdl their Ore "Help! help!". alai
they bare, down to them, and they see
00d; tthhAmtie.extrobtra();a4grhotrytiluelgtilttObeshiejg
e41064;11044, and shrill, till Christ Oa
swimmer shall ceme end take as les
• W e drop( thanriand fathom dowo; VS'
a man Who,' Will not praY,Will pertsba
yen have been 'roaci-aby the weter
you, know very well that whoa one isi
peril twin meet some very , 'quielria or i
will be of no use. One Minute Ma
'decide everything. Immediate lielp th
man wants or no help at all Now, the
is just the, kind Of: an relief. the sirtrie
wants. The caee urgent, ilaraineat
inetanteneons, See that soul sinking
Son of' God, lay hold of eina. 1 It is 111
laot hoer of' mercy, Be quick 1 b
gaick! 0, I wish you all understoce
how ergent this Gospel is, There was
Man in the navy at saes who' bad bee.'
severely whipped for bad behaviour
and he wae needd.ened by it, &ad h
leaped. into the see, and no sooner had
he leaped into the sea then, elliela as
lightning, an albatross, swooped upon
bim. 'The drowning man, brought to
hie senses; seized hold of the albateoss
and held on. The fluttering of the bird
kept him on the wave antil relief could
comeeWould that to -night the dove of
God's' convicting converting and sav-
ing Spirit might flash from the throne
upon your soul, and that you, taking
lhiovled eoofrietsvepro, tea; t wing, might live and
I want to persunde you to -night to
ley hold df tlate strong Swimmer. "No."
you eay, "it is always ruin." There
IS not a. river or a lake. but has a cal-
amity, resultant from the feet that
when a. strong swimmee went out to
save a Sinking man, the drowning man
clutched him, threw his arms around
pinio'ned his arnes, and they both
went down together. When you are
saving a man in the water yon do not
want to come up by hie face; you want
to cone up. by has back., You do not
want him to take hold of you while
you take head oi hien. But, blessed
be God, Jesus -Christ is so strong a
Swimmer, He comes, not to our, back,
hut to our fare, and He asks us to
throw 'around Him the arms at our
love, -and then promises to take us
to the beach and He will do it. Do
nOt trust that plank of good worke
Do not trust that shivered spar of
your own -righteousness. Christ only
can give you transportation. Turn
your face upon Him to -night as the
dying martyr.did in olden days when
he cried. out; None but Christ I one
but Christ 1" Jesus has taken millions
to the land and He is willing' to take
you there. 0, what hardness to shove
Him back when He has bee ,swimming
all the way from the throne of God
te where you are to -night, and is ready
to s -wine all the way back again, tak-
ing your redeemecl spirit. I have some-
times thought what a epectacle the
ocean bed will present when, in the last
day the water is all drawn off. It
will be a line of wrecks, from beach to
beach. There is where the harpeon-
ers went down. There is where the
line of. battle ships went down. There
is where the merchantmen went clown.
There is where the steamers went
down ;—a long line of wrecks from
beach to beach. What a spectacle in
the last day when thet water is -drawn
oat! But 0; haw much more solemn
if we bad 'an eye, to see the spiritual
wrecks and places where they foun-
dered. larou would find thousands
along these streets. Coming here, to-
night, if you had. sucle superb eyesight,
standing at the door white yet this
room was empty, you. might then have
seen thousands of sueh marks of Wreck
scattered all through these pews, the
places where on other Sabbaths immor-
tal men were invited to heaven and
refused. it. Christ came down ire their
awful oatastrophe, putting out for
their soul, -spreading. forth His hands
as a swimmer spre.ad.eth forth his
hand's to swim ;" but they thrust Hirn
in the sore heart, awl. they smote His
fair cheek, and. they perished; the
storm and the darkness swallowing
them. up. 0, are there any here now
who feel that they are einking? Do
they feel the need of a Divine arm?
Christ is Oriady now to step out for
their present and. their eternal salva-
tion. tisk you to lay hold of this
Christ and lay hold of Himi now. You
will sink without Him. Lay hold of
Hine 0 that God, this moment might
break the raiedneas of those who will
not have the mercy and the favour
of that Christ wao is the only Saviour
the world ever has had or ever will
have. Say, do' you want to die? Do
you covet ruin ? Do you despise heaven?
Have you lifted. the poniard With which
to stab the lite of your immortal soul?
0, sinner, thou knowest not where thou
at. On the verge of what woe. On the,
waves of what sea. Sinking. Sinking.
Sinking. From horizon to horizon not
one sail in sight. Only one strong swim-
mer, with head flung hack ?art arms
outspread "he that swirameth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim." 0
that God would lead you into the peace
and hope of the Gospel. You will never
have so fair a chance as this very one
in which to a,ccept of the Lord. Jesus
Christ. I hear a great niany in the
and tenue saying: " Well would like
to be a. Christian to -night. 7 am. go-
ing to work to become a Christian."
My brother, yea begin wrong. When
a men is drowning, and a ,stronger
swimmer comes out to help It:Ina, be
says to the man, "Now he quiet. Put
your arm on my arm or on my silsaula-
er, but don't struggle, den% try to
help yourself, .and. tele you ashore.
The more you. struggle and. the mere
yod try to help yourself, the more
You. impede, me.. Now be quiet and
PH take you ashore. When Christ,
the strong. swimmer, colteS out to save
a soul, the sinner says' "That's right.
1 am glad to see Jesus, and I am, go-
ng to help Him. r am going to do
this, that, and the other thing that
vill help Him; 1 am going' to pray
more and that will help Him; I em
going to weep extravagantly over -my
ins, and that will help Him." No, my
brother, it will not, Stop your' doing.
Cmhtrisitiftwittlnl deounacell osteenoneee.nnYeoLnlecoevtto-
n inch, in thie mafter ot Your re*
temption. This ie the diffiealty whieh
eePs thoueands of souls oat of the
ingdom of hewer), la. becattae they
retatiot, coneent to let Sesee, Christ bee
in awl complete the .Svotk of their
redemption. "Why," you. ea,O, "then 1$
:here nothing for me to do t".Only one
hing have you to. dee istid that is tO
ey 'bald Of chriete atia Itst ERN %eh-
eae your selyation Mid achieve it all.
do tot knee, whether make the
matter pieta • or note I Simply want
o slimy erou that Mart canna Sete
iriaselt, but that tile, Altriighlw, Son of
Ocl an do it, 'and will de it, lf yeel
sir Hata 0, fling your t3vo arme, the
rine of rat trust and loed, •eround
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this omnipotent swimmer ot the Cross,
sernion je abort endea, ana the
stenographer has taken ht down with
• his renelb 0, thet the goy Spirit
nalgat write it on all your hearts, aow
num.s. Mil be sexeci through this par-
ticular oegviee? How many will be
lost? These axe taw tWel qUestiene
es'ith which 1came upon this platforra.
After the benedietion there will he
two mighty eorrents,—one oitrrant
bearing' mightily toyer& Ileavene the
other bearing mightily towards hell;
tuna in one or the other of theee car-
reetS you, will be 0a/ig1it, 14 the one.
You will be carried out to wheee it
empties into tlie ocean whose waves
are fire, and veliose Shills are tire, a"d
whose beaeli is fire; or you will be oar -
tied clessm be a ourrent which will ein-
pty into a, sea whose surgea beat mus-
ic againet the throne ot God. 0, it 1$
a solemn iniTalrte, Have you ever seen
them trying to reeuseitete a, hell -
drowned. persona You. remember the
iYou remember they
tried. every possible art. You remem-
ber how they knelt down andeput their
lips to the lips of the insensible pa-
tient a,sul breathed and breathe& try-
ing to get the lungs to work, and. at
last, when he just gave one feeble
siga, they shouted all around the room;
"He lives! he lives!" And now, to-
night, pair drowning soul, 0 sinner,
I hope is by the grace of Christ to be
reseseitated. We have gathered ar-
ound you. Would that this might be
tbe hour when you begin to live. The
Lord 'Jesus Christ steps down, He gets
on His anee, He puts his Hp to you
Hp, and would breathe pardon, and
life, and heaven into your immortal
soul. God grant that this liOUT thele
may be thousands of souls resuscitated
from this awful epiritual drowning. I
stand. on the deck of the old Gospel
ship amid a. crowd of passengers, and
yet my soul is wrung with sorrow be-
come I see some of you overboard and
cannot help you, May the living
Christ this hour put out. for your res-
cue, "spreading forth His hands in
the midst of you, as a swimmer spread-
eth forth bis hands to swim," 0 that
salvation might come to your house
this night. You want religion your-
selves, and your families need the same
religion. Another opportunity foe- hea-
ven is closing, closing, closing.
le sinners, seek His grace.
. His wrath ye cannot bear;
Fly to the shelter of His love,
And find. salvation there."
MAKING WOOD ALCOHOL,
The Deadly Sitledanee That Thirsty Wooers
Sometimes Dona.
It is Isecessery first to convert wood
into liquid. The strongest hydraulic
pressuxe would not squeeze one-half
of f per cent. of the moisture from dry
wood, but by putting the same inater-
lTd into an iron retort and convertiag
it into charcoal by means of heat the
gases and smoke, to the extent of fully
65 per cent. of the weight of the wood,
may be condensed into pyroligneous
acid, from which are obtained wood
alcohol, acetate of lime and wood tars.
A cord of wood weighing 4,000 pounds
Produces about 2,650 pounds of pyroli-
gneous acid and 700 pounds of char-
coal. The pyroligneous iteld from one
cord of wood produces nine gallons of
82 per cent. crude wood alcohol, 200
pounds of acetate of lirae, and about
25 gallons of tar, besides 35 bushels
of charcoal. After the pyrol igneous
acid is neutralized with lime the wood
alcohol is distilled off, the lime hold-
ing the acetic acid is solution. After
the separation of the wood spirit the
remaining liquid is boiled down
in pa,ns to a, sugar, which is dried and
becomes the acetate of lame in com-
merce. ,Acetate of lime is used for
making acetic acid.
Fully three-fifths of the wood alco-
hol and acetate of lime produced in
the world are made in the United
States. A considerable quantity is
also produced in Sweden, and. at the
exhibition now being held in Stock-
holm spechnens ma,y be seen. Wood
alcohol affords a perfect substitute for
grain alcohol for manufacturing and
mechanical purposes, anci at less than
one-third the cost. It is used principal-
ly as a, solvent in the making of shel-
lac varnish and in making celluloid
and photographic paper, it makes
beautd
iful ye tints is antiseptic, and
is used for liniments and for skin rub-
bing in bathhouses.
SUMPTUARY LAWS.
Lycurgus was perhaps the first to
promulgate sumptuary laws, and there
was a long string of them. All re-
spectable citizens were commanded to
dine at a public mess table, that they
might not be enervated by overindal-
gence in eating and drinking. Fifteen
persons were placed at a board, to
which each subscribed a monthly quota
of provisions, and no dainties were
permitted. One day Dionysius of
Syracuse, who was sa little fastidious,
made a grimace at the sort of food,
before bine whereupon one of the
guests remarked: "Sir, bed you been
dipped in the Eurotaa you would have
relished our broth." The Eurotas eves
the Chicago River or Eta.vana Harbor
of Sparta.
-UNDERGROUND CITY.
Eperna.y, in France, is a vast subter-
ranean city, the streets for miles be-
ing hewn out of Solid chalk, flanked
with pilee of champagne of all blend
and qualities. The largest eharapagne
manufacturers in Epernag, possess un-
derground cellars which cover no fewer
than 45 atree, and contain 5,600,000 bot-
tles of Wine.
DIPFITHIaRTA iN RUSSIA.
In Russia it laborateriel are en-
gaged in the manufacture at diph-
theria Serum, in which the entire peo-
pie ilace great confidence, and not
without reason, as in 44,61 registered
cases in which the Serum was used the
death rate was but 14 per tent,. ageing
,31. per cent of the 6,507 cases in which it
w‘e not employed,•
APPAOPHIATt.
That submarine boat filetnite to, be ti
andeelle.
yaat7 sappose Sate goes doWn with
flying tolors,
IDE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL ,LESSON, MAY 29,
"The Lord's eupper," nett, 20- lereee Oa+
Ca Text, X. tor,
prtACTIOAL NOTES,
• of Viteerle7nedTil'iereallds,t rfee;"ctlet-
,
a,y 01! ilia
°Md., the (larY that bei144 w411
get sun -
of Wednesday and ended:with el -m-
eet ef Thgrodey, Ie wa4 the firet
day of unleafvened bread, heelinse ozi
It ell leaven was carefallY searched
for in ever3r house, and was destroyed
The Jewish month began with the new
moon, and therefore the paesever feaet,
like our own Easter, came in some
yeers earlier than in others. Tbe
disciples, came to Jesus. The. head of
the family- was responsible for the
proper observance of paesover by his
family, and a rabbi, WaS responsible
for his disciples.
18. To such a man. V'To .se and
so." My time is at hand. This meana
that the meal was to be hastened., for
oar Lord says, Luke 22, 15, "With de -
etre I have desired to ea e this pasaover
with 'you before I suffer." What our
Lord's "time" was the disciples could
not certainly know. Before this they
had heard hien say, "My time is not
yet fatly come" and probabl,y,witb. the
memories of the triumphal entry in
their minds, they thought of him as
about to become kiag and themselves
as shortly to be triumpharit courtiers.
I will keep the passover at thy house
with my disciples. Where a rabbi of
suelepronainence as Jesus now had. ob-
served. th.e feast would be a. ma,tter of
general interest.
19. They made ready the passover.
They made everything ready for the
supper which they were about to par-
take of. Th.e ordinary work of pre-
paring a passover feast included the
purchasing of a larab, makingbread
witb.out leaven, and the collecting of
bitter herbs, wine, and a sweet fruit
jam. The lamb could only be slain by
a priest in the courts of the temple,
at a prescribed, hour, and it must be
cooked by roasting.
20, 21. He sat down with the twelve.
He reclined with them; the tables had
probably been ranged as three sides
of a hollow square, and the benches
arranged outside of these and cush-
ioned. Each of the baneueters re-
clined on cushions, leaning on his
left elbow. John, as we learn from
his gospel, reclined next in front of
our Lord, and, the benches being put
close to each other, leaned on his bos-
om.. Many incidents of the last sup-
per given. by other evangelists are
omitted by Mathew. Foe example, the
dispute of the disciples as to which
should he the most prominent, the
washing of the disciples' feet, and the
teaching of John 13. 12-20. The meal
was opened with a formal thanksgev-
..
ing, and. we are to think of it as going
on either in silence or in quiet unre-
corded conversation, and then as they
did eat came the awful. announcement
one of you shall betray me. Why
hed Jesus kept this fact to, himself len-
til now, and why did. he now utter it?
These were not perfect men, though
they were lovers of the Master; they
had none of them gone nearly so far as
the traitor who eotcl him to death, but
they were very far below our Lord's
Spirit, and had already cmarreled and.
were again to quarrel about preced-
ence. Jesus calls their attention to
the deeper loyalty that they owed him.
22. Exceedingly sorrowful. See John
13, 22, Lord, is it I? This is one of the
strangest glimpses of the depths of
human nature that literature furnish-
es to us. It-ou would suppose they
woluldi say, "Not I, Lord.' The fact
Ls, not one of these men seems to have
beeto satisfied, wiUh his own loyalty,
and not one of them certainly had reas-
on to be, for shortly they all forsook
him and fled.
• 23. Hie that dippeth his hand with
me in the dish. Better, "He that clip-
ped." Just a moment ago the hand of
Judas and that of the Master had pro-
bably touched as they, according to
oriental custom, each reached out to
partake of the fruit. Dipping a piece
of the unleavened bread in the syrup,
Jesu,s gave it to Judas, and, according
tot John's recorcl thus gave a sign
which was understood by at, least two
of the discip'es.
24. This verse ' cant ains the statement
of one of the mysteries of God's deal-
ings with mem It was appointed that
Christ should seater, but it was not
appointed that any individual should
betray him. There is nct such fore -ordi-
nation as to preclude absolute free
will. We have Peter's opinion of the
guilt of 'halals in Acts 1. 16-18. It had
been good for that moxi if he had not
been born .Word a which our Lord nev-
er said about any other sinner.
25. Then ,Tudas. Whether Judas now
spoke in utter defiance of the ,whole
twelve with whom he had eaten the
meal, or whether he did, not know that
the ealters knew of his guilt we can-
not eertainly Say. it is not suppos-
able that he did not know that he was
elle guilty one, John says. " After the,
supper Satan entered into him." Per-
haps he was so determined to betray
Jesus that the question had arisen m
his mind wvhather his Master could
know of hie schemes and avoid them,
and, he muy have aelsea this question
to ascertain. Thou haat said. That is
equivalent to "Yea." 'It is evident
• that there was a. great deal: of conver-
sation throughout this part of the meal
end not all that anyone. said, was lieard
by all the others. What some of the al8-
ciples heard was simply the words,
"What thou finest do quiekly," and
they' supposed that the Master refer-
red t.o Jeda.s's ettatoneary work. But,
at all events juaas Went out, and
therefore he 'never partook of ithe
leerdae Suppet, tae new instttution ot
the new covenant.
26. As they were eating, While still
at supper. Jesus took bread. An un-
leavened cake, BleSeed it. This was
Next of the religious formula which
eeeut Jews were expected to raaixt-
fain, ,eTake, eat, thislie My body. LUke
When 'litexelly translated, Nov, "This
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rl or 70u4 doh
14ti4 ti ti
inilih ae: rag;
of late," No words e'er utteted have
• been the cakes° of math etahile sp6duro,
tiODS and such ranooroue hostility asi
these, AttY"' t t'•
queetiene by! the c1oc5 aagt
that no one is Whie edbligbi te ertqwee.
But our Lord wele in the habit of uee,
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undisaatoOd that, iist AS aa to
had broken that bread ter theqkt.
ee,t, $e his life Was tO 1.1e saOriaxoti
thet their life might he prolonged
Be‘ore, lUed told them ihet theY
cooed only enter intO eternal lite by
1 ing his flesh and, drinking hie blood,
Oahe 0. GO). Of 00teree the/ m'eitn0'
tilleast; atnirlYbern'tvistilLsthitertle bilyus
.).1C-tsbarepria,fiscea, ;rxilemy aeireoftohli'lelf.eated/y.
• 27. He took the eup, and •gave
thanks. The passing evound of the Pup
of wine mingled with water raS part
of the cereneeny of the passover supe
inglaer, oittbesu'neekspa.rieveitnaale.d, by a brief offers
'28. This is my blood of the new tee-
tament, The uee throegleout Christen-
dom or the word testament for each of
the diviaione of holy writ is confusiag
to the minds of our Sundae scholars,
The word here simply means erovenant,
The bieod shed fin' the salvation 01 Is-
rael at the time of the institutica of
the paesover (read Exod. id. 3-8) was
10 a tarnudsh
e t een s e "blood of the coven -
shedding of Jeeus's blood
was to be to Ks dispiples, the true la -
reel of God, wbat the other had been,
a token and. a means of salvation.
'Which is :shed for many. "Wilieh
being shed." "For mariv" is equival-
ent to "for all." See 1 Irioa. 2. 6, For
the remission of sine. A. very plain
statement that without the death of
our 1:,9rd our etas could not be remit -
tete
27, I will not drink henceforth of
this fruit of the vine. This product of
the vine. That, "Before another meal
1 shall have carried out God's awful
Nan." That day when. I drink it new
prirriotnell isYe°41ofinininosyt Fsaacthreer'sdmlYisutgedr°3*11.1' A
30. When they had. sung a hymn,
they went out into the Mount of Mites.
"Rise, let us go hence" ;Cohn, 1441.
The singing was probably a sort ot
chant, and the hymn was probably
Psalms 113 and 114. The Mount of Ol-
ives was just beyond the walls of 'Ter-
usalera. This was the time of full
moon, Out through the clear light and
the deep shadows they went; out
through the silent: streets, down into
the valley that circled the vraIls and
up the slope of the Mount of Olives
to the Garden of Gethseanane*
CHINESE CONSERVATISM,
A Bar to eninreventenes en the Ways or
Thar Revered Ancestors.
The two national traits which retard
progress in China, according to Dr.
Chester, are the "monumental and un-
paralleled conceit" of the people and
their "conservatism, which has been
better described as their adamantine,
blindfolded satisfaction in the past."
The first thing one sees of China,'
coming from this direction, is the oit,Y
of New Shanghai. It is a fine modern
city, with numerous factories, well
equipped; lighted by electricity, with
a wide boulevard, lined by a magnifi-
cent row of business houses three or
four stories in height, with handsome
residences, a system af water works
and a great many conveniences of mod-
ern civilized life. One would suppose
that all these desirable things, taken
out. there and put right down before
the eyes of the Chinese, would eacite
their admiration. and stimulate a desire
to have the same advantages. But we
plies through a gates through the
high stoae wall that, sepaxates New
from Old Shanghai, and find ourselves
irt the midst of a typical Chinese city
—a city roakiag about the least preten-
sion to decency and cleanliness of any
city in the empire. 'We ask the citi-
zens of Old Shanghai if they would not
like to have clean water and clean
streets and, houses with grass plots
around them, and they say: "No. Our
ancestore for thousands of years have
dispensed with such things, and shall
we, set up ourselves to be wiser aaa
better than. they?" I was told that the
eitizens all New Shanghai offered to
ert,e.nd their water supply, free of
charge., to Old Shanghai, in the hope
of averting the pwiLifenCes that came
from' the canals. A committee foom
Old Shanghai was sent over to examine
the water. its members went bar* anti
reported that they did not like it that
it had no body to it like the water of
their canals, and that, it had "neither.
taste ocr smell." It mtght be thought
that there would be some hope from
the litterati of tale Gauntry, but the lit-
terati live in the hope of obtaining an
office andeP„..the ChineSe System, so
they stand like a, stone wall of opposi-
tion against all changes or rearms.
The education of these men consist
largely in; the memorizing of bootee
fl'oni 1,000 to 3,000 yeare old, and the
things they know are things that Come
as near as anything in the world could
Come to being absolutely woe*. no-
thing,
Those who by bribery or some other
means do at last reoeive an official ap-
pointment receive but a nenninel sum
as salary. They are supposed to sup-
plement this in such ways as they 0111
pilfering money that passes
throegle their hands, by exitetime,
money from litigants, and by torterieg
accused, persons antil the highest',
amount pos.siblci is wrung from their
relatives in order to secure their re-
leaee, 1 suppose that if the devil had
been employed to devise a syetern for
promotion or official corruption he
could not hive improved ort tilt% eye-.
tem t There is nothing that presents
eneh a tremendous obetacle to our mixt.
aion work as the official system In
A strgAxot :CZAR, •
FmocnTa1La61oumts Ozer Naeholtei It
Is really very. fon(t of his wife, Meta
to the Dowager Czarina's disgust* as
shs finds she is not the power behind
the throne 'that she eapeoted to, be,
The eaay beteinany Of the 1T,u84.1o,,nOotati:
giVes geeat dieplettelure to Stickleall 0
tittte-warn betties. , Th4ir Ihtportat
jqattem actually exchange endatIu
phrases In palette, a tiling area3altatel
unbe.rc1 o 1usi* •