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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-6-9, Page 7NOTES AND COBLVIRNTS, The BuSaiens are losing no time in laying oat and preparing to improve 'the territorry of about eight hundred square mike in the Liao-tung penist elate, whith tbey now hold in treufruct front China. Adatiral iibaso2, core - Mending at Pert Arthur, has Welled a proclamatioe stating that the diet triot under Ru.seiaxi jurisdiction ex- teuds from that place to a line drawn , between Polentien and Pi-tsu-wo in latitude 39 deg., 25 min, IC, but that unimportant oases are xeserved, at the discretion of• the Ru.ssiae officials, to the local Chinese authorities. All the• harbor, inolhding Kin Cbau, at the head orf Society Bay, on the west eide 4 the Peninsula, are included in the area described. Port Arthur, as has I been .officially announced by the Rus - elan Government, becomes a purely Military port, and has at present a gerrison of 3,000 men which will short- ly be raised th 5,000 by the arrival of reinforcements dired from Odessa. A 'number of six-inch quiek-tiring guns laave already been mounted on tee bat- teries defending the entrance to Port Arthar, and a guardship patrols the entrance to the harbor at night. Heavi- er guns and large quantities of war material are being sent out from Rus- sia ontele vessels of the Black Sea vol- unteer fleet and. on French steamers, a, slumber af winch heve been chart- ered by the Ruseirna Government or the occasion. The whole military roles in the Prussian limits of the Liao - tang peninsula Is to be brought up gradually to 20,000 men who will be supported eventually by 50,000 more, distributed along the line of the transmanchurian Railway, with the array of eastern Siberia as a reserve. This last force is about to be increase& by an additional brigade of riflemen, and other augmentations are contem- plated. The partial adaptation of Ta -lien -wan to military purposes has necessitate& finding larger accommodation for commercial objects elsewhere. This the Ruesian authorities believe can be obtained. at Kin Chau, at the head of Society Bay, about forty miles north of Port Arthur, and. engieeer officers are at present engaged in making sue- veys of the locality for the purpose of sestinas' a site for a railway terminus near a good anchorage. In order that there may be no future trouble on the subject the Russia Government has acquired by purchase all the town pro- tperty at Port Arthur and is taking lover ; cr session, 80 that the construc- tion of the necessary accommodation for the in aeasine garrison and of the Crevernment arsenal and workshops rrav araseed without delay. At Ta - I lee -a, an new fortifications have al - ,ready 1‹.r n begun and plans prepared ;roe the ethetruction of a dock which well convert the southern port into an hie ;relent naval base as well as a mili- tary st,tion. At Wel-haiorei a British officer was a rpr 1,1 ie,l. immediately after the ar- 8.114emertt for its cession by China eris comeleted, to confer with the jap- ans e commander on the evacuation of :he place and it is intended to replace ihe last Japanese detachment by a re- f: gement of British -Indian troops. On ihe de; arture of the Japanese, Che -fu, to the west of svill be giv- en up by the British as a rendezvous for their China squadron, of which the headquarters well be permanently at eh: latter place. A NARROW ESCAPE.. A darkey was suing a railroad com- pany for danaages-cansed by the kills_ roe of his cow. There was a strong Flt..picion that be had purposely driven the cow on the track. you not drive the animal in tient of the engine? asked the lawyer for the railroad. No, sub, I didn't. 'You'll swear you didn't? Yes, suh-,-ten times over • Tie won the case, but as he pocketed he &Leek for his money, some one over- heard him say : Cat wuz a narrow escape I had, I tell roe; but I 'tor him de truth, it wuzne -me wbai driv' de cow in front of de engine, but my brother-in-law, he de one done it I 1 migbty glad dat law - seer stop when he did, kase he was right in de family ANID MRS. R. Winkle -Eh 1 How is tbis, 13inkle I've heard you say raa,ny a time that every man should be master, in his own r house; but-hel hal-old boy, you don't seem to be mastee here. 13inkle, sheepishly -This is my wife's house. :WANTED A 'WearCal, A prison visitor recently asked one of the prisenees how he came to he !there. Waist, was the answer. How was that, pray? Well, 1 wanted another man's watch. want willing I should have it, and the judge wants me to stay here iive yeers. MOT TOO P-RUDEINT. ; When we get mantled, Eliza, I hope you will cut dawn the expensive fea- ture of dress. Oil, I can do that so easy, The more alecollete they are, you 1010W, the laes cloth it requires, and theh I won't need to have ray bloomers cut so loge, you know, urless you say so," Ile is webdering stow if it pore to be too prudeet THE PROOESSION HALTED REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON TO YOUNG MEN. he Finieval In the elty or Nate-Ille Was An Only Son -Was UIMmother's Paget. tor-Cerlat Appears seem the 8 -ecoc- ide Balm, 1,1ke Young IiED rl.`0101 fttC Wild -4448W Let489/1104 Drawn Erma the Wont. A Washingtom despatch sears: -The Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the wards: "Now when he came nigh to the gate o;t the eity, behold, there was a dead man carried out; the only eon of his mother, and she was a widow; moth people of the eity was with her, And. wben the Lard saw her, he had eompassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier; and they that bare him stow). still. And. he said, •Young mare I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak, And he delivered him to his mother," -Lake vii, 12-15. The text calls us to stand at the gate of the city of Nain. The streets are full of business and. gaiety, and the eer is deafened with the hammers of mechanism and the wheels a traf- fic. Work, With its thousand arms, and thousand eyes, and thousand Met, fills all the street, when suddenly the orowd parts, and a funeral passes. Be- tween the wheels of work and pleasure there coraes a long procession of mourning people. Who is it? A trifler says: "Oh, it is nothing bat a funeral. It may have eoro,e up from the hospital of the city, or the alms- house, or setae low plaee of the awn; but not so, says the serious observer. There are so mealy evidences of tired. bereavement that we know at the first glance some one has been taken away greatly beloved; and to our inquiry: "Wbo is this that is carried out with sa many offices of kindness and affec- tion?" the reply comes: "The only son of his mother, and she a -widow." Stand Wank and let the prooession pass out Huth all the voices of mirth and pleas- ure! Let every hea,d be uncovered! Weep with this p-assing procession, and let it be told through all the market places and. bazaars of Nein, that in Galilee, to -day, the sepulchre hath gathered to itself "the only son of his mother, and she a widow." There are two or three things that, in mar mind, give; especial pathos to this scene. The lirst is, he was a young man that was being carried out. To the aged, death becomes beautiful. The old man halts and pants along the road where once he bounded like tbe roe. From the midst of inamedicable Min:tent and sorrows, he cries out; -Floes long, oh Lord, how long?" Foot- sore and hardly bestead on the bot journey, he wants to get home. He site in the church and sings, with a very tremulous voice, some tune he sang forty years ago, and longs to join the better assemblage of the one hun- dred and forty and four thousand, and the thousands a thousands who have passedthe flood. How sweetly he sleeps the last sleep. Push .back the white looks from the wrinkled temples; they will never ache again. Pole the hands over the still heart; they will never toil again. Close gently the eyes; they will never weep again. But this man that am speaking of was a young man. He was just put- ting. on the armour a life, and. he wee exulting to think how his sturdy blows would ring eat above the clan- gour of the battle. I suppose he bad. a young man's hopes, a young man's am- bition, and a young ru.art's courage. He said: "If I live many years, I will feed the hungry and Maithe the naked. In this eity of Nein, where there are so nattny had young men, I will be sober, and hmeet, and pure, and ,magnanim- 011% and my mother shall never be ashamed of me." But all these pros- peets are blasted in one hour. There he passes lifeless in the procession. Be- hold all that is left on; earth of the high -hearted young man of the city of Nein. There is anotherehing that adds very much to this scene, and, that is he was an only son. However. large the fam- ily flocks may be, we never could think of sparing one of the lambs. Though they may all have their faults, they all have their excellencies that com- mend them to their parental heart ; ancl f it were peremptorily demanded of you to -day, that you should yield up some Of your childiree out of a very arge family, you woala be confound- e;d., and you could net make a seiec- ion. But this was an only son, around vhom gathered all the parental expec- a Lions. How much care in his educe - l011. How much ca,ution in watching is habits. He would oarry down the ante to otbe.r times. He woulci have ntire control of the family proper. y, long after the parents had gone to heir last reward, Ile would stand in ociety a thinker, •a worker, a I:Milan- hropest,e, Christian, No, no. It is all nded. Behold hian there, Breath is one. Life is extin,ct, The ,orily son of is another. There was one other thing that add - d, to the pathos a this seene, and that was his mothet was a. widow. The main ope �f that harth had been broken, rid now he was come up to be the staff, he chief light of the household had e'en ertinguiehed, end this was the nly light left. suppos,e she often aid looking et m: "hi'There are only wo of us." Oh, it is a grand thing • see a young Man step taut in life, ma say to his mother; "Don't be down- arted, wile as far as poosible, take tiller's place, and as long as live ou shall never went anything." But as! it is not alwaye that ways Spree- nie,s the Youbg people get tited ol e old people. They say they are queer; hat they haerre so many ailments; and hey saMetimes wish them out of the ay. A edun g Mee and his wife sat the table, their, little son on the aor playing beneath the table. The oM gMealealther wait eery old, and hie Tli E EXETE build shoOk so, they std: "You shall 00 mer,s els with u$ at the -table." And so they gave him Or place in the aor- nes', Where cley by (ley be ate out a ttteatio.twiler.11 Otto 1;yevilerisytlihaiondg tpruenst binto led se much be dropped it, and it broke, liald the sou, Seete& at the elegant ta- ble in midterm, said to his wife: 'Now we'll get father a woocleo bowl and that he can't break." Se a woodee bowl Imes obtained, and every clay old grandfa- tber ate out of that, sitting in the nor - nor, One day, while the elegant young man end his wife wets setae" at their table, with cetase,t1 silver and all the luxuries, and their little son at upon the floor, they sew the lad whittling, and they siad: "1�y son, what are you doing there with that knife?" "Oh," seed he, " making a trough for uall wYenfathheSry ague(it otilltitIr6h" r to sat out 02 But this young man of the text was not of that chneacter. He did not be- long to that school. I can tell it from the way they mourned over him. He was to he th,e companion of his raoths,r. He was to be his mother's protector, Be would return now some of the kind- ness he liad reoeived in the days of childhood and boyhood. Aye, he would With his atrorig hand uphold that form already enfeebled with age. Will he do it? No. In one hour all that pro- mise of help and oompanionhsip is gone. There is a world of anguish in that one short phrase, " The only son cif his mother, and the a,widow.." Now, my friends, ii was upon this scene that Christ brake. He came in without any introduction. He stopped the procession. He ,hed only two ut- terances to make; the one to the ra,ourning, mother, the other to the, dead. Be oiled out to the mourning one "Weep not," and then, touching the; bier on which the son lay, He eried out: "Young raaa, I say unto thee Arise And he that was dead set up." :r learn two or three things from this subject; and first, that Christ was a man. You see how that sorrow play- ed upon all the chords of his heart. think we forget this too often. Christ was a man more certainly than you aee, for He was a, perfect man. No sailor ever slept in ship's hammock more soundly than Christ slept in that boat on Gennessaret. In every nerve and in every muscle, and hone, and fibre of His body -en every emotion and affection of His heart- in every action and decision of His mind, He was a man. He looked off upon the sea just as you look off upon the waters. He went into Martha's house just as you go into a cottage. He breathed hard when He wee tired, just as you do wben you are exhausted. He felt after sleeping out a night in the storm just like you do when you have been exposed to a tempest. It was just as humiliating for Him to beg bread as it would, be for you to become a pauper. He felt just as meth insult- ed by being sold for thirty pieces of sil- ver as you. would if you were sold for the price of a dog. From the crown of the head to the sole of his foot He was a man. Oh, when the thorns were twisted for His brow, they hurt Him, just as much as they would hurt your brow, if they were twisted for it. He took not on Him the nature of angels ; He took on Him the seed of Abraham. Ecce Homo -Behold the man 1 But I must also draw from this sub- ject that He was a God. Suppose that a. man should now attempt to break up funeral obsequies. He would he seized by the law, he would be imprisoned, if he were not actually slain by the mob before the officers could secure him. If Christ had been a mere mortal, would He have had a right to come in upon such a procession? Would He have succeeded in His interruption a He was more - than a man for when he cried •out: "I say unto thee arise 1" He that was dead sat up. Oh, what excite- ment there xnuet have been tbereebouts. The body had lain prostrate. It had been mourned over with agonizing tears, and yet now it begins to move in the shroud, and to be flushed with life ; and. at the command of Christ he rises up and looks into the faces of the astonished spectators. Oh this was the work a a God. 1 hear it in His voice; 1 see it in the flesh of His eye • I be- hold it in the snapping of death's shackles ; I see it in ebe face of the ris- ing slumberer I hear it in the outcry of all those svhe were spectators of the scene. If, when I see my Lord Jesus Chriat mourning with the bereaved I put my hands on His shoulders, and say: "My brother," now that I hear Him proclaim supernatural deliver- ances I look up into His face and say with Thomas; "My Lord and nay God." eIllo you not think He veas a God? A great many people do not believe that, and they compromise thematteror they think they compromise it. They say He was a very good man, but Ile was not a God. That is irarossiede. 'He was either a God or a wretch and 1 will prove it. If. a man professes to be that which he is not, what is hg? He is a liar, an imposter, a hypocrite. That is your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ professed to be a God. He said over and over again He was a God, took the attributes of a God, and assumed the works and offices of a God. Dare you now say He was riot? He was a God or He was a weetch. Choose ye. Do you think I cannot prove by this Bible that He was a God? If you. do not believe the Bible. of course there is no need of my talking with you. There is no common data trona. which to start. Suppose you do eelieve it ? Then I can demonstrate that He was Divine. I can prove that Ile was creator, John i. 3: "All things were made by Him; and without Hini was not anything made that was made." He was eternal, Rev. XXii. 13: "I. am Alpha and Omega, the beginnieg and the end, tbe first and the lest." I can , prove He was omnipotent, Heb. i. 10: "The heavens are the work of Thiee hands." I can prove He was omniscient, John ii. 25: knew what was in man." Oh, yeSi He is ti," God. He cleft the sea. He up- heaved. the crystalline walls along which the Israelites marohed. He planted the mountains. He raises up governments and casts down thrones, and marehes across nation, and across worlds, and across the universe. Eternal, omnipo- tent, enhindered and unabashed, That hand that was nailed to the cross holds, tbe stars in a leash df love. That heed. Mutt dropped on the bosom, in fainting and death, shall make the world quake at its nod. That voice that groaned in the last pang shall swear before the trembling world that time Weill lie no longer, Oh, do not insult the conanaon senee of the race, by telling us that this glorious person, was only a man, in wbose presence the paralytic arra was thrust out well, and the °levels crouch,. ea and the lepers dropped that Scales, and the tempeets fOlded their wings, and the boy's satchel of a few leaves TIMES lalede a banquet for five thousand, and the sect procession of ley text broke ou.t Ln corigratuletion and hosanna, chAriainw, aI,sle:I'snym,frootthatalitzboer,suigeg that you, thie Was a eity funeral. In the coun- try, When the bell tolls, they anew ail abut it for five miles around, they ill3QW what was the ratter. with the man, how old he was, and, what was his last exPeriences. They know with what temporal prasPeets he bass left his fam- ily. There is no haste, ethere is no has deceeey, in the obsequies. There is nothing done as a more matter of. busi- ness. Even the alaklren ooime out as ptbeP athetiZeani°11a theitt-s' Ileltawl°e*symseenato- desPeaa, and the breaks weep in synas pathe as the procession goes by. Bat, mark You this lei a, 1 am speaeing of was a city funerale Itt great cities the cart jostles the hearse and there is mirth anti gladness and indif- ference as the weeping procession goes by, In the city of Naan it was a coin - mon thing to have trouble, and be- reavement and death, Christ str.W it every day there,. Perhaps that very hoer there were others being carried out; but this frequ.eney of troubla did not hoaden Christ's heart at all, fle steeped right out and He sew this mourner, and He had compassion on her and. He said; "Weep not." Now I bave to tell yoa, oh, bruised souls, and there are many here to -day, have you ever looked over an audiense like this ani naticea how many shadows of sor- rowthere are? You cannot, where you sit, sae them, trut 1 cen trona m here I stand„ 1 come to all such to -day and say: "Christ meets you, and He has compassion on you., and He says: 'Weep not.'" Perhaps with some it is financial trouble. "Oh!" you sae, "it is such a silly thing for a. man to cry over lost money." Is it ?. Suppose you had a large fortune, and all luxuries brought to your table and ynur wardrobe was full, end your home was beautiful by nausie, and seulpture end painting, and thronged by the elegant p,ntt educated, and then some rough misfortune should strike you in the face, end trample your treasures, and taunt your childten for their faded dress, and send you into commercial circles an un- .derling where once you waved a scep- tre of gold, don't you think you would cry then? I think you would. But Christcomes anci meets all such to -day. He sees all the straits in svhicla yo -u have been thrust. He observes the sneer of that man who once was proud to walk in your shadow and glad to get your help. Ile sees the protested note, the unaancelled judgment, the foreclosed mortgage, the heart -break- ing exameration,and He says: "Weep nae," I own the cattle on a thousand hills. I will never let you starve. From my hand the fo,vls of heaven peck all their food. And will I let you starve? Never -no, ray child, never." Or perhaps this tramp at the gate of Nein has an echo in your own bereft spirit. You went out to the grave, and you felt you .never could come back again. You left your heart there. The white snow of, death covered all the garden. You listen far the speaking of voices that will never be heard again and the sounding of feet thatevill nev- er move in your dwelling again, and there is this morning, while I speak, a dull, heavy, leaden pressure on your heart. God has dashed out the light of your eyes, end the heavy spirit that tbat woman oarried out of the gate a Nain is no heavier than yours. And. you open the door, but he comes not in And you enter the nursery, but he is not there. And Y0a sit al the table, but there is a vacant cbair next to you. And the sun does not shine as brightly as it used to, and the yokes of affec, k. tem do not strike you with so quic a. thrill ancl. your cheek has not s healthy a hue, and your eye has no so deep a fire. Do I not know? D we not all know? There is an unlift ed woe on your heart. You have been carrying out your loved one beyond th gate of the city of Nain. But look yonder. Some one stands watching. He seems waiting for you.. As you come tie He stretches out His hand of help. His yoke is full of tenderness, yet thrills with eternal. strength. Who, is it ? The very One who accosted the mourner at the gate of Nein. and He says: "Weep not." Perheps 11 18 a worse grief than that It may be a living home trouble that you cannot speak about to your best friend. It may be some do- raestio uneappiasess. It railer be an evil suspicion. lt may be the disgrace fol- lowing in the footsteps of e son that is wayward, or a companion who is cruel, or a father that will not do right; and for years there may have been a vulture striking its beak in- to the vitals of your soul, and you sit there to -der feeling it worse than death. It is. It is worse than death. And yet there is relief. Though the night may be the blackest, though the voices a hell may tell you to curse God end die, look up and hear the voice that accosted the woman of the text, as it says: "Weep nota • • "Earth has no sorrow That heaven cannot cure." • I learn again from all this that Christ is the master of the grave. .Test outside the gate of the city Death and Christ measured lances, and when the Young man rose, Death dropped. Now we .are sure of our resurrection. Oh! what a scene it was when that young man came back ! The mother never expected to hear him speak again. She never thought that he would kiss her again, How the tears started and her heart throbbed as she said: "Oh ray on, nag son, my son 1" And that scene is going to be repeeted. It is going to be repeated ten thousand tinaes. These broken family circles have got to come together. These extinguished household lights have got to be i.e - kindled. There will be a stir in the family lot in the cemetery, and, there will be tu rush into life at the com- mand: "Young mart, I say unto thee, Reiser Aa the child shakes off the dust of the tomb and comes forth fresh, and fair, and beautiful, and YOU throw your arms around it and press it to your heart, angel to ang- el will repeat the story of Nein: "He delivered him to his mother," Did you notice thee passage in the text as I read it? "Ile delivered him to his mo- ther." Cai, ye troubled soulsl oh, ye who have lived to see every prospect blasted, paled, scattered, come:reed! wait a Hale. The seed -thee of tears will becortie the Wheat harVeSt. In clime oUt of no wintry blest, under a sky palled by no hurtling tempest, Meld redeenaed one that weep net, that part not, that die not, friend will come to friend, and kindred will Join kindred,. end tbe long prooemion to marebes along the avenues of gold will life up their psairne as again ar1d again it is announced that the serrie One wile came to tee relief of tine woman Of the text, come to the relief a many a maternal heart, and repeeted the wonders of xesurrectiori and "delivered him to lea mother," Obi that will be the barvest of the world. Thet will be tbe coronation of princes, That will be the Sabbath of eternity. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. A.Case Where An itmincent Juan night Ilave Been Arrested', A receet incident in London serves to prove that the etrongest chain of eireurrestantial evidence may be de- fective. A. visitor at the American circes ex- changed comments with a well-dress- ed stranger who; set by his side, and used his own opera -glass freely. Xid- way in the performanee the stranger remarked: el have been here severed times, and know the best features of the show. I advise you to watch closely with your glass what is now going on in the far- thest ring, It is one of the most in- teresting numbers of the programme." The advice was followed. The vise - ter watched eagerly the performance in the distence, and when it was fin- isbed, thanked his neighbor for the hint, saying that it was well worth seeing. The stranger assented, and after momentary delay left his seat, :a; ymd. es.ingthat he would not stay to the enas he had seen the show several "It is your first visit here," he add- seden ,"ianng,, "and would better remain for the last eat, which is the best of the y Not long afterward the visitor miss- ed his watch, and felt sure it had been stolen by the stranger while the opera-. glass was in use. The ;solice at Scot- land Yard advised, the victim the next day to advertise for the watch, and also to open negotiations with sever- e!. of the largest pawnbrokers for its recovery-, leaving with them, a descrip- tion of it, In the course of a week he received a call frari one of the pawnbrokers. "This lathe like your watch," re- marked the dealer, "but I can't believe that it is." A gold watch was produced and at, once identified. It corresponded ex- actly in size and design with the miss- ing watch. If bore the name of the same watchmaker on the inner case, and also the nam.ber arid date. "I am certain that it is mine," was the response, "Describe the man who has pawned. it." This was done. The 'description tallied quite elosely with that of the eviireilosr.'s unknown tacquaintance at the "You have bought it from the pick- pocket," he added, "and must help me in having hini arrested and convicted," • The pawnbroker admitted, that the evidence was strong enough to convict the man, but added that he had ab- solute faith in his innocence. He asked the loser to write to the watch- naa,ker, and. ascertain whether, by any chance, two watches had been marked with the, same number. This was done, and a reply was re- ceived, stating that, by accident, two watches had. been marked with the same number and were exactly alike. Ons of them had been sold to an Eng- lishman whose name was given in the letter. The pawnbroker, when the name was repeated, exclaimed: "That is the name of the man, who pasvrted the watch because he was penniless! I knew that he could not be a pickpocket." Nevertheless, the inn event man -would have been canvicted if he had been hastily arrested. The circurastantial evidence would have been regarded as conclusive. FLOATING DOCKS. In very early days ships of any size were docked by grounding them at high water and. then waiting for the tide to recede, work being proceeded with until the tide again rose. This raethod etas improv- ed upon by hollowing out a berth or small basin, anl then, when the water was dawn, a, temporary da,m would be made across the entra,nee to the basin where the ship la,y, so that work coultl go on uninterrupted by the rising tide. Thie was the origin of the graving dock, the essential factor of which was the existence of the rise and fall of the tide, end it is due to the absence of tide that we owe the original float- ing dock. In the time of Peter the Greet the captain of a British ship, finding that his vessel in Cronsladt ha.rbor was in want of docking, and tiest, owing to the absence of title, the then orthodox method was impractic- able, obtained a hulk called the Camel, and, completely removing her decks and internal work, cut off one end and fitted it with a gate. He then beach- ed his ship inside the hollow hull of the Camel, closed the gate, and pumped the water from its interior. • PEACE AND WAR. A survey of the Posvere of Europe shows that from the beginning of the century to the end of 1896 Turkey had experienced 37 years of war and 59 of peace; Spain comes next with' 31 years of war and 65 of peace; FranCe with 2'7 years of war end, 69 of peace; Rus- sia, 24 years of war a,nci 72 ,of petite; Misty, 23 years of war, and 73 of peace; England, 21 yea,rs of war and 75 of peace; Austria-Hungary, 17 aria 79; Germany, (exclusive of Prussia), 13 and 83; Sweden, 10 and 86; Portugal, and 84 and Denmark, 9 awl 87. NOTHING TO LOSE. She -Oh, George, valet shall we de if the boat Oinks? veey pale -Never baind about that, Sarah ; itis not our boat, 4.gut Which Can rite 30,000 bullets a mite- ate hes been invented by Sones ezienost t NeWbatitle, Eng - Ian IRE SUNDAY SCHOO Lecoreters weend probably be &Versed deny, 43. lie trusted in Gods See Psalm 34, 10, The eneeree,s of our Lead ;applied to him the words of prophe,ey. M Dr. Plemptre says: "Tho fulfilleeent at one of the great- Messianie prophacieft aoi thie manner iS ahnest incredible; but two, things a,re to; be remerebered-tbey did eat believe, rie we do, that this Peelle was Messianie, for they ignored the idea. of a suffering Chriae, ,13e - aides their vela' familiarity with the word of the psalm weeld naturally bring its Phrasoology to tbeir lips when occaeloia demanded it -only they ‘vould, peemade thenasehrea they were right in saying it when David's enemies were verang:" 44. The thieves. Both ef them, it would se,era, at the first ; math one wee converted by the siglat of our Lord's; aufferiea sand his resignation to o,n tannaerited punithment. 45. From the sixth hour there was darknea.s over all the land unto the ninth hour, "This darkness was pre- ternatural; not en eclipse, or an ea- lipse could not take place et the full moon. "All the land" is really all the earth and, there is no sufficient reas- on to condade tbat the darkness wee carafined, to Juelea, Our Lord wa,s cru- cified at the third hour, wheth is nine • o'elock, and remained six hours on the cross, the sixth hour woulci be noon." .-rChuxton. The ninth hour would be about three in the afternoon, when the evening sacrifice was laid on the altar befere the temple. 46 Eli, Eli, lama sabaehthani ? The first, wards of Psalm. 22 in the A.raanak dialect of the Hebrew tongue, the dia- lect that Jesus spoke in his thildhood, Thus with his last breath does our Lord give honor to the Father and bear wit- ness to the fulfilled words of tbe 011 Testament, What Aid Jesus mean by thus quoting tbe psalmist's pathetic reerlaeoll, "Xy God, ray God, why haat thou forsaken me?" Dr. Abbott gives a, commonly received explanation when lie considers it representative of that Phase of Christian experience, in which svhile the intellect still holde fast to its belief in God, the heart feels it no more, and tlea soul is ill darkness in spite of its faith in God. Psalm 22, how- ever, has often been usedby holy He- brews as a sort of death chant, and it is not straining the meaning of verse 46 to understand that the sentence quoted stands for the whole psalm. Just as we would say that a man sang, "Jesus, Lover of my scree" and by that phrase mean that he sang the whole h.yran which thus begins, so the evangelist may mean that Jesus re- cited this psalm, as was the custom of godly Hebrews. 17. Some of them. 'Who must have been Jews. El his, Possibly a misund- erstanding of the e-ord Eli, but more probably a bitter mockery. Elijah was ,expected by the jewe ae the forerunner of the Mes,siala. 48. • Took a sponge, and fined it with' vinegar. That is, with sear -wine, the ordinary drink of the soldiers. Put it on it reed. So as to pan it within reach of the sufferer's mouth. 49. Let be. Another speech of mock - INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 12. "4esus Crstellied.," Katt, Oolden Text, I. Cor. 154. PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 35. Tbey cruelfied bioxi. 'elle execulionera were four Roman soldiers. In the act of crucifixion they first laid the cross on the ground, and taking off the clothing of the eriminal, they made him lie dowa upon its main beam and, stretch out bis arms along the transverse beam. Tite cross was low. Tee arms were nailed hi ,place; the feet were sometimes tied, but giore gen- erally transfixed by it :single large nail, When the orirainal had been securely fastened. the OTOSS W8.8 raised to an opright 'position and slidden or dropped into a hole deg to reeeive its lower end. Death came very 'slowly, general- ly after hours, sometimes after days, of agony. According to Mark, Jesus Was fastened to the cross at the third hour -about nine o'eloc,k. john says it was about the sixth hour. To harmon- ize these apparently coutradietory statements it is assumed, by many scholars tlaat John, when writing this letter in Ephesus and among Gentile surroun.dings, followed the European mode of reckoning time. Parted his garments. It has been usual in most ages and countries for the executioner to regard the personal property of the criminal as his own. _Matthew notes th 3 general fulfillment of a prophecy in Psalm 22, 18; for a still more spec- ial coincidence see John 19, 23, 24. This psalm is supposed to have been written during the exile by a. godly Jew in captivity at Babylon. Casting lots. Garraents which would: not be spoiled, by cutting would he divided equally among* the executioners, but other articles, such as the girdle and turban and, sandals and the seamless chiton, woven of fine wool and worn next the body, would lose their value if cue and so for them the lot was resorted to. At this juncture our Lord waged, "Father, iorgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23. 34). 36. They watched him there. Appre- hending an attempt at rescue. 37. Set up over his head his accuse. tion. Whether this was done befor the cross with its sufferers had been • placed erect we do not know. • On. th humiliating procession to Calvar this accusation was carried ha fron of jesus. It is said to have been cus toxaary to write this aceusation i black letters on boards smeared wit white, gypsum. This is Jesus the Rai a the Jews. The variations in th form are notable. Compare -wit this verse Ilfark 15.26; Luke 23.38; an Teen 19. 19, It was written in thre langnaees-Greek, Latin and Hebres Th.e words, "The King of the Jews, are famed in each of the evangelists One might expect that in the -dare languages there would be differences Verbal traaslation was not demand ed. 88. Two thieves. Robbers• aver always put- to death b crucifixio Great bent's of "thieves" -robbers - at this time infested the cuantry alarm Jeruselean. They were what are now called banditti, and represented half -organized political movement -- that chronic rebellion which disturbe both Herorl 'and Pilate through nearly the whole of their official terms. Thes "thieves" were probably already and er sentenee of death at the time o our Lord's trial, According to legend their names were Dysmas and Gysraa,s One leader of mountain 'robbers accord- ing to josephus, • dashed into jerkho and. burned its palaces, and another for • twenty ye,ars wasted a, wide spread country with fire and sword. 39. They tbat pessed by. Multitudes would be journeying to Jerusalem OA the dray of preparation for the pass - over. In that lea:bark: age the laigh- est dignitaries were not ashamed to telre part in mocking a dying man. The brutaaity cocompanying Christ's death was characteristic of execution through all the ages -until camparatively re- cent thtimeiesrheads. See Psalm 22. . Reviled him, wag- grig7. This psalm seems to have bean iaa Mattbeav's mind during the penning of this entire narrative. Very likely, becau,se our Lord a little later recited it, or part of it. 40. Thou, that destroyest the tem - pie, and buildest it an three days. The raying here misquoted. was more gen- erally mieunderstood than most of the teachings of our Lord. It made a deep; impression on the minds of the people early in his career, and doubtless led more persons to consent to his death than. anything else that he said.. And yet we are to remember that he had never been foil:tally condemned on thee charge, as he shad bean on the twice one mentfoned.. Luke gives 119 not the taunt of • the Jevirea populace, but that of the sol- diere, "al? •-• thou, be the King of the Jews save 1 hyself," Lake 23;17, then that he claimed to be this was the ground of the charge of blespheray, of which be had been found guilty. It is a strange coincidence that these words are exactly the words pronounce ed by the devil in the. temptation in the -wilderness, end the temptation is the same now as then, To accept such a ehallenge would have been to admit a tack of trust in the, hetevenly Father. 41. Chid priests . scribes and elders. "Rulers," Luke 23. 35; mem- • bers e1 the Sanhedrin. It was in ae- cordance with the custain of the time foe these who had cond.erened him 16 wateh his penal suffering, 42 ne saved ethers ; himself he can- not save. Remember that his riame waS Saviour, that is the meaning of Jesus, and that just ane week before this theenthusiastie crewels had cried, "Sesanlea, save nowl" These ineidents, remote as they ere M usesvere all fresh to the ears and eyes of those who elms - tared about the Cross, What they meant by his saving other 8 Is not crete teen. As the VrOtd8 V1r8r0 Of Conte/111A, It 18 probable that they wave 4 derisive reference to the works of healing, anl. espeoiaily the raising of Latarus from the dead, the aeteality whith theee, 50. Cried again. (Sets John 19, 30; Luke 23. 46.) The words were, "It is fin- ished," a.nd, "'rite thy hands I com- mend my spirit." Yielded up the ghost. ilelded. up his spiret, as if his spirit was Itis servant, whom he now volun- tarily dismissed, (See John 10.18.) LONG-LIVED PRIME MINISTERS. Predecessors tinny. Gladstone Whose Years Have !teen Above the Average. -William E. Gladstone, at his death on May 19, was in bis eighty-ninth year, and, be closed his foarth term as Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1894, when 85. The longevity of English Prime Mini ,ters has always been mark- ed. Lord Palmerston, on his death in 1865, was 81 years of age, and the Duke of Wellington, who died in 1852, was 83. Lord Grey, who succeeded the Duke of Wellington as Prime irleaistex, was. in his eightieth seer wben he died in Sealy, 1845, end he, in turn, was suc- ceeded by Lord Melbourne, 'who was 70 when, he died in 18418. • Lord John Rus- sell, who died in 1878, was a Londoner by birth aad pearly as old as Mr. Glad- stone at the time of his demise, being 88. • The Earl of Derby, three times Prime Minieter of England, in 1852, 1858 and 1866 was 70 years of age at the time of his death in 1869. Benjamin Disraeli, Lard Jenacansfield, twice Prime Minister of England, was 76 years of age at the time of his death ha London on April 19. 1881. The present Prime :Minister of Great • Britain is 68 and his associates in the Britieh Calamet are rather older than the average of men in public life ha similar • positions in • other European countries, and decidedly older then is the rule in the 'United States. The Prersictene of ehe Cabene.t Council is 65, the Lord liigh. Chancellor is 73, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is 81, the Keeper of the Privy Seal is 75, the First Lord, of the Admiralty is 65, the President of the Board of Trade is 60, and so onthottgla there are in the pre- sent British Cabinet some- exceptions. To what the longevity of British Prime Ministertt is to be aseribed is hard to determine, for tbe duties de- volving upon the Prime Minister are always of an irksome and vexatious character. The Prime Minester has very little respite from public servise, arid the foreign relatiene of Great Britain are so complicated and extend- ed, that, the labors of the responsible Minister may be said to be quite as great whet Parlianierit is not in SeS- 8110.0' as when it is. Moreover, the Prime Ati niste r of Great Erilaiti is ft he recognized and responsible bead d the politicalparty which is, domiteant dues mg hi is neumbeney, and its actual leaderseaip and the protection of as fortunes, depend upon bis course and that of Ins associates in office, Not- withstanding the,.se duties, these rnani- role public and party obligations im- po,:ed either by law or usage on ?little Milataters in Frig -lend, the holders of the office are not only long-livedas a, rule, but decidedly more so then their associates in the Cabinet, A REINDT3t11.'S 1000T, The foot of the reindeer, is most pe - either itt construetion, being eleeen through the middle, tied eacb half rurv- big upward in front.