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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-7-21, Page 3MOTS AND, COMM4117$ GermanY's Emperor, a unique figure in the monarchial. circles of the tire, ls mach given to making speeches 'Containing broad generalizatimis, All oratoritial toads with this hereditary head Of a, great nation lead to his °evil consecrated person. William II, has an overwhelming 'sense of his dignities and personal pre-ieninence in the af- fairs a the werid 1 .A, few days ago the Emperor delivered to the company of the Royal Theater an address in which his remarks, as usual, •were grouped around himself as the eenter of inteeest and authority, and were also startling to the degree habitual with him. "The theater," said his Majesty, "should be the instrument of the monarch." In the greatest• of all dramas a Prime addresses the play- ers without once alluding to his roy- al station. He speaks to them of their own profession, and, viewing it en- tirely from the artistic and imper- sonal side, and as a unit in the audi- ence, gives some hints for improve- ment in enunciation, gestures, reserve force, equal avoidance of rant and tameness, and fidelity to the text. This Prince of old directed that the actors should. be comfortably bestewed, "Do you hear" he ewys ii the inimor- tal. play, "let thenj be well -used, for they are the abstract and briet chron- icles of the time." As for most of the royal figures presented in the pLay the less said. of their, moral char- acter the better. It never occurred. to the author of Hamlet to regard the theater as the instrument of kings. ''The theater also is one of my weap- ons," repeated the Emperor William. It is an extremely large assumption. If the Kaiser desires to run a theater at his own expense he should be encoura aged to do so by all means. It would be delightful to watch his fa -0e when the balance sheets were submitted to him. Conducting a theater on origin - lines is the easiest thing in the world. if the manager has an unlimited bank account and. belongs to the noble order of stayers. Otherwise the experi- ment becomes fatiguing. Scores of theaters have been eseablished on the basis of "reform," a ee-ord frequently applied to eccentric conceptions. Not ' long ago a theater was started at which only rejected plays were performed. It expired peacefu.11y in a short time, anct few were there to mourn, for free admission was no inducement. If the Kaiser desires to Wield the theater as .his weapon and pay the expenses no one will deny him tlae right. But the public will witness the affair from the outside. They have their own opinion as to how they desire to be amused and incidentally instructed. -- There. is a republio of the theater as there is a republic of letters. The great body of playgoers are the potential -critic. They decide the fate of a drama silently, but Surely. Their reception .of a play is conclusive. If they fidget under passages eloquent but too long, the surplusage is cut out. If they see more in a minor pont than the author intended, it sometimes, in obedience to their judgment, becomes the leading role. The public will not consent to be bored in the theater with abstract ideas in which they feel no interest, and pay Lor the infliction at that. William U. will find that his subjeces•to whom he is eternally preaching blind, submis- siveness and a condition of awe as to his imperial effulgence, will not buy tickets to a theater devoted to teach- ing the divine right of kings. The theater is a far greater institution than any monarch that ever lived, and evili continue to mirror Inankind, in- cluding the fatuities of narrow -brained specimens of royalty. FEEDING PLANTS. Truiffent gives 'artificial food to plants in the following manner: "Af- ter an analysis of th:e ash of the liv- ing plant, the necessary salts for a given time suoh as six months, are weighed out antrincloeed in a metal cover to form what is called a` which is presumably inserted in the pot, diffusion a the salts taking -place through the folds of the metal, and. the thicker the metal the elovver the •diffusion. As the salts dissolve and disappear they are replaced by a core which expands until it completely fills the ' pill,' The salts have no action on the metal cover, which remains firm and hard. It is stated that the solu- bility of the salts ean be so regulated 1,hat a ' pill ' may be made to last three •or six months as may be desired. By tbie method of feeding, large well -col- ored plants are grown in pots of less than laalf the usual aize." DANGER IN PERFUMES. Women who are fond of strong pare fames should remember that they are 'decidedly injarious to the Sense cif emelt. 13y their frequent use the sec- retory glands of the nose and throat .are overtaxed and weakened. One day the person notices that the heating is less acute than uSual, and the sense .0r, smell seems defective. This is, of anourse, plat down to a cold, and but ettle is thought of it. After a time the entire head. becomes affected, and eller° fellow throat and lu,ng comPliea- tions,orhic,h are likely to end in tbron- ic, if not fatal, illness, Smelling salts are a prolific came of deafness; till etrong arid puogent odors, particularly then; saliteli eat oil the secretornerooee- ses, ehoUld be avoided as far tee pos- eible, A. DARK NIGHT AT SEL DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON TH HELPLESSNESS OF MEN. •?. TEE trlrasa, EX'EBR TIES are thenleande of ilien destroy throtagh the sudden sweep Of tempt Sone great indueement to wori t, tlateSs, Or eaneuelity, or to hinti te ,44 Per, or to some form of dissmatio cemes upon them. If they had time, to examine their Bible, it they had time to coneult with, their friende, if they had time to deliberate, they could, stand. it 1 but 1110 teriaptation eaMe so suddenly a—euroclydon on the Meath erranean, a ethirivvilld of the earrih°"1" One awful sUrge c1f. temptation, and they perish. And so we ofeen bean', the cell story ; ",1, hadn't seen my frtend mine aeliezt amndanfyulyeecia. rtsh.eWeuepwere vern and be took me by the arm and pressed bubblee ran over the edge, auuncitlinl tahil evil e smoment\rtwaalyl ma and gtoo oiler outragingesoiuti n of God and my owe soul, r fell." Or the story is; "I had, hard work to sup- port my family. I knew that by one false entry, by one deception by one embezzlement, might, miglat spring- out free from all my trouble; but the temptation canee up- on me so fiercely I could not think. I did wrong, and having done wrong once, I could not stop." 0, it is the first step that costs; the second easier; and the third; and eo on the last. Once having broken loos from the anther, it is not eo easy t tie the parted stranda. How often it is that men perish for the reason that the temptation comes from some un- expected quarter. , AS vessels lie i Margate Roads, safe from aouthwes winds; but, the wind changing to th Northeast, they are driven helples and go down. 0 that God would hav mercy upon those upon whom comes the sudden swoop of temptation, that they perish not, becoming for thi$ world and the world to come, can away I cast away! , By talking with sailors I have found out also that some vessels come to this calamity through sheer recklessness, There are three million men who fol- low tile sea for a living. It is a simple fact that the average a• human life on the sea is less than twelve years. This coraes from the fact that men by familiarity with danger sometimes become reckless— the captain, the helmsnaan, the stoker, the man on the look -out becomes reckless, and in nine out of ten sbipwreeks it is found out that some one was awfully to blame. So I have to tell you that men toe° their souls through sheer reckless- ness. There are, thousands of my friends in this hcmse to -night who do not care where they are in spiritual things. They do not knew whether they are sailing toward heaven or hell, and. the sea is black with piratical hulks that would grapple them with hooks of steel, and blindfold them, and make them "walk the plank," They do not know what the next moment may bring forth. Drifting in their theol- ogy.. Deifting in their habits. Drifting in regard. to all th'e future. No God, no Christ, no settled anticipations of eternal. felicity; but all the time com- ing nearer and nearer to a dangerous coast. Some of them are on fire with evil habits, and they shall burn on the sea, the charred. hulk tossed. up on the barren beach of the lost world. Many of them. with great troubles, fi- nancial troubles, dcimestic troubles, social troubles; but they never pray for comfort. With an aggravation of sin that stirs up the ire of God, they pray for no pardon. They do not steen ..for the light -ship that dances in, glad- ness at the mouth of Heaven's harbor; reckless as to where they come out, drifting further from God, further from early religious influences, fur- ther from their present bappiness, further from heaven, and what is, the worst thing about it is, that they are taking their families along with them, and if one perish, perhaps they will all perish, and the way- one goes, the probability is they evill all go. Yet no anxiety. As unconscious of danger as the .passengers on board the Arctic one moment before the Yesta crashed into her. Wrapped up in the business of the store, not re- membering that soon they must quit all their earthly possessions. Absorbed in their social position, not knowing that very soon they will have attend- ed the last levee, and Whirled in the last schottische. They do not deliber- ately choose to be ruined; neither did the„ French frigate Med.usa, aim for the Arguin Banks, but there it went to pieces. 0 ye reckless souls 1 I wish that to -night I could wake you up with some great pertubation. The perils are so augmented, the chances of escape are so few, you will die just as certainly as you sit there, unless you bestir yourself. I fear, my bro- ther, you are becoming a castaway. You are making no effort, you are putting forth no exertion for es- ciape. You throw out no oar. You take soundings. You watch no compass. You are not calculating your bearings while the wind is abaft, and yonder is a long line of foam bounding the horizon, and you will be pushed on toward it, and thousands have per- ished there, and you are driving in the same direction. Ready about! Down helin ! Hard. down; or in the next five minutes, four minutes, three minutes, or two minptes, or one min- ute you may be a castaway. 0, un - forgiven soul, if you could. see your peril before God to -night on account a your lifetime sin and transgres- sion, there would be fifty men who would rush theOugh this aisle crying for mercy, and they would be as men are when they rush across the deck .olf a foundering ship,' and there would be thousands of arms tossed. up from the galleries; and as these Christian Men rose up to help them it would be as vvhen a vessel drives on the leeks, and on the shore the command. is: "Man the lid -bot 1 Mao the lite-boatd Pull, my lads, pull.! A steamer with two hundred on board making the last plunge!" Why does yew! cheek turn pale, lied your heart pound until, listening, you hear it? 11 18 beealise, ray dear brother, you realize that because of your lifetime sin and rejection et God's mercy you are in petit, and( I really believe there are ehouetende of• people in this house this moment, saying within themselves: "What shall I do ?" Do? Do? Why, my brother, do what any ship does when it ie in trouble: net a distress signal. There is a 'flash and a boom. You listett end. you look. A Veesel is in trouble. The distress gon is sound- ed, or &rocket is sent up, or Wankel, is jetted or a bundle r)f ieigs--anything to catch the eye a the passing ere ft. 1,8voreieek yoolusrossurarnstintcylosue mituarrifotffa (ge . trese signea. Rine. Ina you hand. Ory out Or mercy, [Phe publica.n lifted the dietrees whett he cried: "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" Peter lift- ed the ithetrese signal ,1vhen he said; • e*' "LON. eteVe rele, pferiele I" inks Mixed a" Man titled- the diaress signal when he de Sail; eleard, that lleY eye § WI he opens 111- ed.' 'The gaolet lifted the distress sig - 0, nal ethen he eatd; "What must I do te be saved?" JAW]. hell) will never .00,1he ,b9 Vrthr sO11111iltil you. lift Such a mghter that. 1:*01/. =Met Make twine demonstratlena give some aim make seine heaven -piercing outcry for bele, littinn the diStrees signal for the Murales nreyer, littiOn the diStress ,eigne,1 dor heaver/PS pardon, Pray! Pray The voloe of the Lord to-niglet sh°eultneds" Tinot/YVpilrroudeatros1;.ra‘l'ehle stioeh las (sligh): nal, too proud to be saved. (Inhere was an old sailor thumping about Ina email boat in a tempest. The larger vessel had lgone down. He telt he must die. The sing was breaking over the boat, arid he said: "1 'took at nay life belt'. than it might soon: be over, and .1 theught somewhat indis- tinctly about ink 'friends on shore, and tb.en I bid them good -by like, and, I was about sinking back and, giving it up, wheal saw a bright star. Tile clouds were breaking away, and. there that blessed star shone down on me, and it seemed to take right hold of me,i and somehow, I eaunot tell how it was, o but somehow, while I was trying to • watch that star, it seemed to help me O and seemed to lift me," 0, drowning soul, see you not the glimmer between the rifts of tbe storm -cloud.? Would to God that tbat light might lay hold olt you to -night. "Death-et:mole' ceased the tide to O stem, When suddenly a star arose, It was the star of [Bethlehem! 0, ye castaways, God, is dobag every- thing to save you. Did. you ever hear Of Lionel Luken? He was the invent- or Of the insubenergible life -boat. All honor is due to his memory by sea -dar- ing men, as well as by landsmen, How many lives he saved by his invention. After, that invention was improved, and. one day there was a petted life- boat, the Northumberland, ready at Rainsgate. (]!he itfe-boat being ready, to test it the crew came out and leap- ed. on the gunwale on one side to see it the boat would ineset ; it was impossi- ble to upset it. When, amid the huzzas of excited thousands, 'that boat was launched, an it has gone and come, picking up a great many alf the ship- wrecked. But I have to tell you to- night cif a grander launching, and from the dry-docks of heaven, Word came up that a world .was beating on the rooks. Io the presence od the potent- ates Of heaven, the life -boat of the world's redemption was launched. It Shoved off the golden eands amid angel- ic hosanna. IThe surges 02 darkness beat against its brow, but it sailed. on, and it comes in sight ,to -night, It comes tor you. it comes for me. Soul! soul! get into it. Make one leap for heaven. IT.his is your last chance Tor liee. Let that boat go past, and there remains nothing but Tearful looking - Tor of judgment, a'ai fiery indignation winch shall devour the adversary. I am expecting that there will be whole !families hereto -night who will get into that life -boat.. In 1833 the Isabella came ashore dff Hastings, England.. The air was filled with sounds --the hoarse sea trumpet, the crash of the axes, and the bellowing of the tornado. A boat from the shore came under the stern of the disabled vessels. There were women and chil- dren on board that vessel. Some of the sailors jumped in- to the small boat and said: "Now give us the children." A father who stood on deck took his first-born and threw him to the boat. The sailors caught him safely, and the next, and the next, to the last. Still the see rocking, the storm howling. "Now," said the sail- ors, "now the mother;" and she leaped, and was saved. The boat went to the shore; but before it got to the shore the landsmen were so impatient to help the suffering 'people that thy. waded clear down into the surf,with blankets and garments and promises of help and succor. I have to bope to- night that a great many of the fami- lies here are going to be saved, and saved all together. Give us that child for Christ, that other child, that other Give us the mother, give us the father, the whole family. They must all come in. All heaven wades in to help you. I claim this whole audience for God. I pick not out one man here not one rnan there: I claim this whole audierme for God. There are some of you who, thirty years ago were consecrated to Christ by your parents in baptism. Certainly I am not stepping over the right bound when I claim you for Jesus. Then there are many here who have been seeking God for a good while, Jesus. Then there are Bonne Jrsus. Then there are some here who have been further away. saw you come in to -night in clusters —two, thtee, and four men together— and you drink, and you swear, and are bringing up your families without any God to take care of them when you are dead. And I claim you, -my brother; I claim all a you. You will have to come to -night to the throne of mercy. God's Holy Spirit is striving now with you irresistibly. Although there may be a smile on your lip, there is agitation and anxiety in your heart. You will not come at my invitation; you will conae at God's command. • (At this part of Mr. Talmage's ser- mon a noise occurred which disturbed the whole congregation.) What are you ec, afraid when, there is tin danger at all? Will the slamming shut of a window startle six thousand souls? Would to God that you were as cauti- ous about eternal perils as you are aboat the perils of time. If thatslight noise sends you to your feet, what will you do when the thunders of the last day roll through earth and sky, and the mountains come clown in avalanche of rock? You cry out for the safety of your body; why not cry out for the safety of your soul? You will. have to pray sometime ; why not begin now, While all the ripe and purple clustets of Divine promise bend over into your eup lather than postpone your prayer until your chance is ,past, and the night drops, and the Sea washes yoa out, and tot ever, and for ever, and for ever, you become a caeteway ? 'Vessels Weeeked by nesse legion 0.11 the Reach—They Sometimes go to the ' Oh+ ' teln her the Sudeten Swoole ora nem:pent People) Shoetio elye to *Vold 111111111,11111. Shipweeek—a. Sermoo Welt 'Worth iteminkg. A despatch from Washington say Dr, Talmage preaclaed from the follove- ing text; "Lest that by any means, when I have preached. to others, I myself should be a eastaway."-1. bor. ix. 27. Ministers of religion may finally be lost, The apostle in the etxt indieetes that oossibility. Gown, and surplice, and ca,rdinal'a red hat are no security, Cardinal Wolsey, after having been petted by kings and laaning entertain- ed foreign ambassadors at Hampton Court, died in darkness. One of the most eminent ministers of religion that his country has ever known- plunged into sin and died, his heart—post mor- tem examination—found to have been, not figuratively, but literally; hroken. 0, niinisters of Christ, because we have diplomas of graduation, and hands of ordiaettion on the head, and address con- secrated assemblages, that is no rea- son why we shall necessarily reach the realm celestial. The clergyman muse go through the same gate of pardon as the layman. The preacher may get his audienee into heaven, and he himself miss it. There have been cases of ship- wreck, where all on board escaped, ex- cepting the captain. 'Alas 1 if having preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." God forbid it. , We are a seaboard town. You have all stood on the beach. Many of you have crossed the ocean. Some of you have managed vessels in great stress of weather. There is a sea -captain 1 and there is another, and yonder is another, and there a goodly number of you who, though once you did not know the dife ference between a brig and a barque, and between a diamond knot and a sprit -sheet -sail knot, and although you could not point out the weather -cross jack brace, and though you could not man the fore clue -garnets, now you are as familiar with a ship as you are with your right hand, and if it were necessary you could take a vessel clear across to the mouth of the Mersey without the loss of a single sail. Well, there is a dark night in. your memory of the sea. The vessel became unman- ageable. You saw it was scudding to. wards the shore.. You heard the cry: " Breakers ahead I Land on the lee bow I" The vessel struck the rook, and you felt the d.eck breaking up under your feet, and you were a castaway, as when the Hercules drove on the coast of Caffraria, as when the Portu- guese brig went staving, splitting, grinding, crashing on the Goodwins. But 'whether you have followed the sea or not, you all understand, the figure when I tell you that there are men, who, by their sins and temptations, are thrown helpless! Driven before the gale ! Wrecked for two worlds I Cast away! cast away! By talking with some sailors, I have found out that there are three or four causes for such a calamity to a vessel. f have been Lold that it sometimes comes from creating false lights on the beach. This was so often so in olden Lines. itis not many years ago, indeed hat vagabonds used to wander up and own the beach, getting vessels ashore n the night, throwing up false lights their, presence and deceiving them, hat they might despoil and ransack hem. All kinds of infernal arts were sed to accomplish this. And one night, n the Cornish coast, when the sea was °ming in fearfully, some villians took lantern and tied it to a horse, and ed the horse up and down the beach, he lantern swaying to the motion of he horse and a sea -captain in the °fl- og saw it, and made up his mind that e was not anywhere near the shore, or he said: " There a vessel—that ust be a vessel, for it has a movable ght," and he had no apprehension un - 1 he heard the rooks grating on the hip's bottom, and it went to pierces, nd the villians on shore gathered up he packages and treasures that were -ashed to the land. And I have to tell ou that there are a multitude of souls uined. by false lights on the beach. the dark night of man's danger, niversalism goes up and down the ore, shaking its lantern, and men ok off and take that flickering and piring wick as the signal of safety, d the cry is: "Heave the main top - 11 the mast! All is *ell!" when dden destruction cometh upon them, d they shall not escape. So there are 1 kinds a lanterns swung on the ath—philosophical lanterns, educa- nal lanterns, hum.anitarian lanterns. en look at them and are deceived, hen there is nothing but God's eter- I light -house of the Gospel that can ep thern from becoming castaways, ce, on Wok' Crag light house, they ied to build a copper figure of a lf, with its mouth open, so that the rms beating into it, the wolf would evl Virile. the danger to mariners that ght coming anyw,here near the est. Of course le was a failure. And all new inventions for the saving man's s,oail are unavailing. What the ma,n race wants is a light bursting rib front the moss standing on the eat head-lands—the light of pardon, light of conetbrie the light of bean- . , By talking with sailors, 1 haveteard 0, that sometimes ships come to this amity by the sudden swoop of a nmest, For instance, a vessel, is sail - along in the Beet Indies, and there not a elogie cloud. on the sky,; but Idealy the breeze freehens, and re are miff: feet ori, the ratline% and cry is " Ways haul awa3r therein t before they' earl sqUare the booms 1 tarpatilih. the hatchways, the yen- ta groaning and oreaking in the P of a tornado, and falls over irate trough of, the see, and beoadsiele Is oft to the beach and keels even, ving the crew to etruggele in 'the tcileae surf, Cast away! oast away! d r Juwe to eell yeti that there 9: a 1 11 ti a In sh lo ex an sa su an al be tio ivr na ke On tr evo sto ho mi co so of hu fo gr the 011 518 Sal te ing is stu the the bu set grt he rel lea SOME DIFFERENCE, Clerk—I believe you said, Site that atter the kits!: of the month you would. raise my salary. Employer—:u are mistaken. What seid was that after that date you would be worth more to us. • ARTIVICIAT, BEATJT. Y Ella-eWherg (igen 'Bella get het gooi looks from—her fatliet or her !nether 1 Stelia—l?tone het 'father. Ile keeps e tvg-store, THE SUNDAy ,SCHOOL, 1NTERRATIONAL LVSSON, JULY 010.000% Nikubt unit inieeuragemerit• whether the wind, earthquake, aneltire were reel el' only a vision ; the teach- ing le the same, nWhat doeet thou 24 illxtheluee:en,"A question o: tender kind - of. the peophet, that he might pour out has whole heart Wore the Lord."— nee's, to relieve the full, burdened heart 10. Jealous. Not tor hie pwn honor, -glory, or advantage, but dor the Lord. Who can now say that truly? lerael• Like David and Paul, Elijah held Israel in his heart next to God. 'For- saleward.tnstthetp. covenant,firhrowndoUNN'hlie if,bioinrset, altars. Atter forsaking God's covenant the next step as to oneleet his service and overthrow his altars Slain thy pro- phets, Hatred of good, and murder follow naturally. tSee the history of the Itoraisle Church, I only am lett. Here Elejali overstep the truth. See verse 18 and 1 18. 4. But it seemed to him that he was alone in his struggle with wrong. Seek my Bee. Not that he Teared death, see verse 4, but. etesvas the culmination of Israel's in. So afterward they sought to kill Jesus, <Iona 8. 37-40. "So too, in Chris- tiattity, there has never been lacleing persecution a those who have preached areespteLietrtBanadhria. ith with zeal and ear - 11. Go forth. The Septuagint ha. "Go forth tonnorrow." See verse 13, It also puts the next words into the same sentence. Oar version follows Luther. Ibis better to trattslate, "Go forth and stand. . Jebovah passeth by." A great wind. • • earthquake . fire. Though God sometimes rides in the etorm, earth- quake, and fire, yet he revealed not himself to Elijah, in answer to his in- tercession against Israel, Rom, 11. 2, in that forra. That had been Elijah's way of reforming men. God now taught him that it was not his way, jesps taught his disciples a similar lesson when they -wished to follow- Elijah's example, Luke 8. 54-56. The Lord was not in. The Chaldee version is, "The glory of the Lord, Shekinah, was not in the hosts of the angels of the wind," etc. Theetrue glory of the Lord is not in overpowering majesty, but in his attributes of love and mercy. 12. A still small voice. Literally, "a sound of soft stillness." Just the gen- tle, peaceful, comforting voice needed by his wounded heart. To him it was a rest and consolation—perhaps noth- ing more; but to as, favored by fur- ther revelation, it lights up the fact that "the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth come by Jesus Christ," John 1. 17. 13. Elijah heard, and recognized it as the voice of God. Mantle. His up- per gaament—a sort of cloak or cape, perhaps made of untanned sheepskins. His face. An instinct of reverence and awe. Stood in the entering in. The cave must have been larger than that now shown as the "Cave of Elijah." 15. Go, return. Active service is the best cure for discouragement. Wilder- ness. Probably the region between Bashan and Damascus. Anoint. We have no record of the anointing of either Hazael or Sehu by Elijah. It may have been done in secret, as in the case of David, or left to his successor. "Anoint" should probably not be tak- en literally, but means appoint. 16. Jehu the son of Nimshi, that is, the grandson, see 2 Kings 9. 2; Jehu was the son of jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Elisha. This name, des- tined to rival that of 1elijah,was a hint to Elijah of his mistake in supposing that he alone of all Israel served the Lord. He probably knew the place and the man, verse 19, 20, Abelmeholah, meaning "The field of the dance," must have been in the Jordan valley not far from Bethshean. 1 1:5i71.1114r ta. 041010eit Tenn Psalm PILACTICAL NOTES. Verso 1, Alleb told jezebel. Ahab bowed in turn to the stroog-willed pro- phet and to the etrong-Willed queen. AR that Elijah had done., The, sacrifice, the ansevet by' fire, the slaughter a the priests, andothe prayer for rain. He had elain all the prophets. Most of these prophets bad probably been /re- ported from Sidon and Tyre, and were therefore countrymeo of Jezebel; an attaok on them was an attack on her. 2. Then Jezebel sent a messenger un- to Elijah. The strength of this wom- an commands our respect, even while we recoil from her personal depravity and her ruinous influence on the na- tion, The nation was all with her day before yesterday ; it is all against her to -day; but she does pot waver. The message she sent was practical banish - 32 her choice had. been to kill Elijah, she would not have notified him beforehand. It she could naake hien fly in terror, he would probably lose hie influence with the people. So let the gods do. She does not appeal to Jehovah, as the poor widow of Zarep- hath did, but is thoroughly loyal to her false gods, Thy life as the life of one of them, That is, the head prophets of Baal. To -morrow about Ibis tinm. She gave him twenty-four hours in which to leave her little king- dom. That Jezebel, and not Ahab, really ruled Israel is evident through- out the story. 3. When he saw that. When he con- sidered the 'queen's authority. He arose, and went for his 112 e. He had no faith whatever in the stability of the .Teevish worshipers of Jehovah, and conclu.ded that Jehovah's cause was lost. It is a great deal easier to lea,rn to labor and fight than it is to learn to wait. Many men, like Elijah, strug- gle heroically and successfully, and in the struggle lose that combination of nervous force, moral courage, and faith in. God necessary to endurance. It is the last quarter of an hour of every battle that counts. Come to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah. Beersheba was nearly one hundred miles south of Jezreel, and stood. at the extreme southern of Pales- tine, on the edge of a great desert. It was separated from Jezreel not merely by miles, but by national lines, and was part of the kingdom of Judah. Left his servant there. (1) Solitude is often helpful in hours of mental and moral strain. (2) Strength and weak- ness lie close together in the charac- ters of the greatest men. 4. Went a day's journey into the wilderness. _A desert of gravel, now called. Et Tih, which stretches for un- counted miles eastward and southward, WOStWard. 9190, from Beersheba. It was not safe, he thought, to remain even in the kingdom of Judah, for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were now friendly. Sat down under a juni- per tree. A brown ugly shrub, which grows where nothing else will grow. Requested for hinaself that he might die. The causes of his mental despon- dency are suggested by F. W. Rob- ertson as follows: (1) Want of occu- pation. While there was work to be done Elijah was brave. 2. Nervous exhaustion—natural revulsion otter a day of mighty effort and strain. 3. Loneliness. Note how often Elijah sada, "I am alone." 4. Apparent 'fail- ure. His apparent success had vanish- ed into thin air. His thought is, "All is lost,; let me die." The entire story Is in accord witli the deepest principles dr mental and physical science. I am not better than ray Tethers. His con- science upbraids him for his own un- ealithfulness, cowardice, and irresolu- tion. He judges himself as he judges others, and tleoides that he is not worthy Of prolonged life. 3. How good it is that God does not answer our mistaken prayers! 5. Ile lay and slept. The needs Of his physicat nature --rest and nourish- ment—God 'first supplies. The thoughttul, sympathetic Christian will anon observe men ancIse-otnen of strcng affections who are suddenly bereaved by death or plunged Into some other unmeasured stiffening. They are in such physical and mental condition they cannot at &int exercise the faith in God. that they- really possess, un- wise Triencls sometimes do herrn by Urging them ta assume exper- aences that they are physical- ly and mentally unable to have. God's plan is best. Let them wait until nature's strain has been some- what eased. An angel. A messenger, apparently supernatural. Arise and eat. 4. God's people eleva,ys find their real needs met by his Care. 6. A cake baken on the coals. A round flat cake, cooked by being put between heated stones laid in embers a a char - real fire. Cruse of water. A. jar or bot- tle. Al his head. At his pillow, which was very likely a stone. He did eat and drink, and laid him down again. He is so utterly exhausted in mind and body that he cannot, even eat all he requires, but takes a little and returns to sleep, •while God and his angel patiently Welt. 8. Arose. From bus sleep under the Juniper tree (verse 4). 'Elis bodily wear- iness is gone. Strength of that meat. How like the bread see!: be from hea- ven (John 6. 35). "Christ whieh &nen- gtheneth me" (Phil. 4. 13), Forty dant, Here beets not, over thirteen days' Journey (see Dent, 1. 2), but Imam' lived forty yeare in the wilderness ore heavenly bread, Elijah spent forty days, as aid moms, in preparation for the divine revelation, Horeb. Either or the group ef whieh Shu1 ie a peak. This is an tiusettled point, 0, Cave, Hebrew, "the cave," doubt- less smile. well-known, °avert in those aa ful naoun !nine. Possibly the "cleft of the took" Whara God placed Moses. Lodged. Literally, "passed the nighe." clime. Probably io a night which may continue until the thitteenth Verse, It is iminateriel NOVEL FOOTSTOOL. "One never knows what one can do until one tries," is an old adage that contains a considerable amount of truth. It might very well be changed, however, into "One never knows what one can make until one tries" without losing any of its veracity, In every household there are many things knocking- about whinh are generally credited with being absolutely useless, even of no value to the junkman, yet with a little ingenuity and a little knowledge, such articles can often be converted into useful objects, and made at the same time of considerable value. Every housekeeper has, sooner or lat- er, in her possession a number of old cans vthich have contained, at some time, preserved apricots, toMatoes, or the like. It is as mulch as her life is worth if she dare put them, on the dumbwaiter for the janitor to take off, and, somehow, or other they ac- cumulate and litter up a small kitch- en dreadfully. Now for something that she can do with them that will convert these pre- viously thought useless articles into something that will not fail to grace even her svell kept front parlor, a cam- foriable and pretty footstool. Take your cans and remove the tops and then paste several thicknesses of newspaper smoothly around each one. Now place one in the centre ot a lenge sheet of paper and put around it as many as you can, all. sines touching tare.djacent cans and tile in e one the cen- With a pencil trace very carefully the exact outline made on the paper by the gtotto; then remove and cut out the outline. This serves for a pattern and is used, enlarged a quartet or a half inch all round, to cut out two shapes of coutse, strong stuff, like ticking, denim Or burlap. Theee two pieoes, together wiUi a strip the height of the cans, fotna a rough covey for the footstool. Stitch the. strip all around oiae of the pia - es then then draw it over the cans as they are set in place, it will. fit snugly ennead 'with, Next turn all upside time and sew the other piece strongly on, The solid MAI of the cans, ere, of Course, to come threrard for the top of the stool, Pad, this uppte vide with eotton, then cut and put on in the elite way 148 you did the coarse cover one made et the .materiel deelred for the footstoel ---tretento, tapestry or perhaps Innis- sels carpeting—any fabric yeti coo,st(1 01 sttitable— fin ithed with upholster.. er's cord to match around top and bottorn. The stool is firm, <hirable and eatiefaory evety tespeet, and hendeomee ten in the bargain, • FONNIGRABIS, unPifhoorratogirtatotkefir,teo:C—:,:i pptlzeiljanset,41 his ° If you found a large eumof moneys, Too18 1blee'.-11Y'olloueastgs.iaXvoei No lnt'b oc"kt hev: 'ntliet's)etr-m411)::: ll in loye. Tv awe - near hava 0U. 0(11" t11? Ite—I() How much do yea cherge for e ride And td,dheohn avIIrFou, ol n ?lttrt,dyciaenrsinn cents going Bacon—Youn wife epende hours at the dreeemaker's. Now, what, does it all amotnat to? Egherte—A pretty fig- u.re. Johnny—Pa, what' the difference bee bween puncture and punetuatimi ? —Not a greet: deal, my eon, Tbey both cause one to stop, Dar isn' mueli "comfort in de renaalik dat contentment is better dem riles, said Uncle Eben, One is jes" about as hahd to git as de ether. • It is Contrebend—Spatts—There is e King who is not on the side of tiring Alfouso, Bloobumper — What Xing is that? Spatts—Old King- Coal. Short—Young Dootor-- Did you diag- nose his case as appendicitis, or merely ctili:tc.irsi.oams? Old Doetot—Oramps. He didn't have money enough for appen- IIe—If you witama.rry we I will make it ran duty to anticipate yoar every wish. She—But are you. sure that your anticipations would be realized Business Man — When they say "mon.ey is easy," it means simply that the supply is greater than the demand. His Wife—Goodness 1 I shouldn't think such a thing possible. Throckmorton—Eve made her appear- ance while Adam was asleep, we are told. Goldtltrope—That is right. Throck- morton—I wonder if she seized the op- portunity to go through'his pockets? Is there any danger of the boa -con- strictor biting me? aske41 a lady visi- tor at the Zoological Gardens. Not the least, marna, cried the showman. He never bites; he swallows his wittles vs -hole. Sirnilar—Waterse talk reminds me so much of a river. It does run pretty steadily. Yes; and though there is undoubtedly some connection betweeu his head and his =title, it is not ap- parent. You, must admit that your argament was rather thin. My dear Ear, remark- . ed the raan who was filibustering, in a case like this it is not the thickness of an argument that counts. It's the length. His First Engagement—I think I know now, said the soldier, who was making a determined effo rt to masti- cate his first ratio a of army beef, what people mean when they talk about the sinews of war. The Father—Do you know, my son, if we moved our legs proportionately, as fast as an ant we should travel near- ly 800 miles an hour? The Son—Then you'd never miss your train in the morning, pop, would you? Lord Russel! Of Killowen, years be- fore he took sick, was sitting in court, when another barrister, leaning across the benchea during the hearing of a trial for bigamy, whispered Russell, what's the extreme penalty for bigamy? Two mothers-in-law, replied Russell, evithout hesitation. THE MOTHER OF SHIPS. am Was the Eirst.Vessel WIthha Woman Sympathy. The Ark is the first ship, then, to ap- peal to human sympathy. Let .her be called the mother of ships. Though, we need not too curiously consider her, it is a strange fact, nevertheless, that the dimensions of ibis ship (taking the cu- bit about eighteen inches) correspond very nearly with the proportions of a sailing ship of to -day, Her burden was '15,000 tons. The Great Eastern was 7,- 000 tons larger than the Ark. Noah, when he laid his keel. designed with strict reference to the animals and to the living sheets of water that were to descend from the heaven. He would have need to build with great caution, nevertheless, for unless animals were stalled a sudden panio among them would occasion a dangerous "list." Noah seems to have provided against this by building his extraordinary stables upon a gig -anti° spoon -shaped hull. He required neither sails nor helm. When the ark was once awash she lifted easily to the tremendous weight of rain, and floated off into the gray , vapors of steam, which nose hissing ruidwey to heaven from the tierce stroke of God's pitiless storm, says the Pell Mall Magazine. Sir Thomas Browne, a genius of gloriously quaint imagination% who saw things, as Coleridge puts it, by the light of the halo of genius that shone about, his head, wonders whe- ther Noah might not have been the first man that compassed' the globe. "Since," says he "if the flood cover- ed the whole earth and no lands ap- peared to hinder the current. Noah must be carried. with the wind and current according to the sun, and so in the space of inc deluge, tight even make the tour of tbe globe. And since, if there were no continent of America, and all that tract sea, a ship setting out; from Africa without heir) would at last tall upoo some part ot India or China," 131,TRIED THE G1111 METAL. A curious story 18 told it the Brie tish 'War Office, Some '.3reers ago workman waa etgaged in casting Me- lal for the martufeeture of ordnaoce at the 'Woolwich ersenal, when he lost his balanee and tell into a huge cal- dron containirig twelve tons of mol- ten. steel. The Meted was at white heat and, of course, Lhe tuifortunate man was Utterly consumed in ao itatant, The War Department autherities held tionference, and deeided Sot to pro- ,ta,ne the dead by 'tieing the steel lo th,e, neariefacture of ordnanee, 'aid the eneemous new; of metal was aetually interred and a Church of England Mere gyniatt read the buteal service ever it.