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NOTES AND' COMME2VZ1
Precisely what impression the (tor-
rent a events is making in 'Spain it
is difficult to deterneine, the Govern-,
intent succeeding in eappressing a good
deal oe, the news. Apparently the
statesmen realige the hopelessness of
the struggle, as they have from the
first, though they may have believed
that a pettee might be secured on a.bas-
is which would leave Madrid possession
of Porto Rica and the Philippines, But
the intimation now made that Spain
might grant indepeodence to both
Cuba and. the Philippines, the
Unite[ States retaining Port 'Rico un-
til the indemnity ispaid, ehow,s that
hope of retaining the remnants of the
country's historic empire over sea is
steadily waning. The war is maintain-
ed for the protection of interests and
institations. rather than for the pre
. -
servation of territory, and more at-
tention ts given to the attitud'e of the
. Carnets`, and the conciliation of the ar
-•
nay and the safety of the dynasty than
to arming Spain and strengthening the
fleet.
If the Sagasta Ministry goes down,
it will not be, save nominally; because
of the disasters to Spanish aeries, but
because the dynasty wants new in-
strumentto keep the balance of pow-
er from passing into the hands of the
Republicans or the Carnets, or the
'Kingdom from plunging through revo-
lution, into anarchy. That the Sagest();
Government must speedily fall is Cer-
tain, for knowledge of Spain's losses
and helplessness will filter down
through the people, the only question
of importance being what will succeed
it. It is true that the Ministry bas
decided to continue the war, which will
meat the views of the army and the
military party, that the latter will
want a military government, while the
advocates of peace will insist upon one
pledged to open negotiations at ono7
in order'to prevent the Americans from
bombarding the peninsula and ruining
Spain. Will, then, the dynasty go down
before a burst of revolutionary passion
or will the Republicans or Carlists up-
set the existing regime and establish
a stable government? It is possible that
either of the latter parties rnight
through a revolution overturn the oly-
iaaety, but it is wholly improbable that
either of them could maintain itself
IS power for any length of time, the
Republicans being hopelessly divided,
and the idea, of a repablic unpopular
with the army.
• Except in the north, the feeling for
Don Cartes is not strong, and as the re-
presentative of religious and political
reaction, he is not the kind of man to
attraet the nation as a whole:The pro-
babilities thus favor a military govern-
ment as the outcome of the crisis -
though a revolution might result in
the temporary creation of a Republi-
can regime--presideci over by General
Martinez Campos, who has pow become
the mien of the moment. As such a
government would command the sup-
port of the army, and so could stifle
attempt at revolution; it would be ap-
proved by Spanish statesmen, who
dread the danger of anarchy, and would
rather submit to military tyranny than
see the foundations of society broken.
up. In this condition the war would,
probably go on for a time, though that
it would do so with any more success
on the Spanish side it is, in view of the
incompetence shown thus far, difficult
to believe. It is a curious fact that
in a three years' war not a single
strong Spaniard has been thrown up,
the incompetence of the opposition be-
ing as conaplete, as that of those in
,power, all alike acting like men afflict-
ed with creeping paralysis. •
OM OF BEBE FALLS.
NEV. DR. TALMAGEDRAWS SONE
LESSONS FROM THE BATTU.
Captured without the ease of a Single
elan -n• There Is a *nutted'', liallted .1Yetts
81004" -Tee Poever or Centuple -Tim
Advantage or concerted Actuet-Earteest
' Appeal for Rimers to Repent.
A. despatch from Washington ,says:
Rev. Dr, Tel:meat!) nreathed froM the fol-
lowing -text :-"- And Aliimelech got him
up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the
people that Were with him; and Abimee
leeh toe& an axe in hie hand, and cut
down a bough from the trees and took
it, atidnaid it on his ehoulder, and said
unto the people that were with him:
What ye have been me do, ineke haste
and do as I have done, And all -the
people likewise out down every man
his bough, and followed Abimeleche
and put them to the hold, and set the
hold of fire apon them; sb that all the
mere of the tower of Shechem died." -
Judges ix. 48, 49,
Abimelech •is a name malodorous in
Bible histoxy, and yet full, of profit-
able suggestion. Buoys are black and
uncornely, but _they tell where the
rocks are. The snake' s rattle is hide-
ous, but it gives timely warning. From
the piazza of my summer home, night
by night, I saw a light -house fifteen
miles away, not placed there for adorn-
ment, but to tell mariners to stand off
from that dangerous point. So all the
iron -bound coast of danger is marked
with Saul, and Herod, and .R,ehoboara,
and Jezebel, and Abimelech. These bad
people are mentioned in the Bible not
only as warnings, but because there
were sometimes flashee of good conduct
in their lives worthy of imitation. God
sometimes drives a very straight nail
with a very poor hammer. , •
The city of Sheehan hail to be taken,
and et.binielech and his men were to
do it, I see, the dust rolling up from
their excited march. I her the shout-
ing of the captains and the yell of the
besiegers. The swords clack sharply on
the parrying shields, and the vocifera-
tion of two armies in death grapple, is
horrible to hear. • The battle goes on
all day; and as the sun is setting, Ab-
imeleole, and his army; cry; "Surren-
der le to the beaten fee. And unable
longer to resist, the city of Shechem
falls; and there are pools �f blood, and
dissevered lim,bs, and glazed eyes look-
ing up begging for mercy that war
never shows, and dying soldiers with
their hea,d on the lap of mother, or
Wifee or sister, who have comeout for
the last offices ,of kindness and affec-
tion; and a groan rolls across the city,
stopping not, because there Is .no .epot
for it to rest, so full is the place of
Other groans. A city' -Wounded! A
city dying 1 A city dead! Wail for
Sheehan all ye who know the horrors
of a sacked town!
As I look over the city, I oan find
only one building standing, and that
is the temple of the god Berith. Some
soldiers outside of the city in a tower
inding that they can no „longer de -
end Shoehorn, now begin to look out
or their own personal safety, and they
ly to this temple of Berith. They get
vithin the door, shut it, and they say:
'Now, we are safe, Abimelech has taken the whole city, but he cannot take
his temple of Bcrith. Here we shall be
nder the protection of the gods." Oh,
erith, the god I do your best for these
efugees, If you have eyes, pity them.
k you have hands, help them. If you
ave thunderbolts, strike for them.
at bow shall Abimelech and his army
ake this temple a Berith and the men
ho are there fortified? Will they do
t with sword ? alay.Will they do it with
pear? Nay. With battering ram, roll -
d up by hundred -armed strength,
rashing against the walls? Nay. Abi-
el:den marches his men to a wood in
alnaon. With his axe he hews off a limb
f a tree, ancl puts .that limb upon his
vie shoulder, and then he says to his
en: "You do the samea".Chey are
bedient to their commander," The
hechernites look out from the window
the temple upon what seems to them
ildish play pa the part of their 'ene-
ley. But soon the flints are struck,
d the sparks begins to kindle the
ush, and the flame conaes up all
rough the pile, and the red elements
ap to the easement,and the wood-
ork begins to blaze, and one am of
ame is thrown up on the right side
the temple, and another arm of flame
thrown up on the left side of the
mple, until they clasp their lurid
1ms under the wild night sky, and
e cry of "Fire!" 'within, and "Fire!'
thout, announces the terror, and the
rangulation, and the doom of the She-
emites, and the conaplete overthrow
the temple of the god Berith. Then
ere went ina a shout long and loud,
113 the stout lungs and swarthy
este of • Abimelech and his men, as
ey stood amid the ashes and the dust
ing " Victory I Victory!" Or, as
text has it "And Abimelech gat
up to Mount Zalmen, he and all
people tbat were with him, and Abio
lech took an axe in his hand and cut
vn Et bough from the trees and 'kook
nd laid it on las sholulden and said
o people that were with him, 1,Vhat
have seen me do, make haste, end
as "have done, And all the people
wise cut down every man his
gh, aod followed Abimelech,' end
them to the hold and set the hold
Lire upon them; so that aIl the men
he tower of Sheehom '
ow I learn first from this eabject,
folly of depencliag upon any title
m of tactics in anything we have
o for this world or for God, Look
e the eveaponry oe olden times --
line, batt] 5 -axes, harbegeons, and
v me a single weapon with whith
melech arid his men could have
ed Such coxnplete trisemph. It is
easy thing to take a temple thus
ed. Yet you are willing' to testify
ay' thee by no . other mode-cere
ty not) by ordinary Inocles could
temple so easily, so thorotighlY,
been tnken..Teathere and mothera
bran and eiders, in Jesus Christ,
; the Chureh most evante to learn
tla,y, is that any plan is right, is
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salary Increased.
There is a. true story of an office boy
who asked for an increase of his salary,
and got it. He is employed in one of
Liptores shops in Glasgow. He was
getting eight shillings a week, and he
thought he ought to have more. So
he asked his superintendent and the
superintendent referred him to the
manager, and the manager leaned
back in his chair, and .said "ntou. must
see Mr. Lipton himself. He regulates
all rises in salary!' After a week of
disappointments, the boy succeeded in
gaining admittance to Mr. Lipton's
office. With shaky voice he asked for
a rise in salary. 'How long have you
worked here?" asked the millionaire.
"Four years," "And how Inuch are
you getting ?" "Eight shillings a
week.' "How old are you.?" "Fifteen
years old." "eV:1y," returned Mr.
Lipton, "when I was your age I was
working for four -and -•sixpence a week,
and 1 thought I svas wall paid. What
do you think of that?" "Perhaps you
waren'( as valuable a boy as t
was the respectful reply. The boy got
the rise.
rismiAtn PRES CRIPTIONIS TS.
Piety Lundell ladies are leaning bOw
to "make tm" prescriptions. They
tend college in Westbourne Park,
lychee theey mix drugs and deeipher the
anystatioun script upon 'which phase,
cans pride themselves. Some day,
when they have ptessed tato examina-
tion or the Society of Apoeheearies,
they will be dispensers, At five Inn -
don hospitals and diespenseriee evortem
aro employed in compounding and bola
Ulna up the medieines for melons, as
well ns at several hospitals it 0.teeMi
IundL
oyerthroin the teneple of • selnE
and capture title Werld; or
G9d. We are eery 'aft to stick t°
tthhse oolldd_sintylleescoseaft aotitariactel. N,Vt oPleetpm'et
UP With the elearpo keen, glitterli4
that way to take thteeaetle; bUt• theY
44E301 spear of aeganeene, expeeting
have a thOtesand- spetera. WileVW we, have
ten. Arias° the caretie oe sin etarule
011, my frieteds we will nevee capture
tine wterid. for Gd by any 'keen sabre
sareaene, by any, glitterbag lances of
profound, disquisitiono by one' nine-
rhetorie, by any sapping, and Minbag Qt
snitPreanyrd'eaalls7heiteiPnnigg° °onfx:waoiatte, tnIod gs9:71taiitgirte. 1)01
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five miles, by cavalry'- horees gorge'
ouela caparisoned pawing the air. In
tvitinse alecleliehseiaslitceanal Pfot:t°'liseltelhi:l•sPlitghctt
horsemea, and, grenadiers.
MY fetericts, 1 eyropose, this morning,
a different style of tactics. Let each
one go to the ferest of God's' promige
and eavitation, and hew doewita, branch,
and, 'put it on his shoulder, 'arid let 1,1s
all come around thee° obstinate iniaula
ties, auct then, with tine pile, kindled
by the, fires of a holy zeal.. and. elm
flames of a consecrated life, we will
burn them out. ' What steel- cannot
do,' fire may. And 1, this morning,
parnouno.f c;eltaigyioaeusif aintt 0,0f akv,ohr oowf -eavnery
or• religious attack that succeede-gan3'
radi-
cal, however odd, however unpopular,
however hostile to all the co'nvention-
alities tat Church and State. If one
style of prayer does not do the work,
let no try another style. If the
hrCharheavayereercvoh_enniiemush,eatsingearly ofito-day does not get
as-
sault v
the victory,
tbhaecilieooclsho
t Is emarkues.If
theas-
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.does- noat the
ccmeesdr,nilnegas
t us
when the angel found wrestling &mob
too much for lam, If a serrnon with
.the three authorised heads does not do
the work, then let us have aesee•mon
with twenty heads, or no head at all.
We want more heart in our song, more
heart in our alms -giving, more heart
in our prayers, more heart in our
preachitig. Oh for less of Abimelech's
sword and more of 'Abimelech's confla-
gration! I had often heard
-Therbelooise a fountain filled with
sung artistically by four birds perched
on their Sunday roost in the gallery,
until 'thought of Jenny Lind, and
Nilsson, and Sontag, and all the other
warblersehut there came not one tear
to nay eye, nor one master emotion to
my heart. But, one night I went down
to the African Methodist meeting -
in Plailadelphia., and at the close
of the service a black woman, in the
Midst of the audience, began to sing
that hymn, and all the Ecu.dience joined
in, and we were floated some three or
four miles nearer heaven then I have
ever been since. I saw with my own
eyes that "fountain filled with blood,"
-red, agonizing, sacrificial, redemp-
tive, and 'heard the erimson plash of
the wave as we all went down under
it.
.Tor fsiooinnders plunged beneath that
Lose al/ their guilby stains." )
(eh, my friends, the Goepel is not a
syllogism; it is not eaedistey, ft. is not
polemics, or the science, of equabble.
It is blood -red fact; it is warm-hearted
invitation; it is leaping, bounding, fly -
beg good news; it is efflorescent with
all light; it is rubescent with all sum-
mery glow; it is aborescent with all
sweet shade. I have'seen the sun rise
on Mount Washington, and from the
Tip-top Rouse; but there was no beauty
in that conapaeed with the day -spring
from on high when Christgives light
to a soul. I have heard Pa,repa sing
but thera was no rausic in that com-
pared with the voice of Christ when He
said: "Thy sins are forgiven thee; go
in peace." Good news! Let every one
out down a branch of ,this tree of life
and wave it. Let hira throw it down
and kindle it. Let all the way from
Mount Zalmon to Sheclaem be filled
with the tossing joy. Good news! This
bonfire of the Gospel shall corieu.me
the last temple ef sin, and will illumine
the sky with apocalyptic joy, that
Christ Jesus came into the world. to
save sinners- , Any new plan that
makes a man quit his sin, and that
prostrates a wrong, I am as much in
fevor of as though all the doctors, and
bishops, and the archbishops, and the
synods, and the academical gowns.:
mon of Christianity sanctioned it. The
temple of Berith must come down, and
I do not care how it comes.
Still further, I learn from this sub-
ject the power of example. If Abi-
melech had sat down 011 the grass, and
told his men to go and get the bouglas,
and go out to the battle, they would
never have go nee at all, or if they had
it would have been without any spir-
it or effective result/ but when Abi-
melech goes with his own axe and
hews down a, branch, and with Abi-
melech's arm put it on A,bineelech's
shoulder, and. marches on, then, my
text says, all the people did the same.
How natural fleet; was. What made
Garibaldi and Stonewall jaakson the
most magnetic commanders of this
century ? They always rode ahead.
Oh', the overceming power of example.
Here is a fatber oia the wrong road;
all his boys go on the evroog roadtHere
is a father who enlists for Christ; his
children enlist. I saw in some of the
picture galleries' of Europe, that be-
fore many of the great works of the
masteas-erehe old masters -there would
be emeietainee four or five artists 'tak-
ing copies of picture's. These' cop-
ies they were going to early with
them, perhaps, to el:tete/le lanes; and
I have thoughts that your life and char-
acter are a neasterpicee, and it is be-
ing copied, and long atter you Eire
gout it will bloom or blast in the
homes of those who knew you, mad be
a Gorgon ora Medonea. Look oat what
you say. Look out what you do. Eter-
nity will hear the echo, The beet
ocr-
mon tater preached is eatery life. The
best Mush) ever chanted, is a eoneis-
tent walla If you want . ethers, to
serve God, sem aim youteeV, V you
want others tee shoulder Mae deity,
slioulder yours, Where Ablenetech
,gotts bbs treops ,go. Abraham begat
Isaac, and Ism°, begat Jacob, The
Lather good, it was easy enottgh for
the son and grandson to be good. Alaa.-
ziela beget ,Terish, and . joneh begat
jeroboam, The father bad, it was
eteey enough for the eat', and grandson
to be had- Ole, start but Lor heaven
to -day, and yeut Vitally will come
after you, and your busitlets Etegociaa
tes evili demo teeter yoto and your Ea
dal :friends -will join you. • With ono
brat/Mb of the tree 04 lite fer a baton,
Marshal just as •many as yott ean gae
thee, Oh, the infinite, the eieteieelele
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T TREE S
namippotvel t wirer of a good or a• had ex -
1 sear the Ober day, near the beach, a
wrecker's machine, It woo a eylinder.
with sore holes at the side, teledel for
the thrusting lu ef. some long Polee
with etronfe leeerttae; and when theee
is (soother vessel en treohlo or going
to plecee tate in the offing, thee Wreak -
'era shoot 0, rope out to the suffer -
men. They geetp it, aod tlae
vvreckere turn the cylinder, and. the
rope wind, aroond the cylinder, and
thole) Who tere, sneigetreaked. are saved.
So at your fpet to -day, there is an
influence with a teemeudous leVerage,
The rope attaehed wings far outointo
the leillowy future, Your elehiren, your
children'e obildren, and all the gen-
erations that are to follow, will grip
thet influence, and feel the long -rea-
ching pull long after the figures on
your tombstone axe so worn out that
the visitor cannot, tell whether it was
in 1898, 1798, or 1698, that you died,
Still ft:tether, I learn from this sub-
ject the Meant:age, of concerted ace
time, 11 Abiraelech had, merely gone
out witha tree bewitch, the work would
not have been aecomplished; or if ten,
twenty,' or thirtyranen had gone; but
when all the axes are lifted, and all
the sharp edges fall, and all these need
itabo
carry
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ist ttceestebrarapule,th
chde"'clictaonryd
LO gained. -the temple falls. My
eriences, where there is one man in the
Church of God at this day shoulder-
ing his whole duty, there are a great
many who never lift an axe or swing
a blow. It seems to nee as if there
were ten drones in every hive to one
busy bee; as though there were twen-
ty sailors. 'sound, asleep in the ship's
hammock to lour men on the stormy
deck. It seems As if there were fifty
thousand lima belonging to the reserve
cores, and only one thousand active
combatants. Ole, we all want our boat
to get over to the golden sands; but
the most of us are either seated in
the prow or the sternavrappect in our
striped shawl, holding a big -handled
sunshade, while -others are blistered in
the heat, and pull until the oar -locks
groan, and the reades bend till they
snap. Oh. you religious sleepy -heads,
Owuaike euhpurl Whiate Ngvreeat haventaniyn
who are toiling for God, there
are some too la.zer to brush the flies
off their heavy eyelids. You have laid
so long in one place that the ants and
caterpillars have begun te caseret over
youl I should not wondee if some of
this chnrclomembeaeana should wake
Up in hell. Weete do you know, my
sbtrsortmhert,heriabwouotad N
iorinsgwGmosypeildmeat a
made to
Christianns a man .on fire vvitet zeal
for God; and if your pulse ordinarily
beats sixty times a minute when you
think of other themes, and. talk about
other thenaes, if your pulse does not
go up to seventy-five or eighty. when
you (some to talk about Christ, and
heaven., it isebeeause you do not know
gtheettionnge, teonttlhehasytheser.,poor chance of
In a forxner charge, one Sabbath,
took into the pulpit the ehurch
cords, need I laid them on the pul
and opened them, and said: "Brethr
here axe the church teetir,ds. I fi
a great many of yonwenee names
dewriehera are, -off Ireity.e'' Some we
afraid I Would tread the na,mes, for
that time some of them were deep
the worst kind of oil stocloo, and we
idle as to Christian work. But if t
ministers in all the cities, to -da
should bring the church records in
the pulpit, and read, oh, what a flu
ter there -would bee There seou
not be fans enough in church to ke
te cheeks cool. I do not know but,
would he- a good thing if the, rainist
once in a while should bring the chur
records,in the pulpit and call tharo
for that is what I considee ever
church (record to be --merely the mus
eraroll of the Lord's army; and th
reading of it should. (reveal where ever
soldier is and whet he is doing. Su
Pose, in military circles, on the mor
ing of battle, the roll is called, an
out of a thousand men onlyea lumdre
men in the regiment answered. Wha
excitement there would be in the cam
What would the colonel say? Wha
high talking there would be araon
the captains, and majors, and the ad
jutants 1 Suppose word caxae to head
quarters that these delinquents excus
ed themselves cal the ground that the
had overslept themselves, or that th
morning was damp and they wer
afraid of gettieg their feet wet, o
that they were busy cooking rations
My friends, this is the morning of th
day of God Almighty's battle! Do yo
not see the troops? Hear- 'you not al
the trumpets of heae.en and all tie
drums of hall? Which side are you
on ? If you are an the right side, to
what cavalry trine?, to what artillery
service, to what garrison duty, do you
belong? In other words, in. what Sab-
bath -school do you teach? in what
prayer -meeting do you; exhort? to
evhat penitentiary do you declare eter-
nal liberty? to what almehouse do jrou
announce the riches of heaven's? What
broken bone of sorrow have you ever
set? Are you deing nothing ?„. Is it
passible that a ntan or 'Woman ,sworn
.to be a follower of the Lord. aJesns
Christ is doing nothing? Then hide
the horrible secret eroen the angels.
Keep it away eeom th.e book of • judg-
ment. If you are doing'nothing, do
not let the worlcl find it out, lest they
charge your religion with being aeatse
face. Do not let your cowardiee and
treason be heardamong ehe ,martyrs
aboot the throne, lest they forget the
.sanctity of the place, and curse your
betrayal of that muse for ee.biele they
agonizecj and. died.
May the eteraal God. eosin, no a11 to
action! As far myeele, 1 feel 1 would.
be eahaexted to die may and eriter hea-
ven until I have accompleehed serne-
timing more decisive for the Lord taut
bought me, I heed thought on this,
the Xitst Sabbath after ,the stnneciet
vacation, / wean" like to 'join withyou
in an oath, -with, hate high Pplifted to
heaverOt swearing new allegentted ter
Je,sus Christ, and 00 work enore for
His eanset arid kingdom - Oha broth-
een, hosvewiftry the time :does go by!
Zir eeenes to Me 1 never saw sub, a
etvift eureuter •-never e summer that
hail sueh arable feet,. It seemseto
as if the years had gallica:le #bene. neev
power of locomotion, -a, kind of speed
-electries. Laat Sabbath woe an aweul
day to me. Ihatlnathipg to do but
i%c think, and avlien thotlght at bow
iittie1 had. eccoMplieheit,fer Christi
Mid of how shorb a tinie yet ontained
to work for, litnak ray behd gres`se'diaay
end. nay heart ached, and I Tait se if
must into your preeenee tead utter
this rallying erer for Jesas, '
,
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oraeleltog, ape they wage smothered
with telleke, and, they miserably died.
Ater:112;7 to £a10
raerreuiseet austTbe zaMiriereohr
this atoning my haat persuaaed you
Met you have a comely eheelee your
batthatfyroiteenhaasvme aeiegllaanvet mPea7itille4ratte;CIS'
tnht laaYihf8tivetiepta:on"ecill you 4taiyeall
ou'a're:ro:gli•
right; but bear with me if I tell you
I have no clinometer by y0114 to
measure how eteep le the inchnedePlane
ve'eoruy a setae sdpe.e c aettewdeinng,,,, byuotu skayntow,,i;± the
Bible is true, I am a sinner. Shaw
me some refuge, 1 will step right in-
to it." 1 suppeee "every pees= in
this audience this moment is stemeng
into some kind of leafage. Here you
step ia the tower of good works, Tole
say: "I shall be safe heie, in this re-
fuge." The battlements are adorned;
the steps are vareished; on the wall are
pictures of all the suffering you have
alleviated, and all the schools you have
esta,bliehed, and all the fine things you
have ever done. Up in that tower you
feel you are safe, Bat elee.r you not
the tramp of your unpaxeoned sins all
around the tower! They each have a
match. They are kindling the corabus-
able material. You feel the heat and
the suffocation. Oh 1 may you leap
,in time, the Gospel declaring: "By the
deeds of the law shall no flesh living
be justified." "Well," you say: "I
have beeia driven out of that tower;
where shall I go?" Step into this tower
of indifference. You say: "If this
tower is attacked, it will be a great
while laefore it is taken." You. feel at
ease. But there Is an Abim.eleclawith
ruthless assault, coming on. Death
and bis forces are gathering . around,
and they demand that you surrender
everything, and they calmour for your
immortal overthrow, and -they throw
their ekeleton arms in the window, and
with their iron fists they beat against
the door, and while you are trying to
keep them out you see the torches of
Judgment kindling, and every forest
is a torch, and every mountain a
torch, and every sea. a torch, and
while the Alps, and Pyrennees, and
Uimalayas turn into a live coal,
wind breath of a. God omnipotent,
blown redder and redder by the whirl -
what will become of your refuge of
says some one, "you are
engaged in a very mean business,
driving us from tbever to tower." Oli,
no! I want to tell' you of- a Gibral-
tar that never has been and never will
be taken; of awall that no Satanic as-
sault can scale; of 'a bulwark that
the judgment earthquakes cannot
budge. The Bible refers to it when
It sayse"In God is thy refuge and
underneath thee are the everlasting
arms." Oh 1 fling yourself into it.
Tread down unceremoniously every-
thing that intercepts you. Wedge
your way there. There are enough
hounds of death and peril after you
to make you hurry. Many a man has
perished just outside the tower, with
his foot on the step, With his hand .on
the latch. Oh, get inside. Not one
sprplus second have you to spare.
Quick, quick, quick!
There are some who gave me a fare-
well shake of the hand when I went elf
two menths ago who are not here to-
day. Where are they? When in
the closing service I opened. my hymn-
book and feund the place, they opened
their hymn -book and found the same
place. I open my book to -day; they
do not open theirs. Great God, is life
such an uhcertain thing? If I bear a
little too hard with my right foot on
the earth, does it break through into
the, grave? Is this world which swings
at the speed of thousands of miles
an hour around about the sun going
witb. tenfold more speed towards the
judgment day? Oh, I am overborne
with the thought a.nd in the
confusion I cry to one and I cry to
the other; "0 time! 0 eternity!
0 the dead! 0 the judgment day! 0
Jesus! 0 God!" But catching at the
last apostrophe, .I feel that I have
something tohold on to; for "in God
is thy refuge, and. underneath Ore
the everlasting. arms." And exhaust-
ed with my failure to save myself, I
throw my whole weight of body, mind,
and soul on this Divine promise, as a
weary child throws itself into the arms
of its mother; as a wounded soldier
throws himself on the hospital pillow,
as a tautened man throws himself in.
to the refuge: for "he God is thy, re-
fuge, and underneath are the ever-
lasting arms." I can speak no more
for the gladness. Oh for a flood of
team with which to express the joy
ofthiseternal resauel
SOLDIER CYCLTSTS.
In Gerraany soldier cyclists have a.
special course of cycling drill to go
through, and they are supplied with
thoroughly good and reliable machines.
Each man muse be able to take his
cycle to pieces and pat it together
again, in the shortest possible time,
axscl receives the most raketta itestruc-
tion in repaiaint, it etc. so that in
'case ot aeoident he is able himself to
put everything in order again. Dur-
ing the summer the German militaxy
cycliet ie drilled in the most thorough
manner, it beiag the intention of the
'military authorities to render this
btancle of the service especially effi-
cient es semets.
SPREVING BUTTERFLIES,
Butterelies, beeides being incoaseant
and frivolous', are new said to be ad-
dicted exeessively to drink. They Will
. .
Mick up moisture for an hoar at a tune.
Bntomelogists assert that, they do not
need. tto toneelo It is the melee alone
Who indulge in these eopious libations
while the Raina•les are away layieg eggs.
11D11 .T.11,0T.131,11.
understand she Ilas had a a tack
of nervous ptostration,.
oh, dear, no; not at
Dut the doctor
know ha did at first, but ;just ee
trent as be learned the size of her hus-
hand's income he ehanged his nallia mid
geta thee elle, was Merely ,eveteenee by
that tired feeling. 1
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INTERNATIoNAL LE8sON, AUG, 11..
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PRAOTICIATI NOM; '
Verse 4',e. The SliutlainWite Wo-
man. The num of God. "Geare,mart,"
Elislea, now pee -eminently the pro-
phet of Israel. Carmel. From.veroe 23
it seems that Elisha had aplaete on
PanMel (probably not ear from the
scams of Ba,ales discomfiture before
Jehovah), whither, on new moons and
an Sabbaths the people came for woe-
abile and. inetruetion. The distance
from Shuitene Was perha,p,s eevertheen
Miles. Afar off, She weuld come
across the plain of Jeezgeel, whieh is
overlooked. by. Carmel; and her little
Party could be plainly seen from the
mountain sitle, Geleazi. Elielee's at-
tendant, first mentioned, in this story,
01 his origin nothing is known. His
later history involves a and record of
disloyalty, greed, blindness to spirie-
al opportunity, and awful painsle-
merit, Sheinammite is a resident of
S.hement, a city in the tribe of Iesa-
char, situated. on the northern slope of
Little Hermon (Josh'. 19. 18). This
wonaan was the prophet's highly es-
teemed friend. She- was, apparently, a
regular •attendent on the periodical
religious services held al Ensile's horae.
But her unexpeeted gallop across tete
plain, made the prophet wonder; it
was an :evidence of scama trouble or
scerrar°tivw. OUllidicahntiEcilpa,t
ishe? sympathetic
h•
26. Ran n�w 1 pray thee, to meet
her. ' An evidence of Elishaes great es-
teem for her. Is it well. "Is it peace?"
The oriental way of 'saying, "How do.
you do?" It is well. "Et as peace: The
oriental -way of saying, "Pretty well,
I thank you:" The phrases are not more
definite 'in their meaning than their
Western equivalents. There is no de-
ception in her reply. She simply evades
Gehazi, and presses on. Only to the
mars of God can she unburden her
heart's sorrow, ,
27. The hill. Where Elisha resided,
and which, as we suppose, was a reoog-
nized seat of the worship of Jehovah.
She caughthim by the feet. Great
grief shrinks from speech. The action
was one of supplication, Elisha, who
regarded this woman with gratitude
and affection, and who, watching her
approach at this unseasonable hour,
had observed how she hadpushedpast
Gehazi, shared her silent agony with
profoundest sympathy. Gehazi came
nea,r to thruat hex „away. So would
the cliscenlee'im-va dafeen loving moth-
ers from Jesus, Mark 10. 13, 14, and
th a officious multitude would have re-
pulsed the blind men, Matt. 20, 30, 31.
Let her alone. Elisha's gentleness
showed his true strength, for gentle -
nes
trolled. Her ,soul is vexed. "Her soul
is bitter." The Lord hath hid it from
me. Prophets were far frora being in-
fallible, either in knowledge or judg-
ment, See 2 Sam. (7. 3. It was only
em
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when the Lord had spoken to th
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28. Did I desire. She would rem
the prophet that her son was a f
gift, and had better never been giv
if he were so soon to be taken,
vease 16. Did I not say, Do not
ceive rae? Even with the promise h
come the fear of desappointraent. N
that this sorrow -stricken woman d
not recount the pathetic story of h
boy's illne,ss in the cornfield. Tho
who are bereaved. often are inclined
linger on every detail of the seen
that led to the death of their belov.
ones. W.hy did not this woenan ? B
cause she still trusted, in spite of
fears, that her dela would be -rester
to life- Ilia trust accounts for bo
her silence, her haste, and the persi
mice of her 'demand for Elishaes pe
sonal presence. •
29. Gird, upetby lions. "Tight
your girdle." Equivalent to "Put
youx coat and hat" with us. Take m
staff. A badge of Elisha's prophet
office. He may have thought he coil
thus confer the prophetic power up
Gehazi. If so, the result showed his
error. Not even the Church can confer
the gift of the Spirit. Salute him not.
Oriental salutations take time. Haste
was the object of the embassy, for • in
that, climate decomposition must set in
speedily. Besides, concentration of
purpo.sa is as needful to success in tee-
ligioua effort as in secular business.
Lay my staff upon the face ef. the
child. Elijah intended to delegate his
prophetic power by the loan of his
staff, exactly as an ancient king might
delegate his royal power by the loan
of his signet ring.
e0. The heart of the mother will take
no denial. She may well have doubted
the efficacy of Elisho.'s staff in the
hands of one who showed so little of
Elisha's spirit. I witi not leave thee.
Persistence is the characteristic of
etrong faith and strong desire. Com-
pare Exod. 33. 15; Gen. 32. 25, Luke
15, 1. He arose, and followed
her. The child died at noon.
10 must have been nearly sun-
eet evheo the mother +reached lelisha.
31, Hearing. "Attention." Gehazies
voice could not reach into the world of
spirits. To meet him, Geha,zi had
made haste, had failed, Etna returning
met Elisha. and the Mother on then'
way. Symbols ate of no uee 'where
spirit and. power are absent. Never
mistake the sign tor the thing signi*
tied, noe outevard forin for inward
graeee Child is nob awaked. No evi-
dence that hfa supposed him not deed,
as the term "deep" was cominonly used
°,3V5.delaVtallikleeMinngst11.11) 21boitee Is and
fro. Intense emotion is frequently
thus eahibited, The reeovery seernS
in have been gracluel-firsi the Waren b
then the isneozing, showing restored
respiratiom then opening the eyes, 10
.4evvaalsstseteliturnizig lite that produced 1114
80. Take up thy Ettexi. Elijah delivereet
the eleen nen to hie melhor (1 Ringh
17. 28), as did ,lestts (Luke 7„ 10)‘,
also charged the patents Of the dam -
sel rk O. 40)o Ofrebri PorO#t
$9 get. •&ted 'thine he C4;142404 tO inar-
care thetee WhOM be has quiokened
liver that we MaY uourioh AAA foga
th.931 (John 21,
37, Tell at his' eet, A gratetra rkeo
krtkwledgeruent Of Ore prieeleas favor,
The thanktal heart bow)* itself
pen* before it take o fo itself tile Mos
faug it boo
M. Dead. poth here aud. in 'Fere
20 it is expresely, ste,ted that the
chil4 was dead' z them is, therefore, rt0
room for supposing it, a case of 00*
I:tended animation or a. trapee. Hia
becle Not the ohil.d.'s bed, but Z1isha."0,
See verse 21. 1 '
n, Dead. Beth here and in vesesel
had Elijah done. e Kings 17. 21; and
time) did Peter Acts 9 tO, ButoPhrist
ePake the word, and it was done
Mark 5- 41; rink& 7.14; John, 11.43,
God alono gi.veth life, temporal or
spiri.tia.l, but he is pleased to give it At
in answer to 'prayer. • The shutting of
the door -was indioative of intense ratan.,
estnees iasd of the ienieroprieter of anY
interruption. See Matt. 6. 6.
84. 'weat up. Compare Psalm 1$
3, suggesting a high bedetead. Lane
upon the child. The prayer of faith'
is to be suPPlemented by personal efe
fort. Its is eregnently through tele
pereataal contact of soul with sesul that
Gocl works in bringing to life, those whoi
are "dead in trespaeses ane in eins.",4
The flesh of the child, waxed warm.
This is a miracle of an unusual meanie
festation of God's power in answer to
prayer; but the method of the miracle
is the transference of the prophet's an.
perabundant life to tbe child's dead
body. ,
FUNNIGRAMS.
Ltves oe great men all remind us
hoes, important it is to use good judg-
ment in the selection of a biographer.
Only Single Men Know -Do you know;
how- to manage a woman? Why, eof
course met. I'm married.
A. Matter Worth Mention -What's
the matter, Little Dick? Say, Me.
Higley, why- don't you bringrny sister
more candy an' not so many roses?.
Waiting --Young lVIan-So, Miss Ma;
is your eldest sister- Who comes af-
ter her? Sinai!. Brother -Nobody has
come as yet; but po says the first fen,
low that comes can have her.
3Irs. Naborly-So your name is the
same' as your papa's, Harry? Harry
--Yes`m. Mrs. araborly-How do ynte
know when your maniple calls who she
means? Harry -Oh, she always calls
me kind of coaxing.
The Reason -Dobbs -There's a man
who shaves several times a da,y. Wig-
gin -You don't mean it. I should think
there'd be nothing left of his face.
Dobbs -It doesn't hurt his face at all.
He's a barber.
I shall die with my boots on! he
cries. Drums are beating; nags flute.
ter; multitudes cheer and weep alter,
nately. I shall certainly die unless I
get thena off social he- groans; for he
is not used to' paractiag inerailita,ryt- -
boots.
Proposition Declined -She - Well,
then; 111 just buy what I want and
have the bills sent, to you! He -But
we ought to have some understanding
as to the amount She gayly -Oh no I
No agreement in reseraint of t
Wifey-Do you. think there is
that could conscientiously say
wife, You are the only woman
loved? Hubby -Only one that I can
think of.. Wiley --Who? You, dear-, '
est? Hu.bby-Oh, no; Adam.
Explained at Last -He -Why is it, I
stoned like to know, that a woman nev-
er/aits what she throws at? Is it due ;
to some fault in the construction of her
arra? She -No. A woman never
throws anything until she is so mad. she
cannot see straight 1
Vindica`ted-Prisoner, said the couxt,
youleave been arrested as a suspicious
claaracter. Yoa appear to have no visi-
ble means of support! Then his 'wife
stepped forte and held up her hands,
after which there was nothing to do
but discharge him.
How She Looked at- It -Mr. Short -
My dear, Miss Kate, I have a very seri-
ous question I evisb to ask you. Miss
Long -What is it, pray? Mr. Short
-Will you marry me? Miss Long,
scornfally-Do you call that serious,
Mr. Short? Why, I don't think I ever
heard anything so ridiculous.
A Double Resemblance -Farmer Oat -
bin, sadly-Cbildxen are jest like a
brood of young quail. As soon as they
gee old enough, away they go from
the old nest in every direction. Farmer,
Corncrib, more sadly -Ya -as; jest like
quail. As soon as they mate, away,
they come back to the old feeding
ground again.
rade.
a men
to his
I ever
COULDN'T BE DONE,
At one of the getherings in an elec-
toral campaign Sir Bilis Ashmead Bart-
lett was erequerttly interrupted by a
man in the body of the hall o who re-
sented his uneonioromising remarks
upon politicet1 opponents. The knight
bore his trial with admirable good
humor, till, seeing ail opening for scor-
ing a point, he %aid;
"Now, Iext going to tell you some-
thing about the late Liberal Government that will make My evicted's hair
stand on end," indicating, with asmil-
ing nod,the vigorous critic in the body
et the hall. .
irWrolig again I" shouted the irre-
preasible one, removing hie cap and dise
playing n bead ea smooth as a
ball, "It can't be done,"
RITIVIIUNG
, IItineming birds ere domeetieeted by
plaelog in their sages a number at pea
per flowers of tabular fotra conteinittg
e small quantity oi sugar and Wenn-,
which raast be frequently .renewed.
Of this liqnid the birds paxtake, and
quickly become apparently contented
with their taptivieat t
SMOOTHING THE WAY,
My lawyer told tee he thought
would haVo it hard time establishing
ilay claims tindee the will.
What did yousay?
askect him how mttch
ho wantoil. 1