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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-10-27, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES NOTES AND COMMENTS. If Creasy were alive, it woeld be time Lor hint to publish an enlarged eche tion of iele 'Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, adding to his liat the bat - tea of Manila Bay, Santiago, and Om - deletion. These are likely to prove epoelemaking battles in the brottelest sense, The English are now hard at work figuring over the probable re- sults of General Kitchener's great vietory over the Mandist:a, The French too, are naturally great- ly interested ha the queetion of Af- rican expansion, which has now been projeeted into the forefront of diplo- enetic problems. For the fall of Khan- . team is likely to prove the occasion of the rise of a great civiltzation to the south of the Upper Nile valley. Al- ready weird, if not wholly wild dreams of colonial extension in Africa are floating through the brains of Eng- lishmen, coestituting when transferr- ed- to the brains of Frenchinen, decid- edly bad dreams. The "Cape to Cairo" ory is already becoming popular. Vis- ions of a vaster zone of British, influ- ence in northern Africa are crowding. fast upon the excitements connected with Cecil Rhodes's ambitious irnperial schemes in South Africa. Evenby the soberest men, it is saki that Khar- tou.ne is not a terminus, but a point oe departure in the further march of Though Gordon thought that Khartoum should be the limit ot Anglo-Egyptian occupation to the south, the progress of events hes side- tracked euch a view as antiquated and obstruotionary. The Nile expedition was a political inove, as well as a hu- manitarian crusade, and its interne - 'done' consequences are likely to prove of the greatest moment. Already tourists are beginning to travel to Khartoum which has been well termed. a. half -way house between Cairo and Uganda, and soon explor- ers, engineers and military command- ants will be pushing the whole of the way to equatorial Africa,. The cur- rent of civilization pressing thither .eannot anywhere be stayed along its course, What the English long for, the French fear. France may not, it • is true, really count very much on the possible performances of Commandant Marchand, now at Fashoda, with a strong force of Senegalese, who per - resent a movement dramatic perhaps, rather than decisive. But the French have colonial aspirations, though they are not successful colonizers, and will retreat from their scheme of estab- lishing an equatorial sphere of influ- ence across the continent of Africa, only with chagrin aand intense disap- timii7rneat. Already some of the lead- ers of public opinion in France are re- signing themselves to the inevitable, and prophesying the ultimate success of the English as pioneers in the march • of civilization, "We are about to wit- ness the foundation," admits " The Sol- • eil, "of the empire of Afrioan-India ; England mistress of the Nile, of her source and resources, and of th,e im- mense and. fruitful countries travers- ed• by that river." So many daring dreams of sanguine neon have already come true in history, that it is not impossible that the Twentieth Cen- tury will see the construction of a line of railway from Alexandria to Cape Town, over which solid vestibule trains will run, with stops at Khartoum, Bash - oda, Uganda, and other way stations. Civilization cannot be held back. THE ELECTRIC GRATE. ' Producing the Settablanee or a Coal Fire By the Aid or Lump% or Blass. Gas logs are made nowadays in vari- ous sizes and with the imitation hic- kory logs of which they are formed piled in various shapes. The gas log is designed asa sightly and conveni- ent means of giving out •heat. There is an • imitation electric grate fire. that is intended for ornamental parpoees • only. This fire is • comprised of. pieces • of ruby and amber glass. The grate, standing in a fireplace in the metal manner, has within it an incandescent light, over which is placed a wire cage at sucli a height •in the grate that the coal, that is, the ruby and amber glass, when spread over it, is brought up to the height of an ordinary coal fire. The cage protects the burner, • makes a thin layer of glass sufficient, and holds the glass up so that the light from below can shine through it all and give it the appearance of the coal fire it is made to represent. The light is turned. on ancl. off and the fire thus lighted or put out by turning e key in the usual manner, this key be ing located conveniently by the side of the fireplace. The •electric grate is used usually in rooms where steam is used for heating. THE BIBLE AS OUR GUIDE, REV. DR. TALMAGE ENDEAVORS TO •. POINT OUT THE WAY. treat rusAdred Men $ay or Chrlot—Whal Me Said et Where Two or • Three are Bothered Together lu Name, There I am In the Moist of Them "-Atone or Clurlst'ts Achievement, • —Au Intensely lutereatlug Sermon. •A despatch from Washington says Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text: "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever, Amen." —Romans ix. 5. Paul was a reckless man in always telling the whele truth; it mattered not who it hil or what thelokical sys- tem it upset. In this one sentence he makes a world of trouble for all Arians and Socinians, and gives a oud for scep- ticism to chew on for the next thousand years. We must proceecl skilfully to twist this passage of Scripture, or ive shall have to admit the 1)eity of Jesus Christ, I roll up my sleeves for the work, and begin by saying, perhaps this is a wrong version. • No, all the versions agree—Syriao, Ethiopio, Latin, Aralaie. Perhaps this word God means a being of great power, but not the Deity. It is God "over all." But perhaps this. word God refers to the first person of the Trinity—God the Fa- ther. No ; it is "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. • Amen." Whichever way I take it, and when I turn it upside down, and when I try to read it in every possible shape, I am compelled to leave it who have gone before me, an ineontrovertible proof of the eternal and. magnificent Godhead of the Lord Jesus Christ. "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen," I suppose we are all willing to take the Bible as our standard. It requires as znuch faith to be an infidel a.s to be a Christian; but it is faith in a dffer- eat direction. The •Christian believes in the statements of Moses and Isaiah, and David, ande Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and Paul. The infidel be- lieves in the statenaent of the Free- thinkers. We have faith in one class of men; they have faith in another elates of men. But as I suppose the vast majority of the people in the audi- ence this morning are willing to take the Bible as their guide in morals and religion, I shall make this book my starting point. You. may be Aware that the two great generals who have maishalled the larg- est army of Unitarian troops are Strauss and. Henan. The multitudes of the slain under them will never be counted until the day when the archangel sounds the roll call of the resurrection. -Thess men, and all men who have sympathy with them, begin by attacking the fortress of the nura- cies. They know that when once they have captured that fortress, Christian- ity must surrender. • The great Ger- man exegete says that all the miracles are myths. The great French exegete says that all the nairaeles are legends. They must somehow or other explain away everything supernatural in the Bible—everything supernatural in the life of Christ—though to accomplsh that they must go up the greatest ab- surdity. They prefer the miracles of human nonsense rather than the grand miracles of Jesus Christ. They say, for instance, that the miraculous birth of Christ was a myth, just as it is a fencing idea that Romulus was born of Rhea Sylvia and the god Mars. They say that Christ did not feed five thous- and with a few loaves of bread; that is only a myth which got mix- ed up with the distribution .of twenty loaves among a hundred peo- ple by Mishit. They say Christ did not turn the water into wine; that was only an improvement on the old Egyp. flee plague by which waterwas turn. ed into blood. They say no star pointed down to the manger where Jesus laid that was only the flash of passing laze tern. They say that Christ's sweating drops of blood in Gethsemane was not very •astonishing, for He had been ex- posed to the night,'and had been tak- en sud.denly physically ill. They say no tongues of fire saton the heads of the disciples at the Pentecost; it was only a great thunder -storm and the air was full of electricity, and it snap. ped and flew all around about the Mads of the disciples. They say that Mary and Martha, and Lazarus, and Christ made up their minds it was ne- cessary to get tip an exeitement in order to forward their religion and so they resolved to ploy funeral and Laz- arus consented to be the corpse, and Mary and Martha consented to be mourners, and Christ consented to be the chief operator. I, of course, put it in my own words, but state accur- ately their meaning. They say that the four Gospels are spurious, written by superstitious or lying men, and that they were backed tip by people who were to die and actually did die for , a thing they did not believe. Now I I take back the limited remark made a moment ago and say that it re- I uires a thousandfold more credulity nd faith to be an infidel than to be Cbristian, and that if Christianity' emends that the whale swallow Jonah, hen scepticism demands that Jonah wallow the whale. f propose this morning to show you, o far as the Lord may help me, that esus Christ is God. t shall prove it, irst, from what inspired men say of Iim then from what Re said of Him - a Is TRE SLATE DOOMED? •a The use of slate bas been forbidden d in the schools in Zurich, Switzerland, ' s and pen, ink and paper have been sub- stItuted, even in the lowest forms. The e reasons given are that the light gray e marks of the penal on the slate can- f' not be followed without straining the , mb prossure wliith it is nee- s esSarY to exert upon the pencil lessens ' m the facility of the hand. and readers an w ewer, flowing handwriting more t stilt to attain; and, that the use of the 1 s slete is not inducive to cleanly work, m al WIIAT HE WAS AFTER 1 0 D f behove this ail a through train said a tee rogd agent, tit 11 is, replied the conduotor, N Thee, I will proeeed to go through G it, anfeeeneed the polite robbee. elf; then from His wonderful achieve- ents. "Get a good fat text to start ith," said Dr. Dudlow, °Ur gtand old Imo:Logic:a professor, If / never had uch a text before, 1 have one thia orning: "Christ earae; who is over , 1, God bleseed for ever,. Amen," Not yet' Solomon's throne not higher that I eestly as a raiebow spans the mourn, tithe -top. "Christ came, who is over all, Goa blessed for ever. Amen." The Bible says: "411 thinga were made by Rim." Stop! Does not that prove too numb? He, did/ not make the Alediterraneare did Ile'? not Mount Lebaeon t nor the Alps t nor' Mount Washington? not the earthnot the eters? not the Universe Yes, •" all things were made by Him." And lest we should. be so stupid as not to under- stand it, the apostle concludes by say- ing: "Without Hien was not anythirig made that was made," Why then, He must have been a God. The Bible says: "At the naine of Jesus Christ every knee shall hew, of things,on earth, and things in heav- en." See all heaven coming down on their knees --martyrs on their knees, apoetles On their knees, confessors on their knees, the archangel on his knees. Before whom? A man? No, a God. The Bible goes on to say that "ev- ery tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." Malayan, Bornesian, Mexican, Persians Italian, German; Spanish, French, English—every tongue shall confess , that Jesus Christ is Lord. Why, He must be ct God. The Bible says: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to -day and for ever." Men change ; the body changes entirely in seven years, "the mind changes, the heart changes; but "Christ is the same myeismtterdbeaya, otoo-dday, and for ever." Ho • Philosophers say that it is gravit- ation, the centripetel and centrifugal forces, which keeps the worlds froin clashing and from demolition; but Paul says that Christ's arm is the axle on which everything turns, and that His hand is the socket in which every- thing is set ; " upholding, holdingall mthoinstgsbebyathGeodw.ord of His power.', He But I go on ie the next place and see what Christ said of Himself. Ev- ery person ought to know more about himself than anybody else does. If ask you where you n ere born, and you say: "I was born in , Ches- ter, England, or !Dublin, or New Orleans." I would believe you. W.hy ? ,Beoause you ought to knew— 'it is a matter that pertains to your- self. If I ask you whether you can lift three or four hundred pounds, ancl you said yes, I would believe you. You ought to know. If I ask you how much money you have—a hun- dred •or a hundred thousand dollars— and you tell me, I believe you, be- cause you, being an honest man, will tell Me truth. Now I ask if Christ ought not to know whether or not He is God.? I ask his axe. Re says, in so many words: "Before Abraham was, I ara." Abraham had been dead. two thousand and twenty-eight years. Was Christ two thousand and twenty-eight years old? He says so. In Revela- tions He says: "I am Alpha ;" Alpha being the first letter of the Greek al- phabet, it was as much as to Say: "I am the A of the great alphabet of all kthaeowe?enturies." • Ought not He to Could Christ be in a thousand plac- es at the same time ? He said so. He intimates that He ean he in Madras. in Stockhohn, in Pekin, in San Fran- cisco, in Constantinople at the 'same time. "Where two or three are.gath- erect, together in. My name, there T aman the midst of them." The facul- ty of everyvvhereativeness, is it a hu- man or a Divine attribute? Lest we should•think that this power of every- whereativeness should give out, Christ intimates that He is going to keep on, and that on the day before the world is burned. up He will be in all the prayer -meetings in Europe, Africa, and North and South America; for Ile declares in so many words: "Lo 1 lam with you alway, even unto the end of Gthoect !world!" He is a God! He is a He takes Divine honours. "He cans himself the Lord of men, the Lord of angels, the Lord of devils. Is He not ? If He is not, then He is the grandest fraud that was ever enacted. To- morrow morning„ a man comes into your store and. he says: "1 am Mr. Laird, the great ship -builder of Liver- pool. I have built a great many fine ships." You treat him with a great deal of consideration; but you find out after awhile that he is not Mr. Laird, and that he never built any- thing. What is that man? An im- postor. Now Christ said that he built the earth—built all things. • Did He build the earth, or did He not? If He did, He was a God; if He did not, Re was an impostor. A man with a Jew- ish cemefienance and German accent comes into your store. He says: am Rothschild, the banker, of London. I hold the wealth of nations in ray vest pocket. I loaned_ that money to Italy and to Austria." You., treat him with a great deal oficonsideration Lor awhile; but suppose you find out that he is not a banker, that he does not own a single dollar in all the world.? What is that man? An im- postor. Now Christ comes and. He says He owns this world, He owes the next, He owns ell the glories of land and sea, He professes to be vast in His possessions. Is He in the possession of all these thins? Does He own thern all? If He does not, what is He? An impostor. Strauss saw that alternative, and he says that Christ was einful in taking homage that did not belong to Him. Ronan saw that alternative, and says that Christ, not through his own fault, but through the fault of others, Jost some of the purity of His conscience, and slyly intimates. that , dishonourable women may have damaged His soul. GAontyebthing but admit that Christ is I have shownyou that Christ was God, from what inspired men have said of Him, and from what He said of Himself ; now 1 want to show you that He was God from His wonderful achievements. I suppose that all be- lieve the Bible. If you do not, what a do you do in this Tabernacle 1 Why do you not go and kiss the foot i of •the now sl elute of Tom Payne in t Boston! Why do you not take your hat, and not steeling' the hymn -book, gt a out and find associates among men 0 who do not believe in the Word of God, the only foundation of goecie govern- ta tient and fol. coMmOn honeety ? We IN in this chnrch are among the deluded W souls and the. narrow -heads who be- lieve the whole Bible, and • take it down in one swallow as easily as you pick up a ripe strawberry. Supposing P hat you admit the Bible to be true, b et lie go out and see the Savior's I) aehieveineets surgidal, alimentary, R marmot mortusry, •a Surgicei achievements? Did you ever, He n the scientific journals of the in verld, see such wonderful ,oPeraiionstib s Ile performed? He feted no knife. Tte Ole carried • no ePlints , Re eranketed no compress, Be iteyer made a Patient squirm under cauterization. Ete never ted an artery, axed yet, behold Him, With one word Re stuek fast Meleinre amputated ear, He' stirred dust and spittle into esetve, witb which he made the man who was born blind, withoat optic) iterve, cornea, 9r crysta- line lens, open hi a eyes on the glorious sunlight. Ile beat mu,sic on the drum of the deaf ear, He straightened' a woman, who, through conteaction of Muscles, had been bent alraost double for eigh two deeades. He made a man who had not ased his Ural's for thirty- eight years shoulder his mattress and walk off. Sir Maley Cooper, Aberne., thy, and Valentine Mott stood power- less befpre a,vvithered arm. This DOC - tor of Omnipotent surgery coxless up to the man with the lifeless, useless, shrivelled arm, and He says to him; "Stretch forth thy hand," The man stretched it for just as good as the other. This was God! This was a God] Alimentary achievements? A lad conies with five loaves with which he expeoted to make a speculation; per- haps having bought them for five pen- nies and expecting to sell them for ten pennies, and thue double his mon- ey. Lo 1 Christ takes those loaves, and Crone theni performs a miracle with welch he satisfies seyea thousand fam- ishing People, When the Saviour's mo- ther went into." a neighbor's house to help get up a wedcliag party, and by a ealculation he saw that they had made a mistake in the amount of bev- erage that was requisite she oalls Christ for help, and Christ, to relieve the awkward embarrassment, not through slow decay of fermentation, but by one word, makes a hundred and thirty gallons of pure wine. . 'Marine achievements! Do you not re- member how He brought around a His hand on your eyelids, and sweep whole school of fish -into tb.e net of that hand down on the cheek, wiping the men who were mourning over their away all the tears of loneliness and poor luck, and howl they had to halloo bereavement. 0, what a loving, ten - to the .people in the other boat, and der, sympathetic God has come for us. then both ships were loaded to the 11 do not ask you, this morning, to lay water's edge with game, so that the . hold of God; you. may be too weak for sailors had to walk Cautiously from I I that. I do not ask you even to pray; -larboard to starboard lest the boat 1 you may be too bewildered for that. Sink. And then when the squall cans° tI only ask you just to let go, and down through the mountitin gorge to fall back into the arms of everlast- the water, and Gennessaret with long ing strength, white locks of foam rose up to battleti You and I will soon hear the click It, and the vessel dropped, into the of the latch of the sepulchre. We want trough, and shipped a sea, and the 1 an Almighty Cbrist to go with us. I • loopertea sails cracked. in the tornado; , wonder if the friend of Lazarus will how Christ rose from. the back par' be about. Our friends will take us of the vessel, and oaths to the prow; 1 with strong arms, and lay us down and wiping the spray from His fore- • in the dust; but they cannot bring us head, hushed the crying tempest on the , back knee of His omeipotence. 0, again. I would be scared with man who wrestled down thewatist OirtMat have to stay there for ever. But no. infinite fright if I thought I should Was it a man who, with both feet Christ will come with a glorious icon- ftriefiorarpllecl Gennessaret into a smootb oclasm, and split and grind up the grrinite, and let ua come out. 0, the But look at his mortuary achieve: resurrection! What kind of a resta- ments. Let all the psychologists and ' rection will it be? tninster Abbey, and try to wake Queen without any hope, • and she said to anatomists of the world got to 'West- 1 A young woman was recently dying, Elizabeth or Henry VHI. All the in- her mother in the closing hour : genuity of man never yet brought the 1 exalter, girl 'at Capernaum. dead to life. But look at that dead ' and What a pity that 1 this world, when you bid farewell to I am so afraid." When you leave I am going away from you, she should die. so early, and when the . those with whom you have been as - world is so fair. Sbe is only twelve ' sedated, and in the last great day, years old. Feel at the hands. Feel at ' wet you thet day Christ, the Omnipotent Say - be afraid? If tve have on ftahell borfouwp.roDaisaadn.d.D.sloasidijoTgbe.whhaoutstieoeiss ; iour, on our side, all shall be w -ell. If Christ do? He comes and takes this 1 the resurrection comes upon a spring little girl by the hand, and no soon- i clay, and ail the flowers are blooming er has He touched her hand than her • around our graves, how pleasant it eyes open, and her heart starts, and 1 would be to take up the brightest one she rushes into the arpas of her rejoic- . of all those flowers and put • in the Ginoga?relatives. Who was it that rats- [ scarred hand. of Him who died for us; ed her ap t Was it a man, or was it a , to gather up the most redolent of I them all, and twist them into a gar - What is that. crying in Bethany? land for the brow that was struck 1VIary crying, Martha crying, Jesus . with the thorns. On that day, when crying, and the neighbours crying, ' ,Tesus is surrounded by all the dentin - What is the matter? Lazarus is dead. ions of the saved, we will see what The sisters think they will never again an awful libel it was when men said see him, never have him sit al the . that Christ was only a man ; and table again. Poor things! Since their I then you will declare with unparal- father died they have depended upon I then you will declare with unparae. Lazarus for almost everything. Jesus over all, God bleesed. for ever. A.men." comes down to the excavation in the ' 0, would you not like to join in that rock, in one of the side niches of ; "Amen," ye who believe this Detest is which Lazarus sleeps in death. Jesus the eternal God? You shall hay e my generally spoke in gentle articulations, permission. Let your "Amen" be the but now He lets out His voice to full doxology of this whole asaemblage 1 strength, until it rings through all echrist came, who is over all, • God the labyrinths and avenues of the blersed for ever. Amen." Thousands of rook: "Lazarus, come forth!" And voices: "Amen'?" . Lazarus slides do.wa from the side niche into the main avenue of therock, and stands a living man before the ab- ashed and confounded spectators. Who was it that stood at the mouth of that cave, and uttered. that potent word? Was it a man? Tell that to the luna- tics in Bloomingdale Asylum. It was Christ the everywhere present, the everlasting, the omniscient, the toemnstilpvohtieonht Gwoidal show wut you is one Christ is God or not. Theoureciwtahletheorf that. one verse ought to bleach the cheeks of eome with alarm, and kindle the faces of others with eternal sun- rise: "We must all appear before the judgment -seat of Christ." The world will be stunned by a blow that will e authoress, and Hans Anderso make it stagger mid. heaven; the stars writer of so many fairy tales, e the knee, and orY out: "xt is a God! It is a God. There is great comfort in my sub - Pct. It is. God who came down in Jesus Christ to save us, Do you think only a man could bave made an atone- inent for millioes of the race? Wee your common sense, teach you that? I tell you if Christ is not God the re- demption of oUr race is a dead failpre. We want a Divine arm to lift our burden. We want a Divine endurance to earry our pang. We want a Divine expiation to take away our sin; and, "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed. for ever. Ameo." God also •comes down in Christ to comfort you. Sometimes our troubles are so great, huraan sympathy does not seem to be suffioient for them. 0 ye who cried all last night because of loneliness and. bereavement, 1 want to tell you that it is your Maker and your God that coznes Ibis day to comfort you, Whea there are children in the house, and the mother dies, then you know that the father has to be more gentle than ever, and he has to act two parts in that hou3ehold. And. it seems as if the Lord Jesus Cnrist looked down and saw your helplessness, and. he proposed, to be both father and mother to yotir sick soul. He comes in the strengtla of the other, andHo says; "As a father pttieth one, and in the tenderness of the his children so I pity you. As one whom his mother comforteth so I will com- fort you." 0, do you not feel the hush of that • Divine lullaby? Put down your tired head on the heaving bosom of that Divine compassion, and let Him put His arias around you, and say: "0, widowed soul, I will be thy hus- band and thy God. 0, orphaned ones, I will be your protector. Don't cry. Don't cry." And, then He will put FEAR OF BEING BURIED ALIVE. Instructions telt by Some People, to Mak , Sure of Death. , Wtikie e Alias left a missive among his papers directing that when he died a thorough examination of bis body was to be made by a skilled surgeon. Lady Barton, wife of Captain Sir Rich- ard Burton, ordered that her body should be pierced with a needle ih the regien of the heart, Mr. Ed d Yates of the World; Miss Ada dish, Miss Harriet Martine tvill scatter like dried leaves in an mentioned as instances of men and wo- equinox; the graveyards will unroll the men who have left: instructions that bodies, and the clouds will unroll the they should not be interred until ee_ spirits, and soul and flesh will come erything possible had been done to together in incorruptible conjunction, awnidngfeidrecaahrtedrtselarStrgoukaekerd darkness, ! similar end. in view, have adopted, die. ing thunders, and the sweeping f Hark to the loud. wash of tlainedretshroeuatt..- ing sea, and the baying of the advanc- I ° t was resolved upon. Others, with a 1 vein, in others even decapitation, that ' some cases it was the severance of a make sure that they were lifeless. In !I ferent mantle. The signalling, inverts ing, shouting, shout ing, wailing, wail - tion of Edgar Allan Poe—who wrote ing' wailing' On the one side' in Piled 11 this subject up in his characteristically up galleries of light, are the one 1 weird fashion—is familiar to all read - hundred and .forty and four thousand; ees, Then there is the apparatus of —yea, the quint:Miens of the saved;'' the Russian inventor, which consists and as they take their seats, 1 fecl in a mechanism placed in the throat es if I must drop under the insuffer- of the corpse. 11 consciousness return- able radiance. On the other aide ie ed and ire. effort were meets to breathe, piled up, in galleries of thunder -cloud, ; the effort set in motion. certain wires, the fx°"Yning' glaring' dying P°Palat 1 which tesulted in a bell ringing in the tions of the wrath to come. Before 1 cemetery elteperae. lodge. In ' .Tezebers me, and between the two galleries, is a I Daughter' the idea is very similar, throne. It is very high. It stands on ' save that, instead of a, tleroat apparit- , . wo burnished pi ars—jus toe an tus, wires were fastened to the hands mercy. It is stupendous with awards et the corpse. Last year Sir Henry nd coedenination. Looks', but half Littlejohn told his students at Editi- lide your eyes lest they be put oat burgh of a fftne,y coffin, fitted with n the excess of vision. There' is a patent springs, so contrueted that on hrone, but no one Ls seated on it. the slightest indialeion of returning Who shall occupy it? _Will you go up to life they would immediately open ent take it? "No," you say: '41.. am the coffin and thus eave the victim, man that is fit to take it, in all ------ - te- —e----- nly dust and miles." Show me some I ges. Lord Mansfield? No. Solomon? 1 o. Isaiah? No. Paul? No. Their foot 1 DOMESTIC NOTE. mild consume at the first touch of Does your husband ever say' any - the step of that throne. Eveit Gab- thing about his mother's Woking1 riel dare not go up On it. Michael the I No, but he says thiegs about nly archa,ngel wodld. rather bow elovvni ' cooking that his father Used to say ulling lits right wing over his left,' ! About, his mother's eoeking. oil over hie face, and cry: "Holy!" 1 tit hare is one ftecending that throne. --- Is back itt towaed ustie pea Step , hove step, beight above height, until 1 WOl'ilAnfNE't \VIM Mt IDID. COMOS to the apex, Than, ttirn- I Wornan, when you marriect ine, you • around, so that all nations can see got a woadar ? n. we behold it is Christ; end all Yes, meet I have been Wondering, Peer Hi, and heaven, and bell, fall on sinoe, avid's throne; not higher than Ca.es- ;ouJ higher then the Ventre, teesx • e' than e Fredericktouts', then the 1 e an n polcion's, than Vire:oriels. U, yes. ther alt those thronearid pile them p, and my (ext. OVe,rspans ,thern as a EXCITING ADVENTURE IN INDIA ilk Town: Onteers Narrow EscoPe Crow ol Movable Beath. Dinner was just finished anii. sev- eral English officers were sitting around the table, The coirversation had net been animated, and there ceme a lull, as the night was too hot for small talk. The major of the regiment, a clean -eat Man of fifty-five turned to- ward his next neighbor at the table, Young subaltern, who was leaning back in his chair with his hands clasp- ed behind bis head, staring through the cigair-smoke at the ceiling, The ma- jor was slowly looking the men over, from his handsome face down, when, with a sudden alertness and in a quiet steady voice, he said:—"Don't move, please, Mr. Carruthers, Iwant to try an experiment with yea. Don't more a muscle." "Alt right, major,' replied the subaltern, without even turning his eYes; "hadn't the least idea of moving, assure you 1 What's the game?" By this time all the others were lis- tening in a lazily esrpectant way. "Do you think," continued the major—and his voice trembled. just a little --."that you can keep absolutely still for, say, two minutes—to save your life ?" "Are you joking ?" " On the contrary, move a muscle and you are a elead man, Can you stand the strain 1" The subaltern barely whispered "Yes," a.nd his face paled slightly. "Burke,' said the ma- jor, addressing an officer across the table, "pour some of fleet milk into a, saucer, and set it on the floor here just at the back of rate Gently, man! Quiet!" Not a word was spoken, as the officer quietly filled the saucer, walked with it carefully around the tablet ana set it down where the major had indicated on the floor. Like a marble statue sat the young subaltern in his white lin- en clothes, while a cobra de capello which had been crawling up the •leg of his trousers slowly raised ita head, then turned, descended to the floor, and glided toward the milk. Sudden- ly the silence was broken by the re- port of the major's revolver, and the snake lay dead on the floor. "Thank you, major," said the subaltern, as the two men shook hands warmly; "you have saved ray life 1" "You're welcome, my boy," replied tne senior; "bat you did your share." HOUSEHOLD CARES. Warder go itear, Mr. Bintops Thinks, Than Ike Business Cares orsten. "We all have our cares,"- said Mt Billtops, "men and women alike; bu. I don't know but what womeia's care are a little harder to bear than men's There is a deadly monotony abou household cares that does not pertal to the cares of business. "The man may lead, a: routine life year after year, the same thing ove and over again; he may go daily yea after year to the same offiee, store 0 shop, but the mere going back an forth gives him some variety. H goes through the streets with thei constantly changing life; he meet many people daily; he may not know any cf them, but it does him good. t meet them; they give him new impres- sions and freshen him up. He ma see the same scenes daily, 'but the cannot be always alike and he mus get more or less benefit Erten thei ever -varying phases. "Bat the monotony of -a woman's life is far less likely to be varied even in such ways. The man must go out to earn the money to buy bread with; the woman's work is in the house, and her constant tendency is to stay there more and more. Her work is there and all the time it increases and ac- otunulates, and she buckles down to it and goes out less and less. The routine becomes all the time more fix- ed and unvarying, and she sticks to it, day alter day and week after week and. year after year, the same thing • over and over again, until it becomes so irksome that it is hard to bear. 'Breakfast, luncheon and dinaer, or breakfast, dinner and tea, whatever the _routine of the house may be, there is no change. The question, 'What shall we have for dinper ?' simple as that may seem, may easily become a bugbear; and the meal times recur more and more swiftly. The mere labor of looking after the food. is great, and to that is added. the darning and. the raending that must be done, and the cleaning and the dusting, all on fixed days and at fixed hours, else they wouldn't be done.. "I imagine that household cares, wo- men's cares, in the routine of life are more burdensome and harder to bear than men's cares. And what is the racin's duty in this case. Why, it's to give his wife some relief from this roue _tine. Take her to the theatre or to some concert or any form of enter- tainment. Homely forin of relief? So; but astonishingly good, and it will do you good, too." FHB SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON', OCT. 30. Itimplout Foretold," lia. 1-15. Bolden Text, ISO. 11'9, PRACTICAL NOTF,S. Verse I., A rod, A. POW 43.00t• Tba stem of Jesse. The stump or roots, and. therefore this rod. is the beginaieg of a new tree, jesse was the =Wee - tor of David. A branch. The Hebrew word here used. netzer, which. closely resembles in sound our Lord's geogra- Phioal surname, the Nazarene, Grow out of his roots. "Out of his roots shall be fruitful," Strangely enough, the word rendered " fruitful " is the word, from which "Ephratah," another name for Bethlehem, is derived. Ween theae words were uttered the tree of Jesse wee not yet cut down, 2. This verse deseribes the character of the king who has just been spoken of as a branch from Jesse's roots, • The Spirit of the Lord. The spirit of Je- hovah. Shall rest upon him. Clothing him like e garment. Now comes a six- fold analysis of the Holy Spirit whieh has made a deep impression on alleges of Christendom. It has been. repeated- ly compared to the golden candlestiok or larapstand of the temple, which was a golden shaft with three pairs of arms proceeding from it, and Which waspop- ularly understood to be emblematic of the divine nature. The golden shaft here is the Spirit of the Lord, and his perfect fullness is ahowit by the pairs of graces now named—wisdom and un-. derstanding, . . counsel and might, . .• . knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. That is, intellectual and moral clearness, eight conclusions and the ability to carry them. out with en- ergy, acquaintanoe with the will of God and holy reverence. la. Of quick understa.nding in the fear of the Lord. The Hebrew word is also applied. to "sent", and oritics divide as to whether the meaning here is quick apprehension, perspicacity ot mind, or greet delight, an allusion to the hound or to the scent of flowers.. Another translation is, "He draws breath in the fear of the Lord," which is the most expressive definition of sinlessness, that sinlessness which is the attribute of Christ alone. He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after s the hearing of his ears. The Imagery n not depend on his sight or his hearing Ephleoarriend is.ed. s0 with daring profound thatshould n reverence. ex- plained. Lt has a scent for good things. Ile will or his intellectual judgment, but all his judgments are in the fear of the r 4. With righteousness shall he judge. ✓ judgee in the East have been in all ✓ ages corrupt, but this man cannot be d bribed, or terrified. The peer are ig- nored by too many oriental judges. e "When thou goest to a magistrate, ✓ take a gift in thy hands;" but the poca- s have nd gift. The meek. "Who use no adroit or eloquent words to win the ear."—Bannister. The earth. The hu - 0 men race. •The rod of his mouth. The words of his, mouth are like a rod. In y another piece they are oompared to a sword. The breath of his lips. A poe. tic phrase for his judietaa sentence.. • 5. Girdle, A belt by which the mit- ✓ ward loose -flowing robe was confined during active labor. One's habits are often represented as one's clothing. All. the character of this coming One was kept together in consistency by righteousness and faithfulness, 6-8. An the ferocious animals of -- Palestine are here inentioned; each one is coupled with the domestic ani- mal which is its natural prey. Our Lord speaks of the way in which vvol- vas harried sheepfolds. Little kids could run out along precipices where no beats of prey could follow Went but the leopard, which can keep on its feet like a cat. In the •East hay is not used as an article of food, but oxen are fed with -chopped. straw. On the hole should be "near to the hole!" the playground of the babe eheuld be close to the den of. the asp. Exactly which of all poisonous reptiles are meant by asps and °cicatrices is not certain. ,They were fabled to poison even with their breath. Power over beasts was greatly coveted in the an- cient East, and charmers were re- e garded as supei na tura! I y gifted. To prove their power with the gods Egyptian priests played with serpents and crocodiles, But; in the happy time that was conaieg such wisdom. and skill should be given to he lit- tle children. 9. They. The evil beasts and the civil, and morel forces symlsolized by them. My holy mountain. The mountain tiled of Judah, and symboli- cally the redeetnea world. No com- ment can make the last part of this verse simpler or more beautiful than the words themselves. • 10. In that day. The time of which the whole lesson teaches. The Re- vised Version of this verse is a great improvement. A root of Jesse. From which the "branch" of verse 1 has sp:ung. stand. "Standet lie• An ensign of the people. A standard of the nations. The Gentiles. The na- tions. His resL shall be glorious. His resting place shall be glory. A BETTER PRICE. A clergyman was very much vexed by one of his congregation. An old. man used to go to sleep during the sermon. The clergyman offerea the old man's •grandson a penny if he woutd keep hts grandfather awake. This went all right for a month, One Sunday the old man went Le sleep as usu.al. The elergyman asked the boy why he did not keep his grandfather awake. The boy nnswered: You offered me. ft penny to keep him awake, but grandfather gives me two- pence not to distarb him. WHY? Why isn't a drunken steer corned beef? Why not two boot blacks a pair 'of rubbers? Why shouldn't one expeet to find tieks on a watch dog ? , Why don't more people follew (he ecivice they' give to others Why &Pee "the deSire to make a fool of tine's self spriag eternal in the hu- man breast. Why doee -a netn boot a dog, shoo ben, foot 5 bin, cap a climax and Weal. 1 elninfe t REPAIRS WANTET. After a recent railway collision in Mithends, a Solemn n was extraeted frord the wreckege by a compauion who had escaped unhurt. Never mind, Sandy, Ms reeoner re- niarked, it's nothing sextons. And you - 11 damages for it. Damages? roared Sandy. Hate I no ha' eneuch 1 Gelid sakes, it's repairs I'm seeking the Roo! DE,MANDING THE BEST, suppo-e, 'slid the somewhat sttreaas tic railway official, that you'd like a private Oar; No, , said Mr. EresttiS ,Pinek- t doesn't went no private tele r 1,y,,nt you to prednetly Unduhstan' officer Nve ain't none too good ioh Me.