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NOT:119 AND COMMENTS.
When there is so mach war talk in
the air, it is but natural that inquire
ies should be instituted as to the re-
lative fighting forces a Creat Britain
and tbe. other powers. When it
comes to blows the Ithaviest battalions
Win in the long run, and it is interest-
ing to know how Great Britain etands
LI war shtaild eorae. Her supremacy
•on the email Le not questioned, for it
has been the British policy for many
years to keep the navy at least equal
to that of any two of the Euxopean
powers, and it is probably considerable
ware than that to -day. The fleets of
Great Britain could undoubtedly over-
come to the combined fleets of Francis
and Russia. But in land forces Great
Britaiu stands, so far as statisties
Show, finite at the foot of tile list.
The estimate of the total war strength
on land is 638,000 men, which in-
cludes all reserves, while France could
put in the field nearly 5,000,000 fight -
hag men and Russia about the same
number, And yet these figures do
not tell the whole story by any means.
There is an mrartacrus population in
Great Britain's colonial possessions
which might be drawn upon in ease of
erriergeney.
It will be remembered that at tbe
close of the Tuxkish-Russian war arid
just prior to the Berlin congress this
same question of England's fighting
etrength came up, and Lord Beacons-
field, then prirae minister, to show
what resources of mea might be drawn
upon, brought an army corps of Se-
"poys through the Suez Canal and dis-
embarked them at Malta. It was a
sort of grand stand play in the pres-
ence of Europe, but it was quite ef-
fective. It was at this time the jin-
goes came into note and prominence
through the well-known refrain to a
popular war song:
We don't want to fight, bnt, by jingo,
if we do, .
We've got the ships, we've got the
• men, we've got the money too.
It was a revelation even to Eng-
lishmen that they did have the men.
The late campaign in the Sudan,
ending with the overwhelming defeat
of the dervishes by an army composed
largely of Egyptian tenths, the very
lowest class of laborers, has also been
a revelation. Sixteen years agb, the
old Egyptian army was the laughing
stock of Europe for its unexampled
cowardic,e. "The proper vocation of
the fellah,'" said Load Charles Beres-
ford, "is ditthedigging." Bat mighty
is the power of drill, and the despised
fellah has become a hero worthy of
comradeship with the British -soldier.
Lord Kitchener virtually made the
army with which he conquered the
Sudan out of the supposedly coward-
ly fellah. When it comes to counting
fighting men. therefore, these colonial
resources of Great Britain must be in-
cluded, and it can be readily seen that
the can put armies in the field that
could tope with the armies of any
European power.
OFF GUARD.
The 7frogt Careful Mau W seineitine
Dane n 31114take.
On the day after the recent rob-
bery of a. bag of due thousand sover-
eigns from the Bank of England was
announced, a depositor at a private
banker's office near by expressed. his
opinion with great emphasis while
transacting his own business,
"Such monstrous carelessness was
never known 1" he declared. "The
gold was taken from the counter un-
der the eyes of the bank clerk andtlie
messenger. The thief got away with
it before he was seen by any detective,
and. before anybody knew that any-
thing had been taken. Everybody
seems to have been asleep except the
light-fingered robber.
THE VALLEY OF DOM
REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACREa FROM
AN IMPORTANT TEXT,
Vac teems -aro; rist" the armed mita thq
aorgettan---No Pardon Heaven Witte
Out the Irrtend4litn or !L -We Con,
not Always Stay on thl,4 Earth-4We
Deathdlett Scenes -Tee De. Says There
Xing Doubt About There Drina TWO
Worlds, Heaven end Dell,
A despateb, from Washington, D.C.,
saysi-Dr, Talmage preached fxone the
aollowing text 1-aliaultitudes, multi-
tudes in the valley of deeision."-Joel
iti- 14.
The text describes' a confliet going
on between God's friends and his ene-
mies in some great valley of the earth.
It is the last great battle between
the forces of light and the forces of
darkness. It ies the army of the n.a-
dons, and the prophet looks off upon
It, He sees it is going to be no drawn
battle, bat that the matters at issue
between the two armies will be thor-
oughly decided, and therefore he ealls
it the valley of decision. ,
There are reasons why this house to-
night may take the same nomenclatere.
I don't believe that in ell this house
there is one careless soul. We often
talk about those who are careless, but
in looking over this audience to -night
I feel that whatever be the motives
that have brought you' here, you now
feel that you are on the way to eter-
nity, and. you want to know whether
you are going to the right or going
to the left. There are matters, to-
night, of itainite moment, to come to
a settlement. There are stupendous
issues at stake. I tremble with anx-
iety as 1 look down upon this audi-
ence and I cry :-"Multitudes!
tildes 1 in the valley of decision."
When. I was studying law, I used to
Jle, in the court -house a good deal, and
the most thrilling moment that lever
knew there was the time when the jury
came in, and they were about to ren-
der aide verdiete The court -house is
filled with spectators; the man is on
trial for his life; the "-counsel for the
State and for the defendant have spok-
en; the jury, after long retirement,
say they are ready to render a ver-
dict, and they take their place in the
room, Then the clerk of the court rise
es and says: "Gentlemen of the jury,
who shall speak for you?" "The fore-
man," they say. Then. the elerle says:
"Foreman, do you find the defendant
guilty or not guilty?" The momenebe-
tween the time when the question is
asked by the clerk, and. the moment
when the foreman gives the verdiet
cre the jury, is tbe most thrilling mo-
ment ever seen or felt in a court -room.
To -night, I feel that we have empan-
neled a great jury, not of twelve men,
but of thousands; all the arguments
about God and eternity, and. your own
souls, have been made, the Judge of
earth and heaven has given his charge,
and now you are to render a verdict.
The question: is, guilty or not guilty?
May the Spirit of all grace come down
upon ray heart and upon yours, that
we may be enabled now to discuss the
four or five great issues that are im-
pending.
The first question which yoti are to
decide is, whether you will adhere to
she, or renounce it. I don't ask you
to give up the pleasures of the world.
I think there Is no man on earth has
so much right to the pleasures of this
world as the Christian. Tell me one
thing that God ever allowed an uncon-
verted man to do that He denies a
Christian. God never puts a man who
comes to Him on the limits. If you have
one joy now, and will become a Chris -
piste you; it will not rob you of a sin -
tiara you wall have ten thousand joys
then. The grace of God will not de -
"Clerk, messenger and detectives
ought to be sentenced to prison for
four months of hard labor. It would
be a timely warning against the conse-
quences of criminal carelessness. Ev-
erybody in a, bank ought to have his
witsabout him and to keep his eyes
upon the gold that is in front of him!"
The worthy men grew red in the
face as he expressed his scorn of oare-
less and sleepy clerks and messengers,
and 'strode out of the banking office
witb an air of virtuous indignation.
Twn hours afterward he returned with
an anxious face.
"Dia. I leave my money behind me
when I was here this morning ?" he
asked, abruptly.
"Yes," aped the elerk, grimly. "We
found it On the side -counter after
you. had. gonee
The severe critic, who had wished to
pumah careless clerks by coralertining
them to hard Jabot as convicts, had
left behind him a bag containing sev-
eral thousand pounds in seeurities.
at am gxeatly relieved," he. said, "to
find. it here. I could not tell 'Whether
hnd left it in a cab, or whether I
hid been robbed in, the street."
This man had. been as confident of
his own vigilance as the chief of the
cein delivery service of the Bank of
ingland had been a few years before.
He had boasted that it woeld be im-
possible for anybody to rob a dolly-
eryeivagon evhicili was under his
charge. e
The officials acceded quietly to pot
his vigilance to the test. One day
• he was sent tvith fonr Merl to it rail-
.wa y fruition to receive, from an incom-
• ing train it lerge amount of gold.
They mitried the gold to their &alive
toy waterier, but while they were put -
tine ft in, a bank aetective, cleverly
(I 1 'IP d in appearatee, etteeeeaed in
'TIT) thing up a beg conteining a
t ',cruse sovet eigns, aid evalking
away- with it maim" laisacoat.
The bag wee not missed Until the de-
livery tneesengers arrived et the bank
eta transferred the gold to the melte.
They were utterly cliermayea wbee. the
!nee lvere cala the aeteetive
reodueed ttee taiseitig one,
of darketese for ever. I had a friend
who went to the 'wicket -door a a
prison to see a man who bad beim ins
oareerated. ale said to the maxi
"Come, 1 want to week to you." The
mate had lost both feet; they lated
been frozen off awing tithe of ine
toxication. ale oriewlea up to the
wicket, taen he gathered himeelt up
and 'storal as well as he eould, his
head still bandaged from wounds re-
ceived from the pollee when he was ar,
rested. And etanding there, tretab-
ling with his aebanchery oa,ral his
orioles, Jae looked into the face of My
friend, mad said; "The way of the
transgressor is hard," Oh, the beach
is stream with the wreak of those,
who, in frail erafts, have vote out on
this treacherous sea, For e time theY
sang defiance to wind and wave, but
after awhile a cloud came on the sky
-the peril dropped upon them,
gle satisfaction. There is not one thing
in all the .round of enjoyments that
will be denied you. God gives especial
lease to the Christian, for all sunlight,
all friendship, foe ell innocent bever-
ages, for all exhilaratiotts. I will tell
you the difference, You go irtto &fac-
tory, and you see only three or four
wheels turning, and you say to the
manufacturer "HOW is this? you have
such a large factory, and yet three-
fourths of the ivheels are quiet!' He
says the water is low. A few vveeks af-
terwards, you go in and find all the
spindles flying, and all the bands work-
ing -fitly, or a hundred, or five hun-
dred. a Why,' you say, "there is a
greet change here.'" "Oh, yes,' saae the
manufacturer, "(he water has leech
We have more power now than before."
come into this men's soul, who has
surrendered himself to God, and Ifind
there are faculties employed; but only
a part of Ins nature is Working. The
water is low. After a while I come in-
to that tames nature and I /Ind that
all his capacities, all his energies are
in tell play. I say there is it great
difference. The floodg of Divine grace
have pouted their steengt1 upon that
soua and whereas only a few faculties
were employed then, now all the ener-
gies and capacities of the seal are itt
full work. in other weeds, he. who ta-
males Christian is a thoosand times
more of men than he was before he
became ft Christian. The question to
decide, however, in Whether you will
give up positive sire or keep it. You
canittat beeorrie a child of God and ad-
here to Ana one of ymir transgressione.
The question is, whether it will pay
you to keep it, title no, sin -Will earan-
gle your taoral oriture; it will eat out
the vitals of your soul, end witen yeti
(mine along by the precipices of de-
stination, it will come Nihau./
you, ena With skinny handle petal
you off for ever. Sin never pays. It
minglee eup of gall for your life ;
it twists a whip of seorpiong for your
back; and , wheel. you, Ira petit lave
inorrienis, sterol ori the cold atebatilles
ef death, it will come up and blow Out
the lest taper the( illumines yooe
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Christian cominenian; Ana,. where it is I' Geimeived it ray duty to go. I en -
time. for me •to die, (tome elders of the tered the room. He was still sitting
Church 'tencl. Deny for my ascending un in, the bed though Le Ives marked
epiriafor the. last moment. He had a knife
; '
t
in las hand and was eating an apple.
An I entered the room 4 lifted the
knite as if to throw it atstrie, I said;
Stop! I leave. just come ..hero ete a
neighbor to alk to 'you it ' little. Put
clown that knife." Then I talked and
prayed with. Jilin, but .1. saw it was of
tense ; he paid tio attention, arid
teerapted what I said. I went away.
, A' few weeks after that, one hot gum-
Thereo
'll be o more sorrow there,'
mer ' night, people in all that neigh -
I feel a sympathy tvith What a am-
borheod got up and elosed their win-.
man said to me. I was told to come tewsa Why? that man a whom /
to her dying couch, and administer
spoke Was dying, aria at, the last mere
the. samament. I went with an elder,
went, with almost eupernatual en -
She said: "1 want i o belong to the
ergs, he cried out t Lost I lost I lost !"
Church. I am going up to be amem-
bee of the Church on earth.'" So I gave and the sound rang through the via -
bee of the Chiunh in heaven; but I
lp.ge. No wonder they closed their
don't want to go until I am a mein;
windowe on that -tot summer night.
Through the hoarse sea -trumpet her the sacrament, And then, she But I have seen others go up in
f top
they cried.: "Reef sail! 'Down hatches! said: "Now, I an in the Church, here triumph. I have read oe who said, I
Lash, fast the Ma:int" But it is too is the baby, baptize him; and here are can easily die as close my eyes in sleep"
e
late, They cannot make things sun- all the. children, baptize them all.
I Pant said, '•I annow ready to be of -
ay. The sea, like a foaming maniac, want to leave .thero. all in the Church." fered up: The time of ray departure
spits at the infuriate heaven, and So 1 baptized theme Some is at hand. I have fought: the goode years after, Lelia I have finished my eparee. 1
from horizon to horieon there ie one I was preaching one clay in Chicago,
ild have kept the faith. ',Hencefoi•ti, there
a
Wstruggle. of darkness and fire. and
at the 'close of the services, a lade aid up for me a crown of righteous -
The masts are twistee off, and. the soul came upon. the platfotm, and. said.:
is
ness
stoics, end there. a ere voices Li the "you don't know me, do you"?' No, , which the Lord, the righteous
judge, will give me." That dying tit -
wreck, , crying: "The end. thereof is seed I. "My name Or George, Parish.'
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death'!" Oh sin, alley put garlands on "Ate" said I; "I remember I baptized trireme makes .m thiok of the. eagle
your brow, it may press a chalice to you by your knotholes dying bed, didn't spreading its Wrings for flight to its
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your lips, but at last,. "it biteth like a I?" "Yes," he said.: "Yon baptized eyrie on the liffe. I had an uncle, a
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serpent and stingeth like an fidder." all of us there, and I came up to tell, the house one day, and. said te his
,
Quit the, path of ein, my deer breathe; you that 1 have given nay heart toaxocl. daughter, "I believe my timehascome."' She said, "Are . you sick?"
put your feet on the path to hea.ven. I thought you would like to know it."
Donn start with a Shuffling pace. Run "I am very glad," I replied t "but I "/ don't know what's the matter'with
for your life! Run to the mountainsi am not surprised. ;You had a good, me," he replied," but I am certain
my tune hall come." He laid down up -
Yea decide now whethey you will keep mother; that is almost sure to make
there is "the valley of decision."• mother." They were made neembers of
good oint a. match in perfect compoepre, close
sin or renounee it, God. knows that a boy -come• to God, if he has a
ed( his own eyes folded his hands, aria
,
I remark again, that you will decide the Church here to be members of the then begen to say, "The Lord is my
to -night whether you will have Christ, Mortalup Yonder. ' If 1 had the sherphera ; I shall not want. He
lataketh me to He down in green pas -
or refuse Him. There a,re some people time' I would. come down from this
tures; He leadeth ma besides the still
about whose friendship you, don't care, platform,. and. offer my hand to every waters. Yea, though I walk through
and there are others about whose man and woman in this church, .and
the valley of the shadow of death, I
friendshir you are aexy anxious. Let say: "Come, and. join us!" I wouldgive
wall fear no evil; Thy rod area Thy
me say there is no eardon or heaven you e personal invitation. We offer
.staff they comfort me. Thou pre -
without 1 he friendship of Christ. . If you. no applauded offers, no :worldly
prePareat a table fefore me in the pre -
Christ was a repulsive being; if He emolument, but oar prayers will come same of mine enemies. Thou anoin-
had a hard hand -if His whole nature.; mingle, and, we will do you good, for
-were repelling to you, I would not the Lord has promised. good corecerning test Ma head with oil; my cup runneth
Over. Surely -goodness --and- mercy
blame you for not coming to Him; but Israel. Come into the ranks. Don't
Heeis such a precious Jesus, lathy? be ashamed of the colours under tallith life-and-I--will-dwell
follow hie• all -the days of my
He • healed the lepers, , opened tae we fight. The whole people of God life-and-I--will-dwell in. the house
ed. up the fallen, pa,rdoned the impare, , thou goest I will go' "thy people shall
cure& el'ilePeies' will rise up as one man to .welcome. -of-the Lord for ever." , And when
isheci life. Bretwieen, these two death -
eyes of the blind,
pleurisies, dropsies, palsies. He lift-. he: heel ftnishectethe psalm he had fin -
You, and. you will now say: "Where
beds ahoose ye -between the rough of
filled earth and heaven with kind ' be my people • and thy, . G'ocl. my there
looks, loving words, and gentle foot- Where thou diest will I die, and there that storm, and the dropping, of that
sunlight. Why go howling out of the
steps; bared His brow to aria thorn, will I be buxied. The Lord do to me,
His back to any scourge, His feat to . any and more also, if aught but death part world like a fiend, when you can go
singing like an angel.
spike, His soul to any anguish. • Oh, thee and met", This night, this. hour, I heat a cry
owning up from the
when I ask you to trust such .a Jesus iia the valley of decision.. " audience -it is a
am
s that -to put all your interests in I reark, further, that yoia are to unanimous ory, and it is this: "Let
the hands of such a Chrigt as that let my last end be like his."
decide now'whether you will have e
—T don't see hew you can sit there Christian death -bed, .or an unbeliever's Once mare !pave to say that you
are to -night -to deeied between a future
long. Jesus! Jesus 1 Jesus I Jesus i" think there are fifty 'petsons in
world of sorrow and a future world of
without crying out, "Lord, Jesus, I
come to Thee I., I have stayed. away tee cannot filways. stay here. I don't
departute, peramon sense tells us we.
That Saviour; . with bleeding heads, the joy. eIiskonnolwy otnheerkeinadreofthi,to,soerlawhaohesaedy,
and bleeding feet, and bleeaing side, house sixty years of age; I don't think and it is all sunlight and brightness,
and bleeding brow, and bleeding heart, there are iiiltY Persons in the ''house They say it is not possible there should
fifty years of age; I don't thbak there he a world of uffering in the future.
asks you to love Him. Oh, will you are twenty persons in the house . t0 They Him, "Away, away, thou wounded They sax God is weather ; He is ajudge
night. seventy years of age. Why? also, end. He is a King. They say God
one. Put not thy feet of blood, upon Life is euch a gauntlet that men can't coulci not allow suffering ' and be a
my soul. Back with thee into therun •t. Ob,. - 'something
wilderness of thy sorrow ;" Will emufather. Is there not suffering now?
stantly reminding me that we are is not t he whele earth groaning ?
say it? What will you do with Him? e l • . • - •a •
.
hey who stand e. throne befoee throneaway, along 'al" How do you explain the groaning
through thetautskirts of the city, for that comesup from China, - India,
'wiretapping Him, wonder what you I live in the outs.kits, I heard the France, 'Spain, America - the whole
will do with Him. Messenger angels leaves rattling under the wheel,
ell -and I cannot inaagine a ghastlier
.
and: earth. • , , . ,
earth and. heaven stands Looking off mons preaching all along this road,
hovering above us, gaze to see what I saw theyeavere being shaken down
you. will do with Him. The Church of by the wind. .1 thought, here are ser- hThere are two avorites-meaven and
into the text: "We all do fade as a ruin. than that which shall come upon
to the conflict, as from a tower roan fro
The forces of • teal,' fact' that while there's a beaven there's
look off upon a battle.
There is something in the
..light now triumph for your soul, and
passing of the seasons, something in {het Minister, who, in this day hides the
now the forties of darkness gain vie.- a hel.l. If the Bible is lone, then there
the withering of the grass, something
in the floating of the clouds, some- there are two worlds. They are just as
thing in the tramp, tramp, tramp of different; as possible; the one is all
" light, the other is all darkness; the one
the pulse, that says: "passing away.
e in all holiness, the other all. sin. I
Wcannot look at a watch to see the
won't now stop to quote a dozen Pas-
tinae, but we hear in the tick; -passing
aWay;" or look at the hand, .but we see s.agesT Might to prove that there are
" two worlds. You certainly believe that
in its movement; "passing away.
Grey hairs are on . many of you - there is a world of light -you have
se many loved ones there you are wit -
solemn prophecies of the tomb -deeper ling to admit it. •But those who go
wrinkle's and more of them. Oh, it is out into darkness will go there for
ever. The long -roll of the ages will
not break the . chain or illumine
the darkness. No hope, no aeace, no
offer of mercy, no God. On the folds of
the storm ehall be written the words;
"Destroyed without remedy ;•• and the
sea of suffering, dashing up, shall
surge an the ear the same doleful
tones: "-Destroyed without remedy;"
and the, heavens echoine - with the
thunders that boom and break, and
burst over all that latut of desolation,
shall reverberate amid the mountains
of death: "Destroyed without reme-
dy.' ' •
But in contrast with that world;
God holds out, one of perfect enchant-
ment. All the weeds in the language
expressive of joy and exhilaration are
brought to describe that blessed place.
Gather up all the peeing' of the sea,
and all the diamonds of the field, tknd.
all the golei of the 'mountain, and Makes
them ,spell one 'evoyd: "Heaven ;" Gath-
er. up all the flowers of the field.and
twist them into .garlands, each word
e.garland, and let it .spell "}leaven.'
Oh,.it seems as.if all the latau.ag'e was
heaved, up ante that theone and set in
that jasper work, and. swung in .that
pearly gate, and- we can almost hear,
the surf dash of the -dueled sea, arid
the clapping a the cymbals in .the•
alb,.eu to any raptured ear e
Let one sweet.'song be given ;
Let music; them. nie last on earth,
And geeet pe first ha heaven,
There'll be tio more sorrow there,
Thereat be no more eorrow there -
an heaven above,
Wasere all is love,
tory against ; the tide of battle wav-
ing forward, backward -forward, back-
ward. And this the valley of decision.
remark further, that you are to
decide now whether you will have
Christian association or unchristian. I
don't apologize for anything that is in
the Church. You say there are great
many wrong things about; t know it.'
There are very mean men in the
Chuxch-very proud men -very incone
a thinworld. The flowers fade,
sistent men. There are merauers of and the sets, and the fountains
the Church that I wouldn't trust wieli
a five cent piece. And yet want dry up, and, if we should close our
"t eyes to all these things, we still would
you to understand that the vast ma, hear the rattle of the hearse, and the
jority ot those who have connected falling of the clods, and the mournful
themselves with the people of God are tones of the funeral service: "Ashes to
not of that sort. There are a great ashes, dust to dust." I saw three pro..
many mean bankers; does that make cessions two or three weeks ago in one
you ashamed to be a banker? There
clay one was a gay, festal comeany,
are. mean merchants; does that make going out, with batiners flying, and
you ashamed to be a merchant? There
music playing; another was a wedding
are mean lawyers; does that make you
prooeseion, moving into the claurch, the
ashamed to be a lawyer? No ! The
organ sounding the Wedding March,
fact that there are dishonorable men the people congratulating; the other
itt any profession is nothing against
leas a procession to the grave, i he only
the profession; and the fact that there
music the gound of breaking hearts.
are inconsistent Christians is nothing Oh, we are passing away. Some one
against Christianity • and. nothing
ethe will stand here and preach; others,
against the Church. If' I mistake not, strangers to you, will sit there and
some of those whose names are prec-
here; another will lead you in sacred
ions to you, once belonged to it. They
taisemr jalsdh they
yn
drank the -wine of its
take waters at its bap_ song. All gonel Some will lip from
a high place, ana have tke life dashed
holy coramunion, t they were thrill- °at! Some will fall before the hot blast
of a raging fever; some .will cough
ed with its glad tidings, and when
their life away in hasty coneumption;
they died, they went oft wafted by the
some will. be struck through with the
prayers of o Christian conemunion.
sharp knife of the pleuriey; some will
When you were boys and girls you „
didn't understand why father and eau down with alsotilexa. All are
hundreds and thousands of
mother always went to cburch. It Passing -
seemed so strange to you, that they , aeoPie 'will move alpag these very
, streets but will not meet us. The slab
could go out, through storm and aark- . .
•coveiing us will tell. • when we .were
ness, and. sit in . the, plain country
born, and when we •died, and loved eternal orchestra, and the sounding
meeting -house. ' You know now. They
could my; "How amiable are Toy ' ones will plant eaPressoand the white up ef the hosanna, higher than the
tabernacles, oh, Lord of hosts." • They,
beside us, but we will not be waves leaping above Eddystone light -
didn't rare how" the building looked tames
. it awake to appreciate the kindneds. The house, daelang higher than the throne,
•
was full of the glory of the Lord when
city clock will strike, but we Will not and •filling .all .the- city of the sun as
they got there. • Thcrai parentswho aro haar it; tbe °anemia. e al the
gone -how they did. love the Church,' national holiday will shake
They could say with the: Psalmist: "t the hills) it °will not ' kindle bur ex -
right hand forget her eu,nning-
let roe,. ultation; weddiog bells will chime,
if e and. huezas fit the return of eterthn
I forgot thee, oh, jeruselem;
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy, lel; ma tongue, shrivelled and pal-
eied, cling to the roof of ray mouth."
Thee* are gone now. They nave no
.more need of sitting in an earthly riot come in out of the chilling damp-
claureh. They stand Ira the euraburst of nese. No sound for the ear, no sight
eternal glory. They have no mere for the eye, no friendly grasp for our
need. of these songs we are fringing. hand. Gone from the school; gone
They have joined the great choir of
heinared and forty-four thousand,
from the church; gooe from all Chris -
arid the thth
eusands of onsaride that tien earthly aex``aiatims' gone from
thread around the throne. They are the places of business; gote for ever!
gone, but they belonged. to the chureh !But there le a,triumpleant and there
one% and you can't forget It.. Oh the is ea ignominious way of getting out
Lord. hag gathered from all denomioa- of this life, and. we come here to thecae
tions, ant feeta all Janda a very seleet which itehallbe. elaoteaairtiese t
solreye
peciple, They belopg to the Methodist, People who 4iejutbec
Baptist, Episcopalian' Congregational, trIDSt. They ehiver at; they hear the
Presbyterittai. I don't afire where the/ wind blowing up from the cold jordan.
belong, think less and le ee cif the di They wrap around them closely the
farenea betWeeet Chrietiatis. One Lord, 04Vetell of their death-cotich, and they
one faith, 'Otte bat1ritOn, Ona erase one trete:Isla el4 leoff eM side to side, as
Christ, oots doxology, mai triumph: one the deer When thfee hennas ere oomitig
beseech. Oh, / evatit 93 belong to the dpWri the wind, Oh, It is a floleme
afitirek would not trialre. Ater mine table, to hear the pale hoespeeving
striettme f.rom the °burgle beoks to have et• tbe doer-sili. I have Seth Men go
it written ttpon tile pi:Crudest triumph- U41 &L triumph 1 have seen man go
al, arch fleet Wag (Wet eteotcialjoir a vie., cloven into aneltnees. In my first par -
tor. II Want JAY name t e sante igh, at nelleallies 'tait/tW XeraeIatfas
Y,
book where ma father mid mother hat °tee( trent t t' ecie a dyieg man. t was
Moire reemated Sty years ago, While ttad thet he forbadeaerly Christian
pathway, leaVing you in the aliie,krieee I live 'Want to lire n the "'net
haae started for heaven. Good cheer
to all of you who are 'seeking' after
God. Press on with all thy:heart, and
soak, and might, and strength. He ie
waiting fog you. Perrier. for every
oae in tale house to-idgat, Some of
you, my clear' brothers, heVe been
waiting ten, twenty, fo•rty, sixty, eigh-
ty years, and you are net getting bite
the kingdom of Gott, Viehy etoi now? You
have been told what it' is to sit down
with Chriet on thrones of dominion,
and. you bave been told as plainly what
it Is to eit down in lost eternity.
God save the peoelea Quickly may
they fly for refuge before the storm
comes, and now may the onanipoteut
SPiria breathe upon this "multitude in
the valley of decisione1
The same person may nave two dif-
ferent; tones of voine. Jesus hue two
tones of voice. He now addresses you
with one tote. The time swill come
when, if you reject Him ,He will ad-
dress you in another tone. To. -night
he says, with infinite gentleness and
love, "Come unto me; all ye who are
weary ancl heavy laden, and I will give
you rest." Reject His mercy, and at
the last day He will say to thse. who
have cast him off, in another tone, a
deeper tone, a condemning tone:
cause 1 called and ye refused, end
stretched out my hind, and no. man re-
garded it, therefore I will laugh at
your calamity, and, niock when your
fear cometh."
mighty ones will be pounded, but our
voice vvill not join in the a.cclanaetion.
Gott& The, light will break forth in
the east; we won't stand in it.. The
evening shadows will. gather; we will
with "the VOJE;e 01 roshing .waters.1'
• Oh, that blessed land, may I come to
it? Oh, that, blessed land, are pyou
'coming to. ? It seerna .to • be ' very
neer to -night. ' Sometimes in our pray-
ers heaven seems to be a great way off.
It seeiras near to me to -night. It seems
aseif I could reach my beta and clasp
the hands of those who stand on the
other side of the flood, and 'sera:
:lad] I • blessed spirits." I listen, •and.
a voide oomee, ringing clown theciugh
the night air,, "Hail! Hail!" Bright
spirits of the bleeeed, heve you really
come in sight? I weve'this greeting.
Hail! Haile
"'There 'shall 1 bethe my weary soul,
In seas of heavenly rest;
And not a _wave of trouble ran
Acros$ my peaceful lareast.". •
"To -day, if ye will hear His voice,
Now is the time to nealte your choice.
Say will you to Mount Zion go?
Say will you have this Child Or no?"
111E SUNDAY SCHOOL,.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. I&
" The AtNyrian Invasion." 2 Kings ee. 20-22
2847. Donlon Text, 'Psalm 44-1.
PRA.CTICAL NOTES.
Verse 20. Isaiah the son of Ainoz.
This prophet, now in advancing years,
was, according to Jewish tradition, both
of priestly and of royal blood. He was
profoundly esteemed during most of
his career by the people at large, and
such a source of national strength was
he that he might have been called,
what the Israelite king called Elislaa,
the borses and chariots the standing
army of, the nation. Sent to Hezekiali.
This fact shows that the devout king
recognized the prophet of God as out-
ranking him. The prophetic message
which was now sent begins in the forxn
of an address to Sennacherib, contemp-
tuously describing his vanity, haugh-
tiness and impiety; this is followed
by an address to Hezekiala with &pro-
mise and a sign of deliverancei for the
nation; and finally the failde of the
Assyrian invasion is announced. Thou
hast. prayed to mea,'Instea.d of rely-
ing on thine own resources and
strength." -Barnes. Prayer always wins
God's friendship.
2.1. This is the word that the Lord
bath .spoken concerning him. Concern-
ing Sennacherib, and acldreseed direct-
ly to him. The virgin, the daughter
of Zion. Always nations and cities have
been personified by (habeas aand poets,
and usually whea the personification
is friendly nations have been regarded
as women. Columbia, Britannia, Ger-
mania, are familiar modern examples.
The phrase " vitgin daughter" height-
ens the beauty and pathos of the pas-
ture. Sad to say in that age of war
and rapine the maidens of every coun-
try were regarded as among its chid,
treasures, not to be developed In beau-
ty, intelligence, and virtue, as with
us but to be stolen and sold as cap-
tives.. This fact, taken together with
Sennacherib's plans for the capture of
Jerusalem, sheds light on the phrases
here coupled' together, " virgin daugh-
ter of, Zion," and "daughter of Jer-
usalem" Zion was one of the hills 'on
which Jerusalem was founded, and is
Decide• row between the two worlds
for you are sure to come to one or the
other, and very soon, The one shouts
to you it is terror; the other chants
to you it is joy. Oh, will you Wear the
crown, or Will youclank tile chant ?
I take od and, you eolith to witness
that 1 have in all plainnese acted love
set before yell the tight and t lee wroag.
-bleeettia atel Cursing. Oh, ye "mill-
titudeg in the valley of decision,';
• beart quakes lest you make
it mistake. Will you, for the sake of
hugging "yeur sires a, little longer, arid
Fottmfalg a little more sordid eatth,
man from °carting into his tomes yet 1060 Year 10U1 for ever Some of Iron
often used as 0 name for the entire
city. Laugh thee to scorn. . . shak-
en her head at thee. Orientals, we
naust remember, are always demob-
strative. Any threat against liberty or
life would be sure to arouse either tre-
mors and wails and tears and the i;end-
trig uf garments or scornful la.ugliter,
the pointing of the finger and taewag-
ging of the head. Sennacheriles offi-
cers had seen only the symptoms of
terror, but jerusalem.'s streageh, for-
titude, and.confideace in arid were re-
newed by that message of his prophet;
•
therefore the e daughter of erutia-
leta " dries her tears and sings defi-
ance.
• 22: 'Wlmen hest thou reproached anti.
blasphemed? Sennaeheriles prompt
answer would be ."Hezekiah, but the
•prophet says it is not Hezelciah" who
has been condemned rior Hezekialas
guardian angel, bit "the Goa of Israel,
whose name is the Holy One." Al
Israel knew, even if Sennaeherib did
not, that "the tioly One of Isteel"hrta
overthrow0 every na,tion which.oppos-
ea hina, This title of the Deity is a
favorite one with 1aiah, It appears
in the Bible thirty-one • time, and
twenty-seven of these are in the pro-
phecies of•- Isai ah. •
• Verse 23 to 27 are omitted from the
lesson. They recount Senaticheriles
abeard self-ccinceit and his cruelty,
and assert that the elloly One of
Israel" hee thastened many einful na-
tions, who in their day had been used
to eonquer anddestroy ethee natiorts,
just. as A.ssaria was now used.
28. Thy 'rage and thy tumult. The
Revieed. Version substitutes "arra.
gamy" or "careless ease" foie "tti-
mali' "God speaks to Serinaclaerib
as an insulted masterneou)d speak to
a servant, who, puffed, up by 'the pew-
ee intruetea to him to do hie master's
Week, him tlefleabis master to inter-
fere with his carrying out his plena!'
netesaalitle, will pat my hook in thy
noge,
and my bridle in thy lips. "Lead
you like. it bull and driee you like it
horae." But the •imageey demi not
IOP in tbat tamiliee Ivay lin the
syrian sculpture§ there • are reprile.
eentations of erisondte brought to As -
with hookta faatened an the car-
tilege of the etrae ana the fleshy part
of the under lie, it toes tied to the
hook, aria the captive, earns led to re-
ceive hie .sentence. This was the fash-
ion in which Manasseh, one of the
viacked kings of juelaae was actually
brought to Balaylone It wee it tam.
near way of reaueing the pride of 4
emarmerea oriental Meg, So would
Gold. ebase Beamicheria ; not perhaps
wills this mama punisliment, but time
thorougbly and ornplctelY 1 will
turn thee -back by the way by which
thou °tiniest. With thy purpose une
accompliahed. Whatever the enemies
of the kingdom of God, have done
what he intended them to do he puta
his bridle in their mouths and leads
them batik by the way whieh they
came. Napoleon at Moseow Le ainioet
as fair an illustration, of thi$ as Sen-
GnoldG9h..e.tilebissapstahaftlleirru,snaeloeawDasit.gurirnal;lfnr(;o°11:ntSbeene-'.
nacherib' to Hezeklah. "The Jews
seek atter aasign," Paul says, Through.,
out 'the centuries of their • religious
training signs were teeelar offered to
Goa and his servants, 'Thee getter -
ally consisted in the prediction of some
neer evett whose occurrence was to.
serve as a pledge of the fulfillment of
another predietion of a till greater
and. more 'distant: event."-Thavalinton,
But such signs were ,not necessarily
miraculous. Ye shall eat this year
suh thinge as grow of themselves, eto. ,
flusbendry had • been .suspended be-
cause of this great Aseyr•ifio war. The
invaclees had come in ibe early spring,
and no solving could be done.. In the
autumn, therefore. all they could gath-
er would be what had sown: iteelf,
what grew up from the leavings of the
former crop. "In the fertile parts ol
Palestine, especially in the plain :of
Jezreel, on the highlands of Gelilee
and elsewhere, the grain and' cereals
propagate themselves in abundance by
the, ripe ears, whose sueerabundarthe
no one tuses."--Keil. In the second
year. . . the same. Probably in the
second year the Assyrians were still in
the land, or had left it so • recently
that order bad not been restored in
rural. aistricte. "rhe devastation by'
their armies have been great. There-
fore the regular work and 'mops fail-
ed again. In the third year ' sow -ye.
This part of the sentence es a pro-
phecy. "So certainly as ye htivelived
one year on the chance produce and
one year on after -growth, just. ".m.cer-
tainly shall ye. sow and 'reap in ebe•
third year, for the land shall be free
from Assyrians."
30. The remnant that is emane&
shall be like the self -producing grain.
Take root downward, and bear fruit
upward. "Such is the prosperity of
the soul. It takes root downward by
faith in Christ, and then bears up-
ward the fruits of righteoueness." --
Henry.
el. Out of Jerusalem shall ko. The
best of Inc kingdom had fought refuge •
within the great walls of Joruialem.
Those of the peasantry- that had not
beeo captured hastened to the °natal
far security. In the quickly approach-
ing times of peace these should. again '
go forth and resettle the land. But
that is not all. "It is the deterniinae,
Lion of God, adopted of old, that fa -ma
Jerusalem, though distressed e .and ap-
parently lost, coeval= awl .
tion of every sort shall go toeth."
Professor Surcuthee The zeal of .the
Lord. of bests shall do thie. "We have
reason to ;think ourselves unworthy
that God should do great things for
us, but his own zeal performs theme'
Hegry'God now turns frata* (he two•
kings, arranacherib and Ilezekieh, to „
the. people at large, and notifies all tnitea
concerned of the follore of the As--
syrian invasion. He shall not mime in-
to thth city. He was probably about
forty miles from it, Ohough his troops
must have come close up to 1 he walls.
Nor shoot an arrow, etc. There shall
be no siege.
33. Shall he (return. Ile shall be
forced to retrace his steps. For "'mine
own sake, ant for my- servant David's
sake. This was one of the few hours
in the world's history when the ous-
tody of the divine revelation semnede to
be imperiled; therefore the promised
delivery was for the Lord's ONV11 sake.
But in David's fatally was wrapped tip
all hope IA the -Messiah; theeefore it
was for Davia's sake. • • ,
35. The angel of the Lord.went out,
What, sort of messenger this . was,
whether [what we cell "natoral" or
heavenly, -whethervisible or invieible,
we do not know and need not conjee-
-ture. In any ease the fatal stroke
N.vias dieine. • A. hundred fourscore.ini
five thousand Suddenly and affinity
the lives of one loincired and eighty-
five thousand men were taken. Those
who arose. early in the morning sine
vivad the stroke. that killed the others.
Dead corpsea is an old. phease, thole
3oyurgittn
hleygood English at the time it was
36. Departed, and went and return-
ed, and dwelt. Gave up his effort in
chagrinclanged his pain, retraced his
steps, and stayed thereafter at home.
• 37. As he was Worshipping in the
'house of Nisrocla hes god.. Bad. as be
was, Sennacherib was devout, but bis
own gorl could riot soya much less give
ban success. Ilia eons • smote him.
"Opp:leant:Ty to gain ,the kingclona, bat
• they hd eo, floe for their lives, •end
the younger SOIL ESar-111{1dcal, OW Of
ihPgsrresci
ter.:,..Assyrith , `kings, reigeed
inii
nTt isBsIttaPtI°13;17 hINitt S-e°h1.0317IIMI pAePriRail an.-
thaaities 'here decided to establish a
layge and permanent' military camp in
Natal, says ' the African 'Reverie. The n
existing camp at lendysinitb i to be
enlaaged so as ja provide ler 10,000
men, :end a cionsidetabie sum bas al-
recely been set aside Inc the iaitial
works, There i$ everytabeg to recom-
mence such a plan from the Imperial
Point_ of view, Natal is as cheap 65
any part of tee Empire, and it en-
joys a splendid climate. La y sin it le
the proposed site of the camp, •,Iffords
every facility "'for training troope 31
the special methods of South African
CL
iwna lalcacroca nai.8faocl 1.1hveh 16nha niase (c?'
have• recently taken place. So far as
Natal is coneetnea, 'the move is de-
tidedly popular. Noe is it meant for
figgreetrion, hut is a sitemie 'recegra-
ttiheanA 0.‘fvotilade8,fac, t tithe ,cleecle arc' eetter •
Man neeer overlook a ehance to (eke
ni eacetieta, but. different With gee'
metete. •
•
,
Time improve.% OVC:ry(tiing het wom-
en; they, oc eonrses have beeo pritf.eut
item the . beginning