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Lc once the aultan haa overreachee
lineelf, end in so doing has upper -
aptly minuted. tee knell oil Ottomaix
Tule in Crete. TI e passive attitude, it
not open aid, of the Turkish troops dar-
ing ibe massaere a ilritish soldiers at
Caudle on Sept. 6, afforded euffielent
evidence of lbe complieity of the Turk-
ish ofeielals wine the Mossillman riot-
ers, if the fact that the =Unary Noe -
/Zander is a trusted and eonfidential Rev. Or. Talmage premixed. from I e
eervant of the Sultan, did not prove following text; "..Seeing tbat his life
is I bound. up e '.'.
thme at the crihad the latter's approv-
in thlads lire ' -Cu
el. Earope, therefore, winch in the -
cry had secured the cession of ardond. Them words were spoken by Judah
as descriptive of the tenderness and
my to Crete, bat whieh lead failed to
the affection which Jacob felt to -
give its effect, lartly because of its
ward Benjamin, the youngest soli of
desire to curry favor wit le the Sultan,
that patriarchta family ; hut they ere
had the question a the fu.ture of the rds just as appropriate to hUndreas
island tlarust upon it in the most dale -'°e e
gerous form. For a year and a ee"
half 1 r ,.rents hi thie house- "eieee his life
emend
its fleets hi surroteaded Clreie, not , lnp in tlxe, lad's life." 1es.
to oompel the witlidrawal of tile Turk- I 'nava known parents that seemect to
have but little interest in their ehil-
(hen. A fatlex says: "ely son most
look out for himself. If he oomes up
well, all right; if he tures out badly,
I cannot laelp it. 1 ant not responsible
for his beitevionr. lis must take the
'TER TINES
THE DUTY OF PARENTS.
You eteffed that cnild with religion
me to be an utter Where," Al, uey
friend, you innite a, very great inistake.
Mall he could not digest 'it ; you made
that widen is a joy in many bonen
bolde, an ableorreece in Yellen A. marl
in inid-life said to me: "I eaten become
a Christian. In my 'father's boom I
got 'suet a prejudice agaiest religion,
I don't want any of it. ely fa tiler was
one of the best men. that ever lived,
but; he had sucle severe notions aboat
things, and be jammed veligitne down
my throat until I don't want tiny of
erred in thet direetion.
it, sir," 'thole have been some 'Who heve
There are lionseholds where mother
palls mee way and. father pulls 1,1 e
other. Father says: " My on, I toll
Ya' the first time I caught you in a
falsehood fleet I would chastise you
for it, and now I am going to do
lelother nip: " Don't; let him di
this time." In some families it is all
scolding and fretfulness 'with the child;
from Monday morialng to Saturday
niglit, it it3 that style of oulture. The
boy is picked at, and picked, at, and
picked at, Now, you. might better give
one sound chastisement and leave done
with it, than to indulge in the, perpet-
ual scolding and fretfulness. There is
niore health in one good thunderstorm,
than in three or tour clays of oold
drizzle,
not err on the side that parent has
Here is a parent who says: "I will
erre& hi being too strict with his chil-
dren. I will let mine do aa thee Please.
If they want to come in to prayers
they min; if they want to stay out
they eau; if they want to PlaY al, ear"
they can; they can do anything tlaey
please, there shall be no hindrance.
Go it I Here are tickets for the onere
and theatre, son; take your friends
with you; d.o whatever Yen desire'''.
beast looks after its young. I have
gone through the woods on a stwamer's One day, a gentleman conies in from
ia a bird's neat, and 1 hese climbed up the bank to his father's office, and
ss:" They weal: to see sett over at
tbe bank. a minute. Patlefr goes ja-
cket, and I have heard a great outorY
to see that was. the matter; I found to the baek. The cashier earn " Is
out that the birds were starving, and that year cheque ?" Father looks at
that the mother -bird had gone off, not it, and says: "No, I never gave that
to COMO back again. But that is an cheque; I never erose a ''T' in that
wee; it is not my cheque; that's for-
exceptien. It is generally the ease gery ; send for the poltee 1" " Ali,'
that the old bird will pick your eyes saes the cashier, "don't be so quick ;
out rather than let you conie nigh its your son did that!" The fact was that
brood. The lion will rend you in circles, and ten and line, dollars went
the boy had been out in dissipating
V. if you approach too nearly the in thee. direction, and he had been
whelps. The fowl in the batnyard, treated, and he had to treat others,
clumsy -footed and heavy -winged, flies and the boy felt he must have five
fiercely at you., if you some too near circle. That night, the father sits op
hundind dollars to keep himself in that
tha little group, and God intended ev- for the son to come home. It is one
ery father and mother to be the pre- o'clock before he comes into the hall.
He metes in very much flushed, his
tection and the help of the child. Jesus eye glaring and his breath offensive.
comes into every dwelling, and says Father says, " My son, how can you
to the father or mother: You. leave do so ? I have given you everything
been looking after this child's bode you wanted, and everything to make
and mind; the time has .Coe `when you comfortable and. happy, and now
f find in ray old age that you are a
you. ought to be looking after its ire- spendthrift, a. libertine, and a drunk -
mortal soul." I stand before hundreds ard r The son says: " Now, father,
of people with whom the question what's the um of your talking in that
way I You told ine I might have agood
morning, noon, and night is, "What is itntigne,nnan:nutor fo it. I heve been a.ct-
to become of this child ? What will ' enlee
be its history-? vow it, : ge eeth. • another parent e.eril'rr on°4ther other,
OW
_en"\vn ;eon- to strike a happy medium he -
virtue on vice 1
- tweeze severity and too great /eniencY,
Penne.. en 'a vessel and train our sons and daughters for
that foundered. The hoets were umfulness on earth and bliss in limy-
lannchede many of the naeseng,ers en, is a question which agitates ev-
wese struggling in the watex. A moth- tenihiils\den. household in my cortgre-
gezaTti
women have failed, it is steange that
er with one hand beat the wave, and ' heie so many good men and
with the, other band lifted up her lit- we ehmild sometimes doubt the pro-
tle child towards the life -boat, crying: neiete of our theory and the acouraeY
of our kind of government.
"Save ray <child! Save my child."
Tee impassioned •
outcry of that nmtber Anxiety on the part of parents arises
is t.he prayer of hundreds of Claristian from a consciousness that there are so
peoeiee .w.ho sit listening this morning Jenny ieraptations thrown all around.
while I' speak. I propose to show some
Med.
of the melees „of parental anxiety, and
then. how that Anxiety raay be allevi- impossible to take a castle by siege --
straightforward siege -but suppose in
our Yeeng people. It may be almost
I fina the first, cause of parental the night there is a traitor within,
and he goes down and draws the bolt,
anxiety in the ineefeciency and im-
perfection of parents nhemselves. We
have a slight hope, all 4. us, that our
children may escape aux- feents. We
hide our imperfections and think they
evill steer dear of them. Alan, these
is a door prospect of that. There is
more prelahiliter that they will chooee
our vices than choose our virtues.
There is something like sacredness in
parental iraperfections when the child
loons open them. The folly of the
parente is not so repulsive when the
child looks at it. He says: "father
indulges io it; mother indulges in it;
L. can't be ee bad." Your boy, ten
in the ease of the Christian provinces years of age, goee up a back street
hmokiiag his digete-aii old stump that
of Turkey raark-s the final extinetion he found. in the street -and a neigh-
.
of Turkish rule, necessity for the es- bour accosts him tuad says: "'What are
tablishment of a strong government you doing this for ? What would your
will become imraediate, father sey 'if he knew it? The boy
• . says: "0.12, father does that himself I"
There is not one of us this morning
that would deliberately choose that his
children should in ail things follow his
exanapie, and it is the consciousness
of ianperfection on our part as par-
ents, that makes us most anxious for
our children.
We are also distressed on account of
the unwisdora of our discipline and in-
struction. It requires a great deal of
ingenuity to build a house or fashion a
ship; but more ingenuity to build the
temple of a child's oharacter, and
lenneh it on the great (ocean of time
and eternity... Where there is one par-
ent that seems qualified for the work,
there seem to be twenty parents who
miserably fail. Here is a father who
says: "My chid shall know nothing
but religion; he shall hear nothirns ' ren, so
religion; he shall see notbire -6 one tome for 0- • ' f - f d. . t. al
thus Here are temple- that it shall take the right direction
ligion. The boy ie nts but re- . eery orm o issma ion an i and it will follow the path you give
o'clock in the wee. stage of it. 'rhe young man „
every
ten corom mornhag th recite the
' armsed at aix e ...n he first goes into dissipation ie."-
Bue I tvent you to remem , h,
emdments. Ine is awakee I must. be a fashionable hotel. He could
very partioulae where he goos. .
father, oh mother, that it is what you
do that is going to affect your children,
not be tempted into these em. ...
anent with red -stained glass, and rt., and not what you say. You tell your
mug of beer paintea OA tbe sign -board. i children to become Christians while
You ask the young ram to go into t you are not, and they will not. Do you
'Tel think Noah's family would have 'gone
you mean to insult me?" No, it must 1 into the ark if be had not gone in:
that place, awl he would say:
be a marble -floored bar -room. There' They would say; No, there is nothing
. about the boat that is right; father
must be no lustful pit:tures behind the ,
gone in," You eannot push
counter; there remet be no drunkard, has not
hiccuping while he takes his glass. It ' children into the kingdom of God; you
gentle.' have got to pull. them in? Let it be n
must be a plate where elegant
men come in and elick their cut glass! obeerftel place, the brightest room in
and drink to the announeement of; enter bouse. Do not wear your chin
flattering mixtiment. But the young! dren's knees out with long prayers.
man cannot relvva.ys find tlaat kind of . Have the whole exercise spirited. If
a ,,place, yet he has a' thirst, arel it ' you hevel a. melodeon, or an organ, Or a
must be &anent", The down grade is' piano in the hoteee, have it open. Then
steeper now, awe Ile is almost at teed lead in prayers. If you orinnot make
bottom, Here they sit in an oyster e prayer of your own, taker "Matthew
cellar, around a card -table, wbeeziog,! Retire's' PraYers," or ‘‘the Episcopal
bioate,d, toill bloodshot ; with cards so' Preeter-book,"-none better than that.
greasy, you onn hardly tell -whe has' Nneel down with your little ones morn -
the best beta 13ut never tined, the hag and night, MA. own:I:tend them' to
get
are only playing for drink; snuffle, 40a. Do you thixtk theY will ever
away! shuffle away! .The landlord', ovet I.F.? After you are untlee the eod
(needs he his shirt sleeves, with, . his a Pod many years, there will be some
hands on his Wen, watching the game,!Powerfill temptation ssvonna that SOD,
and waiting for another eon to ein up but the memory of fatenerearel Mother
the, glasses. It is the hot breath of at morning arid evening lerayere will
eternal woe that fluakes that young have its effeets upon hint; Vt ptip bring
1..
REV. DR. TALMAOE TALKROF
MUNE AND INSTRUCTION.
keisicieuey eau impeereetton of raven:,
Th ens se t ve s early ENhthitiouil of ;See
fatness In the tenni Temetailans01
Velma reeple-The Dr. Appeals te,
nerente to sere Right Ieves and Straw a
(lend Renlopte their Children, .
A despatch .frona Washington seen-
.
lab troops and Turkisle officials and
support an alerainistration under a
Cbristian, governor, hut only to pre-
vent Munsulinants and Christiana from
clestroying each otber, and so set-
tling the Cretan question tame for all, same. risk in life that 1 took." As
The excuse was that, owing to its fears well might the shepherd throw a lamb
and. jealousies, real intervention would into a den of lions and then say: "Lit -
involve Europe in wen; and it was only tie lamb! look out for 'yourself 1" It
the advantage taken of this situahon
geuerally the ease that even the
by the Turkish officials to slaughter
oat oute party to the quarrel, and their
readiness to kill foreigners in doing
so, that has shown the powers that
shirking a plain duty frona fear of
limn to Europe has placed them in not
less, but greater danger,
With the realization of this fent, ao-
tion has been rapid, the massacre at
Callaia being promptly followed by
the demand of the 13ritish admiral for
the iromediate surrender of the ring-
leaders for summary punishment, and
for the destruction of the buildings
commanding the British position in the
town. To this the Sultan, after ang-
rily protesting, yielded, some forty-
three rbagleaders being handed over
to .A.dmiral Noel but only to find that
demands did not stop there, the four
powers MAP acting together in Crete
--Germany and Austria have with-
drawn from the coneert-having resolv-
ed to face the wbole Cretan problem.
To this end, they followed the request
for the recall of Edhem Pasha, the
Turkish governor, and the disarma-
ment of the Bashi-bazonks with a col-
lective note deraending the withdraw-
al of the Tele-kis/3 garrisons from the
enterer "letzten 1 te
toei.oe
r to devise
tve proposals to this +3.enearel,
with the hope of creating divisions
among the four powers, the Porte ex-
hausted all the artifices of diplomacy,
insisting upon the retention of, at least,
a. few garrisoes im the island as evi-
dence of Turkish sovereignty.
But the powers have been basistent,
and as Great Britain, France, Russia,
and Italy acting together are too
"entig to he resisted, the Sultan has
yielded, arto.3 ./2eredelte ,the riontingeney
of a fit of insane olistieney, 'trete
he evacuated within the Month. As the
inintaing e.,ause ad the evacuatthil, the
massacre at Candia, took place on Sept.
6, the triumph of right over wrong
will not long be delayed, and will es
all the more gratifying because brought
about by the very powers whose fric-
tion have made the state of Crete a
scandal to Europe. With the with-
drawal of the Ottoman troops, which
man's elieek. In Ow jets of g'asliglid
see the shooting out of the fiery ton-
gue Of ilie worm thet never dies. The.
elook strikes twelve; it is the tolling
of the hell of eternity at the burial
,oc,fila711,8711.1.411,1;:oordhsorAnyrsspasS on,,
1;,:elym tuup.et stuimuuedtoasshleuerptwiur tIblemiry
look up and say: "What r "It's time
at(ie.t,,ellTheuyez.t"rePgieollingthneommeo.ut. linetto tthhee
wiee erotic') in the corner, and the
clandren hide under the bed. They are
LF,lioa.),ntgyolluonrueezal alnAllhitat tisegtahne uhis,IscttelLY4,00,"!
Let:itinple4tiedthbeia leantik)altliaohniElinlitti'woarnadt
grog shop in the slims.
Y re
ity. Let
tmat a
aiy:exto:nual8. say hiuo, tilltaot ohmtl bleaes tyvtgiipisayte axspohi seer:jai:v:11f iti 1°cl:a illy
our cbild-
"The larat
ifft,tdireelb.)7stsAb°etveenlussyeitlilytgeeoeisabaeoyeusatnite'oo!:srlna7;
storm comes on it ; it springs
lteeng; th.e helm will not work; pver1r-
and never was. It is Of poor time to
find it out noxv. lender the fury. of
Iwo tundred and f y p
The
osfhiporder. What is tbe
:
not seaworthy,
matte
before it started. Alas fox us, , eve
ship seaworthy was in the dry . dook,
passengers, to a
down, ewtihthe
wetery grave. The tiregt:sto6
the storm, the vessel
wait until one childreu get out lute
the world before we try to bring upon
deemn the influence of Christ's reit-
glen. I tell you the dry dock of the
Christian home is the place where we
are to fit them for usefulness and for
heaven. In this world, under the
storm of vice and temptation, it will
be toe late. In the domestic circle you
decide. whether your child shall be
truthful or false -whether is shall be
generous or p enurioun You can tell
nliystewhat
tltsre history
a future
ahivideisan apple
,I
tou oe-setaenttilhes Porwirtielait abIpefl
oughtthe ktiIdtaket(Inv tiny
ple, giving the other tenth to his teeter,
inhe should. live to be one hundred, he
will be grasping and want the
gest piece of everything. I stood in a
house in tine ot the euburban vil-
h.tges, not long ago. and I saw a beau-
tiful tree, and 1 said to the owner:
eeTlett is a fine tree; but what a me-
lons crook there is in it." "Yes,' said
he; "I planted that tree, and when it
was a year eld I went to the city
and worked as a mechanic for a year
or two, and when I came back 'found
they had aelowed something to stand
against the tree, and so it has always
had that crook." Axel so I thought it
was with the influence upon children.
11 you allow anything to stand in the
W le- of moral influence against a child
on this side or thee side, to the latest
day of its life on earth, aud through
all eternity it will show the pressure.
him back from the path of au and
death. *
But I want you to make a strict
Merin a sharp plain line, between in.
sooent hilarity on the part of your
children and a vicious proolivitY. lNm
not think your boys will go to ruin
hesatise they snake a racket. A ginni,
'unresponsive shild makes the worst
ta°rren:the°afltahvyi,nalenvayeshintiadnreena' when
tet}.
1"I
want you, at the very first sign of de-
pravity in the elated to correct it. tlho
not laugh because it is smart if you,
do, you will live to cry Incense it in
malieious. Do net talk of your chil-
dren's frailties lightly in. their pre
sem() thinking they do not understand
YOU; they do understand. Do not talk
disparagingly of your ebild, inakipg hue
feel that be is a reprobate. Xto not sae
to your little one: "You're the worst
ohild 1 ever knew," If you do he will
be the worst man you ever knew, '
res. tell°ur°Pei tt(tlerth
e nt S.ait any n
t°1: olieel velum!
Y o
I Put to you the question: Are your
children safe for heaven? I beard of
a mother who, when the house was
a -fire, in Ike excitement of the occasion,
got out many of the valuable things -
many choice articles of furniture -
but did not think to ask amtil too late;
"Is my child safer It was too late
t
tf• iTiwIld el etInvi nist 0:be eaa ( n
11 enodbc canilneydd sabaelaal iir;3
bebairinietnxsale? s eiiluaslcsohiflagra.tion, will your
dr
wonder if what I have said this
morning has not struck a chord in some
one in the audience wh,,h.la a good
father and mother, but who le not yet
Christian? Is that your history / leo
you know why you mune tete this
morning? God sent you to have that
memory revived. Your dear Christian
mother, how she loved you You re-
member when you were sick bow kind-
ly she attended. you; the night was not
too long and you never asked- her to
turn the pillow but she did it I Younte
member her prayers also; you remora-
bee- how SOLLIO of you -I do not know
where the man is in the audienoe-how
some one here broke Ms mother's
heart. You remember her sorrow ov-
er your waywardness; you remember
the old place where she did you so many
kindnesses; the chairs, the table, the
door -sill where you played; the tones of
her voice. 'Why, you can think bane
now. Theugh they were borne long
ago in the air, they mime ringing
through your soul to -day, calling you
by the first name. "You are not "Mr."
to her; it is just your plain first name.
Is not this the time when her prayers
will be answered? Do you not 1 hink
that God sent pm in to -day to have
that memory of her revived? If you
should come to Christ this morning,
amid. all the throngs of heaven, the
gladdest of *hem would be your
Christian parents who are in glary,
waiting for your redemption. Angels
of God shout the tidings, the( lost has
No wonder Lord Byron was bad. Do come back again; the dead is alive.
you know leis mother said to him,when Ring ali_sjss-sssu—,S,
jubilee; ring le ring I
e
"Though parents may in covenant be,
And leave their heavens in view;
They are not happy till they see
Their children happy too.
AS GOOD AS A NATIVE.
1 --
Row General Yintebener FOlmeovereal Two
Aral) Spilets.
Gener 1 Sir Herbert Kitchener, the
Birder commanding the Anglo-Egyp-
tian expedition in the Sudan, is evi-
dently a, man of resource, if a story
told by him be tree. The Sider is a
tall, dark-skinned man who in disguse
would easily pass for a native, and his
' knowledge of the character of the
tribes and of their language, gives him
an advantage in, dealing with the peo-
Ten
At one of. his caielps on the Nile, ea
runs the story two Aron date -sellers
were on a certain occasion arrested,
being suspected of being spies. They
were confined in the guard tent, and
were not long left alone, for soon ' .. rne sofa on Sunday night "
ter their detention a thira ' how much he knows of tir - ee see
inuer was unceremoni- .. Ur- eeestmin-
to the tent. ... /limb pre. ster catechism. It is ren
...ligion morn-
There- -easier bundled. in- Inge Ile", and olcd7....- t. Passages of
e Scripture are plea- en
te:s f.,nerr edthone t lideabye del titre
eeepon an aniraate,d Jabbering wm80111,611:11: ,100
vegan, and was carried on for a fevv „...„,ThIsto, 4 xeligious almatteck. Every
minutes. The two prisoners wore by '-"'
tole er tha t comes to 1 he house is
no means reticent in tbe presence of .a to take the boy aeicle end talk
one of their own race, who was, illen to him, and tell hiin what a great sip-
.
themselves, a prisoner, and iher isl. ner he is. After a while the boy comes
their tongues wag feet. e ' to tbat period of life when he is too
Aftee a few nittniles'nen . et. ola for chastisement, ana too young
. t s e the latest to enow and. fe,e1 tbe force of moral
sentry was surrosss onversatton ins .
arrival draw ags ,,•-•, 2 48_, ,,,,,,. principle. Father and mother are sit -
'All riglif ''' a' "''''," tints up for the boy to come home. It
going f' -' FlautrY‘'' linesaid. '' 1 Itrn is nine onlook et night-eten (gawk-
y, .,0 Iket generni- it is twelve o'clock -ii is halt -past
...f, was Kit °healer, awl heel himsele in- twelve onlock, ancl they hear the night
vestigated the case to see that justice key jingle in the door. They' -say he
was donee is comieg. George goes very sdftly
A, eow minutes. more passed, and through the hail, hoping to get up -
again the door was opened. his stairs before he is accosted. The fa-
-time en nra8r137. 8P,P88, red' , II8 1181.1•'!!"..., ther says: "George, where have you
it spade to ea= ol tee nrls°nere, an". beetle" " Been out I' Yes, he has been
then they were marched to dig Ihe„.11' out, and he has been down, and he
ourlt grareo, 1110 •I'llt• ""PeY es.ere ni is <melte broad road to deetruetion for
trutb, ne irul been anspectsd, spi,,S, and this dee and thti tiro to owe. rather
'lb, rine:rat lied vonvinced nireeelf of says: e Thane is no use it the ten ma_
iho fact< I mandnients; the catechism stems to
/
IHE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 20.
04 Ammonites Stii and Repentance." e
Chren,$2, 0-16. Golder* 'rent. 1. John 1. h.
14R,A.CTIC'AL NOTESt
Verse 0. Manasseh made jadah and
the inhabitants ot ,Terasalem to err. It
need not seem strange that be a suc-
cessful and popular despotism the
kinges example should be generally fon.
Even in our age fasbione in
clothes, in literature, and in art are
eat by a few very oedinary men who
bappen to be of royal blood. In anoi-
nut times, and quite as much with the
Itebrews as with any other nation, the
Church and the State were one; not
raerely related to each other as the
Churob of England and the crown of
Inneland are, but actually one, so that
it was impossible to tbinir at once of
loyalty to one and disloyalty to the
other. In snob a condition every-
thing depended on the oharacter of
the king, wee> was the recognized, mod-,
el ef life. Worse then the heathen,
Mitgehratllyazrsel,ufoowr they sinned against
deities of the Oen:deg:it' es Teete t4i,.11Seee
holiest conceptions they lied, but the
Judahites turned deliberetely from the
conception of a true God to idols. Two
rnen talked together in a railroad sta.
tion at Buffalo, end were companions
at table. But one was west bound
on his way to Chicago, the other east
bound for New 'York, SimilarlY,
destroyed. !Seerifieed thereon peace
offerings end ,tbenet offerings.
"Thank offerings to praise God to
deliverances; peace offerings to em-
ploy his tavor."--Henty. Commanded
Judah to serve the Lord God. of 'areal.
This was his duty and his bign privi-
lege. IN had led the nation estray' be
must now lead it baele. But, alas,
when he went wrong his efforts at
leadership were reinforced, by all the
badness of all the bee hearts about
him; now, when he is trying to climb
up the hill toward righteousness, bet
has to drag up a dead weight whealx
his forme], immoral life 'had greatly in-
creased, lehotigh leranasseh was
doebtlesa seved, IL would seem to have
been what Pain wattle have called
"saved as by Lire." The impulse
he
had given to wickedness through the,
greater part oe his reign produced it
more permanent impression than his -
later efforts to do right.
she saw Inne one day limping, lacZ.3
the floor with- his--tst'srutur foot: "Get
m .Asisy, you lame brat!". What
chance ot -aboy like that.?
Two young men some TO the door of
Si. They (ooneult whether they will
go in. The <one young man goes in and
the other retreats, Oh! you. ray, the
last had. better resolution. No. that
was not it. The first sonng man had
no early goad influences; the lant had
been piously trained, and avhen he
stood at the door of sin discussing the
inaLter, he beaked around as if to see
some one, and. he felt an invisible hand
on his shoulder, saying: "Don't go in!
Whose hand was it? A mother's hand,
fifteen years age gone to dust. A
gentlemat was telling me of the fact
that soine years ago there were two
young men who taLopped at the door
of a certain Theatre in Washington.
Tem question was whether they should
go in. That night there was to be a
and swings open the great door, and
hennoral play enacted in that
.then I he. castle falls immediately. That j very
is the trouble erith the hearts of the Theatre. One man went in; theother
!stayed out. The young man who went
young; they have foss without and
in went on from sin to sin and through
foes within. There are a great maned a crowd of iniquity and died in a hos-
wbo try to make our young people be-
lieve that it is a sign of weakness to pital of delirium tremens. The other
be pure. The men will toss his head Young man, who setreated, chose
Christ, went into the Goepel, and is
and take dramatie attitudes, and thin now one of the most eminent. ministers
of his own indiscretions, and ask the of Christ in this country. And. the
ming man if he would not like to do man who retreated gave as his reason
the come. And they call. him verdant, for turning
back from that Theatre
one. they say. he is green Red unsophis-
that night, that them was an early
tinned. end. wonder how he can beer
voice within him, :...eying; Don't go int
the puritanicai strnight-jacket. They don't go irw,
And for that reason, my
tell him he ought i 0 break from his,
, friend, I believe so much in Bible
mother's apron strings, and they aa",' classes. I wish. all the young men and.
"I Will show you all about town. Come
congregation were in
with me. You ought to see the world. w°nien of my
the Bien) aasses. But there is sme-
lt: "vane. hurt you. Do as you please,
thing better than the Bible class, and
but it will be the raaking of you. Aft -
that is the Sunday -school class. I
er a while the young nian says: ''I
like it because it takes children at an
don't want to be odd, nor can I afford
earlier point; and the infant class I
to sacrifies these friends, and I'll go
and see for myself.'' From the gates
of hell 1 here goes a shout of victory. dren before they begin to walk or
talk straight, and puts them
ike still better, because it takes chile
tbe
Farewell to all innocence -farewell to
road to heaven. You mime' ell.
all early restraints favourable to that
comes back. I heard one of the best,
gone, never early. Yon. stand ote .1d en begin too
river, but
men I ever knew, seventy-five years of ..0.9 bank of a
innocence which, OTiO8 river floating by. ee .
age say: "Sir God bas forgiven me yor Ion can't stop that
for all the sins of my lifetime, 1 know i e,
towards 0- .. travel days a.nd deys
that; but there is one sin I committed: E'L'fter . ....te source of it, and you find
at twenty years a age, that I lee a while where it comes don n,
will forgive myself for. It WIT, -.ear. kinfe make a course in this OT that
..dopping from the rook, and With your
comes over me. overwhelminro sescinm direction for the dropping to take, and,
vet."' Young ; you decide the course of the river. Yon
many traps . 111 ' - '
r,- nde hrede' 01 hea_ stand ancl see your children's cliarac-
, olnd it
absolutely biota out xne er''
young - • • t f r our
t Hew ter to long on with great impetuosity
.--
ywonl". and passion, and you cannot affect
them, Go up towards the (scarce where
e there - -ear i •
tie character first starts, and. decide
' - ha is what makes
AWF1/L'DISCOVERYt
who spoke. In. answer to his
122005 312
to thecteuesridleY olifasttliXleY I :}a:11.11irPla' egde bis
w
eih
saich
neeH, is,,:eeejlesTthyaltelelterda,zedr mt .whad000liis-
her asked ehe Czar, exeitedly. "Who
Getsshlholoiouc::'ai 1", sPurzling
dare walk innVeoscow with smell le neaj-
as if it were contamination to touch
It was the Czar of all the Ruselane
sho :ow: ilyt ylib ucts(b):enmseis1:: 3 07
0(7......
the multitude anide
Wee* Made the or mat the izekeawas
Tresolol ls 13001s.
iDrinkoutski I Corns b then limn 1"
riwouknindingg heathen, they were traveling AWleall's'ir reepPl'iea:BNwiecketIsth, e"felcinliderornYt.
were et least worshiping the bighest ing, Megan!"
in 'opposite directions. The heath.ea and report to me by 6 o'clock this even -
ideals they knew, and were therefore His Majesty rolled off in his carriage
LIP ; and Goa's providence al- and left the disconsolate equerry to his
erlains he:i.11111ram6-
though the peacticas of the anws may and. myself held letters patent on tbis
" I know not I"
have been very like times of the sur -
ways guides all sincere aspirants iiito oevn thoughts, which were not of tbe
better knowledge and bonier virtue, most pleasant, as he would have to e
But the Jews knew of the true God, hunt up the Chief. of Peones -of Moeteow
ann. turned away from bine, and there- Prince Lushenmtipski, and secure alien
fseorcewrndmoraler&edeliberately
edescending in report of the stranger and evevY
ula
tr
!Hosea, by J'oel, by Nahum, by Rae That evening the Czar sat on move be had made Niece the day he was
10. The Lord apake to Manasseh. By
bakleuk, and by Isaia,h. Psalms 49, 73, bombproof study persuing a, Rustdan
77, and 140 are thought to have been translation of Punch. It cot him the
written at this time. They wouldnot life of one eminent professor of the
hearken. To shut the ear against Moscow College, every month, to tran-
God's earl is to close the door of been. slate Punch, for no .sooner had the
Wherefore the Lord brought upon. professor transformed the witticisms.
There is a sense in which the into good Russian then be laid hir11
statement is true that God does down and died. But that cut no lee
not punish in this life, the na- with the Czar. He had professors to
tural consequences of wrong- burin As he was in the set of placing
doing sometimes follow close- one of the jokes in a retort for; amen,-
ly the misdeeds. Sin and sorrows are sis a knock mine to the door.
lasteneennogetnet Vire a, lecinnotive and "Come in I" cried the Czar.
iefieein of `cars. The contains at the The -Chief 'di -Police and •
host of of the king of Assyria. 'Ile king outski entered, saluted and stood, ell -
of Assyria was Estireattddon, who as- ant.
cended the throne at Sennacherib's as- least found out the arrogant strap-
sassination. lie was one of the greet- ger's name and all, -about him?" thun-
est et Assyrian monarchs. After con- done the Czar.
sonde -Wag bis own government he has- "We have," faltered Drinkeinsed„
tened westward to Induce the subju- "The Chief of inolise has his Fecord
gelled provinces whicb had asserted on the' paper ship he holds in his bend,
their freedom. Tartan was the mane "Approaohl" yelled. the Czereenel --- -
of his chief general. Took Manasseh will fathom this mystery 1 Who San
among the thorns. An attack on jer- it be, that has the nerve to enter 'Ras-
usalera captured many of its citizens, sia and held his head so high? Such
including Manasseh. A hook or ring superealiousness I never before beheld!
was fastened in his nose, much as Saying 1 his he opened the slip and
rings are fastened now in the nose gazed at the following words;
of bulls. This was the extreme indig- Name-Denais Magi:anis.
nity to which the king could be sub- Netionality-Americaniske
jected. The translation " thorns ' is Bee Ones- rravelti ag foe pleasu. e.
not now accepted by scholars. Bound Business -When at Home-Senitor-
him. with fetters. Loaded him with iski ,in a flint:Ike in one of the large
chains. Carried him to Babylon. Here cities of the 'United Stateski.
is one of those startling evidences of "Go," said the Czar, after reading the
the accuracy of Bible history which slip. "I hope yell have done nothing
et; often delight the studexit. A few to offend hind I have read. °Pinto in
.chapters melee we are told that Man- our Russian trainee:ions of the humor'
aseles father had formeden alliance ous papers! He will probably leave: -
with Babylon to protect himself our dominion soon, but until then our
against the advances of .assyria. The kingly prerogatives are in danger. 111
Assyrian kings ordinarily lived in Nin- form the thief of tbe meterologicalt.
(web, and it was long believed to be bureau thee he is required to finieb
an error .in the copying that gave us inelement weather until further hence.
lihe worn Babylon here ; for how could theleooks! Twee a /situation for us
a'zking' 41e taken to, Babylon *hen he sheuld this pees le e
.htici nest been captured by Babylon's 'ley as a r
erana1
settn1,4,443.4t430*,vinisonnded almeetst 9.ean gen_
TAUGHT TO.......1B111LD NESTS,
eenteenettired a. Spanish general
One 'Feature or thinewleatiicatIon of 'Young
MAKE CHARM.NG.
mow the Vobra ts Made to Dauee to the
Music of a Flute,
• exhIbitions of the East Indian
fakixs, during -which the deadly cobra
is made " elence " -to the music of
a flute, heron created a popular ixapres-
sleu. alt these creatures are extreme-
ly sensitive to the sound of music. Dr.
J'. C. Thompson says- that nereonstra-
teens of this ammeter are only 'tricks
an the 1:yart of the eleeeer Hindoo, and
the cobra, instead of bei in =amine'
ble and fascinated con
'tenni= as it
awarviest oirteinbotetetoaanngderf.roTntese euelliker
15
simple. Whenever the rep Ole is an-
noyed it has the habit of ele neatinget„ _he
forward part of the body Snore,' L'ae:,
ground, spreading its neck ,er ee°°°'
ininsdanglgaerri.ngnfiejsrciehlyenaltvattbeeniti tilreocti.t.,,taf
chance to deliver a deadly In otv's serving every every movement of the bieet
in front of it. If one moves, no 1 1-‘12_qf
ter hew slightly, there is a corms,. Of '1!"Iar
Ina' nervous movement of tlae_ sno.ior
Wben the leindoo op.snehie "4We bas-
kets the cobras rise natierally to their
position of attack. He conamands them
to dance, and at the same time be-
igningsnaislibvnedlyy tune on the flute, sway-
ing side to side in time
le(3 the nereeic. The excited cobras fol-
low
e'every motion of the su.pposed
neermer. They are not dancing to the
music, but intensely angered, are seek-
ing to revenge themselves on their cap-
tor. The handling. of giant boas and
pythons, as seen in minuses, is still
more simple. These. huge snakes are
usually lazy and sleepy, and. the sec-
ret of handling them is to avoid any-
thing like a nervous raovemeixt,
if
they are taken up gently, but without
the slightest hesitation or fear, than,
is not the slightest danger of arousing
their anger.
nethe Philippines and brought hint to
Presiaent McKinley at Maaria. But it
isnow known that Esar-baddon actin
ally reigned at Babylon for tb.irteen
years, the only Assyrian king that ever
dwelt there. Bricks from his palace,
bearing his name, have recently been
found. Weile the removal of Manas-
seh "bo Babylon the independence of
Judah ceased, and theneeforth it was
a territory of the Assyrian. empire.
12. This verse pathetically shows
the moral uses of adversily.
"Afflictions, though they .seem severe
In merce oft are eent ;
They stopped the prodigal's career
And caused him to vepent."
GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR.
There is no better example of tbe
Spanierd's blindness to all that indi-
("Rees a decay of his former grandeur
than the following: It is a fact little
known, but it is the truth, neverthe-
less, that though the British obtained
possession of Gibraltar as far bask as
17040 the Spaniards to this day con-
tend, that they still have proprie-
tary interest in that mighty fortifica-
tion, and are not yet conquered. With
this idea in their mind. they still ap-
point with regularity a, Spanish Gov -
armor General of Gibraltar as often as
the office falls vacant< Of course the
British Governor is the genuiee Gov-
ernor, and the epanish official never
sets foot in Gibraltar; but that little
anoraely does not in the leaat affect
the prevailing idea and consequent
action of the Spaniards. When, about
two years ago, the Spanish "Gover-
nor" of Gibraltar died -in Spein -he
WaS buried with all the pomp befitting
his rank, and with dim solemnity hiS
successor was appointed.
NO DATeGtal.
Ver. Spriggine, looking OVOT the pa-
per. -Mere trouble in Neerfotindland
,Yfer the fishevies dispute. I bope
tbesi won't let loose the dogs Of vvar.
Mrs. SprIggins--Newfoundland dogs Id. maired the altars o
delta bite. , Leen. Windt dotibtlese he ma himself
le. He was entreeted of him. God
listened to Manassele and answered
bis prayer ; and from his forgiveness
and reetoratioe we are to read mes-
sages of peace to us. Just as divine
grace is personified in jeS1.1$ Christ so
stn and suffering and penitence and
forgivetess are personified. IVEanas-
seh. Brooglat him again to Jerusalem
into his kingdom. Probably as a pro-
vincial governor, with !he title and.
some. of the revenues of it king, hilt
with little power except to administer
justice and fortify Jerusalem against
Assyria's enemies, Then Manasseh
knew that the Lord he is God. This
Ores and sodden sinner, ateealnntlY
It is a conaname error to believe that
with birds the knowledge of buildixig
their nests is innate. It is a trade
that is taught to every bird. by its
parents and in just as systematic a
manner as men are trained to be
builders. Birds are born with the in-
stinct to carry twigs atid the mater-
ials of which nests are made, but un-
less they are instructed in the art of
building they will just drop them in "
it pile and never attempt to weave
them into nests.
It is after the young birds have
learned to fly that the older (11108 re-
gularly teach them the process of in-
terweaving and lining that is neces-
sary to construct nests. This inmost.
complioated and a trade pecaliarly
their own; it can not be imitated even
by men. To arrange the little twigs so
that they will be synaraetricaa and
strong enough to hold the weight of
the raother bird. and four or five lit-
tle ones to it branch. of a tree require
good. engineering ability. The lin-
ing of the nest is usually of a math
softer material than that of whicla the
pervoutside is made, and to place this neat-
Heynnaismailnsog ta.buirgdhst bwyinthentotledner mellow.
ne devilish a man as ever lived, sc t
been deaf and blind. bo his father's holy
life, to the teaching
of 1119
Leviteos atniR, with Which to line their nets, awl
cows for days to pick up their soft hair
hlohlit..°137e118:nirtan.iliels1 PowstaallslubsieZePsurliartellis'ic108v,Pe'irIcAhre°wt8 il othalannel. Birds that have aleveys
weteve it as comparely as a piece
-the ring in his nose -that brought 1g3eivenenietio eia,:kigeexas . eon never Take Aests,
him to the and are,pitiably clumsy even with eot-
niter of God as a Penitent
"Ncre will bless God through all eterni-
ty for the days of trouble that lead us
to obey." , That nest building is taught is also
ton, wool and inaterial that has beeex
true of those that squirrels and mice
1 4. Without the city of David, Out -
The green ant of Australia is very
war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
side Zion's precincts. Put Nentaine of
. clever in the building of its nest. It
build, as well oe; bees, wasps and. ants,
Reorganized Ins army, (
-0,1 aPPeare to consider it an irksome duty
that can be hired. out. A, mania giblet
13. He look away the strange a s
, is, therefore, trained. to ao thie work,
and the idol out of the bouse of the
ne seems to have dohe everYthing in and tie.ts as a servant, in all things.
hire power to deetroy the idolatry he The green ante pay the spiders tor
Lord, 'and all tne altars be had built:
had set np. Ile was now 'bringing their llthorS in a coin that they enjoy.
forth fruits meet for repentance. Ntet, It is by giving them to eat a, porno"
them out of the oitY. As detestable of .the innummerable little eggs that
things. "Now be loat heti thern as they, the We, lay. 'rhie is a most
rattail as he heel loved them, mad Fred agreeable errangement for all, men
to them, 'Get you hence.'" --Henley. ineautled, as otherwise, tbe green nine
wonld rival the rabbits in overrunning
nuatealia, ,