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NOTZS AND COMNISNTS
While Britieh military forces have
been occupying the lower awl middle
Wile Valley a force of British en-
.gineere ints beere worktng its leborious
my front Mombasa on the east coast
towerd Lae Victoria Nyania, and
marking- its trail with a new railroad.
The rails have by this time passed the
two hundred and thirty-fifth mile, and
there has beea a, geatifying inorease iii
the rate of progress as the work has
advanced. Fifteen monthe ago only
sixty sidles et rail were down, and
•during the lest seven months ot that
period ninety-six miles have been
•
The difficalties of the undertaking
have been eaornmes. For a distance
of 250 miles from Mombasa the oaly
pure water to be found is in the Tsavo
River, 135 milee inland. Elsewhere
e the water is impregnated with salt and
lime, which makes it unfit for drink-
ing and injurious to the boilers of loco-
motives. The tsetse fly abounds and
•cauees havoc among transport animals.
Fifty out of two hundred mules were
killed by them during the months of
May and Tune, The climate too is sev-
ere on stock. Up to the time of the
raonth last named. all but 100 of 550
bullocks imported from India had died
of disease. Another cause of trouble is
found, in the wild animals which over-
run the country. Lions are especially
dangerous and destructive. Four bul-
locks were killed by these beasts dur-
ing the month of IVIarch, and during'
the entire period under review twenty-
• two raen were carried off by them.
They are exceedingly bold, having lit-
tle if any fear of man. The correspon-
dent of the London Times, from whose
article we make this summary, says
that one coolie was seized by a lion
inside his tent, and. another inside a
wagon, into which the animal jump-
ed...
Work has been greatly delayed by
unpropitious weather. It was unusual-
ly dry this year, and there were exces-
sively heavy rainfalls last year. In
some places the Woolwich carts em-
ployed would sink up to the axles in
mud. The conditions have favored
sickness among men as well as among
animals, so that a discouraging per-
centage of the former have been in
.hospital. Now, however, that the
higher ground of a temperate zone has
been reached, a great improvement is
expected in 'every way. The corres-
pondent adds: "The' traffic returns of
the open section of the line, which ex-
tends for goods to Simba, about 226
miles, are highly encouraging. Dur-
ing the recent fighting at Kismayu the
line did excellent service, probably ob-
viating the dispatch of another regi-
ment, from India. The traffic from
ivory is already considerable, ancl is
expected to increase." The road will
give a clear Passage to the Uganda
protectorate, whose fertile soil, it is
thought, will amplyrepay the, efforts
that have been spent upon the enter-
prise.
QUFFIN'S MAIDS OF HONOR.
To be maid of honor to the geeen is
310 very hard task; the duties last for
three months, and the emoluments
amount to £400 a year. Her majesty
is very kind to her maids of honor, and
takes the greatest interest in their
marriage arrangements, furthering
setlarm to the best of her power; for she
holds the now somewhat old-fashioned
Ji iden that no woman has completed and
• rounded her life until she be married.
The wedding presents always include
an Indian shawl and £100 from the
queen, and in the future she generally
graciously stands as godmother to the
first child; while no birthday is ever
allowed to pass by without some little
gift.
Each maid of honor has her turn to
go on duty. The most trying part of
her work is reading the daily papers
to dee queen each morning. Great
judgment has to be displayed in read-
ing just what her majesty wants to
hear, and a clear, resonant voice and
educated style of reading is a sine qua
non. Then it is very necessary to be
ready waiting the quert's pleasure for
her drive, and, as through force of ctr-
curnstances she is very unpunctual,
the maid in attendance may be caught
ttiPPing, which is an unpardonable
teach of etiquette. One day a maid
ad beers kept waiting over half an
hour, but on the next day the queen
was quite punctual, and a message
came to her to that effect. The &attic
haste to get into her walking clothets
quickly was one of the worst ten min-
utes of the maid's life. fler apologies
were received in dead silence, but no
farther mark of displeasure was voueles
Atiether dutyl for the one in
special attendance is to go to the
011een'e bedroom door at the dinner
hour with a bouquet of flovvera •ana
'wait her arrival to attend her to the
drawinglereom.
ROYA.I., BACON AND EGGS.
• A miner Of Qteen Victoria's house.
hold says that breakfast propet, as far
aa the geteil herself is Concerted, is
• nearly the seine the year rotted. It
eorteists of fried ben, egge, thin
bre awl buttet and tea. Occariliten-
a iclge firids a place on the
net every day,
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REV, DR. TALIVIAGE ADVOCATES A
'REE ORURO.
line• it Kept race Walt Worldly Enters
prise e—The Seripturai 'idea ox the
Sattleet—The Free cinemas is the Only
Practical continonSense mode—wailed
Appeal to Ail Moms or the Communtiy
A despatch from Washington says:
Rev. Dr, Talmage preached from the
following text :• ' The rich and poor
meet together; the Lord is the IVIaker
of them all.".Proverbs xii., 2.
No one class in a community is inde-
pendent of the other eclasses. That is
not ai healthful conditibu of society in
which men stand aloof from each oth-
er. That's a better state when peo-
Ple, movia;:s in different circles, at
some tune come upon a common plat-
form. What is true in the world is
true in the church: "the rioh and the
poor ought to meet together; the Lord
is the Maker of them all." I do not
think that the Church of Christ has
kept paee with the enterprise of the
world. Some years ago, it took a lotg
tina.e to make a nail. The blacksmith
would take the bar of iron, thrust it
into the hot coals, move the bellows,
bring the iron out on the anvil, smite
it, cleave it, rord it, fashion it into
nails. It was a 'oong and tedious pro-
cess; but now the iron is put into the
machine, and in a moment hundreds
of nails are showered upon the floor
of the manufactory. Once it required
some time te thrash wheat from the
straw. The farmer. would take the
sheaf of wheat, Lear off the straw that
bound it, scatter it on the floor of
the barn, and then the slow flail would
pound the wheat out of the straw;
now the horses start, the machine rum-
bles, and a sheaf of wheat is thresh-
ed instantly.
In olden times that was considered
a wonderful printing -press which
could make two- hundrecl and fifty im-
pressions in an hour; but now, by our
modern steam printing -press thou-
sands and tens of thousands are made
in the saine length of time. The Post -
office was formerly a slow affair. Once
in two weeks the mail wouLd go from
London to Edinburgh, and at. about
the same distance of time go from
New York to Boston.
Now, I ask if the Church of God has
kept pace with worldly e,nterprise?
with the post -office ? with modern rail-
road transportation? with the arts?
with the sciences? with optics? with
gtiology ? with astronomy? "Oli," you
say, "there is no new principle in re-
ligion to be developed." Welt; I re-
spond, there is no new principle in
science to be developed. They are
only the old principles that have come
to light and demonstration. There
was just as much electricity in the
clousts before Benjamin Franklin play-.
ed kite with the thunder -storms as
there haa been since. The law of
gravitation did not waite for Newton
to come. There was just as much
power in steam before Fulton discov-
ered it as since. The carboniferous
and jurassic strata of the earth did not
wait to take their position until Hugh
Miller planted his crow -bar. So, in
matters of religion, if a man comes
and says, "I have now discovered an
entirely new principle in religion ;" I
say, "I have no faith in what you are
going to say. I have but one standard,
and that is the Bible." But if he
says, "I have an old Bible principle
that I wish to evolve and demon-
strate," then, with all the possible at-
tention of my soul, 1 say, "Hear I
hear!"
I propose to -night to argue on beholf
•of a Free Church. There are a great
many who do not quite understand the
plans and, politics of such a church
in the first place, I believe in such a
church because it seems to me to be
the Scriptural idea,. • The • apostle
Tames says: "If there come into your
assembly a man with 'a gold ring, in
goodly apparel, and. there come in also
a poor man in vile raiment; and ye
have respect to him that weareth the
gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit
thou here in a good place; and say to
the poor, Stand thou. there, or sit here
ander my footstool; are ye not then
partial in yourselves, and are become
judges a evil thoughts?" In other
words, the apostle J'ames draws a pic-
ture. It is a meeting at Christian pe,o-
pie ; the usher stands at the door; two
people come to the door and ask for
seats. The usher looks • at the one
man, examines him frona head to foot,
sees that his garments are dictated by
the recent fashion, and says, "Come
here, sir, P11 give you an excellent
seat, "and eve, "I hope you. will be
comfortafae," Then the usher goes
beck, sees the other man, scratinizes
him very thoroughly, and. saers, "Poor
coat, worn shoes, old hat. I think you,
will find a very good place to stand in
that corner." Now, the lightnings of
that passage, strike such an usher : in
other wurd,s, you have to right to ar-
range is mans position ha the house of
Godeaccording, to his finaacial qualifi-
cations, Do you suppose that the
tabernacle. a olden time, the temple,
and the synagegua, wee ever rented
by worshippers? Oh, to • yod tell m
say ire oer theme °hatches are such ex- tho
those were ramaculous times. You Ink
perisive ittstitaions. We want all Ina
this costly machinery.' Let me tell but
you no chttroh of the day costs half and
so mtteh as did, the old tenaole, and yet and
that temple in olden times eves sup- left
()Platt by veltuatitry contributioes. "M
hen the farmer brought his harvest chu
in, het %ad, "Thiel eheaves are for the telt
Lord." Wheix the flocks were drawn "Oh
up, he said, "The,se lambs are for God." hav
When the ,pireces were caughte he sena,: Sette
'Th&sg pigeene and theie doves are 'tor our
eaori floe.' The loam ie, the tabers I ittl
haol,e alleupported by v0111.11011 con- oeca
tribution But you stay men were in
more gebarous in these tinge& No, no, wox.
the world has been advanciag ,all
thin); there hsee never been sCs rn
generosity on earth as now'.
Now, I say, it in those dark tim
and in 0:tat wicked pity a jerusal.
t1I43 tenallie could be eupported by
untarY contributions, we eau not
this Christen ego, and in thes
blaze of the Goapel ligat, and at
the doctrine of Christian benefice
is so nuteh itculcated, support 5Pl
Churoh? The feet is, • thet the no
of constructing cleurab finances h
chilled the voluntary prineiPle
dammed back the charities of
world; when, if We had gone baok
the old. Bilele plan in all our chum
there would have been larger bene
ence and a more extensive support
tbe. institutions of religion. So the
come back now with more emplea
than ever, to say, "If there mane i
your assembly a man with a gold r
and goodly apparel, o,nd there dome
also a poor man with vile raiment, a
ye have respect to him that wear
the gay clothing, and say unto h
Sit: thou,leere in a good place, and
to the poor, Stand thou there, or
here under my footstool, are ye
than partial in yourselves, and. are
oome judges of evil thoughts?"
how different it would be in all o
churches, if, instead of having th
supported by a few men, we could ha
the great masses of the people bri
their mites into the Lord's treasury
I argue, farther, in behalf of a Fr
Church, because I think it is the on
practical conemot-sense mode for ci
evangelization. The Church has tri
scores of ways. We have gone out vei
tracts and with our Bibles and re
gious books, among the people in t
destitute parts of the city.Some ha
refused to take them. Some ha
burned them up. Some have read the
and tried to reform; but as long
we leave them down amidst the e
influences by which they are surroun
ed, and do not bring, theta into so
Christian church—if you reform the
fifty times, fifty times, they will
unreformed. In other words, here is
man down by the marshes with chil
and fever. The Physician comes a
gives him quinine, and stops the"chil
but just as long as that man continu
to live down by the swamps, he will
subjected to the .same ailment,. Bri
him out on the hill -top, where the a
mosphere is clear, if you Wani him
be permanently restored. Now, I s
of those people who live in the slum
of city destitution, as long as you lea
them there they will fall into the
old sins; but if you bring theta in
the healthy atmosphere of a Christie
church, then you may hope for the
permanent reformation. If you on
say to them, "There is a free churc
there is a free Bible, there is a fr
cross, and yonder is a free heaven
they will readily accept the,invitatio
and come with you.
Mark, this, my friends, that whe
you save the cities, you save the worl
Wheu Pekin comes to Christ, all Chin
will come. When Paris surrenders t
God, all France will surrender. Whe
London prays, England will pray wit
her. When New York bows at the fe
of Chi -lee; the 'United States will be
with her. Save the cities, and you say
the, world. •
Again, I argue, in behalf a Fre
Church, because there are three or fou
classes a people that will especially
touched by it. Among them will
men who were once very in
fluential in 'churches, but wh
lost their property, ancl cense
quently can not meet the pew -rent
I am not speaking of imaginary case
What becomes of the great multitud
who once were influential in the Chula
of God, who, having lost their pr
perty, can pot meet the pew -rents i
the churches?. They, have gone—some t
infidelity—some into lives of dissipa
Lion — God only knows where the
have gone! Will men of any self -res
pact: go to church under atoll a stat
of 'circumstances? I tell you, nay
If it were my case, I would stay a
home end gather my children abou
me, and read to them of Christ and
free heaven, out of which a man i
never pitched because he can not pa
his Pew-rentl At the very time a ma
meet needs the consolation of religion
—when hisi earthly fortunes have' fail
ed—at the very time that• he need
most to be told about • treasures tha
never break—the Church of God turn
its back upon that mans and the work
of breaking down that the Wal
ganablere began, the Church of God
Linishes. It seems as if Christ, in the
infinity ot his foreknowledge, could
not think of as Church pretending, to
love him. that would unanimously bar
out the destitute. He Said, "The poor
ye ha.vn always with You." He made
it not merely as a statement, but as a
prophecy and. a promise; and yet it
does really seem as if, in this respect,
the Lord God ha,d been thwarted.
Thete is another ola.ss of persons to
whom a, Free Church will appeal, and
that is 1 he middle classes. And let me
say they are the suffering ones in reli-
gious things. The wealthy may
purchase religious advantages any-
where; the positively beggared may
feel so humiliated, they will be wills
ing 'to go into a mission chapel; but
the middle classes have not money
enough to buy( positions in the weal-
thy churches, and they are too proud
to go .among the beggared. Se they
stay .at home. When I say the mid-
dle claeses, I mean those whose income
just about meets their outgo; and you
will immediately see that is the cen-
dition of nine hundred and ninety-nine
out of every thousand in this city and
in every eity. The fact is, God does
not trust . as with money—I mean the
majority of us, tour son is at school.
You do not give him a large amount
of money at the start. Yoa sayto
the teacher, "Send in the bills," When
the bills come in, you pay for :the tui -
I ion, you pay for clothing, you pay for
travelling eepenses. Now Goa treats
us very much in that way. Ile clothes
us, pays our travelling, expeusee, shel-
ters us, but never trente us with a
largo amount of paariey. Home the
idle lasses are in the majority
se Men; in a community are in the
jority who, when they have met the
c.her's bill and the grocet's bill,
the gee bill, and the clothing bill,
paid. the house -rent, have nothing
The wife+ says to her htsband,
y deers / think we Ought CO go to
rch somewhere. "Why dout We
e a pew in Dr. Well-tdgle's church)"
0" het esera "we cent, afford it.
o mote now to pay than I can pay,
can't go ,t here, Weave gels ttedety
metees Ot little longer. WOriset-a
e religion perheps at home, 'We'll
Sionally reat thcs nib]6, end once
WOOhstti6tilloattoStathfrgretidnwde twhiallt
a ttle religion here and there;
wed after a while we may have good
luck, and we will then rent a pew, and
go to heeven respectably." Many a has -
band and wife leave minsidered with eaolt
ether upon matte lre of elauecie economy
and betel% taking a pew, the htishond
said to tlaQ Wife, "Xow, you, know that
our Jerome
only
tire youvlrilliT:ettsooudreny()Ynotlag
erdf? Will you have this old carpet
another year? Mill you wear that
set of faran
e other winter? Will you
consent te have no more dresses tate
season? "No," she says. "Then,' he
says, "wet cant afford religion, and we
can't afford the church." And so they
stay at home. My friends, open the
doors of t free churoh, where men
may meet together without invidious
comparisons, and they will pour in
like the tides of the sea,. We
have been herring out this
class of men from the house of God,
and barring them out from the very
gate of heaven. The fact is, that the
Church has 1Decezne a sort of spiritual
insurance company; and the man comes
to get a policy, and you take him into
a private roora and sound the lungs,
and listen to the beating of the heart,
and then, practically—not literally, but
practically—you ask him if he is sound
on the dollar question, and if he has
been afflicted with anything like bank-
ruptcy, and if there has been anything
like financial sickness in the family—
and, if it is all right, you charge him a
great premium, and tell him to be very
cereful and pay it promptly, for if the
policy should run out, that very night
he might die, and so lose all the advan-
tages of all the pew -rent he had ever
paid; and where his soul would go to
would be very uncertain,
There is another class of people to
whom a Free Church will appeal, and
that is the rioh. I have yet to find an
intelligent and rich Christian man who
does, not believe in such institution. as
may doubt the financial success a it;
but I am yet to find one such who does
not believe in the principal of it. In
other words, our moneyed men do not
like to see the principles of Wall Street
applied to the church of Goct. When I
say a rich mane I mean a man who has
(riches—,not a man who has gained a
little money and who is very anxious
lest he can not sufficently display it
--but I Mean a man who has a fortune,
who masters it, and who has not al-
lowed his fortune to master him.
When you shall throw open the
churches of the living God as free
ohurolies, than I want to tell you that
the gold and the silver, and the myrrh,
and the frankincense will come down to
the feet of Jesus.
I am in favor of a Free Church, fur-
ther, bemuse all the Providential in-
dications, so far as we are concerned,
are in that direction. It has been the
all -absorbing principle in my soul ever
since I entered the ministry. It was
the thing that brought me to this city.
I had a comfortable home in Phila-
delphia, but this was a gospel principle
I thought I would, like to see tried. I
came here, and it so happened that all
the people who gathered around mn
were of the sande opinion, and so we
have been unanimous. We were unani-
mous in the style of the new church,
and about the- architecture of the
second. We were unanimous about
having it free. When we were burned
down we were unanimous about recen-
struction, and the principle we develop-
ed in the old church we will try to de-
velop in the new. Where the old Tab-
erncle stopped when it burned down,
the new Tabernacle will begin, when
it rises up.
Having seea the frank, sympathetic
men of the world around me, as my
companions, I expect they will be my
companions when they and I have
crossed the flood into the great eter-
nity. I have lived with them in this
city, and I expect they yrill be my
neighbours in the better city. I know
all their trials and temptations;
know all their business perplexities; I
know all their hardships; and I want
to stand before them a few years, and
tell them of that Christ who will be
their security in every financial strait
and their bon.dsman in every crisis,
and who, when the nations are in a
panic and the world ablaze, will de-
clare everlasting dividends of light,
and joy, and triumPli, to all those who
have invested their affections in him.
Men and brethren, brothers and sis-
ters in Christ, are you ready for such a
work? If some may scoff at you, let
them scoff; remembering that they
scoffed at Nehemiah, and at Daniel,
and at Christ, and pronounced them
fools. Remember, besides, that there
are tens of thousands of good people
it this land, and in Britain, who are
praying for our success as a Church.
Above all, remember that we are un-
der the benediction of Him, in whose
word we trust and in whose strength
we go forward. The mountains may
depart, the seas may burn, the stars
may scatter, the heavens may double
up like parchment, the sun may burn
down in the socket, anti all the worlds
fly in the Judgment -day like thistle-
down in a tempest ;. but God will never
back out of his promises, and betray his
discipleship, end break his oath—Neverl
TWO BRIGHT GERMAN GIRLS.
The strides that the picture post card
mania is making in Europe is won-
derful, te Sa.y the least of it, and a
funny instance a the hold this new
craze has taken on the younger gen-
eration in particular comes from the
maneuver district. Two young girls
were fortunate enough to have an op-
portunity of presenting the kaiser
with bouquets of wild flowers, Which
his majesty graciously accepted, saying
that they would grace hie dinner ta-
ble, giving thera forthwith into the
keeping of his adjutant on duty, who,
in accerdence with etiquette asked the
demoiselles What fairer they would like
ef his majesty in retern for the beaus
tiftil flowers. Their regtiest was as
amusing as It was modest, tamely',
that the kaiser should eead
them each a picture poet card frern
jeruselera on the day of his entry
blare the holy city.
DECEIVED GIRL.
Poor Mandl She was cruelly deceive
ea, when she married old Gotrea.
Didn't he have any inoneer?
Plenty of it ; bet oho has loathed
that he is ten years younger that he
said he was,
,•VERY CHEAP;
Patietteee-What is the ohettpest thing
you ever saw about ri bargiqn eounter?
Patrie—A husharid Waititg far his
edge.
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•(491den Text, John a 11,
PRACTICf AI, NOTES.
Verse 1, The third day. Colenti
• the day of the call. of Nathanael e• st
first, the day of the northward jouan
as the second, and the day of the
rival as the third. Daring the thr
days Jesus traversed the entire leng
of the province of Perea. It is conj
tured that the marriage was 5t
family of Mary, the mother of jes
Fier familiarity and assumption
authority seem to give weight to th
conjecture, As Joseph is not mettle
ed after the time when our Lord's mi
istry began, it is supposed that he w
leery dead. Cana of Galilee is a tow
about five miles from Nazareth, o
the road to the sea of Galilee, built u
on a terraced hill which slopes towa
the setting sun. Its present name
Kefr Kenna. There may or may n
be itcidental .significance in the fa
that Jesus and his disciples were "cal
ed," bidden, to the feast, but the mot
er of Jesus was there, already ther
velp
shiez arrived,. iveydo.ung Rabbi and his di
2. Jesus was called, bidden. Ile cam
says Dr, Churton, not so much regard
ing his own dignity as the benefit o
those who intited him. "The holy e
tate of matrimony Christ adorned an
beautified by his presence." His dis
ciples were Andrew, Peter, Tohn,Phili
andeNathanael ; and. it is well to re
member that one of these eyewitnesse
of the scene wrote this record, Doubt
less they were 'invited in honor of ;re
sus. Their discipleship was only
few days old, and could hardly hav
been known in Cana before they arriv
ed ; and it has been suggested that th
sudden increase of the number o
guests thus brought about accounts fo
the failure of the wine.
3. 'When they wanted wine. "When
the wine failed." Dr. M. R. Vincen
quotes some early authorities: "They
had. no wine, for the wine of the mar-
riage was con'stuted." Marriage fes-
tivals sometimes lasted. a whole week.
The mother of Jesus saith. Many ques-
tions and suggestions arise to the
thoughtful xeader. Was her interest
it the wedding festival caused by her
own relationehip to the happy pair, or
by her anxiety because of the unex-
pected.arrival of the disciples of her
San? Did sha really understand his
divine nature? Did she expect a mir-
acle? Was she seeking to exercise
maternal authority over him? They
have no wine. There is no special rea-
son to suppose that the family was
poor: Guests in the Orient not infre-
quently contribute to the supplies of
the entertainment.
4. Woman, what have I to do with
thee? Dr. Churton, whom we here fol-
low-, translates, "What is it to me and
thee ?" The request should stave come,
he quotes Chrysostont as saying, .di-
rectly from thase who needed help. It
is unfortunate that the word of ad-
dress, " Woman," is in English com-
monly used in diseespeet. Hence the
literal rendering gives a wrong im-
pression, the original being a word of
ranffecaatirsiceteutererspauetct. See John 19. 26.
re the word here
translated "woman" is used by Priam
to Itemise, and by Augustus to Cleo-
patra on occasions where not harshness
bat gentleness was expressed; and the
other occasions when our Lord thus
addressed women were occasions when
his heart was unusually stirred with
pathos and tenderness, as, for in-
stance, when he was abott to relieve
a foreigner's daughter; when he pitied
and healed her who had suffered long
with infirmity; when he revealed di-
vine truth to the inquirer at j'acob's
Well; when he refusecl to condemn the
sinner ; when he committed his moth-
er to the care of John; and when he
found Mary Magdalene in an agony
of tears. For the rest of the sentence
our Authorized Version is idioneatio;
but it is hardly coneeivable that our
Lord should liave used this phrase in
the same sense as the demoniac who
addressed him, Mark 5. 7. The words,
however, translated, are words of gen-
tle and. mild 'reproof, Mary had erred
in her anxii3ty to serve her friends,
and it was a premature request to him
to display his power. Mine hour is not
yet come. This is not a seasonable time
for me to work a miracle. "}Xe waited
for a moment chosen. by the Father
for each successive crisis of his life."
But the Virgin appears to have un-
derstood the words as spoken to try
her faith.
5. His mother saith unto the servants.
We are compelled to believe that Mary
felt responsibility for the success of
this festival; else her action was that
of officiousness and imperinence. What-
soever, He saith unto you, do it. "If
the holy mother," says Dr. Golein, "had
d,esired to give the world a perpetual
admonition respecting the Son, she
could not have devised a nobler com-
mand than this." " Whateoever " He
saith ;" "To you ;" " Do it '—the whole
of practices 'Christianity is in these
four little pbrases. Let us take them as
ouer. Tinhaetrte°winl
i
ferese
e.
t there six waterpots
ef stone. The Jewi,sh aathorities pre-
scribed done waterpots to be used in
the washing before and after meals,
because they were less liable to im-
purity. The number six indicates the
ditnutenees or an eyewithess. After
• dm -manner of the purifying of the
Jews. To , facilitate the purikicetion
oastentary among the Jews, Which the
orangelist'S Gentile readers were not
familiar with. • The extreme to whieh
this purifying was carried is aetenish-
in
l'aginate.6d146te, Ilellittit,htelle46whars6h*bar ofe'eUles
and cups and betties went on the whole
day. "Cariteining, "Having room
Tor." Two or three firkins apiece, The
firkin is a liquid measure containing
nearly nine galloas,
Jesus setateatatetheat, Fill the WIt"
poLq seeta°'Nknit.' They had pre-
stintabla been emptied by the wash.
inge ena puritieatiehe. They filled.
Omit hp to the bran, Prompt obedis
onto.
8, Draw Out tow, In the original,
"Bail eat," Caeon Weetoott thinks
that the Water thet was changed into
wine was not taken from the. VeSteels of
Purtfication, but the eervente were
• bidden, after they lied filled the vee-
weU Oalc: sp7i4ngtin. II°Thare aearWaci4tgrnetplinlod tho;
the narachs is not Of iMPortance, There
hovveve.r, a simple parable suggest-
ed imre be the juxtaposition of the verb
"fill" and "draw out." • Those two
injanctions taken together furnish the
ePteeirrfieet tualirtYecianpesi eteruglearleivilidengavoirn.,
Fill your body with vitality, fill your
mind with, information, fill your soul
by all meas of grac,e, and the draw
out abundantly for the benefit of oth-
ers. Governor of the feast, It was the
custom with Use Jews, as with other
ancient nations, to elect one of the celsi-
pany to preside over a feetive enter-
tainment and direct ite arrangements,
acting as a chairman. The Romans
and Greeks selected such a "ruler" by
tile throwing of dice. It might readily
be( Part of ouch aix office to taste the
wine before it was offered to the
jigiurees:s4e
.fdawt aitthere.re is some ,doubt
whether this "governor" was not a
• 9. Notice here that the ruler a the
feast knew that the liquid presented
Lim wa,s wine, but knew not whence
it was, while the servants which drew
the water knew whence it came, but
apparently did I not know by what
power it had been transformed. Had
tasted, (See note on verse 8.) Called
the britlegroom. Called aoross the
table in sportive banter.
10. Every man at the beginning
doth set forth good, wine. He means
to say that that is the general cus-
tom. Have well drunk, Have drunk
freely. "When the palates of the
guests have become less sensitivo
through indulgence."—Vincent. Worse.
Literally smaller"—that is, weaker.
Dr. Vincent instanced the English use
of the word small beer. Thou hest
kept the good wine until now. "This
speech of the governor of the feast is
no doubt recorded by the evangelise
as denoting his wonder at the event,
not knowing the cause, But the. wards
are often epplied with a symbolical
meaning of which they are capable, to
the gifts of grace bestowed by Christ,
_thcehluarsttomu.ore precious than the first."
11. This beginning of miracles. "This
as a beginning of his signs." The turn-
ing of Nvater into wine was not mere-
ly a prodigy, a 'wonderful thing, a
power, it was distinctively a sign, a
mark of his power and grace and di-
vine character, and therefore it mani-
fested. forth his glory. His disciples
believed on him. Literally "believed
into him." When they saw this mir-
acle their faith was greatly strength-
ened. Canon Westcott aptly says that
the word conveys the idea of the ab-
solute transference of trust from one-
self to another. We do not read, how-
ever, of any permanent effect upon the
guests,
QUEEN WILECELMINA'S FIANCE.
The engagement of the Queen of Hol-
land with the young German Prince
of Weed may be a love match, as ev-
erybody claims, but' it has a practical,
everyrlay side to it as well, it is said.
One of the principal reasons, accord-
ing to a European authority, why the
Queen intends to marry a member of
a, family of so little importance as the
Prince of Wied has not yet been
brought to light.
The royal family, as well as the peo-
ple of Holland, want first of all to
avoid the possibility that by the mar-
riage of the young sovereign to a prince
of a ruling family' it might happen af-
ter some time. that through inheritance
e ruler of a foreign country might be-
come also King of Holland. This might
easily happen if the young Queen
should marry a prince of any ruling
European house. The Dutch royal fam-
ily and the people of Holland do not
wish to repeat the experiences which
the country has had in the past. Such
marriages were the reasons for the
Dutch war et independence in the six-
teenth, century, and indirectly for the
dividing Belgium and Holland into two
kingdoms in 1832,
The family of the Prince of Wied
has prectically no influence in Ger-
many. The Wieds are not even ris-
ing princes, as they were deprivexi of
their throne during the rule of Napo-
leon in Germany. After the evacua-
tion of Gerraany by the French it was
considered best by the rulers of all
the large German States not to re-
store their thrones to the smaller
princes, itclutied among whom were the
Prince of 'Wied, The former territory
of the Wieds was therefore given to
Prussia, in 181.5, since when. the Princes
of Wied have been Prussian subjects,
with less influence in Germany than
many of the oldest noble families. Nev-
ertheless, the Wied farnuly IS considered
to' be of equal birth to the other roy-
al German families. Their title remains,
but that is all, as they have ver' small
tarnilnypossessionbe
s.
iviay.Germans Heys that
t
he
r
e
is
not mewls love on the side of the Prince
of Wied. They will not admit that as
Ler as he is concerned, his aim in not
to obtailii a position of influence and
a fortune, both of which he lacks at
preeent. Evert if he plays male, " eec-
ond fiddle" mn lloliand as husband of
the Queen and be known only as
"Queen's. Consort," as it was with
Prince Albert, the /ausbana of Queet
Vitoria, he will heve quite another
and, mote lefluential position than he
had in Germany as Primes of Wied,
ineeme, too, will be far greater
San he ever dared to arealn 02'
LISTEN TO Tflt GLEEFUL NEWS,
Cest-orofer-etteally, tome • are thee()
eggs fresh. ' ,
Gasoeer—Madana, if you 'will kiediy
—step up to the telephone and 001 Up
Our fa.rra, you cep hear the hens that
laid those eggs still caeltling,
A SUSPECTED MA.N,
Wen a married woman goes away
ob iavieit, tied comes heel° earlier thee
she irtteaded, it is uSttally f sign that
she Intros her litobatid, though tome.
'limes She COMes back tO See if She tab
catch Iiine at anyihig
A RECIPE FOR SCONES,
"It's our 'at home* day to -morrow,"
said Faith, "Wleat shall we Weise?"
"Belled bread and butter and cake/
05 asual," suggested Rope.
Faitix shook her head. vigorously
"For goodness sake, let us be a
original, Everybody has cake and
rolled, bread and butter. Besides, jam
can't roll bread and butter properly,
Don't yojt remember what untidy
Itthrle :bwanwrahdhlyceserr:ilionesgbss_hryoaigdshiotalinoeoyieciegstittatsstte[mbseettal
her affected way, ae though elm wow
dered wh.ethee they came out of the
reg -bag."
"Horrid woman!" enorted. 1-10Pe,
"She's always trying to piok helee ia
something with those eyeglasses of
here. Anyhow, suPPose we have—
"Scones," said Charity, looking up
from, the corekery book in whioh she
had been plunged for the last twenty
minutes, "I'll make them,"
:g 04
ote1"thine—a.,oreseteedo of astonish-
ment. "Why, youe new
'ver done any-.
th
"That' e no reason why I shouldn't
oboengsin,0iis"shiessir.
stammered, with a half-
eiFaith nudged Hope. "It's that cur-
ate," she whispered: "I've noticed him
looking at her when he ought to have
been finding the lesson for the day.
pAsandiralas Wedneeday week, when she
in
ca.me late, he lost his place in the
"Half a pound of flour," said Char-
ity, "two ounces of butter, four ounces'
of castor sugar, quarter of a pound ot
sultanas, two teaspoonfuls of Box' -
wick's baking powder, one egg and—,
That's easy enough, surely," shutting
up the volume with a hang. "Lend
me an apron, somebody. It's oheap, as
well as simple, and very suitable foe
people of small means, such ttis—"
"Curates, for instance,'" put in Hope.
Charity turned pink, pinker, -pinkest,
"I'm sure I don't know what you
mean," she answered haughtily. "What
have curates to do with scones?"
aFoa'oirh"being, .h, yrae t alter l
eatthem,"
at, olyisa
ortl
suggestede-"
Charity went out and slammed the
"The first thing to be done," she said,
as she rolled up her sleeves profession-
ally and showed a paix of arras which
sthh: paused to regard complacently,
"the first thing to be done is to grease
She did so, using the best butter,
and applying it liberally with the
bread knife. Thell she placed the tin
on the fender and turned to weigh the
flour and other ingredients.
A moment later a queer, rough, -
grating sound made her whirl round
ia time tosee the family cat industri-
ously employed. ia licking out the tin,
with a thoroughness and attention to
detail. which took M all the corners
and made his whiskers' glisten:
"You wretch!" cried Charity. "I've
a. good mind to—"
However, she didn't, because in turn-
ing round she knocked over the flour,
which she had carefully weighed out,
and most of it went over her dress.
Altosgether, it was a bad beginning.
There was something queer, too, esebeout
the egg when it came to be broken. It
was a modest, shrinking kind of egg,
that seemed loath to leave its shell,
and Charity had her doubts ebout it.
But eke smothered them—a:ter all'
what could you expect from a London
egg 1—and haa stirred it vigorously in -
218 mixture before ,she remembered
the sultanas.
Where were they? Not where they
ought to be, with the flour and the
sugar and the other things, but on the
kitchen table, and not even picked.
Charity sighed a long-suffering sigh.
"Somehow, I can't seem to think these
scones svill be a success, and if they're
not I shall never hold up my head
"There," She added, about ten mite.
utes later, as she shut the overt doer;
• "there they are at last, and I do hope
they went be very bad. I'm sure I've
taken great pains, and followed • the
recipe most carefully, and yet I've
horrid scat of feeling that there'es,.....--
something left out—something meet
importan.t, too."
In the middle of the night she woke
with a. start, sat upright, wrung her
hands, and exclaimed, "Baking paws
d.er 1" in a tone of anguith.
It was of no use trying to deceive
yourself about those ecen,es. They did
not look nice when they eame to be
handed arotuad at afternoon tea'. One
or two raastered eufficient courage to
refuse the delicacy; tbose who accept-
ed a segment generally took, one bite,
and then glanced gnat:lig rofind for
some hiding -place in sehich to deposit
the remaiiader,•
Charity subsequently discovered
fragments of scone •tteeked under the
sofa cushions and lurking it the fold
of the curtains. Italeed, for some
tirae she was quite nervous about look-,
ing anywhere for fear of eoming acrose
traces, especially when so/teeth-tog went
vvrong with the plane, and the tuner
being called, in, found the bitten re -
of one Imbained between the
wires, though' however it , got there,
goocInese kabwel •
• But the Most extraordinery and hie
oredible feet at all tenieins to be metes
tioned.
"Faith,", said. Ilope, in a torte of trlys•
tery and amazement, after the last
visitors had; shake tt the crumbs trate
their laps aria depatted, "what do you
think t The curate ate, two Of those-.
hottOrs' two, Mind yot, arta raid, 'Did
you• really Make these yourself, MisS
Charity', without axiy 1161p ? Itow vers)
clever of yei.!, Atterthis there can't
be any doubt a.,s to hie batettiorts-sif
18 sterviYeet"
T tT AGAIN,
• Mee, o, indeed1 1 evottd
n't allow my hos baAa to ompIost a
evotatta typewriter under any eireuni-
1VIrs, •
•SarafielcIt-Oh, / 'don't hlarak
you., As for rnts,' Of OdtirSe, r" dongt
•
pare, Doing young' and bealetifal inYe
edify I haVe 80 fear that iny,hulsharni;S
love wilt get away from
a