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Exeter Times, 1899-1-26, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS' cotp.it %rQhflSO1 suid, evere oetudrel when he te siolr, the 1 tIat conneotion between Merality libation would, seete to be es- ablished by the preVailing epidemic. For infinenza, is, eve believe, a, dirt aisearee, auci dirt, as defiued by a celee brated statesman, sraatter in the wrong plaee, whloh it is the funotion. eta ;Unitary eeience to put in the eight laae- Hew te put it in the right place is determined by eanitary laws, in the necessity a which the experts • have wholly couvineed intelligent peo- ple. They have, indeed, created a kind of pu.blio consoience on the sub- ject, so that oue wonders at times Whether the age is not in clanger of Woe/mime hysterical in its cleanuess, and- would not be. better for somethine of the old austerity winch repudiated soap and water. • Le doing so they lia,ve, of course, only revived a system of public hygiene common to the ancient world, and so Closely associated with religion as to be inseparable from. it. The sanitary laws of the. Egyptnins, the Hebrews, mad other nations were embodied in their codes of worship. As Lord Bea- consfield said, Moses, Munoo and alo- hammed xnacle cleanliness not only next to, but godliness itself. It is true that our modern eublio hygiene differs from that of the ancients in being- bas- ed upon a mare thorough knowledge of neutral laws, and thus in being more truly scientific. Tinder its epplica- tion. the, tendency of disease has been to beoome milaer. The habitude of living on is more general. But it may be questionect whether the ob- ject of the old systems, the strength -- ening of the whole people, was not , better than that a the new, which has / for its chief purpose the diminution a the death rate. That is everywhere the test a the value of modern sant.- . elem. •We read that in a certain city, there were, last week, five thousand cases of influenza. But the resultant mor- tality was small. Thet is to say, as many of those stricken must have been drawn from the weak, the infirm, frem those in whom life is thin and stunted, medical and sanitary science interfer- ed successfully to postpone death. But the „first object of these scienoes should be. not so ranch to defer death, . as to strengthen the living. Death is the common lot a n11 men, and. to live on for a few inure month e or years in weakness and suffering is little gala, save in the comfort it may give to sym- pathetic friends. A system of hygiene , which merely ameliorates physical ail-, !penis and prolongs life without mak- ing the man better able to fulfil its duties, has fallen short of its object. The ancient systems which recognized. the intimate connection. 'between mor- als and. hygiene, and had as their aim the improvement of the health of the whole people, had the better ideal. PAUL WAS A PROUD EN een, fee ehildren in the • to teoleste , under six yeare of age, bet net for stalwart Mete'Jqo1et this mate of rtherigtioe tiliantocortQt1Ald pget/tellIrlentSsiloill1aat mtallne tiS that neuet have power 'in it? ale was a log•ioian, he was a metaPhYaielan he wag an •all-ooneetweieg orator, he was a Poet of the highest type. • Ile had a nature (hitt eould f3witaip the leadiug time of his own day,, erne hurl- ed against the Saeltedrim, ITN NLADe IT TREMBLE. He •learned alt be could 'get in the school of his native village; then he had gone to a higher school, an4 bete mastered the areqk awl the IlebreW and perfected himself in belles-lettres, untie in after years he astonietied the Cretatis, and the Cortuthians, and the Athenians, by quotations, frome their own authors. I have never foencl any - thine in, Carly -le, or Gothe, or Herbert Spencer, that oould ocinipai•e in strengte or beauty with Paul's Epistles, 1 do not think there is any thing in the wettings of Sir William Hamilton teat shows such mental di's-. ciplihe as you find in Paul's argument about justification and the resurrec- tion, I have not Jound any thing in Milton finer in the way 'of imagination than I eau find in Paul's illustrations drawn frorn the amphitheatre. There Was nothing in Robert Emmet plead- ing for his life, or in Edmund. Burke, arraigning-, Warren Hastings in West- minster Hall, that corapared with the scene in The court -room, when before rgbela, officials Paul bowed 'and began his speech, saying, "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day." I repeat, ltihkaet tahtaetlmigaiosnt thhaavte c:enmceappteuwreer a i aye attn E is Lime you stopped talking as though all the brain oe the world were opposed to Christianity. Where Paul leads, we can afford co follow. I am glad. to know that Christ has in the different ages of the world had in his discipleship a Mozart and a Handel in music; a Raphael and a Reynolds in painting; ail Angelo and. a Canova In seulpture ; a Rush and a Harvey In medicine; a Grotius and a Washington in statesmanship; a Blacketone a Mar- shall ana a Kent in law'; and the time will come when the religion of Christ vsaaililvecrosnitgiettzll alltheobservatories and P through her telescopebhebilo°18cr the morn- ing star of Jesus, and in her labora- tory see "that all things work togeth- er for good," and with her geological hammer discover the "Rock of Ages.' Oh, instead of cowering and shivering when the sceptic stands before you and talks of religion as though it were a pusillanimous thing—instead of that, take your New Testament from your pocket and show him the picture of the intellectual giant of all the ages, pros- trated on the road to Dainascus while his horse is flying wattle away; then ask your sceptic what it was that frightened the one and threw the oth- er? Oh no, it is no weak Gospel. It is a egloxious Gospel, It is an all con- quering Gospel. It is an omnipotent Gospel. It is the poWer of God. and, the wisdom of G-od unto salvation. Again, I learn from the text a man can not become a Christian untie he is unhorsed. The trouble is, we want to ride into the kingdom of God, just as the knight rade into castle gate on palfrey, beautifully caparisoned. We wantto come into the kingdom of God in fine style. No kneeling down at the altar, no sitting on "anxious seats," crying over sin, no begging • eiT TIIE DOOR OF GOD'S MERCY. Clear the road, and let us come in all prancing in the TA:icte of our soul. No, we will never get into heaven that way. We must dismount. There is no knight-errantry in .religion, no fring- ed trappings of repentance, but an .utter prostration before God, a going down in the dust, with the pry, "Un- clean, unclean !"—a bewailing of the soul,like David from the. belly of hell— a going down in the dust, until Christ shall by his grace lift us up as he lifted Paul. Oh, proud -hearted sinner, you must get off that horse. May a light from the throne of God bright- er than the sun throw you! Come down' into the dust and cry for par- dom and life and heaven. Again, I learn from this scene of the tealt that the grace of God can over- come the pereeoutor. Christ and Paul were boys at the same time in differ- ent villages, and. Paul's antipathy to Christ was increasing. He hated every thing about Christ. He was going clown then with writs in bis pockets to have Christ's disciples ar- rested. He was not goingas a sheriff goes, to arrest a man against whom he has no spite, but Paul was going down to arrest those people because hp was glad. to arrest them. The Bible says, "He breathed out slaughter." He wanted them captured, and he wanted them butchered, 1 hear the click, and clash, and clatter of the hoofs of the galloping steeds on the way to Daraas- cu4. Oh do you think that that proud, man on horseback can ever become a Christian? Yes! there is a voice from heaven like a thencler-olap utter- ing two words, the second the same as the first, but uttered with more em- phasis, so that the proud equestrian may have no doubt as to who is meant, "Scull Saul I" That man was saved, and he was a perseoutor ; and so God can by his grape overcome any persecutor. The days of sword and. 'fire . for Christians seem to beve gone by. The bayonets of Na- poleon I. pried open the "Inquisition" and -let the rotting wretches, out. The ancients dungeons around Rome are Lo - day mere curiosities for the travellers, The. Coliseum, where wild beats used. to suck up the life of the rctartyes whiee the emperor watched and Lolia Pauline set with emerald adornments worthy sixty million sesterce,s, clap- ping her hind.s as the Christian died under 1 he pew and the tooth of the lion—thee Coliseum is a ruin noW. The scene of. the Smithfield fires is a hay- merket, No emperor will again lead Lie pope's mule through St. Mirk's. Squire, The day of fire and sword for Christian ,stems to have gene by; but hes the day of perseeetien creestedaa No. Axe you not cerie,ettired fat' Yolar religion!? Th proportiou as you try la serve God and be faithful to eiLn, are you not sometimee meltreated? Thet woman finds it hard to be a Chrietiette aa her husband talks and jeers while elle is tryieg' to sey her prayers or reed the Bible. The t d a legit ter finds it. hard to be a Chrielitte With the Whole feraily arrayed against her -- fat her, Mother, bra her and sieter in king her (bit target. of ridieula; Th'It young mut Linde it herd 'to lee a Chree- ian • th 1 he she, or feel ory, or store, wheti his comreclee Peeat hernitevena,• )13 Will . not go t o the geithiiirtgaliell REV, OIL TALNAOE TALKS ADOUT THIS (MEAT APOSTLE, 14 IS Tumbled Wren]; 111s Worse tato the neet—erwee a Geeat lesson to alts Appearance LeYore King egen)pa— Tailuitge Draws a -Picture From leattna Ltre ter the altodera 'World to inottete. deapatca from Washington, Says Rev. -Or. Talmage preached from the. following teat "An& as he, journeyed, be came near ,Damasous ; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he, fell to the earth, and heard a voice sayieg unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And. the Lord said, 1 am jesee whom thou perseout- eet."—Acts ix. 3-5. The Damascus of Bible times stiti stands, with a population of one hun- dred and thirty-five thousand. It was a gay city of white and glister- ing architecture, its rainarete and Orescents and. domes playing with the light of the moraine sun; embowered iu groves of olive, and citron, and or- ange, and pomegranate; a fatu.ous lay - or plunging its brightness into the scene; a city by the ancients styled "a 1 pearl surrounded by emeralds." 1 A group of horsemen are advancing I upon that city. Let the Christians of i the place hide, for that cavalcade coma i ing over the hills is made up of perse- 1 tractive in some respects, as leaders outors; their lea,der small and unae- sometunes are insignificant in person: ; witness the Duke of Wellington and 1 Dr. Archibald. Alexander, But there is something very intent In the eye of dale man of the text, and the horse he rides is lathered with the foam of a long and quick travel of one hundred and thirty-five miles. He cries "Go long' to his steed, for those Christians must be captured, and silenced, and that religion of the cross must be an- nihilated. Suddenly the horses shy off, and plunge until the riders are precipitated. Freed frora their riders, the, horses bound snorting away. You know that dumb animals, at the sight oa an eclipse, or an earthquake, or any thing like a supernatural ap- ' pearance, sometimes become very une controllable. A new sun had. been kindled, ha the heavens, putting out the glare of the ordinary sun. Christ, , with the glories of heaVen wrapped about him, looked out from a cloud and the splendor was insufferable, and no wonder the, horses sprang and the equestrians dropped. Dust - covered and bruised, Saul attempts to get up, shading his eyes with his hand - from the severe lustre of the heavens, but unsuccessfully, for he is struck stone land as he cries out, " Whq art thou, Lord ?" and Jesus answered him, "1 am the one you have been chasing He that whips and scourges those Dam- aseine Christians, .whips and scourges me. It is not their back that is bleed- ing; it is mine. It is not their heart that it is breaking; it is mine. I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." From that wild, exciting and over- whelming scene there rises up the greatest preacher of all the ages—Paul on whose behalf prisons were rocked down, before whom soldiers turned. pale, into whose hand Mediterranean sea -captains put control of their ship- wrecking craft, and whose epistles are the avant courier of a resu,rrection-day. I learn first from this scene that a worldly fall sometimes precedes a spiritual uplifting, A. man does tot get much sympathy. by FALLING OFF A HORSE. People sly he ought not to have got into the saddle if he could not ride. Those of as who Were brought up in the country remeniber well how the workmen, laughed, when, on our way back from the brook, we suddenly Iost our ride. Here is Paul on horseback, ...ea proud man, riding on with Gov- ernment documents in his pocket, a graduate of a most famous school in which the celebrated Dr. Gametic' had been a professor, perhaps having al- ready attained two of the three titles of the sehool—Rab, the first; Rabbi, the second; and on his way to Rabbak, the third and highest title. I know from his temperament that his horse vas ahead of the other horses. But vithout Lime to think of what posture e should take, or without ;thy consid- eration for his dignity, he is tumbled into the dust. And yet that was the best ride Pauf ever took. Oat of that iotene fall he arose into the apostle - hip. So it has been in all the ages, let so it is now. You will never be worth any thing or God and the church until you lose fty thoussna dollars, or have your reputation upset. or in some way, som.eleow, are threwn and humiliated. You must go down, before. you. go tip. Toseph finds his pith to the Egyptian court through the pit into which his brothers threw him Daniel would nev- er have evelked amidst the bronzed lions that adorned th,e Babylanish throne if he had not fi 3 8 [ walked amidst the real bens of the, ea ve. And Paul mai:shots ollethe generations of Clarist- endom by falling flat on his face on • the road to Damaseus, Men who have been always proepered may be eaficient servants of the world, but will be of no advantage to Christ, You may ride nenjeetically seated on your oharg- er, rein in hand, foot ire stirrup, but yon will never be worth anything spir- itually until you fall off. They who graduate from the school of Christ with the highest honors ha's% on their di- ploma the seal of the lion's =teddy paw, or the plash of an angry wave, or the deop of it etrey tear, or the brown scorch of a persecuting fire. -In nine hundrea arid ninety -dine edges °et of the thousand there is no merit or spir- neat elevatiou until there has been it thorough worldly upsetting, Again 1 Leath from the subteot thet- 4 religion of Christ is not a pasil- ennoree thing. People in this day try meke utt believe that Cbristitinity is nothing for Men of small eelibre, - r women with no eaptielten to I'M - WHITE POTATOES IN AFRICA. emir ormeni rianted on lee tease Have a ennieroise eesterity. Some years ago a few bags of white potatoes were sent from the Canary Is- lands to Matadi, the head of naviga- tion on the lower Congo, to sell to the Europeans there. M. Paternot was just starting for the far upper Congo, 1,800 miles from Matadi, itt the centre of Africa. He put away in his baggage • four of these potatoes, and said he was going to raise the much -prized tuber in Central Africa. His friends laugh- ed at hint and predicted that he would have his labor ler his pains. Now they are delighted when visiting the far interior if they can add a few of Pater - net's potatoes to their bill of fare. Nearly all the whites sett' that the white or Irish potato would not grow le equatorial Africa, and that is why they laughed at the sanguine Pater - not. But the laugh is now on his side. When he reached Waeundu, on one of h the Congo's head streams, he planted, his potatoes. 01 course one month was as good as another for the planting in a land -where perpetual summer reigns, v Filleen morales after they were stuck s into the grounnt the potatoes already a had an abundant posterity. Pour har- „ v.ests had been gathered. Mena' of the fi tubers were large and grew from six to a dozen itt a hill. Al. last accounts • Paternotee potato patch covered several acres, and he had- sent plenty of seed to Tartganika and other points for the starting of other potato farms. M. Emile Laurent, professor in a Bel- gian school of agriculture, has spent long time on the Congo. He wrote recent] y "The Belgians on t•he Congo can nev- er forget the potato. How often have we. wished that we might add the prec- ious but unattainable vegetable to our • bill of fare, I said persistently that the while potato would not grow on the Congo, but now I know better. During any visit to the upper river I repeatedly had potatoes, raised by al. • Pitterriot, for dinner. They are excel- lent,. They are a little more watery than the best European potatoes, but net so nmeh se as to impair their quale fly to ate important degree," It should be added that these pots - Ste raisect in the most elevated part of the Cotigo .13aeiti, and very like- ly they would hot thrive in the lower eititudes. IIIEADS ON CONS'. No hintein head was itupeeseed ort eerie III alter the death a Alexadder ties Great, All iniagee betore that time wore doiqes", th itt la are itxlIrt•siya' \4:0i414phoeueit's:e0ouft I esleb441111:v. °lat't pepQ,"teldr' UlT IoLJIflIO titel:tly,aelo•yul:tivt'ir:I.:}1.0.110ttiLd To:1r! aeg; "et ost tiityL•orioDvrt. .1PieerleiecTote°xt:,°goTillgre aelel, • thgo Pe!irltecLvefalt than was thieepereecntor of the Lexie Re fell. They veill •fall, if Christ from the' leavene grandly and glerionslY leak out Cal thane Gerd can, by his graoe make a Remit Lelteve in the divinity of JeauS, and it Teadall in the werth prayer, Robert; Newton staro-Pad the hC8lielitiP'bi'sesteiaadEistiger i:OlnedlheerrieeTivlailtri7le,ectleat iol.°)ifin014•yet ,ih,cTro,txw " sail kaefevatliperia‘ytion.ghv,is ydeati:gbelitrteerer many months pressed the father 'melt at the stone otter with( the child. And the Lord Testae Christ le willing to look out from heaven upon that deri- sive, opponent of the Christian xelig- ion, and addrese him not in glittering generaliteee, but calling him by name, l'ial,hoype 'John George( rhaeonrynale—gtiull Soul! Again I learn from this subject that there is hope for the worst offenders, It was particularly outrageous that Saul should have gone to Damascus on Ibmi errand, Jesus Christ- had . been deed only three years, and the story of his kindness ,and his generosity and his love filled ,all the air. Ie was not an old story as it is now, It was a new story. Jesus had only three sum- mers ago been in these very plaeee, and Saul every day in Jerusalem must have met^ people who keew Christ, People with good eyesight whom- Jesus had cured of blindness, people who were dead and who had been resurrected by the Savioux, and people who could tell Paul all the paxticuars of the cruet- fixona-just how Jesus looked in the last hour—just how the heavens grew black in the face at the torture. He heard that recited every day by 'peo- ple who were acquainted with all the circumstances, and yet in the , fresh memory of tint scene he goes to per- secute Christ's disciples, impatient at the time it takes to feed the horses at the inn, not pulling at the snaffle, but riding with loose rein faster and faster. Oh, he was the chief of sin- ners. No outbreak of modesty when he said that. He was a murderer. He stood by -wheri Stephen died, and help- ed in a he, execution of that good man. When the 'rabble wanted to be unim- peded in their work of destroying Stephen, and wanted to take off their coats, but did not dare to lay them down lest- they be stolen, Paul said, take care of the coats," and they put thm down at the feet of Paul, and he watched the coats, and the horrid mangling of glorious Stephen. es it a v oneler that when he fell from the horse he did not break his neck— (hit his foot did not catch somewhere in , he tre)rongs of Lhe saddle, and he wee not dragged and kicked to death? He deserved to die miseiably, wretch- edly, and ter ever, notwithstanding; all his metaphysics, and his eloquence, and, his logic. .- HE; WAS THE CHIEF OF SINNERS, He said what was true whenhe said het. And yet the grace 01 God saved inue, and so eft will you. If theta is any man ih this house who thinks he is too had to be saved, and says, " 1 have wandered very grievously from God. and I do not believe there is any hope for me," I tell you the story ,of this man in the texi who was brought, to Jesus Christ in spite of his -sins and opposition. There may be some here who are as stoutly opposed to Christ as Paul was. There may be some here who are cap- tive of their sins as much •so as the young man who said, in rega:rd. to his dissipating habits, "1 will 'keep on with them. I know I am breaking my mother's heart, and I am killing my- self and I know that when 1 die I ssht all be. hist but it is toce late to The steed on which you ride may be swifter, awl 'stronger, and higher -met - tied than, that on which the Cilician persecutor rode, but Christ can catch it by the bridle, and hurl ill back. arid hurl it down. There in, mercy for you who say you are too bad to be saved. You say you have put off 'the matter po long. Paul had neglected it a greet while. You say that the sin -you have committed has been -amidst( the most aggravating circumstances. That wee so with Paul's. You say you have ex- asperated Christ, and coaxed, your own ruin. So did Paul. And yet he sits to -day on one of the highest of the heavenly thrones ; and, I hereis mercy for your, and good days for you, and gladness for you, if you will only take the tame ChrisL which first threw him dovv-n and then raised him up. It seems to nee as if I can see Paul to- day rising up from the highway:to Da- mascus and brushing off the dust from Itis cldak, and wiping the sweat of ex- citement, from his brow, as he turns to us and all the agas, saying, "This is a, faithful sayleg, and worthy of 'all acceptation, that Christ Jesus - carne into the world to save sinners of whom I am ehief." ' • Once mor': I learn from Ibis sub- ject that there is a tremendous real- ity in religion, If it had been a mere optical delusion on the road to Eramae- cus, was not Paul just the man to Enct it out? If it had been a sham and pre- Letwe, would, he not have pricked the bubble? He was a man of facts and arguments, of the mOSt gigantic in- tellectual nature, and not a man 'of hallucinatione. And when I see him fall froria the saddle, blinded and overe whelmnl, I say there must have been something • in it. And, my dear bro- ther, you will find that these iel eome- thing in religien in oneof three platess —either in earth, or heaven, or in hell. We will wake up somewbere, somehow, sometime. The only emelt- There Wae 0 inilrarInE°eEvI:o rode from Stamford to London einety-five it five, hours, on 'horseback. Very swift. There was a woman ef Newinerket who rode on horseback a thensand miles in a 1,41OUSand hears. Very swift, But there are those here, nee all of tis are speeding on at ten- fold that velocity, at it thou:gene:It:ad hat rate, toward a glad, or a syreeehed I ern 1 Y. Thit Was it fe a du I fall Patti got.; teat Cht•iet releed him •up. Yet Ihere is a fat' been evlainh there will be • 510 risthge That was the fell the mtt• e got in lee last men -whin turtied to ken (W tti'na' 'Wrt°' away byf rbetear • flabitati, with his ee pi :leg bree 1 hf " flebeeate you eta the cease, of loy &elate( ion le Ibat wee the fell th, Men got who :erici in hie lest moments I terve • einned, sway My' day of graoe. Ole, a know whee My day of gram elided, It wag 'at tile. 01040 ef that religiotis eerviee," That wee the fall the mao got who said, "I am, dying, imprepared. Great God 1" '',c'Itat was the fall thoesande have got. .theY Perished while they were speed - leg on in their career of rein and. folly; and at the moment; they thougat they were Most sieated the stir- rups, and the girdle Most; firmly buck - be no rising. That was the fall the( Men get rewb:udindehnisylans: nmgominetnotssh:neodat ni; eivet'eankdintdhl6eddb7fge 01111.4iarty4ilalon7ch%! everlasting contempt. May Almighty God, from the opening heavens, flash upon your soul this day the question of Yoler• eternal destiny, and oh that ytuurse' liwgilhot4ks and your eneinglaelattrZtroublyd this day overcome you With his par- cloxting es he steads here with tlee pathos of a broken heart, and. sobs into your ear, "I have come.for thee. I have come with my baok raw from beating. I come with my feet mangled with the nails. aome with my brow aohing from the twisted bramble. I come with, my heart bursting for your woes. I can stand it no -longer. I am J -esus whom thou persecufest." A MEXICAN NURDERER'S FATE. The Terrtblelray WhIch the Death Pen- alty Was Inflicted. ' Speaking of primitive JAW among the 11aexican Indians brings to mind a curious case that was told me some Yiars ago in the State of Oaxaca by an old Zapoteca chief who had become a convert to Christianity. He, said that a long while ago an' American botanist was travelling through the mountaixis of Oaxaca, studying the rare and beautiful flora of that -region. He had with him a mozo from another part of the country. He carried several geld pieces sew- ed in the lining of his jacket. The rnozo became aware of that fact, and. one day when the botanist got clown on his knees to drinkat a little spring the mozo out his head off with a ma- chete, took the gold pieces and fled to the higher sierras. Not long after, the body was found. by some Zapoteca Indians, who had seem the botanist in former days studying the flowers and plants near their village. They knew that he was - a harmless and good man, because he loved the flowers. All Mexican` In- dians love flowers. So they took the body to the chief and told him what they • had seen ,and found. The old chief was very indignant, "What I" be eatd, "Shall the kind stranger with the white- face, who loved flowers and • sought not our goods nor insulted our women, come to such a dog's death among us and not be avenged?" He then despatched four swift In- dian runners itt different directions, with orders not to return without the inurclerer After a week's time they returned bearing the malefactor bound. A council of old men was e,alted; the case was examined. The guilt of the mozo was proved, -as he still had with him the stra-n,ge pieces of gold. Then the old. chief gave the sentence. It was speedily performed. They led the trembling murderer to the centre of the tittle plaza. There four green stakes were driven in the gronnd. The murderer was stripped. naked and stretched by the wrists and feet in the air among the font stakes, to which he was lashed. Then the Indians made a great heap of unela.ked. lime under the wretched trian's body, and when the heap touched his breast and sides. they poured water over it until. the scalding steam of the burning lime had cooked all the flesh from the bones. Then they took the bones and threw them into a hole on the moun- tain nide. And so was the stain of the mur- dered man's blood covered and ven- geance was wrought by the Indians in behalf of "the white stranger who was good and loved flowers." e A NEW CTJRE FOR GRIP. President George T. .Angell, of the A.merican. Humane Education Society, offer,s what he claims is a panacea for, the evil. Sulphur is the preventive he suggests.. "It has been shown," he says, "how wearing sulphur in the clothing has -prevented yellow fever, alatera and other diseases. Half a tea- opoonful of powdered sulphur in each shoe or stocking is considered to be suffieient. I find in the LondoreLancet thee no less authority than the Presi- dent of the Institute of Civil Engineers of London deelares that the sulphur- ous vapor prodeced. by the combustion of coal in that city kills the disease germs in the atmosphere." Sulphur is very cheap, and. whether it destroys "or keeps out germs of disease from the body or only acts upon the imagin- ation it cannot do much harm to try larlIA.T IT wifir, oo.mE To. • Floorwalker—Madam, may I inquire why al t this pa raphefna lia is spread out right in the way of cestomers? • Madam (calarity)—This is My portal)le table, folding chair, 'alcohol amp, luneh basket and sewing bag, I - have bought a Spool of thread here, and, thoeght I might as welt make myself comfortable and improve my time, while waiting for my change, • • ON 'HISTORY. Sinenlie---1 wonder why they always put the ,preaclier alvey intok in the Wink encl.' of: the chileth Terieny—`rliat was done lit the claye 'when they was Injects around and the pteachee picked out elte ,safest place, THE, ,CtIROPEAN ''1•Etta- leueopeen Tudge—,Yott :have been proved geilte, of kill:rig -three mere it ec cyouteit and lAxtchildreneend the steferY Of stele t y • dein s the a you, It be , got rid ot, film any other daeger. - eritnirel—All right , lel gUle ialnadatle e, eaftlea E SUNDAY', SCHOOL. iNuRNATIoNAL LESSON JAN 29, "chew at 'emotes 'wee, efieie .4, 515. Coen% Vett, Aoht, 4.14. PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 5, Tben cometh he. On his tawaasysectircrtirojUgrttleSaSkamintitioafteralai'llilirs":45: ea his usual course. Like most Jews, he prefereed Lo cross the Torden twice on his way to Galilee and pase through Pelee, which, though largely inhabited' by Gentiles, was nOt eS hostile to the aBsulyamsoSt,:amr:er6istiFiatycialyoolaf eSebnott- great size or importanoe, Samaria here means the" provinee. It had done dulyeas a name for the ancient (elate city of the kingdona of Israel, end fdr the kingdom itself, Its people at the present Lime were mongrels, whose origin is told in 2 Kings 17. 23-41: They mingled the worship of J'ehovah with foreign supeestitions. They hated the Jews, and constantly perseouted them in petty fashion. Which is celled Sychar. This was formerly suppoeed to be Shechem, or, Sichera, it is called in the Old Testament, situated in a green and fruitful valley between the mountains Bbal and Gerizim. The people of the place point out an ancient Lomb there, which they call the tomb of Toseph, and a well of abundant and cool water, mu.ch resorted to, which is probably Jacob's well. See Josh. 24. 32. But it is now reasonably certain that a village about. two miles to the eissa very near to Taoob's well, whieh stilt bears the name of 1111-Askar, is re- fereed to. The parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. We • only know that Jacob bought ground from Shechem, and. that. the whole re- gion afterward was inherited by the son of Joseph. 0. Jecob's well was there. ,facob's spring. It is one of the sacred. sites which has perhaps never been dis- puted. The traveler finds it on a slight eminence near to Mount Geri eine. There is no mention of it in the Old Testament: In. the Middle Ages the Crueaders built a church over it, and recently devout hands have erected a chapel amid the ruins of the older building. The well. is about nhae feet in' diameter find seventy-five feet deep. Wearied with hie journey. A tired man, as weary as we should have been if we had walked as far. Sat thus on the well. Sat as he was by the spring, reclined on or against the curb. 7, There cometh a woman of Samaria. A very undignified character. She was a womaa, and in the ancient .East tha meant a thing to earess and a beast o burden, but hardly implied possessio of an intellect or a soul. She was Om foetal) of ae(X.sajvatioo Neal fled till theiC degree eatiefied. 14. Watieoever drinketli, have dreek." Onee fer all eve eirink of this •spiritual water when by faith we enter into folic/tester, welt ("heist and become partakere tlu) divtrie nattlree a'han never tntrat. "Shell not forever," There ie a Beau in which the Christian sings; 'an:satiate to this sprieg fly; drink, end yet am ever dry; Ah 1 who against giy ehrxrma is proof Alt 1 WhO that levee can love enouge te, But the water a salvation poseeseedi the power to satisfy the longIng'e of the heart. A well of water' springing' up, hit° everlasting life. .A, fountain Of goodness. 15. Sim, give me this Water. She apeaks as still understanding his vvords literally. Before she can realize that . it is a spiritual supply the woman must be aroused to the spiritual need. Hence our Lord's noel: words, BENARES ORD_EAL 13Y_FIRB. mudu4 wancitruharmed Over a Ilea oeldve Coals Before Mrs. Resaat and emote. A controversy b.aving erieen in eonee tha papers about the xeceet per- ' forma -nee of the Fire Ceremony at Beet -axes, an account of what actually took place, by an Engliah onlooker, may be oa interest. It was during the recent convention of the Theoeophical, Society, thee it g•ood many of us who are interested in the We a India be- low the surface feing present, some Hindu friends arranged with a cer- tain oect of Shivaite Hindus, who elaim: the power of rendering fire harmless, to give an exhibition of their poeyers. Accordingly it trench was dug in the grounds of the Tagore Ville about 15 feet long by 4, and this was filled with logs of wood, which were lett to blaze all day. In the evening the trench wa,s filled, by a thick layer of glowing eoals giving off O trexuendous heat. At 7p.m. we re- paired to the scene of action. Our party consisted of Mrs. Resent, Count- ess Wachttneister, -Dr. Richardson, late professor of cb,emistry at University College, Bristol, Dr. Pascal, a Frenola • doctor of medicine ; Mr. Beetratn Keightley, barriste.r-at-law; Miss Lil- ian Edger, M. A.; Col. Olcotte and oth- ers. Chairs were arranged for us on a kind of dais formed of the- earth thrown out of the trench and about , eight feet from it. This was the nearest point to the big fire at whioie one could bear the scorching hot. At , our back, end surrounding the trench, a I was a dense, but orderly crowd. of f' g hundreds of Hindus. All waited with a eager expectation.. At last a hubbub approaching from the gates of the villa announced the arrival of Lhe proces- Samaritan woman, and therefore of pe- culiar conteinptibility to the eyes of Jews. She was a poor woman very evi- dently from the rest of the story, and bad. To draw water. She came down probably with a rope in her hand, and a leather bucket over her shoulder, and' a crockery jar on her shoulder or on her head. Je,sus saiLh unto her, Give me to drink. Here was a strange sort of rabbi! :He jarred and shocked rabbinic prejudice at every tune it i8. a good lesson in the art of win- ning souls to God to note that J'asus used his own thirst: as a means of ap- proa.ch to the woman's heart. 8. His disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. Food ; not ne- cessarily flesh. Many Sews would no eat provisions purchased in Samaria be- Th9i.s How wraanis • it tad that cltheeopu, ing a Sew, asketh drink of me. na- ture underneetb. much of froth. And it really was strange for Jesus thus to reject the restraints of caste, How did she know he was a Jew? Jews have never been hard to identify Doubtless by hi.s features, liy• his dress, and by his dialeot. "Jew" here does not mean Judean, but is ap- plied to the race broadly. The Jews have no dealings with the Sanaaritans. This xemerk is singularly illustrated by the unneighborly words of the son of Sieach: "There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation; they that sit upon the raountain of Samaria, "and they that dwell. among the Philistines, and that foolish people that develeeth at Sachem" According to Greer'ancl Roman writers Jews habitually refused to give any information to Gentiles who baquired. concerning the road from town to town er to the nearest It censisted of a thief priest, who presided, carrying it sword, .two oth.- ers who were going to pass through the flames, and, an image in a glass. canopy borne along by others. The leader intimated that his two col- leagues would pass through the fiery furn,ace, a,nd afterward anybody who liked a the male persuasion might: fol- low them throngh unharmed, but no' women were permitted M go through. Th.en ensued a most extraordinary and, tn some xespects, PAeNFUL SPECTACLE. It is a doctrine of Hinduism that all t the, functions of nature, fire, rain,•etc., • 10. Jesus answered' and said unto, her. He saw that -she was sus- ceptible to the truthePatiently and. kindly 'he led this int -tutting mied leut he pays no attention te the cap- tious question; he had„ greater work to do than to recognize the quar- rels of sects. The gift of God. Water in the East, especially in Egypt, is often referred. to by this phrase. trite best gift of God ie the grace and mer- cy now offered. Who it is. "It is the Son of God who asks water of thee." Thotiewouldse have asked of him. The positione would ,have been revereed ; in reality she was the thirsty one and be the abundant giver. Living water. Running water, or water from a.spring but be•re referring to the water of which cleanses the sou!. from sin, ast. 12,3; 41.3. Our I,ord's manner of speech, Was richly figurative, and he was alwaye ready to use objects im- xnediatel-y before him as illustrations of spiritual truth. 11. Sir. A phrase, thin, might be translated, "My Lord." The women's re- epeet 15 risirig. Thou hest- nothing to &raw with, and the well is deep. She is "foneittg." It evident that he -does not refer to this well; but what does he iefer to? • 12, Art thou greatee than our fath- er ;liar:ob., The Sanaa elf anS Olaimv,d descent from Jacob and Joseph ; but they wave a mixed , tare ,of feastern people, probably with little of Tsrael- Welt blood. 'among them, 2 Kings 17, 24e41. "Seefoal, the gt•eat patriarch, heel .1,tt•IlaLltard to eecure this bison to hie 'obit -deem. Who is this ettahger, • that, be con give it without even a ,leiaket to draw with a—Moulton, • 13, 'Whosoever drietcqh Wat- er, CoMptre ,Tryhtt 37-a0e• Thy who drielz of title well will for' e time be eetee el ; eui thst. r n aural Oar it -r e:t1:11 ngs:in. They who arielt of are presided over by nature spirits. This particular sect of Hindus claims to have preserved the secret of being able to control the fire spirits so that for the tirae they are unable to burn. Vehatever may be the explanation these are the facts. - Certain mystic ceremonies having beeu performed, anni cocoanuts hav- ing been tossed into the, flames, the two junior priests apparently became possesed. With frantie shrieks and cries, they passed twice round the blazing trench, preceded, by the chief priest with his sword and followed by the brilliantly illumina-ted.? •cenopy. Then, still in a frenzy painful to be- hold, they 'plunged up to their ankles in the scorching fitrna.ce and passed backward and forward .several times, • tlae red-hot coals and sperks scattered about their feet. The erowd followed in their wake, first one or two indivi-. duals, until the others; gaining confi- dence and caught by enthugasne, rush- ed through itt hundreds, even little children ofel and 5 years old ruaining ' up and down the trench over the burn- ing coals e,xiactly as if it had, been a soft carpet. AB were unhurt:. .Among those who centered was a brother of one of our party. This gentleman, whose name I am prepared to giere privately, walked through the trench twice very slowly, and desoribed the -sensation aftersvard as having been like walking over hot sand. ' A skeptic ernong us having pro- peundea. the theory that the feet of natives were covered by an integument so dense that it was proof even against • live coals, Dr, Paascal carefully exam- ined the feet of this witnese imniedi- atelyeafter hie performance, nd found the sIt'in of the soles was of the normat. thicknees of Europea,n feet and that they were untouchect ley fire 1ease one man deliberately pause in ..ctio middle of the trench to 'pick up a handfulof the flaming el:Wears,- which he then carried through to the aide. A 'linen turban which fell from some • orne',s heeci lay on the coals without ig- , titling, ims dia the eocoanuts, The - priests rerneined on the ecene for`about 20 minutes, during whioh time the two apparently possessed men were held by others. After they telt the crosvd Will advised to cease experimenting with the fire, and no more messed over. At this Ntage De. Richardson and Ley- eelf left our ssats and attempted to approach to the brink of the fiery gulf, lent the heel wite So groat that we had to tarn back. BORN ONP Tieks---Iirive you selee,ted a trade, or profeseion for yoer boy? • . 'Winics—a eh ill make a plunabor ottt of hioi. Ina he a tient that way? abas born fol.' it. Tell him CO do thimip immed lately, e nd he won't think of. it again fax a wook