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Exeter Times, 1899-2-9, Page 2j1 .BtrEn, ".• TIMES NOTES AND COMAI1NT9 To93Aegio-Saxoe =ed. the Meet patuftal feateee of tee Dreyfus, cese ia the insensibility revealed by it, of the inejority cot tee Frees= people, to the ploinest requirements,' oe juetiee. Mentes ego it woe proved beyoad doubt ilea Capt Dreefue had be con- verted nud punished, partly, if lice w1t°117. dPoil eVidexice censieting pi forged Oseetutlents, whia had uever been submittee to the examination of his couueel, end whiola, ep to tide mo- ment, are sedulously kept hidden from all hut tee few persons who are inter- ested in maintaining their sufficiency. Nevertheless, he laiis been unable to se - etre a, revision. of tee proceedings against hint, and numbere oe Fret.= statesmen and army offi- cers, backed by a tuenuetous mere of journalists and ether eitizens, are straining every nerve to prevent the highest court in France, from greet- ing it. It was suggested, some months ago, that, when the mystery of ihe Dreyfus case was finally explained, a woman would be found to be at the bottom of it, and although she has not yet • some to light, it is not olear that she loes not exist. However this may be, Et is none the less certain that the • moral degeneracy which so many em- inent Frenchmen are now exhibiting in regard. to Capt, Dreyfus is closely elated to the sexual immorality which widely prevails in the highest circles ef French soeiety, and which, from that source, poisons the soul of the en- tire nation. old sin he oan not bear to strike doWn, lt is a ()Arline transgression be Part not afford, te sacrifice, my bre- thren. I appeal this morning for en- -, coeeeeration Some of the Pres- bYterians call it the her life.'" Tfehoetioedne.ehetig,ots,tilotbeezi:reavews uotietll ylotu"Pceatiel it ; without holieess map shall see the Lord. I know men whaare living with their soul in. perpetual ooramun- ion with Christ, end day by clay are walking WITHIN SIGHT OF HEAVEN. How do I know? They tell me so. .1 believe them. They would not lis about it, Why can not we have all this consecration Why slay some of the sins in OUT soul, and. leave others to bleat and bellow for our exposure and condemnation. Christ will not stay in the same house with Agag. You must give up Agag or give up Christ. Jesus says; "All of that heart or none." Saul slew the poorest of the sheep and the meanest of the ox- en, and kept some of the finest and the fattest., and there are Christians who bave slant the most unpopular of their transgressions, and saved. those which are most respectable. It will not do. Eternal. war against all the Amelekites; no meret- for A.gag. I learn further from this subject that it is vain to tey to defraud God. Here Saul thought he had cheated God out of those sheep and oxen ; but he lost pereemition that oome upen it ea oe THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, "TWAS A BEAT BITTLE1 geroT 1:130,11$0Qite,,g3,[4.7d- the vermin of hypooriey that infests it, Wolves are of no danger to the fold of God miless they look Hee sheep. 'Arnold, wets of more daniege ehe array than Cornwallis and, his hosts, Oh, we eannot deceive God with a =meth certificate ) I -Te eees behind. tee eertain as %veil ae before the oritaite seee every thing inelele out. A man nifty, through policy, hide his real ehar- =ter ; but God will, after a vslaile tear open the whited. sepulchre and expoee the putrefaotion. Sunday faces (sari not save him; long prayere can not save him; psalm-sieging and church -going can not save him. God. will expose hint just as thoroughly as thoughhe brand- ed woe his .forehead the word " Hypo- orite. ' He may think/ he bas been sue- eessful, in the deception, but at the most unfortunate moment the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow, One of the cruel bishops a olden tirae was going to excommunicate one of the martyrs, and he began in the usual form-" In the name of God, amen." " StoP 1" says the martyr, don't say ' in the name of God " Yet how 'many outrages are practised under the garb of religion and sanctity I When. in sYe nods and conferences, ministers of the Gospel ere about to say something =- brotherly and unkind teacart a member, they almost always begin by being tre- . THE ISRAELITES' VICTORY. iNTERNATioNAL LESSON, FEB. 12 REV. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS (), to --- "Choate; llitylaiie .d.unioraty„0, Joint 5. SAM iron a noel/ or -Sheep Um ltost ;. Ti -27. t,lidden 'Took John 4. 4S. eilsy--llannian Suture Is the $itine the PRACIfICAL NOTES. , .11.114;41qui -- Fed Will Expose llynt“ World Over -Von lren't Den'nult God Verse' 17. My Father svorketh hither- tlie. 'Talinuge days QM Most Llave one- to, and I work. The Jews uotleesttooli Seventh or Oar Thne. OIL late Sabbath. s him. to refer to God, God "rested on A. deepo,toh from Washington says: the seventh day," and, in rerambrance -Rev. Dr. Talinage ereo.ohed frona the of that rest instituted the Sabbath, followieg text :-"Artsi Samuel said, "but- from that time he contented, and hat mettueth then this bleatiag of still continues, his works of preserve - the sheep in, mine ears, nee the loving - Lion, providence, and mercy Lo the of. the oacee which 1 hear?" --1 Samuel creatures which he ha.th made, and xv. IL this on every day alike," -Churton. Tee Arnalekites thought they had :There is no warrant in any action of conquered God, and that he would net . Jesus for secular work on the Sabbath carry into exeeution his threats against day. Our Lord's work, like the work them. They bad enurdered the fsrael- Of his Father, was a work of loye, and Res in battle and out of battle, and "the exerciSe of love is never a viola- tion of the true Sabbath,'" -Abbott. left no outrage untried, .For four hundt•eci years this had been going on, 18. Therefore the Jews sought the and they say, "God either dare not. . more to kill him. See Mark 3. 6. Their punish us, or be has forgotten to uv plans to put him away were steadily so." Let us see. Samuel, God's pro- Perfected. Because he not only had phet, tells Saul to go down and slay broken the Sabbath. . "Was loosing all the Atualekites, not leaving one of the Sabbath." Was Jesus really loos - them alive; also to destroy all the ins the Sabbath law ? The Sabbath of beasts in their possession -ox, sheep, the Pharisees he certainly loosened, camel, and ass. Hark I I hear the but that was a perversion of the law. treed ot two hundred and ten thou- The ideal Sabbath is not a state of in - sand men, with znonstrous Saul at action. Said also that God was his their head, ablaze with armour, his mendously pious the venom of their his crown, he lost his empire. You assaelt corresponding to the heavenly oan not cheat God out of a single far - flavor of the prelude. Start/ling there, tele .„ g Here is a man who has made you would think they were ready 'to go — ten thousand dollars in fraud. Before right up into glory, and that nothingf he dies every dollar of it will be gone, kept them down but the weight o or it will give him violent unrest. Here their boots and. overeoat, when sudden- ly the sheep bleat and. the oxen bel- low. Ole my dear friends, let -us cultivate is a Christian who has been largely prospered. He has not given to God the proportion that is due in charities and benevolenees. God conies to the Father. "His own Father." Some- ghield dangling at his sicle, holding times as may be seen from tee Be -.in bis hand a spese, at the wo..ving vised ' Version, our Lord says "my of which the great host marched Father," sometinies "the FatIree ;" this or halted. Tile sound of their feet verse shows how his words were uncles. - shaking the earth, seems like the tread stood. We have caught up so readily of the great God, as, marching in yen- from the lips of the Saviour the geanoe, he tramples natious into this thought of the fatherhood of God that dust. I sea smoke curling against the we are not apt to remenaber that no sky. Now there is a thick cloud of Jew had ever thought of God as his it; and. now I see, the whole city ris- own Father. The phrase does not exct in Je of fire. It is Saul that' set the city occur iin the Biblees, an address of an individual nein to God, epr. ing in a chariot of smoke- behind steeds ablaze. The Arnalekites and Israelites If this be thought by our readers too earsh a judgment of Fra.nce, we refer them in support of it to the current French fiction of the day. The novels, wilt= have most vogue in Trance, and the authors ot which have leen rewarded with admission to the ecadeixty, the highest distinction that an be attained by a literary French- nan, present, almost without excep- tion, sexual immorality in an attrac- tive form. *Every heroine. is an adul- teress, arid every hero her accomplice In her crime. The physical relations of the sexes are described in thinly veil- ed' but suggestive language, and the -writers revel in descriptions of libidire 0= enjoyment, varied and heightened In a manner best calculated to excite a prurient itaagination. Thus, French literature depicts a. community in which what we regard as the founda- tion of the social fabric, the marriage relation, is floated, and despised, and that the consequence should be a gener- al loosening of the bonds of morality In other respects is only natural. •••••,.. simplicaty• of Christian character . Jesus . eeceemng, anhd he takes it a.11 away Christ said, :" Unless you become from you. Do you suppose, if a man Ibis little child, you ORLI not enter the has an income of ten thousand dol - kingdom of God." We may play hypo- lars, and. he gives only five hundred erite suceessfully now, but the Lord dollars of it to God, that God is going God will after a while expose to let him keep it? No. Do you OUR TRUE CHARACTER. suppose. that a man have one hue - You must know the incident mention- dred. thousand dollars in capital or in ed. in the laistory of Ottacas, who was estate, and only gives two thousand of asked to kneel in the presence of Ran- it to the Lord God, in a year, that God dolplaus I.; and when before him he is going to let him keep any? Or, refused to do it, but and a wells he keeping it, it will curse hens to the agreed to come in private when there bone. You ean not cheat God. How was nobody in the king's tent, and then often it has been that Christian men he •would kneel down before him and have had a large estate, and it IS gone. worship; but the servants 'of the king The Lord God came into the count - had arranged it so that by drawing in room and said, "I have a cord that tent would suddenly drop. Ottacas after a, while came in, and, sup- posing he was in entire privacy, knelt before Randolphus. The servants pulled the cord, the tent dropped, and two armies surrounding looked down on Ottacas kneeling before Ran- dolphus. If we are really kneeling to the world while we profess to be low- ly subjects of Jesus Christ the tent has already dropped, and all the hosts of heaven are gazing. upon hypocrisy. God's universe is a very public place, and you can not hide hypocrisy in. it. Going out into the world of delusion self, Inherent, not tharive/d. $ti halt 115 gilren to thet Soll to have life le binaeele. 'Tor as the 'rather is tee fountain of efe, ,so has the gleelt t° Lee Son to be a fountain of life." - Norten, We et our best are oondults, couveetmeee Sleritual dots, but our Lord is the solarise ot life, •e7. Huth given him authotelY. Gave him authority. Because, he is the eon of man. Dr, Churtan notes here. how, almost in the same senteece, oer Lord oalls himself' the Son of Goa and the Son a man. But the anise of thie sentence i$, to judge ted woeld is the attribute of God Pse. 60, 4-6, The leather has given • to the Son the =thorny to judge becauee the S'on is partaker of the same nature and sub, stance with 00 Father. • Bet it le of his mercy that it is so appointed, thet H5 who comes to be his .Tudget is one who became man also, and is -touched with the oense of urints infirntity from his affinity with man's lettere, 3. 4, where the speaker is the Jewish meet; tee tru.nmets of battle blowpeople. Making himself equal with peal on peal, and. there is a death- God. It is difficult to understand our hush. Then there is e signal waved; Lord's words otherwise. swords out and hack, javelins ring on19. Verily, verily. A phrase of em - shields; aims fall fro= trunks, and allowed you to have all this property for ten, fifteen, or twenty years, andd you have not done justice to my tatior children. When the beg- gar called upon you, you hounded him off your steps you had no mercy. onlY ask for so 11111511, OT SO much, but you. did net give it to me, and now I will take it all." God asks of us one-seventh a our time in the way of Sabbath. Do you su.ppose that we can get an hour et that, time ,successfully away from. its true object? No, no. God has de- manded one-seventh 'of your time. If you lake one hour of that time whice phasis often used by our Lord. The Son heads roil into the dust. Gash after can do nothing of himself. Jesus does gash, the ,frenzied yell" the gurgling not hint that the Jews misunderstood of throttled, tlarattes, the, cry of pain, him or that he was not the Son of the the laugh of revenge, the curse hissed Father. His thought is rather that between cleneeed teeth - an army's there can ma no variation of act or death -groan. Stacks of dead on all sides, will between the Father and the Son with eyes unshut, moaths yet grinning since the Son is of one 'substance with. vengeance. Huzza for the Israelites. doeth, these also doeth the Son like - the Father. What things soever be their and sham, pretend to be no more than wise. "It is the very nature of the Son to do whabever the Father doeth." Two 'hundred and. ten thousand men wave tbeir plumes and. clap You really are. If you bave tbe grace is to be devoted to God's servne, and shields, for the Lord. hath given them di God, profess it ; profess no more in,stead ot keeping his Sabbath, uae it -Westcott, .p the the victory, than you have. But I want the world for t he nurpose of writing up your ac- 21. As the Father raiseth u VICTORIA'S FEAR, OF WAR HEARTFELT WORDS OF OUR GOOD • QUEEN. They Are inened by One or leer itiaiset Or nesser--resiee ilea COILAI8111, Prayer. Queen Victoria's horror of war is well known, but it is not often we have a glimpse of ehe woman's heart that underlies it all. An unusual op- portunity is afforded in an account given by her maid of honor in the last issue of the Quiver. The Queen eras looking out upon SO -Urea Bay from her favorite windowat Osborne House, and, after gazing silently for a long time upon the ships that thidkly dot- ted the water, forming a striking pie - tura against the blue sky, she said,: "T have often been struck by the sight, but it never appeared, I think, so wonderful as to -day. Seat now it seemed so astonishing to me as to be hardly real. I suppose I am getting an old woman, and as one nears the end of the chapter that closes this earthly pilgrimage the underlying spiritual fact inapt to strike one more than it formerly did, while the hard material shell, with its tendency to corrode and drop away, becomes less and less im- portant. Just now, when you came in, I was dreaming -day dreaming. See- ing all those ships coming and going, my spirit seenied to be carried away, first by one and then by another. Now I was in Australia, now in Indio., Africa I saw, and Canada; then all the islands and their people; the Roek of Gibral- tar, Hongkong, Aden and the Seychel- les passed before me. And at every port I saw ships entering and leaving, and men at desks receiving and trans- mitting messages. And it was averY- where, 'What are they doing -what are they thinking -in England?' When I was a child MY' DEAR. MOTHER omelet Speuoven ieurietl A STRANGE T'OMS. - Of all queer filial resting kt1508$ ee- Church railer. looted by man it is believed that the: litet tomls and repository of Clement Spelt -ran ties the limit. Mr Spelmsa is, or was, personally' unknowe to the present generation, Had he lived in Ibis day and age, and had hie wishes 88 to the place of interment baetu made =own, he. would have risen' to the distinetion of getting his name and fabe in tee papers. gave his residence to the census euunieraiors as Narburg and his occupation as Recorder a Nottingham. He record- ed. for some time prior to the year 1679, and he was a .busy and studions. inau around the neck of woods thatet Robin Hood. made famous. After the year mentioned Mr. Spelman finished, .Before casting in his lot with the silent majority Mr, Spelinan aired his views on the subject of burial ' plots. Mr Spennan must have been somethine of a spellbinder, for his ideas were known throughoel. thn length and breadth of the land. He never overlooked an opportunity to impress upon all hearers the impor- tance of being immured in a' manner out of the ordinary. He was a learns ed man, and had made a study of all the contemperaneous literature and legends. His hobby was tombs. But on all questions of burial he was very forte. Ile gave it as his opinion that the Egyptierts were the greatest race under the sun, basing his statement on their theories and practice in the mummy line. He had. visited at least fourteen guarantetse genuine tombs of St. Paul, and he would Lave visited more if he could have been spared from the duties of his reeordership. Lot's wife was Iris ideal character in history, and from the fate of that inquisitive lady he got an idea which made him famous. "It is hardly possible for me to be changed into a pillar of salt," he (reas- oned, "but I see nothing to prevent me from being immure,11 in a pillar of a church." And from the time this idea suggested itself to him up to tilts date of his demise, Mr. Spelman made it his life work to disseminate his original ViOWS. As a proselytizer he seems not to' have been a gilt edged winner, but the opposition which his countrymen developed to being plaeed in an upright position for all agitate, only strengthened him in his deter- es mination. Accordingly, when the offiee of Re- corder of Nottingham became vacant by, the death of the incumbent M.r. Spelras.n's wishes were carried ,out. 141 was immured in a pillar of the Nate burg Chu.rch, and the inscription on the pillar in directly againstl t his face. Of course it can be said, with truth, that the men and women represented In French fiction do not constitute the whole nation, and that they consist only of the comparatively narrow mr- „ Me of authors, artists, actors and plea- sure seekers who congregate in Paris. and do not infest. the other parts of France. Nevertheless, in this circle are found the personages who direct not only the public opinion, but also the policy and. acts of tee nation, and who, we see, areable to prevert courts and legislatures into denying to a pre- sumptively innocent citizen the simple justice of the retrial to which he is en- titled. By submitting to their dicta- tion the French people become their accomplices, and must share in their ignonainy. If they have xi ot sufficient moral strength to overthrow these un- worthy leaders, they must sink into the abyss of putrid moral deliquescence to- wards which they are being conducted. The revolution and military dictator- ship which now threaten them may temporarily give them peace, but ul- timately, unless they reform, they are foredoomed to the decay and dissolu- tion which have overtaken other na- tions from similar causes. dead. Jesus had just. healed tile impot- are conquered by sheepYet that and oxen. victorious array of Israel to know that where there is one ll hypo- coate or making wordly gains, God °rite in the church there are five hun- will get that hour from you, if he eut men. suoh heeling Posver without dred outside of it, for tlae reason that chases you into hell to est it Gee xnedicinel. aid. was closely related to through the prophet Samuel, toldSaul - ' -,i the power of creation and resurree. • to slay all tee Amalekites, and to slay that God. could raise the dead to life. tion. The devout Jew always believed all the beasts in tear possession; but Quickeneth them means "nao.keth Saul, thinking that he knows more alive." The Son quickeneth whom he thari God, gases Agag, the Ainalekitish will. The older explanation of this king, aud, five drove of sheep and a passage is that in the resurrection at the last day it will be clearly proved herd a oxen that: he can not) bear to that Jesus is the Son of God, and kill. Saul drives the sheep and oxen equal with tbe Father, by his power the field is larger. There are men in says to Jonah, you go to euneve h. all circles who will bow before you. He says, "No, eetvon't I'll go to Tars - and who are obsequious in your pres- Wee." . encs and talk flateringly, but who all • HE STARTS FOR TARSHISH. THE LONGEST BEARD IN THE WORLD. Probably the longest beard in the world is that of a metal worker in Vandenene, near Nievre, Prance. The man is '74 years old and in perfect health, 'When 14 years of age he had the while in your conversation are digging for bait and angling for im- perfections. In your presence they imply that they are every thing friend- ly, but after a while you find that they have the fierceness of a catamount The sea raves, the winds blew, and the ship reeks. Come, ye waves, and take this passenger for Tarshish I No man ever gers to Tarshish whom God tells to go to Nineveh. The sea would dowo towards home. He has no idea the slyness of a snake, ane the spite not carry him; it is God's sea. The of forming inan again, as he was forra- chat Samuel, the prophet, will tine out of a devil. God will expose such. The winds would not -waft him; they are ed at the beginning from the dust of that he has saved, these sheep and - gun. they load will burst in their own God's winds. Let a man attempt to the ground. But a simpler meaning is ox hands; the lies they tell will break do that which God forbids him to do, that our Lord's divine will is iible to. ell 'tor himsele Samuei comes and their own teeth; and at the very mo- or to go into a place where God tells give life to souls, as his Father's will asks Saul tete news from the battle. ment they think they have been sue- him not to go, the natural world as had already given life to bodice. Saul puts OU a solerarit face, for there cessful in deceiving you and deoeiving well as God is against him, The light- SI The Father judgeth no man, but is no one who' mai look more the world the sheep will bleat and the slings are ready to strike him, the hath comer:ratted all judgment unto the solemn th.an, ' oxen will bellow. fires to bura him, the sun to smite Son. Hitherto God the Father had de - I. 0 lett GEN LTINIe HYPOCRITE, I learn further from this subject how him, the waters to drown bim, and the dared himself as the righteous judge, natural it is to try to put off OUT earth to swallow him. Those whose Psa. 7. 11. 'Under the Gnspel he has and he says, "I have fulfilled the sins upon other people. Saul was prince1y robes are v wen out of heart's revealed to us that he will judge la Sman- -- commandment ot the Lord," aud charged with disobeying God. The strings; teose whose, fine houses are kind by the Son of man, Acts 17. 31; listens, and. he hears the drove of sheep a little way off. Saul had no th man says it was not he; he did net built out of skulls; those whose spring -'4 Cor. 5. 10. save e sheep -the army did. it -try- ing fountains are the tears of oppressed 23. That all men should honer the iiiea the prophet's ear would be so ing to throw it off on the shoulders nations -have they successfully cheated Son, even as they honor the Father. acute. Samuel says to Saul, "If you of other people. Human nature is the God? The last day will demonstrate- Not only all believers, not only all have done as God. told you, and slain same in all the ages. Adam con-, it will be found out on that day that Jews. The "honor" here means "rever- all the Amalekites and all the the God vindicated not only his goodness a beard. 0 inches long. It, grew from year to yeat, and now his hirsute at- tachment when unrolled has reached the respectable length of 10 feet and 10 inches. When this man goes out walk- ing he carries bis beard rolled up in e big skein =dehis arm, as the old Roman Senators tarried their togas. In winter time he winds bis beard sev- eral times aroued the neck, using it as a boa. Sitce the man is 'rather small in size, measuring bet 5 feet 3 inches, the beard id more than twice the man's height. fronted. wile his sin, said, The wom- an tempted me, and I did it." And the woman chargee it upon the serpent; and if the serpent could have spok- en, it would have charged it upon the devil. I suppose the real state of the case was that Eve was eating the ap- ple, and that Adam saw it, and • BEGGED AND COAXED until he got a piece of it. 2 suppose that Adam was just aemuch to blame as Eve was. You cannot throw off the responsibility of any sins upon the shoulders of other people. Here is a young man who says, "I know I am going wrong, but I have not had a chance. 1 had a father who despised God, and a mother who was a disciple of godless fashion. I am not to blarae for my sins -it is my bring- ing up." Ale no 1 that young Dean has been out in the world long enough to see what is right, and to see what is wrong, and in the great day of eter- nity he can not throw les sins upon his father or mother, but will have to stand for himself and answer before God. You have had a conscience, you have had a Bible, and the influence of the Hole Spirit. Stand for yourself, Here is a business masa, He says; "I know I don't do cease:1y right in trade, but all the dry -goods men do it, and all the hardware men do this, and I am not responsible." You can not throw off your sin upon the s"houlders of other merehants. . God will hold them responsible for what theydo. I want to quete one passage of Scripture for you -2 think it is in Proverbs: "If thou be wise, thou shalt he wise for thyself; hut if thou soornest, thou alone shalt bear it." I learn further from this subject what Goci meant by extermination. Saul was told to ;slay all the. Amale- kites, and the beasts in their posses - sem. He saves Agag, the Amalekite king, ad some of the sheep and oxen. God chastises him for it. God likes nothing dona by halves. God will not stoy in the soul that is half his end half the devil's. There may be more sies it Our sou) thanthere were Arm- lekites. We must kill them. Woe unto as if we spare Agag! Here is a Christian, He says, "1 will drive mit all the Amalekites of sin from ray heart. Here is jealousy,-dowe goes that Attialekite. Here is backbiting -down goes that Amalekite ;" and what. 71aughter he Makes among his tens, striking right ona left! What is that out yonder, lifting up his head? It is A gne-it le worleineen It its au bets,s in thsis eossession, what meaneih the bleating Mule sheep; in mine ears, and. the lowing of the oxen that I heari" AI, one would have thought that blushes would have consumed the cheek of Saul! No, no. Ile says the army -not himself, nf course, but the army --had saved the sheen and OS:Ein for sierifiee; anli then they thought it would be too bad. anyhow to kill Agog, the Amalekitish king. Samuel takes the sword and he slashes Agag to pieces; and then he takes the skirt of his wet, iu true Oriental style, and ramie it in twain, as much as to say, "You, Saul, just like that, shall be tore away from your empire, and torn away from your throne." In other words, let all the nations of earth hear the story that Sane by disobey- ing God, won a flook, of sheep but lost a. kingdom. . 11 learn first from this subject that God will expose hypocrisy. Here Saul pretende he has fulfilled the divine commissioa by slaying all the beasts belonging to the Amalekites and yet et the very moment be is telling, the etory, and practising the "delusionehe seeret comes out, one the sheep bleat and the oxeri bellow. A hyprearits is one who' pretends 1,0 be what he is not, or to' dc what he does not. Saul was only a type of a (sloes. Tbe modem hypocrite looks awfully solemn, whines when he prays, and during his public devotioo shows a great deal of the whites. a hie eyes. He never laughs, or, if he deest, laugh, he seems sorry for it afterward, as though he had committed some great indisoretion. The first time he gets a (Mame, he prays twenty minutes in publio, and -when he exhorts, he seems to imply that all the race are sinners, wee, one oxoeption, his modesty forbid- ding the stating who that one There are a gteat many churches that have two or three ecclesiastical. (Triab When the fo.c oegiris to pray, look out. for your chickens. The more genuine religion a man hes, the trIbta corafortable he will be; but you may know B. C. COAL PREFERRED. Canadians will mark' with some sat- isfaction that the tinted States Gov - mimed is now ttaiog British Colum- bia coat in preference to that of Washington State's, says the Vietoriat )3,.C., Times. A cargo of our coal was taken to Port Orchard naval stetion, Washington; end it is to be used, we titiderstasad to the exclusion of the home article. This is a reinerkable seen of the threes, THE VICTIM'S RETORT, Look here said the barber to the rest- less man in the chair. If yote don't keep still I am liable tar tut your throat. Ola, Pm not afraid of time, replied the heiplees victim, es long as yeti. con- tinue 10 usie that razor, A RELIGIOUS IMPOSTOR by the fact tbat he prides himselfon the fact that he is ancointotteble. A man of that kind ie of immense dam age, to the Oltarch of Christ. A ithip may outride a. hundred etoreae, anS yet a handetil oi worms in the pieties may Sink it to the bottont. Phi and his mercy, but his power to take care of his own rights and the rights cif his Church, and the rights of his oppressed children. Colne, ye martyr- ed dead, awake! and, come up from the dungeons where felded darkness hearsed you, and the chains like cank- ers peeled loose the skin, and wore off the flesh, and rattled on the, marrowless bones. Come, ye martyred dead, from the stakes where you were burned, where the arm uplifted for mercy fell into. the ashes, and the cry of pain was drowhed in the snapping of the flame and the bowl- ing of the mob; from the valleys of Piedmont and Smithfield Square, and London Tower, and the Highlands of Scotland. Glther in great process- ion, and together clop your bony eands, and together stamp your mouldy feet, and lot the chains that bound you to dungeons all clank at once, and gather all the flames that burned you in one uplifted arm of fire, and. plead for a judgment. Gather • all the tears ye ever wept into a lake, and gather all tee eighs ye ever breathed, into a tempest, until the : heaven -breathing clank -chain, and , the tempest -sigh, and Ilia thunder -groan, announces to earth and hell and heaven a judgment! ajudgment! Oh, on that day God will vindicate his owri cause, and vin- dicate tee °aside of the troubled and the oppressed! It will be seen in that day that though we may have robbed our fellows, •we never have suc- cessfully robbed God, My Christian friends, as you go oui into the world, exhibit an open-hearted trankness. Do not be hypocriticol 10 any thing; you are never safe if you are, A.t the most inopportune mo- ment, the sheep will bleat ancl the oxen bellow. Deiye out the lost Arnalekite of eia teen your soul. Have no mercy on Agog. Down with yoer sins; down with smut pride; 'down with your wared I limes. I know yoe con not achieve this work by your own arm, but Al nil ghty grace is sufficient -the which saved joseple in the, pit ; that wheel delive red O,niel in 11.? den; ilia which sh i el ded Shad ra ek in Lhe £ir; that which cheered Paul in the ship- wreck. VNCOMFOTtTABLE TO BE WISE. enoe," whether given in trembling awe or in delight. He thathonoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father. Dr, Abbott puts this very beautifully: "He who does not recognize in Christ the Son of the Father -the' true image of the divine glory -has no true concep- tion of the Son, for the only way to honor the Father is to honor.the Son." 44. He that heareth nay word. With heart as well as with ear. Believeth on him that sent me. Depends on him Lor salvation, not merely accepts his being as an article of faith. Hath everlasting life. As a present posses- sion. The faithful Christian, hearing and obeying the words of Christ, has already within himself the beginning of eternal life -the promise and the pledge of everlasting happiness. Shall not come into condemnation. into judgment, as the Revised Version puts it,. Is passed from death unto life. Is passed from a world of death into a world of, life. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." By becoming members of Christ we are weed from the state of condemnation, the due rewara of our sins, and partake of the promise of Christ, "Because I live ye shall live also." 25. The hour is coming, and stow is in the sense ih wheel it is coming, it is not "noW," but both senses are true. The dead really heard the voice of the Son of God, otherwise the eon of the widow of Nain, and .fairus's daughteri and Lev,- arus ivcaild not have c,orne forth at his bidding froln the grave. rn that senst the , aiseiples , who heat& .Jesus might have said the hour now is; but, the fuller sense it which you and I and the uncounted millions of the dead will be raised by the dieine fiat fronts the darkness of ileath tine caused to live forever, the hour is to oome, Souls dead in trespasses ond SiT1S, like Nino - demos and the woinon at the wee of Swett ria, and many others, are raiSed lo spiritual life by the teething of. Jeaus. in that sense the hour now is. But the, hale at Pentecost, of the e,vartgelization of the world, of the lva1 ion of the multi Lade Whom to Man con nuMber, is to come. They that hear shall live. They who hear And obey .the yoke of the Son of o d , speaking by hid word( it tide life, shall heat that voice with joy' when it °elle thein to rise to that eternal life ivhich they have sought and desired. 26. As the Vallee hath life inelline Whenever. a Chinese sito,tesraan be- gins to know too much they chop off the end ofi flint teat lie uses for kriovV- mg purPosed. TRYING ON THE NERVES. The C01141110114 11111elt Navel gainers Now DO 111111r. Daring tbe dozen or more years in which fighting vessels have been chang- ing into their present forms, much has been said about the danger and re- sponsibilities elate the development has brought into the engineering staff. In people at work in all kinds of ways took me about a great deal, and I saw and in every sort of industry. The thiugs I saw made a deep Impression upon me, and I have never ceased to tbink of them. All these people ask is to be allowed to do their daily task in peace, to earn their daily bread and e to have a little fringe of play. And see -what the have ems eines 1 came even the largest of the old types of ether, it Is. winhrekingosptiaolffortrahe oevnergin ttaoii?thtehetyhrhoanvee brnyadthaetirhiatheomupgilitat what ww aa war -ships - sohni p as "The .work will continue after I am. horizontal cylinders, and nearly, if not gone, but I sometimes ',yonder in what quite, as high as the level of the berth way. Sovereigns have their influence, deck. Above him was a large hatch and when they die it stops, or seems or trunk, wide open to the spar deck, to stop. In only a few instances, it $ otherwise. Xing Alfred turned the through which he could see, the sky i national mind to learning, and per- and hear all that was doing in the haps the influence he exerted never management of the ship. It also sup - wholly died. William I., set a hammer plied him with fresh air, sometimes too going that in the end. turned a nation liberally when sails overhead were set, of iron into n nation of steel. The . last Henry made thProtest- e country as the writer recites many instances • ant. Elizabeth -the great Elizabeth- of wearing an overcoat on an engine transformed it into a nation of 'mom watch. No water -tight bulk - heroes." heads or air locks interrelated the "Her influence surely bas not died," observed the maid of honor. unity of tee power plant; the engin- "No • it would seem as if something eer from his station conimanded an t obstructed view of the fire -room, as of her spirit still inspires the people well as of the engines and he could who speak the tongue she spoke -still, reach any part of his domain with his sends them in those winged ships round I voice. In the final emergency, es - the world, I can, hardly- hope to leave cape from engine and_ fire rooms was such an influence; and yet, under my quickly and easily made by ladders, rule, the people who were counted by extending to the upper decks. hundreds have grown to thousands, All that has been changed. Water - the thousands to millions; and that bas tight bulkheads, airtight fire -rooms and come about because, for the most part, battle hatches have transformed the my reign has been one of peace. There , engineer's place of duly into a num- have been wars, but they have been to ber of steel cells, almost as inaccess- establish peace, to give people security ible, one from another, as thouge they in pursuing the arts of peace. were in different townships. Instead "Wars for that end are justifiable, of one big engine room, there are now but for no other. My influence has two, three„ and even four, each in Rs ever been for peace. Only under a re- OWn watertight compartmene, and the gime oe peace can a people grow in big street -like fire -room, into which those GRACES AND VIRTUES which it is the aim of our religion to in- culcate. There is no reason why a na- tion devoted to peace should bee:sties weak and effeminate. The labors of men in their peaceful callings, in mines and quarries, on the sea, in furnaces anct iron works, building railwaysi and a lying stibmarine and other cables, ex- ploring and planting wee coloniee-all these labors are as areuous as those of the soldier, and they call out strong- er and mere enduring qualities. I would not have the English people study lees and practice themselves less in art a WUT ; 1 WotiId not 110SM:hall SnOW one Whit tOSS Ofi that high spirit that has carried them so far ; but, if it were in my power, 2 would have all those ships, when they Meet ia the ocean, and When they touch at a port -I would Neve them say to oath other, Trisects, the watchword is--I?eace.' "I do not mean that quite literally, perhaps, but. 1 am convinced that peace oonquers mete than the sword; for men working together in peace, et - changing, bartering, dependent, Upon one another, cannot but grow mere and move thoUghtful for one another, more and more just. •I UST FILLD THE BILL, The Heirnett-The man I marry must he very bandsoine, afraid of nothing and clever. Money's no objeet 10 me. ' Mr. Broke -needn't, it seenx like fait that we shoiald hitve met. the, sunlight used to sinus, has given place to its many IIS eight narrow black holes, cased in from. all Lbe world- Jtven the long shaft alley that was the comfortable home of the grizzled old-fashioned fireman, whose passing we regret, has become two or three steel -locked dungeons, into white one eau not enter without inatinetifery making sure that rapid escape is pos- sible, The engineer no longer hos bis duties under control of his own eye and voice, but must fret his nervous system by depending upon the actiosi of subordinates, whom he can direct in on imperfect manner only through a. system of OOMMUUleatiOIT 118 50n1- 1/11511i5d as e oily. telephone 0:soh:Inge, road ranch more liable to derangement. FUN FOR THE OLD MAN, le Methusaleh had any p toper ty, paid the cernfed philosopher, ‘that, a lot of fun he mast have had, after ho got te be about five or eix hundree, years old, and his ye -anger relations bes gat to be kiect worrarr OF SUPPORT. Mr Greathead-I shalt run for re-elec- tiot again next fall, and I presume I shall have your vote? dunno. What 1 Yott don't know? Why, sir. 2? saved the taxpayers 11500,000 this year. Eh ? How? IByuot stealing if., of enurao.