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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-2-16, Page 210 lig_ EXETER TIMES vo The inapr. [dose obse Frenee tlae s agitati and that i For more the army their effor into the. In doing, s tion that independen right to g by the eivi tie, liowe methods of the paucit the eviden. have been to. cause t Exeneh pgl Is the vie places. Th opinion ha before tia vision, an one piece denee afte guilt is be fastened u Very nal alarmed= quiry, and back upon Dreyfus's contained regard fo cannot be proeess of conceivabl affect the them all o sumption for reason governme the aeoret nor Ere if either i the rep this presu intention governme danger of merit of eivil and by instine the duty to mainta that is, t stronger mination the empir conspire° poison on which ha but which would be The ma meat is already d dress to dared' th sort to for events, w erally sup at once.. er in Fra General of Paris, Seine fort close all obtained, will likel will be siege, and public ha ent to sec having di assumes terinine b ernment tor will struggle Orleartist A Close Co An exh ing plan per cent. red floive bined col average, slightly only 5 p those of still fart are most theta bei of eon= varieties ally mor ored me It has brownish able, time peliam or scarcely putresce to (hoes i , substane floreseen ouS, perI striking geat the the Color portant -Lion by presence ables t ett:V4 wbt Say, Si billy goa He's bi an' T. lei Hot Tim , i' AND CaelfiliENTS i.........-. ' .' • ' , , T1118 iniatilitTAIN WORLD 1 tricit are • • f ag to Tinle Y' 1)1QtlY Q Qt . ll'r' ' follows right, :after Old Neyelity, .blit with eharper chisel and strong ee hand, battelvitig to pieees the monuments, end the sarcophagn.s, and the Pyramids.' era'7°I'd a-L-Init,vsillielurn,%, dbualon al•It4tIcid 4;11,:nligebsst: are shirring the same fate .with Lowell. operative, and Nantusket Whaleman, and Serail ton. cleat-LS:ever. Feather and crest', star and epaulet, end clock- th •••1:1 hoe- a. e sharing e emu()fate: w.th 4 maker's last and blackeinith's apron e.; So 'has it also bean with great Q"'"es- Where . is Nineveh, the blossoming a- splendor of the, Assyrian empire,ll nations driving their eareeens into her . . streets? City of preeanre stollee-Jese per, and chrysoptasus, and ehalcedopYl her foUntains tossing up into basins • „ , . ,.,,- o!. o. alabaster' and am -Rist el*"181te statuary; the: weelth and pomp of the' world, • PaSsing through her streets, str°11-1:ng in her . galleries of art 'llois . , shouting in her anaPhitheetres, ro,ingl- ing in her scenes .' of splendor and triumph. Alas, or Nineveh 1 The an- tiquarian plunges 'bis crow -bar into the grave. of all .that beried splendor, and the bro.kertSpillars respond, and the I b f ' " k and the en- s a e o gyps -tine speak out, , graved. eylinders break the silence,, and all the ground sends up runabling, pee- "The fashion ful and woeflil voices.: . , of this world passeth away- r! Where is Tadmor, the city of palms, built by , , themunificent hand of King Solomon? Warlike tribes .dashed baelt from her walle as a *aye splits, into foam upon -. a rocky beach. Palm -trees, grew along ,lours all her streets and overshadowed mealy olf her buildings, until :Aire eitY was bower of beauty.The wealth of- all a , . • in'h nations unpacked and • unrolled her .. k t Her t ' 1 f the Sun, with' mar e, s,, erap e ,c) , three hundred. and ninety cabanas; 'on .• ' hea- d011ble rOWS, heaving up toward. .. en on shoulders of marble,. the .wor-- ship'v, ,.. . and e pomp, an • e genius, ' - d th ' and. the ' wealth -of a great- .nation. Oh,' , ,. _ .. . .3., • i Tadraor I the cap cn mi. th to thy IR, the Crown Of- greatness on thy brow, thou? The huts that clus- where art: , .,_ . , ter around her ruins make. no ansam. The' broken tombs, • and the. ' defaced ' " frieze re - sculpture, and. the rautilateaward' ds of the desert spend not ;• but the sett _ . t_ _ strift across the place, and, in he low, mournful mean Of the desert wind I hear it: "The fashion. of this world . . passeth away I": . • . • , Sc, also, my friends, has it ben with all earthly' authority. Of , bow much worth ; now is the cioesn of Caesar? Who bids for rt ? o Who cares now . any thing about the Araphietyonic .Council or -the laws be- Lycurgus ? Who trembles now et- cause Xerxes crossed the Hellespont . . - on A bridge of boats? Who fears be- cause Nebuchadnezzar thunders at the gates of Jerusalem V :Who 'caree now whether or not Cleofratra marries An- t ?- Wir h before Ferdin- y o Cr011e es tony? . , . and, or Boniface, or Alarm ? Can Cromwell dissolve the English Parlie- t ? I Willioun rince• of .0r- men new. s, . n '-• ' Netherlands? N . 1 ange„ king of the , o, no However inuckElizabeth may .love the crown, she must pass it to therine and Peter, and 'Peter to Ca ., Catherbae to Paul, and Paul to, Ads-. ander, and Alexander be Nicholas. Leo- the German sceptre into the hand of Joseph, and Philip •comes down. off th S' nish throne to let :Ferdin- o e, pa A , . and go on. House of Aragon, housa-of Hapsburg, house of Stuart, house of I3ourbon, quarreling. about every thing else, but agreeing in this: "The fashion of this world passeth away." ; But have all 'these dignitaries goner Can • • - • , b they not be called back ? I have een in a 1 - - Wbere h heard. the roll called, ' and. many distinguished men have answered. If •I should cafl the roll to -night a of some of those mighty ones who have gone, I wonder . t 1 ill -call it they wouldno answer. w . , the roll. I will call' the roll of the kings first: Alfred the Great! Wil . - rederick IL! liam the -Conqueror I F., will 53,1 Louis XVI.1 No answer:. 1 wi co th - 11. f th poets; Robert Southey I e re 0 e Then:leas Campbell! ' John Keats! George Crabbe 1 .Robert Burns! .Lord 11. the roil of Byron!. No answer. I ca _ Paul the artists: Michael Angeloi Veronese l• William Turner i .chrieto- 'P. her Wren I NO • answer.-' BYes dos-_ ed. 'Ears deaf.. Lips 'silent. Hands paisied.-Seeptre, pencil; pen, sword,, pnt, day -in forever. In literature, in art, In government, "The. fashion of this world passeth away." • ..- ' ''... ' But I find ,a, moxe striking illustra- bjeet at any .rate, it is doh • Of my SU. . , . , . more impressive to my.own mind, when I look at the 'changing shape of ,this physical earth. Do- you know that • ' k of a even the •neountaine ,,o.n the bac e thousand streams are leaping into the 11 '' Th Ail h • ''' dying1' va. ey r e eg tunes ere •The dews, with erystalline, inallete are hammering away the TOCIT.B. So when you say any .thing is "aa firna ai a . rock," you say nothing. Niagara ev- ery year is digging for itself a quicker Plunge.. • The sea all aroand the earth. on its shifting shores is Making inighty.'a changes'in,bar, and bay, and frith, ',ad promontory. Some of - the old ' Sea- coasts are midland. now. Off Nan-, tlicket, eight feet .below loWwater mark are found now the ethiecips of trees, showing that the waves ere conquering . . - . .. !the land.. Parte of Nova,. Scotia are sinking. Ships to -day 'sell. over what, milt a little While . ago, was, solid . Near the Mouth of the St: gromad , : _ ._ Croix River, is an island which, in the. th tle' 'slowly but movements o e ear , es certainly rotating. All the. face. of the • i ' ' ' I 31 an, earth cherignigoe-cbanging. In 8 , p in the Mediterranean island'Springs u , Sea. In 1866, another island, comes up under the observation of thdeA.merican • - - • • •. consul as he looks off from the. beach; The earth .411 the time charging,. the columne of pe temple' near Bizob, show that ,. the water has risen nine '-feet ,aboye the place itewas when these 'coit umne were put down.. Changing 1.•Our 'Colorado River, , once vaster than;' the Mississippi, flowing through the great American desert, Whiehwas then an Eden of luxuriance, has new dwindled to a sniall stream etee.ping , cl -°w# through it, gorge. • The earth itself, that was onee vaper, altervyard welet -nothing but water -afterward mol en reek, cooling off threegh the ages nrii; 11, plants might levee ,and anima Plight live, and. men might live, aaaag- trig all , the -while, now ertimbling,_noow t .ireektng of.f, .The aftee,, htirt2.,Tgt down graduelly in, Its .eecket. t.) a g f ' th hgt ' changing 1 , an tetreietien o, , e lasI. greet change to come over the World , , , . . . ,„ „ , , e„, , e 1 In:used Into the mind .of €b heathen heat.Yen who has never seen the DtbIp. The, i II ndoes beliete that Bramabee the creaci J- tor,. °Ace made 'all things.. Ra areat•e the Water, than moved over the water, mitt' sf 11 litt:(1 thG 1.611' gr6W -416 6,•ante,.' and .artinials,, and Men on. 11, Out Of' his eye went the Min. Out, of his lips' went thp ,fire.. Out of ins ear Went .1IhA air, Then Braniah . .. laid down t le four • thous-, . - 'o 's- ep ' and three ' hundred and twentY mtilion year. After : that, they Pay; he Neill alike up,' and then the world . . will 'no nesttioXedo andi he Will make it i(') n"1:1; ;1 gt,Illi(1 iby:i il:gg i 1 14 VIP. a °gra?: utroe ssiellepP- our thousand three huheeede find twentY,Million years, then .i.v.iaing al? and • deetroying the world agaiu-ere tio.a and - demolition folios:ring eaeh , -,- o er, un i a er three unareu tine th ' el lt ' th h twenty. sleeps, eecti one of these slum- . , , ,_ , her four thousand three sullareo•Ano, , twenty million years 1°1'14' Bramah will'' el• 1 th ' wake up and le, am e Immerse will die with him -an intimation, through very faint, of the great ehange to eome • upon: this physical earth sleeken of in the Bible But • , - ., , : , ,• .. will.la 13raMah may sleep, °111' God never 131umbers.,nor sleeptal mie the, heavens shall pass. ftway • with a great . e, and th elements shall melt a e with fervent heat, and the . earth and all things' that are therein shall be burned up. . "Well," says some one 'in the audi- ence, "If that isl so; if the world is go- ing fr iv nne c ariae o ano her; i la ' ' t t • *f the • ° • . - . . • fashion of this world Is paesuig away, then what. is the use Of ray toiling for its betterment?" ' That is the point on • _ . which I want to gnarl you. I do not want you to become misanthropic. It is , a so - • • . _ _- great and glorious works ii Christ could afford to spend. thirty- three years on it for its , redemption, then you.can.afford to toil and • pray for the betterment of the naitoons, and f th • ' 'glorious or e bringing on of that •as tithe when all e le shall see the sal- , - P °P•therefore, • _ vation of God, While, ,...1. want to,guard ' on a ainst inisanth- - - . y .- 4 ... , . , rope, notions .in respect to this subject I. have t- d I want ' to take presen e , you ., . this thought home with you; The world •• - , .,, - . , ... • • . ie a pool. forendetion to baled on.. Tt is prig. world, lee shiftingscenes and th h ' ' da • ' n1 _ e • e, enging, sand are e ..Y, emblems, of • all earthly ', expectations,. Life is Very 'much like this day•through • . ... .. which we have passed.. To many of us it is storm and darkness then sun- shine, . . , . ...- , ne, storm and darkness, then after- a 'little sunshine now again • . o ., • darkness • and storm.' Oh, build not, . n hopes- et- • world! .upon this uncei. am •i• Build on Gbd. Confide in Testis. Plan . . . , for an eternal residence a ris s t Ch ' t'. right hand. Then ' come .• sickness or health, come joy or sorrow, .come life et- death, all is well, thou-gh the fash- ion of this World ,does pass away., • • es le, , - „ inE SUNDAY SCHOOL ' ' ' • 1NTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 19, : " ' . ' ,bliet: keetning tete rive '011111Sall4r.' Nex35. ' "I"' 6. 1-14. iiaen Tet" John 6' • • PRACTICAL NOTES. ' Verse 1, After these things. After the ,, „. . - , • . custussion Winch' arose about the Ous- , e , ,., , in Cu. the impotent man at the pool , . of Bethesda, a Paert of which formed last '1 '' W • ouresson, , we are to think of our Lord returning to the noethern prevince tif, Galilee probably through ie - . I. erea. ,Tesus wen • over the gee. Com- Paling the story with that of Luke in .' ',1 1.,.; . ,,, ,_ , his ulni•e chapter, we make bina sail in the northeastern direction across the ' , , . lake from Capernaum. The sea of (0,11- lee, which is. the ',sea of Tiberias. Which is also, we may add, 'the •see of Gen- nesaret. John is the only evangelist • • ' ,, • who gives it the name Tiberias, though . - a pirtvi so called by Gentile waiterS. The . city of Tiberias, from which this later name of the lake was derived, ' '• was the capital of Herod Antipas, end ' stood on the southwestern shore. Herod built it in honor of his patron, the Bo- .mee .emperiar Tiberius, during our Say- • , - a . - nretime, but, if we are • to follow ancient 'Christian' chronology, not be- . . . ,. fore A,D. 29, . which is • the year when • ' . • the miracle of whieh we are now about - , • • to study. was probably wrought. The e - - -- • -, - city of Tiberias was built on; whim . . , . , of an Eastern despot, and probably • • • a 'f- people of . different nee:rens 2 an . di - . , ' s w 3.3s. . ' ferent sank were co pelled to take up their bode there,. But the site We,s . . , . . well chosen. It is near the southern .. • . extlemity of the lake, and. very neer .. . . , . , - ' to certain naedicinal, hot baths to which , • . . • . . , • the natives still floes. It . flourished , • • and was counted a place -of impoetanoe • in e ime of the Crusades, but its th t* C ' '' ,. . . • . . . c ier interest to. us is that it gave ' its name to the sea on and ,around which •some of aur Lord's most mar- ve pus deeds were wrought an his I d . d • ' . most marvelous words spoken.. - ,. , . , 2. .41 great. multitude , followed Inn. ' He went across the, lake, but they walked - , d. ite along the shore around. ,northern curve. , 'The ease withwhich - . 9, multitude could. be drawn together in the East and taken from town to town• 'd f ' ' I '' . an , rom province to prov nce is Inhaemonious: with Our social structure. 'There ,were in Palestine two 'dr three causes for theand transfer _ gathering . . such great 'crowds. • 1. Ordinary life in the East is not • nearly so rooted in a locality. as with us. ' There ii no . such systeneatie business travel as in the western countries;•.but, on the oth- er hand, People whose litres, have been largely lived in the Open air, who have littlepressuref •t* . duties ' o 1011 14e upon ' whose dress and whose food' are 1 o the simplest,. can pass from one neighborhood to another without great inconvenience to themselyee or to the people they • leave or to ,the people among whom they go. 2. :The great annual feast of Jews" •• - s the familiarized the peoplewi• th a steady rocessionof P . - hundreds of thousands southward to. capital. city, and a little later north- ward. - So. that it. has been estimated that • nearly. one• fifth of the Jewish, po ulation of the' Hol - Land *took up P , . y . - its pilgrimage' once or twice a year. 3. Herod, the tetrarch of Galilee, had many turbulent people to govern. Most of . . . . his Province was inert at not loyal, but there were outbreaks and rebel- .. : . . , _ irons almost every month: And around each new -' self-appointed • deliverer scores or hundreds .or thoneands - of ., people gathered, so that a, term apPli- ed in Europe to standing armies on the eve of war might' ,be applied to Herod, s-th entire dominion; 'e people iri spite of 'disorganization, were in a - sort of ready mobilization. Because they saw his miracles which 'he, did on them that werndiseaSed. Many of• these miracles are recorded in the other: gospel's. All the desire for:phy-, Shoal ' benefit and the"-itchine curicisitv - '• • -.- - which ' would bring such a wonder- worker into sudden 'Popularity at the present time prevailed then in Galie - . ..... lee.', • , , . • ' .. 3. Jegus Went up intb a mountain. •- - - • - - - • • • ••• • The Reyised Version -uses the , definite article "the": tcl• indicate . •the mann- tainaus ground on th northern shore of .. the lake' ancl ,east of the 'Jordan. Tt Wae• near teethe town of liethseida. A bettor understanding 'of the whole' story • will be got by reading Mark 6. 14-.32. Sat with his disciples. He had, taken them aside. for private inetruc- lion.' ' -: - ' ,4. . The passover . . was nigh. Which may account for the presence of numbers of the people. A feast of ' , , , Here,• .ten e the Sews.. is another sen c .which ;would only be inserted.by a man who was writing,for Gentiles, and here again the d.efinite article is used in.the' •• - Version. ' . • ., . o • . Revieed It was , the.. feast, for While there evere other annual Ise- tivale, there was none that at all ap, proaChed in import this ,great annual gathering. For two weeks before ., . t h e . . paesover gangs of laborers . were . busy • 11 parts of the , eciunti _making l'n, •a, - - . -Y. ready the reads and , repairing ' the bridges. And mene women, and Child- ren in -little groups from the various towns joined company until great Sar- avans wereforined,' Xesus then lifted up his eyes. Sit: ting on the sedinded • hillside, 'he • saw the gethering-croWde.' And' if we gain mir faets, froei all lour. eVangelists, wet that he grate asked whence shall era buy bread that these mai'eat? that he theneleseended and taughtlencl. healed an day. icing, and. that. he vvorkeel the miracle in the everting,: ' Conte unto him, 'Coming toward, him. Ide1 'saith unto Philip, His conversation ''with'' Philip is not •reeerded,' hy: •the °thee evangelists. It has '.• beet steggeeted that Philip was spieken ,to because he may have been the ecertniiesery of the group net Judas. was the • trecistirer. The question a8at indicates not only. • . . .,. , the • moral responsibility our Lord felt . • • • far the comfort end; ealety. of. the tout- tithdes, „bat also' tho great embarrass- , ment - be'ri f f in eTe In, 1 g so far away ro 1 ies. Sleeping accommodations were , rot hard to supply for that simple people in a Clint t •• ' I t ' o the • " poop t 4 So p ea,saja in. spring s n I the year. '1.1" lie he said to prove him. To test 11''' f "Eh d t train'1 18 al an , o i : 7' TwoitUnd"ti PeAnY. Y9 bread, Two hundred' denar denariue was a Roman coil . about eightpence half penny- about seventeen centsS Two- IYLitheollliii YdY 7f h°°,1:ui:v1:1. el . a‘47fAalalid.!egai7ewileirIPi 1;i: power in that age and in that then •with us now, 8._ 4.ndr9w, Simon Peter's Wee, ;t ,wee be eemembered, of the first two to fellow jesi . er Philip's answer we are Mark ' that our L. Ord; said, omitted, "Give. ye them and that the apostlea (medal seepieee, - iii reeeeeii vier, "Shall we go and buy thirty -I 'ere' worth of bread r• Whe '..trlbeeyit g.79ertalltab.aa'aidln,°: '11'BedJAP1i4. to pay have you ?' go and, seq.°, ,..4.11d .having ascertained, makes th of th t Soft 0 flex verse. , Lane fathers think that 'Andrew readyfaith in our Lord's pc Work this mireere and had : . Elisha'e Miraele, recorded in 4 42-44 • . • , • . 9. There is a lad liere, wh five barley loaves,and tWO Sn es. A little bey, with a boy't and doubtlese a mother's Care' lid ' f 't beforehand,had-fie .i. ,f'' or l• , , . es, . which we could well dim OUT'elasses by showing them pilot biscuit. They were n much 'larger or softer than I i '- •• cu Ie. and were neither as paled .• .•: • nourishing. Two• small fish .a.'e . , .7,' • • t h 1 a .y in our.. no. es we have c tention to the fish -preserving t . .1 •- on he Gall ee shores. Like e era smoked herring and larint • . .. , ,., • • e• .- .. erei 'and canned sardines,, the the Galilee • lake 'were preae -. . . . , ,1 ,. venous way% ,arideso d in gre .titieS 'ill Jerusalem 'and •othel , - a . , „ .. . . of Deputation. The fish this 1 had Were probably 'dried.- -• ' 10 -BetWeen verse 9' and th . we must insert the history of ' teac ill AS given b the other . h g , g y. lists. 'There was much grass 1. -S e• Mark 6 39 The P sos- o . • • . was wrought in early spring, timethe grasain, the eastern and ofi the hillsides is rant a - , , Make the menemt down. The Version has "people." We le they were, ordered to group th in companies of fifty and a hu the grass and so the entire o ; • , . was speedily computed ive. oubtless to fi thousand.D them was one of our Lord's pin making them .sit, but there other, of Such . consequence . might take it as the text for not only to our 'younger •scho to • Many adult Christians, ' Or most 'serious faults of this aa • ' people will not .sit down am discuss eternal queStions. 'Ti was never so highly Civilized but'el ..: ' • • earl • , so it was neve, ,a. y siderite . as now. Men. gulp do opinions, swallow their nei, judgment and perhaps their m and seldom think for theinsel manly. .. speaking, .,iiiiis Lord, c, effectively have Worked this if the people had not sat do ' - y I) 1 Ihoughts for. oung .eop e. • •• 11. When he.had given thanl is no 'record of our Lord eve without formal :thanksgiving. learn froth Eastern 'customs n he said was, "May God bless has given us," He distribate disciples and ' the disciples i ' '' ' • ' • • that were set down. He -wet his disciples in secular- thin; was about to treat them in things.. • '' ' s 12. Gather up the fragmert •1 • the eo le what was. eft by p p , pieces remaining in the discipl at the close of the meal. TI tog be joat. Frern this we in assume' that the food afterra used by -the twelve '- Our Lor• . . . , . . maintain' apoStles by mewl] •tervention. 13. Twelve baskets. Wicker . such .as• ancient JeWs ...earn travel in g; one for each apost .14.. These men. "The peoplE Seen the "miracle that J'es'us reminded them. of the giving .1 by Moses. -That Prophet., : phet foretold by Moses in -Dei often identified with the 1VIet Acts, 3..22, 23; 7. 37... That sho into. tlae world.. One: eithe in lar names of -the promised Me, - •• . -• . .• - . - ' the Coming . One. Here was man -directly, ,. descended- fro pure, ieecharaCter, kind to .hil • . . • ' speaking as neve'. man poke, ing deeds•that made all. the wc • ••-, • e ; e • - • - der., 1.Tp, in - Tiberias, or in sc capital, if 'Tiberiaa 'Was 'not 1 Was old, Herod' Antives,- I murderous, tyrannous, and feE not:hurl the olel tyrant from -I and 'proWn Jesus of Nazareth true Galilean who was a deso David, in his stead? So rea the tAvelve to seCond this mi enthusiasm that Jesus had pi" them to rettrn 1)3r water calmed the excited crowd. , eSSIOn is deepening among rvere of the- eitnation in t the outoonee a the Dray- ex will be another revolution t will not belong: delayed., hen two years the. chiefs of iaav,s been deteemined in, S to siappreas all intlairY Dreyfus sentene% ' and. • they have taken theposi- t:ils array is s- seParate end t power in tie etatei With ak tvern itself beyond question. 1 'authorities, Little by lit- -or, the illegality • of the er,, Dreyfus's conviction, and e if not absolute faleity, a o • . o ie upon which it was based disclosed, with the , result Ks baalligent portion of the die to believe, that Dreyfus ;im of a conspiracy in high e foree of this intelligent ; flintily brought the caee Court of Cassation 'for re- by a procesa of eliminating if alleged incriminating evi- r another, the burden of lig • lifted from Dreyfus and ton the real oriranals, ' , REV* DR. TALMAGE DISCUSSB AN- INTERESTING SUBJECT. . --,.... Ike see:inset- the Changes or rantillta -All sent .•-veilmets Crumble Away-• ein:"11143:1! Cans the Rot eir ;King% 'Poets 11 ti I ie 4.4eli .rt'istisi-eivSn teell leirin s 'mug A e $hav,.-4,ireat consolation Ilk 1V4Uttlig. with ciirisa ,' . ' A despatch from Washington seta; R. Dr. Talmage' prettehed from the following text ._rhe fashion a this world ,paeseth away." -1 Corinthians, vii. 81. . . There are mank, who find in this 'sub- ject only an element of sadness. ' I and in it chiefly an element a joY• As Paul soneetiMes used•figures drawn , from the theatre, I think that I have a right to. say "that the shifting scenes at the end of an act do not indicate . that the play ie ended, but. only that . it rs -developing, so all the 'changes on. earth are but the 'shifting scenes in the great drama Of -God's providence, which will came to a glorious and ego- cessful oompletiori. I want, to -night to. take a Christian. and. manly view of this •subject and not the view . of ' a sickly sentimentalist. -I am glad that - the fashion of the -World, and that the world ,itself is paesing. away, .for it is • only -making. room for something bet- . . . ter. In the Sanill procession in, which . March the manners and the _Customs, and the institutions of the world, march • • . . .th the dispensations of GodS previdence , . .. by which the church is to be -made mightier and society purer. Roll on, oh, Wheel .of the ages! Thinigh institu- . tions fell, though governments be . crushed, though empires be depopulat- ed, though the world be destroyed, roll, . • great wheel of the ages I Let all cro-wns melt, if one King gets his dorninions 1 Let all ar:mies be . routed, if from the euina• Christ shall marstal his ar- Infos with banners! Let , this earth -rare- tepee burn, if out of thejeeping '- --- - -ease a ee---• - sleet_Soeseeeng the new heaven a,nd new earth in which dwelleth righteousness! I propose to talk to. you about the transitory naturd of all earthly - things, and then to guard you against eorne - wrong applications of the subject.- - I suppose You have all noticed the -- - • hanees of lemilies Where are the ° - ` ' Prominent families of forty -Years ago? Thruled - ' ey society .as with. a. sceptre. The .cut and the style of their ..dressof • - ' • decided the apparel of the city. They walked with an air of opulence, or dashed' down • behind well-groomed steeds on.. e• clattering• th ''pavements. As they passed, all hats were lifted; . . • they t 1 d 11 as ey en -e s a roeme a converse- tion. was hushed. or turned upon then. p . . .. * oets, rulers, mulionaries, sat at their' tables. They dreuak their wine from ehalices that. had glittered in tlae ben- . , celleta of a century. They sat in antique chairs, in which lordly men had bung- ed, looking at the wane,, papered With the. many scenes of the chase, in, Which their ancestors . had mingled with. ' sounding horn, and baying hounds, and broken antlers. They were praised- they were sought after. Other vehicles halted to let theirs pass, and to their haughty look. men bowed obsequiously, and danced around them with flatter- • . • ' mg attentions. Where are those . fain- ilies now?Some of them, I am glad to say, their -name mighty on 'Change, and mighty in social circles, untouched of disaster. But where are the most of them ? Shall 1 • tell theyou story? The ooat of arms is lost. The pictures and the golden tern long ago, went to.. the auctioneer's rooms:- - Hells, so- airy and grand, o have ecoh bme a nes o brokers t f b shops. He goes along, the street, brok- en. down with dissipations, buttons -offs and rum-blossoms on --the last relic of that greet house. In • that old ann.- chair, that went downinto the rookery; in the pictures whose torn canvas was pitched into the garret rubbish; in those' halls that have exchanged the lordly step of the proprietor for the shuffling , . : feet o/.. bargain makers, Thear a voice, loud and deep, sounding above' oaxtman's dray and auctioneer'smale let, "The fashion of this•world paeseth, away 1" : ' -, . , So, like -Wise, has it been with-alltu- man. achievements. The bridge that taxed the brain of ' the • architect, .no more orosses the stream • but ,tho . . , romantic school -boy sits on the crumb- ling •abutments 'inakinghThymes about the mutation of all earthlythinge, To the structure that once caused the 11 i ht man slee less nights,the. Ti---wr g Y . -P . - rarraer no more Mange his grist. The old wheel, beeken . and coveted with weeds, no more dashes' .the naduntain stream to foam, The fine house, that rahadowed all the others on the Zroeck no - bl ' ' 1. ''f w crum es; - the smal . win- dow-panes, and old-time roof, and out- , landish . stair's, seeming in sorrow to sayeoh forthose dys when people passing here wmild exclaim, "Who lives there?" Man of th booksthab y , e, a were popular in th,e , libraries forty years ago are itow gone -gone down in, to the eelikr, Wine intd. the garret,' or stand. begging on the book -stand at the, street corner, Sr Sleep their:lag sleep in ' the antiquarian's libeary.Not knowing 'where they. tread, the Teney- sons; and 1,orig1e11ows, and' Bancroft% walk over the graves of historians and poets', taking by storm tlae libraries of the world, mountingup.on ladders: of shelves until' they plant their batter- tee 'of light and trath Mt ' the vary heights, of knowledge. The great lib- reties at the Vatican,- wad in Munich 'Dresden, are orilk the 'Westminster Abbeys in which royal books have been 'bUried. The' tootle a Time. is gnaw- ing.' Away at repatatimi: that it was supposed Could never be danaaged, or. lost; .Book -worms are baring. doWn - • t. throtigh the passage that was expec , ed to be immortal, while:those Old ani- bitious authors or their spirits seem wandering up' aud dativrt the aisles of. the national library, to , find their way out into the ea:alight, with skeleton fingers fumbling the. vertex - able pages, and With trembling voiee. seeming te eay„ "Gone AAA forgetteni" The old philoaoplierS, who 'Spent. intich • ' ' •-i „ ', 4,...'i.1,; al ean- .....t a.t....... '4,...,,,.. ..... 4.., r, ..... ,r. r . . , airally, the army chiefs are t- such a result of the in- have 'as a la,st resort fa,llen the assertion that proof of . euilt exists, but that it .is in documents which out of' . , the safety _of the republic, divulged. But ' ' the same elimination applied. • to any : documents whioh could safety of the state, throws at, and leaves only the pre- that the army chiefs have s of their own notified the Lt that they will not have papers in the cass published rfus brought back„ and 3 done,- they will overthrow ablie. In enema -et -''''''1.11. . - naption ise thiPleport that the esSis'eation has abandoned its :o bring Dreyfus back on the It's representation of the• riots, and the recent state- ?rainier Dupay that as the nilitary power in France are t opposed to each other, it is of government first of all n the security of the state, • cenciliate the army. ButRussian evi enc ‘s is e '4:1. e ' till ' th deter - 1 the ern:it Chiefs to restore 3, shown in the extent' of thepoldeputs . to put Prince Victor Ne.- Na- the throne, a conspiracy 3 -attained vast proportions, without the help of the army futile. ' , A PEEP INTO 'VESUVIUS. . ..-.... Facts Not Keuernuy Known About :Tor., canoes. . . The behaviour of Vesuvius is again .. .,. . , ' causing uneasiness among the people , . . . . who live within Its sphere of opera- e.- - ions. • The view 'down the crater of Vesu- . , . , .. . . . vius, even which .it re quiescent, is very impressive._ After an eruption, when . the mountain lies its top- blown away, tine ater is a huge bowl Steep on • or . ,, . • the inside; and perhaps 500- feet- deep. This boWl is filled with:clouds of e, ' ' • ' • e"-eamo lit,' on -the 'underside with - athem,.• lurid red low. The whole of, the bot- g • - torn of the .bowl. is invisible owing to the 'surging cIoud of steam. , , The mountain roars continually with' . • . , , • . _ the noise like that of the ocean when . . . it bellows into deep caves on a rock- -bound coast, and ever and anon a small explosion. occurs • and eends. shower of red-hot stOnes straight , up into' the . ' air. - -• . ' - •-• ''• .. - . -: - - . . These generally rise to about, ', the • level of the top, and then. turn. and fall - back again into the ' rumbling abyss whence they come. • , • o , • . • „ . The whole of thaeupper slopes of the cone of the mountain are covered with craek4 and from the, huge fissures , . • . , . . . collies .the frame roaring sound, steam, Smelling strongly of sulphur, • , -, 1 sues from them, and, he -1 aee of , the _ naountain is covered with patches of bright 'Yellow sulphur, • • • The ground is quite hot under foot, , • . and the air is, opelressive, 'warm; and .stilling with the f Innen of sulphur. At the foot of the, .mountain, which is over '3 000 'feet high, , lies the • lovely. blue, ' f '- ' f th 't 'b t' Bay oNaples, one o e mos - eau i.- ful -spots in the world.,..: . - Between the mom -item. and. the bay, ' f •Pona eii 'and are the buried cities'. o _ p . . . Herculaneum, .both_everwhelmed in A. e. other D '-9 th - b hot- h ' ' th'o 1 ; t , e •orie - y,as , es, , by, molten lava. . , ' . . • ' According,. to ths.. scientists, the ordi- naryconception of ' a volcano -Eis e burning, mountain is almost the- exact reverse of the fact'. , . , .. Properly speaking; a volcano ' is not mountain; but a hole in the gratin& The Mountain is made , bY the -volcano, and is -nothing lint the lava it throws up., which stream e down and cools in a corneal shape, with e hole in. the cen- tre, • Then a volcano does not burn, ' It . , . .. „throws up ,quantities of stuff in a red- hot • or often be a molten state. What is commonly' called the smoke of. iie vol- a.n i reall a cloud of steam '• • - c o , $ , y , . •, .. , _ .,. _91. THE ZINC CITY. - Every • house and household utensil, that can be is made of zinc in the ' ' town of Bareira situated on the coast - - • of Portuguese, East Africa. Evert when a man falls down througb the heat in•the streets he is carried to the nears ',est' hospital en a zinc; stretcher,. and ..the' hospital itself, and the bed, and everything else within, it, are, Made of the same metal -zinc. Again; wher . Ally. one dies he is' put into e zinc cof- fire, 'which 'rests •on zinc Settles, and it is placed, on a zinc carriage and carried to a .zirie chureh, and then bur- ied, in a kinc•-liried grave, if the de;.' , aaased can afford the latter luxury. 'The reason is that zinc is the cheap- est material that , will withstand the humid climate for any time. . ----- • dresto, 'with which the move- e be opened, is, it is said, awn up, and, in a recent ad- ds party, Prince Victor de- t he would, if necessary, re r- '' .ce,. and that ". when foreseen rich are nearer than is gen- posed, occur," he would move .4 as the whole of the real Pow- nee' is now in -the hands of Sarlinden, military governor h h 60 000 ti and. th v o as , oops a e . • s under his control, and -can !epots at which arms can be. the revolution„ If it. comes, • ' y be a bloodless one. These : declaration of a state of a proclamation that the Re- ving proved itself incompet- are are the safety of Fiance, and' • 3honored the array, the latter. rharge until the people de- y plebiscite the form of goy- ley desire. Then Prince Vic- cross the frontier and the )etweert the Bonapartiste and : for the throne will be on. , BLOOM AND ‘DDOR. - ........., , uneaten round teetween color ""d rerrenne - - tustive examination of flower- a reveals. that only about 10 of them are odiariferous, ne rs and. those which have cern- orings approximate' to this • while yellow flowers are below it',. ' Of bine 'flowers r cent,. are scented, and . in - violet color the proportion is eer reduced, White 'flowers Odoriferous; -15 per cent. of , ., ig fragant, and it is Ti matter on observation that the white of garden flo5vers are gener- I highly sce,nted than the col- ibers of the. Same species. been notect that flowera of a hue have usuelly a. disagree- 1, and. in the case. g the sta- carrion flowers the odor is distingnishable' tram that 'of i Meat, and. proves attractive nseete which feed ortdeoaying a, 'AS a rule where the in- :e is brilliant and conspiets- tate 18 deficient, but Many' t'xeeptions will readily, gig -and asellrea. ' The ' perfaille; like ing• of Plawere, plays an int- art in seeuring erose fertilizes be agency , of inseets, and the of one attractive factor en- .0 plant to dispense in many h the other., GETTING EVEN.: * „e the e.,,, 1.4 . : vetted ' a ''''' `''"" • `• :• . • 0141019111121. It is not always east -to boor without.lesing one's tour 1 London paper, tells how a boi sailors on shore -leave• from o . , , : . war, 'aid it good-naturedly c out. violence A . ' • s they journeyed. up the -- , into the Cornish village, e ,ge wagonetter,pasSed. One of thoughtlessly jumped on 'the ' “Git eel there)" shautect 1 man, and being a churlish fellow; he lashed the eailor acreesethe face with. his whi was enough. ' .' ' in - tin instant the other eie had closed bound and stopped the ' boatswain's mate in' : ," 'Tention I" cried he, and there was. . "Dismount the shouted and it seenaed as bluejatket carried a wbole, cl ,., , , , outfit ' . • , . In (lime minutes they had wagonette into, one hula& ity tee) pieceS and that I sevet - • , , • • ratich '6,s Scratching one, bit or -losing a solitary screw. th all' otil neatly •on' ,, t, ern . • , road, and the boatewain'S xi' itiefieetitig the job, etied, "G ' 1" - 111185 . Qt7/(111 DIVORCES. In tour honrs recently a Paris Court 94 divorces,a little • granted 2. , over a .. , e ti:minute- All the parties re- divoro • ! ceived abate aSsistance in their cases, se that theit divorces' cost them no- thing. . . TASTE FOR MUSIC, , in, w'ot's der 'matter Wid de n an' ewellered a musie box, ri heal. it 0?-pla.Yin' 'Dere's a , ee 1,..to cf. trrnrii.16.1-.. A..... ........-,-1.........401, . THE CLEANEST PEOPLE. . The ja.paneee are Said to be the Clean- t ' pi' 'n the vvorld,6. es Pee e ' orth of i. The wor that is, hundred about owever, rcheeing eountrY braille a was one s. Af t- old by what is to eat," mod in seologYo our dol- e could for it ? y loaves Andrew, e report e early had at - Wer to n mind 2 Kings ich bath Lill fish - hunger to pre - e "loav- Irate to ordinary ot very ilot bis - able nor es. AP lled at - business ur mod - d naack- flair) of ✓ ed in at quan- * con lers ttle boy s verse he day's evange- in the miracle t which lowlands undant. Revised rn that emselves dred on number at about number poses in was an - that we homily ars, but e of the e is that calmly is =world as now, o imam - n their spapers' inisters', yes. Hu- uld not miracle wn. See s. There ✓ eating If iNr13 can ow, what what he d to the o them Id treat s as he spiritual Is. Not but the es' hands • noth- ay fairly rd was did not loos in - baskets, ed while Is. ." Had did. It f manna The pro - t. 18. 15, siah. See uld come ost opopu- siah nth.S a young David, . and do - rid won - me other et built, Gentians, ble. Wby is throne the one endant of ly were sdirected to "com- while he churlish punish a rex, but 'a t -load of man-of- eid with - readway tleman's he tars, step be - he coach,: . sort of vicious] y p: ,, That en blues the trap, ommand. 'tention gun 1' he if every rpenter's taken the •ed and vi thout so of paint They laid e` stony ate altar ood I Di WHAT IS UOINU QN IN THE FOUR CORNERS QF THE OL,OBE. Velb..••• °Id MI Now World Events of Interest Chron. Idea Orlefly--Intereating Happenings of Recent nate. A sille factory in whieh only women are empleyed has been opened in a suburb of London. The Rome Tribune confirms the re- PPrRhomein ttat the AGpe;iml annext.131128r ° r will visit A servant in an Essex county resi- deausete: attenaptecl to poison her mistress by putting poison on the bo The gold exports from Western Aus- tralia during the month of December and .the past year show a great in Mr. Thomas Smithyman, aged 42, of Aberoorn, fell down the staircase of' his house and fractured hie skull, while walking in his sleep. , Charles Halliday, a London barris-• ter, died from starvation the other day, He was living in a dirtY little house, and was witliout.-elothing as - well as food. ' •••••'" The vicar of Pirbright, Eng., would not allow a Christmas treat to be held in the village school room, and as a re - suit the parish and reotor are not on the best of terms. r Kr. M. E. Sanderson, .T.I'., C.C., has just given to the vicar of Wakefield all the coal under his Kettellthorpe estate, which covers thirty acres, and. is rich in minerals. A Nottingham bricklayer and builder - named William Tyson, claims kinship with Tames Tyson, the Australian mil- lionaire, who died, it is supposed, intes- tate, a short time back. The sandwiehraen who dined at the Holborn restaurant on Christmas eve, sent a telegram to the Queen at Os- borne, and have received a gracions. letter of acknowledgment. The authorities of the, Mint are this year issuing to the London banks no raore. than half the usual quantity. They consider that there is already virtually sufficient silver in circula- tion The returns just issued show that fruit farming in Kean is rapidly in- creasing, and that during this year 839 additional acres have been, converted into orchards, making the Kentish fruit farms now cover 24,211 acres. The Queen has contributed 2100 in support of the special effort now being made for the re -acquisition of the Royal Nornaal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, Upper Norwood, as.'a national institution for the blind. of the British Empire. A small guage railway has just been laid between Dusseldorf and Crefeld for the conveyance of passengers and goods by electric traction. The dis- tance between the two stations is four- teen miles, which the train takes thirty minutes to cover. . Prince Louis of Battenberg is to re- tain his position as flag -captain to the conamander-in-ohief of the Channel squadron until 'next june. He will then be saperseded by Capt. Egerton, at present assistant director of torpe- does at the admiralty. The Post:Meeker-General announces that the money placed at his disposal by Parliament for telegraph extensions for the financial" year is already ex- hausted, and- that it will, therefore, not be possible to put any fresh exten- sioxnin hand until after lVfarch 31st Int3t. The Moorish Government has offered to settle the claims of British mer- chants and others on account of the disturbances in the 1VI'Zala district in 1896,, i by paying 75 Per eent. of the amount claimed. It is. hovreVer,con- sidered that that offer will not be 50- '- Orders for stopping up of Aeitain iaarrow courts n the neighbourhood of Covent Garden and Deury I,aile were signed by the ehairm, an. at the County of London Sessions recently at Clerk- enwell, in order than two new, roads may be made ler the imProvement of Covent Garden and district. Some extraordinary bidding took piece oh a doll auctioned :eft at a charity bazaar held at Witley; Surrey, the other day. The puppet was only worth about 7 shillings, but the, bids came rapidly, and a Mr. Labouchere not the Mr. Labouchere of TrUth, finaily seenred the prize for £350. • At an inquest on Saturday' as to the death of Ellen Lousia Pittard, aged 17, of 5 Cowper road, Wimbledon, who was fatally burned through the break- ing of a penny glass paraffin, lamp, the coroner said he believed no fewer than forty-six deaths occurred during the year through using thes.e _ "gum bottle" lamps, the sale, of which he ehould like to see prohibited: Lord. Howick was riding in the neigh- , , bourhopd of an isolated fishing village on the coast of Northumberland, when his horse belted and dashed into Aim sea with its rider. A mounted mes- senger, brought the news to the vino lege, whoele people hurried excitedly to the scene. A boat was immediately leuriched, but before they arrived the horse itself had come safely to land, after heYing heel a SWini of about two Miles. Lord Howiek, It appears, had jumped from his horse when it first took the water and swain ashore. THE ZA0)R;E(1.A.: In Servia there still survives a wen derful old institution known as th Zadru.ga, It is the living together o a whole tribe, numbering ;>onietime as tratity as 100 persona, all r toad sk:etp:mit.illyi life. money , makes elle pnh chitees atia decidee the minttteet, dote absolute Authority ot One ehieii.