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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-2-23, Page 6XOIRS AND raillifENTS oom• I I Ainattie exploration has egxotiy etimulated, during the vet few yeere by the departure of two wtdi-equipped experlitione for Soutli paler aneers, and the proponil Gerweny to fit out a third. Con - entering the riot results salved. from the voyaene a Ross aud Crozier, arid the vasi field Of en:sal:eh opened up for later explorers, the wonder (het se few serioue etteinpts Lave Ilene inade sine theu to solve the reat Auiartio tuyst ery. Tbe exist - mice in our globe of an area more than twiee the size ef Europe, of whith preetically rotates is, known, is, with, the advantages of steam end the great advance made in the equipment for the work a exploration, almost ineoneeivable; yet it must long re- main unknown unless melted *lo- tion ou tt large scale takes the Place of desultory and isolated effort. What is needed for the solution of South polar problems is the kind of baternational action taken with re - sped to Arctic problems in 1882„ the establiehment by the nations of, a cor- don of stations aboat the Antarctio regions, working be malty towards de- finite ends, and continuing their et-. forts for a long term of years. Still, the presence) in those remote water a two expeditions, with the early promise of •a third, cannot fail of large results, for there must of neces- sity 175 a good deal of collaboration and a multitude of eimultaneous ob- servations taken tit widely separated points. The first of these expeditions is that of Captain Gerlache, whena sailed more than a year ego under the auspices of the Belgian government, and has Grahara's Land and. Victoria Land for its object; the second. that of M. Borehgrevink, who sailed in the "Southern Cross" last August, and whose object is to reatth the South pole. Of neither expedition has, we believe, anything been heard since its departure, and the failure of the for- mer to touch at an Australian port, as agreed. upon, has exalted. fears for its safety; though if the ice condi- ticns in A,ntartic waters have follow- ed during the past year those in Arctic teeters, danger of disaster should be reduced to a minimum. COLOBIli OF CRIll8fg HEIL REV. DR. TAISAOE SPEAK OF Tii0 UVIN JE,ST.M# fll* or # Penalty ame Auttieutty ieeetetb8orrew to Milton ins omen seeneat eceneitinalon-Gray liair Is 4 ldralvii, af Talontee In ohne Out the 'Way 'revenge Verne n A ilespatoli from Washington. eons: - Dr, Talmage preached tram the follow - Log texte--"Ilis head aud his hairs were \Ante like wool, as white as snow." -Revelation i.14, Tradition awl an auctent doeunrett tell us that the hair of Christ, when kie was upon earth, was eltestent col- our to the ears, awl then flowet acme in golden extras upon the neek, ISify text says that bis baits woe white; that is, of coose, a figurative repine sentatiou. As Jesus 'died at thirty- three years of age, eve are apt to *think of him tes a youleg main but he is liv- ing now. That makes him more than an octogenarian, more thai a enten- arian-aye, eighteen hundred and seventy-two Tears of age. But the Bible tells us that he was present at the creation of the world; that makes him six thousand years old. Aye, Jesus says of himself, "1 was s6t. up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the world was; so that it makes him) as old 44 eternitya , You wear a suit of clothes for a little while, then put it off not to put it on again; and so the Lord Jesus put on the raiment of our humanity for a lit- tle while, and then doffed it for ever. He is an aged Christ; his hairs axe white like wool, white like snow. If God will helpme this morning, I will tell you ot the sorrow, the beauty, and the antiquity of Jesus': There is nothing thati so soon changes the colour of the hair as trouble. You see Borne man to -day with his hair jet-blaok; if youi see him five years from now, his hair will be white. Meantime, his property is gone, or he Me been bereft of his family, and that sorrow accounts for it. Marie Antoinette came to Paris greeted by a shout, the mightiest Frenchmen her escort. The populace actually triedt to unharness the horses from her car- riage, that they themselves might draw it. 13eautiful in person, beauti- ful in heart, the whole French nation worshipped her. A. little time passed on, and. I behold her on a hurdle, or sled, drawn toward the place of ex- ecution, her arms pinionedi behind her, one eye entirely peek out, the glory of her face extirepirellefeje.441, t.ory says a this woman. that, im- prisoned, her husband executed, her embrace, the knife ot the guillotine sharpening for her neek-in one night her hair turned. white. Well, surely, Jesus my Lord had en- ough sorrow to whiten his hair. Re had dwelt in the. palaces of eternity - the archangel one of his body guaxd, the unfallen ones of heaven glad to draw his chariot. Methinks, when he came out on the balcony of -heaven, there was a waving of palm. branohes and shouting. 13ut here( you see him drawn on the hurdle of our humanity-, toward the plaee oil execution. Castles It is well to remember in estimat- ing the risks of polar research, how greatly tlaey have been climbaished by steam.; that the modern explorer ca.n not only avoid. dangers which always threatened the slow -sailing craft of Weddell and Ross, but eau cover raoreenn------ space and begin his work earlietank continue it later. Moreoaan, instru- mental equiprcient hat* been so im- provedthenalikici scientific results are , greater and more definitewhile the methods of living and trave.1 in high latitudes have been, so carefully studied. and provided for, that the hardships and suffering attendant up- on them have been greatly mitigated. Science and steam have, in brief, so simplified the problem of polar re- search in our day, that the continued existence of lands whose geogranbioal outlines are uncertain and whose geo- logical features are unknown, semis an anomaly. It is to be hoped, there- fore, that GerIache and Borchgrevink may succeed in penetrating the ice barrier along which Ross sailed, and which shuts out the great Antarctic region from the outer world, and dis- close the seeret that lies behind. "A MAN OF STRAW." Ohriet, Wbimsical fethien elianfeeatts Mind very' ateu as to which is the best colour for the hair. The Itenatene eprinkled, tholes with eileee and gold, Our eueestors powdered theire White, Human mestoint decide:5 this eatd. de - Odes than; but Goa deolares that he likes frosteeolor best when he says, "The hoary bead is a creme ot it be found in the way of righteous - /less." entleed, is there any thing raore be:Mitten'? This is the way God .laas of saying to a man, at the enti et an upright life; "Yee Ilene been hone oreble." Alas! for those wito do not take the adornment, and. who swear by all the dies of the apotheeary, that then will not hese it, Neverthelees, gray hair i$ ortiwn of gluey. It is beautiful in the Olturobe it is beauti- ful in the hone, it is beautiful at the wedding, it is beaatiftil at the burial. Waiting for the door of one of my Parishioners to open, I stand at the front steps, and, looking through the window, gee grantliatleer with a child on either knee -his faee beaming with benedietioes. Be is almost ilocagh with his journey, but he has an In- terest in those Nilo are starting. The racket is almost too areeh for the old mains head, but he seys nothing. The granddaughter, half grown, stands be - bind the ohair and runs her had through his axle, As grandfather stoops down to kiss the ohildren good- nig.ht, it is sunset embeneing sunrise; it is the spring eroouses around about the edge of the snow -bank ; it is the white looks, beautiful in the domestic Origin of the Ancient and Still Popular ritrase. From time immemorial straw, prob- ably because of its inseparable connec- tion with bread, the staff of life, has had a more or less sacred significance. Our Aryan forefathers strewed their al- tars with it, and swore on it as we swear on the Bible. It is easy to un- derstand how this practice would lead to the stalk of corn being used as the symbol of a binding contract, For in - eirole„ Grandfather is in church. his com- rades are gone. His sons and (begetters, though grown to be men and woniene W111 never be any thing but heyS end girls to him, Hen'looks around the audience and sees so many strange face, and he wonders why people don't talk as loud as they- used to. As some old. byren comes through his soul, his meniory brings back the revival Scenes of a hale -century. He wonders where all the old people are. His secona sight has come, and he rarely uses epee- tacie,s. With a sane in both hands, he sits at the end Of the pew. Don't crowd him, he will soon pass over the river and see the King in his beauty. White locks beautiful in the Lord's teraple, Two hearts have beexi affiance,a. Against the enarriage altar there dashes a wave of orange blossoms, The two families, in a semi -circle, stand about the altar. Father and mother, come, of course, and give the first congratulations; but let them not tarry too long, far grandfather is coming- up, with trembling step. "God be good to you both, my children;" he says, aa he takes their hands. Then he seals his word with en old man's kiss. The bridal veil was gragefel, but I know something more graceful than that. The vase of flowers ma- ths altar was beautiful, but 1 know s,oraething more beautiful than that. The light that danced. in the socket was bright, but I know something brighter than that. It is the long white locks of grandfather at the wedding. Pull the door -bell very gentle:nit is wrapped with the black an4,..tane w-hn-t'- L't-.ainnea.le of mourninea-The throngs have come 1.13."-Miel4 18 weeping in the hall, weeping in the parlor, and weeping in the nursery. The grand. - child was a great pet with grandpa; but he says, '1 must control myself for the sake of others; so he goes all thrpugh the house a comforter. He says, "The Lord has taken the child -it is well with it, it is well with it." Grandfather may some- times have been a little querulous, but it is a great favor to have laira now. The song, the prayer, the ser- mon, may have been comforting, but more comforting than any thing that could be said are the white locks of grandfather at the burial. stance, the Latin for a stalk is stipu- Maio, wham naturally comes "stipu- lation." In mediaeval times the presen- tation of a stalk of corn was a sign of service and faith. So, too, at hiring fairs in later times servants wisbing to be hired carried a straw in their mouths; and, in the days when unserup- ulous persons deliberately hired them- selves oat to litigants to give any evn demo tbat was wanted, they wore straws in their shoes, from evhich cus- tom ene have the saying "man of strew "--a poem of no material. or moral worth. The horse with straw plaited in his mane and tail is per- haps the lag surviving ineta,nce of the signifieance of straw as implying or binding a centred. thoneand aea‘re of sinenardening, bur- den-bearina, and weendellealing, be - THE kr,kows bow, to. do 1.t. Yolk can D•ot hring hina a new case, Ile bee text thousand easee atiet Itae it before. He is an aged Chriet, There are times wh.en we want chief- ly the yonng and. the gay Octet is; but waen I am ie deep trouble, give nee fetleerly old, man o a motherly aid wontin. Moe than one, in the holler kgrcii3-rahdta.w.out °Tear 0,1dativavea,nasleabialield. 10,41033ann:Inaanocithheie're e.lt;oubde ituon,oy atimeenitobleoavtonot Much to hold tae paial tae eicle- the drops, bee surely you, have felt that there i$ no hand eo competent to poux out the medicine of Christian consolation as an aged hand. When I want coarage for life, love to think NOviaeCuttrtafteealsoyvatunineuaadsytdpeantty; and eondoleeee. I bring before me the Pie- atusiThoef eavn000leldttIZIteltiass htahlersenasoww.hite aged. Iseurey atnnoott4ybatlergasina4thoifs nfno re wthia: .got aged, and they tried to make hina young again. And so they:took herbs and fragments of owls and wolves, and put them in a ealdron. ana stirred them uln and gaYe soMe to the man, and instantly his hair was blackened, his eyes brightened, his forehead smootb- ed, and els foot bounded like the roe. But the Gosper-batiraates that if amen knaves. jeans Christ in, his soul, he shall never get old; or, having got old be- fore he came to Jesus, he shall be mede YOUng again. I phi& some of these herbs from the Hill, of Zion ,q and I put them in a caldron, ancl stir them up, and I take out tife, and health. for the soul. One drop shall make everlast- ing 3'otith flesh • through your veins. Jesus of the white locks is sympathe- tic. with all these who have *ante aookS. If you get weary of life, here an arm to lean upon. If your eye gets dem he will pick out the way for you. He will never leave you. He will nev- o forsake those who put their trust in him, Some ot us, in our own fam- ilies, have had instances where Christ has beert very kind and loving to etildewahgietae, uMntynanthbetrileern's,ashani t lloande t du ar rnk thread in it -the type of her charac- ter, out a which every thing had fad- ed but the light, After a useful and blameless life she came to her end in peace. No, beggar ever came to her door and was turned away. No wor- ried soul ever came to her and was not pointed to Jesus. When the angel of life (tame to a neighbour's dwelling she was titers to rejoice at the incar- nation. And when the angel of death flapped its wings, she was there, to robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her, while kneeling among her children at family pray- ers, when father was abeent, say, " ask not for my children wealth or hon- our; but I do ask that they may all become the subjects of thy converfing grace." Having seen her eleven chil- dren in the Kingdom of God, she had only one more desire before she died, and that was that the son on rnission- ary ground might come back, that she naight see hien once_ eleyenneann enaele the eleineanain anehorea in New -Toile harbour, and the long -absent son stepped. over the threshold, she said; " Now, Lord, Iettest then thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvatiois I" We. gatheretlfrom afar to see only the house from which the soul had departed. Iler folded hands appeared jest as. wbeu they were employed in kindnesses for her chil- dren. Standing there, we said; "Don't she look beautiful ?" It was anloud- ti ehs sshy e rwelis teinti relypel .ccaera I ecl hbee withered iothuetr et do leaves crumbled under the wheel and hoof as we passed, and the settizig sten, shining upon the river, made it look like ave. But more calm and peaceful was the setting surt of this aged pil- grim's life. No more tears, no more sickness, no more death1 Dear moth- er, beautiful mother I Do -you. wonder that I think gray hairs are beautiful? May her Saviour be the guide, the com- forter, and the joy of all the aged ! To the Jesus of the auburn looks, as the Jews saw hing to the Jesus of the white hair, as John described hire I coramend the young . and the old. If you are in trouble, go to him for com- fort. ft you are guilty, go to him for pardon. Take his yoke, it is easy -his burden, it is light. by the sea, and. Roman palaces, hi whicill „king's children were bore; but this 2011 01 a King born in the outhouse of a tavern; Potentates with luxuriant tables, and surround- ed by cup -bearers; but this King the disciples find one morning on the beach; frying his own fish and toast- ing his own bread for breakfast; bis feet sh.od witla ordinary sandals -a sole of leather fastened with thongs; his head bared under the hot Judean sun, seated on the well -curb thirsty; his coat gambled for by the roughs who wanted. it ; the police after him for blasphemy; the filthy villains hawking ing up the phlegm from their throats and spitting it on his clean cheek; pur- sued as though, he were a,tiger; his after a while the Son of Inghteouze 'wonvin who persists In the dying drink vinegar sucked out of a ness poured his beams upon our hearts, ao," The DIVIDED UP. Seveet Girl, with many adinirers - I've beet taken out sleigh -riding tweia- ty-tbree times this winter. Pea etieal Father ro.e.clita tare Twenty-three times? n230, if a cent. My dear do you: really think you are worth en that expenditure? Sweet Girl -Oh, it wasn't Minh for eath one, you know. Tbere tvere twententhree of them, finial) LINES, Whiffers---You look all worn out. Bilkers-4'ra Most dead. Bad abeut forty letters to write this ttftethoon. 'Why didest you dictate them ? No typewriter. bertoree of her ? I rearriea ber. Get another. Can't. 'VVI1Y net ? Ceste 105 Moil to live now. Oh! are you not ready to admit that my text means the beauty of Christ, when it says, "His hairs were white hike the wool, white like tate snow?" Have you not seen him? 'Through the dark night of your sin has he not flashed upon .your vision? Beauti- ful when he comes to pardon, beauti- ful when he comes to comfort, beauti- ful when he c,omes to save. A little child was crying very ranch during the time of an eclipse. It got so dark an noon she was afraid, and she kept sobbing and could not be sil- enced until., after a while, the sun came out again, and she clapped her hands and said, "Oh, the sun I the sun!" Some of us have been in the darkness of our sin; eclipse after eclipse has passed over our soul; but SUNDAY SC11001. INTERNATIONAL LESSON,. F. 26. "Oartst at ate !Sena" 2s48t. 4“onica next, Jean 7. 37. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 14. New ebout. "But what it was now," The !Mast of the feest. The feast of tebernaeles, All ineeeniaee of the Semitic menjUe most branol3es of the European reee, have had from time immemorial their annual harvest festival. Moses by inspiretion estab- lished this as hc., did otaer antique tri- bal customs, and made the Hebrew feast of the tabernacles serve as a thanksgiving festival 1 kg harveet blessings and. as a, reenaoria.1 a the na- tion's wandering's in the wildernesS Jesus hatl this year come to this feast Who had been Sent to arrest bim were doebtlese waitieg to bear the blae- phoney of which they believed he was eonatalitin guilty, And it wee theY who on their retera rooted, "Never man epake like this beam" Yet a little while am I with you. it was IlOW only about six months before els (teeth. nIthough the words were addressed 10 thoee who gathered around aum, Dr. Cherten understands them as contain- ing also a direet appeal to those who eauallit tOnake lane "Why are ye in such haste to put me to death ? My Um e oe eerth le saort ; 'meet s000 go, withdraw, unto him that sent me." As De Wette says, the Jews knew mit lliM 34. Ye shall seek ,rne, and shall not than serit him, find me. When ,dangers come upon city and nation youl will seek in vain for mill a deliverer as in your pride and unbelief you now, reject. Where I am, thither ye cannot come. This does not mean chiefly, if it means at all, "Where J shall be when ye seea Me ye cannot reach to." it means rather the mental and moral condi- in seeret because of prejudices and tion, the attittede toward God and nanaen*Itihe aPirit of the Goepel, the at- plottings against him. Not guessing that he was there, the crowds' in the th°esPSoeifeof• wGhoic(.11.11 It tays surrounded temple courts diecussed. his merits bj,eafathiteh twbee are a1ir %ire iht etileaav,teilizanti d:321 91:}'F. 0,110teoorio:, temple courts discussed his merits', and ti.:u. as we are true disciple e and com- some declaring him a geed, raan axed some a deceiver; but covering all the fial.1°ttililletoafdyjecosnase: igtoointehaint1 tbhleastseTwatd- excited disputation was an abject fear magto dereey h ,4toruotthinl,h themene m WiVii whoweewere s. ek, - of thein Jewish authorities who were planning for his arrest and destrue- known, to be hostile to him. Jesus {.11),IiulloineioawsneegrfinegLyiretrihroilwils,firioirpninwt 1.11rstathoateliteer and went up into the temple, As ail He- • sooner or later to do; it was a,l,renst ieliy‘g,Vellolcthriastah.hedito:ntearli nh ios boar ot hterrell:nanet ft -- the only place in Jerusalem to go to brawn visiting Jerusalem were sure and did duty at once as a shrine, a 85. AkenPsYSigrthetimJecw' s among them - The day was probably a Sabbath. and a plaza, or Public park. selves- 'Whether this the oollege, utteranoe of genuine perplexity Taught. It was the emstone for rabbis 0-rAbtfott.se'43:nithitle-iws PM! gO,othastaYx.t.,e" to sit in the temple courts and ex- shall not find him'? The priestly eon - of Palestine. Over the remotest na- their disciples. jesue took his Place tions, by the help of the synagogue, there with the other rabbis-poi:taps, the high priest ot Jerusalem extended as some scholars have guessed, for the his sway. No Jew, even leaving his first tiro,e. trol extended far beyond the bounds Plaih the nob' Hebrew doctrinee te THE CONFIRMED INTRODUCE'R. Verse 15 to 27 are onlitted from our with fGelelnowtiahlesip; with Jew even vceonuAdi n nottba own country, would well. fellowship lesson. They give in condensed form reinotest corner of the world, if he what Jesus taught, and the utter ae- fled thereto, without being reported tonishraent of the Jews -that is, the to the high priest, if that dignitary psoeugehtt him. Will he go unto the dis- rulers of the hieraxchy-at this know- the Gentiles, and teach ledge an. breadth of thought, he be- the Gentresn.k " The Dispersion among lag teehnioallY an unlearned man. the Greeks, and teach the Greeksa• Those Jews who were born and lived Jesus at once credited his wisdom t,o, in the divine Being --"Him that sent me exile,s who never returned, were popu- tTohaeskp,e0 and in his explanetion took occasion laxly known as the Dispersion. They were scattered among the heathen .foreign countries, de,scendants of the "p1Arehdyegnoieydetabbaotutthteonkhilaldm:n?; all the Asiatic cities. To hegin a co- througlaout the Ron:tan empire and in such evil, intent,, and it is probable reer as a prophet or Messiah among that those who answered did not know them would, in the minds of most Jews, of the rulers' plans. In the midst of the discussion "some of them of Jeru- salem," he said: "Is not this he, whom they seek to. kill? How 18 -it thelattarattlarnearil9:natiartonnefttk boldly? Have they come - to the con- clusion that he is tb,e Messiah? -But cannot be the Messiah, tor when the Superfluous ietroductions were once -and* not so long ago, either -an al- most universal euisauce in this e01.133- . sponge. Every thing seemed leaving and 'we cried, "The sun! the sun farce of "making people acquainted', him, even the light of day running 13eautiful down in the straw of the in the twinkling of an eye, tender any away, and leavieg hire in the hands of Bethlehem khan, 13eautiful in his end all circumstances is still to be Night -the black nurse tbal. bent over mother's shawl, a fugitive to Egypt becoming him' forsaken by every thing but Beautiful with his feet in the Gall- fehald, hht she i8 happily Heinle, executioners, and the darkness lean surf I Beautiful with the child- more and more rare. We win not sun -oh! methinks that was the night in ren hanging about his neck I Beauti- which his hair turned white. ful in the home circle of Bethany We would have thought that some of Fairer than the sons of men; -day- the Roman soldiers would have had spring from on high; ligbt for those humanity and reagnaelinaity enough to who sit in darkness; rose of Sharon ; step out trona the ranks and say, lily of the valley --altogether lovely. "Stop this butcher 1" that Scorn would As the sheep froixi the washing go up have uncurled its hp and said, the bank, their fleece makes you "Enough I" that Revenge would have think of the risiug cloud, because. of cried out, "I ant satisfied)" that Pain its brightness; but makes you think would have end, -I have done ray more of hart whose hair is as white worst!" that the swords would have as the wool; and on the nmartixtg aft - snapped off at the hilt, and, the lances- er a snow -storm you look oat of the broken in twain. Oh, no I no I no 1 The window before the wheel or the hoof world wanted blood; and as lortg asa has passed, and the whitenees is al - single globule remained in the arteries most insufferable, and makes you or the veins of Christ, the anguish think of him whose hair is "white must go on, and the wiete-press keep like the snow," crushing the, purple cluster until the Again, roy text presents the anti - last drop was out. quity of :Jesus. It is ne neW Chriet Oh, freezing Itorror 1 the guillotine that has came. It is no new expern was mercy compared with it 1 Pang reenter coining to the trueible. Tbe of nail! Pang of spear! Pang of telegraph don't announce the tierieel thirst! Pang of betrayal! Paine of of a stranger. It is an aged Christ. vicarious suffering 1 I hear the ham- If I should tell you that he was a mere ringing theetigh the darkness, thousand minion years old, it veouid luhel ((rid finrcni IlluMPI thume I give you no idea of his antiquity. He thump., I against the cross. Rat the (tomes clown through the periods when worn is done! The groaning has ceas- ed, the last Rotean regiment bas marched down the hill, the victim is taken from the, tree, hie dead weight down on the heeds of those who earry bis leased failing where, it will his head falling barn or sidewise, 88 they allow it. Let the thunder toll at this funeral of. a God, and the organ of the winds Weep this remelt:re: "he was despised arid rejected of men; wounded for Our transgreesiorts. Behold whete they have laid him!" Ah, methinks the golden curls have gone from his cheek, arid the aubure has faded from his brow, and "his hair is tvitite ae wool, ae white as the stern," Sorrow and anguish have turned it. My text sets forth the beauty of there were no worids, before -light ktad amok its first park, or the Hest arigelie wing was spread fox flight. He eavv• the first etar beam en the dark- ness, the first wave swing to Its place, and be beard tbe first rook jar dOwn to its place in the mountain socket. "His hair is white as the wool, white as the et:tote-an aged Christ, 0111 that gives me so mush coufidence. /1 is the same :Teens that heard Ticivid's prayer, the same jes- Us on Wheee breast John leaned. 11. is the saline one who etood in the Magnaritine, dungeon with Pau', who watehed the ashes of Wickliffe when they were thrown into the, `river, and 'Ntood. by Ilugh Latiraer in the fire. Ile comes down bearing tate pains and the weenies of Clarietenclom. After six Messiah cometh no 'man will know whence he mune, but we know • this raan's ancestry." 28. Then cried jeans. "Jesus there- fore cried," lifted up his voice with passionate remonstrance- Ye. - both know the, and ye know whence 1 am. These noteworthy Nverds have been ex- plained by some as being ironical, "Ye neither know me nor whence I are and by others as being interrogative, 'Do 'ye' know 'me,'" etc. We wilder - stand them to be a simple statexnent of fact, -but with reference to his human personality and his earthly environ- ment. He admits that they know the superficial truth -he is Jesus of Nazareth,- He then en:needs et once to assert their ignorance of his true character and mission. I am not come of myself. He had not coins. from any of take great echools, but ae is not "a mere self-taught enthusiast" he has been compnissioned directly by God. Es that sent me is true. Perhaps "gentaine" or "real" Would give more of the meaning than "true," Not "He that sent me is truthful," but 'Be is the ideally True," the "really Existenit.." Whom ye know not, That SLAVES IN WEST AFR,I(4, creu Jtt Ifiritlf+1* Celeelef; eratilee tielleh in ;4 Form. It is aaniltted that &Avery in what is called the domeetio" form exiete, in at leaat AceMe a the BALish colonies of West Africa, while further in the intorior, but still in the British sphere of at least one of the proteetoretes, the worst form of slave dealing 04stii. The Loudon Daily Mail's Liverp001 representative learns that an ordin- ance is favonred by Sir Raleh Moor, Cogeul-Generel of the Niger Coast Pxoteetorate, end which will probablY be paesed, which will na time not only -Wad to eradicate slavery from the Ni- ger district, bat in its effeol will have an in:mints:At bearing on the sister oolonies. At present the system of trade i8. the uncivilized oae of barto, and in this slaves form a part ha many caseee The contemplated ordinance is to make a silver currency compulsory through- out the Protectorate, In tae colonies of the Gold Coast and. Sierra Leone, where the silver currency hoe been tried on the coast line, the effect ha.s, been a civilizing one, and tbe same civilizing effect is produced as the cur- rency is introduced further, inland. It 18 believed that by means of silvo currency all barter teade will be done away with. The currency at present in force in the Niger Coast Protectorate is the =Mita, a sort of copper ring, brass and copper xods, and the cowrie shell, the latter of which, however, IS FAST DISAPPEARING. It is quite believed by many 'that a oompulsora silver currently would very soon lead to the entire abOlition of slavery in any form in flee British possessions. The following letter, respecting tbe ordinance, which explains the present necele of trading on the coast, hasnbeen sent to Sir Ralph Moor by Mr. James Pinnock, the African raerolaant, of Liv- erpool, who has favoured out' repre- sentative with a copy: Having for the past forty years an interest in the Oil Rjvers, with fac- tories and trading operations in Ben- in, Warri, Sapoli, Bonny end Opobo, I venture to give you my opinion of the above conteraphited enactment. I entirely coincide with your views them the starting point of a mission as to the necessity for the immediate be the height of folly, and to make Lo the Gentiles would be, a horrible compulsory use of specie in the Pro - breach of faith. But there is an -un- tectorate The present a.ntiquat,ed use conscious prophecy tontained in these tecostal blessing and in Hire 'labors of ' of copper and brass rods and the euin- vtanalse-walea-ivannutfillea lit the Pen- bersome Manilla as a medium of ex - 53. Paul.d. ATh7 hsstrt aa no vti a words st toifonouofr vLeorrsde cagh.nraetnisaclguemoftiesdthfaeasr al; erevsateoynrtmb eealirgiend, rat pal e :18 mots: iltutai tilue tfien. ' ' h lately died the eighth d,ay was a day of holy con- - - • - a nutty of cowries which as 37. In the last day, the great day of ' - 1 the feast. The feast of tabernacles out entirely, tind only comparative y .#000.-#........ was kept seven days, Dent. 16. 15, but a" few years ago Inhad .stetenede ana sailing slaps taaing nothing else to the vocation and Sabbath rest Lev. 23. 36. which seems to have been observed rivers - with even greater solemnity, and «i need' not tell you that a given probably a larger. concourse than number of copper and brass rods or the other days. Several beautiful ritual practices hid engrafted them- manillas represent a, , slave and theta selves during the centuries upon the SLAVES OF ALL AGES Mosaic system, and one of these, not and both sexes are in the surrounding prescribed in the Pentateuch, • and countries a direct currenoy or reediest* suggesting to the memory God's deal- of exchange. Barter should, by all ings with his people, was the daily means be abolished and at onee. Cash pouring of water from Siloam on the is. creeping Ira° use, and to very gteat great altar. The Jews would recall, advantage; and the natives are Most as they witnessed thin -rite, the mire- readily adapting theniselves to it, and culous. gift of the water in the desert, seam to appreciate it immensely, and also ,the words of the prophet, "There- it thus appears to create many new foer with joy shall ye draw water out of wants, effecting a very favourable es - the wells of salvation." Jesus, who volution in the trade, with a desire had befors this spoken his wonderful on the part of the natives to purchase words concerning the well of living new and various items forrnerly un - water to the woman at Samaria, now known or urkused, which are tending declares that in him this rite, not again daily to humanize and civilize them. to be performed for a year, "passes in- " I could name innumerable articles to an abiding reality." ale is the but I would naore particula-rly men - Fountain a living water. "It is uncer- tion soap, of which thousands of eases tain whether the libations were xna.de are now being shipped Out regularly, they were provoked to hostility bY on the eighth day. If they .were 1Jtfl our Lord's teachings proved that theY made," writes Dr. Westcott, "the sig - did not "know God." Mficant cessation of the striking rite 29. 1 anlow him. "The Word- vas on this omnoerdeayfitatfintgheofeeceasstiownouflodgiver 'bbs 17n11170S16:111.°0cnik'ella°nnfitutthrheetehvilffetoh2radttbhweera'sFaaGi0liabee*ril asposkUeliwith a loud voice, that all in words." Jesus stood and cried. He "thleoini,-gatvhoe c -v: arelnoanian snaale; tkianeoWspetirbit trahaentetnahiprisecourtst,lIitergimighetearomheu.11anyahiney, th.ena nw1 enhineYane. d r i nk . T hee words would e God arecaltothstuionsvorolip;rtre Spirit: of amfroaa."cf words of the prophet Isaiah, "Ho, him; proceeding trona hixn." every one that thirsteth, come ye to 20. Then they sought in take the waters, ane he that hath no money; "Theraore the rulers aought to take ccriaa ye, bily and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk witheut meney and without price." IL is a repetition of what Jesus had said to the poor wo- man at the well,. "Whosoever drink- eth DI the, water that I shall give him shall eever thirst, but the water that I shall give hain shall be in him a -well of water springing up into ever- lastiea- life." there is no need of burying the intro- btea scut rum Clod. Doubtless the dilation itself. alio eoneirmee intro_ q. uestion asked by the; common people eh we Nbvi'lterull.1: biniamsat'h;thiotssi;w:ittreme.sputliat toolabrii.sesthSveisnu; verses 25,426 had greatly aggravated fer unalloyed grief. wei jacet over the last of her kied. Sail, w . . ducer is a bore, and should e th them. No man laid made on Inm, be- lessly discouraged; but until mental cause hia bour was not eome. Their telepathy shall have become a more evil purpose was held in theck by the widespread aecomplislement than it is divine win and, power. -what meant UOW, the ottl-filsh'hhea intrhdhett" God us.d we are not told -de was pos- ought not to be pomilied to lapse sibly a coritinua,nee of the fear of the into utter disuse. f o seed total people strangers out to dinner together, with- 31. Many of the people believed on out so mach as giving one a clew to the him. In contrast with the leaders. other's identity, may be good English When Cheistcometb, will ha do mor form, but it is not good common-sense. miracles than thee, whin, this man A woman who aepires to be a success- hath done? They knew of other tnir- ful dinner -giver will find that saceass ache besides those whicii John has es - lies not by this path. Even. at thas ib latedquestion , and their is an indica- arld reeerAibne " int"thletlen ll'e''A tion oi their wide-eyed wonder. After not alwaye be mene with bated breath all, th se people are as yet rather at - and apologetie air, as if one's conson truant by hie miracles tham convert - Once acaused one of Making a fans; pas. ed by his doetrine, Seem* had not yet Finelly though there men be those open,y asserted that be was the Mes- who will condemn this as rank social liberalism, there are circurastaeteee 82, The Pharisees beard thet the peo- when even pass'ng introduetimes are ple murmured snob thiegs coneernino perfectly legitb7aate. The introduc- him., Tae Revised Version makes thtMli overhear ths ratirmiririgs, His tea -oil- ing eridanger8 their authority, and they dare not ellow this popularity to growniurther. To there he seemed a heretic, Died a revolutionist, and as the- ologians a,nd politiciane they were bound to bring his downfall. The Pilate 'tones and the chief priests. The Senhe,- drib, probably formally; torte -Italy tie aneenbers, 8ont officers to take him, This is the first formal attempt Upon our Lord's life, It was unstieeessful because of the linpression made upon the officers by our Lord's teachings. The story ie told in veree 45. 83. Then said AMA lint() thenm The Batavia Version carats ''UntO them." Onr nod wee simply tontinuing 11414 Matehle$g diSerAll'PA The officers don has as much need of a raison &etre as has any other soeial oustom. But mice it has a reason for being, 14 13 most valuable and vveleonae. 11 lathe Superfluous introduetion, whose name is even yet legion, which hae eumbered the ground, socially speaking and which ought to be roote.d oat, ULTRA PROMR. I clid not imagine, sighed the dejeet- ed tailor, that a woman eould possibly be as patticulareas her mother is. Sbe ' is Ultra, fanatically, absurdly proper. What's the exit-at:et now? sho took paine to thilorm nasthie svoting timt alis dialvt even allow the gas to go out without a ehaperon, OMINOUS MOTTO. Among the presents lately showered upon a rural bride was oat which was the gift ann. old Iady in the neighborhood, With whom both bride and groom Wore prime favorites. • Some years ego the old lady accumu- late:I a ,supply of cardboard mottoes, which abe .worked and had ,framed as oceasion, arose. In cheerfat reds and blues, suspend- eby a, coed dile same colors, over the table on whieh the other presents were groneed hiaig the, motto: Eight on; Fight ever. . Customer rtibbing his stiffened tin.- p.-„ers---Whewl How is the price of coal this weather? Dealer's New Boy, witit a still upper lip -Putty stiff. Customer Lowing• stiff y --lith! Stiff, eh? How's the, coat? New Boy, stiffening up -Well, as itn been byte" outside in an this fteeet and snow, the eoat's party stifa, toe, A GEOT5'I.E HINT. , E1 -Can you tie a true lo's's knot Miss Willing..., She -:No; hut 1 con give you the ad- dress of a clergyman who, 1 am ; ‘vOuld be cinly too glad to oblige you. besides many a,rtieles of clothing. Some merchants, holding as they do a huge trading monopoly in the Protectorate, are naturally averse. to any such sud- den change, and would rather adhere to the old state of things, Only worlbY of Afriee centuries ago, wben eel the trade was limited to the purchase ef slaves by barter, of whieh the present system is the relic. " Not meny years since trade by bar- ter was the universal custom at our various possessions on the west coast of Africa,, and now at our thriving colonies, such as Lagos, the Gold Coast aria Sierra Leone, where it has now, been alnaost eritireiy expunged, it would be like a return to the Middle Ages for them to resume trade again by barter. The enormous outlet for British sil- ver, which would in time be absolutely limit1essand tend to solve the ques- tion of how the large stoeks of his - white na,to.1 alight be more than use- fully employed, is perhaps beside the question at issue." • "NOT THE GENERA,L'S COW." Tammy Atkins --the slang , name of the British private -is not noted for his politettess, but for. his obedience to orders. 'Years ago in a seaport town in Eng- land a geaeral and an admiral were neighbors. The general's houee was fronted by a grastepltet, a on which he vesture() a cow. .One day his wife complained to lint tint the supply of nat z was f all ing slier a 'ths sentinel- accounted for the defi- eiency--tbe public trod dowe lite pas - lure. Thereapen the general gave or- ders thet xio human or other animal ex-. eeln his 50W should 18 allowed on 118 ras.p.p Lot, 141 added.. 1.11,11 IL this rule was infringed ilia sentin.r.1 should be 11 ogged. Scion atter, the admiral's tv f heste to keep art engagement, took 11 elint out over tlizt plot, dierego.rdirtg he seritine,l'e 'order to iceop off ttio g rase, Common selcier, don't you know tell() 1 ant 1 e„laattle,cd Ilis cqfeeeled, iady. xt'd kuou- ia 111113 von re not the getieral'e cow,