HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-2, Page 6NOTES AND C'OALIFENTS
uoverment o Brit isai Ladle is-
sued its first general MeXaorantblea on
the witeat ortip of the seasoa of is9e-
91 at the end a December last. The
first forecaste contained in it tvere
fairly favor:tble, and have been gener-
ally confirmed by the later telegraph
, reports, The details by provinces and
diarias slow a cousiderable varietiou
of oonditione and area due to differ-
ent causes, the prbacipel of which ie
Lb e irregularity a the rainfall,
The total area for the Presidency of
Bombay up to Deo. 0 was estimated at
1,818,600 acres, beinte 5 per cent. larg-
er than the area reported for the same
period the previous, year. In the
British districts of the Deccan and the
Carnatio, where eowing was still in
progress at the daze of the report,
the areas were returned at 459,000 and
248,000 acres respectively, or 41 and 33
per cent. below the average. Complete
figuree would, it was expected, give
au area still muoh below the average,
but in excess of that of the previeus
year. In Gujarat the area of 294,000
sores Is nearly 6 per cent, above the
average, owing partly to the substitu-
tion of 'beat for cotton damaged by
excessive rainfall. In the Gujarat
States the area is estimated at 392,000
acres, being largely in excess of that
of the previous season. In Soinde the
acreage is given at 297,000 acres, 16
per cent. below the average, and the
sowings reported short of last year's,
owing to low inundation and insuffi-
cient moisture, In the Deccan sow-
ing was still in progress on irrigated
land, and more rain was needed for
the crops on unirrigated lands, par-
ticularly in the southern part. The
orops, however, were in fair condi-
tion, and in some parts were reported
good in the areas mentioned.
In Berar the area is placed at 352,714
acres, being 12.4 in excess of the pre-
vious year, chiefly accounted for by
the higher price at wheat; and a larg-
er acreage, it is said, would have been
sown if the later rains had. been favor-
able. Failing favorable rain, it is ex-
pected that the crop will not be more
than 50 per cent. of an ordinary one.
In the Central Provinces there was
an increase reported in the area sown
in some parts, and. in others the same
as in 1897. Heavy and continuous rain
at the sowing season and the absence
of the usual October showers made de-
fective germination, and in one dis-
trict, Nagpur, the crori looked poor.
In the more favored portion of the
provinces the crops were fair to good.
In the northwest provinces and. Oudh
the area is reported. 10 per cent. above
the normal, and prospects were good,
but results depended on the winter
rains. Irrigation is now largely re-
sorted to in these districts. In the
Punjab the area estimated to have been
sown is 7,504300 acres, about 0 per
cent. below that of 1897, and the rain-
fall was deficient. On the whole, condi-
tions being favorable, we may expect
that India will have a full average of
wheat for exportation during the com-
ing season.
THE SUN BOX CURE.
P111TO NE
ilEV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON
AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
Witness non Not Re Kept ant, Nor Mesa
is the einlise or ati Oar nritubei
Nov -Tao nespet Trumpet te noes' 1rt
ats Power—nue Dr. Manes a toren-
Amtesil to the
A despatch. from Washinoton says
:—
Rev. Dr. Tedinage preaohed, from the
following text:
-"And. it shall come to pass in that
clay, that the great trumpet shall be
blown, and they shall come which are
ready to perish in the land of .A.ssyria
and the outcasts in ,the land of Egypt,
and shall worship the Lord in the holy
raount of jerusalera."—Isaiah 13.
As when the front and baon doors of
a barn are open, a gust of wind. scat-
ters the dust and chaff, so the Jews
had. been swept every whither—some
wandering it Assyria, and some exiled
in Egypt; but their oomian back, as
by the' call of a trumpet, is here pre-
dicted.
The passage is strongly desoriptive
of the ;exiled and perishing condition
of sinful men, and. of their return at
the trumpet -call of the Gospel.
Need I stop to prove that out of God
Til]. EITEIR TIS
is not made from learn of ram or ox,
nor hats it been Shaped in all earthly
foundry. God furlaished the material
for this trumpet, twined it, attuned
it, bestowed it. Be made two trum-
pets—one for heaven, and john heard
its blast about Patmos. Ile; made the
other for the earth, and he Imug it in
the Church. Sinina Peter putt tbat
trumpet to his Ups), and all the docks
and. obippiug of Galilee neard it. Luke
took it, and, forgetting the medicine of
his apothecary sbop, he went every-
where to blow it. Paul took it, and
made Philipplan dungeons ring, and
Corinthian palaces echo, and Cbristen-
done resound with the harmonies of
the resurrection. A trumpet, God -
made, heaven -manufactured, yet need-
ing no giants to use it, but suited, to
faint lips, and trembling •hand, and
feeble lungs; so that !Sok Ed-
ward Payson, leaning against the
pulpit, miglat hold it, and Frederick
Robertson, worn out with ulcers end
spinal coraplain ts, might breathe
through it, until the fashionable hear-
ers at Brighton watering -place trem-
bled and believed.
This Gospel. trumpet is great in its
power. On a still night you may bear
the emit of a brazen trumpet two or
three miles; but this is so mighty that
it is not only heard from heaven to BURIED AT -SEA.
earth, but it is to arrest the atten-
h al
of matnariln, etas of old age—one nitwit,
infernal tautly of transgrosision; they
Must leo dowu under thee, ot: thou
sbalt go down under them. Hearlten
to tbe trumpet of assault ; "Let the
10 -eked forsake his way, and the un-
righteous man bis tlaoughts, and. let
bito3 return unto the Lord, and he
will have many upozt him ; and to Our
God, for he will abundantly pardon."
"Those eighteen upon whom the tower
of Siloam tell—thinit ye that they
were sinners above all men that dwelt
in Jerusalem! I tell you, nay; but
ezoeni, ye repent, ye snail all likewise
perish."
This Gospel trumpet is also one of
retreat. It is folly for a hunched. men
to attack ten tbousand. It is the pert
of good generalship, sometimes, to
blow the trumpet of retreat, There
L8 no need of your trying to facie cer-
tain temptations. You are foolhardy
to try it. Your only. safety is in
flight, It is as fifty against five thou-
sand. If you be given to appetite, es-
cape the presence of decanter and
demijohn. If you are given to pride,
go amidst things that flatter it. If
your proclivity be toward unclean-
i3e52, like Job, make a covenant with
your eyes, that you look not upon a
maid. You know how the city of Ai
was taken. joshua's forces went up
to oapture it, but was miserably cut
to Pieces. The next time they hit
upon this stratagem; The host was to
advance: to the city, and when the, as-
sault was made upon thera, they were
to fly. land so 'they did, until the
people of Ai oame out to follow them,
we. are in exile? Who here is zit home hi and then, at the holding up of Tos-
am a klavinar for MI who would come to
him and live. This Sabbath nour
.seean to you like all other Sebbatb
hours, but to souse of Yoe, tt may be
the most stupendous hour in all
Yoar lire of twenty, forty, ee sixty
years because now you may refuels
your last mil of =any.
There may be some soul in, this hoose
to -night who will fatally refuse Mint;
and it will be known in heaven that
the hour et their shipwreck was tee
minutes of nine o'cloek—the moment
at which I speak. May God have
mercy Upon those that are ready to
peroehl Oh 1 that by some song or
heaven, or by some groan from hell,
or by some death -bed from which they
received admonition, or by the mem-
ory of some sick -pillow where they
promised to do better, or by some
rumbling of judgmeot thunder, or by
some invitation of the cross, they
iniant be raised from the dead I jesus
planes Ws right hand on his bleeding
brow, and his left hand on his bleed -
Mg side, and after holding them there
a little whale, he stretches them forth,
blood -tipped, saying, "Come unto mei
all ye that labon, and are heavy laden)
and. I will give you, rest."
bon of all nations. Men with p ys c
hearing all gone catch the first strain
of it. Men buried half a century in
o imes have heard it. It is the power
of God. unto salvation. Amidst the rush
of a cavalry troop, going perhaps alai's
in three minute% Saul heard it, braced
mself in the stirrups, and reined ne hua's spear, the retreating host ra-
in his sin? Does he not wander about? his charger on the road to Damascus. lied, and took the oity. So sometimes
Within the walls of this house, does In a custom -house, amid the chink of it is as necessary to fly, as at others
lae find eritire rest for Ids spirit; No;
he sees those walls are crumbling. His
family must, by the nature of things,
after a while be scattered. Siekness
can not be kept out:nor death. How
many men have lived in the same nouse
for twenty years ? Not many. Your
office or store makes a poor home, Are
things all right at the store? Do
things go on there as if tlaey might go
on for ever f Wsould you be satisfied
to spend an eternity amidst that hard-
ware and. those ribbons, and yonder
kegs and hogsheads? Your pleasures
are not lasting. You get tired of
laughing, and tired of oard-playing,
and tired of fast riding; and all the
peace you over had was not very deep
nor very lasting. You wander about,
and wander about—exiled. That is
for twenty years? Not many, • Your
have been expatriated. You. are in
worse than Siberian exile. The chains
are harder. The mine is harder- The
climate is colder. The gloom is ghast-
lier. "L.ost in the land of Assyria 1" spoon in the tea -cup disturbs; but this when under Christ thou dost get the
sound quiets the nerves and stills the , victory. Not always in the night or in
That is, you do not know how you got fears. The gentlest step that ever en -1 retreat thou shall yet be more than
coin, and the shuffle of feet, and the
dispute pf merchants at the high tar-
iffs, Matthew answered its mighty
call. Men have put their fingers in
their ears, to keep out the sound, but
have been compelled to hear it. At
its blast walls fall, and thrones upset,
nations leap from barbarism to civ-
ilization. There is no force in the
shook of musketry, or in the boom of
cannonade, as compared with the peal-
ing forth of this great Gospel trum-
pet. Oh! that the Eternal God might
speak through it now ! That all these once too often.
people might rise up into the freedom This Gospel trumpet is one of vic-
of the Gospel I . . tory. Such a trumpet was sounded.
This trumpet is great in its sweet- when Gideon scattered the Arnale-
ness. In some musical instruments kites; when King David's troops over -
there is noise, and crash, and power, came Absalom; when Napoleon rode on
but no fineness of sound. Others can the field of Austerlitz ; when Sebes-
not only thunder, but weep and whis- topol fell; when Paris surrendered.
per and woo Like that is the Gospel For a While the din of battle is great;
trumpet! In all tenderness and sweet -1 the frenzied shriek; the revengeful
nese, and sympathy, it excels. I cry; the dying groan; the shouting of
"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds ' the captains; the neighing of the war -
In a believer's oar; 'chargers; the howling shells; the rak-
It soothes his sorrows, heals his I ing artillery; but as these subside in
And. drives away his fears." . I the defeat of one army, a musician
leaps on the wall, flourishes his tram -
wounds,
A patient may be so weak that the I pet, and sounds victory over the
fall of a door -latch or tbe rattle of a plains This shall be tlay case, 0 sinner!
it is to advance. blow the trumpet
of retreat for those of you who are
tempted. "Lead me not into tempt-
ation,'" be your morning and evening
prayer. No need of your trying with
one round of buckshot to meet an
enemy with ammunition wagons of
grape and canister. The lion -tamer
puts his head into the monster's mouth
and the people applaud; but it is a
foolish thing to do. The shaggy mon-
ster after e while forgets his placidity,
and the lion -tamer puts in his head
in, and you cannot find your way out.
If a man has made his way, the more
he walks the raore he islost. He starts
off and goes ten, miles in thet wrong
direction. Nor ean you find your way
out of this spiritual confusion. Lost,
and without food. Lost, and without
tered a sick -room, is that of the Great 1 conqueror: The brightest hour that
Physician. Take some favourite word i ever dawns on a human soul is that
and utter it among the rocks, and 1 in which its sins are pardoned, and
there comes book half -a -dozen echoes. Christ says, "Oh, long -imprisoned, spirit;
So there is one word that, uttered here; go free. 1 am thy Saviour and thy God.
to -night, will echo back from five 1 The mountains shall depart, and the
hundred wounded but comforted hearts. ; hills be removed, but- 1 svill never fail
The word is Jesus. That is the name I thee." Ohl could you. only know the
that makes you smile. That is the name! transport of such a hope, methinks
water. St. Bernard dogs Pick up the 1 that arouses your courage. That is the I you would no longer be able to keep
t
worn traveller from Alpine gulches; I Mime that kindles your faith. That is t your seat, but, like a man I heard. as
: the nam.e that helps you to live. That nunday.night in Charleston, you would
but nothing has picked you out from; is the name that will help you to die. I rise un in the midst of the sermon,
your freezing exhaustion. Strong- I But I make a more determined ad- 1 and cry out, "Give me Christ! Give
armed sailors have put out from a t ranee into my subject and say thatme Christl''
I
steamer and saved a shipwrecked crew; ! the Gospel trumpet is a trumpet of 1 Oh, ye 'forgiven ones! Did Christ
but no craft has, borne down for your alarm. The sentinel on the wall sees mane
text. Not floating on. dawn( into peril, Iplie: to the enemy coming, and puts the train- ! you down? Do you find the cup he
you a slave? Has he trampled
rescue. "Ready to perish!" says the !
uhskisetli,138; and the soldier grasps : presses to
but in the last stages of it—the work • and the trooper springs gall.? Do you not rather feel like spend -
your lips all wormwood and
grace almost gone—your feet on the
of sin almost completed — the day a at the ory " Beware!" Listening not i
into his saddle, and the gates ajar shut ! bag your life in praising the free grace
crumbling brink. Perhaps the last to trumpet call the palace is taken,
of the Gospel, waving the palm branch,
call made Ready to perish! Readyto the treasures despoiled, the city burn- shouting the hosanna, clapping the
perish! Not the first symptoms of dis-
-0 1 ed. So the Gospel is a. trumpet of I cymbals, and blowing the trumpets of
1 victory?
ease, but the ninth dily has passed; all alarm It says,"Be armed, or die 1" 1 7
. a NA e, who are the soldiers of Chr s ,
i t
remedies have failed; and there has
- . Satan assaults. The world tempts.
been a relapse. 'What a dim prospect ! on thee,
Death advances. Judgment bursts up-; i
lean not always be marching and fight -
of recovery! Almost hopele•isl IteadY ! thou shalt not escape. One strain of
and an et ernity from which ng. The evening will come. nien
& Remedy for Consumption and Bow to to perish? Ready to periehl Not the ' that trumpet is this " It is appoint- ' shadows will gather, and we must go
. first reefing of the sail, and "the mak- There we
to the white tents of the grave'
in g of things siong;" but the mast 1 ed unto men once to die, and after will sleep soundly. But the
. Ese It.
Sun boxes for the cure of consump- death the judgment." Another strain, ; thing
i night will pass along, and the first
tion away up ia mountainous regions sprung, the timbers parting — the ing flames? Who of us can lie down we will hear wilt. be the trum-
perish? . ; fall into a long
; resurrection; and we will come up and
have long been in use. There are crash come! Ready ta perisbl Ready to in everlasting burnings?" " Beware,
many people who oever heoad of the beware I" line of light, the sword
I of Christian conflict leaming in tbe
idea as to what a sun box is. . . omit.. During e late war you ea land we shall answer to our names an
shivered, the helm gone, the leak Who of us can dwell amidst devour- i pet -call sounding the reveille of the
remedy and who have.ne. the slightest Am 1 right in supposing that there , The Gosp.el trumpet is one of re -1 unsetting sun. The roll shall be called,
are two thousand. persons in this house ' D th • h rd • d
'ieet Godafishing- the trumpet calling from the recruit- i then we will go to the morning' repast
smack, with three or four persons on bag stations; and at its call the poo- ' of heaven—manna for the bread, and
boird, goes to pieces on Newfoundland ple flocked to tbe standard of the
banks we say "Poor' f 11 ' li
A sunbox, then, is a structure about
6 by 10 feet, made with a frame of
quartering and a covering of weather
boards. If you haven't got boards,
bark will do.
There is this difference, however, be-
tween a hut and a sunbox, that the
former is a fixture, unless a bush fire
or a hurricane comes along, whereas
a aunbox should be constructed on a
pivot, or, failing that, on wheel:, so
that its front may be readily turned.
away from the wind. The reason is
that while fresle pure air and sunlight
'mean renewed health to the consump-
tive patient, the wind is injurious. lf
you have no sunboxes the patient must
be taken indoors whenever the wind
blows, but given your sunbox te pre-
sent its back to the wind, no matter
wlfat quarter it comes from, and the
patient may remain there ali day. in
each of these boxes from two to three
patients are placed on mattresses, and
there they lie all day long, and drink
in the pure mountain air. If they are
very weak their food is taken to them,
othervvise they get it in the home..
The sunboxes do not cost much—pro-
. bably frota $25 to $50 each. Placed
in a pure, sunny atraospliere, these
simple appliances are the very latest
that medical science has to recommend
for the cure of consumption. The
patients, of course, must be given
aberaltint food.
R;EGA1tDINGr A RAT'S TAIL.
A rat's tail is a wonderful thing.
The great naturalist Cuvier says that
there ars more nauscles in this curi-
ous appericlage than are to be found
In that part of the human anatomy
Which is most admired for its jogai-
ious strueture—naniely, the hand. To
the rat, in fact, its tail serves as a
sort of hand, by means of svhioh the
animal is enabled to crawl along nar-
row ledges or other diffieult passages,
using it to balano with or to gain a
hold,. it is prellestsile, like the tails
of some monkeys. By means Of the
little beast oan jump up heights otber-
wise inaccessible, employing it as a
prtvjerAtei apring.
os ernmen , and wentout o battle.
but if an ocean steamer goes down . Who is on the Lord's side ? Are you : lamb from the whitest flock that ever
of heaven for the beverage, and a
sad thing it is than they were lost!" In e spiritual sense, war is declared. I
catastrophe is more overwhelming. If pet ? There is no neutral ground. You i plete the viands, and Christ for the
pastured on the eternal hills to com-
.
with three hundred passengers, the ready to answer the call of the trum- '
wine pressed from ale ripest clusters
I thought in this house there an
were , are for God or .10Satan, for light oe e nque er,
only two or three persons in eternal i.,,.darkness f or heaven or for heu . kings, and princes, and conquerors for
peril, I would bemoan the fact; but Some theologians take four or five vol- ! guests.
when perhaps theyr may be counted by ; ume.s in which to state their religious I Well, our 'bodies can afford th lie a
ousands, shall I not shriek out the , belief ; I tell you all my theology in . ,sfor them at last is to sound sueh
little w ' e ixi e tent of • grave,
perish! and live refuse him and die . ,.
horror—Ready to perish! Ready to . one sentence—jesus Christ—take him "
little children so t' ' S 1 a glorious reveille. Tell it to all the
Ingenious
telt you how, with; a few letters, they i giment will get in between the two graveyards of tbe land. Speak it to
, y g ,
can spell a very large word. With ! opposing hosts, and be cut to pieces by ' all
the bone -strewn caverns of the deeThe trumpet shall sound, and
p:
three letters I can spell bereavement. ; both sides. Will you stand half -way be- "
the dead shall be raised incorruptible
With three letters I can spell disap- tween the right side and the wrong side ' .,
pointment. With three letters I can and take shot of both hosts or will you and we shall be changed; tal must put on immortalityand this
for this mor -
spell euffering. With three letters 1 crane under our standard ? You will corruption must; put on
,
oan spell dra
eath. With three letteI finally wiand then shall be :brought to pass the
sh you had, for we shall gain incorruption,
can veil perdition. S-i-n—Sin. That , this war. As a recruiting officer of
saying that was written
is the cause of all our trouble now. the great army of n
baner% 13
I 10av
'W : "CI death I
the future. whom r: where us thee sting? 0 gravel here
That is the cause of our trou.ble for this blast—Choose this day is they vietory?"
will serve. Why halt ye between two If this be so, what is the use of
there was a e great plague So' many follow him ; if Baal, then follow bim. will only be a pleaeanta sleep for as
making each a fuss about death? It
In 1665, in Derbyshire, England, opinions? If the Lord be God, then
died,. that it was decreed that gone of Come, for all things are now ready. If this be so, why be inconsolable about
the inhabitants should leave the vil- The banquet is ready.. The lleart of the graves of the dead? They only
lage, and thus extend the distemper. Christ is ready. The house of many sleep. When, they were here and you
A. circle of stone was built all round mansions is ready. The temple is went into their bedrooms at night,
about the city, beyond whieh no citizen ready. The angels are ready. Every- and their eyes were slosed, a.nd they
could pass. Outsiders who had mecli- thing is ready. Wtth such a Leader,
cine or rood to bring, brought/ it and with such a flag, with such a oause,
threw it over the stone wall, and fled with Boob a result, with such a crown
for their life. —toi-nigbt put do-wn your naraes On
To -night I mark the circle of a the muster roll.
plague. The circle begins back of this This Gospel trumpet is one of as -
pulpit, goes along the wall to the milt. The besieging army prepares to
right, along the wall in front, along 1 storm the wall. They wheel round the
the wall to the left, coining back to guns. They march by platoons„ The
tha same point behind the pulpit, thus swarth.' gleam. The guns are loaded.
including all within this house. That The men are anxious for the affray.
circle is marked with these words; Then there comes the ruffle of the
"All have sinned, and come short of drums, and all are reedy for the
obarge. But they watt—not moving
hand or foot, or chin, to right or left
the trumpet peals, when in-
stantly the wave of valour dashes up-
on the.caeement. Al every new roll
at the drum the courage rises, until
the castle is taken,
Arrayed against thy sins to -night,
art thou ready to storm and trample
them down II. Fall into linel Atten-,
the glory of God. There is none that
doeth good — no, not one. By
one man sin entered into the world,
arid death by sin." ./a, Plague!, A
Pleguer And bundreds ready to perish!
But upon tbis dark backgrourtd
the text a light falls, &midst the
harsh discortla of which / speak, there
sound the sweet and thrilling tones 4::if
a great trumpet. My text says, "The
great trutapet shall be blown, and tion 1 The trumpet sounds, and dOwie
they shall eorae tvhich are ready to go the nialled hosts, bitiiig the &wt.
perish." This Gospel trumpet is not, Sins of the heart, sins of the life, sins
In its material,like other trunipets./t of the tongue, sins of thy youth, tins
spoke not a word, you were not wor-
ried. You said, "Poor thittgl she is
tired, and I aria glad she is asleep."
So now, as you go by their resting
places, vvorry not because they answer
you not. ;They are tired. They are
very tired.. They only sleep. The
morning cometh, and the reveille of
the resurrection. I can not think of
it With any calmness or composure.
break down under the avalanche of
joy. Oh, for some pen plucked from
the wing of an archangel, that I might
write the gladnesel Oh, for some harp
of heaven, that 1 might strike. the
joy I
And now my address is to those in
this audience who are ready to perish,
asking thetti to hear this Gospel
trOmpet and live. They have come,
into this Tabernacle—some for one
purpose, and Some for another. Per -
baps some, Only to hear what "this
babbler seith." ,But God Will hold every
Grim Tales or Funerals on Board Great
Oceari.Golug Vessels.
There is no place where death ie
more unwelcome than on board a peas-
enger steamer ; a.nd between the death
and burial of a sea -traveler the mel-
ancholy, influence of the event extends
to every one; 'on ;board.. The limita-
tions of space are very likely respon-
sible in part for this, for there ia the
Seeling that until the body has been
cast into the arms of the sea, there is
no getting away from it. .
Sailors dread a death on their ves-
sel as much as anything, and when one
occurs they are all anxiety to render
the body the last service; and this
fact is frequently responsible for the
haste and scant; consideration with
which burials at sea are too often con-
ducted. But the days of such cere-
monies are fast dying, and efforts are
now being made which will permit of
a body being carried tor the remaind-
er of the journey after death, and
properly buried on land.
Even now it is generally* only sailors
and steerage passengers who are nulled
at sea, and frequently these are cast
to the waves without so much as the
vessel being slowed down, and. within
an hour or two of their death.
Often enough a death occurs in a
vessel without the fact becoming
known to more than one or two of the
crew or steerage passengers.. Every
effort is made to keep the event sachet;
and in the stillness of night, when bet-
ter class passengers are oomfortably
curled up in their bunk, a little band
of men, moving like shadows across the
deck, bear the body from below, and
While the vessel is ploughing the sea,
the mortal remains wrapped in can-
vas, or enclosed. in a crudely made
box, are quietly slipped over the
e
ship's side, into
THE MYSTERIOUS DEEP.
The presence of a dead body on
board has sometimes not even been
suspected by the passengers until some
one has noticed the sharks that are fol-
lowing; for it is no sailor's story that
sharks know when a ship contains a
corpse. A vessel carrying a dead. body
and passing through waters frequent-
ed. by sharks is almost sure to be fol-
lowed by one or more of these fishes if
it does not outspeed them.
Rather than bury a corpse while
sharks are following a vessel, the cap-
tain will sometimes have the body
placed in the ice -chamber and full
steam. lint an the engines until the
hungry fishes have chopped astern
completely.
In one case at least a body was act-
ually cremated on board by the cap-
tain's orders because of the sharks. But
sh,arks are not often obstacles to
prompt burial, and generally speaking-,
when a death occurs at sea the body is
Islipped into the water at night with
none to witness the proceeding but a
couple of the crew and. the captain,
who reads an abridgment of the ser-
vice from the Prayer Book.
The manner of burial, of course, de-
pends greatly upon the captain's own
feelings in respeot to the dead, and it
must be acknowledged, that these feel-
ings are in some cases all that they
should be. Some captains have the
greatest abjection to "dumping". a
dead body into the sea, and when it is
unavoidable, will do their uttermost to
conduct the ceremony with all possible
reverence , sp .
For all that there is always the feel-
ing of the ship's crew and the melan-
choly effect of the presence of a eorpse
to be reckoned with, and the argu-
ment that more consideration is due to
the living, than the dead, often
prompts a captain to "dump' a steer-
age passenger in the dead of night
without mentioning the event to more
than a couple of hands.
Thus it often happens that while a
concert or private theatrical perform-
ance. is going on in the saloon, the
captain is engaged. making arrange-
ments for the burial 61 some unfor-
tunate creature.
one of you responsible for the fact
that you here heard Christ set forth
TEPERING GLASS GLOBES,
The breaking of glass globes is very
frequent, as all housekeepers know.
Their durability may be greatly in-
creased if they are tempered before-
hand. This is done by putting them
in a large pan and covering them with
cold water. The pat is then set; on
the range until the water boils. Winn
that endure it is removed frona the fire,
and the globes are allowed to remain
in the water until it is perfectly cold
again. This is a common treatment
for lamp chimneys, and is equally ef-
fielent in the Case of glees globes
NONE TO TURN OVER.
I thought pea Were going be tuft
Over a new leaf, John, she said.
I Was, he replied, but 1 find I cant
Why nett
'there Went be any new leaves until
spring.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 5.
0 toren Freeing WIVIIII SM." J111111 S. 12,
31.30. Golden. ''et. John s. 30.
PRACTICAL NOTES. "
Verse 12. Then. On one of the even
-
lens of the feast of tabernacles the
golden letups in the courts of tlae
temple were lighted, and, as if in re-
sponse, all tae streets and housetops
in the city were illuminated by the
rejoioirig people. Per/34s* on the, day
following; while this blaze Of light:. was
still in the minds of the people, Jesus
spoke the words of this vers% He was
ever quick to see the correspondence
between things seen and an -
seen, and to show "spiritual law in
the natural vvorld." 1. Let our eyes
be open to see divine analogies to
earthly events. Again. Calling atten-
tion to the discuesions of the previous
chapter. The incident of the woman
taken in adultery is passed over as
an interruption. The light of the
world. He had already said to his dis-
ciples, !' Ye are the light of the world,"
Matt. 5, 14; and that is true. But
disciples are only torch bearers, and
then obtain their light from }Mal who
is it e source and life. Other lights
may nurn dim, or go out in darkness;
that is the True Light, which never
fails. How muon of this world's' light
in nineteen centuries past has come
from Jesus 1 The world's light of civ-
ilization, of learning, of character, of
Philanthropic: interest in humimity, has
all been lighted at his fire. Contrast
the Christian world with the Mohana-
naedan er the pagan, and see how,rinuch
earth owes to Jesus Christ. 2. Let us
receive light from him, and then' im-
part that light to others who need it.
Followeth me. All that Christ asks of
men is to follow him; but that simple
words means the absolute surrender
of their will to him. 3. We cannot
,
follow Jesus and nave our own way
unless his way is our way too. Not
walk in darkness. This is a dark world
to one whp walks alone in it. We are
like wanderers on the prairie in a
blizzard ; like sailors in a storm with-
out a pilot; like strangers in the
mazes of a city. We .need a guide, and
in Christ we have one. 4. Happy is
he who can hold on to Christ's hand
in this world. The light of life. Not
merely a light whioh be holds, but one
which is: in him, so, that he himself
becomes luminous, and gives light to
others. 5. There is an inner light to
every disciple
Verses 13 to 30 are not given as a
part of the lesson, but should be read
carefelly both by the teacher and the
student. They glee the outline of a
discussion between Jesus and the un-
friendly Pharisees; a discussion which
resulted in many of the common peo-
ple, and perhaps some of the rulers,
accepting Jesus in a general way as
an inspired, teacher.
31. Jews which believed on him.
Note the Revised Version, "had believ-
ed him," not "believed. on him." There
is a vast difference between believing
Christ, accepting his words as true,
and believing on him, . resting their
faith upon him as a personal Saviour.
infant," to -day stand where these Jews
stood, believing in the truth of Jesus's
words, but by no raeans taking him
to their hearts by faith.' Yet the be-
lieving jesus is an important step to-
ward the believing on him. G. Teacb.-
er urge. your seholar not only to take
th;e first step of belief, but .also the
secood step of 'faith. If ye coiatiatee
m my word. Revised Version, abide
in my word." They supposed Ilaat to
'recognize Jesus formally as their na-
tional Messiah was sufficient. Jesus
1 reminds thern that they are to dwell
lin his word as we live in the air vv-hich
1
we breathe, and as that air lives hi as,
and " . M disci ies indeed
i The very word "'disciple" means a
learner. These Jews who accepted
Christ are now to become students i
' school,c • his instructions
.. to walk in .feltoviship with him, and
1 to model their" lives after his. They
I were, in a sense, "disciples in word"
1 by accepting Christ; they become
i "disciples indeed" in follo•wing Christ.
I 7. Happy is he who is a disciple in-
deed 1
1 82. Ye shall know. • Literally, "Ye
, shall come to know"—by gradu.al il u-
mination, not by nmiraculous revela
tion. Know the truth. The unie-
n.owed heart an e unolarihed mind
cannot comprehend spiritual verities.
One must have eyes to see and ears to
I hear. Only those can apprehend the
1 things of God and of salvation' who
; have been taught in the school of
I Christ. The truth shall make you free.
He who receives the word of Christ in-
' his heart at once beeomes free from
;the power Of sin, free from the bond-
age of the world, free from the fear
of death, and free from the dread of
'judgment to some.
33. They answered htm. "They" re-
fers to the crowd that, vvere listening
to bis wards—compoaed of enemies,
skeptics, and half-hearted believers.
We be Abraham's seed. No people are
prouder of their origin', and have a
right to pe. Their lineage goes back
through a race that never test the
knowledge of God, and never bent its
knee to an idol; through heroes and
poets and' peophets, to an illustrious
ancestor who to' this day is known as
"the Friend of God." Never in bond-
age. This was a proud boast, not
wholly trete, yet not wholly &lee.
They had. indeed been "borultnen" in
Egypt, but not slaves; for they were
not, as nedividuale, under private own-
ership; nor yet slaves of the state,
though under heavy exactions of fore-
edlabor. They had been several times
Ootiquered, and once were carried into
captivity ; but personal liberty, that
of a freeraan as distioct from a slave,
they had generally enjoyed. 8. But
many a man who boasts of his freedom
is a slave.
84. Verily, verily, °Amen, amen ;"
words introducing a weighty utter.
ance, This double "verily" is found
only in the Gospel according to John.
Whosoever conarnitteth Bin is the ser-
vant Of sin. Reeiged Version, "the
bondservant"—that is, the slave, just
t� the Metteare in Whioh RAY Pan sato
miin the Power of temptation be 1$
a ; for lie has a master outside
of his own will., Ile who cannot colt -
trot hie temper is a slave to paesion1
he who canna resist' appetite is the
slave of strong' drink; tie who yields
tolust is its slave. Either a master
or a slave is the condition of every,
mail, and the majority of men are. in
bon deg% '
15, The servant. The slave, as be-
fore; Abideth not in the hose, Every
Jew who heard this eentence would see
in it an allusion to Ishmael oast out
of the house of Abranam because the
son, of a bondwomao, Gen, 21. A
slave ratty be in the bouse, but it is
only as a servant, to obey orders, to
do raenial work, and to be oast out
when no longer useftil. 9. If la man is
content to remain a slave, he must ex-,
Peet a slave's treatment; for he works
ander a hard master. The San abia-
et/a, The Word "son" should not be-
.
gm with a capital letter --it does not
in the Revised Version—for, the re-
ferenee is not to Christ as Sod of God,
but to all believers. 10. Every dis-
ciple of Christ is a son of God, and an.
heir of divine possessions.
N. If the Son, Here it is correot to
use the oapital 5, for the word refers.
to Christ. All disciples are sons- of
Gods; Jesus Christ is the Son. Saall
make you free. There is oply one way s
to escape from the bondage of sin,r
and that is to surrendeoneself to a.
stronger ruler; one who can 'destiny
the devil's works, and trample him
under foot. Ye shall be free indeed.
The freest soul in the world is the be-
liever in Clirist, for no power in earth
or hell is able to make him a slave.
SAILOR'S QUEER PETS.
Droll Tarns or the Four.Feeted Pets That
AIIIRIISO .111.41C at sea.
Wlien at sea Jack delights in nothing
more than in playing with the ehip's,
pets, and, generally speaking, they get
such an amount of attention that they
develop most extraordinary talents and
peculiarities. -
Until lately the sailors of a Brit-
ish cruiserpossessed a goat which was
the admiration of every one, from cap -
thin to stoker, "Billy" could put
many of the sailors to shame in t18.
way of getting about in rough weath-
er. But he had. two bad habits—a
passion for butting persons off their
legs, in pursuit of which pleasure he
had no respect for the highest saf ad-
mirals; and a simply terrible thirst.
for rum -grog.
What is most dretressing about t18.
latter fact is that no one seenas to
have attempted. to curb "Billy'e pro-
clivities, but rather to have encour-
aged them by giving hina a portion of
rum whenever it was dealt out.
"Billy," however, was quite harden.
ed to an ordinary portion a runt, and
no one ever sa„w him the worse far
drink on hie usual allowance. Occa-
sionally he got more than the right
quantity, then matters invariably be-
came lively. He would: bump into
everybody, officers not excepted, stile
happened to come in his uncertain
way. Sometimes he bumped into no-
thing at the head of the ca.bin stairs
when he generally landed all in a
heap, more or•less damaged, to be car-
ried off and attended to in the mess
On one occasion, having been re-
proached about his condition, and,
wishing to prove his sobriety he
mounted the bulwarks with the inten-
tion of walking round. The bulwarks,
having possibly been drinking, wob-
bled very badly, and the result was
that "Biily" got a cold bath, and bad
to ba rescued from a watery grave.
Even that narrow escape did not,
however, care him. Ile continued his
drunken babas to the end, whops it '
is supposed. he died of alcoholic poison-
Penrots and monkeys as sailorS'
pets are very common, and the former
are generally good talkers, buttheir
language does not often make them
suitable acquisitions for sensitive
ladies or "boo.i'ding schools , for the
daughters of gentlemen." Indeed,
their profanity is generally only ex-
ceeded by their callous disregard of
grammar.
A pig 5U -sites one --metaphorically
speaking, of course—as being a re-
markable kind of pet at sea, but seph
an animal was possessed by a ship's
crew and what is far more remark-
able, this particular porker lied a con-
suming passion for chewing tobacco.
This was not, liciWever; the creature's
only. talent. He could walk a consid-
erable distance on his hind legs, jump
through hoops and rim up and down
ladders. All these tricks made him
very popular on board.; but, probably
his chesving habit was responsible for
the greater part of the sympathy that
existed between the crew and him-
self,
A COLONY ar OUTLAWS
'Winters of fiction have frequently
pictured the idea of an unknown tropi-
cal paradise tureed .. into a general
,asylum for outlaws and criminalsin
the Bonin Isles, not far from Japan;
such a refuge has been discovered.
Men of every nationality who have
made civilization too warm for them-
selves, having decamped to this ideal
rendezvous, leaving the , police to re -
coed the unsatisfactory result of their
investigations as "gone abroad." No
rates or taxes have to be paid, and gov-
ernment seems to be entirely dispensed
with. The discovery was made by a
.Tapanese vessel which called at the
isle. In future the aliens will have
iese freedom, and, consecluently les,s
happiness, for the Japanese dominion
will have to be recogniZed. Their
dream is oeer,
TO PREVENT SLEEP W2.LIalk4
.A. device to prevent sleep -walking .
is" to lay upon the floor, by the side
of the seranambulist's' bed, a sheet of
iron, zinc or either metal, wide enougb
to insure that he will slap upon it.
When the sleep-w-alking fit comes upon
Idea his Viet hatches the cold 81.13..foo
Of the metal and he instinctively dravvs
that leg into the bed again. After
two or three attempts the eomnatnelist
two or three attempts the somnam-
bulist gives it up and settles down in
bed.,