HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-9, Page 2NOTES AND CaVIVENTS
Geell Reitides whom all the world
know4 as a, men a great afinirs, is in
England in the interest of his solaeme
to connect Cape Town with Cairo, by
R line cie railroad 5,64.4 miles lang. Ten
yr e ago the projeot would neve been
laughed at ae a dream, just as the
echeme to connect the Indian Ocean
with Viotorie Nyenza by rail was de-
rided, But the Morabitea-Uganda, rail-
road is already far advaneed aied 2031
miles of the railroad through Africa
from north to south is now in opera-
tion. In other words, the gap to be
filled between the railroad now rapid-
ly pushing south along the Nile to
Om.duman and the eompleted line from.
Cape Town. at Buluwayo is 8,330 miles.
Mr. Rhodes is therefore able to say
that about two-fifths of the continent-
al railroad is in operation. Further-
more, the Britieh Government, has
sanctioned the extension of. the Om-
durman line to the Sohat River, 480
mile,s further south and the line to
Buluwayo is to be pushed north to the
Zambesi River as rapidly as possible.
The completion a about one-half of
the proposed railroad is therefore al-
ready ensured.
Mr. Rhodes' railroad map shows that
he proposes to extend the line along
the Central ,African plateau, in the
main avoiding all tropical forests and
mountains, the prevailing character of
the country to the Nile Valley, being
that of a savanna except in the hilly
region to the south of Lake Tanganyika
and between Victoria Nyanza and Lake
Albert Edward. The line is expected
to tap the coal region a the middle
Zambesi, the coal and iron districts
of the British Central Africa protec-
torate further north, pass to the east
of Lake Bangweolo and make straight
for the south end of Tanganyika. eecom
this point the road must pass for about
'700 miles through the Congo State to
the west, or German East Africa, to
the east of the lake, but navigation
on the lake is free, and a steamer may
for a time form the connecting iink
between the railroad lines at the south
and north ends of the lake. North of
Tanganyika the route passes to the
east of Lakes Kivu, Albert Edward
and Albert, and then follows the Nile
to the Mediterranean, only leaving the
river to cut off the big bends at the
Sobat and Abu 'named. Except in the
Tanganyika region the route is wholly
in British or Egyptian territory.
Mr. Rhodes theory is that while the
earnings of the royal road will neces:
eerily be small for the first ten years
of its existence, still the resources of
the country are very great and the
line cannot fail to be a financial suc-
cess, if its existence be assured during
the first critical years. No part of the
route lies in regions that are not now
under effective European control ex-
cept in a portion of the Egyptian Sou-
dan to which civilized government is
again rapidly extending. The route
will therefore be amply protected.
Rhodes says he does not need Govern-
ment funds to build the railroad, but
he asks the British Government to
guarantee the capital required to make
the first extension northward of 250
miles to enable him to raise money
advantageously. All of Mr, Rhode's
business schemes have been on a very
large ecale, but their results, which
have made him the wealthiest and most
influential man in Africa, have justi-
fied his judgment and faith in the
potentialities of the continent. The
prospects are that the Cape Town and
Cairo Railroad will be built.
AERIAL BOIVIBARDMENTS.
Astronomic:0 Facts Willett the Layman
Can Understand and Enjoy.
The regions of space beyond our plan-
et are filled with flying fragments,
Some meet the earth in its onward
rush;, others, having attained incon-
ceivable velocity, overtake and cratah
into the whirling sphere with loud de-
tonation and ominous glare, finding
destruction in its molecular armor, or
perhaps ricocheting from it again into
the unknown. Some come singly, vag-
rant fragments from the infinity of
space; others fall in showers like gold-
en rain ; ale constituting a bombard-
ment appalling in its magnitude. It has
been estimated that every twenty -lour
hours the earth or ii,s atmosphere is
struck by four hundred million of mis-
siles of iron or stone, ranging from
an ounce up to tons in weight.
Every month there rushes upon the
flying globe at least twelve billion iron
and stone era,gments, which, with lur-
id ecconapanlment, (mash into the eir-
eurnemblent almeephere. Owing to the
resistance offered by the air, few oe
these solid shots strike the earth They
move out of space with a poseible vel-
ocity of thirty or forty miles per sec-
ond, and, like mothe, plunge into the
reveiving globe, lured to their de-
struction by its fatal attraction, The
moment they enter our atmosphere
they ignite; the air is piled up and
compressed ahead of them with incon-
ceivable force. the resultant frietion
producing an immediate rise in 'tem-
perature, and the shooting is
fie
ineteor of popular parlance, is the re-
m] t.
CURIOUS BURMESE IDEA,
NO EXPERIMENTS WANTED
3,EV, DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES QN
THE EFFICACY OF PRAtpt
praftsmar• Tyndall and v,..nobi Gamow,
'Proposed enceertmetit-etee0 Gee 'Hear
mot atiewer Prayer ?elle Case or slew
ness the Greatest Ale to our itecovere
10 reiree-The Dr. notes a moulage.
A. despaten from Washington says;
-Rev. Dr, Tehnage preacbed from the
following text :--1 nave beard thy
prayer; behold 1. will heal thee. And
Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And
they took and laid it on the, boilnand
he reconered."-2 Kings. xx, 5, 7.
Luxurious living is not healthy. The
second generation of kings and coneens
and lords and princes, is apt to be
brainless and invalid.. The second crop
of grass is almost always short. Royal
blood is generally scrofulous. You will
not be surprised, then, to hear that
Xing Hezekial had disorders which
broke out in a carbuncle, virulent and
deathful. The Lord told him he mast
die; he did not want to die. He turn-
ed his face to the wall, so that his
prayer would not be interrupted, and
cried to God for his life. God heard
the prayer and answered it, saying:
" Behold I will heal thee." But there
was human instrumentality to be em-
ployed. This carbuncle •needed e cat-
aplash. That is a toagh word that we
use to show how much we know. If
in the pulpit we always u.se words the
people understand we never should
have any reputation for learning. Well
this carbuncle needed a cataplasm,
which is a poultice. Your old moth-
er, who doctored her own children in
the time when physicians were not as
plentiful as they are now, will telt
you that the very best poultice is a
fig, and that was what was used upon
the carbuncle of King Rezekiah. The
power of God, accompanied by this hu-
man instrumentality, cured the king.
In this age of discovery, when men
know so much, it kills them, and write
so wisely it almost kills us, it has been
found out that prayer to God. is a
dead failure. All things are arrang-
ed according to inexorable law. There
is no use in praying to God tor rain
in the time of drought. The "weather
probabilities,' in the morning paper
will decide the question, rain or no
rain, and the whole nation in prayer
before God would not bring down a
single drop. I ani not now speaking
of an imaginary theory, but of that
which is believed by ten. thousand
times ten thousand men. If sickness
come to your household, it will depend
entirely upon ventilation, good diet,
and the skill of the doctors, as to
whether your child gets well. The fa-
ther might pray all day and the moth-
er might pray all night -it would not
have any effect upon the case. If
squills, belladonna, paregoric,and gruel
do the work., your child will get well;
if not, not.
TreeiRE IS A CAST-IRON GOD
seated at the head of the universe,
holding in the grasp of his metal
fingers a band of law frem which noth-
ing can break away.
The whole Christian world and. the
Tha 'have curious itlee.
g coine. eniey peefee those
evhieb have eeinale tirade. on tbene,
lieiving tleet eoine with Male heads an
tlAril re riOt so Itteke, and do not
make ineney.
Pethetle wonan Might say, " Alas, for Tternish towel, Faul eaid to the pas -
the peer e.ieeple in tee Sixty-set:A:pod sengers of the Alexendrion eorneship
ward of the hospital I I trenet Pray tor that they Should get safe ashore, biet
thene." And she would get down On ie told them they must nee means, and
be knees,and iu two minutes poil the that was
whrEhlt44 ex°hP1181311fegnet" "n
eQraillg aer°sS the God.-i';'110't weak,, needing our belle, but
liCle THE OLD HIP!"
S
water as not yet been aocepted I
now ileeee,i; ne the presenoe of this Cfc'u'l is st11)114g' sIld' asks US to °°-°1)61'-
peoand oz en to volorio chess words ate with bine that we may be strong
ple,
shall oorae, in the United States and tgoet tPherVfig1)40.4ulltuiers' but "1ft for -
Europe, I accept OW oballenee on one
condition, and tine is, thee, these men Thal God alasWorS prayer offered in
.
who mane this proposed, themselves, the right spirit, eeeorided by our own
when they are eicle, go down in tee effort, is the first and laet lesson of
prayeriess ward, 'While we give our this text, and it is a lesson that this
attentioe to the mixt ward. • I hope age needs to learn. If all oomenunica-
theee physicists will let us now as tion between heaven and earth is cut
hils oieirlt?n'a sottht u laht7dme'aela.ari yfa4Yal:.113:1 Yae ng di si noewmenevneontn'S about2:''t1leel They
off, 1t
d-111:Gtit. eollydssei, II it.e.ksnnueovtonhle8ia's!;nlei'taeelaI. aregoing
thhaeg11/1\in inti ph'gse t uo4init:tihose1-7.
paying the expenses of the, experiment ;
1 wilt pay hail, however; on the condi- afflicted world, and the nations =nth-.
tion that thee do not have the order- er their groans and die quietle. God
ing of their own provisions. doem answer prayer. The text shows
Ala! nay friends, have we been •so it. ',You say, "I don't believe the
mistaken? Does God hear and answer Bible ; I think tbat those things were
prayer, or does he not? Why come merely coincidences which are often
out with a challenge in this day, and brought as, answers to prayers." Do
an experiment, when we have here you say that? Was it mere happen*
the very exPerineent. Rezekiala was so that Elijah Prayed for rain just as
sick unto death' he prayed for his the rain was going to come anyhow?
life; God heard him, and added fifteen Die Daniel pray in the wild beasts' den
years to that lifetime, Tbe prayer save just at the time when all the nous
ed hinaa-the lump of figs eplied be- haPPeneeleto have the lockjaw? Did
ing merely the God -appointed human Sesus pray at the grave of Laverne
instruraentality, "But,"says some one, just at the time when LaZa.rIlS was
"I don't believe the Bible." Ah! then going to dress himself and come out
we will have to pax': company for for anyhow? Did Jesus lose his place in
or five minutes, for it is useless to try, his sermon, and make a mistane when
to argue with any man with whom he said, "Ask, and it shall be given
you. can not stand, • upon common You; seek, and ye shall find;. knock,
ground. In any argument, if you and ie shall be opened unto you?"
would be successful, there must be some And, lest some were so stupid they
ish to try to prove to a man that "For
could not understand it, he goes on,
common data to start Lone. It is fool -
twice three are six, provided he does and every one that asketla, receiyeth;
he that seeketh, findeth; and to
not admit the multiplication -table. or hirn that knocketh, it shall• be open -
that two and two are four, if he does ed."
not admit the addition table. . But some one persists in saying, 0,1
My first address, therefore, is to don't believe any thing of the Bible."
those who do believe the Bible. I want Then I appeal to your, own instincts.
MIGHTIEST 'OF ALL REMEDIES natural to a man as the throbbing in
Prayer in certain circumstances is as
to tell 'you that prayer is the
and that the allopathic, and hornoeo-the pulse, as the respiration of "thePathic, and the eclectic schools will lungs, Put a company of men __ e
yet acknowledge it. 'Here are two don't care how bad they are -in some
same kind of medicine is given to both "God have mercy on us!" It Beans
imminent peril, and they will cry out,
cases of sickness precisely alike; the
of them, and in the same quantities. to be a time for making challenges;
so 1 raake one. I challenge that these
The one patient recovers, and the oth- men who don't believe in prayer chart-
er doee not. Why? God blesses er a steamer, go out in the "Narrows,"
the one remedy, and does not bless the swing out eight or nine hundred miles
other. lerayer has helped many a to sea, and then heave -to and wait for
blundering doctor through' with a case -a. cyclone. And after the cyclone
that would have been othervvise com- comes, and the vessel has gone under
pletely unmanageable. There is suich
a thing as Gospel hygiene, as Christian ten times, when they did not expect
pharmacy, as divine materia medica it would rise again, and the bulwarks
That is a foolish man whoin cashave been knocked in, and the masts
, t are gone -if they do not pray, I will
of sickness, goes only to human re- surrender my theory. Do you tell me
sources, when we have these instances that this instinctiwhich God has put
of the Lord's help in a sick room. Be.- in us, he put there just to mock us
fore you call the doctor, while he is for his own cruel amusement? If God,
there, and after he gties away, look up*
to him who cured Hezekiah. Let the
apothecary send the poultice, but God
makes it draw. Oh ! I am glad to
have a doctor who knows how to pray.
God send. salvation to all the doctors!
Sickness would be oftener balked,
death would be oftener hurled back
from the doorsill, if medical men came
into the sick -room, like Isaiah of the
text, with a prescription in their hands
and. the word of the Lord in their
Mouths.
John Abercrombie, the most celebrat-
ed physiciari of Scotland, prayed when
he went into a sick -room, and he wrote
no more ably about "diseases of the
braiti" than about "the philosophy of
the moral feelings." I don't ,know how
much of the medical success of Syden-
ham, and Cooper, and Harvey, and
B,usb, depended upon the fact that
they knew how to pray as well as to
prescribe. I don't want a physician
who sees no God in human anatomy to
doctor my bones. If God made us, and
I think he did, and if the Bible is true,
and I am rather disposed to think it
is, then it is not strange that prayer
does traverse natural causes; aye, that
Lord Almighty, witnW
in the past few it Introduces a new cause. hen God
weeks, have been challenged. God has made the law, he did not make it sostrong he could not break it. If God
made pur bodies, when they are broken,
he is the one to mend them; and it is
reasonable that we should cell him in
to do it. If my furnace in the cellar
breaks down, there is no one so com-
petent to repair it as the manufactur-
er. If any watch stop, there is no one
so competent to repair it as the one
who made it. If the body is disord-
ered,
CALL IN THE MAKER OF IT,
It is not all, as these physicists tell
us, a matter of ventilation or poison-
ed air, of cleanliness or dirt, of nut-
ritious diet or poor fare. r have knowxi
people to get well in rooms where the
windows had been six weeks doevn,
tigbt shut, and I have, known them to
die right under patent ventilators. I
have known children sickly who every
day had. their bath, and I have known
phmentary to the angels; and if David,
Paul, and Isaiah, who wrote so much children robust, the washing of whose
about prayer, hear of it, they will, faces would make their features un -
no doubt, be very much gratified to recognizable.
have a recommendationGod did not make the law and then from such high run away from it. What is a law of
authority. If there 'ever was a time
when the whole universe ought to nature? It is only God's usual way of
doing things. But he has said that if
present a vote of thanks to one Enge
,
lish literary review, this is the timhis children ask him to do a thing
e. anti he Can consistently do it, he will
I call for the ayes and noes. The eyes
have it do it. Go otrwith your pills and plas-
My triends; that experiment will
ters, and nolicon, but remember that and elixirs, and
never be made, for the reason, in the your, cath
t.
firhemightiest agency in your recovery
st place, you never could get a man is prayer. Prayer to God brought the
to lie down in the prayerless ward of King's cure, the lump of figs being the
that hospital -not even the philosoph-
ers who make the propose!. If they God -directed human instrumentality.
were sick, it would lie the last place I would have yea also see -for it is
on earth they would want to be amok
another lesson of the subject -that our
prayer must be accompanied by raceme.
in -that d f th h
now an opportunity of proving wheth-
er he keeps his promises, by an exper-
ment. Professor Tyndall and Francis
Galton, English gentlemen, propose
that two wards in a hospital be set
apart for the experiment. The people
in the one ward, of the hospital shall
not be prayed for; the people in the
other ward of the hospital shall be
prayed. for. Than we will see which
of the patients got well the sooner.
-the experiment to go on for five
years. Well, it is the most condes-
cending thing in human philosophy
that I think I have ever heare of. Here
Che Lord Almighty has an ,apportun-
ay of winning the confidence of such
men as Professor Tyndall and Frances
Galton I Besides that, it is very cooa-
implanted that instinct in the human
heart, it.was because in his own heart
there was
• SOMETHING RESPONSIVE.
To prove that God does hear prayer,
I put on the witness -stand Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Bnekiel, Jeremiteh,
Micah, john, Paul, Pater and King
Hezeskiah, Tell me, ye ancient battle-
fields, ye Oriental thrashing Hors, ye
judean torn -fields, ye Galilean fish-
ing -smacks, is God deaf, and dumb,
and blind before all humble petition?
That God answers prayer, I bring the
ten million facts of Christendom to
prove. There has never paper enough
come out of the paper-raills to write
the story. Has not many a mother
prayed back her had. boy from the
ends of the' earth -from Canton, from
Madras, from Constantinonle--until he
knelt beside her in the old homestead?
Have there not been desperadoes and
renegades who have looked Into the
door of a prayer -meeting to la.ugh
and -scoff_ at it, who have been drawn
by the power of prayer, until they ran
to the, altar crying out for mercy?
But why should. go so far? I had,
in my own experience, and I have had
in the history of ray own family, the
evidence that God answers prayer.
My mother, with three Christian wo-
men, assembled week after week, and
prayed for their children; they kept
up that prayer -meeting of four per-
sons year after year. The world
knew nothing of it. God answered 'all
those prayers. All • the group came
in; the eleven sons and daughters of
my mother came in; myself the last.
Sickness came to my household --
hopele,se sickness as, it seemed to many.
At three o'clock on Saturday p.m.„ the
invalid was carried to the steamer
Lor Savannah. At eleven o'clock the
next day, being Sunday, standing in
this very place, a man of God prayed
for the recovery of the sick one. At
that time, eleven o'clock, she who had
been prostrated . three weeks, with
some help, walked up on deck. The
occurrence is as '
NEAR TO .BEING MIRACULOUS
as I can imagine. That she was
hopelessly sick, people avho sat up vvith
her night after night,' and are here,
can testify. That the prayer for her
recovery was °leered in this pulpit,
thoueands of people could testify. That
at eleven o'clock on that Sunday morn-
ing ehe walked up on deck, as by • a
miraculous recovery, pall the pass-
engers on the San Faeinto, commanded
by Captain Atkins, December 161b, to
'WOUNDED ON TIM CROSS.
It is uot sale fer you, to give a blank
eheek with your name to it. You do
not know what might he written
above. But laere is a. blank check
evhion God says I can give to youl it is
signed by the handwriting oe the Lord
Jesus Christ. and you ean tell it up
withanything you event to. "Ask,
slibaadlli tfielltlet'l be dgeivnetil Yeealle! tsetehltat. and yo
PraYer will be answered in juse tbe
way you extiept, but I do say it will be
answered in the best way, Ohl will
aylolu thteiastidatbiraje?Gt`1213is is the outoonee
I UM glad the Christian world has
been challenged. I think it will evoke
ten thousand experienees that ether -
wise would not have been told. If
sthiliosnladudeiteethwehomheauve ainodnnwaoridoedia in
a
prayer -answering God to rise up, you
would nearly all rise up. In time of
darkness and trouble, as in eitne of
light and prosperity, he answered You.
I commend you to thet God to whona
your parents dedicated you in iufancY•
They believed so numb in prayer, that
last word was a supplication) for you.
Having heard you days of prosper-
ity, he will not reject your nest peti-
tion, When, in the darkened room, after
they have wiped the dew of death
from your brow, and the whole group
of loved ones have niseed you good-bye,
you have only strength enough left to
pray, m"ELxoridc 0J,sesteQs.u, ErEecReEivseT' my spirit!"
atoree, Se NbttatA Iteenuse It WIti the
Stronghold of Fourteen Robbers. ,
Eight miles due east over the moun-
tains from Catorc,e Station, on the Mex-
ican Nationat Railroad, is the city of
that name, a city along whose steep,
winding streets neither wagon nor
cern neither stage nor bus, nor any
other wheeled vehicle was ever known
to pass, although it has often boasted
of a population. of 40,000 souls.
The city takes its name from ence
being the stronghold and the proper-
ty. of a band of fourteen of the most
daring, desperate, dangerous, and suc-
cessful robbers that ever laid tribute
on roads 'of Mexico. They discovered,
and for many years, worked the rich
deposits of silver that abound in this
entire section of the country -deposits,
the value ot which, if current reports
be true, for hundreds of years out -
rivalled the mythical riches related of
Ophir. Strange to relate, every piece
of machinery, every pound of freight,
and. every passenger to and from Ca -
torce is transported to -day, as for cen-
turies past, either on the backs of men
or mules. -
Catorce is one of the most interest-
ing places in Mexico. Here are found
the customs of Mexico in their purity,
unaffected by the influence of the
stranger. Diffieuit of access, the town
can be reached only by uorsebaclz or
on foot. Catorce has seldom been vis-
ited by any except those making busi-
ness trips. The ride up the mountains
into the town is something, once ac-
complished, always to be remembered,
partly from its element. of peesonal
peril, but more because of the beauty
of the landscape encountered at every
turn. Glancing down, as you near your
journey's end, you catch a gleam of
the white walls of Los Catorce outlined
against the green of the mountain side.
Thousands of feet below shimmer the
waters of a mountain stream. The
shifting ooloring , of the moentains as
light and shade chase each other over
their rugged expanse, the browns and
greens of the valley below, and the
hills in the hazy distance are "beau-
tiful. exceedingly."
The Real de Catorce is built on the
side of a ravine near tbe top of the
range and has a varying population of
from 8,000 to 40,000, as the mines are
paying welt or, poorly. liere are found
all varieties of silver ore from carbon-
ates to refractory ore, .assaying $15,000
to the ton. Catorce has a fine cathe-
dral, richly decorated, and a pretty
plaza, the only level spot in the place.
To use a railroad phrase, it is a com-
bination of cut and fill, so that to
tumble into it on one side and out
the other would be extremely disas-
trous. The streets are neatly paved,
and run up and down bill, many of
them at an angle of forty-five degrees.
Altogether this is one of the show
places of Mexico.
GRAINS OF GOLD.
A happy family is but an earlier
heaven. -Bowring.
Early and provident fear is the
mother of safety. -Burke.
cheafue face is nearly as good
for an invalid as healthy eveather.-
Franklin.
There is a divinity that, :Mapes our
ends, rough-hew, them as we will. -
t eStify. - This is no second-hand Shakespeare.
story. There is a noble forgetfulness -that
Prayer impotent! If I dared to
think there was no force in prayer,
mathinlis God, after alt he has done
for me and mince, would strike me
It is at. outrage to ask God to do aY -
dead. Pre er amootent! Why it is
pital. You. could. not get an English- •ng W hee we reraam • indolent.mThe e the miehtieet force in thet universe.1 Nobody wen use other people's ex -
man to lie there, for !King jray
ames's thi•
g per, to ba acceptable, must tome n
ome not Lightning hae o speed:, the Alpine per
ience not has any of his own un -
translation has bean abroad too lonavalanc,he *Las no power, compared
tit it is too late to use ite.-1-lawthorne.
ohly from the heart, but from the
whieh does not remember injuries.-
.
Tilos. a'Rerapis.
If you ere pleased at finding faults,
.
you are displeased at enading perfee-
.
tions.-Lavater. •
Fatins has rung London to prayer too -devotion anwhile we pray 'with it -
I Will you let the abstractions and
among 1 '3 , Iv e e ' hands, 'We must work
and work going together.
often. 'You could not get a Scmcbman Lather carne to Melanothon's bedside 1 and the Vagaries of a, few seeptice, or
to lie there, for be comes from the land and prazed for his, reeneery, and in_ a good many sceptics, stand. beside the
of john Kriox, ana methinks the old
Covenanters who died for theix eane
ae sisted, at the same tme, that he sliouldIexPerlenee of General HaveteekP vth°
would get up from. Grayfriars church.- just tie important as the prayer. en , lifted. hie hat, and ' ealled upon 'the
out in front of the .Ertglish army,
take same warm soup, the soap being ,` ear"
yard and hiss at him ie he tried it. 'lord. Alrdighty? or of William Wilber -
the time of the great plague that (Arne i
The experimeat is also impoesible; to yore, 0 f England, th,e priest pray_ i force, who went from the British Par -
because if the professor and myself cl ..nda end all ni elit for the rem° - Velment to the cloeeti of devotiotl ox
should agree upon necking it, you °meld . ei of the plague, bttt did not thilik
riot steP the warl'd and the Ch"ell eleaning ' out the dead clog.s arid
There is a great company of (landed cats thee. lay in the ' guar:, the hn.bie , eaneing th6' 81.°1<1168s" enele
men and women, who' every day, have
' use means 'as Weil as supphcatien., 14
PRA.YING VOI.1 ALL THE SICH, • a Men has "eVtining prayees," 'asking
and you. could not step them,• Be-. health,. and then site deiwri 'to a full your ehttecie ,before Ilan, and the
sides, the Bpletiopal Chureh, in its lit- suppet tif indigestibles at eleven great day; of 'eternity wflt,. show yen
urge, haa a prayer to God for the sick, tecteek at night, Ins prayer in a ineek- that the beat ineestraerit .ypt1 eve;
and I don't eappose thet you contd. get 1 ery. A man bas no tight to ,prey foe were yonr peeyere, (the though
there 'to Put bat°, their liturgY ft sale- the safety tie leis eamily when he knows you may have brokenirethieeti You
of Latimet,. who stood with his hands
on 'fire, in martyrdom, preying for his
erseeutores? Was Ileveloen vireak/ Was
ilberforoe weak? Was Latimer •weak?
Bring ail the affaire of 'put stall
of your body, of yoitt friends, of
fetes 111i thte: "Tiara we ask for all
the siek, save LI1Ose in Ward. '62 of
r.Pyntlall and Ta.lmage's eitpefi,Mentat
hospital:" Bids the,t, at th.e end of
four yetire three hundred end siXty
four 'clays, on tho last day of the fie
years of our exPeriMent, softie, OM-
,
there is. ne eovetne. the eisteee, taecte to teed, feed etver broke his pro-
Chri.etien Men,. ,recklees' ...abont his MiseS. to. sepo, Let -Goa trit% 'though
health.; ought not tofeknect the setae eirery- man be foundi a Hat. •
answerto hi,4' Prayer as the blitistian Ancl,e'how, in oneliteleee,
Mate eXpeets who retires .regniarly .at lr'esSnt sdlln allqOks+blaUk Obadlgi
lexi Wolock at night, 'arid , takes his otithe :bank • of, heaven.' written in.
Morning bath with the .appendix 'o a blaod, and signed by tile hand
Pacts are God's arguments. We
should be careful never to misunder-
stand or pervert them. -Tryon
IVaThcdesre is a strength of quiet endur-
ance as significant of courage as the
most daring feate of prowess. -Tucker -
man.
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1115 QUALIFICA-T-IONS•
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 12,
ehrlSt Mating the Itilud Nan." John
9. Mt. !Olden Text. John 9. 25.
PRACTICAL NOTES. ,
Verse 1. As jesus passed by. On
some occasion during the three months
of his stay near eerusalera f cora tbe
feast of tabernacles to that of the
dedication. He saw a man. Others
saw only a blind beggar, but Jesus
saw one who might become a monu-
menb of mercy and a bold confessor
of the faith. Blind from his birth. He
was a -ivelleknewn person, who bad
long sat begging in his eccustoraed
place. Both blindness and beggary
are far mere common in the East than
in our lands. 1, Note here and
throughout this story the picture of a
inner. 2. Christ e.eeles out no3n before
they seek him.
e. His disciples asked him. Attract-
ed, perhaps, by the look of inquiry
which their • Master fixee upon the
man. Theirs was "the scientific
spirit," only asking a curious profit-
less cenestion ; his was the sympathetic,
helpful spirit,. eager to save. Like
them in our time some men
study social questions; like Christ, a
few go down into the slums to lift
up the needy. Who' did, sin. They sup-
posed that every misfortune is the
result a some specific sin. So Job's
friends tried to "comfort" him, by
telling him that he must have been
a sinner because he was a sufferer.
Their reasoning would have been cor-
rect if they had given it as a gener-
ai principle that suffering is in the
world because sin is also. This man
or his parents. They may have ques-
tioned whether the man was suffer-
ing bemuse of sin ha some previous
state of existence, a view held by some
ancient teachers. Or, as Stier sug-
gests, "This man, or, for that is out
of the question, his parents." 3. The
cause of his sin is of less importance
than the cure �i sin.
3. Neither hales this man sinned. Not
that this man or his parents had liv-
ed an absolutely sinless life, but that
his condition had not been caused by
any sin on their part or his part. That
the works of Godshould be made man-
ifest. Christ suggests not the cause
of this mann misfortune, bet the die
vine purpose in it. That purpose was
that a great blessing might Come to
the man through it, and to the world
through the blind man. How does
that man in heaven now nook upon
those years of darkness? Does he not
rejoice that through his misfortune
he was led to Christ and salvation, 4
Let us see the good hand of God in
our troubles.
4. I must work. Revised Version,
"We must work." In other words,
"Let us not waste our time in prying
into mysteries ; yet us eee what eve
can do to alleviate the evils of the
world." The evorks of him that sent
me. God's work of restorationand up -
building. The healing of the blind
Man is made a type, or suggestion
of God's work of grace in bringing
darkened' souls to the light of day.
While it is day. Christ's day of work
was while he was bodily on the earth;
so our day is the time of our earthly
existence. 5. May we use our day as
faithfully as he; used his. The night
cometh. Other works the Saviour
might do after he has passed within
the veil, but not this work of miracle.
When no man can work. What work,
may await us in another world we
know not, but as far as this life is con-
cerned our work ends at death.
5. As long as I am in the world.
While Jesus was on the, earth he was
the light of men, giving life and
health, 'and in his healing td men's
bodies, presenting e ,parable of the
greater benefits he was about to im-
part to men's souls when he should
pass out of the,eveirld material into the
world spiritual. I am the light of the
world. Then he was the light seen by
the physie,a1 eye; now he is thelight
of the soul, seen by the eye of faith.
Lofty as this elaina is, who 'd,agesi deny
now that it has been' verified?
6. Made clay. Christ had more than
one method of healing; sometimes a
word only, sornetinies a touch, some-
times dee more formal laying on a
hands. Perhaps, though not certainly,
there was a spiritual emblem in this
instrumentality. He. took common
clay and moistened it with his own
saliva., showing that the most ordinary
instrumentality becomes mighty when
touched by divine power. • Anointed
so teCye mUnPdfroinh
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7. Go, wash. See the blind beggar,
staff in hand., feeling his way across
the city toward the pool, bearing two
patches of street mud oe his face! That
was his clogs, compelling 'a confession
a Christ and a surrender to
shaleys, evi41.1indOne'maIni),eets• perhlaiipms' ayncntik
don't know there. iS dirt on your fame.
Let Me wipe it way." "No," ,be
ait-
sw'ars. "r.Phe Master put it there. I
am obeying his orders." That was
"the aitar" to which this man went
forwaid in the revival, humbling
his pride of self. The pool of Siloam.
A reservoir hewn out of the rook in the
valley of Gihon, south- of the 'temple.
It is still to be. Seen, one of the, few
certain identifications of Bible Mean -
ties, near J'erusaleta, By interepreta-
t ion, Sani, The word " Si 1 oam" men us
"sending," or "sent." John hints at
the, thought that the pool was Jy its
'very name a symbol of Chriet, the
One. Sent from God. "Go to Siloam"
xaebisa.lxne'as,`.0 o 3e:suet-is edSuelailet, hoifs Gnioad'
nerigeiyi righty; y;
foe' he sow that he was courageous,
obedient, prompt, and indepencl en L af
public opinnin. 0. Reed the tempter
through' and find some good oxen-telt%
in thee .rriatee conduct. Weshed. What
a moment that was, as he groped his
way noWn the xtir to the pool, preesed
the cool INA ter to hie face, and felt the
elashof , light 1 7. More wonelerful. is
the tea bet:eine time from spiritual
darltnesa to light, from sin to salvo,
tion
8, The neigbhoes. Thie &tan had le.
coMexi familiar figure, and, those vvho
ate seen Idna in other days. Were
prompt te obeerne tAs WOnderftll
clumge that had come aeross
him. 8. The best evidenoe of a
true cwiveesion is that it attraote at-
teritioa from those wbo knew the sin-
ner beforehand. Had seen him that he
was blind, Itevised Version, "that he.
was a beggar.' Evidently the man
was 114W a beiggae no longer, but was
at work earning, bit living. 9,
salvation often turns men from idle -
;wee to industry, from need to self-
support,
9. He is like him. His eyesight
made such a change in bis counten-
Utie,e• and bearing that it 'Was • laot
strange that some doubted whether he
could be the same man. Indeed, he
was not the same man, but "a new
creature," 10. And as is everyone
who lias come to the light of life. I
am be. Whether others knew it or
not, he knew that he was the same
man, though changed. 11. Blessed is
that consciousnees open the soul of ,the
one who has received gospel light 1
10-11. How were thine eyes opened?'
testimony of persotal experience is al-
ways intereeting, even though it be
in illiterate, untrained words. • The "
story of the soldier in battle, of the
shipwrecked eailort of the converted
soul, out of sin into righteonsness.
will always be listened to. He answer-
ed. There was no hesitation in'his an-
swer, 11. And there should be none
in ours, as we tell the old, old story,
which is always knew. A man. pal-
led Jesus. Rather "the man," one who
was well known. 13. Let no one eon-
verted by Christ be ashamed to own
his Lord.
"THE BOOK OF CONSOLATION."
Sir John 'Kaye 'tetanus an Inetdent of tiltO
Indian Mutiny.
The Bible is the great Book ot Con-
"TheBible is the great Book of Con-
solation. for Humanity," wrote Ernest
Renan, the French sceptic. It brings
peace, because it leads to the source
of peace -a Person, who, as a Hebrew
prophet affirmed, will keep in perfect
peace the man whose mind is stayed.
on Him. It is in the hour of need
that the pious sufferer realizes the
forceeof the words of "the book of Con-
solation," Sir John Rays, in his book,
"The Sepoy War," narrates how a.
transforming power came into the
hearts of English men and women
from a few words of the Bible, while.
they were fleeing from the cruel mu-
tineers. He writes:
"A young English baronet, Sir
Mounstua.rt Jackson, with Lieutenant
Burnes, Mrs. Orr, Miss Jackson and
some little children, were trying to
escape from Seetapore, and event
through suffering almost unspeakable,
as ehey struggled forward, mostly by .
night, ragged tattered ill and with
matted hair. Their only comfort came.
from the word or Goa.
"They had no _mote among them, but
one day some native medicines were
brought to Mrs. Orr wrapped in et
piece of printed paper, which. proved"
to be. part of a leaf of the book o
Isaiah, Is. 51: 11-14; and the message
which came to them through Moham-
medan hands was tJais:
'"They shall obtain gladness and.
joy.; and sorrow and mourning shall
flee away. I, even I, am he that thin-
..forteth you; who art thou, that thou.
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall
die, and of the son of man which shall
be made as grass; and forgettest the
Lord thy maker . . . and hast feared
contiimally every'. day because of the
fury of the oppressor, as if he were
ready to destroy? and where is the
fury of the oppressor? The captive
exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit,
nor that" -"and here the bit of paper
was torn off.
"But the words of love thus strange-
ly and mysteriously brought to them,
comforted them in the raidst of their
sorrow. The torn fragemat of a text
which came to them through heathen
hands seemed like a promise of de-
liverance."
STATISTICS OF CUBAN WAR.
Total Loss of Cuban. Life 415,399-Snaulards
Lost 22,009 lit Battle and 106,000 by
[Disease.
Prof. Arthur Coclezo Vinagera.s, of
the Havana Academy of Sciencee, has
completed the vital statistics of the
late war of Cuba, with Spain, says- a
'Havana de,spatch. He does not elaim
that it is absolitely accurate,' but that
it is appeoxima,teey so.
He estimates the mean population of
•
the ieland be the years 1895-1898 as
1,546,090;• of which 332,000 were colored.
Oe this number 40 par cent. of whites
and 72 per cent. of negroee were illi-
terate. The percentage of male to fee
male was 51 to 46. _
He estimeths the • number' of the
Spanish army sent to Cuba during this
period as 234,000, and the number of
Cubans, fitted to take arms as 362,000.
Of this number he finds that 71,000 act-
ually rose in arras, while 262,000-4
mained irresolute. The reinaindek, al- '
most e0,000, went into exile. The num-
ber of armed Cnbans killed during the
war was ici,aoo whites and 8,900 negroes;
of unarmed fighting men 11,400 whites
and 12,000 negroes.
1V e,y1 er s order of teooncentration
was resporieible, Prof. Viriageras eetie
mates, for the death by Starvation and
disease of 387,000 persona -amen, woMen
and children. Of thie number 202,000
Wore whites. The total, loss of Ouban
16'4 by the revolution was 4.18,800, The
Cubans in atni8 ab ,the enl of the reve-.,
lution he est...hinnies as 28,600.
The Loin 1 toes of the Spanieeds wes
22(011 in battle tied 106,001) by disease.
ALWAYS AtneROPRIATE.
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they're a in celotis bad lot I