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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-16, Page 6NOTES AND CallfMENTS. ----a atingarY, the eld.eet conetitutionai OotentrY Lz BurcPc, has been passing through a Serioue oonetitutionalerieie due primarily to the effort a of the Op- position, in the lower house of the laiet to consols' the Liberal ministry, head- ed by Baron Banffy, te resign. It is to the laberel party thet Hungary lergely owe e the ra,pid advance she he made within the lest few decades, but political control for thirty years, or eince the establishment of the Dual Monerchy, in 1867, has had the effeot to peed:ace within it all the evils ap- parently inseparable from a long ten - ire of power. All the usual xn,eans of corruption, -control of the electoral machinery, appointment of the great body of civil servants, etc -re in its hands, and. are used without hesitation te consolidate its position and. main- tain its control. In opposition are three small organizations, the lade - pendent, People's and National parties, under the lead. a Francis Kossuth, Count Ziehy, and. Count Apponyi re- spectively, but which after years of conflict, find themselves without chance whatever of attaining to pow- er. •••••••1•10.. THE BXETER TIMES before you, You extvy tine experienee 11E118 OF 011312 13EATITY ChviStian "Perieneee Very naturally they are exasperat- ed, the more because they believe that their suppression is due to the leek of freedom in electiens, and their hat- red is especially directed against the premier, Baron Banffy, whom they charge with having organized. the. cor- ruption.. Accordingly they resolved last autumn upon obstruction as the only weapon with which they could hope to win; and as there is no rule of the House preventing it, they eer- ried it so far as not only to stop or- dinary legislation, but the renewal of the Ausgleich, or financial agreement with Austria, which expired. on De- cember 31 last. The result was that the last year closed in Hungary with ail ages are his crown -jewels. "They tinning the government, while the no budget voted, no provision for con- in that day wheI make umy shell be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, fin - n p aacial relations of Hungary to Aus- j tria were only maintained by impel.- ewels." I speak to you of the jewel-rinding, the jewel -grinding, and the jewel -set- ting. It is a rare thing that a jewel is found on the surface of the earth. The heart of the mountains is out out to find. it. Boring, blasting, and huge- thorizing the government to rule with - but you don't roe eze the face that thee man has gone through many rapids ot REY. DR, TALMAGE SPEAKS ON 'IRE temptations, and may had many MOST BEAUTIFUL JgWEIt seems easy to he e general on some Violent: fall, tadunelthal oecasion. The arohes are pleisea for Jewels ou the Shoves or aerial sprung, the flowers are scattered, the -Deeper the Water the aerate,' the rear' brass bands play, and the people huzza, tithe einers 'newels 'Were once Parlted'a as he comesbaele from the War. Oh arespasees anti Stn -The easseel .4 what an easy thing to be a general Christ ought Them'' But you. forget the nights of peril -you oteto Mel fthirst, and the A despateh from Washington, says- orget the carnage, the hunger, the wounds, a.nd the lona Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaelled from Ole Dwelt, and that he plucked the gar - following text; -"They shell be mine, land of victory out of the stiff hand of saith the Lord. of hosts, in that day death. And so there are Christians when I make ep my jewels,"e-Malachi ennewee,gaonitaigyoonainmathyeetnrviuyintphhemof feoxrPgeerti_- iii. 17. fel of the feet that there was many a Far enough down in the mountains Waterloo of temptation and trial they to make as dig, aad deep enough in were obliged to fight. 13e content the sea to make us dive, are gems, el with such Christian ext. -1°11°11°B as God may see fit to give you. exquisite beauty. The kings of the History tells as that in the Middle earth gather them together, and set Ages the precious stories 'were pymbois them in the Wits of, swords, in crowns, of the apostles, In those Middle.Ages, for instance, the jasper was considered and vases, and °amulets. Queee - rue symbol of St. Peter the sapphite of St. Andrew, the emerald of St. John, Charlotte and Marie Antoihette boast- ed of these. Lo owned a pearl worth the chalcedony ef St. James, the sar- eighty thousand. crowns. • Philirt of donyx of St. Philip. These stones ere not more different than tin! men Spain bought a gem worth fifteen w om they symbolized. Willie I thousand ducats. The white topaz Of would have you, as a Christian polish Portugal had an untold value. The your Christian grace to the very last King of Persia bought a gem worth degree of brightness, I would not have you complain that you are not like one million six hundred thousand liv- somebody else, or think it strange be - res. The diaanond belonging to the cause chrysotite, and topaz, and ame- Austrian coronet, lost in the battle of thyst, and emerald don't all shine alike. Be content to be one of God's jeWels, Granson, had a whole fortune in it. will be the great jewel -setting, Christ- . THE SUNDAkY SCHOOL th,Dir SP/ender shall shine forth. That lane often tremble at the thought of that day. It is to be a day of fire and -----a INTERNATIONAL LESSON. MAR. 19, thatalee, end moun.tala eraehl and yet not terrifying to Sod's deer children. Amidst the Multitudes of the re- . -1st the Geed Shenliera." John 10. 1-16, i "Chi dtehmea there wtll not be one pa e ohaele, not one fluttering heart, The Galden Teat Joint 10. IL . thunders that pound the hills will be PRACTICAL NOTES. nomore frightful than the beating of Verse 1. Verily, verily. " Amen, a gong tlaat calls you to a bat -meet, The soul, rising up on that day, will amen," the usual opening to a signifi- wrep around it the reeurreetion-robe, amen," the usual opening to •gnift- and. the rocking of the earth, in its cant. • - e a sl - 'saying of Jesus reported only bar death -convulsion, will seetn as gentle although you May not leave as,much, Spain, France, Britain. boast of their beetle as some one else. Concerning jewels, and on coronation day are you it has been said, as well as con- . proud of the crown set on *the brow earning the most sparkling Christian of the enthroned potentate. Tie character, "They shall he mine in the day when I make up my jewels." mighty nations of the earth have all The jeweI-grinding, That is the boasted of their costly, gems, have sawing and the splitting process by which the gem is taken from its rough guarded them with extreme vigilance, state and changed into any thing that have rung them, in the chime of their the lapidary chooses. Sapphire, corun- poets laureate, and have handed them dune and topaz poevder are used for down from age tot age as an evidence grinding diamonds. The rose diamond of national wealth. is so flat that it would have no attrac- tion at all, unless it passed through °Well, the Lord Jesus Christ, our some such operation. Nowl God's King, has been gathering up his trees- jewels all go through that process. ures for a good. while, and on the Afflietion is the wheel and the sharp great corona.tion day of the judgment Instrument that grinds the character nto shape. You. may think that con - he will, in the presence of the assern- version gives character to the soul. bled universe, show that the good of It does not. Conversion is only the digging out of the jewel; God after- wards shapes and fashions it by his providence. Christ somethnes allows his children to fall, but they fall for- ward, not backward. Chrysolite, to be cleared of its imperfections, must pass through careful burning. Oriental carnelian, zircon, and Brazillian topaz must be submitted to the fire before they get their lustre. Christian char- acter, like black spots in an amethyst, must sometimes be cleared out by the flame; in other words, you must go through the furnace. ial decree, -thus suspending for that period the financial provisions of the constitiftioio. of 1867. The Liberal par- ty attempted. to prevent this extraor- dinary situation by signing a bill au - handed. machinery, make the rock open out a budget, binding its members to its fist and drop the jewel. There are indemnify it in case it was called to aecount ; but the storm of indignation aroused by this proposed. breach of the . constitution, and the secession. in. con- sequence of some of the leading men of the party, forced its abandonment. As Baron Banffy had the support of the Emperor, however, it looked for a time as if the difficulty would prove insuperable, and that with the con- sequent suspension of the constitution, Hungary would return to the situation prevailing prior to the union of 1867. But the opposition, though thus far victorious, had not taken into account the conservatism of the electors, w -ho dislike both obstruction and the dom- inance of the Clerical party, enlisted In its support, and when the voters began to protest by thousands, encl. to pay their taxes in advance in order to support the government, the minority gave way, and proposed a compromise. They would, they said, abandon ob- struction. and conduct that contest on parliamentary lines if Baron Baliffy would. resign, and as the latter will- ingly agreed to do so, rather than jeo- pardise public interests by remaining in office, the compromise was arrang- ed and the crisis ended. How long the agreement will be kept remains to be seen the hatreds tof the parties be- ing too intense for any durable peace, though that their quarrels will be pushed so far as to ruin the state the incident shane-s to be improbable. ADDERS FOND OF EGGS, ucpuncs Wink, Itemaekabic swat1ow ng Abithy. Among a lot of very interesting spe- cimen of prepared animals sent to the Museum of ,Natutal History, at Paris by Father Guilierne, a missionary in Lisa roper Congo country, there is one group of native a.dclers, in the act of swallowing. eggs, whieh excited uncom- mon interest. The most remarkable part: of it is the relative size of this snake and its common food. This edam Is rather small; it is seldom longer than 28 inches and ite thickness never exceede en inch. Yet it feeds regular- ly on duck eggs, the smaller diainetet of which is almost two inches. eaow the snake can get such an egg into its mouth Is difficult .to under - 'stand, and the aspect ea these reptiles , while swallowing the eggs is meet strange. The only way to accouut for this reatuliar manner of swallowing whole eggs is the presence in the neck, Jost honk of the hea.d, of a series of pointed bones, slanted, backward and piercing the oesophagus. These not only assist to hold the egg in place, but act', like a. sew'. Who the egg has advaneed far enough their pressure will eta the egg; its contents will con- tinue into the stotnaele While the emp- ty shell is erushed afterward and thrown oul through Lin, month, While t he act of SU/allowing' the egg the snake is easily caught, for it, is then almost le a state of c,omplete Inertia ; if: then looks very much like the leilb 18 used by photographers for Opening' their shuttera. thousands of people who may be seen on the shores of Ceylon and Coroman- del, watching the divers who go out to get pearls. At the- firing of a gun the boats are lowered off and the divers go down forty or fifty feet into the ,:vater, find the shells containing the pearls, then rap on the side of the diving - bell as a signal that they are ready to return, and then the men at the top haul swiftly to the surface. It is a rare lthing that you) find gold on the surface; it is as thorough- ly hidden as the pearls are, The miner must dig, and: blast, and sweat, before he comes to it. So the Lord's jewels are hidden. Once they were Lar down in the darkness, buried in trespasses and. in sins. . No human in- vention could reach them, No pearl was ever so far down in the: water, no gold was ever so far down in the earth, but the grace of God came to the work. That is a miner, and it can blast the rock, There is a driver, and it can touch the bottom of the sea. The Gospel of Jesus Christ went on, crushing down through this pride, and that sin, and this prejudice, 'sound- ing, and 'breaking, and washing, and sifting, until one day the gold flashed in the light of the Sun of Righteous- ness. I have been told that deeper the wa- ter the larger the pearl. I don't know how that is, but I do know that from the greatest depths of sin the Lord Jesus Christ sometimes gathers up his brightest jewels:0 Paul was a persecutor, Bunyan was a blasphemer. a:, it as the swaying of a amignefrona John. He that entereth. This ie a which a robin springs into the heav- Parable, yet differing in form from $ parables, and especially in the Oh it -wilt be the wedding day -the ens. mo t double aPPlication Of both "the deer" Chuech on earth merried to the Church in heaven; but instead of human nee to solemnize the ceremony, the arch- 7. 11 Not by the door. During the day and the " shepherd" to Jesus, veesee angel's trump will proclaim the banns. sheep are pastured at a distance, Instead of orange -blossoms, there will but at evening they are brought. home be the fragranoe of burning spice - isles. Inetead of (he light of a char).- to the village or city for safety, and delier and candlahra, there will be the are gathered hi a fold, which is oftee bonfire of the COUSUMillg World, What a e a daY that will be I the marriage of thecals'nelra'rahass', shanePdhaals'd esstnahntslieePpeseid: the king's son, when God the Father W11 take this star of a world, and set ters he keeps the tally by touchiug the sParkling gem on his Son's right one more notch on his staff When head, saying, " This is the kingdom I" a are within he takes his position all . When Christ shall step out from the outside as night watchman. The heevens and take by the band the Cwhiluirobt trhthieolh-diasrthienLI‘a,hmibeh's 1,1\1'6i -fern, athkaets ssileeemePsf°1tdo. rInepretsheentPllaibeleChtuhrechfolodf tiP this jewels." Christ, which containss within its invis- , You know the lapidary arranges jetv- ible lines all true believers. Some oth- els according to their size and colour. God's children, In time of prosperity, when the sun shines warmly upon them, unbuckle the robe of their Christian graces and let them hang loosely about them; but when trouble blows a north -easter, then they wrap around them their Christian graces, and tighten the girdle. Troubles may CMG to US, thick as the locusts and frogs of Egypt, but they will only make sin -that old Pharaoh -let God's people go. The dark cloud may hover over us, but the cross of Christ will be the lightning. rod that will take the bolt out of it. You have seen people in- valids, and after awhile, under some tre,mendaus stroke of disease, their entire temperament seemed to be changed, and they came out of that the presence of the Courtehaarie An - sudden sickness strong men. So it. ts with many of those who are going tomette put on the necklace! But the Court could not pay for it, and there Thione will do best for that place er way. Any person trying to enter another will do best for another place. the fold elsewhere than through the So it will be in heaven. I suppose John door shows. by the act that he bee and Peter will be just as different in some evil intent /aeaven as when they were on earth. I ' suppose that if a gentle spirit were de- 2. Entereth in by the door. By the parting on earth the soul of john same door both the sheep and the shep- would be the very one to come and herd. enter, and the door, as explained false teaehers, and followed them, but hot those who ,posseseed the spiritual insight of the true leeliever. Through faith in Christ as our Save 9.. By MO if any man enter in. ieur we enter into his fold, the invis- ible Church. He shall be eaved, Plac- ed in a safe position, out of danger from wolves, and sure of abundant Pasture, Fine pasture. eThe food of the spiritual natare which they find who are in Christ.' 6 He never wants wile belongs to the. flock of Christ. 19. Thus far Chrlet has represented hinaself as "the door ;" now he shows anotlaer aspect of the allegory, with himself as the ehepherd. . •The thiei. is the enemy who °eines to plunder and to d.estroy. Seoh were the priests .of that time who robbed the people ; and the Pharisees, who were planning to murder Christ, and soon would per- secute to the death his followers. I am come. Not now as the door through which ethers carne, but as the great Shepherd., coming to lead and to feed the flock, and to direct all his under shephetale. That they might have life, That aivine life, satisfying and eternal, which Christ imparts. 11 I am the good shepherd. Just as he is the Son of man, embodying complete ideal humanity, sot he is the good Shepherd, u,niting in perfection - the trait of all true shepherds, Giveth his life for, the sheep. The oriental shepherd must face the storms with his sheep, and. to find them when lost must fight with wild beasts and more dangerous robbers in their behalf. So DUX Shepherd gives up his life to sieve ours.' 7. nova clearly the cross ever stood in. the landscape before Christi 12, 13. He that is a hireling. That is a hired man, working for his wages only. The application is to ministers who preach the Gospel for a living, in- stead of .tiving .to preach the Gospel. Whose own the sheep are not. All he cares for the sheepi is to secure his own living whether the sheep are ted or whether they go hungry. The wolf. Perhap•s here representi ng Satan, th•e enemy of souls, or his agents, who ever they may be. Be- cause he is a hireling. To him the welfare, of the sheep is as nothing, and gain everything; 'while to the true shepherd, gain is nothing, and the sheep axe everything. 14. Knew my sheep. He knew Sim- on before he became Peter, and Neill- anael under the fig tree, and the wo- man by the well, and Saul while he was yet a persecutor. He knows each one of us, with all our traits and inaperfee- tions, but with all our gl.orious possi- bilities also. Am known .of mine. Be- tween each disciple and his Lord stretches the invisible telephone wire es, and we talk with him. entrench . themselves in deep these tevo verses are connected -in the les. Using reduced charges, the shells of personal fellowehip. He talks with Mvisecl Version. ''I know mine own, can be thrown at a steep rangle of. dees and mcial own know me, even as the -scent at almost any range, thee" 15. As -the Father. No ti ce how Father ktioweth me, end I know the searching out the deepest trenches Father.' inc fellowehip of the it e ther and rendering field works untenabl0. and the Son is the fellowship of Christ defeat this action of howitzer batter - On the other hand, the best -way to and his church. I lay down my life. ies will be by massing the r p Not only for those disciples who were e. . further back than formerly, .and only following Jesus then, but for all who bringine them up at the latest posse - have been disciples since, did Jesus wee his life. ble moment so that they are kept oontinuall ln raotion. _ 16. Other sheep I have. Here is a out that . . For thisY action of the leowitzer to plain reference to the Gentile woild, ' be of real use Colonel Brasile points in which were many true seekers after ONE 'THING IS INDISPENSABLE, God.' They shall bear my voice. As and that is some power of observatio,n. yet these Gentile seekers were ignor- In this connection he tells the - ant. of of their Shepherd, though uncon- ing aneo4lote: . ae sciously led by him. Soon they were 'While in action ae Onadurman a to know him, even as his Jewish dis- message was brought to the battery by doles. One fold.. The Revised Ver- a native that the main dervish fore* sion is far better, one flock." 'Mere was halted in a certain spot, invisible may be many folds in which. Christ's from the battery, but within rants, people are gathered, but there is only and in a direction which was indicated one floek, and only one great Shep- with considerable„ definiteness. herd. "I was urged to turn fire on to thie spot, but felt it, my duty to refuse, as I had. no possible means either of ver- ifying the man's statement or of see- ing Nvhether the fire was effective. "It was therefore not clone, and. I afterwards found that this was aright decision, beoause, as a enatter of fact we found afterwards that: the dervish- es were not there at all, andaboth am- utitoenlyaisn,dastteir.e, would, bave- been rnabuslaoli aPTPhaerspa: ety were conveyed by special This, says the gallant! colonel, is an " train and royal. yacht .to Osborne. instance of what will doubtlees take They were then assembled in' an 'ante- Place in Eutopean war, • , Repeats Will bP. brought in that the enemy is mass. room, and after being instructed in ing troops in some partioular valley, the respective parts they were to play and the howitzers well be sent to turn were admitted one by one to the pres- them out of it Bit unlees the offi- ence of, Her Majesty. The knight on cLer in command is able to get inforr- ion of the result of his fire, ant m - entering the room made his obeisance mense waste of valuable anamunition, twice, and advancing close to Her Ma- is likely to result. jesty bowea a third time and dropped creasedlrhauisse ionfd ict the als ails] o oan or soaft:Ilomi lel; on. one knee. Her Majesty then rested thing akin to it; a balloon: seethe). is a a sword on his shoulder for a mo - brigade diviseon. most desirable adjunct to a howitzer '.I'he quick -firing tield. .gunl is the next development with whieh. this take it up to glory. I suppose that if below, is Christ, through whom alone a martyr were torn by the xaok, the soul cif Pau -imitate the very one to is given entrance into the Church of fetch him to heaven. I suppose that the redeemed, in earth and heaven. The• Lf a wanderer of the street were dying shepherd of the sheep Or "11 shep- penitent in a prison the soul of Eliz- , , ,, . . ' , . bring her up to the light. Version; the true pastor or leader of Dere, as in the mal gin of the Revised abeth Fry would be the very one to If a lapidary had an ,especial gem the flock of Christ whether a minis_ whose colour he. wishes eepecially set , • forth -he -takes the minor gems, --those ter in the pulpit. or a teacher in the , Sunday Scheel. of less valu.e. and. beauty,-gernets rubies, and so on -and sets them 3. To him the porter openethe It is around the great central wealth of not necessary to find a In.eaning in beauty. And so it will be on the last every part of the parable, though day; C•hrist surrounded by the redeem- ed -e -the lesser jewels of earth surround- strietly. . speaking this is not a para'- ing the pearl, the Pearl of great price. ble ; but the porter may represent eith- Christ will look off upon the redeemed; er tbe controlling body in the Church upon the troubled who were comfort- ed -upon the tempted who were deliv- . . or the Holy Spirit, by whom the Church cloned. Methinks the sweetest song in The sheep ie. tins parable are not the ered-upon the guilty who were par- is guided. The sheep hear his voice. heaven will be the chime of the jewels, members of the organized' earthly as they praise God for the trials thet sawed them and ground them for the Church,' of which some are good an.d king -dont? Who are these? you aek. I some are bad, but the true, followers ,answer, " These are they who came out of Christ, whose names are written in of great tribulations, and had their blood of the Lamb." ' heaven. These have an instinctive per- ception of truth, and recognize ehe in the latter part of the last cen- one who utters it. 1. Are you one of tury, Messrs. Boemer and Bessange, Christ's true flock V His own sheep by the most celebrated jewellers of the name. In the East every member of a. diamond necklace such as the world the flock has an individuality to the world, resolved that they would fashion never saw. They sent out their agents la one and can shepherd. He knolvs eac , in all lands to gather up the most cell it by name. One 'reason for this costly gems. They stopped not for any is that: he is responsible for each expense. In the year 1782 the neck - robes washed and naade white in the NEXT EUROPEAN WAR. Some or the atatege That are Pentad te Happen. The new weapons used in Warfare are likely, aeoording to Brevet Ltette tenant -Colonel R.Pe, in it paper which he read at Alder:sleet re. eently to bring about very great changes in the matter of ,tateties. At Omclerman we had everything our oatla way, says the gallant colonel, but it our enemy were as well armed as our- selves and as well skilled in the USQ Ot weapous, how must we 'meet biro? Perhaps the most striking develop - must of the next. war will be the rapid demoralhation of the defenders of sty% places as the fa.rm of Hougoraont, the village of St. lerivat, the reclonbts on the green hills at Plevna, lelescon. and Point -du -Jour at Gravelotte, by means of the field howitzer in its modern Lan, using snaokeless powder, and fire ing high explosive shells. It is the special funotioa of the , MODERN FIELD HOWITZER sheep intrusted to him, and mustmake lace was done; there were in it eight hundred diamonds, swinging around in it good to the owner if it is lost. 2. nine rows, waving up to the throat, So our Shepherd has each one of our dropping over the chest and shoulders, names written on his head. 3. So, too, pendent in crosses and crowns and should each under shepherd, whether -lilies--swinging a very blaze of loops, a pastor or a teacher, have a personal festoons and clusters. Oh ! what a day acquaintance with each soul under his it mtiat have been when Louis XVI, care. presented that to the queen, and, in 4. He putteth forth. We see no rea- son for making the "putting forth" from the sheepfold an emphatic part of the parable, or to draw, spiritual lessons from it. "A parable( must not be made to go on all -fours," says an old commentator. In a true sense the flock of Christ is never outside the fold of the true Chureh, Ile goeth before them. Among us the shepherd. and his dogs drive the poor, frightened, ignorant sheep. , But the - oriental shepherd always walks in front, and they follow hira, no matter how tempt- ing the grass may be along the way. The sheep follow him. "Christ leads us through no darker rooms than he went through before." -Richard Bax- ter. Wherever we go our Master goes too. He has felt all that we feel. They know his voice. How may we know the voice of the Lord as distinct from our own imaginings ore the strange utterances of false teach - ars? By its harmony with Scripture, with the mature judgmeht of the Church, and with the inner light within us. 4. We must keep our hearts in tune if we would recognize our Master's call. . 6. A stranger. Anyone who has not the message of the true shepherd, but spenks out. of his own will. Will flee from him. When a strange voice uses the shepherd's call, it fills the flock with alarm, and they run hither and thither in a blind way. Says St. Paul, "He that is spiritual judgeth all things." 6. This parable. Better as in the margin of the Revised: Version, "This proverb;" for this is not a parable, but rather an allegory or a similitude. It is not to be interpreted in all its details, nor is unity of Plan to be sought for. We should fasten upon its prominent illustrative teachings, and not try to spiritualize iLs minor statements. They understood not. Not even the disciples of Jesus could understand the deeper spiritual telltale of this "parable," and to the Jews in general it was almost meaningless. 6. How fortunate are we who receive a clearer revelation! '7. Thee. said Jesus. He welit .through the allegory a second time in- terpreting its principal' telemetts, ata the door. The door through whieb the sheep enter the fold, and throdgh which the sheplieeds cerne to the sheep, These words, in Greek, may still be seen inscribed over the inner door to the Mosque of St, Sophia, whieh wee built in the sixth century as a Christian church. 8, All that ever eame befoxe me. Not those coming ,before Christ in tie, as the Old Testamerit prophets, but those who placed themselves be- fore hitt as religioue teachers. Such were the scribee and Pharisees, who claimed to be the authoritative CX - of the law. Are thieees and tobhers. Not "4,vere," as would be the word if the reference were to earlier teachers; hut "are;" showing that he I5 speakihg el the self-tappointed rah - bilis of his own time. The sheep did not hear theM, Meny did heat these along invalids in the Christian life - very weak in the service of God. After -they have passed through some great disaster, that disaster having been sanctified to their souls, they become strong men in Christ Jesus. These Christians who are swarthy now -do were robber hands that longed for it, and, before that .diamond necklace had done its work, it had disgraced one countess, dishonored a cardinal, brand- ed with red-hot iron a favourite of the Court, and blackened a page of his- . you know tory already infamousNot so how they got their swarthe. nese? It was by sweltering at the when my Lord gathers up his forge of affliction. Their battle axe jewels. They shall come from the was dull enough until it was sharpen- east, and from the west, and from the ed on a grave stone, north, and from the 'south, He will send but his messenger angehe and Nearly all of God's jewels are cry- them to gather them up from stallized tears. You ask me, "Why is tell it that yonder man does not have trou- all tita. land, and gather them up ble-he gets along without any raider- from .-:.3.)the sea. Golconda and Ceylon, tune." For the same reason that the and Coromandel will send their best lapidary does not put the delicate- in- treasures; the whole universe will strument upon a common pebble. It make contributions to it; and I think does not seem as if God thought that the brightest gems in the palace will some men -,vere not worth a process of be the gents that come up from the tribulation. The Dutch call diamonds earth. They will flash in swaying that are not fit to be cloven diver sceptre, and in gleaming crown, and steene-that is, devil stonesin belt of imperial beauty, and in all There are those here who are almost the *vases of eternity, "in the day ready for the kingdom; one more turn when the Lord of hosts makes up his jewels.' Oh! that Godes diving -bells might this morning bring you up out of ilie depths of your sins, and that God's wheel might grind you for the king- dom, that you may at last be era - pared for the great jewel -setting. In Golconda, if a slave find a dia- mond of extraordinary value, he takes it up to the Government, and the Government gives him his liberty. If ,some of those who are this morning the slaves of sin, while they are seek- ing for, Gt.& would find this Pearl of great price, the hour of their eman- cipation would come, and the king would make erochimation 1 rem the throne, saying, "Go freel You have found the Pearl! Be one of my jewels, Tohn Newton was a labertine, the Earl he wheel, onmore shove of the of Rochester was an infidel, and yet harsh file, and they will be ready. God of te , the grace of God went plunging is testing in the presence of men aied through the fathoms of their a.bomina- angels, sbwhether you are paste cite - tion until it found them and brought them up to the lighter Oh, there is no depth that grace cannot touch the bottom. All over the Dead Sea of sin covering the nations, God's diving -bells are busy; all through the mountains of death, God's miners are blasting. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound. The geologist tells you that the brightest diamond is only crystallized carbon, or, as I might call it, charcoal glorifiedl and so it is with souls that were coal -black in the defilements of sin -by the poever of God's grace they are made his jewels for ever. You have noticed the great differ- ence between jewels. Let not a Chris- tian man envy another Christian ratin's experience. You open the king's cas- ket, and 3ro11 see jewels of all sizes, shapes, and colors. The king. says to the Sultan, who has come to visit him: " That is a topaz I That is. an amethyst! mends or real diamonds. You know there is an artificial ruby, an artifi- cial sapphire, an artificial emerald. Strauss, of Strasburgh, discovered that by taking silex, and potash, and borax and red -lead, he could make a very good limitation of some jewels; but before that, Satan found out that be coutd imitate the Lord's jewels. A composition of orthodox faith and of good works has made many a child of the devil look like a. child of the Lord Nevertheless, borax, potash, silex, and red-Jeaa are not jewels. There is a way in whieh the lapidary tells 'whether a, diamond. is genuine or not. He breathes on it, and if the breath linger there it is a false dia- mond ; if the breath immediately van- ish, it 18 a, real diamond. Then he has the wattling procese afterward if the .firet fail, So you can tell God's jewel, Tf the breti ath of temptation tomes on v - it, and soon anishes, it is a real clia DUEL'S DEATHKNELL. Dueling is passing out of Prance. Ite- centIy a Paris news man offereled a felloinvy by critimem, and in a letter recved this: . You are bebew my level. So [9110- That is a pearl ; Thai is a kola -I -neer -I motcl; if that breath lingers, and con.- 1)1Y Send you a cuff cu the eats by fi° °ea's jewels 61e verY ditfere'nf-dif-.1 linties to blur it, it is a false dianiond. this was pent: a Thank naafi ferent taste, different in education, But better than 'all this is the grind- In responee dbelfafasurTeat yiloluPr(eiafenr,terlobeo.veDtohnaefltawit';ohato'Yf ejnagn- machine of al:faction- Tf so you for the Cuffe. In return I desire that Truth, at the. praying (Mantles of go throegh that and keep neigh', to shoot you with six laullets by,mail. it is one of God's jewels. Egyptitte 'Courself d onsidet Y,ead." S1VIALTIEST PEOPLE. this, or the singing qualities of anoth- er. It were os unwise as for a came- lian to blush deeper beause it is not diemorid or a japonica, to fret all the dolor out of its eheelot beeause it is after it fele been buried hundreds anc topaz, brought up from i,he rums ot Hereal a nettle Med Pon:feel a shows the same inexi inguishabl e colour to d a.y, tt rese. Goa intended you. to be hundreds el Yeart4` And 81) G'a's not different, • (5j4 come up out, of the 11111" of rras- The trouble lei that you are not will- farturte, and' disastet• 's, bright as wheal t•heY went down ing to be ordinary gold, You wan" to . Th°6wel setti"' Tbs l he gold a twenty-four earits. You gee j'sPidarY gs"s the gems in the right shape, gathers Seine extra ordinary C hrxetia la man, and you. say, If 1 aould only be fetch a mod at this l' You doe't know his history. Some distance below Nig- gate, the Water IS placid; it says no- thing ebeut the rapids writhing among the reeks and the fall of one htuldred and siXty-four feet. So there are th4,1n en hie Utble, 1(31(1 thee puts 1 heni into in,adzbantls, or bilis of words or into orteterts. The, Opening (ley oortiee, and flu., people come le, and. the Worlt is displayed before thein. Well, the Lord JeStie will ga,iher up his people, and bofcte the aeeenibled emote:tee to render untenable by, mortal matt any point upon whieh its terrible fire is directed. This was abundantly proved at Omdurman, where the fire of the howitzer battery °leered the dervishes completely out of every place against which its fire was directed aft- er a very few rounds, thole& these men have a "strioking" power probably very superior to that of any Euro- pean troops. If one of these field howitzer' batter- ies .can once establish itself within 3,- 500 yards of any point occupied by the enemy, that point will becoine unten- able in from a quarter to half all. hour. In dealing with such. batteries when used by others agaiest as, we must- : (1) Destroy them or drive them' (Waif. . (2) Arrange our own ad.vanced troops in the shallowest possible formations,. (3) Strive after invisibility by means of smokeless powder, the use of suit- able ground, the use of the darkness of in the least conspieuous manner. hoAwaitoztterb the night, and by clothing the troops out of aay troops which may have ainiteePr°yrteaviiilil bieuntehtei°slaeaorfehitnhgs had time -as the Turks Plevna-to The ,inhttbita•nla of the 'Andaraan lands, are said to he .the smellest race of people in the weral, The average height ofa full-grown Andainan less than foist. feet, and. the -ttisthropo- 4)&41 experts who reeently visited them found bet few that weighed,over 75 poutids,, SOCII.ITY Ira Fla, THE CEREMONY OF KNIGHTHOOD. net+ RIO,'Majesty Atte Queen Hake8 a In the London correspondence of the Manchester Guardian the following Phwat is (11' matter with yOur faeo? Ot Wor • thrown from the, carriage. 1:4Ut it tuk lb" eondociettior eta motor - *man, the both of thitti, to do it, 'betted, ment and uttered the words, "Sir-" mentioning only the Christian name, She next placed the ribbon of the badge to a clip which had alreadY these guns, and we shall donbtless Order rouna his neck and attached the have already provided. themselves we e been fastmied on his breast, He than hoon be equipped with theta ourselve9. raised his arm, and the Queen plac- ing her hand on his wrist, he conveyed it to his lips, rose, bowed. and retired backward. Tlae moment the door clos- ed behind him he was seized by two of- ficials', who stripped him of his ribbon and badge and placed them hurri ed - country has th deal. Foreign natione These ate then an antnal factor to be reckoned with in existing tactics. We stand, in Colonel Fenslie's opiti- ion, on the verge of a most remarkable development of the power of artillery, The first .few engagements 'of • h e next European war will, urobebly show to ly in a case whieh they , hento one or the other avtillery that it is hita with directions to " deposit it with 1 superior to, tha.t of its enem,y. Great h boldness can then cheat' teri ze 50-. ie great coat." The correspondent s • ftiend did not like this. He would tion. Put to the inferior' artillery it wilt be neceseary • to make up la' etua, erier taeties for its inferiority in respects. have desired that the badge shoulcl re- main elWays on his uniform where the Queen hed affixed it. After the whole perty hed been deeorated they aeljeurn- ed to luncheon, and Were conveyed beck be London in time for dinner. $1'7,500 FOR A MERINO RA.M. In one respect, the year 1898 didn't establieti a 'record, though most, peo- ple thought it did. The sum of ape COO, paid for a sheep last eurarne'r in I.4nglanil, was not, as supposed, the highest oh record. Mr, Paget1 Toyn- bee writes to the London Spectator (hal, ten years ago, he saw in the celeb rat ed Careghem flock of merino sheep in 'Victoria, kumllralia a prize merino ram fat which he had paid 43,- 500, or ;leerily $1.7,500, However, let to' one claim that even this Is the teeord price, for perhaps it isn't, ACT OF GALLANTRY: Sit Genera& Sir ,tarnde nattat, who died recently at the age of 83 years, won the Viatoria Cross at 13aleklava by volanteering to go out and dress the wounds of an officer lying in an eixrpee .oed situation tridse er the Runte Lire. 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