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Bellmore tee dieasiter to tee lielgtaa
tonne; on, tat) elegies' elougo, cuereut for
none months paut, littera taken definite
ahape in the statement that tn ad -
(BUM/ to a. lens series -of defeats, the
native troop e have tautened, and the
Belgian commanders have been eaptur-
It ie true thetLz ,aenutnifesto
King Leopola Of eetelainm, tol'ihene.,.•
the Congo leree State belengs, endeav-
ors to Minineies the 'extent Of L)141,
aster, by asserting that there is no
general revolt, but only a "rebellion
of stildiers," and that "occasional
lapses into Itarbarlem" are ln be ex-
pected. But it is evident that even
be believes, the situation to be critical;
while tailless all the news that oomes
from the West coast is directly intended
to deceive, the upper valley of the Con-
go etas already Desisted beyond the con-
trol of the white officials. Regrettable
as such a result of Belgian endeavor
in that quarter must be, it hart long
been apparent that it owl& be- the
only en,ding or an enterprise beguu
with insufficient resources, and so
perforce having for it$ chief object the
raising of revenue rather than the es-
tablishment of gOOd government.
* • • •
There is no doubt that when the
sovereignty of the Congo State .was
given by re to Kialg Leopold, the
Later thought that his own great
wealth, skpplemeated by a bearable
taxation of the natives, would be suf-
ficient for its clevelopraent, But the
opening of communication, the estab-
lishment of stations, telegraph lines,
eto., used. up money rapidly, a.nd in the
lack of white troops, a native force had
to be organized, ana as cheaply es pos-
eible. Accordingly, the most warlike
of the tribes were employed and paid.
by the privilege of looting the villages,
and following conquest, direot taxa-
tion of the most drastic sort was levied
upon the natives, generelly in the forn.
of contributions of rubber. The result
was savage cruelties on the part of the
soldiers and tax gatherers, fierce re-
sistance by the natives, who soon prov-
ed. able to hold their own against the
state forces, enmity to the Belgians
everywhere, and finally, the mutiny of
the native ' troops against the harsh
discipline necessary to enforce the
authority of their officers. . If, as is
reported, the Belgian commanders,
Baron Mania and efajor Lothstire,
have been captured by tbe natives,
and the black treops have:jdined. hands
_ with their opponents, the Upper Con-
go is already: clearly lost for the time
to civilization, and. the •lower valley
must soma fail tato anarc/ay.
• • • • • •
King Leopolht talks bravely of keep -
lug on, but his whole administration
there is so discreditecj by cruelties, and
the means for continuing the work so
ro.eagre, that to go on will be only to
add to the completeness of the disaster.
The rational course is to acknowledge
failure, and sell his sovereignty to
some greal power, preferably, in the
unwillingness of Great Britain to
take it over, to France, first squaring
England by the cession of the thin
.slice of territory needed to make her
communication between Cairo and the
Ca.po complete. The acquisition of a
slate having an area of a million
square miles, that is, the size of India,
and a population of more than focty-
two tnillions, that is, as lagge as that
of Japan, would satisfy the colonial
ambition of the French, who would,
moreover, administ er it very well.
They luck the- vivifying power of the
British, but they are more -tolerant of
negroes than the latter are, and with
Arab and Senegalese troops foe the
maintenance of order, their rule on the
Congo would be infinitely preferable to
that of Belgium.
PLAN TO TAX DEPARTMENT STORES.
. erman Government's Scheme so Please
Socialists and Small Store Keepers.
The Governraeat has endertaltext
remarkable experimeut in taxation tn
a bill compelling the large shops to
contribute a larger proportion tban
she small ones to Germany's revenue,
says a Berlin despatoh. Ths bill pro-
vide:4 that three factors- are to deter-
mine the taxation, the number of
bran:elms, the nunibet oi employees and
the amount of rest. It divides the
brandies into five groups, foods and
druge, clothing turnnure, glass and
jewelry. Establishments trading in
two or more of these groups and em-
ploying mare than twenty-five per -
sone come nutter the new law, Those
engaged in teo groups pay 10 per
cent of their profits, in taxation', three
15 per eente four, 20 per oent; five,
25 pet cent. Shops engaged in three
go ape and employing twen ty-five per-
sons pay an manual tax of 20 marks
for each one of the twenty-five, and
10 marks for each additional employee.
Stores with branch establishraents
will be treated as if, all were tablet
the same roof. Co-operative stores will
not be taxed tinder the new law.
The bill is intended to create a good
i nap r essioh amung the small shop-
keepers who support. the Coriserva-
tivese who are anxious to strengthen
the party in the large towns and am-
ong the Socialists, who -regard depart-
ment tores as a dangerous extension
of capiteeisni, But lhe bill is certain
to meet persistent opposition in the
Reichstag and in commercial airolee,
where 11 is regarded as arbitrary and
sedselese.
THE DEFINITION OF FAITH,
REY, OR. TALMAGE PREACHES PROM
A SOLEMN TEXT.
A arson Statenteut or atiete-let the Arno'
• Or chriet-The Physical Cailirgetelnlel4
eto-No nerdeue eitieeted Through she
heayesoyetate-No Sorrow se see pro-
miSed Land, No harictiess, Nee tersest, see
stekseas, No Death at All.
A eleepateh from Washielgion, says:
--Itev. Telmage presiohea. from the
following text.—"He that believetii
and is baptized shall be sav-
ed, but he that bolievetla not
shell be damned,"—Mark xvi. 16.
It has been a question, wbieh lhave
often asked myself during the last
three weeks, why RI was that God
brought me face to face with death on
the Atlantic, and. yet brought me baole
to this people elive. There are some
(Mee -lions of Providence which we (Ian -
net answer; but that question I /save
had no trouble in answering. God led
me through that proeess in order that
I might oome with a. tnore earliest, in-
tense, cons -crated, Christian -like min,
istry to this people, and may God. for-
bid that the process should not have
its proper effeet upon my soul. I have
Lor years had a memorandum -book in
whiell it has been xay custom to put
down: texts of Scripture from which I
expected some day to preach. Sumo
of these texte. have been in my me-
morandum -book not preached upon for
ten years. Axnong these is the text
from vehicle I speak this morning. I
Kaye noticed that the time toques in
one's ministry for certain subjects.
The Spirit of the Lord God has seem-
ed to say to me that this is the sub-
ject I ought now to present to this
people: 'Tie that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, but he that
believeth not shall be damned." Oh,
Li' is a. solemn text—solemn enough
for a man Lo preaoh his last Barmen
on. IL is a text, the truthfulness of
which no one on doubt who believes
that X8S118 was lionest, for they are His
OW11 words. It is a text that must
reach down to your deepest conscious-
nees, and awake, all your anxieties.
There is no poetry about it; there is
no argument about it. It is a plain
statement of the two great, momen-
tous, infinite, eternal facts; and while
I read this text it seems as though I
heard two gates just shut—the gate
of the lost—"Ile that, believeth and
is baptized shall be saved, but he that
believeth not shall be datnned." You
see that the text divides all the peo-
ple in this Tabernacle into two class-
es—believers and unbelievers. Now,
You need not Sit back in your seats
thinking I am going to give you a
dryedefinition as to what faith is. I
have nd basket of theological,chips to
carry to you. Faith is reliance upon
the Lord Jesus Chriet It is a feeling
of "1 can't eave myself, but Christ will
do it—has done it. I put my whole
weight upon flis Mercy; throwing
away all my sins, my doubts, my fears,
aecept everything that Jesus has
prornieed to me personally. and every-
thing thee he has done for me person-
ally," That is faith I hear some one
say, "I don't understand after all
what faith ie." Don't yoa? Ten hours
of mere human explanation would
Bible says faith is tho gift of God, and
iv. answer to your prayer. He is
ready, this moment, to explain it if
you will ask for it. Certainly, you are
not too proud to ask for that great
boon. I pause in the midst( of my ser -
moo to give every man, woman and.
child in this house an opportunity of
uttering prayer for faith. Lei. the
words be, "Lord, I believe, help Thou
mine unbelief." And lest I should
make a mistake in regard to my own
experieuce, I pray that prayer for my-
' Lord, 1 believe, help Thou mine
unbelief." Ha-ve you all prayed that
prayer? You. see the text puts you
either on the right side or on the
wrong side, and I want you all to be
on the right side. Faith is sometimes
an instantaneous act of the soul. This
may be the very minute. Let this be
the very second when you do believe.
Between everlasting heaven and
everlasting hell you may decide as
quickly as your waiter can tick. There
is the promise: "Whosoever (*meth
unto me, I will in no wise cast out."
Throw yourselves flat upon that pro-
mise, and you are saved. There is one
thing, however, to follow, and that is
baptism. Oh, you say, "A little -water
sprinkled upon my face, or my -whole
body immersed, won't have any effeat
upon me 1 an be a Christian with-
out being baptized." Can you I
can't. Baptiem is not water; it is a
public acknowledgment of Jesus Christ.
and 1 cannot be a Christian without
publicly announcing my faith( in Him,
I do not say that you cannot. I can-
not. Suppose that wes were -at war
with a loreign government, and after
five years of struggle it were found in
regard to any man that he had not ut-
tered any word of patriotism or loyalty,
would you have any faith in his patrio-
time or loyalty? You would say,, "I
have seen regiment after regiment go
ease, his door, and he never waved his
hat. I have seen flags hoisted in his
presence, and he never uttered a
Inizza." Now, my dean brethren, if
we have come under the banner of
Jesus, I believe we want to make aii
expression of loyalty, and when Christ
reviews His troops on saeramerital:
day, we will say, "I am in that army,
ancl glad to be in it." Put nte down
as one of the troop.
"All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be lovece and yell adored!
His worth if all the nations knew.
Sure the whule earth would love Him
t too."
"He that believeth and le bOptized
shall be stivecl"—not from the physi-
cal consequences of sin. :Future repent-
ance of SiJ1 will IVA, eradicate those
consequences , ”fIts bones are full of
the sin of his youth, whieh shall lie
down with him In the dust." Sob. xx,J.I.
The psaliniat David repented of hie sin,
THE ExETEn TIMES
aad yet we UnPw bow bitter, 407811 to
the end of Ilfet were the Limits of tie
tranegreesOen of the Divine laws. Oh,
Young Mate de not think that future
repentance and fettle will take teelte
the physical oonsequencee of stn, If a
man barnes,s a team of fiery passions
tohie body, he must ride behind them
to Oho spade line of .the graves • His
Son! ratty '0,scape aed- be pardonedin
this world; but in this world his body
cannot escape. My text has reference
to the future woelti ;elle that bailee-
eth (Lad is baptized shall be saved; he
'shall be slaved from ale the consequene-
ee of sea. The WO, reeoasteuoted,
wilr be pure atilt heathy.; •the soul will
be free; one inhabitant of heaven will
never say to another inhabitant of
heavea tauntingly: "Wine the IRst
time I saw you, you we in a gainb-
ling saloon in Boston, or in a Jew place
in New 'Vorle. What are you doing
here? There will be no reforeoce to
the past, save to extol the gracethat
lifted the soul from smelt a depth to
such a height. You see the angels be-
fore the throne. ICou will be as pure
as the atmosphere they breathe ; as free
from sin as the God whomthey wore
ehip. Holy is the Lord God Almighty,
and holy all the redeemed who stand
around him.
, The believers spoken of in the text
wilt ale() be &lied from all toil. With
sonae of you, life is one long ticene
of weariness. It is work, work, work.
You rise- in the morning no more rest-.
ea than when you laid down at night.
Blisteredtends, faint heads, aching
sides, weak back, weary legs, bruised
feet, exhausted stretngth. Sunday is
not long enoughfor you to get the
wrinkles smoothed out of your disposi-
tion and the strain of life bathed ont
a your limbs. Blanufuoturers let the
fires go out 011 Sunday in their factor -
is; but in yeur minds and bodies the
fires of toil never go • out. Oh, thank
Clod, there will be a terminus of it,
There will be no tru.rderis carried
'through that heavenly gate. There
will be no rushing about of anxious
and overwrought men through those
street. There will be no employer
thrustiug his thumb through the need-
lework of the overburdeaed sewing
girl. No drudgery, but rest: Oh,
you 'WAS end daughters,of toil, I con-
gratulate you, 1± you are children of
God, on the coming of a long, glorious,
eternal holiday. Heaven must seem a
different place, it eppears to me, from
whet it does to other people. There is
in this land such a rushing, and jostl-
ing, and treading upon one another,
that I do tiot know how some souls
will be quiet when they get there.
Tbere will ha.ve to be a radical change,
or they would look upon the river oe
life as a waste eif water power, teed be
planning some new cornice for the
heavenly mansion, or get some new
edition of hymns for Lhe redeemed.
There are .some people so struck
through with everlasting fidget, thee
I cannot imagine them in heaven ex-
cept rushing up and down in the street,
crying: "Get out of my way, or I will
run over gout° . But one- wave of the
beautiful serenity will roll over the
redeemed, and they will be in the pick-.
ed con:malty of • the universe at rest.
They will also be sa:ved from trouble.
What is a tear 1 You ask the philo-
sopher, and he -will tell you it is a drop
of limpid fluid secreted by the hichry-
mai gland. You ask me what a tear
is and I tell you it is sorrow held in
schution ; it is the language of the
world's woe. This is a planet of
weeping we are living on. We enter
upon life with a cry, and leave it with
a long sigh. If I could gather up the
griefs of this audience, and put them
in one sentence, and then utter it, it
would make everything between here.
and the throne of God shudder and
howl. The earth is gashed deep with
graves. As at the olose of the war,
sometimes we saw a regiment of one
hundered and fifty men, the fragments
of the thousand men that went out;
so, as I stand before you, I cannothut
realize the fact, that you are the frag-
ments representing thousands of regi-
ments of joyful associates that have
been broken up for ever. Ob, this is
a world of sorrow! But, blessed be
God, there will be no sorrow in heaven.
The undertaker will have to
have some other business there. In
the summer time, our cities
have bills of mortality which are
frightful—sometimes in New 'York a
thousand deaths in a week. Sometimes
it has been two thousand in. London;
but in that great heavenly city there
will be -not a single case of sickness
or (Leath ; not one black dress of
motuning, but plenty of white robes
of joy; handshaking of :welcome, but
none of separation. Why, if one trou-
ble should attempt to enter heaven,
the shining police of the city would
put it under everlasting •arre.st. If. all
the sorrows of life mailed and sword -
ed under Apollyon should attempt Lo
force. that gale, one company from the
tower woult --strike them beck howling
to the pit. Room in heaven for all the
reptuxes that 'ever knocked et the date
but no room for the smallest annoy-
ance, though slight as stimoaer insect.
Doxology but no dirge. Banquetting
but no "funeral baked. meats." No
darkness at all; no grief at all; no
sickness at alt; no death at all. A
soul waking up in thet place will say:
" Can it be that I am. Jere? Will my
head never ache again? Shall I never
stumble. over a grave again? Will 1
never say good-bye to loved one.e
again? Can it be poesible that the
streakn is past, that the bank is gam-
ed? that the glory is begun 1 Show
me the temple where I may worship.
Show me Jesus that I may kiss His
feet." When the dock of Christian
suffering has run down, it will never
be wound up a,galn, " The, Lamb that
is in the midst of the throne shall
lead theni to living fountabas of wa-
ter, and God shall wipe away the tears
from their eyes." Oh, 1 would like
nothing else to do from now to the
day of my death but to tell 1:he glad
tidings of that rest provided for God's
people. if love a carol a great deal bet -
tee than I ao a dirge. 1 don't even
like minor tunes that have plenty of'
gladness and that are jubilant Tam
a disciple of the sunshine, 1 like the
shutters of my house open, and all
the shades up. And yet it would be
hypocrisy --it would be cowardice—foe
me to stand here this Morning and
tell you one-half oe that texi and not
tell you the other half.
LI there is a heaven", there is just as
certainly a hell. Suppose raold you on
the right side thore were flowers and
perks, and trees, and beautiful foun-
tains ; but I did not tell you that On
the other side there were soractimes
wild beasts in the jungle, and of pre-
clpie.es oft which you might Pall—would
do that which is fair 1 Ob, what would
E do la the day of judgment if it were'
'
01,1t fleet preaehed halt the
trellit and only bait 1 The flible says:
So
otedi!htlteitwiekRd4t t
511411ahn
lel ebed. the
severed
from among the jute., and they- shall
be cast into the eurnace of fire, There
shall be weeping and. gnashing of
teeth, and tbenmoire• of their torment
igaaended, UP- for ever and ever," This
'shall be tbe portion of alt who do' wee
believe, in Christ, W hatever nlay have
been • there outward excellencfee of
their 11ttra cltyeoz keunyd etv:oiritei 011,- maytueh at et,: b edeeii
elere-te " He that belitiveth not shall
be datnned,) Tlmse who are cast away
under, this ,seatenee .veill• go away from
the preseace of the most lovely betug
in all this universe. The Lord ,Tesus
Christ they will never see but owe,
and that on the .Tudgment-daY--t4e
day which will be their eternal discona-
fiture. That Jesus who stood plead-
ing year after yams' for their love and
faith will turn His back upon them,
;ma pater out of their sight for ever.
They will be cast out from the cora-
Panionship of glorified kindred and
friends. The gulf will be eixed—hae
beer, fixed. Alas, nay dear friends, if
you are me one side of it, and father
or mother, husband or wife, son or
daughter on the. other side. There will
be no bridge acroes that gulf, There
will be no swienraing across it, Your
destinies tviel widening --they more
and more holy, you more and more
sinful. Brighter joys hovering over
them, thicker darkness frowning up -
an you, Then yeu will think of the
time when. you sat in the house of God
together, You will' think of the time
when you walked the Oath of life to-
gether, when you mingled in the same
joys, when you wept over the same
graves, and the same invitation struck
the ears of both Of you at the same
time. Oli, it • is an overwhelnaing
thought to me 'that some who now
stand together in the tenderest ties of
affection will, unless they repent, or
this Bible is a lie, pass their eter-
nity in two different worlds; if these
accept • of Christ, and those refuse
Efira, they must inevitably Part- The
text saes so, 12 you persist in your
impenitence, you had aetter negleot
everything, and spend all your time
together, for you are hastening on •to-
tvards the forks of the. road at which
you must part. So what you have to
my, say now, or never say at all. A
few more days and nights of cotnpan-
ionshila and that communication must
be ended. If the Bible can be under -
81:00 in any place, it must be under-
stood in this place. One moment aft-
er death has dropped. upon you; the
arch -angel rising on his throne, rally-
ing, ail the strength of his eristence,
could pot hinder your fall, or change
your destiny, or binder the separa-
tion.
"Oh, there will be parting, parting,
parting,'
At the Juegment-seat of Chrtste•
The old people of the Churchremene-
leer, when they used Losing thatin
olden times. I heard' my father sing
it—an old. tone gone out of date and
an old byniat They .who- are cast away
„will go- into the companionship of the
worst population that have gone out
from this earth. Thereoare only two
worlds—heaven and hell. The be-
lievers have all goue, or evill go, to
heaven and the unbelievers will go to
heli.
No
traemPerthc'elnri,sejuosft adsescetinra—knonase
r stanci here, and you sit there. Two
worlds! I don't think. that in the
world of the lost there will be any
cell for the thief, or for the unclean
one, or for the raurderer. I think
there will be one vast community of
suffering and crime. . The most of
Sodom Will be there; the most of
Babylon will be there. The very slums
of the earth will empty -Weil- popula-
tion into that place. All the vioe of
the world, let loose there, will riot,
and foam, and fight, and blaspheme.
It will be the penitentiary of the uni-
verse If you get in there You. will
never get out and, therefore, it is
with so' much earnestness I stand bere
pleading for your life, .0b, to be in
aueli oomPany as that for ever! Be-
lieving this, as I do, .oen I address you
in anything butewords that come from
the depths of my soul? I know that
the philosopher of the day has tried
to raison this thing out, and rejected
the idea, and. the doctrine makes peo-
ple actually venomous. I cannot help
it. It is not: a fight between men and
us; it is a fight between men and
• God.
If there is a heaven, there is a hell.
Those who under that sentence are
cast away, will go into pain I don't
say mental, or bodily, or both. 1 am
not now disoussing it, but it will be
unmitigated torture. There can be no
of:her meaning to these chapters about
the never -dying -worm, and the endless
fire; that must mean torture. Fire is
torture. There will be pain—infinite
pain. The English language is full of
words expressive of suffering—such
words as "wretchedness," "heart-
break," "pang," "torment," "con.vill-
sion," "agony," "despair," "wos.
wit) make a ladder of these words,
each wore. a round, and let it down in-
to this subject to see if I eon mea.sure.
the depth of sorrow which those will
have who reject Christ. I let •down
the ladder, but it does not toucth the
bottom. T have stodd on cliffs, and t
have pushed a rock off, and it has
gone tumbling down, and after awhile
I have heard, when. it struek beneath,
the echo come to my ear. At other
times, bave stood on a precipice so
great, that throwing over a stone, I
have listened, but there came' back no
sound. I could not bear when it
struck. So I take these words of
evhich I have just: spoken, and throw
them over this precipice, and I listen
to hear when they strike the bottom.
No echo! No echo I 'Bottomless! Bot-
tomless! Oh, 'the remorse and obagrin
of one who has had ten thousand op-
portunities of being sa.ved, and yet
feels ,he is lost. Oh, the weariness of
one who has been ten million years in
anguish, and yet feels it, is only just
begun! Agony, with its Mee scarred
with ages of suffering, lifting up both
hands towards the fiery horizon, cry-
ints : "The wrath to comet. to 0611113
to comel" After millions of ages,
tome soul says: "Isn't it most gone?
ter* it nearly ended? I. can't long-
er endore it. The harvest is past, the
summer is ended, and. am not saved,
When will it end?" And a finger of
lightneng will write on the eke?. r "For
ever and the following thonder-peal.
echo aniong the crags of death, "For
ever 1" Oh, those fire -bells will
never stoii ringing, bemuse the
eonflagration will neyer be done.
The shall be pubished teeth
serlasting destractiont from the
Preeenee of the Lord, and from the
glory of His power 1" 0 MOO.
it (IWO ill year Mehientandura-belokie fee
teat you will SOO that it te net I, but
God, that says it. All, my stroagth
ir.rival war, and my worde break down.
t °My, my deer letarere, OAP. God
to tvitness eget I have this( Wetting
told., What I Male to tie the' whole
truth. I want to save mYself, and to
Save all who hear me. I caret bear the
thought that pita to whom f have ad-
ministered the Gospel shall At last miee
Leaven. If f thought there weeone
, here determined on.such rano 1 would
couie down from this -platform, end
would • seize hold of you and earl
"Don't you. do it. ;lases wants to be
gracious to yo. Why will you. die
when (hers are so many opportunities
for salvation?"
Upon one or the other of these two
worlds, I, De Witt Tairaage, must
soon enter. And you, AS oertainlY.
Which shall it be ? I am deciding it
for myself this morning. My dear
brother and. Meter, I can't decide it for
you; you will have to decide it for
Yourself. Whielt obeli it be 1 Lord
Jesus, which shall it be? Holy Spirit,
which shall it be? Oh, you great
throng of dying man and women,
whinh shall it be? I take hold of the
rope ir God's bell tower, and 1 ring this
alarm of warning, and this wedding -
bell of love. I run my eye over all
these seats, and I can say: you may
be saved every one of you. "Look un-
to me, all ye ends of the earth, and be
saved, for 1 am God, and there is none
else,"
Don't go away this naorniog, and say
I announced destruction to any one ex-
cept to the men that went without
Christ.. If eou have not understood be-
fore, now, in this closing momeue of
my discourse, understand the: "Who-
soever will," whatever his sin, if he
has gone' through the whole catalogue
—"whosoever care noe what
his age may be, if for eighty years he
hag been steeped in crime—"whosoever
will, let hina come add take of the wa-
ter of life freely." IVfark this: if you
are. lost, it is your own fault. Pardon
and heaven are offered to all. "He
Mat believetb, and is baptized, shall
be sa-ved; and he that believeth not
shall be damned."
CHINESE HOTELS.
stead rat, and Don't Kick Whoa Von Pay
lir oar Next 18111.
Efotels in Chiiea are very curious
buildings. They are afi built on the
sarae plan—a large courtyard, around
the four sides of which are built rows
of smell rooms, the restaurant and of-
fice being in front.
No one who has ever stayed at a
Chinese hotel can ever forget, the ex-
perience. Each room contains a brick
bed, in which a fire can be ligheed for
warmth in winter. There is hardly
ever any furniture beyond a rough
chair, and perhaps a table, while -the
windows are nothing; but homes cov-
ersd over with paper.
The average Chinese inn is usually a
menagerie and zooloeical garden com-
bined. I the. yard below the window,
or what stands for it, can be seen and
heard.males, donkeys, dogs, cats, fowls,
pf all kinds, pigs and camels white in
the rooms where the weary camels,
is
supposed to rest may be found a rich
verity of things of creation that man
certainly cannot make friends with.
But the chief glory of an average
Chinese inn is the waiter. This In-
dispensabla functionary is the guard-
ian of all your interests fog the time
being, and when you are not. looking,
dives into secrets and matters of your
own that seem to amuse and enlighten
Itim to your inoonvenience and annoy-
ance.
Like this °waterers in other and more
enlightened countries, he hardly ever
separates himself from the inevitable
napkin, but this badge of waitership is
a very practical artiele with him.
With it in summer he mops his damp
beteg or bare shoulders, while in win-
ter, wrapped about his head it pro-
tects him from rain and wind.
The Chinese waiter's napkin is put to
all kinds of uses besides those just
mentioned. It is used as a dishcloth, a
mop with which to wipe the floor, a
cloth for cleaning and. wiping down
tables and a duster,
Perhaps the extremely low rates com-
pensate for -some of these things, but,
in strict justice, the, suave landlord
shoot(' owe you. Money for slopping
with him.
THE EARTH'S RE -VOLUTION.
temoten taltactes Regard I Nig ihe, &co.!,
Length or a Day.
Nine persons out of ten, if asked
how long it takes the earth to turn
once on its axis, would answer 24 tours
and to the question, ' 'How many 'times
does it turn ose its axis in the course
of the year ?" the answer would be
365 1-4 times. Both answers are
wrong.
It requires bat 23 hours and 56 inm-
ates for the earth Lo make one com-
plete turn, and it makes 366 1-4 turns
during the year. The error springs
from a wrong idea of what is meant
by a day.
The day is not as is commonly sup-
posed, the time required by the earth
Lo make one turn on its axis, but the
interval between two successive pas-
sages of the sun across the meridian;
that is to say, the time which elapses
after the sun is seen exactly south,
in its diurnal course through the heav-
ens, before it is again seen in .that
position.
Now, in consequence of the earth's
revolution in lis orbit, or path around
the sun, the sun bas the appearance
of moving vary slowly 111 the heavens
in a direction from emit to west. Al
aeon to -morrow the Sun Will be a Short
distanee to tbe east oe the point in
the heavens al which 11 18 seen at noon
to -day, so that when the earth ham
made one complete turn it will still
have to than four minutes longer be-
fore the sun catt again be seen exaet-
ly south.
(WE ReiTte.ARD IN THE REPAIR SHOP.
They claim (hat Rudya rd Kipl i g
buys a new bieycle every season.
Say, the world can't afford to lose
a man like that.'
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIOIMI, LESSON, APRIL, 9.
"Ole A110110144 14 'knotty." Joe* lei
too 4.; °idea TeXt. Mark U.S.
PRACTICAL NOTtile,
Verse 1. Jeette, sae (leas before the
passiever,, And therefore six days bee
fere- Iris 0114 death, It .Waa, piobabiY
the evoiaingtof Saturday, April ie AD.
30, after sunse't, 'and' therefore efter
the dime of the Sabbath; the triumphal
entry into jerusaleM was made the
haaexrdtl";"rnefenAg' i'h incl Ps4tuas°dev:tx'
..116en
v -Its' ethecle
great annual festival of the Jews,
"the feast of unleavened bread," be-
gun vvith the formal pasalute meta, and
lasting seven days, Came to Bethany.
On his way to the feast, from Perea by
way of Jericho. He probably reached
Bethany before the Sabbath began.
Where Lazarus wits which had been
dead. Until now Bethany has been
described as LILO home of "%eartha and.
es7i(t:Yandivil°guireajtesesata olvwedo'nbduerts t 12:;oivadElt-
other things trona the historiata's no -
2. There they made him a supper.
This Supper was held, as Matthew and
Mark tell us, in Lhe house of Simon
the leper, whom WO itiay suppose to
ilthalvtesberevelda. kelnusinriteallagurfeerjaabzltylrustODLEhaerr-
bustling, practical nature. Lazarus
was one of theta that sat at the table.
This suggests thet the feast was in
honer of the miracle worked upon him.
We catch here 4 glimpse of the easy
hotteehold manners of the Jews of Pal-
estine, with whom men and women
mingled more freely than in other
antique nations. Verse 2 tells what
Martha tliamydo
hadideaarndtvhat Lazarus 'dol.
v
3, Then took Mary a pound of oint-
ment of spikenard, Matthew and
Mark tell of the anointing without
naming the woman, and their ac-
counts, supplemented by that of John,
imply that her corning with the spike-
nard was unexpected and startling.
This "ointment" was really a distilled
perfume. The word indicates a
particular kind of perfume; what kind
cannot now be certainly said. Very
co.tly. To ether incidental indleations
of the wealth of the family of Lazarus
the costliness of this perfume may be
added. Mark tells us that it was
carried, in an alabaster flask, so that
the ease was quite as valuable as its
contents; for this "alabaster" is a deli-
cate and beautiful stone, quarried near
Thebes, and of high price. Anointed
the feet of Jesus. According to Mark,
she broke the flask over his head.. It
was the part, of servants on special oc-
casions ttu.e to an•oint the heads of
guests. As hostess, and. to show peon -
liter reverence, Mary did it herself, and
appatently took occasion, also, to per-
fume her Master's whole body, even to
his feet. We are not to think of any
each heavy oils as come into frequent
domestic nse among ourselves and
which would make clothing uncoMfort-
able and unclean, but of a light, vola -
site perfume which would pervade the
whole town almost as soon Its the
flask was broken ; the house wasfill-
medl.vi.th the odor of the cline-
ent
4. Judas Iscariot, Simon's son.
It is generally explained that
Iscariot means Kerioth, .Tuda's native
Lown. and "Simon's son" is added to
distinguish him from another dis
code named Judas. John fixes this
complaint on judos; but others also.
grumbled. (See note on Terse 10.)
AwVahrichsahsloua dtrabiettorra! him. Who of ter-
dw
5. Why was not this ointment sold.
Such a question, it has been suggested,
would astonish Mary, and very likely
make her feel guilty. Three hundred
pence. The word "penile" here stands
for the denarius of the Romans, "the
common stun paid for a workman's
daily wage." .It is not unlikely that!
the penny of the early English -was
of the same relative value, hence;
o as used by our translators as an'
equivalent. But there was no ce.rtain
value in old English attached to the
word "penny." Three. hundred shill-
ings—from forty-five to fifty dollars
of our m nea, with a purchasing power
five or eat times as great—evuuld fair-
ly represent the sum! here mentioned.
Given to the puor. While one re-
members that Judas was neither pay-
ing for nor spending this luxurious
pedume, one hears an echo of his
words in much modern talk. "Why
is not this collection taken for home
missions instead of foreign missions?"
asks a man who gives nothing to eith-
er cause. "The Nuaning expenses of our
church are extravagant; better by far
put up a new town pump, or endow a
bed in a hoepitaL and economize
enurch expenditure." But when the
owe Lenny is put up and the hospital
bed is endowed we find that it was not
the grumblers who contributed the
money, but the people who had done
cthhueirroh..f Ina noi a 1 duty toward. the
0. Not. that he cared for the, poor;
but because hc was a thief. Any
money that he could possibly embezzle
te wanted to have within his reach.
Had the bag. He8 kept the chest or
bag in whieh the treasurer (Atha lit-
tle °amplify of twelve was
stored. Bare what was put there-
in, Revised Version: ''Having the
bag, took away what was put therein."
Why did Jesus permit trudties to be
treasurer? ete gage to .Judas, as to
each of the others, ths best opportuni-
ties for spiritual growth. ,Ttulas's
financialabilities were at mice his
best means of graze and his raost dati-
garotte; temptation. 1 it is always so.
Opportunity brings peril.
7. Then said Jesus, 'Let her shale.
Thi e was eddressea not only to Judas.
Others, who oherished no eovetoustess
and planned no theft, had, neverthe-
less, "rentrmured'" against Mary be -
(mese she ;vent money on sentiutent,
Malt, 26. 8, 0; Murk 14, 4, 5, for they
also, like certain folk nowsglaye,
thought such elate/Ai( are crime.
Against the day ot toy burying teeth
she kept this. Or, "Suffer her to keep
it against the day of my burying," aft
f only s ' part oe the oint ment hall
been toed, aria the rest was to be re-
served for the burial. Probably Mary
knew no more about the coutiog
aeath at Jesus than did the rest, but,
es frae lovers are sure to do, sho
'funded better than she knew. There
W9$ ao oeteuettion in 'what she di I.It
Wee Judas, not Mary, wt..° eriew the
value of the oititnieot, She wily knew
that it was all she lied to giro, 'There.
flre Wally 119W of Lae tiente mind
that of tee guests et fietbany, nate
as,kedbo what, pee -POW) ls that waste.
They see here end there 11 life whella
glom} to Christ,, and eannot help Count,
int; i1 a mistake, a weeLe, a lose, Thl
divius ailewer is, "Perhape such
saerifiee, ,judgea worthy prudence.
is injudimouse bet eliese have deno whet
they couldes. • • ,
8. For •tha poor always ye !Ave with.
Foto Not,otherefore relieve the*
se a auty- teat.ean htany4inni attend-
ed to; but therefore to relieve them one
should not depend upon excepttonal
gifts or emotions; they are constantly
with you, and you etould b constaetly
relieving, teem. The gift of a fifty -
dollar flask of perfume for their relief
would be as availing as the gift of a
Christmas dinner to all the poor is *
great metropolis, sucb ae is annually
proposed by some well-meaning organ-
izetions. Christmas dinners are well
encelob, but the poor get hungry three
(-limo each day, three hundred and
sixty-five days in the year, and what
ttey need is opportunity to support
themselves. Me ye have pot always,
flow soon they were to lose him none •
of them surmised—note even, probably,
the traitor,
9 People of the Jews. See our note
in the last lesson on john's use of the
phrase "Jews"—partly to distinguiele
residents of Judea from Galileanti like
himself and huadreds of others who
now crowde.O. to the. feast, and partly
to make tire story plain to readers who,
Gentiles themselves, knew little about
the Jews. They came not for Jesus'
sake only, The,y ottme from a poor
reaeon, then; nevertheless, it was
better they came. Curiosity is not the
beat of God's angels, but it hes beek nest
ect many a soul to the Saviour; even
those who come to scoff sometimes re-
main to pray.
10 Put Lazarus also to death. " eVe
read of no such deep malignity as this
toward the other reeipieots of our
Lord's mereies. Was it a crime to
have received sucb a surpassing{ bone -
fit? Was it mere envy and ralt that
one sheu.ld live to bless so g eat a
benefactor?. Not altogether so; but
their object WitS, a.$ we have seen in
the case of the blind beggar, John 9,
24, at all risk e to destroy the credit
of our Lord's miracles, The poor beg-
gar's testlectony they might affect lo
despise; but .Lazarus was a person of
consideration, as is evident from the
history, John 11. 19, etc.; so that they
saw no means of effecting their pur-
pose but by destroying hire whose liv-
ing evidence could not be set aside."
f
THE WEARY TITAN.
The Enititsiman f'..olandians or the Wilkie
Man's 'Burden.
The best example of what Mr. Rud
-
yard Kipling describes as "the white
man's burden" is )3ritish Empire.
Sir Robert Giffen computes that with
Egypt and the Sudan added as depen-
dencies of England, that empire now
includes thirteen millicins of square
tulles and a population of four hundred
and. twenty millions, or about one-
fourth of the earth's inhabitants. In
round numbers, one white man rules
soven men of inferior or subject races.
The burden of. exercising dominion
over one-fourth of the world's popula-
tion is tretnextdous. The British army
is c•onstantly overworked; a costly
navy has to be provided for imperial
defence; eisks of war are unceasing,
and the labor of supervising a vast
system of administration is harassing
and wearisome. Matthew Arnold por-
trayed England aright as the Weary
Titan bolding up a world,
There are two sides to the shield. One
has a brilliant, polished surface glite
tering like gold. England has been
enriched by her vast possessions. Her
trade with them has been enormously
increased, and the governing race hats
profited in many ways from the. expan-
sion of the empire. The Englishman
complains of the white man's burden,
but lie also takes pride et being a citi-
zen of the greatest empire ever known
on earth.
There is also the dull and sombre side
of the 4hie1d. Thet SUbjea races ttre
everywhere inoreasing under 13ritisb
rule, and they have to he protected
against 'plague, famine and extreme
poverty. An inclement season, the
failure of a staple crop or the outbreak
of pestilenne reduces India to the
verge of misery, and relief funds and
public works have to be undertaken on
a large scale in order to keep swarming
hives
e
ve'she ofm7iPrilesag
laitrI
i°alliCireIous heritage.
The burden of the "white man" es
heavy. Is it a. wooder that he some-
times staggered under it ?
IRON CIIIMNEYS.
Cast. iron chimneys are now being
employed in some large buildings. They
are composed of six -feet lengths of
piping jointed together, and are feint
in ire brick -work. tt is oontended
that they are cheaper to construat and
are more economical. The, iron takes
the heat more quickly than brick and,
retains it better ; hence less warmth
is required to let drawn up the shaft
in order to raise the temperature to
a point that will permit the fire to
throw its heat into the room.
_SMALL ENCOURAGEMENT.
Doubtful. Party to gentlemen, Cen
you, aseist me, sir to a trifle? I'm a
et ranger in a strange. land, 15,600 miles
from home.
Gentlemen goodnees! Viehpre is
your home?
Doubtful Party. Australia.
Gentleman bending h'm a copper.
flow do you ever eepect to g -et back
there'?
:floe 1:111 Harty, lialanoing the PoneY.
Wen, if I don't do better than thee str,
s'pose Pit have to walk.
A LOVER'S EYES.
Pond Lover—What do yoa mean, sir,
by enepping your remote every- time
that young laity paseee?
Cheeky Arno teur—int nol, taking her
'eel tire.
OJa, emere eot, eli! Then whet ate
you dame
I'm elneing the ehutterse o her 1ookt
won't liveak the term.