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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-4-20, Page 7rLS- • ani itist4 .r e 6410. 5tbor— "me es al oil ''• axe )1* 'thy hie •ors' re - nee. ears pen ex - be The levee iou. Th 1,064 pop- iout . riser ion, the • • -wan i of the ebb 00, 10 the r or ting ow- ; of 1:011- -ays the - if! ytet ini- teen an cote the lilt, tr a 3iZO, eel tee; t Ilie von 7 T1.11 EXPITER TIMBS NOTR,„5 44ND COMMENTS, The latest occureences at Apte, Red NW/null and thereaboots cleer the whole Samoan situation at the oast of NOM° ,A.no,erioan ana Engliela lives. Three Govermrtenta agreed by treaty to gearantee• good government in Warta au d to preserve peace and Melee them 'lite three Governments are thom of the United States, Ger- many a:ad Great Britain, in the order of einging the compact. A rebellion arose in Samoa againat theGovernnaent established by the treaty, and it has been fostered, prosuoted, encouraged end practically !supported throughout by the local representatives of orte of the parties to the treaty, Germany. The paramount, duty of the treaty Pow- eire, in the present grave emergency, is ft suppress the releellion, to protect life and, property, to prevent outrage, eud to remove the cause of trouble and danger by deporting the leader of :the rebels. That is the duty of the •lJnited Statm, Germany, and Great Bri. alb jointly. In the exercise of irtY, the representatives of at leapt' two of the three treaty Powere, &tared at an end the so-called pro- visional government of the rebel Ma- taafa; and thereupon Admiral "Kautz, as the senior naval officer of the Pow- ers responsible for peace and order in Samaa, tweed a proelamation ordering Mataafa and his adherents to disperse. We say at least two of the three treaty powers, for it does not appear from the despatches whether the Ger- roan Consul -General Rose partici- pated in the conference, Probably not; or, if present, only as a protest- ing minority, for after Admiral Kautz's warning to the rebels to go to their homes, and after Mataafa and his fol- lowers had evinced a dispositioe to obey, the German Consul -General is- sued a proolaxaation of his own up- holding the provisional government of the rebel Mataafa, Thus 'supported and. encouraged to defy the powers act- ing under the treaty, Mataafa resum- ed lais active rebellion, attacked Apia, and in so doing killed three British sailors and one American. As to Ger- *any, the alternative is so plain now elsat it hardly requires statement. Tbat Government must either repudi- ate Consul -General Rose and his acts, or it raust repudiate the liseaty of Berlin. As a party to the treaty it cannot uphold its representatives in up- holding rebels against the govern- ment established by the treaty, and we do not believe that Germany will undertake to do so. Section 7 of the third aztielea ef flan et between the United States, Germany, and Great Britain provides: "In case any difference shall arise between either of the treaty Powers which they shall fail to adjust by mutual accord, such difference shall not be held cause for war, but shall be referred for adjustment in the principles of justice and equity to the Chief Justice of Samoa, who shall make his decision thereon in writing." The German Government has not yet, so far as is known, repudiated the Chief Justice whom it joined in estab- lishing in authority in Samoa. It has net' signified its approval of the at- tempted overthrow of the supreme tri- bunal by the rebel natives, the former German. Presiaent of the Municipal Council, and the present Imperial Clonsul-General in Samoa. Therefore, ere is no international conflict in - v ived in the present situation, pro - voted that Germany meets her respon- sibility and does her duty, under the treaty, and does it pedmptly. CIGAROLOGY, TuilleatIons of Chararter In the Manner or waffling the Weed. When you hee a man grip a cigar be- tween his teeth and hold it fast, care- less of whether it burns or not, you e can set him down as an aggresaive, ; calculating, and exacting, not to say • canny, individual. If a man -smokes a cigar deliberately, just enough to keep it lighted, and de - in taking it fecan his mouth and watch the blue smoke from it curl up- ward, he is likely to be an eaay-go- bag man,good-natured and honest There is another fellow who smokes terraittently, takes a puff and then res scard fumbles his cigar about. He is apt to have little decision of char- acter, and to be easily affected by circemetence.s. A man may be ner- vous and fumble his eager a good bit, and in this event he is a would-be swell, vain and frivolous. He invariably tilts his cigar upward, while, a sensible, level-headed fellow will hold it straight out from' the mouth. Wben you see a man chew - Ing up an unlighted cigar, and twist- ing it about, he Ls nervous, but of great ter:lenity. A man who cermet keep his cigar , alight has a whole-souled disposition. He has a lively eeture, is a hail -fel- low -well -met, glig if tongue, and usu- ally a good store teller. CAN'T TRAVEL, The Lord Chancellor of England is never allowed, under any eireorn- stanee,s, to make a journee which in- volves & sea voyage, however aboet the paseage, Ile is supposed to have tile greet seal in hie intreediate keeping day and night, under all circionstamee ;clad it safety is not to be tisked. FI8111110 FOE WIEN'S 8011118 REV. PR. TALMAGE SPEAKS FROM AN IMPORTANT TEXT. " Litootelt Out Into the Deep e..-Wew Chris - Dan Den Get More Thula Ankle Deep -.The' ,Sett or 004'S W411•41 IS Benittl- lesitssThrow "tour Mae Out Into the World-Launek Out Into the Great Deep or God's 311erey-lteep Clear or the Shore. A deepatch from Washington says: —Rev, Dr. Talmage preached front the followieg text: " Launeh oat into the the world's conquest was selecting his .staff offiders. There were plenty of students with high foreheads, and white hands, and intellectual faxes, and deep."—Luke v. 4, Christ, starting on the campaign 0 refined. tastes, in Rome and in jer- uselena. Christ might have called into the apostleship twelve bookworms, or twelve rhetoricians, or twelve artists Instead, be takes a group of men who had. never made a speech, never taken a lemon in belles-lettres,—never been sick enough to make them look delioate —their hands broad, clumsy and hard knuckled. He chose fishermen, among other reasons, I think, because they were physically hardy. Rowing makes strong arms and stout chests. Muth clirabing of xatlines makes one's head steady. A Galilee tempest wrestled men into gymnasts. The opening work Of the Church was rough work. Christ did not want twelve invalids hanging about him, complaining all the time how badly they felt. He leaves the delicate students at Jerusalem and Rome for their mothers and aunts to take care of, and goes down to the sea -shore, and out of the toughest ma- terial makes an. apostleship. The min- istry need more corporeal vigour than any ether class. Fine minds and good intentions are important, • but there must be physical force to back them. The intelleetual mill -wheel may be well built and the grist good, but there must be enough blood in the mill -race to turn the one and grind the other. He chose fishermen, also, because they were used to bard knocks. The man who cannot stand assault is not fit for the ministry. It ha.s always beer. and, always will be rough work; and the man, who at every censure or caricature, site down to cry, had bet- ter be at some other work. It is no place for ecclesiastical doll -babies. A man who cannot preach because he has forgotten his manuscript, or lost his spectacles, ought not to preach at all. Heaven deliver the Church from &min- istry that preach in kid gloves, and from sermons in black morocco covers. These fishermen were rough and. ready. They had been in the severest of all colleges. When they were knooked over by the main boom of the ship, they entered. the "Sophomore a' when washed off by a great wave, they en- tered the "Junior;" when floating for two days, without food or drink, on a plank,they came to the " Seniors" and, when, at last, their ship dashed on the beach in a midnight hurricane, they graduated with the Erse honor. - Nry text finds Jesus on shipboard with one of those bronzed men, --Simon by name. This fisherro.an had been sweeping his net in shoal water. "Push out," says Christ. "what is the use of bugging the shore in this boat? Here is a lake twelve miles long and six wide, and it is all populated—just waiting for the sweep of your net. Launch out into the deep." The advice that my Lord gave to Sinaon is as appropriate for you and for me. We are just PADDLING ALONG THE SHORE, We axe afraid to venture out into Lbe great- deeps .of God and Christian ex- perience. We think that the boat will be upset, or that, we can not "clew down the mizzen top -sail," and our cowardice makes us poor fishermen. I think I hear the voice of Christ com- manding us, as be did Simon, on that day when bright Galilee set in among the green hills of Palestine, like wa- ter flashing in an emerald cup: Launch out into the deep." Thi e divine counsel comes,' first, to all those who are paddling in the margin of Bible research. My father read the Bible through three times after he was eighty years of age, and without spectacles; not for the mere purpose of saying he had been through it so often, but for his etern- al profit. John Colby, the brother-in- law of Daniel Webster, learned to read after he was eighty-four years of age, in order that he might become ac- quainted with the Scriptures. There is no book in the world that demands so much of our attention as the Bible. Yet nineteenths of Christian men. get no more than ankle-deep. They think it is a good sign not to venture too far. They never ask how or why, and if they see sane Christians becoming - inquisitive about the deep things of God, they say : "Be careful; you had better not go out so far from shore." My answer is: The farther you go from shore the better, if you have the right kind of ship. If you have mere worldly pbilosophy for the hulk, and pride for a sail, and self-conceit for the helm, the nest squall will de - stray you. But if you take the Bible for your craft, the farther you go the better; and after you have gone ten thousand furlongs, Christ will still command: "1,aunola out irito the deep." Ask some such question as "'Who is God ?" and go on for ten years asking it, Ask it at the gate of every par- able; amidst tile excitement of every miracle; by the solitariness of every patriarchalthreshing-floor ; amidst the white faces of Sennacherib's slain turned up into the noonlight; amidst the Plying chariots of the Golden City. Ask who Jesus is, anti keep on asking it of every Bible lily, of every raven, of every Star, of every crazed brain cured, of every blied man come to sunlight, of every coin in a fish's mouth, of every loaf that got to be five loaves, of every wrathful sea pacified, a every ptilsless arm streteh- ed forth in gratulation; ask it of hie mother, of Auguetes, of Hered, of the Syrophoenician wanatao, of the damsel that woke up from the deeth-sleep; of Smeple, who had him litiriedi of the Angel pasted as settinel at hie tallab; of the dumb earth, that shook and groaned, and thundered when he died, ,A, miasionery in Frame offered a Bible in an Salmi/le dwelling. The Manada wit°t°44 tilate'retaXe oat a dozen pages, BEGAN TO LIGHT HIS PIPE. Soule Yeare afterward the misisionarY , . happened in the same hoes's. The family had just lost their son in the Crimean war, and his 13ib1e had been sent back home, The missionary took it up, and saw that it was the very mole Bible that he had left in the house, and from whieh the leayes had been torn. The dying eoldier had • written on one of the leaves of the Bible: "Rejected- and soorred at, but finally believed in and saved." The Bible may be need to light the ttilie of witticism by some, but for us it is a staff in life, a pillow in death, and our joy for eternity. Walk all up aod down this Bible do- main! Try every path. Plunge in at the propheatee, and come out at the epistles. Go with the patriarchs, un - tel you meet the evangelists. Rum- mage and ransack, as children who are not gatisfied when they come to a new house, until they know what is in every' room, and into what every door opens. Open every jewel -casket. Examine the sky -lights . Forever be asking questions. Put to a higher use than was intended the Oriental prover.b: "Hold ,all the skirts of thy inanagntgloeldex.,tended when Heaven is rain - Passing from Bonn to Coblentz on the Rhine, the scenery is comparative- ly tame. But from Coblentz to May - 11 is enchanting, You sit on deck, and feel as if this last flash of beauty must exhaust the scene; but in a moment there is a turn of the river, which covers up the former view with more luxuriant vineyards, and more defiant mattes, and bolder bluffs, vine -wreathed, and grape,s so ripe that, if the hills be touched, they would bleed their rich life away into the bowls of Bingen and Hockheimer. Here and. there, there are strea.nss of water melting into the river, like smaller joys swallowed in the bosom of a great gladness. And when night begins to throw its black mantle over the shoulder of the hills, and you are approaching disembarkation at May- ence, the lights along the shore fairly bewitch the seeae with their beauty, giving one a thrill that he feels but once, yet that lasts hinx for ever. So this river of God's word is not a straight stream, but a winding splen- dour—at every turn new wonders to attract, still riper vintage pressing to the brink, and. crowded with cas- tles of strength, Stolzenfels and Johannisberger has nothing compared with the strong tower into which the righteou.s run and are saved, and our disembarkation at last, in the even- ing, amidst the lights that gleam frozu the shore of heaven. The trou- ble is that the vast majority of Bible voyagers stop at Coblentz, WHERE THE CHIEF GLORIES BEGIN. The sea of God's word is not like Gennmaret twelve miles by six, but boundless ; and in any one direction you can sail on for ever. Why, then, confine yourself to a short p,salm, or to a few verses of an epistle?" The largest fish are not near the shore. Hoist all sail to the winds of heaven. Take hold of both oars, and pull away. Be like some of the whalers that go off frora New Bedford m Portsmouth, to be gone for two or three years. Yea, calculate on a. lifetime voyage. You do not want to land until you land in heaven. Sailaway, oh, ye mariners, for eternity! Launch out into the deep; The text is appropriate to all Chris- tians of shallow experience. Doubts and fears have M our day been almost elected to the parliament of Christian graces. ;Doubts and fears are not signs of health, but festers and car- buncles. You have a valuable house or farm. It is suggested. that the title la not good. You employ counsel. You have the deeds examined. You search the record for mortgages, judgments, and liens. You are not satisfied until you have a certificate, signed by the great seal of the State, assuring you that the title is good. Yet how many leave their title to heaven an undecid- ed matter! Why do you not go to the records and find mit? Give your- self no rest, day nor night,- until you can read your title clear to mansions in the skies. Christian character is to came up to higher standards. We have now to hunt through our library to find one Robert M'Cheyne, or one Edward Pay- son or one Harlan Page. ; The time will some when we will find half a dozen of them sitting in the same.seat with us. The Grace of God can make a great deal better men than those I have raentioned. Christian men seem afraid they will get heterodox by go- ing too far. They do not believe in Christian perfection. There is no danger of your being perfect for some time yet. I will keep watch, and give you notice in time, if you get too near perfection for the safety of your theo- logy One-half of you, Christians are simply stuck in the mud. Why net cut loose from everything but God? Give not to him that formal petition made up of "O's"—"0 Lord. 1" this, and "0 Lord 1" that. When people are cold, and have nothing to say to God, they strew their prayers with "O's 1" and "Forever and ever, Amen," and things to fill up. TELL GOD WHAT YOU WANT, with the feeling that he is ready to give- it, and believe that you will re- ceive, and you shall have it. Shed that old prayer you have been making theseten years. It is high time that you outgrew it. Throw it aside with your old ledgers, and your old hats, and your old shoes. Take a review of your present wants, of your present sins, and of your present blessings. With a sharp blade cut away from your past half-and-half Christian Iife, and with new determination, and new plans, and new expectations, 'launch out into the deep. The tett is appropriate to all who are eagaged ixt Christian work. The Church of God has been fishing along the shore. We sat our net in a good, calm place, and in sight of a fine chapel, and we go down every Standee, to see if the fiah have been wise enough to come into obx net. We might, learn something from that boy with his hook and lide, Plc throws his line from the bridge; no fish. He Sits down on a log; no fish. Ile stands in the sunlight and oasts the line ; but r)o Mb. Ile goes up by the mill -dam, and stands behind the bank, where the fish can raob see hina, and be bas hard- ty dropped the hook before the cork goee melee. Tile fish come, to him as feet as he eon throw them abliore,fl other weeds, in our rihrietian work, why do we not go where the fish are ft is not se easy to caLph souls in °lima, for they knew that we are trying to take them. If you can throw your line out into the world where they are not erpeeting you, they will be captured, Is it fair to take men by sliela stratagem? Yes. 1 would like to cheat five thousand esouls into the kingdom. Our Tabernacle tsree Oollege, within no year, will be doing the woek of many elearches. The students set their not last eight on the bask etreette and will set it ,every niglat this week in nany des- titute places; and soon we Shall have a hundred lay preachers, proelamiag the Gospel day by day, and week by week, and three or four hundred Christians prepared for other styles of Christian work. If a, elan does not appreciate that work, he is stapid be- yond all arousal, The Whole palicy of the Church of God is to be changed. Instead of chiefy looking after the few who have become Christians, our chief efforts will be for those outside. If, after a man is converted, he cannot take care of himself, I am not going to take care of him. If he thinks that I am going to stand and pat him on the back, and feed him out; of an elegant spoon, and watch him so that he does not get into a draught of worldliness, he is much mistaken, We have in Our churches a great mass oil .helpless, insane pro - Lessors, who are doing nothing for themselves or for others, who wantus to stop ana nurse them! They are so troubledwith doubt as to whether they are Clixistians or not. The doubt is settled. They are not Chriatians. The best we cant do with these fish is to throw them back into the stream, and go after them again with THE GOSPEL NET. "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel," says Christ; into the fac- tory, the engine -house, the club -room, into tee houses of the sick, into the dark lane, into the damp cellar, into the cold garret, into the dismal prison. Let every mans woman and child in Brooklyn, New York, and London know that •TeellS died, and that the gate of heaven is wide open. With the Bible in• one pocket, andthe hymn -book in another pocket, and, a loaf of bread under your arm—launch out into the great deep of this world's wretched- 13555. The text is appropriate to all the unforgiven. Every sinner in this house would come to God if he thought that he might just come as he is. Peo- ple talk as though the pardon of God were ,a narrow river, like the Kenne- bec or the Thames, and that their sin draws too innell water to enter it. No; it is not a river, nor a bay, but a sea. 1 should like to persuade you to launch out into the great deep of God's 'mercy, I am a merchant. I have bcnight a cargo of spices in India. I have, through a bill of exchange, paid for tate whole cargo. You are a ship -captain. I give you the orders, and say: "Bring me those spices." You land in India. Yon go to the trader and say: "Here are the orders;" and you find .everything right. You do not atop to pay the money yourself. It is not your business to pay it. The arrangements were made before you started. So, Christ purchases your pardon. He puts the papers, or the promises, into your hand. Is it wise to stop and say, "I cannot pay for my redemption?" God does not ask you to pay. Relying on what has been done, launch out into the deep. The Bible promises to join hands, and the circle they make will cora- pass alt your sins, and all your tempta- tions, and all your sorrows. The round table of King Arthur and his knights had rooin for only thirteen banqueters, but the round table of God's supply is large enough for all the present in- habitants of earth and heaven to sit at, and for the atilt raightier popula- tions that are yet to be. Do not sail coast -wise along yom-old habits and old sins. Keep clear of the shore. Go out where the water is deepest. Oh, for the mid -sea of God's mercy! "Be it known unto you men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins." I preach it with as much con- fidence to that eighty-year-old trans- gressor insosraswestroe this maiden. Though blood -red, they shall be snow-white. The more ragged the prodigal the more corapassionate the father. Do you, say that you are too bad? HIGH-WATER MARK of God's pardon is higher than all your transgression. 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." Do you. say that 'your heart is hard? Suppose it were ten tinies harder. Do yoa say that your iniquity is long continued? Suppose it were ten tinaes longer. Do you, say that your crimes are black? Suppose they were ter times blacker. Is there any lion that this Samson cannot slay? Is there for- tress that this Conqueror cannot take? Is there any sin that this Redeemer cannot pardon? It is said that when Charleraagne's host was overpowered by the three armies of the Sarecens in the pass of Roneesvalles, his war- rior, Roland, interrible earn- estness, seized a trumpet, and valles, his warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness, seized a trumphet, and blew it with such terrific strength that the opposing army reeled back with terror; but at the third blast of the trunapel it broke in two. I see your doul fiercely assailed by all the powers of earth and hell. 1 put the mighter trumpet of the Gospel to my lips, and blow it three times. "Blast the first— "Whoever will, let him come." Blast the temoncl--"Seek ye the Lord while he may yei be found," Blast the third—"Now is the accepted time; now is the tday of salvation." Does not the hest of your sine fall back? 13ut the trumpet does not, like that of Rolartd, break in two. As it was hand- ed down to us from the lips of our fathers, we hand it down to the lips of our children and tell them to souod it when we axe dead, that an the generations of Men may know that our God is a pardoning clod—a sym- pathetic God—a loving God; and that more to him than the anthems of heaven, more to him than the throne on which he sits, more to him than are the temples of celestial worship, is the joy of seeing the wanderer put- ing his hand en the door -latch of hie fathers Ileum. Hear it, all ye nations! Bread for work hunger. Medicine for the worst sickness. Light for the thickest darkness, Harbottr fromeahe went storm. Dr, Prime, in his book of wonderful luterest, entitled "Around the World," desorihes a tomb in India Of marvel - Imo arehitecture. Twenty thousand Olen Were twenty -.two thousand Years tiTi erecting that and the buildings around it, Standing in that tomb, if you speak or sing, after you have ceased you hear the eeho oetaiing from *a height of one hundred and fifty feet. It is not like other echoes. The sound is drawn out in sweet prolongaltion, as though the angels of God were chaoting on the wing, How many souls here to -day, in the tonal; of sin, will lift up the voice of penitence and prayer? If now they would cry into God, the echo would drop from afar—not struok from the marble cupola of an earthly mauso- leum, but sounding back from the warm heart of angels, flying with the news; for there is jey among the angels of God over one sinnee that repel:L.43th! THE WEAK SPOT. IMM•••••••• Willis arable Dulkheads Cause flot or the LoNses at Sea. It is a common belief among all who have occasion to take a sea voyage that their fiafety on the water is pro- eid.ed for by the -careful shipownere in large measure. by the water -tight compartments, with which all the best passenger steamships and. all large battle ehips are fitted. Those who have never been on a ship and seen how these are arranged willl form a wrong opinion about them at once. It Will likely occur to thera that the boat is built with these bulkheads as per- manent spaces. But this is not tame. A passenger steamer, for instance, is built in sections, and each of these on the several deeks are used as mains, saloons, etc., and they are connected by heavy iron doors. It is the closing of these doors which completes the bulkheads. Now it is obvious that the bulkhead cannot be any stronger than its door, just as &chain is no strong- er than its weakest link, and it is all too true that as at present con- structed these doors are dangerous and inefficient. They have been the dieect and known cause of the loss of many lives and many good ships, and if the trate could be known, doubtless many a ship on the list of the missing and unaccounted for could be chargeable to faulty bulkheads. There are over 350 water -tight doors, and hatches on a first-class battle ship and about 300 valves and grates con- nected with ventilating, draining, and flooding the hull, and involving the safety ofthe ship, IL will be seen, therefore, that the systematic control and operation of these devices are of no mean importance. It takes 110 men to look after these details alone in re- sponse to a collision alarm, and it has never been satisfactorily demonstrat- ed yet that this number are equal to the emergency. The greatest danger that is to be met with at sea is that of collision, and. against this the bulkhead is the chief and only pro- tection. Yet, notwithstanding this, if put to the test it is doubtless the most vulnerable part of the ship. HE KNEW IT. Landlord Couldn't Expect ins Rent an TIMM Front a Writer. Rent day in Paris is a very import- ant occasion. The landlord is king in aarealm where exactitude is not only encouraged but enforced. An English- man says he once went to see a land- lord about some matter connected with the house which he had hired. The Frenchman proved to be a very sus- picious ancj inquisitive old gentleman, who had made hie fortune in the can- dle trade. What do you sell V" he inquired. The Englishman acknowledged that he made his bread by writing for the magazines. The landlord shrugged his shoulders. " I am afraid," said he, "that you veil' not be exact with your rent on the fifteenth of the month." He evidently had' old-fashioned no- tions of literature, as well as other arts, an.d preferred tlaat his tenants should be, like himself, conafortably in trade. So, in order to vindicate his vocation, the Englishman went in per- son to call upon his landlord on the fourteenth with rent in hand. "1 told you sol" exclaimed the pre- cise old merchant. "1 knew you wouldn't be exact at the day or bour fixed. You have brought your rents24 hours too soon!" TIME WASTED IN LACING SHOES. An English mill owner nonong ago issued the order that the girls in his employ slaould not wear laced shoes. The reason he gave was that each one's boob became untied at least five times a day, and tOok at least five seconds to retie. When these twenty-five sec- onds were multiplied by 300—the num- ber of girls in his employ—the loss of time was, he said, too serious to sub- mit to. Another mill owner, talking over this case, said that he had for- bidden visitore, because each of his "hands" turned her head to look at them. Computing twenty visitors a day, and two seconds for the head turn- ings of each of his 600 employes, made over six hours daily wasted in that gesture. Statistics are inexorable things. CHINESE TELEGRAPHY. The Chinese, owing to the multiplicity of the eharacters in their written language, have aolved the problem of telegraphy by using eurebets transmission over the wire instead of characters. The numbers have to be 'reinterpreted into characters when ee. eeived. To facilitate the operation types are used. On °tie end of each type is a character; on the other end is a number. By reversing and 18i - printing tile ,types upon a sheet of pa- per the thange is readily effeeted witb a high degree of accuracy. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 23. "‘Jesus Oho Way and the Irrottliautl the Ltre, Joan EC 144. Golden 'text. Jolla 14, 6, PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 1, Let pot your heart be troubled. "Agitated," No ineo ever had Mere reason to be agitated than the eleven to svhom these werds were spoken. They had just heard that their master was to leave them, after one desciple had betray'ad hira apd another bad denied him, All their ambitions and plans for the future had been ruined by these abrupt revela timed If the alessia,la Were to go away, what about the Meesianic king- dom? What would become of 'him whoM they so greatly loved? What about their own future? But he who foretells the disaster proceeds to give tlae great reason why neither they nor any other Christians whose hopes are dashed and whose lives are appar- ently blasted 'should be a.gitated or troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.. In the Greek both verbs are in the imperative; therefore the best renderiag is, "Believe La God, aod, believe in me." Meet increasing dif- Lionities by a broader faith. 2. My Father's house. The "my" is full, of meaning. His father is our Father, The "house" includes the Nvlaole creation, which is God's dwell- ing place. Salany mansions. Or "abodes," as the word is translated in verse 23. This life is one abiding place; the eternal life, which he was about to prepare, is another. If it were not so, I would have told you. It is not in me to deceive you with vain hope; what I promise, I will surely perform. I go to prepare a place for you. (See Heb, 4, 14; 3, 20.) 3. I .will some again, and receive You. (lieb, 9, 28; 1 Thess. 4, 14-17.) In many ways the Saviour came again, and is coming — by the resurrection; by the inner experience of the believer's heart; by death; by the end of the world., and we know not by how maayeadvents besides, he comes. That where I am, there ye may be. The thought of dwelling with our Sav- iour should be the great hope held up before us in the future life. 4. Whither I go ye know, _aid the way ye know. See the B.evised Ver- sion here. Jesus had often spoken to thern of his return to the Father, John 7. 33; and his whole life had been spent in instructing men how to go to the Father. 5. Thomas saith. A disciple who found it impossible to believe without clear evidence; and his desire to under- stand. is eery edifying. We know not whither thou goest. None of the dis- ciples could, yet have any clear ender- esetandine_gknowofthten:wonizal Thisaslsn on. ow nwa declaration of unbelief; it is rather an vexprueessaipopnreonfecnosniofnusion of mind and ag 6. I am the way, the truth, and the life. "Tbe way," says Ketapis, "to them that are entering upon the path of holiness; the. truth, to them that are advancing in it; the life, to them that are perfected." 7. If ye had known me. Just in the measure in which men apprehend Christ they apprehend God. Ile who sees in Christ only an ordinary, fall- ible man utterly fails to find God. lie who sees in Christ a divine -human per- sonality is led by the knowledge of the Son to a knowledge of the Father also. Known my Father. "God in Christ. became manlike, that he might show man how to becom.e godlike."— Wit edon. From henceforth. Not meaning "from that moment," but after Christ hall haveb een glorified, which is the point of view in his thoughts. Ye know him, and have seen him. It was only after the de- parture of Jesus, and then only by slow degrees, that they realized that he was "the image ot the invisible God." 8. Philip saith. He speaks under a sense of his own imperfect apprehen- sion of what he had heard of the spilt- ual nature of God. See John 4, 24. Show us the Father, and it suffioeth us. He either desired some such vision as that of Moses oil Mount Sinai and of Isaiah in the temple, or else his prayer was in spirit, "Lead us to a nearer and clearer knowledge of him to wham thou bast taught us to gray; and so satisfy the desire of our, souls," • 9. See John 1. 18: 12. 45. So lain time. 'Three years of close intimaoy. Seen me. . . seen the Father. The highest revelation of God which this world has ever received is that of Jesus the Christ. 10. I am in the Father, and the Father in me. These two statements it is difficult to separate and analyze apart from each other. Christ spoke and acted as God would speak and act in human nature; for Christ was God, manifest in the flesh, and. God is Christ dwelling in glory. I speak not of myself. Revised VerSiOn, ''riot from muninn1'a. yseal' i ;itnhat is, as originating in the h 11, 13elieve me. Jesus laere addresses not only Philip, but all the diseiple.s; in the Greek, "Believe me, ye." 12, Greater works than the shall he do. The spiritual is greater than the physical, Jesus had, made storms, vegetation, disease, and death obey him by saying to each, this," and it did it. His followers, by saying in flair hearts, "In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, do this," have wrought: greater throages in the world of spir- its. Even the few nairaelm wrought by the apostles in Christ's name at - ter hie ascension, and by the power of his Holy Spirit:, Were, tie Dr. Chill - ton reminds tie, greeter in their ef- fecte than any wrought by Christ, as was meta by the rapid extension of the Church a,nd the 'victorious faith of saints and martyrs. Every year the Church' history witnessee tonverslons More 'wonderful than the raisieg or Laearus: Because Igo mite my Fa- ther Temporery separation 18 the conditio cia whith all these premises hang, 14. Whatsoever ye shall ask in: my 'name- Not merely by adding the. fornatilas "Fox Cheistas sake," to Our prayers, but by believing in his merits Wad trusting to his love, That will t do. To this, pasenlise no conclitione are here aftsesaded. m Word, hut the Whole diecouree implies the great rioncation —that figured in the vine and the branches of Lesson VI. If we dwell in him and he in us, our wills will be lost in hie; We will still have our prefer- ences and longings, but with oor whole natures we will seek first the king- , dom' of God and his righteowiness; and In each ceee we have but to ask and receive, Anything irt ray name. All classes of prayers are included, tor temporal no less than for spiritual Or jects. This puts no premium on Christian's whims, but it does moet solom:nly declare that under the eone ditions above described every need ol ,our nature, put into prayer, will be granted. We must reraeinber, how- ever, that in our human short -sights edam's We often ask for things which, if We knew all, we should not want. Then our petitions are best answered by being denied. A baby boy cries for a bright-polored liquid which he WS in a glass; what he wants, and wl3at he thinks he is crying for, is a deli - pious and strengthening drink. 13ut the contents of the glass are peiSen. So the mother in her love disappoint" her son by putting it out of his reach; and then gives bine a nourishing drink from another glass, So Christ treats us --else the promise of this verse would be broken. LONG LIVES. StattStletans Say That Women Ont11141 ie It is strange, but true that the. most delicate child often outlives hie stronger brother or sister. Many in- stances are on record of the long sur- vival of thoee white seemed destined to die early. It is said of Voltaire, who lived to be 84 years old, that he was so delicate at birth he could oot be baptized fax several months, Sir Ism° Newton, the doctors said, would not live a week, but he celebrated 3ais eighty-fifth birthday. Fon-toenails liv- ed to be 100, although he was so frail at birth that the priest had to go to his home to baptize him. Even more interesting than this is the statement by Prof. Buchner that it is possible for a woman to preserve her youthful bea,uty even to old age, or, in some instances to regain it, The Marquise of Mirabeau died. at 86 with all the marks of youth in her face. Margaret Verdun at 65 smoothed out the wrinkles, her hair grew again and her third set of teeth appeared. Cases of this third. dentition are not rare. The professor has still further hope Lan the fair sex in the announcement that women live longer than men. One French woman, Marie Prionx, who deed in 1838, was said to be 158 years old. Statistics of the various countries on this point are remarkable. In Germany only 413 of 1,000 males reach the age of 50, while, more than 500 of 1,000 females reach that age. In the Unit- ed. States there are 2,583 female to 1;398 male centenarians. In France, ot 10 centenarians seven were women and only three men. In the rest of Eur- ope owfertemwwenoty-eonn.e centenarians six- teen The oldest person now living is held to be Annie Axnastrong, who is 117 years 'old, and lives in a little town in County Claire, Ireland, ROYAL DEVOTEES OF SPORT. heave, Queen an Alp Climber, the King Lover of the chase. The King and Queen of Italy lead a very simple life. King Humbert is an early riser, and takes some exer- cise before breakfast. He eats very light food—a small roast, a little wine and ice water being the custentary menu. Alter the noon meal the roy- al pair take a short nap, and at four o'clock in the afternoon they take 6, long drive. King Humbert devotes his attention to the minutest detail of his house- hold, economy and order being bis watchwords. Eight o'clock in the even- ing is dinner time at the palace. Aft, terward the King visits the theatre or listens to private recitations, and he retires promptly at midnight. The Queen is devoted to Alpine climbing. The Italian Alpine As- sociation has paid tribute to her cour- age in this dtrection by electing her an honorary member. In Gxessoney, on the Piedmont Alps, livei, Baron Peozoe, who.m family has for years furnished guides for the roy- al Alpine tourists. The Queen often lives in the villa, of the Baron, who is now her guide awl whose father died in 1895 while touring the Alps with Queen Marguerite. The 'Queen wears the regulation Tyrolean costume On her tours. She is very fond, of the soldier's life, On many occasions she invites officer* of the army to her court, and. order:" the distribution of wine and cake among the privates. King Hninbert loves the Pieclmott Alps, but: his sport is in hunting the deer. From a recent expedition hts party returned with ferty-five deer. LEGALLY DEAD. In Mexico, when a man is eondemned to death, he is executed by being shot by a file of soldiers, and the body is left where it falls, to be taken. away by the 'men's friends, if he bas any. Not long ago a worthless fellow wee thus exee,uted end left in the open, countey outside a small village. But after the officer in charge had ie. epeeted hiee, pronounced him dead, and the soldiers had bat, the, raan got up, Walked to the Oily of Mexico, 30 miles distant, and entered It hospita.l. )10 had a sveuttd in hie ishouldet and two mere on hi.s skull, but soon recovered. ' The authorities now \vented to shoot him agein, but the Governor of the provis decided that the roan was le-, galii the Liettievetet haeleg attid E was released. 4