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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-5-25, Page 3iVOTES AND COMNENTS. Knowledge a what goes or in the exiterior otRose/ fill ere, s'owlY theOugh to the outer world, aud; in the Process what were Rains to begin with often •Unclergo such transformation as! to en - tine them to little credencee- But the lettere or correspondents that hive oecaPed the ceusorship, end, more authorative still, the statements of L1). e Russian journal, the "Viedomosti leave too doubt that a disastrous fain- ine is now prevailing in some of the most populous provinees of the em- pire. These provinces form two great blocks of territory divided by the Volga those to the east--eryatka, Perm, Ufa and Samara, reaching from the river to the eastern boundary of European Russia, On the west the group in- cludes parts of the provinces of Kazan, Tula. and Ryazan, and all of Simbirsk, Saratoff, Veronezh, and Tamboff, thus forming a great block extending to the southern border of Moscow, the solidity of. which is broken only by the province of Penza, which has escaped the general destitution. Throughout this vast region, stretching from Mos- , cow to the frontier of Rusela in Asia • and more than teu degrees of lalitted in width, with a populatioo of not les • than 25,00,000, the failure of th • reps, last year, was the mast eons plete within memory, more absolut • 'even than that of 1891-92, As a result, the people are now in the midst of a famine, which le Os dis- estrous effects,..premises to oeneed the receni similar visitation in India, and any adequate relief of which until new crops are reaped, seems wholly beyond the limit of human ability. Tie picture of the distress and suffering gieen by the " Viedeinosti," is a most barrow- ing one, the people in some districts being reduced to a diet of bread made of a little wheat, mixed with chopped straw and bran and even to roots, weeds and acorns, with the result that the famine typhus and an acute form of scurvy have already become epide- mic. The difficulty of coping with these diseases is inoreesed by the mis- erable sanitary conditions, in ehich th'e peasantry live, and by the fact that • many Is'oraes have been stripped of ev- ery artiele of furniture in order to buy food, and that in some districts even fuel cannot be obtained. Wh'at and the local authorities could give was used up ia February, and though • the Red Cross Society, is doing all it can to raeet the need, and two months age in Samara alone was feeding 71,- 000 people, it can do little to relieve tire great body of distress. Appar- ently the people ars not dying in mass as yet, but they are growing steadily weaker, and as the supplies are used up and scarcity inereases, the tendency toward death •will be decid- ed. No organized charity cau make head egainst a calamity so vast, and even If it could now supply loud, the fever which follows farniae and cannot be averted, must perceptibly reduce the populatien. A strong government, working at fu.11 steam, and pouring out its xesourees, without stint, might possibly keep the distress within lim- its, but the Russian administration has' never profited by the experience of the Indian government, though •climatic tied agricultural conditions render in- 3vita.ble the recurrence of famines, No erovision ie made in the annual bud - nets to meet such exigencies, and with 35 per cent. of the population living by agrieulture, only 422,5130,000 was, in 18,e6; expended on its development, as against 4260,000,000 on the army and navy. TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT. It is stated that the dungeon in which Luceheni, the assessin of the Empress Elizabeth, is now confined has no windows, its walls are of cold, gen- • erally damp, stone, its floor of stone, its sailing of stone, and that Luccheni will probably pay for his crime by the Joss of his eyesight and his reason. Only ouee a fortnight is he permitted to walk in the prison conayard for half ail hour. He does not even see the attendants who bring him his daily rations at 6 o'clock every morn- ing, and pass them through an open- ing over the iron door which (doses the dungeon, NEW IDEA FOR BRIDESMAIDS. A rather new idea was started for brideseaaids al a fashionable wedding whieh took place recently in London. Instead, of carrying the ordinary bou- quet, each bridesmaid had a violet vel- vet muff, with a large bunch of na- tural violets, with their tender green leaves and trails of buds, fastened on the top a the muff, This had a eery • eharnaing atid novel effect and might be carried out in many different waye. Pale pink satin muffs, with treils of pink rases, would look lovely. A SERIOUS QUESTION. Denoon johnson—Do you fink you kood support mah daughter ef you 'married her? ,Tina Jackson--Suttunly. Damon •,Tolinson--Hab yeti ebber item her eat? JIM Jackson—Sot tunly, Deacon johneon—Hab you ebber son her eat ween nobody was wateh- te her? aURED THE TEN LEPERS. Die, TALMAGE SPEAKS ABOUT Til UNGRATEFUL NINE -TENTHS, e•—• - The wholesale) nave of the Gospet-in. eniacieney or eajoi-iFisiiing roe Goma tionis-eetions or People mace imam Ues BliNaeat 'hem, --The Dr. aleges the • alueouvarted tO 9nite to Cod. A" despatch from Washington says:— Rev, Dr. Talmage preached from the following text: "Were tlaere not ten cleansed? but where are the nine ?" —Luke xvii. 17. If ten tigers bad sprung out at Jesus Christ as He went through an Eastern village, the spectacle could not have bee ,n more frightful than when ten loathsome and dying men surrounded Him, though at considerable distance. Their hands and their feet were hor- rible with corruption, Their breath was destruction to any one who same within reach. They ha.d the leProsSe Now, when a leper walks, whether he goes northward or southward, or east- ward or westward, he is going all the time to his grave. If there had been only atm such ease, that; would have been appalling; but here is a multi- plication of wretchedness, an. aggre- gation of miseries, a climax of horror. Two, tour, six, eight, ten lepers. The healthy Christ standing as a centre in a periphery of ulcer and abscess! "Wetl," you say: "Ile,re is enough to employ a tv hole colttge of surgeons. Let each of these desperate encl con- firmed iavalids have a separate doctor assignee, to him." •Ah,no. Here is a PhYsician, svhe. can cure ten as well as one. Christ commands those ten men to go up to the Temple at Jerusa- lem, and show themselves for inspee- two to the heelth officers. They start to go, and no sooner are they started than the lethargy begins to go out of their limbs, and the faintness out of their laend, and the matteration • • • TTIE EXETER TIMES Lord why may we net have a iarg eau! or ,soule next Sabbatle-dayee Wh go angling with a hook for one solitar fish, whee the sea is red with whol shoals of them? Why put so mac one upon ono leper when there ar ten men groaning with horrible dis integration e 0 what a tame seen next was on Pentecostal Day compile' ed with what we might have here, i we only •had the e 10 ask it. Wh will 000le out for Christ to -night Shah it he a tenth of this audience ehali it be ten -tenths? Shall it be e feagment, or it be an? Men o God, get the lever of your prayers un der this weight. Fishermen for soills "lay. holdhevery man!" Soldiers of jeses Christ, advance to the storming of the castle. • Unconditional surrendm for Christ, If in the village of the text Cheist saved all, His audience front leprosy, wiii.iney Ile not to -night save alt this audienee from sin? There 18 are a thousand souls unsaved - is anot her thousand souls Unaa.Vad. Grata God.1 give me all these soots to- onniltlitt,en"wleeserreee'atihjere not ten eleatred?; See, further, in this subject, • that those who ra Ike tee tench), est eXerese sear, of gratitude are the last people tint you. expecte Who is that man breelting ranki and turning back, and leaving the other cured lepers to go ? Who is he? I can tell by the sical(An°11orisl nose, axid by niishhabeybeatihteilectbmiaiLts°'hilal'e Seraaritan, Then an idolator, and an outcast. Whit, you, the Samaritan, going to come back and throw your- self at the feet of Christ ? If all those nine jews worshipped Jesus, it would not surprise me so much as to see you, the Samaritan, com i back. Is it Poe- sible ? Yes ; yes. So it was, then : So IQ new. The people wbo come into the "Kingdom oh God are about the lest pet pl -• you ever expect to cEme. The peeple in this eudtence who will be seyecl to -night will not be Re much those who have been brought up by Ctohhisetlillnunic)laerrenttbs.e: fwareigthhteyofarseupg:riitiogr opport unities unimproved. The. eouls thee: will be saved here to -night, Per- beps, will not be so numb those who lye kept their Integrity and upright- tn he ;s ie t, - gfosord tal:IcierYks, ritancldeapreenduholigaginion to fell ell at last into fearful disappoint- ment. But the people who will come e whieh were written all over wi tea y hieroglyphics. of caneer and elepho, n - y tiasis, beccaue the pictures of intelli- e gence and bealth, 0, how thankful h they will be. They will clap their e hands, and they wilt say: "Where is - Christ? I must rush into Hie preeence e with loud acelaim, mast tell every- - bedy about this cure. Clsriet has f never had a bed to sleep on, then 1 o will prepare Him a pillow; if lie has never had a home, thou will build Him a honse. 'Whet or, I do for thie Ni.)ho,YstiegeiayllgtohaotiehaesnlY4roenCia. moir iteitPera':'tY".1e" - turns back to give God the glery, No , wonder that while Jesus lovingly ace koinacilovnlescigzaduthaea gtetuantegfunlisbedhisaavviovurorbof nen and indignation at all the res orying; "Were there not ten donee but where, are the nine?" Well, it j su s at gsc;enaotw;niurlinabirtheofailnlagiTallteess thy% have been clearged by the grace God, who have been oared of th leprosy, but have never dared to se so. Privately ask them: "Do you loy the Lord Jesus Christ?" "Yes." Pr vately say to them; "If you were to d to -night where would, yoa go te?" '.'T heaven." Privately pay to teem:"Hav you been cured of your spiritual di eases?" They would say: "Yes, I thin have." Publicly they Itave neve anything about it. When CDM munion-day arrives, here and there on camas back-, and in the preeenee o mon, angels, and. devils espouses th cause of Christ publicly, but the res go I he other way, So that' (Wel' paeter on communion -day maY war eie hand over the table, and say: "wer there not ten cleaneed? but where, ar tha nine?" These spiritual defaulter are pl tying hide and seek in religion They are trying to =niggle their soul into heaven. Cleansed of the leproes they are ashamed or afraid to tell wit th.sir (looter was; singeing in and ea amist ce eases which will stand the neither on the death -bed nor in th day of judgment. Os that after Cbris bee done so tauell for them, the should do so little for Christ. Claris took !heir leprosy; they are not willin to take Hie name. 0 the ingratitude the. peril -en the abhorrent, iniquity o that man who has been changed by the grace of God, but doee not say so .ommuniort-day comes, and the 'host of the Lord, sit down et' the Sacra meat; but you, my brother, take your to -night will be those earthest, ofi from sloughs off, and the coated tongue is cleared, anci the pulse is quieted from ninety to seventy. and one man looks at hie foot, and sees that from toe to eeel the skin is fair; and he looks at his hand, and sees trom wrist to nail the flesh is roseate; and he cries: "See, • I am all well!" So cry five of them; SO cry all the ten lepers. Well, they go on toward the city of Jerusalem to submit themselves to the inspection of the health officer. They are talk- ing how well and grandly they feel after such long depression of body and soul, when suddenly one of their num- ber breaks ranks and turns back. What is the matter with him? Who is he? 0, be isa Samaritan; and the Jews kept an their way, and say: "Well, you never cauld depend upon a Samaritan. He's nobody, anyhow. He's disobedient, and le has turned buck." They kept on, but this Sa- mantan had turned back that he might, a,ccost his benefactor, and he comes clapping his hands anct crying 11 a al the top of his voiee: "Thaoks thanks!" And he throws himse down at the feet of Christ in gratitud and in adoration: Sesu.s gently take him up, and says: "That Will do, si or you; but are you tee only one all that group of ten cleansed leper who is grateful for conv-aleseence an restoration? Were there not te cleaased? but where 'are the nine? se, best, in this subject:, the whole- sale eu.re of the Gospel. Christ gen- erally'took one invalid at a time. One blend man to be lerought under mira- C1.110US optics. One deznoniac to have h lii's reason enthroned. One crooked woman to have her back straightened. On.e damsel whose heart had halted to be started. again. But lo here is a decade marching out from the• ranks of fell disease into the ranks of robust lieelth. a Ten lepers cured. Twenty gangrened il t hands, twenty gangretaed feet. A la Yvhole lazarettesvvept out and, f garnished. 0, my friends, why not in a the Sanaa way have immortal souls 1 cured by wholesale e Sometimes one s man will come to a church, and stand up and espouse the cause of Christ, a.ntt the whole congregation will re- joice over it, and heaven itself will come down in gladness; but in that very church, at that same time, there will be ten lepers on one gallery and fifty lepers in another gallery. Why do they not all come? Christ turned over this whole congregation of lepers into exuberant health. Would to God that we might get tired of this conversation by driblets. "Were there not ten cleansed?" M'y text seems to warrant the expectation that we wilt have ten times as many blessings as we have received. If a hundred souls have (mane to Christ, ten times a hun- dred are a thousand. If eight hun- dred souls have come to Christ, ten timee eight hiindred are eight thou- sand. There have been in this church, during the past yule, five thousand tvvo hundred and eighty persons who heve applied to me ond. the session, asking the way at life, and 1 hope that raost of thern, if riot bee,ame Chris- tians, uniting with this or 'other Churches, in this or other lands. if we had had sufficient faith, we might hones had, according: be the text, ten times as many, natnely,, fifty-two thou- sand. . It on 11 be the Samaritans it. Will be thal expect. • Yenderliteraasrton y Samaritan ouariytan wi I come. He looks up and smiles, but his knees knock together, and there is a whirlwind of darkness in his pout, and witheo one hour he will pray. 0, you scoffer; you did not always seoff dtdYou? Was there in your early 'boy- hood. home, a venerable woman, with grey hairs, and cap, and spectacles, who on Sunday afternoon used to teach YOU how to pray? Oh, you were not al- ways a scoffer. • Tbat man feels now, under the pressure of God's Spirit, as if he must shriek out in the midst of this assemblage. lie feels that the et- ernal God is after him. He feels as if he must rise this mpment and solicit the prayers of God's people. No, my brother, do not rise now. Sit still. If you must make some demonstration of feeling, kneel down where you are, or Put your head down. 0, thou of the defiant:, heart and of the proud will; you are coming to -night; you vvill come; yots must come, God is after Your soul. m God'isxinamiunmimuip is mightier ttn There is a dissipated Samaritan who will come to-nigbt. "0," be says, "I drink." I know it; but you have tak- en your last dram. When you go home to -night, the first thing you will touch will not be the small knob of the wine closet, but it will be B e the on the stand. This is to be the night of your disenthralment. 0 wife of the shadowed heart, he will not drink any more. He sets his foot down this very mornent herd, and puts his teeth to- gether very tight, in a resolution never to drink any more. Be not sur- prised if at the close of this service he comes up some of these aisles ask - ng hlw his soul may be saved. With - n one hour think all heaven will ear the crash of his broken manacles. And now r will select some one in the audience that you will be surpris- ed at. You know that in every assem- blage there Etre the best and the svorst. You look over lb.'s audience to -night, nd you see hundreds of men in whose ategrity you have full cerifidence, 1 o not seleet lira class. I shall take he one hundred in the audience who re the worst, who consider themselves he worst. But I must narrow the ubject down, and I shell take the twenty 'out of the t hundred who are the worst. Still have not gained my point, and shall lake the five who are the vvorst out of all the twenty. But have not yet gained my point, and I shall take the one who is worse than an the rest of ibe five. And now I come to the worst man in this assemblage. I do not know vvhere he sits, I confront him. Ite says: "1 oc- A Jew days ago I was out on the beach at East Hampton, Long ]eland, end the fishermen svere there, and they were just bottling in their nets. The nets had been thrown out at a great distance from the shore, end there were about twenty men hauling them in. They seemed very much ex., cited, and loid down on the sand to watch them. Hut I some became just as mime excited ast`they were, and I took hold of the rcipe, and pulled' With all my might as the captain cried: 'Every man, now, pull)" Reel we all shouted together as the net; eame up into the surf, and we saw it throbbing witb marine life, the this flapping Th the sea. Atter they had been thrown into the carts, I said. to the captain; "Ilow many did you °etch?" "Well," he said: "I think fifty thousand." Then I said within my soul: "Good knowledge (het I have been ell wrong. I hove committed every kind of sin during the. ceterse of nay life -time.. I Wive been a scoffer, an infidel, a lib- ertine,—my whole life has been it con- geries of transgreasione." My broth- er. you are about the last nate that we tvould exttect to .repent but, like the unexpected Samaritan of the text, you will come. 10 -night. I ern not a priest, with stole. and tonsure, end on - °laicals, to hear year confession. I do not want you to tell nee the story of your sin. I only am waiting to tee you throw yourself at 11te feet of Chriet. Tee pull of the, Itoly Ghost on your soul moment is mightier than the pull of the world. If men could see your transgressions you would be rid - tiled. with the shot of their indigna- tiert; but God sees all your sin from the first to the last, and yet He is ready to th'row over you the broadest benediction. 0, ihat poor distraught solth it is struggling ,throull every- thing. It is clintbing over everything-, It is pressing- on towara the cross. It is full set fot heaven, This is to be the hour for the redemption of Iterods, and Neros, and Abatis, and Jezebels, and Athellae, and Belshazzarsi and Absaloms. Come, the proudest. Come, the hardest. Com,e, those most protracf- ed initjuity. Room! room for that cleaneed Samaritan leper! tome bow to the, clirnax of ray subjeet, and see how the Majority of people att after Chriet has blessed e them. There are ten levers going r be ibeeettted by the health officer c• iTertisalmet, when by one flaah mit.- amilous newer from th'e hearCh t of rist, h their sores dry up: their feet, that could not tench ilio ground without 0 pain, become ttansillent; their faees, s a- d? is re of, ie s- ra t mond and other browns will be prefer- ,• red, whereas for the latter positive et colors will be most in favoi.•, and where g gossamer enters into the trimming, it wilt generally be of the same tint as ' the straw, unless it happens to be in the shape of a single layer of white Malines tulle envelopine the entire s hat an arrangement which promises to be very fashionable later on in the summer, when tulle strings may very • pee.sibly be amen th eft' . 11 h ingenuity is eitercised in the working up of gauze and tulle eithee into cov- erings for shapes or trimmings. One o e latest Ideas is to run in innu- merable small tucks close together, with silk twist of the sae color. This is best done by hand, but fax the move ordinary work the machine is put into • requisition. A. still more difficult process consists in gatlaering up small • frillings, about half an. inch wide, and sewing them on a foundation of simi- lar gossamer. Very • narrow fancy ribbons are used to edge each frill. Rosettes are sometimes made at frills of this sort, a circular brooch or pointy stamens placed in the center. Trim- mings of different sorts are also evolv- ed out of straw, which is twisted into torsades and Eginetimes irito shapes vaguely resembling horns or certain pointed shells. Very fine straw passe- menterie' is likewise in request for sewing in bands on gauze or tulle, , -vvbich is afterward used ftir the crown- ing of hats or for making draperies. dom of the Sou of God. Does your soul thrill with the story? Have yeu In) tors to weep to -night over thig Christ? Have you no antiphon, to chant ip his worship? Have you no reeognitioti of this traus-Alpine height of redeeming mercy? 01 you nine lapels, eotne to -night and kneel at the feet of I•DM to whom you owe all homage end affection. Speak oetl speak out, if your tengue be not al- ready palsied with the second death. Who will be for Christ to -night? Fling your lost and undone soul at the feet of Him WilQ cured the ten lepers, Break away with violence from everything that hinders you. It anyone stands in your way, end be wiii not at your oommand stand aside, then run over bine, for this is the mo- ment when you are to escape bell and win heaven, I heerd eomething snap. Was it the soulls shackle, or was it the fastening of the lock of tee door of a closed heaven? FLOWERS ON gArLort HAI'S. Bunches of flowers will be chiefly used this summer to deck straw mill- ers and sailor, conjointly with drap- eriesci, of gaue` 'Pr evlatte lace, veils, ar- ranged abone the crown, the single fetithet being reserved for the Alpines, only to be •counted really season- able when the long vacation is at hand. Loose sprays of flowers and rib- bons will not often be seen on any but bergeres, to whieh circular arrange - ars best suited, and even there torsadee of gathered gauze will often take their place; the ribbon trade can not count ratteh on the milliner this year, One very marked difference is made between everyday and smart hats, and this lies in the choice of the celor for the straw, For the former, white, neutrals and pale tints of al - Int and leave T 1 • the Lord that: boughtkSOCLU yon with His blood, from the cleavin of the fi -st vete to the emptying of the last art- ery. Was Christ unfair ana unrea sonable when He asked of you a pW ublic espousal? "ere there not ten cleansed? hut where are the nine?" My subject has also a forceful ar- raignment for all the unconverted peo- ple in this assemblage. Have you not all. received enough mercies from the hand of God to raalze it reasonable that you turn around and in svorship- ful feeling throw yourselves at the feet of Christ? Who has given you a pleasant home? Wbo has provided you with a livelihood? At whose table have you been fed? At whose fountainshave you been drinking? Who has kept. all that wonderful macbinery of your body in motion, so that your, lungs in- hale, and your heart drums, a.nclyout pulses beat? You' are a walking miracle. If God. shauld 'take His good- ness away from, you for one hour, you would be blind, and deaf, and dumb, and tortured, and sick, and dead. And yet you turn your back upon this Jesus, and go off with the nine lepers. just clutch the air and see how eauch of it you can hold, in, the palm of your hand. None. But God holds in His hand your breath, and the opening and the shutting of that hand decides whether you shall breathe or die. Daniel says so, job says so. Yet you have turned' your back upon Hine and gone off' with the nine lepers. "God in whose hand thy breath is, hest thou not glorified," He has fed you, and sheltered you, and nurtured you, and defended you, and blessed you, in ten thousand ways, and yet you go off with the nine lepers. 0, you ungrateful souls. Here is a thanklessnee enough to make men weep. for a thou- sand years. You have not treated your worst earthly enemy as badly as you have treated my" Lord Jesus Christ. If I his moment: you were faint and sick, and I should. handyou this glass of water, and you had strength enough left, you would Say: "I thank you;" and yet Christ has been holding out the chalices of his love to- ward you all these years, and you dash it back- th His face, saying: "We will not have this man Christ Jesus to reign over us". Does not your own heart my brother, condemn you? Now be frank. Do you not see it is unreason- able not to love and serve God? Do 3rocu not understand that Christ is your best: friend? lie has been your best friend in all the past. Heeis the friend that you need for all the future. Do you remember Simmons. the railroad. engineer? Accidents come so frequently that perhaps you bave forgotten that brave deed, than which there has never been a braver deed reoorded in all the history of humin heroism,. It was some years ago, and in the night, when a freight train was wrecked on the Hudson River leoilroed, on a brid,ge near New Hamburgh. Why they did not send back lanterns' to warn the advancing train, I do not know. But there comes, the Buffalo express, like lightning, clank, and roar, and thunder, through the derkriess. The river one side, and rocks on the other, Coming close up the engineer, saw the wreck on tee bridge, What, shall c102Sha1l 1,4 hap? He may save his own Iuis perhops. .Thoughts of wife, and chIta, and home flash across him. ,Bul, no, he says; "I inust slow this train, and though I may not save all the passetagers, tnay save some of them,' And so he keeps his hand on the steam ilarottle, and cries out to the brakeman behind; "Hold hard) Hold hard( Down with the brekes1" Too late! The bridge • broke, Plunge) creehl maesacrel conflagration, and death groan. Many svent clown, and ni were lost, but soe wete saved, just because Simmone stood to his pest. The flagmen forsook their dute eThe engineer did his. 01 your heart thrills at the recital of that martyr engin- seteterr.'tifYiecou 5e amazed howamazed do o t rtisti sipoierlit otto- wards jesize -Christ who plunged into he awful thasna of death to keep back he ,(mg train of the rime thet was mining nn with lightning speed tis - yard the awful brink/ All earthly' elp had failed, and the bridge broltm• rid Jesus :lank that you might Live, 1 1 he wi lde,t peril, the ghastlier acrifiee, f he taore etuptindous meaty" - • STREETS CF GLASS, Lyons, Prance, ita., Tried the Experiment witliSlitC108%. Not satisfied with cobblestones and wood, the city of Lyons has been ex- perimenting ewith glass as a street pavement. Since last November the Rua de la Repbulique has been paved vvith devitrified glass. This new pro- ducl is obtained from broken gLoss heated to a temperature of 1,210 de- grees and compressed in matrices by hydraulic force. The glass pavement is laid in Lhe form of blocks, 8 inches square, each Week containing 16po.rts in the form, a checkers. These blocks are so closely fitted together that, wa- ter cannot pass between them, and the m'le tich°d.raPilagvhstraleeneatrldokAssliakepaovneeragenigtanit- is said to have gteater reeistance than stone; it is a poor eoncluctor of bold and ice will not 'form on it readily; dirt does not accumulate upon it so easily as upon. stone and it will not retain microbes. It is more (hirable than stone and just as cheap. --- WOMEN OUTLIVE MEN. It is strange but true that the most delicate child often outlives his stronger brother or sister. lafany in- stances are on record of the long sur- vival of those who seemed destined to die early. It is said of Voltaire, who lived to be eighty-four years old, that he was so delicate at birth he could not be baptized for several nonths. Sir Isaac Newton, the doctors said, would not live a week, but he cele- brated his eighty-fifth birthday. Fon- tanelle lived to be, a hundred, al- though he was so frail at birth ihat the priest had to go to his home to bap- tize him. Even more interesting than this is the statement by Professor Buchner that it is possible for a woman to pre- serve .her youthful beauty even to old age, or, in some instances, to regain it. The Marctuise of Mirabeau died at eighty-six with all the marks of youth in her face. Margaret Verdun at sixty-five smoothed out the wrinkle, her hair grew again and her third set set of teeth appeared. ,Coses of this third dentition are not tore. The Professor has still further hope or the fair sex in the announeement hat WOMEM live longer then roan. One French woman, Marie Prioux, svhe died in 1833, was old to be 158 years Id,. Stetisties of the various coun- ries n this point are remarkable. In Germany only 41e of J,000 males each the age of fifty, while more than 00 of 1,000 females reach that age. n the United States there are 2,583 Males to 1,808 male centenarians. rance,, of ten centenarians seven were vvonlen and only three men. In the est of Europe, of twenty-one een,, eriarians sixteen vvete women: 'The oldest person now living is held o be Annie Armstrong, who is 117 eats old, and lives in a little town A county Clare, Ireland. d. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. •tt.aitliorofoalixigclooth% 1.0‘,4hiine2 weettstsleatianveleor.,d, to understand the minutia a $.01,tr 4.- SaderlaittVmeiherescitocOttli:t10e.yol, OufilfthooerYealega'cirt:17.11totl:;titrir: ing to sucit ontrol. What hast then, done? How is it that a cleituaoe tO • tee throne has (tame iota wallet With ts:3170,: orla;hstr:s: jegsrw're ueraz:ebdki nr bus cha1'5, In seert, I do not say thie thing Of my - he is untversally misapprehended. RoY- alty is emphasized in this verse—my kingdom. Rue the kingdom is not of tine world„ eta mystery ;and stete, its 0 far to ormbye amnadinnt aa navy, like h ye, i tlstr e jaso7e'y , a rienape or Rome. Its laware mice as "this world" cannot uuderetand, Servants means "officers." Our Lord's king- dom is not to have geograpleical. bean - (lutes ; it is Jan empire of human. hearts. Even then, end in Jerusalem; vitiate, huadreds, doubtless thoueands, of faitIsfel followers of. James; but he had tatiget them eot to fight. Now is ray kingdom not from hence. It does nob rest on eewish popularity, but, transceeide human ideas. 37. Art thou a king then? So, then, after all, thou art a kieg? What sort of a king, if no rival 'to Caesar? Tish°purolratest lytanhatafflirammatalykei:agMeanTinlagis, "I ana." But tee director meaning of th.e phrase is preferred by mealy schol- ars—You say I ani a king, but 1 came into this world with en entirely dif- ferent missicin from that of ony earthly king. oT this end was I born. As a child, in Bethlehem. Lieor this cense Cain0 into the world. Down from the glories of heaven, That I should bear wit- ness unto the truth. The thoughts of God, which the world by wisdom, could, not reach. Every one that is of the trath heareth my voice. Here, then, are the ismindaries of our Lord s em- pire. Obedienee in the true Christen - dem. Whoever is open to the truth is inevitably geverned by the Cleristly teachings, This is not a matter of creed merely; all honest searchers after Ctleheristtr.uth of life shall find it through 08' What is truth? "'What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and did not s; question oa Pilate's tongue meant INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NAY 28. etenest Berme latatee' John 18-. 20,411). Golden Text, Joie 19. e. PRACTICAL NOTES, Vere 28, Theo led they. The lead- ers were the ohief priests and Phan- seese political opponents, for one strange hour working in harmony. Un- ix the hall of judgment. To the gov- ernor's _palace, called the Pretorium, A few years later the Rernap governore had their official residence on the west- ern hill of Jerusalem in a gorgeous palace erected by Herod the Great. But Antonia, and tradition /sereMay be correct. The Roman capital was Ce - tradition puts Pilate's iseadquertere in sarea but oh the great feasts, when tum- ultuous multitudes thronged Jerusalem the governor found wise to tie pre- sent. it was early. In the fourtls watch oe the night, between three arid six in the morning, The Jews held it wrong le condemn anyone to death at night,. and it is proheble that an ad- ditional meeting of the Senhedriu here indicated, whieli formally con- firmed the decision informally made at midnight. Roman courts wind be r held aftesunrise. They themselves went. not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled. Many rabbins Laugiba—though tbe law of Moses is silent: on the subject—that entrance in- to a Gentile's house was defiling. The desire to eat tbe passove,r made de- filetnent now especially odious to them. As preliminary to this feast leaven was enruputously removed from alt Hebrew houses, but, of course no attention would be paid to this in Pilete's house. 29. Pilate thee went out unto theta. Because their religious custom e pee - vented their owning in to him. The hints as to leilate's character given us by contemporaries do not prepare us For such scrupuloasness on bis part as 18 bere shown ; at first we wonder at his repeated pleadings syith the jew but a partial explanation is to b found in Matt. 27. 19. What accusatio bring ye against this man? Not tha S worldly mind has no roorn for spiritual n that this Man does not deserve death, e hardly more or less than `What has 11 truth to do with the charge that you Pilate did not know, but that he desire a formal and proaably a writte charge. Doubtless the whole case ha been gone over before hire, fer h would not ordinarily be in his judg t conceptions; but the sees clearly d Went out again He takes 'unwonted. e trouble. I find in hinai no fault at all. •-• , No crime; no ground, for the charge of merit -hall at so early an hour; bu there had, arisen in his heart a dee steel:Amon of these aentas.h pioti ers Pentius Pilate had an: this time bee governor for about four genre, and fo about six years longer lac held tit position. His obstinate dsliike of th religious prejudices of the Jew made constant trouble. He was ac eused of deliberately insulting thei most sacrecl rites, of killing notabl men unorinde.naned, of ungovernabl passions, implacable pride, and steady inhumanity. , 80. If he were not a eaelefactor., evil worker, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. awing, privately labored with Pilate, the Jews expect him to agree to their terms. But there is a point at issue between him and them which appears to involve the whole question of the relationship of Rome to elerusal-m, The Sanhedrin 'ap- parently does not dispute Pilate's sole power over life and death as Roman executive but it/ disputes his right to try again one whom " they have con- demned, Its rights as a judicial tri- bunal are almost at. stake. 31. Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. These seem. to be words of to vi°nreSaenwtbeevi(1 a retort. 12 bet ore :r:remmte,bound bring your prisoner to acne? If your law is independent of Rome, go on and execute it." The jews therefore said unto hitn, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. A mortifying confession--Rorrie had snatched away theit legal power; an equally embar- rassing confession was that the only thing tosatisfy them now is the death of Jesus, for it is not justice they seek, hut murder. There are many inciden- tal evidences that the Jews bad al- iteuenmsmn ready dbepieivd ieof all power of p 32. 'That theoseying of -Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signify- ing what death he should die. This. verse bears on our everyday theology.! It directly implies thai the whole poli- I twat order of the world was held in service by God to fulfill the sayings of hie Son. Jesus had spoken of being "lifted up," and had Charged the Jews with platting to lit him up to his death; both of which statements point- ed to the cross as a mac ns of punish- emdenbst: thBeuitecwi:sucifTixhieonn,Ntvcaos, hinotuninen-piaestte sage at least, he predicted his death a 1: the ha ads of Gentiles. Bat before 1 these prophivoies could be -fulfilled 1 he right to inflict et pita1 punishment muss be taken away from the Sews,; and to take it away required a long chair, •of circumstances, cause and effect in many links, involving deci- sions by many MindS WM) had no knowledge or consideration of Jesus. And yet—though through all the coin - Dhoti dons of Roman and jewish gov- etn.ment this divine purpose ran—each actoe land aix unfetteteci free will.. 38. Pilate entered into the judg- ment hall again. Away from the howls of the crowd. Called jesus, and said unto him. Pi tt te de- sired to have a Dalin conversation with this man, whose lofty behavior puzzled him. Art thou the King of the Sews? Words which may mean either, Art then the neeri who is said to be the hewish king? or, Dost thou claim the title? Suds a claim might be expeet- ed to ea II for th alt the p a t rio tic fonatieism, cif his misgoverned eountry- men, If ;forts elaimed to be he- reditaryRing of the Sews, why did not the crowds follow hini as they had heretoeote followed every such claim- ant? Pilate 'probably expected a nog - ,34. Sayrsi thou titis thing of I hy self, or did others tell it thee ot me? HaVe yoa reed proploveles or the eortle ing Ring? or have you heard of sedition fasf eted by me? or are you simply re pea terie;5 baseless eharge? Do you get yoor information from your own obseevEttion or your own police, Pr from politiciatte end Mad bigots? Ob- serve me: am 1 itrebel, or a lunatic, or a Maligned Man? Strange inde01, {laid antittelt3r tti 411 exp•eriences of the past, for Yews to elan:tor for the death of a rebel. against litente? 1 35. Am I a +taw? Ca,n you expect Me t 'rebellion. And, just here must be P:troduced the terrible scenes described . tin. Matt. 27. 12-14; Mark 15. 3-5; Luke O 23. 4-12. ✓ " 39 But ye have a custom o'f this e custom nothing is known except what e is here related. I should release unto s you one at the passover. In the - modern theory of government a erim.- ✓ inal is ons who offends society, and his e punishment is a blessing to society; e but when government was not "for the people and by the people," the people were pleased. to have a criminal re - ],eased; he was, in sorae sense, a fellow- sufferer. 40. Not this man, but laatabbas. A violent man, who "may have been real- ly guilty of the claarge brought • wickedly 'against the. holy Jesus." • DEADLY LEBEL BULLET. Its E11011113111S Penetrating; Force as Shown by Recent 'Use.. The writer of an artiele in the Echo de Paris, referring to certain (Rose vantages offered, as alleged, by the British .magazine rifle bullet, arguee that the bullets fired by theLebel rifle re.nders all the services required, and does not stand in need ot improvement or of any suah modifications as those introduced in the Dum-dum bullet. At 3,000 metres. the Lebel bullet traverses the fleshy portions of the human body 'and shatters the bones or the limbs. The penetrating force of ;the bullet is enormous. Durbag the Dahomey campaign a Lebel bullet was found to have pas -seri through it tree and through the five natives who had taken refuge behind it. ' The ilex -en -eh officers who have been able to I observe the effects oe the bullet in !Dahomey, Tonkin, and Mamegaecar de- clare, that the men steuele by the bel bullet in full trajectory fall et once after a c,onyulsive leap. When the camp of General Dodds, during his march on Aboraey, was the objeet of a surprise attack the ter- rible effectiveness of the Label bullet was Droved in the m,ost signal feel:viola. The assailants reeeived the bullets al- most immediately after they had left the rifles, and entire files at the 'se- ttee warriors were seen to h•ave fallen one ot top of the other, traversed by the Sallie projectile. If the bullets hal net stopped the natives fortbwith Gen. Dodos loaces would have been wiped out. Occasionally, no doubt, e mite struck by a Label bullet' is not put hors du eotnbet immediately, but this event ie rare, and such cases net °rt. ously occurred in tee pee. when bullets of larger ealibtr Were in use - The writer' concludes by saying that tIte French have sio rea.son to feel alarmed at the omplaints made of the in•effectiveness under certain reendi- dons of the British magazine rifle of small caliber "If the L.ee-Metford rifle," he says, "has given unsatisfac- tory results the bleme does not lie with the small caliber bullet." TO BE FASHIONABLE. It is pitiable to see vvomea struggle to keep ug with the styles. They sacra lace eersonal neatness, their viewe 013 hygiene and their pocketbooks it their efforts to keep abreast willi the floe kia goddees. Trailieg shirts—not only trailing behiod, bat some (lethally trailing in front. -ere eeen daily eweeps ing Ibe etreets, vvha•tevet may be their emadithin. This state of affeire is ape pelting It betrays a deploeeble, leek of personal neatnees and Es disregerd for health that are beyond compreheu- sion ROW TO GET BICH, Some men, seid Thule Bbea,.tvotaldn't hal, no trouble hall 'bout gotten' Hen et des' held oe as tight. to de. inotie.y dey earns as dey does to do mone'Y doy harrows. .1