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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-6-1, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS, ae of the most eateresting and Stec eeseful of the efforts now being mede for the upliftteg of poples is the we- •gel:Aeration of Egypt aaeler British gaidaaee. There le no doubt that British oeupation ot tbe Nile country Wes in the 'first instance iatendea to be only temporary, that the asearauces • given the world by both Liberal and Coneervative ministers that with- • drawal would. follow completion of tee work a reform were sbacere. Bat, OG establiehecl, the force of circum- stances and needs compelled Great Britain to go much further thee had been origietally conteinplated, atel 111 view of the tremendous advance nada during the sixteen years sinea her oc- cupation began, there vvlil be few to question the righteou,sness of • her tenure. Under the wise anl able ad- ministration of Lord Cromer aud his assistants, order has replaced the (lees left by Ismail, taxation bas been with the the abolition of co.nscription a highly diseiplined and effective native army has been created. The population welch, in 1882, num.- ' 0.11RIS.TIA111. REV. DR., .TALKAQR SAYS THE SUES AR R TREKENDOUSi The ease ia Above 'Ally Couiet la Ow Land .--ineecea tee neatreee lane viva Is nee indiecotain-111.0 DIN 1040,1s rinkr IR' 'wood, thaiseietwe, Ike angel. Ot Goa, tied tee Sault itiantitt—A rowed:at au% tee ineestneer to rime vire ier nie Der in' lame A de,spatce from Washiagton, says: -- Rev, Dr. Talmage preached from the following text :—"We have an edvo- cate vvith the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." -1 TOIL% L Blanding in a court -Town, you say to yourselt: "At this bar mime has often been arraigned; at this witness - stand the oath has often been taken, at tele jurors' bench the verdict has been rendered; at this judge's desk sentence has been pronounced." But I have to tell you. to -day ot •a trial higher than any Oyer, and Terminer, or Circuit, aupreme, or Chancery. duoed and revenue increased, an It is the trial oe every Christian man for the life of his soul. This trial is different from any other in the fact that it is both civil and criminal. The issues at stake are tremendous, and I shall this morning, in my sermon, bored somewhat less than six roalhons, show you, first, what are the grounds is now about ten millions, an increase of coraplitiat; then, who are the wit - of 66 per cent., and, a total probably nesses in the cause, and lastly, who are greater than the land has -contained, the advocates. When a trial is called sines the time of the Pharaohs, if not an, the first thing is to have the in - in all history. The growth of popula- dietment read. Stand up then, 0 tion has been accompanied with a Christian man, and hear the indict - steady increase of industries and so of meat of the court of high heaven against thy soul. It is an indictment of ten counts, for thou bast directly pre:verity and. wealth, agriculture yielding more thau ever before under THE EXETER) tiane they caa make a bridge of boats across the streem of death, end. they are going to try it ; but alae for the mistake. When they get amid stream, away will a'a the bridge, and down will theie soul to perdition. 0 World. of the greedy eye and the hard, eeart, COele oil the stand now earl testify in behalf of the prosecu- tion against this Christian soul on trial. What do you know about this Christian man "0," says tee Woeldi "I know a great deal about him. He talks about putting his treasures in heaven, but he is the sharpest man in a trade that I ever anew, tile eeems to want us to believe that he is a. ehlla of God, but he is. just full of im- perfections. I do not know but em a great deal better than he is now. Of- tentimes lie is very eartely, and be talks so little about Christ and so much about himaelf. I an very glad to testify thet thee is a bad. man." Stop! 0 World with the geeedy eye and hard heart. I fear you are too much interested. in his trial to give impartial evidence. Let all those who hear the testimany of this witness know that there is an old family quar- rel between, these two parties. There always has •been a. variance between tee World. and the Chureh, and while the World en the witness -stand to -day has told a, great deal of truth about . . this Christian. man, you must take it all with some allowance, remembering that: they still keep the old. grudge good. 0 World of the greedy eye and the hard. heart, that will do. You may sit down. The second -witness I call in this Gase is Conscienee. Who art thou, 0 Cott - science ? • What is your business? W here were .you born? What are you doing here? "0," says Conscience, "I was born in heaven. I °erne down to befriend this man. I have lived with hem. 1 have instructed. him,. I have warned hira. showed him the 'right and. the wrong, advising him to take the one and eschew the other. I have kindled a great light in his soul. With a weip of scorpions I have scourged his wickedness, and I have tried. to cheer the development of great systems of or indirectly broken all the ten own- him. when cloilag right; and yet I am irrigation, and cheaper and better ace naandments. You know how it thun- coma/led to testify on the stand ba- de that he hes sometimes rejected my cess to markets. Egypt has now dered on Sinai, and when God came mission.y - 0,_ how many • cu.ps ilie about 1,400 miles of railroad, or mare down how the mountain rocked, and have I pressed to his lips that he dash - than Austria Hungary, and. while a the smoke ascended as from a smoul- ed down, and how often has he stood score of years ago a good. wagoa road define furnace, and the darkness gate.- with his hard heel on the bieediag heart of the Son of God It pains me was scarcely known, within the last ered thick, and the loud, deep trumpet ye • ... ry much that • I have to testily half dozen years more than 1,00 miles uttered the words: "The soul that against this Christian man, and yet I excellent roeds have been constructed. sinneth, it shad die!" Are you guilty must, in behalf of Him who will in no Educational facililies have been great- or not guilty?" Do not put in a nega- wise clear the guilty, say that this Christian man has done wrong, He ly increased, justice administeredwith tive plea too quick, for have to an- has been neglectful. He has done a even hand, order maintained, good. nounce that "all have sinned, and come thousand things he ought not to have etei!att TIMES English language, concluding with this burning elmage Made War- ren Hastings mange and cower. "I inePeaola him in the Commone House a Parliament, Weose trust he has be- taaYed. 1 inapeaeh him in the neras of the English aation, whose ancielat honor he has sullied. I impeitee hire in tee name of the peoale of India, whose right e he has trarapled on, and whose coentz•y he has turned into a desert. And lastly, 1e, the aame of human naluee, in tee name of both sexes, in, the name of every age and eank, itupeaeh him as the coramoo. enen:1Y end oppressor of all." But I turn from the reeital of those memor- eble occasions to a grander trial, and I have to tell you that m this trial of the Christian for the life of his soul the advociates are naightee, wiser, •and more eloquent. The evidence all being in, Justice rises on behalf of the proseeution to make • his plea. With the Bible open in his hand, he reads the law, stern and 'inflexible, and the penalty: "The sont that sinneth, it shall die." il'hen he say e: "0, Thou Judge and Lawgiver, this is Thine own Statute, and all the evidenee in earth and heaven agrees in stating that this man. has sinned against all these enactments. Now let the sword leap from its scabbard. Shall a man go through the very flames of Sinai unsinged? Let the Law be executed. Let judgment be pronounced. Let him die. I demand that: he die." 0 Christian, does It not look very no universally I accepted speech. Ceuntry folk from Galilee and the "eoramon people" of Jerusalem would read •most readily the "Hebrew," or to be more exact, the Aramaic, which had gradually superseded the ancient Hebrew in and after the exile; •the Greek was, more than. other languages current {throughout the Orient, especially among the learned; and • Latin was the official. language in which judical decisions would be an- nounced. "It was a triple procla- tnation, in the words of Religion, Cul- ture, and Empire."—Moutton. So that as.we study this very natural incident it takes upon itself a lofty sya:abolic character. "The three civili- zations,' says Dr. M. It. Vincent, "which had prepared the way for Christ, was thas concentrateent his cross. The cross' is the real center of the world s histoxy. dark for thee? Who will plead on thy side in so forlorn a cause? Some time a a man *ill be brought into a court of law, and he will have no friends and no money, and the judge will look over the -bar and say: "Is there any one who will volunteer to take this man s case and. defend him'?" and some young man rises up and says: "I will be his counsel;" perhaps start- ing on from that point, to a great and brilliant career. Now, in this matter of the soul, as you have nothing to pay for counsel do you think that any one will volunteer? Yes, yes, 1 see One rising, he is a young man, only thirty-three years of age. I see his countenance suffused with tears and covered with blood, and all the galle- ries of heaven are thrilled with the spectacle. Thanks be unto God; "we have an advocate with the :Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous." 0 Chris- tian soul, your ca.se begins to look better. I think, perhaps, after all, you may not have to die. The best advocate in all the universe has taken your side. No one was ever so quali- fied to defend a man) as this advocate is qualified to defend you. He knows all the law, all its demands, its pen- alties. He is always ready. No new turn of the case will surprise Win. and He will plead. for; you for nothing as earnestly as though you brought a world of treasure to his feet. Be- sides that he has undertaken the case of thousands who were as forlorn as you, and healacts never lost a ease. Courage, • 0 Cbristain soul. r think that after all there may be some chance for you, for the great Advo- cate rises to make his plea. He says: "I admit all that has been proved against my client, admit all these sins, aye, more; but look at that wounded. hand of Mine, and look at that other wounded nand, and at My right foot, and at My left foot. By all these wounds I plead for his clearance. Count all the drops of My tears. Count all the drops of My blood. By the hu- miliation of Bethlehem, by the sweat of Gethsemane, by the sufferings of the cros,s I demand that he go free. On this arm he hath leaned; to this heart he hath flown; in My tears he hath washed; on my righteousness he hath depended. Let him go free; ami the ransom. Let him escape the lash; I took the scourging*. Let the cup pass from him; a drank` it to the dregs. Put on him the crown of life, for I have worn the crown of thorns. Over against My cross of shame •set his throne of triumph." Well, the counsel on both sides ha,ve spoken, and there is only one more thing now remaining, end that is the awarding of the 'judgment. If you have ever been in a court room you know of the silence and the solemnity when the verdict is about to be renderea, or the judg- ment about to be given. About this soul on trial, shall it be saved or shall it be lose? Attention 1 above, around, beneath. All the universe cries, "Hear I hear 1" the judge rises and gives this decision, never to be changed, never to be revoked :—" Thetas is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in -Christ Jesus." government developed, the great work short of the glory of God. Tbere is of damming the Nile and storing its none that doeth good.; no, not one. waters for irrigating purposes begun, Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and so valid. a moral title to continued yet offend in one pollen he is guilty control and direction created that to of elle, Do not, therefore, be to'6 all demands that Great Britain evacu- ate Egypt there can only be an empha- hasty in pronouncing yourself not guilty. tic negative. This lawsuit before us also charges you with the breaking of a solemn t — The first and, most important reason contract. Many a time did we prom- oftentimes, when he knew it not, I of the British success is the adminise ise to be the Lord's. We got down, toadied him into the green pastures and tration of Egypt as a trust, its develop- our knees, and said: "O Lord, 1 am beside the still waters. I snatehed ment and improvement not for the I Thine now and for ever. Dee you keep from him the poisoned chalices. When bad spirits came upon, him to -destroy benefit of Englishmen, but for Egypt- the promise/ Have you stood up to • . him, I fought them back with infinite 'tans, to make it a land. in which they the contract? 1 go back to your first fierceness; and yet I have to testify may live. Next is the employment of Datives in all places in which it is pos- eible to use them—the number of Brit- the sky, he drove me back Thou la ish officials in Egypt does not exceed you. You remember how, from the with this wing 1 defended:him, and one hundred—that is, to administer the head, and the hands, and, the side, and though with this voice I wooed him, I country by British; brains through na- the feet, there came bleeding forth have to announce his multiplied in:L- ave hands. Lastly, administration is thest• two words: "Remember Inc." perfections. I dare not keep back the carried on in a liberal spirit, arbitrary Yoe recall how the cup ot cemraunion testimony., for. then I should not dare trembled in your hand when you first to appeal again amongst the sialess power being used without fussiness or took it; and as in a sea -shell you may ones before the great white throne." narrow prejudice, to ioure the real hear, or think you. hear, the roaring There is only one more witness to be Interests and safeguard the rights of of the surf even after the shell has called on behalf of the Prosecution, pad ebeentakenulefroim the bea.eh, so you lift- that is the great the holy, the august development of populitr eovernment. heard ha ui? the csoumrarginugnioonf, tiat.endisryert the onanipotetat gpirit of Grad. We bow, down before Him. Holy Spirit, knowest the natives, and having for its end the ocean of a Saviour's agony, ; and you thou this man? "0 yes," says the Holy came forth from that onamunion-ser- One, "I know him. 1 have striven with • d t.' e d thou h done, and left undone a thousan things he ought to have done." That wilt do, Conscience. You can sit down, The third -witness I call be tlae case is an Angel of God. Bright and shin- ing one, what doest thou here? What hest thou to say against this man on trial? "0," says the Angel, "I have been a messenger to him. I have guarded him, have watched him. With this wing I defended him, and vevi)oettnled :riladncah eiatYcheill4d1,ceXaosureataInTraalnel in their, saakets, and. send down their granite cliffs in an avalanehe a rook. Rivers Pause in their cease for the see, mad mean uprearing cries to fly - mg Alps and Himalaya. Beasts bellovv, and moan, and snuff up the darkness. Clouds fly like flocks of swift eagles. Great thunders beat, and boom, and buret. Stars shoot and fall. The Al- mighty, rising ma His throne, declares that time 4411 be no longer, aucl the arehangers trump repeats ie till all the living hear and the continents of dead spring to their feet. crying "Time shall be no loiager I" 01 on that .clay, will you be ready? I have sheWn you how well the Chris- tian "Will get off in leis trial. Will you get off as well in your trial? Will Ch.rist plead on your side, or will He plead against. you? 01 what will you do in the lest great assize, if your conscience is against you, and the world is agitinst you, and the angels of heaven are against you, and the Holy Spirit is against you, ancl tee Lord God Almighty ie against you? Better this day secure an Advocate, communion. You remember it as well as if it were yesterday. You know how the vision of the cross rose before to -day that he has rejected my mis- sion. He has not done as he ought to have done. Though I came from SOLD FOR A LIVING. many papers to the effect that there hattidonb.seann on d the ever Mount of Transagur- so t' e h 'd e 4 o 'ZI.)12'fh?st An item has gone the rounds ee vice with face shining, as though you y alonv•eseemcsd tremsuas: felTebalckSaga8iPas8:fteutfr has lately been passed a la.w in China boas with • the estate. Ten thousand times ten thou - that women who wish to live a single and the woods, and the lea.res, sand has he grieved Me, although the and the grass, and the birds, Bible warned him, saying: 'Grieve, not life will be peimitted to do so. Hither- Quench 110:: the were brighter aril sweeter -voiced than th, 1°47 Ghost; ver before, and. you said down in the Spirit.'es, he has driven. Me back. to woman in that country were •oblig- ever before. I era the Third Person of the Trinity, he has trampled on My mis- sion, and the blood of the Atonement that I brought wieh which to cleanse his soul be sometimes despised. I ed to marry whether they wished to or very depths of your soul: "Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knovvest that not. The law, or one representing it, lave Theet" Jlave you kept the bar - provided them with .husbands if they gam, 0 Cbristian man? Have you not OL unmarried at a certain age. sometimes faltered when yea ought to We smile at a country where sueh have been true? Have you not been came from the throne of God to con - law is necessary to prove a woman proud when you ought to have been vert, and comfort, and sanctify, and tt.. humble? Have ou not 1 a the yet look at that man and see what he it human being, with rights over her coward ween youYought to been own life, and having the ownership of the hero? I charge it upon you, and would have made him." is compared with what, unrehisted, condition here when we call women '1 charge upon rayse/f—we have brok- The evidenee on the part of the pro- ber own person. Yet we duplicate the secution eas•closed. Now let the de- fence bring on the rebuttal testimony. What have you, 0 Christian soul, to bring in reply to this evidence of the world, of the conscience, of the angel, and of the Rely Ghost? No evidence? Are all these things true?" "Yes. 'Via - clean, unclean," says every Christian soul. What? Do you not begin to tremble at the thought of condemna- tion? We have come now to the most in- teresting part of thee great trial. The evidence all in, the advocates speak. The profession of an advocate is full of responsibility. In England and United States there have arisen men who, in this calling, have been honored by their race, and thrown contempt upon those who in the profession have been guilty of a great many mean- nesses. That profession will be hon- orable as tong as it flas attached to it such names as Mansfield, and Marsh- all, and Story, and Kent, and South- ard, end.' Willi:an Wirt. The court- room has sometimes been the scene of very marvellous and thrilling things. Some of you remember the Salacious Girard will case, where one of cfur ad- Voeales pleaded the cause of the Bible and Christianity in masterly Anglo- Saxon, every paragraph a- thunder- bolt. Sonnie of you have read the fam- ous trial, in Westminster Hail, ot Warren Hastings, the despoiler of Dune. That great manl had tonquer- ed India by splendid tetanal by cour- age, by bribes, by 'gigantic dislionesty. Tia whole world ha.cli rtingl with ap- Dianee or condemeation. Gathered in Westraineter Hall, a plaee in which thirty kings had been inaugurated, was one of the racist famous audiences ever gathered, Foreign ministers and princes at there, PeerMarched in, read in ermine and gold. Mighty men and wonaett from all lands looked down uPon the ecene. Areed fill that ponep and splehdoute and amid an exciteMent sueli as is Seldom sten in any court ream, Edneutid Burke advanced in a speeth whieli will Mat as long aa the "unnatural" who prefer to make their own living rather than owe it to an- other, no matter how mach they may care for this other person. The "nature" in this ease is not so "natural" as one would try to think it. It is not human nature; it is arti- ficial feminine nature. The notion that women should get their living only through a man, giving in return the "duties of wives and mothers," is not so beautiful.and soul -inspiring as the world. generally assumes, and the proof of it is tbe growing unwilling- ness of women to make the bargain. They are holding themselves at a high- er price even that "bread-andebutter" with the jam of sentiment spread over the, top. Each nation has a different way of expressing its low estimate of women, and a different way of bringing a force to bear upon individual women to make them succumb to the doctrine. In some countries a club is use,d, and in some the sentiment of society. TAME BUTTERFLY PETS. Woroen have had all kinds of pets fermi tinie immemorial, but perlutps the strangest of all faneies in this direction is tee latest news which tomes to Us from Paris, that two ladies have succeeded in taratag dozens cif autterfliesi littic insects eat from their Mistresses' hartas,ealight on them and show no fear of any kind, They are certainly legate' Pets, and well be- eonte the airy, flutterfiag sweetness of the typical woman's nature. The summer girl during the dull days of the week, from lVforiday Morn - Ing until Saturday neon, May in this aeW fad find a means 'of diveesiota tenting ber butterflies in preparation ,te a settee of fetching ponce With ethich to ceptivete stiseeptible man up- oa bis arrival et the stutuner hotel foe Sankey, en the contract. Still further: this lawsuit elaims damages at your hand. The greatest slander on the Christian religion is an inconsistent professor. The Bible says religion is one thing; we, by our inconsistency, say religion is some other thing; and what is more de- plorable about it is that people can see faults ia others while they cannot see any in themselves. If you shall at anY time find some miserable old gos- sip, with inaperfeetions from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot, a perfect blotch of sin herself, she will go tattling, tattling, tattling all the years of her life about the in- consistencies of others, having no idea that she is inconsistent herself. God save tbe world from the gossip, female and. male. I think the mates are the worst! Now, the chariot of Christ's salvation goes on through the world; but it is our inconsistenoies, my bre- thren, that block up the wheels, while all along the line teere ought to have been cast nothing but palm branches, and tee shout shouldhave been lift- ed; "Hosanna to the Son of David." Now you have beard the indietment read. Are yroa ready to plead guilty or not guilty? Perhaps you are not reedy yet to plead. Then the trial will go on. The witness will be call- ed, arid We shall have the mattee de - aided. In the riame of Gbd I tow make proclamation. 0, yes 1 0, 3/Ede) 0, yes 1 Whosoever hate anything to offer in this trial in which God. is the plain- tiff, and the Christian soul the defen- dant:, let hira now step forth and give testimony in this solemn trial. Tee first witness that I call upon the stand, in behalf of the prosoution is the Warta—all critical and observ- ant ot Christian ehax.acter, 'You knoW that there are people around you wbo peepetually banquet on the frailties, of God's ehildren, You may know, if you have lived in the eoutitry, that a trow area or nothing so Mach as earrioa. There are those Who tree A agate that out of the faulte ot These Chri- GIRLS WHO WEAR CROWNS, 'the evident beauty of the Russian Empress' face is so overshadowed by an expression of patient, pathetic mel- ancholy that she arouses sympathy and curiosity in every one. TJndoubt- edis the Czarina is not a happy wo- man. Russian Empresses have little enough to insahre content, and this pale, pretty creature, with the sad eye,: and. mouth, endures daily such tests of her physical strength and mor- al courage as few Canadian women woula care or consent, for all the Rus- sian state and power, to undergo. Her 'ausbahd, on the whole, is a kindly young man, who is considerate, even affectionate, but he can do very lit- tle n. mitighee the severe, even cruel Russian court etiquette to which she inust bow; with her he shares the THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 4. mien, eratened." John 119. ri-50. Golden Texi. Gal, 5, 30. PRACTICAL NOTES. thVewei:slue ark and detitriutt hteisu cursestst.at Slm- on the. Cyrentan was compelled to bear the cross part of the way. That it was • an African wno thus relieved a little the burden of our. Lord, becomes, in the light of modern history, beautiful- ly suggestive. 'Under tbe Roman ern - pies neither ia.ce nor color entered at alt into the question of slavery, and we are not to suppose that Simon was chosen as belonging' to an inferior grade of society; simply happened to, be the first raa.n on whom the sol- i:lien, laid their hands; any passing Jew or Gentile would have dome as well, Jesus, weak vvith sufferings prolonged through the night, was probably fainting under the load of the cross, otherwise he would not have been relieved. ancient times a 'condemned man need expect neither sympathy nor pity. Perbaps in no W5 y so much iu the treatment of criminals have the teachings of Jesus permeated the world. The Hebrews punished with stern and rapid sever- ity; but pagan e have always delighted In intensifying and prolonging tee tor- tures of those sentenced to deal ; and even Christendona, until within the last century or so, was disgraced by an absurd number of capital ceinies, cruel neglect of prisoners, and a disposition to make the disg.race and pain of the culprit as public and bitter as possible. Indeed, those who follow with unpre- judiced eye the eloings of meay mod- ern district attorneys and. police auth- orities cannot but feel that even yet to some degree and, sometimes the cru.elty of the savage avenger is see rather than that noblea justice which and wise judgments, carry out Gods weeps while it punishes. But if we Plans. They parted my raimeat still, hang men for murder, at least we among them, and for my vesture did do not make them build their own they mat lots. See Pea. 22.1.8 scaffolds; and it was in. this spirit of Between verses 24 and 25 should be intense cruelty that the Roman con- inserted the prayer of the peniten thief Luke 23.39-43, and the "seon, word" from the cross, "To -day shalt thou be with n:Le in paradise." This was a little before noon. • 25. Now there stood, by the arose of Jesus his mother. See Luke 2,34. Old Simeon himself could hardly have daily terror of assassination, and vvitb his people he laments the fact that the Empress has not yet given an heir to his throne. De spite of her beauty and her vir- tues, the Empress is not loved by the Russiar people nor consulted and con- fided in by her husband, as her moth- er-in-law, Empress Dogmar; the dom.- , get, was. She has neither the robust physique, nor the ambitious interests of the clever dowager, and court in- trigues, squabbles and 'etiquette dis- tress, disgust and fatigue her. It is a fact well known that up to the very day before her betrothal, she resisted the change of her religion and Chris- tian name that every Russian Empress e.onsort must yield* tei; again and again she has fainted at the long re- ceptions, balls and reviews, through Which, in spite of her illness, she ie obliged to stand, and the only true comfort and solace she finds in her dreary splendor is the personal ser- vices and • attentions she is allowed to lavish on her tiny girls. In sharp contrast to this sad -faced Fanpress of the vastest domain in Eur- ope, is tlae young, pretty Queen of the title--"Slcull Place." Called in the He - tiniest, cleanest, freest little kingdom ' brew Golgotha. If John had written immediately for us, he might have added what it was " called" in the Latin, for a few centtuies later cone vvere not doae in a cernee, written in Hebrew, and thbeje one Latin. To write such ao insertptioa io three langaaeee was to a men in P11- ate's position e, naturel thing to do. Tee world of the teortione we a raw/. ley of •tongues ; so mace sa that Roman hero wbose tomb was erects ed on the Persian, borders wait honor, ed by an epitaph written in Latin, Pet- sia2111: 11,retereewhiae.rprEigesytPst.ialexuTnlaiesa,ecvaviaas: phes and their ielneeddiate essoeiates, Write not the King of the Jews,' but teat he said, I am King of the Jews. They dented Mk to resent Pilate $ insult direetly, and could only dee fend themselves agniust; the aspetsion that a peasant was their king by Mak- ing a request that einphasized • their bondage to the Roman Emperor. 22. Pilate answered, What I have written 'I have written. Weak in , great affairs, he vyas firm in trifle. • 23. Compare Matt. 27. 35; Mark 15, 24. The soldiers, when they had crude lied Jesus. The four that had been de-. tailed to be executioners. • Took hie garments, and made four parts, te every eoldier a part. "On hie head Jesus wore a white suda.r, fastened wi- der the chin and hanging down from the shoulder behind. Over the gray and red ;striped tunic which covered ' the body frora the -hands to tee feet waa a blue tallitla, with blue and white fringes ab the tour ends, so ,theow over and gathered together that the undergarment was scarcely noticeable except when the sandal -shod feet came into view."--Delitzsch. Also his coat, His tunic or undergarment. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. In this it resem- bled the tunic of the high priest. Such agaerma ent would be valueless if "rent'? or aut. , V. Let us not rend it, but cast lota for it. In ancient ties the lot was regarded as the handiest and justest ready court of resort, and all sorts of problem e were settled by it. That the scripture might be fulfilled. The write era of the New Testament are always ready to see that "through the ages one increasing purpose runs;" t t even when men act with te, aom of will they, unknown to themselves, by sues .and. bland- ers as wall as by virtuous acts viet was !made to bear his own eross. During the three years of our Lord's teaching he had re,peatedly said, "If any man will come after me, 'let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me." His audience could haedly have understood in these words of his was almost as fatal an act as to anteary, MolarnayatYllenwelfeinofdi°Caltee°Patsh.nt T"h1111; thoeothomeem:ndniseeri;ef dreamed with what agony his prophecy his death, but they must have under- was saeoPorcl°Pchleetair°1yaltihilsait°11to to be fulfilled. His mother's sis- submit to a sentence of death. Our mother's sister" was "Mary the wife prayer meeting use of the vvords "tak- ing up the cross" is often a trivial misuse of wbat• rightly understood, is of Cleopas." In that age and countra two sisters might bear the same name one of the most pregnant phrases in the but if, as is more likely, four womee Gospel. Went forth, From Pilate's pen mother's sister" unnamed here, wa are referred to in this verse, then his ace through the city gate. In cone- Probably Salome, the wife of Zebedee Wats outside their city walls. and this would make John the collie mon with mane, ancient nations, the place of a skull. This is a' name or erten, of Jesus. '`Mary the wife of Cleopas' The was "the inother of the apostle Jame the Less, and her husband is alines Jews were scrupulous to execute certainly the man called Alpheus i Matt. ni.3. Mary Magdalene. One o the close friends of Jesus. name comes from Ma.gclala a o the shore of the Sea ofGalilee. eTh puts her feet out the door without the Gospels in a Latin translation, called is that out of her' Tests had. cast seve recorded incident of her early lif goee shoppaig, walking, skating and Queen iVithelmine the palace "Clev ary," which is Latin for odlievlytlraeco "skull ." and when Meer still; each 26 27. Jesus therefore saw his sovereign. While the Czarina never belt of the Christian world, rea.chn the heaviest guard, on that continent. The Queen of Hol- land lives far more like a popular, pet- ted young belle of society than a riding when the whim seizes her, with nation took to reading the Gospel fn its own language, Calvary," had be- come so familiar that it passed over into modern languages as the name of the place of our Lord's death. 18. They crueified him. Three small words to expeess the pivotal tragedy of earth's history. The heavy eross was laid on the ground ; -the clothing of Jesus was _removed, and he was fas- tened with nails upon It; it was lilt- ed and placed in the hole which had been dug for it, much as telegraph poles are fixed alongside of our roads and streets. It was now the hour of morning sacrifice, nine o'clock; in the temple a lamb was sacrificed on the altar, while outside the city the Lamb of God "which taketh away the sin of the world" was sacrificed on the cross. Two others with him. Matthew and Mark call these two "robbers;" Luke, male- factors,,," Probably they were bri- gands from the moantains, of whom there were many, ready to join eacitt patriotic uprising, but in times of peace preying on peaceable travelers. On ,either side one. At this time he spoke his "first word" fromthe cross, a prayer for the soldiers who were crucifying him, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!' 19. Pilate wrote a title. We have here a technical Roman term, titulus, which was used of placards, notices of sale affixed to houees, titles of books, epitaphs, eLc, Matthew, having regard to. the character of the writing, calls it an accusation; Luke having regard to its position above the head oe the sufferer, calls it a superscription; Mark combines the'two and calls it the eupersoription of the accusation. John tells us that Pilate wrote it. Pat it on the Cross. Above the head of Jesus. �n abet way to Calvary it /led proaabey been, tie was the .custaire carried on hie breast, fastened with strings about his neck. Jesus of Nazareth the Ring of the IreWS. Matthew gives this title as This is jesus, the King of the Jews; Mark, the King of the Jews ; Luke, This is the King of the Jewe, Much has been made of these variations, It has been conjectured that one of the evangelists copied the Hebrew in- setiptioa, one the Greek, and one the Latin, wlaile John, using more words, sought to combine the three. This is ingenious, but it seems to us to make COO re.11011 of trines. As Dr, M. it Viricent suggests the essential ele- ment, "Ring of the Jews," 18 ecen- moh to all; for Pilate's intent was to show eontempt foxhis subteets. 20. Thie title read many of the jewt. Immediately it became earl tter of pub - lie ilote and discaseion. The Make wheie Jails was crucified was nigh to the eiLy. Probably near le a road which led from one of the gates, so that ie - sides such throngs as always gather to watch human suffering, and beside those that bame becatto of their in- terest in Jesue himself, many were onstantly passing to and from the city, for it was now in the'lleIght (S the Passover feast. May, "time things a single attendant, and that often but a favorite lady in wading. Fax all her love of junketing, dancing and out -door sports, the Dutch Queen is a conscientious worker, and just now she feels deeply interested in the interna- tional peace congress that is now meet- ing in one of her pelt -ices, the House - in -the -Wood., just outside the Hague, EXQUISITE UNDERVESTB. The woven unciervests of silk, lisle or fine cotton were with us so long that it seemed tbere was no means of im- proving upon their desirable adapt- ability to the varying lines and con- tours of the figure, and their elastic- ity and lack of bulk, buti from Paris comes a novelty which in every par- ticular discounts its predecessor. The new vest is called crepe de saute, and is cut from a fabric, just as the others are from woven ribbed gauze. The fabric es an exquisite cotton or lisle crepe cloth of surprising fineness, It is extremely elastic, and when on, the vvearee seems tot have no more weight than a veil, but fits perfectly, and is certainly beautiful. Delicate stripes in the sweetest shades, or fine plaids, are most favored, while the neck is fin- ished with narrow ribbon run through lace. The present price is. 81.25, but some woman who is clever will soon be making her own,by ripping an old gauze vest for a pattern. " That soul tlaat on Jesus hate maned for repose, - I will not, 1 will not, desert to His foes; That soul, though all 'heIl should en- deavour to shake, P1I never, no never, no nevee. for- seke." But, my frietals, there is eoming day of trial, ia which not only the saint but the sinner ratist appear. That day of trial will come very suddenly. The farmer will be at the plough, the mer- chant will be in the counting -room, the vvobdman will be ringing his axe en the hickories, the weaver will breve his foot on the treadle, the manufac- turer will be walking amid the haze of looras and the crack of flying ma- chinery, the counsel may be standing et the bat pleading the law, the min- ister naay he hi the pulpit pleading • the Gospel, the eiruakara may be reel- ing amid hie cups, end the blaspheinee Withthe oath eaught between his teeth. Lot the :tun hides. Night coulee dewn at mid -noon, A wave of dark- • riess rollover all the ea,rth. The stare appear at noon day, The earth eland -- dere and throbs, There an earthgeeer LUMINOUS PALACE. At the 1900 Paris Exposition there is to be a glass house. The material of the walls will be hollow glass bricks, molded like bottles. The grottoes will be of spun•glass, the flying figure above the cupola, will be transparent glass. Although this 'style of glass bricks is now a staple manufacture, this Will be the firsi building con- structed entirely along this line. The color effects Will be beautiful, 0.na at night it will be dazzling. Glass bouses, while restricting the ,occupante from tietowing stones, may become popular on account of their fire -proof quali- ties and the fact that they let in light and keep. out. 'dampness. LARGEST LOAVES. The largest loaves of bread. baked in the world are those of France and Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy 18 baked in laves 2 feet oe 3 feet long; weile in France the loaves are made in the seape of very long rolls, 4 feet or 6 feet in length, and in many eases 6 feet. RUSSIAN' PILGRIMS. The greatest pilgrimages to the Holy Leati are undertaken by tee Russians. tt is estimated that betWeet 20,000 and 40,000 Russians visit Paleetine every year. • er. Physical anguish could not his hungering lieart and eager "min and, observant eyes from recognizin his heart's love. •The disciple . . whom he loved. John, who, it woul seem, Wile her nephew. Woman, b hold thy son! The phrase "woman was a highly respectful mode of a dress. DA literal translation into En lith cannot reproduce its effect: Tit exclamation Behold. occurs four tim in this chapter--"Behola the man "Behold your King 1" "Belold t eon!" and "Behold thy mother J'—a a sermon might be preached on the four uses of the word. fax thee sho what Jesus was and what he reveal that men should be. This was t "third word." from the cross. Fro that hour that disciple t6ok her u to his own home.. The legends of t early Church tell us that adary we with John to Ephesus, and was th most tenderly cared fax by him many years. "Between verses 27 and 2/3 comes 'fourth word" --"My God, my G,od, w hest thou forsaken me?" which is !first verse of Pea. 22. , 28. Knowing that all things w now accomplished, that the script might be fulfilled. Jesus had and taken to fulfill all that peephecy predicted of toil and suffering for love of man, and hin work was done. I thirst. This was the "1 word" from the cross. See Matt. 27 CoMpare PM. 69.21.• , 29, A vessel full of vinegar wIc, the posoa, or ordinary dein B*Milll soldiers. We read of a of tender-hearted Jewish wome provided drugged posea to mitigate sufferings of dying criminals. Hy &hyssop reed; Matthew and Mcork simply "a reed." The greatest le of the hyssop is not more than 1 or four feet, "and, as Dr. Vincent we have here a hint of the heig the erase. 80. 11 18 tinished. Prophecy filled. This is the "sixth word" the cross. Ha bowed his head, gave up the ghost. "What mortal so resign himself at will to sle Christ resigned himself when he ed to die? What man with Buell doin of the wiii lays aside lila ments as Christ laid aside the el ol the flash? Wind: man o r departs from +Me .ptace to allot Christ departed from his mortal What must we not liopeeor tea hiepower when he shall come to if so great appeatedhie power he died ?"—Saint Augastine, gives his final words, "Father, i hands I commend. my spirit"—th enth ward" from the cress. , et AN OCEAN OF TEA. It hut been calculated tea thing like 1,250,600 pinta of imbibed yearly by Lohdoners• lite teapot necessare to con automat, if propetly shaped e.ernfortably take in the who Paul's Cathedral. •