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NOTES AND COMMENT$.
Tenable to 'secure euPPori, for her
policy of maintainine tee integritY of
Diann, Great Britain nes signed au
agreement with Russia, Witten virtu-
ally provides for the partition of the
empire. s'eb,e immediate puxpoee of
the agreement is to prevent COMB -
felt of the conflicting 'Mine and in-
terests a the leve Powers in Cnina,
end to that end. tne British Govern-
ment undertakes not to seek to obtain
lailvvay and other concessions for her-
• self or ter any otner Power ill North.
Dhina, that is the part of the eraPire
lying northeast • of the great wall.
• Hassle, on her pert, gtves a similar
pledge witia respect to the great valley
a the Yang -tee -Kiang, extereljeg
from the Yellow sea to Thibet, and
from the watershed of the streams
flowing into the river fromi the north
to that of the stream,' joining it from
• the south. Tlaroughout this vast
. region, the leanest and most produc-
tive in the ernole empire, with a popu-
• lation estimated. at 150,000,000, and in
its western ,eections tilled with •min-
erals, the cominereial interests of
Great Britain are to be supreme. In
this arrangenaent, the terms of wbich
are set forth in a note, there is no
forinal partition of the empiee, but oh
the contrary, an'official disclaimer of
it the third clause stating that the
integrity and badependenee of China
Is to be upheld, prOcedure which was,
a course, to be expeeted.
With an empire like China, possess-
ed. of a government recognize& by all
civilized nations and maintabsing
diplomatic relations witla them, neith-
er power would. proceed upon asstimp-
tion that its territories were to be di-
vided with as little regard to the
rights of its rulers as would, an Afri-
oat kingdom. The agreement only
marks the definite abandonment of the
open door" policy in China, and. the
substitution tnerefoi of the "sphere of
influence," which, however, extended
over any territory, is eertain sooner
or later • to end. in its annexation. That
this will be the result in the present
ease every competent observer of the
situation believes; for with Chinafast
falling into anarehy, it is safe to as -
„sums •tnat when the dynasty is nolong-
er able to maintain order, the two con-
tracting powers will promptly under-
take the • adrainistration of their • re-
spective spheres. Even should the
break-upnbe long delayed, it is cer-
tain that with the completion ore the
trans -Siberian railway through Man-
churia, Russia will practically control
, in her sphere; and that, when British
capital is largely employed in develop-
ing the mines, railways and river trans-
portation of the Yang-tse region, the
British government will afford. it a
measure of protection tantamount to
• effective occupation.,
-
When 'partition comes, Great Brit-
ain and Russia will have it in their
power to close the markets of their
spheres to other nations, a possibility
so patent that closely following their
agreement comes the forecast of Ger-
many's demand for the valley of the
Hoatig-Ho, and of France' for the de-
finition of her claims in the far south.
As respects japan, the •arrangement
• probably destroys her hope of secur-
ing a foothold on the Chbaeae main-
land, for to the British in the Yang-
tse valley the presence of Japan on
the Po Kien littoral, will be unwel-
• come, as her influence in Korea will
be to Russia in Manchuria. As for
the United States, now in every re-
spect a first cities power in the Far
East, it will get, because of its failure
• to join England in keeping China, open,
just such privileges of trade as the
other- powers choose to give it, though
' • promise is made that no existing*privi-
lege will be witbdrawn.
bON'T WAIT.
If you've abything good to say of a
' man,
Done wait till he's laid to rest,
For the eulogy spoken when hearts
are broken *
Is an empty tiling at best,
Ah, the blightedflower now droop-
• ing lonely
Would perfeme the mountain -side,
If the sun's bright ray had but shone
to -da y,
And the pretty bud espied.
If you've any alma to give to the
• poor,
Don't watt till you hear the cry
• Of wart distress in the wilderness,
Lest the one forsook may die,
Oh, beaelsen to poverty's sad la-
ment!
• Ile swift her wants t� allay;
Don't spurn God's, poor from the fav-
ored doer,
As you hope for mercy one day.
Don't wait for another to bear the
burden
Of sorrow's irkeeme load;
Let yew- naiad extend to a strieken
friend •
As he totters along We's road.
And if you've anything good to say of
Mail,
Don't wait till he's laid at reat,
For the eelogy epoke n When the
hearts are broken
Is an empty thing at best,
LIVING CREA,TURE.
The oldest livieg ereature in the
world belotigs to Walter Itothschild. It
is a giant tortoise, weighing a quar-
ter; ot a ton, and it has A kriown liee
of 150 year&
I
THE KILLING OF STEPHEN,
REV. DR. "PALMAG$PEAKS OF THE
GREAT CRIME.
The People Would Not Listen to IBm, But,
Iniorad, l'hey Stoned lltnt to Death
Stephen hted Caring Into Heaven and
With a Prayer Or Ills Enemies -The Dr,
Shows rive Pfeturen of the Rene.
A despateh from Washington says:
—Rev. Dr, Talmage preaelaed from the
following "ext :---” 13enold I • see the
heavens opened, and the' on of an
standing on the right hand of God.
Then they cried out with a loud voice
and stopped their ears, and ran up-
oe bien with one accord, and cast nim
Out of the city, and stoned him ; and
the witneseeslaid down their clothes
at a young man's feet, whose name
was Saul. And they stoned Stele:ten,
calling upon God and- saying; Lord
Jesus receive my , And • he
kneeled down, and criea with a loud
voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their
enarge. And siernen, he had said this,
he fell asleep."—Acts vit. 56-60.
Stephen had bee e preaching a rous-
ing sermon, and the people ,ceuld not
stand it. They resolved to do as men
sometimes would like to do in this, if
they dared, with some plain preacher
of righteousness—kill him. The only
way to silence this Marl was to knock
the breath out of him. So they tushed
Stephen out of the gates of the city,
and with eurse, and whoop, and bel-
low they brought him to the cliff, as
was he custom when they wanted, to
take away life by stoning.' Having
brought him to the edge of the Glut
they pushed him off. After he had
fallen .they came and looked down, and
seeing' that be was not yet dead, they
began, to drop stones upon him, stone
after stone, stone after stone Amid
this horrible rain of missiles Stephen
clambers up on his knees and folds his
hands, while the blood drips from his
temples to his cheeks, from his cheeks
to his garments, frora his garments to
the ground; and then, looking up, he
makes two prayers, --one for himself
and one for his murderers. 'Lord Jesus,
receive ray spirin" that was for him-
self. • "Lord, lay not this sin to their
charge;" that vsas for his assailants.
Then, from pain and loss of blood, he
swooned away and fell asleep.
• I want to show you t to -day five pic-
tures. Stephen gazing into heaven.
Stephen looking at Christ. Stephen
stoned. Stephen in his dying prayer.
Stephen asleep. ,
First look at Stephen gazing into
heaven. J3efore you take a leap you
want to know where you are going to
land. Before you climb a ladder you
want to know to what point the ladder
reaches. And it was right that'
Stephen, within a few moments of
heaven, should be gazing into it. We
would all clo well to be found in the
same posture. There, is enough in
heaven to keep us gazing. A man
of large wealth may have statuary in
the hall, and paintings in the satine-
ts:ten and works of art in all parte of
the house, but he has the chief picture
in the art gallery, and there, hour
after hour, you walk with catalogue
and glass and ever increasing admira-
tion. Well, neaven is the gallery
where God has gathered the chief
treasures of His realm. The ,whole
universe is His palace. In this lower
room where we stop there are many
adornments; tessellated floor of ame-
thyst and cowslip, and. on the winding
cloud -stairs are stretched out canvas
on which commingle azure, and purple,
and eattron and gold. Bue heaven is
the gallery in which", the' chief glories
are gathered. There are the bright-
est robes. There are the richest
OrOWI1S. There are the highest en-
hilarations. John says of it: "The
kings of the earth shall bring their
honor and glory ento it." And. I see
Um procession forming, and in the line
come all empires, and. the stars spring
up into an arch for the hosts toe:larch
under. They keep step to the sound
of earthquake and the pitch of meal-
anehe from the mountains, and the
flag they bear is the flame of a con-
suming world, ancl all heaven turns
out with harps and trumpets and. my-
riadevoieed acclamation of angelic dom-
inion to welcome them in, and so the
kings of the earth bring their honour
and their glory into it. Do you
wender that good people often stand,
like Stephen, looking into heaven? We
have a great many friends there.
There is not a man in this house to-
day so isolated. in life bat there is
some one in heaven with whom he once
shook hands. As a man gets older,
the nturtbet ef his celestial acquaint-
ances very rapidly m.ultiplies. • We
have not had one glimpse of them since
the night we kissed them good -by and
they went • away; but still we stand
gazing at henvezi. AS when some of
our friends go across the sea, we, stand
on the doele or on the , team -tug, and
watch them, and after •awhile • the
hulk of the vessels disappear, and then
there is only a patch of sail on the
sky, and soon that is gone, ancl they
are all out: of sight, and yet we stand
looking in the same direction; so when
our friends go away from us into the
fature world we keep looking down
through the Narrows, and gazing + and
gazing as though we expeeted that
they would come out and stand on
some evening deed, and give us one
glimpse of their blissfue and trans-
figured faces. While you long, to
join their corapanionettip, and the
years and the days go with such
tedium that they break • your heart,
and the viper of pain, and sorrow, and
bereavement keeps gnawing at your
vitals, you still stand, like Stephen,
gazing into heaven, You weeder if
they have changed &nee youssaw them
last. You wonder it they would le -
cognize your fade now, eo changed has
it been wins trouble, You wonder if,
amid the myeled delights they have,
they &ire as amen for you as they used
to when they gave you a helping heed
and. put their shoulder undeo your bur-
dens, Yen wonder if they loole any
older; and sometimes, in Die evening
-
tide, when the house is all quiet, 'nu
wonder it Yoe ehould call them by
their first name if they would not ans-
wer; and perhaps einnetimes you do
make the experiment, and when no
one but God and yourself are there
you distinctly call their names and
listen, and wait, and sib gazing into
heaven.
• pass on now, and. eee Stepben look-
ing upon Christ, My texi eays he
saw the Son Mee/eau at tee right hand
of God. Just how Cluest looked jA
this world, just now He looks in hea-
ven, we cannot say. A writer in the
tine of Christ says, describing the
Saviour's personal appearance, that He
had blue eYes and tight complexion,
and a eery graceful structure; but I
suppose it was all guess -work. The
painters of the different ages have
tried to imagine tbe feetures Chrnit,
anti put them upon canvas; but we
will have to watt until. with our own
eyes we see }Ern and with our own
ears we can hear hint. And yet there
is a way of seeing and bearing Hire
now. I have to tell yeti that unless
you. see and hear Christ on earth, you
will never eee and her Him in
heaven. Look! Tneoe He is. 13ebeld
the Lamb of God. Can you not see
Him?• Then pray to God to take the
seams eff your eyes. Look that way—
try no look that way. His voice comes
down to you this day-epornes down to
the blindest, to the deafest: soul, say-
ing; "Look unto me, all ye ends of
the earth, and be ye saved, for I am
God, and there is none else." „Pro-
clamation of eniversal emancipation
for alt slaves. Proclamation of iiniver-
sasthl'eaaniriZtdY thfore nAaltalzeuster
uc;
his table; George 1. entertained the
Lords of England at a banquet; Napo-
leon IR,. wetcomed the Czar of Rus=
sia and the Sultan of Turkey to his
fast; bat bali nie, ye -whe know most
of the world'S history, what other ktng
evee asked the abandoned, and the for-
• lorn, and the wretthed, and the out -
east, to come and sit down beside him?
0, wonderful invitatien1 You can
take it out to -day, and stand at the
head of the darkest alley in all this
city, and say: "Conn.! Clothes for
your rags, salve for your sores, a
throne for your eternal reigning." A
Christ that talks like that, and acts
like that, and pardons like that—do
you woader that Stephen stooci look-
ing at Illrn? I hope to spend eternity
doing the same thing. I must see
Him. I mast look upon that face once
clouded with my sin, but now radient
with my pardon. I. want to tench that
hand that knocked off ray shackles,
want to hear that voice which pro-
nounced my deliverance. Behold Km,
little children, for if you live to three
score years and ten, you will see none
so fair. Benoit' Him, ye aged ones, for
Ha only can shine through the dimness
of your failing eyesight. Beheld .Elim,
earth. Behold -Him, heaven. What
a moment when all the nations of the
saved shall gather around Christi All
faces that way. All thrones that way,
gazing', gazing on Jesus. .
"His worth, if all the nation e knew,
Sere the whole earth would love him
, too."
I pass on now, and. look at Stephen
stoned. The world. has always want-
ed to get rid of good men. Their very
life is an assault upon eviekedness.
Out with Stephen through the gates
of the city. Down with him over the
precipices. Let every man OGMB and
drop a stone upon his head. But these
men did not so much kill Stephen as
they killed them,selves. Every etone
rebounded upon them. While these
murderers are transfixed by the scorn
• of all good men, Stephen lives in the
admiration of all Christendom. Step-
hen stoned; but Stephen alive. So all
good inen must be pelted. • All vobe
will live godly in Christ Jesus must
stiffer penecution. It is not eulogy ot
a man tb say that everybedy likes him.
Show me any one who is doing all Ins
duty to State or Church, and I will
show yea scores of hien who utterly
abhor hm. lf all men speak web of
you, it is because you are either a lag-
gard or a dolt. If a steamer makes
rapid progress through the waves, the
water will boil and foam all around
it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will
hear the carbines click. When 1 see
a man with voice, and money, and in-
fluence, all on the right side, and
SeM8 caricature him, and some sneer
at hint, and BOMB d01101.1flee him, and
men who pletend to be actuated by
right motives censpire to cripple
him, to east hire out, to destroy him,
1. say: "Stephen stoned." When • I
see a man in some great moral or re-
ligious reform battling against grog -
shops, exposing wickedness in high
places, by a ctive means trying to purify
the Church and better the world's
estate, and. I find thet the newspapers
anathematize him, and men, even good
men, oppose him, and denounce him,
because, though he does good, he does
not de it in their way, I say: "Stephen
stoned." The world, with infinite
spite, took after John Frederick Ober-
lin, and. Robert Moffatt, and. Paul and
Stephen of the text. But you notice,
my friends, that while they assaulted
bim they did not succeed really in kill-
ing him. You may assault a good
man, but you cannot kilt hire. On the
day of his death, Stephen spoke be-
fore a few people in tlae Sanhedrim ;
this Sabbath morning he mistresses all
Christedora I Paul the Apostle stood on
Mars Hill addressing a handful of phi-
losophers who knew not so much about
science as a school girl. of Packer In-
stitute or a school bey of the Poly-
technic:- To -day he talks tcrenll the
millions of Christendom about the
vvonners of justification and the glories
of resurrection. john Wesley was
eowled down by the mob to whom he
preached., and they threw bricks at
him, and they denounced him, and
they jostled him, and they spat upon
him, and yet to -day, in all lands, he
is adanitted to be the great father of
Methodism. Booth's Mallet vacated
the Preeidential chair ; but from that
spot of coagulated blood on the
floor in the box of Ford's Theatre there
sm.ahg up the new life of a nation!
ntephen stollen; but Stephee. alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his
dying prayer. His first thouglat was
not how the stone hurt his bead, noe
whet woulc1( heel:Mae of his body. His
first thought was about his • Spirit.
"Lord jesue, receive my spirit." The
meederer standing on the trap-door,
the black cap being drawn over' his
head. before the execution, may grims
ace aboet tbe future; but you arid I
have no shame in eonfessing sorne
enxiety about where we are going to
COME', out. luu ars not all betty.
Theee is Witnitt you 8 EMIL 1 see it
irradiating yout countenanoe. Some
-
tittles 1 am ahashen before alt audience,
not; becauee 1 come meter your oily-,
&cal eyesight, but neeauee I realize tee
truth teat 1 stead before so many immortal spirits, Tee probability is
ihat Your body will at Met fiud a
sentlitere in sweet of the 'eenseteriee
that surround, thia city. There is ne
doubt, but that your obsequies will be
decout aead reepectine and you will be
able to PilloW yetiv brad. under the
maple, or tee Norway spruce, or the
cypress, or the blossoming Or ; but,
tehdi,s eveibiraltt aubiorueutuwaulnehwtelltePthhaent babe?ieir-
What guide will estion it? -What gate
Will open to receive it? What cloud
will be cleft for lis pathway? After
is gob beyond ilia light of oue eau
will there be torehes lighted for it the
east: tie the way'? Will the soul have
to travel througli long deserts before
it reaches the good land? Dewe should
lose our pathway, will there be a
castle at whosegate we may aelt the
way • to the city? 0, this mysterious
spirib within us .11 has tree wines,
but it is en a cage now, It is locked,
fast to keep it; but let the deer of
dais Gag e•pexi tee least, and tint soul
es off. —Bargee's wing °quid not oaten
it. The lightnings are not swift
enough to take up with it. When the
soul leaves the body it takes fifty
world e at a bound. And I have no
anxiety about, it? Have you no anxi-
tole, when the house is all quite, you
do with my body when my soul is gone,
or whether you believe in cremation
or inhumation. I shall sleep just as
well in a wrapping of sackcloth as in
satin lined eagle's dovvia. But my
soul—befor 1 leaee this house this
morning 1 will find 'out where it is
going to land. Thank God for the
intimation of my text, that when we
die Jesus takes as. That answers all
questions for me. What though there
were massive -bars between here and,
the city of tient, Jesus could,remove
them. What though there, were
great Saharas of- darkness, Jesus could
illuraine them. What though 1 get
weary on the way, Christ could lift me
on His omnipotent shoulder. What
tlaough there were chasms to cross,
His hand could transport me. Then
let Stephen's prayer be my dying lit-
any: "Lord. Jesus, receive my spirit."
It may be in that hour we will be too
feeble to say a long prayer. It may
be in that hour we will not be able to
say the "Lord's Prayer," for it has
seven 'Petitions. Perhaps we may he
toe feeble even to say the infant
prayer our mothers taught us
which John Quincy Adams, seventy
years of age, said every night when
he put his head upon his pillow:—
"Now I /ay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep."
We may be too feeble to employ
either, of these faultier forms; but
this prayer of Stephen is so short, is
so concise, ts so earnest, is so com-
prehensive, we. surely will be able to
say that: "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit." 0, if that.prayer is answer-
ed, how sweet it will be to die. This
world is clever enough to us. Perhaps
it has treated us a great deal better
than we deserve to be treated; but if
on the dying pillow there shall break
the light of that better world, we shall
have no •more regret about leaving
this life for the next than a man re-
grets leaving a small, dark, damp
house. for one. large, beautiful, and.
capacious. • That dying minister in
Philadelphia, some years ago, beauti-
fully depicted it when, in the last mo-
ment, he threw up his hands and crie,d
out: "I move into the tient."
Pass on now, and 1 will show you
ma more picture, and that is Stephen
asleep. With a pathos and simplicity
pecienar to the Scriptures, the text
says of Stephen: "He 'fell asleep."
you say, "what o, place that was
to sleep! A. hard rock under him,'
stones failing down upon him, the blood
streaming, the mob howling. That a
place it was to sleep!" And. yet my
text takes that symbol of slumber to
describe his departure. so sweet, was
ie so contented was it, so peaceful
was it. Stephen had lived a very
laborious life. His chief work had
been to care for the poor. How many
loaves of bread he distributed, how
many bare eeet he had sandaled, flow
many cots of sickn,ess and distress he
blessed with ministries of kindness and
love, I do not know; but from the way
he lived and the way he preached, and
the way lie died, I know he was a la-
borious Christian. But that is all
over, now. He has pressed the cup to
the last fainting lip. He has taken
the last insult from his enemies. The
last stone to whose crushing weight
he is eusceptible has been hurled.
Stephen is dead! The. disciples come.
They take him up. They wash away
the • blood from the wounds. They
straighten out • the bruised limbs.
They brush back the tangled hair
from ' the brow, and then they pess
around. to look upon the calm counten-
ance of hini who had lived for the
poor and died for ttte teeth Stephen.
asleep! I nave seen the sea driven
with the hurricane until the tangled.
foam caught in the rigging, and wave
risine, above wave seemedas if about
to storm the heavens, and then I
have seen the tempest drop, and the
waves crouch, and everything become
smooth and buruished as though a
camping place for the glories of
heaven. Sc, I have seen a man, whose
life has been tossed and driven, com-
ing down, at Met to an infinite calm,
in ivhich there was the huh of
heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep! I
saw such an one. He fought all his
days against poverty and against
abase. They traduced his name.
They rattled at the door knob while
be was dying, with dens for debts he
could not pay; yet the peace of God
brooded over his pillow, and while the
world. 'faded, heaven.davtined, and the
deepeuing twilight of earth's eight
was only the opening twilight
heaven's " Mena. Not a sigh. Not a
struggle. Hush! Stephen sleeps!
.have not the faculty to tell the
weather. I could not have told yester-
day that this would be a day of cloud
end darkness. 1 can never tell by
the setting sun whether there will be
a di:bright or not. / cannot tell by
the blowing ot the wind whether it
will be tair weether or foul on the
enorrow. But I can prophe,sy, and I
will prophesy, whet weather it will be
when you, the Christain, come to die.
Yon may have it very rotten new, It
May he this week one aenoyance, the
next ahother annoyance, It may be
this year one beteaveramit, the next
another betetiveniellt. Before this
year has paseee you nlaY have to bee
fee bread, or aek for a scuttle of
coal or a pair of shoes; but spreed
your death couch timid the leaves ee
the forest, or meke it out of the straw
of a pauper's but, the, wolf in the
jungle howling close be, on inexorable
creditors jeritieg .the pillow from
under your dying bead—Cbrist will
come in and. darkness will itto out.
And thoegh there may be no band to
()lose your eyes, and, no breaston
which to rest .yc,ur dying head; _ no
eandie to lift tne night, tlie miors of
God's banging garden will regale yoer
soul, Etnd at youe bedeide will hale the
chariote of the king. No more rents to
PCI', no more agoey because flour as
gone up, no more struggle with " the
world, Om flese, and the devil ;" but
Peace—long deep, everlasting pew*.
Stepnen asleep
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From winch Dens ever wake lo weep'
A palm and undisturbed repose,
'Uninjured by the last of foes.
" Asleep in Jesue, far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But there is still a blessed sleep,
From which noae ever wake to weep."
You have seen enough for one moon-
ing. No one can successfully exemino
more -than five pictures in a day.
Therefore we stop having seen the
elheLer of Divine Raphaels—Stephiin
gazing into heaven; Stephen looking
at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen in
his dying prayer; Stephen asleep.
BAD NEWS FROM PITCAIRN ISLAND.
The Natives Said to its Degenerating -A
Mierder In ille Settlement.
It will surprise many to hear of the
unfavorable report teat has recently
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PRACTICAL NOTES,
eeVp/Ic'sheer1.1, Marybbs stood.
otieorigin
?J
ithicmot)riagtthael
le imperfect, "was standing' or tem-
thaued standing, after the two disciples
had gone away, Weeping. In an
agony et tears, As she wept, site
steeped, dewn toad looked into the eeP-
etcher, She had come tethe sepulcher
a second time, following Peter and
John. If her feith was weak, her love
was setting. She could not ba CQM,
forted, for the believed that eome in-
dignity had been offered to her Lord's
body, and she had mime enough for
ties suspicion, Ihe only alleviation of
ber sorrow was to lieges- near the
Place where she had, seen him laid. The
"sepuleher" was doubtless a magni-
ficent structure, hewn out of elae solid.
rock, but with an entrance of eneonrY,
and Probably arenitecturally beauti-
eul. Our 'Lord, in fulfellment of pro-
phecy, was "with the, rich in his
death;" Ins 'entombment was wetly
and magnificent, like that af the an-
cient kings.
12, Seeth. Beholdeth, Two angels.
John doesnot tell as much about ang-
• els as do the other evangelists. In
been published by the Colonial Office white. The eater of the garments of
in London concerning the inhabitants
ehe fact is tb.a.t tey
had, and the other at the feet, where
are tee descendants of tbe Bounty
the body of Jesus had lain. On the
mutineers, who landed on this solitary
table or slab where those who anoint -
rock in 17e0 with some Tahitian WO- •
ed him had left his remains.
°2°2 and' few raati of the same.is- le. Woman, -env s
irepeest thou? e'Vlay
the transfigured Saviour; the 'radi-
1 known h
o!, Piteairn Islend in the South Pact- ance at eternity." The one at the
lands. Most reports about the de- &meld she not weep? The angels
seendants have represented them as
being very innocent and happy folk
and living in a sort of Garden ef
Eden.
According, however, to the corres-
pondence published by the Colonial Of-
fice, tbe islanders are "lee in morals
and weak in intellect. They are fast
degenerating, and unless something is
{ and had known of his burial; but that
speedily doiee to, alter their coedition his body should be stolen was anew
i
they will probably drift into hopeless grief. Her one great desire s to
might have told her, but she was to
learn from a higher source. She saith
unto teem. Her grief has so absorbedi
ter attention that she is not terrified;
by an apparition which under ordin-
ary &reurastances would, eave over -1
whelmed. her. They have taken awayi
my Lord, and I know not where they
have laid him. She had no hope of
added lite, for she had seen him die,
tle trouble, they have no incentive to can
peTwehreGierssf.ea"0
isolation and procuring food with lite
imbecility. , Living in almost complete recover that body.
mental and physical 1 often feel the approach of a visitor
I tvi thout distinctly seeing or hearing
: 1 conscious of another presence as we
-
le. She Wetted herself back. "We
"
imagine, also, that she became
tthth8alit' the few families on the l laim. It may be, too, that the angels,
during the last century bas probably sign
island lave continually intermarried I looking
of his coming."—Westcott. Saw
toward. the Lord, showed. some
mental well being. per neeetteey"eyettte 1 that it was Jesus. Here was
and , jesus standing, and knew not
beea detrimental to their •".^.;^' I
tiSh warship they. certainlY led the : but who he was her agony,
one about to address her,
before they were discovered by a Brie' some
most harmless of lives, under the pious of soul led. her not to inquire. Dr.
tuition of John Adams, the
last of the :Vincent calls attention to the delicate
matineers. Scree of deem, however, shading of the narrative as shown by
have recently developed vicious and the words translated. "saw" and
criminal instinets, and. in 1897 a raux--1 neW. The first mdtcates a look
der was committed. s Le adfas t and inquiring as at a
Tbe government consists of a Etresi- i stranger; the second indicates a know -
dent' and a Parliament of five mera- ledge, or rather the lack of it, hased
men and men voting. About mate a -inward, conscious, sure conviction of
p
on spiritual rellowship and affinity, an
ars, elected, annually, both the wo- '
year a British man-of-war brings them his identity.
clothing and luxuries, and than, if ' 15. Why weepest thou? Jesus re -1
necessary, judicial cases are disposed petits the question of the angels. 1
of, but serious crime is eery rare. r'These are the first recorded of the I
When the murder was committed in Iwords which Jesus spoke after leis re -
1891 the Judge of the Fiji Islands had surrectimei and We may
to try the trirain.al. Alcoholic drinlox sense whieli they immediately convey to
well interpret
to make a voyage to Pitcairn Island there to mean something more than the
anTabatobiaaleacnodairse afborobuitddtewno. les hong mules hong
Henceforth let no believing
soul sorrow for the dead, as others
from east to west and one .mile breed. which have no hope; foe, as their Sav-
11 has no coral reef like the other is.
iour who died is risen again, even so
lands in those waters. The cliffs, cov- 1 them also which sleep in, Jesus will
1
ered with luxurious vegetatioGod bring with him."—Charton. StuPe
straight from. the sea. in picturesque 'Dosing him to be tbe gardener.
outlines. es,, riseThe landing pla e f
on
For who else would be at this hour in
which Bounty Bay, on the north coast
is the one most generally used, are dif-
ficult of approach and constantly
lashed by surf. Adamstown and its
plantations are situated. on a plateau
overlooking Bounty Bay from a height
of 480 feet. The son is fruitful and,
cocoa pains and breadfruit trees were
introduced by the settlers. 13rooks
and springs are scarce and rainwater
has to be used for drinking purposes.
In 1860 part of the population was
transferred to Norfolk Island. The re-
mainder have now inexeased to 141
persons.
DANGEROUS DRUGS.
IJssofEtpadnehii earCS May be Attended
IV I th VW al
The possible result of the indiscrim-
inate use of patent eure-alls is just be-
ginning to impress itself upon the pub-
lic. 4 woman died in Pittsburg last
week fee= an overdose of a eettain.
headache, raedicine. The drug had not
been regarded as dangerous, although
raany,physicians still maintain that all
patent medicines are fakes. Yet the
cese in question was too startling to
pees without soree effort to.evert what
might become an evil of large propor-
tions The lady in miestion died 20
minutes: after swallowing the dose.
The compound must therefore have
contained some powerful drug, one
which is dangerous under certain con-
ditione only, it iS true, but still one
which the general publienught not, to
hatidle. Anyone • knowing anything
about the human body knows that the
ailment corainonly known as headache
may axese not from one, but from any
ooe or all of, a dozen causes. It may
be the result of eye -strain, indigestion,
a bad liver, dieeased kiddeys, ar simply
exhaustion To apply the 'same rem-
edy for all these various causes is Man-
ifestly absurd. Thole are, of eourse,
many dregs which not only do in a
measure what they claim, but are also
harmlees. But the majority ere to be
avoided.
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
Edith—How tuany cigarettes do you
smoke io a day?
Perey—timino, ni buith, II's weally
too claimed mitch of an effort to count
them.
Edith—Deer me I You meet ernoke
ae many as ten then.
that suburban garden? If thou haat
borne him hence. :Chese are the words
of timid hope, rather than despair. If
it is the gardener who has removed the
reinains of her Lord, then it was at
least a friendly removal. Tell MB
tvhere thou hest laid hira, and. I will
take him away. Her sympathy out-
runs her sense, She could not take
him away, but she has a half feeling
that hie poor body is in eoanebody's
way, end there is not the slightest re-
minder of his life that would not bet
a treasure to her.
16. Mary. }ler words in the prev-
ious verse show how she was taken up
with her deep sorrow, but now she
hears her own name spoken in the
tones of that familiar voice which had
pronounced her sins forgiven. "Our
Lord," says Bishop Andrews, "(pens
her ears first" and her eyes afterward."
&Rh unto him, Rabboni, "Saith unto,
him in Hebrew, Rabboni." Revised
Version;.Galilean Aramaic phrase.
'Whicb is to say, Master, And there-
fore presumes a return to the condi-
tion of the old life—a mistaken pre-
sumption.
17. Touch me not. This command
is not so hard to explain as is our
Lord's explanation of it. For I' have
not yet ascehded to my Father. The ,
verb for "touch" prirearily means "to
fasten to," and therefore "Touch me
not" may mean Cling not to me. Im-
pede me not, Dr. Vincent interprets
it as explaining it to Mary that she '
was mistakeri in supposing the old re-
lations between her Lord and _herself
about to be renewed. The old inter-
course by means of sight, sehse, and
touch can never again go on, "Hence-
forth con:mein= with Christ will be
by faith through the Spirit, and thie
corneae -Jai= will become possible
thrOugh my ascending to tbe Father,"
"The lesson to Christians is that they
must learn to exalt and spiritualize
even their love fee Christ, nit lower-
ing it to the settle of earthly oleos-
tioes,"—Churton, In pde,ce of "my
Father" the Revised Version, eollow-
ing the best texts, omits the prououn,
and reads, "the Father," ev'hich erne
phasizes the beauty of the last part
df, the verse. Go to ray beethren. fhe
tsetwunadderoifrigptealeyveern cioopeaadoe-tei ibnutothkr
iney
Father, and your Father, The Father
of all, His tettherhooel ici one/ that nes
at
listetatto ethllulatnemsuarnriettyt.ionThisi iihataittalyate
tiobe
beginning of the association, Ile 15
not ashamed to eall uis "beethren." To
my Goa, and your God, The privi-
legee of cotetant commuhion with
God, winch you irave we
tbree yeare enjoy, are e
as Mieet
Mary Maf“laie HO eamuo
told the diseipien IlYs
"(Knuth telling" Teat she bad
seen tbe Lord. Revised V (!,,r.
alon, I bave seen the Lord." Notoe
here the vale of personae testizeoey,
19. The seem day' at eveuitg, beixi
the first day of tbe tveek. Between tins
incident and the laet, come the appear-
ance of our Lorce to the two ditielftlee
going to Emmons Luke 24, 1,3-32, ann
hi appearaece to Peter, Luke 24. 34;
1 Case 15, 5. The evangelist repeate
" being tbe first day of the weei‘o
from verse 1, as if to remind his read-
eeti of the first consecration of the
Lord's Day, as it :le now called. Wreen
the doors, were &int where the diseiples
were assembled fee fear of the Jew*.
Teeyeact been desert and barred. The
word " asserabled" should be omitted,
Came jesus ancl stood in tne midst. Sil-
ently and miraculously opening the
doors. Peaces, be unto you. The conn,
mon greeting in the Orient, but mean-
ing immeasurably mere from the lip*
of tne Lord,
20. He showed unto them, hie handle
and his &de. • A nteciplaing theiri
doubts. Every wound was preceous to
them, although it is not likely that
they understood, even to the little de -
glee that we understand, how inticie
those wounds stood, for. Tnen were the
disciples glad when they saw the Lord,
See John 16. 22.
rne for
STRANGE TIONEYMOONS.
A ebort while since an adventurous
couple spent their first days of wed-
ded life on the summit of Mont Blanc,
The went,. extremely hazardous by
reason of terrific snowstorms, being
succeSsfully accomplished, the bride-
grooro, in the presence of the guides,
embraced his young wife, to wnom he
s -wore eternal fidelity, and received
from her lips an equally fervent assur-
ance, says a London paper• .
In the neighborhood of Dobschau, a
mall Hungarian town, there is an
extraordinary ice cave. In this cave,
some sixteen years ago, a couple name
ed Kolcsey, elected to pass tbe wee!,
immediately following their marriage*
They took with them a plentiful sup.
ply of rugs, blankets and warm cloth-'
ing, but notwitb.standing all precaue
tiona their experience was not of sJ
sufficiently pleasant nature to tempt
imitators.
walking tour may make an en.
durable honeemocee but to convert
the latter into a walking match seems
sadly incongruous with the rites of
Hymen. Such, however, was not the
opinion of one 'James Muir and his
young bride, who were united in wed-
lock last autumn. While courting
they had taken many a long walk to--
gether, during which a contention had
arisen respecting their pedestrian
ability. So high did this bickering
run that they resolved as soon as they,
were married, to put their respective,
claims. to the test by walking from
-London to Exeter, the bride being al-
lowed to go by train to Basingstoke,
a distance of forty-seven andthreee
quarter miles. No sooner had the knot
been tied than the newly married wifilt
toak a cab to the station, while the hese
band started off westward at a good
pace. In the result the latter was un-
gallant enough to win by over two
tlaough the lady kept the lea.ce
until Honiton, sixteen and one -halt
miles from the goal, was passed.
A month since a young couple frore
Birmanigham came to London on a
three days' honeymoon. Alighting at
Euston, they strolled down the Mary-
lebone road matil they &elated the
building that contains Mine. Tussa.udte
fanned collection. They entered and
so entranced were they by the won -
dere they beheld that they remained
until closing time. Next day they
were the first to enter the building
and the last to leave; and so also on
the two sueceeding ones. Then per-
force they had to return ladme, highly
delighted with their London wedding
trip.
The writer knows one couple who
spent their entire wedding day in
journeying round and round the inner
circle of the underground railway—a
novel experience that pleased themi
greatly; and of a pair who, in the daye
of the old Polytechnic, foreswore the
wedding, breakfast and affronted all
their friends by going direct from. the
church to that resort of scientific en-
tertainment, there to indulge in un-
limited diving -bell de,scents. Only two
years ago, also, te young man maned
Mare and his bride spent their weds
ding day on the Earlei Court Wheel.
Perhaps, however, the most strange
and gruesome idea of a honeymoon on
record was that tonceived by a well-
to-do tradesman of -Marseilles, named
Dever, weep in the autimen of 1880, on
his wedding day, travelled. to Paris
with his young wife to show bee the
execution of the 'miscreant Meneee
elou.
GUNNERY IN TIIE BRITISH NAVY,
The present efficient condition at
the Channel Squactron is a proof of
what an oeficer who has, his heart in
'his work can do says the London!
Saturday Review. Vice-Adtrairal, Sir
Barry Rawten, since he took over,
the senior command., has kept officere
and men busy ati every, land oe even.,
tion, not even the dread. "gridirotet
movement being neglected, Bttt
best work has been be connection
with the gunnery of the squadron;
Ile bas :spared no personal effort td
seeure efficiency in this most inapor-
tent branch of the navel work, eitert
going so fax as to design speouil tar-
gets. He followed this up by himself
superintericling the target practice.
With the result that the &looting
Was unusually accnrate. It is good
news that in nearly all the equadrons
'elite:meg is receiving iftcreased atten-
tion, •
N'EW VERSION.
Latigh, eitys Sinicus, and. the world
Itaieighcstoawtttyote Smile, and you trea
bt •
•'317ST SUITED liER.
don't think she leeks Very high to
marry ciClerk,
0, bet he Was irresistible, •She
foiled bite at tbek bangalh eotinter,