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Exeter Times, 1899-6-15, Page 32 THE EXETER. TINE$ NOTES eteiaL) COMMEIV'TS. e Rehaloes between England and the Transvael ere aaate boning strain- ed, the immediate cease being the peti- tion ot 21,000 &Well Sobjeas in the latter state anpealing to the Queen to THE DEMAND__ OF THE AGE, REV. DR. TALMAGE TELLS „OP VIE WORLD'S NEEDS, , went Is Expected of You lei Christian 111104 • 111.41 WOliteil-tiow to liave a Seat -mai thetsthin teetraetee--The Ayerage or numen eine-Tee De. neves 80100 40041 t0 TfioscItIlkewarati cheittialis g A despetch from Washington, says: e '-Rev. Dr. Talmage nreached erom the following text: --"Who knoweth wheth- er thou art come to the kingdom for e such a time as this?".; -.Esther iv. 14. e Esther the beautiful was the wife of b Ahasuerus the abominable. The time n had come for her to present a petition s to her infamous husband in behalf a ; the Jewish nation, to wlaich she had once belonged. She was afraid to un- derlake the work lest she lose her own _ 'life; but her unele, Mordecai, who had d brought be,r up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably sne had been raised up of God. for that ,pecu- liae mission. "Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such n a time as this?" • Esther lead her God -appointed work; you and I have ours. It is nay busi- ness this morning to tell you what , style of men and women you, ought to be in order that you may•meet the demand. of the age .in which God teas cast your lot, intervene AS auzorAin or the redsee a their geievaPoes. Tbeir ludictinev of the Transvaal govern formidable one, setting •ferth, amen other Chinas, that while the burden o taxation falls alum% entirely upon !th Britishand other "Outlanders," the enjoy none of the rights and privilege tehicb leader a real representativ government are granted Co citizen and taxpayers, The period in whic tnty may acquire citizenebip has bee extended from two to twelve year after renouncing British. allegiance they have no voice in the levying o taxes, in the control of education, o in municipal government, are not per mitted to hold /melte meetings, an must submit to trials by juries coin posed not of their peers, but of Boers The reforms promised after the eon stitutiounl agitation of 1895, ending 1 the Jameson raid, have never been ful filled, but instead further oppressiv measures have been enacted, amen thew the act destroying the liberty o the press, and the Alien expulsion lo.w permitting the President to expo British eubjects at will. Large sums have been spent on arm- aments directed against the Outland- ers, while educational grants have been withheld from them, the report of the industrial commission, which showed the reality of their griev- ances, has been ignored, and the police chosen from a class of the population hostile to the British. These are ser- ious charges, but though there is lit- tle doubt of their truth. and also that they violate the spirit, if not the let- • ter, of the London convention, Presi- dent Kreuger and. his Boers ha.ve thus far stubbornly refused to recede from the. stand. they have taken. To make the situation more difficult, the Afri- uancleale Bund, or Dutch party in South Africa, sympathizes with Kreuger, and its vietory in the elections in Cape Col- ony last month has given fresh stimu- lus to racial ill -feeling, and Again raised Dutch hopes of a Dutch federal republic of South Africa: Unfortun- ately, the effect of the criminal Tame- • son raid, executed in the name of England, has been to greatly diminish British influence in that quarter, so "that interference now in Transvaal affairs would almost certainly array the entire Dutch 'element in opposition, and so tend to defeat the prime object of British policy there, ethe formation of a eonfederation on the Canadian model. On the other hand, it is equally true that the continuance of the friction caused by the oppresston of the Out- lande,rs in the Transvaal, wil1. also tend to defeat it; so that the question the London government must decide is whether hope at redeess of the griev- ances of the Outlanders is so remote" that British policy would be best maintained by immediate interven- tion. An indication of that decision is given in the notice sent to President Kreuger that his recent grant of a dynarcnte monopoly to German firm is a breach of the convention. with Great Britain, and. that it will be im- possible to preserve the peace in South Africa, unless he fuifils his obligations to the Queen as a paramount power, and secures peace and order within ,his republin. What action will follow should. Kretiger ignore the notice has •yet to he known, and indeed, the whole matter is coraplicated by lack of a clear definition of the London conven- tion, and by the fact that selaelning promoters and syndicates with finan- cial interests in South Africa are using it to serve their own ends. GREATEST HEAT. Electrical Furnace Produtes a Temper afurc That Breaks he Mcdord, The highest temperature yet pro- • duced by man has been reached by an especially constructed furnace at the Columbia University. prof. Tuck- er.m, to whom belongs the honor of the at experiment, lead been working for e years on the, idea so successfully car- a reed out and has finally generated heat 20 degrees higher than the record made some time ago by Prof. Moiesion, of f,,) Paris, The heat of the sun is esti- T mated at 10,000 degrees. The heat generated at Columbia was 6,500. The effect roe tremendous. The electrical furnace was chargecj with a current of unusual power, 'Mitch was so high that under it steel, hard. quartz and even platinum were, vaporized As fot Ordinary crucibles, they disappeared • at onee in a little paff of smoke, It is difficult to appreelate, the degree of itu.ch heat without some eoraparisons, &aiding- water means a teinperaleire ot 212 degrees Faiheenheit and ted-hol iron 800 degrees. Steel melts at 3,000 degrees and boilslike water at 3,5,00 degrees. Commerotally the experi- inent is very useful because it has ehown that diamonds of marketable size and purity may be made ertific- ally, Further, it has given to cone- meree two products of almost incal- culable value-ealeiuna earbide and carbiae, ElUOC NS'S fteJL SUICIDAL ATTEMPTS, In Plumb. only 6,497 of 100,000 ttin tempts at suicide were euccessful. " If you have come ba here expecting to hear abstractions, discussed, or dry technicalities of religion glorified on this Sabbath morning, you have come Lo the wrong church; but if you really would like to knew what this age has a right to expect oi you as Christian men and women, then I, am ready, in the Lord's name, Lo look pea in .the face When Ono armies have plunged into battle, the officers of either a rmy do not want a philosophical dismission about the chemical properties of hu- man blood, or the nature of gunpow- der; they want some one to man •the batteries, and swab out the guns. And now, when all the forces, of light and darkness, of heaven and hell, have plunged into the fight, it is no 'time Lor us to give ourselves to the defini- tions and the formulas and the techni- calities ,ane. the conventionalitim of religion. What we want is, practical, earnest, concentrated, enthusiastic, and triumphant help. In the first place, in order to kmeet the especial demand of this age, you need to be an unmistakable, aggres- sive Christian. • laalf,and-half Chris- tians -we do not want any more of them. The Church of Jeans Christ will be better without ten ltousand of them. They are tha chief obstacle to the Church's advancement. I am speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your beconaing an earnest Christian are at, your hand this -Morning, and. there is a straight path for you into the broad daylight of God's folgiveness. You may have coma in here the bondmen Of this world, and yet before you go out of these doors this morning, yoa may become princes of the Lord, God Al - nighty. 'You remember what excite- ment there was in this country, some years ago, when. the Prince of 'Wales came here, and how the people rushed out by actual millions to see him. Why? Because they expected that some day he would sit upon the throne of England. But what was a..11 that corapaxed with the honor to whioh God calls you, to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty -yea, to be queens and kings unto God. • "They shall reign with Bina forever and forever." But, my friends, you. need also torbe aggressive Christians, et those per- sons who spend their lives in hugging their Christian grace and wonder= why they do not make any progress, How much robustness of healtia would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of the piety of the day is too exclusive. It hides it- self. It needs more fresh air, more outdoor exercise. There are many Christians who are giving their entire life to seinexammanion. They are feel- ing of their pulses tot see what is the condition of their spiritual health. How lung would a man have robust phy- sical health if he kept e.11 the days, and weeks, and months, and years of his lite feeling his pulse, instead of going out into active, earnest, every- day work? I was this past week amid the won- derful and bewitching menus growths of North Carohna. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers; and yet, when I would take up onerof hose cactuses and pull the leaves part, the beauty was all gone. You ould hardly tell that it had ever been lower. And there are, a great many Christian people in this day just ulling apaet their own Christian ex,- eriences to 'see what thers is in them, ed there is nothing left of thein, his style of self-examination is a damage instead bf an advantage to their Christian character. 1 rena,ern- bei when I was a bay I used to have a. small piece in the garden that I called iny own, and t planted corn there, and every few days I would pull it up to see how fast tit was grow- ing. And there are a great many Christian people in this day whose self-examination merely ' amounts to the pulling up of that which they enly yesterday or the day before planted, 0, my friends, if you want to. have. a stalwart Christien character, plant it right out of doors, in the great field of Christian usefulness, and though storms may coMe upon it, and thatigh the hot sun of trial may try to eon - sumo it, it will thrive until it becomes a great tree, in which the feting of heeven may have their habitation. I have no patience with these flower- pot Chrietians. They keep them- selves under shelter, and all their Christian experience in a smell and exclusive oleele, when then ottglat to plant it in the greet garden of the Lord, so that the whole atmosphere could be aromatic with their Christian use- fulness. 'What we want in the Church 1 • a co4 Ls r0,0r0 brawn 04 piety. The Century plant is wonderfully sugges, aye and wonderfully beautiful; but never leek at it without thinking of its parsinione, It lets whole geneea- ttens go be before it tante ,forth one bleesem; SO 1: have really more heart» felt admiration when I see the dewy tears in the blue eyes of tbe violete, for they eame every spring. My Christian friends, time is going by so rapidly, we cannot afford to be idle. A recent ,statistielan says that hurnan life now has an average of only thirty, • two years. From these thirty-two years you xaust subtraet all the time you take for sleep and the taking of food and recreation; that will leave noe about sixteen years., From those, stxteen years you raust subtract all Ina time that you are necessarily en- • gaged in the earning ef a livelihood; that will leave you about eight years, Froni thous eight years you must take all the days, and week, and months, -all the length of time that is passed in sickness; leaving you about one year in wiach to work for God. 0, my mut, wake upl How darest thou sleep in harvest time, and with so few hours in which to reap? So that I state it as a simple fact, that all the time ,that the vast majority of you will nave for the exclusive sexviree of God. will be less than one year l "But," says some man, -"I liberally support the Gospel, and the Church is open, and the Gospel is preached; ana. the spiritual advantages are spread before men, and if they want to be saved, let them come to be saved; 1 have discharged all my responsibi- lity." .Alit, is that the Master's spirit? Is there not an old. book somewhere that commands us to go out into the highways and the hedges and compel the people to come in? WJaat would have become of you and me if Chris had not come down off the hills of heaven, and if He had not come through the door of the Bethlehem caravanasary, and if he had. not with the crushed. hand of the crucifixio-n knocked at the iron gate of the sepul- chre of our spiritual death crying: "Lazarus, corae forth?" 0, my Chris- tian friends, this is no time for iner- tia, when all the farces of darkness seems to be in full blast, when steam printing presses are publishing infi- del tracts, when express railroad trains are. carrying ,messengers of sin when the clippers are laden with. opium an.cl rum, when the night air of our eitie,s is polluted with the laughter that breaks up from the ten thousand saloons of dissipation and abandonment,when the fires of the second death already are kindled in the cheeks of some who only a little while ago were incorrupt. 0, never sinoe the curse fell upon the earth has there been a Ume when it was such an awful thing for the Church to sleep. The great' audiences are not gathered in the Christian churches; the great audiences are gathered in tem- ples of sin, tears of unutterable woe their baptism, the blood of cruehed hearts the awful wine of their sama- ment, blasphemies then: litany, and the groans of the lost world the organ • dirge of their worship! Again, if you want to be qualifiedto meet the duties which this age de- mands of you, you must on the one bard avoid reckless iconcolitsra, and, on the other hand, not stiek too niuch to things because they are old. The air is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new the- ologie-s ; and I ani amazed to seehow so many Christians want only novelty in card.er to recommend a thing to their confidence; and so they vascillate and swing to and fro, and they are use- less, and. they are unhappy. New plans -secular, ethical, philosophical, religious, cis -Atlantic, trans-Atlantie, long enough to make a line reaching from the German universities to great Salt Lake City. Ah, my brother, do not take hold of a thing merely be- cause it is new. Try it by the reali- ties of a Judgment Day. But, on the other hand, do not adhere to anything merely because•it is old. There is not a single' enterprise of the Churola or the world. but ha e sometimes been scoffed at. There was a time when they d.erided. even Bible Societies; and when a few young men met about a haystack in lVfassulaussetts and. organ- ized the first missionary society ever organized. in this country, there Went laughter and ridicule all around the Christian Church. They said the undertaking was preposterous. And so also the ministry of Jesus Christ was assailed. People cried out: "Who ever heard of such theories of ethics and of government? Who ever notic- ed such a style of preaching as Christ had?" Ezekiel had talked of myster- ious wings and wbeels. Here came a man from Antioch, and Capernaum, and Genessaret, and He drew His il- lustrations from the lakes, frem the sands, from the ravine, from the lil- ies,' from the cornstalks. How the Pharisees scoffed! How Herod • de- rided 1 How Judas hissed! And this Christ they Plucked by the beard, and they spat in. His face, and they galled Hina "this fellow." All the great enterprises in and out of the Church have at times been scoffed at, and there have been a great naultitude who have thought that the chariot of God's truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut. And. so there are those who have no patience with anything like improvement in Church arcbitecture, or with anything like good, hearty, earnest, Church singing, and they deride any fotm of religious discussion which goes down walking atraong everyday men, rather than that whioh makes an excursion on rhetor- ical stilts. 0, tbat the Church of God would wake up to an adaptability of work. We must admit the siraple fact that the Chure,hes of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who never hear the Gospel. Tbere are two hundred thousand people in Glesgow who nev- er hear the Gospel. There are one million people in Londoh who never hear the Gospel, And the Church of God in this day: instead of being a place "full of living epistles read Mid known of all men, is more like a "dead letter" post -office. :Bttiot'be c 'salm,PeeriPecile:, YOtuhemwilsot3:1bae'spgaot: in lent ; the kingdoms ot the world ate to become the kingdoms of Christ." Never, unless the Church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy, Instead of the Cburch .eonverting the world, the world is convertieg the Church. Hare is a great fortress. How shall it be shaken? ATI allaY comes and Sits around anout it, Outs off the supplies, and SaySt "Now, we will juin Walt until from exhaestion end stareation they will have to give tip." 'Weeks, and Months, and Perhaps a year prise along, end fina.11,y the feet- rese surrenders through that Starva- tion and exhauetion, But, MY friends, the fortresses of sin are never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for Ged, it will be by storm. You will have to bring lep the great siege guns of the Gospel to the 'Very Wall, and wheel the flying artilleey into line, and when the armed infantry of heaven shall confront the battle - mettle, you Will have to give the quink command: "Forwarde Charge 1" Ah, nay friends, there is work for you to do, and for me to do, in order to this grand aecoanplishment. Here is my pulpit and I preach in it. Your pul- pit is tbe. bank, Your pulpit its the store., t Your pulpit is the, editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil, Your pulpit is the house scaffolding, Your pulpit is the mechanic's shop, 1 mast stand in this place, and through cow- ardice, or through self-seeking, may keep back the -woad I ought to utter; while you, with sleeves rolled up and brow beswertted with toil, may utter the word that wItl jar the foundations of heaven with the shout of a great victory, 0, that this morning this whole audience might feel that the Lora Almighty was putting upon them the hands of ordination t tell you every one, go forth and preach the Gospel. You have as much right to preach, as I have, or as any man has, Only find ont the pulpit wheee God wilt have you preach, and there preach. Headley Vicars was a wick- ed man in the English army. The grace of God carne to him. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. They sooffed at him and said: "You are a hypocrite; you are as bad as ever you were." Still he kept his faith in Christ, and after a while, finding that they could not turn him aside by call- ing him a hypocrite, they said to him: 0, you are nothing bat a Methodist." That did, not disturb him. He went on performing his Christian duty until he had formed all his troops into a Bible class, and tne whole encamp- ment was shaken with the presence of God. So Havelock went into the heathen temple in India while. the English army was there, and put a candle in, the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around in the heathen temple, and by the light of those candles held up by the gods, General Havelock preached righteous- ness, temperance, and. judgment to come. And who will say on earth or in heaven that Havelock had not the right' to preach? In the minister s house where I prepared for college, there wap a matt who 'worked, by the name of Peter Croy. He could neither read nor write; but he was a man of God. Often theologians would stop him in the house -grave theologians -and at family prayer Peter Croy would be called. upon to lead; and all those wise men sat around, wonder - struck at his religious efficiency. When he prayed, he reached up and seemed to take hold of the very throne of the Almighty, and. he talked with God until the very heavens were bowed down into the sitting -room. 0, if 1 were dying, I would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by my bedstead and commend nay immortal spirit to God than the Archbishop of London arrayed in costly canonicals. Go preach this Gospel. You say you are not licensed. In the name of the Lord Almighty, this morning, I license you.. Go preach this Gospel - preach it inthe Sabbath schools, in the prayer-naeetings, in the high- ways, in the hedges. .Woe be unto you if you preach it notl leremark again, that in order to be qualified to naeet your duty in this particular age, you want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth, and the overthrow of wickedness. How dare the Christian Church ever get discouraged? Etave we not the Lord Almighty on our side? How long did it take God. to slay the hosts of Sennacherib, or burn Sodom, or shake down Caraccas? How long will it take God when Ile once arises in His strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? Between this time and that there may be long seasons' of darkness, the chariot wheels of God s Gospel may seem to drag heavily; but here is the promise, and yonder is the throne; and when Omniscience has Jost its eyesight, and Omnipotence falls back impotent, and jeliovali is driven from His throne, then the Church of Jesue Christ can afford to be despondent -but never until then Despots may plan, and armies may march, and the Congresses of the nations may seem to :think they are adjusting ali the affairs of the world; but the Napoleons and the Bismareks and the Popes of the earth are only the dust of the chariot wheels of Gods providence. And I think that before the sun of this century shall set, the last tyranny will fall, and with a splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonishment of the universe, God will set forth the bright- ness and pomp and glory and per petuity of His eternal government. Out of the starry flags and the em- blazoned insignia of this world, God will make a path for his own triumph, and. returning from universal con- quest, He wilt sit down ont he 'grand- est, strongest, highest throne of earth His footstool. "Then shall all nations. song ascend To Thee, our Ruler,- Father, Friend, Till heaven's bigh arch resounds again With "Peace on earth, good will to ' I preach this sermon this morning, becaese I want to encoarage all you Christain workers in every possible department. Hosts of the living God, march on! March onl His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you, March onl March on! The despotisms will fall, and Paganisni will burn its idols, and Mahometanism will give up its fate prophet, and judaism, will eon - fess the true Messiah, and the great walls of superstition will some down in thunder and wreck at the long, lend blast of the Gavel trumpet, March on! March Ore The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more Atetis 011 the long way; Only a fevv more sturd e blows; only a few More battle cries, then God will put the lauret upon, your heow, end from the liviug fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflien, March ont. March on! For you ihe time for work Will Soon be aseed, and amid the out- flashinge of the Judgment throne, and the 'trumpeting of resurreetiori angels, end ihe apheaving ot a world of graves, and the hosanna, and the growling of the SaVad ad the lest, we will he rewarded for our faithful - noes or punished for our stupidity, Dleseed be the Lerd God. of Israel, from everlasttng to everlaeting, and let the whole earth be filled with alis glory. Amen and Amen. OLDEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD, The Seven Mari at Manchester, England, In banger of Destruction - licensed la lane Whet is probably the oldest licensed inn in the world, the Seven Stars, at Manchester, is in danger of destrec- non. In 1356, the year that tne third Edetard won the battle of PioctierS this inn was licensed,. Tbe earth was flat in those days, and 136 years were to elapse befere Columbus proved it round, It was ten years betore the fouriaatns ot the Kremlin were laid, and thirty years before Timer the Tar- tar began his . invasion of Persia, Nearly 300 years were to elapse before the Manchu dynasty sat on the throne of, China, ancl a hundred before Con- stantinople fell before the Turkish arms. Charles IV. of .F3urgun4y sat on the throne of that weak shadow of mighty Roran, the Gerrnan Empire, and the Counts et Hohenzollern had not eet been invested even with the Prov- ince of Brandenburg. Spain was com- posed of separate kingdoms and the Moors held the southern part of Iberia. France was overrun by the Englishand the ,French King a ptisoner in London. In what is now the United States "the rank thistle nodded, in the wind and the vvild fax dug his hole unscared," while in Mexico and. South America the remnants of that great prelaistoric empire welch once spread out its pow- er from the buried cities of Honduras , and Yucatan were preparing for ex -1 tinotion in the form of the empires of the Montmumas 'and the Incas. But jolly souls drank red wine and. brown ale at the sign of the Seven Stars in these days, and they drink the same there.now. Through all the long course of the• • t RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES mine host of the Stars has kept the spigot flowing, and, whether it is a mailed knight jangling in his armor and drinking through barred helmet his hasty wayside draught as be hur- ried to King Edward's wars, or John Smith, who strolls in to -day from his work in ate neignboring factory for hie pint of "bitter," it is all the same to the Seven Stars. Battles have raged around it, but nothing has disturbed. its tranquillity until the other day the word went forth' that its site was wanted, for a warehouse or a factory, or something of that kind. England has less regard for nee ancient landmarks than any other nation. It was only the offer of Barnum to buy Shakspeare's house at Stratforcnon-Avon that saved. that 1 house from demolition. So, probably, the old inn is doomed. In that bar room the Blaek Prince may have slak- ed his thirst, and there is still a rooni! calleel the 'Vestry," because some of ; the clergy from the neighboring church, used to 00.1XIS through a secret passagel in sernion time to refresh themselves.' In that tap room used to gather the Flemish weavers from Bruges, flee- ing from the wrath of Alva and bring- ing to England the knowledge of the textile arts. In a room over which ii the inscription: "Ye Guy Faux Cham- ber," lodged for a time the conspirator tithe tried to blow up King and Parlia- ment in the "Gunpowder plot." Once in the Oromwellian wars a "great and f urious skirmish" took plae-e between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers around the inn, and when Fairfax held the city for the Parliament, his sol- diers filled the Seven Stars with the clanking of their corselets, the JINGLING OP THEIR SPURS and. their solemn carousals. When n'airfax marched from Manchester some dragoons, having to leave hur- riedly, concealed their mess -plate in the walls of the old inn. It -was dis- covered a few years ago and set out as an ornament to the parlor of the hos- telry, where it may be seen to this day. When Charles Edward marched into England, to fight for the throne of his ancestors, the Seven Stars furnished. accommodation for many of his sol- diers, and was the headquarters of the IVIanehester regiment in the Prince's service. At the foot of the states is nailed a horseshoe which has a story to tell. In the days oe tbe French wars -in 1805 - when press-gangs were going, about the country carrying off young men to serve his Majesty at sea, one of these gangs put up at tlae Seven Stars. A farmer's boy was going by the inn leading a horse to be shod, and carry- ing in one hand. theshoe which had been cast. He was seized anc1 taken off to serve the Ring, but before he 14: he nailed the horseshoe to the wall, saying, "Stay there till I come from the wars to claim you." And there the horseshoe Ls to this day, for the farmer's boy never saw the Seven Stars again. With all its years and all its mem- ories it dose seem as if this old inn was entitled to a conthauance of ite ex- istence. He must be a man of little worth who could look with indifference upon the demolition of the inn of the Seven Stars. CORN -STALK DISEASE. Corn -stalk disease is the name given to an affeetion occurring in eattle as a result of eating corn and corn feel - der that seems to have been rendered poisonous by moldiness and fermenta- tion, Th,e disorder iS Osuelly contined to animals under 4 years of, age, and it runs a relent amuse, musing amnia in from 4 to 36 hones, SIMPLE CALC(TLATION Mararna-13essie, how many Sisters bat your new ployinate? tees's-ale has one, MAMMA, lie tried to fool me by saying that he hail hi/0 hinfasistere, but he didn't Ithow that I've studied arithmetic. THE SUNDAY SCIIOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 18. "The New tAre Au Christ." Col. i. 1-1e. Golden Text. t1o3.0, 18, PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 1, rf ye then be risen with Oiliest. 'Ile Revised Vereion is note- worthy, "if then ye were raised to- gether with Ciarist." The allusion le to a 'pees:use in the previous chanter, chap ga, where in the act of bap- tiern Christians are said to haae been buried with Christ. Seek those Clangs which are above. There is an ellusi here to the simple rites of the ear Church, by which new members wer after baptism, received fully into t holy companiensbip of believers, T "Lhiags which are above'' are oppos to the earthly objects hinted at verse 23 of the last chapter. " ourselves we can no more ascend tat a bar of iron can lift itself from t eartla, But the love of Christ is poweeful magnet to draw us up, Ep 2. 5, 6."-tfaenieeon, Fausset, an Brown. Where Christ sitteth on t right hand of God. "Where Chri is seated on the right hand of God We are pbysically bound to this 'War of sense, and most of our =tent activities have to do with it; but ou affections, our treasures, "our heart as Jesus would say, should be in he yen. As a cultured. Englishinan in th deep jungles of Africa would strive t reproduce, as far as he could, civili ing conditions amid barbaric surroun ings, so citizens of heaven, comrades Jesus, children of God, eonstantly fe tbe ties of their home country, an seek to have God's kingdom eome o earth as it is in heaven. "Here w have no a.bedin Mt " Tit hours when to every real Christian th deep truth comes -that he is a steang er, an alien a s,ojoierner, a foreigne 3 3 on earth; that in spite of all citizen D. Vincent s Weird% "the siOutn volaoa to any object whioh tuntres the plaee of 6, For whieh definers' :sake, The thitigs Mentioned In the lent verse. Tbe wrath of God eameth 00 010 ohilde ran of disobedienee. Tbe best lexte omits the word§ "children, or sons, of disobedience.' It is a Ilebrato ter= and Mains the outcome, the produei; Of disebectience, 7. In the whieli ye also walked %me- tope, when ye liveol in them. Not among whom, the children of dietebedi- ,e3pnecoolfibeudt ininvteethsi:115,. the evil conditiens 8. But now ye also pat 444 all tilaSe. Ye also, aRelso, as well as other Christians, divest yourself of habits and raodes on you like garments. For elaspnemy pravei.steicdeevetrlisai: uissee41,,ratuoingeln,,wrfao: e filthy communieeteion, "sharn f mightho be t a bodarn eitiliatie-v, al e a€:ugufh°tsriPneesilat! e, ;t, es• he malicious gossip, bad language. ed 9, Lie not one to another. In the 9pereect and crystalline beauty of in Christ one can Imagine no deception or Of falsification; and as we are risen with an Christ, and as Christ is our life, we ee should not deeeive each other. Seeing -al that ye have put off the old man with " his deed, Througbout the lesson at - he tendon is directed to that old life, whioh we are to put off like old gar- mente. With his deeds. When the old, snnaotnuirde gogoes Nt,itshuirt.ely the old behavior Id ti 10. Have put on the new man. The new nature. Is renewed in knOwledge. Is being contitmously renewed, so as to bring about knowledge. After the ae image of him that created him. Re- ° newed after the image of Christ. 11. Where. "In which state." There Z "' is neither Greek nor Sew. By Cbristly o nedasuesrteimmeanttesd paccoopolredianrge nt oot rdaioveid eord color or social oonditions, Circuen- u cieioe nor unoircumnision. Neither are n they estimated according to religious e ereed or ohurch rnenabeeship. The ._lphrase Barbarian includes tribes is outside of Greek and Roman civilize, ; tion Scythian tribes had hitherto ; ▪ been regarded as the most barbarous • ship ties and church ties and hope ties, and. in spite of the fact that hi own body, to be got rid of only a death, is forever olarnoring for recog nition, he himself, tlae high .and, th holy part ot him, that part of hi which .reco,gnizes the fatherhood o God, is not at home in this world, an cannot be, can never find eatisfactio until it reaches the place where Chris sittetie 'on the right hand. of God. 2. Set' your affection on things abov not on things on the earth. Literally "Be inimied, think." This verse is no merely a repetition of the first, thong it certainly is ha harmony, one migh say in unison, with it. Dr. Light foot has in startling fashion rephras ed it in connection with the first vers -"You must net only seek sal vation, bill you must hare salvation. 3. Ye are <lead. Revised Version early Christians regarded baptism a a synaliol of death to the old life o sin, and of the beginning of a ne Christian life. Your life is hid wit Christ in God. As a seed buried 1 the earth is hid. The apostle is talk ing of their new life, which had bee symbonzedny the rite of bapturn; thei spioritual life. All life is at once hid den and manifested. The ruddy cheek the, flashing eye, the graceful mei-ye ment of youth, are outward mani festations of physical life at its best but the life itself is hid.den behin heart -beats, and nerve pulsings, an lung breathings, far beyond, the ut most reach of surgical explorers. Quick perception, estate observation, clear analysis, retentive memory, alert imaginatiop--these are outward mani- festations of 'intellectual life; but this life, also, is hidden, and no physical or metaphysical research has yet found it. Paul here teaches that there as he elsewhere. wrote, are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, good- ness, faith; but when we search for the life itself it cannot be found "in the sphere. of the earthier and sensual." Just as physical and mental life are deeply hidden in their natural spheres, so is this spiritual life hidden "with Christ in God." 4. 1Vhen Christ who is our life. The lffe is not only with Christ, it is Christ, "I am the life " he said to Thomas; and John, who heard him say this, afterward bears this record - that God bath given to us eternal life, and this Life is in the Son. "He that hath the Son bath life, and he that bath not the San of God hath not life." Shall appear. Shall be manifest- ed, in contrast to the hidden life men- tioned in verse 3. Then shall ye also appear, be manifested, with him in glory. This promise or prophecy has a multitude of fulfillments. In the everyday life of the Christian it is fulfilled, for though that Christian's spiritual life be hid with Christ in God, "the also, of Jesus" is made manifest in him by every grace he dis- plays. It is fulfilled in Christian his- tory too. Pagans could not under- stand the vitality of the early Chris- tian Church; it was a marvel to them that over and over again, when they thought it utterly desi royed, Christian- ity burst ittto resplend.ent life. The rea- son was that while the real Life of Christianity was hid with Christ, Christ in due time manifested himself, aact the Chureh was manifested with him le the glory of philanthropy and spiritually. But the complete fulfill- ment of the Words 18 to be found in the second corning of our Lord. 5. Mortify. Put to death. Make dead. Shakespeare uses "mortified" for killed. Your 'members which are upon the earth. Organs of and ministers to the life of Sense. But this command. is no more to be taken literally. than the command of mar Lord to cut off the right hand and pluck mit the right eye. Our mem- bers whin]) ate upon the earth, literally speaking, Might begin with hands and feet, end. tongues, and include alt physic,a1 organs. Bat the list that Pain nutkee out is a lint of the modes in which the Members sinfully exert theneseives. Ttte first two mentioned regetee no cep! onetime, Inordina•te affeetion refers to the disertsed raoral condition out of will& ungovernable pastione spring, Evil concupiecenee ittay be defined as those ungovernable passions. And covetousness. Min Vincent points to "and" as having here & cleat/tette force and, meaning, Which is iclo tat ry, 'Whi eh is ieeluded in idolatry, (CoMpare 1 Cr 5, 10, Eph. 5. 5,) Iclolettty is not in the Natv 'Pestatnent eonfined to the Mere woe - Ellie of images; it ineluded, to again nee . on nor ree. The Revised e Version gives "bondenere freemen." es ; Christianity was not promptly rceog- L nized as an emancipation proclamation e, but it Leven:idealj men in their relation • e to 'Christ. Christians of all social • grades were free, before God, and at „e- the saute time servants of Chriet. And a if, when the Church ca•ro.e to power, it n • had retained the Chrietly spirit that t pervaded the neart of Paul and Sohn and Peter, mediaeval and modern slav- ert and nailitary conquest could nev- er have degraded the morals and dis- graced -the history of Christendom,. ee, Christ is all, and in all. Our ,Lord t absorbs in himself all, distinctions. her is the Son of Man; only in a limited sense can he even be called a Sew. e Sublimely is he all things to all men; a meets every men in the heart of his own nature. Before him neither racial ' nor social distinctions can have the e slightest value. e All an, 12. Put one th refore. g to Te. verses, 8, 9,10. Having disrobed them- selves of their old life and its viees, and having put an the new life, these et I young Christians are exhorted to put I ▪ on. with its graces. The elect of a 1 God. God's chosen ones; the choice, , however, is one of mutual love. Holy _ and. beloved. It would be better to place these two words as adjectives before "elect" -"You are Goers chosen, ti holy, beloved ones." Bow -els °finer- , cies. Or, as the Revised Version puts a "a heart of compassien." Kindness. Practical kindness; beneficencs rather than mere • benevolence. Humble- ness of mind. True lowliness. Meek- ness. Gentleness, whioh indicates a 1strong nature laeld mn control. ong- ! suffering. "Love suffereth long andie kind." 13. Forbearing . . forgiving The first wordrelates to present offenses, the second to past offenses. Quarrel. Cause of complaint. As Christ forgave I you. The whole passage closely re- ' esrables a beautiful exhortation in the serables a beautiful exhor teflon in the letter to the Ephesanns: "Let all bit- terness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be pixt away from you, with all malinen and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another • even as God, for Cbrist's sake hath forgiven you: - 14. Above all these things put an charity. "These things" are regard- ed as garments by which the Christian is enfolded and clothed. About them, is the sash o,r 'girclie which keeps all together, and. that girdle is charity, or, as eve would. say, love. The bond, of perfectness. The perfect bond. 15. Let the peace of God :title Ise your hearts. The peace of God fends a home in some hearts where it can- not bs fairly said to rule. Anxiety and worry about the future, undue unrest in the present, remorse for the past, are alike inconsistent with the absolute rule of a human heart by the peace of God. A man may obey all the commandments, he may go further and have stela blessed com- munion with Christ that the fruitage et hie life is manifestly good, and yet, tameless of strong temperamental ten - denotes er of faulty religious educa- tion, or of a lack of living faith, he may not only be outettle of rule by "the peace of God," ben he may actu- ally live in nunrest. Surely this is in- excusable in the case of one for whom the atatietnent and justification ap-• preprinted in faith have furniehed abundantly the munition of perpetual peace. To the veh=h also ye are call- ed in one body. That body le the Church. Ye, are made members or one body, so as to be peacefully related to each other. Bo ye thaeleful. Be- come more and. more tlaankful. Thank- ful for what ? Doubilees or all the mercies of God, but pre-eminently for beth' called in one body; that is, for the privileges of the Christian Churoh, LENGTH OF SERMONS IN SCOT - • A Scottie= newspapet hat just {eke en a plebiscite of its readerin order to bind out the length of sernions preached noith of the border cm a par- tioular Sunday lately. It appears that tne average Established Clarrela ser.' mon is 26 minutes tn length; 'Free Church, 82 minutes; United Presby- terian Chureh, 80; Congregational, 20h Scoltieh Episeopol, 20; Ilapliet, English Prsshybcrisn, 86', Ovigin.L1 Se• cetteion, 28. to all deeoinitlatiome the longest sermon wait 68 intitutox, auct the shortest 9 tritnutlis,