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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-6-28, Page 2NOTE$ AND commwsrs. Under the agreement with regard to China entered into by Great Britain awl Russia a few week e e-gO, the for- WM' engagett not to seek either for leereelf or others any railway eonces- fiene north ea the Great Wall, the latter Making the same stipulations with respeet to the valley of the 'Yang -tee Kiang. As tit) ;net:dicta was made of the raliey of the Hong Ho, lying between the Great Wall and the northern watersbea of the Yang -tee, end 1w:1tiding the national oapital, tae inference seemed legittrnate that it was to be exempt from seen claim to influence on the part of eith- er power. What was done was to mark out the spheres within which, ead power \Vila to have a free hand, iu ceder that collision of their conflict- ing purposenight be avoided, and that when the time for actual partie demi arrived each might be in practieal occupation of its territory. "-- Among the possible causes of colli- sion was the eonstruction with British capital of a railway from Shan-H Kwati to New Chwang, in. Manclutria., within the Russian sphere, and. the pos- sibility that failure to repay the loan might give control of the line to a British company. As a somewhat sim- ilar condition existed in the Yang-tse valley, within the British sphere, into which under the guise of a .Franco- Belgian conapany, Russia was pushing a railway from Pekin, some arrange- ment was necessary if ealne power was to exercise ultimate control in its own sphere. This was efteeted by provid- ing that the New Chwang road must remaitt a Chinese line, subject to Pe- kin, even ii ease of default on the loan, the British investors thus being required to told their mortgage in the name of their Chineee associates; a similar provision, it may be assumed, also preventing the Franco-Belgian line, in the Yang-tse valley, from passing into the control of Russia. Im- mediately on the heels of this settle- ment, nowever, eoncee announcement of the Riassian demand on China for a new railway conceesion conneeting Pe- kin with Russia's Tran -Siberian, system in Manchuria, the line to run north- east from Pekin to Chang-te and thence to Moukden, with, of course, extensions to New Chwang and Port Arthur. Naturally such demand has caused con- sternation both in London and Pekin, for although it does not conflict with the letter of the recent Anglo -Russian agreement, it violates its spirit at nearly every point. For the propos- ed Russian railway would by parallel- ing the British New Chwang roadprac- tically kill it, the latter being of val- ue only as an extension and outlet of Russtaas Siberian line; while the con- nection of the latter system with Pekin will give the northern power e,ommand of the Chinese capital, and, ultimately, of the valley of the Etoang- Ho. More than that, it will ae,celer- ate the disintegration of the empire, for the viceroys, seeing the imperial province in Russia's hands, will be en- eouraged to act for themselves, and the European powers will, in view of so palpable an extension of the Russian sphere, not be slow to extend their own. It Ls true that China has re- fused to accede to the Russian demand, realizing the fact that it is the grav- est made since Russia took Port Ar- thur; but it will doubtless be granted In the end, Great Britain compensat- ing laerself by defining more clearly her Yang-tse territory, and exacting from China other concessions in the way of valuable railroad. or mining grants CROWNFOR SALE. Trench Government offers Some Wands to the ilighc,t nidtiet% There is now a great opportunity for any wealthy person, who may wisb to assume the tildes and perquisites of royalty. The French. Government of- fers for sale some of the little islands situated at the entranoe of the bay of St. Maio, on the roast of Brittany. Formerly, when the famous Freneh • pirates Jacques Cartier and Soulcouf brought down the wrath of the Eng - Deb on their heads by their arts of daring, the victims tried to get near onoustri to St. Mello to throw fire - rands and to discharge eaxinon into the town, but they were never able to succeed in passing the island. The Franck: Government has taken away • the cannon from the fortified walls of Gouchee, La Plate, La Ronfleresse, and oneor two other of tbese rocks. The state, whach is always short of money, aound it needless expense to keep up this property, and so offers it for sale. The inhabitants of St. Melo are very uneasy Find discontented at the pro- ceeding. And not without cause; for, no eestrEctions having been put upon the sale, the highest bidder will be- come /zrantieelly their King, be his na- tionality waat it may. PUI,LING HES LEG. Docter-Your leg is pretty badly erushed, sir; but X guess we cart pull Lt through all right. Patterit-Never mind, just take it off, You've been pulling it long enough. LETTING RD/ DOWN GENTLY. Ned -la proposed to ber by wire. Tom --And she e Ned' -Ob., she 'eoftened things for him by sending- hoe refusal by mail. A SERION TO ITOTHERS. REV. HR. TALIIIAOR SPEAKS OP THEIR REAT RESPONSIBILITY; Ungar and /Ger eoit Ishmael ta the Wieder- atess-Squize People do Not know 'allele • Pam In This Wortd,-eg Mother's ene Monett on eter MIA far Geed or yfl- flte ler. Preaches an Meennene eeentes, on 111b Im Dor taut Suntan A despatch from Waelettigton says: - Rev. Dr. Talmage preacleed from the following text :-"And Gad opeiaed her eyes, and she saw a well �f water and sae went, and filled the bottle with water, and ga.ve the lad drink." -Gen. xxi. 19. • Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba. There is an early stir in the house of old Abraham. Tlaeee has been trouble among the domestics. Hagar, an as- sistant in the household, and her son, a brisk lad of sixteen years, have be- come impudent and insolent,. and Sarah, the mietress of the household, puts her foot down very bard and says that they will have to leave the prem- ises. They are peeking up now. Abra- ham, knowing that the journey before his servant and her son will be very long and aceoss desolate places, in the kindness at his heart sets about put- ting up some bread and a bottle with water in it. It is very plain lunch that Abraham provides, but I war- rant you there would nave been enough of it had they not lost their way. "God be with you!" said old Abraham, as he gave the knob to Ha- gar, and a good many charges as to how she should conduct the journey. Ishmael, the boy, I suppose bounded away in the morning light. Boys al- ways like a change. Poor Ishmael! Tfe has no idea of the disasters that are anead of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look on the familiar place where she had spent so many happy days, each scene associated with the pride and joy of her heart, young Ishmael. The scerchieg noon comes on. The air is stitling, and. moves aeross the desert with insufferable suffocation. Ishmael, the boy, begins to complain, and lies down, but Hagar rouses him up, saying nothing about her own weariness or the sweitering ; for mothers ear: endure anything Trudge -trudge-trudge. Crossing the dead - level of tb,e desert, how wearily and slowly the miles slip. A. tamarind that seemed hours ago to stand only ,Justa Li.ttle ahead, inviting the tray- • just a little ahead, inviting the tra- vellers to come under ito shadow, now is as far off as ever, or seemingly so. eg' (bops upon the desert, and the travellers are pilloevless. Ishmael, very weary, I suppose, instantly falls asleep. Hagar -as the shadows of the night begin to lap over each other - Hagar hugs bar weary boy to her bosom, and thinks of the fact that it is her fault that they are in the desert. A star looks out, and every falling tear it kisses with a sparkle. A wing of wind comes over the hot earth, and lifts the locks from the fev- ered. brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps .fitfully, and in her dreams travels over the weary day, and half awakes her son by crying out in her sleep, "Ish- mael! Ishmael I" And so they go on day after day, night after night, for they have lost their way. No Path Ln the shifting sand,s; no sign in the burning sky-. • The sack einesy of the flour; the water gone from the bot- tle. What shall she do? As she puts her fainting Ishmael under a stunted shrub of the arid plain, she sees the blood -shot eye, and feels the ho thand, and watches the blood. bursting from the cracked tongue and there is a shriek in the desert of Beer-sheba, "'We shall die 1 we shall die I" Now, no mother was ever made strong enough to hear her son cry in vain for a drink. Heretofore she had cheered her boy by promising a speedy end of the journey, and even smiled upon hina when he felt desper- ately enough. Now there is nothing to do but to place him under a shrub and let laira die. She had thought that she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy would go away forever, and then she would breathe out her own life an his silent heart; but as the boy begins to claw his Longue in agony' of thirst, and strug- gle in distortion, and begs his moth- er to slay him, she cannot endure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off a bow -shot and begins to weep until all the desert seems sob- bing, and her cry strikes clear through the heavens; and, an angel of Godcomes out on a cloud and looks down upon the appalling grief, and cries, "Ha- gar, what aileth thee '1" She looks up and she sees the angel pointing to a well of water, where she fills the bot- tle for the lad. Thank God 1 thank God! I learn from this Oriental scene, in the first plate, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their place, and yet too proud for their business. Hagar was an assistant in that house- hold, but she wanted to rule there, she ridiculed and jeered, Until hey son, Ishmael, got: the same tricks. She dasb- ed out her own bappine.,ss and threw Sarah into a great fret; and if she had stayed much longer in thathouse I hold, she would have upset calm Abra- • ham's equilibrium, My friends, one -1 half the trooble in the world to -day comes from the fact that people do not knoev their place; or, finding their place will not stay in it. When we dine into the world there is always.a piece ready for us. A place for Abra- ham. A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A, place for Ishmael, A plate. for you ana a place for inc., Our first duty is to find our sphere; our sec- ond is to keep it. We nmy be born in a sphere far off from the one, for whioh God finally intends os, Sextus V. WaS born on the low ground, and wee a swineherd.; God called nint tip to wave a seeptre. Ferguson spent his early days in looking ofter the sheep; God celled him up to look after stars, and be a shepherd watching the floeke of light on the hale:odes of henv- en. Hogarth began by engraving pewter pots; God raised bite to stand in the enchanted realea of a painter. The shoemaker's bendli bsld Bloomfield for a little while; Vet Goa called bim to Sit in the chair of a philoeopher end Christian scholar. Tbe soap -boiler et London (multi not keep his sea in that business, for God bad deeided. that Hawley was to aeone of the greatest astronomers of England.. On the eth- er hand, we may be born in a Sphere a little bigher' than that for which 5. God ea sitnletr else d *15. playlVine may aies igt lea bornoouaCr- va tory, and feed high -bred pointers, and angle for gold -fish in artifimal Ponds', and he familiar with princes; yet God may better have fitted us for carpenter's shop, or dentist's forceps, or 0. weaver's shuttle, or a Ineeksimth's forge. The great thing is to find just the sphere for which God intended us, and taen to ocaupy that sphere, and °dopy it forever. Here is a man Go.d fasbioned to make a plough. There Is a man God fashioned to make a consti- tution. The man who makes the Plough is jast as bonorable as the man who makes the constitution, pro- vided he makes plough as well as tbe other man makes the conetitution. There a wornen who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one in- tended to be a queen and wear It seems to me that in the one case as in the other, God appoints the sphere; and the needle is just as respectable in His sight as the sceptre. 1 do not know but that the world would long ago have been saved, if some of those who are in it were out of it. I really think that one half of the world May be divided into two quarters -those who have not found their sphere, and those who, having found it are not willing to stay there. How many are Struggling for a position a. little higher than that for widen God in- ttoenbdeedmtihsteim'eSsa2hHeagbacin' dksewe°pDas acnrowwdanintgs Sarah, The small wheel of a watch whicb beautifully went treading its golden path -way, events to be the balance -wheel, and the., sparrow, with chagrin, drops into the brook, because it cannot, like the eagle, cut a circle under the sun. In the Lord's army we all want to be brigadier generals! The sloop says, "More mast; more tonnage; more canvas. 0, that I were a topsail sehooner, or a full-rig- ged brig, or a Cunard steamer." And so the world is filled with erica of dis- content because we are not willing to stay in the place where God, put us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too proud to do anything God tells you to do. For the lack of a right disposition in this respect,the world is strewn with wandering Razors , and Ishma,els. God has given each one of us a work to do. You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark allee. You distribute that Christian tract. You give 010,000 to the missionary cause. You, for fifteen years, sit with chronic rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian, submission. Whatever God. calls you to do, whether it win bissbag or huzza; erhetber to walk under • triumphal arch or lift the sot out of a ditch. whether it be to preanh on a Pentecost, or tell some wanderer of the street of the mercy of the Christ of Mary Magdalen; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child on a spring morning, and! call her a May queen, or to comb out the tan- gled locks of a waif of the street, and cut up one of your old dresses to fit her out for the sanctuary -do it, and do it right away. Whether it be a crown or a yoke, do nto fidget. Ever- lasting honors upon those who do their work, and. do their whole work, and are contented in the sphere in which God ha's put thein; while there is wander- ing and exile and desolation and wild- erness for discontented Hagar and Ishmael. Again: 1 find in this Oriental scene, a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What a great change itwas for this Hagar. There was the tent and all the surroundings of Abra- ham's house, beautiful and luxuri- ous no doubt. Now she: is going out into the hot sands of the desert. 0, what a change it was. And in our day, we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one. who lined ba the very 'bright home of her father. She had everything possible to admin- ister to her happiness. Plenty at the table. Music in the drawing - room. Welcome at the door. She is led forth into life by some one who cannot appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in the desert, Iniquities blot out all . the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out ler spirits. The high hope that shone out over the marriage altar while the ring wad being set and the vows given and thebenediction pronounced, have ali faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is to- day, broken-hearted, thinking of past joy and present desolation and ceming anguish. Hagar in the wilderness! Here is a beautiful home. You can- not think of anything that can be add- ed to it. For yearsthere has not been the suggestion of a, single trouble. Bright and happy children fill the house with laughter and song, Books to read. Pictures to look at. Lounges, to rest on. Cup of domestic joy full and run- ning -over, Dark night -drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whose well-known steps on the door -sill brought the whole house- hold out at eventide, crying, "Father's coming," will never sound on the door- sill again. A long, deep grief plough- ed. through all that lightness of do- mestic Me. Paradise lost! Widow- hood, Hagae in the wilderness! How often it is we see the weak arm of wortian conscripted for this battle wi (1 the rough world. Who is she going down the street in the early light; of the morning, pale with ex- beusting work, not half slept out with the slumbers of last night, tragedies, of suffering written all over her face, her lustreless eyes look- ing far ahead as though for the come ing of some other trouble? Her parents called her Mary, Or Bertha, or Agnes, on the day tide's they held her up to the font, and. the Christian minister sprinkled on the infant's face the washings of a holy baptism. En' name is ()hanged now. I hear it in the slittMe- of the worn-out shoes. I see it in the figare of the faded callers X find it in the lineaments of the wee -begone countenanee, Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor Agnes, by Hagar in the wilderness, May God haat' mercy uPonwoman in her toile, her struggles, her hardehips, her de- solation, and may the great heart of divine sympathy inclose her forever. Ag -air.: I find in this Oriental scene, tremendous destinies, You say, "That isn't an unusual seene, a mother lead - leg her obild by the hand." Who is it that she is leading Ishmael, you say. Who is Xtheriael a IL great netion is to be feundecl; a nation so strong that • iafga$4ainsttlI o t8ttttAauf drioeTs otfhQtre"WcloaidE Sof. Ygsalc arst and. Aesyria thander against it.; but in vein. Persia tree to enaae it Pay tbe Tartan and laaamelulees reeolve to sub- taXt but in vain The Tierks and due it; but in vain. Gaulus brings Me ifisexaarnmdrdddesp ye; andehis upon a y ienasminpiatti:nn: bringn up leis baste arid dies.. Far a long while that nation monopolizee the leer:314g of the world. It is the na- tion of the Arabs. Who feendeci it? Itshhemlaveuld, etrail3eealaad Shetha tb ad gnal or idea ea intan wee leading 'forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street, and see pass boys and giele who will yet make the earth shake with their fofluence, Who is thet boy at Sutton Pool, Plymouth, England; bare-footed, wading down into the :slush and slime, until his bare foot coines upon a piece of glass and he lifts it, bleeding and pain -struck. That vetitiod in the foot decides that be be seidentary in his life,deoides that he be aa student. That wound by the glue in the foet decides that he shall be John Kitto, who shall provide the bee: religions encyclopedia the world has ever had provided, and, with his other writings as well, throwing a light upon the Word. of God such as has come from no other man in, this century. 0 mother, mother, that lit- tle bind that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to hurl the thunder- bolts of wart or drop benedictions, That little voice may blaspheme God in the grogshop, or cry, "Forward!" to the Lord's hosts, as they go out for nathoerianinlgasiteapysicttnoirryt.y „Marys mind d tahnids seee a merchant prince of New York. One stroke of his pen brings a ship out of Canton, Another stroke of hie pen' take's a ship to Madras. He is mighty in ale the money markets of the world. Who is he? He sits this morning be- side you in the Tabernacle. My mind leaps thirty years forward from this time, and I find myself in a relief as- sociation. A great 'multitude of Christian women have met together fez a generous purpose. There is one woman be that (meted who seems to have the co.nficlence of all the others, and they all look up to her for her counsel and for, her prayers. Who is she? This afternoon you will find her in. the Sabbath school, while the teacher tells her of that Christ who clothed the naked and fed the hungry ane healed the sick. My mind leaps forward thirty years Erma now, and I find myself in an .African jungle; and there is a raissienary. of the Cross ad- -dressing the natives, and their dusky countenances are irradiated with glad tidings of great joy and salvation. Wbe is he 1 Did you not hear his voice this mormng is the first song of tlee service? My mind leaps forward thirte years from now, and I find my- seli looking through the wickets of a Matson. 1 see a face scarred with every crime. His chin on hes open palm, hie -elbow on his knee -a picture 016 ageamir. As I open the wicket he starts, and 1 he(ar his chain clank. The jail keeper tells me that he has beeri in therc now three times. First for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps upon the trap - neck, the plank falls, his -body swings lute the air, his soul swings off into eternity. -Who is he, and where is he? This afternoon playing kite on the city commons. )laotb.er, you are this morn- ing hoisting a throne or forging a. chain -you are kindling a star or dig- ging a dungeon. A geoc"! many years ago, a Christian mothei set teaching lessons of religion to her child; and he drank in those lessons. She never knew that Lamp - liter would come forth and establish the Fulton street prayer -meeting, and by one meeting revolutionize the de- votions of the whole earth and thrill the eternities with his Christian influence. Laraphier said it. was his mother who brought hixa to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea that she was leading forth such destinies. But 0, when I see a mother reckless of her influenpe, rattling on toward de- struction, garlanded for the sacri- fice with unseemly mietli and. godless- ness, dancing on down to perdition, taking her children in' the same di- rection; preparing them for a life of -frivolity, a death of shame and etern- ity of disaster, I Can not help but say: "There they go -there they go: Hagar and. Ishmael!" I tell you there are wilder deserts than Beersheba in many of the fashionable cirches of this day. Dissipated parents leading dissipated children. Avaricious par- ents leading avaricious children. Prayerless parents leading prayerless childien. They go through 'every street, up every- dark ally, into every cellar, along every highway. Hagar and Ishmaell and while I pronounce their names, it seems like the moan- ing of the death wind; Hagar and Ishmael! I learn one more lesson from this Orientiat scene„ and that is, that every wilderness has a well in it. Hagar a,nd. Ishmael gave up to die, Ha,gares beart sank within her as she heard her child crying, "Water! evaterl water!" "Ale," she says, "my darl- ing there is no water. This is a desert!' And then God's angel said from the cloud: "What aileth thee? And she looked up and saw him point- ing to a well of water, evbere she fill ed the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God dant there is in every wilderness a well, if you only knew how to find it -fountains for all these thirsty souls this morning. "On that last day, on that great day of the feast, Jesus stood a.nct cried: "If any man thirst, let him eome to me and drink!' All these other fountains you find. are znere mirages of the desert. Paracel- cus, you know, spent his time in trying to find ont the elixir of life -a liquid which, if taken, would 'keep one per- petually young in this world, and •would change the aged bad again to youth. Of course he was disap- pointed; he found not the elixir, But here 1 tell you this morning of the elixir of everlasting life bursting from the "Rock of Ages" and that drinking that water you shall never get old, and you will never be sick, and you will never die. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!" Ale here is a man tvlao says: "I have been looking for that fountain a great while, but oan't find it." And here is some one else who says: "1 believe an you say, but X have been ttudging aloeg in the wilderness, awl cant find the fountain." Do you know the reason? / will tell you, Yon never look in the tight direc- tion, "0," you say, "I have heeked everywhere, I have lo-olted North, Soleth. East and Wet, and I heve not found the fountain." ,Why, Yon are not looking in the right direction et all, Look up where Hagar looked. She never would have Lound the fountein at all, but when she heard the voice of the angel atie looked up, and. saw the finger pointing to the auPPIY. And 0, soul, if to -day, with one earnest, intense, prayer YOu wa1Ienly look up to Christ, Ile would point you down to the supply in the wilderneee. "Look unto nee all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved; 4ole T am God and there is none else." Look! look! as Hagar looked. .Yes, there is a, well. for every desert of bereavement. Looking over the audience this morning, I notice, it ‚seems to me, an unusual number of signs of ,mourning arid woe. '411ave you found consolation? 0 man bereft, 0 'woman bereft, have you found consolation? Hearse after hearse. We step from one grave hil- look- to another grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves soon to be like them. The world is in mourn- ing for its dead. Every t heart has be- come the sepuldre for some buried joy. e3ut sing ye to God, every wilder- ness has %liven in it; and. I come to that well to -day, and I begin to draw water from that well. If you have lived in the country, you have sometimes taken hold of the rope of the old well -sweep, and you know how the bucket came up dripping with bright, eool water. And I lay hold of the rope of God's mercy this morn - ink, and. 1 being to draw ou that Gospel well -sweep, and I see the buckets ooming up. Thirsty Soul! here is °tie bucket of life; come and drink of it, " Wliosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely," I pull away again at the rope, and another bucket comes up. It is this promise: "Weeping may- endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." I lay hold of the rope amain, and I pull away with all my strength and the bucket corns up bright and beautiful and cool. Here, is the promise; "Come un- to Me, all ye who are weary and beavy laden, and I will give you rest." The. old astrologers used to cheat the people vrith the idea that they could tell from the position of the eters what would occur in the future, and if a cluster of stars stood in one relation, why that would be a prophecy of evil; if a el -alter of stars stood in another relation, that would be a prophecy of good. What superstition But here is a new astrology in which I put all my faith; I By looking up to the Star of Jacob, the morning star of the Redeemer, I can make this pro- phecy in regard to those who put their trust in God: "All things work together for good to those who love God." I read it out on the sky. I read it out in the Bible. I read it out in all things: "All things work togeth- er for good to those who love God." Do you love lam Have you seen the Nyetantile,s? It is a beautiful flow- er, but it gives very little fragrance until after sunset. Then it pours its 'richness on the air. And this grace of the Gospel that I commend to you this morning, while it may be very sweet during the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aroma after sundown with you and me after a while. When you come to go out of this world, will it be a desert march or will it be a fountain for your soul? A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by reading some of the pages of their theology; but he waved his hand, as ranch as to say, "1 don't want to bear •Then they called in a heathen priest, and he said, "If you will only recite the Numtra it will deliver you from hell." He waved his hand, as much as to say, "I don't want to hear that." Than they said, "Call on Jug- gernaut." He shook his head, as much as to say, "I can't do that." Then they thought perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they said, "Now, if you can't say "Juggernaut,' think of that god." He shook his head again, as much es to say, "No, no, no." Then they bend down to his pollow, and they said, "In what will you trust ?" His face lighted up with the very glories of the celestial sphere as he cried out, rallying all his dying ener- gies, "Jesus I" 0 come this morning to the foun- tain -the fountain open for sin and uncleenness. I will tell you the whole story in three sentences. Par- don for all sin. Comfort for all trou- ble. Light for all darkness. And every wilderness has a wall in it. LORD CtTRZON'S SALARY. India pays all her Governors and lesser officials very well. England seas to that. As Viceroy, Lord Curzon of Kedleston will receive $500,000 -that is to say about 420,000, or •e100,000, a year, during his term of five, years. In ad- dition to this he has a very consid- erable allowance for expenses; but it is said that he will have to bushand this allowance catefully to make as showy a regime as he very wisely in- tends to have. His gorgeous body guard of 120 men, in the garb of per- sonified rainbows, is eared for out of the Indian treasury, and this is the case, with the retinues of servants who man, and woman, each of his palaces. GBEWSOME DINNER PARTY. A few weeks since a gentleman liv- ing in one of the. most fasbionable thor- ouglafares of London died from dancer. Five months previous to his death be gave a dinner party to 10 gentlemen, whose days, from the same disease, were numbered. Ere breaking up the guests agreed. to meet °nee a moiath at one another's houses, so long as their health snout& permit. The last gath- ering Yeas' leeld on the 21st of last mentn, when only four of the original dinars. sat down to the table. WOTTI,DN'T PAY TO KEEP Trtmvx. I don't suppose a woman ought to be a real estate ageut. I don't know. Why not? Well, its a wonea&s place, you :knew to be the housekeeper. Occazsionallv a man knows a good thing whet). he seee it, but most men are too digetfied to recognize it. When one woman says she has not seen another for an age she is care- ful not to add it to het own* THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL 'LESSON, 44.T1Y g. elriteenze ellyttattent." Ilona 14, 1.0, Golden Text, otos, 6, 11. PRACTICALNOTES, Vere 1. 0 Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, lf man is bad, there ie all the greater reason for his speedy return to the Lord, And God would not urge sinuers to return to bim if it was not possible for them so to. do, Every little obstacle to sach a return wh ai 1st hbeeesatZmaolvl edasshiyst aanucre Ca)ed, edaend d hhye the repentant sinnee. Thou least fallen by thine inigeity. Nothing but our iniquity can make us fall, The difference between sinners is that the neighbors of scoriae see their iniquity and: the neiglaboes of others are ignor- ant of it, but, in God's sight we have allfallen by it. As Hosea gives "the word of the Lord" in, the preceding chapter, "Thou hest destroyed thy- self, but in me ie thy help," • 2. Take with you word, and turn to the Lord. In the old days no worshiper would dare approech any god without gifts. Here the prophet, without loelits Ulna. the ordained offerings, enforces the necessity of outspoken heart peni- tence, Tim words they are to take are given • in tlae latter part of this verse and in verse 3. The contrast between ivords and realities so familiar to us was unknown to the Hebrew. Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously, Literally, "receive us for good," or "receive from us what is good and acceptable," that is, mer penitent hearts. The act of expressing one's need has a tendency to intensify one's desire.* Israel had been alienated from God; outspoken Penitence would be a distinct revel -- sal of this attitude. • No sinner need now fear to come back to God, since the Redeemer came to take away all iniquity. "There are no teunts on his lips, no frowns on his brow, only in- finite tenderness in his heart."-Ait- kin. So will we render the calves of our lips. Instead of young bullocles they were now to come with the sac- rifices of penitent prayer. If an im- penitent but kind-hearted man gives r8u.n25 noinr 5e0xp0ernstisMofeascohmeye:trr utgoglitnhge church, all good men will rejoice; but if the time comes when from the depths of that man's heart he sings, Just as 1 am, 'without one plea," thi samilme of his " will be im- measurably more acceptable to God. It -is a pleasant, holy thought that each of us °aeries about with him whee- able sacrifice to God -our hearts, our leivpesrhe , our lives. the means of accept - 3. Asshur shall not Save us. Tucked in between two rival empires, the lit- e kind.gom of Israel, like that o Judah, was compelled, sometimes by one povver, sometimes by the other, t pay tribute, and of course it depended for protection against the dissatisfie power on the strength of the empir to which its tribute was -paid. Asshu stands for Assyria. And. Israel is no., saying, "We will no longer depend on sshur to save us from Egypt, bu will depend on the Lord our We will not, ride upon horses. In a broad sense, "will no longer depend upon warlike power," but particularly referring to Egypt, from which the horses of Palena stine. were iported "Turning aeway from Assyria will no lead US to depend on Assyria's eivala Neither -will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods. Not only had. they depended. on men, but on gods that men made. ' Their repentance leads them to turn frona all idolatrous conduct and feel- ing. In thee the fatherless find- etla mercy. Israel had made him - elf fatherless by turning from his Stored, They shall revtVe as the corn, and grow as the vine, The disintegra- tion and apparent death c a grain of corn and its'rieh reprodootion gave to our Lord one Of hie most reinarkable similes, John 12, 24. The Vine Was a favorite national emblem of the. Hebrews; and well it might be, for it was grown on almost every, hill-tep. Tao scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. A repetition of the promise of verse 6. The thought concerns the fame of Israel. As you said in Solomon's Song, "Thy' name is as ointment poured fortla." • sEtihraim shall say, What have Ito do any more with idols? Meaning, "I will aave nothing more to do with them." I have heard. him, and observe ed, him. "I have answered and will re- gard him." This is God's response to Ephraim's disavowal of his old life of sin. I am like a green fir tree. A! cypress, an evergreen, strong and beautiful both in winter and in sum- mer, The joy of the converted soul is here expressed, This is a moreel of personal testimony, From me is thy fruit found. "My God, shall supply all your wants," wrote the apostle. "All my springs are in thee," sang the psalmist. 9. Who is wise. . . prudent. This question with its two clauses refers not simply to our lessen, but to the whole teaching of Hosea. It requires moral. wisdom to understand moral truth, The prudent man, hearing this threatenings of God's providence, fore- seeth the evil and hideth himself, The ways of the Lord are right. "Right are the ways of the Lord;" straightfor- ward; directly leading tog tory. Trans- gressors shall fall therein. They shall stumble beeause they transgress; that is, because they walk out of the way, NELSON BEHIND THE SCENES. incidents in Life Recalled by • a Erie -1141N Dangitter. My father always spoke of LordNel- soxx as having a singular power of at - twitting all under his command to himself, from the highest official to the lowest cabin boy serving under his flag, says a writer in Blackwood's Magazine. Lord Nelson's sense of re- ligion was sincere and strong. He brought it with him into his profes- sion, and it never left him. My far ther, who knew him intimately said.: " 'Ittough it" (his religious feeling) "did not keep him from the great er- ror of his life, it ought to be remem- bered that few were ever so stron-gly tempted, and I believe that had Nel- son's home been made to him what a wiXe of good temper and judgment would, have made it, he never would have forsaken it." .A great cause of quarrel and dissension between Lord and Lady Neilson was the latter's son by a former marriage who was not a satisfactory person from Lord Nel- son's point of view. When Lord Nelson was eonamand- _ ing the Mediterranean fleet, and was a' lying off the Spanish coast, the cap- e tains of two Spenish frigates just ax - rived from America, sent to entreat an audience of him, merely to give r themselves the gratification of see- ing a person whom they considered to be the greatest seaman tn theworld Capt. Hardy took their request to Lord Nelson and urged him to comply with it. Notwithstanding the admiral's peevisb reply of "What in the world Ls there to see in an old withered fel- low likemyself ?" he ordered that they t be admitted. ' Lord Nelson always wore short breeches and silk stockings, and at that moment his legs were bound up at the knees and ankles with pieces of brown. paper, :soaked in vinegar, and • bed on with red tape. This had been done to allay the irritation arising' from mosquito bites. Quite forgetting his, attire and the extraordmary ap- pearance wind it presented Lord Net - son event on deck and conducted the interview with the Spanish captains wit/a such perfect courtesy that his singular appearance was quite objit- feirret:-opinion of him thoroughly con- e,ed.,by the charna ofhis annex, and the Spaniards left the ship with their high He was very peevish about trifles, and would sometimes say to Capt. Har- dy: "Hardy, it is very hard that I cannot have vy breakfast punctually when I order it!" Father in heaven, but will now trust in him who is the Father of the father- less. 4. 1 will heal their backsliding. God is the speaker, and this is the answer to their prayer, the blessing that comes in reaponse to the sacrifice of their lips. ,Backsliding here stands for all unfaithfulness to God, from the slightest wrong to absolute sinful- ness. 1 will love them freely. Spon- ta,neousln, with a love that has leo re- lation to their merit, for they have no merit. So God loves us. Mine anger is turned away from him. Gocas anger is not whim, but His anger is hostility to sin, If spiritual eye- sight were clear, no man or wo- man could eversee an angry look. on Gods face, for the moment we turn towards eim he is full of smiles and tenderness to us. • 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel There is no real dew in Israel, but there is a heavy mist which gathers through the :eight and rests meietly oti the land, refreshing its streams, fertilizing its soil, and giving strength and beauty to. flowers and fruit. So God comes to the worshipful heart, (1) without observation, (2) copiously, (3) witn retreshine power, kindling all our dying graces, (a) making us fruit - fn. He shall grow as the lily, and cast fut. He shall view as the lily, and cast forth ' his • roots as Lebanon. 'Taal is, as the ceders which grew on that, lofty mountain range and which were famous the world over for their luxuriance and stxen,gth, Beatty and strength are :symbolized by the lily and the cedar. Notice the emphasis plac- ed upon the roots. Cedars of Lebanon are said to throw theftroots down as dee; 1).' as their beads reach upward, Th.., are. a type of permanence. • O. Ills branches shall' spread. The figures of speech are mingled now with a profueion that reminds one of oriental juneles. '"His branches' are hie shoots or suckers or tendrils. His, beauty shall be as' the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. The prophet of God find) no one plant whieh combines all the graces of the people who re- turn to God -lovely as the lily, firm as the cedar, they phall be fruitful aathe olive, and ' fragrant is the teheitest forest of the world, it forest full of aromatic sbrubs. 7. They that dwell under him 8N:dew shall return. Probably this means that they that have dwelt -tinder the shadow di Israers throne, but who are about, because of Israel's sins, to be taken to a foreign land, shall be re - AN ODD FORM OF HYSTERIA. A farl Wid) Breaks Wandowg and Then the /Burglar Cry. An odd case of hysteria is reported from Abilene, Mo. A lady of the town has been entertaining her niece, a young woman from another town, and ever since the arrival of the girl the Muse has been made the target of peepers and burglars. In the evening before tale fa 'netta had gone to bed theta weuld be --tared of glass wed then the young woman would come flying in terror to her aunt with the story that she had seett the face of a man at the window and waela he found that he was observed he broke the window and ran. After windows h,ad been broken all over the house, offiners were set to watch fax several nights. At last one officer, brighter than the rest, discovered that all the glass broken from a window fell out- ward, showing that it must have been struck from the easicle. A watch' was then kept on the girl nad she was soon ceught in the act of breaking a - window, after whieh sbe ran se/emoting to her aunt with the same old 'stery about a man. ,THer strange perform- ance is aecounted for on the theory of a hysterical +Condition in which she "sees things" and then does things un- edseiously, USE FOR EVERYTHING, Lady Agatha,/ I know it'e n gr,eat deal to ask, Mr. Dauliehey, but would you, some clay, give me one of your pi c tures for an Institution I am so deeply interested in? It is a home of rest for the blinal NOT THE ONE ENCIRCLED. I weint beve bim artnind, said the old gentleman, But leoe never around you I et.ly me, returnea the daughter,