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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-7-13, Page 4E EXETER, TIKES ivorEs AND ommENTs., 04 Monday of last week the voters leX the oolotiy tif New Soeth Wales were invited, to deelare at the ballet box whether they ,would aooept or rejeot tej taUai Commonwealth laill era - dying a Federal Constitution, as eis eves emended at tee reeent °outer - Pee ot colonial Preartierve M.elhourne, elm vote atood, 101,200 eor federation 79,634 againat. it wee not without iiificuiter that this referendum wee se- •eixed, end the eutoome a it wa,s, await- -4 with anxiety by all those, interest - el, in A.usixolian federation, .1111..1,64,00, it will be xememlaerea that tho traltan Commonwealth bill, when for- rateely submitted, to the PeoPiet was ed by Vieteria, Soath Australia ate Tae.nania, bat orals defeated in Neve Sonth Wens, becatiee, although it se- ared there •9. majority of about 5,000 rotes, thee eetes fell short of the Minimam prene:ed. by a eolonial sta- ,tuee. This statute had been • paesed thr,ou•ge, the influenee of Mr. Reid, and leader of the lower house eif the Sydney Legislature, who thought that the intereets of NOW Souht Wales were not sufficiently oonsidered in the Leoramonwealth bill as arininally frame ed. Teen mine the Melbourne confer- ence. At this the Pxeraiers of all the Anstialasian colonies, except New Zea- land, Qu.eercelan.d, and West Australia, agreed to recommend to their consti- tuents such amendments of the pro- eneed Federal Constitution, as should. !meet the view a of Mr. Reid, WbO, there - neon, became a zealous convert to the nenojecte and promisned to pass through -Sydney Legislature a, bill refer - ng to the adoption of the federative an to the electors of New South iVa1es. The Legislative Counoil of that ‘irdolony, however, which is not an elect- : sad, bat a nominated body, continued to ,.oppose the scherae, having been pre- vailed. upon to take this course by the "Shopkeepers: of Sydney, who are els- pleased with the provision that the FecIerae capital shall be placed at some • point a hundred miles, distant from their city. The opposition took the form of a provision that, When the Common- wealth bill should be submitted to a poll of the people, a condition of its adoption should be a Minimum of " ayes " believed. to be unattainable. To •6vercome the obstruction of proceed- ing from this source, the acting Gov- ernor of the colony, conforming to the advice •_given by Premier Reid, creat - 4e, a consiarable number of new Coun- •.eil/ors, so that the provision requiring rabaimum of at least 80,000 ayes, be- fore the Commonwealth bill should be- come operative, was abrogated by 30 la.tive Asseerany passed_ the bin and! votes to 23. A little later the Legis - fixed jute 20 es the day for the refer- • endum. In other quarters the prospects of federation are bright. In South Austra- lia, where, it will be recalled, women possess the suffrage, a general eIec- Sion took peace on April 29, at which ,o,the Commonwealth bill, as amended at see Melbourne conference was approo- ea by an immense raajoxity, the vote being 65,000 to 17,000. In Victoria and Tasmania the modified Federal cans ti_ tution will be submitted. immediately to the electors. Even in Queensland., welch took no part in framing the Com- monwealth bill, the feelbles of the peo- pal seem to have undergone some change. The Legislature was convened at a date earlier then usual to eonsider the Federal question, and, according to tive latest telegraan, from Brisbane, an enabling bill has been. passedso that the voters of Queensland will have at least an opportunity of declar- ing themselves for or againse Aus- erallan union. It is far from cer- n, however, that the Commonwealth will be accepte•d, in this important lon.y, a, powerful league representing nufacturers and agrieulturists. hay- ; been organized. to oppose it.. There a widespread impression in tilis collene that the interests of its north- ern and southern sections are irrecon- tilable, and. that tee adoption of the federative scheme should be deferred, until after Queensland. has been di- vided. into 'two independent politic I entities. Whatever egtni,land, West Anrstre4a-....A.n4 -/krevir- Zealand may do, uittrali&e. Confederaey will soon go into operatiNA for there is no doubt Ae • about the coneurrence of 'Victoria s.rel Taselania, while the assent of Sou.te • Australia, is already secured. •PRECEDE THE CZAR. The workmen who go in advance of to Czar whenever he travels forra a Slued of six mechanics. Two are lock- Inniths, two carpenters and two naa- sons. • All are married men, borti in the Czar's servioe, and absolutely de- voted to their sovereign. Their busi- ness is to examine the walls, flooring, obemeeys, leeks and. furniture of the epert meats which the Ozer le to oc- clipy. The chimneys, in partioular, engage their attention, for every fine ading to a room itt whioh the Ozer IA to sleep or sat has La be grated barred at top or bottom. This is • haps the most important body of tttett tri tee royal hoc13rguard, as thsY ight at any time, with but little den- • er te therussives, admit or direct an asassin. ORURO OF REST TRIO REV. DR. TALXAGE SPEAKS OF ITS PRESENT POSITION leangeroue,„fiee the Choral* or Oeca, to Ale low Its Weapons to Slay In elie Eau& et to; Enentles—eliturek'e ReSources Are Aetually midden and Earted wee •ilevelopea-The en *Wadies a rnmely Sermon,. A despatch from Washington says: Rev Dr. Talmage preaohea from the following text :---" Now teere wee no smith found throughout all the land Xsrael ; for the Philistines said, lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears. But all the Israelites weiat down to the Philistines to sharpen ev- ery man his share, and his coulter, and his ace, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the akea, and to sharpee the goads." -1 Samuel xiii, 19-21. What a scalding subjugation or the Israelites I The Pliilistines Isad, carried I off all the blacksmiths, and torn down all the blacksmith's shops and abol- ished the blacksmith's trade in the land. of Israel, The Philistines would not even allow these parties to work their vralu,..able mines of brass and iron, nor mighi they make any swords or spears. There were only two swords left in all the land, Yea, the Philis- tines went on until they had taken all the grindstones from the land of Is- rael, ao that if an Israelitish farraer wanted. to sharpen his plough .or his axe, he had. to go over to the garrison of the Philistines to get it clone. There Iwas only one sharpening instrument lef t in the land, and. that was a file 1 The farmers and the mechanics having • nothing to whet up the coulter and the goad. and. the pickaxe, save a simple file, industry WaS hindered and work practically disgraced. The great idea of these Philistines was to keep the Is- raelities disarmed. They raight get iron out of the hills to make swords of, but • they would not have any blacksmiths to weld this iron. If they got the iron welded, they woula have no grindstones on which to bring tee instruments of agriculture or the military weapons up to an edge. Oh, you poor weaponless Israelites, ;reduced to a file, eow I pity you.1 But these Philistines were not forever to keep their heel on the neck of God's children. Jonathan, on his hands and knees, climbs up a great rook beyonci which were the Philistines; and his armor -bearer, ref his hands and knees, climbs up the same took, and these two men, with their two swords, hew to pieces the Philistines, the Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So it wile then; so it is now. Two men of God on their knees, raighter than a Plsilistizie hosi on their feet. I *learn first from this subject, how .datigerous it is for the Church of God to allow its weapons to stay in the hopes of its enemies. These Israelites might again and again have obtained a supply of sweetie and weapons, as for instances ween they took the spoils of the Annetonitea; but these Israelites seemed content to have no swords, no spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron raines uutil it was too late for tlaera to make any resistance. ,see the farmers tugging along with their pickaxes and. ploughs, and. I say: "'Where are you going with those things V" They say: "0, we are. going over to the garrison. of the Philistines to get these things sharpened." I say: You foolisk men, why don't you sherpen them at home "" 0," they say, " the blacksmith's shops are all torn down, and we have nothing left us but a. file." So it is in the Church of Jesus Christ to -day. We are too willing to give up our weapons to the enemy. Tetel WORLD BOASTS that it hats gobbled. up the schools and the colleges and the arts and the sci- ences: and tee literature and the print- ing-presse Infidelity is making a :nighty attempt to' get all our weap- ons in its hand, and then to keep them. You know it is making this boast all the time; and. after a while when the great battle between sin and right- eousness has opened, if we do not look out we will be as badly off as theft earaelites, without any swords to fight with, and without any sharpening in- struments. I call upon the sperintend- ents of literary institutions to see to it that the men who go into the class rooms to stand beside the Leyden jars, and the electric batteries, and the mic- roecopes and the telescopes be nhil- area of God and not Philistines. The Carlylian, Emersonian, and. Tyndall, thinkers of this daenern.eseeng to/be- an the inteileetual weapons of this century an their own grasp. What we ware is scientifio Christians to cap- tuxe the sciencenand scholistio Chris- tians to eaptaxe the soholarship, and philosophic Christians:, to capture the philosophy, and. lecturing Christians to take back the lecturing platform. We want to send out against Schenkel and Strange and Remain a Theodore Christ- lieb of Bonn ; and against the infidel scientists of the day, a God -worship- ping Silliman and -Hitchcock and Ag- assiz. We want to capture all the philosophical apparatus, and swing amend the telescopes on the swivel, un- til through them we can see the morn- ing star of the Redeemer, and with mineralogioal hammer diecover the " Rock of ages," andamid the flora of all realms find the "hose of Shame and. the Illy of the valley." We want a elergy learned enough to eiseouree of the human eye, showing it to be a mic- roscope and telescope In one instru- ment,with eight hundred vvonderful contrivances, and. lids closing mono or 40,600 times a day'; all its( muscles and nerves and bones showing the infinite skill of an infinite God, and then wind- ing up with the peroration: "Ile thet formed the eye, shall he not seer And then we want to be able to discourse about the human ear, its wonderful integuments, membranoes ,and vibra- tions and its chain of sinall bones and its auditory nerve, dosing with the queation: "Es that planted the ear shall he not. hear I" Ancl,we want some one able to expound the first 011440 of Geneeis, bringing to it the geology d the, aetrononly of the world„ as• job suggested, "the stones a the field shall be iu league" with the trteile, and the eters in their oourse shall PIG= AGAINST SISERA, 0 Chard], of God, go out and recapture these weapon.% Let the net of God go out and take possession of the Plat- form. Let the debauched printing - press of this country be reeaptured fer Christ, and the reporters and the type setters and the editors and publishera be made to swear allegiance to the Lord God of truth, Al, my friend, that day must come, and if the great body of Christian, men have not the faith or the courage or the consecra- tion to do it, then let some Joaatbau, on his busy hands and on his praying knees, elimb up on the rook of hind- rance, and. in the name of the Lord God of Israel slash: to pie.ces those lit- erary Philistines. If these men will not be converted to God, then they must be destroyed. Again, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the Church's re- sources is actually bidden and buried and undeveloped. The Bible mates that that was a very riela land. —this land of Israel, It says: "The stonee are iron, and out of the eine thou shalt dig brass," and yet hun- dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of this metal was kepi under the hills, Well, there is the difficulty with the Churela of God at this day. Its talent is not developed. If one-half of its energy could be brought out, it might take the • public eniquities of the day by the throat and make them bite the dust. le• human elo- quence were consecratea to the Lord Jesus Christ, it could in a few years persuade this whole earth to surren- der to God. There es enough unde- veloped energy in this one ceurch to bring this city to Christ—enough un- developed Christian energy in the city, to bring all the United States to Christ—enough undeveloped Chrisean energy in the United States to bring the whole world to Christ; but it is burLed uncler strata af indifferenee and under whole Mountains of cloth. Now is it not time for the sniping to begin, and. the pickaxes to -plunge, and for this buried metal to be brought • out and put into the furnaoes, and be turned into howitzers and. carbines for • the Lord's hosts? The vast majority of Christeans in 'this day are useless. I The most of the Lord's battalion be- ! longs to the reserve corps. The most • of the crew are asleep iitt the ham- ro.oeks. The most of the metal is un- ; der the hills. 0, is it not tine for the Church of God. to rouse up and ,-understand that we want all the ener- • gies, all the talent, all the wealth en- listed for Christ's sake? I like the nickname that the English soldiers gave to Blucher, the coroxaander. They called hira "Old Forwards." We have had enough retreats in the Church of Christ; let us have a glori- ous advance. AIM I say to you. to- night, as the General said when his troops were affrighted. Rising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind, he lifted up his voice utitil 20,000 troops heard him, crying out: "FORWARD Ti WHOLE LINE!" Again: 1 learn from this subject, that we sometimes do well to take ad- vantage of tee world's sharpening in- struments. These Israelites were re- duced to a file, and so they went over to the gaxrisou of the Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their ploughs shaxpened. The Bible distinctly states it—the text which I read at the beginning of the service—, that they had no other instiuments now with which to do this work, and the Israelites did right when they went over to the Philistines to use their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ' the world's grindston.es V If there be art, if there be logic, if there be business faculty on, the othereside, let us go over and employ it for Christ's sake. • The fact is, we fight with too dull weapons, and we work with too dull iraplements. We hack an.d we maul when we ought to make a keen stroke. Let us go over among sharp business men, and among_ sharp literary men., and_riTrd•okt What their tacteteeniiid-ffien transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they have sal - °nee and art it will do us good to rub against it. elm other words; let us employ the vvorld.'s grindstones. We will listen, to their eausie and we will watch their aseumere and. we will use their grindstones; and we will borrow , their philosor apparatus Lomake' our exPerime ts, and we Will borrow I -presses to publish our e will borrow their rail - their printi Bibles, and trams tces an era - tare, Eui.a we will borrow their ships to transport our missionaries. That was what made Paul such a mas- ter in his day. He not only got all the learning he coald get of Doctor Gainaliel, but afterward, standing on Mars Hill, and in crowded tiaorough- fare, quoted, their poetry and grasped their logia and wielded their eloquence and. employed their mythology, until Ilionysius the Areopagite, learned in the schools of Athens and Heliopolis, went downs uneerehinotramendats pow- rt- -That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his power in his day. He conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for the second time, the morning stars sang together and all the sues of God ehoated, for joy. That was whet gave to Sonathan Edwards his influence in his day. Ile comraenced the world's metaphysics and. foroed it into the ser- vice of God, until not only the old meeting -house at Northanapton, Massa- chesetts, bat all •Clhristenclom felt thrilled by his Christian power. Well, now my friends, we all have tools of Christian usefulness. Do not let them lose their edge. We ward; no rusty blades in this fight. We want no coul- ter that cannot rip, up the glebe. We want no axe that cannot fell the trees, We want no goad that cannot start the lazy team, Let usl get. THE VERY BEST GRINDSTONES we can fine, though they' be in the possession of the Philistines, compel- ling them to turn the °tank while we bear down with all our, raight on the svviet revolving wbeel u.ntil all our energies and faculties shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge, Again: my subjeet toadies as on what it small allowance Philistine ini- Emits, puts a mate Yee; these tines shut up the mines, and then theor Leek the speare and the swords, thert they took the bIacksmithS, then they took the grindetones, arid they took everything but a file, 0, that is the wrLy sin works; it grabs everything. It begins with robbery and. it ende with robbery. It despoils this faottity and. that faoulty, an1 keepe oi antil the whole nature is gone. Wes the man eloquent before, it generally thieltens his tongue.Was het fine in personal eppeeranees, it mars his visage,' Was he affluent, it sends the sheriff to sell him out, Wee he influential, it des - treys his porielarity-. Was he placid, and geaial and loving, it makes him spleeetio and cross; and so utterly is lie changed that you can •see he is sareastie and rasping, and that the Philistines eave left him nothing hut a file. • 0, "the way of the transgressor is hard." His oup is bitter. His night is dark. His pangs are deep. His end is terrific. Philistine iniquity says to the oxen; "Now, surrender to me and, I will give you 411 yoti want— music for the dance, swift steeds for the rue, imperial couoli to slumber on, and you shall be refreshed with the rarest fruits, in baskets of golden fil- agree." He lies. The :mimic turns out to be a groan. The fruits burst the rind with rank poison, The filagree is made up of twisted. snakes. The coach is a grave. Small allowance of rest; small allowance of peace; small allovsaaoe of comfort. Cold, hard, rough,—nothing but a file. So it was with Voltaire, the most ap•pla.u.ded man of his day: "Tee Soriptures was his jest -book • whenoe he drew Bon mots to gall the Christian and the Jew; An tufted 'w)aen well, but what. When sick? 0, then ft text would, touch hint to the • quick." Seized. with hemorrhage of the lenge in Paris, where he had; gone to be crowned in the theatre as the ;tea of all France, he sends a messenger, to get a priest, that he may be reconciled to the Church before ho dies. A great terror ,:falls upon him. He makes the place all round. about him so dismal that the nurse declares that she., would not for all the wealth of Europe see another infidiel die. Philistine bit- quity had promised him all the world's gaxlande, but in the last hour of his life, when. he needed soleeing, sent tearing aoroes his conscience and: his nerves a file, a file. So it was with Lord Byron, his uncleanness in Eng- laod only surpassed by his uncleanness in Venice, then going on to ehd his brilliant misery ablVlisselongi, fret- ing at his nurse Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting at ther world, FRETTING AT GOD; • and. he who gave to the world. "Childe Harold" and "Sardanapalas" and. "The Prisoner of Chinon" and "the Siege of Corinth" reduced to nothing but a fi'el 0, sin hats great faoility for making promises, but it has just as great facil- ity for breaking them. A Christian life is the only cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender is remorse, ruin, and death. Its painted glee is sepulchral ghastliness. In the bright- est clays of the Mexican Empire, his heart something like a canker. Sin, like a monstet wild beast of the Montezuma said. he 'felt gnawing at forest, sometimes links all over its vic- tim in order that the victim may be more easily swallowed; but generally sin rasps and galls and tears and up- braids and files. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hildebrand? Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye! aye I it is so, it is so. "The Way of the wicked He turneth upside down." History tells us that when Rome was founded nye flying through the air; hut WLJ8 a he lj transgressor dies, tsky that day there were twelve sVU b :reek with whole flocks of tbera. ltures vultures! vultures! When see sin I see them going down day I wwr oemb re ba in:17,5°Iwmcueeallkre, y In oomtf ukraseitTephitveYb ada:piiaaenisndt arersand. , I risk the salvation of y own soul. wR°.arng ver nithbeellPiornat IencPelialplee,dtRotrthinthke- ing that he would have/ a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night ,his own ship crashed down on this very /eon, and he went down With hiseoareo, God declares; "When .Ine_nssy to the wick- ...tiona-ellauleeety die, and thou giv- est him not warning, that same raa.n shall aie in his iniquity ; but his blood wial I nequire at thy hands." I learn once more from this subjeot what and thirig it is when the Church of God. loses its metal. These Philis- tines saw that if they coned only get alt 1.14 metallic weapons out of the, hands of the Israelites, all would be well, and, thereforethey took the swords and the sperm's. They did not want them to have a single metallic weapon When the metal of .the Is- raelites was gone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble with the _Church of God. to -day. It is surren- dering its courage. It has not got enough metal. How seldom it is that you see a man taking his position in pew or in pulpit or in a religious soeiety, and b.olding that position against all apposition and all trial and. all persecution, and all criticism. The Church of God to -day wants more backbone, more defianee, MORE CONSECRATED BRAVERY, or, his physteal yourap not quite up to his moral courage; and, he looked down at his kneeand said,: "Ah, ir you knew where I wake going to take, you, you, would shake worse than' that 1", There is only one question for Yon to ask and for me to ask. Whist does Gad want me to do? Where is the field? Where is the work? Where is the anvil t Where is the Prayer - meeting t Where is the pulpit? And, finding out what God -wants us to do, go ehead and do it --all the energy of our body, mind,. and goat en- listed in the undertakiag, 0 MY bre- thren, we have but little time in which to fight 'for God, You will be dead soon, Put in the Christian cause every energy that Goa gives you, "What thy hand findeth to do, do it wAh all thy mi0t, for there is 1.ie4Aer wiadota nol' device in the grave whillier we are all hastening.? I see no* thee plumes of the Lord.s cavalrymen tossing in the air, The archangel before the Throne has already burnished his trumpet; and then he will pat its gold- en lips to his own, and he will blow the long, loud blast that will MAKE ALE THE NATIONS FREE. Clap your hands all ye people! Bark! I hear the falling thrones, and the dashing down of demolished' iniqui- ties. "Hallelujah! the Lord God Om- raipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! the kingdom of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ," RUFFIAN'S IN UNIFORM. alt; Ohnt 1[31Y1liting Are etnipeuee o eiaure In Austria, Two more oatrages committed b armed officers on 'unarmed civilian have come under my notice, writes a Vienna correspondent, Near St. Poelton on Friday a labour er was driving a waggon along a coun try lane, when he met; a regiment of infantry, and forthwith reined in his eorsee and. halted while they marched past. . The whole of the "'regiment passed without difficulty except one detach meiat, under Lieut. Swoboda, who ora tiered the labourer to 'clear the road for his men, The laee was too narrow for the waggon, to turn round, there were high hedges 'on each side, and the la- bourer could only obey the officer by backing his horses half a taiie to the next turning. This he naturally declined: te do as the remainder of the regim.ent, with all the superior officers, had passed. the waggon without difficulty, Lieut. Swoboda, enraged at the la- bourer's oppositioe,to his silly caprice. attacked him savagely with Hs sword, SlleASIe ED HIS CHEEK BONE and wounded him in the ann so severe - THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 18. "'Wee fielnvelvs In the Mew leiienace." pan, a. itteeir. Soeiett Text, Dan. 3, 17, PetACTeCAL NOTES, Verse 14, Nelmobednezzar. King of Babylon, We may think of hint as :sit- ting in royal state, surrounded by his coartiere and, slaves. Shadrach, Mos- kach, and Abednego. Young men witli whom we became acquainted in the last lemon un/Ler tee name of ilano.niale Mishael, and Azatiah. Serve my gads. Ie„ antiquity secular government and religion were not merely intertwined; they were practically one. And, as we have already seen, there was noth- ing absurd to the conseience of the an- cient world to the deification, of a king, or in a royal mandate ordering pray- er to certain gods, or forbidding such prayer. The golden image weich I have set up. Described. in the preceding verses of this chapter. 'Tether an idol, of a statue of the king, or, as some have conjectured., a tatue represent- ing his imperia, power and. suggest- ed by his dream. 15. Tile sound. of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, The neusio of the Orient is nearly all in a mirtor key and "harmony". was unknown in ancient times, Doubtless y muot that wag agreeable to Lhp Baby - s ' /denials ear would be rank d1sc6):$1 to ours. Only those familiar with cried- tal musics can unaerstancl the liberty - given to Lite various musicians, whose - tunes are eften what we would call "variations,' All kinds of music. An outburst of almost every sort of' inatrument, in almost every key, with almost endless trilling. The "cornet" and. "flute" were veind in- _ struments. ;The "heap," -sackbut," and. "psaltery" were string instru- ments. The "dulcimer" it is impos- sible to identify. Worship. Rever-• once by prostration. A. burning fiery furnace. To burn criminals alive was not offensive to the moral sense of the ancients, ane ell who came under the ban of royalty were regarded as criminals, so that this cruel sentence would not astonish by-standers. The furnace was probably built al bricks with an opening at the top and a acse,, at the mouth below. • The cloom,esseeigne were thrown clow.n upou theett" e • ng coals from above. ^anisenerneen that gset that ellen deliver vow eneeneront of my banes? eThe_ee'enfideinefelef Inc Hebrews in ;Fe- LPC2nbli ,Vf-q-1-1p)ara11eled by the confid- 'seek of every other nation in its god., ly that amputation was necessary, Subsequently, the cowardeneeeteee of- ferd the unfortunate:tin compensationne d4" , Avalon the latter 'ta- bourer 25s. 0 • dignaneelerneeenned_ -e victim of this brutal outrage is a old soldier, who served with dis- t' I only escaped injoxy there to be multi - Unction in the Bosnian campaigh, and 1ated in his old age by a young bully who was never under fire. Anothee officer of the same regi- ment recently- attacked and wounded an actor for some imaginary slight to his "honour" in a cafe. When the actor endeavoured to ob- tain redress from head,queirters all the officers of the Poelton garrison banded together and threatened to boyeolt the local theatre ioaless the charge againat their comrade was withdravvn, As this would have injured the theatre the actor had to ezidare his injuries in silence. lie was disfigured for life and lost two month's employ- ment. I have another bad case of military Hooliganism to add. to the budget I have recently sent. Lieut. von leuedingen was recently standing in the 1VIariahilfer Stress°. one of the busiest thoroughfares in Vienna, talking to two ladien when a driver of an approaching omnibus warned him in rough. tones that he was obstructing the traffic, and re- quested him to move on Lieut, von Rueclingen, resenting this mode of ad - drew, drew his sword and dashed. at the driver and nearly ,'and, as we ha.v,e already seen, the "state" and the "church," if we may bueseingmoter,nwgrhsrasbeetsevefoenr kanintgiqsuaenfclaciat:-' tions 'came to be regarded almost as wars between, gods and religions. 16. We are not careful to answer thee in this matter. We can scarcely sufficiently' adniire the answer of these three brave young men. „"Care- ful" has its old. sense of "burden with • anxiety." To "answer," Neliuchadnez- zee m,earit to make a decision on the terms he had granted. Whether or not they were to be thrown into a tbhureinrinhaginfidser! furnace -did not distract 17. It it be so. Some authorities would translate "Assuredly," but "IL it be so " is quite as emphatic. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver as. This answers both of Nebuchadnezzar's questions: "Is it true that ye did not serve my -Gods?" "Yea, verily; we serve our God." "Who is .that God who shall deliver you out of my hands?" "Oar God; he will deliver us either from death or in death." 18. But if not. If in his mysterious providence he permits his companions to be overwhelmed itt this world Be it known unto thee, 0 king. Words of la defiance. We will not serve thy gods '0 ! nor worship. the golden image. These men are not serving God for reward. Though he slay them, they will still t 1. trust in hine It has been wisely said ,h by a great commentator that their I el deliverance from sinful compliance was .0 as great a miracle in the kingdom of 1 grace, as that front the furnace was in the kingdom of nature. 19. Full of fury. This absolute mon- arch. had never before met such deter- mined resistance to his will. The form of his visage was changed. Nebuchad- nezzar had been singularly patient with these young men, but now that his patience, had cora& to an end, his fury shows itself in. all his countenance and gestures. Heat the furnaee one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. Seven. is the symbol of perfec- tion. The furnace was heated as much a.s it could be heated, but the hotter the furnace the more signal the de- liverance. The king's passion defeats its own end. 20. 'The most mighty men that were in his ex•my. The most vigorously =sealer members of his bodyguard. 21, These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other. garments. Four articles of' dress are here pointed to: 1, Flow- ing trouzers, garments something like the Zoaave trousers: 2 underclothing or tunics, vvooien shirts; 3, outer robes; 4, other garments; shoes, turbans, gir- dles, etc. 22. The king's commandment was urgent. Bus orders were given with violence, so thee the strong raen of the bod.ygueurd lost their own lives in throwing the throe heroes into the furnace. The flame of the fire sieve those. men. That the lives of the three Hebrews were preserved and the lives of the, soldiers ware forfeited was full of meaning to the by standees, _ Fell down bound into the midst of ihe hurriirt fiery furnace. B ;fore the flame hact toinnmed their bands.; the soldiers were killed by the heal. 24. The king was astonied and lose ter in. haste: and spoke, "Aetonied ' is an old English word for astoished. ee Tdignity of the king had been cen- t...lamed by the flash that killed his guardsraen Ms counselors, }us courtiers or oubies that waited around bitthrone. Did not we oast three man boundt "We" is the Plural form of majesty, Nelruchathvzzar is so :Aston - tailed by what he gees that he cannot trust his owe meoaory, more metal. How' often you see a man start out in some good enterprise, and at the first blast of newspaperdom he has collapsed, and all his courage is gone, forgetful of the fact that if a, man be right, all the newspapers of the °path, with all their columns pounding away at him, cannot do him any permanent damage. It is only 'when a man is wrong that he can be damaged. Why, God is going to vin- dioato His truth, and Ile is going to stand, by you, my friends, in every ef- fort you make for Christ's eause and the salvation of men. I sometimes say to ttor wife:' "There is something Wrong; the newspapers have riot as- saulted, me for six weeks! I have not done my duty.againg public iniquities and, I ,will stir them up next. Sunday." Zlmtril I stir them up, and all the fol- lowing week the devil howls and howls and hovsis, showing that have bit him very herd. -Go forth in the ser- vice of Christ and. do your whole duty. You have one sphere. 1. have another sphere. "The Lord of Hosts is with us, and the God of jaeob is oily re- fuge, Selah." We want more of the determination of Jonathan. I do not suppose he was a very `wonderful man; but be got on his knees and clambered up the rook, and with the help of his armor bearer lie ilewee dOwn the Phil- istines; and a man of very ordinary intellectual attainments, on his knees, can storm anything for Goa and for the truth. We want something of the &termination of the general. who went into the evitt'and as he entered his first battle, his knees kJ:looked tooth- CITT HIS RIGHT HAND OFF. The driver was disabled, and the mili- tary authorities, oorapelled by public opinion, st n e need the olficer to two months' iraprisonna.ent, expelled. hint from the arnay and( raado him pay his victim a small sum mouthly as com- pensation. When ptiblic indignation had cooled Lieut. von R,uedingen received a free pardon on the ground that he had de- fended his honour in aetustifiable man- ner, and. he was re -instated in his regi- ment. Lieut. von leuedingen, svith un- exampled meanness, thereupon ceased paying his victim the monthly allow- ance, leaving the poor man desti- tute. The driver is now suing the of- ficer in the civil court. ; _ GOOD REASON FOR IT. You don't seem to be on very good terms with your brother. No sir; I'm not. And there's a mighty good reason for it, too. Any- one who treats his brother as shab- bily at my brother treated, me cannot expect to retain his affection and re- spect. What did he ever do to you? Do to me I Sir, that brother of mine is two years younger than I am and yet by the time he was 5 years of age he had the audacity and lack of erotherly coneideration to so far out- grow me that, from that time on un- til, we both left the parental roof his clothes were cut down for me instead of mine being out down for him, in the circumstances, sit, you will see that the eatrangereent is but, natural, NOT HIS VOICE, Mrs, Crimsonbeak— Has Mr. Cr:m., sotheak got home for dinner yet, leridgett Bridget— No =tuna. 1 thought heard him downstairs Sure that was the dog you heard grovslire, 'Mum. 25. I see four Uien loose, Only three had been cast and they were bound. The original of the speecla given in leis verse is made up of abrupt ex - °Lunation& ,Waikbag in the midst of the fire. Why did they uot leave it? They were simply in the hands of God. His miracle prevented tee fire from 000rching them, They welted his time to release 'them, The form of the fourth is like the Son of God, P14Aspect of the four(h resembles "a son of the gods." Nebuchadnezzar had not our theology, fie meant it super. natural being, an angel. 20, Nebuceadnezzar carae near. We preaume the heal to have now slelee sided. Ye servauts of the most high God. The Chaldeana believed, in many gods who livee in families The words a Nebueliadnezzar show a sudden oonvietion that the Hebrew God Jetiovale was supreme in heaven. a God of gocle. We have already not- ed that among tee Hebrews "Most High " was a title of Jehovah. 27, Princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counselors. Satraps, de- • puties, and governors, and counselors, officers of the empire gathered from all quaners. These men, who had been brought to the capita) for the pur- poee of honoring an idolatrous image, are soon to return to their homes to spread abroad the glory of the spirit- ual God. Saw theee raen. The miracle had been openly performed. Upon whose' bodies the fire had no power. See Isa. 48 2; Hee. 11. 43. Nor was a hair of their head singed. See Luke 12. 7; 21. 8. Not the smell of fire had passea on them. See 1 These. 5. 22. 28- Nehuob.adnezzar spake, How far Nebuchadnezzar now became a wor- shipel of Jehovah, we °linnet say, but he, reVerence is sineere, Hie angel. messenger; referring to' the forro of ee; fourth. Delivered his. servants t het • tru.'&1.-ti Et) himeThis faithfulness of je- ,. hovah to his servants is the trait that appeals to the heaten king, who doubt- less sought to show forth the same conduct, Changed the king's words This is a noble trait in Nebuohadne ear's cha.racter, to thank God for ing vain the kind's endeavor to raen into obedience. Yielde bodies to the fire. They serve by sacrifice an,d. prayer. Nee worsbip. By throwing t - es o the groun,c1. aemselvn ak- 102CO their ight n.ot BIG GAME For Iteal Sport the The seeke r _ .CHE SEA. Hunter Should Aititen itortinsl. indeed" after big game should..at- tack the rqual if he would see sport eays the London Telegraph. For efeArligile raonster has such a repute. - non for almost supernatural cunning that even. if he were as valuable as he really is -valueless commercially, 'it is highly doubtful if he -would ever be molested. As it is, all the tribe ere chartered. libertines, since no wheel - man is likely to risk lee loss of a boat's gear for the barren honor or conquest And And not only so, but the rorquais, whether "fin -back," "sul- phur -bottom" or "blue -back," as well as * the "hump -back" and grampus. make it a point of honor to sink when dead, unlike the "'cachalot" or "bow - head," yvho float awash at first, but ever more buoyantly as the progress of decay within the immense abdomina.l. cavity genm erates an accuulating volume of gas. Any old whaleme.n would evolve in the intereste of sport no end. of dodges for dealing with the wily rorqual, such as a collection of strongly attaohed bladders affixed to the line to stay nia downward rush. short but broad -bared harpoons to get a better hold upon the thin coating of blabber, &c, In this kind of whaling there is quite sufficient dangerto make the sport exulting in the highest d,e- gree. Not, however, from the attack of the animal hunted, but because his evolutions in the effort to eseape are so marvellously vivacious that only the most expert and coca -headed boat- manship can prevent a sadden sever - nee of the nexus between boat arid rew. A splendid day's sport) can be ob- ained with a school of blackfish. Al- hougit seldom exceeding a ton and a all in weight, these small whales are huaist vigorousaithno smaesliuvgehlytoaa mepaiksoodetho as he moat enthusiastic hunter could wish, especially if two or even three are harpooned one after the other on single line, as the whalers' custom. is The sensation of being harnessed, as it were, to a trio of monsters, eech about twenty-five feet long and eight feet girth, eirery one anxious to flee le a clifierent direction at the highest speed he can master, and in their united gambols making the sea boil like a pot, Ise -one that, once experienc- ed, is never likely to be forgotten. The mere memory ot that mad frolic over the heaving bosom of the bright .sea makes the blood leap to the face, makes the nerves twitch, and, the heart long to be away from the placid round of waveeveryday igainl! f e upon the bright free Evea a school of porpoises, ia de- fault of nobler game, can furnish a lively Itour to two, espeeiaily if they be of fair size, say u.p to three or four hundredweight eaoh. But of a tenth there need be no fear of it lack of game. The swift passage ftom port to port made by pal:Ise:agar vessels le apt to leave the voyager with the ben pressioe that the sea is a barren waste but such an idea is wholly- false. Even the sailing ships, bounl theittg-h they may be to make the shorteet possible time between ports, are compelled by - failure of i,vind to see enough of the everyday life of the sea population to' know better than that, and whoso gives himself up to tee galmour of Elea study, making no haste 1.0 4ush from place to place, hut leisurely loitering along the wide plains of ocean, shall find each day a new world unfolding itself before his astonished eyes, a . world of marvels, infinitely small, as well as wonerous great—frora the thou- sand and ate miraclee that go to make up the "Plankton" to the, netediluviati Fiehing in its more hereto perigee is obtainable in deep-sea cruis- ing as nowhere else. • FRIENDLY COIVIIVIL,N11 T, Mudge, 11. 14 an awfui thingto rea- lize you ha vo hltkaO an egregious ass of yourself, isn't it ?: Tabsley.1 Ain't 7011 used ttt 6