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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-8-3, Page 6• 1V0223 'TAW? COilthIEIV71-% Atte' fear tleat the aearit a maven - tune in dying Out In the wort& that the etestleas broodof explorers has beemile enervated by tile refiztement we theist, upon ealling ()ionization, aliould be set ret by the work of diseovery con- teMplated ana ui rogreee. It was only the other day that the Dales ot the Abruzzi sa„iled from Norway to Feerentis Sea and Franz Josef, Lan& thus adding a folurtb. to the ex,pedi- times now pimaing their way toward the top of the globe. While the royal. duke alei Ihrellinen are moving poieward from the European side, Peary and Sverd,rup are ildvancing, to- ward the saute objectIve by the more favored route vie. Smith Sound and gorthern Greenland. To keep the balenoe even at the other end of the earth% axis, two expeditions, one Ger- man, one British, are planued to fol- low the present Belgian party in the endeavor to find out what lies behind the. Autaretie wall of fog. Ou land the discoverers are busy everywhere, pushing their way into the areas yet unknown and completing the explore - tion of man's earthly b.erttage, as if the maintenanee of intelleettial energy de- pended on the work. Annonnoement was made of the ar- rival of a Russian expedition let Lassa,. iti Thibet, the first European, Party to penetrate the jealously guarded seclu.- !don, of the city of the Grand Lama. And it Ls known that ix second one is now jou.rneying • through western Mongolia and. the Gobi 1)esert, to turn thence southward iuto the mys- iterioue and once populous region at thc amerce of the Huang ho. Clearly the Phoenicians are a strong tribe yet. And, given the proraise of a quotable result. the irresistible charm which. danger and novelty havealways had for th m sinoe the Aiabs discovered King Sotonaon's mines, o.nd the Malays pushed out into the Pacific to found in the Maories a new race, may be trust- ee to keep their eaefre. full, and. to at- traet to them something of the inter- est that attaches to conquerors. It is not indispensable to this inter- estthat much shall be gained, but onty that much shall be achieved by acts that stir the imaginations of men. Save for that limited class which knows much about geography, botany and meteorology, the whole history of • Arctic research resolves itself into the story of the struggle of man against Nature. There are no habitable lands behind the ice wail, no utility that appeals to the popular mind in the ex- act location of the magnetic pole, no benefit that can be set down in a ledger from all this expenditure of turaan energy and resource. Read the story of Nansens quest or Peary's journey to the north of Greenland, and nothing seems more useless and un- profitable. Yet one's pulse throbs at every success they score, every con -1 quest they make over Nature; and; there is no one who would not expend some labor or expense if by so doing the triumph of the explorers might be furthered. No material gain has been secured, but there has been achieve- mentl of the kind that stirs the blood, and the world seems the happier and better for it. Indeed, there is a cheer and an exhilaration about Arctic ex -1 exploration that lifts the spirit as ex- I pIorations nowhere else do. One turns I from the stories of African discovery weth a feeling of disgust and depres- sion. The whole continent reeks with miasma., moral and physical, and civi- lizeman remaining long in it, is ap-1 parently unable to resist the general! • contagion. In Asia the explorer seems always to be overwhelmed by the vast- ness of Nature, and even when he con- quers, emerges from the struggle with the look of defeat in his eyes. Bt the far North is a breezy opert world, with Vice frozen out of it, and the explorers are always among the most 'cheerful and hopeful and best of mankind. DINING IN JAPAN'. At tlae Masts of formal dinners in ja- pan the guests are presented with any portion of the meat they may fail to eat. However great or small the amount they may fail to eat, it is care- • fully wrapped up for them, and they are expected to take it home with them. The unique custom was follow- • ed. at official dinners until a short • time ago, when it was discontinued, but the withdrawal of government ex- • ample has not materially affected the practice. The plan has been followed for many years, and it is difficult to trace its origin. Peculiar as the ous- tom is, it is not without its • attractive features. The indulgent fa- ther or mother can pass the sweets ad carry them home to their chil- dren. Half a, dozen satisfattory wrap binations can be worked on the plan. There may be all kinds of elaborate eourses at a dinner that one dots not care for, but the Mental struggle of • saying no Is not hall so hard when you know you will get a chanee to oarry the food off, and either give It Lo your children, feed it to your dogs attd mite or distribute it among your friends. The Japanese practice is all that eould he eXpected. Each kind of tood is kept in a separate parcel, and • at the ()lose t.. the dinner the ehare of each guest is made up in a neat and • artistic bundle.. DISPOSITION OF JESUS. REV, DR, TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE SPIRIT OF GENTLENESS. Vim Weiland Charioteer or Our Savioter- little etlaideen ausited boo OM are. settee -melt wed lelor Hod Wire AcooSs to eleatteness orontraste41 WIth Oar. lenient:tem. •A tieepatch from eheishingten says: -Rev. Dr. Talmage preached Erma the following text,: -"Now if any man have not the Spirit a chrisi4he is 3aono of His."-latau. viii. 9. There is notiaag Mere clearable • than a pleasaut disposition. With - oat it we cannot be happy ourselves and we cannot make others happy. When we feel that we have been vex- ed and have lost or temper, or have been impatient ttuder some light cress we wake up to Dew appremation of proper equipoise of nature. We wish that we had been burn teeth self bal- ance. We envy the bearing of than, man who is never thrown into per- tuxbation. We live under the feel- ing that as years pass along our char- acter will be mellowed and ripened, aud we will become mere self-ooarol- lable, forgetful of the fact ehat an evil left in our nature uneracheated gruws to more offensive proportious, and that a transgresaiou not cast out may become the grandfather of a g-reat generatiou of iniquities. • It is possible to have our disposi- tons alt made over again. Because we do not oelieve this, our disponuons do not improve;..e. man says: "I am irascible, and I can't help it ;" or, "1 am. reveageful, and 1 caut help it" or, "1 am impulsive, and 1 vent help it." Yoa eau help it. We may have our dispositiuns made over ea:tan-evil apremed, right implanted. • If it is ever done at all, my friends, it will be by having the disposition of Jesus Christ, set down in the midst of our nature. I shall this morning discourse to you about the clieposition of the Lord Jesus, tor "if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." In the first place, the spirit of Jesus was a spirit of gentleness. I know • that zumetimes He made wrathful utteranue against the hypocrite and the Pharisee, but for the most part lite words and. His demeanour were gentle, and loving, •and kind, end patient, and inoffensive and pleasant. When you. consider the fact that He had an omnipotence with which He might have torn to pieces the assail- ers of His character, it makes His gen- tlenes,s seeni more remarkable. Lit- tle children, who elwo.ys shy off from a rough naau, rushed Into His presenoe and chambered on Hira until people had to tell them to stand back. In- • valids, so sore with disease that they shuddered to have any one come near there, asked Him to put His hands on their wounds; it. was so very soothing. There was uot a mother with so sick and delicate a babe that she was afraid to trust it in • the Saviour's, arras. His footsteps were so gentle it would am wake up the faintest slum- ber. Some rough people hustled a bad woman into His presence, and said: "Denounce her now. Blast her. Kill her." Jesus looked at her, and then looked at the assailants, and said: "Let hire that is without sin cast the first stone." When a blind man sat by the wayside making a great ado because he had no vision., the people told him to hush u.p -that he was bothering the blaster; but Christ came where he was and said to him: "What wilt thou that du unto thee?" Gentleness of voice. Gentleness of hand. Gentleness of foot. We all admire it though we may not it.bavs The rough mountain bluff, the great scarred headland; loves to. look down into the ealm lake at its feet; the stormiest winter loves to merge into the sunshiny spring, and the most impulsive and precipitate na- ture must be attracted by the gen- tleness of Christ. The calmness of His look shamed boisteroue Gennesaret in- to placidity. -How little of taat gen- tleness you and I have Let us confees it. It is a tendency of out -door life to stroke our dispositions the wrong way. The thunder of the world's scorn sours the milk of human kiudness. The treacbery, the extotion, the ignoble- ness of mean men take the smoothness out of our nature, and we become sus- piciuu.s, and hypercritical, and stuck all over with nettles, and frowns come to the brow, and harshness to the voice, and bluntness to the manners. What an utter and almost universal lack of gentlene.ss ! So that we do not know how to talk to the sick, nor adminis- ter to the troubled. nor care for the poor. We have our words of sympa- thy pitelted on a wrong key. I had e. sister whose arm was put out of joint, and the neighbors came, and they Seis- ed ),aold the arm and pulled mightily. ad pulled till her anguish was great, but the bone went not to the socket. After awhile a surgeon rame in, and; with one touch it was all right, So: we go down to our Christian worki with so rough a hand, and with so unkind and so unsympathetic a na- ture; than we miserably fail; while tsome gentle Christian soul comes along and with one touoli the torn ligaments are healed and the disturbed bones are rejointed. at, for something of the geotieness of Christ There is more power in mica gentleness than In a life- time of high pretension. The dew of one sammer night does more good than ten Carribean whirlwinds, • Still further: the spirit of Christ was a spirit of self-saorifice. No young man ever had openingebefore him brighter opportunities tlitan opened. be- fore Christ, if He had natosen to follow a worldly ambition. Ile might have • gained fortunes of wealth in the lima Ete spent tending the sick, With His power to attract men arid popularize Himself, He might have gatrted an of- ficial position. No Orator ever won audit • plaudita as He Might have won aront • sanhedrina and eynagogne, and vast iisemblages on the seaside. No physi- • man aver acquired. attoll a reputation for healing power as Christ might have acquired, if He • had performed His wonderful mares in On presence a the Roman aristooraey, 1 reoite to you: thee things to show you. what Paul meant when he said: ".He pleased not almself," and to show yon tae doer of His self-saterifice. No human the manger if Ile hed not ohosen to go •there. No Satanic stx•ength 00414 have lifted Christ on the crOeS. if He had not eteetea Himself to the torture. To .save oar race from tae raspings and turmoils of its guilt, He faced ihe sor- row of earth, and the woes of heal. 411 motherly, fatherly, brotherly, fi- • hal self-sacrifice patine into nothing before this extreme of Divine genero- sity. Suppose you, my hearer, by a straight course of conduot could win a palace, while by another course of conduct y'ott might advaatage your fellowmen., but finally would have to • Nene to assassination., white:), would you ehoose-the palace or assassination? Christ chose the latter. 0 how little self-saerifice we, have. What is it? • Why, it is taking from my =Mort ana adding to youss. 'It is walking a long journey to save you from fatigue. It is lifting a h,eavy weight •la order that: youmay not be put to the strain It is the eublraction of my ease and Prosperity that there may be an ad - cation to your ease and prosperity. How little of that spirit any of us have. Two little children, on a cold. day were walking down the street, the boy with lewdly any garments at all, and the girl in a coat that she had outgrown, and the wind. was so sharp, she said: "johnny, come under my 'coat." He sad: "It is too short." " 0,' she said: "it wilt stretch." But the coat would not stretch enough, so she took it off, and pat it upon the • boy. That was self-sacrifiee. That Was Christ taking off His robe • for you and. me: beggard for eternity with- out Him. When ibe plague was raging in Marseilles, and they were dying by scores end hundreds from it, the Col- lege of Surgeons decided that there must be • a post-mortem •examination in order that they might know how to meet and arrest that awful disease. And there was silence in the College of Surgeons till Dr. Guion ,rose and seld: "1 know it is aertain death 10 dissect one of those bodies; but some- body must do it, and I shall. In the name of God and huraa]aity I will do the work." He went home, made out his will, then went to the dissection., accomplished it, and in twelve hours died. • That was self-sacrifice that the world understands. 0, more wonder- ful sacrifice of the Son, of Go& He walked to Emmaus. He walked from Capernaum to Bethany. He walked from Jerusalem to Calvary. How far have you and I walked for Christ? His heart ached, His back ached for as. How much haye we ached for Him? Let as this morning look over all the years of our life, and. see .the paltry list of our self -sacrifices. Not one deed ninmey. life or in. your life worthy the am • Still further: the spirit of Christ was a spirit of humility. The Lord of heaven and. earth in the garb of a rustic. He who poured all the wa- ters of the earth out of His hand -the Amazon, the Euphrates, the Miss- issippi, the Ohio, the St. Lawrence - bending over a well to beg of a Sam- aritan woman a drink. He who spread out the canopy ot the heavens and set the earth for His foot -stool, lodging with one Simon, a tanner. • He whose chariots the winds are, walking with sore feet. Jostled asathou•glii He were a nobody. Pursued as though he were a criminal outlaw. Nicknamed.. Struck at. Spit on. Hushing the tem- pests, and yet sitting down without any assumption in the cabin by the disciples, as though He ha.d, done no more than wipe the sweat from His brow in His father's carpenter's shop. Taking- the foot of death off the heart of Lazarus and breaking the shackles against the grave -mouth, and yet walking home with Mary and Martha as though lite were only a plain citi- zen of Jerusalem going out to stay the night in the suburban village of Bethany. Omnipotence under a omen- tryman's grate. Walking in common sandals, seated with publicans and sin- ners. 0, the humility of the Son of God. How little yoa andt have of it. We gather a few more dollars than other people have, or we get a ems than aontsod repos sagnie annet one else has, and how we strut and want people to know their places, and cry out "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the might of my majesty and for the honor of my kingdom?" Would to God • that we might get something of the humility of Christ. Still farther; the spirit of Christ was a spirit of prayer. Prayer on the mountains:. Peayer in Gethsen:tane. Prayer on the lake. Prayer among the sick. Prayer on the cross. Why, you cannot mention the name of Jesus without being obliged to think of pray- er. Prayer for little children: "I thank Thee, 0 rather, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou least hid these things from the wise and prudent, and host revealed them unto babes." Pray- er for His friends -Tether, I will that they be with me where I a.m." Prayer Lor His enemies: "Father, forgive them, they kttow uot what they do." Prayer for all nations: "Thy kingdom come." How httle of that spirit you and I have. How soon our knees get tired. Who is there that for ten minutes ean keep Ins mind away from the store, and the office, and the shop, and conceit - trete it in supplication? Where are the phials full of °deters which are the prayers of the saints? 0, we • vvailt more prayer in the bouse, raore prayer in the nursery, more prayer in the par- lour, more prayer in the social circle, more prayer in the Church, more pray- er in the legislative hall, more grayer among the young, more prayer among the old. •Lord, teaoh us how to pray. We have not tested. its power yet. The very moment when the Diet of Nurem- berg were singing the edict that gave deliveranne to Protestants, that very moment Martin Luther was kneeling down in his private room, praying for the aecompaishment oa the object, Without any communication between the. Diet ofNuremberg and the room where Martin Luther was praying for that grand accomplishment, Martin Luther rose •from his knees with a shout, rushed out into the street, end cried: "We have got the victory. The Protestants are fres." That Was prayer gelling the answer eiraight from he Ovine. Wo need to pray like *Daniel, with our toward the holy eity. We need to pray ilhe tbe EXETER TINES pubilean, smitten on our heart We need to pray like Peel; Wretobe ed man, that 1 am, who 4101 deliver me?" 'We need tot pray like Stephen, gazing into heaven. We need to pray eke' Christ, who first emptied all the life blood out of His heart, and then filled that heart with tbe sighs, and tbe grouts, and the wants, wad the agohies of all generations. "Cid inonntains and the midnight Witnessed the fervor ea his prayer." Still further; the spirit -of Christ was the seleit of work. There was eot lazy moment in all His life. Wheth- er Ile was talking to the fishermen on the beaele or preaching to the sailors, on the deck, or addressing the rustics amid the mountains, or speeding the summer evenings in tile village, He was always busy. Hewing in tae car- penter's shop. Helping the lame man to walk without any match. Curing the chitties fits. Providing rations for a hungry host. Always busy, He was The hardy men that pulled out the net from Genn,esaret, full of floundering treasures; the shepherds who hunted up the grassy plots for their flocks to rabble ; the shipwrights thumping away in the dockyards; the wine -mak- ers of Enegedi dipping en the juice front the vat and pouring it int o the goeeeekin.s-none of these were hall so busy as He whose hands, and bead, and heart, were all full of the world's work. From the day on which He stepped out from the cara.vansery of Bethlehem to the day e when He set His cross in the socket on the bloody mount, it was work, work, work all the way. It is not so with us, not so with you, not SO with me. We want the harden to be light if we are to carry it, the chnreh pew soft if we are to sit in it, the work eesy if we are to perform it, the sphere brilliant if we are to move in it,. the religious seraice short if we are to survive it. On the way lobear- en, rock as, fan us, sing us to sleep, daadle us on the tips of your fingers, band as up out of this dusty world toward heaven on kid gloves and un- der a slikeh sunshade 1 Let the mar- tyrs who waded, the flood and breast- ed the fire get out of the way while this calmly of tender footed delicate Christians come up to get their crown! 0 for more pf that better spirit whioh starts a man heavenward, determined to get there himself and to take every- body else with him. ntusy in the private circle, busy, in the Sabbath- soltooa busy in Church, busy every- where for God and Christ, and heaven. 0, Christian soul, what has Jesus done against thee that thou haat betrayed Ilira? Who gave thee so much riches that thou canst afford to despise the awards of the faittiful ? At this mo- ment, when all the arnaies of earth and heaven, and hell, are plunging in- to the conflict, how can you desert the standard? • I have shown you that the spirit of Christ was a spirit of gentleness, a spirit of self-sacrifice, a spirit of au- mility, a spirit of prayer, a spirit of work -five points. Will you remember them? And are, you ready for the tre- mendous conclusion of the apostle: "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His ?" Overpowering state- ment. Who can stand before it? Not 1. Not you. And yet this subjeet ought not to throw any Cheistian into a de- spairing mood. Though we are well aware of the fact that we have not these traits of character as Christ had them, yet I think we have the 'seeds planted in our soul, and the harvest after awhile will come. Glory td God, you have the blessed beginnings in your nature, and though you are pain- fully aware day by day of your short- comings, it is your earnest prayer: "Give me this Spirit of Jesus." Aim high. I would not this morning say one discouraging word to you. I real- ly think you have some of the favor- able symptoms of a complete and et- ernal recovery from this malady of sin. Watch. Pray. Study. Compile. Onto -1 ward the prize. heathe not your sword till you have gained the last? victory. Higher and higher till you reach the celestial hills. Crowns rad- iant and immortal for all the victors; but eternal deatal to every deserter. ITIE SUNDAY • SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 6 "The New Ileate.e volt. 30.:05.36. neaten Text. Ezeit. 3b.t. PBACTWAL N0T.3$1, Verse 25. Then. In the glad days of national reatoration, whioh are to suc- ceed the present days of sineere re- pentance. Will 1 God. Sprinkle clean water upon, you, and ye shall be Mean. Watshing 1,s a ready figure tor moral cleansing; it was constantly used in a symbolic way in the Mosiao ritual. See Nu.ni. 19, 1'7-19; Pea, 51, 7. Eze- kiel, as we have seen, was a priest, and the types of the temple service were constantly in his mind. lerota alt your filthiness. Moral filthinese; what- ever is spiritually ugly or defiling. From all your idols will I eleanse you, When this prophetic promise was ut- tered there were probably in eotue minds honest doubts as to its realize - time How each a change of national character could be brought to pass was not Mean But the change came. Prom the days of Jacob don the chosen people had been tempted by certain vegan superstitions, but now their penitence was so profound that the old temptations ceasecl to affect them; and after their restoration to Palestine they never lapsed into idolatry. All sin, inelu.ding idol -worship, is in es- sence either the immoderate love of an innoeent,object, a love so great as to alienate the soul from God, or else the love of what is essentiallywrong ; and Sill begets sin, The cleansing from sin here promised implies free forgiveness; aot only acquittal from. the charge of offeading God, but the caneeling of the Panishmeot of past offense and restor- ation to the divine favor. 26. A new heart . . and a new spirit. Perhaps no deep distinction should here be made betwen "heart" "spirit." "Heart" is used, as we often use it, as a symbol of the source of moral vitality. As the health and strength of physical hearts, eci the spiritual heart is vegarded as the cen- ter of spiritual life. Now, the moral and religious conditioa of the Jews during centuries had. shown that spiri- tually their heart was wrong; they adored Baal, not Jehovah; they wrought evil, not good; they depended on Egyptian horses, not on Providence.. With Moral perversity they loved what is wrong and hated what is right. ,The bad spirit of the nation hastened, that dreadfut Climax of their history - the Babylonian exile, dod, recogniz- ing their repentance, promises to change all this. Forgiveness is not enoillgh ; an erasure of the record is not enough; it is not enough for them to •return to the Holo Land, erect again a temple for the living (rod and begin a purer worship than the nation bad ever known. The people Nebuchad- nezzar dragged away from Patestine, had they been restored. unchanged, would, soon slide back in.to the sinful babits which had brought about their captivity. Dr. Chalmers used for the tttie of one of his greatest sermons, "The Exputsive Power of a New Af- fection.' This is exaotlyi what God now promises. I will tap away the; stony Imart out of your flesh. Hardheartedness is • a familiar phase; physioal hard. heartednese brings on by -painful stages prernature death; the harden- ing of the moral heart also has fatal results. I will give you a heart of flesh. A healthful heart; •normal de- sires. In other passages a "fleshy heart," is used as a symbol of carnal- itly, but here it is contrasted with a heart of stone. "This change of heart," says Dr. Cowles. "is the great doctrine of the New Testament, taught forcibly by • our Lord himself to his statements respecting the new birth, and' everywhere presented as pile:aerie ly the work of the Spirit of God." 27. I will pat my Spirit within ,you. With God's Spirit in the heart right actions inevitably reeult. It is not- able that Paul does not refer to the works of the Spirit, bat to the fruits of the Spirit, when he tabulates love, joy, peace, and the other delightful re- sults of a life animated by GodeCause you to walk in my \statutes.As steam causes a locomotive -to go; put in. -you a new ,nctoral force. My judg- ments. To the flebreve mind this would naturally recall the Mosaic rit- ual and the prophetic teachings. But it has a broader meaning also, and eludes all God's laws and decisions. 28. Ye shall dwell in the lane. that I gave your fathers. Nothing more un- likely could wela have been promised. 29. I well call for the cora, and. Will increase it Few sentences even ba. the Bible are more majestic than this, ins if corn, and. the, fruitage of fertile valleys, the disease of the jungles and the:wincle of the seas also, all forces of nature, were servants of God ready to rue any whither at his direction. Days of prosperity will come as a result of riglateou.s living, because God will call for his servant, Corn, to minister to them. There shall be no famine in the land, but a wholeaome plenty, 39. I will multiply the fruit of the tree. An amplification of the thought of verse 29; there shall be plenty of fruit. The increase of the field An added "specification." Ye alma re- ceive no more reproach of famine among the heathen, When • the heathen hadheard the exiled Jei,"vs ex- ult in .Tehievah they "reproached there," asked them why such a God as he could not luxe kept his chosen people from famine and ca,ptivity. Poor Hebrew -el 'Well they Icaew that these catenates were the result of their own bad deeds, Bat in the good time coming there ean be no more such reproach, • 31 Then shall ye remember your owu evil ways. God will blot out the record of their ains, but they them. elvesan never blot IL oat. Memory of past shis and blunders, however, so long • as they have been • for- given, should not be allowed to discourages us; only- to remind us that sloth doinge were not good, Loathe youraetves in your own sight for your iniquiti,es. This is the feel- ing. of -every genuine Christian. Even a sinner laates eia itt albite people, and ,IVIOUTH OPEN FOR 18 YEARS. • Novel operatton Performed on a Man who Has Not Closed Ills Month tor awe nee:tees. A: novel. operation was performed at the Cleveland General Hospital last week on Edward Klotz, whca (after eighteen years, is now able to close his mouth. When Klotz, who is now twenty-one years of age, was three years old, he was burned about the face and neck. Littte attention was paid to the child's wounds and the raw surface of the clan and ohest were allowed to corae en contact with each, other. Ta the course of time the chin grew to the sternum, or breast bone. The burns were kept wrapped i•n Moth. When the wrappings were taken off the chin was firmla grown to the chest. • For eighteen years young Klotz s mouth has been wide open, he being unable to close it even the smallest fraetion of an inch. His lower teeth grew out of his mouth like tusks. Dr. George W. Crile undertook to im- prove Klotz's appearance. The yoting man was literally skin- ned alive as far as his breast was concerned. An incision was made at the lower extremity of the breast, and. the skin peeled off the entire surface of the breast, neck and chin. The skin was peeled upward. The flesh was laid bare on the sides to the ribs. The blood vesselsonerves and deep muscles or the neck exposed. Then the chin was cut away from the chest. .A portion of tho large sheet of skin vrass cut out and replaced on the body in such a way thet it will grOW to the parts, • Klotz can now close his.mouth, atur says he hardly dares to ever open it again. • CONFUSING, These changes in tlee weather are bothering Me to death, said the atna- . tater singer. Why 1 When 1 have a °bid I'm bees, and wben I get well len a tante,. 1 ean never tell Whether to practice " The Diver," or "Sally M. Our Alley,' • almost every sinner hates eertain canoe it is sin ergues a change of kheinadrat,lof sin; but the hating 01 siA 1)ea 13'4. Not for your sakes do I tais. 'Yoe do not deeerve this. Be apham- ed and confounded for your own ways.. It is good to remember the bole of late' ,apaitr winatirnmeeitwiees tavieldrewdriegzid,eintogereweiettlitz .sufficient distinctness 10 teeep clear elaiolieendsanvxe.ei vosi,nd, e saved eabiyo dee a it heeyffnaotrigt,thiatt. 33, 31, I will also cause you to dwell in the eittes, and the wastes be builded. When the trumpet of Cyr- us was blown, and the thousandof Hebrews were invited to return to their land, one burdensome fact kept many back -the walls of tile • great cities hed been broken clown, so that after the desert had• been, crossed ,thaleareeriw‘‘a_senni.ao beeeita .s.velienellyt nedlanait ktelipenew - • nsae re-; Jerusalem was la ruins and the outly-• tag farms lay unprotected and waste. But all this desolate land shall be tilled; the region impoverished arid de- siPal°1:il:Inia.atger-tainbysuNp:obriltellaadtitiaerzlzvaitt;g8 p • aorprauy- 35. They shell say. The discerning ones of the world, who sometimes are quicker to see the movements of God.% providence than some of his own ohil- dren. This latad that was desolate is becotn,e like the garden of Eden. 'the reference is 0 -blearily to the lands of jtioadnectootmutG mcl nnailiiyleet,nebuftnwifumev:nrty oCehlthisi.; CPh1-st r°1112isieanheat is possible yea' in every 36. The heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build., The purpose of God's dealiags with the Hebrews includea the inform- agtolood.se nneoft.h.e heathen rotted aboul that je.a ohovpuaished sin and rewarded FINLAND'S STRUGGLE, misqq. inissilos wise !Paley or Home nate teas tven Place to Sevcre u,nt Unjust taws. The _Russians, after conquering Fin- land. etrly in the present century, succeeded in reconciling an alien race of the Protestant faith to their rule. They did this by adroitiy making eon - cessions to local pride. ,The Emperor of all the Hussies be- came the Grand Duke of Finland. His power was absolute elsewhere in his empire, but he governed Finland with the consent of the Estates of. the Diet, which assembled in the capital, Hel- singfors, and sauctioned new 'taxes and laws. Finland was the only pro- vince of the empire which enjoyed any of the privileges of seIngovernraeut. Finnish money was distinet from Russian currency. There was even a separate Finuish customs line regul- ated. by local officials. The best sys- tem of primary eduoation knowli in the,empire was established. Finland moreover, was not garrisoned. by, Rus- sian troops but by Ds owo soldiers. There was a general system of con- scription, but the province was not de- grade,d. to the level of couquered ter- ritory., • • Le consequence of the tolerance- and practicat wisdom with which it was governed,Finland.has remained the quietest and best -ordered province of the empire. Its relagion and local liberties we've respected. Its capital wets rebuilt, its ports were improved, and the province made a steady ad - trance in prosperity. Nihiast agitators were powerless there when unrest was seething everywhere Mae. 'Unfortunately for Finland this wise and salutary policy of home rule has been ohanged. A month before the tear's Peace iteseript was issued the Finnish Diet was convoked to consider, a new array bill, and this was followed by a manifesto which virtually de- prived the province of home rule. The local army was to be Russianized, tak- en outside the province and greatly in- -nieased tn stiength "la }iusstan Council of State was to reserve for its oven decisions all questions relating to the interests of the empire, and. the Finnish Diet, which had previously sanctioned every law, was to be allow, eti merely an expression of opinion in such mattems. Finland is now honeycombed with discontent. The Diet, has rejected the new laws, and the people have failed in aeeking redress from the tsar. The tsar as the author of the Peace Rescript is one of 'the world's benefac- tors, Throughout Christendom there will be disappointment if it is found that thus invasion of Finiana's rights ha is his approval. • DON'TS FOR MA.RRIED PEOPLE. Don't nag, Don't gossip before children. • Don't refer to your wife as "the old womallal Don't use slang or profanity before your children. Don't get into the habit of seWing on your owa buttons. , Don't keep harping on the subjeot of e'reo ther-in-law." Don't forget the promises you made w -hon you were marrted. Don't let your children talk .disre- spectfully of their elders. Don't leave the house in a teinper, It will upset your whole :day. • Dona imagine that yours is the only baby on the face of the earth, Don't neglect to raise your hat when you meet your wife ,out of doors, Don't be afraid to apologize even if you have not been the cause of the tinarrel. • Don't allow your children to kaow that you have ever had. oecasion tor altercation. Don't take the words out of each other's mouth while telling a story to third. pereons, A DOG'S STRONG STOMACH. Ilusband-I don't. see how you can kiss that dog. Wife-Htth 1 I dent see how dear tittle Fido, cau stoat it to kiss me, when he knows I've just been kissed by a horrid math SAYER FROM CANNIBALS. 4.111 OM Naples eppieti roe Help as ens • Captors nitre Ilini aowarit he Coes°. The stories that missioneriee send tionee often throw a vivid light upon the dark and savage conditions that encompese them. One of tae teaohera of the American Baptist Missionary Union, in his annual 'ileport, tells of a recent incident that ()marred far up the Congo River among the natives living around the shores of Lake Tumba,.only a short distance south of the big river, Kaaly one Sunday naorning, as the missionary and his wife were preppie lug for the duties of the day, they heard a shput from the lake, An old maa WaS seen seated in a canoe,which uumber of stalwart fellows were paddling, as fast as they eauld toward the little river that carries Lite watere he lake to the Congo, a few miles north. The old man was crying in a frantic and despairing voice: Mpebe na Y.Conkasa." These were the names by which 'the missionary and Iris wife are known tte the natives. The old fellow called them again and again, hill lie saw the whets man and his wife standing ou •the beach. ',Chen he shouted to them: "Oh, come and save me! They are taking me away to kill and eat nue" . The missiontiley undersexed the sit-. Linden at onae. The placceis not more than a day's travel from the mouth of the great: Mobangi tributary of the Clotigo. The banks of the Yiobangi are lined with eannibal tribes, and it is one of the greatest notueda of ottani- intim. Explorers have often told of the, canoes !seat out trona these tribes Lee to the districts a little south of the --ea- Coagli. for no other purpose then to buy slaves or steal men to carry away to their homes for their cannibal feasts. Here was an cid friend of the missionaries, who had fallen into the power of thee savage foragers. NOT; A MOMENT WAS To, BE LOST, for the canoe was shooting past the station and rapidly approaching the foot of the lake, At a word from the Wale matt a half dozeesz young blacks launched a canoe in the lake and pi ied their pad- dies with all their might. It was an exciting cho.ee. The cannibals, see- ing they were pursued, redoubled their energies to reach the river a few miles north of theta. It was a boat race in dead earliest, and the stake ' was' anuman life. There were six of the pursuers and only Lour of the fug-, itive ca.noemen. The chaiiing party had a larger.suon total of muscle, and this advantage began to tell. Slowly the naissionary boat gained on the cannibals, who saw at lase that.they weind certainly be caught beforeethey reaohed, the river. Then they paddled like mad for the shore, ancl the pur- suers were only a few boat Lengths from them as they ran their canoe tip an, the beaoh. • The cannibals jumped out and three of them made their escape into the, woods, carrying with them a consid- era.ble quantity of brass wire, 1. form :of money they use In buyIng slaves. The fourth n:tan Was made a prisoner and was taken back to the missionary settlement with the poor es„ old catptive, who was now trembling , -a wilth joy as a few moments before he had quaked with fear. The mission- ary says that if he had not called for help he would probably have been killed before night. The •eapectecl then happened. Of course, the savages did not relish the idea of returning to • their people without any victim and •with ohe of their party missing. The white man felt certain they would try to rait- som! their comrade, and, sure enaugh, the • crestfallen man-eaters • after it little while appeared within hailing distan.ce. They had brass wire, they shouted, and how inuoh did the white man want in exchange for their friend. He wanted all they had, and after considerable parleying a lot of wire was brought half Way to the sta- tion. The old man said he was sure thus wire was all his captors had in the ca,noe, and finally it was accept- ed and the prisoner was released The mew probably made their way as best they could back to their tribe. The wire, was worth onte §4, but the mis- sionary says this we's enougb to k•eep the old .man in food for over nine months, and the fair „inference is thet the, cost of living on the upper Congo has been reduced to a bedrock basis. • The Congo Stain is rigorously sup pissing cannibalisns as far as HS in- tuence extends, and therefore the na- tives who indulge in the practice no longer dare, in accordance with their former custom., to send large expedi- tions out to buy slaves. Now an±l then, e howeve,r, a small party engage in the as. bazard•ous business, boping by the smallness of their numbers to escape the attention of the whites. wfigaz THE GREAT FORESTS ARE. A. table in Science shows that Canada,— lea& all other countries ih the extent of thetioxests, She possesses 799,230,- 721) acres of forestacovered land, as against 450,000,000 acres in the UnIted States. Russia is credited with 498,- 240,000 acres, about 48,000,000 more than the TJnited States, India comes next with 140,000,000 acres, Germany has 34,817,000 acres, Enlace 23,406,450, and the Brilish Islands only 2,695,000, The table does not include Africa Or South America, both of which contain 'im- mense. forests. IL may eUrptise some readers to learn that the percentage of forcst=coverect land is larger in several Eu Topcoat countries, Go runt ny for in- stan.,e, than in the Un'tcd States. 1 CRUEL. Au exchange pictures a small boy with a hoe in his Timid saying insinth-; atingly to his father : Say, the fish are bailie, like every- thing clown to the creek. Well, sonny, ease] the father, reae-i suringiy, youhjest. eeep ott hoeing- po-,' taines and I view] thee wore', bite you I -