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Tt ie eitut thirty hears pima Huh,
Y invented heee terra agilOtsra.
4 more .tlian thirty certturies since tae
thing aernosticism Bret begau to re-
veal itself, When Pala, oia Mare
adcleessed tire men. a Atheas
the text ea their altar iaseriptitak ato
the unknewt God," he comheteat
form of eabelief whieh had, appeared
ita the world, ages beaore Ceereps laid
t toilette tons of Attica. There have
been doubters and skeptics concernieg
the Deity and the future life sue the
Clays when an ina,der bis aclvetta throe
the nettle In thee As in many other
tilt:lags i ie as tree now as it was( in
Sol:enemas days tieat 'the thing that
bath been it i$ that which shall be,
and that which is done is that which
shell be doae ; aud there is no new
thing under the son." The chief (life
tereme between the modern infidels
and the ancient is thaa through the
printing press, the improved agencies
of comanenieetion and distribution and
le general advanc,es in science) and
‘viiizatien, the preaohers of unbe-
let have a broader field trona which
.o gather arguments, or what passes
or arguments among the unthinking,
and. they appeal to an immensely larg-
er audience.
Not all that passes for unbelief, how-
ever, belongs in thet category. When
Jean Astra; more than a eentory
ago, discovered, or teought he discov-
ered, two distinot strands running
through the narrative of the Book of
Genesis, he opened a field of biblical
critieista which has been worked with
wonderful persistency and. ingenuity
ever since, and whieh has had a pro-
found influence on the older concep-
tions of biblical history, though it has
not affected in the slightest degree,
and can not affect, the value of the
Bible as a rev -elation, of the Word of
God. Geddes, De Wette, Hapfeld and
their successors down to Ktenen and
Welhausen of the present day, have
:vorked this field, and the libraries of
literature, called the higher criticism
of the Bible have been the result. But
there is nothing prejudicial to Chris-
tianity in the labors of these schol
even assuming that their revelati
stand the test of time. Most of t
tave been professed Christians. a
haul Robertson Smith, of England,
died recently, belonged to one of
orthodox churches, as do Cheyne
Dreyer, still alive, and so does 13rig
of the United_ States, and. these h
carried, their criticistms—which, h
ever, are confined to the text and
not touch the teachings or the insp
Lion—of the Old Testament as far
any of the investigators who h
been mentioned.
ars,
ons
hem
who
the
aed
THE EXETER
TIMES
flARDeltKING 310THERS,
REV, DR. TALKACrE SPEAKS Or
THE LIFE Or kIANNAli.
She Was lin Indueirieus woman—Contrael
eietween IIr Anti hone Itothere of hie
Presort Day—The hums or^ Mother—
Tho D. Tens or eeirmaies leeward,
A clespatea feoeu Washington says,:
—Bev. Dr. Talmage preached from
the halewing text :—"IYaoreover his
mother made him a little coat, and
brought it to him troth year to year,
when she came ihe With her husband
to offer the yearly stacrifiee,"•—t Sam
it. 10.
The stater at Deborah and Abigail
is very apt to discourage a woraan'S
sotl. She says withal herself: "It
is impessible thet I can ever aoltieve
any such grandeur ea charaoter, and I
don't naean to are;" as though a child
should refuse he play the eight notes
because he canncot execute a "Wil-
liam Ten.' This Hannah of the text
differs from the persone I just now
named. She was an ordinary woman,
with ordinary intellectual capaoity,
placed in ordinary circuraatanoes, and
yet, by extraordinary piety, standing
°et before all eges to come, the model
Christian mother... Eeannah was the
wife of Elkanale who was a person
very rauch like herself—uneomentic
and plait, never, baying fought a bat-
tle or been the su,bject of a marvel-
lous escape. Neither of them would
have been called a genius. Just
what you and: I znight be, thee was
Elkanah and Hannah. The brightest
time in all tlae bistary of that family
was the birth of Sanniet. Although
no star ran along the. heavens point-
ing down to his birth-p#1ace, I think
the angels of God stooped at the coma
ing of so wonderful a prophet. As
• Samuel had been given in answer to
prayer, -Elk.ateale and all his family,
save Hannah, started, up to Shiloh to
offer sacrifices of thatkegiving. The
oradle where the ,claild slept was altar
enough for Hathelva grateful heart;
but when the hey- was old enough she
took him. to Shiloh, and took three bul-
locks, ad an, epleith of flour, and. a
bottle of wine, axed made an offering
of sacrifice uttto. the Lord, and there,
according to a previous vow, she left
him; for there he was to stay atlthe
days of his life, and minister in the
temple. Years rolled on; and every
year Hannale made with her own hand
a garzhent for Samuel, and took it
gso over to him.. Tbe led would
aye have got along well without
eha- that garment, for I suppose he was
do well clad by the ministry of the tem -
pie; but Hannah could not be content -
as ed unless she was all the time doing
ave sametaing for her darling boy. "More-
over his mother made him a little
coat, and brought it to tern frorayear
a to year, when she came up with her
at husband to ciffer the yearly same -
'eh Hannah stands before you, then, to-
ob- day, in the first place, as
ed AN INDUSTRIOUS MOTHER.
ol- There was no need for her to work.
e.. Elk:allele her husband, was far from
he poor. He beloreged to a distinguished
family; for the Bible tells us that he
he was the son of Jerobem, the son of
rit Elam, the son. of Tohu, the son of
ee Zuple "Who are they?" say you. I
P -
do uot kno:w; but they were distin-
ns
be
be
11
in
d.
s,
-It was from the investigations
men like Welhausen and Briggs th
Robert. G. Ingersoll and. the other
fidels of the past fifty years have
tained the weapons whith they as
against the churala. Lacking the soh
arship and the reverence of those i
vestigators, the Ingersolls totally m
interpreted and misrepresented t
bearing and the meaning of the wo
of the investigators. It was in 18
that Darwin's "Origin of Species" a
peered, end, though many perso
have thought that year ought to
marked. 1 in the calendar, and time
reckoned backward and forward fro
it, it retnains to this day on the ro
of common years. Moreover, Darw
biraself was a devout Christian., an
remained so to the end of his day
and. bis principal •disciples in eh
United. States and England, many of
whom were theologians, were and are
among the pillars of the church. In-
gersoll was far below Voltaire and
•Thoanas Paine in ability, bat his live-
ly fancy, ilies command of Isms or in
• ferenoes, •Which, superficially, seemed
to assail divine revelation, and which
were not aceesstble irx their day, gave
him a mueh greater power for harm
than they possessed. Bat the sneers
and scoffs of the infidels have not the
faintest influence on the spread of
Christianity. The Christian church
has far more communicants in propor-
tion to the population of the countries
Lu whiele it exists than it had in any
previous age of the world. The birth
of Christ, 'unnoted by the Roman
• writers of the day, overshadows all
the other events in the reign of
Augustus, and is still the central fact
in the world's history.
• A LADY'S IGNORANCE,
Kind Lady—If you, did not drink lie
gum yeu would have more to eat.
Tramp'—Oh, no, mum; no, indeed,
muni; it's just the other way. V the
barkeeper didn't see tie buying a drink
ono in A while, we'd. soon starve.
WHAT THEY ARE. USED FOR.
What are the leeks forasked lit-
tle Mesa, looking et tlae porous plaster
that her nuttier was preparing to ad -
on Wilites baek.
It's heftily you don't know that, ais,
Interposed Willie. They're to let the
train out, a eouree.
A REMARKABLE MAN,
ariaitter—ar hear your new preacher is
a elan of indomitable will attd woe-
detful exnet4y.
Hoeteee--andeecl he is. fie bas attitts
54 into ettereert t,:ee choir.
• SPIN `111,KIR OWN YARN,
and weave their own cerPets, ead
plait their oveu door -mate, and flag
their own cliaire, and, de their own
work. The rstalentet men and the in-
fluential women of this day, oineth-
nine out of a hundred of them, mite
from such illustrious aneestry of
hard knuekles and lemnesupu. •And
way, are theee people in society, light
as froth, atom every waither of temp-
tation and faseion—the peelers of fil-
ityospatorriLei:s,4eo
,titiedstieuaof
cting-jascokeisetoy, fPout
t
taverneloungiug, the store-iufesting,
othhue okrteenandobriaQsws bykeineake't-pinan,dandtiliti•ohtY-
ten assoeiations? For the most part,
they came from mothers idle and dis-
gusting--1,Jee scandal -mongers of eo-
°Leta-, going from bailee to house at-
tending to everybody's bueiness but
their own; believing in witches, and
ghosts, and horse-ahoes to keep the
devil out of the churn, and by a goch
lese life setting their children on the
Samuel Tobeason p.nd of Alfred the
real' verge of hell. The mothers of
Great. and af Isaac Newton, and of
Shine Augustine, and. ote Richard Cecil,
and of President Edwards, for the
most part, were industrious, hard-
working mothers. Now while I
omegratulate all Christian moth-
ers upon the wealth and the
moaern science which may aftcord them
all kinds of help, let me say that ev-
ery mother ought to be observant of
her ohildren's walk, her obildren's bee
heviour, her caildreihs food, her chile
thews books, ber children's compan-
ionships. However muoh leeIp Hannah
may have, I think she ought every year
at least, make one garment for Sam-
u.el. The Lord have mercy on the
amaitta;wy hinooitias esroiunfortunate as to have
•
Again: Hamlet stands before you
to -day as an intelligent mother. From
the way in which she talked in this
chapter, and from the way she man-
aged this boy, you know she was in-
telligett. There are no persons in a
community who need to be so wise and
well-ihformed as mothers. 0, this work
of oulturitig children, for this world
and the next. This child is timid, and
it must be roused. up and pushed
out • into activity. This child is for-
ward, mid. he must be held baca and
tamed down into modesty and polite-
ness, Rewards for one, punish/milts for
another. That which will makeGeorge,
will ruin John. The rod is necessary
in one case, while a frown of displea-
sure is more than enough in another.
WHIPPING AND A DARK CLOSET
do not exhaust all the rounds of do-
mestio discipline. There have been
children who have grown up and gone
to glory without ever having had
their ears boxed. 0, how much care
and intelligence is necessary in the
rearing of childrata But in this day,
whet there are so many books on this
subject, no parent is excusable in be-
ing ignorant of the • best mode of
bringing up a child. If parents knew
more of dietetics, there would not be
SO many dyspeptic 'stomachs, and weak
nerves, and. inactive livers among chil-
dren. If parents knew more of physi-
ology, there would not be so many
cueved spines, and cramped chests, ante
inflamed throats, and diseased lungs,
as there are among children. If par-
ents knew more of art, and were in
sympathy with all that is beautiful,
there would not be so many children
coming out in the world with Lowish
proclivities. If parents knew more of
Christ and practised more of Ilis re-
gime there would not be so many lit-
e feet already starting on the wrong
oad, and all around us voices of riot
d blasphemy would not come up
ith such eestacy of infernal triumph.
he eaglets in the eyrie have no ad-
ntages over the eaglets a thousand
ears ago; the kids have no superior
ay of clin.ebing up the rocks than the
d goats taught hundreds of years
o; the whelps know no more now
an did the whelps of ages ago—they
e tateghtt no more by the lions of the
sert ; but it is a shame that in this
ye when there are so many oppor-
tutees of improving ourselves in the
t manner of culturing children;
at so often there is no more ad-
nceinent in this respect than there
s been among the kids, and eaglets
d e ps.
Again: Hannah stands befor,e you to-
day sea Christian mother. From her
prayers, and from the way she conse-
crated her boy to God, I know she was
good. A =other may have the finest
culture, the most brilliant surround-
ings ; but she is not fit for her duties
unless she be a Christian mother. There
may be well-read libraries in the house;
and exquisite music in the parlour ; and
the canvas of the bast artiste adorn-
ing the walls; and. the wa.z•drobe be
crowded with tasteful apparel ; and
the children be wonderful for the at-
tainments, and make the house ring
h lauglater and innocent mirth • but
there- is something wgefulhooking in
that house, if it he not also the resi-
dence of a Christian. mother. bless
God that there are not many prayer -
less mothers—not many of them. The
weight of responsibility is so great
that they feel the need of a Divine
hand to help, and a Divine voice to
comfort, and a Divine heart to sympa-
thize.
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ti
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va
ol
ag
th
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de
da
g e people, no doubt, or their he
names would not have been mentioned. hea
Ilannaile might have seated herself in th
her family, and, with fielded arras and va
dishevelled hair, read novels from year ha
to year, it there had been, any to read'
but when. I see her making that gar-
ment, and taking it over to Samuel, I
know Ate is industrious from principle
as wen as from pleasure. God would
not have a mether become a -drudge or
a. slave; He would have her employ
the iielps possible in this day in the
rearing of her ohildren. But Hannah
ought never to be ashamed to be
found making a coat for •Samuel.
Most mothers need no counsel in this
direction. The wrinkles on their
brow, the pallor on their cheek, the
thineble-mark on their finger, attest
that they are faithful in their muter -
al duties, The bloom and their wit
brightness, and. the vivaoity of girl-
hood have given place for the grander
dignity. and usefuinees, and industry
ofenotherhood, But there is a heath-
enish Idea getting abroad in some of
the families of Americans ; there are
mothers who banish themselves from
the home circle. For three-fourths of
their maternal duties they prove them-
selves iaccanhetent. They are ignor-
ant of what their children wear, and
what their children eat, and what their
children read. They entrust to ir-
responsible persons these young im-
mortals, and, allow them to be under
influences which n:uay cripple their
bodies, or taint their purity, or spoil
thetr nean.ners, or destroy their souls.
Fronk the awkward cut of Samuel's
coat eau know his mother Hannah aia
not make it. ' Out from under flaming
elhani
eleliers and Off from imported
carpets, anel down the granite stairs,
there is come a greet crowd of ohil-
dren in this day, untrained, saucy,
incorapetent for all practical duties of
life, ready to be oaught in. the first
whirl of crime and sensuality. In-
dolent and unfaithful mothers will
Make indolent and unfaithful childtert.
Yoe centot (althea neatness arid. order
in any ltotise where the daughters see
nothing bet elatterness and upside-
doweativenees in eheir parents. Let
Efannale be idle, and most certainly
Sa,m,utal will grow up idle. Who are
teh Industrious men in our occupations
and profeesions ? Witte are they man-
aging the Merchandise of the world,
leunditg thb wane, tinning the roofs,
weaving tat: carpets, making the laws,
govereing the nations, making the
earth to quake, and heave, and roar,
and tattle with the tread of gigentic
enterprises t Who are they ? For
the most part, they descended from in-
dustrious mothers, who, in the old
hbeneeteati, Used to
TTHOUSANDS OF MOTHER S.
have been led ireto the kingdom of
God by the hands of their little chit-
dret. There are hundreds of mothers
in thie Ocn.se to -day who would not
have been Christiaas had it not been
fox the prattle a their little ones.
Standing some day in the nursery,
they bethought themselves "this child
God has given me to raise ior eternity.
What is my: itifluence upon it? Nat
being a Christiao nayself, how oan I
ever expect him to become a Christian.
Lord, IMIPN Oh, are there aexious
mothers in title house to -day, who know
nothing of the infinite help of reli-
giou l'hen I commend you to Ran-
nah the pima mother of Samuel, Do
not thirik ft is absolutely impossible
that your children come tip iniouitous.
Out of 3ust such fair brow, and bright
eyes, and aoft heeds,atid innocent
hearts, crime gets its victims—exter-
natInS Purtly from the heart, and
rubbing out the smoothness from the
brow, and quenehing the lustre of
the eye, and shrivellieg up, and poise
onttlet and putrefying, and scathing,
emir scalding, and blasting, and burn-
ing with aharae awl, woe. Every child
is a bundle of tremendous possibilities;
fund whether that child Shan a°tae
forth; in life its heart attuned to the
eternal hare'enhieS, and after a life �t
ueataitinese on earth t� go to a life of
joy )11. heave* ; oe, whether across it
shall jar eternal diadords, and after
IliarliklenastalatidNvralla-calbcina1
gs o°11 iZtaho'
It
e, n
sae!' go ea teepee of Irtameeireble
able !gimp, le being doweled by nuts
eery song, and. Sabbath lesson, and
evening prayer, and. walk, and ride,
and, look, and ferown, and smile. 0,
bow many childmi le glory I crowa-
ing all the 1)4406h:tents and lifttng a
million -voiced .hosa.nue—brou.ght to
God (Slough Ohrfstian parentage!
w°11(exeNebtrg(eIrSchceirldndtvrtleineytYwe°11sxertgeYtmlinmg
their experience anct their anceetrY ;
and of Cho, one hundred and twenty
clergYnieh how many of them do you
euppose assigned, as the means of
theta conversion, hie influence of a
Christian mother,? One hundred out
of the hundred and twenty 1Philip
Doddridge: was brought to God by the
Soripture lessen on the Dutch tile of
tbtleia,nkehslicashnr isnornegage'leinigheamcohtilliaer;
but at the same time she may be rock-
ing the destiny of enapires—roe,king
the fate of nations—hocking
THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN.
The same maternal power that may
liat a child up, may press a child downs
da.ughter came to a worldly mother
and said she was anxious about her
sins, and, she had been praying all
night. (Vie mother said:, h.) stop
eiraying 1 I don't believe in praYing.
Get over an those religious notions,
aired give you a dress that will cost
five hundred ddllars, and you may
wear it next week to that party." The
daughter took the dress; and she mov-
ed( in the gay circle, the gayest of all
the gay that night; and sure enough,
all religious impressions were • gone,
tend she stopped praying, A few
moths after, she came to die; and in
her clostrig moments said: "Mother, I
witsh you would bring me that dress
that coet five hundred dollars." The
mother, thought it a very stramee re-
quest; bu.t she brought it to please
the dytteg child. 'Now," said the
dauglxter, "mother, hang that dress on
the foot of xay bed;" and the dress
hung there, on the foot of the bed.
Then the dying girl got up on one
elbow and looked at her mother, and
thee pointed to the dress, and said.:
"Blether, that dress is the price of my
soul!" 0, what a momentous thing it
is to be a mother 1
Again, and lastly: Hannah stands
before you to -day the rewarded 'moth-
cie. For all the coats she made for
Baahluell. for all the prayers she offer-
ed for him; for the discipline she ex-
erted over him, she got abundant
conipenstattitou in the piety, and. the
usefulnaes and. the popularity of her
son Samuel; and. that is true in all
ages. Eeary another gets full pay for
ale the prayers and tears in behalf of
her children. That man useful in
commercial life; that man prominent
in the profession; that master rnech-
anic—why, every step he lakes in
life has an echo of gladness in the old
heart that long ago taught him to be
• a Chrestian, and heroic'and earnest,
Thee stoey of what you, have done, or
what you have waitteri, of the influ-
ence; yoii have exerted, has gone back
to the old .homesteact—hor there is
some one always ready to harry good
tidings—and that story makes the
needle in the ohl another's tremulous•
handrily quicker, and the flail in the
father's hand ceme down ,upon the
bern floor with a more vigorous
thutop. Peeetats love to hear good
news from their children. Do you
send them good news always? Look
out for the young man who speaks of
his father as the "governor," the
"squire," or the "old chip." "Lookout
tor the young woman who calls her
mother her "maternal ancestor," ter
the "old woman." "The eye that
reocketh at his father, and refuseth to
obey his mother, the ravens of the
valley shall pick it out, and the
young eagles shall eat it." God grant
that all the'se parents may have the
great satisfaction of seeing their chil-
dren .
GROW UP CHRISTIANS.
Birk oh, the pangs of that
mother, who, al ter a life
of street -gadding, and gossip -re-
• tailing, hanging on her children the
fripperies and follies of this world, sees
those children thsaed out on the sea
of life like foam on the wave, or nonen-
tities in a world where only brawny
and stalwart character can stand the
shock! But blessed, be the mother who
looks upon her children as sons and
daughters of the Lord Almighty! Oh,
the satisfaction of Hannah an seeing
Samuel serving at the altar; of Mother
Eunice in seeing her Timothy learned
en the Scriptures. That is the mother's
recompense; .to see children corning up
useful in the world, teclairning the Lost
healing the sick, pitying the ignorant,
earnest and useful in every sphere.
That( throws a new light back on the
old family Bible whenever she reads
; and that will be ointment to
soothe the aching limbs of decrepitude,
and light up the closing hours oflife's
day with the glories of autumnalsun-
set I
There she sits—tbe old Christian
xnother— ripe for heaven. Her eye-
sight is almost gone; but the splen-
dours of the celestial city kindle up
her vision. The gray light of hea-
ven's morn hes struek through the
gray Melts which are folded back over
the wrinkled temples. Ste stoops
very much now under the burden of
care she used to carry for her children.
She site at home to -clay, too old to find
het way to the house of God; but
while she site there, all the past comes
back, and the children that forty years
ago trooped around her arra-ohair with
their griefs and joys, and serrows--
those children are gone now. Some
caught up into a better realm, where
they shall riever die, and others out
in the broed world, attesting the ex-
oelteney of a Ohristian mother's dis-
cipline. Her Itiet days are full of
peace ; and calmer and sweeter will
her spirit become, until the gates of
life shall lift and let in the worn-out
ptlgrrin inte eternal ehring-ticle and
youth, where the, hrobs never tithe,
and the ()yeti never grow dim and the
eitafe, of the exhausted and decrepiel
piegrita shall beeome the paln of the
immortal athlete
A PROMPT PAY,Ellt,
De Balks—One gooa thing about
Mihka, Althottgh he's a great borrow-
er, he always peye promptly. He was
in only a few memerite ago and paid
me the ten dollare he owed me,
De Winks—Humph 1 He Wilt.; into my
pltme about an hour ago and borrows
ea twenty dollate of nte.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 20.
"The River or SiliVai WM." lliZek. 47. 145.
‘Didelk Text. Rev. et. le
PRACTICIAL NOTES.
Versa I, Afterward. After the pro -
Past's slay in, the outer court and near
the sacrificial kitchens with the pee-
Ple ; after tee revelations of the pre-
ceding chapters. The door of the
house. "The opening of the house,"
the entrance into the holy Place, the
sanctuary of the tean'ple courts. Be'
held. Astonishing to relate Waters
aisued Ogt font under th'e threshold
of the house. "Living waters," as
sprieg water is called in the Bible, is
repeatedly used as a symbol of divine
blessing, notably by Isaiah and by our
Lord. That the waters here rete
to :came "from under the thresiao
frotra :below, is symbolieal of the
seance of blessings from the de
o f Tehavalas worship. Other bi
lags are poured down from the h
eernSaOtle
' as bwesssiitsate
sing,
'"aihear
ar of, sh
thy plantation ;" but this blesein
to spring from under the found.a
is
datheeapthotoglyt treere.• E.a4tTwhaerrde.
reason for sayIng 'eristwatd' is
thetern position of the te
front; the waters which iss
from below the house flo
toward, the place whexe the glory
the Eternal had, according to Ezek
former vision, entered the house
Fairbairn. This swing, coming
the heart of the sanctuary, hears al
its neysteries and its ideals, and.
acoording to oriental idioms thet
ple looked eastward, in that direct
these gushing streams of - benefice
flow. The forefront of the house at
toward the east. As from timeaim
morial had been the case, ,with sac
edifices. The waters came down f r
under. The repetition shows the
portance that these details had. an E
kiel's mind. From the right (side of
house, at the south side of the al
Ali these elaborate deseriptive tone
show that to Ezekiel's mind: this
ter was no artificial well, sunken
priestly purposes. It was not an o
burst of any water that tha.d previo
ly been condoeted into the (temple.
was, as one might say, t the free outfl
of the temple's inmost nature. T
altar of burnt offering stood, direc
in front of the eastern 'door of
sanctu.ary. Now, if the water h
sprung from the middle of, the thr
hold, it must flow againet that alt
For that reason it flows ht one side
the altar; and at the eight side,
• course, for that "was tae side of go
fortune and. power." The Bedouins
day regard the right hand and t
right foot as emblematic of eminen
and affection, and the right hand
the Lord is repeatedly m.entictied
Holy -Writ. "The water," says ally
Holy Writ. "The water," says Ila_v
nick, " is the fullness of 'blessing whi
is poured out over the corarnunity fro
the flew manifestation of God."
2. Then brought he me: out of t
way of the gate northward.. The Pu
Pose of the angel was to show Ez
kiel the farther course of the flowi
waters. He Is taken by the north ga
because the eastern gate was alwa
shut, and the southern gate wou
lead him directly against the water
Along the outside of the, wall of t
outer court the prophet anta the ang
walked to reach the flowing water
"Whether the waters flowed fort
cover or under the courtst is not expres
ly stated; at all events they ran u
der the .surrounding walls, and doub
less, under the state pavement: if th
• outer court."—Fairbalen. Behold, ther
ran out waters on the right side, A
Parently the southeast of the templ
the south side of the <east gate. Her
again Ezekiel cornea within sight o
the rush of waters which hah sprun
from underneath the sanctuary.
3. Read these verses carefully in bot
versions. Up to this point Ezekiel's, at
tendon has been concentrated on th
waters; new the strange actions of hi
guide interest him. Following the eve
ters as they flowed eastwardly, th
mem measures a thousand cubits, an
cello to Ezekiel to passi through the wa
ters. He did so, and theyi (reached t
the ,ankles—the first measurement.
4. The second measure along th
course of the waters brings to notic
the astonislaing fact that in (their flow
of the second thousand cubits they had
become so deep' that Ezekiel, wading
through them becanie wet td his. knees
After the third measer-e the wafers
were to the loins. It was now a diffi-
cult task that the angel gave to Eze-
kiel, to wade through a, current- so
strong and so deep.
5. The fourth thousand. Here Eze-
kiel is asteunded to find no • longer a
streamlet, but a river that he could
not pass over. Imperceptible the flood
had not only increased in height and in
rapidity; but greatly in width also; the
waters were risen, waters to, swim in,
a river that theta not he passed over.
6. He said unto .me. The angel
said to Ezekiel. Son of math haat thou
sebeenansthwiesra A question not meant to
ed. The strange companions
have come to a halting place. The an-
gel is the exhibitor of the
marvelous work of God, and with
a holy triumph it his face he ado,
as a modern boy full of glad astonish-
ment would ask his comrade, "Do you
see that ?" What the proplfehe at-
tention is specially called to is the
continuou$ increase 01 the waters. No
rain had fallen, no brooks bad. run into
Le Here is something as contrary to
alt mundan.e experieme as is perpetual
motion. "The streams of worldly en-
terprise after a brief course' ary up;"
but this stream of Messianic salvation
flows ern and on, like the pilgrims from
strength to strength, like the morn-
iitcairieiruc dbaryigirkeer tahned.mbruifftbatredr stieneate atihisie
eleven in the parables a our Lord,.
By thie time one has got more than a
glimpse of the spiritual teaching of
this vision. This is not only the
way in which the kiegdom a God
grows, the four dieciples on the banks
of the Jordan gathereng in others un-
til to -day there are millions and mil-
lions of devout Oin•istians; not only the
waY in which the divine life in the
gout of man turne weak young Chris-
t:Lane into fathers in God. Ilvery item
in the description has its leeson. Woe
beve„pointed to the right of the etreata
in tixe depths etf the temple of God
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caused me to reture to the Meek
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teat Ezekiel was made te swim acr
the water, taough he probably vv
deep enough tnto the stream to
that by no other means eould be
to the opposite hank. Then tbe an
called, him batik, perhaps assisted
from the rushing current to the ba
Where anoeher wonder awaits him
7. Behold, Another exclamation
astonishment, At the bank of t
river were very many trees on the o
side and on the other. Ezekiel h
been. so engrossed. by elle waters
their bed aad by his angelic guide th
he had not at all observed erbat w
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otoittetsiiiidseasnodf the sruieveeere'aT
verses is that fruitful trees now lin
the stream from its source to its ou
flow into tele Deed Sea. "Tbe looki
forward gave Ezekiel the knowledge
the progressive fullness and, detail
the watees; not until he looks ba
does he °ohm to know, with a view
what follows, the fertilizieg effect
these waters."—Rawlinson. We a
Lo recall the physioal blessings th
came back to the land of Palestine
the retern of the Israelites,
8. Then said he unto me. All. th
follows to the close of verse la is
explamatory statement of She ang
The prophet is not taken farther alo
the batic of the river, but he is to
of the eaurse of the waters and th
effect( that 'wag produced. These wa
ers issued out. toward the east cou
try. Out of the temple, we must r
member, and toward the Arabah, th
valley of the :Jordan, and the regio
beyond" the Dead Sea. Go hewn int,
the desert, and go into the Ina. "Down
they must ge with great precipitatie
for the descent: from Jerusalem t
Jericho is abrupt: The lower regio
through whittle it runs is full of sal
elay, end the pla.ce where this mirac
toile river is to enter the Dead Sea i
not far from the mouth of the Jordan
"a slimy delta." Although the Dee,
Sea seems to be the only one here re
felled, to, there is a suggestion tha
other seas, the great world. of waters
are referred to here, tamer* of th
Jewish :rabbis taught that the river
which indeed is called "rivers" in th
next verse, divided itself into twelv
rivers which flowed to the t•welv
tribes. It was even said to flow o
so far as to Calabria and into Barbary
Having reached the sea, however, th
waters are said to be brought forth
into it, hadicatina that the "higher
hand executes according to deliberat
counsel the plan of salvation.e—Heng
stenberg. The waters shall be healed
The waters of the Dead Sea are singu-
larly deceptive. In appearance they
seem to the thirsty traveller to be as
clear and. pure as ally he had ever
quaffed, but in its deceptiveness as
w'elri in its deadliness this sea has
wbealoknela:yssnxbol of the world lying in
9. It shall corne to pass, that every-
thing that liveth, which moveth,
vvIhitheasoever the rivers shall come,
shall live. There ishno living thing in
the Dead Sea. It is true that the
floods of the jordwiecarry in certain
fishes, but the brine of the sea soon
thrusts their light bodies to the shore:
Here We see a marked difference
between: the miraculous river and. the
Jordan. The Jordan waters are fresh
but not strong enough in volume to
"heal" Use 'waters of the sea. The
confusion of phraseology that speaks
of everything that liveth as living- in-
cludes all things that were alive arid
had died in the Dead Sea. and all fish
that, carried into *he Dead Sea, would
otherwise have died,. It is an empha-
tic) statement of ,the fact that life and
not death will hereafter dominate that
sea. ,For "rivers" `some translate
"double stream." "The Dead Sea shall
become a sea, of life." And by parity
of reason. every land, however unfruit-
ful, shall becoihe fruitful as soon as
this river waters it. •
10. The fishers shall stand 'upon
it from En-gedieven unto En-eglaira.
That is, from the southernmost point
on the Dead Sea inittibiled by the
Israelites to the northern end, where
the Jordan flqws in. Apparently
the whole waste of waters shall swarm
with fishes. "The fishes, are the men
who have attained, to life through the
Messianic salvation; the fishers are the
messengers of this salvation, who
gather those who are quickened into
tbe kingdom of God, introducing thena
into the fellowship of the Church:—
Hengstenberg. There is emphasis
placed on the variety as well as the
quantity of the fish. .
11. The exceptions mentioned here
either irtdicate the value of the salt,
showing that the blessing of God is
ever various in its' Manifestations, or
it may be pmant to emplaiszie thafact
that life and health are "e•olelydue
to the stream which proceeds from the
throne of God;" the places that are
Untouched by it neceitearily continuing
unfertite.
• la. What was noticed in verse 7 is
now dwelt upon, the rich fruitfulness
of the' banks of the stream. It is to
be fruit of all sons; it is to be fruit
ripening every month; the fruit it-
self is to be for meat and the, leaves
for medicine.
A BABY AT THIRTf.
riallageiphia Woman Mill
day She Cannot Apprevinie.
'ehirty years of age, yet an Ise
fent, Thie is the condittee of aaara
Henry, who, born in 1869, will have a
birthday teext weak at the home of her
parents, Thirty-seventh and Aspen
streets, Philedelpaia, This anniver-
sary the child -Woman will uot be able
te appreciate any more than she did
har•firat, for from the time she Was
eteleteen monetts old she has uot devel-
oped, either iu mind or body.
A bright and sunny -tempered baby,
That is what tide 00-yeter-cad woman!
is. She 0a,nnot talk, neither can she
walk, but she sits upon a little high
Chair and smiles at her brOthers and
sisters who, while younger than she,
yet look upon her as the baby 01 the
familyet They play, with her, and see
that her' toys—tee same toys of baby-
hood.—are near at hand to amuse her:
while they are away. And. elle is not
hard. to amuse, for she sits and
watches her mother, busy at Aet
housework, and smiles in retern when
the another who has haa many pangs_.e.,
end anxious moneente since the birth aaeheer,
of her pecutear little daughter, stops,
a tat:menthe) coo at her.
Doe -toes call it cretinism. That is
the scientific name for the halting ye
developmeut in a child. When little
Miss henry was one year old, she wee
just the same as her brothers and eis.
ters, who are now sturdy grown-ups,
were at that period of their existenoe.
-She lied added another year before her
watchful parents noticed a halting in
her growth, mentally and physically.
Doctors were called in aud consulted
bill none had knowledge which would
start again the growta of brain and
fibre in the little one. For years it
was the same in the Henry family.
Noted. paysicians saw the child and
cudgeled their brains, but that was
all. Father and. mother finally tired
this, and for some time only the
family physician, Dr. Prendergast, hap
visited the little woman.
D. Prendergast says eretisism fol-
lows the maldevelopment ox total ab -
'hence of the thyroid gland. Years ago
there was thought to be no eure for
this, but now, Dr. Prendergast says in-
jections of animal thyroid have been
found of value in stimulating the
growth a the same gland in human.
beings. But this must be,done before
the patient is five years of age, so
the discovery is of little good to the
little Henry girl. Another feature a
interest to the medical world in this
case is Mary Henry's age. There are
no reoords to show that any child sim-
ilarly. afflicted survived beyond its
twentieth year,.
WOMEN'S NEV FIGURE,.
By the way, if you' are laboring un-
der the impression that padded hips
are the prevailing feel:doh, get rid of
Lt at once. The new figure, fresh
from Paris, is hipless, and especiallae
suited to the clinging fashion of
gowns. It calls for the full bust, na-
turally placed, but no hips, and this
is the way in which' it is secured:
Two sets of laess are provided, one of
elaetic whieh begins atahe waist line
and continues to the top, where it itx
left extremely looee to give a full
beet effect. Tbe elastie expands and
eoetracts with the ,tuovement of the
cheat. The other loans of linen or
silk la put in at the &atom of the
corset and extends to the waist line,
bringing tEM two pasts of the corset
as heat together as plossible. This
gives a most fetching figure. As for
kin Pads, many of them are seen, all
eleteWing plainly, and giving e gto-
tesque appearance to the wearer, par-
tioularly White Ina or both have been
• MAN-EATING LIONS.
Teteke or the Savage Resists itt Their
Native auusies.
When lions became maneaters these
inert and. treacherous brutes take no
unnecessary trouble to catch men, and
while human beings are plentiful, none
of them undertake perilous ebterPrises
or proceed. on any haphazard, expedi-
tions. They know what to do and
where to go that prey may be precur-
ed. with the least amount of risk or -
-exertion. Such a non is well aware of
who tills this corn neld or that means
panel. He has informed himself of
how many men acoompany the village
herds, where any outlying camps are
situated. and how they are guarded.
There is no route by which travelers
proceed or traffic is carried on that
strioh entreats have not studied with:
reference to the facilities for attack
they afford and their own bodily
powers. If otherwise good strategio
positions present natural difficulties
the lion not only considers how these
can, be overcome, but perhaps prac-
tices his part beforehand. At all
events he has been watched while en-
gaged. in exereises :that can only be
explained, in this Ivey.
• So puny a creature as man is
when unprovided with effeotive imple-
ments for offense stands little chance
against such a •foe—an assailant hav-
ing forty times his strength, backect
by marvelous activity and an intenee
passion for carnage. Under these oir-
cumsta.nces savages. can only shut
themselves up or assault their enemy
in large masses. On the other hand,
those preceutions taken by a murder-
ous lion might be seen to emaport
with that bold and often recklese
temper attributed to this specie. But
such a decrepa,ncy has no real. ex-
istence; it only appears when A judg-
Went is made without taking all the
facts into consideration. This ani-
mal's intelligence, developed in man-
eaters to its highest point, together
with an organic stealthiness of nature
and proclivity toward unexpected at-
tacks and stratagems, fully accounts
for everything a lion does in the way,
of guarding against failure.
REMARKABLE HINDOO LAMP.
A rather remarkable spirit Iacap has
been found in the workshop of a Hine
doo watchmaker. It is in the shape
of a boar and ha e the burner on its
back. The design is not inartistic nor
is it badly executed, but the most strik-
ing feature of it all is that its own-
er regards it as a houseaohl god. It
is sacred te the memory of the watch-
maker's father, by whom it was Made,
and some hold that there is a sutsges-
tio,n of the transmigration of thesotils
of men into animals in the reverence
with whMh this image is regarded. ft
is used, nevertheless, for the purpose
for which it Wea Originally designed—,
as a spirit, lamp by which the watch-
maker heats metal or solder. A.s an in-
stance of the eombination of besiness
and piety it is rather interesting.
NOTHING TOO GOOD ,FQR
Toterriy—t'ne going to begin common
tractions to-morrOw bia
Mother—Yeu shall do nothieg of, the
kitet, Tommy, You shall study the very
beet fraotiana they have in ethane
A RESPITE FORTHE HENP,ECItall).
Bings—hust between friends, old
men, do you like your wife, to be-
long to so many club?
jings—Yes. Sbe is ie so many rows.
with the oeber sexubtece tbet sae has