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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-8-24, Page 2•h". `V. • EE EXETER, Tbeee Ir elapsed s i•element, t that time sent on t hardened xie'execlo- than orlrz the vied. tient oni orthonex Stiltltion been ma ands with society d ment. ohatangan bemire/1i time Rei The first the front If one as have heex "Anywhe Russital flag." oountry's Governm meeked Li cessise st inmer. • Tile pre this (long as a pe opinion father Jis 01100,1d no spleistlid honest lall roads an and till t far WWI chain-gan Russia is jeets to s the wilde can scam the.m the ter of the composed have alre se t dame ences. lieving 51 Lag a efl She retie and Orem, relieved. two prece ed the v present augurate haps ,the was taet impel thet Czar N Von of t of willing the days emphasis country prison. of The en. great ra pleted, th gatian, th farming the influx settlers, The pope. 000,000, a poured in. ginning oiI once oh se other of been Ml.tn time. T peasants, aesisten b to viegin cure J.arg ning to d the count more wit transport not eoun Wheat pr country fi will be fu demand. with agrS and refin they are t iron. mine matt in 1 employed lishenents kinds of The Caz pIem to r criminals meats het 21. The chitage re Boccie time via ben ed by the near whe Made at IVLA. That a therein by tween a the upper lend. iSan rolled, int the 0011St This drew which den hrood. of 0 stable wit he almost the Cast saving hi ht wee 0111 that the Wen the hank, mak Otable. 111VD e°114211rEIVTS. - • ,, Mk INFLIJENOE 'Or WOMAN , , . , • -- Rey, DR: . TALMAGE SPEAKS OF • ' ThhfR GREAT hph0RThhhhoh, . - , .---. neileitotefter le)Illitnicitel eoernIricatwiuchnie: tonoll.:; nappy-14re Wasted in -Selfish hiselaY Her thmertinottes et teeing tieedeerne seine net A iy c to - . »a' °Iv" '4 ( .1- ° - laanah women. • • A. desp.aten from Ot,s_hington says:-. Rev. hr. Talmage preached front the , . • following text ;-eatew eave I hated, instruction and uny he,art des.pised re- f 1 /.....pr or , le . Procne . - . . , . In this world, women am in a large majerity. They outenniber us ha the family, in the Ch,ureh, in the ..State. They ought to be preaetted to.. They deolde eternal destinies. They adorn or blast the, derreestin cirole. They help ar they hinder the State. Where. there la ohe sermon' Prot:tolled. to Men. there ought to he two sermons eresnee ed to women. The trouble is that, tor the most. part religious counsel eanes toe late. We spea.k to •tbem after they have started on the voyage • of life+ and are sailing far out toward. the ocean of eternity. We are five. years too late. Let the young wamee of this generation be evangelized,. and the world's redemntion is done. wLiiitierbae- tare will be right; the laws right. Felling here we fail' every- where, The cheracter and position of NVOillaern. decide the character and peed; tion of the State. In Turkey, a we- man is imbrated, and. hale empire is lin- bruted. In Franee, woman is an emt be•llishabent, and it is a nation of era - ballisnments. A Gon-loving, God -fear- ' ag wo‘ma.nhood will make a Godelorn • ing, God-fearing nationality; so that if you will tell me the position, thewoman! moral and Christian position,. occupiecl by women in any land, or in any pert of any land, I will tell you the oharact ter of the law, the character of the lit- arature, the character of the Chureb, the charaoter of the State. • Having in several disceurses 'told. woman what Ibelieve tobe her oppor- tunny for being and. doing something grand. and Christ -like. I shall in this morning's sermon make manifest what will be a woman's lamentation over a . . . . wasted. lifetime, if it in.deed be found, at the last, to have been wasted-. And, in the first place, I will suppose that a young woman omits her opportunity af _making- theme. happy. -So Barely as the years roll around, that • home . in which you now dwell will become ex- tinet. Thle parents will be gone, the property -will go into other possession, you you-rself will be in other relation- snips, and that 'borne which, list . Analial I W.111 suPpose Mahn YOung a,vopatin epeehe Iher whole tire, or waatos her Young woneanhoods in sal- Visit dialdaY. Nirrtrldliriegle and friVol- •ity May meta to do eery Wel/ while the inetre is .6. leht eye oth the flash is i . isa t.be, cheek, at the gracetuaness ts inane gait ; but when 'years and trou- hie have clipped oft' those embellish, fneallaer' '%bvellate,c,Lithlilifeeht°fte,Illtl.teltniteQmf el erahutt fle-wers, that faded, and sPlendid, ap, te • ' - . Parol eat le wan out, and. brithatin greillea.. that are, scattered! Belshaz- nerrh ' toast in hill or sport until the tankards are upset and the enemy ma -robes in, and nothing is left lau't tern. garlands, and • the slash of the. wine cArp,-tthd. the rind of 'despoiled fratt and fright, and. terror, and wool Mas( Alas I. Ales !. then- • Better' than teat sinful eeneeetine, a penis table. with a plain' neat; end. a -plain earre PantionshiP,' with'' ti,'. blessing at the start, and. a thanksgiving at the clase of tne, •meal. • When the trinkets: are ii a .,.. gone!. when tbe gay feet Mire halt- en; , When . the .revel is - denee-what then? What •then t I -go into her dye el‘Liciatrt°0°Ina, otte. eshree oth.hleahte,t/fee -ge,heltie: laPholsthe to shield her eyes, • end- ,a. hodleas group to took newn on the see'ne 1 but no Pleseant memory of the past:, act hopeful ' consideration of th•e future, .S11(21 worshipped her own eye, cn , oheek, or wardrobe, h and her Chad has cast her' off. Thlre Queen Elinebeth in the last hour, e writhes on the couch, and. olutchea the air, and cries. tehneahrinhhem: per an h.ouri" In the t e, it. is the ufiat•sith,arydointnigs.wthoorhfattrheeih4asttree-r- ward; but versed the neder.in her life. It is firat th • .e farce of a useless existence fon lowed by the + TRA.GEBY OF A, LOST ETERNITY. The actress asked. in b. Aleuts 'that all the ' might'' Jewels be brought that had been perel;ceinotielligto. 17e -r• • • by foreign courts.; and. as they were br.ought in the casket, and. with her , e Pa+n and dying hand she turned over the diamated.s, h.. s e. said: 0, you dear jewels, what a pity it is that I have t ,Part wi i n th you so soon!. . The plea- sures, the adornments the riches of this world. are a cm ' t' f V' to ue•in the last hourptrhre lwaaanatisaCilme-- thing grander, dee:per, better. wngain: I will suppose that a young • omen weetes her opportunity ot do- ing good. There is. no age in life when a woman can accomplish so much. for Christ, "I, believe, as between sixteen and twenty -fly • - . those ' e. But. now .su.ppose ose years have Passed along, and. she has come to the afterimon of life ' to the eternal world,. and e she loiointz; back an.d says: "0, how much sick- nem there was inthat clay in ' y ., which 1, - . .., Lived my girlhood life; how much sick-. eess there was; and.' never alleviated any of it. There were 'all those child- nen that I might have picked out of the street fifteen years .ago but who, • , • + ' are eo-aay In hou.ses of abandonment, because+ I did- not 'While they Were in childhood, came to, the rescue, There • ,nre twenty, thirty, forty years, which 1 ightehavemade tell ior the wetter a of the world.'which 1 thenI' ea - all gone Mr nothing, and worse than thing." Can • MU _me. any place . dark ' .enough foe a. ,soul to . weep he 1 , . . - 0 to •ceawl ewe * ' ' y into eternity without a (crown or a plaudit when you might have entered hailed -liy• a • - bannered pro- cession and a great from all the battlements. 1 would to God that allh women hie the yieang of t congregation might rise up. in- soul ' to -day, •say: "0 Lord, here I em for time and "eter- nity. If there is anything, in my arm ' 1anything ' ' anything in my look, in my soul, anything in my vivacity ty it is all hi ,, and. thine for ever." .Again: I will suppose that.a young . woman omits. her opportunity Of per- sonal salvation. A great Multitude of ' women. have gone into heaven led on by Deborah., d Hannah,' ' ' ' an and Abigail, and. Elizabeth and Mary f Blal , .. ., . 0 1 e story, and the • - • GATES OF. HEAVEN ARE OPEN. • for woman's entrance. The Lord •nev- er yet thrust one out. He who. pitied the Sytrophoemcian woin.an, and. who rained: the naaneel to life tie read to- . . , y day to gave 'resurrection to every wo- iii suppose nowyou man'sSOUL.B • that cast all these things behind your hack, and. in the close of life, or in. -the eter- world you look back upon • this , ,y• ....' state of things, and this state of op- peril/laity, how will you feel h Do you suPPose there will be tin organ' with wailing stops enough . to utter your lamentation t ElOw strange( it is that there axe intelligent wonien who will just trampie under foot the jeweils ' • - et aheir immertat souls, an.d tre.vet on in darkness and in .sin when Gcid's li ' t harnessed.' 1. c lane 0 areto wheel them an the king's highway I 0, to si,t down( cit the. -clam of hife.• and to feel; "All my opportunities are Rene. • No Cross. No Christ. No .God. No hot- • Wh t ere • th- tan ht h ave ven• a a 1 e ime a ig , been made a triumphal marchto glory. 1 have. despoiled everything with seit fiehness and with. sin." 0 God! what , , .. . mon . en one, do iJ what Apology will suoh an one make? Having fought tiech and fought down all: the advan- tagela of a lifetime, Buell, an one will stand On the banks ot the cold river ' ' th handslin • • drop whInVng •( e w. i e tearsemu into. the foaming flood crying: -Howl hare. I tinted instruction and tuy heart ' des,pised reproof,' The harvest is p,ast, the ,stennieris ended, •and I am not eaVied..." , What can soothe Buell a grief as that? ' (rould all the music of the ' 11do that' dirge? C Id earth play wnen all the flowera of the. earth, gathered in 'one garland end flung on the .soul, bury; no that sepulchre of dead hope? •Could all the pearts and ' diamond's . _, . . -, ,. _ , . encl. Jewels a tbe earth, buy her out of that captivity t Nae. Nay. Oplaortunity gone, ie gone for ever. Privilegesanu Wasted, wasted for ever. The seal lost, lost for ever. , . I cone out this morning, just to avert than:. eatastrophe. 0, young Wo- nien., this is tile year, this iS the rnmith, this is t e day, this is the hour, ' h OW is the anueneein which you. ought to take Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour '' ' ' YOU ARE IMMORTAL, ,rhe stare shall dM and the eun be snuffled ounlike a candle; but you are iltincntal* - Milgd?his 'ePall fade and t, meet; perisla, and .the ietands, of , the eea fly 0. the presence 'of the Lad, end aIl the World will barn an end the ages strike- • • ' d -t '1 ' their ea. h-knel. ; but yea am immartal. You Are going to live: Death eannet stop Y007' ohs- • • • - tence.i. The hale:merit will at 'mend your 1,f,,, . , t Ages, on ages, ell ages• Foe atter pot ever I 1.,0e ever! Eteeetye IllternitY! EternitY1 0, Young woman! jesin Christ atta for •yott, Ete bore. the sharen. Mid the ones The heavteus palled With hnees • t the 'dons Qf God, and Ite a:hi:etches rilOallItlytr-- den His torn ana hillOding liana. thaat IltA may lift you out of- the deep dam n ho - t your .. .. that . - a i a 0 ein into place where aneels sing and conquerer for trium ia ' It p . , seems tee me 4this mora- bag. that though' 'the air is full of :te°renietttinthi:i 414' mistoo 'optoisrneeinet'falit?si.sn" the Tabernaactsea,aWking .to wing; tied ae when the 'atmosphere it terueatent Tao With Cliristniashotainaes, eo it seem me as if all the -air were mueioal with mercy, mare?, mercy. -mercy For Qu , crownY the harp is a1, ei de s t • itx • th. alread. en butnisIlld- the nth -e'en° -alTeade. hoisted, and the b'ellinan of God, with silver }un nor lifted, ready at the first news to strike the trial:14)h and let, all heaven knew tleet your scrul is free • 1 Prorlaim it ' . '• full and fair Bans ra for all. wounds, ResurreetiOn 'foe alai grev-es: Eternal Fatherhood for ell orphanage. Se/arise for 11 d• k • 1 fox' all rough. aas. aErtunSeassciPCilatiomn"fsosr 11 that are. bound; and. the Lord, long- suffering' and patient, and merciful EetYllivia..:,1',a0titinnigiadehaailldf Levin g , and+ if • Ito w. will accept His ' grace, Away with I your monen, this grace 'is free, ••Other !embelliplutients fade, other mune will l'husn., other grandeur will wither. bat • C tell you toeday. of something that rto frost e inn chill, and no fires can burn, and no floods, tan drown, and death cannot Mlle and eternity itself cannot I exhaust. The Arab dressing the des- t tint was stathing, and suddenly his eye fell upon '' - • re..h.A. BUNDLE IN 'TILE D.ESERT.- s been dropped by a Passing bare.- Yan't•-• He said: "I elli)P°9e that sack is full et figs or datee." He ran to it and .• tore it open with great avidity, and houndethat. they were. diamonds,- • and e. burst into , a flood of tears, and .tuiwilught said: "Nothing'but d'' d I d I •- ' eia,mon s an . they :were figs and dates." . And eill the treasure,s of this world, me friends, wiU at last be poor eatisf - a. . ._ • p ac ion to that soul that wants. bread- tlipiness that bread' h h • • w la cam's's down • from •heaven -that bread of which, if you eat. you shall never again• .. * . hunger. • 0 there are some things that you ought to have, theta are some things that you may have there • are so- nth° things that you will have; but there is one, thing that you ' . _must have, and that is the grace °I, 1.7*(4. , You aanis° with your arm, beat your way through the trials on life. .• Your heart is ' not iron. . Your nerves are not brass. Your brow is not adamant 0 th t • - •• , when e s orms come, when the. lights go out, when a memenger from the world stands in your room and says: "This hour you must be off," and youstand on the brink of the great sea without an . pilot, . , ,taxes m, oa• or compass, will you '`'''in then,' do you . think, with your two weak arms, amid the than.der and the dankness, be able to pill away to the other beach/ • - I stand before eau thi - ' ' • ' - ' s morning with a -message from the sknes, /1 .yen at last inns heaven, will, I be • to. blame? No.. I offer you 'full ,. . . . . and free palva- -tobacco ' ion, through the blood of m 'Lord .TORUS' Chricte," I Offer. it not: only to those of .you, who hatve been. liroyught nielnrespeetable and Christian circles . , . : , and who have been .admired and ap- pleaded; .but if there hal • ', . , . • . re this. house to -nee one seal that has wandered • in trete the outside,'' t ' t ', - an ou eas and fore lorn. spirit, wandered away from your no • - Father's our, one to pray for you and none to pityou, the " * e vi, y Spirit of God •a'aving brought your wandering feet to this. place, and you sit, and no one lirla°ws where you sit, and your heart is broken, and the win of 1 ., et , . g a star ess ingil•C• Is overspre•adeng all your soul —OV5U . e ., even to you I preach pardon, and peace, and eternal activation, the pit y of Christ for Mary Magdalen, and a hone in heaven amid ' • .n. d shining seraphim, May God take your feet off •the burn ing marl f h 11they - 0. . e where • ey are travel- and set them on e* • . .THE ROAD TO !LEAVEN. . But wia t I • . a say to •yous• I say to all. 0 mothers, wives, sister's, and daugh- tern -the 'charm. of the home circle- choose .with Huth • • • * . .. L , the Christian choice, , and say,. With her: "Thy peot pie shalt be my people thy God' , y , my _ God; where thoul dies.t will I die a• d et,-, - . ' "' h'ere win 1 be burried. The Lord do to me and more also, ' le 3°' . , if naught but death part thee and me." .I want you, in the Met da t b ' e y• CI e amid the great sisterhood of the. elect. In, that 'hour, when. stout hearts will fail, and ruddy be blanched Iwant cheeks„ . .. you to be as ceina as the Mee of Jesus into which you will then be called to look. When the • mountains . are t falling, I !want ou •to start ' ' Y' . d firm. 0,.. ;what a day that will be for a Christian woraan I her ki ed 'ra conie, robe glistening in the light of an unsetting sun. • Let her have emanation andereign queen fon ever.. • The snow was very deep, aid it was still fall' g 'ell h • ' . in rap y, ey en, in the first year of my, *Christian ,rainistry, ,I hastened to; see a young woman die. ft wan a ver humble h • • Y clime. She was an arphan ; .hee• father had been ship- wrecked on the banks of Newfound- land. She hah earned, her own liVing. As, I entered, the rooroomI saw nothing attractive No pictifres 'No ' t tape a s Y. Not " • ' •-• ' a cuelnoned ehan. The snow on the window capeinent. west not whiter than the .cheek of that dying girl. It wets a• rece never. to be forgot-- ten. S-weetreisse and majesty of soul , coad faith in God, . had given her a metchleas beaut ' and •t Y, he ecelptor who could have, caught the outlineet of these featuree, and' frozen them into. Stone, would have 'made himself im- mann. With• her large, brOwn eyes he 1 i • .• t . p oohed calney ante he great eter-. nity. I sat 'down: by her .bedside and aid: "Now, t • - ' e , ell me all your troublea, , sorrow's . and struegles and doubt.”'•• I' d " *a. ' ' She • (rep ie :• I have no g les. It is all plain doubts or still • ' ' to me. jeeus hags smoothed the' way for me feet; , I wish when you go' to your 'paten next Sunday, you would tell the young people that religion will make them happy. "0 Dsa.01, „Ante is tee stirie.1 ea nelenee T -nth' "'n - - --7"-'-' - wonder lf tine is not the bliss' of dying 1" I said: "Yes, I think it mut 1 ''''' I " P s d - the ' ‘ h ' ,h; . ' invite ti..atound, : couc . nett:dine wcaTelt Ifti langt de& aistahr , e ea - die for me, • ' Tat DYING GIRL' • , t . , ,.. ., . tne aawn a heaven in her /ace, needs' ed n ' - . a n . o candle. I roee Lo go n she g?,1,4: "I thauk ,you for coming,. Goon- eight 1, When we Meet again it will he in healienesin heaven Goodnight. - .., , . , ,e t,, I IS :t - A iti•rt-tnitgl7 i ., let ne.." Was g(>ett-7' nie o eriest goo -nig i to poverty, good -night to death ; but when the snii rose again, it was gooderianaing. The tient of enzither• day, had burst epee her soul. Good -morning 1 The angels 'tNr111.3erehEZzlintiolngoltierristlYwniacsan)Peutht9iinrialtn4Pfloil her bra* a garland. Goodemoreiug l' , • • ilu:1 "9,811-1 riSillg- Her 91/41141 W4Ving. .11i,e .....ePi.i.itts JpOoltaltnzngnriheifia°g1T gtohoed..tethio'erielet. 'elatgslohleehlee laweaditbalUisitYed°,fintoaatiheMiaorstaorf- health iteillinwi;" ahdr th° ,stmliv‘ts through wl ich we carried , her to t e ctrant trghegwrahvehard were ,symhole et '. -. i(d'i she wetrr4' so white ' that no faller on earth 'oould 'whiten ' my sister, mydangatere nay your la°t end hth..like'llarsi • • THE SUNDAY SCHOOL . , _ . , •-• tween. 'followers ot difterel Tho Political straggies betir minutso'd1V4erldlilnarit:trallv$4 ratriel Ho 'Vision that it wollid be almost as a sia. for 000 to c tCt'ih.°11:11):1,1:ecooftOshe:af.goala7sitv,emat:wriffleig:h'sPa: Oirougheut the' atenent ern • hahhaPe a few ehoePtloas ri' 0"frellenovttrn.yenensasittuir•lelyaunpfor'ileynts with gold, had with goods, beasts' in order that non • ' ' e hindered by poverty or byht beasts of burdenfromjoining' of emigrants and starting ou. r'iva-etuall; .1).boe•Treelir‘u5aza`di:drnasBaver sure te -•.lie rewarded. by tli whom honor it was' done. 131 freewill. efferinn, Cyrus, bit sending as a. "farewell offere Vessels of gold and eihrer. : others in high positiou wou jhel:tsextoainfatliefite'.!Matthheeenextehio'PrIt4 very practical fashion also. - 5. The ohiet of ithe fathers d B • ' ' Th Jewish 'all ex/Jell:114' ' 1.3 it 'highest develoPment wa upois soniething like the, ch Shraidslanodi ' thTelleeslaensTa. n4jelles pr the Invites bad been for , cleanly, related to the tribes ant 11.ei 'anain, for the north( dom had ignored the Mosaic,' had taken its 'attests inclinr! from alltribes. hell them wit God bad raised up. Not (ne even ofJudah and Benjantin.1 leg•to undertake trete:long, an jburney. • e oh•the . Man • most ous preferred. to remain in E but •t ' • .0 i. was fair to assume th wentto Palestine from selfish It was the divinehouch that r ht e humane., at Once. er.triaestly and profoundly /eh nun T of the Lord (which isgin Jerue nvielnrsiela.r InPheraaesha cleaned: the tli that -the deserted In ' ' • illtop of If shill sacred ; ' it (was Jehovah c residence, and thou le the b e• . e u which his service had been ne ' • • • • ' was in ruins, the lyeey site "house." • 6. Al!ll they that were abo Their neighbor S • s. Strengthen hands,, Helped them. The re . -t t - f' verse a ca a ogue 9, the h. individually to pllgrim Jew - - - 3 the offerings Made • directly p e.. .1 e• motives o t es tempie. ' Th '' • f li though mixed, were mai In the first' place, where i• eads many . would natur low, In the second place as seen all religions were .revea some degree by all pe.ople. Th Jews had shown a high Mon h d '• ' . won the .respect of the: •bors and remit was probe!' ' from genuine friendship and •:. Fourthly it was the hebit of • ' ' • • to pray for all whe contribute worshi • and all - 1 • • p, • . men va, uec - 7. ' Cyrus •the king brought • veesels. It was the ordinar c oriental conquerors to ' car3rry sacred vessels from the temple • • t .• • - ' subjec nations. This was 'do, pa y an COD in'reverence for • rtl ' .• . the gods oft hese; nationne N nezzar had thus taken_ the articles from the temple ser • • • placed them in the temple, of. in Babylon. • on ' - T this meta, o ' ed by the Romans, we aretlind our knowledge. of the shape seven -branched candle -stick, 1 t ' le ' b • n a avIng been tpara.ded 'in through Rome was carved • ' ' - • triumphal arch. of Titus: • 8. Sheshba.zzar, the prince + This was the Chaldean name a . babel, who, although int •• die frona Jehoiachin seem become b inheritance* his y his le Cyrus was evidently not 'afrai reb 11" n th e io on e part of the Je he thus chose' their hereditary • be their leader. 9-11. Charges. Basins or be rest of the lesson is a' tiontini - the catalogue of the treasurre , y Cyrus • • buted b C • urelred. arid eight yeare have e• ewe( the first dere e of . ben- e Siberia Was prepouneed• hi 1,51'0,1:00 peesene have beea . he lag- road, 'many of theta orieninale, etb,ers outcasts or sells, often. more tuifortunate iinal, and still reauy others sa of their religiens or poll- brae Dineen:tors. • from the faith, the advaetes o,i a Cons cor tnen,tate and oranks leave ,gied by tits shores of thous_ . these whose offenses against served the severest punish- LI Marched in the common gs ewer the bleak route that two years' teurhey by the +la reached the eastern ocean. arrivals atter an, advance of Mr were ga.xigs of convicts. les where the Siberian exiles t naieny nevi,. th„esher is, at in that vast amain where sondem have carried their Vlb.ether sent away far their good. or the viotims ot their atit's injustice, th(e exiles have sac - ty, their x,,,,uwe seery sac- ege of Russia's advance to t-,-- INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AIM; 27. ' '...- . . 'Ret11.1:1:,.:4g:341r;e:tall,4.11,44jm.1.:.1.10;:41:141):::.:E0,3:0::::::rj:s1, 1')ItA°TICIAL N.°•"S' - :Verse I. ' In the firstryear of CYrith ktng Year of Ins reign in Babylon: he ue, -nee king of Persia' by his defeat '01 `'‘h -n- • • ' Astyage.s, and peahens twenty-one h ,ylehaersweofrtderott tabteh;ocordni,qytietrheeduaBoaubyhlooni, Jeremiah. Ter. 25, .11, 12; 29. 10. This ProPhet hadprotinised the return from captivity and had given a clate-"sev- eoty years." But a year raight mean , either 360 days or 365, days, , and . as there wee natuty relays ot °apneas When to Nieeveh and Babylon in die- tttle'e'neeteleyelontlht l'ijneeda°.tcenlanifreonmanmeneyntonatif:. of these neaptivities." 'rim. r., -'ora, stir- 'red uP the spirit of •Cyrus king of Per- si That (6d f • leworksdir- er 1 -• 'letillell Y'• 117- eater. on the minds of men whein he has cicose,a to be his elnef Maruments sidaeartehde hillesXteteelefthe.tetuetstset ilnlhge 'esatilosretes 4,0'1- Abiraeledh, Balaam, and N. ebuchadnez- zar are La(stanoee of these, ad new we have Cyrus similarly etirredup to oarryrout God's , plans.' We do • not know what instruments, 11 any, Gnod,', used to sway the king's mind. He ay have. eive, a to his servant :Daniel "favor" in the eyes of Cyrus, or he . may have simPlY..Pressed home on the king's coescience this great daty. ' See - , .. ... . the note on •. verse 2. •He . made. a proclamation throu hout all his 'ki • g .., • s. ng- 'dam, and, put it also in writing,- The ,hingdom. of Cyrus included most of what are -in modern 'times called Tur- key in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Bel000histan. :Writing is supPosed• to ' . • have been but recently introduced the to the Persian empire, and it is pro- sbhasladlo ihtbahtotthhisPeprrsocialhamhantdionchtmiTdelhairls-. Copies of it were 'given' to couriers who, ' • . . rode on fleet steeds from elty to city e em ire to the remotest points of th . P . • 2. Here comes the proclamation and It d • t t • f i ' • does no ane away rom its . orce to discover that its phraseology and form are Hebraic rather than Persian. What "we' have here is evidently the Hebrew tranecript of the deciee. :Thus saith • Cyrus• o . am. i . some C king' f ' P • 'With simila.rity - the famous -Behistisin in- „ , . , „ . , seription begins,, I am Darius . the great king', the .king of kings, the king .of Persia." The Lord God of heaven bath given•ine all the kingdoms of the earth. This ' sentence is remarkable many ways. • "God of heaven" was a recognized_ title of the Supreme Be- Lug among the Persians, who, as wea y seen e Kiva a e have alread - b I - el th t th moral universe was dual,and that there - ' ' ' ' was. a god of the infernal regions hard- ly-- less powerfulthan the heavenlyod g •• "The Lord" here, as. always when minted in small etapitals,' steeds for , Jehovah, the Hebrew name for the supt- reme• divinity; not Ormuz& vvhich mean Cyrus would doubtless use in nireet communication 'with his o-wn g • contrast is., made people. A.. strikin ' ' between the- God of 'heaven. and, the - kingdoras of the earth which that god upon his chosen ones. Such bestows' reverences as ;this such disposition to th ' a - - refer o e supreme God as the giver of earthly power, is u ual i throyal • . e . n e clamation of Persia The pows Pr° ' . er that Cyrus . inherited was sznall , compared with • the majestic empire which God had built u P.for hien by the conquest of neighbarin . . g kingdonis. Cyrus is caeled, in Isa.45, the "Anointed ch Jehovah," and is giv- en G.od's promise to subdue nations , , an make rugged and open &sore dmended places plain before hien to • destroy doors of brass and bars of leen, anh, bring forth the treasures of darkneps and the hidden riches of secret places, so that ,Clyrus naay. know 'that Jehovah is the supreme God, . Ile -hath charged me to build him a hotne at jertmalena. In what form this chargs came we do , . g . , not certainly know. Isa.. 44.28 quotes God as saying of Cyrus, "He is • MY shepherd, and -shall perform all my even ' saying to pleasure; gJerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to • the ton - pie, Thy foundation shall be laid." The precise date of thisrein ' k bl • • an a e sentence we cannot give, but it is- s - gohlerally assumed thatit had been h wn in writing to Cytus, and that .he accepted it ' ' d • C - -, 1 n • as a consmaia . er- tem y without his support the temple could riot at this time have been built. ' ' e phrase which is in Judah here. • ' • etch in, verse 3, points -to the small re- letive importance of the ruined •cap• le tal. • . 3 me, • . • ' •• * o is them among you of all his peoPle. That ds, of all the .wor- shipers . of Jehovah. . They were scat- in nearly every part of his do- - ,.. • . . nainions. .Tudah a_nd Benjamin,. being neareet .to the centre of imperial power, were naturally most. affeeted b this 1 e but •f• • y s proo ama eon,many rom the- northern tribes also accepted. its. and returned. His God be witli,him.. n 'benediction from te man who,' according to Plutarch, "in wis- 'done hind virtue a t t.. 1 , , an grea ness o sou excelled other kings," and of whom Eterodotusavrites that he ruled his sub- , jects liken father. • Go up.This phrase may mean no more than our idiom "underteke " Neverthel s • ' • • • • e s, as soon as the desert was crossed, the caravan to 3' I • would h- . - eruea ere wou ave steep moue- taus climbing before le Buildthe house of the 'Lord God of Israel. The autn- orizatioe and tench of the treasure nee- essary to,laulld the temple Nimes from C • the k 1 ' • -• - Cyrus; e wor anc the responsibility for details rest• upon •the retaining Jews., Ile is the Go -d, which is in Jer- ' • • et • • usalem. Th,e, Revised • ersion omits the article before God, as if Cyrus here vouches 'for the divinity of jehovah, The. Greek version, Sept:eaglet, and the Latin,. Vulgate, db not throw this clause inn' parenthetic form, but make it read "He is the a0a. who is.in ,Terin salon.'" Hardly enough. is known of. Cyrus apart f 0 th• b ' ' t , , , r n1 . is nef record, o :Janie, a pi:naive statement as to which he intended to, say. - 4. Whosoever temaineth. h T e Ite- vis.en 'Version is "whosoever i$ lefth Net whosoever is disposed, in spite .of the royal permission,' to rennin in Babylon, but whesoever has the d ' • - survived., angers arid strains of the years ' of exile, La any place . where h ea. journeth, let the men of hi 1 he -I-, hum Th. , 1 „ , . S P ace le p • • . is appea tor friendlY, aSSist.. anee "nest be interpreted it harmohy with' the conilitions of that day. An, cleat heathens no reenter h ve • b cl th . ' . ..--.` . .° a . ey woe, ware ali religious and ,, , , , . .. , unhle Was no nedeeflail hostility be. • "' .. TOBACCO S A OU ' A, ,S, ROE OE REVENUE. ' , ' ' .....-- . 100Ve.rnetent Ineuepoly In Some +reentries e eanutiee. nein in mi. , - • The fact is well known that in four European countries, 'Fran:ion, '.Austria, - Italy and Spain, the tobacc,o, tr. a.de is a Governinent naonopoly the tobacco lie, . , ' ' ' • ing imported,or, if dolnestio tobacco ' : ' lusively sold by. the Govern,ment. i° he in "it'll 'retail" by it at' a profit semewhat• in the sasne W'an that noste age ' stamps are sold, The F enoh, re- ' • •! ' "r ' ' venne front tobaneo is nearly 400,000,- 000 fiance a, . yea,r, or aboet $80,000,-. 000. The revenue from . the - Italian tobacco naenopolY was 188,000,000 lire tent year, or. about 07,500000 It is impossible to state with exactness the , revenue 'of the hpanish .Governeeent from its tobacco monopoly this year, but in other years it has been. put at about 100,000,000 pesetas, or 020,000,00n; • . ' • . . though the loss durnig,_ the past year of ( the twee : cellist ' tobacco-prodaing ' ' ' • colomes of Spain, Cuba and the •Pliil- may not reasonably .be sup- ' ' -Posed fe be .a. reason for the falling e off in revenue from this sourde, as the • • . ' • purchase of tobacco by the Spanish Government henceforth will be in an open market and tiotunder conditions • • ' • .. thstinctly favorable to the , Govern- ment as sovereign • • . Thongh, all countries do not main- tein , • ' '. _ - A.• TOBACCO 'MONOPOLY. there are few, civilized Gove,rn•raents which donut derive a considerable mea- • sure of their financial support from • - laid upon tobacco in same way ' or .ether. Thus, for. instance, the cus- toms duties on tobacco imported .into England anneunt to £11000 000 a Year • ' ' -1: or $55,000,000, wbich 'is nea.rly as muee . as France derives from its .complicated and ,eumbrous ikintrol of the 'sales of in the French Republic. Ruse sia impoSes tobacco Mates which. yield a' constantly increasing , revenue, the' . g•ures eing ,600,000 -paper rubles for fi ' la • ' 35 1895. Germany. derives a large r•evenue from its tebacco "sales: end fronehts• toe. bacco sales and. from its custome duties on tobacco' German being one of: thescountrie •.- • y s In which the. use of tobacco is mostgeneral,f llo i it • • - . o Sit ng , n this particular Belgium, Brazil and Turkey, the three great t b a • - counttis ° ac e -using •Wh 1 :t • ' When 1 conies to revenue of a pub- • • lie character from tobaoco, Uncle Sam, though making no • pretences tee any Gover in tf . Oh . tn mu monopoly o is trade, iseno mute irb ind.•some other come. tries, a. is ar ahead of most of them with every present indication of a • further large Increase frora tobacco reve es " Cubad nu. in and Manila in the future. During the fiscel Tear of1891, before the imposition of the revenue ' war taxes so called the Treasury re- • ' ' • ceipts on the sale of ogars were $12.- 189,000, and lash year they were -$1.3,e 600,000. The tax has now been in- d 60 t . • - creasecen s per. thousand, and the estimatedrevenue from this source this year is 4116,350,000. There is also an- other item of tobiteco reven e tor t e - • • • u r h Federal Government in the • _.• TAX UPON CHEROOTS or sraall cigars, whidh amounts to ' ' 'n about $400,000 a year, and, under the increase of 50 per cent. in the taxes of manufactured •tobacco and , snuff, this brings up the tete from 000 000 to $27,5100,000, 0 I I 01 $r • tax 'collected fromxna's 7.:igarette%, the'Th vvhole year s tax being represented b missioner of nternal Revenue the COM . ' - I at $48 850000 for last ear, ' large item of revenue, but This' is 'a 5, y ' ' it does 'not exhaust the benefit whicb .derives from tobacco the Government taxes bei suc 1 onlyas areimposed , ng h by the Internal Revenue Department and exclusive of those • levied by theThe Treasury Department at the cuetome - importations'• bouees. The of leaf to- bacco into the U ited St t f ' th t 171;9 r months ding nM ',(conditions theivaleVlof 87,50a0,vivt;rtitatincal." cigarettes to the value Of -41,500,000 • • were imported. The general , rate of tax on tobacco is 35. cents a pound," and when the 6 f -h' C tom ,,.e eerevdrael from t ef, tip- ose o 0111 IcarnalnsDe7ofartma e:tn i) is a the de 1 t b • e procee o o ace°taxes in the United States are certainly as triage , ' • ' - ' ' collectively, as those imposed in Eng- land,a- d pr bably exceed th 't n n t. , tem, en, toerax' ue • It ' acme: • tilt the caolleacativl taxes ofaltGlInov ,,,600,,,a,Itl S., on tobacco amount to uuu u u on .tobacco amount to $000,000;000, a year, , i sent Czar has decided to elan ohapte.r of Sibeents history i colony. He shares the rtiob. his father and grand- id, that .this degrading use longer be made of a vast and .erritory. There is 'plenty' of aor now with which to build 1 fortresses work the mines , to Goveriament lands, services Il. the compulsory labor of gs has been employed. When inviting millions of her sub- prea.ci over Siberia and make mess teem and blossom, she ely continue to send. among refuse on the western quar- i empire. The tramp 'class, chiefly of escaped con.victs, idy treated. same of the new Ls to very unpleasa.nt expert- Nish, is „ the point of re. beria from the odium of be- al colony,. hint as, long ago, ed. the governments of Perm mrg froon it, and as England sustralia. Why did net the ding Em.perors, who announce an views that have led the !mar to act, themselves in- the proposed change? Per- reason is because. the time ipe and. great events, did not m, as they* have impelled the holes IL The traneforma- e farm of Siberia by 'millions, • hand.s that were lacking in or Alexander II. gives loud to the need, of relieving that ram. further service as the Russia. , . . Thanksgiving Day, was full of obligee- 'tulation will be extinguished. When that period comes,. you will look back to see what yea did: or what you xis- glected to do in the way of making home happy. . LL" WILL BE TOO.LA,TE. to correct mistakes. If you ,clid not smooth- tbe. path of your parents. to b't • • d' ward the totra, , if you id not •ma.ke their last days bright and happy; if you allowed your brother to go out into the world, unhallowed by Chris-, .line ban and sisterly influences; if ybu. al- lowed the younger sisters of your fam- ilv to cocas up without fee4ag that there had. been a Christian example set them on your part, there will be nothing but bitterness and temente- tion. That bitterness will be increase ed by all the surroundings of that home; b • • y every chair, by every pia. Lure, by the old -t• ' t 1 1 tine man. a orna- meats, by everything you can think of as conneeted -wan that home. • All these things will rouse li agonizing.nal • p memories. Young woman,' have you anything to do in tway of making your father's Mane happyl Now is the time to. attend to it, or leave, it for ever undone. Time is flying quickly away. I suppose. you tionee rheeerrin kles are gathering • and. accumulating' an tboee kindly'. faces that have BD long looked upon you; there' is frost in t • a 11- locks; the toot i ' ' s not as finra in its step as it used to be; and they will soon be gone. • The houniest clod, that ever falls on a parent's coffin -lid is the memory of an ungrateful daughtertered 0, make theLr ' le.st days bri ' - • get and beautiful. Do not act as though they were in. the way. • Ask their counsel, k thefrprayers, and, • after long see'will years have passed, arid you go out to see the grave where • they ,sleep, you will find growing ai over the .mound seneething lovelier than cypress, same- thing sweeter' then the rose samethi g cha t th the'1' ' ' nr a er . an Ily-the bright . and beautiful memories of filial kinnness performed. ere the dying hand dropped un Yam a hanediotien, and Yon clomd the lids over the weeny eyes of the wareaut pilgrim. . Better that, in the hour of your birth u had been struck with orphana , ya ' ge, and that you had. been handed over into the cold arms of the- world, rather than. that you should have been • brought up un_ der a father's care and a mother's V dern.ess, at . . Von- last to seoff at their ex- ample, and to deride their influence* , arid on the day when ape, followed thent in. long proeession to the tomb, to find that you are followed by a still larger procession. of unfilial deeds done and wrong words uttered. , . ' TIIII ()NE PROCESSION will leave its•birrdentin -the torah, and ! ,.4.' 1,,,„„„, ,„,,,,,,A,,, ,e. disband; but th 7-, F.------,•--- -- .`"" '`-' &basher memories .wil • for ever metal and for ever wail. 0, it • le a good time for a youn women' Whet 'he is in her halm ' gli ' II '5'• ri a h ease. _ ow careful they are watelinil thene'se a'Srrertrinottfarat il 17t,Ar invests. ' Seeted) at• the blether"' lele: peen father at one end the. table irchii-• , „ dren ten either side, and betWeen; net ' • - • the years vent xell on, and great Changes win. b ff t d, •• , be mitesed ,frataaoaneaa n end one Will end the table„ and another Whl be missed. froth the dth r end the tabIe. Geld pity that you: weaaarhe eonteeho, ill that dark hourg ,t .,. ha e 'lathing but tegretr l• •shook1h ,u, reco lee. dens! . gress of Siberia, due to the tread now two-thirds cone- i -improvement of river navi- e opening of large areas to .nd mining enterprises, and of hundreds of thousands of s.s brought about a new era. ation this year is over 6,- nd. 6.00,000 eraigrants have :o the country since the be- ! 1896. So large a transfer- ttlers frothi one part to an- he same country has never n .essed befone in so short a ten, plower, are Russian end many of them have been r the Gorernment to remove lands wherehe they may se- ir farms. They are begin- ivelop the vast resources ot ry. Last year there was eat for export than. found. Von, thou.gh economists do : upon Siberia as a world's dicer, believing that as the lis the wheat -growing. area ly taxed tth h o supply e home Industries are keeping pace. eulture. They are making .ng sugar at Seenipolatinsk; arning aut pig iron near the 3., and in the Tomsk govern- 898, about 13,000 znen. were in a Lange nnraber of estate- manufacturing thirty-nine meamodities. • 'QUEER SALARIES. new the Workers Are Prth11 1 ' * - where honey is Scarce, The pastas of certain chi . , . the remote provinees of Aust • ' ' ' • cove their stipends by carin Every quarter ES ods, Everth • meet at. the minister's house • • • • * with them their contribution 1.1” ' ' is support._ These rarely el . the form of cash, but 'consist .• ,. . . . .. . . hes or some other visions, clot . .: . which - are afterwards used or the - . • .e pastor. lower a d f I di , who toil tremendously as caa ' ' - messengers for European r reeeine their..wa e i ric ' wei hod t •L tglis 11 e' ,.. g , eue -o e em once a seven -pound .bags. Pe - t * 1 ' th t . asap s engage( in e. e in China receive remaneration toil. in the snape of 'maize t Which foem as a rule,' their stt FOX eight, peands of maim pound of 'native tea the Chinaman will oheerfully 'woi k r 74 h ' • wee o. ,ours, and will de self amply rewarden, ' in some parte of Siberia th,e who labors in the stilt mine r ceives a seiner pe ny 1 • h B ' t instead'y '11 - or . ,u , of money, he is . With a liberal otianity •of mar bread, wine that taetes like. and a weekly allowanee of ' et which he ie at liberty to lie change iorproviSions at the vi shot". • ' . - • --e- .r's commission to vise a de • !place the transportation, of to Siberia by (other Punish-„, cl its first meeting on June details of the ;proposed Ilene much attention. For the foot journey of the eon- i has been !greatly' shorten- railroad. The time seems I ,the journey wilt not be .' .11....... .. ' wILKIE COLLINS. . - • . . '. The Stories of Wilkie Collins are well knowie but net the tragedy that mar- red, hid liM, wnich by the way, ought to dispel. the foolish notion that an author Weeks r ' cll • f timo ' egar ,ess o :me or , ' oentee,ets. nollin.s was eitga•ged. on a • ' • novel whieh he had, pledged his honor ten publisber ter finish by a certatn thine, (when news came ;that his mother Was dead. Distracted and raadd nod t ,... ...' ,....., ,.. 8 eitegriet, pm nau. yet Do Mine nie eon- tract or the ublisher would,n- , . ...,, . P , e , he k ow, be:heeled. Aeid tallish the'contradt, he 1 , ,To do sof however, he Was toms (.1. a Pelled to Mine recourse to morph* And from that time onW 'd ell bis death soine 26 ea e hear) sle 1: - .., : Y , h. e a + a naVer ' - - ne.self free ofethe arug, He Was in Met, it nioxishine mantan , . N AND SWAN' (FIGHT. swan will fight fiei•cely was an eneiting. struggle be- Yea and a park Constable on . take in Waterlow Park, Eng- J� India rubber . balls had p the water and to get thein tble paddled ea in a punt. the riptide ot the male man, erted. hie eousort and • the rortet,' and went ter the Con- h greet fury. Once -or twiee upset the punt by °tinge g ebie to • overebalance it in 1 legs front the bird'a beak, tly with niffieulty and risk ialle 'Wert rererveren, The . l t011OW6C1 thi, ptiht. i.0 the :Mg vioieue darts at the Cote SEA GULLS CATOHING Mt Al farm ' t t'' l' t manag.er a ot. ea ' well Seale d t h'' .• ` ' ' ' -(-1 • wa a Lng a me er at work, saw sca gulls : oven we occasionally alight' ' 1 ' ' ' • , .. a tu.raip field, , in .which the and: otheen we.re at 'Work. A larl-Y large and lactnd.seme bird ed, his attention by the peace et ,. t . • I., it "aahati siewlY ever Lhe di tently seething the, suttee, gretend Suddenly a Ati in • , •, 1.. e* Y, g 11101nOnit) itenroppeel, dughts the' heaving Orearadncied. rose Mole Mr its• prey: Resting'e 1 Iltas lt graaaftillY h It n S'g'. ai ..... .` e• • ,e a, - lhelr search fOr PreY rtl. a f ., . . , . . ittes seele®tid en;ole Was imam, esenei t faitbs. en 13rah- linstiaire otecl pub - regarded ontribute ()eau°, or tip, But Id, with at creed ly• it +nem to ilvee, and and with May be want of the band - oh their such gift red deeh e god itt sides the self was g,-" many ou btlese Id follow hie sub - se in this of judah nation in s framed nship of were the este and eenturies of Judeli rn king rule, and minately ose spirit arty all ere will- perilpus peosper- abylonia, at no ohe motives. ised this patriotie he house alem. A receding ought is rial was place of tiding in intaineci was his ut them. ed their sI of the lp given , besides for the e givers, nly geed. , the king ally 'we have enced to :rdly, the lity and ✓ neigh- •• ly given indness. the Jews to their pre yer. forth the ustom of oft the s of their e partly tempt of, ebuchad- valuable vice an 'his gods s tenon-- bted for of the hich, af- triumph in the f Judah. inerub- etly •de- s to have gal hen'. d of any ws when ruler to wls. The ation of cairn IL Places rches in retie re- s meth - members bringing toward er take of pro - articles, sold by coolies, ries and • esidents, -which is week is a trade fa their nd tea, ple diet, and one ordinary k for a em hi peanant rely re - is pains. provided en black vinegar de salt, or ex-' llage tea, LES. y, Ding- e.catch- over i rig ng 'upon observer perticu- attract- ful way in - of. the itself, a ill into with a ew min- a a tut - e . tv hod.,