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NOTES ,AND COMMENTS,
(Witt tae Pasaage through Parlia-
ment a the bill Zr the pterc"hasit of
the Royal Niger Company's territories,
or rather for the rebabureemeat of the
eompony for itstexpendituree, the Brit-
gov'exament assumes direet control
at the valet region knowe a$ Nigeria
ixi Wt Africa, The company which
tileaa pease& to exist as an adnainistrae
tive body, wale the oreetion of air
George Goldie, a young British officer,
wavo, twenty years ago, conceived the
idea of Uniting the yarious British in-
terests lin the Niger basin in farthee-
awe of Brittion supremacy in that
quarter. This union, representing
many separate trading interests, was
comPloteel. t 18'79, under the name of
the •United African Oanapany, and
proved so successful. in obtaining poli-
tical itfluence over the native oloiefs,
that, ix 1881, under the title of the
•National African Company, it greatly
enlarged its operations and, openly de-
clared its political purpose. Indeed,
it' was' owing to its vast extension of
Naritish trade and influenee that Great
Batate came out of the I3er1in Confer -
awe of 1884 as the acknowledged'
gUardian a the, Lower Niger, and that
lei 1880 a royal charter was accoxeled
the eampany, which, as the Royal
Niger Company, thus became a gov-
erning power, sepported by British
autdataity. From that date the com-
pany steadily extended its territories
•by a yseem of treaties, until they cov-
ered bait a million square miles of the
motet fertile po;rticea of West Africa,
within which slave raiding was sup-
pressed, the liquor traffie 'greatly
• oheeked, and order fairly tmaintaina
areund hts heeta, and beexed aroma
POWER, OF END'WORDS las barlakt 41-1d buzzed tqoaad ills feet.
4 If he_ killed one of them they
4.--e would have etung him to death, But
REV. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS QF ?Roved, In their midst in perfect
THEIR GREAT INFLUENCE. Plael("1:3'untilbe had eaPtured the,
Owarin of wandering bees. Mid rso
• seees have seen melt moving amid the an -
The Malay Ways In WIWI% They Are Help. noyances, and. the 'Gael:tees, and the
sea, -,A istehouon4 lade _Reformed a assaults of life in suCh celm, Cbrietian
yesuulearet, hy a littnd ,41,.tt-Fanolies • delibexatiou, that- all the buzgine
around about tbeio soul amotented to
aea churches Should Try the Value or
nothing. They conquered them, and
A despatch from Weshington saysabove all, they conquered themselves.
' :-.
"0," you say, "that's a very good the -
Rev, 1)r, Talmage Preached from the ory to preach on a hot night, but it
following text : "J. soft tongue break- won't work." It will work. It hap
eat the enneneepree. are, le. worked. I believe it is the last Chris-
tian grace we win. YOU know there
When Solomon eaid this he drove a
are fruits which we aether in June,
whole volume. into one Phrase,- .7°11 Of and, others in jula, and other in Aug-
couree, will not be so silly as to take net, and others in September, and
• the wo'rd,s ef the text in a literal Still ttothers in Oeteber ; and I
sense. They simply mean to set earth have to adnat that this grace of
Clhrtstian forgiveness is about the last
the fact that there is a tremendous fruit) of the Christian soel. We hear
power in a. ind word. Although it a great deal about the bitter tongue,
and the sarcastic tongue, and the quick
may seem to be very insignificant, its
force is indescribable and Mimi . we know very little about "the soft
Pungent anti all -conquering utter- tongue that breaketh the bone." We
once: "A soft tongue • breaketh the read. Iluelibres, and Sterne, and Dean
• Swift, mad tbe other apostles of acri-
b7fe.t'll' e Weather wereliot so hot, and a .1101trn 71owas trheavti lit
inahcvettyst, abauut igivef little time to studying
I had, time, I would show you. kindness end, y'et revellee
as a Means of defence; kindness as a Larch, by Etie Spirit, again.ould endow us
a all, wale "the saft tongue that break -
means of usefulness; kindness as eh the bone " '
.
means of domestic harmony ; kindness 1 pass now to the other thought that
as best employed by governments fox 1 desire to present, and that is,
the taming and caring of oriminals ; ems as a means of usefulness. In all
oommunities you find sceptical men.
and kindness as best adapted for the
Theorugh early education, or through
settling and adju.sting of internation- the rna.ltreatment of professed ,Chris -
al quarrels; but I shall call your ate dna people, or through prying curios-
tention only to two of these thoughts. ity about the 'iuture world, there are
And first, I speak to you of kind- ettgaela:t maeY People who become scep-
tical In religious things. How shall
ness as a Means of defence. Almost ev-
ery man, in the curse of his life, is
set upon and assaulted. Your motives
are misinterpreted or your religious
or political principles are bombarded.
What to do under saoh circumstances
in the question. The first impulse of
--- the natural heart says: "Strike back,
maa anora,alies and inconvenienoes Give as much as he sent. Trip him in-
uousequent upon government by a to the ditch which he dug for your
Gash him) with as severe a wound
chartered company, and the risks of feet.
European, ! as that which he inflioted on your soul.
embroilmetnt with other
i Shot for, shot. Sarcasm for sarcaena. An
powers, winch proteetion of its terri-
eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth."
tortes entailed upon Great Britain, I
have, however, made necessary its sup- But the better spirit in the man's soul
rises up and says: "You ought to re-
.ersession by direct imperial adrenals -
consider that matter." You look up in-
tration. Accordingly arrangements
to thee face of Chriat and. say: "1\y
have' beem made with the company by
Master, how ought I to act untler these
wallah on payment a £865,00b, it reline
the difficult circumstances?" And Christ
quishes its territories, including
instantly answers: "Bless them that
la.nld obtained by treaties with native
curse you, and pray for them that de -
chiefs, its steamers aad builclin,gs, re-
maining hereafter % purely trading
tongue and the singing tongue; but
'table '
died out, ;.1 wish somehodY would
utast it again in oar seeiril circles.
There may not have beee very exquiti-
ite at in the music, but tbeee Wee
grand and glorious trentiruent:
spitefully 1190 you."' Then the ola ne-
ap again and says:
concern. Same criticism of this price ttu:e risesand. storms of sarcasm may rouse up
was made sn Parliament, as neing .
until first. you • have chastised him
much too high, but as the purchase
•
: You, will never get him in so tight a
was entered upon as a matter of na-
corner again. You will never have
tional poqicy, a step in empire build-
sueh an apportunity of inflicting the
lag, the price, is clearly not to lie '
right kind of punishment upon him
reekoned by the prospective comener-
ain First chastise him arid then
(nal profile but by what it woula have let him go." "No," says the better .
cost the government to achieve the teat ,
"Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed."
0, that we might in our families and
in our thurches try the foree of kind-
aess. YOu me never drive men, wo-
Men, or ebildren into the kieedom of
God. A alareh north -easter will, laring
out more honeysuckles than fretftiletes$
and scolding will bring out Caristien
grace. wish that in all our religious
work we might be saturated with ther
spirit of kindness. laiseieg that, we
miss a great deal of usefuleess. There
is no need of coming out before men
and thundering to them the law unless been demoustrated that typhoid fever
can be complete/y driven out by a
strait attention to the laws of hygiene
generally and by ineisting upon a thor-
oughly pure water and milk supply.
There is, however, ,one disease which
has Utile far bafflea the skill a spien-
otiff iclabmoernib.uaThraeztealsrabcanacaeLer Inatinsprit:
mains a mystery, and althougli at in-
tervals within •the pest few years
THE FIORT AOAINST CANCER.
Sew Thew in the e.ttemet to Chegh the
Ai.tlystace oflials Owego.
Disease is newadays being attacked
on every side with renevved vigor and
in most instance ,s with mach success,
The more ratioeel methods in the
treatment ort eoneuroption, watch have
beth pursued during the 'past few
years, have already had the effeet of
ponsideeably ohething. its ravaees.
Vaccination has for long taken the
sting from conallpax. Yellow fever
vanishes wherever efficieut ea.nitary
measures are enforced, while it has
at the same time you. preaola to them
the Gospel.
Do you not know that this simple
etory of a Sayioures kiedneee is tore -
deem all nations? The hard heart raa
this world's obduracy is to be broken
before that story. There is in Ant-
werp, Belgium, one of the most re -
Malleable pictures 1 ever saw, It is
"The Descent of Christ from tbe Cross."
It is one of Rubens' pictures. No man
can stand and look at that "Descent
from the Cross," as Habeas pietured it,
without having his eyes flooded with scientists have announeed that its
tears, if he have tiny seesibility at all.:
origin has been traced home, upon a
It is an (a/ern:metering picture -one
that stuns you, and staggers you, and I careful analysis of the Various theor-
haunts your dreams. One afternoon les propoueded it has always been
a man stood in that cathedral looking I h •
otend t at when put to this test they
at Rubens' "Descent frono the Cross." were found wanting. The theory of a
Ile was all absorbed in that soene of
a Saviour's sufferings when the jani- pa.rasitio origin is the one evlech ap-
tor came in and said: "It is time ' to peals most forcibly to the 311111a$ of
close up the cathedral for the night, medical men and the searcla for the
wish you would depart." The pilgrim '
looking at that "Descent from the cancer germ has been, and is now be -
Cross," turned around to the jaintor ing vigilantly and persistently carried
and said: -No, no; not yet. Wait on.
until they get alim down.", 0, it is the
You capture them for God? art)
never story of a. Saviour's suffering kind -
argument and sarcastic 'retort nese that is to eaPture the world.
won a single soul from scepticism to
When the bones of that great Behe-
moth of iniquity which has trampled
all nations shall be broken and shat-
tered, it will be found out that the
work was not done byt the hammer of
the iconoclast, or by the sword of the
into the kingdom of Christ it eonqueror, or by the torch of persecu-
simple, over -
tion, hot by the plain,
through the charm of some genial soul
whelining force of "the oft tongue
and, not by argument at all. Men are
nob saved through the head; they
are that breaketh the bone."
saved through the heart. A storm Now, I must bid you good-bye for a
comes out of its hiding -place. at says: few weeks. Rest will be very grate -
"Now we'll just rouse up all -this pea;" tut to us all. It has been a busy
an:d., it makes a great bluster, but it year in this Church. If I had lime I
does not succeed. • Part of the sea is
roused' up, -perhaps one-half of it or
one tourth of it. After a while 'the
calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks
down • and the ocean begins to rise. at
comes up to high-water emark. It preaching the Gospel of Seses Christ.
embraces the great headlands. it IR requires study. It requires thought.
submerges the beach of all the can- lIt requires prayer. For we have felt
tinents. It is the heart-throb of one that at all Limes we must peea.ch
world against the heart-throb of an- nothing but the Gospel; and though
other world. And I have to tell you the story to some may seem
that, -while all your storms of ridicule to be (Ad, we always try to xnake
the .alaristian religion. While power-
ful: books on "The Evidences of Chris-
tianity" have their taission in confirm-
ing( Christian people in the faith they
have already adopted, I have noticed
that when sceptical people are brought
would review two or three things we
have been trying to do. It is no easy deaths, the peoportion being one 1):1
thing to stand in • a place like this 5,646 of the total. population, and. one
week after week, and from year to in 129 of the total mortality. In 1896
year, with variety and freshness the deaths due to it numbered 23,521,
or one in 1,306 of the total population,
and one in 22 of the total mortality.
Some statisticians have endeavored to
explain uwa.y this increase in the mor-
tality from cancer as misleading, and
assume that the 'Increase is only ape
parent, and is due to improved
methods in detecting the disease, but
In the meantime the truth remains
that no disease has made such rapid
headway within the past thirty years
as cancer. Da. Roswell Park of Buf-
falo, one of tbe naost distinguished au-
thorities on the subject, deelares that
the disease is pregiessing at so rapid
a rate that if it continues it
WILL CAUSE IVIORE DEATHS
in the state of New York than con-
sumption, smallpox, and typhoid fevee
combined. In thirty years the deaths
per 1,600, due to eancer, have almost
trebled in the United States, and dur-
ing the same period. nearly doubled in
Great Britain. Mr. W. Roger Wil-
liams in the Lancet of August 20, 1898,
shows that in 1810 cancer caused 2,786
BETTER SCORES,
The 1/000114 Navy 0401.114 GrestilY bellaseored
e Shooting.
An we were among the first to cell
attention to the neceeeity of training
PUr captains of guns in the British
fleet to as neer perfection as lebin8'8
can be [perfected on this mundane
epliere, peel -taps may we be allowed
to congratulate the. 'admiralty on the
improvement wineh has taken place
since our Bret criticism:3 appeared, 'says
the 'United Service Gazette. The 80
Pee coot of bite obtained by the crew of
the Seylla is a very e,onsiderable ad -
\ranee on anythiag tbat has pretriouslY
been recorded. It i$ all, the more eat-
isfactory because it was obtained when
a pertectly iudependent set of =traces
were reeording the hits made from the
guns of Capt. Scott's command. The re-
cords of self -making ships have begun
to be raisteu.ebed and it would be •as
well if the system of independent
marking was more freely adopted at
quarterly,target penetiee in future.
A. Het of marke,rs appointed to each
station, and visiting each ship in turn
to sees at least one quarter's practice
per annum carried out in some safe we learn elsewhere, beartlesely wrong -
and convenient spot, and reporting its ed their poorer countrymen. Haggai
results straigat to the admiralty, with is generally believed to have been an
old man when he was called to be a
prophet, beca,use of Hag. 2. 3. ,
2. Speak now to Zerubbabel . . and
to Jeehua . . . and to the residue.
This address is a divine indoreenaent
SUNDAY
SG1100L.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 10
ZkleoargaglUX the launders." nag. 2, 14).
coldcu Text, etas.
RAOTIOAL NOTES.
Verse 1, In tae eeventb month, in
the one and iweetieth dey of ttie
mouth.•Mbis was the eeveeti). day of
the feast of tabernacles, the regular
Hebrew taatiksgivaig festival; but it
was melt thenkegiving comes at
the close of a year when blight! and
drought bad devactated the country.
The people had lett behind them
scerched field's, Amall mops, poor cat-
tle, pear vegetables ana fruit, to go
up to give thanks to God in a temple
which was ae yet little more than
walls half -built on heaps of ruins.
Theywere disheartened, and for good
cause. 'Came the word of the Lord
by the prapliet Haggai. ; It had come,
as we leave seen, a little before this
in the form of a terrible arraignment
of the nobles. and tloe rich who had
cared for their own luxury while nee
electing God's worship, and who, as
a duplicate report to the eommander-
in-chief of the station, would be an
ideal thing. Such a system woeld
oause ontunanding officers to give a
great deal more attention to riding a
target on practice day than to polish-
ing bright walk f Or inspeetion time. It
on themselves -. i. e., taking a ship to bably men who disputed Zerubbabel's
the duty some of them are imposing Church of that day. 1 There were pro-
Xuthority, of the State and
would also relieve the admirals from of the
sea to exercise at target p•ractice as a claim and belittled the later priest -
part of their periodicel inspections. .
hood, but "the word of the Lord"
This might, still be done in some cases
by way of keeping every one up to the speaks to the two chiefs and 'through
mark, and for the admiral to observe
for himself the efficiency of his fleet
on this all-important point„ But
with indeaendent markers no taint
of the suspect= of selfanterest - to when the toundations of this seeoed
which we have all been lamentably
temple were laid, but that was nearly
subject slime the fall -- would attach
to the reports he would then receive atvalwer..odhaegfwdoathemalpflgoareTooneri.aggesal•14
about the quarterly practiee of ships not in your eyes in comparison oft aa
under his coramand. But, A a set of nothing? This temple, as we saw in
markers for each station is as yet be- qua- lase lesson, was larger thee). that -
fore the lights of those who govern of Solomon's, but it was built of cheap -
these things, then Capt. Scott's plan of ea material. It was without the rays -
a set of markers from other ships on
the same station is the next beet tic treasures enthe Holy of Holiest ft
probabl was d.eficient in .a.rohltectu,r-
there te the people at large.
3. NirhIce is left among you that save
this house in her first glory? Very
few, doubtless. There were some
thine, al ibeantYY, and, most striking of all, gt
It must not be thought, however,
of anaraunition for increased gun prac- was unfiniebed. 'There probably was a
that the admiralty has, by supplying
the navy with an extra £160,000 worth real temptation to the Jews to wait
tics throughout the fleet, entirely laid worth) having. Their forefathers had
till they got rich bo build a temple
• the bogey of bad or badiffeent ahoot_ done this; why not they?
to be old, we alweys try to make ing for all tirne. Their lordships have 4. Be strong. This exhortation is
it new. It has been • a glad I made it plain that they intend that addressed to Zerabbabel, to Jeshua,
year in our, Church. It culminated in even if this to a certain extent
straight.shooting e a count more
h u. , anti' to all the people of the land. Few
this morning s'exercises in the great lwaehosloe tghreouitineTa.eaSe has been too rapid points fox
e officer than polished bright work. exhortations, are more frequ,ent in the
promotion to . an . executive
"Harvest Home" crowding these aisles for this explanation to cover the Scripture than exhortations to courage
more the b ' h d battery
c n a urnts e. door, than silver and gold.
* and to faith 1 arn with you lf God
with men and women espousing theIf a hit on the target counts for • ' . .
During this year, since last S t
, ep em- Fortunately, there is a bright side
to this dark pieture. Dr. Roswell
then the target willget hit while the 5 Tit 1 ovenanted with
_ lie with them he is a larger resource
cause of Christ for the first time.
Pa,rk's stetement on the subjeet has. . , . e word that e
11 Th t
rising in their places; all of whom, I laboratoia has been established, and Pam But °existent pressure and "were wee eL am vete you:, Israel
marked examples will be required,
publicly inquired the way of salvation,
expense of N8w York traditions die hard in the British navy, aweaveaht;e•wbaes jteoh°bveallthseileoGpolcel. e'S'Ilod 'mje;
hope have found Christ, and are either equipped at the
All the old class of officers have been Spirit remaineth amorig yea. (Their
connected with ,this Church or with state for the purpose of studyin.g can-
clireetien of reared in the traditions of holystone, 1 waete history was evideuce of this, and
some other Christian, Chureh either in cer and placed under the
this or in other lands. The Lord has Dr. Park.
erature, both lay and medical, bearing file, bath briek and burnisher; and they , they had really no reason, in spite of
In Great Britain, the Iit-
been gracious unto us. But all this on the question is voluminous, and have heard the gun and torpedo praced their uncomfortable surroundings, to
scene of harvest and of rejoicing has
answex his argu.ment with MY argn- implied a great deal of work, and I
meat." .But if you some to that man, 'think we are glad now at the thought
of rest. I have tried also to conduct
the affairs of the Lay College. We
have sent out between threee and four
hun.dxed. men and women this year for
Christian work. Many of them have
already been ordained to the Gospel
ministry in the 'different denorairta-
tions of Christians, and others have
chosen other fields of work, and the
last day only will show us the result
of their ministry. I laave also found
much work this year in the
conduct of a religious newspaper.
It • has not been with me • a
more nominal -matter, but a matter of
hard work, since 1 really believe that
it is chiefly through the Christian
printing-pre.ss that this •whole wexad
is to( be brought batk to God. TheTeerd and other men of genius and learning.
has enlarged. our chances forneselen- The host, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the
• " You had better not forgive him thing less than the attractive power
of Christian kindness can ever raise
the dea.thless spirit to happiness and
the passion of iintnortal nature, no -
to God. 1 have more faith in: the
prayer of a child five years old, in the
way of bringing an infidel back to
GlariSe and to heaven, than I have in
alLhe hissing thunderbolts oi eratesi-
tire, hush, thou taut heart Tay astical controversy. You cannot over-
• -
at breaketh the came men with religious argument-
.. political results obtained by the Niger the soft t th. • • •
If you coma at a sceptical man
Company. Sven as a commercial -van- hone.' Rave you ever in all your life ation•
known acerbity and.a aorimonious dis- way en argument on behalf of the
-a—ture, however, the imperial 'govern.
mend: will pay for a vast territoryi
• withl an estimated population of thir- ,
ty milliouas, only about as much as
Germany pays for the Carolines, and
other island groups, in whith no great
trade own be expected.
•
As respects the actrainistration of the
new possessions, it is announced that
three ,sepaeate governments will be
•formed, one for Southern. Nigeria, one
for Lagoa, and. a third for Northern
Nigeria, the two first to retain their
present governors, and the latter to
be ;wader CtIonel Lugard, one of whose
• tasks will be 'LK) prevent the traffic in
liquor in the northern province. An-
othea evil to be suppressed is slaverye
for white slave raiding has been de-
stroyed, domestic, slavery reraatns and.
cannot be suppressed by decree, though
the introduction of railways, the larg-
er opportunities for employment-; and
• the substitutian of contract may lbe
truisaesi in time to work a change in
native babits. • While the future a the
great region which the (Royal Niger
Company won for the British crown
cannot) definitely be forecast, the out-
look seems most promising.
pute to settle a quarrel? Did. they attaistia,n religion, you put the man on
not always make matters worse, and bus metal.. He says: "I see that man
worse, and worse? About thirty-five has a carbine. I'll use ray carbine. I'll
years ago there was a great quarrel
m the Presbyterian famtly. Minis-
ters of Christ were thought orthodox
in proportion as they had measured
1 lances with other clergymen of the
same denomination. The most out-
rageous personalities were abroad. As,
in the autanin, a hunter cornes home
with a string of gene, partridges and
wild ducks slung over his shoulder, so
there were many ministers who came
back from the ecclesiastical • courts
with long strings of doctors of divin-
ity whom they had shot with their
own rifle. The division 'inmate wider,
the animosity greater, until after a
while scene good men reaolved upon
another taot.. The :y began to ex-
plain away the diffioulties; they be-
gan to forgive each other's fault; and,
lo 1 the great Church quarrel was set-
tled, and the new school Presbyterian
Church and the old school Presbyterian
Church became one. The different
parts of the Presbyterian order, weld-
ed by a haranier, a little hammer, a
Christian harm:leer that the Scriptures
orals "a soft tangue.'
You have a dispute with your neigh-
bour. You say to him "I despise
you." He replies: "I can't bear • the
eight of yo.u." You say to him:
"Never enter my house again. He
says: "If you come on nay door sill,
I'll ltick you off." You say, to him:
"I'll put you down." Ile sayscao you:
"You are mistaken: I'll put you down."
And se the contest rages; and year
after year you net the unchristian part
and be acts the unchristian part.
After a while the better spirit seizes
you, and one day you go over to the
neighbor, and say: • "Give me your
hand. We have fought tong enough.
Time is so short, and eternity le so
his 'conduot of th------ inst the near, that we cannot afford any long -
THE GAME OF CHESS.
In 1396 .M.thammed Belba usurped
the crown of Granana in spite of the
supevior claims of his elder brother
jussef. He wes very unsuccessful in
ber, many thousand souls have here aroused the authorities, a.nd alread.y a.battery door wi. remain coveredwithyou avhen ye came out of Egypt. a
persuacling hire that you desire his
happiness on earth, and his eternal
welfare' in the world to °thee, he can-
not ansveer it.
• What I have said is just as true in
the reclametion of the openly vicious.
Did you ever know a drunkard to be
saved. thnoutgh the caricature of a
drunkard? Tour mimicry of the stag-
gering step, and. the thick tongue, and
the disgusting hiccough, only worse
maddens brain. But if you come
to him in kindness and sympathy; if
you show hint that yote appreciate the
awful grip of a depraved appetite; if
you persuade him of the tact that
thee:sands who had the grappling -
books of evil inclination clutched in
their addl. as firmly as in his, ;then a
say light will flash across his yis-
tan, and. it will seem as it a superna-
tural hand were steadying his stagger-
ing gait. • A good many years ago
there laid. in the streets ot Richmond,
Va.., a man dead drunk, his face •expos-
ed. to the 'blistering noonday sun. A
Christia.a winnan passed along, looked
at him, and said: "Poor fellow." She
took her handkerchief toad spread it
over his face, and passed on. The man
roused himself up from his debauch,
and began to look at the handkerchief,
and lol on it was the name of a highly
respectable Clartstian woman of the
City of Riehmoad. • He went to ace, he
thanked. her for her kindness; and
tat it one little deed saved hina for this
)
life, and saved him for the life that is
to come. He was afterward Attorney -
General of the United Steles; but,
higher than all, he becanae the conse-
crated disciple of jeaus Cbrist. Mead
words are so cheap, it is a !wonder we
do tot use them oftener. There are
Caristians and was at length assassixi- ea me very much • but let us settle
tens of thousands of people in these 04-
ated by poison absorbed throegh his all now in oleo g'reat ha d. ki g. lee who are dying for the lack of one
k Nvord. There is a business man who
skin from a shirt. He entertained a and be good friends for alinthl test01
desperate dislike to the brother whom our lives." You have risen to a high -
he had. injured and when he knew -that' er plaeform than that on which before
his ovenf fate was sealed he sent an or- you stood. You win his admiration,
der to the Governor of the prison in and you got his apology. I:het if You
have not conquered him in that way,
which jussef was confined that hel
ehould be executed immediately. When at any rate you have won the applause
the order arrived juesef was playing' of your own conscience, the high esti-
chess -with the chaplain of the prison.' maihm g°°a men, and the bPiaor of
who died for His armed
With great difficulty jussef 'obtained Your God
enemies.
"But," you say, "what are we to do
when slanders assault us, and there
cones acrimonious sayings all around
about us, and we are abused and spit
upon?" My reply is: Do not go and
attempt to chase down the slanders.
Ides are prolific, and while you are
killing one, fifty are born. All your
deatonetratione of indignation only
exhaust yourself. Yen might as well,
on some summer night when the
swathes of insects are ceraing up
from the roeadows and disturbing you,
and disterbing your family, bring up
some great "swamp angel," like that
Whiah thundered over Cha,rleston, and
try to thoot them down. The owe its
too email for the Min. But waat then
are you te do with the abuses that
eome upon you in lifel You are to
live them down! I saw a farmer go
out to get beck a warm et bees that
had voandered off from, the Mee, As
toseeed amid them ,they buzzed
• er to quarrel. I feel you have wrong-
a respite from the Governor, permit-
• ting him to fini.sh tate game. Before
it was) ended, however, news eame thet
the tueueper had died of the poison.
This eancelled the order of execution
and 'Tweet instead of going to the
scaffold, mounted the throne.
FATAL TO DIGaTIlair.
Stilee-I shall never invite Mr,
Euniaiman dinner again,
Mr. Stiles -Why not ? is a very
entertaining chap.
Mrs. Stitee-Thet's just it. He toile
colon funny stortes that he makes the
butler laugh,
. PARTICULARITY.
He -Let mo say, for aegtiment, that
love a particalar woman,
Sha --It would be quite vain, if she
Were at all particular.
. .
has fouglat against trouble until e is
perfectly exhausted. He has been
thinking about forgery, about robbery,
about suicide. Go to that bueineee
man. Tell him that better times are
coming, and tell him that you your-
self were in a tight business pass, and
the Lord delivered you. Tell him to
put his trust in God. Tell him that
Jesus Cdrist stands beside every busi-
ness man in his perplexities.; Tell him
of the sweet promises of God's coma
forting graces. That man as dying for
the lack oi just one kied Word. Go' to-
raorrow to Wall -street or Broad -street;
pass down Fulton Avelino or throtigh
that one saving, omnipotent, kind
word. Here is a soul that has beet).
swamped in sin. }le wants to find the
tight of the Gospel. Be feels like a
thiewreolted tiaariner looking out over
the beaeh, watching for a sail against
the sky. 0, bear down on hire. Tell
hint that the Lord waits to be gracious
to him, that though ho has been a
great sinner, there is a great Saviour
provided. Tell him that though his
sins are as scarlet, they shall be as
snow; thotigh they are red like crim-
son, they shall be at) wool' That man is
dying &fever for the leek Of One kind
Word. There used te be sting at a
great platy of the plenots all through
the oountry a Song that has alnaoSt
the government of that country has
recently decided to send a bacteriolo-
gist to Buffalo in order to inspeot the
new laboratory as well as to gain fresh
ideas. Thus it would seem that the
fight against cancer promises to be
as energetically waged as that against
consiamption, and there is 'feason to
hope with as geed results. '
DISORDERLY BUT MEMORABLE.
Men of Genius and Learning at the Diu
SOL' Table.
There probably never was a table at
which the standard of talk was higher
than that around which sat Burk,
Doctor Johnson, Goldsmith, Garrick,
ness and multiplied our oppoitnnitites
this land and in other lands, so that
now, 'through the Christian printing -
press in London, Glasgow. and'Edine
burgh and. Manchester and Wakefield,
permitted. to preach the glorious Gos-
wed Liverpool, week by week we are.
pel off the Son of God. I mention these
things for the encouragement of all
those who )(luring this year have help -
0± me with their prayers, and stood
by use with their benedictions. And. now
we part. We 'shall not all meet again
in the autumn. Stancling last summer
at this, hour, in this very place, I made
a remark kindred to the one I now
make, and it was fully verified, and
some whom we very much loved, and
Who met us atthe foot of the pulpit,
at the close of the service, end bade
us good-bye for the summer, we shall
not meet 'again until in the good day
when Christ shall make up His jew-
els.
I ask -Haw biassing of God to come
down upon you in matters of health
in mattes of business ; that the Lord
will deliver you! from all your finan-
cial perplexities; that 13 a will give you
a good livelihood, large salaries, healtb-
ful wages, sufficient income. t pray
-God that He, may give you the oppor-
tunity of edueating your children thr
this world, and through the tich grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ, of seeing
them prepaeed for the woad that its
to Come. 'Above all, I look for the
mercy of God aped your iramortal
souls;; mod lest E stand tor the last
time before some who have not yet
attended to the things of their eternal
interest, in this, the closing part of
my discourse, I implore them here and
now to seek after God and be at peace
with Him. 0, we want to be gathered
together at last, in the bright and bles-
sed assemblage of the skiee, our work
all done, our sorrows aLt ended. God
bless you, and your children, and your
children's childeen. And now 1 coni.
mend you to Goa and to the word of
inheritance among all them that aro
sanctified, „Good -by I Good -by 1
Nearly all the dreSees Wean by the
Princeets of Wales are Mitae from pen
and ink sketches drawn by Her Royal
alighnese, By her exprees wish
d i u lwa s rettltried to her
artist, oared little for the cookery or
the dishes or the service.
There was, to quote the account of
one who was often a guest, "a coarse,
inelegant plenty, without any regard
to order and arrangement. A table
prepared for seven or eight was often
compelled to have about it fifteen or
sixteen guests. • When this preesing
difficulty ryes overcome, a deficiency
of knives and. forks, plates and glasses
succeeded. • The attendance was in the
same etyle."
Sir Joshua never minded what he ate
or dxank, and never reeemmended the
fish or venison. He left every guest
to scramble for himself. But he was
tices "cussed" for the mess they made. fear.
6. Yet once, it is a little while, an
TOLLS THE KNELL OF ROYALTY. I will shake. "One little period, an
the marvelous revolution will begin.'
The heavens, and the earth, and till
Curious Regulations That Govern the Use sea, and the dry la
of St. Patirs Great 'Cell. land The miracles at
Gibeon, at the Red Sea, and ila otheo
The great bell of St, Paul's was not Places, where literal evidences ,thal
tolled for Prince Henry of Batten- God has so shaken the world in tied
. But his shaking now was to
laerg, because he was not in the line of vast let
orethan stolen or earthquake; it wail
• descent from any English sovereign, a swaying of the hearts of the nae
This honor is paid to only a member of ticala- •
7. I will,shake all nations. The war(
the royal family who could under any ofAlexandertthe Great stirred aroun
e ind
conceivable circstances succeed uoientaa life; the old races most
to the throne., though it may be doubt- of them, became practically extinct,
ed whether the bell wulildt toll for a and a UeNV world arose on the ruins of
the old. And the desire of all nations
royal infan0± not in the direct line of shall come That is come to 'lion As
to the consort of the sovereign, or the and an exile by Babylon, now all na-
cess on the stePs of the
heir apparent or of a prince or prin_ dons -were, to act as slaves and purvey-
ors talsrael. I will 'find in this house
not apply Lsrael had *been made a slave by Egypt
succession. This rule does 1-
throne- The with glory. The coming of the natimas
booming of tho great bell of St. Paul's involved the bringing of their gifts,
was the first intimation which the involved also their reverence of Jelie-
citizens of London received of the deathI hit the vah. Tat this textcarries with
thought of the coming of the Messiali
attentive to what was said by any one
of the motley group, composed of peers,
bishops, physicians, lawyers, actors,
musicians, men of retters and. mem-
bers da Parliaroent. The singularity
of th.e service and the disorderly ar-
rangement of the table served to en -
hence the hilarity of the gueets. Ever:
Doctor Johnson, who appreciated a
good dinner, came there for a good
talk rather than for what he might
eat and drink.
At four.o'clock precisely dinner was
served, whether two or three lords had
arrived or not. But during those fes-
tive hours all the guests were all
peers, and. were as disputatious and
vehement 111 argument as lawyers in
a trial.
An anecdote, eelated byNorthcote,
the artist, • who was a pupil of Sir
Joshua, Shows how turbulent the
guests otter were. Dunning, the elo-
quent, and Witty laWyer, happened one
day to be the first guest to arrive.
"'Welt, Sir Joshua, he askricl, "and
whom acme you got to diue with you
to' -day? The last time I dined at
your bause the assembly was of etich
a sort that 1 b.elieve all the rest of
tbe woald were et peaCe for that af-
ternoon."
THE ULTIMATE END.
He-Tou can't expect Me to be plea -
Ant all the time,
r tee very best 1 tan d• o
lisee ehat yob will be simply agree-
ble Sometimes.,
of the prince consort, which occurred
at 11 o'clock on the night of Saturday
December PI, 1861.
Outside the royal family the only
persons fax whom the bell is tolled are
the Archbishop of Canteebury, the
bishop of London, the dean of St.
Peet's and the lord mayor of London
dying in his year of office. The bell
tailed is not Great Paul but the old
great bell on which the hours are
struck. On the occurrence of a death
in the royal family the home secretary
at once communicates with the lord
mayor, desiring him to convey the
news to the dean at St.; Faults, witty a
request that the great bell may be
tolled. The bell is then tolled at in-
tervals of a minute for an hour. The
last oecasion was on the death of the
Duke of Clarence, on January 14, 1892.
Tlae duke died at 9.15 sane and the
bell was tolled from 11 till 12. At
the, funeral of the late Canon Liddon
in September, 1850. Great Paul, tvhicb
is much the deeper and sonorous bell
ot the two'was made available es by
the rules tlae old great bell could not
be used.
MODEL 'RUSSIAN JOURNAL.
The most northern newspaper in the
world is published at Iierconerstein,
Rfussia. The editorial work is done in
a small wooden house roofed with turf.
The paper is callect the Nordkap, and
is published weekly. The news is fre-
quently it fortnight old before it
nmehee the subscribers. Most sub-
scriptions are paid in fish. ,
HER COMMENT.
.I did my beet to be entertaining,
said the young man in a voice of sor-
row.
Did scan succeed ?
I'm afraid not. I recited Flanilet's
soliloquy. Shle talked et me repreaola
fully for 0,61keral seconds, and then ex-
clainaed: I don't think tinOs very
funny 1,1
as the desire of the nattons, and the
teachings of Jesus as the new gimes
with which the temple was to be fills
ed„ is an interpretationenat without
difficulty, but it may well be included
in the meaning.
8. The silver is mine, and the gold
is mine. God, wlao created all wealth,
can control it,
9. The glory of this latter house
shall be greater than of the former.
In a literal sense this was fulfilled, for,
though Solomon's temple may have
been as costly in lie material as that
of Herod, in Herod's time and later,
as never before, the Gentiles poured,
their wealth into Jerusalem. Of cotirse
Christians must find. the tallest ful-
fillinent of this text in the presence of
Jesus. In this place will I give peace.
In spite of the convulsions which would
destroy nations, the house of Goa
should not be overthrown; ana there
was a large fulfillment, for it eves
within the shadow at the walls of that
temple that the Prince, a peatte }mid,
to his follower's in all generations,
"Peace; I leave' with you, peace I give
unto you;; not as the world giveth
give I untol you.
"DEAD" LANG:CAGES.
There are cextain langua.ge,s which,
although they are still spoken and
written. in, are to all int -ante end pur-
poses acad. For instance, teetandie
is peacticaily identical. with the dead
Norse language, out of which the Stan.'
ditaa.viari toiegues heti° grown. So too,
provincial, the ancient language of
Provincia, and the speech in which ihe
TrotboafthYtia.T18.1 astaOinf: lia0111
8€11oZ h'"Ittil Ice eti?t, aUils'vsitia
French literary sehool is making of.
forts to revive it as a literary hinges
age, !Hebrew, again, thbugh still
spoken, is to all iiitents and ptirposei
clead in the sense dine Greek ata La.
tin are. Oortish, Manx and tho old
inysterioas Romancy tcaigne are else
examples whith should be mentienad
in tlais cennectiola.