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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-9-14, Page 6e•-• se) ub- th 0 Co ert ve ft.( NOTES .4.1VD COMMENTS. The address deliaerea by Lord Bras- sey, tae Goveenot of Victoria, to the iboir Chamber of Comanaree,•ie an exhauetive eueamary of the pre- seet eondition of the British Navy, The estiMates of the inerrant year Amounted. for the 'French navy lei round figares tp e62,500,000; for the Rassien, to$43,500,000, and. tor the 13ritish to $13e,,970,000, whieh last was an increase a $15,000,000 on the pryer. The ship-buildina vote alone reached the enormous figure of 04 085,O00 085,000, an increase, upon last year of $10,080,000. It is the announeed policy of Great Britain to make her navy equal in strength to the navies of any other two powers combine& and eertainly slue does so this year, in new eanstruetion, with a liberal margin, She builds more cheap/Ye too, Hum France and. Russia. But Lord. Brassey holds that the British Empire ettn erford, this naval increase. He quotes Sir Robert Giffen to show that the Empire s oonabined reveaues are $1490,000,000, ax l increase of §575,- 715,000 since 1.871e or more than en per cent, of the present total. Its exports and imports aggregate $6,8175,000,00e, an increase since) 1871 of §2,140,000,- 000. or about, one-third of the preseat total. On the other hand. the national PREPARIN' FOR ETERNITY REV, DR, TALMAGE PREACHES TO TRE UNCONVERTED. slimier, events to Those 'who Reject the eihristian etatigion-sontetning ter yew pie view Keep nrceictug Their lere- ettlees-Tue hr. 'rano; snattely en. the Vella ter aroerastinanion. A. despatch from Washington. eteye:— Rev. Dr, Talmage preaehed from the following text:—"A certain man hied two soos; toed he ceme to the firet, and sent: San go work to -clay in my vino. yard, He answered, and said: I will not; but afterwards he repented and went. And he came to tne setiond, and said likewise, ami he answered, and said: I go, sir, and went not."—Matt. xxi. 28, 29, 30.. While I was casting about in ray mind as to what I should, preach about to -night, nty door -bell rang, I was called to the dying bed of a Christian woman; and while I stood there amid the weeping kindred and heard the last whisper of a soul pushing out, in- to dee great beyond, I said within my- self: what is there on earth, in impor- tance, compared' with preparation foe eternity? And I said then and. there to mysela when Sabbath comes, ream- ing and even ng, I shall stand before multitudes of souls who will very soon be in the same posilion of this dying debt, which was $3,845,003,030 in 1875, one; and I must bring e message, God haa been reduced last year to $3,370,- blessing it, to help, the to prepare for 0)0,000, while private wealth has Ian this future. And here is the message. areased. In contrast wei have a, great ynnder is a vind, eyarIt is July in increase of the Russian debt in the last Palestine. I look over the edge of the twelve years. While France has a per- manent naval force of 42,000 men, and. Russia one of 35,000, the proposed British strength for, the curreat year is 110,640, showing an increase of 4,- 250. No fewer than 27,000 men have been added in the last five years. But Lord Brassey shows anxiety over get- ting men for the reserve, and. says that the resources for recruiting from blue water seamen are diminishing. Steam and the ',Suez Canal have brought up the foreigners to 40 per cent. of the total crews a British slaps, At tete end of this year England will have forty-six battleships completed, of the first and second class, the oldest scarcely ten years in. cominission ; while France has thirty-three, and Russia eighteen. Of the British ships twenty-three will be of the first class as against eighteen of the other Iwo powers. And. in average size the British ships are especially superior. Under construction England has six- teen battleships, "more than any three other powers combined:" The latest ships, those( of the Canopus and. Duncan types, displace 14,000 tons, or abont 1,000 less than the Majestic and Irresistible. The biggest ships / gain in sea -keeping qualities, steadiness of gun platform, armament, .protection and coal endurance, but their deep draught keeps them out of many good harbors. In. view of what is claimed for the French coast defenders, with two heavy gums' in single turrets, and. with light draught an,d facility in turning, Lord Brassey thinks the Brit- ish answer to these should consist in part of ships especially adapted e to narrow waters, where protection and nutaber of rams and guns are more important than steadinese of platform in heavy seas, or than coal endurance. In general he notes the modern ten- dency- to carry armor over a large area of side, event at the cost of thin- ning it at the water line. The twelve British battle -ships ot the third class far exceed in, tonnage. and sea -keeping. qualities the twelve on the French list and. there are many that can be re- armed and. brought up to date. vineyard and I find that it is all over- grown with large grapes. They tell us that in this land in those days there were some single clusters of grapes that weighed twelve pounds. I think that some of the vines may have been transplanted exam the hills of En- gedi and the valleys et Eshcol. Splen- did vines they were. And I look over and, I see the man who owns the vine- yard, and I find he has two sons. Ete is very anxious that they go and take care of the vineyard. There are hun- dreds and thousands of dollars' worth of vintage that must immediately be Icoaed after or perish- The first son made a flat refusal. He said: "I won't go. If father want e that vine- yard looked after, let him get soraee body else to do it, or else attend to the matter laimself. I have other matters to look after." But after awhile he begins to soliloquize, and. he says with- in himself: "I wonder if this is treat- ing father as he ought to be treated? What a pity it would be to have all tbose grapes spoil. Ins't it mean in one to refuse to do that which is so very reasonable? Here I am not ashamed to confess I was wrong, and I will just go and attend td this mat- ter. Father, where is the knife? and at what end of the arbour ao you want me to begin?" Bravo! 1c is a grand thing to see a young man or an old man, when be is wrong, confess it, and TRY TO DO RIGHT.. In eruisers Great Beitain seems com- paratively stronger than in battle- ships; for she has completed 119, against 82 for France, 13 for Russia, 17 for Italy, and 20 for Germany. Lim- iting the comparison to first-class cruisers lainached since 1886, or now building, Great Britain has 40, aggre- gating 413,500 tons, against 13 of 109,- 375 tons for Frame, and 11 of 96,713 tons for Russia. In the British list are eight of the. Terrible class, 14,000 tons and 21 knots; eight of the Cressy, 11,000 tons and 21 knots, and eight of the Diadem and Spartiate classes, 11,- 000 tons and 20 knots. England's really imposing hat, hovvever, is that of her latest line -of -battle ships, which include eight of the Royal Sov- ereign type, 14,150 tons; nine of the Magnificent, 14,900; six of the Form- idable, 15,000 tons; six of the Duncan, 14,000; the Renown, 12,350, and six im- provements on her of the Canopus type, 12,950; six of the A.dmiral tyPel, 10,80e, and five more of a displace-. merit somewhere between the Admir- als and the Royal Scevereign. Lorld laraneey does net forget the value of England's enormous rnercari- tile marine as an auxiliary for offence and defence. It includes over 70 per eent at the world's steamers. In 1898 Englatd bailt no less than 1,867,00e term:, nearly all steamers, 'and at a re- cant date hail in band as 'much more mercentite shipping, besides the war- ahip constraetion, Of course, this may in one eenee be celled e. course of weak- riess an Well as of strength, beeease Li requires protection in ever, but Lord Parteeey is eonfiderit that a suceesseal tystera o toaeoy eau be established toe it. I want nothing to do with a man who does net know how to make an apol- ogy. This first young man of the text Christ uses as a type a those persons who openly reject the Christian reli- gion; who say: "We don't want any of that influence around us. We don't want the Bible- We don't want Christ. We are disgusted with church- es and ministers, and. all this that profess to be sacred. Away with your religious nonsense." But the very next time you see him, he is, body, mind, and soul, enlisted in the front rank of Christians. There are people within twenty yards of where I stand to -night, who are illustrations of that very thing. I could call them by name. "Where sin abounded, grace doth much more abound." They said: "I will not" but they repented and went. God bless them. But here is an- other young man in the text: As soon as the father points hinel to the vine- yard, he says: `Yes, sir, I will go. It is very right that I should serve him. Those grapes ought to be. picked. You will be surprised how many of those ripe clusters I shall gather into the baskets before nightfall. Yes, sir. I will go, father.". He lied. He did not go. Eta took it all out in promises, He said: "E go, six; but he went not. And Christ uses hina as an illustration ef a very large number of people who promise to become Christians, but everlastingly are breaking the solemn engagement. I wish to -night, in the first part of my discourse, to try to address myself to those who openly and above board reject the Christian religion; and then in the latter part of my sermon, I will have time to address myself to those who have a loag ethile been promising to become Christians and have always broken their promises. 1)0 you tell ma I dare not address the first class? I dare, 1 belonged, to that class. I know all about them. If 1 shoutd put my hand on such an ene'e shoulder, and say: "Become a Christian to -night!" he would say, with an erne: amen: that would resound through the Tabernacle: "No! I didn't come in here for that purpose. Some, of the worst scoundrels that I have ever known have belonged to the Caurch. You may have all your prayers and all your ereaching, ancl all your religioue talk; but dean bother me about religion!, Let me say I have the strongest hope, a etronger hope for thin class than for almost any ether. THE EXETER TIMES _ {hinge being so, you' eay then; "I ample in the street tried to hush bine UP, willing tee call you and allow you to and yet, ia a little wane dreaming a call me 'brattier.' a So a great p1oint dream et heaven so sweet thee the mere is gained, Now, I propose to ask you reeital of it has enchanted all Chris - a series of questions, my brother, and. tenclom ? Mr. Mena= went to scoff et your silence will give eonsent. Is Goa jean Wesley while he preached, aid your Father ? Yes. Hon fle been, the mere announe,ement of the text: kind and loving, and teuder, and Pa- "Prepare 'to meet thy God," convert - tient with you? Has He olotbed, :lad ed aim. Only a few months ago in sheltered, and fed you? Yes, Iles New York City a mane in indignation many very good friends'? Yes? And so did he hate it; yet in a few weeks with both feet loeh the Bible, ale given you ti home, and a good leaPed do all these things, all these kindness- eater, he held. that very Bible on his en oh the part. a God, imply that you alp reading with tearful eyes the ought to lova Him? Yes- DO you love ,Him ? You aeknowledge it is fair, and right, and honest, end just that you sho' uld and. yet how naana of my dear friends in this /louse to -night, are in their souls compelled -to answer,i "No, I doeet love Him." lh I go on lt: mare questioas. Have you found out that this world cannot make you hap- py ? Yes. Have you sounded it and found It a hollow world? Yee, Eas it slannered you, and abased you, and meltrented yo,u, and have its highest enjoyments had fearful reactions? Yes. Have its gains, and intoxic.iations, and approvals been fearful failures, and do you feel down in the depths of your soul to -night, a longing for something better than this world can give you? Yes! Yes! If I can show you a re- ligion that will "soothe your sorrows and help you in all your distresses', and for ten thousand million ages give you unalloyed happiness, will you ac- cept it? Yee. Have you had kindred er friends—I do say a great many of taem—but have you had kindred or friends who espoused Christianity, lived consistently, died gloriously? Yes. Now, I do not ask you to take my tes- timony. 1 asli you to take theirs. They prenouneed religion a joy in life, and peace in deeth, a brilliant antici- pation for eternity. By the life and death cdthose whom you loved, and who adorned the Christian name, I dee mancl that you acknowledge that there SOIYIETHING IN RELIGION worth having, aftea all. You will not charge falsehood upon their dy- ing pillow. "You look back ten, twen- ty, thirty, forty years. ago to your father's house. There came a crisis of sickness or death to that household. Who in the hausehold bore up the best ander the trouble? Those who were Christians, or those who were not ? When' your little sister died, and -she laid in the, next xoom, what ded your Christian mother say about it? And how did she, put herhand on your father's shoulder, who was almost frantic with grief, and tell him to be comforted, that Jesus had takea the dear little lamb, and that all would he well? Do yen remember it? She was very tender-hearted, and yet how she bore up under it! though she had not slept for three or four weeks dur- hag the illness; or sleeping in the next room, had every few moments rushed out at the cough or at the stir,, fear- ing that it was the last moment. Do you remember it? • When the last moment had come, and she bent over and kissed the white lips, and. said: "The Lord gave and the Lord hath tak- taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."—was it all a sham? 0, no, You have seen enough of Christ's pow- er to sooth the broken-hearted to make you confess to-niglat, in all frankness and honesty, that the grace of God is a 'magnificent and triumphant real- ity. I ehould not evonder if some of you in this class to whom I am now speak- ing, had children in heaven. 'You certainly do not adopt the horrible - •doctrine of annihilation. You do not think that the hoof of the pale horse crushed that bud into the dust for 5rcallr heart felled with promises that ever. Where did you get the idea YoU have not kept --solemn promises— that your departed child is happy? promises made with tears, promises From IVIahommedanism ? 0, no, From with the shadow Of the eternal world Paganiem ? 0, no. From human' on them. 1Vhy, you might better have philosophy? 0, no: From the Bible? never made any promises at all, than, Aye from "' the Bible, either directly or yin -4 made a Promise, to liana mde- directly ; and so you see, there is something in he Bible that •is true, atter all. 0, it is amazing how many after all. 0, it is amazing how many people have been t BROUGHT TO CHRIST ANCIENT COLD STORAGE. MAMMOTHS IN SIBERIA FROZEN IN ICE FOR PaILLEN1UMS. an manual. sect Captain sretis of an. Ele- phant Graveyard In the New Sieeetan Islands. 'A sea ()Llanelli in the Alaslean busi- ness, whoee ship was docked at the lit- giuncus prounses, 0, it is mighty tle port of San Pedro, Cal., bas G'osPel, barged with the invitations strange -exaerienee to relate in One and the eendeinnation,si a hell. It has nettion with a unique elephant hunt overcome other souls, and to -night it that lie went an once in Alaska, will, by tae grace a the omnipotent ex was wealiaa ,, said the eeatain Christ, overcome you. Do not look "and our ship put iteethet lonely land around us tbough you, felt othing on , this subjeat. Your e,yes are already Known as the New Siberian !sterols. moist with tears, and there is a tram- One day when it was fairly pleasane, 1 abnlidngydoourafeenet tahreedselPitphpionfge'uovellerrhetahret ts,oalork awrausn:sthedgoree, aeirshtheeli3tiresatrttnhiniakeI brink ani this night' you may be in , • hell! 0, stopl stop immortal man, this, and out of it. extended:a tusk of immortal woman, I ring the lastbell ivory that must have weighed over 200 of God's' invitatien to your Soul. This pounds, twisted and bent in a carious maY be your last night on earth, this easham. 1 dug it out, but aaahe it in the last Gospel sermon you will ever hear, this the lase all of the Hol several places. It was so Gold that the GTSpirit that will ever strike your sea . ivory was not in the very best shape, When we meet the next tirne, it may being weather-beaten in Part, Any - be when the world is in a blaze, and Pardon and repentance are iraPossible. i - way, t started as to thinking, and we 0 thatl tie -night it might be written determined to eollect all the tusks eve of'you "He said 1 will not, but after- eould and take our chanees. So the next ward he repented and went." day we began a regular elephant hunt Now, I have a word for another class, and that is for those who have been as thee tusks belonged =Tee to the promising to become Christians, but all biggest animal that ever lived — the the time breaking their promises—re- hairy mammoth. In some plaraes it Presented by this other young man in looked as though a dozen elephants the text. I suppose, nay dear friends, had died togethee, and were buried in you think your case is very promising. Ah no, it is not half so brigiet an the the sand -pit; nearly all were froz- case of those I have been talking about. en. You have, been promising to become A. GHOST ELEPHANT Christians a gqod while, but you have "One day, one of the enen.came rush - ALWAYS BROKEN YOUR, PROMISE, ing into camp and said that he had When did you first promise? Per- baps it was wawa you were found a live elephant; he had seen it flat on your back in fearful sickness, move—its 'hair, tusks and everything. You knew the chances were against The fellow was demoralized. We fol - you getting well. There was the lowed him to the spot, and he pointed muse sitting by you—the clock ticking up the cliff to a big hole, from which he away the painful hours. You turned swore the elephant had walked. I your head on 'the hot pillow, and said: crawled up the little divide, and look - "What time is it ;" They said.: "One jag over saw the sight of my life. There o'clock." "0" you said: "I thought was an elephant that had been in cold it was three or four o'clock. How lona storage Perhaps two million years, but the night is, isn't it ?" And just then it was as fresh as though it had fallen and there you; said: get well and. I will serve Thee."' 'You, "0 Lord' let me fbeyeta.ulThreitlesaniMTahlel elaed evheenenwebeurpieerd- got well. You are well to -night. You about 50 feet frong the surface in the said: "I go, sir ;" but you went not. heart of the tundra, and the inelting Or it was in the hour of spiritual snow had washed it out, so that it had awakening. Thar friends were all fallen by its own 'weight and rolled getting into the kingdom of God. You, down tb,e slope. It was an uncanny said: 'I will attend to the maiter to- monster, covered with long, strag- morrow, or next week, or next month, &Ana red hair, its trunk looking like or next year ;" 'but you let the harvest a hugb snake; and out beneath curved season pass by. You said: "I go, sire, the remarkable tusks that gave so _ striking an appearanee to the main - but you went not. Or, there wee da,n ger that a loved one would be taken moth. Each one almost formed a circle and was a splendid specimen. If froca your houiseholc1; and so you went to, the doctor as he went to the 'door, I could have tranaported the monster to and you, asked him about the case, and America or Europe as he was it would Yottl tried to get him committed posi- have made the fortune ef the. entire tively Gin the side of the recovery of crew, but we had no way to keep him. your loved one; but he gave you no Imade an effort to save the skin, which satisfaction; and you pressed him still I had packed in salt, and, but for the further with questicms until he gave fact that out ship was wrecked with you that answer which a physician al_ everything on board later, would have ways gives when: he does not want to saved it. There are enough tusks buried break the :heart, atad at the same time in the New'Siberiaia Islands to provide has given up the case: "As long as the world with ivory for a century to there is life, there is hope." You said: come." "0 Lord, let her get well, and I will A RelINOCEROS ON ICE. serve Thee." She got well. Have you "Some years ago," continued the served You. said: "1 go, skipper, "they found a rhinoceros in sire' Him buterou? went 1 n entnot. 0, how many the flesh in Siberia. The animal had broken promises to God and your own wandered along what is now the Lena dea.ehless spirit. You hand, your lead, River and fallen into a crevasse and been frozen. It was a third larger than any living rhinooeros; had two horns, one of which was four and one- half feet long; the body was covered with huge reddish hair, a protection against cold weather. It was frozen as solid as a rock, but, unfortunately, was almost destroyed by wild animals before he was reached by any one that carea to save it. The long horn was secured, and most of the skeleton,' which remains in Russia to tell the story of the time wherothe huge rhin- oceros tramped the pine and spruce forests of the Far North." I LIKE A. POSITIVD MAN, and not one half-and-half. I know that when duel/ a man le persuaded he is wilerig, and turns in the other direc- tion, he will be just as positive in that direetion. I suppose aou will allow me to call you 'brother. I have no gown, no bands, no surplice, not even a white necktie, The platform on whieh I stand may be higher tbare the pews he which you sit. It is not becailee I set, myself higher than you, bat only, that standing here I may gain your attentien. And thee sensed, and relented. 11, aad,broken Yet 'so great is the infatuation to- neght, that while I speak thee are a thousand sours in this audience promi- sing for the, future not knowing how- ever, that those promises will be brok- en like all the promises of the past. by the death of their children. It 0 spirits of darkness, down to the pit 1 seems as if 'when a man cannot be Throw- not over this audience the de - touched in any otber way, God touches lueion of future repentance. Thou him in that way. There was a dying liest. Thouknowest that if they miss this chance for heaven, THEY JOSS THE LAST CHANCE, Down into the darkness, tbou despoiler of immortal souls! 0 my bearers, if we could only see the blindness, and the delusion, 'and girl in England. She sent for an evangelist. He came to pray with her. She said.: "Piny now for father, and mother, and brother; they are not Christians." ' And he knelt down and prayed for them. After he' had risen, the dying girl said: "Mamma, will , you become the dameing infatuation that press a Christian, and will you meet IlOWn uP°I1 the souls.ofsome hers 10- me in! heaven ?" She said," I- will Then night, there would he an agony audi- the girl turned. to her father, and, said, ble and overwhelming. Aye, there "Papa, will you become a Christian .would be a shriek like ID the night and. meet me in heaven ?" and he re_ when the destroying angel swept over plied: "My dear child, I will." Then Egypt, and there was one dead in each house; for i she turned to her brother, and said: nsome of our bouses they e heaven?" and he repliedWill you become a Christian and , are all dead—dead; in trepasees and in meet me, in a stns—dead beyond arousal—dead for. "I will." Then she began to beckon ever t I have, no more faith in words. and they said to her, "What are yot; If I acetic]. talk of the glones of )heaven beckoning for ?" She said.: "I am beck-' with the tongue of an Edward Payeon, ening for Jesus to come. Come, Jesus. ilf' 1.emIld: speak of the sorrows of the Conte Jesus, Corte, Jesus." Oh, do you nbann2,,ed. with the tongue of a Riche:ea! wonder that that Iittle hand thrust' n'en,nen,If rectlellci de -eerie° the glories of the res from under the coverlet, preached that urrectioa with the tongue of whole hou.sehold into the kingdom. of "'.,,,,a Se. Paul, I would have no faith in de :My only confidence is in the God? And are there not some of you ore-. lit leashed upon by such Omnipotentiptent Spirit, 1051 He will thiseo-nig les mentor -night break into this audience, enek'ng as are enough to shake tlae foun- dations of that determination that you it t° wail for its sins: old to 'beg for will not serve God? 0, my brotber, the Divine mercy. Eternal Spirit, you cannot afford, you cannot afford speak, now 1 The work fs 10° great for us; we ca.n,not do it. All our be- ta be lost. You cannot wade through seedlingfails, Eternal Spirit, speak all the prayers that have been offer- now! Bid all these souls into the life ea for your redemption. You stand chin deep in the stre,ams of God's mercy, °I the Gospel. Ye dying Souls' repent lest the door of neerey be shut, and You have been called, and invited, and has no /more threatetings to offer, and Your condemnation be, irrevocable, 0, ehat we .might have some such pray - thundered at, and coaxed, until Sinai to -night here, for each other, as in.ouxitains? This night and this Tate to, I -11*---, PCiaetaTtar. YO has no ahvileen , marcwillt btenderness h e in the wcrnaa exercised, when she prayed selves out from thy glory? 0 Woeld for her hesband, and said: "0 Lord, of Darkhess will they dare all Hear , bring my husband to Christ to -day, or pengse 0 Jeulament Day, will they flirig themselves under ,thy falling ernacle are the Thermopylae in which the destiny of thy soul will, be decided. To -night! To -night 1 Ten million ages from now, you Will look bah upon this hour as the one in which you were savect or lost. Turn ye, for why will ye did? 0, break the infatention new , Let it be renorded - of you Me Was re- corded of this young man in the text. He said. "I will not, bat afterward he repentea and went," Let me tell you, my brothers, that thein have been me,n just as ratich set against religion as you are, And yet dicer , SURFLENDERED TO CHRIST: Do you: know the story of Joan Bun- yan, declaring that, he would net go it to thate So hotel blot out my name from. Thy hook of life." And when they tried, to huh ,her upi as having made a rash prayer mo innele rnore earnestly did she cry out "0 Lord, bring iny husband to Christ to -day, or blot otit my nante frone Thy book of life ;" and God heard, and that day the week was clone; and so far from leaving her name struck off the book of God's remembre nee, there was another name set down ,besicte it, and there was joy over that prodigal returned. 0, pray for your compete lens, pray for your percale, pray fax yotir children, pray for this atiguse as- semblage, pray for yourselvee, Come, Ghost ! He has aartaidy come. Yield to His influences, ye dying Yet immortal auditory! ite Ingdom of God with an oa,th AlI the etranded actor wants is 'a that even the abandoned pen.' show, LARGEST MAN ON EARTH. A Chinaman Gets the Credlt-What Ile Is Like. Yunnan Sen owns the largest man in the, World. Of couree there are oth- er largest men in the world," but that does not affect the fact. After a hint that he would receive 53 for 'the coui- telly he did us the honor of calling, says a correspondent. He performed a Chinese kow-tow, and in backing bumped a wall and made it totter. He was east the sort of creature f'rankenstem would have modelled, and we were becoming respectful. He was 7ft. 3 in. in his bare feet, and Was proportionately broad. He im- pressed one, ior he was a man of weight, He turneh the scale at 27st, 41b. He was formerly a coolie, and as he carried double loads he earned double pay. Now he guarded the entrance to a mandarins yamen, and received the remuneration of three soldiers. He wane shoe which, with minor altera- tions, could be converted into a house boat, He was thirty-two years of age, ma.rried toe small wife, and had a son. But he is wasted ia Yunnan. He is in- tended for better things than beating dogs and whipping small boys who write naughty words on the yamen walls. There is a fortune in him, Were he to go to London he would be the rage. His photographs would be in shop windows; he would honor duch- esses by attending "at homes" at fifty guineas an attendance; gushing misses would request oddenches of his pigtail. We did think of taking hitn along with us, but luggage loom watt limited. 111) DIDN'T SIVthleE, Fussy Old Crentleman, to chance traveling lady companion. Have you any children, madam? Yes, sir, a son. Ah, indeed! Hoeg he smoleet Noasir; he has nevell so much as, touehed a cigarette. So much the bettee, Madame the use of tobacco is a peisonous habit: Does he frequent the clubs/ Ile has never pat his foot in one, ,Allow me to congratulate you. Does he never come home late? Never, He gees to bed directly after dinner. 4. model yoehg mare madden --,, a Model young men. How Old is be? Just tWo months, HOOLUY LIVING HIGH. Ihe rAres "Ilii) logr•••••• Ernest Terah Honey, the most fain - one batikrupt of modern times, fares 6ittrEle Ptun°u0SnMail,iY e'very41hoyonf bis life, says i,hI,od Petition he had fear addresses --Risley Hall, Derbyshire; Peeveortia Hall, Came bridgeshire; a house in Hill street, Berkeley Square, which he reoted, fur- nialeed by, the month, from Lady Hind - hp; and a sumptuous suite of rooms at the Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pan - eras. Now he hen only three. He hardly ever used. Lady Hindlip's house, and he haS given it up. The splendid apartments at the Midland Grand have been aleandenect for a ,scarcely less im- posing set of offices at Walsingham House. And that, practically, is all the ma- terial difference that bankraptcy has Made to Mr, Hooley. leayworth and Risley are still his—or his family's which is, to all intents and purposes, the same thing. Not a servant has been discharged, not a single piece of furniture re- moved from either mansion in conse- qlleer:ce of the benkruineY. Both houses w SCHOdi INTERNATIONAL LESSON SEP:a. 17., . rower ahrougit 4 tkil Spirit." '&06.4.144 Go/den TeXt. :04.1k • 4- ta ' PBACTIOAL NOTES. Verse 1. :The angel. This divine MOS- senger repeatedly appears to Zechar- iah, to introduce a vision and to explain it. Caine again and waked me. Tare earlier visions which we have reveal -tie ea, had COMe in a rapid series, after whieh Zechariah, utterly weary, bad Slept. 2. What seest thou? As this question was asked the vision slowly unfolded itself, .Ae the seer peered lute the misty dark:x.10mi there loomed. forth a candlestick all of gold, a golden lanehe stand, rathee, such as ,that made . for the tabernaole of Moses, With a cen- tral shaft upholding a lamp, and three branches upholding laeaps on each side. 'The golden " candlestiele " of aolo- . Mon's teinple may have been somewhat, different in design, but that of Herod the form ef which is made familiar to us bnacalptures on the Arch ot Tin , was similar to that here dieser. With a bowl, upon the top. For a reser- voir of oil. Seven lamps thereon. One lamp on the central shaft, midone en. each of the six branches. Seven pipes to the seven lamps. Or, as the Bevis - UNDER MORTGAGE ed Version, has it, "'seven. pipes to each. when Mr. Hooley filed his peeition. In of the lamps. Probably the candlestick both cases the mortgage has since been ,6 seen in the vision was very large.. otinimrey obfecloilten as", the type of the braeiesned;elainevdediViorf. tilL°IneYeeenhsai8tyhawl3hPiielhy loostliest materialsi.t Ivneeits131petetsefit evilattes. it was at ' first supposed would diverse ant yet ecival, Its PerPose , threaten him—the necessity, namely, -of was to give light, but it was not the nia °heap riot in itee11, only the bearer of the light, and it needed often to be ie - suit v t'ioeLoilihisfamilyntdonlodginginto s. phenished and trimmed .afresh. Two. Nobody can doubt . who sees Mr. olive trees by it. The oil burned fnit. Hooley at `home on his broad acres light iv...wade:et tames was pressedkol* ' olives. In t is vision the trees grew that this is all. for the best—so far 419 up close to the candlestick, as an indi- Mi. Hooley is concerned; and one la, cation that the course of replenishment alneost inclined to congratulate him is at hand and inexhaustible ,• a syme upon an event which, wnile it involves bol that the supply of power 11008 not him in no personal discomfort, leaves responsibility "—leisure to cultivate him --with " greater freedom. and less but directly from on high, frem the, cozne througn lauman ministrations,.. great God. tne simple but costly tastes which lie 4. What are these, my lord? The was unable to gratify in a period when he, reckoned his millions with the fitoo.a, divine teachings are not always undex- even by inspired men. It is, blieerenloetii.dm end of a match an a clean ta.- wise to ask questions. b ' 5. Knowest thou not. The angel He is devoted to the pursuits of a seems to be surprised that the prophet country life, and in his admirably cat did not understand the symbolism. tweed shooting coat and riding Even to -day heavenly powers must breeches, made by the most exclusive think it strange that we are not One, of West End tailors, and his natty to read the signs of God's providence. leather gaiters of the 'most fashionable Doubtless much of the vision was plain, pattern, he books, with his shornlithe to Zerubbabel, .but there was depths. figure, the very ideal squire. And. if in it that required angelic revelation. the breeziness of his manner, suggests N somewhat whimsically the atmos- a , :a m a meykra db tGeWsshouldnevereearialne7a phere af. the Adelphi Theatre, one feels ' e : ance of the divine mysteries if we , affectation. them. sure that it is nevertheless devoid. of armed receive instruction concerning It is at Risle,y Hall thet Mr. Hooley 6. This is the word of the' Lord. Here .is really at home. Here, susrounded is a message of plain words; can you by his Derbyshire neighbours, to whom understand it ? But before we study; his °Pen -handed generesitY fax more this word of the, Lord let us back up - brusqueness of his manner, he lives The Jewish nation was the candlestick en the symbolism of the canalestick, than compensates, for the occasional. THE LIFE THAT HE LUVES. of .the world, set in ifs place to shed How, is it done? Est modus in rebus, abroad the light of the world. The, said the poet philosopher; there are Christian Church is the caladleslacie mails. of doing things. Christ. We are to let our light shi e. The modest 20 a week which. the The sources of supply near e an_ cient Jews are nearer us. : The Holy, creditors' trustee undertook to allow Spirit flows througa our hearts as Mr. Hooley as maintenance meney is ' certainly not sufficient, even if it is the oil to the lamps. "MY God is. still regularly paid. able to supply all your needs accorde e . Cifficially,,Mr. Hooley, like the un- ing to his tithes in glory by Christ fortunate gentlemen in the novels., is jesuee' Not by might nor, by ,powar. ' Neither the Persiannnonarch, nor the "a beggar ;" practically he is notIting governor descended from David, nor of the sort, but a very well-to-do country gentleman. !the high priest, nor the aggregated : And, notwithstanding his fondness wealth of the, little nation can clo this ether thing. No earthly power is sufficiett for country life, he is unable altpg for the task. What good would 'a, to resist the attractions of town, andfor at Walsingham House he. is quite a lamp be 'without oil? Even though the busy man. His friends have rallied tenap,lehe as beautiful as a candlestick' made of pure gold, It will 'shed no light around him. One gentleman, who, by a neoclest in-: into the dark places of the earth with - vestment of 450,000, reaped a profit of out the oil of my Pleit, Seale the gen_ Lord of hosts- erIetition ' soeromuself600e,i0n0c0e, hmasr. IiHehomoviseyd,s.v sentine 105 &Meanies which arose not been lost upon others. 7.. 0 great mountain. A figure repre-, was filed, and his noble exaraple has !around Zerubbabel in his endeavors to den restore the ternplee The Samaritans But Mr. Hoolny is not altogether pendent upon such good offices.' I had a hand in these difficulties; so had He amaarently has studied the words the traitors at home; so had the Per - of the poet philosopher, and has dis- ZeieeraerbillGovernor of Jerusalem.re' so had Satan. Beforecve,red that there are ways of „doing ubb 'Thou Sheet become a plain. That is, be. . things. To say nothing of 6° 4.1Yr°- ss of the suns:" ' total] y obli faceted. God was already eontrolline the hearts of men so as to "stone thereof. The last- stone winch' . 6e favor ' Zerubbabel's plans. The bead - completed the temple, the crown- ing grace. Shoutings. Acclamations of bjouyi.idG.nrace, grace unto it. A supplica- tion for divine grace to rest upon the , , , . i onnse 0 imineasuea ) e encourage - There 'now remains only one people 9. His hend shall also finish it. A' encourage - equator, w lith to ls eevaslol:evresioguntlihy has not nap e. nt, to zfornobabei. 11) is not strange that the people were dessatiseiedt been claimed by some European Pow - this prince. Though - deecended fl'rvlotinh ex'. le is the valley of Barotse, 50 :or David, he was born and had been en ;miles wide, north of Lien'', en beought up in Bebylon. He was not n South king, only governos, and that by tblc, Africa. And. the only reason why the Manatee, Who inhabit it, have preserv- grace of the proun tyrant, oe Persia.: ed their independence, is that Eng- A sorry contrast he made to Solonaaa land and Portugal both claim it, and In all his glory. Nevertheless, "bis therefore the work of "civilisation" is hand," earth God, "gala finish thetempie.,, Zerubbabel had to wa eeven ,yea re longer for the 1 ulfil Iment it atrta. smtaanydsntottll. be so easy to eonciiner ot this promise, God rewards With the: Maretse when the time comes, for success thaw) who work for 'lane. . they are a tall, well -set-up race, very are Thoee who do not witness the sW:cess of their endeavors here may yet be hold. it hereafeer. black in skinIn mariners they 10. lail aathaogshatmhscsleyspaispeedrsothne),.aaddaYf deosa . nised it as he looked at the contempti- ble Oolong. The' restof this verse is not easy of explanation in everY pert:cular, but the thought is that the plumb line, the symbol of an architect ' or builder, in the hand e ot Zerubbabel, received ..hotice and favor from the rang to 1 and fro throe -gee the whole seven eyes of the 'Lord, whicherura earth, indicate the omniseience of G°11, 12, What are these. . ethat he these. Zerubbabeh iglu: question on 'question, for he desiees to under- .stnne every detail ot, the virion. 14. These are the two anointed. °ries, The two eons of oil, literally; the two eortepicuatie sorts of :Jehovah. That Stand by the Lord of the whole earth, A <I NATION OF KINGS. The Only 'People Over WhIeh 'European Powers (haat rat sovereignty. very courteous and in bearneg digni- fied. Every full-blooded Marotse is •by birthright a king, and takes his place in the aristacraca of the empire. In fact, as every one Is king, there Xs no head. ruler. The bare fact that he is Ma,rotse insures the respect, of the subservient; tribes, and as be grows to manhood a sense of superiority usttally impla,nle in, the native the dig- nity of self-respect. All the labor Is den's by elavee who have be,eil captur- ed feetn neighboring tribes. PRO1V1 HAati) TO MOUTH, I'll never speak to Lim egaine ex- claimedi the young woman in the pale blue jacket. He called me Ins queen and asked me if he might kies ny hand. seed yes, and—and atter that he kiesed me on the lips without ask- 111g.riltjeie, Y suppose, said. the Young wolnan bbaeel and jeoushutallede ,thepefthnZ alneteanteirnb ell; .1 the y11ow buskine, 05 foticw,,ed ening priest, the State rtnd the Chttrch, ta,:hlainme man I ewaheost rtef mistiennace:s ot the ‘thoto eatth, are in his favole re - stand nigh And day befote the Lord up, shoutd u6ver air his upniuoituunseate heboierrigansii2anengd(.1 assuroWtOollt6hraS„ tlOigoethaebrundWairit lit