HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-9-28, Page 311"077,S 'LAID CONMENTS,
Ae leetructive sidenglit ist taxown
upon certain strange features a the
Dreyfee court-martial by a very in-
batereeting article in this meth's
rosmopolitan. It is by a M Saint -
rest, former Chief of Division, French
Secret Service, and is entitled "Timer
Organization of the French SPY SYs-
tem." R thows ia a most striking
manner how thoroughly interwoven in
the French system of government
and justice is the habitual xellance uPe
On eecret information furnished by
aired spies.
;According to M. Saint -Just, the
French seret police serviee, a branch
of the general police system establisla-
ed by Fouehe under Napoleon and con-
tinued to the present time, with a
teraporary interruption under the
Comumne, consists of three divisioas,
of which two leave to deal with crimes
• and criminals ; the famous third di-
• vision, with its different bureaus, un-
• dertakes to keep the record, in the
shape a a dossier or docket, of "every
• one who has had, hats or is likely to
have anything to do with politics."
e,T1tese dossiers are in charge of the
first bureau. The second bureau of
the division "handles the reports of the
political agents and directs the Cab-
inet Noir, in Which letters are deftly
opened, read and photographed and
the copies classified for the dockets."
• This division also has a staff of ex-
perts in chirography, deciphering,
languages, etc.
It is essential to the efficieney of
ducal an establishment that it should
be autocratic and irrespensible. Ite
officials are fully protected against re-
moval by a rigid civil -service system.
They survive aaministrations and gov-
ernments; they are not expected to re-
veal. the sources of their ineermation;
tlaey cannot be compelled to , furniela
even to their superiors anything which
they choose to vsitehold. For instance,
awarding to M, Saint-Just—
An soon( as a new President, a !new
Prefect of Pollee or Secretary is in-
stalled, he calls for his dossier. In-
deed, the chief of division who has
charge ot these dossiers always makes
it a point to bring it along at the
first interview with the new official.
Bat the classier at this impertant mo-
ment Dever contains anything of value.
If, however, the official is at any (time
removed his dossier reappears in all
its completeness.
This one 'division of a division of the
police system employs between seven
and eight hundred spies, men and ma-
mma in all walks of life. Says the
writer:
To give an idea of the magnitu,de of
this syetene 1 can vouch for the fact
that each newspaper has its spies;
there are spies in all secret societies,
among Senators and Deputies also.
• And more than one Secretary has in
tornaer times drawn from the fund.
• In addition to this the great depart-
ments of the Government have their
special „spy systems, the most import-
ant of which is the Bureau ot Info -ma-
• Hen of the War Department, some of
whose methods have been disclosed by
the Dreyfus trial. To us such a sys-
tem mems odious and inconceivable. It
is especially repugnant to our ideas of
judicial proceedings. But the fact
that alterrance has accepted it for a
hundred years explains the easiness
• with which, its methods were accepted
• in the Dreyfus case.
BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES.
Controlg, With Her Colonies, Olie-nalf the
ge or the worm.
The old-time boast that "Britannia
rules the waves" was never more justi-
fied than it is to -day. Figures pub-
lished in Pentane's Magazine, the first
number of which is just to hand, says
the London Mail, show that the entire
tonnage 01 the world in ships amounts
to a round total of 27,673,528 tons, of
which enormous aggregate the United
Kingdom and our colonies, own rather
more than one-half, or, to be precise,
tbe immense and overslaadoeving pro-
portion of 13,988,508. Deducting from
this latter' total 1,061,581 owned by, the
British colonies throughout the world,
the United Kingclom'possesses no less
than 12,826,124 ions. It is indeed a
far cry from. this predominating ton-
nage to the second biggest, which, it is
hardly surprising to learn, is that of
• the United States of America, and
• which figures out to 2,465,387 tons. Ger-
many takes third piece with 2,453,334
tons, which thus follows closely upon
American heels. All probably but
those who follow maritime affairs
closely will learn With some surprise
that Norway easily occuple,s the fourth
place.
SWEET SLEEP. -
All oar senses do 'not slumber entail-
tatenusly, They fall into insen-
sibility, one after anoteen aTirst the
eyelids peewee sight, and the sense
, of taste is the next to lose suscepti-
bility, hearing and toneli then ,follow.
Teueli is the liglateet sleeper and most
easily aroused. Antee touch hearing
eeetieste regainoneelotieneee,
bar ennemeneee with the feet and evorks
its way up to the center ot the nervous
action. The sense of smell is the last
to awake.
1'
Mrs, Beenwea—I could never under-
stand how Mrs. Spedefaee managed to
marry stela a handsome man. Mr.
Beenwed—I should think you would he
able to figure it mit Rota your oWn
experience,
W1II011 IS THE RIGHT OHL
REV, DR, TALMAGE SPEAKS OF
TRE DIFFERENT ROADS.
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end Instructive former*.
4- deeleatch from Washington, Rays:
—Rev. D. Talmage preeched from
the following text :--"Aeid an highway
eleall be there, and a 'wine and it shall
be called, Tate way of ,aelinese ; the
unelean shall not pass over it; but it
shall be for those; the wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein.
No lion, s.hztil be there, nor any raven-
ous beast s'aall. go up thereon, it
shall not be found there; but the re-
deemed shall walk there; and the
rensomed of, the Lord shall* return,
'and Game to Zion with gongs • and
everlasting joy upon their heads;
they shell obtain joy and glad-
ness, and. • sorrow and. sighing shall
flee away." --Isaiah xxxv., 8, 9, 10,
There are hundreds of people in
this house this morning who want to
find the right road. You sometimes
see • a person halting at cross roads,
and yeti can tell by his lookthat he
wishes to. ask a question as to wlaat
direction he had better take. And I
stand in your presence this morning
• eonseneus of the fact that there are
many of you here who realize that
there are a thousand wroiig roads,
but only one right one; and I take f.t:
for granted that you have come in. to
ask which one it is. Here is one road
that opens widely, but I have not
much fa,ah in it. There are a great
*many expensive toll -gates scattered
all along that way. Indeed at every
rod you =net pay in tears, or pay en
geauflextons, or pay in flagellations.
0.n that road if you get through it ell,
you have to pay your own way;; and
since this differs so flinch from what
I have heard in. regard to the right
way, I believe it is the wrong way.
Here is another road. On either side
of it are houses of sinful entertain-
ment, and invitations to come in and
dine and rest; but from the looks of
the people who stand on the piazza I
am very certain. it is the svreng house
and the wrong way. Here is anoth-
er road. It is very beautiful c.nd mac-
ad.aenized. The horses' hoofs clatter
and ring, and they who, ricle over it
spin along Um highway, until sudden -
they find that the road breaks
over an ein.banknaent, and they
try to halt, and they saw the bit
in the =rate of the fiery steed, and
cry "Ho! ho!" But it is too late, and
—crashl—they go over the embank-
ment. We shall turn., this ramming,
and seeeif we cannot find a different
kind of a road. You have heard, of
the Appian Way. It was three Ilan -
and fifty miles long. It was twenty-
four feet wide, and on either side 'the
road was a path for foot passengers.
it was made out: of roek cut in hexa-
gonal shape and fitting together. What
a road it must have bee'n I Made of
smooth hard roek, three hundred and
fifty miles long. No wonder that in
the construction of it the treasures
of a whole empire was exhausted. 13e -
cause of invaders and the elements,
and Clime—the old conqueror who tares
up a road as he goes over it—there is
nothing left of that structure eicept-
in ruin. But ( have this morning
Lo tell you of a road built
• BEFORE Tlite APPIA.N. WAY,
•
and yet it is as good. as wlaen first
constructed. Millions lee souls have
gone over it. Millions more wlil
come.
"The prophets and apostles, too,
Pursued this road while here below;
We teerefore will, without dismay,
Still walk ie. Christ, the good old
way."
,"An highway shall be there, and a
way, and it shall be called The way of
holiness; the unclean shall not pass
over it; but it shall be for those: the
wayfaring men, though fools, shall not
err therein, No lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there;
but the redeemed shall walk there;
and the ransonaecl of the Lord shall
return, and some to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upou their heads;
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
First, this road of the text is 1:14e
King's highway. In the diligence you
Hallo as that. The work nerve He Blene Ofi One Oda and Mootanvert 00
neeunts the chariot of Hie love, and the other. I cared my Bible and read;
drives on and eta the piteep of beeven jeruealent, teteLord is around About
xaltititudee mount witia Him, and He "AO the neouu eine are nead alogat
Annul the plaudite of gazing worlds!
The work is done—well done--gloritalle-
ly doim—magnificently done.
Still furtiaer; this road spoken tif is
a clean road. Nauy a fine xoad has
beeprne miry end foul because it has
not been peoperly eared for; but my
text says the unclean 03411 not walk
on this one. Room on either side to
throw away your sine. Indeed,
you, want to carry them along you are
not on the riget road. (Inlet bridge
will break, these pverlaanging reeks
will eall, the eight ',via enme
leaving you at the mercy of tee moun-
tain bandits, and at the very next turn
of the road you will perish. But if you
then' that tear h:10, The eareounds
ale %Imre an omnipotent cOnineentarY•
"releough trpublee assail, and dangers
affright;
Though friende should all fete, andfoes
all anite;
Ypt one thing ecures us, whatever
betides '
The Scriptures assures tis Ow Lord
will provide."
Still further; the road spokea of ie
plea,sant rpade' God gives a. bond of
indemnity against all evil to every
man that treacte it, "And things work
together for good to those
who love God, No weapon fermed
are really on this cleanroacl of which I against thena can prosper. That is
have been speeisino, then you will the bond, ,signed, sealed, and deliver-
ehtaer astnaandasnonintotkvveatasinin the wa- ed by the Preeident of the whole ilea
ting, 0 child of God, about food "Bee
stetorpt verse. What es the use of your fret -
eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step
of the journey you will be crying put: hold dntheiethfoeiVdsoco±fhtebyp
e reap,
nor:fortgather
yehoewr
Create within me a clean heart," If u
into barns; yet your heavenly Father
iftouprohvaevse trifat8Y11 harVi:aMtii°5110.8kaens that,
feedeth them." And Will He take care
way; end if you will only look up and ofthewPaileirole, twakilei He reteokte tare h
reoafwthke,
see the finger -board above your head, raven,
you May read upon it the words; andt
lefreytotuingdie?ahWohotat eilsotthhees?‘u,eh
Us
"There is a way that seemeth right your
unto a man, but the end thereof is skier the lilloiverhseaoettioitsthheethfd.yeioeould,s.e0,1:3;SfehwaoolfIrlrHiyte:
lit -
see ea tthh.e" Lord;Without ahiotltynot sh have
amannysi dhea.al intnioegt faith?"much
that you can carry along Your sins, Lor fear edoHmeethlienagaetwhthillhehit
appaebnaat:
your lusts, year worldliness, and yet your m
get to the end of the Christianrace, tion of the jut." What is the use of
you are so awfully mistaken, that, in Your fretting lest you will be overcome
the name of God, this morning, .
• (I SHATTER THE DELUSION.
Still further; the road. spoken of ie
a plain road, "The weetaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein."
That is, if a man is three-fourths an
idiot, he can find this road just as
well as if he wene a Pailosopher... The way their fruit and shade. Houses
imbecile bay, the laughing -stock of the a entertainment on either side the
street, and followed by a mob hoot- road for poor pilgrims. Tablets snread
ing at' him, has only just to knock once with
s
at the gate ofheaven, and it swings
open;. while there has been many a
man who can lecture about pneumatics
and chemistry, and tell the story of
Farraday's theory of electrical polar-
• ization, and yet has been. shut out of
of tetaptattons? "God is faithful, who
will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with
tee temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear
it." 0, this King's highway! Trees of
life on either side, bending over until
their branches interlock and drop mid -
A FEAST OF GOOD THINGS
and walls adorned with apples of gold
in pictures of silver.
I start out on this King's highway,
and I find a harper, and I say: "What
heaven. There has been manY a man risespeor, but leaves me to guess, as makes no
your name?" The harp
who stood. in the observatory and swept.
the heavens with his telescope, anwith his eyes toward heaven and his
d yet
h
has not been able to see the Morning hand upon the trembling strings this
Star. Many a man has been familiar Lord is my light and my, salvation.
tune comes rippling on the air: "The
will all the higher branches of mathe-
matics and yet could not do the elm -
pie sum: "What shall it profit a man
if he gain the whole world, and lose
IN horn shall I fear? The Lord is the
strength of my life. Of whom shall I
be afraid?" "1 go a little farther on
the same road and meet a trumpeter
his own soul?" Many a man has been
o
a fine* reader of tragedies and poems, 01 heaven, and I say: "Haven't you got
mine music- for a poor pilgrim?" And
and yet could not "read his title clear
has botanized across the continent, and
to mansions in the skies." Many a man bnztiePalltikg heepiso*gphisantoclootthakitongtheatrloomng_
pet and pours forth this strain. "They
yet not known the B,ose of Sharon, and
the Lily of the Valley," But if one shall ehall hunger no more, neither shall
come in the right spirit,
trying the way sun light on them, or any heat. for
thsy thirst any more, neither shall the
to heaven, lie will find. it a plain way.
The pardon is plain. The pea.ce is plain. the Lamb which is in the midst of
Everythingthe throne shall lead them to living
is plain. He who tries to i fountains
of water, and God shall wipe
get on the road. to heaven through the
away all tears from their eyes." I go
New Testament teaching will get 011
beautifully. He who goes through a little distance farther on the same
road, and 1 meet a maiden of Israel.
Philosophical discussion will not get on
at All. Christ says: "Come to me, and SIIa has no harp, but she has cymbals.
I will take all your sins away, and I
They look as if they had rusted from
will take all your troubles away." Nowt sea -spray; and I say to the maiden of
what is the use of my discussing i
Israel: gave en no song\ for a tired
any more? Is not thatplain ? If you Pagelin 1' And like the clang el
wanted. to go to Albany, and I pointed
victors shields the cymbals clap as
Y
Miriam begins to discourse: "Sing ye
you out a highway thoroughly laid
out, would. I be wise is detaining you to the Lord, for Hie hath triumphed
by a geological discussion about the
gravel you will pees over, or a physio-
logical discussion about the muscles
you will have to bring into play? No.
After this Bible has pointed. you the
way to heaven, is it wise for me to de-
tain you with any discussion about the
nature of Ithe human will, or whether
the atonement is limited or unlimited?
There is the road—go on it.
IT IS A PLAIN WAY.
" This is a faithful saying, andWorthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners."
Ancl that is you, and. that is m.e. Any
little child here can understand this
as well as I can. Unless you become
as a little child you cannot see the
Kingdom of God." If you are saved, it
will not be as a philosopher, it will be
as a little child. "02 such is the King-
dom of Heaven." Unless you get the
prchildreYensiitoflittle wlliev-
glonously ; the horse and the rider
hath He thrown into the sea.' And
then I see a white -robed, group. ,They
wine bounding toward me, and I say:
"Who are they? frhe happiest, and
the brightest, and the fairest in all
heaven—who are they?" And the an-
swer comes: "These are they who
came out of great tribulations, and
had their robes washed. and made white
with the blood of the Lamb."
I pursue this subject only one step
farther. What is the terminus? I
do not care how Rne• a road you may
put 1213 on, I want to know where it
comes out: My text declares it: "The
redeemed of the Lord eornee to Zion,"
You know what Eion was. That was
the King s palace. It was a moun-
tain fastness.
IT WAS IMPREGNABLE.
And so heaven is tee fastness of the
er come out at their glorious destiny. elinnoiveagrhser. range to shell those towers,
howitzer has long
Still further: this road to heaven is
Let at' the batteries of earth and hell
a safe road. Sometimes the traveller it
blaze away; they cannot break in
those ancient highways would. think those gates.
Gibraltar was taken,
biraself perfectly secure, not knowing
Sebastopol was taken. Babylon fell;
there was a lion by the way, bury his but, these walls
of heaven saall never
head deep between his Paws, and then,
when the right moment came, under surrender' either to human or Satanic
the fearful spring the man's life was is the defence of it. Greab capital of
besiegements, The Lord Goci Almighty
gone, and there was zi mauled carcass
by the roadside. But, says my text, the *universe! Terminus of the King s
" No lion shall be there." I wish I hithrWpayiolk said that, among ettet
could make you feel this morning, your
things, he thought in heaven we coind
entire security. I tell you plainly that
study chexaistrY, and geometry, and
one minute after a man has become a
child, of God, he is as safe as though conic sections. Southey thought tales
in. heaven he svould hate the pleasure
he had been ten thousand years
in seeing Chewer and Shakespeare.
leaven. Ile may Wile, he may slides he
Dr. Dick may have his mathematics
may stumble; but he cannot be de-
stroyed. Kept by the pewee of God, tor all eternity, and Southey his Shaks-
through faith, unto complete salve- Pea re. Give me Christ land my old
dash on over the Bernard pass of the tion. Everlastingly safe. The sever-frkireinalltand
uhattiapspaeloltiethethhaer Iknew enIwoanth
Alps, mile after mile, and there is' not est trial to which you. can subject a c
so much as a pebble to jar the wheels. Christian man is to hill him, and that earth—that is heaven enough for me.
You go over bridges which cross is glory. In other words, the worst 01 garden of light whose leaves never
chasms that make you hold your thing that can happen a child of God wither, and whose fruits neva' fail!
by dangerous peeeipies; through tun- the old slippers that he throws tasteGc)d
breath; tinder projecting rocks' along is heaven. The body is only nOeerbeal banquet ail aithlidoswehosategeotneeere
are
nele adries with the manage of the aside just before putting on the san-
kings for ever I 0, city of fight,
e
glaciers, and, perhaps for the first ' dais of light. His soul, you cannot hart whoswalls are salvation, and whose
time, learn the majesty oe a road built it. No fires can consume it. No gates are praised.] 0, palace of rest,
and supported by governmettal auth- floods can drown it. No devils can where God is the monarch and ever -
bray. Well, my Lord the .King cle,- capture it.
cute(' to build a highway from eatth
to heaven. It should span all the
chasms of human ' wretchedness; it
shoeld tunnel all the mountains of
earthly difficulty; it should be wide
enough and strong enough to hbid
fifty thoueand millions of the human
race, if so many, of them should ever
be born. It should be blasted out of you say "suppose his store burns up?"
Why then it will be only, a change of
the "Rock of Ages," and cemented -with
the blood 01 the Cross, and be lifted inve•stments from earthly to heavenly
"Item and unmoved are they
Who rest' their souls on God;
Fixed as the ground vehere
stood,. .
Or where the ark abode."
His soul is safe. His reputation is
safe. Everything is. safe. "Bitt•"
David
v.raid shouting of angels and the exe-
cration of devils. The King sent His
Son in build that road. He put head,
and hand, and heart to it, and after
the road was Completed waved His
blistered hand over the way, crying:
"ft is finished 1" Napoleon paid fif-
teen million /ranee fox the building of
the Simplon Peed, that his dennon
might go over for the devastatioa of
Italy; but our Xing, at a greater ex-
pense, has built a road for it different
purpose, that the banners of heavenly
dominion might tome down over it,
and all the redeemed of earth travel
up over it. Being a Inieg's highway,
of course it is well built. Bridges
splendidly arched and buttressed lave
given way and eraelied tad passengers
who attempted to eross them. But
Christ, the King, evoilid, blind ne sueh
securities. "But," you say: "suppose
his name goes down under the hoof of
scorn and contempt?" The name will
be so much brighter in glory. "Sup-
pose his physical health, fails?" God
will pour into him the flood of ever -
'tenting health, and it will not make
any ditference. Earthly subtraction
ie heavenly addition. The tears of
ea r di are
THE CRYSTALS OF HEAVEN.
As they take raga and tatters and put
them throttgh the paper -mill, and they
come out beautiful white sheets of
paper, no often the rags of earthy des-
titution, under the cyliaders of death,
come out a white, scroll epee watch
shall be written eternal emancipation
'There was one pasgage of Scripture, the
force wbich I never Undetetood Oita
one day at, Olsamoutax, with Mont
lasting ages the length of Ens mign 1
0, song louder than the surf -beat of
many waters, yet soft as the whisper
of cherub'm
0, my „heaven I When my last
wound', is healed, when the lasthearte
break! Is ended, when the last tear of
earthly sorrow is wiped away, and
when' the redeemed of the Lord shall
come to Zion, then, let all the harpera
take down their harps and aLl the
trumpets, and all across heaven there
be ehorus ol morning stars, chorus of
white -robed victors, chorus of martyrs
from under the throne, °bone of ages,
chorus of worlds, and there be but
one song sung, and but one neme spok-
en, and but one throne honoured—
That of Jesus only.
LETTING DOWN A LITTLE.
1 guess that I'm making SOMC head-
way, said the persisteat lover, who is
not in favor with her father.
But 2 thought the old gentleman
kicked you out wheaever he found You
at the house ?
He does, bate/ have noticed tbet ho
is net kicking nearly as hard of late,
I feel sure that lie is gradually re-
lenting,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 1.
"Joy In nee% mioase." Ina. 155
•
TOO. P4a. 125.1.
PRACTICAL O'TES.
Vere 1. I was glad, "eny foes Was
joy -lightened." When they said tipto
me, Let As go into the heuse ef the
lord. At the beginaiug a the great
aenintl feastthe people*of jerusztlem
were accu,stomed to flocle out Rein
the city to weloome the earlier pilgrim
caravans, -The meeting of the two
multitudes was one of the sights of
Jerusalem; they bailed each other
with enthusiastic expressions of joy
and triumph. It was such an occasion
that our Lord need as a background
for hi a triumphal entry. Senge of wel-
come *bleb included blessings on
the weo came ie. the name of the
Lord, and invetations to participate in
the temple cereinonees, were responded
Vo by each songs as thee: "I was glad
when they mid eat° me, Let uego (in-
to the house of the Lord." The text
suggests several truths: 1. True %ter-
etap is a joyous worship, inducing
praise arid song. The pilgrims to
Jerusalem are typical of penitents
coming to the Saviour. 2, Many a
penitent would rejoice if, wit a over-
flowing heo.rte, Chriseians said to him,
not "Go to church," but "Let u.s go,"
3, The Ileum of the Lord is the 'center
of all religion, intelligence, and bene-
ficence.
2. Our feet shall stand, "are stand-
ing" or "have stood," within thy gates,
o jerusalein. We have traveled a
great distance to reach the lloly City;
now at the entrance we pause a mo-
ment in sheer delight.
3. jernealem s builded as a city
that is compact together. Imagine a
modern metropolis with front yards
and back yards and spaces between
houses closely builded upon, no spaces
open to the sky except tiny courts
surrounded by the solid masonry of
private houses, no parks and no ave-
nues, most of the streets covered and
in many cases builded over for
tenements, and y•au get some concep-
tion of the solidity of Jerusalem. If
any of the citizens owned ,gardens,
they lay beyond the city walls; for
Jerusalem could never overleap the
valleys of the Kedron and Hinnom.; it
was shut in, and the population so
doubled on itself that Dr. Edersheim,
teete as that in the time of
Jesus there was a considerable
underground population. The psalm-
ist's delight in this compeetness
is largely due, td his contrast of the
new and stately buildings with the
ruins which had lain there so long.
But in this passage Jerusalem is chief-
ly regarded as the type a the Church
, of God in heaven anti on; earth. The
.happy me.n who wrote these. lines and.
tbe happy folk who sang them may
not have had our clear conceptions( of
the Church, either militant or trium-
phant. But by them, as by us, the
capital city of Jewry was revered not
because of its granite and marble, even
where those materials were wrought,
into the walls of God's house; but be-
cause of the religious forces of which
it was the center. i Through all ages
Athens stands for wisdom, Corinth for
delights, Rome for government, Bag-
dad for romance; but Jerusalem was
the type of the (Church of God. And
we have only to follow Lhe ecstatic dis-
covery of the seer, of th.e New Testa-
ment to perceive that it is also the
type of the forces and the joys of hea-
ven.
• 4. Whither p the tribes go up, the
tribes of the Lord. Mose of those who
returned from Babylon were members
of the tribe of Judah, but probably ev-
ery tribe was represented, and pilgrims
to Jerusalem came every year from
• every part of the Holy Land. Just
here is a practical lesson which Mr.
Spurgeon beautifully deduees ; • As Is-
rael, divided by tribes, was, neverthe-
Tess, one people, so, 4, ohristendom is
essentially one, though divided into
Methodist, Presbyterian and other
tribes. Anci aa all were tribes of je-
hovah, whether Judah or Benjamin, or
Manasseh, or Ephraim,.,e6, 5.A11 the
Churches may. be, and. should be, equal-
ly the Lord's own. Tinto the testimony
of Israel. the B,evised Version, "For
a testimony unto Israel," makes .the
meaning plainer. The law which or-
dered all males to appear before the
Lord each year was a " teetiraony " to
Israel of God's covenant evite it. Just
as the annual observance of the First
of iTtlly as Dominion day is an histoeic
evidence of the organization 'of the Do-
erumon, so the pilgrimage customs were
evieences and teethe:ionise of a religious
compact made between God and Israel.
Hem again is a lesson for us. The
temple, arid all its ceremonies, and the
annual journeys to it, were no more
of a testimony to the Mosaic religion
than are our Sabbath day and our re-
gular participation in public and. pri-
vate worship to the religion of 'Christ.
n We ate God's witnesses; and: even
to piles through th.e streets on Sun-
day with a Bible or a hymnal in one's
hand is an appreciable testimony un-
to the world. To give thanks untothe
name of the Lord. Testimony to God
brings sincere thanksgiking, for God's
dealings with us have ,bcen
kind beyond computation 7. The
true C.hristian finds attentleece upon
Worehip an owasion of delight; and of
Praise. .
5. There. In Jeruealem. Are set
thrones of judgment, Israel was to
be preeminently the people ot God, and
it became necessary that the eapital
of tbe nation should be the center ot
religioue worship. In our own land
we have mach reason to thank God for
the eeparatien of Church and Stele;
ilevertheiess, 8. Church and State
should always be, as Matthew Fleury
eels, near neighbote and good neigh-
bors who greatly befriend one anoth-
er. Imeginative coloting• may be
brought to this verse by remembering
the majestic throne of ivory on which
the kings of judab, sat. Wrought in-
note est
to Om form of a bull with its bead
turned over its ehmilder, t wee preached by steps on Wiaich woe six
Hansel gold, The hell Wan it is et/lie
poeed, the ern:Plena of EPhraim and the
lions the emblem of Judah, The- Peals
mist here not ouly glances 'bade his.,
tericallY to the tires before the parti-
tion of the kbagdose, when jeriatealem
Waa the sideadia city of the throee of
the atniee ,of David, but propheticeliy
he thinks also of the future Isreel
1,inited forever under one scepter. 0.
To the endof t/ae earth great David's
greater Son will yet beer sway.
6. pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Aetbetu.g.h liviag long before Ceristiati
times, the euthor had a near enough
vision of God,nol, to, pray for success
of armies, bat for peace, Conquests,
with hardly an exception, are curses
to the nation that inalre,s them, Peace,
lla•s peace that pa.eseth understanding,
is tee clwieest gift of God fo man
,Terusalexci means peaee, The Chefs -
Oen Cleareh steeds for peace. Pray
that her eondition may verify her title.
They shail prosper that love thee.
Whoever intelligently loves Jerusalem
Love s what Jerusalem stands fee: God
in Use world, good.ness in life, sPiriteral
and intellectual enlightenment, the
dawn of Christian -4S. Theee great
forces eventually will dominate the
eerta ; therefore all that are in har-
inonY with th.ena have the basis of
permanent prosperity.
'7. Peace be within thy walls, and
prosperity within thy palaces. As a
capital. city Jerusalem was palatial,
and walls outside walls surrounded it.
The psalmist, in grouping its homes
in his maud so that they might be pray-
ed for at once, thinks a them as a
collection of princely mansions,
8. For ray brethren and. compan-
ions* sakes, I will neer say, Peace be
within thee. , "This man wanted a
blessiag not for himself merely, but
for alt," says an old writer. His
prayers were not selfish; his benedic-
tion was an earnest prayer for others.
9. Because of the house of the Lord
our God.I will seek thy good. Here is
the key -note of the (whole psalm. To
the psalmist's mind the city existed
for the temple, and. the temple for God.
In xnanufaeture and merchandise, in
architecture and works of defense,
many an oriental capital surpassed
Jerusalem, but in religious force it
was unequaled. "It existed for pil-
grims. Twenty thousand priests were
needed for the conduct of its
worship. Levites in greater nume
hers and scribes skilled in the Scrip-
tures and traditions did their religious
work; the first oil, a physical, sorts the
second deeply intellectual and spiritu-
al. In latter days there were. four
hundred and eighty synagogues in
Jerusalem, where the rabbis read and
the people heard the word which God
spoken. The efts, was indeed in a
sense the religion 'of Tsrael ineorpor-
ated and localized, and the man who
loved the one turaed daily his face to-
ward the other." So writes Dr. Fair-
bairn. What Jerusalem was to the
jew the Christian Church should be to
115.
BARBARITIES OF FASHION.
If ladies have not hitherto realized
the enormous destruction of bird -life
caused by the u.se of egret feathers
for the decoration of hats, they den
no longer plead that excuse for a
wasteful and. cruel fashion, says the
London Standard. Our frequent pro-
tests are now reinforced by the offi-
cial figures contained in a consular re-
port issued on the trade of Venezuela.
There are two sorts of egrets, or white
herons, which breed largely in South
America, the greater and the less.
Both are remarkable for their bea.ut-
ful milk -white plumage, which is in-
deed, to those unfortunate birds a.
fatal gift.
The facts set out by Mr. De Lemos,
British Vice -Consul at Ciudad Boli-
var, show that if the process goes on
for many years at the same rate, the
birds must in time beeome extinct.
Nearly 900 of the smaller breed. have
to be killed, and a little more than
200 of the larger, to make about two
pounds of these. partieular feathers.
Striking an average between the two,
and taking the whole amount export-
ed last year, we find that the number
of egrets killed was more than a mil-
lion and a half. In Venezuela, we
presume there is no Society for the
Protection of Wild Birds. But there
is in Hanover Sauer° and it would
do well to renew the appeal to the
better feelings of women, -which d
for it time produce some effect upon
"society."
But "aigrettes" -- in other words,
the feathers of the egret—are, unhape
pily, just now in fashion. The trades-
people who make a profit out of them
have an easy mode of quieting scru-
pulous consciences. If a lady seems
to hesitate on the score of humanity,
she is at once assured that tie fea-
thers are only artifisial. But, in
most cases, these 'nenstetion" fea-
thers are merely ,the spened ones. 'the
difference in price may be e differ-
ence between four shnliegs and 1.811.
Bat the difference in °runty is 110 -
thing. There are, • deent, artificial
aigrettes which mey Be b g t for a
shilling apiece. eat with these we
are not concerned. _he are not sold
by smart milliners. Sorely there na, •
be plenty of other ways i whieh la-
dies could adorn teems, ves without
resorting to the wholesale destruc-
don of the feathered race. The
slaughter for which they ere directly
responsible is perfectly wanton, for
the simple reason that they would
look nest as pretty and quite as well
dressed without them. Yet a whole
species is being exterminated merely
to gratify a passing freak of fashion.
We. can pardon a eolly whale 18 in-
dulged merely from want of know-
ledge or want of thought, but no de-
fence is possible foe sheer want of
• HIGH HEELS.
High heels, it is sal owe their ori-
gin to Persia, where they were intro-
duced to raise the feet from the burn-
ing sande of the coantry,
•
THE DIFFICULTY.
The trouble with the modern 111Ted
Mt is that she doesn't know her place,
And no wonder. She doesn't stay 1.
one place long enough to get acquaint-
ed with it.
w l'aragrapet; elliacie wing. Ho rollilt
'Wen Wiqthl ite#4110P
The world annttally Poneenies beer
to the value of 4g,47430,00000,
A Whale of average biee yields about
2,000 gallants of oil,
Pricks Wade* of omit duet are ueed for
paving in Ralesie, Tile coel duet is
eombinect with paolesees and resin• ,
Lager beer :le repielly gelung favor
in England. A large brewery, for
the manafaeture of lager, in in be
erected at Burton -on -Trent,
The Chinese are neted for the ex-
celienee of their razors. ,They are
made of otd horeeehoes.
One of the public selools of Pitts-
burg is to liave a biganviennaing Pe°11
end several shower baths for the use
of the pupil.
The bones of over 4,000,000 human
being e reel; in o‘the forty-eight ceme-
terbes in New York city and. vicinity
The interments in Greenwood average
about 4,500 annually.
An electric headlight for locome-
tives acts been tried on the road be-
tween Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
and proved. a success. It is of 4,000
candle power.
(A. Mauser bullet passed through the
throat of a seedier in, a Colorado regi-
ment, at lelanila. efore receiving
the wound he had been a stutterer;
now he has no difficulty in talking.
sit. strange funeral was lately wit-
nessed in Folkestone England The
undertaker, arrayed in deep black,
rode a wheel in front of the Proces-
sion, with a child s coffin strapped
across the handle bar.
Six prized kittens, belonging to te
lady in Germantown, Pa., died nays-
tern/tasty in one day. A, post-mortensl
examination revealed traces a arse-
nical poisoning. They had eaten dead.
flies -which had feasted on fly paper.
Mr. Napoleon Trideon, of Biddeford,
Me., has been married three years, and
is a perplexed man. His familee is in-
creasing more rapidly than his salary.
His wife has just presented him -with
the third pair of twins. She was a
twin, and so was he.
A petrified forest, covering an area
of 100 square miles, has existed for
centuries near Billings, in Arizona.
ThOusands and thousands of petrified
logs strew the ground, and, represent
beautiful shades of pink, purple, red,
gray, blue and yellow. Pne of the
stone trees spans a gulf forty feet
wide.
The Dum-Duen bullet derives its
name, from Durn-Dum, India, where it .
was firet made, Its top is ot brass,
and leollowei When it strikes its
victim it becalms umbrella shaped,
and tears its way through the flesh,
making a dangerous wound. B.opd
poisoning sets in within thirty min-
utes after the bullet strikes.
While hunting near Cloverock, N.Y.,
a negro maned Andrew Luna was
struck in the ear by some object, and
soon after fell to the, earth, where he
writhed in convulsions. A doctor
found that the object that struck h.m
was a beetle one inch, long, which had
entered his ear,
A. cyclone house has been invented
by an Iowa genius. It is built over
a deep cellar. ;When a cyclone gives
andication of its approach, the owner
of the house touches a -button, and the
house does the rest—It quickly de—
scends into the cellar. When the cyc-
lone is over, another touch, of the but-
ton brings the house above the earth's
surface. ,
Some of the members of popular
social clubs in New York are private
detectives, who caretuely note the
movements of some of their fellow,
members and report to the detective
ageneses that employ them. They
are watched in the interest of their
enaPleYers, who fear that they
spending more thaxa their salaries
their wives, who •suspect that
have reason for jealousy.
Water constantly freezes in Summer
or
en
in a rocky crevice on the farm of
John Dood, in Sweden, Valley, Pa..
Aside of this fact, arid with the intene
non of forming a natural icehouse, the
owner tried to have a shaft sunk in
the rooks. When the men bad gone
down fourteen feet the atmosphere
ctime so densely cold that they had,
to (settee work. Dripping water trees --
es there in a. few minutes.
LORD CURZON'S LOGICAL JUSTICE.
An unfortunate desk in one ot the
indian Governnient offices, with
twenty-three years' service, receatly
took leave and overstayed his leave by
nine days. He was called upon for ant
explanation, and irl the end the secre-
tary ordered him to be dismissed. The
clerk appealed to the Viceroy,
who called for an explanation of the
eiretatistancesn The secretary showed
Chet the man had not only overstayed
his leave fon nine days, hue was bope-
lessly incompetent as well. His ex..
celleney thereemoa ordered the man to
be reinstated, and Wrote aeross the
secretary's explanation that he °onside
erecl the hopelessly incompetent man
wee the one who took twenty-three ,
years to find out the other' : income
peterice.
O'FLIENTAL CRITICISM.
"I have just been reading the hone
()Table works of oile of your most fam-
ous female English poets," said the
educated Japanese, "and I cannot un.
derstancl her so exceeding popularity*,
1 refer to the Mother Goose. There 13
one of hen poems of celebrity in whieli
,he a,, _innate as of twenty-four
,te thee satig after they had been
, forehead baked into d pie. The
lteother Gooee 1 regurcl and coneidee it ,
one of the greatest liar of the Eng-
lish-speakittg antiquity."
Doilie—Have you mad "The Day's
neork ?" Chollie—Th day's work'? How
doosidly vulgar 1