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Exeter Times, 1899-10-5, Page 71170TES It will s'u the lancer t navigation Was unable ,Wln4War(L er tbau 800 to reach as base of oper the Pole. Proteins was ;south 'end Sometimes t gated (with 1875 when twenty daye Cape Sabine Sometimes Partitively: It Greely mad layo. 'During the his sledge e his sledge e 4ustified the meats Mar called the great -sat of His routes miles, and ground and ing kno.wied Iberegion Sound, nort • thought to mass to the and, thus se Ellesmere L ed, that the harrovrio and Elleana • mass, .The and mapped tations on t Sound route sed the no Land, a jo and has co western cos. wood on the strettTh.otut • a geographi no doubt th curate info elected for th fully justifit cost. irt he It fax north is ous labor h ,provisions fo nel he must of Greenlat itiore than supplies the will move reach a „high ward, mkt 4. • ApSKrard. plorer. }PIN partly indep even if she northern ba has planted orth may sledge journ past year. 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DR, TAL tfl,A,..0E, Tglas OF TI.i •COURSE TO TAKE, ereaa- naY lin-Mortal iotereste: on beard ethrl till you telt Me What it is made - • -.. . • o !I:).A:',nd--ww,teenx.,!•4nW. ?af!•• an;ClyVw."1.1oWtbhaist, ImtiloyaiO% w:aust loxnve•d•ertyi,` tei(eitrtetttiv,e.ycAet:11.11:, YOU' dell me that the contemPOrarY writere d,eserilati HIM, ' and the give eh O..04r.„ . 04fndHiteikeeyyeose.,seanhethAitieo wlohroojef Bis appearance . ea' being resplendent, Christ , did not tell the children to come to Him. -"Suffer littie trhildreu to oome. unto me," was net si3°keP to rthhearcilieeileder.00.1TitLe Was ' sPOltell to the children had come without any • invitationo ise, 'sooner' did Xesus. aPpear thari the little ones Pitched ,from their • mothers- arm(4, an avalanche of beauty and love, into His lap. "Suffer little Children to ccime unto me." That was addressed to the children. Christ did not ask John to put his head doyen- on His bosom. ; john could not help •but put his head there. SuCh eyes such cheeks, 'such a chin, such hair, mach phyeleal con- d i t ion , and a p p e a r an c s -why , it Must have been conap,letely captivating and' ' wiosoine: I suppose a look at Hind was 'just to love Hien. 01 how attraotive , His naahner• Why, When' they 'Saw Ch•riStec-Pnaing along the, street; they rane, intotheirhonees. and they virtap- Peco up' mein inyalide as quick as they could, and brought them- out that Be might look eat . .them, 01 . there was neething• so' pleasant, so inviting, so eei°, • e . • cheering . In everything He did, in His very look. When these sick ones were , hrolight Oue did Hie say : "Take away, these sores; do not trouble me with these sleprd'sies ?" No no; there was a kind look, there was • a gentle wind, there was. a healing touch. They could not keep away from Him. , In addition to this softness of char- /toter, there 'was a fiery momentum Row the h ' - • • old ypocrites trembled bee '' fore nem Haw the kings of the earth ,turned pale. Here is a plain man with a few sailors at His back, coining off the Sea of Galilee, going up to the 1 pa. ace o e Caesars roaking, that • f th • ' ' t ' • Palace quake 0 the foundations, and uttering . a word of mercy and kind- ness whith throbs through all ,the. earth, and through all, the heavens, and through all the ages.•• 0 H loving• • . e was a Christ. But. it was not ef- feminacy, or insipidity of cha.racter; it was accompanied with majesty, infin- its and omnipotent..Lest the ' ld. • sh' • • , e wor • Ould not realize His earnestness, this Christ mounts the cross.. You r : "If Christ haseto die, ' why not let, Bim take. some deadly, potiOneand lie on a couch in some bright and beauti- • ful h.ome. If He must die, let Him ex- Pire amid all kindly attentions, No, the world must hear the hammers on the heads of the,Th Id spikes. e world • •well must listen to the death-rattle of the sufferer. • The world must feel His wa • bdropping• ' h- • um blood on each c eek, while it 'looks hp into the face of His anguish. • And so the cross must be ' • ' lifted, and the hole is dug on the top of Calvary. It must be dug three feet deep, and 'thee the- laid• cross is on th• ' e ground, and the sufferer. is stretched r upon it, and the , nails ' • are pounded through nerve and muscle and bone through the '. right ' e ,hand, through ' the left hand ; and then they shake. Rio left foot to see ,if 't • i is fast, and -then they heave up the wood, half a. dozen :sho 1 ' • •• • ' - ' , 'a ders under, the weight, and they put the end of the cro s to' a . the mouth of the hole, and they plunge it in, all the, weight- of His body. coin- • nng down for the first time one. the -sptilees; and while some the cross upright, others throw in the dirt and tramPle-it. down, and trample it. hard. 0, -plant that tree well and thoroughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no other tree ever bore. • " Why- did Ch • t res en- d ' -1? H ' 'e di -ire i . e eeifia have taken those raeles, and with them crushed His . , crucifiers.. He could havereached up and grasped the sword. of the Om • mpo- t I: G d d ' ' ' ' en Goti, an with one clean cut have tumbled them into perdition. ' But no; He was to die, He ,raust die. . His life for my life. Hie life for your life. In .one of t i • ' i • . . he European cit es ayoung. man died on the scaffold for the crime 'f d . So t" - o mur. er. me me after, the Mettler of this young man Was ••dvin ,. . .. g, :and the priest . came in, and. • she confession to ' the • priest that h th' s e was e murderer, .and not her am; in A moment of anger she had s.truck her husband a blow that slew The son camesuddenly' him,. nag the room, and was washing. away , the wounds and tryiog to resuscitate his father; when some one .loelced through the window and saw hire ' and • . . .. , ' euPP°s- ed h•m to be the criminal. That young man died- for his own another. You say: "It was wonderful that he never ex osed aier." But I 1 y ' . P• .. . tel YOU. of a gra.nde,r thing. „Christ, the Son Of Gad ' no or is not for His • t f • H'mother,' father,' but for His sworn enemies. • 0 --, Troll a Christ as that -.so loving, se calf -sacrificing -can • you not trust lalml ' - : - • ' I think there are many ' under the a piri o o . w o Are sa.ying: I Wyou ili trust Him if , will. only. tell .. - . me how , . and tne great questien salt- ed by thousands• in this asserabla e is: e•-•.• ' ,, . • g - neow ? how ? sand while ,I answer your question I look up and utter the prayer' which Rowland ,Iiill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons: "Master help 1" How areyou t • . • ' s s , , , to rust in. Carist.? Just as you trust any. one, You trust your partner in business with Important' things. If a. coramercial house. give you a note pay- able three months hence you e enact the t f • t - t:' - e paymen o tha ' ne, e at, the , end of three months. 'YOU ':, have perfect confidence in their , word and in Hale Tee - abilitY• 'Yeu g° heme te-daY'hunt expect there will berfood oh the table. ' You have .confidence in that, Now, I tisk you to baY-e the eagle confidiesice in the Lord Teams. 'Christ. He says: "Y bell ve ' I teak ' ' •,, pu e , , e away your sins, ' and theY are all taken away. eWhatle • Von say, "before I pray any marc? be fore I read my Bible any ,more? be- fore I cry over- my sihs any morg?,, tes, tb14 ni9ment, Believe with all your heart, and you are saved. Why, Christ is • only' waiting to 'get from you wbee.ehete yell give a, stores of people `"••"'"' day' ' What is that? ' Confid-, ence. If the,se people whom yontitat day by 'd'ay aremc'" worthy • than Chriat; if they are more faithful than Christalf they have done raot:a than Chriet ever aid, phol give them the preference; la* If Yon reallY 'think that ,Christ is' ae '.truetesorthy as they says then deal with aiL„ra 'OS fairlY,, "0," "ay' seine one in a light way: '1 be- Hove that Christ was Vern in Bethle- a, , .d• 1 believethat H died on " ,e.m, an , ., e it the crOSs.' Do. you behove it with your head or your heart ? I will illus.- trete the .differeeee, You are in yout own house. fa the morning you open a neWSPaper, and you read how Cap- titan Bra.veheart on the tasaarleked his life for the galaatiee of higPaaftengerS; . --, 4 a• • Yrcrast °hall; b":7ehht14't Il. leg" frAyfejelgewervhe: ,x)ce.erwys:tievleir'o,fatii4 country' ndtorwy,n" Yatoutti:Idtait411: 'mad PerhaPa do not think of that iti'' cddeot again. That is historical faith. B111,1tjattl,owro.odYoylloaaretvo:,attee'eape,a, atdd (tart*: awakened by the shriek of "Fire 14 You rush out on thedeek. You bear, amid ' • the wringing. of the hawks an4 the fainting, the cry ,. ,...a1.0 hope! We ate lest 1 We are lost I" The sail pate out its wine Of fire,the renek .• kola barranoann•raer•ataht--aeavaes' ,. -the spirit' ofetreek hisses in the wa.ve, and on ti4a :MIrri-eane-deck 'shakes out its banner of smoke aud lalackne.ss. "Down with the life -boats !"' Pries the captain. "Down With the life-boats1" People rush into them. The boats are about full. Room only for one mere man. • You are etanding on the deck beside the 'captain, Whola 11 't b ? s a i e You: or the captain ? The captain say: : "' Yolla t'' You jump, . and are: saved He :,,stands • there an diee Now, 'you believ.e that Captain' Brave- heart sacrific,ed 'himself for his pcsesen- gers, but you believe it with love, with tears, with hot and leng-eontineeed ese. Rai reef at e • and,Ing-maid ale. m.atioins, w g h e loss„ with joy at your deliverance. That le, 'saving faith.. In otherewords; what YOu believe, with all your heart, and believe in regard to you,reelf, On this hinge turns nay sermon . aye, the sal. station 'of your inamorta'a soul, You. often go across a bridge, you know no; thingnhout it, iron do not know who built the bridge, .you: .do not know what material at is made of; but you canoe to it, and walk over it, and :esk no •questions, ' And here is an etched bridge blasted • frota the "Rock of .Ages," and built by the Architect of the whole U • • ' h • • niverse, spanningt e dark gulf between sin and righteousness, and all God asks, you is to, walk across . it ; and Iron. Start, and 3raii conie to it, land you stop, and you go a little avay -on an you 0 op, an you tall back . d' t . d ' ' and you experiment.. You say: tilow ' • ' do I know that bridge will hold mer inst.ead ofinarching on with firra•,step, asking no questions.' but 'feeling that the stren th a the eternal God, • . g . .is, 1..i.n. der you. 0, was there ever a • prae offered BO cheap as . pardon and heaven) are offered to you? For how, much?. A nall• rd 11 • ? it •'• 1 ion o ars is certainly vvorth More' than that. But cheaper than that you can have it. Ten thOusands dollars? Less, than that. Five thou- sand dollars? . Less .than that, One.; dollar? Less than that. One far- thing? Less than that. "Without money. and Without price." ' No money to pay. No journey to take. No pen- a c tsuffer. Onlyjust d " anos o . one eciseve action .Of the soul: "Believe on the 'Lord •Theue, Christ, and thou shalt be • n. saved.- Shall I try to tell you what it is to be saved?' I cannot tell you. NO man, no angel can tel),' you But I can hint at it. , "F text•b '''' or mytrings me up to this point, "There shalt he " It • saved. means a happy life hers and ,a peaceful deathand a blissful eternity. • It is a grand thingto o t sleep at night,and, to get lin• g the - • - lia e interning, and to do buseness all day feelin that all is right•betWe n ' g. ,, .. e my heart and God.- No accident, ne sick- ti ion no er no sword ness to ' r : -t' ' 'I ' - ••• Pe see ' : P 1 ' can do me any, permanent damage 1 • ' • • ' le ' • ' • a.rci a forgiven c ild .of. God and •He is , ... .. hound to See •me through.He has see me through: The sworn He 'will " mountains may depart, the earth may burn, the light of' the stars may be bl 1, out b • • the lal t • o vriah. y e as of the judg- • ..but life . and death , It?ahlrill s hurricane; t and things' to come are mint P Yea farther tha that , . .. a, , a rd• .Ik means a peaceful death. Mrs Hemans Mrs S' ' D , .. igourney, re . ' . • ' Young and almost all, the poet$ have said handsome • th•n b ' t death. 1 ge e, ou . • • ' ' There is nothing • -beautiful about it when we stand. by the white•and' features of those 'who: t we lo rigid. d -the • n • na. yea an oanewering pressure of theyiaangidveang, noreturning kiss ,of the liahey donot want anybody poetizing ' d • - y . -rear aroun gloat us.. , . Death as loath- ' and • and somen.ess, ..midnight,. the wringing of the heart until the ten- drils aria and. .curl ' th torture•it p . .. na is un- ' 'ae less Christ be with us. I confess you to an infinite,. fear, a 'consuming horror of death unless Christ shall be . with nae. I would rather go down). in- to a cave of wild beast or. a 1 Of Jung e. • i • • ' • reptiles than into, the grave unless Christ goes with me Will you tell. e that I ' t '' la • ' ' ' meam ,t) e carried out frora my bright' home and put away ' th ' ' ''. ay ID e darkness? I cannot bear darkness, .4,t the fir.stthcoming of,the- evening I mit. have . e gas haht, and the farther •on in life I get the mo 1 • a . - ' . • „ more like to have my friends around, about . And am 1 to . b t -•rf ' thOusands of years ' ' e 1)14. 9- • for With no one teiati .ci.? dark place, eint down. to theP• hole -u th '' o not. 'ound p, . . e int e gr , t the. grays, and., eall it a beautifulplaew 1 -unless there be some • suPeriaatur i . . . . ' a illumination,. I shudder back 'from it My whole nature revolts. at it • But now this ' ' ' ' glorious lamp is lifted!. above -- • •tions the grave and all, thed k ' • • ' - • ar ness is gone aee folded over the still heart, that now without a single' _thudd.er. . Now my .o.nriety' is /lot abotit death,' mv -- anxietya. that. if my life is consistent when I come to the Iasi! h and ., ' • , . ., . ' ' our, this voice ts silent,' and • these eyes are closea, and theee hands' with which II b beg fax y.inir eternal salvation to -day are , fo ded over the still heart, that then r sha.11 only begin to live. What . . e. ' .. • . . , , power is ,there in anything. to chill.me in the last hour if Christ wraps around me , the 'skirt of His own gar-, ment2 ',What ' darkte,ss cant fall upon my eyelide th'en, amid the heavenly a,,p.ybr.oala 0 death, I will not fear 11ea t ee then. Back to thy cavern of darkness thou 'robber of' ell the earth • •„ . . , ' • • ,flys thou desposler , of families. With this battle -,axe I' hew thee in twain .s , , . ,. . . , ' - . In Li.Offe nentet. to sandal, the, voice of C. hrist, sounding all over. the eaith and through the heaven e: 1'0 death I wilt be thy,plague. .0 grave, 1 will be thy destruction," , H To he saved is to wake up. in thediree •serice of Christ. You. know when XeSua, was .upon earth, how happy He made ..every house He went into, and when he beings us up to His house how great aur glee. His voice hae More Music in ibtb,an is to be hoed). in tillthaoratories of eternity. , Talk Tea% about j.?anks, dashed with Woes t .s.(4 n.ee. .esus is the chief bloom °' • heaven, 1,17re shall see the very face that - beamed sym-, PatbY in Bethany, 1th ., e „ . . ttli. take , e Neely la and that dropped its blood from the short beam of the erosa. 0.„I avant to Stand in eterhity with Him. T - Shall he satisfied .w•heri T awakele Ills likediese, 0, 'broken-hearted pen am, h galroonloaet., Ow SWeet A Will be. in that to Ilnive. All 'witty handitthirm eal , 4tAd bare,. y„,„„se ,,,,d' 1 ,. .„., ir,i, +he, loving e.t:,r-.0'.;----.Oir' i:si,"'74:iie't..."'h-e:'n7u-h-'4:a:e': witiaeria. eapeeen why it was beat ear Tote Yrrabetelleseic'Wtlinddewwedbir 4dwraalYtt atfaols. be • . bet for you te be persecuted, and why bitavweasuibmest f.ort yoitt to obe1.9v•attill :Tod: ti t pteth te all Pe/'• eim e e Ymix disquietude bete, Peering; "YQU auffered•' with 3/le on 44,- " - ' • " •• • ealltrt come OP Ow '4114 he glerified with Me, ill heaven," wale one went into a. botiase where th. ere had been a gated deal pf. txoubje,.. ati4 said •tP the wIitlaarl ; "Yell there rem- to be lonelY-'" “Yes''' she "'id' • I am lonely,' "How many in the. "Oaly nayeele,,,. eafeae y 4 ralrlYeaf; ebaaiaan ?,, ea bad seven e . ahilarten,. Where are they ?" "Gone.' '41111 a gooe ?" "All " "All dead?' , ' into the '11:nueleinh:ssb,reauntdhesdaied ;193345,8g I' have been a good mother to the. e,a_nr edowiheartsxityhelaree,.. tbrarear at';e, Au.tnt,de.rsiox b..r.therebroken 4 avetnents of life, J point you to - day to the eternal bairri of heaven. Are there any here that I am miss- ing .this Morning ? 0, you poor wait-. 1 our heart's ouzo. , , . . y sorrow13 . e.el In no 'huniati ear, InnelY and sad 1 how glad you Will be when Christ 'shall disband all' ,Your sorroWe, and crown you queen unto God and the lanihr for evert/ . 0, aged men mad wo- Illeu, fed by His. -rove and warmed by Ms grace for three-seore . years. and tent, will not yaw,. decrepitude ehan.ge for the leap of.a, heart when you come nfatitce steeenfa, eeYor love0,Plowhom, btoevlionook will. be the Good Shepherd, not out in thia. night and watching to kee,p off the Wolves but with:.the lambs reclin- ing on the 'sunlit fal ' ' • , e , 1 1., That be the Cal:Item of our salvation, not amid the roar, and crash, and intern of battle, hilt amid Ms diabanded troolas keep- mg victorious festivity, ,That will. be th 3E1.'d ' • ' e II .egroom of the Church comtng frorot afar, the bride leaning upon His arm while He looks down into her face and says: "Beheld, thou art fair my - love I Behold thou art fair!" ' ' . THE SUNDAY sciooL . ' ' ' ' . ' i wbo wo.14 noise hut 4:tywa. XlaeTtlew454' ° 'Idirs:e*tt.. g'.341 ,babtly.4'tlits-e°:r.ar.tirraNgl reallY false. ' It a ditto: . . ne,tiesvdkteePrrint,,:ge..1);11:Mh:er7kke,4‘71:34.tIthh:elitniTtael, tnawees".41:71doatt,013,03Peuelf,1,:',4,134sius: lathes' PrOfit- to Suffer 't ea° eernietg the prtofrt of the woaled, haVe been eahatiPici` place as. an oriental con prosperity of the kingdr ot, much account to him eoold prova. that tile leing tabe advantaged by the el erhY, destroyed th•eY ' w°111' 'hep'de.14tertetyltd"Swe'rrtntetu tit w' 111 Pay tloathosesee hod note ;taohrr'aestarnlieeeso.:jassaaineauarEtsus:vlafmatt:yntmcbteee°:neksiftn, haj . mbeleinileensstim.tuatead-ws4ullythleri2iiwii ' eeventeeo millions is .$ What was the money to Ibi:, d- 0 wi e an ing the aieu, chase of the phrase to the staries, it ie probable that : well that he would not 1 any money, that he ' was favorite with the eov•erei, !,',11,-.:heontiiiateulav:ifwetErksvii.)fe;;Idolbnidt,tah.hiii "to.. , ,. a nowhere disputed; and If b the right to kill, the jews sures would be given! ter 1 out of them he could pay Those that have the ehai ref t t• ' h . ors no o t . who were to be, employe( 3 -ewe, butte the tax eolle: who,lid•the charge of eue receiving and depositing • e tag om, in 1, .e . 10, The king took hie ri h . 'and, and gave it unto. l thase daysmen. did not but stamped 1 or seal, front, whict the ,, • t .. e word : signature The ring was given, to Ha Purpose of " sealing with r ity letters which Haman to the rulers of , the provii 11. The silver is given d People also. Xerxes regai as a great moza.roh, and c arch should give geed thou hil • ttl - - g --ess wo -; stc..,eed bY feasting and laughter, Persia 1 ' r ' , emperor o mil io: sented to the slaughter a.] an innocent race. The of ancient despots is shif loan of the signet ring, Nst] one. of the old) story of I Who. being given ithe r ring for one afternoon, too of his opportunity • to 1 rant for the • arrest of the king,'and sign( stead. Thedela 'rti y until ' ' ' March was ,due• not to any the king but as We hasi , e , . e superstition of Haman.. throu h t tI ' g ou the great em Posta). system, men on ho in In ' • ' ' ' ' g swages for miles which had been establislic ' t* yv . • Pe eons. e can imagine 1 ing up the decree, sealing kin.g's 'seal, passing it o royal secretariest ' o dui then sending it by these every line of travel? z the hews? That all the J , De put to death on the dal and their prone • cl.: property seize . , . _ , _... Plot seemed to be well laic certain. Horrible incle • • ' e vines of envy and jealousy sat among the Shadows ks above his own. • ' ' s ' anise 40 utiu .c,d3.0 Jaime inties dog Smith Sound se learn that :Nr. PearY' last 3rear to faree the arrying his pupplies, near- Mies Of the pOint-he hoped,. hiB •vv -inter quarters and ations for Me atta.cla 'upon he Greely relief vesSel crushed and sunk at the of the ehannel in 1883. be channel mar be navit great difficultY as in Lt took Naresli 'Vessels to adyance 220 miles froth. to Lady Frankliia Ba.Y. gain the channel is cora- 7ee of ice -as in, 1881 when i the same journeyein six • ":" IN. TEEM): TIONAL ' LESSON, OCT. S. r•-.4 ' . , , :1413." rio,t Agoim" 11117 41e"'" E:44. OA. it'lle GOMM Text, , SOW, Ei. at. :PRACTICAL NOTES. i 'vyierse i''''d athamatt' the soh hf:EraMule- (lath • th A 't H - t ' 4 6' igag'l e" ana'ah' 1311 koown aside freen this tory, 'neither' s, 'am:rine a, and there are unane- svere,a qUestione concerning the meane in of "A,gag•ite." The Septuagint cane flaman "the Batgaean s but. the . • a - , • ' . meaning of that also is uncertain. probably bath aaaeles are local axles, now disuSed, of the place of Haman's • ' , birth. „But Professor' Adeney thinks that "A-gagite" is a niekname of con- . uAt' ee.griFYgthi :twhiveeecinkinbing the.ofpiA:omeesawlse:kdsweerthiVeehmid's SfEnaamt, above all the -princess ', Nearer. to the throne, and Probably also higher frera the floor, s Thig advancement would be 'understood to be a" 'type of advanee ,• ,...' .... t. ' .ISit cu official positions Th,ere can be no rearrangemeat of seats at table in a court withenit a ' great eocial turning down and raising- u- 'Prioces. Cour- tars, ' e 2. The king's servants. The king's slaves the lower :officers Of the court, Per -tent and others. ' The king'S gate. The open spaces, before the palace where the crowds 'gathered for the ad -1 ministration of justice, and where ana- ba.ssad.ors of foreign powers ,were en- . tertainea.. Bowed, and reverenced Ha - an, This was the ordinary oriental ract" T king --business' P , Ice. - he had so command- ed. If we are to understand that a sPecial order :of this sort was given, we muet assunie that Haman's advanced roetit mil unpopular, and that royal au on y was required. to enforce t a respect which went, with. his office ;.Ology. but the statement m.ay mean merely that the king had. bestowed on letin certain dignities which carried with these marks of hanor.-3fordecaL jeignatures, An elder cousin of Esther, whom he 'signet had. brought .ap as a ,daughter. ' d. Why transgiassest, thou the king's , commandment ? Why should Mord e- cad be exempt ' from a universal rule? Apparently Mordecai's . answer was a statement that the rules of his reli- gion would not :permit.hina to offer re- ligithe honors to a mortal. • 4. When they spake daily Onto. him. • Reminding huh of, his disobedience of the command they felt bound to obey. He laeark et t t th ' D'd not ' ene no un o em, 1 n change hes conduct. They told Haman to aee whether Mordecai's matters would stand. That is, actua.ted by jealousy, they "Infornaedh maliciously,- curious to ' see whether or not his course would he tolerated. Banian seems not to irave noticed lVfordepai's ill . -al y . tol disrespect t these fellow a es .d him, lie had told them that. he VMS a Jew, Which may even ..then. have caused a prejud•ce of dislike See nate on : ' 8 ' • '' . . verse . . 5 Th full of wrath • ea was Haman , , Mordecai's course maddened Haman • f .f b • ' or i because heewa-s a Jew, he paeed '' hot bow, then no Jews need bow. ' 6. He thought scorn to lay hands an Mordecai alone If Haman had in- - . • ' ' • formed the king that one of the slaves had presumed to disobey • the royal edict and to insult the court favorite the le ' I - r.e log wou d have said at once,__ mto: ,death •" but Mordecai had in- suited bloat as a • Jew,and Haman was determined that the .1 h laid . e ewe s. .6 ' pay the. penalty.' He sought to destroy all the J- that there • e throughout ews ' , . ere wer,, the whole kingdoran of Aha,suerus. This scheme t t re: . te an entire * eX er 'Ina race spread throughout the great ,ems. pire is startling. 'but those who have read history know how the Persians so . ht to destroy11 th Magi,and. ., ug . . a . . e 'low even in the Christian era the French Catholics sought to destro all ,s. .. y the Protestants. on Saint Bartholo- mew's Da and can understand how Y., o . - bitter passams 'could formulate such a scheme as this ' , . • . . . 7. The first month, tha.t is, the month Nisan. The first. month 'of the n::riti religions. year, whith begins e close of 1)1 -arch and covers most They word 01 Apra The cast Pur.A' -- • • •• - which the writer goes on to translate as meaning the lot From it is derived Purim, . • • the name thafeast coma:tem- orating the deliverance Wrought by Es- h - • e • - ' t er, Irmo day to.: day, and from month to rn,ontle to the twelfth month. They shared 'the superstition about . lucky days, and sought to ascertain them as the Romans did in) Iater years b auguries'd. the flight f birds., ...an ..e Oyurh s notmeanthate v day pet r.tV.e ee 6 Lb - eja6 -1.37t lots,•b ' e eleven m n s they oast but that they cast lots to try - • • ' '1 the good or ill fortune of each day in the twelve months, and that"the result 01. this lottery was the choice of the thirteenth day Of the twelve month. • - - • ' ' ' ' This result of 'Persian superstition was advent •I the Jews,'for advantageous o e.. - it gave ' them titae eto contravene the plans of ' Haman. The "twelfth month' was called Adar, and corres- ponds nearly with our March. ' • i • A, certain people . ; ,dispersed aniang . r .all the provirices, Here •is one of the earliest statements of that terrible hatred.of the Jews which has led to ediont crixnes in all court- • - - - • • ' - to bitter persecutione in -Russia - ' A,aistria, to the strange Dreyfus. complicetions ill France, and to grow- ing PX:ejudice in Germany, England,. and the United States.. Perhaps the strongest reason. for this prejudice is dot vengeance because the Jews kill, Jesus, nor dislike( 'of their peculiar f 't h • ' • • - ;I'M 's, nor t e ignorance andi filth of certain degraded cla f the a • . saes o.. e .1., eca, nor jealousy because their superior mental powers make it Comparatively easy for them to attain 'germ:rani:tit place in, almost every, bralach of active ity ; it ipoludee all -these and ,more ; hut back' of all theee is the fact: that they are scattered abroad and di- persed among the- people of all the nations, and. ,yet do not mix with any, The empire Of the Persiah kings was Made up of the, scraps arta fringes of a sPore of aormarchies. Nineireli. and Behylon and Persia, .01a after the other, had chutrned and mixed. up the pePulations, had transported iuhabit- ants by the hundred thousand. from one provittee to tenet:her, had. builcied • .- , , a a a callers and populate them with med- leys ef races. To forward the ends of statecraft they hadso pulverized all tribal . deatintitione that hardly 11 f th ' t." '' th ' 1 ' a y o , e na, aone ty conquerec re- tairte,a. Ha iedivicluality at the. time of the 'comiog 'of Chriet except the , s The Earthquake In the Fatality •ctrete-- ai,y4;I:eyierheatlfilair!tocandeueralue.riez ale,ecitei,helaiti, e„ the cross ?.Th e Dr, Ansivera illte ones. ..ttora and Tots the /People How They "1.13'1°6 Saved' A desPatch front Washington says: --Rev. Dr, Talmage preached from the following text :-"Belleve on the:Lord. Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be eaved." Acts TV1. •'•214, ' jails are ,dark; ' dull, dame, loath- some Places even now; but they were , ,,,,,,,_ Wareela the • aPeetalie times. a vv.'s in,e, to-dar,,,,,we are , standing in the Phillirtian dungeon. Do you not feel the chill? Do you not hear the groan of those incarcerated ones who for ten years head!. not seen the sunlight, and the deka' sigh ofevonieu who remember their father's houee, and raourn over their wasted estates? Listen again. It • Is theecaugh of a coneurairtive, or the struggleof one in the nightmare of. a. great horror. You listen ..:again„ and hcar a culprit, his chains tattling- as he rolls over in his arcane's, and you ,say: "God,pity the prisoner; 1 But there is another sound in •that. priSon. It is a- song of 'joy and giadneas• What a Place to sing - in! The music Comes winding through the •corridors of the • Prison, and in. all the dark wards the whiseleir • is ' heard; " W :ei that? hats What's that 1" It the swag of Paul ana.Silas. They cannot sleep. They have . . , arbe at• • • ' t weapped, very oadly whipped. The long • their backs• a • . gashes. on th . are bleeding yet. They lie flat on. the cold, ground, their 'feet fast in wooden soc- kets and of course they ca , , nuot sleep.there But the: can' ' ' ' y sing. Jailer, what are 'deed you doing with these people? Why have they been pat in 1 ' here ?„ 0, they ---- ' . •. have ben ing to make the world ti eItry• . better. s that all? That is all. A Pit for .Joseph. A lion's cave for Dan- lel. A blazing furnace for Shadrach . • -• Clubs for John Wesle • An anathema far pn. . ..„, , . Y• 111.1) meianetlion. A dungeon for - , Paul and Silas. But while we are . . standing in the gloom. of that Philip-. paian ,du • . . dungeon, and we hear the ming- o • lin s • • , g voice of sob, and groan, and blase phemy, and halleujah, .suddenly an . earthquake / The iron bar - • . . s of the Pri- son twist, the pillars crack off' the sol- id masonry heave begins to .and rook :till the doors swing .open„andthe.walls , I, with a terrific crash. The jailer; feelin 'hims •responsible• . • • g , elf for these prisoners; andfeeling suicide to be hon- ourable-esinCe Brutus killed -himself, and Cato killed himself, and. Cassius killed himself -puts hip sword to .his own -heart proribeing with one strong, k th t t i ' -• g, een rus i o pu• an end toll's ex-, atement and agitation. Mit Paul aries out, " Stop! stop! Do thySelf no harni: We are al here.". • Then I See the jail- er r n' 1 5tthroughat. the duet, and amid, the uruninui"Put II prison, and 1- see 'him throwing himself down at the feet of these' prisoners, crying. out:, "What shall I do ?. What shall I do?"' Did Paul answer- "Get out of this .place befor there ' 'another e ere is . earthquake; Put handcuffs and hopples en these other prisoners, lest they geteaway ?"' No word of that kind • Compact, thrill- in t d • ' .- g, rero.en ous answer ; answer .mem- orable all through earth and. heaven: "Believe .oni the Lord. Jesus Christ and thou shalt be ,Saved." . Well We have all a, ' ; • , . re d. of the earth- quake in Lisbon in Lima in: Aleppo and in Caracas; • a bah -two 'but we in ', tude where in all our memory there has not been one severe volcanic disturb- ;Ince. And yet we. have seen fiftymade th: ' ie H • ' ear qua es. ere a a man that has been building- up a large fortune. His bid. on the money 'market was felt in all the cities. He thinks he has got beyond. all annoying rivalries in trade and he says t li• " ' ys o imself : Now I am free and Safe from all possible pertur- btitien a But in 'a few years a national panic strikes the foundations of the commercial world, and crash! goe,s all that magnificent business establish- . -. - • ,. -. merit. He is a man who has bhut up a ver beautiful home Hi y , . s daughters • 'died have just :come home from the ,serain,me ary with diplomas of graduation. His sons have started in .life, honest,. tem- perate,. and pure. When the evening lights are struck, there is a happyand an unbroken family -circle But there h ' ' as been an aecident down at the sea The young man ventured too ' ' far out in the surf. The telegraph hurl- ed. the, terror up to'the pity., An earth- quake struck under the foond i • at ons of that b • • tif 1 'la ' Th ' theueratuain u droomee.d ; etlyiecinfalciloicittedr; hushed. Crash! go all those dgie hopes, ands- t' ho • prospect,- -ie ea.nd expecte- tions. So my friends we have all felt the shaking clinVn _of 'same reat tron- ble, ahd there WAS, a timeg: vichen we were, as 'much excited as this Mao of • the text, and we cried out tia. he did: , " Whit shall I do ? What ehall I do?" The same reply that the Apo tl. - d to him Is appropriate to as "Believe•strlae on the 'Lorcl .reSOS Christ, 'and shalt -lee sared.'"' There are some dcieu- menta of so great importance that ou write out our lull ranee, So the lave ° ° 1 ° 18 ea - four in' some:parts f th • B•bi - ' 11 ed." Lord," and in other -Part of th • e, .. • s . e Bohle He is eallcide' Jesus" and in oth- er parts of - .Ithe Bible I/e is. called "'Christ ;° but: that theremight be no 'mistake about this, passage; all three names come in together-' the lord ;Terms Chriet.". Now Who, is this Hein' that you *ant ,me Now, trifst dri and beg-' Have, in 1 ' Men 'sernetinaeS collie to me with oredentiale ' and ' cattifibatee et them, There is some dishonesty in. their looke that Makes Me knew I shall be cheated if •I coefide in them. You cannel: put Youe heart's confidence in a man until you, know what stuff lie is 'Made of, and am I alareastonable thie teeming, ,tvlien 1 etop .to • ask you who .this is that you want .me to trust in ? 'NO man would think of venturing. his , .. life on a vesSel glaIng out to seathat has never 'been ineheetecl. NO .. you D31181: haw, tha oottiflooth- )jari8. amitishivs telling bow litany ,tons it carries, ami bow 'long, ago11 wrig volt, and: who 'built; it, and all abobt it• ' And you„ en.rinet A-trilstlft rem t a rIttic iihp. eercen rie t - year his vessel was beset peditions and he, has again peditions and he has again complimeint which, Sir Cle- ham paid hint% when, be lAraerican explorer "the Aretic sredge travellers, ' have extended over 1,500 a has coyeeed much pew obtained. moat beterecst- ge about the geography of Lear smith Sound, Hayes 'West of Cape Sabine, was enetrate through the land Arctic Ocean on the we,st iarate Grinnell Land, trim and. Peary hats discovere so-called soulcid is merely .et And that Grinnell Land - re Land form Otte land t xplorer 'has also surveyed stems of the. larger inden- • ' ie west coast of the Smith to. the north, he has cros- 'thern part of . Ellesmere - . ' • rney never before .made, nected his surveys ot its st with those of Look-, i north, thus `revealing a aknown °oak line. From !.al point of vierW: there is .,t the large amount of ac- motion Peary has col- e enrichment. of our maps a all his expedition las . . ---0..____ A TURTLE F W " ' OR A ATCHDOCI, . --1-e' „ _ , An..Hawaiian Family's Queer Guardian,- , ling Eoongh to carry the children on ' Its Hoek. • , • . . , .. Strayt 11 ' ' ' ler es,.- measuring 4 or 5feet •in length, do not often, waiader, unmol- estea through the streets of a thrones populated ' •ty. • ei . But not long since, a known'• ' ' • • : w family in lioaolulu, Haw- alien Islands,. leeeived a Visitor of this kind, Nobody knows where the great beast came from, hsimply' d , e appeared - ' one day at the garden gate and, foie- . • , ing an entranee, proceeded to make h• ' ' . inicalf at home org the premises., He waspromptly' - ' . expelled by the a.ston- Weed , eaniily, to *ander once. more on the cit ' '' • • ' ystreets ,-. f oi..they did not know what , • • • ' .. . . , elect to da with:him.", , The turtle h d ' • . ' ' ' a deffeient .ideas, however; he hl.c1.- f ' d' ';' . - - ` s min - comfortable home- and meant to sta • ' le . . y, in -it, he had very ikely led a lifehardship• • .. , of , and intended. to end his da ' • ' •• ' • • : days in peace and security, so he returned; bat was again turned out upon the cruel '. ' - h . . . ., world. The turtle had a will of his ow ' , • . • .. n and was deteimined to livein that( particular spot, so . he crawled in again the - -t t* ' • ' • e nea. time the 'gate was open The family ' . . • y gave up in despair, and 'allowed the uninvited i i , • • guest to remain a few days before . • • , ' - . ' they turned. him cant again. But he 'returned once in ' Th' . • e Ore. is perfornce• ance was repeated a. number of times; if t •ja • shut 1 e gate on him, he would , , , . ., up on hue hind legs •and put his fore "feet on the top -like a groat ,.. dog. . wile nece,ssar to e t the ' . e . Y a cep, .e in- evitable.., ...the people to whom he .iaLshed to attach hines.elf began to feel , . A CERTAIN SUPERSTITION • and allowed • - - him to take poesession of ,ins the .garden which be had so long covet- ed as. his abode. Th e • , " ere he( crawls a .out in the daytime ..and ale/spa at night and ' ' • ' • - - is given his three good meals. a day of bran and water, and Scraps frora the table, lie is a' per- ,. e , fectly . harmless old fellow,. aim toe '• children have great •s.port.. with him, ' two or. three at a time riding'o . • • - n his back. It is only. dangerous to piece a hand, 019 the side of his neck, foe, as he continets, his neck quickly within his shell, it is likely to, be drawn i end • • a • • n a injuree. . But his funniest char- act r' t" developed: e is icalter he had been fairly accepted into the family'• • circl e, i e. u. n or e in ness lavished up- on him he took upon hiniself the fun. .. . e-, • - of a wateh dog. The poor beast is apt abla o but when a straoger. ' te' 1 t bark, b ' t je:trcelt2efolic:a.rot?date es forth. such hisses as o faigh-• ten the most cciu • ra .. .ernor-teneral • . ..geous until they. discover ethat his hiss is Worse than . ibis bite.8. 1 It is estimated that this eat 'I" ' 4.., is very; op. wh„,,,--ogo17---,-.4-11r- , •-,:e . a • ' "-"e v 4 '''. ,. . . g. v .o an un- u.sual size. His neck is beginning to alarivel and t ' ' itself'tries, 11the eke a on - drawn ' e e 'and look otheastremetage. It, is thought by belonged t t.thoelice he famous' tuetle that aineh:ohcda, I,.I-te . was the eatest. ,e, wg a . 'eonueicat aad King of the 1-1_„...a _ealiatiIslands,eoancadivel over 100 'YrALA'6, ago. " The... ire la 1 -maned for genmations in the custody of the eoyel „um y, an as e waged to the QueenEMIG:RAN f• 'I. dl tbl - ' : Dowager, Hapiolani, who died On June 24, Some time before the 0 ' ' d lath s death the'turtle d' • .•.-) • this • • WI ...Butt whether , is qt•ie:eii. Pa east, with its almost' u intei i.gence,. bus a romae- tic history pt no, it is to -day one of the ' inringing sights 'of Honolie. , ,e .P.IeSt t• ..1as .though few viaitors know of its ` existeuee` a done much more. , The his goal, and with enorm- i has cache.d four tons of r 250 miles along •the chap.- ascend to reach the north d. ,Theee eaches are. not lifty miles apart and the 7 contain,' vvith others he , . .orth, will enable him to latitude, even if the Wind, rear, is unable) to push on - ,shorn fiord with the three I she will carry, to the ex- evil]: thus' make himself aricletsit of his steamer, for is unabletoreaeh his . se the, line • of caches he . , . and will extend "further be replenished by such Bys as he has made in the . -- er has 'thus done :a 'large mee,ssfill work both -in ex -we oration and in furthering 1. of his enterpriee, which a north! for several' years ne but the most 'dauntless L. achieve what Peary has past year, 'handicapped as ' ' unusually bad season a.nd • . accident that temporarily • • : , His results . thus far lope that his further ef- • Crowned by the rich -ad- geographical knowledge [vet explorer seeks to add . he has already done. . -----4----- . . DISTINCTION IN UNE ' ---. eau Ter a et ' , . t ' ' itlaanuth. s 1 • Ihnereita tie cart • ' ' ' ' It a no new thing to hea was ahe ' ' ad of the 'rest of ' , invention. Even the 1.1.1] its existence we are told • ' - ' of. the Chinese or j'a/ . . „ said to have been _cop 'dal d • • '• t • ' a le -giving ree, and at i uh sana• t' ' neva i c 6 - -e Ye hi e -et tree ef whiich it is a coto ar t cr' 't ' • . ea. igni aries welts appear in public seated ui la 6anopies. and latertla • ' Were made portable; tint series. of -court regulations . , rage of umbrellas becalm • ' By the umbre la a Chines is allowed to carry,..one w ed can tell his rank. '. people May utee an unaba d 1 h • " not roe e of, c ot or silk, paper. . If in Clone one sees • headed, by. 'tete enormoi brellasi he may be assure( of a proVm tary offieer of the first : . . lag behind them. . Thegrandeurof a ray: or religious desmonstratio. by the numbet of umbre are tarried. It is said th • when the emperor went had. to be preceded by twe: brellas. It 'hardly' seems .000a hove been r fiat er str' OF FRESH EGGS. . s...-. • • ei•many Are FIRM. "Fifteen . tor Every Ead One. ,shcire. nst are a practical nation. zed that by proper .organ- can keep within' the Ger- the 150,000,000 marks, or a, w.hich the people of the • pay to foreigners ' for . eggs, theY have farmed a purpose' of derelopin.g, a y business. Egg depots :a bli shed :it the Prineipal . • • y • al: .. Chemnitz, Dresden . The Public are tie be treggs„ the gOod quality. s a which will be abso- ,ntectd.. This system will ace to customers and at ie poultry raieers a more i quicker market for their tho could /alb ": erwise se- , ,a,i; bad egge may be trac- rigin„-eaeh poultryman is are sending his eggs to mark theta avith :a sign teterrained , upon, which e them' as fresh •eggs and source. Fr each egg ieoves to be inedible the entitled to receive fifteeb ithout charge; and the he egg raiser who deliver- egg ta the depot are to therefrom for a stated it - , ' IS , FROM . . . According to the retina the lailtdon Boaad of Tra • n - last quarter, 72,WD enal barked for places ,outaid. from the various places al 1(ingdoin. at which emigr are stationed, The Pro] which England, Scotian 1 took part in this exotins m ly stated as being for eve liahnien, three Sctochintin /rishmen. ' . 'TOOK 'IIIiVI SOME TIME TO SEF /1' ' ' ' ' ' ' ..Dirtileigh, after the lectureae•It a all Well enough, I ve no doubt; but, don't yer know, t never Can, oojoY anything I tan% fiilly anderstand. . , Sharpe -What a .pity 1 I alien/ dn 1 Chink you'd ever feel ' ' ' like bin g . g , any- • - whet. ----- Alameda, Oa], lice a ciab composed . , ,mate of divereed men They found ' ' ! riage o. failure and -have nilited for contiplence. ' • ••' • •, • ' " ANOTHER SHA,TTER1 ' ' ' t Glenfair never forge s . gentleman, Ala, you are rnisteken t,- coMe U'rxM him snarler : st-' cr - 1 t,1 was ell mg 03161. 4 t5t16, :. •ind h 'wee taking Ids eo • ' W t ef th ' PO0 e 6 .peon. 1 PATIENT FOP. .1-1IIVI. Fres,h-Here comes that Positively there isn't the aat ails .her,.: ge-Evidetttly you arajust her caaa, , arry with ztd Wil,M41 4,11 IVOPIe,. 's laws Peso true avhile it for joy" forlostance, heliete and bjeotionahle; they are a oubtless were not for the hem. Itianian gestioa con. kiogdem. Lia ouely out of tier if the m had been ; but if ha hiniself wail estruction of 4 be. at they may verse 0, ruts of silver t have the Uae value of d treasures This sum has ay from tent ons; pe.rhape safe guese, he paid foe? ion in the king's trea.. Elamasi kneaNi e asked fon a suffichinti n• to' make was an age d. the anariro'' spoils" was e were given „ their tree -4 inri so that thie money, ge of the , o murderers to kill the tore, "those erintendings he revenues rry's phrase - ng from his , amen. In write their hem with a custom, in. '7 is derived, man for the oya.1 author - was to send ce. thee, the cled himself great 'man- ly. By a ed doabtLis the king a s, bad con -- ad pillage of utter levity wn by the ich reminds he courtier oyal signet k advantage ign a war - and death a in his e following weakness of seen, to dile There was ire a sort of selaack tale- -to stations d in all dir- amen draw - it with the ver to the Beats and. etmen along d what was ews were to rrientioned, And so the and success d, are the I 13ut God ping watch RELLAS. tank by the r that China he world in brella owes to ,the gen- anese. It is ed from a irst received rded to the • allowed to dor umbrel- ese canopies 11 a regular for the car- e neoeseaty. e gentleman ho is initiat- 'he common ella if it is but only of a procession s silk um - 1 that a goy - .6 or a mili- a.nk is tom - ti procession o is denoted 11,as whicb at formerly, lattriting, he ty-four uln- as if the ery succees- ITROPE. s issued by de for the grants em. a Europe the; "United tion offices ortions iri "" and Ireland ay be totigh•- •y• two Faig- • cl twelve D IDOL. 'hat he is a happened; .ly while he e other day, P from the