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Exeter Times, 1899-10-26, Page 6e AIME deep OW t Fund, WO' oneY A note ed lent, per au. Open eve SATD eurrent rat nICKSON axoter, De Qalerld, , itT.NDAT. , Y./OM:env rIngranten WEDNEt necteusn.. 611.1DAY. $iertileD, THEIRS • NOT MR. ;oath P tam: tat .:educed vith sik eist re. aeen penious T'ae 11 • tetate o Sem _ ario .1 L e said, a vie eem, 1 ng, at, "00) he ski 'dr Is old y race ackrot tin ti Ose. IS pe th sen tek ie p , Po' aou! Th aat • •ue ort. kus ie • ear ton t lee id - THE EXETER TIMES On.9 siND About three weeks ego twelve Ulet alas were arrested At Constantinople un the charge or conspiring to transfer the Khaltfate from the Suiten to the Khedive of Egypt; they were, however, released on the seventeenth of last Mende a few days efter their arrest, the eharge, it is said, not having been proved. At the time the 'Enemas were arrested the Palace was said to bave been greatly agitated, owing to re- ports from Mem, where dissatisfac- tion at the subjection a the centre of Mohamtnedantsm to the Turk never ceases. Among the many races com- posing the Ottoxnan Empire, there is none to which the Turk is more ob- noxious than to the Arab; and to such lengths is the hatred carried that, while an Arab alight go oet of his way to relieve a Christian in dis- tress, he would leave a Turk to die by the wayside without any notice but a curse. 'The prafound antipathy of the Arab to his conqueror has never changed, and sine° the weakening of the Turkish Government through the last war with Brassie, and the British ocoupation of Egypt, the Arab aspira- tions for a revival of their independ- ence have grown stronger. For several years past rebellion in southern Arabia has been chronic, and Turkisk auth•arity there covers no more grqund than is occupied by the imperial troops. Te impossibility of governing emit keeping -the peace in a territory so extensive and so devoid of means of communication is taxing - the Sultan to the utmost, and to bring it more under • control it has been decided to divide the part of Ara- bia forming the littoral of the Red Sea into three vilayets or provinces, that of Mecca being in the centre. The arrests of the Ulemas at Constantino- ple, however, show that the danger to the Sultan's supremacy lies in causes. that are not to be touched by the in- I crease of administrative divisions in Arabia. Other methods of govern- ment are required, bat the misfortune of the Turk is that he almost invari- ably when doing the right thing does it too late. t does not follow, however, that be- cause a the alleged conspiracy at Constantinople the time is yet ripe for the removal of the Khalifate to some other Mohammedan centre. There are -many reasons why it should continue where it is for the present. The matter is one that concerns more than one of tee great powers. Russia, France and Austria have large flume bars of Mohammedans under their rule and would certainly claim a voice in the settlement of the new seat of the Khalifate. When the time therefore comes that it may be found expedient to consent to its transfer elsewhere it would be to a neutral state and not to one controlled exclusively by any otte European power, as Egypt is now by England. To allow Mecca to be- come the seat of the Khalifate, as things are, would be almost equivalent to establishing relations between India and. Mecca, which is the resort of the millions of British Indian Mo- hammedans. The destiny of the Kha- lifate appears therefore to be fixed for the present at Constantinople; and though the question of its transfer is primarily a religious one, it is at the same time political and international, and ean hardly be raised without at the same time bringing up that of the British occupancy of Egypt. THE MOST COSTLY DRESS. Of course it comes from Paris—the home of strangely extravagant ideas. A yeung lady of noble family is deter- mined ta get up a costume far more gorgeous than any ever before worn by woman. She is now having the de- signs made according to her notions. She was acquainted with the theory that added brilliancy is given to jewels I y skin, having often noticed the fact that 'diamonds and peones flash mcst brightly on shin- ing necks and sheulders. She has therefere given orders for an entire costume to be made of (nothing but precious stones and precious metals. The pearls, diemonds and rubies are to be so set that they will be in im- mediate contact with the wearer's skin. The lower part of the costume will be almost solid, the gold and sil- ver being beaten very thin. iso as to be extremely pliable and light. The arms, hands, neck and shoulders are rto be almost covered with loops of ,pectris, stars of diamonds and rings of all kinds. The breast will shine with stars and crescents of rubies, emeralds and diamonds. The rest of the body will 'be covered witrh pliable bands on woven gold, on whieh jewels will glisten like dew- drops, Kerry of the brilliants will 'be purc'hasecl in the rough, and rut into the shapes which best acoord evith the places in which they are to 6e set. That the costume when finished wilt cost a large foetune goes !without say- ing. WHY HE SHRANK. This is George the Fourth, said an • exhibitor of waxworks for the million at a penny each, pointing to a very slim figure with a theatrical erown on his head. I thought he was a very stout man, observed a spectator. Very likely, replied the man, short- ie, 13.01 approving of the comment of his visitor; but if you'd a' been here without, wi Wes half so Iotig as he has, voa'd 'a been jast as thin. IT IS A GREAT METROPOLIS Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the Beauties of • Heaven. Vast Immigration to That City, But No Emigration From It— The Twelve Beautiful Gateways of the City—Gales on the North, Gates on the South, Gates on the East, Gates on the West—White or Black May Enter if His Heart Is • Right. A despatelt froWashington says Rey. Dr. Talmage preaohed from the following text :—"And the twelve gates wee twelve pearls."—Rev. ext., 21. Our subject speaks of a great metro- polis, the existence of which many have doubted.. Standing on the wharf and looking off upon the harbor, and seeing the eierehantmen coming up the bay, the flags of foreign nations streaming from the top -gallants, you immediately maim up your mind that those vesselstcame from foreign ports, and you sae; "That is from Hamburg, and that is from Marseilles, and that is from Soutbanapton, and that is from Havana," and your supposition is ao- curate. But from the city of which / at this time speak, no weather-beaten reeroltantenen or frigates with scarred bulkhead have ever come. There has been a easitimmigration into that city but ad emigration from it—so fan as our natural vision can decry. "Thera is no such city," says the undevout astronomer. "1 have stood in high towers with a mighty telescope, and have swept the heavens, and I: have seen spots on the sun and caverns in the moon; but no towers have ever risen on my vision, no palaces, no tem- ples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such city." Even very good people tell me that heaven is not a material organism, but a grand spiritual fact, and that the Bible descriptions of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. 1 bring. in reply to this what Christ said, and He ought to know: "I go to prepare"— not a theory, not a prineiple, not a sentiment; but "go to prepare a place for you." The resurrected body implies this. If my foot is to be reformed from the dust, it must have something to tread on. If rue; hand is to be reconstruct- ed, it must have something to handle. If my eee, having gone out in death, is to be rekindled, .1 must have SOMETHING TO GAZet ION. Your adverse theory seems to imply the resurrected body is to be hung on nothing, or to walk on air, or to float Beard the intangibles. You tell then a soul in heaven will be cramped and hindered in its enjoyments; but I answer: • Did not Adam and Eve tweet plenty of room in the Garden of Eden I Although only a few yards or a Lew miles woad have described the circruniference of that place, they had ample room. And do you not sup- pose that God, in the imneensities, can build a place large enough to give the whole race room, even though there be material organisms? Herschel looked into tee heavens. As a Swiss guide puts bis alpenstock between the glaciers, and crosses over from crag to crag, so Herschel planted his tele- scope between the worlds and glided from star to star, until he. could an- nounce to us that we live in a pert of the universe but sparsely strewn with worlds; and he peers out into immensity until he finds a region no larger than oar solar system in which there are fifty thousand worlds mov- ing. And. Professor Lang says Gran, by a philosophic reasoning, there must be sotoetehere a worldwhere there is no darkness, but everlasting sunshine; so that I do not know but that rit is simply oecatuse we have no telescope powerful enough that we cannot see into the land where there is no dark- ness at all, and catch a glimpse of Ithe burnished pinnacles. As a conquering army, marching on to take a city, comet at nightfall to the crest of a mountain frora which, in the midst of the landscape, they can see the castles they are to capture, ram in their war chargers and halt to take a good took before they pitch their tents foe the night; so now coming as we do on this mountain -top of prospect I nom - mend this regiment of God to rein in their thoughts and' halt, and before they .pitch their tents for the night take one good, long look at the gates 1 of the great eity. "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls." The archiceeture of the gates. In the Best place 1 want you to examine the architeeture of those gates. Pro- prietors of large estates are very apt to have AN ORNAMENTED GATEWAY. I Sometimes they spring an arch of ' masonry; the posts of the gate flank- ed. with lions in statuary; the bronze gate is a representation of intertwin- ing foliage, bird -haunted, until the hand of architectural genius drops ex- hausted, all its life frozen into the stone. Babylon had a hundred gates; s? had Thebes. Gates of wood, and iron, arid stone, guarded nearly all the old cities. Moslems have inscribed up- on their gateways inscriptions fi•ota the Koran of the IVIaberomedan. There haee been a great many fine gateways, bat Midst sets hand to the work, and Lor the upper city He swunga gate stich as no eye ever gazed on untouch- ed of insieration. With the nail of His own cross He mit into it wonderful traceries, stories of pasi sufferings and of gladness to come. There i$ no wood or atone, or bronze in that gate, but from top to base, are free)] side to side, it is all of pearl, Not one piece picked up from Ceylon banks, and another piece from the Persian Gulf, and an- other piece from the Wand of Merger- ette ; but one soiid pearl picked up from tbe berieb of eveveleing light by heavenly hands, end hoitted end swung etaid the Shouting of angels, The glories ot alabaster vase and por- phyry pillar fade out before this gate- way, It puts out the spark of felspar and Bohemian diamond. • You know how one little precious stone on your finger will flash under the gaslight. 1 But 0! the brightness when the great gate 01 heaven swings, struck through • and dripping with the light of eternal noonday. julius Mewl' paid a hun- dred and twenty-five thousand crowns for one pearl. The Government of Portugal boasted of having a pearl larger than a pear. Cleopatra and Phillip II., dazzled the world's vision with precious stones. But gather all • these together and lift them, and add to them all the wealth of' the pearl fisheries, and set thenein the panel of one door, 'and it does not equal this magnificent gateway. An almighty heed hewed this, swung this. polished this. Against this gateway, on the other side, dash all the splendors of earthly beauty. Against etis gate on the oth- er side beat the surges of eternal glory, 01 the gate 1 ..the gate 1 it :strikes an infinite charm through every one that passes it. One step this side that gate end we are paup- ers. One step the other side that gate and we are kings. THE PILGRIM OF EARTH going through sees in one huge pearl ail his earthly tears in crystal. 0 1 gate of light! gate of pearl 1 gate heaven 1 For our weary souls at last swing open: "When shall these eyes Thy heaven - built walls And pearly gates behold; Thy bulwarks with salvation strong, And streets of shinieg gold?" 0 1 Heaven Is not a dull place. Heav- eaa ia not a contraeted place. Heaven is not a stupid place. "I saw the tievaeris,, lve.Fates, and they were twelve p In the second place I want you to coutit the number of those gates. Im- perial parks and lordly manors are apt to have one expensive gateway, and the others are ordinary; but look around at these entrances to heaven, and count them. One, two, three, four, five, dix, seven, eight, nine, ten, ele- ven, twelve. Hear it, all ye earth and all the heavens. Twelve gates! I ad- mit this is rather ha,rd on sharp sec- tarians 1 Here is a. bigoted Presbyter- ian, who brings his Westminster As- sembly Ceteciusm, and be makes a gateway aut of that, and he says to the world: "You go through there or stay oat." And here is a, bigoted mem- ber of the Reformed Church, and he makes a gate out of the Heidelberg Catechism, and he • says: "You go through there or stay out." A.nd here is a bigoted Methodist, and he plants two posts'and he says: •' Now, you crowd in between these two posts, or stay out." And .here is e_bigoted Epis- copalian, who says: "Hare is a lithur- gy out of which I mean to make a gate; go through it or stay out." And here is a bigoted Baptist, who says: "Here is a water -gate; yoa go through that or you most stay out." And so On in all our Churches and in all our denominations there are men who make one gate for themselves, and then dem.ard tette the whole world go through it. I abhor this contracted- edness in religiaus views. 0 small-souled man, when did God give you the contract for making gates ? I tell you plainly I wil not go in at that gate. 1 will go in at any one of the twelve gates I choose. Here Is a ma,n who says, "I can more eas-. ily and more closely a,pproach my God through a prayer -book." I say: "My, brother, then use the peayerdbook.", Here is a man who says: "1 believe' there is only one mode of baptism and that is immersion." Then I say: "Let me plunge you!" Anyhow, I say, away with the gate of rough panel, and rot- ten posts, and rusted latch, when there are twelve gates and they are • TWELVE PEARLS. e The fact is, that a great many of the C.hurches in' this day are being doe-. trifled to death. They have been try-• ing for twenty-five years to find out all about God's decrees, and they want o know who are elected to be saved and who are reprobated to be damned and they are keeping on discussing that subject when there are millions of souls who need to have the truth put straight at them that unless they repent they will all be damned. They sit courting the number of teeth in the jaw -bone with which they are to slay the Philistines when they ought to be wielding skilfully the weapon. They sit on the beach and see a ves- sel going to pieces in the offing, and instead of getting into a boat and pulling await for the wreck, they sit discussing the different styles of °ate locks. Cod intended us to know some things, and intended as not to know others. 1 bave heard scores of ser- ' mons explanatory of God's decrees, but game away more perplexed than when I went. The only result of such discussion is a great fog: Here are two truths which are to conquer the world; mate a sinner—Obrist, a Saviour. Any man who adopts those two theories in his religious belief sball have my right hand in wagra grip of Christian b ro the rhood. A man tomes down to a river in time of freshet. Ile wants to get across. He bas to swine. What does be do? The first thing is to put off his heavy ap- parel, and drop everything he has in his hands. He muce go empty-hand- ed if he is going to the, other bank, And I tell you when we have come clown to the river of death and field it swift and raging we will have to put off all our secteriattisne and. lay down all our lumbrous creeds, and etiolate handed put out for the other shore. " Whet," say you, "would you resolve all the Ceristean Church into one kind of Clitirch t •Would you make all aerie - tendon), worsbip in the same way, he the samedforres ?" 0, no. , You might as well decide that all people shall eat the same kind of fowl without refer- enee to appetite, or wear the same kind of apparel without reference to . the shape of their body. Your ances- try, your temPerament, yoor surrotind- ings will decide whether you' go to this or that Cheroln and aeopt-teis or that Church polity. One Church, will besl get one man to heaven, and an- other Churoh another man. I an not apposed to fenees being built artnind denorainatione of Chris- tians. • I am not opposed to a very high fenee being built around, each of the denominations of Christians; but I do say that in every fence there ought to be bars that you can let down, and gate THAT 'YOU CAN SWING OPEN. Go home, therefore, to-dey, and take your Biblerand get down on your knees before Godeand make your own creed. I arn not okposed to creeds; I believe in them;. hut a creed that does not reach down, to the, depth of a man's immortal nature is not worth the pa- per that it is printed on. I do not care which one of the gates you go through, if you only go through one of the twelve gates that Jesus lifted. Well now, I see all the redeemed of earth coming up toward heaven. ,Do you think they will get in ? Yes. date the first: the Moravia,ns come up; they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ ;they pass through. Gate the second: the Quakers come up; they have reeelved the inward light; they have trusted in the Lord; they pass through. Gate the third; the Lutherans come up; they had a great admiration fox' the reformer and received the same grace that made Luther what he was, and they pass through, Gate the fourth; reseal of the Roman Catholics come up who look beyond the superstitions of their Church, and, believing in salva- tion by Jesus Christ, they pass through. Gate the fifth: the German Reformed Church passes throngh. Gate thi sixth: the Congregationalists pass thxaugh. Gate the seventh; the Bap - °diets pass through. Gate the eleventh: the Episcopalians pass through. Gate the ninth: the Sabbataria,ns pass through. Gate the tenth: the Meth- odists pass through. Gate the el :wen- th : the Reformed Dutch Church passes through, Gate the twelfth: the Pres- byterians pass through. But there aro a great host of other denomina- tions who must come ea, and great multitudes who connected themselves with no visible Church, but felt the power of godliness in fheir heart, and showed it in their life. Where is their gate? Will you shut all this remaining host out of the city? No. They may come in at our gate. Hosts of God, if you cannot get admission through any other entrance, ?COME IN AT THE TWELFTH GATE. Now they mingle before the throne. Looking out on the one hundrea and forty and four thousand, and you can- not tell at what gate they came in. One Lord. One faith. One baptism. One glassy sea. One doxology. One triteinph: One heaven. "Why, Lu- ther, how did you get in?" "I came through the third gate." "Cranmer, how did you get int" "I came through the eighth gate." "Adoni- ram Judson, how did you get through 1" "I came through the sev- enth gate." "Hugh Melrail, the mar- tyr, how did you get through ?" "I came through the, twelfth gate." Glory to God! One heaven, but twelve gates. In the third place, notice the point of the compass toward which these gates look. They are not on one side, or on two sides, or on tbree sides, but ou four sides. This is no fano; of mine, but a distmet announcement. On the north, three gates; on the south, three gates; on the east, three gates; on the west, three gates. What does that mean? Why it means that all nationalities are included, o.ncl it does not make any difference from what quarter of the earth a man comes up; if his hearb is right, there is a gate open before him. On the north, three gates. That means mercy for Lapland, and Siberia, and Norway, and Sweden. On the south, three gates. That means pardon for Hindostan, and Algiers, and Ethiopia. On the east, three gates. That means salvation for China, and Japan, and Borneo, On the west, three gates. That means. redemption for America. It does not make any difference how dark-skinned or how pale -faced men may be, they will find a gate right be- fore them. Those plucked bananas under a tropical sun. Those behind reindeer shot across Russian snows. From Mexioan plateau, from Roman campania, from Chinese tea -field, from Holland dyke, from Scotch highlands, they come, they come. Heaven is not a monopoly f or a few precious ends. It .is not a Windsor Castle, built only for royal families. It is not a snaall town with small population, but John saw it, and he noticed that an angel was measuring it, and he measured it Ibis way, and then he measured it that way. and whichever way he measured it, it was • FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES so that Babylon and. Thebes, and Tyre and Nineveh, and St. Petersburgh and Canton, and Pekin and Paris, and Lon- don and New York, and all the' dead cities of the past, and all the living cities of the present added together, would not equal the cenus of that great metropolis. Walking along a street, you can, by the contour of the dress, or the•-faee, guess where a men came from. You say: "That is a Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that is an American." But the gates that gather in the righteous will bring them irrespective of nationality. For- eigners sometimes get home -sick. Some of the tenderest and most pathetic stories have been told, of those who left their native clime, and longedfor it until they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high residence of heat ven, will not long any more for the Alps, stariding el the eternal hills, 'The Russian will not long any more for the luxuriant harvest fields he left, now that he hears the hum and the rustle of the harvest of everlasting light. The •royal ones frotn earth will not long to go back again to the earthly court now that they etand in the palaces of the sun. Those who once lived among the groves of spice add oranges will not long to return now that they stand under the tree of life that bear twelee manner of fruit, While 1 speak, an ever-itacreasing throng is pouring tlarmigh the gatek They are going up front Senegambia, frem Pal:ago/me from tda.dree fram Hoeg Kong. • "'Whatl" you eriy. t• you introducte all tile heathen into glare'?" I tell you UM tact is that tee majority of the people in these climes die in infancy, and the infants all go straight into eternal life, and so the vast naajority ot those weft die in Cbhaa and in India, the vest majority of those vSho die in Africa, go straight into tee skies; they die in infancy. One eundred and eixty generatioes have been born einee the world was creat- ed, and so 1 estinaate that there must be fifteen thousand million children in glory. If at a concert two thou-, sand children sing, your soul is rap - tared within eau. 01 the transport when fifteen thousand million little once! !tend up inc white before the throne of God, their chanting drawing out all the stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf; and Leipsic, and Boston. Pour in through the, twelve gates, 0! ye redeemed — banners lifted, rank af- ter rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until all the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp. CROWD ALL THE TWELV It GATES. Room yet, Room on the thrones. Intom in the • mansions, Room on the river bank, Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all earth's mountains eear the shrill blast and theglen's echo it. Let naissioearies tell i it n Pagoda, and. colporteurs sound it across the Western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled; halloo it to the Bedouin careering across the desert. News! News! A glori_ ous heaven and twelve gates to get nations of eternal winter — on the north, three gates. Hear it! 01 you thin -blooded gbiautens,zed inhabitants, panting under into it! Hear itt 01 you equatorial heats—on the south, three But I notice when John saw these gates, they were open—wide open. They will not always be so. After awhile heaven will have gathered up all its intended population, and the children of God will have come home. Every mown taken. Every harp struck. Every throne mounted. All the glories cif the universe harvested in the great garner. And heaven being made up, of course the gates .will be shut. Aus- tria in, and the first gate shut. Rus- set in, and the second gate shut. Italy in, and the third gate shut. Egypt in, and the fourth gate shut. Spain in, and. the fifth gate shut. France in, and the sixth gate shut. England in, and the seventh gate shut. Norway in, and the eighth gate shut. Swit- zerland in, and the ninth gate shut. Hindostan in, and the tenth gate shut. Siberia in, and the eleventh gate shut. All the gates are closed. but one. Now let America go in with all the islands of the sea and all the other nations that have called on God. The cap- tives all freed. The harvests all gathered. The nations all saved. The flashing splender of this last pearl be- gins to move on its hinges. Let two mghty angels put their shoulders to the gate and heave it to with silvery clang. 'Tis done! It thunders! The twelfth gate shut! Tee gate -keepers. Once more, I want to show you the gate -keepers. There is one angel at each one of those gates. You say that is right. Of coarse it is. You know that no earth- ly palace, or castle, or fortress would he safe without a sentry 'pacing up and down by night and by clay; and if there were no defences before hea- ven, and the doors set wide open with no one to guard them all the vicious of the earth would go up after awhile, and heaven, instead of being a world of light, and joy, and peace, and bless- edness, would be a world of DARKNESS AND HORROR. So. I am glad; bo tell you that while these twelve gates stand open to let a great 'multitude in, there are twelve angels to keep some people out. Robe- spierre cannot go through there, nor Hildebrand, nor Nero nor any of the debauched of earth who have not re- pented 'of their wickedness. It one of these nefarious men who despised God shou'a come to the gate, one of the keepers would put his hand on his shci.unler and push him into outer dark- ness. There is no place in that land Lor thieves, and liars, and whoremon- gers, and defrauders, and all those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should get in there he would pull up' the golden pavement.- If a house -burner should get in there he wou'd set fire .to the mansions. If a libertine should get in tbere he would whisper his elimina- tions, standing on the white coral of the sea -beach. Only tlaose who are bloil nt-hernaushgehd. and prayer -lipped will get 0 ,myebrother, if you. shouldsat last come up to one of the gates and try to pass through, and you had not a pass written by the crushed hand of the Son ot God, the gate -keeper would with one glance wither you forever. There win be a pass -word at the gate of• heaven. Do you knew what that pass -word is? Herecomes a crowd a souls up to the gate, and they say: "Let me in, let me in. I was very useful on earth. I endowed colleges, I bult churches, and was famous for me charities; and having dons so many wonderfut things for the world, now I come up to get my reward.." A voice froan • within ays: "I never knew you.." Another great crowd comes up, and they try to get through. They say: "We were highly hosec.me able on earth, and the world bowed Very lowly before us. We were hon- oured on earth, a.nd now we come up to get oar honours in heaven ;" and a voice from within says: "I never knew you." Another crowd advances, and says: "We were very moral' people ori earth, very moral indeed, and we °erne up to get appropriate recognition." A voice answers: "I never knew you." After awhile 1 see another throng ap- proach the gate, and one seems to be spokesman for all the rest, although their voices ever and anon cry: "Amen 1 amen !" This one stands at the gate, and says: "Let me in. I was a wanderer from God. ' • I DESERVE TO DIE. I have home up to this place, not be- muse I desevved it, but because I have heard that there is e saving, power in the blood of Jesus." The gate -keep- er says: "That is the pass -word, "Jesus! Jesus I" and they pass in, and, they surround 'the throne, and the cry is: "Worthy is the lardb that was slain,t o receive blessings and riches, and honour, and glory, and power, world without end!" I stand here, this hour, to invite you into any One of the twelve gates. •I tell you now that, unless your heart is changed by the grace if God, you cannot get in. 1 do not care where you came from, ex who your father was, or who your mother was, Qr what your brilliant surrounding's—unleas you repent your six), and take Chriat Lor your Divine Saviour, you cannot get in. Are you willing then, this mo- ment, just where you 01'0, to kneel down and cry to the Lord Ainaigety for His deltveraece? You want to get in, do you not? 0, you have some good friends there. This last year there was some one who went out from your home into that blessed peace, They did not have any trouble getting through the gates, did. they No. •They knew the pass -word, and, comiug up, they said: "jesua 1" and the cry was: "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, andi let them. come in." 0, when heaveuis all, done, and the troops of God, shout; the tastte taken, how grand it will he if you and I are among theta. Blessed are all they who eater in through, the gates into the city. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL etee INTERNATIONALLESSON, OCT. 29. "Psalms et Deliverance." Ppla. ss and VIC 0014Iell Tei. l'sa. 126. 5, PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. Thou host been favorable unto thy land. That is, the divine fav- or eas been restored, "the ban of Jeru- salem is removed." To the devout He- brew, Palestine was as really the Lord's Land.a.s Israel was the Lord's people. Thou bast brought back the captivity of jacob. A very wontterful change in the government of the world had brought about a new policy, and tee Peesio.ns seemed to have been as willing to forward the' piens of those exiles who wished to return to their native lands as the Babylomans were to disperse them over the empire. Jacob stood for all his land. 2. Thou hest forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Forgcven their wrong deeds, ' and, as can oe seen from their history, put a new heart in them, so that from this time on they did not hunger for idols. Thou hest covered all their sins. . A beautiful figure of speech. That which would call for punishment ia covered over. 3. Thou haat taken away all thy wrath. As Zeus and jupiter were p.ictared hurling thunderbolts, so the psalmist thought of God as one who had been angered by sin and had let loose his wrath upon' the sinners, but now that wrath is all turned back. Thou haat turned „thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. - Shown in the devastation of the land and the absence of the people in the degrada- tion of the royal family, in the over- throw of the temple, and the cessation for so rnany years of its regular services'. But now God has "turned himself," the pun- ishment is,over, More important in the psalmisVe eye ;than this evidence of God's favor aod forgiveness were the favor and forgiveness themselves. 4. Turn us, 0 God of our salvation. Restore or turn to us. So we have heard earnest Christians thank God for the forgiveness of sins and with the illogicality of actu.al experience pro- ceed at once to pray that their sins might be forgiven. The phrase means continue and increase thy blessings, and it means even more than this. Cause thine anger toward as tocease. The comfort of mercies already receiv- ed is the ground of prayer for greae- er. God has forgiven and restored His people, andyet in spite of forgive- ness haandllregsatibvioraattioninmuch is lacking. o 5. Wilt thou draw out thine, anger to all generations. Who had sinned, these men or their fathers, that they were so greatly punished? The sin was national, like some of the sins of our own nation, 'and could not be separat- ed by geograpler or chronology intek•in- dividixel sins. Manasseh, jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, and other bad and wick- ed kings had led the nation into sin and the punishment which closely fol- fowed it. But God has led their chil- dren's children back to the holy land; worship has been revived on the ruin- ed altars. Is, God's hand in punish- ment now to be stretched out? Is not the new nation justified in expecting God's favor rather? • 66. Wilt thou not revive us again. Give us new life. That thy people may rejoice in thee. The repeated nation- al festivals gaits a particularly joy- ous character to ;Jewish worship. 7. Show us thy mercy, 0 Lord, and grant as they salvation. A prayer repeated during several generations. Offered by the grandfathers, it meant salvation from the solidery of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylon- iana; offered by the fathers, it meant salvation from the whimsical tyranny of the Babylonian and Persian mon- archs; offered by this psalmist and those who used his psalm in worship, it meant salvation from the temptations and dangers of the restoration in Patestine, where powerful pagans had, for nearly a century, made their home, and where .wild bests prowled amid the ruins of once prosperous plantations. 8. I will hear. "Let me hear." What God the Lord will speak. • God is al- ways speaking, but men through the centuries have been deaf/ to his voice. No words a the psalmist are better worth our keeping than this text. No command of Jehovah has a more modern application than "Be still, and know that I am God;" no words ot• the Saviour are more suggestive to his fol- lowers to -day than "Make the men sit down." Men do not take time to be blessed. He will speak peace unto his people and to his saints. The bulk of the history of the ancients was war. E'eace by contrast carried with it the very perfection of earthly blessedness, and it is not strange, that the greet- ing a the oriental in all ages has been "Peace." But let them not turn again to folly. Nearly every person who seeks to serve God has some siu which dote easily beset him. The sin and folly of the Jews had, boon idolatry. 9. His salvation is nigh tbean that fear him. This is the keynote of the faith of the early dispensation, inert glory may dwell in our kola. The presence of jehovali wris the glory of the Jew. It is true that in large rumbers the Jews failed to recognize Gotl in the flesh whezt he eame, but that does riot alter the fact that the dream of the nation through °ll centuries was the Presence of ;Weaver MVO..mer Jaisreeydtmharevaerneawtorship.raet teth- er; righteousness and peace have lass - ed each other. Here are four of the chief attributes of God, and therefore four of the chief grams of les ceildren„ "Meeting" and "kissing' are in per- fect harmony. There can be eo last- ing mercy where there is not truth wIbbveeiihltlhiprio;uailg.othei tte,e0wanui otOsehrn.oeues cutsnbriset.hhmetheuoslpine;tc84toraulotihre. go far without mercy. There cannot 11. Truth shall spring out of • the' earth; and righteousness shall look clown from heaven. Here is cOntinu- ed that beautiful variation • of the last verse. As all the green things growing on earth spring up in re-. sponse to the enn and the rein, so, truth shall spring out of humanity me a natural growth when righteousness showers and shines from heaven. 12, The Lord shall give that. Which is good; and our land shell yield -her increase. As a general prineiple good- ness makes for true prosperity. As a particular feet the provieence of God' repeatedly rewarded and punished the Jews for their morel conduct, until the, doctrine spread that material prosper- ity want hand in hand with moral pro- gress. This did not always prove trite in detail, and Job and .Ecolesiastes ex- press the surprise that it did nee But the principle remains the same...nee 111t Righteousness shall go before ' him; and shall sei- tie in the way, cri bis steps, Righteousness is the grane. marshal ot Jehovah's triumphal pro- cession, and hit footprints gine to be our guide, a mark for us, a way eo walk in. • I. The Lord turned again the cap, tivily of Zion. The population had streamed in turbulence from Babylon to Jerusalem. Now it seemed as if the rivers of men had turned back in their courses, and the whole population was returning to Zion. We are like there that dream. This refers, prob•ably, es- pecially to the edict of Cyrus. We could not believe our own ears and 2. Then was our m.oMh filled with laughter, and our tongue with sing- ing, Dem °lustre Live orientate cowl& hardly contain themsselves in the sud- den joy of their return. 1Then said they among the heathen. Tee heathen themselves stOd. The Lord hath done great things. The thought is Jehovah hadi done these great things, the God of the Israelites had recognized them and blessed them. 3. This verso indorses the wonder- ing comment of the heathen neighbors, 4. Turn again our captivity, 0 Lord, as the streams in the south. In a dry land. The south, was a name given -to southern jucloa, a stony place where -- each winter destroyed every sign of vegetation, but when the rainy season creme, and the parched ground' leas turned into; rivers of water, the little rooky channels became at once streams and rivers, and the change was such tads iats.tonished even those accistomed • 5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. It has been well said that there are tears which are themselves the seed we must sow, tears of sorrow for sin, tears of sympathy with .the aaye affnlicptreaderh. urn, tears of tenderness 6. He that goeth forth fli d, weep- eth bearing precious seed. Seed is scarce and dangers are man The seed. -sower must himself be 'km14-, and then the sowing is such discourag- ing werle that it is as much prose as poetry to speak of the weeping of the seed -sower. CSome again with rejoic- ing, bringing his sheaves with him. The gladness of the. harvest will chase away all thoughts of sorrow. USELESS QUESTIONS. They Are the. BMOC of the Paticnt an Lang -Suffering 04.010r Mau. . Every profession has its petty an- noyances, but probably the medical profession, above all others, from the mysteries attached do the human body is more subjected to foolish and sine questions. A physician may spend the day, indeed much of the 24 hours, in seeing cases, and, as a recreation, he may,drop in socially to see a friend, or attend a dinner of some other so- cial attraction, and at once his neigh- bors begin to talk atioet the "wonder- ful buman frame," and such 'things, and then some brilliant member of the company will ask, "Doctor, is there much sickness in the city ?" as if the poor physician was a collector of sta- tistics or knew just what the condi- tion of the city was. Another personligr will call across the • table or room, "Doctor, do you think I ought to be vaccinated?" and probably some es- pecially scintillating member 'will say that she does not believe in vaccina- tion, which of course, settles matters at once. The wise physleien will keep quiet at such times and not let himself in- to a wild discussion, which cart lead to nothing between persons of un- equal mental attainments. There is a temptation always to talk "shop," es- pecially by those not in the •" shop." The lawyer is asked his opinion in the parlor; the physician is consulted on the street corner. Such advice is worth usually just what it costs the person asking it, namely, nothing. No Man should be called on to give an opinion for n� remuneration when ouch am opinion may have cost not only time and money, hut when it inay, in a measure, involve the reputation of the person giving it, g the public is to be instructed at all it should certainly be taught not to force any man to' talk shop," morel - Mg, noon and night. • A WAY OF EISCAPD, Pa, I want to go to college rigbt off now. Are you go eager for learning, Dicky? Ne,• pa; but ma makes me run 80 many errands, 1 can't never git no education here. WHAT 8I1E DOES First Lady Clerk—There goes the meanest women in town. Second Lady Clorkr-• Who is she?' 1iirst Lady Olt rk—I don't Ithow, hut she is always earning in here Mid wanting something we haveen got. LA