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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-11-9, Page 3OrE S '4ND CalliN7€NTS4 The war between Englend and the Deitch reeidente a Santis Africa, is 4 chapter in the histbry of one Of tbe Meet intereetine and protracted race fese,cls in tbe world's annals. Wneri the peace of Westphalia of 1048-fenene ally gave to Holland the eadepiendence frene Spain eor whien he lied been fighting intermittently since. 1572, and. :whieh bad been virteeally hes eine° ehe led the world, in politieal lib- ertn, raanueaeture$ and commerce, • Her pe,arest rival in tneee resPects Was '11,nglancl, which was about as ',Wrong • as Rolland in naval lighting •Pewee and in popnlation. Holland had colonies in America, A.sia and Af- rica. Her explerers were ityun,d in the fur quarters of the. globe. Her flag was on creery sea. In the xelig- lone Ware whieh bad. been raging for ana-ny yearsinolland and not England • was Protestantism's principal stan- ,dard-hearer. Amsterdam and not -London was _the world's financial center, Apparently Holland was at least as well felted as England to win tlhe race for universal e,rapire. pigiht here °erne the turning point tn Holland's thistory. Commercial rivalry, legitimate enough, but fatal in the end to the Dutch, incited, Cron - well's Parliament be pass the historie n,avigation ad of 1651, wheels proleibit- ed the inraortation into England or any of its colonies of any, gods ex- cept in, English vessels or the vessels of the nation which prodoced the articles. The blow was ainaed at Hol- land, which was doing at that time three-fourths of E,ngland's oarrying trade. War between the two coun- tries resulted, wthich saw some of the fiercest sea fighting reoorded in his - eery, and whiele closed in 1654. Neith- er country gained any decided advant- age, but the polka which England • started by the act of 1651, dealt a blow t'o Holland's commercial supre- macy and was the beginning of a pen • laical. feud between the English And tee Dutch which is in operation in one .of its,manifestations on the African continent to -clay. Holland had been at war witth Spain and other nations, • with a few internaissions, for three- quarters of a century when the con- flict in Cromwell's days took place and alse was at war, with a.few inter- missions, for a. cenbuxy and a half longer with several nations and coali- tions of nations, England often be- ing among the number. This eventu- ally exhausted her resources so that 'her colonies one after another' drop- ped out of her hands' and she sunk to a low level among the nations. It wend seem as it the two great Jiberal and enlightened nations which • e ,Z.1.=pue saw after tthepeace of West- --nefrense.' Thalia Ought to have remained allies instead of becoming enemies, but -r--jealously decreed otherwise, and so • the commercial and financial scepter passed to England. The colony which Holland planted in South Africa in • 1652, back in the days when Crom- • well was at the head bf England's • government, arid which, in the con- flicts of the next cenbury and a half, was aften menaced by England, and awe or twice taken, passed, into Eng- land's hands Permanently in 1806.„ England's enmity to Holland passed to • Holland's progeny, and, with one or two wars to extend and intensify it, rages to this dayAt the outset in the struggle between the two coun- tries 248 years ago the chances fax world primacy seemed to be even as • between England and Holland, bu, ithe • fate wlelch iimnlosed on Holland the • necessity of an eternal warfare with the •ocean, and its position on the a'aainland of Barcena which exposed it to. assault from, powerful nations and • roaletions of nations, was fatal to its pre-eminence. Thus the, •limitations • of geography and topography at last gave the ascendency to England. FIGEONGRAMS IN NEW ,ZEALAND. A Novel System. of Wireless Telegraph. Adopted by the Government. The New Zealand Government has adopted a novel but thoroughly -suc- oessful means of postal service from one .island to- anobher by means of 'limning pigeons, To denote'the mes- sage carried by bhe "pigeon post," the new evord ''pegeongratra" hs been adopted. In organizing the service the first difficalty lay in obtaining complete control and ultimate • pos.- $essiee oe the birds used. This was overcome by the „government agreeing to pay th.6 owner of the birds •a large proportion of ' tle postage to be tharged. The Postmaster General then authorized the issuance of 600 epeeial "pigeonglatm, steetens” as e •erial issue, one of sishicle nine to be •lised an each message sent- These • awnless • cost 25e •each, and, are pur- abased and canceled at the sending and reeeiving post offiees in the usual manner. The meesage is written in leael pencil on thin but tough tissue paper, the stamp is placed, on the cen- ter and then canceled. • The message is eolded op into a ensall compass, tied uticler the eving of e bird, and in an hour- is in the hand .% of the person to • Whom it is addressed. The Auekland post office authorities bonnet that in this way they Will be able to send a •nigemegraen across an expanse of . thirty miles, at a lees rate than, the telegraph companies eharge for a tene Word message. , Rgv. ES 1 ASHES 1777 T ,111 EXETI4 B1 TIM ASHES!" Dr. Talmage Speaks of the World's Pleasures. Those Who Have Been Successful in the World --A Group of Sinful Pleasurists--Infidelity and Truth • --The "Dr, Points the Way to Salvation Before It Is Too Late, A despatcb' from Washington, sane: —Rev. Dr, Talpaage preached from the followlag tent:—"He feedeth on genes." —Isaiah xliv. 20. This is descriptive of the idolatry and worldliness of people in Isaials's time, and of a very prevalent style of diet in our time., The world sprea,ds a great feast, and invites the race to sit at it, 0 The platters are heaped up. The garlands weathe nee wan, The guests sit dowxt amid. outbursts of hil- arities. They take the fruit, and it turns into ashes, They lift the tan- kards, and their contents prove to be ashes. They touch the garlands, and they scatter into ashes. I do not know any passage of Scripture which so thrillingly sets fortle the unsatis- factory natureof this world for eye, and tongue, and lip, and heart, as this very passage, descriptive of the votary of the world, when insays: "He feedeth oa ashes." I shall not to-uight take the estimate by those wheise life has been a failure. A man may despise the world simply because he cannot win it. Having fail- ed, in his contempt of it he may de- cry that which he would like to have had as his bride. I shall therefore to- night take only the testimony of those who have been magnificently success- ful; and, in the first place, I shall ask the kings of the earth to stand up and give testimony, telling of the long story of sleepless nights, and poisoned cup, and threatened invasion, and dreaded rebellion. Ask the Georges, ask the Henrys, ask the Marys, ask the Louisess ask the Cath - mines, whether they found the throne a safe seat and the crown a pleasant covering. Ask the French guillotine in Madame Tuissard's Museum about the eueenly necks it has dissevered. Ask The tower of London, Ask the Tuilleries and Henry and Car- dinal Woolsey to get up out of the dust and tell what, they think of worldly boners. Ghastly with the first and the second death, they rise up with eyeless sockets and grinning skeletons, and stagger forth, unable at first to speak at all, but forward hoarsely whispering: "Ashes! ashes!" I call up also a group of commercial adepts to give testimony. Here again those who have been only moderately successfully may not be witness. They must all be millionaires. Intat a grand thing 11 must be to own a railroads to control a bank, possess all the houses on one streets to have vast in- vestments tumbling in upon you day after day, whether you work or not. No; no. Come up from St. Mark's Graveyard, and. from Greenwood, and from Mount Auburn, and from Laurel Hill, and tell us now what you think of banks, and mints, a,nd factories, and counting -rooms, and marble palaces, and Presidential ban- quets. They stagger forth and lean against the cold slab of the tomb, mowing with toohtless gums, and gestieuleting with fleshless hands, and shivering with the chill of sep- ulchral dampness, while they cry out: " Aelene a,shes 1" , I must call Op now, also, a group of sinful plea,surists, and here again I will not take the testimony of those who had the more ordinary gratifications of life, Their plea:suree are pyrami- dal. They bloomed paraclistacally. If they drank wine, it must be the best than was ever pressed from the vine- yards of Ilockheiniex. If they listened to music, it muet be costliest opera, with renowned prima donna. If they sinned, they chased polished unclean- nesses and graceful despair, and glit- tering damnation.. Stand up, Alcibi- ades and Aaron Burr, and Lord Byron, and Queen Elizabeth—what think you novv of midnight revel, and sinful car- nival, and damask curtained- abomina- tion? Answer! The color goes out of the cheek the dre.gs serpent twisted thing to comfort them in the days of death, finding for their distraught and destroyed souls, a.shes—aalies. Vol- taire, declared: " This globe Seems to m: more like a. collection of carcasses than of men, "I Wish Thad I iever been born." Theme says: "J am like a. man who hap run en rocke and quicksands, and yet I nentemplate putting out on the sea in the same leaky and weather-beaten craft," Chesterfield says; " I leave been behiod the scenes and I have noticed the olumsy pulleys and the dirty ropes by which all tne scene is m.ariagecl, and ha.ve seen and smelt the tallow can- dles which throw the illumination on the stage, and I am tired and sick." Get up, then, Francis Newport, and Hiram and Voltaire, and To Paine, and all the infidels who have passed. rat of this world into the eternal world —get up now and tell what you think off all your grandiloquent derision at cor holy- religion. What do you think now of all your sarcasm at holy things? They come ehrie•kin,g up from the lost world to the graveyards where their bodies were entombed, and point down to the 'white dent of their dissolution, and cry: "Ashes! ashes!" 0, what a poor diet for an immor- tal soul. The fact is, the soul is hun- gry. Whitt es that unrest that some- times comes aeross you? Why, is it that, surrounded by friends and even the luxuries of life, you wish you were somewhere else, or had something you have not yet gained? The world calls it ambition. The physicians call it nerv- ousness. •Your friends call it the fid- gets. I call it hunger—deep, grind- ing, unappeasable hunger. It starts with on when we are born, and 'goes on with lie until , the Lord God Himself a,ppeases it. It is seeking and delving, and striv- ing and Newlin,. to get something we cannot get. Wealth says: "It is not in me." Science says: "Ie is not in me." Worldly applause says: "It is "It i no in nt it? On mte. indulgence says: siaS3'st On the banks of what stream? Slum- bering in what grotto? Marching -in whatcontest ? Expiring on what pillow ? Tell me for this winged and immortal spirit, is there nothing b•ut ashes?, When.Jenny Lind was in this country, she wrote in an autograph album an answer to that question: "In vain I seek for rest, , In all created good; It leaves me still nriblest, And makes me cry for Goa, And sure at rest I cannotbe, i . Until my soul finds rest n Thee." 0, here is bread instead of ashes! In communion with God, and everlasting rus • Him, is complete satisfac- tion. Soloxnon described it when he compared it to cedar-. -houses and golden chairs, and bounding reindeer, and day breaks, and imperial cowls; to saffron, to calarans, to white teeth, and hands heavy with gold. rings, and towers of ivory and ornamentai fig- ures; but Cihrist calls it bread I 0 fa;mished yet immortal soul, why not come and get it? Until OUT sins are pardoned, there is no rest. We know, not at what moment the hoands may, bay at as. We are in a castle and know not what hour it may be besiege, ed; but when the soothing V0108 of Ohrist comes across our perturbation, it is hushed forever. A merchant in Antwerp loaned Charles V. a vase sum of money, taking for it a bond. One day this Antwerp merchant in- vietd Charles V. to dine with him, and while they were seated at the table, in the presence of the guests, the mer- chant had a fire built on a platter in the centre of the table. , Then he took the bond which the King had given him fox the vast inian of money, and held it in the blaze until it was consumed, and the King congratulated himself, and all the gu,ests congratu- lated the King. There was gone at last the final evidence of his indebted- ness. . Mortgaged to God, we owe a debt we can never pay; bat God in- vites us to the Gospel, feast, and in the fires of crucifixion agony Ile puts the last record of our indebtedness in the flasne, and it is consumed for- ever. He sans: "Go free! Go free!" , to bave afl the sins of our past life forgiven, and to have all possible se- curity for the future—le not that enoughmake. a man happy? What makes that old Christian so placid'? The most of his family in Greenwood. or in the village cemetry, His healtli undermeinded. His cough will not let I , .... .. — j11 6 the bOttom of the wine cup, the ...... ..... . ......_ .....____ • ..e, ;t bright lights quenched in blackness of se nare,eneen, e t•e f'fk 4r5-1-; . v W broken glasses, and rend the faded darkness, they jingle together the :-"'AM!), 4 ed banqueting -hall, while they ery : silks, and shut the door of the desert- e Sn'e ' 'on Vet0:.:,15:'. 'ri '45.4 fp s- 1.1,s d 0 stirred up with strychnine and Paris who try to feed their soul on infidelity they begin immediately to manipulate nim aceording to their ONIII notions. They say the Bible has good things " Ashes I ashes!" green. They say there is a• God, but mixed with trlath. It is a loaf of bread There are ,a great many in this day kt& 11 i t i e a LI ---------, n sbL PI k ' "1120, t ';'. ... ▪ \ I q'' 4;1 , 1 ' ,tigii...0.--..o... --- -t 4, le liilil 1 41ININIL4 k. Ithir:' / Witrf /4 17/ — II ill .114411 1 ' r ' 1111i dr 111111,11 '` i "- st ri s inspired, and their religion. is made Christ was a good rnan, but He is not up of ten degrees of humanitariani,sm and ten elegrees of tranecendentalism, and ten degrees of egotiern, witls one fij in it, but it is not inspired. They say' liii#Arfrift(6/ 4,f ij 44 clo 4 ii iii , .1 w ^; en ., i esee '• ter en i, 41:7 ter ennenee....„.....n.n i . e a r III , dsgree of Gospel truth, and on epoor, miserable cud they make their immor- tal soul, chew, while the meadows of God's word, are green and luxuriant with well -watered. pastures. Did you ever see a. happy infidel? Did you ever meet a placid sceptic? Did you ever find a contented atheist? Not one. Prom the days of Gibbon and Voltaire down, not one. They quarrel e,4, ?",s's e'..il e• 47,1,54r about God, They quarrel with them- A. ' .....-- selves. They take all tbe divine teach- s 1 ,, ings and gather them together, and under theta they put the fires of their own Wit med. scorn, and sarcasm, and then' they da,nce in the light of that blazo, and they' sore ten amid the rub - bleb for eemething with which to hells them in the dale of trouble, and some. him sleep at nights,. $140 the do. he °RAU to town ttildi be was) a elerk •Until thin the day of his eld 4,ge, has 'leen. 4 nerd eiglet fer bread, Te -heIt L he iZsell4he"tveetkieSIt7akte.theWslat winnhed bine When be ley in bits male er'S arene is watthing him in the Um of old age, and. nun) God ne bas�m ;Pitted all bie dead, expeeting tate awbue to see the= again. He boa n enxiety vvhether lee go Inns atmater next summer—whether he he carie out through the snowbanks or throng the daisies. Fifty Yens's ago, h learned that all this world could giv was ashes, and he reached up and too the fruits ot eternal life. You se his face is very. white now. The rec currents of life seem to have depart ed erten it; but under that extrem whiteness of the old onan's face is tb flasinof the day -break. There is gni elle word in all our language that ca describe his feeliogs, and that Is th word that slipped off the angel' harp above 13ethlehem—peace 1 An $0 there are hundreds of souls here to night who have felt this Almighe comfort, 'Their' reputation was pur sued; -their health was sleattered their nohne was almost if not quit broken up; their fortune went away from them. Why do they not si down a•ncl give it /up e Att, they hay tno clieposetion to do that. , They are saying while I speak: "It is .my .0"ath er that mixed this bitter men and will cheerfully drink it. Everything will be explaened after a while. shall not always be under the harrow There is somethin,g that makes me think I an almost home. God wil yet wipe away all tears from my eyes." So say these bereft parents So say these •rantherless children. So say a great many in this house to- night. - Now, ara 1 aot right in this presence and in these circumstances, in trying to persuade this entire audience to give) up ashes aed take bread; to give up the unsatisfactory things of this world, and take the glorious things of God and eternity? 'May, my friends, if you keep this world as long as et lasts, you would have, after a while, to give it up. There will be a. great fire breaking out from .1:11e sides of the hills; there will be falling flame and ascending flame, and in it the eanth will be whelnied. Fires burning fromt within, out ; fires burning from above, down; this earth will be a fur- nace, and teen it will be a living ,coaf, and then it will be an expiring ember, and the thick clouds of smoke will lessen and lessen until there will be only a faint vapor curling up from: the ruins, and than the very last spark of the earth will go out. And It see two angels meeting each other over the gray pile, and as one flits past it, he cries,' 'Ashes !" and tbe other, as he sweeps down the immensity, will respond, "Ashes!" while all the infin- ite space will eclat) and re-echo, 'Aehes ! Ashes! Ashes Is' God forbid that yciu and I should choose such a mearu portion. Now, my fear to -night, is, not that you will not see the superiority of Christ to this world, but my feax is that, througn some dreadful infatua- tion, you will relegate, to the future that which God, and angels, and churches militant and triumphant de- clare that you ought to do now. My brother, T do not say that you wit go out of this world by the stroke of ps horse's hoof, or that you will fall bbrougn a hatchway, or that aplank may slip from an insecure scaffolding and dash' your life out, or that a bolt nuay 1 all on you from an August thun- derstorm; but I do say that in the vast majority of cases, your departure from this world will be wonderfully quick; and 1 want you to start on the right road before that crisis has plunged. A Spas:darn, in a burst of temper, eleev a Moor. Then the Spaniard leap- ed over a high wall and met a gar- dener, and 'told hint the whole story; and the gardener said: "I will anake pledge of confidence with you. Eat this peach and that will be a pledge that I will be pour protector, to the last." Init, 0, the sorrow and sur - Nine of the gardener when he found out tben it was his own son that had been slain! Then he came to the Spaniard, and said to bim "You were cruel, you ought to die, you slew my son, 9.1-.4 yet I took a pledge with you wild I must keep my promise ;" and so he took the Spaniard to the stables and brought out the swiftest horse. The Spaniard sprang upon it, and put many miles between him and the scene of the crime, and perfect escape was effe_cled. We have, by our sins, slain tbss Son of God. l's there any possibil- ity of our rescue? 0, yes. God the Father says to us: "You had no busi- ness, by your sin, to slay ray son, lesus; you ought to die, but 1 have promised you' deliveranee. I have made you the promise of eternal life, and you hall have it. ' Escape now for thy life." And to -eight T act merely as the Lord's groom, and I bring you out to the King's stables, and 1 tell you to , be quick, and mount, and away. In I thin plain, you perish, but housed in I Goch you live. 0, you pursued and al- I most overtaken one,put on more Epeed. Eernef salvaiton is tee pride • yPur neloeite, efly 1 lelY f lest tee nlaen horee'ontrtra tz wl3ite hose, aild the bettleetnete elsiVer the helinet and crab downthrough the insuffi- cient mail. Lo this trerheudouti ezig- ,ency of youineseertai spirit beware leen' you prefer ashes to bread I .,OURIAN CAVALRY. • Vase of WarU Wouid Piny an Import. nee Para It seems impossible to doubt that in the event of a conflict between the forces of the Dual arid Triple Allianees, a. conflict which, in the opinion of rnense is sooner or later Inevitable, the cavalry of Russia would play a role of the eirst magnitude by vitrue not only ef its nutnerical superiority over the cotabined cavalries of Germany and Austria-Hungary, to vehicle it would be opposed, but also owing to the uni- que organization, training and meth- ods of aption which differentiate it from, the cavalry of any; of tbe great, neighboring powers, not less than from that of Russia's ally, France, ae- cording to the British Admiralty and House Guards Gazette. To begin with, Etn.ssia, is a country e extremely rich in horses, the number • of which has been estimated by Col. s Soukhotine at 20 000 000 I of which at least 1,000,000 are saddle horses fit for . the purposes of war, while the author Of "LaCevalerie Busse," basing his 'calculations on official returns of 1,- 078 squadrons and 160,000 horses he the army, shows that the cavalry of Rus- sia would, on mobilization, exceed the ; combined cavalries of Austria-Hun- gary and Germany by 25,000 men, The France, Militraire also, whicb has de- voted considerable attention to the subject, avers that it is not owing to the coneciousness of this numerical ad- vantage alone that the Russian cav- alry feels itself to have a crusbing superiority over all possible adver- saries. It has boldly entered upon an entirely new path as regards organ- ization and military training, there being now left in that huge body of mounted troops, if we include the twelve regiments of the Guard, only two types of oavalryen—the dragoon and the Cossack. As regards the former, to w,horn it is more and more sought to, assimilate the Cossack, the ideal steadily kept in view, is to melee hien an equally effecient fighter, whether nonrated or dismounted, in the shock action of the charging horse- man as in tee fire -action of the com- batants on foot. This dual role, only reluctantly, ac- cepted by cavalry in other armies, is one of which the B.ussiais is fitted in nature and by the traditions of his race; but the new organization has for all that, been scathingly attacked by German and Austrian—especially by Gerraan—military writers, whose contention is tbat a tool intended for two quite different purposes is good for neither, and that for cavalry fight- ing on foot ca.n never be other than exceptional and abnormal. To argu- ments of this kind the Russians reply that their cavalry, as cavalry, is fully equal to that of any other power, while at the same terae, owing to its peculiar organization and training, it is equal, w.hen fighting on foot, to the performance of special tasks with which German or other cavalry would be tillable to grapple. It is asserted that this advantage, joined to their numerical superiority, would enable the Russian cavalry to score import- ant success against any hostile cavalry at all events in the early stages of operations following mobilization. It is generally admitted, according to the antherities whom we have cited above that Russia could put in the field 155,- 000 cavalry to the 112,000 of German,y and Austria-Flun,gary combined. WHY THE PAGODAS STAND. In Japan there are pagodas of con- siderable height, which have with- stood the effetts of frequent earth- quake shocks forcenturies. The sec- ret of their stability is that they are fitted inside with a heavy timber -beam construction, which hangs from the roof like a clapper of a bell. On the occurrence of a ehock the effecte of the vibration are wholly counteract- ed by this corapamtively simple de- • • DID HER BEST. My good woman, said the clergyman to tbe sorely tried woman, did you ever try hea,p.irig coals of fire on your lause band s head.? No, your riverence,, but Oi've thrown a lighted lamp at him once or twice. E SUNDAY SC INtERNATIONAL TARRSON, NOV. 2. "Hebuililing Ape Wails of Jerii/ale012 21 floltienlfext. Malt, 54. 41, PrtACTICAL NOM,. Veree 7. Saneallet, A high Persian Wiest' living in Samaria. He wale Of 1VIoabite extraction, and bad come ori- ginall,y trona floronelarn. Though the hinedT wwbasIA)11 oll)ev lioebblirteewraTendep (1:11a Ota9ddiyi: garalbriicaalaraidvalsreyrubtseatmenhtahde ebiteiceosmo: athtieoucboieff jeettryuitsafimPaeesusuttlineer, sTobevirgeoart0Our; a •governor aa Inehemiab threatened Sanballate pre-eminence. There are iedicatione in the story that Sanbal- lat was saeported by a party in Jer- usalem, Hie dauglater was married to sala igbr, 4TdoTa Se! 4A tPliee r,s33i high officer 1 t Eli a appar- ently still higher in rank than San - ballet. East of the little ningdos:n of Judale, and a thorn in its side through all its history, was the little kingdom ol Ammon. Like Damascus and Israel arid judab, and Moab, Ammon had fall- en before the fory of the eastern in- vaders. Its people, like the Jews, were exiled,and individual Ammonites, like Daniel a•ncl Nehemiah and other Jewe with welosse histor'y we axe familiar, grew to be fa,voritee in the heathen courts. Although Tobiah was of low extraction, born of a family of slaves, if we s:ightly understand tne intima- tion of Scripture, he had risen to be a, favorite "at the court of Artaxexxes, a.nd, Nehemiah, had now been made the governor of his own nation. But he did not, as one might expeet, link his forces with those of Nehe- miah; but, on the contrary, joined sim- enemies, and probably for reasons sim- ilar to those which had aroused Sanbal- lat's energy. Ammon and. Samaria were far enough apart to flourish without intereering with e.aesh other, and it seemed to be to the interest of both that judah should be divided. between them, or at least, in modern phrase- ology, that each should have its "sphere of influence" in southern Palestine., Like Sanbanat, Tobiah was supported by Jewish nobles, and apparently was related by marriage to Sloan of the stronger families in Jerusalem, The Arabians. Wild desert wanderers on the south of Pal- estine, who fattened on the wretched- ness of the country, and dreaded noth- ing more than the re-establishment of military power to any degree in jer- uealena. Geshern, or Gashran, is men- tioned as their leader. That he was powerful is indicated by the grouping of his name with that of the influen- tial Sa.nballat and. Tobiah. Ammon- ites. This tribe had through all its history been less civilized than Moab or Judah. To the end a large num- ber of its people were nomadic, and even pnedatory, producing little., and living on the weakness of their na- tional .neighbors. ( As we have seen, Tobiah had ,probably been com- manded to organize the nation, but the Ammonites here mentioned were still unorganized and nomadic, willing to join Tobiah, and the other conspirators against Jerusalem, but not' willing to be governed. by him or any other man. Ashdodites. Philis- tines, taking their name from one of the old capital cities, oT, the southern seacoast. The walls of Jerusalem were .made up. Nehemiah seems to have built on the old foundations. The Hebrew idiom here is picturesque—"a 'hand,age was applied to the wall of Jerusatemee The brea.ches began to be stopped. Before tne days of ex- plosives battering rams 'were relied upon in war against fortresses. An immense shock was given to one part of the wall—given with endless repeti- tion houratter hour and day after day, and often for weeks and monshs to- gether, until its strength gave way'. Sometimes where the 21U1SOUTY was very sturdy, it toppled, over; at other tiraes great holes were mad.e in it through vvieich the hostile soldiery mailed. These are the "breaches," Wroth. Mad with jealousy. 8. Conspired all of them together. They had their own jealouey and dis- likes, but were now united in mutual antagonism, to Jerusalem. To fight against Jerusalem. Their prime pur- pose was to prevent the success of Nehemiah's endeavors. They would ot rules into actual warfare if they ould, deter him, by other means, but e need not think it strange but actual loodshed was exeected by' both part- es, for the immense empires of an- ent times were loose and ragged at heir edges, and the rulers of remote rovincee were frequently a law to hemselves. Thus even in the time of ttr Lord and under the Roman sway erocl Antipas, who was the subject of Rome, had his private( war with Are- as, Such a conspiracy as this was ery dangerous to the Jews, for it ould be more natural for Artaxerxes ) believe the testimony of five or six hieftains whose loyalty he had not ()tinted than to believe the single un- upported testimony oe Nehemiah. 9. We m,a.de our prayer unto our God, zei set a watclal tigainst them day and ight. "Watching unto prayer" is he godlYman's filet duty. "Our God" a beautiful phrase, for while God is he God of all men, he is in a peouliar ense the God of his own people For ageinst them" some scholars read sande them," believing that a special titoacksuesdartstio owhee nrteieetidpeahtteed, or the t er - tory of the old. kingdom, of judah, ot all of the returned- captives, how - ver, were of the tribe of Judah. The re.ngth of the bearers of burdens is eeayed, The svorkers employed on ie wall had • given up in des- ir. Very likely their wages me fitfully, or not at all, and the acuminated debris. of one hundred and hirty-five. years must be cleared way. We are not able to bend the all. They were able to build it, how - vex, and they did. All they needed as a competent leader anti God's 11. Our adversaries. Named in verse They not know, neither see, 11 we come. Our conspiracy must be et•fected, before a movement ie made, • 'that the surprise WWI be eonsplete. 12, The Jews winch dwelt by khein, he police, of the returned Israelites:I. P• What is renunciation Uncle Alex- 't ander? Renunciation is giving up , something that you can't get. I" XIIVIRERLEY--DUTOITSHAN ROAD. bad ko O Mtle an4AutUraily p, becauSe ajority. of ttileul 'warf4i ha011'AbOrS ttio tribo souli; b4,44 tuero were meuy of otlie* trgbes, a$ we 41'10W from the phrases, 3.4ou Of Gibeon,PP., "the Tekettenett and "tete men Of siariebe." tst, it int probable that'tbe bed setled near tO thoir old faMiiy bomeste,ads, Living aMirng the cousplratorst they ;wax, heard or of their plahs, 414. prompt. 221 rePorcl them 0 their 0001)Ittrytnen',. Tele tinten. •Tireti, intiefillitnine Many, tietelee; en we wenn]. elan'? 404811$ Of tineen Thte rest ef this verse h4s very differesie mooing and a sin1Pler one given to it by tile Revised nrerefOns "They said irate Ua een Ume teem ell, VOWS, Ye mustreturn lento These' were talking te eneir rola. dyes who had 4loel;e4 0 nernententill Partly to earn wages, parties Urged. br patenstism. These more distant Xerws, having a tull view of the danger, hrg°. their friends and ninon:tea to return en protect their horneS., le, In the losvet plaesis, o the higher places., "In the lowest parts of the space," Pin the open places," ,Wherever the wall vette ee" pecially weak there Nenenaiab station. ed armed men. Bennett the walls . Whicli was to be used as'a raraPart.. After their families: Everything that tbe Jews did, was done by tribee and clans and families; rot altogether, unlike tbe bighland organizations of tbe Scotch clans is the tenacity anti* wbich this relations/1,p was held by the Jews for centuries. , 14, Said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people. For ''rulers" the Revised 'Version' margin, gives "deputies." Th4 meaning is that Nehemiab gave omen al orders, which were repeated by Linn der officer, untii every workman and every armed man neard. Ins proclania- Con. Be not ne afraid of them. An Wein:lotion which God and Gndes serve ants moat frequently repeated. Ree member the Lord. Such a moral leowe er °omen with the consciousness oe God's presence tha,t one man with God is mightier than many without bim, Fight for your brethren, your eons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses. Though, nominally, they, were fighting for the privilege of re." building their walls, this statement al- so was true, because -without the walls none of their home e or dear ones; was safe. 15. When our enemies heard, • . that we returned. When, as Nei:len:dais •profonndly believed, God had frus- trated the plans for attack, the work of rebuilding, svhich ha,d temporarily ceased, was resumed. 16. This attack taught Nehemiah a lesson,—from that time forth he was abundantly prepared for any attack. Nehemia,hes servants, sometimes called his young men, were his bodyguard, his pernonal retainers, whom he haa brought with him from Susas So great was the need of hurrying the worn, and so few were the workers, that he detaehed one half of these men to work upon the walls while the 'other half 'stood guard. Such an example must have greatly inspired the rest of the people. Ha,bergeons were coats of mail. The sellers were hereditary chieftains. They- stood behind all the house of Judah as commanding offi- cells should stand, so as to direct with- out being in the way. 17. The statement of this verse is that the c,omenon workmen from Jer- usalem and from bhe surrounding. country were armed while they work- ed, the bearers of burdens espeeialln holding weapons in one hand while they worked with the other. 18. Builders. Dr. Terry thus ex- plains: "Unlike the bearers of burd- ens, who could work with one hand and carry a weapon wide the other, the builders needed both hands in their work, and so carried swords, which hung girded by their sides." Ire that sounded the trumpet was by me. That is to say, I saw the commander of all the workmen and of all the forces, and all orders came .directen from me. NO 111014E'PRISON FOR HIM. ' Alter Being a Prisoner Twelve Tears) Slattn Pasha Did Not Wish to Marry,. It is well known that old bachelors are perverse, so we may repeat the remark made by a famous baehelor a year or two ago without arousing euspicion of expressing sympathy with it. The Austrian who early sought ad- venture abroad, and, who,. as Satin Pasha, rose high in the Egyptian ser- vice, spent many years of his life a eapitve in the Sudan. When at length' he was rescued, the ex -prisoner was feted and lionized in (Niro, and many a lade set her cap at him. Presently the rtemer arose that the hero was en- igageedr:trobueein. arried, and. one night at dinner a, lady asked him pointblank if tw "Married?" explained Biotin. "Whets me? No, no. I hal already been prisoner. twelf years--nevaire, no more." Slatin Pasha was among the rao active officers in preparing for eh Anglo-Egyptian expedition against' the lelahdi, and so touch work fell nese on his shoulders that he almost broke down. As be was toiling one roasting afternoon, he sand to his superior of- ficer in a confidential tone: ' "I Wish I were lsack among the dervishes as a prisoner. There, ae any rate, I was not worked to death." Oddly enough, this chane remark was overheard, repeated, and ultiahate- ly priuted in an anti-British' newspa- per in Cairo. !A copy drifted down into the Sudan and, found its way into the hands of the Khania, th.e succes- sor oe the •The c.hief at once summoned his eon. lowers and. pointed out to them, how life as a fettered slave among his couttrynten was better than existerica under the dolautiOn of English dogs, The tribesmen howled With approve at this "IOW proof of thebrutality, o their English enemies. ITA:D SEEN THEM, think, said the onl lesty %vise le, fleet. young Mr, 131nks has a hold on Inabers alle:tglibril8y. :PA , possibly, repned the EgentleMan, ",141t had ;hist glanced into the perlor, At een rote he bee • hold, on her waist.