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. ,
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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,
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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
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who try to feed their soul on infidelity
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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
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and ten elegrees of tranecendentalism,
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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
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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.
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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.