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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-11-30, Page 6lrOrs ."D co4rArzyrs • The reelereptiOU of the desoreer In the Atietrian Parlitteeent, with the auegesteonsq political elimee 'Which thme. condition conveys, and the move - o' independence whiela has talc- pructical shape in NorWeY in the St few ()aye, show some of the perils wilatob are tD store for Europe'e deal nations. It is eelleved by most of the European diplomats that. the eillef tie which holds Hungary to Austria ie the lereperor, and es be is en his 70tb year, that bond is likely to be a short eontinluiirice, Norway has long been restive under the Sevedish connection, end the movement there • for what amounts to virtual independence threatens peaceable separetion or war. In the present condition of unstable equilibrium in Europe a disturbance in either Austria or Sweden might have politieal consequences which would be disagreeable to both parties in eaoh of those discordant nations. It is be- lieved that the 16,000,000 Germans in Austria.-Biungary would perfen a con- nection wieth the 50,000,000 of their race in tiee German Empire rather than to efktinue in the polyglot coali- tion of 40,000,000 Magyars Germans, Bohemians, Poles, Servians Creations, Roumanians and. other races, while anaong scarcely any two of those peo- ples are the ties maintained with any great degree of cordiality. In the rup- ture which many of Europe's states- men, on account of the recent disturb- ances, look for in Austria-Hungary at the death of Francis Joseph, the cent- rifugal tendencies in that empire may prodame a greater degree of chaos then has came in any European nation since the Gote Ocloacer upset the sha- dow throne of the "little Augustus" and subverted the Roman Empire. ee- el" ef" A civil disturhane in either Aus- tr1a-Hunge3---r inir Sweden -Norway might. , n the. present desire of the ef nations of Europe for new terri- tory, incite e repetition of the disin- tegrations and. accretions which were precipitated by the Corsican conquer- or nine or ten decades ago. Bonaparte in a spasm of generosity, at one time gave the Swedish! ,c(olony of Finland, to which' het had no claim, to Russia, while Russia, a little later, donated. Norway, to which it had not the raost e.hadowy sort of ownership, to Sweden. In a• convulsion at the present time in .A.estria or Norway, especially as Eng- land's hands are tied by the South Af- rican war, soneet of the monarchs, of the big nations of continental Europe might, for balancing bequests in dif- ferent poets of,, the world, be equally liberal with territory which did not belong to them.. This would be, an unpropitious time for loosely jointed nations to stoat internal wars. It might be easy, for Norway, for exam- ple, in escaping from the Scylla of the Swedish connection, to run into the Charybdis of Russian, absorption. BRAVE HORSEMANSHIP. A Farmer and Ms Gorse save Fourteen Men From Drowning. Monsieur de Pages, in his "Travels Round the World," relates in extra- ordinary instance of courage and en- durance on the part of a man and his horse. It occurred at the Cape of Good Hope. The writer would have found the story hard of belief, he says, only that he arrived there on the day after tlaeeve.nt occurred, and saw the vehement emotions of sympathy, blended. with admiration, which it had `I WILL TIIERE BE NO ESCI The' .Revo:.br 'T'aMate. DicroutseS.:oli:.T114:44.::ait t4e 'Of( to ..014e.,•:, it is Appointed Unto Men Once to Die, But After This tile Judgment "---Death Will Be the Ending of All Our Earthly Associations --The Jr. Preaches a Powerful Sermon. • A despatch from Washington says: all our religious, all our earthlY as- -o• eiations, —Rev. 1)r. Tamage preaohed from tbe following text:—" It is appointedn- WAEgWainr1;141 BrlaSNrkt PiPri.EID'egSaiird9IttoT °thFeEt to men once to die, but after this the west crisis, it will be the ending of judgment."—Heb. ix. V. the day of grace. Oe I mark that, One In this audiences, how many throb- d tli art of an instant after raliraanndeit tl too late. Before that, bing hearts, how many gleaming eyes, plenty of bright Sabbaths, and gold - how many hopes, plans, expectationsl en eonamu,nion daysgeind prayers, and Wherever I look around me to -night eermons and songs; but at that I see evidences of huntan life, and I Point, a. messenger from .Go.d will stand with uplifted hand, bidding ell ask almost defiantly, what power cart opportunities of salvation. "Stand. blot out all this? And yet other audi- bed, e, enees Lave vanished, not only from Towards that crisis we are all move buildings where they have assembled, lug in great. •Procession, It is a vast but vanished from earth. Where are =alliTsr,linillegegiiirinenntr,rieljilblagttiti'cni:.s, the one hundred thousand men and in Alexandrian hosts of the dying— women who waved and shouted in the tramp I tramp I tramp! Is it all im- Roman amphitheatre? All gone! tageneteon? Have I only thought out lus idea anyself ? , OA I no. Last W/aere are the three million men whom spring, while at Arlington Heights, Xerxes reviewed in one army? All we wens, strewing flowers over the gone 1 -Where are the multitudes that graves of the dead, I remember well heard George Whitefield preach on the how the minute gun at the foot of the hill shook the earth, and added won - commons while some laughed, and derful solemnity to the ceremony.. It seeans to rne to-naght, that the form- er part of my text sounds like a min- ute gun boonaing for all the genera- tions of the past, and for all the •gen- But I have &ewe you only half the "It i s ap- pointed that are to calne:" pointed unto men onetere die. text re Jelegie anything after that? 'Wheit iihr physical life is extinct, are we done? No 1 I am immortal. You are immortal; and if the, former part of my text sounded like the nabaute gun, the last part of it is like the full bombardment, all the batteries unlimbered, earth and sky mingling in the uproar. "It is appointed unto as compared with those who are sleep- men once to die, and aftex this the some blasphemed, and some prayed? All gone! While St. Paul's yet stands, where are the masons that built it? While the pyramids of Egypt. look across the desert, where are the gear- rymen that excavated the stone, and where are the sculptors who chiselled the features? All gone! , • * The ter e,- -,:eeeeeRilors at mid- night on a steamer's deck are more in enoportion to the hundreas of passen- gers sleeping down en the cabins than the preeent population of the earth J UDGMENT." In that one word of ing down in the caverns of the eaxth, eight letters, are piled up harps and chains, palaces and dungeons, hallelu- jahs and wailbags of eternity. "The Lord shall descend with a shout, and voice of the -archangel, and the all these healthy cheeks? lelust the lus- thtre' tre fade from all these bright eyes? Behold, of Roed,coamindtehe dead shall rise, eehievinit. clouds and Meet the spring go out of all these every eye shall se i I remark, in regard to that second bounding fleet? Aye! Aye! "It is are pointed en,to men once to die." , crisis, that it will etei our physical re- ; construction. In the museum where There is a very cheerful emphasis on : the mummies Lay the swathesewielolmbee that word "once." I know people who torn off, and bodies will have so mach grace that death seeras I forth to be attractive to them, and they BOUNDED AND PERFECT. TJoilsehuad stfofuDelanviA, aonfd Jeremiah, and really talk as though they would be willing to die half a dozen times. It dust, will spring up into rargialnnt atnh:i is not so with me. The idea is exceed- eternal manhood. The air will be get the long lost spirits coming to claim ingly repulsive. I would. like to married dg onostubaotdray—orbnaly andsoulre- bate Heaven, without dying at all. 11 mar submit to the idea only because I have get back his body without thaeulthOrilnl to. But, thank God, we die but once.) in Robert Hall, his, without the the flesh. Payson, his, without the We take seventeen thousand breaths I pang. chriusc.iation. Nero, his; in a day, bet there will be only one Robespierre, bis; Napoleon II. his; laae breatla. For us, there will be ply I the sot, his; the libertine, his. Some „ lef the, bodies built up into unending one passage of the Dead Sea. is I rapture, Mile of them into unending appointed mato men once to die. pang, and the angel with, one foot on But I must split this text into halves, and talk of the two great crises mentioned in it. "It is appoint- ed unto men once to die, but after this the jadgraent." 1. remark, in regard to the first crisis, that it will be the ending of all our earthly plans. If Napoleon wants to fight Austerlitz, he must do it before that, or never fight it at all. If John Howard wants to burn out the dampness from the dungeon, he must do it before that, or never do it at all. Tee laze moments will snap off easy? Why that the Christian mother all our earthly schemes. 1 have plans is deprived to -day of her only child, which it would take me five hundred and the household of the godless left years to execute, and yet know that undisturbed? I appeal to the day of after my final earthly moment 1 CAN DO NOTHING.wrongsudtrumpet a nt tongues, n gTellnee outrages?mwehy0 Explain i no fthesetthhee Death will be to us not a comma, not a. ,semi -colon, not a dash, but a gnoeuieriatiogniees, anIciherh.:ourealdatiisomdsn, fibd ainnd- periof. If one work at that time be their last sleep. .A.nd all now living must die. Will there be no escape? Not one I Must the colour go out of the sea, and the other on the land, will swear by Him that liveth for ever and ever that time shall be no longer, and then He will utter a voice that will sound amid all the nations of the dead: "Coane forth ! Come forth I" and the bodies shall rise from, under the sod, and under the wave in ghastliness or in glory. All that are in their graves shall come forth. remerk, again, in regard to that second crisis, that it will be the time of explanation. Why is it that the good have it hard and the bad have it can make no answer. e appeal to the every person at rounded it will stay rounded. It it be day of judgment. Why Nero on the excited in the'mbad of • incomplete, it will stay incomplete, the Carpe. like the national monument on Calton- the throne and. Paul in the Peniten- During a violent gale, a vessel in the hill, Edinburgh—a row of pillars show- tiare ? Why Nebuchadnezzar in the chariot and Daniel in the den? Why ing what the building was meant to the defrauder building his villa On be, but is not. How many there are the Hudson river, while Christian drawing out a diagram of their life, sewing-wobeen put their heads on a but they never fill it up. They remind hard pillow in the back alley? Oh 1 us of Coleridge, of whom Charles Lanab day of judgment explain this. On said: " Be had at his death forty that clay God will be vindicated, and tithouisand unfinished manuscripts." menwill cry out: "He is right—ever- the door of the future world, the arch - lastingly right." "Thank God for those roads dragged her anchors and was driven on the rocks. Most of the crew were soon washed overboard and drowned, but some were descried from the shore, clinging to the wreck. The sea ran high, and the waves broke with •such fury on the doozned vessel that no boat could venture oat to the work of rescue. Meanwhile a farmer, considerably advanced in years, hail come from his farm to be. a spectator of the tragedy. His heart melted at the sight, and knowing the spirit of his horse and its wonderful strength and endurance as a steel/miner, he determined to at- tempt a rescue. Tle blew a little bra.nely ital.° his horse's nostrils, and pushed into the cadet of the breakers. At first both man and beast disappeared, but they came into sight again, and were seen teveramiing near the wreck. Then, after a period of great anxiety, they reappeared near the shore, struggling with the breakers. Shouts of joy went up when it was found that two sailors were clinging to the rider's boots and had been safely landed. Seven times the perilous trip to the wreek was 'rued°, and fourteen lives were saved, On the eighth trip, horse and rider being well-nigh spent, formidehle wave broke over them, • and the fanner lost his balance, fell, and was over-wheletted in a naornent. The gallant horse swam safely to land, but his brave rider was no more. • A DILEMMA. Aunt Clara—Why, Nellie, what's the matter ? You look worried?u Nellie—Oh, antie, dotnt know what to do. Ja0k, mays he'll take to drink if don't Marry him, and Tom •saYs- he'll stop dritiking Ibeenme hie Wife. FITER TIES remerie, nein, in regard to - that • thatiit witl ken) irreveiceble decision, It we lime our Passe the Cella ot ereMieneu l?leae," we takeit to the "Circuit," 0e, failing there, we take it to "Chancery," or "SliOrelne • Otnirt.' It we are tried before e. petit jery, and the ease goes against us through some teehnieality of the Jaw, We get .a new trial. But, when dectsion tele lase day shall be givee, ()elated, though earth end: helishould there will be un appeal. If ere are ite, demand that we be tried over, again, God will say; "No; that man is tree quitted, and he is aequitted for ever," But it we are condenined, no new trial, • writ of certiorari taking it up to •a, higher jurisdiction. At the decis- ion ot the highest judge of the -high- est beneh, proclamation will go forth through the ages: "Acquittedi once, ac- quitted' for ever. Coademeed once, eondemned for ever." Ohl what a day that will be — not twenty-four hours long, nor twelve hours Long, but split into 'two parts; the last part of it going but an fiery storm. I de not know but that the sun may rise as on other m.ornings, but there will be, no evening hour. The clock of time, itself, will burn— hands, and weights, and, tongue. The time -piece in the tower ot Antwerp, and Trinity Church, pulled apart by Lhe red fingers of the .conflagration. I know not whether the internal fires oi tlae earth will, burst their imprison - mane, or that tires will descend from heaven, or both hands of ,flarcre from beneath, joining hands with flanae from above, IN WILD EMBRA.PE OF RUIN. You know what an excitenaent there is when one building burns, what with the rush ot the engines and the rat - tee ot the hook and ladder trucks. But when the world burns, ohl what excitement; and Boston; and New York, and Brookyln, and Philadelphia, and London go down in one disaster, and by last miracle, the Y.". ters of the sea become erealanatiiiie, so that there • lee. 5." Mediterranean of fire, and 5; Caspian of fire, and an Atlantic of fire, and a Pacific of fire. Mountaine burning. Islands burning. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South Am- erica burning; .evhile the inhabitants ot heaven, look from the battlements, and other words gaze through space at the • wild, crackling, crumbling, Crashing demolition. Ohl • the judg- mann !There are many in this house, to- night, ready for it. They have put their case in the best of hands. .They have gone into a strong ark, and the storm cannot hurt them. Their grave -door will open as gently as a mother opens, the door of a nursery where the children are sleeping. The trumpet that awakes the dead will be to them a burst of infinite music. The thunders that roll through the skies will be the open diapason of an organ, the pipes or whirlwind and tempest sounding the oratorio of the redeem- ed. It they stand. at the foot of 1VIoent Washington, in the last earth quake, the tumbling rocks will not hurt them. "Oh!" they will say: "I am. so glad the judgment has come. God is vindicated. I have gotten back my body from the dust. Ohl wedding hour of body and soul! Ohl resurrection day! Let ,heaven pour its richest vintage into the chalices, and the redeemed together keep jubilee for ten thousand times ten thousand years." But-fhere are others in this, house, to -night, who are not ready. They have not chosen Christ, and going in- to eternity as they are, what chance, O immortal man? On that day, if all your unforgiven sins are against you; if death -bed warnings are against you; if sick -room voices are against you; :f the slighted, ministering angels of God are against you ; if Jesus Christ, wounded and driven back, is against you; if the Holy Ghost is against you, with whom, you have striven; if the offended Lord God Almighty is against you, ah, coming as you are, into that day, you must perish. You do not, my dear brother, want to pray now— it will be toe late to pray then. EVEN THE GRANITE CLIFFS will fall the other way as you pray to theni: "Rocks and mountains fall on as, and hide us from. the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great clay of His wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?" Will you, without Jesus Christ, be able to stand firm when the Alps and Himal- ayas prostrate themselves before the advancing Jehovah? Will you be calm while the birds of the air, touched of the flames, shall drop into the ashes; and the flocks, and the cattle, and horse, and buffalo, in wild avalanche, plunge over a precipice to die; and the valleys cry to the mountains, and the mountains cry to the seas, and the seas cry to the air, and all the fvoices above, and all the voices beneath, clamour and. clamour: "The judg- ment! the judgment I" Ob I I implore you, witla a heart al- most bursting with anxiety for your redemption. God has put upon me. a itecl. puts down . plane, hgalling chains," will cry out the de- burden I cannot bear All thee souls, carpenter his adze, and 'the mason his livered captiyes. "Thank God for all Must I meet them at the bar of God? trowel, and the merchant his bank- those pangs," will cry out the recovered Must I give an account for every word b ok end the minister his sermon. invalid. "Thank God fo all tho e , Not one bargein afterth;fl ;0j; though a faggots," wl exclaim. the delivered million voices were bidding. Not onei martyr. OhD if there were no such day sermon after that, though naiLons promised at all, I think all the na- were dying. Done I Done, for eve? 1 tions of earth would join in a peti- Again, I remark, that ehe first cries . tion, to high heaven for such a day of epolten of in my text will be our PhY-, glorious explanation. steal ruin. However attractive the l The last crisis, I remark, will be body may have been,it miust come to, One also of seelitine. : am / del. ,not know defacement and mutilation. Beautful! i how long the last trial will take, but Marie Antionette as wellas her sew - I very certain, that all the past ing maid; men of magnificent propor-, will rush through our recollection,. tions like Isaac Ferns, or Ilieraael Our sins "will come up—sins of boy - Guthrie or Richard Coeur de Lion, as hood and girlhood; sins of manhood and womanhood; sins of the school and the college; Sine ot the day; sins on. the night; sins of hand, and fOot, well as the cripple who lay down at their gate. The golden bowl of life shivered against a marble slab. No mirror there, in which to part the hair and eye, and brain/ -- all the sins of or scrutinize the broadcloth. No new mut Ryes, , HOST AFTER HOST. The falling rocks cannot erush thern; the opening earth cannot swallow them.; the falling fires shall not con - consume therm It may be all figura- tive that there is to be a book of ac- counts, but it is very certain that &et°. God's unfailing memory all oirr paet life will conle to tis. And jest imagine it, how that man, that Womeet will feel, when dielplayeci be. fore him oe her there shall be ten, twenty, thirty, o'r' forty years of mieimproved epportunities. Ohl mi God, What will we do it there be no refuge for our soUls -- if we haVe no apology to Wake? There will be no tears, The grief, will be too deep for tears. There may be no erieg or holy. The Soul Will feel it is too Mari:lel, all our ow:eel, ail our pelitical„ . faseions in shrouds. Dissolution is the word, Dessolution Again, I remark, in regard to the nest crisis of which I speak, it will be the ending of all our earthly ae- eociations. The nicely folded letter of invitation will not reach us, and our foot will not soand in the rumbling of the dance, Of all the thousand voices on the money market, oer will t be heard. The ferry gates Will open n6 more fer ,W go through. Amid the great Populations- that surge up and down the street we will not be joetled. Amid those with whOna we weep, and laugan h, d sing, there will dot be one with whom We may shake hattds, not one, riot one. Amid all those who e03206 to the Worship of God, we will tot bow the head, we will not lift the pealm. From all our com- + 1 I have uttered in their presence, or for any failure I have made in plain- ness ot speech? 1 implore you to make quick preparation for that day for whichall other days were made; Do not take this message as from me. It comes from the throne of that God before whom you and 1 must soon ap- pear. Ken all round us are being burled into eternity 'without an item of preparation; starting on a journey ragged. and wretched for ever. Last roonth was time enough for them—or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday— was time enough for them, aye, yes- terday would have been time enough for them, but/ not to -day. They have made the last leap. They are gone ir- remediably ; no repentanee for them, no Mercy for them, no hope for them. Losti Lost I Lost I Lost! Some of you my dear brothers and sisters, are Mov- ing on toward tbe same doom, evithent Christ, quick as. your heart, cen beat, and the moments can travel. I shiver at the idea of your undoing. I stretch (int my hand to save you, but it is too 'weak; and, I lift my voice, but it ea too feeble, anS I evy "MEN AND ANGELS, HELP 1" Ah, they. clarinet help. We must have oranipotende or nothing. Oh I that the Almighty arm were, this night, thrust throxigh this Audience, that these drowning Souls might detail it and live. I have to -day, as if f could die to BOOM you, and yet ray pear 'ifs °Geld not purabase your redemptioze Kew °he( hanging on a tree, In geroey, arid bIoodet Ahe sinner, that is the sacrifice that is going to SUN'tn you—Blis sweat, Ills teitt's, ilia excrucietiou, lie took the lanileS) lin trod the shin.) epikes, Ile suffered, the torn brow, He enduted a death, through which wont all the sorrows of this world, and the hortures of eternity driven in one thunderbolt of anguish tlaro-agia Eis holy heart; and yet you will not have hine. You, turn your back upon this, the beat friend that was ever olfered to a man, This Jesus, of WhOill ',spoke to you this morning, is altogether peeelous—preeious while we live, prec- ious when we, die, preoious for ever. Oh! that God, would bring you to a better mind. I want to leave you, tee night, at the feet of this. Jesus. He will not pet you away, I have tested Him, and I kno-w aim., He is "ehief among ten thouisande atia. the One al- togeteer lovely." Ile hes (been my friend in tiniest of prosperity—He has beert my joy in the days of adversity. Speaking out of 'nal' deep heart's ex- perience, I commend Him to yo'u,r souls to -night. Oh I comeand accept Him. Do it now, This is your chance Lor heaven, There are men in this house, to -night, that unless they oome to Jesus now, never,will come. They will be out in the world, and be swept away in the frivolities and dissipa- tion. this is the time when they might be saved, will they come? I wish that there might go up a thou- stend-voiced shriek: "What inust I do to be saved?" Oh 1, come back to thy Father's heuese, thou prodigal—come up from, the wilderness, living on husks, and clothed in the rags Of thy sin. Come, come, the banquet is all ready! THE KII\G OF THE BEGGARS. n China Beggars Are organized IMO COM - panics, Regiments aud Gammons. While. we have heard of the kings of many lands, and come to recognize men who bave acquired superior power and influence in any particular calling as "kings of tradeee and the like, the King of the Beggars will be to must readers a new dignitary. Such a personage, however, exists, and is recognized by the state. It is said that organizations have ac- quired such a hold on the social life of Chem that even the beggars. are formed into a sort of society. They are organized into companies, regi- ments and battalions, and even have a king. His title is the King of the Beggars, and he is responsible for the conduct of his tattered subjects. On hem the blame is laid, ;when disorders, mere Serious than usual, occur among The King of the Beggars at Peking is a real power. While the beggars swarm like troublesome insects around some chosen village, and seek by in- solence to intimidate every oneethey meet, their king calls a meeting of Lhe principal inhabitants and proposes for a certain sum to rid the, place of its invaders. After a long dispute the contracting parties come to an agreement, the ransom is paid, and the beggars decamp,. to pour ,down like an avalanche on some other place, and be "bought off" in the same manner. Troublesome as Chinese beggars are, however e even they are ruled by etiquette, and have their professional code. They may not call at private) houses expect on speoial occasions of mourning or festivity, and even that privilege may be compounded for by a covenant between the head of a fam- ily and the claef of the beggars. The roadside is always free to them, and the road to Peking is lined with the whining fraternity. They are sometimes really enterpris- ing. Once at the burial of a native Christian in Fuchau—a company of beggars and lepers gathered round the grave, and demanded twenty thousand cash before they would. allow the cof- fin to be lowered. One of the rabble actually got down into the grave and prevented the lowering ef the coffin. They eventually compromised for eight hundred cash. ' TEACHING A SOLDIER TO SHOOT. Instructions Imparted as to Gravity, Air Desistance and Oilter Points. He is taught that ths bullet travels through the air in, a 'curved, line, can- e& the trajectory, and that three forces act upon it; first, the exploded charge tending to drive it forward in a straight line along the line of fire; second, the force of gravity, and third, the air resistance. At 200 yards, owing to these forces the buLlet trav- eling at the rate of 2,0D0 feet a second, will have fallen about two feet. In the excitement of firing at close quar- ters the aim will invariably be too high. lt has been calculated that when the enemy approaches within 350 yards the soldiers will instinctively fire as much as two feet or three feet above their heads. Now, it has been founci by experio:nent that the, fact of fixing bayonets will cause the bullet Lo drop it distance of about 21-3 feet in 350 yards, and, therefore, when about this distance from, the enemy, sei el avoloreidri eoe nra l'toeof litieturinruteetariewa.dett o fixthe bayonets,:eessi y The-recruit learneethat the mean ex- treme range of the bullet is 3,500 yards, and that the -longest shot ever observed .was 3,766 yards, He is taug.ht the penetrating power of his po twaekaaonn,ett, osrubtjecot eoxfamli,nptieezsrt.ammTeod. earth .givele less proteetion than loose. Bulleew'ectsiiy fina their way through joints of Walls, while a tonceetrated fire of about 150 rcnindia at 200 yards wile, breach a mine -inch brick wall. Only experience ca.n teach a soldier how nattcb be must atim to the right or left of his mark to counteraet the force ef the wand. 'A side) wind has more effect on the flight of a bullet than it Wind blowing directly toward the firer. The soldier must leatn the laa,bits of hie rifle, since some shoot higher or lower than °titters, Every, rifle, like every .marksraan, has its owe, naelvidtitility. ONE IN A. THOUSAND, Of 1,000 persona only one reaches the ago of 100 yeara, SOME GALLANT OFFICERS. eett;::30r n. Those e'retTiest Thew LiVe$ ID the itritish Reverse at Fardttiniett The foliolwing be a briee sketeh of the BritiO3, office' s Who lost their lives Major William. Joseph Myers, adjo- in Farquhar's farm fight:— taut ofthe Eton College Rifles, of the 7th Battalion King's Royal Rifles, was forty-one years ofage, having been born on August 4, 1858. He enter- er. From, the following April to Sep- ,%uvt4esnatinatnisn ee _ t"„th root ina 1i38e7c80. nadndlio King's Roy -al Rifle Corps a year lat- :aertrehe'd atorni:tYhe" 60th Foot from the teraher he served with, the 3rdeBatta- lion in the Zulu war, for whioh be the medal with "eitiep, and obtaining hie lieutenancy in November, '1680, was attached to the Egyptian army and Mok part in the operatioles of the Suo- dee Frontier Field Forces from No- vember, 1885, to 1886 ea aide -de -0=W to Sir Frederick Stephenson, General Officer commanding in Egypt, being present in the engagement at Gnats. He received the medal, the fetal:b.-claps of the Mectjidie, and the Khedive's Star pf yla iainsexrvailecetts: 1118e88otatauaidnewclabsislomse...- quently peeped on the xepeive of ote ficers' list. On Febeuary 24, 1897, he wee appointed eonOrary major of the 7th Battalion oi the King's itoyal i1e, and itIleePeEj3rtouna.i'.6' 0111eg8ti, eaVeOtlinngnteaed- jutant of .Bat Lalion, late 2nd Rupees, of the Ox- fordshire Light Infantry, reaching the rank ot major on February 8 lase. Major Edward Woliendin Gray, of tee itoyal Army Medical -Oorppe was born on September 28, 186e, and re- ceived his medical edaeation In Dublin. aaHt landeem idr weti °i:nak alat8. 8)18 58" andl\1I°I.B iipha Dublin bdslia.13.121 fel n'iy. evduee 98' LICENTIATE IN MEDICINE. of the, Royal College' of Physicians, Ire- land, and ot the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin; in 1886 .wee actuated a licen- thete celthe Apothecariee hall; Duelin, received the State Medicine Diploma, from. the University of Dublin in 1887, and in 1888 was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeoes, Ireland, Major Gray wap gold medalist of Jer- vis street hospital, Dublin, and a mem- ber of the British Medical Association. He entered the army -op a surgeon -cape tain in February, 1887, and obtained the He proceeded to South Africa Leone Benirgaaine of , Major on February 5 lest. Luantenant Hugh. Sydney Marsden of the 1st Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, was the only son and only child of Mr. F. J. Marsden, of Colne House, Earl's' Colne, .Essex, and was nearly twenty-two years of age, having been born on December 3, 1877. Ile entered the King's 'Royal Ri- afljeacyCOorripeAapsrila6secialson: lieutenant on July 7, 1897, and received his lieuten- Lieutenant john Lindsey Forster; of tee 2nd Bettalion of the Regiment, veep in his twenty-third year, the date of his birth being March 3, 1877. Ile entered the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant on April 7,1897, and two years later on April 6, this year, received his lieutenancy. He was the son of Mr. Paul Foster, of Mal- verleses, East Woodhay, near New- bury. Lieutenant James Taylor, McDou- gall, of the 42nd. Field Battery, was twenty-eight years of age, the date of lie birth being July 30, 1871. He en- tered the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant on July 24, 1891, and obtain- ed his lieutenancy on July 24, 1894. The 42nd Battery, stationed in Natal, is conmaanded by Major C. E. Goulburn, Sergeant-Major George Allan David Young, of Colonel Plumer's regiment, who was killed. in action at the Croco- dile river, Rhodeeia, on October 22, was a nephew of Miss Charlotte Young, the hovellet, and th.e youngest son of the late Mr. J. a Young; of Otter - bourne house, Hampshire, and of Mrs. Yonge, of the Old- houee, Dorking. He was twenty-eight. THE CHILDREN OF DREYFUS. now Their Mother Kept Them Under Her Own Eye During Their Father's Im- prisonment. ' pathetic incident connected with tJae Dreyfus trial is -givenby a Paris THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 3, onacening the siteiette." Neb. 13. Coldett 10:041. O. 8. PRACTICAL NOTES, (Verso 15, l* those days. During Ne -s 1:Saw P in judah. coriscientiouslyc nencli iaelho'sseisoycderti: ,ti'etel:nupeii:ivs6eghovisertnionr;^ a tray. Treading wine pressesi Witte was a staple of 'Palestine. The manner of extracting it from am"- , grape waS simple. Ruins of "presses' are everyweere in. the East, each, which consists of two huge vete , tanks, the upper vat large enough tc. hold whole vinefuls of grapes. ,TrA, this the grtwes are trodden, and the juice flows Ciao the lovver vat. Suchi labor was exhilarating. The wine preseers deuced upon the grapes, hold- ing themeelves by hanging straps as they circled rouad each other. The work, being rhythmical, was accem- waded by singing. It was all in the apex], air, in the. balmiest days of the delightful Palestinian atmosphere, and no wonder that such exhilarating ex- ercise became almost a synonym for, hilarity. To tread grapes on, the Sab- bath was grossly to violate the Sab- bath' law of Exod. 20. 8.11, Bringing, in sheaves. Grain of. all sorts gather- ed from surrounding fields. It eves usually threshed within the city walls for fear of robbers. Lading eeeeete The Revised Version here supplies the if -- word "therewith." Some of these donkeys bore heaps of grain, others skins of wine, great baskets of, grapes, ' and figs, and all manner of burdens; for the Sabbath was no longer kept, and the people who shaped hese been in the temple worshiping God were,i 111 spite of their recently renewed cov- enant, pushing their secular busiuess on the holy day without a blush. ell 'testified against them. With the auth- ority of a great office and the earnest- ness of it sincere soul. In the day, wherein they sold victuals. When and where he saw the crime, then and there Nehemiah denounced it, without waiting for legal forms. 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein. Men of Tyre were Phoenicians who, like modern ,Tews, only to weever' greater degree, 'were the world's mer- chants. That a colony of Phoeni- cians, had established itself in Jere' miler'', was in itself an excellent fact, making for increased prosperity. But Tyria.ns did not worship Jehovah ;Baal Was their god and 'Ashtoreth their goddess, and Jewry had. had more than enough of their licentious influence. Brought .fieh. airobably by rapid mes- sengers froni the seacoast; but raueir of the fiish sold in ancient Jerusalem was "preserved," like the sardine of modern commerce. Sold on the. Sab- bath Unto the children of Judah. Ty- rians might be expected to sell on any day; but it was shocking that Jews would buy on the Sabbath. Had their exile, then taught them nothing? 17. I contended with the nobles. Be- cautse the common people naturally followed the nobles' example. ' Those who are shocked by the Sabbath -break- ing of the common people to -day have need to rebuke the untitled .nobles of our land, the stockholders and teena- gers of great corporations. Evil thing. Sabbath -breaking is always evil. It breaks one of the Ten Commandments and opens the way for all sin. tends to tlae enfeeblement of the..body, direct and very evil secular effe s - dtoehtaheeernoveehrfstorfaineoonfliminidt, elahtto. the slowly demoralizing society, enslave ing the weaker classes, and tending at once to greater financial expenditure and to lower wages. All lovers of mankind, whatever their creed, agree as to the value of a weekly: rest day; and God says: "Remember the Sab- bath day, to keep it .holy." 18. Did not our God, bring aii this eee....e evil upon us, and upon tbis city? The e very ruins that they had been rebeile- ing were reminders of the punishment that God bad inflicted upon the rut-, tion for its sine, of which Sabbath - breaking was one of the chief, Ye bring more -wrath upon Isra.et. And poor Isreal could not stand much more, Its national existence was narrowly( saved by Nehemiah, Ezra and the lat- er prophets. • 19. When the gates of Jernsalene began to be dark. A, beautiful picture ot the twilight hour, and a,s definite is statement or time as could be made in an age when watch and clock were ulnknown. The hours of daylight ' were divided into .twelveequal por- tions, which, of concede Were longer at one period ot the year then at an- other ; and the last of the twelve hours, was "the hour of the darkening gales." Before the Sabbath. Which began at' sunset. The gateg should be aline. To stay shut for twenty-four hours. So the traffic was stopped. In the open places near the gates the mere chant's and their customers had been accustomed to congregate. Some of my servants sot L at the gates. Ne- hemiah depended on his body -guard, until public opinion grew healthier. There should no burden be brought in. People might COttle 111 to erOtShiP • in the temple, but not to buy or to sell. , Lodged without Jerusalem: once ' or twice. No reformer need expect' that his reforms ca.n b3 made prac- ticable at once. These men spread their wares for sale outside the walls, arid sold to People who lived in the sub- urbs as well .as to citizens who came out to purchase. 01. Why lodge ye about the wall? which menas "Scatter I GO 1" .1t,S,,,Y3 do so again, I will lay hands 'On you. While crime reeeives sharp rebuke, it should 11,1k, be met by meaeures of erevention. Those who persist in defy- in.g God's taw and man's law- should meet with stern and determlned deal- ing. From that 'time forth came they no more on the Sabbath They had at length met a reformer whose 'will was as strong as theirs. ' 22. The Levites. To whom sacred du- ties were in general referred. They Should cleanse themselves, Purify tI(IrrvlYillesehiould el.vwes.ch Gwotinin°aukgehatthy h waritll'eal sl did a sacreti rite as ;well OS a secular service. Come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Them would relieve Nehemiah's ,bodygoara and would also place the closing et the getes on a higher moral plane. It would no longer appear merely as an act of personal preference ot of pub- lic policy, but as ao outeome of the n,itionai religion, And now this part oC our nerrative ends by a touching iiepeal to God, "not to any degree a prayer of self -glorification, but of correspondent. Among the anxieties of the wife of the persecuted m,an, not the least was her fear that her children should learn the ternble fate of their father. To prevent this, during all the years of _his imprisonment she kept them un- der her own eye, not allowing theta to go to school, or play with other children, teaching them herself and going with them in their walks, The oldest boy, who was nine years of age, never saw a newspaper. But While they were at the seaside, the boy found, on the beach it torn kite imade of old newspapers. He reed and went to his nurse. "Ah, now I know why my papa is so long gone!" he sald, shewing her an article. headed, "Facts oi the Dreyfus Affair." "There are many Dreyfuses in Paris," the woman stammered. "But not many Captain Alfred Dreyenses Mediae wives are nalmed Lucie. 1 know now Weyeshe, °fide at night 1" oried the boy, sobbitig, -"She should have told me so that I could go to help my father." In the sufferings of this man, so greet that the world has stood eghttst before them as at a new horror in his- tory, God gave ham the steady, fail h- itt' love of his broeherse his wife and his children. PREE TELEPHONES. In some towns in Germany the tele - hone is introdueed by tobacconists as an additional attraction to custorhers. Any one who buys a ei..gari may, if he desires, speak over the 'tobacconist's iaastrnment. faith in God's. truth,"