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Korean ttelities, the Ittetory Of whic
etnee tem Itineclotti became incleeendeet
througb the triumph of japanese
emu tn 1894, has been largely thee, of
the rivalries and intrtgues oRessie
and japan, have within the past near
entered on e Dew ehase. The, poll -
tied aseendanoy at Seonl, held alter-
eetely by the two 'latter:Is, by eapan
until, early in 189e. end by Inmate up
to the autumn ot 1898, have passed
egaixt to t,ee former empire, though
riot ao abeoletele a.a it has been raaba-
tained In turn by eaoht power hereto -
The process by vslatela the
change ba beee effected. is, of Interest,
bemuse, it virtually Teeettts that witith
led to tee downfall of Sapauese and
Russian suprexaacy in 1896 an& 1898s
and becauSe it illustrates the persist-
enoy of Japart, and her reediness to
Profit both by her OWn blunders and
those of her rIva.l. It will be rememe
bered that, following her war with
Ohina, Japan, whose asoenelancy in
Korea was then complete, uudertook
the reformatiou of the oorrupt and
retrograde kingdom, socially, politi-
cally anti eoonOmallY in aecordance
with a, ready made programme. ,
Rev
21),ITERRANEAN STORYL
Dr
Talniage Draws
Lessons From it
Jonah Punished for Disobedience—Caught in a Storm and
Some
The fact that the Korean people
were not prepared for the radical
tearless demanded of them, and that
the king and the eourt resented, them
as an unwarrantable interference with
their rigets, made no difference to the
Japanese, who only insisted the more
harshly on their execution. Meanwhile,
Russia, who had no intention of losing
her hold on the peninsula, quietly
avaalted her turn, placing no visible
obstacle in the way of Japan, but
making her syrapathy known to the
king, in the certainty that tee. Japan-
ese agents, who follotved each other
In rapid suceession, would in the end
• work their own undoing. The end
came in February, 1896, following. the
murder of the geeen, nonainally by
the king's father, but really with the
connivance of the Japanese embassy,
when the king took retuge in the Rus-
sian legation, and from that sanctu-
ary ordered the exaltation of the con-
spirators against the queen's Iife.
Wrecked—Some People Have Friends 'Who Are Not
Christians—What Are They Doing to Bring Them to
Christ --The Dr. Preaches a Powerful Sermon.
A dearnteh iron 'Washington says:— tinized the eatieat and felt the pulse,
Rev. Dr. Talrattget preaelled from the nit° You. Ce'Llewed htne into the next
room, and aaid; "eletere isn't any den -
the following 'text; "The niea rowed; ger, is there, doctor V' And the hest -
hard to bring it to land, but they totem and the uucertainty oi the re,
could not, wherefore they mese. unto . Ply made two eternities flash before
the Lord"—jonah i. la, 14. 1 3tto)lei hteiltotiii. Aixliel. ter Ton went and
Navigation in the Mediterranean . great fueturteo t 'i!ihatethearne° earbe°11.htobsee
Sea always was patients, especially so hare who have tried to bring their
in early times. Vessels were propel- 1 friends to God. They here been un-
to bring them to the shore of
led partly by sail and partly by oar. ; able
When, by reason ot ginat stress of ZLent7tee yTwh!eyrelt'ewleliaotxtye:reraerrstba:to,PYlolut
TIXES
window whet) you have ell got to-
gether ;Wein, and axe eeatee at the
bauquet.
"Thottge permits may in ()overeat no,
Aed have 'their heavee in view,
They are not bappe till thee ewe •
Thetr ebildrett happy too." .
weather, it was necessary to reef the think you have got them almost to
oanvais or haul it in, then the vessel the shore wheu you are swept back
was entirely dependent upon the oars, eVbat shall you do? pet down
Oe no, I do not advise that;
soraetimes twente or thirty of them but I do advise yen to appeal to that
on either side of the vesael. You God to whom the Mediterranean caro-
m. la appealed—the eiod who could sil-
elm the tempest and brieg the slap
in saiety to the 'port. I tee yeti, my
friends, that there has got to be a
good deal of prating before our fam-
ilies are brought to Christ. Ah 1 it 17
an awful thing to have half a house
hold on one side the line and the oth-
er part of the bousehold on. the other
side the line. Oe, the possibility of
would not venture outside San y
Efook with such a craft as ray text
finds Jonah sailing in; but be had not
much choice of vessels. He was run-
ning away from the Lord; and when
a man is running away trona the Lord,
he has to run very; fast.
God had told Jonah to go to Nineveh
With the failure of japan to resent
the king's action, supremacy at Seoul
passed, to Russia; and though the in -
Demme of the latter during the eon-
servative remotion which followed was
not exerted to prevent corruption and
retrogression, she maintained her as-
cendanoy, and by supporting the Brit-
ish financial adviser, kept the king-
dom in order. But, though shet show-
ed. herself Indifferent to reforms, she
soon assumed the harsh and. imperious
attitude taken by Japan in enforcing
them, and by superseding the
British financial adviser with a
Russian, wrought confusion in the
treasury. The result was the abrupt
disraissal af the Russian. agent follow-
ed, last October, by tee execution on
a false charge of the inter-
preter to the Russian legation, who
had long been one of the most active
supporters of Russian influence among
his countrymen. As with Japan
in 1896 the failure of B.ussia to
enter effective protest against this act
of the king ended her escendancy,
and since then, though the bafluence
of the two powers at Seoul is more
equally balanced than at any time
since 1894, that of Japan has been
clearly in the lead and is steadily in-
creasing. That it will be maintain-
ed, and that eapan has not intention of
permitting other powers to secure
political advantages in the peninsula
an any pretext, is evidenced by the
refusal by the government of Russia's
request for sited for coal studs and
whaling stations.
Again, I renterk, that the lintivall-
g eftort a the Mediterranean (Are -
men has a counterpart la the effort
wheel we ere making to bring this
world back to G'oa, His pardon, and
safety. If tbis world ecalid have been.
saved by burnan effort, it would have
been done long ago. joins Howard took
hold of one oar, and Carey took held bf
another oar, and Aileron -am jadeon
took hold ot another oar, and Imam?
took hold ot another oar, and jolin
Knox tuok bold of another oar, and
they pulled until tbey fell baele dead
from the eehaustion. Some dropped in
the aeltea of martyrdom, some on the
an. eternal separation Ono
to preaoh about the destruction of that
think the
euch thoeght would laover
city, Jonah diaobeyed. That always pallow, and hover over the
mattes rough water, whether in the arm-thair, and hover over the table,
end that each olatter at the door
Mediterranean, or the A tlantio, or the
. would cause a Shudder as though
Pacific, or the Caspian Sea. A is a
very hard thing to scare sailors. I
have seen them when the prow of the
vessel was almost under water, and
they were walking the deek knee deep
in the surf, and the small boats by
the side of the vessel have been crush-
ed as smell as kindling wood, whist-
ling as though nothing had happened;
but the Bible says that these mari-
ners of whom I speak were frightened.
That which sailors call "a lump of
sea'. had become a blinding, deafening
swamping fury. How mad the wind
can get at the water, and the water
can get at the wind, you do not know
unitise you have been spectators. I
have inany house a piece of a sail of
a ship, no larger than the paha of my
hand; that piece of canvas was all
that was lett of the largest sail of
the ship Greeee, that went bato the
storm five hundred miles off New-
foundland. Oh 1 what a night tha.t
was. ;suppose that it was in some
such storm as this that johah was
caught.
He knew that the tempest was an
his account, and he asked the sailora
to throw him overboard. Sailors are
a generous -hearted race, aria they re -
resolved to make their escape, if pos-
sible, without resorting to sucb ex-
treme measures. The saes are' of no
use, and so they lay hold on their oars.
I see the long rank of shining blades
on either side the vessel. , Oh 1 how
they did pull, the (bronzed seamen, as
they laid back into the oars. But
rowing on the sea is very different
from rowing upon a river, and as the
vessel hoists, the oars skipt the. wave,
and miss the stroke, and the tempest
laughs to scorn the Dying paddles. It
is of no use, no use. There comes a
wave that crashes the last mast, and
sweeps the oarsmen. from their places,
and tumbles everything in the con-
fusion of
IIYIPENDING SRIPWRECK.
or, as my text hasert: "The men row-
ed hard to bring it to land, but they
could not; wherefore they cried un-
to the Lord."
This scene is very suggestive to me,
and I pray God I may ,have grace and
strength enougla to represent it be-
fore this dying yet. immortal auditory.
I preached yea a sermon on another
phase of this very subject, and I got
a letter from Houston, Texas, the
the last messenger had come.
To live together in this world
flee Years, or ten years, or
fifty years, and then afterwards to
live away from each other millions,
millions, millions of years, and to know
and feel that between us and eternal
separation there is only one heart
beat! When our Certstian friends go
out of this life into glory, we are e.ora-
forted. We teat we shall meet. them
again in the good land. But to have
two vessels part on the ocean of eter-
nity, one going to the riglat and the
other to the left, farther apart, and
farther apart, and the signals cease
to be recognized, and there are only
two specks on the etorizon, and then
they are lost to sight for ever I
I have to tell you that the unavail-
in,g efforts of these Mediterranean
oarsmen has a counteepart on the ef-
forts some of us are making to
bring our children to
TRE SHORL OF SAFETY.
SCALPING KNIVES OF SAVAGES,
and some into the plague-etruele room
of the lazaretto; and still the chains
are not broken, and still the despot-
isms are not demolished, and still the
world is unsaved. Whet then? Put
down the Oars and, make no etfort ?
do not advise that. But I want you,
Christiaia brethren, to understand that
the Oeurch and the soiaool, and the
college, and the missionary society are
only the instrumentalities ; and if this
work is ever done at all,. God must do
et, and He will do it, int answer to
our prayer. They rowed" hard to
bring ilt to the lame bet they could
not; wherefore they cried unto the
Lord,"
A.gain, the unavadling effort of those
Mediterranean oarsnaen has a counter: -
pare in every man that is trying to
row his own soul into safety. When the
Eternal Spilt flashes upon us our
condition, we try to save ourselves.
We aay : " Give me a stout oar tor MY
right band, give me a stout oar for
my left hand, and I will pull myself
into safety." 'No. , A wave of sin
coraes and clasees you one way, and a
wave of temptation comes and dashes
you in 'another way, and there are
plenty of rocks on which to foander,
but seemingly no harbour into which
to sail. Sea must be thrown overboard
or we must perish. There are men in
this house, in all these galleries, who
have tried for ten years to become
Christians. They believe all I say in
regard to a futere world. They believe
that religion is the first, the last, the
infinite necessity. With it, heaven!
Without it., hell.' They do everything
but trust in Christ. They make sixty
strokes in a minute. They bend for-
ward with all earnestness, and they
lay baok until the nausoles are distend-
ed and yet they have not made one
',Sea easels etands with Open Urine,
Re calla, Re bids you wine;
Feu holde tine back aud fetyr alarms,
Eta still theee yet is reoxa."
Ole men and women, bought by the
blood of jostle, how ean I give you upt
WU yoe tuna avvay this plea, as you
have tamed away so many? Have you
deliberately chosen to die? Do you
want to be loat? Do you turn your baek
on heaven because you do not want
to see Christ, nar your own loved ones
whom Re has taken, into His bosom.
Cattnet some of 'tees° Valiant and
mothers hear the vetoes of their, obild-
ree in glory calliug to -night, seeing;
PERPETUAL SILENCE.
IA. ou,rious mourning custom obtains
In Central Anstralia, whith, although
representing perhaps the lowest and
most degraded type of human. beings,
h,ave managed to evolve a most com-
plex system of rites and ceremonies
whith govern almest every action of
their lives. Ae Australian who has
resided for 14 years exatong the Arun -
tee, and who has been initiated bate
all their mysteries, relates that when
a. ieualattnd dies the widow' paints her-
self all aver with white pinment, arid
for the space of a year must not ex-
hibit herself. to a Jamie raetn.ber of the
tribe on pain of death. For the rest
of her lite, tealess she simeries again-
-which is sometimes allowed—she must
not speak, but c,onneunioate with the
other women by means of a sign
language, -consisting of movements of
tbe hands. and fingers, whicb has teen
deeeloped by these savages to a mar-
velous extent, and by which their
limited stook of ideas cent be fully ex -
Pressed.
"Steer teis way, father,
Steer atraiget for Me;
Here safe in heaven
o I AM waiting terr thee."
Do you not see the hands, of mercy,
the hands a loved once, let down now
front the skies, beckoning to the per -
cloning Jesus, beokoniug up to heaven
and to glory. Can it be that it is all
la vain? t
There never were so many temptations
for young people as there are now.
The literary and the social bafluences
seem to be agamst their spiritual in-
terests. Christ seems to be driven al-
most entirely from the school and the
pleasuxable concourse, yet God knows
how anxious we are for our children.
We cannot think of going to heaven
without them. We do not want to
leave this life while they are tossing
on the waves of teraptation and away
from God. From which of them could
we consent to be eternally separated?
Would it be the son? Would it be the
dau,ghter 7 Would it be the eldest ?
Would it be tee youngest Would it
bet he one that is well and stout, or
the one that is sick? Oh, I hear some
parent sayieg to -night: "I have tried
my best to bring my children to Christ.
I have laid bold of the oars u.ntil they
bent in my grasp, and, have braced
myeelf against the ribs of the boat,
and 1 'lave pulled for their eternal
rescue, but I can't get them to Christ."
Then, I ask you to imitate the raen
of the text and cry mightily unto God.
We want more importunate praying
for children, such as the father indulg-
ed in when he had tried to bring his
six sons to Christ, and they had wan-
dered off into dissipation. Then be
got down in his prayers and. said: "Oh,
God, take away my life, if through
that means my sons may repent and
be brought to Christ;" and the Lord
startlingly answered tee prayer, and
la a few weeks the father was taken
away, and through the solemnity the
six sons fled unto God. Oho that fath-
er could afford to die for the eternal
welfare of his children. He rowed
hard to brin.g them to the land, but
writer saying that tbe reading of that could not, and then he cried unto the
sermon in London had led hira to God. i Lord. Teere are parents here wee are
A.nd I received another letter from; almost drecouraged about their child -
South Australia, saying that the read- t rep. wee.„ is yeee son to -night?
TUE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 10.
CALVARY IN VAIN?
Death -bel warniugs in vain? Minister -
tering spirits vain? The opening
gates ot heaven in vain? The importune
ing of God's eternal Spiret alb in vain?
be too late to pray. hear the. oreak-
ing of the closing door of God's mercy,
To some of you the last ohauce has
come. The tongue in the great bell
begiee to swing for the death, knell of
thy soul traraortall And in an hour, in
which ye thirilt not, you disembodied
epirit may go sterieking oet towards
the throne of an offended God, and--
vrhat then? Has not God been calling
to you, my dear brother, during the
week? In the uncertainty of this
world's treasures 7 Do you not feel to-
night as if you would like to have God.
and Jesus, and ell the precious pro-
mises of His Gospel? I remember
that after the great crisis of 1857,
when the whole land was rocked with
coinmercial sorrow, the spirit of God
descended, and there were two hun-
dred and eeventy thousand souls in
one year, who found the peace of
Christ, 011., I would that the rocking
in Washington City to -day —
the commercial rocking — might rouse
up men to the consideration of the in-
terests of their immortal souls.
As asked you this mora-
ine, I ask you now: "What shall it
profit a naan if he gain the whole world
and lose his soul?" t Come back, oh
wantleger. I do not ask where you
came from to -night. Though you may
have come from places of sin, I shall
not be partial in ray offer of salvation.
I offer it to every one who site before
me. "Whosoever will, let him come,"
and let him come now.
Plenty of room at the feast. Jesus
iteset '
'Itiessints tervete." Nial. le Oen. and 54
Golden. Text. 11 OW. 9. '1•
PRACTICAL, NOTES.
Verse 6. Malaele begins his pre -
Pence with a startling dialogue* "I
have loved yoe," God says- The
priests ask "Wherein hest thou; loved
us?" The Lore answers by oonelette
Lee hie tlealinge with Eisele 30-eoh‘s
hbfo°tdilsearlianneds tti4vietbfaItshrearel(1.i 111.11c1c1°0111re' w4talls
doomed to perraanetit overthrow, but
The Lord, will be magnified fronr the
bo"your:re yeets isshraalel alnhde Then
eesohmael 1 say',
words of our lesson. A son honoreth
his lather, and a servant his master.
ihfolayO°1:11? are1f myYousmle're ‘sm'hysve Beiereulantntse,
Where is my fear? This appeal is to
tee priests, the professionally boly
men, who, God sans, despise nay name.
Bet they ask, Wherein have we de-
sifetsheodnetptywneithintehtemAsectivuee:tite_litteyw were
Well able to answer., '
altar, Botrfeeard Pgtialuutilesa bgreertadertlittlymitzlore
toed. The sacrificee of the temple were
of fruit and flesh raeat, but included
"showbread," which, however, was
placed upon the table, not upon the
altar. The priests were given, elabor-
ate instructions for the acceptance or
rejection of eaorifices brouglat by the
people, a portion of which was regu-
larly to be used as food for the priesta.
/31ind, lame, and sick animals were
excluded. Bute:hese priests had accept-
ed sacrifices which the spirit, if not
also the letter of the law had exelud-
ed, and what could not be either pro-
fitably sold or eaten by themselves
the,y had oontemptuously offered to
God. They had teus degraded their
holy office for gain. Wherein have we
'polluted thee? That is, Wherein have
the sacrifices been polluted? In that
ye say, The table of the Lord is con-
temptible. Not that this priests used
these words, but that their actions
spoke louder than any words.
8. Is it not evil? Whatever may be
true oe relations between human be-
ings, it is manifestly wrong to give
to tee Lord's cause on earth, whether
represented by ancient temple or mod-
ern church, contributions that are of
no service to ourselves. "Cheap reli-
gion, ;meting little," is rejected hY
God. It was a wise man who said that
God never despises the widow's mite,
but always despises the mis-
er's mite. Offer it now unto
thy governor. Tee upright, down-
rniogwirtiosvterraniogrh,tNfoerhWeamridahMhrt nawmheo, wwasas
not grasping; he had repeatedly re-
fused tributes which by all custom be-
longed to his office; but he was a just
man, and "matter-of-fact," and he
could not easily be imposed upon. He
would have made thoit work with an
Treat God the way you treat the goy-
einrsnionrce. re or 'presumptuous petitioner.
9. Now, I pray you, beseeoh God
that he will be gracious unto us. All
orientate, going to a governor or
judge for favors, take gifts with them.
But, corning to God for spiritual
blessing these hypocrites bring stale
bread and lame lambs and blind heif-
ens. This bath been by your means.
Read this sentence with the accent on
"bath." Extmordinary as is this ar-
raignment, it is true. Will he regaxd
your petsons? A question that has
the force of the negative answer. No.
10. Who is there even among you
that would shut tbe doors for neught?
Utterly venal. are ye all. Bat the
best recent translators and comnaent-
ators give us another meaning, wbieb
is well expressed by Dr. Smith: "Bet-
ter that sacrifice should cease than
that such offerings should be pre-
sented in such spirit. Better no wor-
ship at all than such false worship.
Is there no one to close the doors of
the temple altogether, so that the
attar smoke not in vain ?" The close
of the verse gives a similar thought
in strong affirmations.
11. )3ecadse. From the rising of
the sun even unto the going down of
the same, my name shall be great
among the Gentiles. If you; are,bound
to be hypocritical, there are at least
plenty of sincere worshipers elsewhere.
You bring the sick, and the blind, and
the lame for sacrifice, but outcast
Gentiles will presently sacrifice their
lives for my sake. The time is coming
and "now is," when the people of
Judah 'and Jerusalem will no longer
be the exclusive worshipers of God,
but whoever "worships him in spirit
and in truth." In every place incense
shall be offered unto my name. In-
cense is symbolic of prayer. I pure
offering. Tbe offering of humble and
contrite heart. My na.rae shall be great
among the heathen. The gradual ful-
fillro.ent of this prophecy has proceed-
ed- far enough to greatly strengthen
our faith in its complete fulfillment.
The charge made in the first divi-
sion of the lesson, which we have al-
ready studied, Was irreverence and
negligence 'in ,sacrifices- Now, after
a lengthy parenthesis, the prophet
stPitehstekss. of how God is dishonored by
8. Will a. man rob God.? Could one
dare to plan snob; robbery? Yes, Nes
beebadnezzar had done so when, de-
stroying the teraple, he took to his
own city its coneecra.ted treasures.
But surely priests would never think
for a moraent of snole a crene, gee we
can hear their indignant voices ask-
ing, Wherein have we robbed thee?
The answer is, In tithes and offerings,
The "tithe" was an assessment of one
teeth of all increase of property.
Whatever source of wealth a xxian had
in flooks, vineyaxds, or herds, 'an
inerclaandise or raaeuttletoryt two
tenths of its profits evere officially
collected, one tenth, being spent for
the expenses of government and the
support of the poor, the other going
directly to the maintenenee of tette-
boas worship and tee support of the
Levitee and priests, Tbe "offerings"
wet% the eaorilloes which tbe law, m-
enthe& the people to make.
9,- Ye are oureed. with a curse. In
robbing God they had expected to en-
rioh themselves, but their crime hod
brottglit. poverty.
e0. Bring ye all the tithes into the
store.house, 'fete tbe treasare ottani-
hers of the temple, which had been so
empty thee the public service had
langtrished and rich men hati used the
ehatibere dwelling -rooms 11. is time
neW i0 call attention to tee bearing of
ineh in ten years toward heaven. has the ring of His love all ready to
What is the r...eason ? That Is not the put upon your hand. 00M0, now, and
• I
way to go to work. You rang
take a frail skiff, and put it down
at the foot of Niagera, and then bead
it up toward the churning thuuderbolt
of waters, and expeet to work your
way up through the lightning of the
foam into calm Lake Erie, as for you
to try to pull yourself through the
surf of your sin into the peace, and
Pardon, and placidity of the Gospel.
You canticle do It le that way.
SIN IS A. ROUGH SBA;
and long -boat, yawl, plianaze, and gon-
dola, go down anless the Lord deliver;
but if you will ory to Christ and lay
hold of Divine meroy, you are as safe
from eternal condemnation as though
you had been twenty years in Heav-
en.
I WW1 1 could put before this au-
dience, unpardoned, their own help-
lessness. You will be lost as sure
as you sit there it you depend upon
your own power. You cannot do it. No
human arm was ever strong enough
to unlook the door of heaven. No fobt
was ever migety enough to break the
shackle of sin. No oarsman swarthy en-
ough to row hiraself into God's har-
bour. Wind is against you. Tide is
against you. The law is against you.
Ten teousand corrupting influences
are. against you. Helpless and undone.
Not so helpless a sailor on a plank
mid-Atlantic. Not so helpless a travel-
ler girdled by twenty miles of prairie
on fire. Prove it you say. I will prove
it. John v. '441 "No xnan can come to
me, except the Fether which bath sent
me draw him."
But while I have ehown your help-
lessness, I want to put by the side
of it the power and willingness of
Christ to save you. I think it was in
1686 a vessel was bound for Portugal,
but A was driven to pieces on an un-
friendly coast. The captain had his
son -witb him, and with the crew they
wandered up the beach and started on
the long journey to find re-
lief. -After a while the son
fainted by reason of hunger and the
leragth of the way. The captain said
to the crew: "Carry my boy for me
on your shoulders." They carried him.
on; but the journey was so long, that
after awhile the crew fainted from,
hunger and from weariness, and could
carry him no longer. Then the father
rallied his almost wasted energy, and
took up his own boy, and put him on
his shoulder, and carried him on mile
after mile, mile after mile, until, over-
eoine himself by hunger and weenie
aess, lie, too, fainted by the way. The
boy laid down arid. died, and the fath-
er, just at the time rescue came, also
perished, living only long enough to
tell the story—sad story, indeed, But
glory be to God that Jesus Christ is
able to 'take es ute out of our ship-
wrecked and dying condition, and put
us on the shoulder of His strength,
and by the oerinipotence of His gospel,
beat us on through all the journey of
this life, and, at last, through the
Opening gates of heaven!
HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE.
Hear it, ye dying men arid women.
Though your sin be long, and black,
and inexcusable, and outrageoes, the
very moment you believe I will pro-
elaim pardon — quiek, full, grand, un-
conditional, uncompromising, illinait-
able, iriffnite. Oh, the grace of Godl
I ann overwhelmed when I come to
think Of it, Gi've Me a thousand lad-
ders, lashed fast to each other, that
I I might scale the height. Let the
line run out with the anther until all
the cables of earth are exhausted, that
we may toueb the depth. Let the
arohan.gel fly in deceit of eternal ages
in trying to sweep eroded this, theme,
Ohl the grace ot Godl rh is so high. ixt
Is so broad,. It is so deep.Glory be to
ray God, that vthere matt's oar gives
out, God's arm begine. Why will Ye
(tarry your sine and you' sderovae any
longer When- Ceritit o fere to take
them, Why will you Wrestle clown
your -team when tete naomeut you
might glee np wed be sieved. t Dot you
hot kneW thet etterYthing is readY?
,
AMENDING IT.,
I awskea you protested the morti-
fied ex-coaelineare for a certificate of
good tharaeter, wed all you say
for me in this recorainenclation is that
I wouldn't steal a xed-hot stove.
Cawn't you reakei it a little stronger
than that; sir?
Certainly. Let me ,b.ave it again.
tend the ex -employer took the doee-
ment, erased the words red-hot stove,
inserted active 'ohne°, and handed it
beta.
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TELE MINDING.
Mrs. Ittenpeokke—A husbauid
wife about -di, be of tete mind.
Heneeckke—Yeee and It isn't
bard to tell who's goirig to do the
minding.
ing of that sermon in Australia had
brouglat several souls to Christ. And
then, I thought, wiay not now take an -
Re has waudered off, perbaps, to the
ends of the earth It seems as if he
cannot get fer enough away from your
other phase of the same subject, foe, Christian counsel. What does he care
perhaps, that God who eau raise In ; about the furrows that come to your
power that which Is SCAM in weakn.ess, ; brow; about the quick whitening of
may this night, through enotherP4e- h ca
i the hair; about the fact that your back
of the same subject, bring salvation 1 begins to stoop with the burdens?
to the people who shall bean and sal- I Why, he would not care much if he
vation to the people who shall mad. heare you were dead.
THE BLACK -EDGED LETTER
that brought the tidings, he would pet
in the same package with other letters
telling the story of his shame. What
Mee and women, who know how to
pray, lay hold of the Lord God Al-
mighty to -night, and wrestle for the
blessing. Bishop Latimer would
stop sametiraes in his sermon, in the
sit down, ye hungry ones, at the ban-
quet. Ye who are in rags of sin take
the robe of Christ. 'Ye who are swamp-
ed by the breakers around tete, cry to
Christ to pilot you into smooth, still
watexs. , On account of the peculiar
phase of the subjeot, I have dawn my
illustrations, you see, chiefly, to-
niglit,
, FROM THE WATER.
I remember that a vessel went to
pieties on the Bermuda:1, a great many
years ago. It had a vast treasure on
board. But the vessel being sunk, to
effort was made to restore it. After
many years had passed, a company of
adventurers went out from England,
and after a long voyage, they reached
tlae place where the vessel was said to
have sunk. They got into a small boat
and hovered over the _place. Then the
divers went down, an& broke through
what looked like a limestone covering,
and the treasures foiled out—whet was
found afterwards to be,, in our money,
worth 1,500,000 dollars, and the found-
ation of a great business -house; It
that time the whole world rejoiced over
what was called the luck of these ad-
venturers. Oh, ye who have been row-
ing towards the shorn and bays not
been able to reattla it, I want to tell
you to -night, .that. your boat hovers
over infinite treasure. All the riches
of God are at your feet. Treasures
that never fail, and crowns that never
grow dim. Who will go down, now,
and seek them? Who will dive for the
pearl of great price? Who will be
prepared tor life, for death, for judg-
ment, for tete long eternity Many
who hear -My voice hear it for the last
time, and I shall meet them not again
until the heavens be rolled up, as a
scroll, and the books be opera. Flee
scroll, and the books be open. Flee
you. I am clear of the blood of souls.
See two hands of blood, stretched out
towards the dying soulas Jesus says:
"Come unto me, ail ye who labor and
are be.avy laden, and I will give you
rest."
this r preeent tigie
Theee treaStir6 olatotobere as -ewer
tutationsey treestirlea and Weal elin
funde of our titntt. end temee wee tin
day refuse to oontrIbute towered Gedttit
eettee roe God ae really as 044 the au,
eieut prieets. 'Meet is inclusive of atA
tithes, weiolt were paid in eine. Prove
119\v„ Peeve me zloty. If eon
were rob, you ;could not Peeheee 90
Well prove me; but you are poor, and,
all your efforts to make youreelvea
rieh ai tlao enpenee of God, have failed.
New try the other way, Iierewtte. By -
bringing all the tithes. Wineetve
heaven. A poetical term „AOC 'en
nou.rces of rain, the comine w
would tamely fertility arid eet
wealth. There are apiritaal wet
ot heaven whieh we een open by
delity in God's servioe, awl so brin
down showers of grace. There sea
not be roona exiough to receive i
Rather, not room enoege to store
The laeaveussent treasure shall b
"pressed down, shaken to;lether, awe
running over." --
11. I will - rebuke: I will hold in •
check. The devourer. The mouse,
which was already devastating teete
farna land. The fruit oe year ground(
All manner of vegetable g,rowth. Nees
ther Beall your vine +net her fruit bee
fore the time. Vegeteble disease had
caused the grapes to eat on the yin,
or to fall -without rieening.
12. All nations shall call yon bless -4
ed. Surrounding people aball Ilesteehat
you are under the spectat care of ,+.1
Lord. Tlie,se promises are tag"
God's dealinga with itadivideals-eirete
as with natioas. A delightsonmeland
Pure souls allerays dvvell in a laud o
joy, peace, and *pleasure. The seaner
cannot hells eevying the isaint whet*
he pretends to despise. •
midst of his argument, and say: "Now, are you going to do? Moth pad lee
I vvill tell you a fable*" and to -night broken at the middle of the blade, how
I would like to .bring Am scene ef ray can you pull taro. asbore I throw one
text as an illustration of a most ire- oar to -night with which, 1 believe you
portant religious truth. As those can bring him into harbor. It is a
Mediterranean oarsmen trying to &minus promise: "I will be a God
bring jonah ashore were disconafit- to thee and to thy seed atter thee."
ad, ha.ve to tell .you that they were Ohl broken-bearted father and mother!
not the only men who have broken Yoe eave tried everything else, now
down on their paddles, and have been make an appeal for the belp and ona-
obliged to call on the Lord for kelp. I tupotence of the covenant -keeping God,
wain to say that the unveiling efforts and perhaps at your next family gath-
of those Mediterranean °rest -nen has a. ming, perhaps on thanksgiving -day,
oounterpert in the efforts we are mak- perhaps next Christmas -day, the pro-
ing to brute goals to the shore of sate- digal may be home; and if you crowd
ty, and set titter eeet on the Rook of on his plate more Ie.:curies than on any
Ages. You have a father, or moth- other plate at the table, I sin sure tee
en or husband, or wite, or ohlidt or brothers will not be jealous, but they
near friend, who is not a Christiele will wake up all the Mtisic in the hoase
There have been times when ytou be.ve "because tbe dead ie alive again and
been in agony about their salvation, because the lost is found." Pexb,aps
A Minister of Christ, vahose wife was your prayers have base answered al -
dying witheet may bope in Jesus, ready. 1The vessel may be coming
walked the floor, wrueg lois hands, ho evrard, and by the' light of this
cried bitterly, and said: "I believe I ei es stars the abseot sou may be
shall go insane, for 1 know she is -not enable. the &sok of the ship, anxious for
prepared to meet God," And there tee tittle to eeree when he can threw
may have been days of siekneite In his arras around your neok, and tisk for
your household., when you feared it forgiveness eor that he has WW1 wring -
would be • ing frosta your old heart so long. Glop.
A FATAL SICKNESS; Was re-ttnion, that will be too sacred
e
arid how closely you examined the fttee
outsidets tlook eget ; eut t
01 the doctox as be Came In and sores
weeld euat to look through the
SOLDIER'S LAST MESSAGES
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Passion, 1Pathos 511(1 Pans Over the Tele.
. graph Wires.
T.f. any one wanted to have ettothee
testimony as to what a brave Yet
ceeerful soul Tonstay Atiries is, such
a seeker might fitly have taken up ).is
stand near one or other of the tele..
graph offices at Southampton, nearest
to tease points of departure whence
the recent transports have sailed, aa,ys
a London paper.
1n lts humor. .and pathos the scene
has been unparalleled for years; ine
deed, it probably has no fellow, tor
Tommy, as a otass, seems only just to
have realited that the "last of the veryj
last" of his messages of love, cheeie
fulness and hope can be sent at the
very moment laefeee he steps on to be
transport; and he has been -taking
an advantage oftee discovery 4
is declared that soaroely a me
has left is there who has not ee
least one message over the wires—even
SAVED BY A SONG.
When the English ' steamer Stella
was vvi%ecked on the Casquet rocks, on
the 30th of March last, twelve women
were put into a boat, which the storm
whirled away into the waters with-
out a map to steer It, and without an
oar which the women could use. All
they could *do was to sit still in the
boat, and let the twinds and waves
carry there whither they would.
.They neseed a ttnxible, night not
knowing to what fate destiny' was
conducting thera. Cold a.nd vvet, they
though he had to borrowt the monatet
to do it vale ,
The "good-bye" by telegraphtcraze
began with ehe very first extra troops
who left ; but lately, the spectacle 'has
become one to be witnessed; by the
philosophical observer ; and on Sature
must have been quite overcome but
for the courage, presence of mind and
musical gifts of one of their number.
This one was Miss Marguerite Wit -
tiaras, a contralto singer of much
ability, well known as a sieger in ora-
torios.
At the risk of ruining Der voice, Miss
Williams began to sing to hex' coin -
petioles. Through the greater part
of the night her voice retie over the
waters. She sang as much of certain
well-k-nown oratorios as she eould,
particularly the enntralto songs of
"The Messiah," and eBlijab," and sev-
eral hymns. Mir VoIce and the sacred
el
words inspired the Weett mthe boat
to endure their sufferings.
At about foar o'clock in the mot-n-
ide+ while it was still dark, a small
steam traft w-hich had been sent out
to try to reSene Some Of the floating
vietiMs el the wreck, coming to a PallS4
oia the vvatere, beard a woman's strolig
voioe Some distance away, seeraed
to be lifted in song. The Men on the
little etearn man listeted, and to
that estoeishment beard the words,
"0 reef; in the Lord," borne through
the darkness. They steered in its
direetbee and before long same in sight
of ten boat containing the twelve wo-
Men, and they .werer Wren aboard.
An last Tommy pervaded the whole ,
neighborhood of the, telegraphic ofe
Lice, Sometimes framing a message
vrith difficulty -ancih
eomrades if it were, all rinbe; toe
times borrowing 'anctther peney, ore
der that he might just send one more
wire; "Our Tora would bet so pleased,
and show it about," sometknes askiegee
both seriously and laughingly— "Ere,
Bill, how cen I send kisses by tele- -
geapla V' sometimes heaving maey, a
'sigh, and looking as though a gottsob /-
would do bena good as he has bitten ad
the pence, that bets bulked his missive,
for Tommy is often very young both" e
In years and heart; sometimes reading
his words loud and hi/exit:nate out So
that his comrades might see what a
funny dog he was and how oheerful
at the prospect oe a fight that _might
strike him dawn.
en and around the office the reader
might. have seen more spoilect
teler
graph' forms than he ever elite'. before
at one time, and elle persistent end
all-pervading relic -hunters whoenot-
ed tins fact saw a chance of baying
mexaentoes of an event likely to be-
come historical, and stuffed their pee-
kets with the apoilt /ones.
One forna)I evidently a dretteteatehes
been, accurately copied afterwariest
addressed to a "Mrs," at 1Viancitest
and musette from. a boy to his na It
in spite of the fentilia.riterof th
girl. It runs: "Cheer up,O1
shell come beck to match Dad I; gas-
sing about his battles.—Arthune And'
another, from SOU to Mother, judging
by the address—says, "God. bless you
all.. Shall bring you a 13oer's whiskers
as chimney ornaments." A youth, who
seemingly bailee from the Old Kent
road, after telling the lady' ta whom
he addresses his euessage to "boss up,'
goeS on to say, "Leek out fora press;
ent of a gold mine from Johannesburg
by percel-post." ; a ---
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A MERCILESS JUDGE,
.Horrible! I -terrible! he exclaimed.
Here's a story of ,a man. with five
wives, he expleinod. _
What's horrible? she asked.
I should say it was horrible, she as-
- , --,----------,
Seitnedd.when he was arraigned in t-ou“.
all five were there, he went( on. -
Anti what did the judge do to
hisse. she asked.
;Abandoned him tce his fate, he as-
swered. He discharged hino. Oh, isa't; -
it horrielet .
WON AT LAST.
The Wicked Man who owed bis ruin
Lo the Devil diet that personage one
day. -
You have wrecked nay life bY your
persuasive ways, said the men, me-
faue.rilviihr, lab:vett, salohameledhdooadly fovolonyouc„..
But the nia_ti didiu":h_ When .$ bo diod, be -
hadalIbin.gisilleenlettsevcfle.male thud f(Ire"
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AN APPROPRIATE QUOTATION..
Thee yeastoake maeufeeturer IS
iigious. Did you see the verse of
Scriptere he puts on every' box?-- '
No, What le it ? •
By their works ye shall kmovs theta.'