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• eneral belief that
uugary caonot be held, t
Jeer the death of Eranels
t the •question arises, What
will be the effect of the nisintegration
f the duet roonarehy upote ne'ghbor-
ing nations r an wer to tiepees
tion is attempted irt au interesting
arti.le eat:tied rI.Eurepo Fans l'Aut-
riche," whieh AI, Cletrics Benoist has
ibuttel. tit; a recent number othe
v e des Deux Alondes. The inerit
o th ertiele eoni.t' n te:s demon-
ete•ation Ceat the protess of. symeath-
elie gravitaxion eau never In thor-
• carried oUt. ovt Log to geograph-
ka obstructions. The tines of race
cleavage in Austria II utgary do not
un true. ;1111.8 the froneier of n
greater arrmany woold, it it were t
take in the mein line les of Omuta
population leave either to heetuele Bo-
bemio, comiteoe oif the Czeele inhel
anti of that lento,roaa front the Slays
O Silesia, or Wort:Via, or gee to curve
F nuc! eavhag Lientenate as a wedge
beween enn territothes. Nur is
this all. Thore is a totteiderehle Mote
of Germ:one destentl, d Immo Sixon eed-
(Inlets of the, thirteenth century. who
dwell in treenetylvani t, en the eastern
aide a utug [try, If, on the other
hand, we supeese that meee to
sheorb the Slov eutehrts of the Haps-
burg ruler in the northern 'meant -me
of .A.ustrie llongore titere wt,u'd stilt
renee:n an outlining Slav a tenting en in
erootie an.1 ite '4143. b to ern whit le
end Rattle:Ian territory the tternatus
and Om Alagyare would be interpose
ed. Admit, again, thet all the Steve,
Hengary wore, in one way or an.
tiler, recounted tO gretiry -tr ethnic
uftinidee, awl it tme an the Rottman -
atm new move...mei tettat Bettstolest,
were on -neared tO atounian'a, there
wetald gni retwtiaanLanatteettel, un.
aeeinenaeod hole' etette ten latitliou
altegyare wt.° woad b. 1.1itety to g,ve
th neighhare a gieet fatat a trou-
ble.
Aeother fact o wit'I. Denotiet
attention i- tha tiertasoly
eveuhl ;o b atiefitn with, a rigorous
" elm priti•dole of teattort.
elide" hough thi e oteteld give lug
pine o
minion., of (1/4krtnart4 'who
are 41044'b,etetii. to, the Ilditsberg
kr.31-er. Havtag acquired steam eigh y
then and equate. Lanett ot addis noted '
terrhory, tonchiate f ir to the 1011114-
-ward, and bringing ber annex. teLltin
eioitt of the Lea, she womd desire ;
oess to the 'this101110,
hich would tavolve th t ab tot -vault of
an Italian an). a Slavenic provinem
Thu; the prineiple of nationalitiea
woaid be violated lotto as it has
beea Schleewig, en. the plea of to the the higher law of natiunal
a
.vih m! selt-defene.e. NIre need not ,
ay that, shomti Germany relit Italy of i
mem wittehout winch Itriaet uniny ;
uld Moain forever incomplete, eate1
itintenance of the Tripe Adianee
become difficult, if not impoe-:
; s Would it poy Gormatiy to ace
ture the Aelriatic imapert, at the cost
of exciungetunquenchable enerai y in
Italy? It is 'Ilene:in, mureover, that
tiie German Goole:about which, as it :
is, Etnids it hard to pass bills in the!
B.eichstag against the e,
wiehes of rh:,.
Ovalle party of the Centre, can !
Gutty desire the addition! of some ten I
minim) new Catholic subjects, who ;
nemitit be likely to upset the religious'
an,d political equilibrium of the Em--;.
1
pire? The coxobination in the Reich- !
tag of the States, formerly Austrian,
.ith Bavaria and the Rhenish pro-
ssia would tend to restore
reponderanee of Catholic
Germany which was sup-
nrohilated at Sadowa,
ve take for granted that
ould be pleased to witness
impartial application of the prin-
e of nirtiona.lities to the Ilapstairg
Ira, for the addition of the Rouraan-
ns of Hungary to Roumania would
ake that State so pow-erful that it
might be able Lo block Russia's ad-
vance toward Constantinople.
Is TIlT
ev. Dr4 Talm
Holy
c Has Withstood
'sands of the Le
Have Scoffed at It, But s
be Right in Every Iusta
Very Instru.tive Sermon.
.&despateh from Washington sae's:
--Bee. Dr. Talmage preached from t.,14
tatiowina text: "The statutes of the
Lona aro right."-Psa!in Nix. S.
Ohl books go out of dale. Whe
hey were wrtmen, they discuese
gutstions which were being discussed
they struere at wrongs whieTa had Ion
I, ago maned, or aavoceted tostieutiou
whielt exelLe um. our iuterest. Wer
; they books of history, eho faets has
; been gathered from, the immerfee
' limes, hater class:tied and more lucid
4 t tasented. Were they b000s o
totory they were intertoeted wit
;.• wit! mythology and obseuret facts
who'll have gone un from the Voce 0
• the earth Mee mists at suurise. Wer
• th y Meeks of morals, civilization d0r.
not want to sit at tue feet of tarbar
istn, u later do we want Sempito, Py
, mama." and Tutly to tea,eh us weir
as. WliaL do tit. mse eet ireoPitl ear
now for the ettettos Simonides, o
he
t%treat ea of Alenander, or the grace
fmn.se. of Phtlenteon. or the wit o
Chrogoehauest Even the old bunk
ere have with two or three excep-
.
tious, here but very little atm ueon
; our tint 5. Boehm are Innuent titer
Or
race
U ,
extta,
a !' the patutem. eh, an e
; ereciti • e rrection glow
the walte maces. or auger the
g eugraverhi omeah from the, luau-
s lonartiaA0 0a:•4:•F:ni ;
e o toWS tux, Eva 1-$ the. scalgt or's chisel,-
e start olg, vrk,aehing: epos' les mot
asconeting niar,yra. Now, co you not
sappete, if tuts Ileok loa leeu on ito.
- positioa ant a falsehool, it woald, have,
f :t;03a? LII;oer autse. eett.,:eless
h firma of ;item Wear
1 Frt
uher. sappeee lied there was a -
*I:greet pea ..nee going over the ears ht
f cote h n :tent. th u au -s 9: ntetm:0
e were t.y.ng of that ett so e tone
woe she ..1.4 find I. medicine thee in 011e
s •
day move ten theue'eutt vette le, weuid,
- not everyocely rothimottleenot „het tit
- mese he a goal, medicine; Why. eome
. one woel t sey; "Do yon deny it? There '
e hee
ive- bn ton thoosanti reople vUred
tie
0, 5314
lea led' 1 sin-ip:y S404' the faei that
th ge. iv, 1 ;Tit It.ill•tre IS of :h44u anls
f C
- ohr.sti on men ant women who stoy .
e thee hive felt the true hfu nese of that
s 'int its power in their soots. 't
IttS. e_t.nre,1 them of the leproey of son;
and oan vadat yott multituditot
oho $oy they leave, n le. atm towerth.Pr
r mere, are emu not to 0504141810
have a. time to be torn, /hey aro fond
te,t, tin*. grow in to rengtia, they Lao
a maim:Ile-life of use1 elness. then cerrte
age, they totrer, and they die
tltatie of the netiooal libreries ar
,y the ettrametnes of dead totoles
Li,i4g 4 10 40 tionou.e..4ge tiao k...c't taw
tht.te inuAt ite t,attue oower in the
l' it iner Win e ea teke Itae ev'elenee of
3 ra:ilions of patients who trwe heen
. egged; or ettlit ,F0tt t:4Ito vvidezwe
a et the steptie who steads aloof, and
tont "ewe twit he never seek the nee -ii -
• • t'f them tivtor flagitious liees
eied demos of iguetainy. :teepee
wer virtuous, and aeceruotieteet
rivets 4144n0041. Some weut into the
. a -n timough tatimisituriall tires. sionA,
itm,44 3 Llmir rungral pne in seeked and
et.ustil, red cities. Solite Were titV,1e0144
atel died as fawn hitms at, the
' ettor szielic.N 15oria. eel trod, in
I wee
d anon. there
uiteu au u.d book,
u.test aun u.stfuness
h
11 with lea.•.rn lios tweraa
tined Tee Ilittle intim z ee UAI1 tbero
* vies a city gelled Petra, Inni't out of
,02'd ro Infidelity rofZed at
"Wsere Le .,;oar eLy er Petra? Reck-
Ludt 41441 J.tatttile went forth in II 411
exporatteento and they came upon tt
v ( y. m
o ountains
orals d 1 •-• it
eut teen study, others mdeuers liatiteuEver
eurtItts into you
its antler
th23 w wertb kitutt. Almon-
raente have been raittet over oommeend
; miLanturtmisee. V mild that. some
etiofte weglat. be erected in hunter uf
tam viorane hur.ed hennas. The world s
atubut 15. .J1.1 .111 nLik:2. a 1:41grital.4g0
therrtui and ttoetry and Mere.. tire. and
„ sea nee, and re.isiom ouulti eouse-
matt it with tear teams.
; NOT SO WiTil Unit QLD BOOK,
It started in tho otaluto infancy, It
. grew uuder thetieritcy and Luouttrebn.
Lt. withstotet the ennuis tn. Lre„ It
grew unotor the prophet's mantle and
untter tee fishetman rt meat of um ;mos -
ties. In /tome, anti Eidieoes, and Jet u-
osolem, 40.1Petmon term:up irteued
maces :mains!. IL, tout iuthieloy oat eut
the Lougee; anti the papacy irom its
meaasteries, and mohammeuanism
Iron' ite motques, hualen their anathee
nets; but title Late B.blo heed. It came
acrues the itriuse e hamlet, and was
greeted by Ne ieklide and. jantee 1. It
came across the Atlantic 11380 struck
Ptytnoath Rock, until like that of
Horeb it. gushed with blessedness.
Chnrches and osylumns hive gathered
att. moue; its way, rioging tue.r bells,
and stretching out tnetr hands el
blessing; and this moment. there are
ten thousand heralds oil the t roes wi.h
their hands on that open, grand, free,
ol 1 English Bible. Bat 14. wat not have
accomplished its mission until jt. has
climbed Lhe 1637tuoututains of ogeen-
land, until it has mute over the granite
cliffs of China, untit it. hasthrownits
glow amid the Australian nunes, un-
til it. has scattered. its gems among
the diamontt eisuricts of Brazil, 041.1 ad
thronea -'hall be gathered int., one
throne, ano ati crowns by. the fires of
revelation shall be ineltea into one
crown, ant tine Book shad at the very
gate of heaven wave in the ransomer.
empires -not uotil then will Lhat
glorioas Bible have accomptashed its
these considerations, the
sem reached by M. Benoist is
a the continued existence of A.us-
e is indispensable to the tranquil -
y of Europe. "Composed as she is,"
ays, "of five or six peonies, or
tions, without any intee-oonsis-
•e, She is the ideal of a buffer State,
ma weak to cause uneesittess, yet
rong enough to resist aggression,
e• is at come a pledge and a cnn-
ition European peace."
• RUNA.BOUT HIGHWAYMEN,
d you. get the money for that horse
buggy befooe you let it go out?
et the proprietot a the livery
ele.
0, o.nswered the eneploye.
- a enistake, said the proprietor.
"dna look tike a man who had
money, but he looked like a man
_eight have a good deal when be
back.
EACTIF ULBECTIIVIE.
h, Ma, co., -.38 li•ere ouiclt.
-bat's ehe matter, Tommy?
•lebyte p!tt,yi•-ne etreus. an' he's tryin'
dieee off tla marital.
mission,
in carrying out, then thee idea of my
text -"the statues of the Lord are
right" --1 than show you that the Bible
is right in authentication, that jr. is
right in style, that it is right in doc-
trine, that it is right in its effects.
Can you doubt the authenticity of the
Scripturest Thera is not so much evi-
dence that el -alter 6,...ote wrote the
"Lady of the Lake;" not' se much evi-
mottle that Shakeephear wrote "Ham-
let;" not so much, evidence that john
Mllton wrote "Paradise Lost" - as
there is evidence that the Lord God Al-
mighty, by the hands of. the prophets,
evangelists, and apostles, wrote that
Book. Suppose a book now to be writ-
ten which came in conflict with a
great many things, and was written
by bad men or impostor e how Jong
would 51141114 a book stand? It would be
scouted by everybody, And I say, if
the Bible had. been an Inapositien-if
it had. not been written by the men
who said they wrote it -if it had been
a mere collection. of falsehoods, do
you not suppose • that it would have
been imraediately rejected by Mitt
people? IE Job, and Isaiah, and sere..
miala and Paul, and Peter, and John
were imposters, they would haver heen
scouted by generations and natione. If
that Book has come down; through
WIRES OF CENTURIES
without a scar, it is because thtre
nothing in it disturba,ble. How near
•have they come to destroying the
Bible? When they began their opposi-
tion, there were two or three thoasaint
copies of ite-wheu the v:olon I host i y
bec4,113, ageing it. Now there are two
_hundred, millions, as far aa 1 can eat-
culate. These I3itde truths, nottvith-
•
VAII, :hiegurre ArT133113
whero zikP '4:1 id Ported. Tees. found •
,4171.',, in that city six itt4;ei
w.;,: re On 0 0.4.444:441 iniper4a1 1,0113p.and
weet cuomt h t ieughter of
:ig,at-L.tarted ntirth on its way to the
t beat re. On temptes, faelnowea out
tottered Ott011et.-:•011.03 Of 11:4re
btu I3 91141440 the 1T11Thi011 017 Oft rooe,
one tome oL W.,1 h leave darkened into
the blue of the shy, and ;tome oi whiell
Ltve peled into the whitenges of the
lily -ay eoluutn, and ItedtMent,1
and tntainature, end stattars, tee I:
Iv: it to4 41.0 truth of that Bib.e. The ;
13-ble t tem ;nal Sodoin and Gomorrah f-
tt de „roe ed by fire and Immistone.r,
"Absurd." Infidels, year after year,
tied: "It is positivety ebeurd that :
thee toald have been deetroyed by
brans, OM% lOt3r., tit not I 11144 .n tee
etemente to cause stone a. shower en ;
deash as that,' Ineuteuant Lext.h-I
think he wets the first man who went
out on the distoverv, but be hng Leen
folow el by m_ony o.i.ers-Lieutenant
Lynea ert nt out in exploration, and
came to the Dead Sea, which, by a '
eonvaleion of nature, has overflown !
the place where the cities mice stood.
He mink his fathoming line, and. ,
brouget up from the bottom of the A
Dead Sea great masses of sulphur, ,
remnants on. that very tempest that I
wept Sofom and Gomorrah to ruin. '
Who was right -the Bible that an-
nouneed the destruction of theme cm -
lea, or the steptice who for aged; scut -
fed at it.?
The Bible says there was a city call- i
ed Ninevee., and that it was three
days' journey around it, and that it
should be destroyed by fire and molt-
er. "Abeurd," cried hundreds of voices I
for many years; "no such city was !
ever built that it would take you
three days' journey to go around. Be-
side, it could not be deetroyed by fire
and water, they are antagonistic eie-
ments." But Layard, Botta, Bonomi,
and te.eith go out. and by their explore .
agave find that city of Nineveh and
they tellius that by their own, experi-
ment it s three days' journey around, I
acctording to the oat eetimate of a
day's journey, and that it was liter-
ally dsstroyed by 1 ire and water -two
own that wee ever
a Atm:thence at the
oe to -day, and to-
ree hundredth, and
Lefiree pave how
lot eret would
one it ? Yet tint
4,ess to Whieh
euhjeeted every cloy.
heak en, reading the
or. eoultt not under..
Mae like all other pal-
er wh:elt to toner and
entitle to go out. Genes:5
to go in end Revelation
• out. These Eptstles o7
post le are tilt' rely lel t ette
folded, ;IA ,tuti eeut by post -
the
DIFFERENT CIIIYRCI1ES.
ou. roan other Itattere the way
'toad Paul's letters? Suppose you
et nhltail!!.ttisliathreareeteleti Lnow
rirtairtiatdete
olt fin n -
clot torepesittens, do yon reed the ine:
mige firet, end then one item of 1 he
•-•.•211Ta '..,uet hre-4ri o Ibo firt No. You
Itegha with "3)e' Sire' toad end ei
"Nlazys truly." Now here :s a temet
wroten from the throne of (loll to our
lest world; it 'e ion of mega:Veen
tomes and proems:Woos end we die le
here and :ind we knew nothing
ahem h. lletode Meet, yeepte re d
Bale when they mimeo do eng.intog
gee. It ia llama d ty, ...tot they .to
stfeel weil, ani they do not gati
Ens:twee- eon alter lotinging ant
toe-Iale, they pieta up the 13.alto-
moot refuses to fenny the truth 0.
they moue h)zm* weetry front tbe are
or shim, and hey feel, if they d ne
este% it iea ;lull beano Whde tht !e
is to he ready on stormy el =ye, and
weite eater tigotol -hew ie b
reed in thi ;mush:not and when your
teerette. nem eareasmotge, .1trurn h •
stew of beettli. While your em.on
(hear walg in this 1'ar-o!e.(1,4:' t re
-1111 while mon' mental appetoe is geed
pluck thete clettett.rs of grace.
1 r...to tea aga. .4: 110 MO i rieht
!tbisuw.s.
ot
ahe A. :Memel, nano go up If o 11-trn
ern 1 roe t, at., t o • to
co-, 'ni. Mo wvit 41 ne.ee hive
00-04-bod t Le eree Mu; prt,phe.s wetutil
r.ott here prodtentet ; epee; me It% Urd
not have pserteheit,-..b t..etteri.; to nw
ae it deetes, ta the Bathe were o a
0a a pentotro .nn great alum 1. ar
nett e it 3 jir.lok •ts Wore loll an
Hinz, Gerowteg ipein forever 1 a •
• aered• pervora. and tie if the.et 'ee
.1 M.!, •
11* 14 i4b
410/.. b iline ceittt,errou e ann. ti en
41.14
0 all the rta 1 lioavea -tett*
atm attlieg auditory. The Bin*
peaks eit liegoth and (term d, eiid
Somi. het rolatt,e1 all irmuniain • baw
down to Catvary. The floek: 1.d eget.
;11' Judean ntlle were emblems of
Lamb of Chet Ilia! tale .th away hoea
ot he 'a Oral; anti the lion leateng taxa
of its lair was an emblem of ", he lion
o )udah's tribe." I will, i ttlY U1
breath, recite to you the moo oo. -
terfu, tumence ever written "T a
tt feithful ertylitg, and Ivorilly of an
acceptation, thee.. Chriet J' -u gime
into the world to rave Stliners." 440
wonder tha. when neeue wee barn •na
Bethielleer. Iteaven eympathsed with
earth, anti •
A WAVE OF JOY
net ashed hear over the btlegtents, and
dripped upon the ithepherds itt the
words; -0 ory to Gun. la the higkeet,
anti on earth peace and goodend to
men. Writo it out in letters of giver
lad gold: "God so loved the world
that whneoever believeth in Dim
that whotioever believeth in Di n
should tett perlein but have evg•
erlastia
lafte" Silow me a.,y other beek whit
moll dnetrine-so high, so deep to
vast.
Again; the Bible is right in its et-
tects. I do not mire where ou put
t Blan it
lbee, it esus the place. Yin
yI
tut, it in the hand. of a man eeriously
concerned about hie soul. I Fee peo-1
MI often gieing to the thrioue soul I
tine and that beek. It may be vory .
eell; bu.t there is no beak like the
Bible. Ho reada the commandments,
tal pleads to the indictraent,"Guilty."
Lie takes up the Psalms of David, and
eays: "Timer jug describe ray fee: -
rigs." He Lies to good Works. Paul
starts 'him out of that by the an-
nouncement: "A man is not tustifi-
ed by works." He falls back in his ,
ditcouramtitent. The Bileht starts him
up with the sentence': "Remember
Lot's ;wife. Grieve not the Spirit.
Flee the wrath to come." Then the
man, in deepair, begins to cry out:
'What shall I cloy 'Where shall Igo?
. •
'Creme 'unto m• a, all ye who a• 'rebetraYeiallr';
and heavy laden, aural will. give you
rest." Take this Bible, and place it
a the hands of mon in troub:e. Is
here anyberly here in troub:e? A.111
I might ask, are there any here who
have never been in trouble? Put
hat Bible in the hands of a man who
has trouble, He thought God was
after with a rod. How *differ-
ent now it seems. Just as you piek
the, sweetest berries off the sharpest
thorns, *so some of the most luscious
promises grow on the sharpest.. thorns.
The mother was holding her little sic&
child in her arms, and jesus came into
the room in the night, and stopped'
where the child was, and, said: "Of
such is the kingdom of heaven." Now
it does not seem as it once did. You
thought. cruel. death had .taken your
child. Oh, no; it was only the Shep-
herd taking a lamb out of . the cold.
"All thing Otyork together for good to
those who love Cod." "'Weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cienneth in
the eaorning." If you ever find a man
or • woman who has trouble, put thet
I3ible into his hands ; there is no solve
like it -no ca.tholicon like' it.
Put that Bible in the common
schools.. Palsied' be the hand that
shall try to take the Bible from the
common selaoole. An educated mind
without religion is like a ship withoiet
a helm -it is a rushing rail -train with -1
out breaks or reversing rod to control
the speed. Educate onty mata's
head, and you .
IVIAKE HIM .AN INFIDEL. e
Educate only a man's heart, and you ;
make him o fanatic Educate them I
both together, and you have the no -
Mese work of God.
Put this Bible in every house. There
.it lies on the stand, an tuarmited pow-
er. Polygain socieli re nd
seripturat divorce are prohibiten, Par -
are faithful._ ann 'they are hon-
ored; childrete not polite, obedient, and
ored ; ehaldren are Polite, obedient, and
Christians. Donsiestio sorrows are
lesseued by being divided; domestie
joys are increased by being Multiplied.
Father and tooth or, take ;tome that
long -neglected Bible. Where is it
now? Is it in the trunk, or an the uo-
per shelf, or is it in the rooen in the
house where you seltiora go, save when
you have cot:slowly, and then not. to
read the Bible? In the name of the
Go4 who will judge the quit* and the
dead, a,ud by the interests of your
ebildrea, 1 charge you to -day 3.44tale-
eltildren, 1 esaarge yon today to take
up that old Bible, open It, read for
your own life, ant read for the life of
your chi:When. How can yott no out
• on the dark mountains of death, and
tatoi your children along with you,
whet, you have swell a glorious Ian/t-
ea guide you? Put that Bible on every Ian -train until all the dark places
of our laud are illumined by it. Put
it on ererY ship that. crosses Lho see
• until the aerie hontos of heathenistn
get tbe limbo. While 1 eneak there
comes to us the harril yen of heathen
worship, and in tit* Lees of tide elayts
• nen guolies the b net of human earn. -
• nee. Mee them the Bible. Unfaa"--
• en that wife from the funned
• since there is no mere secrinee need.-
-.IL "The blew 1 of Christ eleannes
from all eln." Holt beet those clot,
emelt from geptrog mom:miles, for deens
vothe to take them to !IN arms, an
lees.; 0. no There are several riNt
• 85/1.3 Ity 1 Etreach th's sermon. There
' 8.. Imlay psop.la in this day who
have tr.ei to tirthet .yeue and me he -
1 re that ' he t Were ti ilriedetem ol4.
te, outlantlieb book. 1 want von
; to feel, as you go Itoane this morning.
t",ar no book that yeeterday canna out
Ib e printiugepresses of the Ilarpe
ers. or the Ain:mons, or the Lippine
• eet.s or the Tieknore was so freett, or
b autiful, or t brining, or miapttel to
; t h Cm 's his very Book from
teehich I preach toeday.. I want you to
• s
r'that 3701414hew, in It the hest of all
trmsures. I want you to know that it
:a to your eoun rot while you live,
and the only sett pillow, under your
; head when emee come to die.
After the battle before Rtchenorel
ha 1 h'e'n over s meral days, a mau was
. found deed with his bend on the en en
Ilible. The surnsuer insects Ind taken
the tomtit from th I •1
was nothing but I 14* skeleton loft but
III stleietott fingers Ili it on the O44X14
/ age. and on th's Elc,inge: "Yea.
though I walk through zlhe valley of
th • elmolow tot death. I will tear no
thy rol ara.I thy staff, Inter roM-
• tort m..." NY411. the lime will etatme,
all the rot TIOVOIS we have on
our It eteroore etteltf v.111 not Interest
•113 othili the gemi htstories 1111"
•- the eat -imitate essa,vs, Iota. do tee stO
•0
; good. There will Ito one Rook. epee
. hate ite ?over worn out, tend its leaf
, y -now with age. Itnder whose (tattle wit 1
• Fibil11 behold the opening gates of
14 heavere,
tiERAIANYIS COLONIES.
Trade, inverts Shaw What They Cost to
the Einiotr4,4.
Official 14141114111445 of Germany's 00411-1
uterce with her colonies in MS show
that in Lime year there were Inge-ire-
edmll frotheacolonies goods Lo the
value of $1,154,250, while the extiortq
a
14 tnelu•ling railroad materials, anununil
ti •11 and coined silver, uniounted to
42.47,250. To assist the colonies and;
pletectorates, subsidies were p434'amieenting 43,6.17M03 -more, that is,!
than the value of the whole commerce, t
between mother mummy and depend -1
1
encies, and this source does not inelude,
the expenses at Samoa, nor 431,10,0,.0'
paid as subventions to steamship lines, I
nor the more directly governmental!
expenditures for naval stations and;
posts telegraphs.
In the South Seas in 1898 the chief
passessions cl Germany were part of
New Guinea with the .13.smarck Archie t
pelago and a share in Samoa. The im- e
etorts from Samoa for that year am -
tom,*
t t' • I par of th
city !laving been inundated by the
river Tigris, ihe briek xnaterial in
those times being dried clay not dis-
solved; while in other parts, they find
the remains of the fire in
HEAPS OF CHARCOAL
that have been excavated, and in the
calcined slab* of gypsum. Who was
right, the Bible or infidelity?
'Moses intimated that they ban vine-
yards in Egypt. "Absurehn cried hun-
dreds ot voices, "you can't rates grapes
in Egypt; or, if you can, it- is a very
great exception that you can raise
therm" But the traveller goes down,
and in the underground vaults at
Einthytt he finds painted ou the wall
all the process of tending the vines
and treading. out the grapes. It is
all there, familiarly sketched by peo-
ple who evidently knew all abbot: it,
and saw it all about them every. day;
and in those underground vaults'
there ere vases stilt encrusted with
the settlings ,of the wine. You see
the vine did grow in Egypt, whether
it' grows there now or not.
Thue, you see, while God. wrote the
Bible, at the same time He wrote this
commentary, that "the statutes of the
Lord are right," on leaves of rook and
shell -bound clasps of metal, and lying
0143 mourttain tables, and in the jewel-
led vase of the sea. In authenticity
and in genaineness the statutes of the
• Lord are right.
Attain . lee Bible is right in, style.
I know there ore a great roany people
w-im think it. entoely a eolleetion of
genettlogleal tab' ee and dry facts.
That is be tome they do not know how
Lo read the Book. You take up the
ME SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN., 7
"et "SrtoalitteTettrarex;enCatn.ttu1431. ti 1-16.
t
PRACTICAL NOTES. •
Verse 1. 'Caesar Augustus, Tbe em-
aeror of Rome. .A.ugus.us was his
mune. Caesar, his tile, is perpetuated
.ser," os adopte
thd from the
xizzaillethaoL
e;_ueohenergiariarat j
p erolauls teitaleesm ;Atee ttr.'
tout nira1'
the world shoeid ba taxed( All the 40-
14111413.441 pi. a :even„m
, meaning,cirazio Aof cte
obtut
n
places subj
eet to home, should bo e-
orLl
undertaken by eu iust as sag was t cn-
1etjby tig: s8vila7as<1s:4nIytin:rikingenroa t
t0n:croaaxaticas
41. tyrenius, 1404111j '11 veldt Patine
Suite:elle Quirinue, who is geueral y
aceo omit IQ 1iav. been govethor t f
Syria twice, for four year or :to be-
fore B. C. 1, anti agent frotu A. lb 6
Lor several yrears.
3. To be taxel, enrolled, everyone
inio his own eity, nip was aceopong
native custom, for liehrtwa rare
lsiwteiy: sa: .aboa ort ntse,s. :Blot 1 th t thl. te,„, 0 tz
to oboes; but it was Roman tallier to
S3lbj-1. Joseph. Almoet all that we know
oiboat the; rustelefath 'r of Je:ue 18 1144141
waa13. taroeuter o1 Neteareta, et the
house and Hut dem ob Devid. C 1. y of Na.
eareth. coy at Da.vi-I. Thes* two
towns were eighty rolle3 apart.
Joseph's .,foarney was .o:1-aott,?, hu
-
lived under a despoti:qu, and had xne
choice; and he may belie h id ins full
!there of pride io going been to the
tirtinelace of he royal ancestor. flee
side% it is lizely that this jeureney
for enrollment was emnbined w.tb one
of the festal journeys whath everY roar
male Hebrewe were betted by their re-
liglort to melte to Jerusalem.
rt. wt. must assume Mary as we'll eits
Joseph, to have been directly descend-;
et1 from Klieg paw d. ant:totem! wife.:
IletIroachraitiglno 48 t
it.1rttliZe was US binding
05 n
7. Her firethorn eon. From th's
rihterri ieowne1,11 tle"rt'we.t:nt 14°i tierrerTer tnIt.°1
nary had other ehi!drevi. horn later;
but neither term are riling to the • 0
4414041 speeeln of the Rist, proves We.
:the brethren 04 1) 1343.148 been cense
..5nAelltMiliafirrneeoutIltliturin 1,
1114s4 ieeesa
otlillitng t? ettilt;
14
wiech 14 tend the lege tome her :tad the
arms 441 3115 to the luly. Thi% Irirbir-
Outo e1181030 prevailed in Europe until
leas than twa een;uriei ego. nrangm.
inn. Tge inn was protribly a ear ev
Fatty or "khan," an inelosure of four
welle with a 11 d around the in ide,
no wit 1 11 inclosure each trevener
hrought own bed and provident%
Into the open square in the enithile
horses and (male were driven. Mtn -
gars or feeding troughs; in Palestine
are iteually of stone. Many Ferments
leave been wtitten and ea red song -1
:ung concern:lig tie melenchole• f ;et
that not only in Bethlehem nineteen
3.1.74nudsr.ed years ago, but lu countless
hearts now, there is no- room for
S.' Country here means vitinity or
neighborhood; the reference is to the
pest ure fields armed Bethlehem
Shepher 4. The h gli honor 01. reveiv-
ing the first news of the Saviour's
birth is given no to' plallomphers or
nobles, but to Vain workingmen while
lttying I ter vocation. Ihstanctions of
rank and riches are 0.14 nothing in the
eyes of God. Abiding in the field. In
the Orient shepherds sometimes re-
main with thdr flock all night, usu-
ally in temporary huts or booths,
Ceeeing watch. "Watching, b37 sec-
tions," to guard their floelts from
robbers and wild beasts, and keep
them trona Straying.
04 The angel of the Lord. The life of
Christ on earth began with aegetic
announcements of his coming, was at -
ended with angenc comforters in his
temptation and his agony, and ended
vith angelic messengers of his rising
and ascension. Caine upon thene. "Burst
upon them," a sudden ap eerence Th
glory of the Lord; "The light of God."
Apparently a supernatural iltumina-
ion, mach as had accompanied earder
messages from God. The Hebrew pro-
hets taught that God makes light
his garment, and dwells in light which
to man can approach. Sore afraid.
"'Feared a great fear." So had trembn
d Ala.noah and Zacharias and Mary
t the angers coin -pg. Even the pm--
st hearts becomIconsciou.s ot unfit-
ness when God's ratossen.gers are bea
ore them.
10. Fear not. It is strange how con-
tently God and his messengers have
o toilet foolish human fere. "Fnar
not, Abram," he said, in misty an-
iquity; "1 am thy shield and thy ex-
eeding great reward," - "Fear not,
Hagar; God bath heard." "Fear not,
Gideon; thou shalt /lot die; peace be
unto thee." "Fear not Zacharias,. for
thy prayer is heard," 'Tear not
farye tor thou haat found favor with
God," "Fear not, trembling women;
'ems, which was crucified, is not here;
clothes Banda wrapped 0100.01a" aropestel
the body. Lying in a manger. The
=augers from which cattle feed in the
East are generally made of smelt
genets and raortar in the shape of an
open bolo and it is met rousual for lit -
the children to sleep in toem.
13, A multitude of the heavenly
host. That le, o throng of angels aud
h evenly beings, of whom there. may
be many orders, eee Co1.1„ 16. "Au angel
choir in the gallery of the firmament,"
-Whedon. Saying, Singing. Probab-
ly sioging in fugoe; that ie, respenelve-
.y, methol familiar to Hebrew mu• le,
0 -tory to God in tho high. t. • This
may innan either; 1, The highe meet-
ure of glory; 2, From the highest
order of creation, angels; 3, To God.
thet highest over all; 4, Ie the high,
peaee wo (*Kix. 05 earth pewee.
• eet heaven as contrasted eseith the
Theze amgol choristers saw the one.
Mate result of the Gospel in bringing
pome to mem 1. Peaeo between God
: nett nta.n through tha aton Dont; 2,
Peace betweete man and man through
ooramon love to Chri t; 3, Peace
auto g ea ion i through the int' u nce of
the Gomel. Not withoate eignificauce
14; the feet that Cha inwas born at the
only time, for CentUriAs, when there
wes peace throUghon. the world., tuna
win toward men. Either meaning. that
love toward atm. or, aa 5011111 (3,341 -
sate. "good will among men,"
15. The angels were gone. The virion
f 1.14-8 leaving th shepherla with their
flo'ke. Hourn at rapt glory aro only
00045041413.and, they leave Int with dm
• rtigvi realitint or Wk. Letnow go.
The latter clause of the veren shows
01-11 tins is not the uttoranea of a
donbt, desirous of testing the truth of
.a meseage, but of ardent faith, eager
,to see that in which it- olreatly bee
Neves. So it le ogr privilege not Dula
II to hear about Josue, but to go to hiui
lahd sae him. Rethlehe.n. Now known
;as' Btitialine." a village. of three thou-
/sena inhabitauts. mostly Greek Claim.
lions. A cave traeltionally eunPosed
/to ba the place o9 Christ'a birth ia
.eitenva neat the Wall,
;! 16. 'rhe,?ca.nte wtth haste. Showing
their faith by the eagerneas of their
W .ries, and will'uts to leteve their floeles
ro looh upon their Savtour. No earthly
oineet is too dee- to he iO4'311408 for
Christ. Jteeph. The husband- of Matter
turd the reOuted fatio r of Jesus deo
his name! is not mem iened after Chnet
ltwolve years 44121, he is rue evend
to have died before the pithlto minis-
try of our Lord
hunted to 41,250, the exports to the
islande of 423,700, ine.ud.ng S1,500
werth of umorellas and §2,25J of beer.
Fr New Cruineo and the islands ant t
niched to it; the imparts animated
to 451,51..o, the exports to 867,730. No P
figures are given for Kiaonhou nor for
the smaller islands.
For the three distriets in Africa,
where Germany has exerted herself
greatly the past ten years to estab- a
lish herself on a commercial footing, e
the figures are even more noticeable. „
The imports from Southwest Africa L
Were, valued at. 446,600, made up chiefly
of 439,500 of guano and 43t1500 of cos- 8
trich and heron feathers. The exports t
from Germany to the colony amount-
ed to 4723,500, but this sum ineludes 11
the cost of rails and other material 0
Lor the railroad that the Imperial Gov-
ernment is building, and $47,600 worth
of beer. For West Africa, the Karne-
roons and Togoland, the figures are „
more respectable: Imports 4910,750, ro-
presenting cocoanuts, copra, cocoa
beans, palm and cocoanut oil and india a
rubber the latter to the value of 4428,-
500; exports from Germany, $891,000,
but these include gunpowder $128,500,
spirits, 4130,750, beer •059,500 and sil-
he is risen, as he said.' "rear not,
Penh -God hath given thee all that sail
vith thee." Good tidatigs! News of
ardon to sinners, salvation to then,
he coining of Irea.ers Kieg, the bruo
ng, of Satan's head, the universe!. es-
ablishment of blessiah's rule --sure-
ly these are good tidings. To all peo-
ple. In the original, "the people;"
reaerring originally to Israel, yet
• through fsrael, as we now know, 10 the
reet of the world,
no as surely as to the shepherds/ The
11. Unto you. He is a Saviour to
city of Da-vid. A name given to Beth-
lalmai as the biellaplaee of Xing David;
in the prophecy of Micah it ie an-
nounced as the birthplace of the Mes-
siah. A. Saviour. The C,reeles callecl
their favorite gode, "Saviour,- toad
kings assumed the word as a title.
But the world had begun to long' for
a religious deliverer such as •throne
rooms and patlieons could never fur-
nish. And, the angels nay, "'Here he
is ; his name shall be called Jesus, for
He shall says people from their
sins."
12. A. sign unto you. Not a sign to
strengthen their faith; for none was
needed, but a token to distinguish the
babe. Find the babe. Rather, "find
a babe." They were to behold in a
thgtholess, newborn hetant the worla's
Sa,loor and Gocl's Son. • See in an
this tallarteunianity, the humility, and
the sympatiltrpf our Saviour with us
in, every stage Af our being, Gyve ddlittg
1
ver coin $27,000. From East Africa. the IL
imports were only $144,750, among the i
articles being coffee, india rubber and t
wax, but little money; the exports to
the colony, however, amounted to
$831,250, as a railroad and other Gov-
ernment works are under construc-
tion; among the items are $220,000 cif
silver coin, 475,400 of wine and beer,
and 438,500 of ammunition.
OLDEST TREE IN THE WORLD, •
The town of Kos, the capital of the
small Turkish island of that name
lying off the coast of.Asia Minor, Pos-
sesees the oldest tree in the world.
Under its shade Ripoocrates inculcated
bis disciples in his method, s and views
concerning the healingart 2,000 years
ago. Tradition carries the age of the
tree back to the time of A.esculapius
of whom Hippocratesehhae a lineal des-
cendant, which would add some 400
years La ite age. Aggrettt hart tef the
trunk is built ro Vid, and there "4s,,a
f.ountain knot& as IImpocrates
Foun6,
tain. Th Ircumference of the
inLr;illinnic I olsw3e0r feet,bra\n.thtnecsi, ?Vehri:h aarree Stuiv,p2
ported by neasonre columns, ;
t,.
WITCHCRAFT SCHOOL. IN PARIS,
!tree lerars Mellott -eat on tram the regret
tr the Mark Art,.
vhbol of a very envious order is
o opened in PeIt
rin s founders
offerto tni.late whoever possessed
the neettisary dose of patietwe, and
trhapi of credulity. lino the 1414375-
3.03,1114 of occultism iato the arena of
black magic. Them are pereons, they
even in thee latter and seeptie
1 days, who would like to follow in
1316 roentgens of a Paraeeleus or a
Tri'megistas, and for the bniefit of
thole inquiring souls they haee worl-
d a coeuplete course of sorcery and
Wit01141raft, of attrology anal the other
henmetie "114414413440."AY' hiscription on the wail of the
ooculiet scum!, 4 Rue do Segni, sets
forth that "the initiated in virtue of
the powers transmitted to theta by
the masters, remet le heaven, commend
oa earth and ate feared in Lades."
Tag progrartunte ot etuales at Gut 06-
011141233.mimeo which ha., thoughtfully
been torwareted nie, gives fun de.ail
of the three years' course. Duri.tg the
first year the slailent. is made tu 2431»quire as Mandl ILbreoWlits.,"will enable
him to moterstand the books of the
old alelleiniStS," begin44
10,,t)40
study "ot the conetitution of Meowed.
of his hidden forces,"
In his second year he dips into
Senecrit, exercises himseif in hypno-
teem anti somnambunrn
s, takes a close
look at spirit phenomena, and learns,
doubtless with growiag interest. toed ,
profit, "the pramittal adaptations of
tho various ores of devin,atian."
Finally, in his third year, he studies
"the action of human thought on the
meg ible," and many caller obsc
mateere, Ins comprehension of w
is aided, it may b.s presumed, bytu
previous traing. Phase shove
stages accompashod, it is his own
if he is not a full-fledged wizar
TO HELP HORSES IN WARTIAIE.
Here Are Two Aneetliettlt of the llorSeSin
War Thurg.
An English officer was cross:leg a,
battlefield two days after a battle
when a horse came up and laid its lwad
on leis arm. • The otficer pushed the
horse avvoY, ,but it returned - and re-
peated the caress. Then the officer no-
ticed a blood stain upon his arm, and,
looking more elosely saw that the
horse's under jaw hod been shot away.
Probably the horse, taught in drill
for years to feel safe amid clanging /
steel and burning gimp;wder. was eon-/
fident that the officer could cure its
hurt; instead, he of course called le
one of Ids men to shoot the poor beast "t
In the recent frontier war in British
India an officer was hit and fell from
his horse. The horse, finding present-
ly that his rider was gone, left his
companions and returned in the face e
of the firing to his =Bier's side. Th
nlie
officer was able to reoUrit and suc-
ceeded in esoaping.
It is significant of the growth of
latunane sentiment. in modern 1 imes
that a special 11.utse ambulance service
for war use is seriously proposod in
England. It is quite possible the114he
next war in vvhielt F,nglancl is engaged
will see in the field after every bat-
tle Red Cross men charged with 4114
duty or putting •wounded horSeS otit
of their misery.
OUlt ELASTIC LANGUAGE.
First Custorner-e-1 Wrsh to Select
vase, • •
Floor Walker -Yes, madam James
show the lady to the .,crockery dePar
'menta. •
Second cuetom•et-It -Fish to selec
Fiber Walker -Yes, roacte,m, George
show ibe lady to t14e..brie,a-bra3 ..de
par tment,
•
1),
' the
• eigh
the
bun
-isle
nice,
Coos