Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-3-15, Page 6... nbey settled. Long before the war Genera. Butler, who was then a etruggling young law yew lived up in a Maseachusetts manu- facturing town. lie had displayed abil- ity at college, butt had to wait the usual number of year for leis flrst ease At last a yoeng girl wbo had worked in a cotton, mill came to bine for redress against iter employers. She had been dieebarged without wages, toed ou a re, quest for tbree weekswages watt un- ceremoniously thrust from the door. The ease looked blue, for the nrra was a very rich one, but she needed money badly. $he offered Ben one-half to col- lect it. The next morning, while on her way to look for employment, she came upon a great gathering at a crowing. She inquired what was the matter and learned that the factory she bad left had shut down for the firet time in 30 years. Wondering what could have brought about such a stateshe passed ein and preseotly met Butler lie was leaning against a larappoet whittling a stick, "Teen right," hecallect, waving.his knife with a jauoty air " 'Teen right I ve got eml "Oat wine'?" veutured the young lady "Why, those old skins up at the fee - tory I went to 'em rigbt after I eaw you yesterday and demanded the bill. Tbey told me to hustle, I tben got out an attachment on their water wheel and shut up the shop. You own $13 worth of the entire raachinery Olt they'll settle by Raoul" Aud they did Oinciunati Enquirer The efgetere at Sates:me. The compoeition of the eaminge is not only complex. but it is often obscure. in this conetry the preparation of this (as it should be) neefnl article of food is counned to the enipioyment of minced beef and nork. Tbe nly exceptive prebably is the se ealled "bitten pud- ding," wbieh is made with pig's bitted Bed perhaps some heart and kidney Abreact. however. the sausage cora- ponnded of a ulna wider range a 610). etniwes Thee ieclude liverand hereefiesh. Tbe at eubstauce is geeer- any cousidered repugnant. while. of ccurse, it is &ambient to sell sausages as beef or pork coutainieg horeefteeb. Occasionally. however. eausagett do not contain meat at all, but Ludy bread tinged with red oxide of iron aml mixed with a varying proportion of fat The remarkable feature of horseflesh is the high proportiou of glycogen which It coetains. and thin fact enablea the presence of horeefieth to be detected with some amount of certainty. The test wbich depends on a toter reaction with iodine bas receetly been more carefully studied and with more satis. factory results, so that the presence of 6 per cent of horeeflesh in sausages can be detected.—Lancet A Street *bottler. "What's your business'!" asked the police magistrate of a man who Watt be- fore him for abusing hia wife becauseIllie b AMER S supper was not readyEYoSIGHT. . walks very fast. Ile looks as though . be were intent upon something very "Ho new bien a great wee offe" He "I'm a street hnstler," was tbe reply. important. The people stop. They has seen all your frailtie.s, all your Explanations sleeved, says the New dnok nt him. They wormer wbete he dieadva.ntages. He has been longing for ,at you with. a critic's eye or or Hetald, that the man represented your coming. Be has not been a large number of fellows in .New York it:me trom. They weeder where he 'who bave no regular occupation. but genie; to. You have heard of a son b :ntlilifi t stieliebnutt. ever a.ritlieer'sm; nevertheless manage to make a good ed. All the people in the neighbor - who went off to sea and never return - God pities ;cm. Yrver say: i''Olft E had living, particularly at this time of the , hood thought the son would never re- so many evil surroundings when I year. They loiter around the streets , tarn, but the parents came_ to to started. life. "Your Father sees it. going somewhere. Then they follow the atilrhitWitgraa Tia1.7d rultipognUtlie You' say; rountlings now, and so it is very die - until they see a vat:dead of furniture "I have so many bad eller- wagon, oftentimes for miles. The wag- beauch, looking offYdpon the water, ex- Malt. for me to break away from evil pecting to pee the sail that would °options." Your Father sees it. on drivers do not take kindly to these bring leome the long -absent boy. And and. s and. If this moment you should start men and will not let them ride. so I think this father of my text sat ea. avenwerd—as I pray you may — Men who are "handy with their under the -rine looking towards the your Father would not sit idly down bands," as it was explained to the road on which his son had departed; an& allow you. to struggle on up T E PRODIGAL'S RETU Rev, Dr. Talmage Discourses on An Interesting Subject. Row the Mother Would Greet the Prodigal's Return --The Father's Greeting of the Wanderer—God. Is Repre- sented as the Father—The Dr. Draws Some Lessons From the Parable. 4. despatch from Washington sate: —Rev. Dr. Taanage preaehed from the following text: °When he was yet a great way off, his father saw bine, and had compassion and, ran, and fell on bts neck and kissed him."—Lune xv. 1 have often deseribed to you the going away of this prodigal son front his father's house, and I have showed emit what a hard time he bad dowu s tors for seine memento te oarry witb her. One of the daughters brought a marble tablet, beauthully inseribed; and. DAD daughter brought a bean- ful wrea.a flower& The third daugh er came, and eald, "Motber, I hie gale. neither :Lovers nor tablet, but bore Is my heart. I have inscribed it all over your name, and. wherever yea go, it will. go with, you." The nece deer recognized it as the best of all the memenatoes. Of that to -day our eeiels raigh go out tewaras the Lord dente Cbriat, towards our Fattier—. ia the wiluterneas, anti what a vean that our aearts raight be written all great mistalte it as for tam to leave over tlx evideneee a His so beautiful a bugle for steel was.„ kindness, tout hat we m.glet neeer erable desert. Bat he did not always z*atoreake Hine Lord God, this ay be Thy Hely Spirit more upon our stay in the wilderness; be came back ar ewiena after a while. We do not read that , evivee the sinner 'Peek again? Give bis mother came to greet him. I sate! 41.9 3 P.11mmet with 141 eb may pose she was dead. She would Imee te,x1St. Itaretf,11aee. I notice in this been tbe first to come out. The fa" and place, ttallovti!'eae%VgbIlateci4411Iteauset°0-; titer would have given the second and, in the third plaoe, notice the Ines to the returning prodigal; the rd'11"16 idde. mother the first. it may bate, been td To begin; the Father's eyesight, for the lack of her examele and pray- h?:Vt, rh.tbre bY:mat.nara'orueabtavIevanYatsifet, e s that he beearae a prodigal. Some- ett bow old people eorritiames put a thus the father does not know how been oft ott t other ,side of the leght, Tie:y can. eve at a distance a great dela es ler nen they can close by. I do no. knew whether be cuula see well 'het which was near ley. but I do h count to ea great way off. afate ta her eaw le.w." Perhaps he had bsu 1..`, king or .he return at that boy e pecially -hat -day. I do not know bu that lee had been in prayer, aud nett Gad. had told him that that day tb • recreant buy woule come Imam. "Tht fa her 43V hein a great way otf." I evonder if Godes eyeeigh: e313 des - to manage the chitiren of the bouse- hold. The chief work comes ulton eh. mother. luded, eo 0114 e,vor gets over the calamity of losing a mother in early life. Sall, this young man was not ungreetea when he ranee been liewever well apparelle we may be in the morning when we evert out on eoultiey, before night, wbat. with the aust end. the jostling, we have lost all eleanness of appearance. But cry ni when we are coraing back to this t•rodigal, when be started from him'? The text picturee our condi- the ewlue trough, was ragged and tion—we are a great way off. That wretehed, and hie appearance, after fri nifu VA, tiwauesne,otsifitetab.ilr tofea (rem of journey- , ow he bad gone through days , bten. is not I:refill:sr from holinees ing and expesures, you ran more easi-' off from heaven, than we have been by eur sine away oft from our God; ly imagine than describe,. As the people ewe this prodigal corning on Sk's so L'or 0 f 011it wo Gould not hear Hi voice, theugb veheinently Hie bas boineware, they wonder who be is. muted ne seer after year. 1 dia not They 8,3y: "I wonder what prison be know what bad habite you nave form - has broken Out Of. I wonder what ed, or ill what twit place,* you, have venue' out - - ) — ' been or what fate no io s ,you may Him Ile gooe ue to (ideal= and rocks are rending, and the lazaretto he has esetteed from, I won- bows' entertained; b t tu ! graves are opening, and the mobs are der with what plague he will smite to acknowledge, if your erioteutiratrtersergyt hovering, anti the 4411 is hiding, He the air." Although these people may been changed. by the grace of God, dies sefor you. See Himi See Him ma that you are. a great way (xittanye. no , mos brow tingedofCtuifitioili, trli sweat odn. have been well acquainted with tbe ;selves. You would. like toecome back. Ing 1 (4// s were e emp es ‘. e4 have in the, teat tbe annooneenaentl "Wh.eu he was yet a great way of, bis father ran." When the sinner sttanta for God, God. starts for the smiler. Gott des not come out with 4 slow and Imitating pace. Tbe. in- finite sextette slip agnealla nits feet, axed he tees worlds at a bowed, "The father son." Oh, wonderful meeting, when God and. the soul come together. "The Father rim:" You start for God and God starts for you, and. this moroing and this house ts the ti and tae piece when you meet, while the angels rejeice oyer, meeting, your long injured F falls upon your neck with attest of honliaassiqn and. pardon. Poor, wandering, sinnel, 110 soul, and the loving, the eternal er, have met. I remark upon the father's kit fell on hia neck," my text says kissed him." It is not every Halt would aaveedone that wa have ecolded him, and "Here, you wept off with bet clothes, but now you are all 1 tem You went off healthy, emne back sick and weaken wit dissipations," He did not say The son, all haggard, and, ragge filthy, and wretched, stood befo tether. Tip flober charged bi none of ble wanderings. j ceived hnn. Tie jest kieaed wrotoiledneta wee 4 recoramen to that father's love. Ob, tbet Wen I now shell I describe be 1 God?—the erdour with whieb balm this sea. Give Me a, wielt which I can scale this Give me worde with which 1 F4ribe thiS love. The apostle s one place, "unsearebeblee' in an "Past finding out." Height o ping all hegint depth Plain& nealb all depth' breedth temP all inereertsity. Ob, this lovel GOD nO LOVED Tein WO Ile levee you. Don't you Led Has He not done everything to you think NO? Ile bee gtven y beanie, erioxule, bottee—tbe low hand, tne sight ot your eye, or your ear. Ile has strew path witle mercies. Ho luta fed ebettered you, defended you, Yen, II111)Oritaleti you all you long. Don't you. believe Ile loves Wily, this motzting, if you start up from tbe wilderness of your ein, Ile would throw both arms around you. To mike you believe that Ile levee you, He etooped to manger. and cross, and sepuloltre. With all tbe Passions of Eta holy nature roused, Ile stands before you to -day, and wouhL 003X you to bappiness and beaven. Ob, this father s kiss! There is so much meaning, unit love, and com- passion in it; so =oh pardon in , numb heaven in it, I proelaira Him the Lord God, merointa graoious, and long-eufferiug, abundant in goodness and truth. Lest you would. not believe theme have begun to sink. Hallelujah! Hallelujalkl Woe! Wool It seems to roe as if the judgmeut were past. I un- it es patio I imogine thet all the sentences have been awarded, the nghteous enthroned, the wi-ked driven away in his wickedness. shut all the gates of heaven. There are no more to come en. Bolt all the gatea of dark- reet$S-110, more th he allowed' to come out. Harki the eternal ages have be- gun their unending trarapt tramp: t to Leila esti ara th wry the ses 'Abe ith nt, said long Cam- • o one ds 'a ze t ha 1. be 1) Li on exit eing itrly porle ik it who have been sertouid, elermed lee; the nett ttlague should epread to Prue- sia, have asked in elaboretely official language for reports" of the Tel - slaughter, plea. for special informa- tion being eigned by Herr von It:Atel- ier, the Governmental President. And a Prussian lady of wealth, Graefitin Noer, the owner of three large (estates, has written to Copenhagen to learn the secret self-proteetion. Itfeanwbile the rate not yet caught are thoroughly "rattled." Lar that you -cannot get beet: of youre f inj w tt its rd./ "t4 family, yet they do not irategine that , Is moment you mull start, " 4 e5 e8 sw Isnitna. this is the very young man who went . the loud breathing of the Sufferer as Aye th off only a little while ago with oink it were not for this sin, and. that hab": Ile pants with a world on Ills beertl step, and ruddy obeek, and beauti- eiti, and. thIs disadvantage. But I ara Hark to the fall et the blood from tell you of ful apparel. The young man, I think, brow, and Itand, and foot, On the roeke beneatle—dropl dropl drop' Look at the nails! How wide the wounds arel Wider do they gap as His body comes down up- on thean, Oh this oruelfixion agony. Teaxs melting into tears. Blood flowing into blood. Darkness dropptng on darkness. Hands of mein joined with hands of devils to tear apart the quivering' heart of the Son at Godl Ohinvill Ile never speak again7 t Will that crimson face never light up. again? HE WILL SPEAK AGAIN; while the blood is suffusing His brow, and reddening His cheek, and gather- ing on nostril and lip, and you. think that Ho is exhausted and cannot speak, He cries out until all the ages hear him: "Father, forgive them, they know not what they dot" Is there no emphasis in such a.seeete as that to make your dry eyes weep, and your hard heart break? Will you turn Your back upon it, and say by your actions what the Jews said by their Him down. Love opened the gate. Love ted to the sacrifice. Love sheltered the grave. Love lifted flim up in the re- surrection. Sovereign love. Omnipo- tent love. Infinite love. Bleeding words: "His blood be on us, and on our cluldren? What does it mean, my brother, my sister? Why, it means that for our lost race -there was a Father's kiss. Love brought love. Everlasting love.' magistrate, have no difficulty in get- ting a job laying carpets, cleaning win- dows and furnaces or hanging out clotbealinea It is a poor wagon chase that does not net from $3 to $4 a load. Sometinms, when two or more men are following the same load, competition is keen. The wagon driver whips his horses, and the prize falls to the man who has the fleetest foot and the great- est wind power. A. Sense of Security. "Eudora," said Mr. Cumrox, "1 bave been several times annoyed by the way you see fit to worry about my gram- mar." "It's awful," said his wife. "Yon use commas where they don't belong, and you forget all about your periods. You'll lose all your friends.' "Eudora, let me remind you that I have money enough to float any scheme I take a fancy to. A man may be loose on his punctuation, but when he en- joys nay facilities for a capitalization he is bound to have friends that he couldn't lose if he tried. "—Washington Star. liewnylo Failure. Benny, the 4 -year-old member of the family, had been trained to believe in the deep waterform of baptism. This is believed to be the reason why he was trying to plunge the household cat into a bucket of water. The animal resisted. It howled and scratched and clawed and used violent language. Finally Benny, with his hands covered with scratches and with tears in his eyes, gave it up. "Darn Your" be said. "Go an be a alethodis' if you want to!"—Chicago Tribune. • but the father has changed very much towards Him. Oh, no! Seeing you since we saw him last. His hair has at great way off, he would fly to the become ;white, his cheeks are fur- rescue. How long does it take a 'fa - rowed, ther to leap into the middle of the HIS HEART IS BROKEN. highway if his child be there, and a What is all this bountiful table to swift ve•hicle is coming, and may de - him when his son may be lacking stroy him? 'Five hundred times long - bread What is all the splendor of er than it takes our heavenly Father the wardrobe of that homestead when to spring to the deliverance of a lost the son may not have a decent cot? child. "When he was a great way What are all the sheep on the hill- off his Father saw him." side to that father when his pet lamb And. this brings me• to notice the is gone. Still the sits and watches, Father's haste. The Bible says he looking out on the road, and one daY ran. No wonder. He did not know he beholds a foot traveller. He sees but that the young man would change him rise above the hills; first the head his mind and go backlee did not and after awhile the entire body; know, but that he would (Woo down and as soon as he gets a fair glance from exhaustion. He did not know of him he knows it is his recreant but that something fatal might over - son. He forgets the crutch, and. the take nem before he got up to the door - cane, and the stiffness of tha joints, sill; and. so the father ran. The Bible, and bounds awaY. I think the people for the most part, speaks of God, as all around were amazed. They said; aoudad. "In the fourth watch of "It is only a footpad. It is only some the 'eight," it says, "Jesus came unto old, tramp of the road. Don't go out them evalkiag on the sea." "He walk - to meet him." The father knew , eth upon the wings of the wind." Our better. The change in the eon's a' -first parents heard the voice of the p.earance could not hide the marks by lewd walking in the garden in the which the father knew the boy, You cool of the day • but when a sinner know that persons of a great deal a 'starts for God, 'the Father runs to independence of character are apt to meet him, Ohl if a man ever wants indicate it in their walk. For that help, it is when he tries to become a reason the sailor almost always has a Christie/1. Tha world says to him: peculiar step, not only 'because he ..Beek with you. Have more spirit. stands much on shipboard amid the Don't be itinpered with religion. Time rocking of the sea, and. he has to bat- a.nee himself, but he leas for the most part an independent character, which Fair haired people are said to be ble coming less numerous than formerly. The ancient Jews were a fair haired race;130'W they are, with few exceptions, dark So it is in a lesser degree, with the Irish, among whom 160 years ago a dark haired person was almost un known The average life of a theater id e3 years. From 1 861 to 1 86 7, inclusive, 187 theaters were burned cloWn, and 18 ev . cry year since has been alooet the avee- enough yet. Wait until you get sick, Wait until you get old." Satan says, "Back vin.th you; you are so bace that would show itself eveti if he never knew from God will h,ave, nothing to do with .youn' went to the sea ; and we or, You are geed enough, and . need no Redeemer. Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." Ten thousand voices say: "Bac,k with you: GOD'S A HARD MASTER. what transpired after, and from what transpired before, that this pro- digal son was of an independent and frank nature; and I suppose that the characteristics of his mind and heart were the charaoteristios of his walk. And so the father knew him. Ile puts out his witber.ecl arms towards him; he brings his wrinkled face against the pale cheek of his sofa; he kisses the Wan lips; he thanks God that the long agony is over. "When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell 6n his neck, and kissed him." The church is a collection of hypocrit- es -Back into your sins ; baek.to your, evil indulgences, back to your prayer - less pillow. The silliest thing that a young man ever does is( to come home after he has been wandering." 011, how much help a man does want when he tries to become a Christian. In- deed, the prodigal cannot find his Oh, do you not reeognixe that eaten way home to his father's house alone. er ? Who was it 1 • It was God! 1 Unless some one comes to meet him have no 'sympathy with that cast-iron he had better have straeed by the theology whiell represents God as stwine-treughs. When the sea conies hard, severe and vindictivein at full tide, you might more, easily • 'GOD IS A FATHER with your bi•oorn sweep beck the —kind, loving lenient, geotle, long- eurgee then you could drive back the suffering; patient, and He fliea to ocean of your unforgiveu transgres. our immortal rescue. Oh, that we knolls. What are we to clo?' Are we 1 o might realize it to day A fvealthy fight the battle alone, find trudge on lady in one of the eastern coune •it-ith no OM to aid us, and no rock to tries was going off for somo eel er us, and no word, of encourage - time, and she asked her dau,gle. nowt Lo cheer ea Glory lie tot God„ we "Oh, for this love let reeks and hills, Their lasting sileine break; And all harrnonione human tongues The Saviour's litanies speak." Now, will you accept that Fathers kiss? The Holy Spirit asks you to. The Holy Spirit comes to you. this morning with His arousing, meeting, alarming, inviting, vivifyjng jnflu- enoe. Hearer. what (-real NS in thee that unrest? Il is the Holy Ghost. What sounds in your ears to -day, the does of the saved, and the sorrows of the coademned? It is the Holy Ghost. ;What influence now tells thee that it is time to fly, that to -morrow may be too Ince; that there ie one door, °tie road, one cross, one sacrifice, one jeties? It is the BOIT Ghost. Don't you think He is here? I see it in those soteenneLooks. I ase it in those- tear- ful eyes. I see it in those blanched cheeks. I see, it in the upturned face of childhood and the earnest gaze of oldage. I know it from this silence like, the grave. •The Holy Ghost : is hereand while I speak, the chains et, ,captives• a we falliag, an d thethin, geons of sin are opening, and the pro- deg-als coming, and the Father is run - none, and eangels ar*, shouting, and devils are exembling. Oh, it is a no meal:outs hbur. It is —chargeci with eternal deetteues, The shadows of the eternal. world fin over tine assera- falage, "lark! I hear the 'eangs of the ecteed. I hear the howling of the damned. Ileaven and hell seem to mingle, and eternity polies on the pivot, of this hour. Thy hestiny is being decided. Thy doom ie being fix- ed. Tbe door of mency, so wide oeen', begun', to close. Tr trembles on its hoagies, and Boon will. be shut. 'These go Into life, and those go into death; end these havi: begun the miirch to tie,aven, and those have commeneed to die. These haee begun to nee, and HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTRRNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 18‘ Jesus at Matihenes MORON" !dark Golden Text, Lulte 5, Inn PRACTIOA.IL NOTES. (Verse le. He went forth again. Front Capernaurn, All the maltitode resorted, unto him. TheY nept coni- ng constantly from the cities aad villages which crowded that neigh- borhood. There was no banding large enough to accommodate them, and "outdoor preaching" became a neces- sity. lie taught them Whether hie marvelous deeds or nis winning words were the greener attraetion no one could say. 14. He saw Levi the son of Alpheus Saw the man, and doubtless also, with keen Insight, foresaw his career; saw the possibilitiee yet ausanetified that eventuated in Matthew's Gospel. Lune calls him "a publican, namea Levia" nlattbeve identifies himself with thia publican. Sitting at the teceipt Of euetour, Or the place of toll. the *eat t the collector of texita. Oriental. isle Wee freauently noted, the acteat posture whiele -la 50 common in tile Bee., witore an sorts ot aotivitiee are engaged in wanle elitiug ou the floor r groune.. NO one at ends it it is pee- eibte to sit. Capernauen was en the highway of commerce, and, it is probe ble that a large teritt wee annually aid here. lioneember, too, the con. nrpt with which Publicans were re- rded by the anew. Bul as Mat, tbew's calling Was, he had apparent - lee retainea e eimple heart, and belled, that hunger and tbiret after righter ottetiess on whioh our Lorti prom:emc- ee!. one ot choiee.e't lieatitudes. Foie lew me. Probable limey evetheard, this irsvitation. Lie a tegio ine3. tollowe ed. hint. Peiliaps be springing up en,ved the Vaal,. The little Sou of au English gentle- man, in Mischievonaly playing with A Vase,. managed. OW several attempts to get his hand through the uarrow neck, and was then unable to extricate It For half an bour or more the whole family and one or two friends did their best ;to withdraw the flet of the young oreender, but in vain, It was a very valuable Tame and the father was loath to break it, but the (Witting state of unix% could not continue for- ever. .At length, after a linal attempt to draw forth the hand of the victim, the father gave up his efforts in de- spair, but tried a laiit auggestion. "Open your handl" he eommanded the tearful young captive, "and then draw it forth." "I can't open It, father," declared the boy. "Can'tr' demanded Ids father. "Why?" "I've got my penny in my hand," came the astounding reply, "Why, you young rascal," thundered his father, "drop it at oncel" The penny rattled in the bottom of the vailie and out came the hand. eun lei place 04 toll and waliteig af- ter Jo us. butmere ly by vowlig at ce that the te.n. Oi lu.s li.o ethettld given over te the diettipleship Of aii tit raw; Itable, and devoting with renewed. energy to clueing up busintess, 15. Ai Jt'4114 54t at. meat in his below. 111 the house oe Matthew. whore the converted publican wade "a gloat feaet." (ace Luke li, 20.) Many publican, endsinners sat also with nooks anti his disciples. We can hard- ly wonder that the Pliarleees theught TryerteLieeirede'se. Welt ibnectieu,asise Deoulhe.ilv‘ittley (hat Ito chteen impure people as his colt:mane ions), If he V35 the lapieal Hebrew, wny did he eseuciate wtth tbe excom- municated and boycotted pubhoan L ? 16. Scribes and Pbarisees. Revised Version, "the scribes of the Plutri- 8oes." These rume were as typical of piety as the publicens and sinners were of loose and worldly habits. It would not appear from this record tbet they were invited guests, and. strange as such conduct would ap- pear to us, ie is not unlikely that they bad. followed him into the hall where the diners were lolling about the tetble, But it is not neoessary to believe that they were actually pre - tient at the feast. Jesus was the cen- ter et a great and continually chang- ing crowd; everything he did was openly remarked upon and criticised. They said unto Ids disciples. Compare Matthew 22, 46. Luke says they murmured—thee is "they talked over in a low voice privately, not intending jettus to hear." How is it that he eateth and dritketh with publieeans and sinnerse This criticism is often misunderstood. They find no fault with him, but would have praised him, Lor teaching sinners; their anger is raised because he associates with them. Dr. Abbott's statement that a similar complaint would be made now against any clergyman who should associate with a similar out- lawed class in our community merits our clifee conscientious thought. The Christian Church has yet much to learn of the epirit of Christ. 1'7. When j'enus heard it be settle unto them. But what had the disciples said'? Probably they knew not what to say, and, like wise men in such; condi- tion, said nothing. I came not tgeall the righteous, but .sinner e to repent- tance. The implication' is that there are none ' righteous. But those who are conselous of their need of sal- vation, are called by Jeans to ienetie ta.ne,e. What does repentance mean? Turning away from the wretehedness of their lives to Jesus. If they turn from their sin to morality, they will turn back again, for their own moral force has been weakened. They are "sick." But if they turn to Jesus, he will stretch' out his hand, as he did to Peter on the water, and. hold -1111e841. The disciples of John and of the I Pharisees used to fast. Every rabbi had his group of disciples, and most of the rabbis prescribed fre- quent fasting as a holy habit. The Mosaic lawi required but one fast during the e•ear. Many of the rabbis made their disciples fast two days of each week. Thy diseiptes fast not. It must have seemed strange now that john was in prison to find the rabbi whom he had introduced as the Lainle of God feasting Nvitil pub licans and sinners. 19. The children, sons; of the, brideobamber. Particular friends of the bridegroom, who had a half-cerettioe- ial part to perform at tbe week-long wedding feast, Jesus was now in Gan - bee, where sfans of the bridecharro her " performed their pleasant social duty instead of the " friende of the bridegroom," or groomsmen., of Judean weddings. The hridegeoorn her rep- resents Christ, and the Children •(-)f the bridechamber his disciples. They cannot fast. Our Lord's . entire re- mark is figurative, a.nd by fasting he means mourning: Hie companionship with his followers kept them happy, oaonnciwooualad. have made formal fast in gni- 20: The. days will oome when the bridegroom shall be taken away. There was a hiat here, but no defin- ite pronheoy, of the awful tragedy of the crucifixion. Then shall they fast In those days. The system of Christianity differs from ' most A. Nolo Ce.tcher. A farm manager at Fodderty, Ding- wall, Scotland, watcbing a mole catch- er at work, saw sea gulls hovering over and occasionally alighting upon a turnip field in which the observer and others were at work. A. particularly large and handsome bird attracted his attention by the graceful way it Boat- ed slowly over the drills, intently scanning the surface of the ground. Suedenly, steadying Itself a meal -eat,. It dropped, dug its bill into the' heav- ing ground and rose with a mole for its prey. Resting a few minutes, it gracefully began again a further search for prey. In a few minutes it second mole was unearthed. Cause of Cruelty. A. little girl whose acquaintance with the zoological wonders of creation was limited was looking at one of the elephants In Lincoln • park, Chicago, while on her first visit to that popular resort. Observing that the animal stood mo- tionless near a watering trough, she said: "Poor thing! Why don't they lift up his trunk and.fasten it back so he can drink?" Sold Kumasi Bones. The keeper of the public cemetery of wsinall Bohemian town near Prague excavated the older parts of the grave. yard, and mold all tbe old bones he could fled for In purposeit, a$ he found that certain manufacturers paid more for human bones then for those of' entwine. Be had been earning Walley in title way for several years before he Was detected and titilpentled from his poet. ' e other religions in -he fact that no re- gular fast is preecebed. Fasting as an Apeonapeitiment of prayer, when it is not merely for) and titualistio, but rather la the °inward arid visible sign of an toward and spiritual One dition, is a great help in weesilip, but it 18 the prayer and feint that accom- pany it whiole really bring the blase- ing. ai. Study this verse and. the next in the Revised Version. "Undressed cloth" is unslarineken cloth or untant nod* leather, the shrinking of which would pull together the edges of -an old tear and make it greater, tn. By another figure a speoch our Lord now teaches the same leseon. Bottles sugh as we are familiar wide would not buret beceuse filled with new wine, but old wine skins would.. The thougitt. in brief, is that tber• are power and vitality in Gospel ex- perience whieh must find their Own channels. As the 013 wine Sant 13 burst by the tieW Wine, so the cad thabraisin is buret by the new Gospel. The new idea -done must bave itA OWn legislation stetted to its own spirit. It was • a ttiabte sigbt, that et the titseiPles of John vainly trying to uoita the new spirit of reform witli the old Pharisale spirit of ceremonialism, Too Often True. . It eequires 40 lioritee to pull family vanity at a funeral and oely ewo to pull the •eorpse,--Cat holic Uhiverke. s,,,tteses,h,,t TYPOGIen.l'HICAL. Yes, Nature's wise, we can't deny, In all hee hidden ways, - 131 mu her '' typee ot men ", oh why, Are there so many "I's?" `ate 0 CAVALRY OCT OF DATE, Nit rine 9r nee ter In netters, Warfttrei !Under the new conditions of war. and above alt in such a war rei tne Preeent, the old nerstio fonotion of eavalry fa at an 011d, and the great allergen witica liave Leen the moat thrillieg and tplendid eel:ode* ef beano in the past, may tower again be woe War on land, as on aea, becomes loss pioturee tit?, as it lee:waxen more but:the:oil ke and deadey. The mitt of cavalry againet Infautry resolvea itself &Maple into a queetiou of time. At Balaclava the *tame ot tbe 60, from the moment the ward was given wait ati that, was lett ot then* reap, peared out of the buloito, occupied eteareely twenty-one minutes. in that intervel of tune, with modern weap- ons, cavalry woold be utterly ape Even, in the brilliant and terrible :Mine of Sedan Gen de Ciallifet led. bill equedrons in their sp:entlid. urn, orme, owe' to be annihdated by the, nnuetattu toot. The moat deeperute diens were utterly in vain, and no out who remembers thut scone can believe thet any cavalry charge couid live against the fire at ineetetze rifles and orttliery ;latter Any eiteutuatentent. Unless they could spring out, oe tbe ground upon Lutuntry, they would reale ewer beiore tliet mugazine leiter long before they count upothaub ethee ituartnia, nesaults with Liao bayonue ere abet- lehed by the seine eondttions. Of course, any general oho brought ottvalry within a, mile oe a trutich ought to be thot. To the British aline the dinenielied importance ot cavalry in beetle is not it loss, but a gain. Our cavalry was wretched in the kenineula, and has been generally inferior to the French—,though it is one of our cae.racterietio opinions that a Fennel:linen cannot ride. The old role of cavalry may still be nuaniain- ed in gureult, though on that point the unhappy experience of the leigh. Wenn' Hueetirs wit= their squedron was captured after Glencoe is not re- assuring. In teconneitering, on tbeotber hand, the work of cavalry ia much mornim- portant than ever, and, at the same time, more difficult. An enemy who cannot be approached within some- thing much under two miles cannot be precisely located, and yet it io ab- lutely, necessary that his general posi- tion should be discovered. It would be herd to say whether there is more risk in gaining sucb vague and partial information or in acting upon it. I don't know how the imperial yeo- manry are to be used, but for. some time they will require to be 'handled with great care if they are not to find their way prematurely to Pretoria. They will be annoyed by the stony patches creeping out on the veldt and sometimes as smooth as glass. HIS GRUDGE AGAINST RUM. Alt, my friend, sighed the reforra- er, rum causes lots of trouble in thia world. Indeed, it does, agreed the listener. NO doubt you or I would be happi- er were it not for the rune demon, went on the reformer. Indeed, we would. again agreed the patient listener. lAnd•ehow has it eaused you unhap- einem? °hired the eeformer. Years ago a woman told me that if I stopped drinking ehe would in4rry me. • And you could not stop? Ng, roared the patient Mettler; No I did stop! . HER MISTA E E. Mr. Bizzyruan—I took my new, type. writer to lunch with me to -day ' Mrs. R.—You brazen thing Mr. B.—Way? 1 guess 111 Want to jug that macetine around to ,keep othe er people from using it, there's a4 harm done, is there? TRUE TO LIRE. Mamma, finding the ohildren at play--Laritieg, don't fly about and make suoh a sp.ectacte of yourself. See. how quietly your little brother sits 1 lenadye—Why, of course he does, 'We are playing papa and mamma, He is Iwo, who came home late last, night, and. I am you. CONFINED. You're looking biidly. Are you in? Donley es the first time in three months that I Weve beeo abte to go oiit What Ln tile world did you do? t didn't do anythingllut the Judge wouldn't believe me. Quoth he ofwiedota deep, (eh, no, indeed, the fool replied; You see, we sottietlimes sleep. rfr,. e