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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-4-5, Page 2otes and Comments. A$ a. re.selt- ot its prosecutiou ot the AsSamptioniat Fathere. the Freneh atstry bee become inwolved Oa a tzovy with some et the Catholic) lamas, the end end consequence of *allele it/ not easy, to forece,st. The itteetumptionist Fathers were eCatho- Ito ansoeiattion, or ordert founded with teurely religious object, but which has busted itself more with pohtio than religion, and has espectalty terthereel the agitetion for the re- etoration a ute. monarchy. Ituring the Dreyfue, trouble the newsreper publiehea by the order, Le Croix, took ns creed, "Dow/ with Jews, Pinna- te and traitors," making the. terms mlercharetable, and- it is said. thet tbe firet Royalist overtures mane to the army were reeeived by the °Ulcers, et the military clubia the ehape of =cubes from this body. As was its duty, the Waideok-Rounteau trimistry determined to atop an agitatton entiverelve a the existieg republte, and destroy the agonies prornotiug it, and co. following- the close of the comtpireey triairt before the, Seuate sittiug tie a High Court a justeen prorecuted the Attsunaptionist !tethers isa the Paris police court. The notantal charge, Mader to cover the reel. ohe, WZt that a viaitiog a the, law aZztaaavelations, tbe issue thue be.gbother religion -5 el int wee. t toe can, moat va France without the ex- press authorieallent a the goveria- nient, a question on whale the law is quhe clear. THE EXETER DESCRIPTIOIN OF JESUS Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the Flowers of the_Bible. Th Vineyards of En-gedi..The Sweetness of Christ's Pardon—Men Do Not Carry Their Religion With Them—Lack of Religion Makes You Gloomy-. Christ's Comfort Makes a Man .Mighty despatelt from Wieslabigton says: Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text; "My beloved Le onto I me as a cluster of eamphire in the veneyerds of Eu-gedi."--Solomong Soug L 14. Soloraanda song has been considered by 'may as fit only for moontaritek esentimentalists; written by a volup- tuary—the etory of a mai crazed by a fate micaldeu—fit twitter for family prayere nor for churches. Indeed. we =wet admit that there wee i Years tn. Solonion'e life when he had several hutidred raore wives tha.n he was ell-, titled to; but he repeuted o ns atn, and God chose hint to write some of the beet thing's about Christ that hose ever been written, liceides that, I thinit the criticiem of medera timee upon the feateodeaty of tbe Bible comes with poor grace from ait age in which the writings ot George Sand have come to thew fortieth ede. two, and Christians cannot gev to the 'entree -meeting because theY have twkete for first-rate Beata at the, , "Black Crook.' I think, however, as ti far est I eon eee, fa my stunidilth that there are things turned out upon the conimuaity to -day that bid for to do move damage than the Songs et Sofo- Th5 renal was the elteaoluttoe of he order and the impotition oZ foto oa eteme, ot Ltmembers. bet so far from ceding the muter, itaromed the reeentment 4af the Cethelec btehotts, some eixty-seven; of whom seut let- ters of stympathy to the. A.seutientoar Let Fathera, thus practically tatiors- tea- the aggrentive tc.L gitaeiott Le width they were engaged. In turn, the govorameut oUspended the sitp- eitds of the Archebtehon of thin and thtee hiebove who were most out- spoken in tienuticiation of its action; aui when, the Cormer wrote an angry letter to the Croix is protett anti further coceletanatton, h prepared a bill pueiehing by imprisonmeut crita- rimer of goverement measures intro- ltueed into peetoral letters, and clos- ing the newspapera tO the Episcopate. Bat though this legisio.tion, greatly modifies the, stringent prcensiou ot the °IS Penal Code, which punishes •of- fenses a tb.ii; dotewith bentehment, the ministry is evidently doubtful whether it, can be, carried through Parliament, or of the expediency of erforciug it if paesed, for it ham fin- ally decided to ask the Pope to remove two of the offending bishops from. their seeit. As. it is afraid to push its owTh legislation, there isa:of course, nothteg else left to do, for the mune etry name bring the bishops to terms or be diseredited, end the letter will not resign if asked to do so, and they hold life tenurea, which under the con- cord atthe government cannot shorten.. The only way, then, is to request the Pope to ask the bishops to resign. and so permit the appointment of succes- sors holding different ideas of duty, though as matters now stand in France, it is exceed.Mgly doubtful whether the Pontiff will comply with the request. It is the more so because the return made by France for past favours on the part of the Pope is deemed by those who accepted the re- public at his bidding to be exceedingly meagre, and because the dismissal of the bishops at the request of the gov- enament wcnild be regarded by the whole French Episcopate as a dan- gerous txrecedent. But should the Pope refuse, it is difficult to see how the Waldeck-Rous,seau ministry will meet the situation produced by the defiance of the bishops. INSTANT LTretelNESSES. To produce the exact likeness of .an objeot instantly on paper all yew have to, do is to lay the paper or a table, • arnd bold a double convex lens, a coni - ran sun glass, over it, at the same time placing a mferror over the lens aai oblique position, so as to lace partly towardthe object that ts to be represented. .4to ITS SOFTER SIDE. Thee is a hard -world/ said the gloomy mutt, , YOtt ought ,eo coma out and live where I do, isaid the cheery friend. You want to) get avvay from these asphalt pavements and, come to men neighbor- hood, where the world 18 characteriz- ed by nice, soft mud of every con - SIB tency, f rono oaismeal mush to Woget-eake. • Tate rays of light, passing frora nhe objecl to the mirror, will be refleeted downeverd through the lens, and pro- duce the likeness of the object in full colors an; the paper. This experiment may be easily made in the evening by reflecting the flaro.e of the weenie in this manner, whieh will appear very brilliant on paper. But ice order to render the reflection at an abject distinctly visible by da3r- light, it may be reqaisite to exelatle nearly all the light from I -the paper, except what falls through the lens. In all cases the lens mob be plac- ed, at a distan,ce above the'paperi ac- tordleg to its focus, at the distance to which it would eontramt the retro at the smallest paint. - Heart now, one of hie freabi andfatr deteripttens of Jesus. If I had twenty year to ereaeie I would like to employ tea of them in briuging out to observatioa those repreeenta- tams of Clime winch hate are yet beeu panted by. I do not know why the Imil eltould hover Oler a few tepee af Chrett when there tire •se many eylubuls of Abt19 that have fever 1 btxeu dieeoureed upon. Why ishould we employ all our time iu eetimming •afew lilies whet Ili, 3tble iagreat.e garden tilled with fuothiaseeltd with • daffodils, aud with amarinths, and with evening' prinatees for the close • of the life's day, and oromutes at! the Loot of the snow-bauk of sorrow, and !leaned ease for the troubled, find "pas- eion-flowera" plauted at the foot of a.cios,s, and "morning glories" spread - Leg out under the eplentioure of the breaking day? Some weeks ago 1 • thecoursed to you about "the white haire of Jesus," and I have been told that eeme, of the newspapers suppos- eft it was a mere fancy ol my own— the poor fools not knowieg that in 1 Revelation. the first and the four- teenth, the Bible speaks of Christ "whose head and whose hairs are white like wool, as white as snow"—stere I bolizieet THE ETERNITY OF JESUS. Tete:teed on the side of the moan - tattle were the vineyards of En-gech. Ohl they were sweet places. From a.snelving of the mountains, four hundred feet htgh, water canie down LO. beautiful baptism on the faces of the leaves; the grapes intoxicate with thew ONV71 wine; pinnegraxietea with juices bureting from the rind; all emits aed flowers and aromatic woods —among the sweetest of. these the • camehire-plant of the text. Its flowers, are in. clusters like our lilac —graceful, fragrant, isembobeal of Je.su.s. "For my Beloved is unto me as a clu,ster of camphire from the ineyards of En-gedi." I will carry out the ideai of my ttext, and in the first nlate show. yowethat this camphire-pla,nt of the text was aosYMboi of Christ, because of its frog- ra.ace. If Iliad a branch of it, and should wave it in your midst, it would, fill all tho house with Nthe re- doleuce. The camphor,- as we have it, is offense to some; but the earephire- plant of the text had a fragrance grain- ous .to all. The vineyards of En-gedi bathed, in it—the branches, the buds, the bloesoms, dripping with sweetness, typwal of the sweetness of Christ. "How sweet tbe name of Jesus sounds In a believer's or! It soothes his sorrows, heals hs • wounds, And drives away his fear." The name of Caesar xneane power; the name of. Herod means cruelty; the name of Alexander means con- quest; the name of Demosthenes means eloquence; the name of :Milton means peetry; the name of Benjamin West means painiang;tirte name of Phicbas means sculpture; the iraole ne Beetho- Yen means music; the name of fitialtadl means reform.; bat the name of. Christ moos, lovel It is the sweetest mane that over melted from hp to heart. As you opert an old chest that has loug been cloaed. the first thing that strikes you is tile perfume of the herbs that were packed amid the cloth- ing, so there are hundreds of hearts here to -night, which, Jr opened, would first offer to you the name of ;Jesus. Oh! He is Buell; a sin-pardoeer; such •a trouble -soother; such a wound -bind- er; aueh a grave -breaker, that tlae fauatest pronunication of His name rouses up all the incense of the gar - deal mai all the perfume of the tropic.% while the soul, in ecstasy of affec- tion, ories out: "My Beloved is un- to me as a (Ouster of eanajohire from th,e vaneyaras of En-gecli." But how shall I talk of the sweetness of Christ's pardonf to those who have never (alt at, of the sweetness of His comfort to those who have refused Ffis protease; of tile sweetness of His I face, to flume who have turned their beck came Pfla love? Now. a great , many people may think thet this fat merely siekly send- meetaltana. Jenatlaan Edward, was a cool man • he. was harsh in some of his opinions; he was never alflioted with any sentimental ardour; and yet, ttvihunene4,thiet Amine ,et Christ was men - THREW HMI INTO A. TRANSPORT. !Paul was a coo) logician, with nerves I unehahea in the Mediterranean Oahe - I nereek, a granitic nature. comfortable ! with the whole world against him, shale ! Mg his fist in. the fare of the gov- ernments of earth and the forces of ; dtrkoess; yet the thought a Christ i thrilled him, transported Wen evert i whelmed tuna. John Keen was Uphollat leg in bis nature., and hard in some 1 re,spects. The nob of his indignation . made the (mewl shiver and the dttehe , ens quake; yet be sat down as a lit- ItLesclasvi Irdrocutiltabeed f by yt all jpeasirtlaSiolsopinl ea: douradds ships going- out from Eakin- geber on voyages of three years, bring-, i ing back all the wonders uf the world ' —hie parks afloat with myrrh end frankincense, and a rustle witb trees brought from foreign lands— the' traces of has stupendous gardens found, by the traveller at this day. Solomon sits down In this Palace to think of Chriat, the altogether lovely and the altogether fair; and whilst seateua theres comes a breath of I the Spices and aromenie woods, and of the blosn oron in through the palace window and he cries out: " hly beloved Is un- to me as a cluster a earephire from the vineyards of En-gedi." 0 rich ad rare, exquisite aud ever- lasting perfume, Set it in erery poor man's window; plant it on every, grave; put its leaves under every dy-' iug head ; wreathe its blossoms from every garland wave ite branches in every home; and when r am about to the. and my hand lies cold and stiff, and white upon the pillow, let no suP- , erstittous priest come with mumbling fooleries to put a crueifix of wood or, stone ha my hand, but rather sound plate and humble soul—let him Nene and pul in my doing grasp this liv-1 'net branch, whit "clusters of cam- plizre from the vineyards of En-gefli."1 It is some I wenty years now Nine° I found the Lord, arid I naust in your, Presence tell you how ood He has' been to my soul. Often, since then I have given him a bard thruet in His, sort?. side; but He has been pstient1 , wa i me by day and night. It is the, grief my e t at 1 have treated, :Him so badly ; but Ile has never let Illf. go. I have seen no wonderful' sights, I have hoed no wonderful . sounds. I have no marvellous expert- , ewes; it has been o plain story of patietwe on His part, and of i UNWORTHINESS ON 3IY PART. *Some et my dear friends before me have had more rapturous experiences. Christ to them has been the Conquer- or onthe white horse, or the Sun of 1 Ilighteou.sness setting everything ablaze with light, or the Bridegroom :taming with lanterns And torches. To I me, it has been a very quiet and um. I demonstrative experience. It has been 1 something very sweet, but very still. „ Efow shall X describe it? I have it now: "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of earaphire from the vineyards iof En-gedie" But, I remark further: this cam- phire-plant of the text was a symbol of Christ in the, fact that it gives col- ouring. From the Mediterranean to the Ganges, the people of the, East gath- ered it, dried the leaves, pulverized them, and then used them as a dye for beautifying garments or their : own person:, It was that fact that ' gave the cataphire-plant of the text its commercial value in the time a King Solomon; ertype oe my Lord Wild beautifies end adorns, and ' colours everything he touches. I have 310 faith in that man's conversion i whose religion does, not colour his en. m t tire life. It was tended so to do. !If ti, man has the grace of God mins i heart, it ought to show itself in the 1 tife. There ought to be this "cluster of canaphire" in the ledger, in the irole of Goveetement securities, in bhe inedietil prescription, in the law -book 1 A religion is of no value to the mert thatat unless it keeps him from put- ting false labels on his goods; or to, the plasterer unless it keeps him from 1 putting up e veiling which he knows Ivan crack in six months; or to the i driver unless it keeps him from lash- ing his horses 10 eight miles an hour 1 when the thermometer is at ninety; Ito the farmer unless it keeps him from putting the only sound pippins on the ' 1 op of the barrel; or to the shoe- 'stituting brown paper for good lets- naaker unless ii keeps him from sub. l ther In the solesin other words: the 1 religion ol (three is good for every- thing, or it is good for nothing. The grace of God never affects us by eteeerneal. If the heart is changed, :thehitild treetrhaeged and the liver is changed, and the spleen -tie, changed, !and, the hands are changed, and the feet are. changed, and the store is changed, and the house is changed, 1 and everything over which the ina,n has any influence comes to a complete [and radical change. The religion of ' the Lord Yeses Christ is II NOT A POT Olf e HYACINTH i passerssby to look at, and to be ex- amined only by ourselves what we havcoanpany; but is to be a perfume filling all the room of the heart as cluster of camplure from the vine- yards of Eu-gedi." The trouble is, men do not take their religion with them. Tbe merchant leaves it out-, side the counter lest it disturb the goods. The housekeeper well not let her religion trail its robes in the I lritohen on washing-dey. The philo... sopher will not let his religion come 'in 1111 id the batteries, lest it get a galvanic shock. But I tell 3-ou, un- less your religion goes Nvi lb you every- where, it goes nowhere. That reli- gion NVR s intended to colour' all the heart and the liee. mark you it was a bright to be set in a .pa Hour bay -window for colour. For tbe most part it was an oraogs. dyemade of ihis camptitrew &out, one of the most brilliant of all the 'Poleaxe:. and so the religion of jestie Christ oasts no blackness or gloom: upon •thesoult It bri1it'nsup life, it brightens ett everyttitee, you who go with sombre counteuance, pre- ten.dieg that you are better than. aut leeeause 94 . year lugubriousness, otionot • eheat me; I It110Nit yeti, You old bepoOrttel Pretty ease you are for •a man who preteuds to be more. than -owenertir The more religion a man has, the better end the happier it makes him. It is riot religion. Those are .the kind of mete to whom I like to lend. mouey, •for I never see them again! Thine Is no more religion in a feeerel thee there is in a Ivedding; 310 mors ,religion in tears thee in seinen David was no better when.. •lie said JAB cried out of the depths ot hell, -Peale he was wbeu. he said that his mouth was filled with laughter and his tongue tvith singing. The •best men that I have over known have laughed the loudest. Religion waa intended to brighten up ejl our character. Take out the sprig ot Cypress fromyttur coat and put in "a ,ciuster ot oamphire front ;the vineyarcls of En-gedi." Religion's "ways are isf pleasanteos and all her. patha are Peane." 1 ?moo found it ea. There are heutlreds in this house • to -night who :have found it en • I remark, tigele; -that the camphires plant of the text was a 'symbol of •Jesus Cheat beetiuse it is a mighty restorative. You know that there la nothing that starts respiration so soon in tile who has fainted as camphor., aa we have it. Put upon a spoege or handlterehief, the effeets are almost immediate. Well, ibis earuphiretplant •of the text, though eornewitet differ-. eni from that whieh we have. woo A PUNGENT A,ROMATIO and in that respeet it. becentea a type of our Lord Jefind Christ, who is the mightiest of all restorattves. I have Carried this camplure-plant luta the siektrome, after the doctors had held their cousultation and said there was no hope and nothiug more could be done, and the haul brightened UP one der the spiritual resturatitte. There is no fever, nu raarasmus, no ueurale gas, no cousutuption, no disease of. the hedth that the graee of tiod will not help. I wish 1111 t of pa, ead through °Leetr'y every hospitaltleod tnf distress we might swills this "(easter 0. cautphire from the vineyards of In:t- omtit" Christ's band le the wettest pillow, Christ% pardon is the strongest stialulUs, Chriat' 0w,fort is the mightiest anodyne, Christri salvation le the grandest restorative. It makes a man mightier than his physical dis- tress. Nero leered and t pitch up- on the Christians of his day, and then set them on lire, that they might Mine the night around about the palace; but while they wore burning :Hid the crowd beneath were jeeriug, louder 111 531 alt ths noise wont up the song tit praise and triumph trona the dying martyrs, John Bradford came out in the presence of the lustrument of torture that wits to put him to death and seed: "I um a. Christian. now. I have never been before." And so again and again the Lion ot Judah's tribe has torn to pieces the wild beasts martyrdont, This grace is else a restorative for the backsliders. Who do you mean by that? you say. I mean you who used to frequeut the house ot God, but seldom go there now; you who once used to pray, but never pray now; you who once sat at the holy communion, but take not the Lord's 'cup now; I mean you who ono rejoiced In Christian so- ciety, but now sit amid scoffers. Backsliders! Ohl what a suggestive word 1 Backslider 1 From what have you slid back? You have slid beak from your father's faith, from your early good habits. You have been sliding back from Christ, from the cross— SLTDING BACK FROM HEAVEN When begins to slide, he knows not where he will go. You bare been,hding bach toward an un - blest grave, toward a precipice, the first ten million miles of which down- ward are only a small part of tlae • eternal plunge, You were, perhaps, professors in the country. You have made shipwreck in the town. It may be that fashionable society destroyed you; it may be the kind of, wife whom you married.' You have no more hope for heaven now than if you Intd lived in Central Asia and never heard of Christ and the judgment. Oh I where is that Bible you used to read 3 Where is that room where you used to pray? What have you one with that Jesus whoSe voice you mice heard! Oh, murdered hours! Oh, massacred pri- vileges ! Oh, dead opportunities! wake up now and shriek in that man's ear until he shall rouse himself from tbe horrible sonananabulism, walking as he does, fast asleep, within an inch of hell. Oh! t,hat he might cry out to- night: "Golden Sabbaths, tome back! Communion seasons, come back! Wootrugs of the Holy Ghost, come back 1" But they will not come. Gone! Gone! Gone! Sorrow will eome, but not they. Temptation will come, but not they. Eternity will come, but not they. Oh I that you might save the few remaining years of your life, and consecrate them to Christ I I have seen sad sights, have heard sad @minds; but, I tell you, the ghastliest thing, outside the gates of the damned is a backslider's death- bed. Do you, not feel to -night like having applied to your soul this Di- vine restorative 9 Do you not feel like (trying out with David: "Restore un- to me the joys of Thy salvation?" For great sin, great pardon. For deep wounds, omnipotent surgery. For deaf ears, a Divine aurist. For blind eyes a heavenly oculist. For the dead in sin, the upheaval a4 a great resurrection. But why should I particularize that class in this a,udi- owe when we need all this restorative, for -we have all wandered and gone away 3 , The last three or four weeks have been weeks of great rejoicing and thanksgiving tb God on my part. The malls that have come to me from En,g- land, and Scotland, and Ireland, and ftaly, hove told me by letters, until t have no xn.ore time to read them, of how God has been pleased to j3LES,S MY POOR WORDS to the salvation and comfort of men. rind -so from different parts of this land, giving me confidence in that old Gospel which my- father believed in, and NVittell 1 have rid, though in much feebleness of soul, to oreach to you. Lo1 I see to -night, rising up • beyond thrta throng, three hundred thousand souls on this and the ether . aide .01 the AtIontie to whom, these poor werd$ may mate as ruessagee of tiattiPhi. and P00% aed love. Oh, men end WOMen, present 017 abeeht.1 Oh, men and wooMat jutigtheht,boehd. Oh! men and women, eteenitytflotineill Olt, tnen 044 *emelt •Clariet-pereltesed I where are year nrayerel . where are Yeur outcries for Morey t• Do • not sante of you, teel that teteiglit is the time to begin to prey? Some woke' ago, Yoe remember- that .terribleseene in this very building because of aelide ot snow from the roof, and the cry ot ntireh Gon the Pont a some villain in Fon gallery, there was •anoutery - of horror through the • Wilding, and wringing of beede. Pead e9140 heelethe As dead Meh, and it was all au imaginary pertl—no daeger at all We will neer forget 0131 scene— those of• us who •tvere here that 'night, If you, were so AkinrIned whenthe peel was .only teo,agotary, what will be tpe e.onclition of those Who are unprepared for eternity, when it shall. not be a slide of snow, but an avalanehe af • rocks—Rime:lye, Alps, end Audes erushin.g into denaollttoe; and the cou- flagratioe of the last day shall be kindled, and i thousand miflion -voices an earth will -cry; "Fine I" and my- riads et voices in the shy respond; "Fire!" aud ma the land and on the aea, and &ewe, end beneath, and . ova erywhere, it shell be; "Firel fire! firer •Oh, that Christ tvould to - eight i•ay held of that meal Speak, Son of Ged—speent with that veice that wakes the dead 1 IloWever calm and placid .we may now be, my dear bra- '. there and sisters mit of Christ, I • must tell yon that yoit are In grind- ing need, in appellee Peril, t`Entelat • e Inan he born agate, he eaneottelia cannot see the kingdam ot Chan." • ARE ALL GIRLS FLIRTS? Tol this question, says a writer. , there mu be but one answer — in ; the tree 80318501! the wek ed fissured- ; ly, no I though deep down tetite heart 1 of every true woman there lunke—ot- I ten unknown to its owner—a love et I admiration and a desire for affeoLion, 4 that finds vent in various ways with various natures. I 1 There is the girl who loves a good time geuerally, who is ready to chaft with one man or to receive! tender ; apeeehea, with a quick repartee, trout another, win) is ripe for any Sun and frolic, and who is voted a "jolly girl all round with no tionseese about her." She can't be called a flirt, though the i genuine trieedship, and, t Len, afteet-on , of her many now friends le very plea- )mut to her, She generally inakes a happy marriage. Next in order is the tender, languishing girl, who is deoid- edly a Met of a kiwi, for she receives the worship et men as her right, and is ready to accept the homageot her adorers with a green Appearance ot , globale all in return, but in reality she gives nothing, and men generally fall away before they ars Noxiously bit- ten. Then there is the recognized flirt, the girl who is always attended, by a crowd of admirers—"She's such fun, don't you know"—and for whom there is safety in numbers, as no one takes her sertously. She means no harm, and has generally a good time all round, though some men— generally very young ones—may for a time "think the world well lost for her," Last, but, unfortunately, by no mewls least, in pornt of numbers, is the flirt in the worst senso of the word, the girl who for her own tunimement will play fast and loose with the hearts of honest men, who will hide heir true character until too late, and will ruin hopelessly many a *weak but otherwise good man's life. There is at' twist of evil somewhere in her nature, though often hidden under beauty, and win- ning ways. It is a matter of conquest to her, and the more broken hearts she can sholw as trophies, the better she is pleased. This girl has many inethecla and ideas of amusement. A great victory Is that which is obtained at the cost of another girl's happiness—to win a lover from his allegiance, and bring him in chains to her feet, is worth much trouble, a.nd the flirt will take it. She will work in such an insidious manner—she is so open at first, so pleased at her friend's happiness—he ,seems such a nice man! They meet again and again, but she is rather re- tiring and cold than otheewise, and her friend in her awn happiness seeks to draw them together—she wishes them to be friends. Thus, unconscious of evil, the poor girl lays the train, and her friend is not slow` to apply the spark. It is 80031 over when the flirt is clever. • Many people, unfortemetely, know this kind of flirt, so charming and so fascinating, so plausible and so deadly. Disliked and feared by women, caress- ed and hated by men, she, lea.ves her track behbad her wherever she goes, and generally finishes up by marry- ing, more or less from piqued disap- potritment, some weedy, decrepit, brok- en-down old millionaire, who is, im- mensely flattered at the fuse an& at- tention, the flirt:, for the sake of her last chance in life, has shown him. HIS EXPERIENCE. Mrs. Good—AM there is nothing which causes so much misery as liquor! The, Tratap--Beggeo,' your perdon, moane, I teank Li st c%uee,s m -re nos'hy den any-t'ng else. PARTLY EXPERIENCE. Do you believe in mental telepathy? Yes; Ivhen I'm late to dinner I kncro:' exactly what ray wife will say ween' get there. ••••••... KNOWN. AS "DIXTMEN," The fosst. Indian yegiment to don khaki. became • keygrat as the "dust- men. ddel 'USUAL. , Did you Sillier mach fron the fire? No —Y93' 'see, the fire was in my Plooe, _the fellows on eaoll sole at Inc w'ho Jere....eiv,ed the, Water ustained the , Knott dama.geo narrowed opt tbe vek y. "It le a, cone* THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. prensed, squeezed, eeowded-up ene teepee." It is, not large enough. to Permit any tturdena ox Parallheroalist, of skein' pleasure tZ, be carried through. No, or any virtue.. either; eltvir:lrat::°a:seit8hcleelvr45,94tilraifirqe:liat e°: gg Phe Itat4htotehlrt v tt°11'8.- ttxtei is beg:'111iifesfiTt4t::fbalt that fled it. Not became either the to find; but boat -lee ea many turn their b0,04S, Oa it and walk away fretn So fen as this ealaY be taken as en otianate of the Manatee of the peered' it applies to the world in our Lortila day. g does not ear, "Few there shalt be who shall find et." INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL, 8. "'Precepts and Promiseg." 3114tt., t. Golden Text. atatt,+ U. PRACTIOAL NOTES. Verse 1, judge not. Do not turn orttun de not Make. yourself a morel. ceesor or spiritual surgeon; you were created to go good, not ta find fault with others. That ye be pot judged. Thio hasi be -ea interpreted by some to mean that if we judge others, others wiUjudge tes, end that ot itself would be ant uneorefortelate outcome. But the judgment referred to by the last verb of the verse-fee:lore' serioas; it is that which the Messiah shall Prot 11011,13Ce. A selfaappointed judge for- feits the mercy of men and of God. Teethe ot! the Bible ere our tnfallible measure tor oonduot and principles. If NVe estimate our own lives by them, we shall find such shortcomings that we ellen not be tempted to go beyoed the limits of charity in measuring the Oeildatet Of dthere. 2. Whiz what judgetteet ye judge, no shell be judged. A direct statement of what in implied in rerSO 1, With whet tneaeure ye mete, it 'shall be measured to you again. To 'mete" is to " measetre," Evoil when we kelow otherare evildoere we ahould eurselvee, as apostle earn EASY NEEDDEWORg• How WomM en ay -wattle Away the Ilreturti Pleasant anal **reinstate weak. This is the time ot the Year when W9Meh„ NYlee in their generatiOno are icoletng about for new ideas tnfaney work, There are several noveltee that are worth considering.,• e them all, however, the work In ribbon. Areoug, is eleo itning the mt attention, It le quickly doata very effeetive and bone tiful. Temerity the idea is (Me that has %Mel frere Perin and Is to Orae broider or fill 1 Mine floral dolga with tiny ribbens instead of using the well-kriewn floss. Theo ribbons ceine In almost every variety 94 Olen, API ard about the Size of baby ribberie, only thinner, are more suppt eider the h ." In texture The eet exquisitex Vest we also be teemted. 'ample that has been. teen. recently wee , me t Why dedeltetet, sweet at, thou, upon a foga cueltion of pale yellow the mote that is in thy brother's eye i Why clOet t11011 attend to the splinter' -444e des1)P/ wee of Louis XV period, or ehaff that is injuring Year brother's, largtt basket HBO. with dainty flow. 14\1,5i:4;7:1 83,007:0:017315070 cif pain to ors, liangiug vino and broke u off bit* a cause of that appeared a.a though falling in a to thet, when a beam, a rafter, a great you ettomdshaiver front the basket, Among them were forgelente-nots, wild rosea and faulty eight—why should tree trunk, is in truer own eye? This' "7rigs.Tbse' baSI"A itaeir Yfa'S intentioual exaggeration by our Lord 1'1'Y quelnt in shape. It and the this itYPerbole, as the thotorielaushigh handle were ottalued tvIth a gilt would call It, so aptly characterized al tho 15885 af 11141"r8 was gross fault that we may %ell suppose' worked in with gayly colored ribbons. the listening naultitude to have rip..The process is not difficult. To draw El4eudatewtr.onee into emilee awl V13110,110 ribbons through. the material an 4..tt rhetoricel ' oldefaeldoned pointed. wonted needle Is repetition in differentsee term Of veree O. iu . It.is done in the same -way as mg a part, wearing a mask, As ate 5. "Thou hypocrite. Thou notor, playlee130:istlieds-odeiregeerWitterti"oureYeltatt4eltetilelialreit seek to represent, so you wetly fill in the, petal of a Small nowt - tors Wenr the clothes of the men ther er or complete a leen Thee the Mae. garment, nd goodness, ii"attu ydordththh broidery of the sofa ouabion to which not good. First coat met the beam o"uut reference him been made, was done by ofthine own eye. 1313'8t bewame sensible an amateur in two days, ,e, feeesine. a your owe grievous moral eeh. To Ile of it which was exhibited at aa art aeortain this, resort to God's lima- she') III' New Yet* sold' for 014)- An surements. With such huge defect in °C the lasterials and. the etamPleiC acourately to judge others. Then shalt COST ONLY T.EN DOLLARS. your own vision you surely are notable 6. This injunotion 001111eCt5 with the cushions that thia work is nen. It is. however, not 'only In seta thou see clearly. Discern clearly. Preoeding, if we understand it, as a balancing, trath, a mutton, We are according to verses 1-5, to avoid judg- ing our neighbors; here we learn that we are, after all, responsible for a certain sort and degree of judgmeat. Give not that ithich is holy unto the Small, but very handsome bra apron* are entirely covered. with it. Oftee tbey ere worked upon a background as delicate as white satin. Aznong the smaller pieces, frames and jewel boxes are most popular. The picture frames are chenille • when w,erked upon white moire ell , or ev fore swine. Both doles and swine en tither •tIve,t; the latterhowever,, 1 dogs, neither cast ye your ports bepanne v - tame dlifioult to accomplish. Still titer- er,is the idea! of doing t he ribbou work on bolting cloth and placing it otter white, satin before it is mounted. A! Misty, soft effeot is in, this wiay pro. timed, end it is quite enohanting. The jewel boxes arei most oftet made of Moire or one at the turquoise or green stades, and embroidered in White or maize color. They are mean boxes, that have first been covered and stuffed, an the top. Inside there are partitions, .suitahle for &invent ar from verse 5 to name 6. The three tides, a'wateh, rings etc. The stit proverbs in this verse mean the same, pasteboard boxes that jewelers use, es, though climactically arranged. and he that seeketh findeth; and to peoially whea they are arched at the 8, Every one that asketh receiveth; top, are the best to use for °overla him, that knocketh it shall be, opened, in This is a universal rule, under God, Even ball dresses, elaborately done Oar Lord implies throughout that he seen; but unless there are fingers at wath riltbon work, are occasionally, this particular rule seems to hold in home nimble enough; toe do the em - is talking of spiritual growth. But broidery, but a every world—natural and spiritual. limited number can hopto wear them. The dressmakers 9. Or. In Greek an illustration is e frequently introduced in this fashion, Great bunche.e of lilacs upon a whits mark such. frocks at exorbitant prices. had said; "Of if you doubt ray state - as id, to follow Dr. Kendrick, Jesus mousseline de sole. gown is among that possibilities the •work suggests, In thee. What man is there among you," ate. A son is mentioned as the fact, this design has produced one of raent, take the case of my' human fa - the loveliest of one being in all the world who would appeal most effectively to the fath- er. Syrian loaves and Syrian stones corre.spond more or less closely in form, and certain American travelers who have tried to eat the bread say in texture also. ' 10. The, fish and the serpent are not more alike to our notions than the loaf and the stone; but substitute eel for fish, and the class will note the resemblance. Neithea by bluader nor by cruel mockery would a father taake such subetitutions as those mentioned in verses 9 and 10. 11. If ye then, being evil. Being faulty and subjeot tol blunders and passions. Knew how to give good gifts unto your • children. There are not many so bad or so stupid, .as not to know how to please their children. Elate much more shall your Father w,hiee is in heaven givegood things the.nt that ask him, All they who ask God for good things are, according to our Lord's teaehinge, his children. Ie. The Goldee Rule. To this rule all our conduct should be brought for test and measurement. This is the law and the nropliets, "The subetance motextelii, tthhee teesaseahninc.egs.s,lef tihamosenterulenes trot life and duty „errricle Jesus has been expounding-112--liendrick. , 13. _Efeder ye in at, the strait gate. Thts e4'.s M close connection with the Oeeceding. injunctions. Our Lord con- cedes thrill it es difficult to carry them cue, but there is one way to UTTERLY CRABBED. g dgoatett—wiphircehseb, eirgiinths tethiteittii,Ityr,,,,.,,...,,we Are Youl fou'd of children? aokoli Young 'Mrs.. Torkins, elornal. Wide is y the gate, and broad Sonaetimes, the 111511who is the waY, that leadeth to destruction, doesn't care, how disagreeable he 1s4 It is a, gate wide entatie:h to include an I met vev..Y charming Ydling Ilut"t1 entrenee to everY 8131 411 sorts of be:nga,Y(cleastierm'duaYtLa,viuni. 8.b'ehe:wrywel se°s ojeanzla' 1:ecjee, ll'o:11131:::' 87:1 Wj 1;o1UALsuAft(c,°rNmY'Unt when by simply indulging oneself. 3,Iae3 hs I:lererst)Ls-1, eh.71., tallier; ;Ai: (4.)-eY:t I. t'll7 ya nbcel eyevv:leuee ggseaoety, t1119,aett Infeaearlst"t0bmllaytt oei,c,heyia.ec$3:tot:eisevd.a ea' 14. 'Because- strait is the tea te and I suffered more frotn heareng Jr -10 were proverbially use11 as types of un- cleanness and. • onsuality. "That which is holy" is meat offered in saorificewhich would be criminally i wasted f fed to dogs, while pearls would only enrage hungry pigs. Our judgment is not to be severe on one side nor lax on the other. 7. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Here is another transition quite as abrupt as THE SEASON'S BALL GOWNS. • For pictures, the colonial, frames are new, pretty and rather simple to make. They are usually large, fully, 18 Mabee long, and oval let shape. The foundation is a very heavy pasteboard, and oan be ordered at a Immerse made at home if one is accurate ought To soften the edges it sho first be covered with sheet waddi The frame is then in its prima aatte. Next it is smoothly cover with a tine piece of brocade; the olde the) design; the batter, although a soi. id color should always be chosen. When it has progressed, so ler and the gum with which it hies been. Stuck Is thor- molly dry, a number of brass orna- ments, each one in the shape of a seer tion of a wreath, are nailed upon it at an equal distance from the central opening and 'the margin. At the top of the wreath thus formed is placed a large brass bow -knot, sheaf of wheat or other ornament. Considerable di ficulty has been experienced in fin ing the right places to purchase Om brass ornaments, They are the sa06 as those used in ornamenting reah,og', any tableseanca furniture of the ccl IL1VC1 empire peattyle; and steanirl therefore be sought for at a shop where br,aes furnishings are kept. Those fraraes aro very tofective wbea hung on the wall and filled with prints of famous beauties.