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Announcemen M Berne that the
curt of arbitration has ren -1
leen, a decision on the male points..
• Delagoe Bay Railway conteu-
ndieatee the speedy couelus-
OA a a ease whieli hen promised t
xepeat in prolixity that of 4arudYee
versus Jorndyess. It is twenty-five
yeara eleee the Portuguese aud Trans-
vaal governments entered lot° an
egreement to build a railroad from
Lorene° MarquezOUDelagoa 13ay, to
Pretoria, the Deers stipulating that
the transit dues to their cepital
should out eaeeee three per cent, No-
thing came of it until len wher, the
Portuguese, tired a waitiog, granted
conceesion to Col. hielfureo, au Am-
erican, to build the roa4 from the by
to the: Transvaal one. with the
exchestve right to fix freight azd pas
eeleger rates. The Pretoria goveru-
meut at owe protested, on the ground
RAIS
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ev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of Our
Saviour's Love.
All Our tfornes Should Chime With the Songs of
Jesus --No cradle Song More Beautiful ---Death
Bed Scene of a, Little Child --Songs in the Night
for All,
A despatch Irma Washington says: 1of white blossoms top of itt aod
_Tee Rev. De. Towage hreacbea from • bitter desolation, and a sighing at
be followiee text: "'The Lorel is my
lanigpItteallIzt wiitit no on: to put tie bed,
rength aid son-Ps.exviii. 14- . a wreit h olcfb we'llel-te4lislossailmegSTaolne' atjlre
The reeost fascinating theme for a tee o: it. 'The Heavenly Shepherd
t prcperly attuned is the :saviour. • will takie that lamb satelY atighow.
e e ie something la the morning - whmher You heve been, faithful or lin,
, faithful but would it wet have been
suggest Rim, and senleth'ng pleasanter if you could. have heard
he veniag eliadow to speak lille from those lips the praises of Christe
tat -oak, conceesion was in violation 1,1,315e. who ,.;Itli sizbe:,•tenetbreisadebaenuyttabien:adtleodenepbterainurtiee.
of the orinival agreement, with, the The flouer breathes
tista'4the ca$°34e Wm- - The account said shefolded leer bands1
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resent tbat a seeret uuderstonding i l.e. atirns a44es BIM"
Rin.call the voiees of nature kissed her mother good -bye, sang
was. reached, to gain ressessten of the I chant aim. 'Whatever is grand* -her hYrian "turned her faee to the
reed ef gessible, if not, to parallel it sheath, wee beeutifue if you only %tale" Sa4a ber littll peayer, and thep
be enistizer. o... - la to it, WLill eee•lk Ms Pr`ti?" '`''''. . G 1 eould gather ull la une
T ! a e
nen-. !new, when 1 come in the 't..1441413a,'i giraph, the egrlag worda 0k the little
Meese:hue eoll. Mehlurdo, with Ilse 1 these ani stuck a Moor. I think of who %sae have gone coat i I. Q at au these
aid of Brizirsh e ildial. etimpleeed the
in oleo se ''140 pow of shame iota Christeiu eircles, and if I could pie,.
on thee the gee:tee-eel frontier %Nati nt2E in the fields a larub. I 814", ...Veh''14 tIblilii'll's;s, latudwoltsbled sbewe:rtadnelttLd4rhee'at10101-:
farther MI tet, aril thee if tbe the Lames el Goa that tuievelt a'ittie tee ets ono of lit.a.voles groat. 40N.Qies„
that. was not ni.,./rietl. to tiot pout the silt Of the worle.' Vale% ill Very ir, in zny variat it, .-..,11114401.,.hil ..1
withip it,ur mmrths. the collet...islets, but weather. 1 cense eerier a proeeete illtiehie ,elihild .evitel dep.. artieg. She nad
. , . eefi eten alt aer clays and a cripple,
ottlzi be enneenlea, and the road re -
seri to Poriegel. ete, the Woe lame
was too sheet, ile• Porte ete -• eoreru-
neeeit eeszed. the , -eel Vol. Me-
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reed he baz mix to Ire tole Liter the liiy ee the vailey." Wheo 1 eee luroi the calm looks, and the folded
tug e t . . g, It wee noonday when she went, end
"Reek elf Agee, elett for me, ar. the ishadowe ef deealt gathered ou
Let ine Wee neyetilf in :Oleo." her eyelid, she thought it evenings
ilw othefahhenee ohiete there i4notolitieebtto go to bed, a.,i?d fobsthe seed;
eureeinge----------------------------- iroi tEeagajhegteveas-tIgifitel'I In tavalas-
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The Trausvaal capital is well for- 1 narrow entrances to Pretoria. They
tbe eject:hetet-en eepeele i Ra the Brit- . . , e. s _ e _he . . ified and both by nature and art le in ' face tee uorth at Winderboora, and
guard the ways to Beersheda, Hee-
hlordo's ileetite ieemedlitely foilewizeg„
the in:ulster re lee the sull."141g"' •' ese 01 night"' to pain and "geoe night" t, t
-ela reed Areseiteen gsver to •
C4.42'4. and :nen %sae Still• -g noV't al$'"'t tO To:airs, and "good night" to death, • a good positiee to withstand a siege. hen 4114 1,01onia, Tiaar c,oustructiee
upoo isse eaer, of lee eeotee• Aft',1 °°' int ' good eight" to earth: bet it was The quesetion of food SaPplY, however, has been trite purpose. Captain Shin).
Preteet the in7t.reStf l'nelfe- Prts- tee ten th, %teeth!. •vexes of earth g 7 (Shed wonting" to Je.suo-at was • another matter, now a British prisoner, construoted
A . lug ue tine zoo evaveue a tem:edit-tie- "ghee uteruings, to heaven. /, eau
es eere *NS:itch etrieee iser lie . te that one. at Despoort from .plaps els-
euee free?, ibe lei ter, Poet lig zi egreee LI - 1 s . 14 tue ...r thitac of no cradle oQue
to refer tee =eters to the nelletrattho s i el - • tees ef Omen len. o • •• • - •
ce. a t i. e esusetie toe era G.. 4 sides of Pretoria the t Dad in Berme, Re brougnt aPeciel
e ' :3 4 1314 Mall. 1^ T .. 'IRAN JESUS, mountelo rages rise to elevations of
tif the. Swien govetegnerit. et ehe seree lee beevero• ten, hie gierY. and lle 1 1 next speak or Christ as the old i 1,005 stud 2.00e feat above the streets the work. Amsterdam eugioters built
aSeletatets from Berlio to aid hira be
flealg;Fla tvz.Felf ty,it to dtSf.wsi' earth sleet. s ine testettie cut. oe.• , ro,ues song. quick weak loaes ita„ , tile
a .. .. . .. . .. . 500 feat others of the defences. After them
ef the reireeiy er env of the lands; , title serene aye eiio great '1'4.0;5 charm tor the aged ear. The echoole 1%14 ts Mtge Witten is item 4.
1 • •te Gm le at a ligi5dLet,' "" irl 'Isla tor a echottische or a Ice. above sea level, but 1,100 feet lower come Frenele neglecters, and then those
of Italy, so that the completed struce
included in this eatig-4 coutitt'151011 1 faeed tearadeee ie neared the ligelt et Lut her grandmother asks for "Beier.
largill jkiltYlLent 4+11 tbe 4T.F.•:' had haen ' a 0i:riga:is rete osaattta. It ttin'kekt Iti'a ree' or the "Portuguese Hymn.'
senile:A, exid the itelevanites rid. '1 eh Aerentem itaatat ite r;:att eueliebt Ir4 Fitty years of trouble have tamed the
Ties sat:treeless trite:teal was weenie- '1°' 2"e'NI" It 6Q1'1W in ttv' slnuts “nd• the kels of the music -
Sees ale tbe neees iiatteu dessu to 'Az" heard must have a solemn tread.
than the site of Johannesburg to the tures represent the gentus of four nee
south, On the fourth siele-thesouth tions.
d facieg the approach from jobare- external appearance the SeVel3
nesburg-the range flatterie away to r alike. T.hay lia.ve masonry
awftli earth work which covers
under ground, and aro reported to be
mined. For food, in the event of siege
tenormous quantities of maize are said
to have been accumulated, enough, it
is said, to feed the army and the
population of Pretoria for five years.
The supply of ammunition is calcul-
ated to be sufficient for two years.
Elow roanY guns are mounted, or will
be, it is difficult to estimate, The to-
tal artillery force of the Bove at pre -
seat as estima.ted at 450 guns.
from the centre of Pretoria. ...1,14te
western moat fort is au..,tbe4-liange of
bills behind Pretoria, and lies at a
distance of 31,000 feet from the city's
centre. There is a powerful re-
doubt to tile south-west on the range
a hills through which the transport
road to Johannesburg passes. This
aempletes, with 'various eartb bat-
teries, the circle ad the larger works
defending tile Boer capital, Behind
the great redoubt mentioned are the
The centre of the system of forts:P=3mPa'. magazines. one excavated
of the northern end of Pretoria, and
1 out of the said re*, with a bomb -
Iles about MOO feat to tlae westward
nae a radius at somethiug more than :.prweol, roof, and the ether built Into
fOrIS 7,000 yards. The centre ef the city also bomb -proof. Communi-
, , ut,4 au bri.veh of eii the, giandlather
g 0 voice May be tremulus, so a vast aod level plateau, treeless, de- their fronts to a great depth. In thla south, on the fort on sei nal bal. '
only about 11,000 feet, nearly due
is cation between the redoubt and the
0 ron-ivletc. its lebors within i -4 ' .
will not trust it in ' ' last-mentioned magazine is by means
sous :It mast, ten thousth at has argore , i61" Men' 1- "`" rauetheie forte with the capital, and
t all
we I, .11c. a
Auto the church, Kill he bas the psalm -book i "late'
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ef,posed at everY Point to the tiny conform with tans td au es- which is about 400 feet aboveg'the plain
: of a covered way. Roads connate
al al Berne in Mee, lel vial eeseeeted ueeneu for &II-144re, 4,„ pat setinite Tient b th •
tbA2 0,not. Evt 4 dam foe he eehaten, sevenge hewn:et en 1 it In Un epeo before him, and he Bins with his Mee') 0 g y
that may 40M-, t' t b Lound I I) BI Bin h' gg h th • t 11 f th ilv t
studied work " Th F t e f W r " Johannesburg and about 1S,000 feet
tons o en . oo s mue on 0 ue5 s(ti 0 6 ra Nay 0
, 0 u. ur o R • ) they ave Apes laid for water, as
ea4,' of b^ . join, IA oli the breecia 1 a um- well as electraclights for the march
"I°. tle hums his grandchild asleep 1 mend ILI any ana Pile upon pile of sandbags are &tack- from the .fort an the hill to the east lights. An estimate mad
Lim ago, before all the Bocer gauanharint
.5.1rehmleut bat' teen Pesti-wee,' on uue . trete and tee tiesettoge of the elders, with the same tune he sang
.' IlY rendered. It is deeided that Pinta. forte
prs•test .-r extotht•r. ;mei f.44 MOW only' aim tile rushing wimp et the eera- .yeare ago iu the old country meeting.
'tenet+. Some day the choir sings a
Instead of waitaug until you get tune eo old that the young people do
as the PortuguesseeTrensvaal fronti biek and worn out before you. eptiak me know it; but it starts the tears
was not determined until two years the /41.0,.- .., p. - 'A tiAe ytair heart amen the cheek of the aged man, for
after the seizure of the road by Portu- '' ti mat and your step is lightest, it i•eminds hire of the revival name in
gel, the falluse of Col. McMurdo to
extend the lino beyond the limit ce
as the Portuguese-Trenstael frentier
did not constitnte a breech of con-
tract. and that indemnity Is thus due
to hita and the stockholders, them
horn or assigns.
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The amount of the indemnity hs
yet to be determined, but the engineer
mg eoranalssion sent out by the ar-
bitration tribunaL to examine the
road and assess the 'damages. recom-
mended that should Portugal retain
the line she should ray the cost of
construction, araountinn to $1,217,-
000, and also the value of the conces-
sion, $9,100,000. Ie may be expected,
therefore, that the award of the court
will approximate this sum, which will
go to the widow of Col. McMurdo :gel
to the debenture holders and. resare-
holders, who are British subjects. In
the improbability thec Portugal will
be able toehoe elle award, and the
inder ,,ven. of the willingness
sof Lereat Britain to make some ar-
rangement with government by which
the former would assume the whole
ereditorship, the transfer of. Delagoa
Bay to British sovereignty, in pay-
ment, seems not an impossible con-
clusion of the matter.
STAY -AT HONES.
French and Chinese Lead the Nations or
me mold In This.
Among Westerns the French and
and ester fortune emiles, and your %stitch he. once participated, and of the
pathway blossoms, and the overarch- radiant faces that long since event to Tbey coramaud the few -very few- try at night. The magazines are the guns a a large fort, 21,000 fee
Lug heavens drop upon you their dust: and et the grey-baired minister
diction; speak the praises of Jesus. leaning over tho pulpit and sounding .
poor who freeze in the winter's cold, sometimes get weary, and many who I join that. °comfort to the woman. There came
85, While be yot spake. "Words ot
TUE OLD GREE'li ORATORS, the good tidings of great joy. I was ful word. Songs in the night For the times get tired. The strongest throats) If I join no other glad assemblage
Wherever the eye rests there itp•• ed. up wherever shells from the enemy of the raalway an e 4 ap ,
pears to be the lines of a fort, a re- might strike. There are many hide running to the north, Between this use at Ximberley and Ladysmath were
doubt, the front of masked batteries, tlealleprl?oaenseeeestinsaneeeletrs,sanaga'oeral)iglee fort and
tuardntilsill areeNry atreerthue franor Vo, n oiler teal. or ccaknntoon ipnr.sttleorloar, forts
trhee.
or the domes of bomb -proof rifle and each other, but with the Govnerynxnwent Loria. The distaanee °between Pre -
doubts at 1:10, large calibre and quick -
linen Pita. To WO north, east, west hilildinge in Pretoria. Searchlights forts on eitber side of the railway is firing. Some are aaid to be of 23 -
and south theao engirdle the atty. are mounted in each structure so as 7,100 feet: centimetre calibre. 'A, great many
U command the surrounding coun- Both river and railway pass under Krum, Maxims, and other machine
s are ready for service.
' A -ctrz-baLltug ••••413. 8 raY 01111,t In and swelter In the summer's heat,and sang very sweetly do not sing now;
when they saw their audiences iota- on Th k • ` ••• .11 ,. 1 ,t
to the greatest enthusiasm. In the Waldo, at ninety-eight years of age, sore
'munch the hard crusts that bleed the but, I hope, by the grace of God, we
gums, and shiver wish ..... blankets will after a while go up and sing the
telatite and slumbering,tad one word Ideracuse, New York, and Rev. Daniel
With wbicb they would rouse them up stood beside me. The choir sang a that cannot aro' Inner be Patched, Praises of Christ where we will never
midst of their °reticles they would tune. I said: "I am sorry they sang
stop and cry out: "Mar:11hour and the( new tune, nobody seems to know and tremble because rent -day Is conies be weary. You know there are some
and they- may be set out on the side- songs that are especially appropriate
bounded. My bearers, though you old man, "1 heara that, reeeenty years walk' and lOokIng into the starved for the home circle. They stir the soul.
the people's enthualesset would be an- it.- "Bless you, My Son," said the
may have been borne down with sin, ago." , . ,
and though trouble, and trial, and There was . se'song to -day that
teneptation may have come upon you, touched aim lips or the aged with holy
and you feel to -night hardly likelook- fire.a.aiti kindled a. glory on their vis-
ing up, methinks there is one grand, Joie* that our younger eyesight cannot
see. It eves the song salvation. Jesus
royal, imperial word that °unlit et;
who fed them ell their lives long;
mute your soul. to infinite, eejoicing,
and that word is Jesus- e Taking the Jesus, who wiped away their tears;
Jesus, who stood beside them when
euggestion of the tenee" I. shall speak
to you of Maisel. eth song. all (rise tailed; Jesus, in whose name
I remeznbers, fn the first place, that their Marriage was consecrated, and
Christ mass* to be the cradle song. whose resurreetion has poured light
Wheee*our mothers sang to us when upon the graves of their departed.
they put us to sleep is singing yet. "Do you know me?" said the wife to
We may have forgotten the words, her aged husband, who was dying, his
.
but they went into the fibre of our mind already gone out. He said 'No.,
soul, and will for ever be a part of it. And the son said: "Father, do eel" the night] For the soldier in the hal
*hospital; no surgeon to bind up the
It is not so much tvhat you formally know me?" He said "No." The
teach your children as what you sing daughter said: egather, do you know gun -shot fracture, no water for the
hot lips, no kind hand -to brush away
can. fly every whither. One hundred oe the Gospel standing by, said: "Do
and fifty years after You are dead, You know Jesus 2" "Oh, yes," he said;
and "old mortality," has worn out his "I know Him, 'chief among ten thou -
to them. A hymn has wings and me?" Ile said "No." The minister
ehisel in re -cutting your name on the sand, the one altogether lovely:"
dren will 'be singing the song which old age. reads the promise, "I will
tombstone your great grand-ebil- Blessed the Bible in which spectaeled
this afternoon you sang to your lit- never forsake you." R1 !sloughing up his own spirit; the con -
groaning of others poured into his
to take the loving farewell; the
the flies from the fresh wound, no one
own groan; the blasphemy of others
home among strangers. Yet songs
densed bitterness of dying away from
in tv‘h,artesebheildi
harpers who stood at the element de-
dication will be there; the ten Inindred
singers that assisted on that,day will
be there. Patriarchs' who lived, amid
tle ones gathered about your knee. on which the worn out pilgrim totters said one dying soldier, " tell my moth. galsaloars,ChalsdheeaPnhehrtidllst, pwrhoo-
--essed the staff the night 1 Songs in the night!" Oh,"
There is a place in Switzerland where, on towards the welcome of his Be- phets who walked with long beards
er that last night there was not one
if you distinctly utter your voice, deereerl Blessed the hymn -book in and coarse apparel pronouncing woe
cloud. between nay soul and Jesus."
there come back ten or fifteen dis- which the faltering tongue and theagainst ancient: abominations, will
tine e oes. Ch ' t' failingfind T Songs in the night! Songs in the
night I meet the more recent martyrs who
went up with but we do not know enough of the •'
song sang by -a mother in the ear of' THE OLD MAN'S •SONG. We sing Hia birth, the barn that LEAPING COHORTS OF FIRE. d f "ado" is the same as the
her child, shall have ten thousand When my mother had been put away sheltered Him, the Mother that nurse facts to justify a certain explanation; word Or_ a
echoes back from all the gates of for the resurrection, we, the children, end some will speak of the Jesus of it was the town in which a synagogue word already translate "tumult."b
heaven. Oh, if mothers only knew came to the old homestead, and each whom they prophesied, and others of had been built by the centurion whose The damsel is not dead, but sleepet -
ed Him, the °att..° that fed beside
Him, the angel that woke up the shep- Regar.dless of. what may be the literal
• • 'd • he the J' i for whom they died. Oh,
eau s t 'h d been miraculously heal- .
ervan a holt,
n , • Patmos; it OR:13115 to Calvin in t story shows
tthhat everyone regarded regarded
gathered, and all our homes would loved us so well. I think I took away ------------------ h f th -he study next Sunday leut it really so
orphans. the lame men that forgot
We want some counteracting -1W
among Orientala the Chineee are the
most stay-at-home nations of the
world, but their thoughts are always
turning toward the happy days when
they can once more return to La Belle
France and breathe the air of its new
boulevard. The Frenchman never wil-
fully expatriate.s himself for life. The
Chinaman, on the other hand, is a
stay-at-home by religion. He thinks
that his hope of salvation depends up-
on ending his neys in the Celestial Em-
pire, and he is careful to provide that
It he dies in a foreign land, his coffin
with his reraains, shall be sent back
to China. The frightful over -popula-
tion of the Chinese Empire has driven
Chinamen into all quarters of the
world, especially in Australia, but they
always hope to return to their own
land. The Hindu loses caste if he leaves
his native country, but he is a member
of a religion rather than of a race,
and as a set-off the Mohammedans,
form a very large proportiren of the
Indian Empire, are the most persist-
ent pilgrims on the face of the earth.
WHEN, TO SET HENS.
I was reading this afternoon of the from the ruler a the synagogue's
battle of Agincourt, IV whielt EfenrY house certain which said, Thy dough -
battle was won -gloriously won- ed In his own mind, the question that
ter is dead. This WINS must have rats -
V. figueed; and, ib in said, after the
the king wanted to acknowledge the the servants proceeded to ask, Why.
Divine interposition, and he ordered ! troublest thou the Molder any fur -
the chaplain to read the Pslanes 0 . thee'?
there, and death there, ooraing home heart in on itself, and keep sounding ,D.Naveltd,unanted nwelr nnbhLe ecirtdm,ebtuotthnentweoTrdb; I 38, As soon as Jesus heard the word
lace of the child, and seebag famine They start the tears. They turn the
frolin the bakery, and saying in tbe after the tune has stopped, like some name be the praise," the king dis- in the original text. The Revised Vera
that was spoken. " As soon as" is not
presence of tee little 1 =hilted ones : cathedral bell, which long after the i mounted, and all the cavalry Ms- 1 sion gives us, " But Jesus, not heed-
" 0 my God, flour has gone up 1" Yet tap of the brazen tongue bas (leased, raounted, and all the great host of , ing the word spoken saitb," eto. An -
songs in the night 1 keeps throbbing in the elle Well, it officers and men threw themselves 1 other reading, which Is perheps pre -
SONGS IN THE NIGHT I will be a home song in heaven; all the on their 'faces. 1 ferable to either, is given in the mar -
For the widow who goes to get the sweeter because those who sang with Oh, at the store of the Saviours gin, ' Jesus overhearing the word."
back pay of her husband slain by the us in the domestic circle on earth shall love and the Saviour's deliverance, , The servants had spoken confidential -
sharpshooters, and knows it is the last join that great harmony- shall we not serostrate ourselves be- 1 ly to Jairus, but Jesus, overhearing
help she shall have, xuoving out of " Jerusalem, my happy home, fore him; tonight, hosts of heaven, 1 the words, reassured him that all
a comfortable home in desolation; Nome ever aear to me; falling upon our faces, and eretmg: 1 would be well -Be not afraid, only he.
death turning baek from the exhaust- When shall my labours have an end "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto lieve.
ing cough, and the nale cheek, and the In joy and peace with Thee I" Thy namee be the glory." 1 3'7. He suffered no man to follow
lustreless eye, and refusing all re- The Christian singers, and t compos- -0.- •hire, save. Probably the twelve had
lief. Yet songs in the night 1 Songs in
' in that song. Thomas Hastings will
era of all ages will be there to join c s LESSON
Iunnumbered it't d but not 11
followed him to the house, as well as
, an mu i u e,a
be there:Lowell Mason will be there; THE S. S. * could enter. The three chosen,
Beethoven and Mozart will be there; 1Peter. and James and John, were our
they who eounded the cymbals and INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 15. Lord's most trusted friends.
April is one a the best installs in
the year to have c,hickens come out.
Earlier 'broods are more valuable,
particularly those of the larger breeds,
as they have a Imager time to develop
before the winter sets in, are more
suitable for exhibition and breeding
purposes in the reatter of weight and
consequently are in. more advanced
condition fax laying ilaati those hatch-
ed in June or, July.
the trumpets in the ancient temples
will be there; the forty thousand
38. Seeth the tumult. Hired flute
nahm, players were performing and hired
"The Daughter Jairus Raised."
5. 20.24. 35-43. Galant Text. marts 5. 30., 'tore out their hair, beat their breasts,
PRACTIOAL NOTES. 1and rent their garments. It was a
the wild clamor of despair, of which those
Verse 22. One of the rulers of
who had been bereaved and their Byrn_
synagogue. It is understood that
usually a synagogue was presided Pathetic friend g did their full share.
over by a body of elders, at the head The wail of the oriental chamber of
death is a mixture of the mot dolor_
of which was the ruler, one ruler for
each synagogee. Oftpernalun may ous sounds that ever come to mortal
have had more synagogues than one, ears,
k this d The
wailers were howling, while others
the power of this sacred Spell, how one wanted to take away a memento meaning
much oftener the little ones would be of h•er who had loved us so long and herds, shaking ligh over ed by Jesus. This healing we will
hill W I' " t the tears what 80ngi
s. e sr a 11.3 is re. • It came to John upon
ehime with the songs of Jesus. the best of all the memeneos. rt:prison; it slropped on John Knox in the damsel as dead -the mourners
• ' lu- far as we are able to arrange the
moment your child steps into the read her Bible, and I put them on; really do think it sometimes breaks is an old Hebrew name. See Num. 32. stand the words as our Lord's way of
her locks shakin down over the flush-
iaom t e eyes 13 e , • •
was the old fashioned round glass the fire; and sometimes that song has dates ser the life of our Lord, had cm- the Miracle -worker, his disciples, and
ence upon our children. T e very spectacles through which she used to their crach ; the d msel who from the
come to your ears, perh.aps, fax I the girl's parents. We are to under -
bier bounded out ainto the sunlight, ourred some time before this. Jaime
.
street he steps into the path of texcip- but they were too old fax me, and Ideclaring that to those who believe in
tenon. There are foul-mouthed could not see across the room. ed cheek. the hgungry thousands who
nver the battlements of heaven. Al; Judg. 10. 3. He fell at his feet. him death is no more than slumber.
children that would like to besoil your But through them I could see back broke ' -* I a. intoI wonder -and this is a question I Not in adoration, but in supplication.
40. They laughed* him to scorn.
.
little ones. It will not do to keep to childhood and forward to the hills larger loaves -that miracle by which
the bread as it b ossome
have been asking myself all the even -
Here, they thought, fa a wild yawn -
of heaven where the ankles that were a ing-will you sing that song? Will 23. Besought him greatly. He was
boy with five loaves and two fishes
I We I sing it? Not unless our sms axe himself in agony of crushed affection.
My little daughter lieth at the point aey; those who had ntoterned mecham-
your boys and girls iE the house, and
make them housepilants ; they must
have fresh air and exercise. God
save you.r children from the seething,
scalding, blasting, damning influence
of the street. I know of no counter -
meting influ.ence but the power of
Christian culture and example. Hold
before yottr little ones
THE PURE LIFE OF JESUS.
at that name be the word that shoe].
exercise evil from their hearts. Give
to your instruction all the fascination
oe music, morning, noon, and night.
Let it be Jesus the cradle song. This
is important if your children grow
up, but perhaps they may not. Their
pathway may be short. Josue may
be wanting that child. Then there
will be a soundless step in the dwell-
ing, and the youthful pulse will begin
to flutter, and little hands will be
lifted for help. "You cannot help;
and a great agony will pinch your
heart, and the cradle will be -empty,
and the nursery will be empty, and
the world -will, be empty, and your
soul will be E}rapity. No little feet
standing on the stairs. No toys scatter-
ed on the oarpet- No quick following
stiff with age have become limber
again, and the spirit with restored eye-
sight, stands in rapt exultation, cry-
ing: " This is heaven!"
But I speak to you again of Jesus
as the night song. Job speaks of Him
who giveth songs in the night. John
Welcb, the old Scotch minister, used
to pot a plaid across his bed on cold
nights, and SOOle one asked him why
he put that there. He said : " Oh
sometimes in the night I want eo sing
the praises of Jesus, and I get down
and pray. Then I just take that plaid
and wrap it around me to keep myself
from the cold." Songs of the night!
Night of trouble has come down on
many of you. Commercial losses put
out one star. Slanderous abuse put
out another star- Domestic bereave-
ment has put out a thousand lights;
and gloom has been added to gloom,
and chill to chill, and sting to sting,
and one midnight has seemed to bor-
row the fold from another midniget
to wrap itself in more unbearable
darkness.
Songs in the night 1 Songs in the
night 1 For the sick, who have no one
from room t o room, No strange to teen the hot pillow, no one tb put
questions. • No upturned face, the taper on the -.tend, no one to put
with laughing bate eyee, come for a ice on the temples, or pour out the
Ides, But only agrave, and a wreath soothine anodyne, or utter one cheer -
ecam u
sing tHis sorrows, His stone -bruised
feet, His aching heart, His mountain
loneliness His desert hutiger, His storm
pelted body, the eternity of anguish
that shot through his last moments,
and the immeasurable ocean of torrent
h • t His cross in
one foaming, wrs.thful, omnipotent
surge; the sun dasluid out; and the
dead, shrouded -.wrapped, breaking open
their sepulchres, and rushing out to
see what was the matter. We sing His
resurrection; the Guard that could
not keep Him, the sorrow' of His dis-
eiplea, the clouds piling up on either
side in pillared splendour as He went
through, treading the pathless air
higher and highea, until He came to
the 'foot of the Throne, and
ALL HEAVEN KEPT JUBILEE
at the return of the eonqueror. Is
there any song more appropriate for
a Sabbath night than this song of
Jesus ? Let the passers-by in the street
hear it. Let the angels of God carry
Id amid the thrones. Sound it out
through tbe darkness. Jesus the night
song, appropriate for any hour. but
it is especially sweet, and beautiful,
and blessed, on a Sabbath night. "
I say once more, Christ is the ever-
lasting song. The very singers SOIale-
perdoned, and we learn now to sihg a death, eels
the praise of Christ, Will We ever sing and lay thy thands on her. This rul-
extremthes." Come
it there. The first great concert that er's faith may not have been quite as
I ever attended was in New York when great as that of the centurion, who
Jullien, in the "Crystal," stood be- was confident that if Christ pro -
fore hundreds of singers and hundreds nounced a word, his serva.nt should be
of players upon instruments • Some healed, but that he had strong con -
of you may remember • that occaston;
it was, the 'first one of the kind at
which I was present, and I shall never
forget it I -saw that one man stand-
ing, and with the hand, and foot
wield that great harmony„ beating
the time. It was to me . overwhelm-
ing. But, ohl the grander seene when
-they shall come from the east and
from the west, and from the north,
and from ;the south --"a great multi-
tude that no man can number," into
i.he temple of the skies, host beyond
host, rank beyond rank, gallery above
gallery, and Jesus shall stand before ciples •wondereel, for many were press -
that great bost to conduct the har- ing close, but one .touched him with
mony, with His wounded hand. and effective faith. While the woman, fear -
His wounded thole Like the. voice o1 ing and trembling, but at the same
many waters, like the voice of mighty time rejoieing; told him all the truth,
thundering they shall cry: "Worthy he said unto her, "Daughter, thy faith
felence in Christ is shown by Ins
°losing words, she shall live. '
24. Much !people followed him. Led
by curiosity.
25-31. Omitted. fa the- midst of this
throng came' to Jesus one of the
mast pathetic appeals for help, al-
though not a word Was spoken.; and
a woman who had suffered physical
Misery for twelve years, touching tbe
Lord's garment with faith, "straight-
way. . felt, in her body that she
was healed Of that plague." When
Jesus asked who tourhed dis-
is the Lamb that was slain to' reeerve
blessing, and riches, and honour, tied.
glory, and power, world without end.
Amen, and amen." ,Oh, if my ear shalt
near no other `SoundS, xnay I hear that
hath made 'thee whole; go la peace,
and be whole of thy plague." In the
treatment of (-hie leesen before most
classes thie incident, should be merely
mentioned and elerniesed.
cally now, laughed spontaneously.
When he had taut them all out. Out
of the house probably; certainly out
of the women's apartments. He made
every effort to have the suaroundingS
as solemn: and worshipful as possibl
The father and the, mother of.
damsel, and, them that wete with
thorn. Six persons entered this room
-the father and mother, the Miraele-
woeker and, bis -three apostles,
41. Talitha came Our' Lord spea.ke
ris the dialect of the ,provincial neigh --
401.1100d. Damsel, I say\ unto thee,
arise, The whole might; be, translat-
ed, "Come, my child." ,
42. The damsel' afose, and walked,
Arose from, hcr bed v,•ith. the elastes
city of youth, Th were were( a.stonishe4
with a great aetonielement. "Amaz-,
ed with, a great amazement."
43, lie ehargeat them straitly.
Charged them strictly, narrowly. No
man should know it. None of the
apostles, not even the parents, not the,
girl herself, were to advertise it; hut
of coutse all these mourners, wheeeer
sincere or hired, mast know that -she
who had been dead wasenow
Soinething shoule be given her, te
eat. Thee shoevs, the unmeasured /
derness of Our tords •