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'they Ave Ntit Effective AgaInst ittereseee
It___. Don't you wish' you could get
to?, Where are all your fizie clothe*
nowt Yon ere no better at than we
are, 'We didn't expect to go in, we
only came to see the isritie ae she
moved into the banquetting ball." A
tyese that predioamentt a good many
lithaetil find thetins,elves abont their seuis
at the last. Five save -di Five sated'
Brothera aid sisters; sonae geing to
TILE SUNDAY SCHOOL he 7 IA e "
was ataut awe from. the mutts,- ' o r'la sa easne jerome says
tudes; bite reyerenee for John made Herodiac piereed his tongue wil
'who flatat Till Then hdee
• ti
him glad to hove him safe Leone Ilero- hairpin. The damsel gave it toh
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON' JUNE 1,0 diasi When es heard hien he did mot er Ace
The modern small-bore Inellets cerne ,, h , h .
: et of wo parts --the core and the
nvelop. The latter is stamped out
•
Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks on the
ustonaed to sensualttil
Many thingsi Thu Revised Version, deeds of blood this girl thought ie
"Death, or Jona the --------------i . foilewing most arosient authorities, of doin
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silts notaeu Tsar. Ben. a, is. g a_ deed that the worst ;node
ot thin sheets of steel or by graduat- renders this "he was nithoh PerPloht ;criminal would re,ceil from.
ed punehes. The; leaden 'gore le then PRACTICAL NOTES., ed.- His sense ot right and hie terve of go, His diseiples. johles disciiples.
;gated ba, and the haliet, ley means HeVreonenet,ipalot:guitett-osotreareetobe,a0oretag, weong, the iofluence cif Jcilgt and the They came and took up ills corpse. A
• Ingeniiius machine. is giasie one wiles of Herodias, melee hins unicertsan etatement which shows that some
solid whole. of Galilee aud Perea, 'ward Of Jesus, what course to take. Heard him glad- favors bad been shown John; other.,
The enormous velocity a 2t1?0 feet who, as we learned in our last les- iht Be wanted to oheY hie higher wise his diselidee could not have come.
ere • to s h - ..
per emend treatenitted to the pro-- nature, but could not bemuse of the Besides, men who had suffered capital
feetile by cordite would rip up any
leaden bullet to pieces, and hence the
*adoption of the harder inetal. ru-
fortunately the steel or nitkel is s
tou,gia that it penetrates the body
without any silo*, heimig sustained bn would not have been invited to the
*tie victims and hepeas against eavtsge the eastern hill& The bridegroom . liglat—soinethieg to be carried. And
t- • . Nrediling. But their morality did not
Parable of the Virgins.
the riglet and some going to the eft,
A despatelt from dd'aehingtoo sera; i are in motionhoieted.10Weredt glane- deader and mother; one going up
—Rev. Dr. Talmage preached trent lug in and out among the leaaient ail and the other going tlewn Husband
the following tet 4.Tho parable of : nativable. The sant needs a movable
the ten virgiesst—asatt, xxv. 1-42. I light, and in 'the Gospel of Christ
A young man and a young woman i we have U. That •Gospel is not a
have been unripened, according to lampopost standing on one street. It
o the Oriental mestere. The time of Le not a chandelier butes in one room.
their marriage has arrived. Calm.; It is not a lighthouse set at one hag -
*oft, beautiful night comes down on 1 bouts It is flanibeau-da movable
and wife; One let in and the other shut oiewee, one of d'
son, Was now travelling througbaUt
erra a mot a
'tat was otrengtia of his lower nature. punishment often were treated in
Wailingl wailing! wailingi Pihe saved!, SZ
SCS our Lord's name was spread for Herodias. Her evil purpose Iliad a tomb, and there as we are told by
out Chantimei chantingi chanting! Tiberiee, on the Sea a Galilee, and u A convenient day. Convenient death with great indignity. Laid it in
Five lostl abroad rumours; of his wards sad long been cherisbed. Herod on his Matthew, "went and told jegusa'
nelaitsile/pdp,dasreentthdradid, respectable; or ohrritdtte; Hw:rks came thither to Herod's court. birthday made, a eupper to his lords.
rod Antipaa was a typical Eastern Herod was fannies for Ins birthday
despot of great pretension, smell o.bilo. sneaeuerseo. t hPiraersaiuse,sittainRcoymeibanrs apftretr,
it, weak will and lavish expenditures el3e
races se ineffiefeut. remedy teats invited his most illtinaate friends to " la need to take it into our homes, get them in.
raeldiers leave sawed oft the end of the arise. They are conte from the and we need to tahe it into euretores
erovelope. and the ballet ar cnce he- Me f tbe hULe, and OW? are Wieser- and ShOPS, and into oter echools, and
Tftwr it&D NO TORCHES,
,
comes an expiosive one. Direetty it eta in their mirth, l'hey have soch . into or churches, and in the cellars AU our good worksand all our mores
rot:sa
hit the case spilt and mush:e& in -0 elothes as their rustieity affords ' where the Ii°er freeze and in the gar- 17 O4 earth' will not take II° into
Ilse iog a feartui woun& i them. Beet* one has a flambeau or ret where the fevered languieoi andin, the gate of heaven. salvation lose,
Seheeeetteut essesiment at runa-1- red of brass, with a pleeo at woQd ou ; to the hoopital where the wounded die, my dear brother, is lost, for evert As
gum, tie enetet Kadated a 4,,,,,,essee,ed tee top a IL, the wood wound with ,, gud far out In the witderoees where the tree falleth, so it IninSt lie, How
ne n 12441a l'. h' .PP . oUva . the emigrant struggles, 1:le you know r those virgins Must have telt when
bullet. *Ince mo.ittleci te oi11
d a cup fawned under it, AO Oa; : that the lights of the world are sta. they came up and heard ineide tho
, tienary, and that Seen you and I will , music. and the daneing. and the eleele
oil
413147,i. not.p,„drop.uP,QP„the,,,m74 have to Start on a road where all od the goblets, and the lauglater, com-
e wears 4.1, They striae tee remits, ! tbe5e)jghts will ,fau lest The tights a ing in, gala perenssion on the night
.54:44t,'InhAY,,,., and thee' tiairnebeau earthly amusements are stationary; ' an'. How they rattet have felt. Their
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Ze. .:'*-"swp ,,, —es': ti":e3, 15 Pr°.. and all those that are kindled in the 'maters ineide; their brothers, and
,b15 raladise dniyi iddedie rd dui his dote giandeTid du': ti:raittil 0%; the moet brilliaut Italie of earth, cannot frtende, and neighbours inside, the
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of no value leave*. and iair redolent with • * flame one ark of cheer on Abet oath ' gate of Leaven and they therneelves
enesay—his own lite is n the which you and I will soon have to out, A. type of how we well feel at
to biro. and hence to must he /stopped 1 lilies and fraukiacence. Thete ere tram. Tim iuturs jof our ehurehes tire teen le we do net rt inside. 1
s, All 4 crA•3,.
the, ntose in 45 beft're, hut sinapiy dent.
ed in. ireu this is not served out
againet civilizea enemies, as it is
found by esperience that a white Man
When bit is, as a rale, ready to sit
down. The savage, eager to reach
RE4RMINO
Th! INDIAN ARMY.
'Weft
siatt.stee Mile% We literaN to Threeteuleg I
Wore, by novena e' a 1 "n" pVieOntiaVe to travel. 'The domestic light
, these eastern nights all the brides- la atanaaary. It you bould taht, it
Orders two teen sent from Erigs ii maida have fallen totteep. when the
osy regiments wor,s.; oorm l'suco.ors "Toe wedding party is approaeunig," . uut. Aud
Saa" Ildiii4 'It"144rklf 4"'" 41.4ft,4i 11. sound
'e7tute tbr"qh the dwestl,h1111 thie it would immediately be blown
to the door on 411O/A a gusty itight as
i
cf '1;0 klad army raw GI tncrt'ari4ntion 4 opd the Noe tie their torches pours cuter de in the borne circle will
all the lights that
nee to be teamed w:sh the 31Pi‘firaZ4ne ,I a stream et fix's on down towards the tut 011 that dethteee on which you
rte ttamediattilho The regitnettih se" ; house. What eZeitielent there is in dod d „di soon *ravel, oh, Godt wuen
teeted 4tre vitiefly those stetioued : the dwelbug, a running to and fro, we tura our hack upon our ;MOW.
fACW' the Afghl° ff°441er f't' in MIlik" and a great nus'tel'• Sams 01 thena meats, awl our ehurches, and our
1"'l ling 4E5131)4.4h 3" "S e,'*:tt"14i1S • take up tbe flambeaux that are
ssionher- Thai; are 'taken ehleil)- trans ! etanding in the corner, and in the tirerasIteesi.—,g,tivineolleasbileheliglitliatulibLeZiy (intact:eel
utotarig, the Sikh, Geurklia, Del
--grataad '11 excitement and in the darkness, they Russell was voraforted by that Ilea
ru"41'1V) aad 13/434ntha zeglatent'as gen- r‘.; eantiut find the flinte with whielt to 'teem she was arranging the papers
te"4 (`"4" ''lle h(''''I ."°°F4 in the - s rike the light. Soule ory one tidos'. as be hueband was preparing for
ri
Itcan native (army. 1' mane cry another, and they joetie each mertodout. That light John Bunyan
0°4 the thre`dening Qat"k in other and stumble about in the dark- held up until by it he saw, the gates of
Isete:.a and the Russian MOVemit1115
atong the Afghan border (Told have , aad pats etre to it t
nest', *'-4.13c4ie me takes a liambeau tlie celestial city. It flamed on the
Osideil the Bviiish. Governmeat to li, blind eyes at John ,filten until he saw
FOR A alOMENT IT BLAZES, the battle of the angels. Oh, movable
lain. this step, airs its polley has always and she helds both hands over it, so light, glorious. tiambeau of the Gospel,
been to kerp the native troops arm- as to keep it trent the draught of pass it up and down through all
eti with a weapon inferior to that in , the opening and the shutting doors; hands, through all ages; pass it from
the hoods of the British soldiera. In
.• but it burns enly a little, and gee* band to band, and from mountain to
v'ithirtu-451a, 1Q/end 1" eut. Then they begin to cry: `'Who : mountain, and from sea to sea, until it
nialiee tegimente lulu avtion with can lend us a little olive oil? Who hits obeli be told everywhere that to those
toils t Ile Ma 1 i' ini to (some* to the new any toil to spare r There are none who * who sat in darkness a great lighe has
Ittearian tangerine rifle would be to have any tu lend. ; sprung up. It must have been a
wad them to be slaughtered and to , Now there are :time people who get brilliant scene when the first morn-
etturt defeat. 11'16 '1137 alternative one thing out of this parable, and big dawned on the world. Our planet
As as 10 trust fe the loysity of the na- 1
i there are others who get another had been a great black hulk — there
tive dl my iind piece it on an equality -
wit li in. irossible enemy • and that has, s' thing; but I get this: the soul needs • - not even the gleam of a star or
no doubt, with eonitid'erable rehiet- light. If you Nee t e
h bridegroom's e flash of a fire fly. But the cons -
once. been done. The total cost +Are- '' party corning down the hill, what do mend came forth: "Let there be light,"
to ming t he vthole ta ' he 1131iVe troolls you find? Torches. If you see the and flashes of brightness quivered
Le t•',i, tire.* 1 ttki at about $7,500.000. , bridal party tensing out of the door, through the gloom, and the darkness
evhat du you see? Torches. What was lighted, and the mist arose, and
111:11N1NG BANK NOTES. flees the soul in its midnight of sin there was a faint gleam on the we-.
ter, and there was snow on the crest
With the Bank of England the de- and suffering need? Torches. Confuelus
of the wave, and the remnants on the
street ion of its nut es takes placetried to strike a light for China, and he
ahem once a week. and at 7 p. m.
did kindle it; but it went out and lett
and the bridegroom of the light ap-
night rolled off the sky in splendour,
her uncounted millions to make the
Formerly it used to be done in the tedturies diwnai with their wading.
dae !lute, but owing to the unpleasant ce
erneli with which the burning was at- Zeno, Cleanthes, Aristotle, each struck
a light, and passed it along from
tended the neighbouring stock brok- hand to band but it went out; and
ers petitioned :he Government to do I have to teil you that the univeriii-
it in the evening. The notes are pre- . ties of the earth while the h•tve in
LOCUSTS BY THE POUND.
—a "bundle Of petty ekes Ke said. at the table, surrounded by his irow eufli arrleaZadei.snrIth One et tte
To hie courtiers. See the account folends, assembled ha honor of' hut ri
Matthew. That john the Baptist was birthday. Before him in a red twee- News has recently come trom Basu-
risen from the dead. Herod had mixr- lain dish was a tunny „fish. Suddenly tolaud and other parts of South A.fries
dered John, and was haunted by re- in that fish, with the red porcelain that locusts have put in their periodle
Morse, See note on Mee n. There- about it, her saw the head of a tenirder- cal appearance "in myriads, and are
fore umghty works do show forth ed man, and became sink with rerecorse. loinginarn.riemnsztbas dartgaaogretiizedthe ;rail;
be
ovsoru
rarties, who are destroying them at,
the walking stage."
This is prolaably a somewhat enig-
matical xneseage to the erdtriary
ender, particularly the last part
thereof, referring te the "walking
reality. and yet it is very aimple in
There ere two Weide of locuate, say*
a writer in the Lontiou Daily Mail, the
Voetanger and the Springhaan, as the
Boers call them. That is the foot -
walker and the jumptook. The former
are the more deatrUetive locusts be -
fere they can fly, when they juet walk
aver the crops and destroy every Vas,.
tige ot green thing within their mania,
The cowl is the fully fledged article
that flies in warms of incalculable
myriads, doing less damage perhape,
but absolutely obscuring tbe sun by
the black ahadow of their aloud, an
actually stopping railway trains by the
greasiness of the rails which their
OrtiShed bodies producee.
Several more or loins Wiest:does me-
thods are adopted for the exterminao
tion of the pest. Ono way le to dig a
trench at either end of a long strip
f cloth nailed to poles in the ground
like a. fence.
THE LOCUST CLOUD
runs up against this barrier, is unable
"You
tu
t croenaeseInd." A voice within says; John's death because be had censured
e
guided to the crime of murder, is one get through it, fella into the trench-
eLibeu grIaLl3ethyillhaewould ieoP
e'rteillafaPle4:aeha
lathTand saIvtpartyiibgarl"imoat horrible things tbat Lis- es, where they are buried by barrow
hove brought owtiPlanrreet- of thtory bringe to our notice. The head !elude of earth. Another way i to cleeh
together any pieces of meta) that mike
a noise like a cymbal, thereby driv-
ing theni into rreviously propured
where they are promptly sruothered.
Sometimes they may be watched in
their flight, and when they settle to
lay their eggs the spots are marked
and tlae eggs dug up and burned,
La 1895-6 a Very dieastrous plagni
of the most virulent type of locust,
those with violet wings, at tucked
Nutal and did a reaerful amount of
havoc among the standing orope. The
Government arranged to buy locust
eggs at ad per pound They had to pay
over zi,750, therefore they bought 70,.
000 pounds of eggs. Locust eggs aver-
age about 75 to one cocoon. The coa
coon looks like a piece of tangled
brown thread, the loops being the
eggs. ,9.bout 550 cocoons weigh a
pound, therefore no less than 2,800,-
000,CW eggs were destroyed in one
locality in one season. No bad record.
The loeust proper belongs to the
orthoptera family, although different
nation.; apply the name of locust to
any inseet of the grasshopper species.
In some of the English counties tbe
common cockchater is called a lonist.
The South African species, eery-
didae, has a short stout antenna, end
27. The klieg sent an executioner. , only a three -jointed torsi. In length
soldiei of his guard. they often exceed tbrea inches.
28. Brought bis head in a charger. .The natives eat the loeust with
have killed him. Bringing the head to the person who avidity, and declare that it is very
'‘Willed" to kill , commanded the death was not very good indeed. White folks, however,
him. She could not forgive the man strange;
who had denounced her ; besides, such things have been done seem to be prejudiced against it, ale -
John's attaek on her was a very seri- repeatedly. Putting it -into a charger though there is Biailleal precedent for
oils affair. Her whole prosperity was
conditioned on his downfall, 'Ole
Gaiileans had never liked her; but
they reverenced John. 11 Herod long
listened to John, she would be de-
throned and deserted. She saw
clearly that either John or herself
must be destroyed. She could not.
Herod, feeble as he was, thought too
highly of John to allow him to fail
into Herodias's clutches, "although in
certain moods he had himself been
tempted to kill him.
20. Herod feared John. With a
fear that was more than reverence,
and for which there were at least
three reasOns : 3. John was the most
popular of living Jews. What he
said they accepted without argument.
What despot could but fear the de-
nunciations of such a man ? 2. John
represented God; and how many An-
gels waited on him, what supernatur-
al powers had been intrusted to him,
Het•od did not know. Without spiritual
religion Herod -had spiritual supersti-
tion, and did not dare to fight the Un-
known. 3. With all Herod's infirmity of
will and selfishness of purpose, he had
a Jewiela admiration cif moral good-
ness, and recognized holiness when he
saw, it. Sohn was a just man and a
holy, and Herod could not but revere
him. Observed hire. "Kept him sefe."
therneeives in him, Revised Version; Lerde, high captains, and thief Wat.
thy raeo.
es, Nobles, army (Wirers, pad weal -
U, 23. The daughter of the said
and dreadful powers. No wonder be Herodias came in, and danced. The
was terrified, liered wes a Sadducee, Revised Version brings out mor
and dented existence of the soul ef- atrongly the astouieliment of the pees
ter death ; but a guilty Cendelence is pie to see a prineeoe danee. Some of
stronger than a creed, our pupils will need to be reminded
id, Elise. The Greek farm; of Flijah. that soolal dancing was and is un -
„you aro whose return to earth had been tore- known in the Rau.
songs' 4” °3Q145' and glee' 814e1 43 i ere etrationary. All the ebendeliers of jeer At them. They say:
Yeang navn feel an their way ° 4 tr Vbristian easactuaries in one flame of ' suppose every hour of the day and told by Malasibi. John had fulfilled dancera, who form a class by them -
but professional
explanation, Jesus must be a new
this prophecy, It is a prophet, A third selves,
marriage. Oa and on they go. It le, by graceful and eeriauous
twek1night there are soels going into eter-
e o'Cinck at night when they ; light could not throw
I nity unprepared. Oh, what excite- movements delight the men who as -
.4, GLOW-WORX SPARK
oven withiu hailing distance of the - . ° Prophet sent from Owl after asilerace $eadde at the feasts, mat a Jewish
upon the path which you awl I will inent it must be aboitt tbe death -bed
crying out for a lamp, and for the ,
of four huadred yeare. Or AA one ,Of prinvess should dance before the
eat, throwing them up, thrown:1g there' powers rivaled the great prophets of
A miracle worker whose
, &looking tlaing to the people at large.
oil, and for the light; throwing betide the luvPilata' drunken men at this dinner WAS
around, until. the UUQO aska: the Paeti Alt these varinas eliPlaaah Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and
"Whet do you want, water?" tWas 'We"' to have been made to 2 r will give it thee . . . unto the
Ile says shaking bis head; quiet Iferotra conscience, but that was half of my kingdom. Herod was only
"No." "Bathing of the sersuses r He , not so eaelly done. valle4 king by courtesy. What lit -
shakes WS bead; "No," Wbat does 16, it la John, whom I beheaded; tle power he had was delegated. Re
uld not have kept such a wild
raise if he would.
"Therefore do theeit penvere work in
him." gero4 truagined that John had.
canna back to life clethed with new
he want? Oh, be neunot get his light
burning. Ile must start; he is
started; he contee up to tbe gate of
heaven; he knocks; be voiles: "Let roe
he is risen. The ingenious auggea.
Lippe of the Courtiers all fail to allay
the pangs of a conscience whichwas
"a thousand swords."
24, Whet :shall I aelt l The story,
dramatic and SenSUous up to this
In 1" He i's not admitted. hie says: I'l. Herod himself. ror pereonal reit- point, suddenly becomes loathsome.
1 want to See the bridegroom." The sons, without the complicity of priests That a glad, led by her mother into
voices within say; "You can't see the ; or Pharisees. Bound him In Prisan* shernelesa conduet probably for the
bridegroom; he is busy with the Thruht him into a huge building— purpoie of obtaining a favor from a
gneStS now," *aye the man; "1 must fortress, (lunge; n, and velem In one, corrupt man, should go to that
come in; my children are in there. 1I: 'o& Rerodinn' sake. Herodias desired naother to ask for guidance, and be
tends and. kindred are in.
the man; "I must come serve John's lite Herod hud imprison.
iln*B;uat.lilinsiayytarled him. Mark writes with the haexor-
Ilark I now I hear the sound of cwt.! emenese at Truth. Herodias seas
voices, and the bounding of their feet.
Let me in." Aral a voice from with- 'Herod's queen, but in the sight of God
Ip says: "You are too late!" It says she was stilt his brother Philip's wife,
Herod Antipes, xnarried bet Heroine
too late:" to another, "you are a Fhillia—
to one Man rt "You are twenty years ' as had first been married. to her Miele
a minute tee late ;" on act which was itself con-
, rear, he migbt not keep his word.
destroyed ones outside the door take
and i.he mob (Alcamo Herod Antipas, who was RISO
I trary to Jewish law. To their home .
aheliarger. A largo plate et: platter,
e coveted not only her enemy s
raonth too later" to another, you are
up the thorus, and cry 1 "Too latel :latir -allele, as guest. He induced
but reveled in his pains.
And the hot wind of the de- i,Ilerodias to desert Philip and became
sert eight): "Too late 1" and the 'this queen, her daughter Salome came
26. The king was exceedingly -sorry.
bell in the tower of .eternal /
, to Galilee with her, Meanwhile Herod
Annoyed, exasperated, .ivorried, but
midnight tolls and tolls : had abandoned his lawful wife, tend
mot penitent. It hurt In's vonseienos to
late 1 too late I" And the torches of
white had, as a consequence, been drawn in -
an kill this good man; it endemgered, his
the silly virgins begin to flieker and :to war with bar father Aretas,
cause with the people to offena them
hiss la the storro, and one by one i
!Arabian king. by killing their fitvorite; it endanger -
they go out until in the suffocating , 18, John had repeatedly said, It is
ed his interests in Rome to commit
darkness they cry: " Our lamps have r not lawful for thee to have thy broth -
peered in the heavens, and all the such flagrance and injustice; hesi-lex,
gone out!" And they go wandering exas wife. A Jewish king, even though
what unknown spiritual friends might
glories of the eartle with lighted toreh- the owed his dignities to tbe Romans,
as went forth to meet him. And the :was expected to keep the Jewish law. not this bnlY 1-"Pilet lay° for nis
through eternity, ages after ages,
evening and the morning were the How this law bore on Herod's acts ma oath's sake. This word should be
feeling out for the light for com-
, fort, for peace, for hope but finding ' be se" from Lev` 18' 11, 18' It John 5'
first day." , e plural poesessive. He had sworn over
I next learn from this subject that " hed to reform the morals of the and over again. The Jews more than
none and crying: " Our lamps have • Ins
their eir..rnieal laboratories made the no man has any light to spare. 1 sup- ination, he dared not neglect the viees any (tither nal ion insist ed t he t an
viously cancelled by punching a hole i , gone out 1" and then turning in an -
after age, age after age, feelingfor oath or vow must be kept.
pose if some of these obliging brides- and crimes of the national leaders.
through the amount (in figures) and other direction, and wandering on, age
blue light, and the green light, and • V
tearing off the signature of the chief • Herod's sin, with the war it had even if made under miatakee
the yellow light, they have never yet ' melds heti taken the linen from the
/closed furnace, and shavings and bun- i en, but finding none, and crying: :much suffering to thousands, and of those 'which sat with hint, doubt -
conditions. There were many
cashier. The notes are burned in a hope and comfort, and light and Heat- , brought on, would bring inevitably
been able to make the white light of . top of the flambeaux and wrung
pardon, and Peace, and hope, for a !them out on the lam.ps of the improvi-
3' lost world. Peace! where is it? Div- . dent ones, that after a while they iless, who were almost as eager for
"Our lamps have gone out I" such sin a faithful minister of God
dies of wood form the only agency
19. Herodias had a gliarrel against john's life as was Herodias.
employed. For future purposes of re- ing belle have gone two hundred feet 1 themselves would have been in dark- I must rebuke. .
ference the notes are left for five down, and not found it in the depths ;nese. So they did not lend it. There I '
of John the Baptist. Herod might
do many things—hear John gladly
and Indulge in bacchanale by turtle
—but bis implacai)le -wife through all
be months had one plan in her mind,
and that was for John's earthly ruin.
25. Straightway, immediately, with
haste; for if Herod bad time to become
DODGING SHELLS. him. Or, as the Revised Version has
it, "Sef herself against him." Would
England every day is about 50,000, not found ie. in the air. From a eon- 1 A Scrgeant-Unjur 'relit; now 11 May be
Naither has anyone any grace to spare. I Done.
and 350,000 are destroyed every sliming brand of Calvary I pick up "Oh," says sorne one in this house: "1! "Shell -dodging" and "dodging a
week, or something like 1,000,000 every the only light for a lost world. The ,
, had a very good father and very
year. The stock of paid notes for five fact that Cbrist died to tia-sre sinners good mother ; if there ever was a good shelr' are expressions frequently used
years is about 77,745,00 in number, is the flambeau, which flumg on e woman, she was; and somehow I hope : in war reports, as well as in couversa-
and they fill 13,400 boxes, darkness of your soul, will scatter
' through their piety to get into hea- 1 tion between military men. The
its gloom as by a daybreak. , words naturally suggest the inquiry
!yen." Had they any surplus of piety ?
All the flambeaux of the grooms- whether flying shells can be seen, and
'None. Bad they any goodness to spa.re?
men and the bridesmaids of the text if not, how it is possible to dodge
'None. You cannot borrow oil out of them.
gives no such piercing, leaping light , their lamps. And, I suppose, if at
ad is to be found in the tossing. A London paper quotes a sergeant-
! the last all the redeemed of heaven
Fli.A.Mi3EAUX OF THE GOSPEL, 1 major of the British artillery as
, were gathered in a circle, and some • - z
which flings light into the dungeon i r saying that it would be impossible for
poor soul should go around and say:
0 thy sin and comfort out on the
ocean of thy trouble. A blind man ,
idflave you olive oil to spare? Give Me .,..an,my.man LC see a shot coming toward
In a few instances only, dur-
some for my lamp?" I suppose they tit
sat down by the way -side, and Jesus would all answer: "Not so, lest' there ing a long experienoe, this soldiex had
came along, and the blind man cried , en a shell in Eight. These were, in all
03 not enough for us and for you.0 S.
out: " Jesus, thou son of David, /havecases,1111 from a gun he himself
1"I1 thou be wise, thou shalt be wise 8 8 8 -
mercy on me." "Hush up," said the
for thyself; but if thou. scornest, thou had fired.
- (1' d " • Y
years before being burned. The num- of the sea. Astronordersi telescopes iwas
ber ot notes coming into the Bank of bave ewept aeross the heavens and i NO OLIVE OIL TO SPARE,
owa.mi
.1i
KIND HE HAD ME'T.
Did you ever meet a woman who
was forever talking about herselft in-
quired the Sweet Young Thing.
No, returned the cynical individual
brusquely. Those I have met confin-
ed them conversation to their neigh-
bors.
A FLAT EXCUSE,
How is this, Jared I Your pocketbook
is perfeehly flat 1
Y -yes, M -Maria, Lhasa right You
thee I was slot unforchnit as to d -
drop it in -front of a sh-shtreet roll.
ar
h OTHERS QUITE AS CAPABLE.
What made Sa.mroy go to a dentist
Aileen be felt the grip corning on ?"
Why, he said his legs acbed and he
thought the dentist could pull 'era.
O SO HE CAN PROVE tr.
Yotingpop is awfully proud of his
boy, isn't het
r should say so, "Why, he's bought a
phoeogeapb eo as to keep a record of
the bright things the yotingeter Says.
p p
alone shall bear it " Every man for
beggar, and you are blind, and this '
he:Itself, every woman for herSelf.
iS a King." But 30 much more he (tried
I learn also from this sub -
out : "Jesus, thou son of David, have
ject that some people apply for
taercy on me." They said: "Be still;
the light when it is too late. How
it es indecorous; you are disturbing
silly those bridesmaids must have felt
the peace." But the more he cried out :
when they could not get into the
"Jesus, thou son of Davidl, have mer -
wedding It was o a searRt verm
cy on me." Jesus turned to him and t ---
ding to which, perhaps, they had only
said: " Thy faith hath made thee
a few hours' invitation. I suppose
whole." Oh, that to -night, from "this
they had known for weeks and months
audience, there might go up suela a
that they were going to be invited,
deep, all -compelling prayer for light,
and yet they are not prepared. Though
that it would turn Jenne upon us with.
they knew, where they could get oil,
the response; "Thy faith bath made
„and they had. the money, as the text
thee whole.
But I learn, also, from this sub- intiMatest yet the wedding wines,
jest, that the Seal needs a modable they are unprepared for it, and all
light. These torches coming out of their pounding at tbe door does not
the door are in motion. These torches get them in. I see tbera coming on
Dodging shells is -done by getting
under eoyet just before a gun isfired.
"For instance," said the sergeant -
major, "if I were olinibing a hill, at
the top of which a gun was directed
against me, Gould tell exactly When
a shell was likely to come bounding
along. Before the order is given to
Lire, are men in charge of the piece
'stand clear,' and that is the warning
note, so to speak. Keep your weath-
er eye on the gun directed against
you, and when the gunners stand
clear, dodge the shot."
SARCASM.
George says he doesn't know the
taste of liquor.
Fours it down so fast I suppose
of the bridegroom's party on the hill up tthe dczrr. r,Mhe rabble begin to that his Palate doeen't get a chance. His anger at John made him glad that manson,, Bates & Co., Toronto.
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