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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-6-28, Page 2THE EXTE Ell TIME rotes and Comments. The problem of thei world's footasup- ply, or that espeeial brencn of it com- monly Itnown as the Crookes theory •of waeat, welch was propounded with !snob startliog emphasis by Sir Wil- liam Crookin his Presideutiel ad- dress before the British Associo.tion In 1898, and which was en:a.rged later by laina in a Inebliehed volume, contin- ues to Attract the atteutieu of the scientifie world. Sir William Crookes neelared, iii aubatance, that the in- oreaeo o opulaiiou in:the world, and the oomparative deerea.ise a the aver- age devoted to n heat growing, made it evideur tteit uuless semetlaing ew tuned up, faaniue or very high prices for food would be seen the world over in a little more than a quarter of a oentury. Ile argued iunireesive:y that the wheat %eve ai the world had prac- tically ceased to expand and tbat,tbe ozny means of supplying futu.re ne- eessitie,s lay in some proeess of in- creasing the produetivity of the soil already available The basis of all such fertiiiring reaateriat is, of course. nitrogenous matter. It is unpracue- able to dame- this fromthe store al - in the eartla, etieli as from the Chilian nitrate beds, bertuse of the eeus.BaL the great storehouse:a rogen Is in the air. The ehentist ould discover e. meana of secur- Deg atmospheric nitrogeu in salabh• toren aud iu euffitient quantities wad make ale name inuntertal as a benefactor of manItind. •••011,01.11•••• THE FRIENDS OF LAZARUS. Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Rich and Poor. death Trope Washington says: —Rev. Dr. Talmage preeebed from the foilowiug text: "There was a certain rich man, whicb was clothed in purple and hue linen, and fared sumptuously eveoy day; and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate. full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the ricla man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it eame to lass that the beggar died, and was earried by angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man :Deo died, and was buried and in hell he lifted up h6 eyes, being in torments, and setti Alirahara afar off, and Lazarus in his besara. Anal he cried and said, Father nbrahann bare mercy OU , and stnd Lazarus, that h may die the tip kl his finger in water, and con me- tongue, for I ant torineoted In tan. flame. But A.brallani said, Son, Tonle -tuber ,tha t thou in thy lifetime re- eeivetiet the," geed things, and likewise Lueerus evil things; but row he is comforted and thou art tormented." Luke xri. 19-25. We stand in one of the finest pzivate bierees of °oleo times. Every room , 6 luxurious. The floor, inede of stones, gypsum, cion, and eletak, ptatuaaled t getber, 6 hard and beautiful, From Qui roof, :surrounded by a balustrade you take in ell the beauty tif the landscape. The perch is cool azol re- feeshing, itbere sit the eeople who tem' eome in to look at the building, and ere waitiug for tau ueber. In bie phwe eeu heer the eryetel plash et he eatittaine. riv, windows, reach:lig deo n :•0 the f icier and attain). ed, are quiet wee ze lounge in, and lee sit bore iisttnitig CO the :num. et tbe blanketed hereee in the prineely stt•ibleS. Venisen and tridge, naereele i.f fatted tea, .inti benee, ani flge, 4nol !tales, at grairates, And fish that only t wat hours :ago gelded in ate hake, aad tainvisof leerbet from Egypt, mote; up the feast, ithetinieauted with rhialles, and ;jests Ulu evuke roitring lauglitenwith ; oceiteantal outtairets of music, on wtrait bares thrum, and cymbals clap, ; and alive hertre 'pave whistles. Whitt :a elace to sit iu 1 She Ittrd of the plate' has been re- ! eeiving vieiturs to -day as the floor - keeper introdueed thein. After a while there is a visite,- wilt, waits not for the porter to open the gate, or for the doorkeeper to intruduce hon. Who iM it eoming ? Stop him there itt the door: How dare he Icome in unheralded 1 He walks into : the room, and the lord cries, with ' terror struck f.ee, "TIC is D Away with him :" Deere is a hard thump on the floor. Is it a piteher which ba e fallen, or an ottoman which has innoit ? No. Dives has fallen. DIVES IS DEA.DI The day of burial has arrived. He , is carried down out of his splendid room, and through the porch into the street. The undertaker will make a big job of it, for there is plenty to pay. There will be high eulogies of him pronounced, although the text represents him as chiefly distin- guished for his enormous appetite and his fine shirt. The g proeession moves. ami the accustomed weeping and howling of Oriental obsequies. The sepul- chre is reached. Six persons carry- ing the body go carefully down the steps leading to the door of the dead. The weight of the body on those ahead is heavy, and they hold back. The relies are left in the sepulchre, and the people return. But Dives is not buried there. That which is buried is ,only the shell in which he lived. Dives is down yonder in a deeper grave. He who had all the wine he could drink asks for a plainer bev- erage. He wants water. He does not ask for a cupful, or a teaspoonful, but "just one drop," and. he cannot get it. He looks up and sees Lazarus, the very man whom he set his do'gs on, and wants him to put his finger in water and let him lick it off. Once Lazarus wanted just the crumbs from Dives's feast; now Dives wants just a drop from Lazarus's banquet. Poor as poor can be. He has eaten the last quail's wing. He has brok- en the rind of the last pomegranate. Dives the lord has become Dives the rauper. The dogs of remorse and despair cfnne not withhealing tongue to lick, but with relentless muzzle to tear. Now Dives sits at the gate in everlasting beggary, while Lazarus, amid the festivities of bea-von, fares sumptuously every day. Well, you see a man may be beg- gared for this life, but be a prince in eternity. A cluster of old. rags was the entire property of Lazarus. His bare feet and ulcered legs were an invitation to the brutes—his food the broken victuals that were pitched out by the housekeeper, half -chewed crusts, rinds; Peelings, bones, gristle • —about the last • creature out of In the current number of tbe Cen-; tory notgazine. Mr. Niko!a, Tesla zusin- tiw thet ti1 b bus not yet prig - tie illy accomplished the result indi- cated as so desirable by Sir erookeei lee 'nal taken very long steps ' toward U. it is welt kiniwn tint eV -rival &selvages will ffrt•e or oxidize nitregen in the Oserc.. Dat hit lierta, the ,'1'e - trial tlieeliarge er flame ueed teen oniy three or foior inehes lenge theiniell action wee teen:e iiittl the ceraequenx orteoss (of ioxidiz tr;:ir• teen wistefun Mr, lesie tlevieresttat by haveetigating tee effeete et the veried forms oz' nem:rival %%noes, and by kraut:dug the influence el the at- trosplierie pressure Eknii the temper- avuee and tlio presenee of water and other bodies, the best conditions for c awing the MOM intense chemical ac - than of the dieelierge have lieen as- certained. The oxidizing action of Lite ariectrietti flame has been made more 4.xiti mitre hit i'ns'. By violent agliatiou of the inert 6/iv,' nioleenles tir a a r.m., affinity has Leen created between the two nernianyin- ''' ut n s of the et mos- 0;r...re. so thet they readily combine. will - ed in time for the fixetion (of the compounds found, steam Leiug the mid: effective agent to that end. Mr. Tesla declares that he has accomplish- ed tletearetitielly, at least. the fixtiag of at utepherie nitrogen in unlimited quantities. The importance of alt th' , If a rue, not merely to seionce, but to man, cannot be overestimated. While of 'course the process has not yet be- come a mercantile one and will re- quire still further improvement and elaboration, it looks as though the must important part of it has beeu accompashed. If Tesla is juetlfied of his expectation the world will not starve to death. TESTING BA.LLS OF STEEL. Cast steel balls, when made require to be examined in order that faulty one may be east aside This examin- ation involves nation tame aod labor, and even then faulty balls are not al- ways deteoted. A German has devis- ed an apparatus for testing them in accordance with physical laws. The balls are placed un the top of a cy- linder in which works a piston rod; each halt is struck with the same force by the rod and faint on an in- clined surface; at the end of this plane it strikes asaiust an impaet surface. If a ball is perfect it will have enough elasticity to rebound be- yond a fixed barrier, but if it is im- perfect it has an inferior degree of elaetieity and falLs short. All balls which do not pass the barrier may safely be rejeoted as faulty. ECONOMY AT LONG RANGE. City Boarder—Wasn't it rather ex- pensive to substitute babed wire for reit fences on your farm? • Farmer—Yes, the first cost was considerable, but I calculate it will eventually save enough time to pay for itself. City Boarder—How so? Farmer—Well, you see, the hired hands don't stop to rest everytime they have occasion to climb the fence. MUST BE ISOLATED. The board of health of Trenton, N. J., has adopted an amendment to the health code placing consumption in the same category as snaallpox, diph- theria, yellow fever, and other con- tagious and infeetions disgt ses. It provides finea and imprieeme physioians who fail to report cases of I eoneumption within thirty days after they so diagnose them. which to make a print*, yet for eighteen hiludred years he hie been one of the MILLIONAIRES OF HEAVEN. No more waiting for crumbs. He sits at the same table with tbe kings of eternity, himself one of them. What were the forty yeors of his poverty compared with the long ages of his royalty? Let all the Christian poor be com- forted. Your good days will be af- ter a wbile. Stand it a little longer, and you will be all right. God bas a plaee for you among the princi- ealities. Do not be afraid of the , dogs of dietress; tioy will not bite —they will help to heal. Your pov- erty may sometimes hive lea you to doubt whether you will hive a de- eent funeral. You shall have grander obsequies thin reany a is se -treed out by a prooession 01 governiOrs and senators. whe pall -bearers will be, the angels thit carried Lazarus into Ab- raba Ws bosom. The surveyors have been busy. Your eternal Poe- essions have been already laid out y (lad's surveyors, and the stake that bounds the property on this side is driven into the top of your grave, and nit beyou 1 fyous You, can affori to weer poor clotbee, now, wben for yoll itt lee upper wardrobes is folded up , the royal purple. You can afford to! liave coarse food bre, wben your breed is to be nude from the finest wbeat of the eternal barvests, Oster / WO Weeping uniyendure for a night! u ,joy vozue'zh in .he mornIngt I ;lee. also, that a matt may ha.ve weeny comfort and lusury bere, and yet. come to a wretcatiti future. It is nn sin 104 be rieh. It is a sin not to : be vieh, if we can be honestly. dwesit ' I•lattal five hundred tatmeand dottere— 1 suppose I might as well ra tke it a raillton—I see Su mueh eufiertng and tad every day that I say apart and again, I wish I had the money to re - neve it. But alas for the man who h ts NOTHING BUT MONEY. Dives's house had a trout auor and a buck door, and they both opened Into etex :lite% Sixty seconds eltereDives wits goae, of whet use his borses? lie could not ride them; of what use his rut viandsbe eoald not open hie view:lied teeth to eat them; of what uee his fine linen elates, wben he could not wear them? The pooteet man who stood along the road watch- ing the funeral procession of Dives owned more of this world than the • dead ornaendizer. The future world was all the darker because of the breighiness of this. That wife of a drunken husband, if she does wrong, ' and loses her soul, will not find it so intolerable in hell as others, for she has been in hell ever since she was married, and is partially used to it. But this man of the text had every- thing once, now nothing. He had the best twine; now he cnnnot get water. Ile had, like other affluent persons of the East, slaves to fan him when he was hot; now he is being consuan- ed. He ean afford no covering so good as the old patches that once fluttered about Lazarus as be walk- ed in the wind, Who here will take Dives's fine house, and costly plate, and dazzling equipage, and kennel of bloode,d dogs, if his eternity must • be thrown in with it? See farther in the text the extreme suffering of the finally exiled,. It has been a wonder to me why Um- versalists come to my Church, not merely temporarily, but that they bold sittings here, and come to all j our services, and they are among my I best friends. I hold in my hand a let- ! ter. which makes it plain. The writ- er of it evidently believes there Is no future place of punishment. He says in hts letter: "I don't believe that ; which you preach, but I am certain you believe it. I prefer to heat you expound the Bible, because you do not ignore hell; for if the foundation certain as Paradise, and has just as eetain as Paradise, and has just as much of a locality." Now, Iunder- stand in Men want us to be frank in the declaration of ; our beliefs. All the world knows that the leading denominations in this day believe that there is a hell as certainly as there is a heaven. Why, then, slur •over the fact, or try to hide it, or declare av it only ith slight emphasis? I am an old fogy in my interpretation of the Bible.' I have not so much intel- lect as those men who know how to make en eternity 01 their own, spin- ning it out cif their own brain. Not having intellect enctogh to fashion an eternity of my own, I must take the theory of the Bible, I BELIEVE THERE IS A HELL. If I had not been, afraid. of hell, I do not think I should lanve started for heaven, "Yon say, "I will not be scared, in that way. I will not be af- frighted by any future punishment You are quite mistaken. I can frighten you half to death ite five et is there. Your cbildren are there. eninute.s. As you, are waxing along Your old neighbours are there. Many of the frieade with whom you used to ettead ehurch, or do businese, are the streets, let me pull down the houseeseaffolding, iveighing two or three tons, about your bead, and you there, They have been dead theee will look as white as a sheet, whilefive, tea, or twenty years, and have your heart will thump like al been waiting withiu the veil.Tbere trip-hammer. Now, if it isnot ignoble 1is no clock in beaven, because it 6 an to be aftriglatect abut a felling scat- /everlasting day; Yet they keep an no, fold, is it ignoble to be affrigated 1 comet et tOe passing years, because by a threat from the omnipotent God, tlaey are all the time hearing from our I who with one stroke of his right worlde--Tbe angels flying through hand could erus/a the universe? You i heaven- rerort how many times tae aele tow God, being a father, •coli•oi 'earth has turned on it axis, and in lot as suffer in the future world? I that way the angels roan keep a diary! answer your question by asking hew land they say it is almost time now fOr God, being a father, can let suffering father to conies up, •or for mother to be in this worlal ? Tell me wby be el -1 come up. Some day they eee a i lowed that woman to wborn I admin- 1 cohort leaving heaven, and they say, letered the holy saerament this af- '•Wilither bound?" and the answer is, ternoon to have a cancer ;tell menthe! 'To bring up a soul from earth dl and obildreo suffer such pains in teeth- the question ie asked, "What soul?" lug, the lancet ,striking such torture And a family Circle in heaven find in the swollen gums. You fail to ex- :that it is °ale of their own nomber plain to me suffering in the present th time; be not surprised if I fail to ex, eowato itobeh sourzowarwobe.ghatu, d s on ;tunt eb ie ha ceiy h idein to you suffering in the fu,ture- / we now wateh •for the sail of a ship On the way to reject the doctrine of !eoae is co being, our friends borne. future punistmeent, men begin by re-. ,After a wbite, the cobort will beave in jeeting the idea of material tire. In Isight, flying nearer and nearer, until a few years, while they admit future with a great otg.on the gates hoist, Punishment, they delay that. it Is atort and with an embrace, wild with the na i. A. few eeare after that they caet out tbe whole idea of tonere punish- Meut, and let all the thieves..pieltpoc- a of the uoiverse I see a mother and ber child nieete kete, and debauebee go jot 0 glory, As Lam as / ran un- beg at the foot of tbe throne after derstalthe modern popular theory years absence' Tit° child died twenty years aae. but it Le a child yet, of future puniehment, ibis that amen 1 th'ink the iittie ones wile die will •goes down and ;sits on a bard -bottom- remain children tlareugh all eteruity, tad -chair tor a- little Ivaile,.,_and_a!tef e gets tired of roligolng it, gye. uv tL it elNod'ttui rlclinbgeno s.Illattveoanout ' It!l t want le0 those ot.e shethliatt, to alt on cushione in glory. I will are in heaven to grew ul,. We ueed give you ray idea ot future suffering. thiir'IU I do not ask you to take my theory. Andwben,toer,,Qt,leteei: iSillthe atgnttla e.esitel7szlif. s I ara not your :pope; I am your pas- light, we want thene to run ahead, tor. I believe that there is an eter- and clap their hands, and pick out the nal bell, and I believe than there .1. , • . 13 brigletest of the field flower's. Yes, bere is a child and. its mother meet - Would nut a common-sense man not ino. The ,risad long in glory, the prejudicea in tlae cue mite 06 to be ntos'seer lust ,, 'Ru8. ed fire ? literal fire? • an talheweeping yen are iny darling!, says the mother, fire? an eternal fire? Lest you ishould esses.,,, says the dims, ethis is Buell, a dtspute it, it tells what the fire 6 havity piaeoh anti Jesuo b taken such to Itept in. care of me, and twaven is so kind, • 1 Lest lyre? etaillqa.17R:elvtetiL0tPitniRs Ea.dif- 1 died. ,rhe skies are 80 tail% mother 1 got right over tbe fever with which I rinceut hi" ul fir° fttull that which !The flowers ore so sweet, ;another: The we know about it, it seys. "Its smoke Temple le so beautitul, mother! CoMe aerondeili up for ever." eth! your fa- ; take me up la yuur arms 33 you. used (her and mother who adopted tide/it- ,i4 de... eratism, were not such big fools as ' I Choose ye bet wet II lb• angelie escort you make out. They el udied their Bi- and the leached tongue, between the Wes more than we do, and reed.leas fountains of God and the waterless of the human tonic's= that have desect, betweeo a glorious heaven and slopped over on the pure page. All a burning hell. the engiuee of tbe nineteenth century : Thus 3 bave set before you light have turned 414°1-c hQ8° towards Put- ' and darkness, joy and sorrow, victory ting out this fire. But still, it has I defojt. •reivards of burned on, end will burn for ever. It , and the overthrow of Dives, is a ored: !stubborn, overwhelming fact „ that all the ingenuity of men and tell'euntemeetzloanuli; ukftslta)a-ctuan*atinId hy'n•ivthe sere-.t devils may war against, but eannot befot " • • • ... • destrny, There is not so nmeh evidence • that there was a raging fire a few ! weeks ago in Cbicago as that there is l JEWELLED PURSES. to -night a. fire in hell; for the one 1 lion we have on hum'the oblong swh quare purees, ich infortnctan au- ' open with an ordlnary clasp, tire more thorny, the other by the mouths of evangelists and of prophets, and of popular nowthan the envelope -shad pe evataoy of heaven, 0140 FRIDSMEET AGAIN. t e Land Jesus iliaon af God, t3od deals with this world in two ways—by treaty and by cannonade; by teetity, in wialeh, for the sake of Jesus Christ, end by tbe surrender of our hearts to him, He will be atpeace with us, or by the opening of the , smoking batteries of hell fire, by , which He will hurl upon his enemies a horrible tempest; and he who will not be drawn by love shall be crush- , ed under His wrath. See also, from this subject., that heaven is not a myth or an abstrac- tion, but et' place of warm personal I Intercourse. Lazarus was carried up , to the bosom of Abrabam, one of the glorious old patriarchs. 1 sup- pese Abraham happened to meet him at the gate. And so, after death, we : will e greetedinto giory. Our de.-. parted friends will be at the door.' They have been waiting for our com- ing. Coant :up their number it you can. Your father is there. Your moths1 14139•110C11111110110.1. I • o , wflicifl nave jeweled. hutt ons. These purses are studded with jewels in gold ring settings, in some the jewels outlining the edges of the purses, and in others dotting the evatile of the side. One, for instance, has the entire side covered with ame- thysts, cut diamond -shape, set at regular intervals. The purses with studs have one advantage—the studs can be removed and used for col- lar buttons or to close the neckbands of blouses. TWO POINTS OF VIEW. 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On their way to Capeenaum they must pass Beth- saida Julies, where erobablY they ex- pected to meet jesos. He sent tbe • multitudes away. Five words whicti describe an act t/aat doubtless required • tact eon power to an extraordinary degree. An one studies this verse and, note tine dieeiplea' hesitation. indicated by the word "constrabaed," one wonders • whether Jesus was now experiencing the trial he afterward epoke of--" A foes shall be Owe,' of ale own household." In the dispersion of tbe multitudes there was at once world- iy and spiritual wiedoun "Divide your enenelee, then scatter therm" Wben Christiana by the belp at Grocl Iteep tbeir temptations far apart from eacb 0:ter they are on the way to vietory. It is good often to "send the mul- titudes away "—tbe meltitudes of bus. ttleSS cares, of sooial aoya, of worldly interests—and to "go apart to pray." Times: of solitude are needed by every • soul. There are deep experiences which no man can abame. PaZe the n privilege of being: alone with God. 23.11e went up into a mountaluOtbe mountain," Probably, As Dr. Wbedou " iisuggests, *het at the extreme eeutia- 0 east margia ot Belhaaida, which ahuta dawn upon the lake. He, went apart il 11 to pray, and thus, on the airy 'might overlooking the toesiug sea, far from ' eerenaonies and temples made by men, he went into his closet and , shut the door, and praeed to bis rather, wlita itees in seeret. When li the evening wig collie, tied the dark - 11"89 and t/ic &Renee dammed, he was there alone, apparently for hours— t from smaset until early morning. ' It would be idle to trouble ourselves Iwith questions concerning the scope . of our Lord's pr .yr. We only know that alway in the great erisea of Lis life he fell beck upon heaven, and "refreshed his strength by draughts from the celestial springs." With : eitene time to obey their Master's joy we meditate the grace of our High Priests, who, touebed with the feeling of our infirmities, was tempted in all points as we are. Tbere is nothing so necessary to life and health as prayer. 24-. The ship was now in the midst of tbe sea. Near to the middle of the lake. John 6, 19 tells as that It was twenty-five or thirty furlongs, three railes or so, from the shore. The wind was •contrary. The boat had been stmeken by a sudden equa1,. such as Gennesaret is peculiarly lia- ble to, and had been driven out of its course far from the land. To keep it from swamping, and trying at the directions, the disciples seem to have steered their boat around and pushed against the wind toward the north- east; but in spite of their endeavors they were driven to the southwest. "Having wind and tide against us is no sign that we are on the wrong track." Even when we do what the Lord tells to do, often the winds are contrary. . 25. In the fourth watch of the night. Between three aod six in the morning. Jesus went unto them. He had seen them through distance, darkness, and storm, as he always sees and sys_repathilsaiNavith hisdollooveneedin In Mark we read that nak• would have passed them," which is not strange, for often the best ser- vice our Lord can render us is lov- ingly to try our faith. - The declaration of a supernatural act is here distinctly arid emphatically made. Take out of Christianity the supernatural element and it loses all its value to the soul. Its moral and prudential maxims may still minister to the comfort and elevation of secu- lar life; but if the soul is to survive death, it needs to lean on the Ever- lasting Arms. • The miracles teach many lessons, but this is the greatest lesson of all. :28. They were troubled, saying, It is a spirit. An apparition or ghost, and hence, in popular belief:a warning of death. , Merit adds, "They consider, ed not the miracle of the loaves, for their heart was hardened." '.17hey cried out for fear. Merely because they did .not know their Saviour. Babes sometimes shrink from love •and comfront more than they shrink from danger. Christians sometimes shrink from • blessing rather than from evil. Mao knows wealth when he see it, or ease, or lieeltla; but who can tell whether these things are in any given ease really desirable or not? But the approach of ;Jesus is .alsvays to be desired; trid we couLd never fear him if we only understood. • 27, Jesus did not leave his disciples long in suspense, but straightway said, Be of good eheer; it is .1; be not afraid. It was the same voice which few naootate before tbia had stilled similar tempest on the same •lake. There is no exaortation 00 frequent. iy repeated ta Holy Scripture as "Fear not.' 26. Lord, it it be thou bid me coma auto thee ou the water, For "it it be' read "sihoe 11 is." Peter does not here doubt the identity of jesu% neverilLeless throughout his early ea- perienees oete feela tbat bis strong faithl is not SO much in God, or uk Jesus as in himself. True. he says, Bid me, not presaming to go without permission; but observe, it to Bid me, not Bid us, Let rao be the toren:oat one --in mourufulmunison with "Though all en forsake thee, yet will not I." 29. 'When Peter was come down out of the 011ie, he walked on the water, t• o go to Jesus. This it was impossibie to • do without sunernetural ageistauce. The lesson for us is that spiritually, at least, we catei do all things, Demise helping us. If Peter had beengoing to anyoeta elsa than to Jesus, he Must • have immediately sunk. j 30. When he saw the wind bolster 'be was afraid. \Viten Ito looked to Janette he walked; whea he beaked at the wind he sank. ilei cried. saying, Lord, e:save me. He had aeted foolishly •at every step, but now he is profoundly wise. Call aim God in the day of trouble. • 11 is comfortiog tee ITMOMIDer that !when we lave got enough faith to walk Lae path that leads to Christ we may still have enough faith left to coal to Cbriet for bet. "If," writes Dr. Henry Clay Truiubull, "we could see the great conflict in the universe asi Ile in tbe eight of ilitu ubo eilteth 18 the heavens, we eheulal have 'fear of tbe leeue, when, ea one iiiuggeeteal or this Incident, on the istele is the Lorel of glory. and on the .other side—wind!" , 31, Immediately Jest's 3treteLe forth his Irand. If Jeeue's forioeier ,and reore,vgvative,4 lastmeeliete etretched forilt their hands to !needy that cry to them, the milk nium would roma %.6 ith /met 0. , Caught lout. Took hold ofhhien. ;and with .the Lord's giTik Poterae doubt went to the winds. 0 thou of little faith. wberefore dent thou dutibt 1 What faith Peter was real, but there eves not inveigh of it. Reasons fur hie faith could ha given, but wbat reaeon was there ler 'his doubt? "It N1713 not Peter laying bold of • audit," ateys Dr. Hanna. "but it Christ laying held of Peter '.bat bore Peter up.' It ts fortunate for that Jesus duid not say, Wiser didst thou come ?" but " Where didst thou doubt ?" 33. They that were in the ship. Oth- s than bis disciples. Worshiped. Re- verenced. Of a truth •thou art the Sou of God. A. truth, which, once taken into the soul would baevitably • germinate ond multiply into the nolo lest theology, ethics, and spirituality. MOVING A 'rm. naintaeberg Hos Suttrrect So Meek Pruitt Moods Thal the inhabit:tub 11111 reale It. For years past the little town of Dantieberg in Hanover, with 2,000 in- habitants, has been afflicted by floods in the river Jeetze. 'the streets and lower parts of the buildings have been under water for days at a time, must. ing great, damage to property and some impairment of the publie healtb, to say nothing of the gteat diseom- fort due to these visitations. The people have decided at last tba they will stand it no longer. To a man they have decided ,to abandon thit town. The • inuniCipel, authorie h'eroeseel—eeted a new site On44 - er side of the river, where adages to be erected at once. As soon as buildings are up all the inhabita will move, bag and baggage, acmsi the river, leaving the present town to the cleetruction in which the floods will soon involve it. The new town is to be on a plateau sufficiently high above the river • be hut of reach of the waters so much distress. The removal of t large settlement i ed. • Such a thing in Bechuanaland, 8 eral years agog, when t tants of SiaosIrrong remov entenfive miles away to the of "Palapye, which their c had built for them. The however, run away from tbe inhabitants of Dunne vas water they wanted, for ply at Shoshong had given 01 • Damieburg, watch is now tt 10 its fate, has had some litt portance in the hop and cattle t and supported several naanufactorie The most nottible bailding in it is the historic castle in which the King of imprisoned -from 1223 Dtoenito22a5rItx.wpas ed The ritrest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of loving soul.—H. W. Beecher.