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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-10-11, Page 7...11.E.CE$SITI.Y. OF: .•R.80CE. Rev. Dr, Talmage Tells flow the Grace of God Preserves Through Temptations and Sorrows, -A, deepatch from Waabington, atm: e -Drs Talmage °apse as hie text Luke V. 01. -Salt le gored." Tie Bible is a dictionary of the fin- est similes, It employs, among living crate, storko aod eagles, and doves 44d unlearns, and sheep, and cattle; among trees, syeamores and tem - and pomegranates, and al - Eamon and, apples; araonta jewels, peerle, amethysts, and jacinths, mid ehrneoprases. Olarist uses no stale In .nly text, whicb, is the peroration of one o JS sernious, Re picks up a eryetan and holds it before His congree natiou as en illuetratima of Divine grace in thethearttnieen Ile says, what tte elnknow by experiment: "alt is good," I ahall try to carry 010 the Savioarnt tate in MIN teXt. 411d the first platai ean to yei . that grace is like salt in its beauty. Yon need not go far to find the beauty of malt. We live in a and nin011 produces foarteeit otillioas of buehels of it in a yea; and e-otr can ;atme raorniug reiletratu, and in a -few lasers get to the ealtemines ined seltespriuge and you. nave this article, morninee noon awl nigitt, ott emir table. Salt bee all the beauty et the enow-flane and water-foan. witb- dun- e ility achied. It 01:1 beeutital t tne naked eye, but under the glass you see tne stars, and the diamoude, and it- the winte treeebrancbea. and the " eplinters, and ti' brulgee of fire, as the 41111 glints thera. There is mere architeoturel ekill in ou o bese oryetala en salt titan Itutaan ingeunito has ever demonatrated in an aelham- bra or St, Petects. It would take all Clines with an infringemeut upon eteinity to an angel of God to tell oneelialt Use glories in ealtecrYstal. 'dh) utile the grace of God; it is PonfeetlY beautiful. L IOW Sew) it smooth out uriukitie of were from the brow; I lime teen it make au aged man feel ost, yoneg again; 1 haVe seen it lie Stooping shoulders, and p Ido into the dull eye. Solomon dis. d. its anetomical qualities edema eaid, isniarrow to the bones." It t to digest the food, and to purify blOOd, and to calm the paws, stun itit: the %neon; and inatead a put- ing a lean in a philueophioal hospite el to be et:eerie:mated upon by prayer, it. keeps Inca so well that doesnot tee!, to be panned tor as an invalid. 1 az tweaking now en a _healthy roligiou ot or that morbid religion that its Cor three hours ou a gravestone religion that propers beet in a 43.1 state of the liver! I speak of the religion: that Christ preached. I sup- pueu wlent that religion has ecu- , the world that disease will be -7- banished; and that a man a hundred ytar e of age will come in from busi- aeos, una say, "I feel tired. I think it must be tine for me to go,"ann without one physical name, heaven will Jaave But. the chief beauty of grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard, and cold, and repulsive, and make e it all over again. It pours upon one'e nature what David calls t "the beauty of holiness." It extirpates everything that is hateful and un- clean. If jealousy, and pride, and worldliness, lurk about, they are ch.ained, and have a very small sweep. e Jesus. throws upon the soul the fra- grance of a summer garden, as He *cornea in, saying: "I am the rose a Sharon;" and He submerges it with the glory of a spring morning as Be says: "I am the light." al! you may search all the earth eagle over for anything so beautiful or beautifying as the grace a Gad. Go all through the deep mine-passagee of Wieliteka, and amid the under- ground. kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt, and show me anythingso exquisite, so transcendentally beautiful as this grace of God fashioned and bung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is like Salt, in the ct that it is a necessity of life. and beast perish without salt. ets and physieians, all the over, tell us that salt is a ne- se aity 'of life. And so with' the grace of God; you must have it or die. 1 know a great many- people speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of, shoulder -strap adorning a seldier, or a light, frothing dessert brought in after the. greatest part of ihe banquet of life is over; or a medicine to be taken after calomel and mnstard-plasters have failed to do their work; but ordinarily a. mere superfluity -a string of bells around -a horse's neck while he draws the load, and in no wise helping him to deaw it. So far from that, I declare Ihe grace of God 44) be the first and the last necessity. It is food we must take, or starve into an eternity, of famine. It is clothing without which we freeze to the mast of in- finite terror. it is the plank, and he only' plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is the ladder, and the only ladder, on which we can climb away from eternal burnings, It as a positive neceatity• for the soul. sa. 1 You can tell very easily what the effeet woad be If a person reused to take salt into the body. The ener- gies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air, fevere wolud crawl tbrouga the brain, the beart would flatter, and the life would be gone. Tbat process of death is go- ing on in many a one because they take not the salt of Divine grace. Tim soul becomes weaner and weaker, and after a wails the pulses of life will etop entirely. "Be tbat bee lievett, and is bantized shall be sev- en, and be Bet balieveth not shall be dammed." Salt, a necessity for the life of the boly-the grace of God a necessity for the life of the soul. Again, I remark, that grace is like salt in abundance. God has strewn ealt in vast prefttelon all over the cant/net:its, R11.5.514 Seems built on a ealt-eOlar. There la one region of that eountry thit turns out ninety thoueand tons in a year. England and Itusela and Italy nave inexbausta. ble reararces in this respect. Nor. way and Sweden, \elate with snow above, white with salt beneath. Ales- tria yielding nine bemired thousand tette tintmelly. Nearly all ilie BO. Wens are riuli in it -rook -salt, spring - salt, sea-aaltt Christ, the Creator of the world, when ne lettered our text, knew it would become more and more eiginficant as the ehafts were sank, and the eprings were boron and the pumps were worned. awl the crystal% were gatherel. So the grace a God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages. It seen a to Undergird everything. Pardon for the worst bin. comfort for the eharpest auffere brightest Hatt for the thickest darktiees. Aronnal about tbe salt lakes of Saratoy there are ten thous- and men toiling, day and Want, and yet they never exheust the while trensures. And in the twelve thous - al millions of oar retie should now to Gel for Ilis mercy, there woula be enough for all; for those farthest gone 13 sin, tor the murder- er standing an tbe drop ot the gal- lows. It is an ocean of mercy; and if Burette, Asia, Africa, North and Steuth America, a.nd all the islands of the sea, went •down in it to -day, they would have room enougb to wash and to come up clean. Though your sin may be Jeep and aging, lot, me tell you that God's grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful chastn of thy guilt, one end resting upon the rock of eternal promises, and the other on tbe foundations of heaven, Demetrius wore a robe so incrusted with jewels that no one after him ever dared to wear it; but our King, Jesus, takes fof the robe ef His righteousness, a robe blood -dyed and beaven-impearl- ed, and reaches it out to the worst wretch in all the earth, and says; 'Tut that onl wear it now: wear it for ever!" Again, tbe grace of God is like salt in the way we come at it. The salt on the surface je alntost always im- pure -that which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and the South American pampas and in India; but the miners go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrinths, and along by galleries of rock. and with torches and pickaxes find their way under the very foundations of the earth, 13 where the salt lies that makes up the nation's wealth. So with the grace of God. It is to be a wound, and so I take this salt of profoundly sought after. With all the coneentrecl energies of body, mind, and soul, tve must dig for it. No man stumbles accidentally on it. We need to go down to the very low- est strata of earnestness and faith to find it. Superficial exploration will not turn it up. We must strive, and implore, and dig until we strike the spring.foaming with living wa- ters. Then the work of evaporation be- gins; and as when the saline waters, are exposed to the sun the vapours float away, leaving nothing but the pure white salt at the bottom of the tank, so, when. the Christian's soul is exposed to the Sun of Righteousness, the Vapours Of pride and selfishness and worldliness float off, and there is chiefly left beneath, pure, avbite holi- ness of heart Then, as in the case of the salt, tbe furnace is added. Blaz- ing troubles, stirred by smutted strokers of darkness, quicken the evaporation of worldliness and the crystallization of grace. But, I remark again ,that the grace of God is like the salt rii its preserva- tive qaality. You knew that salt ab- sorbs the moisture a -articles of food, and infuses them with brine which preserves them for a long while. Salt is the great anti -putrefactive of the world. But for the grace of God the earth would have become a stale car- cass long before this. That grace is the only preservative of laws, and constitutions, and literatures. Just as soon as a government loses this it of Divine grace, it perishes. The piallosophy of thie day, so far as it is antagonistie to this religion, putre- fies and stinks. The great want of our seboole of learninn and our in- stitutions of science, to -.day, is not more Leyden jars, arid galaanie bat- teries, and spectroscopes, and philo- sophioal apparatus, but mere of that grace tbat will teach our tneu of science that the Goel et the universe ha the God of the Bible. We want more oa the salt of God's grace ha oar nomes, la our ecnools, in our col- leges, 11/ 011r gimlet line, in our Cbris- tianityt And tbat widen ba e le will live -that wiaien has it not will die. I proclaixn tne tendency of everytalag earthly to putrefaction and death - the religion of Cleriet is the only pre- servative, My subjecit is one of great congrat ulation to tinge who bave within thei souls, this Gospel autiseptie. This sal will preserve thena tbroanb the temp tations and sorrows- Of Brat an througle the ages et eternity. I mean to say that yo a will hav smooth time because you are Christiae. On the contrary. if you do Tatar wbole duty, wiR pew/lien you 4 very reugh time. But I tbinn tbat GOA OMnipOtent Will eice you throngle. think Ile will-Uut wily do I talk like an atheist _wben ougnit to say ' know Be will / Kept by Um power of GOd through faitb unto complete salvation." Governor Geary, recited to me the nee througb which be bad passed the Civil war. He said that there ne bettle upon which every- med to pivot. Telegra frOta Washington said tbat the life of the 1 nation depende4 aeon that struggle. lie said to me: " I went into that net- tle, sir, with nay eon. His mother and. thouglit everything of Km. You know how a father will feel tewarde his son, who is coming ap manly, and brave, and good. Well, the battle opened and coneentred, and it was awful: Ronne and riders bent and twisted aud piled up together ; it waa awful, gel We quit firing e tool: to tile point of tbe bayonet. Well. sir. I didn't feel line tbat day. I hact prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went into it feeling that I had, in my right arm the 4401;th at ten gianta." arm the strength of ten giante. Well," he said, "tbe battle was desperate, but after a wbile we gained a little, and we marched on a little. 1 turn- ed around to see tbe troops and shout- ed, "Come an, boys!' and I stepped across a dead !soldier, and lo 1 it was my son! I saw at tbe first glance he was dead, atul yet I didn't dare to stop a minute, for the oriels had come in the battle; so I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around biro, and.I gave bim One good kiss, and said, "Good bye, dear,' and sprang up and Manned, 'Come an, boys 1'" So It is in tbe Chrietian con- flict. It is a fierce fight. Eternal eget seem depending au the strife. 'leaven, is waiting for the bulletins to announce the tremendous issue. Ball of shut, gash of sabre, fall ot battle-axe, groaning on every stile, We' cannot stop for loss or bereave- ment, or anything elle. With one ar- dent embrace, and one loving kiss we utter our farewells, and then cry, "Come on, boys ! There are other heights to be captured, there are otb- er crowns to be won." 'Yet, as one of the Lord's surgeons, I mast bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have been told there is noth- ing like jolt to stop the bleeding _of a wound, and so Itake this salt of Christ's Gospel, and put it on the lac- erated soul. It smarts a little at first, but see 1 the bleeding stops, and lo ! the flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child. "Salt is good'!" t, VIPER KILLER. --- Strange °Mee Held in Veanee By an Expert Snake lamer. M. Courtol is the official viper kill- er of Haute -Loire, France. He re- ceives five cents for the head of every viper he destroys, and captures, on an average, 1,500 a ,thena per year. Two thousand five hundred and two of the obnoxious reptilewere cap- tured by him in one year, as shown by the official records. The viper, witen at rest, is not eas- ily observed, since, by mimicry, it as - of the locality that it inhabits,becom- ing bluish 'black upon bamaltie rocks and reddish uoon volcanic scoriae. Moreover, ,according to Courtol, the viper, before coiling to take its siesta " chooses its bed," that is to say, seeks ground that has a ooler which matches that of its skin. . POOR LITTLE LION. A mother was showing her dear lit- tle Joe a pictere of the martyrs thrown to the lions, and was talking very solemnly to him, trying to make him feel 'wbat a terrible thing it was. Ma, said he all at once, oh, ma, just look at that little lion right behind there. He won't get any. CALORIC VARIATIONS. Goodby, gooclby, oh summer day! Another torture now is sent, And we will feel with blank dismay The heat of campaign argument. THE S. S. LESSON. euetone, and in a place where time- pieces are practically aelneown, and where the guests line eleee together* it would be convellient botle for the eiTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT- idt host and for the gueste. Them that Were bidden, Those that had accepted the first kevitation. Come. Tne invitation to the Gospel feast is (1) authoritative, from God; (2) joyful, promising only pleasure; (3) urgent, demanding immediate at- tention; (4) none can partake of the eaet unless he "comes." All things, are now ready. The food was cocked, 'armee orthenreat Supper, t. tine 14. Moan notice Text-Anverne; *'or Utleldn'" Art New Wady, LIMA' 14. 11`. waorio-AL NOTES. Verse 15. One ot them that sat nt raeat with him, Oar Lord WAS tlie guest of a Bete= Pharisee, lhe dinner was probably served in t and the waitiog maideoe were ready to evening. Altboagh it is inia that the company "sat," we are to under- serve it, So the Gosnal came in the stand then they reelined on couches, ter tbe fashion of the Romans and the wealthier Jews, each man lean - g on hie left eile AO taking the fool from, tbe table with bis right hand. As we look back over the cm- fulueas of tint% when the world bad been prepared tor it. Se now, in the accepted time, our scans shall find, if we only* came, that every provision to meet the full needs of our souls has been made, eat/. ell Mop are now Endes on that little company lee ready" le. They all with one eonsent began cannot but feel how honored were the te, make exe4e. The teaet at which ' gtaests who thus sat at supper math they all ..eate ate pehtt . this whole our Lord; but much mora tinnily bon- story. Those who surrounded the <red will those be W11431 SIVA sit anwic4 table had not treated tbe nospitable twill inthzah,:ta Trobteenebnlessi%Itge:velehTbtieusi: is seanlyntoies he any such contemptible but very linen* that map who bad oannidate for Meselahshin had dhet piously sighed about eating bread iti Pronouneel On t1103 Whf) gaVe. fe-lst4 tne kingdom of God was at tbis very not to the, risk an4 the famous, but time making excuses in his beart for to tbe poor. He sant unto aim. We! rejecting Jesus, The Leen An excuse do not know the 1141no of the guesithin the -neet is almoet equivaleut Le who now slaaalts, bat we owe Vim a -declaration of bitter enmity. The first greae debt, for it Was his edtanintd is that of the man who, like nit tion thietb lei to tba telling of the ,' thy farmers iu the blast, lino lathe Lb rich story tbat follows. Blessed! Allege but owes Iles far and near, is he lien shell eet breal in thn king- fig has bought a new one, and makes done of 001 U. Winced at the word Ms purehaee an etiology ter not goe essed" ttre read "0, how la lniPY in ing. The trIvolity of tbe mouse is bon' we will enne nearer to the ern ; evident, Ina num would not run nen, elate; bread" means, of ceurse, away; he might nave looked at it be - partake of tool, anal would, in the tore lie purcbased it; be might aav ncient laxiguage, refer to a sump.; looked] at it After the feaet had. been times banquet as well ati tO biscuit °tante. His excuse was really an in - and water. "Tbe ningtom of God," mat courteously expreetted. in the mown) of an ortlinery Jew, pro- 1 10. 1 nave beuoin five eolee of oxen. liable, meant the dominion of the , An evasion as absurd as the last. nreeetab. How far it may else beve ll Many peasant faro:tem in the East referred to the glorious future, after have as many as five yoke of oxen. death We caunot say. On oar Lord's , The one already rich has no desire for tongue, "the kingdom. of Goa" bid a I salvatiou; the one eeening, to be ricn i valeuce of Got's Ideas -the fulfilnn 21 Married a wife. How qdreu broader Meaning; it tweet the pre- bas no time for it. meat of the prayer, "Tby Itingnom earthly affections attend in the way come." But this guest probably used; of beavenly treasures. Cannot eome. Me phrase with a thoroughly secular: It is not cuatoraary for women in the meaning. Duabtless he tcok h for Orient to accompauy tbeir husbands granted then as a born Jew, no would. to public plaoes or to parties. The lux - inherit rigbts to all tbe luxuries ot ' urious nabob bad airoply added ern wo. the kingaloto. of Gol, cied it is very man mare to bis harem, and R wao likely that be had in bis mind ex- a plain statement that. there Wilti more imitations of luxurious leinquets to pleasure for biru at home in bis own Witch this young 'Messiah would air ite resources than in his friend's house bis friends so seen as he was estab- from his felendte resources. Reed lished ou the throne of Judah. Dent 21. 5• for excuse.s granted to 1 10. Then eaid be auto hira. The man , newly married bridegrooms. was right in las theology. but wrong e 21. Showed lets lord these things. Be n his application of it. Those that ; who is unsuccessful in his holy en - might be thus "blessed" were uncone'k deavors ahould go at once to the Mas- sciously refusing to "eat bread" -to i ter and tell him all his disappoint - participate in the Messianio banquet.! meet. The master of the house be - A certain man. This enrable end that l in angry. Being indignant. He felt et "the marriage of the king's son," : that something must be done at once Matt. 22, nearly resemble each other but there are also important differ- ences and they belemg to different , Workers for God must be prompt. Go z out quickly into the streets and lanes on the city. The ereditable and periods of Christ's ministry. This "certain man" represents God, and. the "great supper" is the feast of fat things which Isaiah mentions -the blessings et the Gospel dispensation A great supper. In the East rich xnen frequently have feasts for their own glorification. The guests are not necessarily family friends. They am made up of all sorts of folks, whose presence will increase the ostenta- tious splendor of the host. Read the description of Sinbad the Sailor's ban- quets, as given in the Arabian Nights, or, better still, the story, in the same strange book, of the Been:made% feast. To •beth of these were invit- ed the deplorably poor. We are not to suppose that sueh Pharisees as the one who was now entertaining Jesus invited him because they believed in him, but rather because his presence at the banquet would make the out- side gossips talk of the bamtqu.et. God's grace is a feast of the richest fare, the fullest enjoyment, and the most ruobSe companionship. It is well for us to think much of this figure of speech, "a great supper." The great King, through unnumbered centuries, has been preparing a spiritual feast for your soul and mine and longs for us to come and enjoy it. Bade many. Our Lord here would probably refer to the Jewish people, to whom the Gospel was first prea.ehed, but, as in most ,of nes parables, there is a secondary rae.aning, which a.pplies alt wiao hear the call of Christ. The Eastern custom, which invited the guests long beforehand, as we do for a wedding, which announced the com- ing feast to the whole neighborhood, and allowed the men and women of the streets to crowd in and line tile walls and gaze an the guests, mut be kept 13 mind as we follow the. course of the story. "All, who have been brought up in Christian families, all who have been trained in Cleurchi and Sabbath school, all who have studied the word of God," are bid- den to the Lord's banquet. 17. Sent his servant. The tservant" represents every bearer of the Gospel invitation, preacher, Sunday school teacher, friend. It is a high honor to be God's herald of the glad tidings. At supper. time. Kitto went too far when he stated that it was customary in the East to fOrthaily remind invited guests of their engagement; but sueh a course weuld not be contrary to ANCIENT BUSINESS CONTnACTS., hemetc and allerary or 17,000 Tablets, ins. covered fader, la feet or stibnite. The renearkeble discoveries made bY the renneYivenlia 'University exe nedetama at Nippur under Prof. precht have awakened greet inter- est, as by these discoveries the history ef Babylenian eavilizetion has been carried back to 4 period more thau 7,000 13.C, Prof. Illiprecnt has now returned to Coastantinople, and bas deeeribed some of the cbieeresults of this year's work in the old atty. The library of the great temple was tbo nit important 41scovery whion Was Made. I'retf. Hilpreclit stated Serne eleven years ago that the remains the library would be found at the very place lettere the dieeevery was made. In three months no less then 17,00 tablet* bearing inecriptioits13 °antitoxin eles.raetere bad been found. They relate to loueinees eentracto, conveyances, letters, etc. be lat- st discoveries dieelose tbe feet that the tablets are historical, philological and literary, treating of mythology, gramme; lexicography, science. and roatitematies. It is thought that wben tbey have all been decipnered, will enable us to obtain e very adequate idea ot life in Babylonia. et the docurnente beee a later ate than 2280 Ina It Li probable bat the library Was destroyed (lure g the tievesion ot the Etaxititea. • h oceurred at this date, of. IIiipmeitt considers tbat nt e 01 working five yeera necessary to excavate and examine the contents of the great library. He considers that the un - entered part will yield 159,000 ta $. We know that the library was eat inIpOrtanee in early Beley- d was the chief college or tion in law earl religion as well thee' studies. It la pro - no example of a literary sure trove in the, world' i history, t even iu Egypt, will result lo plete a recovery of the records of cient eivilixation. The work ot ploratiou has been stopped on the library in order to continue tbe work the temple and to complete Um ex- ination of the southern and east- ern of the walls of the fern.- ' aliens. The numerous weapons found along elle fortifications iu e lower steam, This affords material for determining the metheds employed by the besieging armies in he Woody early period ot Babylonian, bistory. In the course of the present exeavations the palace belonging to tite pre-Sargonic periods was uncover- ed beneatlx an accumulation ot 70 feet of rubbish on the southwestern side, which divided Nita= in two parte. Prof. Hilprecht , considers that this palace, which has a frontage of 000 feet, will probably be found to be the palace of the early priest -kings of Nip- pur. The few rooms excavated have given valuable results in the way or ablate, eylinclers and figurines. It is hoped that statues will also be ound. A large building with a re- znarkable eoloemade, which was dis- c . and sinners. The poor. This described overed in the first campaign, has been completely excavated. An important tonab has also been discovered. The French expedition as done good work at Tello, on the southeast side of the great canal ton - fleeting the Tigris with the Euph- ates. The chief finds of the year are about 10,000 inscribed tablets. A. third expedition that Germany ar- ranged has been at work in Babylonia since the spring of 1899. discreditable partions of the alto. To the Sews who listened this meant that e as the elders had rejected Jesus he had 1 now turned to the masses, to publicana most of the congregations that Jesus preaened to. The maimed,. . . the nalt, . . . the blind. Those who e have defeats in eharacter can have them supplied by him who. summons them to the feast. an It ts done. This servant un- questioningly obeys tae strange com- mand. 23, 24. Highways, and hedges. The reputa.ble and disreputable parts of tae country. Compel them to come in. Not by force, but by the con- straint of good reason and much love. The ultimate deeision of every eoui rests with itself. There was no per- suaeion offered to those who had al- ready excused themselves, because they showed no interest; but those who are really unfit, and not at all prepared. for the royal feast, are urged and besought to come. None of tb,lose. God never tolerates the con- tempt of the self-righteous. Shall taste sit ray sunper. In the end God deals with men as they in their hearts deal with him. THE CIGARF,TTE SMOKER. A very grave indictment Itas been , brought against the cigarette smok- ing habit by a foreign scientist, who recently expressed himself as follows "Watchi a cigarette Sleeker. He first I draw& tn all he can 'of the amok°, thenin exhaling he forces it through - the nose. How much mucous surface is bathed by the smoke? Over 1,000 square feet, lt first passes through the larnyx into the bronchial tubes, then into the bronchioles,' ox emelt!' bronchi, into the air Dale-elk:sett 725,000,000 of them. All this surfates especially the air cells, absorbs the nicotine from the smoke, and it le' partied into the blood, where it ie distrinuted to the braid and the heart. Now, nicotine paralyzesmuscular fiber, and the heare is especially asfected, because it receives and dibutes all tbe blood in the body," DITTF'S POOR SHOW. We put off till some better time Dull duties of the present. But any time is good enough, For folies that are pleasant POINTED PARAGRAPHS. FrAsd. tingy Qauker maketh a ohne ien When a man is compelled to pawn his Watch it changes hands. Be who leeks timeto make also lacks time to mend. Au industrious man and a cabbage manage to get a -head. When society throws people over- board they are not in the swim,. It's always easy to interest a man in a good money making ecnenee. Soeae of the =happiest people on earth have more money than they knowwhat to do with. - Give cheerfully with one hand and you will gather alatuaclantly with two. The contents of the jeweller's safe may be thisistepping stenos to for- tune. A man invariably feels like kicking himself when he discovers that he has been rude to a bles.sing in disguise. An old bachelor says that a man is sometimes ensnared by the same kind of extravagant dressing in a woman that he kicks about after marl lege. NO TASTE BETTER THAN A BAD TASTE. The Germans and the Austrians have for many years 'drawn their teas from unknown sources, neither neither Indian nor Chinese. Hence the present complications in China will not affect them. When George Eliot and George Henry Lewes arrived for the first time in Berlin the latter craved for a cup of tea. "It tastes like nothing at all," he said when it , was brought to him., "Then thank your stars,' remarked his ennieandon, "fon it might taste had." ' THE Tin THAT AtKins. troll: Liz:7: ilitrsi ti,t7,11;61. 314:74, IWO In green,May le an iiiipopalain MOtattt for Snropshire brides never wear nev.er Orono:teed to, Bolltotalallta. ewhn on:my is not knOwn to The maeriage at a testator or test. tri revokes a Will, In all Chrietian OgenteieS POISgaMer 13 oim ra:nerceciv rrlyniniinirlw-looirtokfaenertud.etleave la an Army FreOcIL law requiree parents Vent Sent tO those to be mareied, peTisearinawZealand.enaregOl 2MaoWIVOS et Earle- anMore intearaarrying takes place SO conntrat dietricts than in towne. Marriage as a binding Ilatarti 13rO4 eOgnieed by all civilised people, Wedding tinge were worn by ti* J-ewa betore Cbristian times. Endogamy forbids a man to Marry a wornatk not of his awo 1011414. Tne veneu law teeegulatta marriage 3a0r4p25ut but net Ai MU* too to marriage 13 Eng,e. 11 is nearly the imam au in 'Roman 1 io Pennsylvania 4 mu -reline Matt be enninnised before twtva witness,' fs.gergenatio reerriege ruin, cotieern ly reigning heves and tbe hignor binetY; Tltticieot Gereactue were theouly arbariane knowte be content with eingle wife. The Arebbiehop of Cauterbury man licniose far any mom- ge at any tine* or place. d rigeroue tor tbe defendant to marry s no defeats* in 4 'nounut of proiee cut: infirmity endering lit r g early peoplea and backward peoples with marriage fully defined jealously Ins often been preetically unknown. Exadatune Withal PP:nu:Mtn a man marrhtug 4 woman at his kindred, baa opreovvactrleydwahetroel.le time or another near- ly Several nunalrede of Chinamen in the colonies bave British women es 'wives, but Englishmen xenon* ever mar y Chinese women. 4.plaintift cannot recover for breech! of promise unitise hia or her testimony is corroborated by Aurae other material evidence. A 'marriage celebrated in cluirch by a personprofesaing boly orders, and not known by both parties to be an impoeter, is valid. Although polygamy rules in Aleut, and amongst more or lent civilised peoples of the East, it 13 rare araOngst American Indians. The wedding ceremony of the Ma- lays, and many other Eastern people, consiets of the man and woman eating out of the same clish. A Moslem may marry a Chrlstian woman or a Jewe.ss, but a Mohamme- dan woman is not under any circum- stances to wed an unbeliever. There was no religious marriage con- tract amongst the ancient Hebrews and there is no trace in Scripture of priestly consecration at weddings. The child of a Moslem fatber, what- ever the faith of the mother, is a 110SleM, nor does the wife who is an unbeliever inherit en Iter husband's nover ge four erain, England, deaatei death. Thes000:t oavaverage, number of ehildren to each man- tiless than three in and between five and six 13 Ireland. Among nhe Ashantis children are counted of the kind of their mother, and net of their father, a sister's son being a man's heir in preference to his to his own son. In, the United States th'e rule is al- most general that no specific form la necessary to the constitution of mar- riage if the eonsent of the contracting parties be proved. Until a comparatively recent tirat in this country all the children of a marriage were under the control of their father, the mother, even after the death of her husband, possessing no authority except as his deputy. In "Ceenah" marriages, as they are known in Ceylon, the man goes to live with bis wife's family, holOing a quite unimportant position, and the chil- dren' are not considered his, but belonging to the family and kindred ot hie wife. In New Zealand marriages may be eontractect at an earlier age than twelve for females and fourteet for males, bat would be voidable at the discretion of either of tbe parties upon reaching the age of twelve or fourteen as the caae may be, and withott the necessity of proceedings in court. NONE SO BLIND. Miss Cutting. I saw you in the car on your way home to dinner last even- ing. Mr. Comfort. Strange, I didn't eee you. Miss Cutting. Not at ail. 1 was standinn just in front at where you were sitting, PROVED. He -Da you think your Iather has any idea that we are in love? ,She -Not the remotest. Be toldme Lie didn't mind your coming te see' men