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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-7-28, Page 6EST F "Almost Saved," and "Yet Not Saved, Is to be Utterly Lost. (Entered according to Act ot the rate liament of °ensiles in the year un Teousand Nine stuttered nue leer, by Wm. Batty, of Toronto, at tha T)operisecnt of Agrictature, 0110.3VA, ) desitateh from Los Angeles says: -Rev. Frank '00 Witt Talmage preach- ed from the. following text; Mark xii. come out on a visit to Los Angeles. It was almost, as near as I can aluto out, on a Saturday night, the second week of January, The aro WaS burning brightly on soo'. office hearth. Tile table by your side wes filled with pepors. The employies, working ten hours a day, sometimes think the employer entering his of - 84, "Thou are not far from tho flee at 0 or 1 0 o clock in the atom- kingd om of G od," ine; has a very easy time. But. long aftet the busy beehive of the mod....rn To -clay I am going to try to help 1113,;,valgoontill.sd egolriiruenti 11111;11.1, ett.„t:leklailrtiss some of ,smit to overcome that veil- dest of all words, "almost." 1 anl• have crowded the streets, laughing„ going to show some of you that, like the scribe of my text, who came to question Jesus, you are "not far from the kingdom of God," but I am also going to show you that to be "almost" saved and yet not saved is to be lost completely and utterly lost. As the man whirling down the rapids of Niagara, who wagons have ceased their rumbling, and tee worn out horses have been just misses by one ineh the rope se fed and blanketed in their stalls, and which is thrown for bis rescue, you who miss by a little the offer the street lamps have become as multitudinous as the visible stars of redemption are as utterly lost as if you had never heard the offer. of the heavens, the tired merchant Nay, there is in your fate the unlit- works on. The wood in the fire- terablo sadness of being so near sal_ place crackled and laughed. The vation and missing it after all. The flames leaped higher and higher and loss of your soul is like the loss of sputtered more loudly as the reports life to the hunter whose rine ball of the different departments recorded the business triumph of a whole just misses the heart of the tiger that is leaping upon his defenseless year. Stock hail been taken, foe body. 11 is to be lost just as inueli the holiday goods were all sold. Ev- ery promissory note had been met, as were the poor fellows toho were imprisoned a few yeaes ago in the There was plenty of money in the iron hulk of the ete.amers burning at bank to clear away the remaining debit sides of the ledger. the wharre of Hoboken. in New York lIarbor. Frantically they stood at WHAT SlIALL IT PROFIT A MAN? the barred portholes. Frantically' Was not that the bistory, 0 rich they stretelied forth their arms' i merchant,. of the first results of your through the Mon gratings. They im.athematical calculations on the could see the bine waters of the Saturday night of tho second week in lest January? But what about the second calculation y011 made that. iniportant night? As you sat there In your easy armchair you began to dream about the past. You begun to wonder if all this endless strug- gle_ for a worldly success veally peel As you dreamed you thought uf the many nights when, unable to sleep have come to salvation as I look at !you had tossed about your hos pa - the entries on thoee white pogo., sew_ low and thought how the business ed. between the Old and the New Iworld was trying to drive you to Testaments of the ratline Bible. By the financial wall, even as eome man this record or the family births and deaths I flad. yenr father was a Cluestotn, lour mother was a Chris- tian. Your sisters and brothers best motives had always been nn - were all Christians. I And also iptig,ned. And then, strange to say, that your parents reconseerated their .insteaci of gloating over your past enaneial success as the flre flickered lower and lower an unseen power made you write upon o. broad sheet of white paper this problem, "What sliall it profit a man if he 511(1.11 gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Anil as you studied that problem you were compelled to write after it a word of seven letters. You wrote that one word in letters of fire. "Nothing." "Nothing." "No- thing." Am I wrong, 0 anancial magnate, in statiug to -day "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God?" Oh, rich manl I appeal to your ex- perience. rave you not realized that happiness is not in wealth? rave there not come times in your life When yorti have felt that money and honer and power alike fail to give satisfaction? You axe (lisappointed with your life. Turn to Christ, who saye to such as you, "re that drink- eth of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst again," Como to him. Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." shout mg. perhaps similes a _ passers by, in juvenile delight it be- ing set free from toil, and the book- scmlle were able to follow their ene- mies aeross the western prairies. lly keepers have balanced the accounts, the 1 wisted blades of grass and by and the iron shutters have been pull - other minute signs they were able ed down, and the clerks have closed to tell how many Indians were in their counters, and the enehiers have the war party ahead. how ninety locked thier safes, and the delivery noises have changed your feellngs to- ward Cloth The pain al your heart ie warning you thut "Cod ehall bring every work unto jiiilgmeut, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil." This day—aye, this very minnte—on ac- count of that peel: eick beil, "thou art not far from the kingdom. of Clod." Almost seveile Yes; you are, I know it. Why? The many "signs of the time" tell us that hundreds and thousands of inunertel num and WO - men are now enrolling themsehes ns Olirietinn solcliers under tile standard of the cross. And there Is n mighty propelling. force III 1110 pOWer of ntuniiiirs, When a sinfial men knows that ~rye -bore nbolit 111111 the pee- ple are risking. the vital quistion which the Philippian jailer spake to l'aul and 5110 ".`,4 I , Wlitt1 3111151. I do to be saved?" be in spite of him- self le compelled to ask and answer in his heart the seine queetion, We all marvel at tile wonderful ability of obeergelion to which the trappers and the hunters of 010 were able to train their visual powers. Poe days end, weeks the Indian harbor. They could hear the calls of the would he rescuers bard at work. But they were lost, entirely' lost. Comet there was "only one step" between them and perfect safety. A CiiitISTTAN HOME. Almost saved! Yes, you are. How do. I know it? I learn how near you with the death marks upon his cheek in his old ago may be fleeced of his al1. You thought how your very lives for God's service wheu they held you before the sacred altar on the day you were baptized. It is a very eaey matter for you to become a Christian, with such a family his- tory as that. The 8011 0 :pied docter, all other conditions being • equal, has at least ten -mars the :vantage of a young man entering the medical profession who is not the son of a physician. Tho child who comes from a Christian home has a far greater chance of being a Chris- tian than one who is not the son of a Christian, or than one who has never been brought by youthful as- sociation in contact with the Chris- tian life. " 'Ti true," says some young men to me, "I was born in a Christian home, I am not near, however, but very, 'very far from the kingdom of Ciod. 1111y, after I left my Christian home I seemed to be posse.esed not with seven devils, but seventy times seven devils. No sooner did I leave home and go away from mother and father and I plunged into a life of dissipation. I drank, I gambled, 2. blasphemed. I did everything I ought not to have done, and I left undone everything I ought to have clone. lt is said that when Lysima- chus was fighting against the Oetae he was entrapped by his enemies In the desert sands. His thirst became SO great that he offered 1115 whole kingdomfor a drink of water, ae Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Dut no sooner had Lysimachus slaked his thirst than he cried: 'At), wretched me, who for such a ma:watery 9r0.til1e.1,•10n shoild have lost so grtnt 11, king- dom.' Tlimegh I have been brought lip in a Christian home, for the mo- mentary satisfying of my evil de- sires I have stifled all those pure influences of the past. I am like a man wbo, to quench his thirst, has clone more than to barter away a Idegdorn, I have bartered away illy life. The chalice of sin which I have lifted to my lips Was of poison. I feel it notv, dflin lay brain, dull- ino my heart, dulling my moral sen- sibilities. I feel as if I were al - Pearly dead, for tny nebler self has perished. Eternal life is lost to DONIT LIVE FOR YOURSELF'. Almost eaved! Yes, you are. X know by the unhappy loOk5 that are cliieled 111 the wrinkles of your Wee When yea started out in life' you thoeght the height of a, niat's Pinese could be estimated by the length of his bank neceunt. You thought the worldwide area of his joy could he alwaVs eireuenserffied only by the hemispheric spread of his fame. tut now by bitter ex- perience you know that wealth and lento only bring added cares. Von know thata man 11,705 for 111111 - pelt aloha, if he dot's net seek the higher joys of the sone if frin dora not live fat' Christ, seeking 080 the Welfare Of hie brother man, he ran find no heppiness on earth el, all. I can Imagine it Seem in yotir 1110 brought 115 erriptiness Vividly before yeti. Stith seette,s, Varying in their details, toted 142 Many a man, 1,faal1e33 him pasts* and Wielder What 15 tiot trite pUrpese 0( 11(19. Let tne see! Witrere did thie aeerte kepi pen? 1» the' Met, You 010 31'Weal. rISV CI firterehant, Yea he,Ve TOLSTOI DENOUNCES WAR, TE A.POSTLE OF UNIVERSAL PE.AtIsTe Murder of One's Fellow-inan the Greatest Crieke in the World, "Again war, Again sufferings, ne- essary to nobcoly, utterly uncalled for; rigaln fraud, again the universal stupefaction anil brutalization of men." Theee Word8 form the Coln- meneement of a 1.0111a rkulda article in UM L011(1011 Thnee by Tolstoi, the ltui4i novel let atel ad \ oca 1 of universal peace and brotherhood. Ile goes on to cleeerlbe the mobilieation of armies, the 'Leering awily of the hutthatols end fathers from their fields aind families, alai setting them on to kill ethers whose plight is as pitiable. 'Alen who are sever/tied from each other by thousands of miles, hun- dreds of thousands of euell men (on the one hand—Bueldists, whose law forbide the killing, not aly or men, but of unimals; on the °thee band— Christians, professing the Mw of brotherhood and love ) like wild b0aS1S 011 land and en wee. are seek- ing out each other, in order to kill, torture rind mutilate each other in horses and cattle and squaws and the most cruel way. What can this PaPooses. But, though hunters and he? Is it a. dream or a reality? eloine- trappers have almost miraculous see- thing Is taking place which should ing powers le reference to the natural not, cannot be; one longs to believe world, it does not take an inspired that it Is a dream and to awaken vision to see that we tire now living from it. in a time of great religious aweicen- "But no, it is not a dream it is ing. Everywhere the vital question a dreadful reality! is upon every- lip, "What shall I t'NFORTU.NATE l'OUNG JOAN, then do with Jesus, who is called the thirst?" Like Pilate before the 311011111 people, ;roll 111118t decido the ques: ion in reference to Jesus, 'Vol) must decide for Christ or ngronst otriio. And In bringing you SI 10 ceived and compelleil to conteadict himself, couildently thanks and bless - this question I cannot be for tvrong in statiug that "thou art not far es 1110 troops whom he calls his 0(111 from the kingdom of God," for murder in defence of lands which IS11t Why talk so much about the with yet less right he also calls Ids 0 I I, HO COO HOOPS to discues the mo - Of the Czar he says :— This unfortunate, entangled young man, recognized as the leader of 180- 000,000 of people, continually de- WOrlderfal manifestations of the Truly 01111," world at large? rave not we seen tiros of emPerors, politicians, gen- that power manifest (Kt in our own oritle, journalists, who incite this church? Men and women, can y 0 u Murder, and says :— sit st olldly in your pews when 2108 -"(Me (mold yet understand how a bands and wives and children and poor, uneducated, defrauded .1 cipan- youne 110'l) 0)1(1 women are seeking ese, torn from his field and taught Jesus Christ? While so many old pee- that Buddhism consists not in coin - pie and middle aged people (Ind passion to all that lives, but in ('0(111(1 1(001)15 people are coming? (lod will Harms to idols, and how a similar never give you a better opportunity 1001' illiterate fellow from the 'migh- t() seek 1(1)1) than .11181 11001,win 1)01000(1of Toula or NUM Nexgorod. u not Mine to the Saviour, now? I King Aserippa, are you going to who has been taught that Christian- yoipping Christ, Like be "alroost persuaded" and lost? Or ity coneists in worsh the Madonna, Saints, and their ikons like Paul, the "chief of gnomes," are ! —one could understand how these 1111 - yon 1.0 be earonatee one se sow, 91,0 frtunate men, brought by the vie - seat upon throne in heaven with ence and deceit of ceeturies to re - 'Jesus Christ? Sickness has been a spiritual bless- ing to you, 0 inall, as the palsy was to the invalid of old. It has plaeed you almost within toueli of otir Sal' - lour and King. Eor years and years you did not know what a pain meant, When you heard people complaining about their invalidism you had no sympathy, You would Petulantly say, "Nine-tentlis of these so called invalids are Mere hypochon- driacs. If Men and women would only get up and stop their com- plaining and stop dosing themselves witli medicines they would be all right"- When a ministee in church would preach from the text, "Thou Tool, this night thy soul shall be re- quired of thee," you would settle back in yoor seat and smile. You would say to yourself 1 "Perhaps. Perhaps not. My ancestors were all long lived. I guess I will be also." Then you would complacently pat your chest as yam expanded your lungs three nr from inches, and you would say ; "Well, my ancestors net'er bad a finer breathing appara- tus than I have. Perhape I shall (lie to -night. Perhaps not." But two years ago there cone that sudden attack of illnees. It came alinoSt without any warning at all. You remember how your cheek be- came as white as that of a torpae and your lips turned blue and cold. You remember how that pneumonia stabbed at your lunge, or how 111(1.1 typhoid otado you sink so low that for weekand weeks you hovered be - {Veen life and death. 'You remem- ber bow asthma choked you until it seemed as though yon would go inarl with the agony. Aye, that sick - nem made out or you a changed Man, When the minister now an- nounces the text, Luke, tWelfth chap» ter and twentieth terme, '"1"12011 foel, this night thy soul phial be required of thee.," you do not flippantly sny : "Perhaps. Porhaps 1101,," 'You know it is not out ef the range of poseibilities -that this night you may be brought fate to (nee with God at the judgMent Seat of Christ, 0 Man, (Wen While / Speak trarlay the geed and the bad 6f your past lirr are dying avelfter than the winds through yOur seething brain. Aye, they ire flying ea tiwiftly se the lealoalmata of bygone yeare lit A. telide bed .01 thee Moires before the vieffen Of droWeing matt. -Yelnapast Melte over which the upper ranks ean PaSS. in the same way are the _Russian peuple being disposed of, THF 's S 1 ESSON _ , 'lams the Hest lower layer is al- - .4 1,..... a. A .0 ready beginning 1.0 (11100111, indicating INTERNATIONAL LESSON, the way to otber thousands, who will all likewise 1101811, JULY' 24, ._— beginning to understand their sin, Text of the Lesson, II. Chro xix., 1-11. Golden Text, II "And are the originalore, directors end supporters of this drendful work their crime? Not in the least, They Citron. xix., 11. dirty, and 1110y It is pleasant, as well as peolltable, are quite persuaded that tbey have activity. are proud of Woo' did right in tee sight, or 1110 Lord -,1P-,r to continue meditating upon one who fulfilled, and are fulffilieg, l 1 I bravo Illakaroff, who, ns all agree, Gad of his 1/111101', and Walked in HIS (XX, 1)2), for he sought to the Lord 'People speek or the loss of the wits able to kill men very cleverly; lei? ineicniinunpclni),(intttis1,0 waan3ds 1,1,irs 1 iliitc:artLow:tals, thee' tiaPiore MO loss Of a dr0Wra.,1 and 1110 Lord was with him (xvii, had COS1 80 many millions of roub- tweitty-fl•ve years (xx, 81), but it. Is 8-6). lie is said to bave reigned excellent machine of slaughter which to find m1011101. murderer n8 capable were the Met years of Asa, his lath - possible that three or those years les, they, discuss the queetioa of how as the poor benighted Wittig -troll, they er, while he was diseased. in his invent new, still more efficacious feet. In (melee to loop before us tools of slaughter, and rill the guilty some idea of whom we, aro in the men engaged in this dreadful work, history of Gies° two kingdoms, it from the Csar to the humblest jour- would be wen 10 consult a compare- nalist, ell with 01119 V0100 call for Hoe chronological table of the kings riOW inSanitieS, 110W C11101 tie8, for the and prophets of Judah 011d Israul, illereaSe of brutality and hatred of etieh as may be founo la the eepen- one's fellow men." di:e of mint of our good reference A SOLDIER'S LETTER. Bibles. In a Baxter Bible it is NSW lament pege 194.. The article elopes with quotations from several letters received by PelisTo this it will 1)0511011that the 000 twentmy-two years of 'Abab'e reign in Tolstoi from Ruseian reservists, lvaej were about contemporary with of the Most remarkable or which the first twenty-two years of Jo-' was written at Port Arthur : lioshaphal's reign in Judith. The 'I have read your book. It was prophets of the time were Jelin „ the very- pleasant. reading for me. 10910 son of IIanani, in J uclah, and. ' late - been a great lover of reading smote' ainh end lehjell, in Mime]. It will works. AVell, Lyof Nikolaevitch, w help us to keep this 111 mind, as our are now in a :date of war; please next lesson concerns Ahab, and the write to rue whether it is ngreenble ." , . . six following 00ep Elijah before es. to God or not that our commandees Nene el' the prophets whose writings Nikolcievitch, write to ate Please compel us to kill. I. beg you, Lyof WO have had up to this time appear- ed. Jonah, who is the first, mines wliether or not, Cie truth now exists inter. on earth. Tell me, Lyof Nikolae- Our lesson begins with the return -elicit, In church hero a prayer is of Jehoshaphal in peace to Jeruset- being read, the priest mentions the with tire king of lent from the battle Christ -loving army. Ie it true or sycie. io wtict to had boon on ony not that Clod loves war? I 1 v "IlTt- witti Ahab and very narrowly eseap- you, Lyor Nikolanvitch, have v -00 ed death. Ahab, although disguise:1, got any books from which I could M11 by a God directed arrow from a see whether truth exists on earth bow draWn at n, venture (xviii, 28' 01' not. Send me such boolcs. What ea). .Tehoshaphat began hie reign they cost, I will pay. I beg you exceedingly wen end sent teachers Lyof leiltolaetitch, do not negMet my request. Ir there are no lmoos, with the book of the law of the Lord 1 the cities of judah th ro it ghou t al then send me 0 lettee. I will 130 to teach the people, ono result being vury glad when I receive a letter that the fear of the Lord fell upon from you. I will await your letter all the kingdoms of the lands round - with impatience. Good-bye for the about Judah, mei they made no War preSellt. I remain alive and well, 990 0151 Jelioshaphat. The Phil is - and wish the mime to you from the tines nnd Arabians brought presents Lord God. Good health awl good as well as tribute to him, so that he 11111.90(1 great exceedingly and had success in your work." riches and honor In abundance (xvii. + 9-12). Tbett came his alliance with a man who did more to provoke the Lord M RS AND SURGEON'S. _ God of Xsrael to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him cognize the greatest crime in the Scotsman is Performing Feats of world—the murder ofsene's brethren— Bloodless Surglery. as a virtuous act, can commit these dreadful deeds, without rem\ eding themselves as being guilty in so do- ing. THE SUAVE JAPANESE. How Soyeshime. Outwitted the Wily Li Hung -Chang. The newspaper correspondents who have been cooling their heels in To- kyo 1vh110 polite Japanese officials have gently thwarted all their en- deavors to get to the seat of war are probably in a frame of mind -to ap- preciate an incident related of Li Hung -Chang by Mrs. Archibald Lit- tle. In 187:1 trouble arose between China and Japan over Formose. A Japanese ship had been east away on the island and its crew murdered. Japan protested. China unwisely re- plied that it could 1101 restrain the bandits of that uncivilized land. Japan, without delay, landed an armed force and diseiplined the of- ficials. A minister WaS then ap- pointed to go to China and explain the tiff air. Li Hung -Chang openly boatited that this niinister WOUld Wier be allowed to go to Peking. In order to pre- vent it he w43nt to meet him at Tien- tsin, to head him off. The wily ,Tapanase, Soyeshima, called upon him, informed him that he had been appointed minister to Poking, and told hint how he was looking fors ward to seeing that wonderful city. Of Formosa he said not a. word. Li promptly introduced the diplo- matic topic, and spoke at great length against tho encroachment of Japan on China's territory, S'oyeeh- into, listened with the utmost polite- ness and gravity. When Li had ex- hausted himself in elequenee the Jap- anese rose and mucle the eximperat- ingly sell -possessed bow of his race and rank. He would respectfully iselm his leave, he suicl, 2.1 WaS an honor to have heard Li speak. Trowever, ho "had called only to pay hie respects net lo diecuss international affairs, Ho had been aerrecliterl to the 0 -hill - '0110 government at Peking," and tvas then on his way thither, With another impressive bow he left the room and Li. The Chinese statesman, who had probably al- ready regrotterl the foolish boast, found it advisable to he suddenly "Indisposed," anti dirt not return the call, so the "Jap" went serenely 00 his mission to Peking, where, in- stead of giving an indemnity, he persuaded the Chinese goverrunent to pay 1110 expenses of tho Japanese in- vasion of Ti'ornmein, which were set- tled nt, half a million taels, SAVETY TIIITNDEIISTOBMS. Excellent authorities agree that in A, thuhderatorm the middle of a rooln Is much the safest place in a house. A earimted 11(101', or one covered by O thick rug, is 1)114103' (0 stand on than bare wood. it le well to keen 15W1130 front chimneys end out of cel- lars. In 1110 open air tall trees are dangerous, A pollen) slielterecl dor a low tree or ehrub 8001., or 40 it, front a large 1111(0 lofty tree 30 qui Le sate. If 1 igh tning strikes it the linmediate vicinity it Will hit, the high tree, as it rule, with fete ex- teptionte Water la a. veva' good eon" ittletor, and it, le Well to avoid the bealk5 of atreante in a violent 111(1(5-- (1811810101, REASON DETHRONED. "But how can so-called enligbten- ed men preach war, support re par- ticipate in it, and, WOrf,41 of all, had journeyed, 91111 from early without suffering the dangers of war 111)730 sena_ morning until sundown they formed themselves, incite others to it, ing their unfortunate ileframled bro- 1 a pitiful procession as they passed tilers to fight? These so-called en,- from the little wayside station to lightened men cannot possibly ig- Rea's modest cottage, 1 twee, I do not say the Christi= Their hopes rose high as they met law, if they recognize themselves to some returning patients, who no be Christians, but all that leas been !longer needed to use their crutches. written, is being written, has and 1s Many returned heine delighted; being said, about the cruelty, futil-1 others. are waiting their turn, ity, and Senselessness of war. They' A young man from Salford, (me of aro regarded as enlightened men pre- whose legs was discolated both at cisely because they know- all this. "It is as if there had never existed either Voltaire, or Montaigne, or Balantyre, a mining hamlet nett.. Glasgow, was besieged lately by trrtinloads of cripples, all inspired by the hope that 1(21011' inermities may yield to the magic touch of ‚(‚('11110111Rea, who has gained 10020111 able fame as a bone -setter, From Lancashire and Yorkshire the thigh and ankle, is returning home with a limb mule straight. Men who never lcnew the sensittion Primal, or Swift, or Kant, or hpirg, of placing both feet on the ground, oza, or hundreds of other writers:tow even hnnchbac,ks, hay, 1,0011 who have exposed, with great forcesiseeees-billy treated. A. little girl's the madness and futility of war, and spine has been straightened: enother have described its cruelty, 11111110ral- girl, whose leg was bent double, and My end savagery; and, above all, 1 is as if there had never e.,-visted Jesus and his teaching of limmin brother- hood. "Ono recalls all this to Mind and looks around on what is taking place and one experiences horror less Itt the abominations of War than at that which is the most horrible of all horrors—the consciousness 'of the impotency of the human re08011." "LOVE YOUR ENEMIES." re deals with the queStiost of the justification of war against the ene- mies of one's country as. follows :— The answering of blow With blow, cruelty with cruelty', robbery with robbery, he denounces from the Standpoint of the Chriatian law of '"Love your enemies." "So that to this question as to what is to be (lone 11001, 0111011. war is commenced, for me, a. man who understands his 'destination, what- ever position I may occupy, there can be no 01110r 10180171' than this, whatever be my ciremnstaneee, whe- thee the war be commenced or not whether thousands of Russians or Japanese be killed, whether not only Port Arthur be taken, but St. Pet- ersburg and Moscow—I cannot act otherwise tben as God demands of me, and that therefore I as a man can. neither directly ter indirectly, neithee by directing, nor by helping, nor by inciting to it, participate in War; I cannot, T. cle not wish to, and I will not, What will happen im- mediately or 80011, from my ceasing to do that which is contrary to the will of Clod, T do not: end cannot know, but 1 believe that Mom the fulfilment of the will of Ood there can follow nothing but that, which IS good ror 11111 411111 for all nem." BRIDGE Ole ging DEAD. After the digester to the Petropav- lovsk, in which Makeroff pereished, Tolstoi continents thus on the 11100(9' 5)1105 to retrieve the loss to Ruseian preethei 1— "It is frankly geld that the regret- table reverses of our fleet noset be compensated on the land. In plain Itthgtlage this means that ir the Ms 1)10)') 11(111 have Wile directed 141.4,,,,.', 9 man whose leg was out of joint in three places—hip, knee and ankle —'xejoico in what Ilea has been able to do for them. Ilea finds it impossible to treat more than an average or forty peo- ple in ft day. The treatment is that known as bloodless surgery, and wonderful is the akill With which Rea practices it. The excursion trains by tvhicli 1:he sufferers travelled to 131antyre should have returned next day, but the rail- way companies have granted an ex- tension and Mr. Rea and his son, who assiste him, will endeavor by that time to cope with the surpris- ing demand made upon them. Tho coming and going of this un- usual inrush of the afflicted has been -a matter of pathetic interest to the toiling population of Blantyre. They stand during their leisure evening hours in the roadway oppo- site Rea's cottage watching the pa- tients arrive, and if, as is often the case, the callers leave obviously im- proved, they loudly sound the prais- es of the man by whose agency the Change (las been wrought,. Sixty years of age, upright. in Mame, and a typical, hardy Scot in appearance, Rea has from his youth onwards Interested himself in rem- edying tiho discolationt Of limbs. All his lire Ile has lived in the neighbor- hood of Glasgow, and some thirteen steers ego his many local 5017ee58e5 in pulling disjointed hips and other troubles or hulnanity, to righta brought him. AO many patients; that he Was forced to relinquish his work as a eolliery official, Since then his Minn has aprearl, and theme who seek his seevices have come in in- creased 111101110(5 from an ever -widen- ing area, HO rAST ITE 1111111. Physicians regard the ease of Wai- ter Melts, it youth who died at 1,110 home or his Mamas in Lafayette, lnd., from the effects of too rapid or,008, teed by their 11010eomee, 'moo growth, as one of the most rentarlc- deetroyed 1106 only the nation's mil- able in medical annals, Although lions but 1110118011de 05 liVee, ean but fourteen ,yeers old, young Rieke make It, up by esmdernhing to death Was over a feet ill height, hut. Oen- on hind several mei e eeore8 of lime- der, The development of his Intern - sends! 111 ()tomes did mit keep pace with "When (ree)ing 10e.ue1s &OAS riV- that of hie, body and hie limbe, asid ers it heppene that the 101001' tare's the steain on his heart reradled 111 ere drowned, until from the Imaliee injury:10 the vital oegaltS and eatteed Of the drowned re relined 0 'bridge hie death., ' r...,,ext. woo, • THE TERMS 5FLOCKWIT IT IS THE MHR OST ORIBLE IT . DEAT.1C.NOWN. Director Martini ef New lrork, Utters a Warniag to Pareats. 'W11.11 ci. graph(e 110511)1(11.1(01 01 the Mures of lockjaw or 1,51)111114,Diem. Lor Martin of blew York, appeals t0. all (1111011 1s not to permit 1)1(911' chit- dren to have blank cartridges or cannon crackers. P110517 1011)110180. inakors, he said, were 1(111 most fre- quent causes of the dread (111110180.The sale of blank cartridges to chil- dren, he declared, NVOS criminal, and 1)1 Permit. a child to handle cannon crackers (1)111a1111081 ((8 Seri 0118 a 111a 1 or, "lam 0110001 Make 100 Str011g," said Director Martin, "in urging pa- ren1 11 to prOV011 their ('11101 ('011 using, the toy pistol with its deadly blank cartridge, or the 01(1(1011cracker. Wherever a person receives it wound front a blank cartridge or it larg0. fire -cracker he Is likely to be infect- ed with tetaims. Every 01150 that develops in nye days is certain death. ilinelaellve per cent. of the eitees developing 111 11 1110 &vs W111 be fatal, and of the eases taking longer than nine (lays to develop, 130 per cent, will prove fatal. 100530IIOIRRIPLE DEATH, "The first syneetems of the diseaso. is the 1)0(11011111(1 al the death agony,e' and it is the most horrible death' known to medical men. The mere Closing of a door will. send the ba - tient into the most awful 171)111112- 510115 and a ray of light will MING the same effect. No ease of hydrop- hobia ie worse, and it Is always more virulent in children than in. grown persons. If children can be prevented from using blank cart- ridges (1)1(1cement crackers it will be possible to save two down lives in New -York city alone. 'More won) over 650 criees of tetanue, fleetly all eleildren, in the United. States last yew', and them cases 01010 due to the U50 of explosives. "Tetanus, or lockjaw, is clue to a micre-organisin, 14)91(1(1(1 like a rod, P1101 bacillus exists practically every- where, and is particularly prevalent in Pennsylvania. It is most active in Warn]. \\Toting% though it is not affected by the cold, and even boiling will not 0111 it. Carbolic acid or mercifre' does not. afeect it for 110,115, amt 1110 bacilli. will live 10 yrears on O splinter of wood. The 011130 3)1(1.110 in which it will not flouriteh !gin the open "The fact that air is not. a good place for the development of the bacilli is what makes the germ par- (xviii, 1; I Kings lowed bis son )xvi,olter38). s= toll°tankii; .ticularly harmful u in wounds cased Ahab's daughter to wife (TI Kings - a blank cartridge or a /cannon. vile 18), and also joined ekhab to fight against the king of Syria (chapter 18), hence the reproof of our Lord through Jahn in our les- son, "Shouldest thou help the ungod- ly and love them. that hate the Lord (Verso 2.) One feels 11110saying, 'Why could not. Jehosh- (That let ungodly Alictli alone and continue, as he had C1108011, to walk with God'? Ilut is not this matter of worldly alliances the prominent Bill of our 011111 time? In marriage, in business, in religious matters, is it not seen eveeywhere? 110111 few seem. to give any consider- ation to II. Oar. vi., 14-18, and are there many even among God's minis- ters who think it wrong to have fel- lowship 01110 those who deny that Jesus Christ is (3ocl, or with those who deny that the blood of Christ alone, without any works of ours, can take away sin? The manner of jeheshaphat's life was, as a rule, right; 01 the sight of the Lord, although there were two very dark. clouds in elm clear (lay, the ODA we hmn ave entioed, and lat- er his alliance with Ahasiah (xx., 813- 87). But it is refreshing to sea him in the remainder of our les- son chapter, after the Lord reproved him, going met through all the peo- ple to bring them again to the Lord, setting judges in the lend land allmonisbing them in such words as "Take heed what ye do, for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord who Is with you" (verses 5-7), saying al- so to the priests and Levites: Thus' shall yo do in the fear of the Loed,, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. Take courage and do, and the Lord shall be with the good" (verses 30, 11, and margin). Theseeare words for us to lay to heart, for only such living and acting tvill stand in that day. 3(1000 other can have ap- proVal (II, Tim. 15). On the words "Take heed" see Luke viii., 18; Mark iv., 24, "Take heed • now yo hear and what ye hear." Alec, Matt, xxlv., 4, "Take heed that no man deceive you." Ise. vii., 4, "Oink° heed and be quiet. Fear not!" As to the Lord's hatred of iniquity, respect of persons and taking of gifts, seo Ex. xxiii., 8; Deut, so, 17; Job xxicive, 19; Rom, ii., 11; 10(111,vi., 9. As we have but one lesson (311 the life of this great king we must not, omit a glance at 111111(1101'20, and the victory which tho Lord wroeght for His people. Realizing their helplese- nese, they east themselves Wholly up- on Him, and the Lord fought against their enemies and made them to rejoice over their 01111111105,an(1 gave them. rest round -about (ve)ses a, 27-80). Note the king's prayer (verses 6-12) and p01110010 3 2 with xi v. , 11: "Wo have no might against this great comr,101Y that cornett, 0(1)111151. es; neither know 0111what to do. But 0111' 11115 mum Thee." These are tbe people wheel Ood helps, the Impotent, the utterly 1101111508,reit those who tan help thernselves. *Note, also, verses 111, 37, 20, 22, and learn to fear not, be- lieve nett melee, Aehole-liectried reliance ripen the Lord made so. prominent, in this leseon and Um 'Mat is greatly needed. erhelcer. Such wounds usually are made in the palm of a hand w01e1.1 le ffrilitY, and the wadding and bits of Powder and metal become imbedded under ujagged wound. No air can get to it, and the condition is ideal for the 'development of tho disease. DEADLIEST POISON KNOWN. "Like diptheria, the bacilli do not spread; bat in a wound to whieb, air has no access, the gorm exudes a poison that is the deadliest ivitown'. This poison travels along the nerves and to the nerve cells hi the 'front part of the spinal cord. It eonarta- stens begin in five days, the patient is doomed. It is perhaps erufflcient to say that one three -hundredth of a grain of tetanus poison will kill a mast. The only way in which tele anus may be prevented, alter a per- son has been wouoded with a hicielc cartridge or a, cannon cracker, is by the use of anti -toxin. Tveo tea- • spoonfuls should be administered at 0.1100 and by a surgeon, 'rho child should be etherized and the woued opened, ancl cleaned, Every ease should be operated on, and the anti- toxin should be used. It is a pro• ventive and a cure, but if it as lsad when the disease shows sYliaPtionas it is valueless becauee too late in ap- plication. "A bullet W01111d is not nearly so dangerous as a punctured wound from a .cap,ebecaase the bullet padres a :clear wound, and if it passes thtough the hand allowe aceess of Ivhich is deadly to tetenus 'germs,: A clean-eut wound will wash out tetanus germs. "I do not say that there ie ger or tetanus from the use of Palter caps, paper torpedoes and sinali lire - crackers. These may cause superfi- cial burns, but they will hardly make, wounds in which germs may VOW. 1.1. is a fact, however, that 90 per .cent. of the oases of tetanus due to. liret worke came from injulies inflicted by blank eartriages and 10 per cent: came from cannon crackers. DIRE PREDICTION. "I tvant to say, further, that if blank cartridges and cannon crackers ere oted by children from 12 to 24 of them will be stricken with. Wein- lia and will die most horrible dece105, Tetanus is more deadly than the blte of a mad dog. It te equally; painful and equally incurable. Te11t11.- 1113 18 150 tirneo as poisonoes strychnine or prussic acid, 'A dose of prussic acid, of 1-800 a a grain, would not 1se felt by a Man, and yet tetanus poisoning of et,ltat amount would be fatal." "And phwal'e beeeme or your d asigh ter, Mt's, n0011150" "Well, Mre. Mulligan, elle Was that Uselesti intoirely that r 11001, 1101' Out to a lroly help," • TIMID TO DIGEST. In the British nevy the engineera have a. curious way of killing sharks. They seal tip a. dynamite cartridge in en empty can arid put the can ineide a Nam of pork, pork is thrown oVerboard on 0 Wire which hne been connected with an electric. battery. 1V'hon the Shark takes' the ban the tg1g11Wer pressee a button, width ex- plodes the cartridge awl 10118 the fish. The healthy gloW diseppearin 00111 1110 cheek and moaning and restlesfineSs at night are Imre SYMP.' toms of wortne chilcirro, Do not fail to get a bottle re! aeother Greets' Worm Ilixtermilanter, it iS att effeeteal tneftleseee.