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bESCRIPTI1N OF JESUS
Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the
Flowers of theAble.
The Vineyards of En-gedi,-The Sweetness of Christ's
Pardon—Men Do Not Carry Their Religion With
Them—Lack of R.eligion Makes You Gloomy—
Christ's Comfort Makes a Man Mighty.
i tAl deal:atoll from l'Oashlington seem: neigny people mew think that
Rev, Dr. Talmage metalled front the
mentalism. Jonnehate Edwards wee a
folloWing text: "My beloved Ls unto 000l man • he wale hLtuneral than there is in a wedding;
aish in some of hie
/Me tle o °luster of oaMplare • ea the , opinione ;' he woe never aeflicted with"9 ,more is ligion in tetirfi than in
ripe% ,. David was no bettee when,
vMeeterds of En-gedi."-Solornou'a any Sentimental ardour; and yet,
e said Ile orled out of the depths of
Song! i., I4. I when the name of Christ was men -
hell, than he was when he mid that
' Monad it
Solomon'e eons has 'been eonsidered mare._ was filled with laughter
lay, many as fit only tor m.00nstrook ew HIM INTO A TRANSPORT. is mouth
linebaken in the Mediterranean ship- have laughed the lovudesr.er Reniwonn
weth nerves best iin:!li 6ntottute .1 wlitah einging,k The
Paul was a cool loerician,
eentitmentalists; written by a volute. '
euary-the story of a man erazed his, wreok, a graeitio natters, comfortable was intended to brightext up all our
a fair emiden-f it neither for family with the whole world against him, shale, character. Take out the sprig of
hetnie,sfisot in ar gee afartrg :ohrecogi•loovt- yttrtteessr off ooami yr °feint aft!. pet in d'a
Prayers nor for oharches. Indeed, 1 ill'T3 rfigi•oolians the vineyards
ere ermiet admit that there were years ' em.ene:,, .
, yet the thought of Christ of En-gedi."111PRe
to Salaam's life when be had, several I thrilled him, traneported him, over- of pleasantne,ss and all her paths are
en- , erh.elreed him. John Knox was unbend- peace." r have round it so. There
twandred More wives then his was
! tag in ins eature, and hard in Berne Who have found it so
iitIech to; thut be repented of luis stn. respects. The flash of his indignation I remark, g in; li. t theeamphire.
lted God obese him to write scone of made the quell shiver and the ducle.' plant ot tie: text .waas a s mbol of
the best things about Christ that ees quake; yet he sat down 0.13 a lit- Jesus Christ bemuse it is aY mighty
1 /Old t the feet of Jesus. Solomon restorative. You' know that there is
;hove ever been written. Besides that,
Ti inraiy-eickly 86011-
0
T,
geleanie Shook, Bat I tell Jena nue
testa yoar religion geoe With YOU eVerY-
where, lt goes nowhere, That reit.
glon Was lutenclea to oolteer all the
heart and tile itfe,
But, Mark yeti, it was a bright
colour. Vet' the Meet part it was un
orange dye Wade 92 thle 04MPhise-
p1ant, one oil the most brilliant cif all
Lha eoloure; and so the religiou of
Jesus chriet oasts no bltioknese or
gloom upon the sol, lt brightens up
life, it brightens up everything. you
who ge with sombre ooentenanee, ere-
teliding that you ere better than .1
am beeautie of your lugubriousneee,
eannot olteat me. 1 knew you, you
old hypoorite! Peetty ease yoa are
foo a man who preihnda to be More
than eonqueror I The more religion a
man has the better and the tiapPier
it mekeellim, it is uot Thoae
are the kind el men to whom like
to lend money, for I never see them
again! There is no more religion in
think the criticism of Modern
tones upon. the Immodesty of the
bible comes with poor grace from en
ego in Which the writings of George
Snai'd, have come to their fortieth edi-
tion, and Christians cannot get te the
prayeremeeting because they heel
gekets for first-rate seats at ten
"Sheik Crook." I think, however, 0,,
tar as I can me, en, my stupidity, that
there are things turned out upon the
community, to -day that bid fair to do
more damage than the Sorge 01 Solo-
mon.
Hear, now, one of his fresh and fair
deseriptione oI Jesus. If I had
twenty years to preach, I would like
to employ ten of them in bringeng
out. to observation those representa-
tions of Christ which have! eis yet been
Passed by. do not. knuw why thei
should hover over a few types
a Christ when there are so many
eye:abuts of Jesus that have Lever
beet, discoursed upon. Why ehoutd
we employ all our tome iv examining
afew lilleie, when, the Bible is a great
gardeo filled with fu,schias, and with
daffodils, and with temarintlis, and
wale evening primroses for ,the elose
of the life's day, and eroeuses o,the
loot of the anow-hank of sorrow, end
heart's ease for the troubled, and "pas-
s/on-Cowers" planted at the foot of
a cross, end "morning glories" spread-
ing' out under the eplendours of the
breaking day i Some weeks eke!, I
discoursed to you about "the White
hears oT Semis," and I have been told
thaq some of the newspapers suppos-
ed it we's a mere fancy of utly own -
the. poor fools lint knowing- that in
Itevelation„, the first and the four-
teenth, the Bible speaks of Christ
"whose. head and whose leters are whtte
like wool, as white as snow"-sera-
bolLzing
THE ETERNITY OF ;JESUS.
Terraced! on the side of the moun-
tains were the vineyesds of En-gedi.
Wit they were sweet phtees. Fri=
a shelving of the mountains, four
hundred. feet high, water came down
to beautiful baptism! on the faces of
the leaves; the grapes intoxicate with
their own wine; pomegranetes with
Jetties bursting- from the rind; ell
fruits and flowers and aromatic woods
-aIntang thei sweetest of these the
caoniteleireeplant a the text. Its
towers ale in clusters like our Mae
-graceful, fragrant, symbolical of
Jesus. "Bor my Beloved 18 0010 me
58 etcluster of etemphire from ihe
viteyarde, of En-gedi."
I will carry oue the idea, of my text,
and in thei first plane ,show Vow thrit
•thie cataaphire-plaint of the text was
aeyerbol a Christ, because of its trag-
ranee. ff lhad a branch of it, end
eleould wave it in your midst, re
Would' fill all the house with Ile re -
end $0 fie= different perte of this
lend, giving lue 0011.110mo in that old
(impel whieb my faller hallooed in,
14nd whieh 1 Imre tried, though .14
mirth feebletees of. Wel, to preaciii to
You. Ito 1 t tiee teellighlo rising krti
beyond thfes throng, three imedred
thousand, souls on !eine and the other
side Of the Allentre to whom thea
poor words 73007 00Me ea meeseges of
pardon, end peam, and love, Olt, mon
and women, •preeent or absent 011,
men and wonieo judgmeeteboendi
Ohl mon and women eternttyglestinecil
0,11, men and women Christepurchased1
where are your prayers/ where are
your eateries for moray / De not
soMe di you feel that togeght la the
thee to begin tb pray? Some weeke
ago, you remember that terrible some
Ln title very building becalm of a elide
of snow from the roof, and the ogy of
"fire" on the part of some villein' ill
yon gallery, there was an outore of
horror through the building, and
wringing Of halide, and Scene beeeene
as dead men, end it was all an
intaginary peril -no danger at all.
A.Pin. 0;
000
1421117 arteight011 WaS the May
dattgliter ot a Welsh collier, who live
ed in 4 sniall village in Gleam/igen.,
ehire, and wox'ked in one of the
Mane neighboring octal pits.
Itlilly was peoullerly proud. of her
anceslora, and she delighted In islet -
lag their deeds of courage, wed even
heroism. For many generations her
family name Geared on the death roll
oe the pitseothe roll of honor detail,
Ing tlioae who had died in the per-
formanoe a their duty ius °others,'
procuring coal for the comfort and en-
riehenent 02 their country.
The girl was known by young and
We will never forget 111181eeene- le , ,,,, , . . .
cor oi ,,,,,e (other &stria es "Our
those of us who were here that night,
If eau were me alarmed when tho peril Mille and "Our Lassie," and she was
was only imaginary, whet will be the looked upon almost co the property of
condition of these who are unprepared the various pug whim tho opooini pit
for eternity, when It shall not be a
tether and three of her
slide of snow, but an avalanche of Where her
rocks-Einatilya, Alps, and Andes brothers elorked. wee known more aa
crushing into demolition; and the con- "Milly's Pit" than by the nem° oft (is
flagration of the last clay shall be “
proprueior.
kindled, and a ehousand million voices
on earth will ory: "Fire 1" and my- Millie Wes a striking looking girl,
riads of voices in ehe sky respond: mucht aller than any other members
"Fire!" and on the land and on the .-.4 1.. 11 3 1
...... eor ..emey, artd, though rather
sea, and above, and beneath, and eV- slight, she was neat and well propor-
erywhere, it shall be: "Fire I fire I
thofatthahatrimstatriougez1joz
*Tzlehadt. she had many suitors was not
nitirgilialt" lay 0hhOld
Son of God -speak with Chat voice that
etteeful rivel, Who was hie friend,
east against witene he eetild beer no
enlateteley.
He eater 311111y as ef old, She
thoeght he had, tononered his feelings
telWeed her, eo their former friendship
wee eenewea,
One dee, fiew hears after the pits
bed muneenteed Work, Morgan eallle
ia Xitly Woking very pele.
"Do not be frighteeed," he ealet, 'but
OeVid hal mel with an aociclent-a
alight melba. He hue been explor-
ing 4 esed-em pit where he thought
there vette a 'Seam of mel that meld.
be got at, Ile leies .uneeererett a hit of
sluff and found the Maio ; SO he 'ere
Petits to get ,41 good eunl of Meaty for
41.5 and, ic he does net try te rent the
Mato and work it himself, He took me
down this morning to see it. While
etripping some ot the surplus a lump
of imal Jell norms lee leg. He has lost
a tittle blood, and is resting. Be
tbought if you would bring down o
handage or two we might aet him
right between us. You toe, he does
not want anyone to know Of ids slip.
to anyone of it,
emery jest yet, oci you must not hint
Milly went with Morgan immedi-
ately. He led her to the pit, which
W1,8 in a very out of thla way place.
"Devid. IS in there," he said,. point.
ing te a dark archlway from whioh the
mat bed been excavated,
Milly entered, Morgan linnaediate-
ly followed, wad closed a door behind
him -a door rudely made, but strong,
Then he told Milly that Devid was
not huet at all, and that he had
brought her to this place in order to
tell her that he could not live without
her, aed that he mig,ht make her pro -
Mise to marry him. He tried permea-
te be woadered at, but only two out 41,1°41 hie,ani,d, tvhttn,heanirdoditatdlelsiti
taireangt.seelin,
was s•uerounded by all palatial splen- nothing that starts respiration so soon
lour -his Mips going out from Ezion- in one who has fainted as oaraphor, as wakes the dead I However cairn and
of them all reoeived any encourage- etteh day with f nod and for her re -
amber on voyages of three years, bring- we have it. Put upon a sponge or placid we may now be, my dear bro.
kb went back to bis woe* in the
ing book all the wonders of the world handkerchief, the effects are almost there and sisters out of Carist, I meat from her, One was the looal
must tell you that you are in grind- preacher, wbo often preached In the
-his parks alleat with, myrrh and Immediate. Siren, this oamphire-plant •_h 31"'S emn her Peetu, e mom Whn alitly would be mess.
pit at own, makiing excuses for his eb-
frankincense, and a rustle with trees ot the text, though somewhat differ- ing need, in swilling peril. "Except oho a
brought from foreign lands- the ant from that which we have, wacannot see the kingdom of God." ats a men be born again, he cannot -he , Patende.dl; whtue
the other was the young ed, suspicion must not fall upon him.
He had hardly commenced to ply his
man who played the harmonium at the
iek, when e, treaminclous ex lesion
chapel, and who was looked upon aa a It'ook 1 Al
p ace. 1 the outlets from the
P ever, IL was suddenly reported that
',yaws ot his stupendous gardens found
els deem in this ptgaoo to think cd and 111 that respect It bemmes a type
of. our Lord Jesua Christ, who is the
Christ, the altogether lovely and the
mightiest of all restoratives. I helve
tllogether fair; and whilst seated,
theres comes a breath of tIm spioes
so Igor, pleodo mt
,hia81 t ecranit hPeh id' ed-optloarns t hiondloh Leto
and! aromatio woods, and of the blos-
d their consultation and said there was
A .PUNGENT AROMATIC
by the traveller at this day. Solomon
BOERs IN SOUTHWEST AFRICA.
The Report, That Kramer Wan Joon Them
lir The 151')) 1811 illa the leremvaal.
KIMBERLEY DIAMOND8,
AFTER CROWE'S SURRENDER THE
NIIPPLY IS ACIAIN NAVE.
*me
tam eter or fleioh afelee-Veeluess er like
irreekult4 Steno Pith Watch Veen ghedes
OW lois.
With Kimberley relieved, Cronje sur-
rendered, and Cecil IlhoOmi once more
at Bigwig', tiao resumption of the ta,.
dustry a diamond digging In Sotelee
Afrioa le likely to be even new under
way. For Kimberley tam the great.
est knowe &emend deposit of the
world, end its hieldell Wealth is too
preoleall to be allowed to remain long
unexploited,
'Up to the beginning of the present
century nearly all diamonds came
from, India, Then great numbers
were found Brazil, but not until af-
ter the dimmery of diamond.% in South
Africa, in 1867, were the stonesfound
in vast quantities. That year a Dutole
farmer, who lived near what are now,
known as the great diamond fields, got
froml a native a bright stone that his
ohildren were using ae a plaything.
The stone yeas sent to Cape Town and
was there recognized as a diamond of
exceptional value. It was forwarded
to the Parie Expoeition and there mild"
for 82,500. From that time on the
diamond lever swept through South
Afrioa. Two years later a beautiful
stonewas found which weighed eigh-
ty-three carats. It was oalled the
"Star of South Africa," and sold for
mom.
Up Lo this Ume the diamonds had
bean found in the sand near the Or-
aege and Vaal rivers, In 1870, howo
musical genius in the district. Like mine were completely blocked.
great pockets cee hard earth tilled with
must musicians, lee waa of a very jov- Morgan found himself in the dark, diamonde had been, found on a plateau
lying prostrate on his back, with a no
and head atone were free. He oried rth of the Orange river. The dia-
ial nature, and naturally Ire was a
quantity of ooal upon him. His face
no hope and nothing more oould be pit in which he worked, for , ' • mond hunters ilooked to the new fielde
60111.13, III ro g It has recently been reported from great favorite both in the village and
done, mad. the soul brightened up un- South Alden that President Kruger in the " ' help In (tem. For many hours he and found that In that region of the
and he cries out : "My beloved is un-
der the epiritual restorative. There has no intention or tpending his decline Both of these young fellows worked tai them unable to move. plateau, under its layer of red send,
to me as a eluster a campleire from
the vineyards of En-gedi."
0 rich and rare, exquisite an
with Milly's rather and brothers, and 'Bele hour seemed as tlaough it were
d ever- is. no fever, no morasmus, no neural- ing years in the Transvaal if. the Re- were great " " • t 1 th • If
lasting perfume! Set It Ill eval7Poor guano consumption, no disease of the public he has fought so hard to pre- eithei would have been coosedered a a clay. His mind was terribly ger- Pipes (A mune s long
body, that the graoe of God will not , good match for her, especeally the imbed. Be did not care muoh about whloh, at some ancieni time. boiling
man's window; plant it on revery serve overthrown by the British, He =stolen,
dy help. I wish that over ever dying or abut'
t the pain he was suffer- lava Hewed from the heart of the
grave; put its leaves under every , - y bed
f pain, and through every hospital of had fully deeided, when tbe war began, It WSS MillY'S eighteenth birthday, illg. Bia thOughts- were chiefly me earth. These pipes were tilled with
ing head; wreathe its blossoms from a
•n dm' tress we might swing this "oluster that'ia case his cause was Irretrievab- and. It happened to be a. IVLonday-a =pied with the poor girt he had im- a hard !bluish deposit, called "blue
every garland wave its branohes
of oamphire from the vineyards of Eno ly defeated, he would retire to Ger- day en wiach most mailers do not prisoned. What would she do for
every home; Dead when I am about to
ground," that evedently had been fora -
work. tailly bled received nuineroue food?. He matured her dying of star- ed to the suntan by volcanie aution
Little presente from her various ad- ratan. His mind bad been well in- and from a great depth. In oilier
hand lies ldnd stiff, godl."
Christ's Mind is the softest
die, and my ooa
ind white upon the pillow, let no
pillow, Christ's pardon is the strongest man Southwest Africa and spend the
erstitious priest, coma with mumbling
rsup-
stimulus, Christ's comfort is the ret a has life tender the German flag.
fonleriee to put a (inmate of wood or mightiest anodyne, Christ's salvation Among thei Boers who have settled. in
stone in nay hand, but rather
is the grandest restorative. it makes the German possessions is en inti -
plain end humble soul -let him some
a man mightier than his physioal dis
anti put in my dying grasp this liv-
-
tress. Nero tarred and put pitch up- mate friend of the President who has
ing branoh, with "chiggers of Dam-
come
on the Christians of his day, and then acquired a large tract of irrigable land
phire from the vineyards of En -
ode" set them on lire, that they might illu- end is engaged in cattle raising, If
Iis some twenty years now
since mine the night around about the
t
year palace; but while they were burning worst."m"to worst, Mr. Kruger will
I found the Lord, fuld I must in jion has friend and live quietly in this
presence tell you. how
goad Es has and the crowd beneath were jeering,
been to my soul. Often, slime then louder thenl all the noise went, up the newly developing region, 750 miles
f have given him a hard thrued. in His song of praise and triumph from the
sore side; but He has been patient dying martyrs, Sohn Bradford came
o
wilh me by day and night- It is eheut iu the presence of the instrument
grief a
of torture thnt was to put him to
my life that I have treated
' r la death and said: "I am a Christian
. ; b a ha
me go. I have seen no vronderful now. I have never beenbefore." And tunes he has helped, to shape for so
sights, I have heard no wonderful sroitteh
gelantornaantoagmpitioos
tolee Lion of Judah's
the wild. beasts many years, but he will ab least be
sounds. I have no mogrellous experi-
t
ences; it ban been a plain story of
Tmhiasr gYrracemis also a restorative for
patience oxi His part, and of
0e4. eer peeeT. • the backsliders. Who do you
UNWORTHINESS mean by that? you say.
Some of my dear flumes before me e mean you who used to
hare had more rapturous experiences. frequent the house of God, but seldom. The mailed statesman would. find a
Christ to them haa been the Conquer- go there now; you who once used to goodi manyof his compatriots in Ger-
or en the white horse, or the Sun of pray, but never pray now; you who man Southwest Melee. Since the
Righteousness setting everything 01108 sat at tbe holy communion, but
0111006 with light, or the Bridegroom take not the Lord's cup now; 1 him. 7 firse great migrations or the Boers in
coaling with lanterns and torches. To yott who once rejoiced in Christian so. the third deoade of this century, when
ime, it has been a very quiet and in °ley, but now sit amid scoffers. they trekked north tuid east to get out
demenseretive experience. ft has been Backsliders! 0111 what a suggestive
something very sweet, but very still. word I Backslider I From Nvhat have of sight of the British flag, there have
ralrers, which she bad strewn on the oulcated with the principles of Chris -
kitchen table, before which she sat tianity ; this made his remorse all the
contemplating them with a beaming greater. As he lay helpless, with, for
twee all be knew, tons of ooal on Lop of
woras, tbese, pipes were craters of ea-
tinot volcanoes.
Tau) FAMOUS GEM PITS.
The vast diamond pits at
The picture was a pretty one. The 111m, he already feh. the torments of
ley are in tho largest andt most valae
lcitchen of a steady, sober, industri- remorse. Aglain and again he ehrieked, able of the °eaters. The larger of
ous ndaer Ls not a pbuce to be d.espis_ his anted. overoorne with horror.
these pits is probably, the greatest hole
ed. Tide partioular one had an sir At last a Voice- answered his cries. It
ever dug tit man. It is 500 feet deog
of tidloess and comfort, with oer- Was the voire Of David,
twin aano:unt of refinement a Little and has 40 area of thirteen aores.
"Is that you, Morgan?" he said. "I
above the ordinary. Through an op_ was stunned. Weit Lill I ger my lamp Nthuinsberfs o
cltiagthona,b1 siltafts lteatdh froiret
en door oould he seen a oozy. little a ighie and up and down these shafts ar4
from Pretoria. Should. coming eveets
make it destralble for him to adopt this brigiht carpet, and. in a oorner a piano. iilin; ot
room, on the floor of which was a le did not take him long Le rentov e ,
Ihe fallen ooal and. extricate5 l'aer"ng coneinually trwm-ears, The
course, business of these oars is to ottmee the
be will be far from his beloved 321117 gave music lessons Le many Morgian. .
blue ground up to the "floors," where
land, Whose political and military for- of the colliers' children. So she wax lii-ndithentifor five dreary daystheyre-
maine.d. prisoners in the ,darkness. it is dumped and lett to soften in the
ind,epend.ent, tied tuble to eontribute
David's lamp did not. remain alight for sun and rain, for the blue ground is al.
tolward the general Leeman.
It was a warm summer's evening, Sang, not even enough for them to ex- most as herd atuaceoddistoidneedwebiefaeotakoi
and Milly was sitting at the door ;of plore their surroundings. It would i evi•iit 000.i.otad Illunlight it gradually net-
her little home; lhe rays a the setting he impossible to desoribe their suffer.
sun tit up her pretty &tee as Ishii sat Digs, mere especially those ef Morgan. ..
He was frantic at times, and. It was all enlue floors are nothing more than
there thinking of David. great. tenets .of land that have been'
A, man was coming toward the Boit- thee David could do to keep leire froni cleared of vegetation and have been
age -it was the miner -preacher. Mille dashing oui his brains against. the jag -
thee rolled to make theta as hard and
did not ewe hem, awing to the sun ged rooks of ochal.
as Lortiessibine.
move. Davidet s t ren gill, meat awhile timorrstilis 000
of them has been covered to a depth
i extent. After Aeflterthoegte:
which (bombed her eyes. However, she At east the time Dame. when morgan O
was so faint. that he ()mild hardly
hied been seen by the young man in
the distance, and he was a.pproaohing a a foot with blue ground.
her. He wee dressed Ln his Sunday had. kept. up wonderfully, and be did
Now the diamonds have become
dollies, and though, perhaps, he was alt he multi to cheer Morgan. The
latter, who used to pray and preech so gems that mey.be exposed for mile, so
In manner somewhat eexieue and over- they are taken intolthe salesroom, and
had •n.ow. not one prayer to offer.
stately, yet in figure and looks he was spread out on sheets of white Pepsi.
David could not comprehend this.
MIMI; a man as a girl might like. He heaps and heaps of them, of all sizes,
had every appettrance of physical "Why don't you pray, 'Morgan I" he
oolors and shapes. The diamonds are
strength:, combined with a Geri:nen am- asked,
et ono,t,,, °am, (ewes Lem mere all oarefully valued, according to
cunt of rugged intelligence.
i y x v g
pleat ure. She showed him the various "Is there anything on your mind e,
artIcles on the table, expatiating on "There Is -Millie"
the kind.neset of those from whom she 'Willy 1 Pooi• Milly I I ant afraid
we shell never see her a,gain," sobbed.
lead. received them
free from, mole weighty Gates as he has
borne since the influx of the outland-
ers introduced new issues in Trans-
vaal polities.
now: Ms beloved is unto me a t from your father's teeth, from your been several minor migrations from
How shall I describe it? I have it you slid back? You have slid back
.
cluster of eamplaire from the vineyards early good 'habits. You have been
of En-gedi." I sliding' back trom Christ, from the
Bat, I remark further; this cam- cross-
ehlre-plant of the text was a symbol. SLIDING 'BACK FROM HEAVEN
a Christ in the feet that it gives col-, When a mate begins to slide, he
miring. From the Mediterranean to the knows not Nrhere 'the will go. You
the. Transvaal. Some of the people
did not find the Transvaal exactly, to
their liking, and so they set out to
find new boraxes far north of the Sam-
besi, and plodded wearily emotes the
wilderness for five years before they
reached the Huilla district in Portu-
. . weight and purity and are sold. Next
they go to the diamond cutters, who
work on them for days und days.
putting various sides on them and pol-
ishing them until they look like starn.
an's d In li
Ganges, the people of the is g 1 . - have been Muting back toward an un- gu.ese West Africa, within it h'undred
ee, too, hew, a preeene for you, David, breaking &awn for the first
pens that a diamond will be reduoed re
In this cuttang process it often ha
end it, dried the leaves, pulverized blest grave, toward a precipice, „,„ ,males of the Atlantic Ocean, wnere
for beautifying garments or ,their
them, and 'then used there as a dye
own persons. It was that face: that! eternal
' ward! are only a small part of the i
plunge. You were, perliaps, the growing troubles with the out- 1. morocoo case, an out o e a ring. felleitwgieseabt°tealtlaugctdi'/eIr°Iifeclens'sthhit•lonudgh hie En net7iini:e, ProPer all Oos-
ther Transvaal Boers behoving that ly, as bie took out of his pooket a lit -
still live.' In the pirst few years Dirtily," the youag inan said: present.. time.
. • - le d. t f 't
He took Milly's band and placed the friendel body. .
ring upon her engagement, finger. "Stoop." eael Morgan, "sloop SS winkinen Iran s st
laborers tahre constantly watched by
sible preeautions are takeu to keep the.
trustwor y oversee:se, al:gamut sn..ilTolhet
first ten million miles of which clow'r- loth" hulf its original weight.
In the din o d '
'You and I have loved each other a hoar as you, can. I cannot -die with -
they are stripped of them clothee and
gave the camphire-plant o e e • professors m the country. You have
its commercial value in the time of made shipwreck in the town. It may
King Solcenon; a type of my Lord, be that: fashionable society destroyed
Jesus, who beautifies and adorns, and you; it may be the kind oft wife lett=
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lenders could have no peaceful solu-
tion, have also sought new homes,
turning their faces chiefly toward the
vast region on the Atlantic coast,
colours everythimg he toue es. you married. You have no more hops which the Germans were just begin -
to develop. At the end of last
no faith in that man's conversion,' for heaven now than if you had lived Ining to the statistics of the
whese religion does not colour his en -i in Central Asia and never heard of year, errereing
tig l'f ft was intended so to do,ch i t d th ' I t Oh I h Deutschen Kolonialblatt, 637 of them,
!defence. The campbor, as we have it
I( a man hae the grace of God in his' is that Bible you used to read? Where women and children as well as men,
,
le offensive to some; but the cainehlree I intuit it ought to show Rudd in the' is that room where you used to way.? Were living in the new country, They
What have you done with that Jesus !already. form 22 per cent. of the total
plaint of the text had a fragrance gruel- I life, There ougIet to be this " cluster
of camphire" in the ledger, in the whose voice you once heard! Oh, white ipopulation and their families
se nearly halt of the white wo-
real of Government mourietes, elm murdered hours! 011, massacred pm-
compr
medial prescription, in the law -book. vileges I 011, dead opportunities 1 wake men and children in the country, nnd
reBoieti is oe no value to the mer- tep now and shriek in that man's ear 1 these Boers now form the majority of
chant unless it keeps him from put- until he shall rouse himself from the 1 these whiles who hove gone to the
Ling false labels on his goods; or to horrible somnambulism, walking as he (country to make it their permanent
the plasterer unless it keeps him from does, fast asleep, within an inch of borne. Soldiers and the administra-
putting up a ceiling whieh he knowe hell. 011.1 that he might ory out to-
tive force still form the largest ele-
willl crack in six months; or to the night: "Golden Sabbaths, come back I ment in the white population.
&iv& unless it keepe hini fraro testi- Communion seasons, come bark! More than half of the Boers are liv-
ing his horses to eight miles an houir Woologs of the Holy Ghost, soma Ing in the northern part of Grent Na -
when the thermometer is al innate; hack I" But they will 0101 come, ma Land. The German explorers say
the Mune of Alestainder means con- to the farmer unless it keeps him from Gone! Gone I Gone! Sorrow will that a large pert of the interior may
.
quest; elle Mune of Demosthenes mettles !putting the only sound pippins on the come, but not they. Temptation will be converted into one of the large
eloquence; the name of Milton reeens bop o$. the borrel ; or to the shoe- come, but not they. Eternity will cattle regions of the world. It would
poetry; the name of Benjamin West l makelees it keeps bim from sub- come, but not they, Oh 1 that you not be surprising, in the event of the
anomie paenting; the name of Pilidias I stituting brown paper fOr good lea- migbt save the f ew remaining years overthrow ot the two Boer Republios,
lamas sculpture; the name of Seethe- 1 thee in the soles, In other words; tbs a your life, and consecrate them to if another "great trek" should take
von means muste; lbe name of Howard I religion a cairist is good for every- Christ I I have seen sad sights, I have
place. Hundreds of the Boers who are
determined not to live under the
British flag may journey in their
tent wagons aoross the Metall:an
waste to live udder German rule on
the pleine of German Southwest Af.
2108.
THEY NEVER DRINK.
ous to all. The vineyards of En-gedi
battled. in it -the branches, the buds,
tlte bicessoms, drip -pang with sweetness,
typical of the sweetness of Christ.
"How sweet the name of Jesus souuds
24 a. believer's earl
Ti. soothes his sorrows, heels hie
wounds,
Aail drives away his fear."
The roma of Caesar means power;
the :name of Herod means eruelty;
means referee; but the name of Christ thong, or it is good for notining.
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Dames love! 11. is the sweetest name grace oP Ond, never affects es by
lent ever melted from lip to heert. piemmeal. It the heart is changed,
As you °pea tin oid chew. that has the bead is °hanged and the liver is
long been closed, the firat thing that changed, and the spleen is changed,
strike' you ea the perfume of the land the hands are changed, and the
bailie tbut were packed timid the eloth- feet are (hanged, and the store is
ing, so there are hundreds of hearts changed, and the house is chneged,
here to-niglit, which, if opened, would
fume offer to you the name of Jesus,
Ohl Lie is such a sin -pardoner; meth
e trouble -soother; such a wound -bend-
er; much is grave -breaker, that the
faint/en pronunieetion of tits name
rouses up all tho incense of the, gar-
den wed all theperfume of the tropics,
while the soul, in ecstasy of affee-
tion, ergs one "My 13eloved is un-
to nee me' e efts( er of eamphire from
the .virleyneile of elii-gedi."
But how Shall I talk of tbe sweetnese
and everythmg over which the man
has any influenoe comes to a complete
and radical change. The religion of
the Lord Jesus Christ is
• NOM A POT OF HYACINTH
to be set in a parlour bayeivindow for
passers-by to look at, and to be ex-
amined only by ourselves when eve
hOve ocimpany; but is to be a perfume
filling all the koom of the heart as
"cluster of oamphire from the vine-
yards of Bis-gedi." The trouble is,
men do not take their religion with
of Christ's paedon, to those who heve them. The merchant loaves 11 out -
never felt it; of the sweetness ot His side the counter lest it disturb the
comfort 10 Meals who have refueled goods. The housekeeper will iloL let
Hie promisee a the 581 001101755 of Iiis her religion trail its robes in the
face to 1.1.1080 who have turned timer kitchen 031 -weshingeday. The Mille.
hook nimbi }Tie love 1 Now, a greet sopher will not let his religion oome
many people rney ihink that Iles es it anaid the batteries, lest 11 get a
heard sad sounds; but, I tell you, the
ghastliest thing outside the gates of
the' damned is a baokslider's death-
bed. Do you not feel to -night like
having applied to your soul Ude Di-
vine restorative 6 Do you not feel like
crying out with David: "Restore un-
to me the joys a Thy salvation ?"
For great stn, great pardon. For
deep wounds, omnipotent surgery. For
deaf cars, a Divine mutat, blur blind
eyes a heavenly oeullat For the
dead in sin, the upheaval tar a great
resurrection. But why ehould I
particularize that Mess en this audi-
ence when we need all 1117e restorative,
for .we have all wandered and gone
away /
The last three or four weeks have
been weeks of great rejoieing and
thanksgiving to God on my pert. The
mails that have mine to me from Fmg-
land, and Scrodianal, and Ireland, and
Hely, linve told me by lettere, until T
have no more time to rend them, of
bow. God has been 'rinsed to
112i7255 my POOR WORMS
lo the salVation anal comfort of xuen ;
There aro hundreds of horses and
thousands of cattle in' the Hawaiian
islands which toyer take a drink of
water throughout the whole course of
their lives. On all the islands the
upper altitudes of the moentaine are
given up to cal tle ranges, The cattle
run wild from the time, they are born
until (hey are 0(151 10 slaughter hoese.
Except possibly two or Clues months
in the rainy eeason there are no
10500e or pools of water in any part
where the oat tie ',tinge, but every
ere 1 here grows a recumbent,
joint eel grass knowtt hy I he n a I IVP
name of meninia. Tbis is both food
end drink, Horses teed rallie greeting
on it neither require 810( 81' nor drink
II. when offered.
lon-g time now, Milly," he oontinued. OUI. Ielliiig You.
In spasmodic: tones, with long
"I should have naked yeu to allow me
dio this before; but it was only this Pauses. Bonet:untie interrupted by ex-
cite ma 1 ions of horror from Da rid, Met -
morning I heard 11851Was to be
gen 1021 11081' he hod the1led Milly in-
to the old pit and lied unpresoned ber
50 that she °Quid not escape, and left
her only enough food for one day.
It was a terrible story to hear in
that dark vattle 'ea t trout a gleam of
light or a clear hope of eseepe. David
seamed 011 frirgei that he hael been for
five days without feud. A great eurg-
ing title of indignation rolled like lava
through hiS 1'0111S 11S ht! thought -of
whom he NraS 50 130011 1 0 be
Id my hueband-that was eel:lied last married.
night, between Irian and my father." Tha olor./ was hardly finiehed when,
Mongan eottitt not reply. He tried to with a shOU1 assaviige aS that of a
say some( himg, bul WS L01.131110 31$013)a11tilde ,T1',1:,dttnbgonir
eflaSpidiepengin
ri,viyaidarienis. flit!
as if it. were tied. lie became se Ile
that adally was frightened.. bite plate
ea a (Muir near hint and messed him
into it, He graisped the arms or it.
and trembled all over. Ageln and
again ha tried to speak, then he gee.
tieubaleel feebly With his hands.
"Slay there I" she cried, "I will
bring someone."
The nearest house wee looked.. The
girl had to go farther. When she re.
turned illortran was gone.
Ile vane a good fellow, but Milly lov-
ed. another.
To be the liteelettud or this gmi had
been the dream ot his lire. Him 10ye
for her 30111/3 1)11 insoirrit y, ' He fell
that he mutat loot lire Wil haul. enino
bee( of oh:wining hen He would not
ice a monism [1 iloe? that. she Wati 1101.
1.1 1.3:3 hiS; 1,, have dune so weuld have
mean t suite de.
FOr 11 31111010 itionlie he kept. away
from the pit, in oonerimenee of whigh
made an 038111,801. So now we shall
be able to keep house."
/le did not wait for a entity, but con-
tinued in more passionate language ta
express his feelings. IlilIly tried to
Stoop latim more than once, but he pakt
no attention to her.
"Morgan," she said at lest, "y•otere a
goodf Llow, and I like you, and em
glad. to boa: you have got n l'is6at he
pie I hope we :Avail al woo ye he friends;
but I oennot marry you -David is to
1113 1(181 his preferment. ,Durtng this
Hine he went fie 01 place Lo place, bat-
hing with the greatlove that ;was
burning within him. 13UL it tootles -
000l ; it meet tired I m Mi I ly's inlage
111.1 sonst nal ly 1,','o )',8 Ili 10, sod (Os s
was his disappointment delve hint
e
2,1 10141 he decided to etruggle Ito
tenger age,inet l01. love; so he wen,
Wick le work by the side of his su-
ed him lit lee arms with the inl en -
lion of daelting him down :mein. 11
witi a mn'oienl, of uncontrollable pas-
sion, roused Joy the thoughl of AM-
lyee lingering death. David held leer-
ga n 42,, r a tow 501011111111 and prowl red
te fling him against, 1 110 elemp reeks
Of coal.
Suddenty n gleam of light appeal -
eel_ in a 'far corner, Milly liewelf en -
I 01TC1 lite 010 10, David brearne pe wer-
lies awl dropped Morgan al his feet,
11111 had me been long in her pris-
on when eel' omen ha heard
of (he deplevion, and eine) then, he
day end by , for :many rs al 0
time, :Mc had traveled through all 1 1,,'
old mines '35111! 015 for it pasange111
lig eeplediel nine She was Jest in
lime to ,eve her lover feint tee erlme
i.f murder. Morgan, however, did no:
live many hours longer,
CAMELS AT TIM PLOW, '
count Skorzewski, ft wealthy in ncl-
OWntkr In l'Of•On, Germany, hos 111100
ly Jawed ft sensation nmong the na-
tives by employing a ettinel insl rail of
horsem or 117110 Isi draw the pine on his
estate 'Plie experimeni has proved
1.11(11308331111, $1/11 J 1. 1$ probable that it
will be followed In other agricultural
district ot.
THEIR BODIES SEAIICHF,D.
Then they. are sent naked to their
sleeping rooms, where blaukele are
allowed them. Of course this applies
to the natives, as the only, white men.
eineloyed 111 handling the blue ground
are in the assorting room.
It is said that some fifteen tons of
precious stones have been taken from.
the Kimberley district since 1870. In
conducting the business of the Hine
berle,y mine 1,300 Europeans and 6,700
natives are employed. The workmen
are paid high wages and every labor -
or on the "Amer& is paid a percentage
on all the diamonds he i Inds while her -
raging the blue ground.
DittmOild cut tieg and .pol ishi ng is a
very difficuli process, which is done
almost entirely by hand, The stones
are polished by rubbing two, each on
the Leber, ur by rubbing then? Waite
polishing wheel that is covered ivith
diamond powder ; it is a ease of "dia-
mond out diamond." When 11 is limes -
miry lo out a valuable piece from ti
sGine, iron wires covered with dianiona
The fanets, dif-
powdee ere used.
Ivrea( 81de8 nre formed by this rb-
111115 which iS 0 ery slow and
labormait one. A stone WL'igIIiIIg asty
I went y co ra ts, will require at least
flair or five months of constant work
10 realuee it to the proper form, P.
diamond about the slue of it smell pee
will weigh over ;a carat.
A i'ICTURESQUel ARMY,
Only the members of the Steals
Artin the Transvaal arnly wear
unitorme. The peasant soldiery on
horseback iS a bewildering and mot -
try array, thou andel of the burghera
being attired in home-made elotbing,
out from the thins of antelope, They
are probably the !noel. Pugged end
picturesque set of rough tided; Oa the
world; :ilia they will, no doubt, fight;
under Gen. soilberl unlit they are
eat)1 urea or exterminated.
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