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TRE IIIRED MAN'S STOR
Saw Gerald Sifton Beat Out 1 -lis
Father's Brains With An Axe.
A despatch from London Out„ says:
-.Gerald Sifton le behind thebars,
charged with the murder of has aged
!ether, and W utter Herbert, his self-
aoufessod accomplice, is held for the
wine awful oirima, Young' Sifton
made, no resistance, aid expressed eon
faience; that everything svauld ba• all
right,
Herbert le a big boy of 20 years,
who was employed by 'Joseph Sifton
as n farm hand. •
Duringthe •last couple of days the
Pressure .•' hos been 'getting too
rlttvng for •Herbert, and early Thurs•
day morning lie told the story of the
killing of Higia Constable Maenad.
McLeod was interviewing Edgar
Morden, who lives on the farm ad-
joining tete Sifton place, when Herbert
walked into the room.- He banded bis
wa.toh to the ooatet:able, with a request
that should anything happen to him
the timepiece be given to his grand-
mother. ',Chen he broke down and told
}tis story.
HIRED' MAN'S CONFESSION.
Awarding to it, Gerald Sifton, had
arranged with him' to do away with
the old man. The plan was to call. the
elder Sifton irp Leto the loft, and us
be earns through the floor to brain
him with an axe. The two were in
the loft when the old man came up the
ladder, At the last moment Herbert's
courage failed, and he claims that he
,truck the old mama a Iigbl blow, with
the side of the axe, Then he (alleges
Gerald Sifton, seized his father's arm
and dragged him, half unconscious, up
to the floor of the loft, at the same
time crwshing the head with repeated
blows of the axe, whioh he smil:bed
from his trembling accomplice. A
couple of boards had been knocked
from the side of the barn, and 'through
this hole the body' was thrown to the
ground, 24 feet below.
A YARN FIXED UP.
The bloodstained axe wee named be-
side the head and neighbours called
in. To them the story was told that
Joseph Sifton lead Pullen from the barn
�vhEle endeavouring to knee's' down
some hoards with ,the axe, The old
man was stilt breitthing, but did not
regain consciousness before' he died, a
few hove e later, Herbert seethed glad
to tell his •gltastly tale, and declared
his willingness to repeat_ it in the wit-
nees-box.
TEIIb' cULFRITS A1.1R4S'.L'LD,
After he had weed hni mond, he
meat. to bed at Gerald S1fLon'••$ house
where he was guarded all aught by
two eonatablee, irony Monday morn.
ing' Murray drove out, ant' Gerald'
Siflon iin•d tbe; hired man were aroua-
ed and brought to gaol.
Inspeotar DZua'rtty'e week of hard
work hila dlselosed mush evfdenoe
which makes thecase, against the eon
very black. iPh.ree inen have staled
that Gerald had threatened Lo do
itevay with his' faller rather than al-
low him to marry again.
RIVAL WAS APPROACHED.
Martut tllordiem who al. one tem
wive engaged to marry Mary Moliar-
lane, the young woman to whom the
Melee SIttoa was to have been mar-
ried on the day, ut his death, teas up -
propertied by Gerald, who wanted him
to come one to the Larm, To hemthe,
son said that 11 would ba ell easy
matter, to let something fall on the
old mon en dpum hint out of the way.
LOOKS DARK FOR GERALD.
James Meriden is said t o have
beau offered money by Gerald SifLoa
to help in disposing of the father, bul
refused to have anything to do with
him. 'Co several neighbours Sifton is
alleged to have stated that he would
put the old man out of the waybe-
fore he would allow him to marry
again, anil Edgar Morden warned Jos-
eph Siftau of what his sou had said,
and the night before the wedding day.
got Siflon and Miss McFarlane to stay
at his house. The olcl man left. for
hie home at daybreak and said that
be was safe then, and would leave tbe
weddingtake place in the innrning in-
stead of waiting until the afternoon,
NEWS SUMMARY,
CANADA,
The Canadian Patriotic Fund total-
led $315,808.
Six new oaaes of smallpox are re-
ported at Montreal.
- Nelson 13. 0., will spend $70,000 in
municipal improvements.
Ottawa sewers are failing to oarry
away the surface water.
The Canadian Patriotic fund state -
went shows total receipts, $315,867.85.
Of 391 pupils whlo wrote for High
school entrance at London '270 passed.
;d son of Dr. Scowl', of Rat Portage,
died wbile having a dislocated shoul-
der set,
This year's drive of Jogs on the
Gatineau will reach a million. Last
year 750,000.
The G. T. R. proposes to raise its
tracks in 3etonteeal, doing away with
all level crossings.
Obaaalca Lappin, in jail at Hamilton
Waved himself with a piece of broken
glass wben refused a razor.
The Wentworth Dairymen's Assoat
ation may organize a milk trust, ao-
cording 10 0 Hamilton despatch.
,The half-breed commission has com-
pleted its work at Maple Greek, N.W.
T„ hearing over 200 complaints.
The Government to asking Hamilton
for a reduction of the water rates
charged for tete Hamilton asylum,
A. large subscription to the Hull -
Ottawa relief fund hits been received
Drum Port Elizabeth. South Africa.
Led. Hedlund was killed, and Gus An-
derson severely injured by an oxplo-
cion at the Sultana mine, Rat Port-
age.
ale. 'Phomas Belly, of Winnipeg, is
the lowest tenderer for. th'e St. An-
drew's Rapids work, and will get the
.contraot.
Lord Minto has taken a private
residence at Viotoria for hie family
and household while he makes his
trip to Daewoo.
, i:i. portrait of Speaker Buie, painted
by J. O. Forbes, has been planed in
the entrance hull of the Parliament
buildings, Ottawa.
(.Che various ironmoulders' shops in
Ottawa have signed, an agreement for
a 10 por.cent, inorease, and this wUl
end moulders' troubles for at least one
year.
The .total number of claims sent in
to the Fire Relief Oommittee at Ot-
tawa is 9•,250. The committee is taking
steps to prepare a complete statement
of the losses.
Judge Pugies, at Montreal from
Dewson, says the Yukoe is the richest
gold country in the world, Tho trip
tram Montreal to Dewson can be done
in Nevem days.
Lieut. -Col. Sherwood of the DO1Y31111-
1011 Pal]ce has sworn in a number of
man au guards for't'h, canal ati Corn-
wall, in .view cif the recent dynamite
ers• attempt at Thorold,
Montreal customs officers seized a
consignment of several thousand but-
ton badges intended for distribution
from New York, The buttons bore
the words, "Independence of Canada,"
some being in French and some in
English.
General. Manager Hays says the
prospects for business on the ' Grand
Trunk next winter are very favorable
and be thinks that the people of Port-
land will seethe busiest times, as far
as the Grand Trunk is concerned, that
they have ever known -
The July urea report of the Mani-
toba Government says the improve-
ment is not as great as was expected.
Another section of the Trent Val-
ley Canal, is to be planed under eon -
tract immediately, being that poirtion
between lairkfield and Lake Simooa.
Three of the special teachers en-
gaged in Englund by Prof. Robert-
son under the Macdonald -Lloyd
school fund, to take charge of Lhe
work of establishing manual train-
ing in connection with the Public
schools in Canada, have arrived at
Ottawa.
St. Catharines ratepayers have
voted in favor of granting the Wel-
land Vale Manufacturing Company
$4,000 a year for 15 years, and of fix-
ing the assessment of the Kinleith Pu -
pea' Co., al $21,000, but batter voted
agamet the 6y -law to provide $25,0 0
for a etalw collegiate institute.
The Gall Tema Council have decid-
ed to appeal to the Attorney -General
to interfere with lila proposed removal
of .the wua-lrs of the Robertsau-Tuy-
lor Conlpitny from that town to
Guelph, because Guelph has offered a
bonus of a piece of land valued at
$1,500, which is to be sold to the nom,
pray foe' $250, this being an illegal
act,
GREAT BRITAIN.
Joseph Chamberlain, Great Britain's
Coloniai Secretary, refused the post
of War Minister,
Next year's Chriatian Endeavour
Convention will be held in Sheffield.
Manchester in 1002.
Thirty invalided Canadians are now
on furlough', staying at the Soldiers'
Rest, near Buckingham Palace.
Lady Sitrathcona has loft London
for Carlsbad, Lord Stratboona will
emend his August holidays at Glencoe.
The British Gavornnlen't, has with-
driewn the proposal to amend the army
bill by making volunteara liable for
eesvloe aibroad.
Benjamin 11, Cant, England's ohana-
pioat rose grower, is dead 0•78. See
h'ad taken over 1,080 prizes and won
the Natioaes1 Bose Society's trophy
nine times.
Edouard do Reszke has aeon decor -
:dad with the Victorian. Order by the
Queen for singing before her in
'Faust." Suzanne Mens received a
diamond bracelet.
TIl'e new warships beteg built for
the lirlti,eb navy will be of the 81. M.
S. Formidable afters -45,000 tone did.
placemoot, with 18,000 indieuted horse-
power and 100 feet -141 length,
Bev. J. B. liaooe, an insertable aero.,
uaut experimentalist in London, Is
planning a uuigao journey In it hal-
loon, with the ohjeat Of sending mese
sages to eteob isolated places els Pekin,
The (Albite dleoovered ter the first
time that Lord Salisbury was ee ex-
pert gardener when the Royal Ilor-
ticulturctl Society awarded him melt -
vim
eelver medal 10 the fruit emotion for a
bur of brown'Turkey figs,
Prof. David Edward Hughes,: the in-
ventor of the pien1ieg telegraph and
of the microphone, hats loft his for -
le -no of ,$`l4,000,000 to four liospitails,
the Middlesex, London, King's Col-
lege and Cbarieig Cross,
The yeesplears Commission, appoint
rid •hy the British Government to in-
vestign4o the charges as to the treat
-
ratan Cif 3401r and wounded soldiers in
South Melba. has aene:noticed work
by examining* a number of patients
recently arrived in England.
itn the House of Commons of Tues-
day, Mr, G. T. Gasohon, First Lord of
lho Admiralty, dealtr'ed that it wait
due to the delay of contractors that
the Admiralty had not produced more
ships and defended the Belleville boil-
ers, which had been adopted by the
States, Germany, Japan and France.
A good joke is related in ono of
the Landon morning papers oh the
Prince of Wales and bit', Choate. At
lbs lefierlbarougb Chtb the other day
the P.rinee. it is said, effusively shook
hands with a man he took for the
American Ambassador and later die.
covered the fellow was an lmmacu-
lately groomed waiter,
UNITED STATES.
A cloudburst hes wiped out the
toren of Coleman, Texas,
-Chicago stockyards' newsboys have
put a ban on cigarettes.
A shipment of 830 horses has boon
made from New -Orleans to South Af-
rica.
A men iu White Plains Hospital
who has lost his Identity is believed
to have bean struck by lightning.
Chicago division, railway mail ser-
vice, increased nearly 53,000,000 pieces
in mail matter handled last year.
A daring thief rubbed Miss Rieke -
rich of $1,339, at a Jersey City bank
and frightened Iiirs, Fuhi'ing tee death.
Efforts are being made in New
Turek to free Mrs. Neck, serving 15
years for the murder of Wm. Gulden-
suppe.
The sweariatg-in of the newly -ap-
pointed Governor-General of Federat-
ed Australia, and the inauguration of
the Commonwealth trill take plane at
Sydney.
Miss Eugenia Horton is seriously
at Port Ewen, N.Y., due to overexer-
tion from riding a bicycle. She has
last the pourer of speech and the ase
of her arms, '
James Full, the (treat Northern
Railway mugnate,is reported to have
the finest yacht an the lakes. Her
etuvas capacity is over 14,000 feet,
and her crew numbers: 53 men.
Eliza Wise, in count at Anoka,
Minn., charged James Hardy and
Elmer Miller with the murder of her
parents and admitted her own and
sister's knowledge of the plot.
1.1torstey General Davies will be
asked foe un order directing the re-
moval of MaemeMoGteire, •of Syracuse,
on the ground that the mayor was In-
teerested, In tale. WOO of supplies to the
Why, which is contrary ie law.
When Barbara Minter, aged 82,
Med at Brooklyn last Sunday morn-
ing, her husband, John Minter, aged
87, was sot stricken with grief that be
eaolaimed, "Delay the funeral and
bony one too." Ho died wtthun twelve
hours.
GENERAL.
The Shah of Persia is matting the
Cur art St, Petertv*u;rg.
There were 9,928 oases DI choler-
1n the famine dietricls in India during
the week endtng July 7, of whtah 0,-
474 were fatal.
Trouble between British subjects
and Venezuelans is on the increase at
Ciudad, Bolivar, acoardiug to 0 Rings, -
ton, Jamaica, despatch.
The sister of Edmund Rostand, the
French dramatist, was robbed of jewel-
lery worth 82.1,000. Burglars broke in-
to her country residence.
Bayonets had to be drawn on New-
foundland strikers in order to unload
the cargo of the sohoonor Hector Mc-
Gregor apt Belle Isle, Nfld.
The last living descendant of Sir
Francis Drake has been discovered in
New Zealand, Mrs, John Angelo nee
Drake, the wife of a settler.
The London Express Lorenzo Mar-
quez correspondent sends the sad
news that Kruger has had his hair
out and his whiskers shaved off.
A I{ingston, Jamaica, deepatah says
that after investigation nearly half
the militia who volunteered for ser
vino iti Ashanti were rejected,
Zwelley Sahafferson, an American
eubjeot, was arrested in Paris on Mon-
day far picking pockets. The man
was wearing a 0ard across his breast
on which was written in English and
French " Pity a poor blind man," and
was accompanied by a little girl who
was faund to have seventeen purses
in her possession, containing over 820
in gold and silver,
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BBU$$E S P08
GENERAL ADVANCE BEGUN,I ED I TOSS, CLERGYMiN, PHYSIC 0 ANS
Boers Still Withdrawing, Wrecking
Bridges as They y Go. Zen and Women in all 'balks of Life Tell of the itcmark1010
Cares Wroaght by Smith American Nevin Tonle,
A despatch from London, Thursday,
says —!.'he next few days should pro.
duce interesting developments in
South Africa. Lord Itoberto has
again 'advanced, but the batrghere are
reported to be already moving Lo the
north -oast, with the intention of car-
rying outtheir long•-unnotmeed plan
of retiring to the Lydenburg moun-
tains. Gen, Roberts was recently
(eredilcd with saying, "1 cannot fol-
low them into the acture of Africa, If
they cheers, to shut thernoelves up In
file Lydenburg mouant:tins, 1 cannot
prevent them,"
file Boers lite now repeating tbo
tac1ies they have followed ever since
Bloemfontein fell that lo, withdraw-
ing safely. wreoking bridges as I:ltey
go, and :always distanoing their per -
suers,
There le a report that Gen, De Wet
hoped when he broke through the Bri-
tish who were hemming him in, to go
southward and concentrate at Storm -
berg. At present, however, be is re-
treating northward, He was last re -
parted to be within a fow miles of the
Vaal river. He was being followed,
but had not, been overtaken by a Bri-
tish foreo.
Nothing bas been heard of Gen. Bul-
ler for several days. Hie whereabeats
le unknown to the public.
Awarding to u report from Masora,
Base( eland, a considerable number of
Boers are atilt in the eastern part of
the Orange River Colony, They are
well equipped, have plenty of supplies,
and are not thinking of surrendering.
IIeavy rifle firing was heard near
la'ickaburg Tuesday, but no details
have been received of fighting there,
TI;HNaTSIN iNRUINS. - FRANCE HELPS RUSSIA.
Not a Dozen Houses Intact—Streets
Filled With Dead.
A despatch from Tien! L'sin, vire,
Shaseghitl, says :-'Phe native pity pre-
sents ten appalling spectacle of ruin
and desolation. The suburbs were com-
pletely destrnyed by fire, moatly caus-
ed by the shells of the shies. On the
side facing the settlement, 11 Le be-
lieved Mut not a dozen hooses are in-
tact, and all were at little damaged by
the tremendous fire of thear-
1111ery, which, however. was apparent-
ly not heavy enough topoodave much
effect. A curious spectacle is present-
ed 'by a number of mud hovels hn-
mediately under the wall where the
brtter was most damaged', hardly one
of them showing signs of having been
bit,
Inside (be city the damage was ter-
rific. The buildings nearest tbe wall
were mostly gutted by fire, and many
were literally blown to pieces by the
shells of tbe allies,. Among the smoul-
dering ruins are many charred corpses
whieh the pigs alit dogs are eating.
The alike are busy removing the
bodies. In ooaisequenoe of the great
number of dead many h•rve not yet
been buried. The streets through-
out the city are strewn with all kinds
of articles. Dozens of Chinese are
digging in the ruins for money and
other valuables.
Most of the houses which are intact
or little damaged display the flags of
one or the other of the allied forces,
the Japanese and the French flags
predominating. There have been
many attempts to imitate tire, flags,
which, under other circumstances,
would be laughable.
ABSOLUTE ANARCHY.
Boxers and Chinese Army Fighting
Each Other In Pekin.
A despatch from Chefoo, says:—
General LL, commanding the Pettit/1g
forts, near Takn, reports to the Brit-
ish officer commanding at Tongku
that a runner who left Pekin the
other day reports that Pekitt was to
a state of absolute anarohy, that
the regular troops were fighting the
Boxers, and that the latter were get-
ting the ,better of the struggle
that the; Maxim ainmunition of the
Legation guards tees exhausted, and
they were using their rifles sparing-
ly; that the guards recently rushed
the walls and silenced the Chinese
guns; that a fete Chinese princes
were desirous of protecting the for-
eigners, but were in a temerity.
General Li is anxious to avoid
tighttng the allies.
FEAR ANNIHILATION.
'Russians Believe That Railway Guard
of200 Has Bean Massaered.
A despatch from St. Petersburg,
says:—General Gacharoff cables that
he bombarded and destroyed Lause.hL
The garrison fled. It is now believed
that the Russian railway guard of 200
at Charbin and Tulin, whioh was said
to be surrounded by thousands of
Chinese, has been annihilated.
The Russian agent at Hankow tele-
graphs as followe
"Foreignera are in a constant state
of panic owing to the hostility of
the natives, who axe affected by the
events in the northern provinces. The
American and British' Consuls have
reoemtnendod their respective people
to send their families to Shanghai,
The foreign Consuls anti barbarian
troops have been slaughtered like
ehiekene and dogs.
COLONIALS FOR CHINA.
Ne w South t Wales
Legislature Has
Resolved to Send a Contingent.
A despeetob from London, says:—
The Loertetature of New South Wales
has .resolved leo despatch a military
totttingent io john the Imported
troops eft Chins•. ..
Dispute Over Control of the Taku
and Pekin Railway.
A despatch 8tom Titan-Tsin, Setur-
Bay, says.—The Russians announce
their intention to keep control of the
entire railway line between Tekte and
Pekin untie the conclusion of hostili-
ties, when (hay propose, they say,• to
reatore•it to the Chinese,
Admiral Seymour strongly disap-
proves allowing tbem to repair the .
line beyond Tien-Tsin, He considers
that the British should insure the un-.
dortuking and conduct the repairs.
Meanwhile the French ore endeav-
ouring to obtain control of the river
tugs, ft is believed they intend to
share the profits with Russia,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 5.
"Jesuit ,tad the Children." :nett. le. 1d4.
!:olden Text. Murk 10,14.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. At the same time. Soon af-
ter the transfiguration, wben Jesus
and his disciples were again, and for
the lasi. time in Capernaum. Came the
disciples from Mark 9. 33 it is evi-
dent that a dispute had arisen am-
ong them, and that Jesus draw them
by inquiries to ask this question. Who
is the grea:teat d They vera an their
way to Jerusalem, where they expect-
ed Jesus to set up a throne like other
kings, and they were eager for office
and rank In the new court. Such
earthly conceptions are even now
bald by many w110 look for our Lord
to come again and establish an em-
pire to take the place of other govern-
ments. Christ has a kingdom, but it
le over hearts, not over lands.
2. Jesus called. Following his custom
of teaching by illustration, anti
preuohteg to eyes as well as to ears.
A little child. It is natural that tra-
ditions would gather around this
ohild, one declaring that it was Iren-
a0us, another Ignatius. What a mem-
ory for that boy in later years, that
be had been held in his Saviour's
arms! Every child. who cornea at
Christ's call can enjoy ibat high privi-
lege.
3. -Verily. Hebrew, "amen;" a word
indicating an utteranoe of speoial
significance. Except yo be converted.
We use the word "converted" as it:
ie' now here used in the New Testa-
ment, to mean the mysterious trans-
formation of character wrought by
God's power in the salvetioo of u
soul. Hence it is better stere to fol-
low the Revised Version, "except ye
turn;" for it is the human work in
conversion, end not the divine, that
is meant iu this passage. "Turn from:
your ambitions and your seekings af-
ter selfish aims," is the meaning. As
little children. Not that men and
women are to become cbtldish and
imitate the playfulness, ignorance,'
and fickleness of little children; but
that some traits of childhood should'
be sought in the Christian character,'
as its humility, its teachableness, its'
whole -heartedness, and its 1s-ustful-
nsss. Ye shall not enter. We are
not to lay undue stress on this tent -
mace, as though the disciples were out-
side the kingdom, It is as though
Christ said, "Whatever rewards there'
nay be in my realm are out for the!
self-seeking, but for those who hum-'
bio themselves, and surrender their
wills to mine."
4. jElutnlble. himself. Just 18 a lit-
tle ohild feels no concern for money
or house or clothing, so let (he dis-
ciple forget self and leave all his at -
fare tin the bands of his loving, Rath-
er. Greatest in the kiugdlami. In
the external organised Churob tbere
may be prizes for those who strive
Alter them; in Christ's true Church
of Sa(tly souls the bighest state are
Poor the humblest.
5. Wlloeo shall reaeivr. Shall take
an interest in such, open to thean Ills
heart and blame, and aid them in his
service. One such little child, le Mot
the Church in our day to danger of
SIX DOSES WILL CONVINCE. TIDO MOST INC,II DULOU9
EDITOR COLWELL, OF PARIS, ONT., REVfIW,
Newspaper ediaors are almost as
soeptical as the average physician on
the subject of new remedies for sick
people. Nothing short of a series of
most remarkable and well authenti.
cated cures will incline either an
editor or a doctor to seriously consider
the merits honestly claimed for a
medicine.
Hundreds of testimonials of won-
derful recoveries wrought with the
Great Beath American Nervine Tonto
were received from men and women
all aver the country be±oro physioiana
began to prescribe this great remedy
is chronic oases of dyspepsia, in-
digestion, nervous prostration, sink
headache, and as a tonin for build-
ing up systems napped of vitality
through protracted spells of sick -
0058,,
Daring hie experience of nearly a
quarter of it century as a newspaper
publisher in Paris, Ont., Editor Col-
well, of The Paris Review, has pub-
lished hundreds of columns of paid
medioine advertisements, and, no
doubt, printed many a gracefully-
-worded puff for his patrons as a
matter of business, but is only a
single instance, and that one warrant-
ed by his own personal experience,
has he given a testimonial over his
own signature. No other remedy
ever offered the public has proved
Snob a marvellous revelation to the
most sceptical as the Booth American
Nervine Tonic. It has never failed
ha its purpose, and it has cured when
doctors and other medicines weft/
tried in vain.
" I was prostrated wit10 a parties".
larly severe attach of t La Grippe,' o
says Mr. Golwoll, 1' and could find lib
relief from the intense pains and dew,'
tress of the malady, 1r suffered ds.
and night. The doctors did not heap
me, and I tried a number of medlfr
oines but without relief. About thiel
time4I was adviied to try the Booth;
American Nervine Tonic, Its effeo
were instantaneous. The first dose ,
took relieved me. I improved rappidlil
and grew stronger every day. Yaniq
Nervine Tonic oared me in a sine*'
week."
The South American Nervirmi
Tonic rebuilds the life forces by its
direct notion on the nerves and thea
nerve centres, and it is this notabik.
feature whieh distinguishes it fru*
every other remedy is existence. Tillie
most eminent medical authorities cowl
conoedethat fully two-thirds of all thil
physical ailments of humanity arise?-
from exhaustion of the nerve fermi.,
The South American Nervine Tonic;
acting direct upon the nerve oentrltsl
and, nerve tissues instantaneously'
supplies them with the true nourish.;
went regained, and that is why filo
invigorating effects upon the whet
system are always felt immediate
For all nervous diseases, for genert,
debility arising from enfeebled vital.;
and for stomach troubles of ever:
variety no other remedy can possib1
take rte olat'e.
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
forgetting the opportunities for
soulesaviog in the childhood of the
Sunday school and the home/ If
pasters and teachers would glue at-
tention and care to this army, eon-
verts might be, multiplied, and the de-
crease in Church mnerebership might
be turned into a goodly tnarease. In
my name. Seeing' in every child a
possible disciple of Christ, and work-
ing for ihst ah14d as Christ would
work.
0. Whose shall offend. A sentence
'often misunderstood and misapplied.
It does not refer to "offondiug
others," hut causing others to do
wrong, The :Revised Version reads,
mare oorrQ'ei ty, "`110%0 shall ean:aa
one of these little ones which
believe on me to stumble;"
that is, shall wantonly put temp-
tation in their way, or seek to tarn
them aside—as when ono scatters in-'
fidel literature, or 0 father teaches,
by his example a child to drink or.+
to .swear, or an older boy leads a;
younger into immorality. What
shall we say to those who scatter the
teulptatioes of strong drink and of
evil literature in the windows of the
public slreet 4 A millstone. Literally,
"an ass-millstauo," a heavy one turn.
ed by an ase, as distinct from the
hand -mill turned by women in the
East. hanged about his neck. It,
is preferable to lose one's own life
rather than to cause another to lose
his scut. browned in the depth,,
Drowning was a frequent mottled of
executhtg oriminnls in the ancient
world. '
7. Woe . . because of offences.
",Because of 000astons of stumb-
ling," Revised Version. As we'
see how many etre the temple-,
tions to error, to unbelief, to crime,
we realize how great this woe is. It
must needs be, The need is not in God's
will, out .in the foot of sin in the world.
Woe to that man. The time magi
co2$e wben every soul will realize the,
full extent of bis influence, for gooa,
and for ill. What sorrow will that,
revelation bring to many t
S. Hand or, . . . foot offend thee.
The hand may "offend," or cause to
stumble, when its work leads others
astray, as the hand of one who writes
a book which is profitable but evil,,
Better go poor than gain by iniquity,
The foot "offends" when its owner,
walks into temptation. Leave paths
untrodden if they lead to sin. Cut'
them off. A man who gives up a''
pusilion rather than sell liquor, on)
write opinions contrary to his eon
suieno0, may be poor here, but will bee
rich hereafter. He may enter into life,
maimed, but will have his reward here_
after,
0, Enter into life with one eye. That'
is, to live on earth a life incomplete
and narrow and poor, for eonsoienoe•,
sake. Rather than having two eyes:
To possess all that might be obtain.
ad, tike the millionaire who wins a fore
tune, with all its advantages, by
wronging other man. Hell fire. IA
dark hint of woe hereafter,, of whittle
, we may believe the reality without
comprebendmg the method,
1.U. In heaven their angels, There
may be lisave beiugs to wutoh over
those on earth who cannot always
care for themselves. See Psa. 84. 7;
11 ; Heb. 1, 14.
11, 1:1. The Son of man. A title
whieh Jesus often applied to himselll"
as sharing in our humanity. A hum
drod sheep, Souls saved end getherorl(
in the Cllurcii under cafe, (Me o
them be gone. The perishing sinner or'
(lie wandering disciple. Into the moue -
Wine, So came the heavenly Shepherd'.
seeking each one of us.
13, 14. Rsjoicoth more. Not with
grouter love, but with greater:rejoiee
ing over a eottl enaar•hed (rent darts
ger. Not tate will Soule are lost not
because God has willed their (lest mote
tion, bat became they have chosen it,