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Ill there is anyone on earth that da. INT2RNATIQNAL LESSON, D2Q, 2,
tis be envied, it is the men wkly dies
Talmage Dwells on the Uncertainty
of Man's Life.
EXPECT TO GET 'WELL,an, astonishing
1v11i not be confounded, and so that 4bou.t to .tell you
They expect soma new offset of meth- what hey eve honestly earned' be not thing. On. A rich young ruler,
cies, or a new style of (looter, or a sesttered • among those ;who have no Came, Ran and kneaded dawn before
change of climate will help them. It ,right to Ile. if the auddeai 4aiiounoemant Jesus, what good thing shall 1 de,
is width man are calculating on long sliculd bo etude to you to+ntght, what here' is ,the very marrow and gist of
days 'teat their decisive our eomos would be the state of your £amlliese the. Hebrew religion. Raman life was
--while they aro expecting an en- have you done all that you, can to regarded :as made up of throe olaases
largement of business aecoremodad. fit them fol• heaven Could you feel of items—good deeds, incensegaential
tions; or are getting in their crops, j "AS'huteTei 1, us father or mrother. `deeds, and tied deeds, nndit was quite
or are trying to draught a new barn—. eoirid do, I have "done. They will re -
or roach to do some one Unmen-
euddenly! 'Wonder mitthat the member how I prayed for team and densly good deed and so purchase.
delicate 'bowl of life was broken at: talked with them; and when they look "imam, of the Most Jiigh, Among
the fountain. Our IIfe is of such at my picture, they will say, 'That the entirely new conoeptLuns that name
delicate mechanism, so finely poised, was a Cieris.ilen l.arent: I want to into the world with the teachings of
so haLr-strung, that the least collie go in the some way, and gain the same Che Lard Jesus there was a now
crop, you want some place to pot it. "ion Ls fatal. The wonder is that, heaven!" The keys of an organ may be emphasis placed on the doctrine that
twelve feet ,from the organ tiles, but the moraloharaoter of an depends
Enlargement is the word. I see him with such exquisite machinery, the
esisulating, by the light of a torch, Pivots do not oftener slip, and the every Lime those keys aro louehed the On iia motive. This young man's
how much extension of room is need- spring break, and all the works in- pipes respond; so tease parents are or was faulty. No one good deed
all. So many Loads of corn, so many stantly crash. The vast majority novo exercising influences witch will can alone for dins, because God ex -
of wheat. It must be so many feet of flys rasa go set of this ilio with. respaud far on in the eternity, of pects all deeds to be good. It is not
front, and so many feet deep. He says, out a physical pang. They flash their children. IE they piny an by doing, but by being, that we have
"When Iget the new building done away •
anthem now, it will be an anthem eternal life.
I shall have everything. Nothing then I know not what had been the then, If they play a dirge now, it 1 17. Why callest thou me good,/ there
for me but to enjoy myself." In an- character of the Last day that this ; will be a dirge for ever. ! is wane good but one that is, God. it is
tioipation of the barn enlarged, he man of the text had lived --,whether But, most of all, I want to know j a steal') no the natural meaning of
folds his arms and says "If anybody It was sunshine or rainy, interesting what is to become of you personally. 'l this phrase to understand it as' im
in all the world is prosperous and or dull; butt know about the night, It This night may be your last eight., plying that Jesus did not think hire -
happy, Z am that man," But his ear was a great night. It was a thrall- Then, "This night thy soul shall be self good, or that be thought that
is stunned with the words, "Thou', mg night. It was a tremendous required eP thee." What then? into Gad only ought .to be called good• It
fool!" " Where did the voice coma 1
night. As the text comes rushing what scenes would you be Mei:educ:de is almost au equal . strain ore the
Prom?" "Who dares say that to me, •. through the darkness, be drops his Would you go where your children, language, though more in harmony
the first man in all this country?" pen. Ile forgets his big burn and and kindred, and friends have dune, with currant theology, to understand
It was the voice of God! "Thou fool, his unshelieie l crops. "this night et -where the man of the, text wente the Wards as a direct challenge to
thy soul shell bo required of thee." They who die wii.hoet Christ are so the young man's faith ire own Lord's
this night thy soul shall be required
of thee 1" But the most remarkable thing thoroughly ruined that they never divinity, as If Jesus had said, "You
What was the malady that took him about the exit was th.it he was un- get over it. The men of the, text is cannot consistently call me good un -
immediately away—1 know not. But prepared for it. It was not a luck to -night just where he was eighteen less you ackesowledge my divine
that night he expired. Ha never built of brain that kept him in ueprepared- hundred Soars ago. Thouslinds of nature." But the true reading is,
the extension. BOfora the remaining Dees. Now a man who knows enough (teepee calls have bean uttered since ] "Why askest'thou me coacerninig the
thea ext had been th d h to do bu-siuess, knows enough to bare thew, Ile has not heard one of them. geode" We may reverently conclude
He has been gathering in his crops that our Lord had two closely'; relat-
ever since, but it is a harvest of ed objects—first, to force this young
everlasting wretchedness. God call- man of independent action into inde-
ed him a fool in hie last hour, and he pendent thought, and, secondly, to
who dies a fool is a fool for. ever. { raise still bigher the idea ot Himself.
Perhaps, like the man of the text, When aux Lord asked the hostile
you are about to build larger barns. , Pharisees how David could call his
You az: planning fur worldly ace ` sen Lord, he was trying to rid them
cumulation. Do not forget to project of parrotlike repetitions, and to make
a plan for eternity, You acknow- them reverently thiuk; now in ten -
ledge yourself immortal; where, than,' darer mood be deprecates on the lips
will you be a hundred years from of this earnest young man words that
now? You say that perhaps, by were on the lips of almost everybody
obligations to God. They pall down some great exceptian,you might be else, "Good Master," bad come to
their bares and build greater, alive a hundred years from now. Then moan no mors than " The Honorable
to hole the increasing craps, where will you be at the and of a Mr. So-and-so; and Why calle,st thou
but have no shelter for their• thousand years? Where will you be me
good? might be interpreted to
A despatch from Washington says:
'-Bev, Dr. Talmage preached from the
following text: "Tide night tby soul
shall be required of thee. "—Luka xii.
20.
My text introduces us into a fine
fame -house. The acciiparrt has hoes
wonderfully suo0essfui, As far' as i
can tell, he was an honest, iudustrlous,
enterprising. man. Tho crops were com-
ing in. The mow and the granary
were hull, and the man and, oxen tug-
ged away at other loala,'The matter
was a great perplexity, After you
have gone to the trouble to raise a
well. Put nat that way do all men "' The Klett renew nal,' e' Matt, 10. la 30
make their departure, Mete ought to leiae0'1'ext' "ark 10' IC.
have their wordly affairs settled,, so PBIACTIQAL NOTES,
that the executors and administrators 'Verso Behold, "Ireek! I am
gathered a was his soul. A11 of the L:dots will be
himself reaped. They hauled in no saved at I..ist. He was not an idiot.
]Dads of grain on the next day, but
ee
a long procession followed him out to But, alas! an
ho l many mea are i wty 1
burial. If the world expressed its for time, an! fooli h for et' sell
sentiments in regard to him, it would They know enough, when they sail u
thing, to get the worth of it, but
Put over his grave, "Here lies interred they barter away an immortal soul
a curcessful man, of great enterprise, for nothing. They have everything
and influence, and he departs, mourn- Insured but their souls. They are
ed by the whole neighbourhood. Peace careful to have all their titles good
to his ashes I" God wrote over his except that for heaven. They are
grave, and on his barn -door, an epi- prompt in their engagements with
taph of four Ietters—"FooI.' That the banks anal brokers, but fail in their
divine epitaph was correct, I infer
from the fact that this man had live
ed so many years and made no pre-
paration for the future, and because
he was postponing every thing until
souls so gool as a barn. L. a man a million of years from now/ A bit- mean, "Measureyour compliments.
he got larger barns. Additional barn- should come at them with asly game, p
room could not maks him happy, Show qua r! years? A trillion of years? A Keep your standards of lienor and
and by to °beat them out of a hen- quadrillion of yearse A quintillion goodness high." But, what about the
ancume the man made happy by worldly en who dyed dollars, they would say, "No, you of yearse But a bun tared years are second clause os< our Lord's reply? The
have theatmostansi areho and mvork the
dead I F s e w°eat you are driving .nothing ; a million of years are Revision changes this also: One there
at!, U3ut they allow Satan to swindle nothing; a billion. of years are nothing is who is% ood. Jesus will not be
hardest ? The millionaires. The men them out of
who have the greatest freedom from r , I a trillion of years are nothing•, a classed merely with other "good mas-
cara
ALL '1fiE RICHES OF' HIsAA ];N. i quadrillion of years are nothing;a tees." Whatsoever goodness the youth
care are those ivho live on q
Neither was it tack of time tint quintillion of ears are nothing— THEIR DAY'S WAGES. ushered the man of the text , 3 y i has found in him is of God; so titles
Prosperity is like salt water; theLnto the last hour unarmed. I l COMPARED W1TH ETERNITY. 1 of courtesy and convention are quite
mora you drink of it the thirstier you 1 i Sc I ask you, Where will you spend out of place. So far had God been
suppose he was very busy, Early up
are. "Soul, take thine ease 1" Ah I did rod late to bed, overseeing the work- eternity? pushed back in the common theology
a, man ever lea ease to his soul byOh, prepare for It. Leave it not of the Jews that the rabbis had a
g men. From the way things went on
such a process? The soul is a spirit. about that place, I know he looked until the last hour. Leave it not un- saying, " There is nothing that is good
Can material things be expected to after his owu business, and had plenty 111 you get sick; you may never be but the Law." If thou wilt enter into
feed it ? Can the soul eat wheat, or to do. But might he not rather have : sick. Leave it not until you get more life, keep the commandments. A sec -
corn, or hardware? This man had had fifty bushels of wheat less than be , time; you may never gat mato time. and statement provocative of deep
thought only of the three or four caught in the last hour in such ams- Leave it not until you get old; you thought.
yards of human life, and regarded not erable predicament? Yes, be had time may never get old. Leave it not un- 18, 19. The young ruler inquired,
the millions of furlongs stretching out enough, as every man has, to prepare til the spirit strives more powerfully; Which 1 As if it could not bep ossible
himself for the futere Men talk as it may never strive again. Leave it i that Jesus would refer him back to
though in order to get pre - :not until to -morrow. This night—I the old tables of the law. Thou shalt,
pared for eternity, they must have a ° this night, thy soul may be required Our Lord here groups six commands
month or a year to go and sit down, of thee. And suppose, in that moment, whieh belong to the moral law and
and; read and prey. Heaven is not a you should say, "Wait until I can, are of ,permanent obligation. Five
cloud that touches only the top of kneel down and say my prayers." of them etre taken from the familiar
some high mountain; it touches earth Death would relpond, "No time now group of the tem, the sixth is to be
all aver. And that man who has time ' to say your prayers." "Wait =HIT found in Lay. 19. 18. The written
to eat, or sleep, or think, has time to get my friends together, and bid them law, ,preserved to us in our Bible, and
be saved. Yat that man died anpre- 1 good-bye." Deatb would say, "You the oral law, a mass ot comment and
pared. He fell; not as a man who cannot stop to bid them good-bye." tradition from uncounted generations
trips and stumbles on a road, but as "Bat I cannot go into eternity with of scribes and teachers, when put to -
men falling from sem.; Alpine cliff all these sins about me. Give me time gather .made =oh a mass of detailed
have been watched by the peasantry to repent." Death would say, "Too instruction that it was generally ad-
milted no man perfectly could obey
lit. So it had become important for
Jews, whose eyes seldom saw beyond
the letter of the law to ascertain
whish of all the commandments were
the essential ones, and which might
without deadly peril be ignored.
you perish. "0 Israel! how shall I Tide question, in various forma was
give thee up?" frequently discussed by rabbis.
By what argument shall I address
yowl By what impnssionate appeal
may I move 1011E
I can do nothing more. 1 leave you
in the hands of that Saviour who died
into the infinite.
I wish to make two or three remarks
about this man's exit from the
world.
It was in strong contrast with bis
life. His surroundings were as bright
as could be. We know more about his
barns than his house, but I judge of
the style of his house from that of
his barn. hien do not•take better care
of 'their horses and cattle than of
themselves. The house was full of
comforts and luxuries. When the ta-
ble was spread, there was everything
on it to administer to his appetite..
When visitors name to that honse,the
master no doubt would take them out
and say, "Thera are twenty acres of
grain ; ten acres of oorn , fifteen acres
of grove. See those sheep down in that
valley. See those cattle on that hill.
All mine I Come and look at those fig -
trees. There are soma figs ripe. Help
yourself. Plenty of them. See how
as they go down—a thousand feet, late to repent! This night thy soul
whirling in the air—dashed on the is required. Yea, this hour! Yea,
rooks. iso this man, from the tip-top this minute! Yea, this second!"
of wordly prosperity, slipped and fell, 0b, by the Gross of Christ, get
Eigbteen centuries have passed since ready. Repent, and say, "Jesus, thou
that catastrophe. The body 01 that . Son of David, have mercy on mei"
rich farmer has so thoroughly gone to In Christ you are sale. Out of Him,
dust that no and suspects where it is.
But his soul still lives—lives more
actively than yours or mine. And he
those grape -ulnas thrive—and these remembers, as though it were only an
pomegranates 1" Abundance of every -'dour ago, the . iupdndous impression
thing. Plenty to eat, plenty to wear, of that moment when, in desperate un -
and plenty to congratulate. Yet, amid preparedu,•ss, there came crashing into
all that, he dies 1 his ears "This night thy soul shall be
Whale ties ? Ia elegance of sur- i required 01 thee."
If, between this and five or six
rounding no defence? Can not a man i o'clock to -morrow morning, the came
hide in his full barns or in his rich j voice should accost our souls, would It
wardrobe? No, They that trust in I find as likewise disconcerted 1 No, I
• their wealth and boast themselves in can say for many of you. You are not
the multitude of their riches—none of so well dressed for church as you are
them can by any means redeem his for heaven. That dress you have on
brother, nor give to God a, ransom for i will wear out—get out of fashion; but
him, that he should Iive for ever, anr] ' the robe of Christ's righteousness will
not sea corruption. The successfulman • never wear out, for the latest ages of
of the text in the night-time has his !heaven wear the same pattern as the
soul required of him. earliest, Ido not mean to say that
1 Again: The man of the text mads i you, are sinless; but Christ has made
sudden exit. There was no long lane it all right. Iia has made u transfer cif
leading up to this event. The only; your sins and pollution, so that you
warning which he got was on the ; aught to think of leaving this world
last night. It was not a gradual only ns you think of going to awed- Mrs. Mumpsl—And you?
wasting away, but a shock --and all ding, It is a wedding—the marriage of Dreary Draggles-0!—I—I'm hare,
Was over. 5o r,m,oval from this the Ifing's Son. Spare a copper,
world is always auddon, I have'. How, much does death hurt a good n COLLISION AVOIDED,
hoard or taro oases whore persons man? Not, so much as the tip of his
20. A.11 these things have I kept from
my youth up. This reply implied a oon-
soiousnese of general integrity which
appears to have been recognized by
our Lord, who looked on him and lov-
to redeem you. I leave you to that ed him, Mark 10. 21; but it was come
God before whom you must at last biped with te low and merely legal
appear, and answer for present
acceptance ar rejection of mercy,
Lard God Almighty! I have dome
my best to call them in. Into thy
hands I eouamit their immortal
spirits.
1111 DIDN'T GET IT.
Dreary Draggles—Yes, mum; I'se
had a 'ard life. Why, wunst a bulli -
gator ewallere,d me, boots an' all;
view of moral obligation. The ques-
tion, What lack I yet ? may have
been uttered in the very spirit of
Pharisaic self-sufficiency or we may
take the pleasanter view of a pro-
found student of this gospel: "Some-
thing within him whispered that his
keeping of the commandments was too
easy a way of geLting to heaven! ;
something beyond this was necessary;
but after keeping them. all he wad
but I ad, a dynamite cartridge in me at a loss tc know what that aceta»
pocket, ten' it exploded an' killed the thing also coned be."
badltgator all ter bitel 21. If tholu wilt ho perfect. "7f thou
wilt "lack nothing," Go and sell that
Mote hast. Your "great possessions,,,
Thou shalt have treasure in heaven.'
11 will not do to say, as some have
glibly said, that our Lord was a So-,
egad,
0-
laid,"Stub a day of surh a month little finger, They who, in letting When 1 am very angry I always cialist--ho was tot in any ordinary
willbe ley last;" and it wee)ao. But 700 down into your last resting -place,' count 100, nye of that phrase; or to teach, with
the man' of the text Was not more shall be sortetohed in the hand with a hoes that. calm you down? St. Propels o1 Assis[. that naltednoss
amazed than most people. Theon brier, shall be more damaged than' 11 11, it gives me time to get away and poverty etre the fit coneitions for
the most ovate:nod invalids yen by death, The grandest, pude on from the other man:. perfected Christian lives. Uniformly,
e a t d e t l Ser-
edee
l'Tovai awl one trill]] bare .cons ant- � i3*ell, Jim. ecu] couldn't pass th av!
ly on hie mind --ilial no man could vice business on geography an' 'rlthe
et ane time Dave earthly treasury and meld°. Too heal What's lee dein' to do
heayeely treasure. A lean having now 1 Dunne; but I reckon he'll go
great anther possessions, end hold back Le teaohlp' school!
Mg them as "talents," as the good Briggs—Wonder ilow "Stover is doing
l7 d.'s illvestmeete taninorarily in- nawualeYs ? Griggs -:Oh, he mast be do,
trusted Lo him, is in the dereot way leg finely; meat be making no end of
to get "great possosalons" in heaven; Money, you know lie has always been
but e man with great possessions troubled more er leas with rheurna-
whmyesLs that ho''posseyaes them, who! tism.
Weil, ba now Oa11011 gout',
rackoslson worldly woaltb as Ilial She—aces; it's all wall enough to say
source DP satisfaction, has no right, now, you think I'm pretty, •Yesterday
according to nus Lord's teaching, to you ,Said zny 00.80 turned up droadfsil-
otaLm treasure .0 keaveia. Tiara is ly, fIs—Well, dear, 1 was thiesinng it
nosinlnhol,llxsg andw3Lngwhatau0noy show mighty poor taste In busking
we ,halve; dao man' carcase money wise- away`ifronA snob u lovely mouth,
lY' Who 11009 not hold 1t to 001ne de- I No. I don't know what tea 19uropean
gree, But tlla sin 18 in a man's teal-
ee! concert will play, observed Li Bung
ing that his wealth Is his own. I Ciaug. Then,. wick a knowing smile;
1""110+0 seven versos aro gxompel by he cuntlnu,;d: But I"hened not be sure
aux outline under the title, "the Cast,p1•'sad if we-furn.shed the Tuan..
of heavenly Treasure." Now let us 13u0on -Widen Yea are 1n !:5a eity
Prayerfully ask, "Whet did our 'Lord drop in and doe me, ]sgbex't—Why, 1
daCine that aost to bo?" Far this thought your office was on Iia aigh-
young man tt was the sale of bis tutnth floor? So it is, And you went
earthly treasure and the g'tvdn% ef'11 m.i to drop in; do you suppose '1l he
to thoee that needed 11 most; for oa In a balloon ?
all it is a similar "dying to the
The expert counterfeiter laid the
world" and "thing to God." It Ls 11v- various aamiiles of his work on the
treble before him and examined them
ing in the world, but not -of lt; it rvHee a critical eye. '1'hle, he. said; pick -
no slag on oeonveraetion, eitizeush1P;in imp up a well-rxeoucnd imitaLLonoP a
heaven, It is wise, as Ln another j$;UU bill, 1 think I shall make my
lesson we learned, to make friends of paramount issue.
the maminon of unrighteuasness.; but Dusty heads -.I say, Weary, bow did.
that can be done only by using worldly Iyou feel whoa
that
.d,og coma at g ou?
wealth as we use overcoats and winter Weary ural glen—f fait fiiittersd that
wraps, ready to slip them off at the won he wits glad to see me; but Sen»
proper moment, Anil so, :in brief, doavored to nide my feelings
es mush
the cost of heavenly treasure is doing as 1 eaul&
without treasure in this world ; not al-
ways doing without money, but al-
waya doing without treasure; for our
treasure is in heaven.
22. die went away sorrowful. Sad to
say, hie sorrow does not seem Lo have
been of that godly sort that workatb
repentance; but it indicated a pro-
longed inward conflict between desire
to follow Jesus and to retain the great
possessions.
28. Verily I say unto you. A gather-
ing up of all the emphasis with which
oar Lord could impel a truth. A rich
man shall hardly enter into the king-
dom of heaven. Mark, who gives a
more detailed account, adds that in
answer to bis disciples our Lord ex-
plained this to mean a man that trusts
our Lord's conduct and teachings WINTER WRIRIC1,2$,
were ieloonseetent wick seek doctrine,
These aro my jewels, said the mother
of the Greened, pointing to her chile
dren. With a soulless laugh Tertius
Ballonius, the pawnbroker, refused to
lend, any money on . them saying they
would eat up the interest,
'Prepared for lielatives — Husband
at dinner—My I my 1 Thisisa regular
banquet—worthy of a Delmonioo,
Finest spread I've seen in the age,
What's up? Do you expect company 1
Wile—No, but I presume the cook
does.
L1QU]D FUEL IN. STEAMERS.
A lre.•.el Tr, re's to London From Borneo,
11.1ae Oozy' 011 to Fire pax Furnaces.
In October the steamship Gowrie
In riches, The Wbrd "hardly" relere- steamed all the way from henetei in
s.nts a great aiillcu.ty. The "kingdom Borneo to London, a distance of 9,235
of heaven" stands for the dominance miles, using nothing but liquid fuel.
When the steamer reached London the
boilers for supplying steam for the
unloading machinery were fired by the
same material. The oil was not burn-
ed by athin layer of incandescent
aoal, as is the case in some systems,
but seas reduced to a spray by means
of a steam jut at the Jumada door
where it was delivered from tanks
above the boilers.
The Cowrie was formerly fired
with coal and her owners any that
her conversion to liquid fuel
has been attended. with advantageous
results, Only six stokers are now re-
quired, though sixteen were neces-
sary when coal was used. iA great
deal of bunker space is also saved, The
consumption of An at sea is only
twenty-two tons a day while the daily
consumption of coal used to be thirty-
five tons, aad a ton of oil occupies only
thirty-four cubic feat against forty-
five fest required for coal. The oil
is also taken on board, much more
quickly than cool, and recently e.00 tons
were pumped into a German steamer
in an hour.
The oil yielded by the Borneo oil
fields is said to make an excellent
fuel just as it comes from the ground,
.anal it is beginning to be numb used 1
far this purpose by the famburg-
American and other steamers that are
engaged in the Eastern trade,
o8 the heavenly idea, whether in this
world or in the world to come.
24. Again Isay unto you. A still
more stringent. observation. It is
easier, for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle, than for a rich man to
enter into the kingdom of God. A
proverbial saying, expressing, by a
figure easily comprehended, a diffi-
culty that could never be surmount-
ed by natural forces. The needle
represents -.the entrance into the
kingdom of God. A camel can pass
th,cough i:t only by the exorcise of
miraculous power on the camel, for
God's gateway is essentially un-
changeable, So the rich man (mu-
llet
anmot possibly enter into the kingdom
of God, no rich man can, who has lived
to amass, and who La trusting, in, his
wealth. Nevertheless, as our Lord
proceeds to show, mein to whom . God
in,trusts wealth are given an oppor-
tunity not only to enter the kingdom
of God, but to beooms tale saints
therein; amiractultoue change is
we:ought not only in the Lerma of
salvatigssy but in the nature og the
mam
25. They were exceedingly amazed.
Well they might be. They hiid Sever
heard of that aboard explanation of
modern times, that the Needle's Eye
was the name of a gate just large
enough toadmit a camel without hie
load. They curractly understood our
Lord to be stating in straightforward
language an absolute impossibility.
Their candor is shown byy their next
question, Who then oan be saved?
They begin to fear that their own en-
trance into the kiugdom of God is im-
periled. Nat because any of them
were. wealthy, for all the intimations
of the gospel records show that at
least after they became disciples they
were poor, but because (es the ques-
tion shows) they were trusting in
their own l•ichea, scanty as those riches
were, A, man can go to eternal ruin
by the worship of half a dollar 118 real-
ly. as by the worship of a million of
dollars, Furthermore, men have been
kept out of the kingdom of God by
refusal to aurrender to God "posses-
sions" of e, sort not reducible to money
value.
20: With man. On the "human side,"
8.8 We sometienas say ; as a matter
of ordinary fact, setting aside super-
natural power. It is contrary to
mature, as absolutely unnatural me for
a camel in go through a needle's eye,
for a rich man to hold hiss treasure
as belonging to God, Beat with God,
who cam arrest and suibvert all forces
of nature, all things are possible. no
Win tot save a few rich favorites; he
wall save pro one, rich or, poor, who
does cot in the truest cense surrender
11L; all. But Gad "givetb mots gr.,oa;''
and as a•,natter at history ha baa'
helped men of "groat possessions" 'to
hold there as rwming from him,: and
as 'being subject to his order; so that
they aro iso longer rich m0154 they
are simply banks en which Gael keeps
aaoouants, and to which he sends; hit;
drafts day by day.
MARRYING 1N RUSSIA.
Ai%hen the parents of a young man
Ln Russia decide that a certain young
lady would make a suitable mato for
him, they say nothing aboutr Inc mat-
ter to anyone, but on seine evening
they will drop around unexpectedly
at the prospective bride's home and
will stay for supper. During the
meal they will keep a close watch, on
the young lady.
If she eats fast she will perform
her work speedily; iC sbe goes neatly
and cleanly aboat her plate she will
perform her work /wally an.1 clean-
ly; if she does not talk much, she will
work and not talk and prove afaith-
ful and obedient wife to her husband;
if she prefers rye bread to while she
will be satisfied with her lot; if she
does not .gene and stare at the visi-
tors she will be a wife that, will not
continually pry into her husband's
business, and if she immediately pro-
ceeds to clean up tie dishes after the
meal she will .bring prosperity to bar
husband and will be economise) with
his money.
y
A most peculiar thing about the
marriage ceremony is the tact that
when ibe couple onto], lbs oburch +both
groom and bride MOW a dash for the
platform, on which is the pulpit. It 19
believed that " the one whose toot
touches the platform first will live
the longer, and that the children.
willtake after that one in size, health
and beauty.
HOPE,
Into each breast some rain must fell,
Into ench heart some sorrow;
But oomfnrt will name, dear friends,
to us all,
For after to -day ig to.0orl'oW,
THE FOX ANG THE GOBBLER,
Aa Inatruativa lrablo by boor ;lett,
Old Uncle Bltl.
Loopyrigiit, 1000, by C. 1a. Lawl.,l
The Pox had long desired to make a
closer acquaintance with the Gobbler,
but ns the latter went to roost at sup.
down and selected a high limb 0107.,
nand always f(rrlved a little too lute,
lde bad tried bluffs and threats and •
AT HIS OLD TRIOS&
flattery to no avail,but one evening as.
he roamed about be got an idea and at
once hastened away to the Gobbler.
"My dear," he began • as be arrived
under the tree, "I have told you whad
a fine bird you were, but you—you"--
"I don't tumble," replied the Gobbler.
"I have said that 1 loved you, but
you seem to doubt me."
"Yes, I do."
"You won't even come down and
walk with me while we talk things
over."
"Not at all."
"What can I do to prove my earnest-
ness?"
"Nothing at all. I know your little
game and can beat it. Inst trot right
along, Mr. Fox.
"Ah, me," sighed the Fox, "but must
I go and praise that vain bird, the Pea-
cock? Only last night she was telling
me she felt a contempt for your squint
eyes and ragged feathers."
"What! The Peacock scandalizing
me!" exclaimed the Gobbler. "If that
stuck up, no account bled bas dared"
"And she called you bow legged," in-
terrupted the Fox.
"How dared she!"
"And found fault with your voice. I
stuck up for you, of course, but being
you don't care for my society I'll move
on. If the Peacock saw us out walking
together"—
"She shall—elle sbaill" exclaimed the
Gobbler as he flew down.
Moral,—When the box bad picked
the bones clean, he stretched himsell
and said:
Flattery and envy are a double bar
reled gun, and it one misses the abet
is very sure to bit" M. QUAD.
The Proper Tribunal.
Mfrs. Snaggs—Oo you suppose that
Queen Wilhelmina and her betrothed
ever have lovers' quarrels?
Mr. Snagge—I suppose so. Why do
you ask?
Mrs. Slit}=s—I was wondering If
they woulu be referred to The Clague
board of arbitration for settlement. --
Pittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph.
Would Believe Ills Storfea.
He had come borne late the prevlous
night and wastellinghow It happened.
"You really ought to have married
that little :Arise Jones Instead of me,"
she said at last.
"Why?" he demanded.
"Oh, abe'a s"ch a °redeems little
thing."
Their Strong Points.
"Women waiters," said tbo other
man, "are so much neater and cleaner
looking than. men."
"Yes," responded Mr. Tyte-Plilst,
tucking his napkin under his chin, "and
you"don't have to tip them."—Chicago
Tribune.
The Ruling Passion..
"Where are you going 10 such haste,
nelghbor?"
"To the railway station."
"Too bad, for l was going to tell yon
a piece of news."
"Oh, dearl Now 1'11 lose another
tralu!"—Illlegt'ndo dllattor;
A °rend.
I am a held enmpnigner irha
Fears nnghL—'lwae proved of,yoro—
...Savo one Ming, 0111011 1'll name to you.
And tint 1 fear full sore,
A gloom lvouli softie o'er the land
Where, daily 1 .1.0101001
A tuitional. grief Would lslto. command
111 slunk) lata my yoioe.
Who stoats my purge alanle only LelaL1
Who 0Lpels' my thunder fine
otltlmes but an unmeaning crash
'1'o tickle carries minds.
t
mei bet to reiterate,
1 matte no mutual. *Valeo,
And shudder at ley awful tele
I11 dieted lose ley voice,
Wlahlastou fee.