HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-3-14, Page 6STAMS BY HIS PEOPLE.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Says Clod Always
ttX fll� Uis Promise.
A despatch front Washington says;
s—Rov. Dr. Talmage preached from the
following text:.—"There shah not any
man bo able to strand before thea all
tam days of thy life,"—Joshua I. 0.
Mouse waa dead. A beautiful tradi-
tion says. that God kissed bim, and in
that act drew forth the soul of tb0
.dying lawgiver. He has been buried,
oaily. one .person at ails funeral; the
tame() one who kissed +him. But God
never removes a man until he has
boom one ready to take his place. God
aces not go around seeking among a
irreat. variety of candidates some one
to take a vacant position; be just
makes a man to fit that particular
place. Moses had passed off the
atage.7oshua, the hero of the text
comas out to take his plana, and puts
pais foot so solidly on the platform
of history that all ages hear the echo
of his tread. He was a magnificent
fighter, and he always fought on the.
right side. He never fought for per-
sonal aggraudizement, and never
fought unless the Lord told him to
do eo.
His first undertaking was to cross
the. river Jordan in a spring freshet.
At certain (masons in the year, and
at certain points, that river could be
easily forded, and the water would
only come to the knee or to the gir-
dle ; but at thin season of whioh I am
Speaking, the snow of Mount Leban-
on had melted, and they were pouring
down into the valley, and the valley
had become one raging flood. The
Canaanites on the other side felt per-
fectly secure. They looked across the
river and saw the Israelites', and they
said: "Aha l you can't get at us—we
are safe anyhow until this spring
freshet falls" But one day Joshua
order's out his troops and tells them
to fall into line.
• "FORWARD MARCH!"
cries Joshua to hia troops. They pass
on toward the river, and it seems as
if the light -armed troops and the
Spearman and the archers and all
their leaders must be swept down in
the fearful flood. They reach the bank
and they pull themselves up its steep
thirty or forty feet in height—they
pull themselves up the bank by the
oleanders and the tamarisks and the
willows until they reach the top. No
sooner have they climbed up this high
bank than with dash and roar and
terrific rush the waters of the Jordan
break loose from their strange an-
chorage. Why din not those waters
stay parted until Joshua and his
troops could find out whether they
could cope with their enemies or not?
I hear one of the unbelieving Israel-
ites say: "Lord, why didst thou not
keep those billows% parted so that if
we wanted to retreat we could go back
dry ahod, just as when we advanced ?
1Wta are engaged an a very risky ex-
periment. How if these Canaanites
eat us all up?"
Ah I my hearer, God never makes
any provision for the Christian's re-
treat. ole clears the path to Canaan,
1f we go ahead; if we go back, we die.
It is dry shod on a path of broken
obeli and pebbles in one direction. It
is water forty feet deep in the rear.
The same gate -keeper that swung
back the crystal and amethystine
door of Jordan to let you pass, hatb.
bolted and barred the crystal and am-
ethystine of the Jordan to keep yon
from going back. I declare it to -day;
:Victory ahead. Darkness, hood, ruin
and death behind
But we cannot stop here. It is no
place for Joshua's troops to stay,
What la that in the distance? At
the end of a grove of palms eight
miles long; is the chief city.
THAT IS JERICHO
the great metropolis, Take it Joshua
must. "Take it Josbua can't," say
tha unbelievers. This campaign is
planned by the Lord Almighty, There
are to be no swords, no shields, no
battering rams. There Js to be only
one weapon, and that is to he ram's
horn. Now the command is, that
seven of the priests should take these
rude musical instruments, and for
six days they should go around the
,walls of Jericho once a day, and then
as the seventh day, they should go
around seven times blowing this curi-
ous, rustio, musical instrument, and
.Lhe peroration of the whole servo 18
to be a great shout under which that
,wall from baso to capstone is to
tumble, Around the walls of ,Terieho
the priests go once, and a failatre.
Nei so much' as a piece of mortar or
plaster drops from the wall; not so
mach as a crevice opens, not So mueb
as, a .rock gots loose. Around the city
the second day, and a failure; the
third day and a failure; the fourth
day, and a failure; around the fifth
day,and a faiIiure; around the sixth
day, and a failure. Joshua's stook
was down. Butt the seventh day
came—the alimaotorio day. At last,
t11 hour i (weaved. The3
a oat 11a a od priests
,wild tame mule musical li.Otrunaents
go all around Use 01ty of Jericho 01200
and a failure, Around the city twice,
three times, four Limes, and a failure.
Arouod the oily five times, six times,
Seven times, and a failure. There is
only one more thing to bo done, and
that is to give a great shout. Joshua
rise3 up to his full stature and he
gives the command. Ho feels lite
right moment has come, and he says:
"Shout for the Lord bath .given'you'
the city," and the command is heard,
and the people all together cry;
"Down, Jericho! down, Jericho"! And
that long line of solid masonry be-
gins to quiver, and then crash go the
walls, the temples, the palaces, until
the earth quakes and the Heavens
aro blackened with the dust, and the
shriek of the crushed city and the
huzza of the victorious Israelites com-
mingle.
People oross the ocean to see a ruin.
Yon need not go far. Stand a min-
ute and look at the ruins of this city
Jericho. There is one house that
did not fall. I wonder that one house
stood while all the rest of the pity
fell.
BABAS LIVED THERE.
She had been noted for her crimes.
Yet she was saved. Because she had
been a great. sinner? No, because she
had repented, and to prove to all the
ages that there is mercy for the chief
of sinners. All the other houses went
down but Rahah's house; that stood.
She repented. She trusted in God.
She was saved. Mercy for the chief
of sinners.
This is no place to atop, Joshua
cries; `Forward, march!" There is
the city of Ai to be taken. They got
up in front of the city when the men
of Al came out and gave one yell, and
away ran the Israelites like reindeer.
I sea Joshua coming out that day of
his encampment, and he looks up and
sees the people running, and he
puts his hand to his forehead,
and he says; "Why, I really
believe those are our men.
They are running in retreat" And
soon the retreating army come up.
They say: "0, General, we are all
cut to pieces. Those( men of Ai are
awful people. We are all cut to
pieces." Joshua falls down on his
face in chagrin. But how did God
arouse Joshua? Did he address him
in some complimentary apostrophe?
No, he says: "Get thee up. Why
Best thou thus on thy face?" Joshua
arose, I suppose looking mortified;
but his old courage came back again,
He marahals all the Israelites, and he
says: "We will got up en masse, and
we will take the city of Ai." He
takes most of his army and he bides
it in the night, behind a ledge of
rocks, In the morning he marches
up a small battalion' of troops in
front of the city as by stratagem.
The men of Ai say: "Ah I we will
conquer these men very soon," and
the people of Ai pursued this little
battalion, and the Israelites, as
though they were frightened,
fall back into the strata-
gem. No sooner are all the
people of the city started in
pursuit of that battalion, that Joshua
stands on a rock, and I see his hair
flying in the wind as he stretches
out his spear toward the doomed city,
and all the armed men behind the
rocks rush for Lhe city and they
capture it and put it to the torch,
and no sooner is it on fire than those
Israelites in the city start down, pur-
suing the men of Ai, and the
Israelites coming out of the city on
one side, and the battalion that had
fallen hack suddenly, coming up
from the other side, between those
two waves of Israelitish; courage,
THE VICTORY WAS GAINED.
Joshua's troops cannot stop
yet. "Forward, march I" says
Joshua, for there is the city
of Gibson; it has put itself
under the wings of Joshua's protec-
tion, and Joshua must defend it, and
the people send wordfrom this city
to Joshua: "Come right away; there
are five kings going to destroy us.
Come right away." Joshua makes a
tbree days' morel) In one night. The
eonflict opens with great slaughter,
The Canaanites look up and they gay;
"Ah 1 it is Joshua, it is Joshua who
conquered the spring freshet, and
the stone wall, and who took the city
of Ai, There's no use ; he's a terri-
ble man; there's no use ;" and they
sounded a retreat. "011." says
Joshua, "this is a victory I But it is
getting towards sundown and those
miserable Canaanites are going to
get away from me. and they will
besiege les, and -Perhaps attempt to
destroy us, 011 for a day twice as long
as any we have ever seen in this clim-
ate." What is the maLter with Joshua?
Has he fallen in an apnpleolic fit?
No, he is in prayer.
Joshua rises, hia face radiant with
prayer, and he looks, at the descend-
ing sun over the bills of Gibson, and
he looks at 't a h fa Int f
arose nt a the
C
moon tied in he'
t name of the Lord,
who spake the world into beim', he
lifte ono hand and 5478: "Sun,
stand aloe still over v r Giboant aAd
pointing the other hand to the Moen,
bo says; *And thou' moue stand Still
over the valley of Ajalon." And for
Involve boars the planetary spawn
baited.
It le not yet quite sundown in
xoebun's day,' and wo will have. Lima
for faro royal funerals, Where are
these five kings' that Joshua took
4i14 whose armies no destroyed? They
aro there fan that cavo -the cavo of
Alakkedah, hiding. Joshua has roll-
ed a stone against it and they cem-
ent gel out. Ilut beeere night, be-
fore this very sun which 1 am%peak-
ing about goes down, these fivo
kings aro brought out, and according
to the ancient custom, the major
generals of Joshua now coma up,
zus4 they put their foot on the neck
of
THE TERRIBLE OLD KINGS,
and. they are beheaded, and their
bodies are put bank Into the same
cava and the same stone la rolled
.against it again,
Now, it is time for Joshua to go
home. He is an old man. Ile is a
hundred ' and ten. Now give Jos-
hua, the oldest warrior of the ages, a
chance to rest. No ! The greatest
battle of all his lifetime opens, He
comes out now against the greatest
king on earth, a king who has more
subjeots than all the present popu-
lation of Lhe earth, It is the king
of Terrors, the conqueror of thous-
ands of years. Now, Joshua, you
have your match, No! For i3
this is Joshua's greatest battle it
is Joshua's greatest victory. He
gathers his friends around him and
he gives his valedictory.
He is a hundred and ten years old.
Touch him vary gently. Stretch
out those old feet that once walked
the dry path of the parted Jordan.
Close those lip which blew the blast
that dropped the walls of Jericho.
Fold. that arm that stretched out the
spear, against the doomed city of Ai.
fold it across the heart that exult-
ed when the five kings fell. But
where shall we get the burnished
granite fit to be the headstone and
the Taotstone of this groateet of
warriors ? 1 Oh, I bethink myself
now. I imagine at his head it shall
be the sun that stood still above Gib -
eon, and at the foot it shall be the
moon that stood still over the valley
of Ajalon.
LORD ROBERTS' PATENT.
Text or the Document Which Conferred a
Peerage Olt the Marshal.
The following is the full text of
Lord Roberts' latest patent of nobil-
ity:
The King has been pleased to direct
letters patent to be passed under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland. granting
the dignities of Viscount and Earl of
the said United Kingdom unto:
Frederick Sleigh Baron Roberts of
Kandahar, I{,G„ K.P., G.C.B„ G,C.S.I,;
G.C,I.E., V.C., Field Marshall and Com-
mander-ba-Chief
ommander-tn-Chief of His Majesty's
Forces, lately Field Marshall Com-
manding -in -Chief, the forces Ln South
Africa, by the names, styles and ti-
tles of Viscount St. Pierre and Earl
Roberts of Kandahar In Afghanistan,
and Pretoria in the Transvaal colony,
and of the City of Waterford; with
remainder to the !heirs male of his
body lawfully begotten:
And in default of male issue with
remainder to his elder daughter, the
Honorable Aileen Mary Roberts, spin-
ster, to bold the names, styles and
titles of Viscountess St. Pierre and
Countess Roberts of Kandahar be Af-
gbsnistan, and Pretoria in the Trans-
vaal colony, and of the City of Wa-
terford; and after cher decease to the
heirs male of her body, lawfully be-
gotten by the names, styles and tt-
tlesi of Viscount St. Pierre and Earl
Roberts of Kandahar in Afghanistan
and Pretoria in the Transvaal colony,
and the City of Waterford:
With the like remainder in default
of such issue of the said Aileen Mary
Roberts to the honorable Ada Ed-
wina Stewarta Roberts, and the heirs
male of her body lawfully begotten.
With the like remainder in default
of each issue to every other younger
daughter lawfully begotten of the
said Baron Roberta, successively in or-
der of eeniortty of ago and priority of
birth, and to the heirs male 01 their.
bodies lawfully begotten.
A
' IN THre YEAR 2000.
Here, said the husband, of the New
Woman, entering a tailor tsbop and
laying a bundle on the counter, you
will nave to alter those trousers. I
can't wear them at all as they aro.
Really, replied the tailor, as he
opened the bundle, you trust excuse
me, my dear sir, these ore your
rite's. i
FRIENDLY ENCOURAGEMENT.
Simmons—Since thinking it over I
have concluded that perhaps you aro
a second Shakespeare,
Ttnatnans-0h, thank you I Er—But
Why?
8 a hakes ea e
for s S r o
The ac p does not
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Pan,
Tglifffir TALKS OF THE WAR
HE CRITICIZES THE CONDUCT Or THE
cOMMANDINn o,TFIPBRS,
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filen Manta 1'eh,g keit Into avails 'arag$ .
Onteee'e 1'1108,1 the :t1t—AUtlaa I00wo
411 alma 1t, '*00.
Tommy Atkins le a silent fellow.
IIo Heins, he marches, and he bears
411 the 1;ardsbips of a long. campaign
(Incl says nothing about it. Even in
his private letters borne he seldom
gimes'exarossian 'to more than an or-
oasional'grruurbleat the Privations be
is Compelled to endure, Itis opinion,
however, upon the actual conduct of
the war, apart trom strategy, 10 more
valuable than thet of any other man,
for it is the nien.in tilt ranks who
feel the pinch. They pay for blun-
ders and mismanagement in pri-
vations and bardsliips. 88,feed'
short, it is Tommy who goes .without;
1:f the transport breaks down, it is
Tommy who sleeps In the feud,- in
the pouring rain, without any shel-
ter to ,,rotect him; 11 there is a hitch
in sending up new elmtlling, it is.
Tommy who goes In rags and marches
with bootless feet. March and fight
ho must, no matter whet blunders
are committed, If his officer is young
and ignorant and loads bis men into
a death-trap, it is Tommy who pays
for that ignorance with his life, If
the hospitals are mismanaged and
overcrowded, it is Tommy who dips
in the filthy wards. He bears the
brunt of the campaign witbout a
murmur. At its clam he surely has a
right to express his opinion upon its
management,
FIGHTING—AND Pi,ENTY net IT.
The other day, writes a represen-
tative, I had an interesting talk with
a non-commissioned officer who re -
°wetly returned from the fighting
line. Ile had been is a dozen battles,
and has had personal experience of
bath field and base hospitals as an
enteric patient. ITe has served his
time, and is no longer in the army.
Ho was a non-commissioned officer
in :the Guards, and is an educated
man, who made careful notes of his
esperienees in a diary which he kept
from, day to day.
"Were you in all the fights in
which the Guards took part?"
"Fighting? Yes, we had plenty of
it. Most of us had hover been under
fire before. You feel pretty bad the
first time, but you soon get used to
R. After the first fight or two we
thought no more of a battle than
of a parade day in England. It was
an in the day's work. Sometimes
we really looked forward to a fight
with pleasure, as•a break in the
dreadful monotony of tbe'continuous
marching day after day. As soon as
we landed we joinedeLordf Methuen's
column. Our first bit of fighting was
at Belmont. Madder River fight was
by far the worst battle I was in,
and I went through a good many.
None of us thought we should have
to fight that day. But from early
morning till late at night we bad
to lie flat on the veldt in a blazing
sun, hardly daring to lift our heads,
We could see nothing. of the enemy.
We aimed at the puffs of white smoke
n tlee river bed. If the. Boer shells
had only burst there would have been
very few. of us left alive and un-
wounded; but they seldom exploded.
I often saw a shell bury itself im-
mediately in front of a man, so close
that it raised bim off the earth, but
he wouLd not be injured, for it failed
to explode."
NAVAL AND MILITARY OFFICERS.
"Did tbo officers farm as badly as
the men?"
"No fear, They always looked out
far themselves. They could always
Lind a flask of whiskey. Although
there was not sufficient transport for
the needs of the army, many officers
were allowed a hundred or two hun-
dred pounds of baggage in place of
the thirty pounds to which they were
entitled. They expected everything to
be the same as at home. Some of
thom were too fine gentlemen to
speak to a non-commissioned officer.
They would smoke their cigarettes
and keep to themselves. The officers
of the Naval Brigade were very dif-
ferent. They were with us at Mad-
der River with the 4.7 gaps. They
worked and talked with their men,
and even messed with them. You
had to be very oarefui how you spoke
to your offioor, of it was the worst)
for you. Here is a little thing which
happened at 11Iodder River, which will
show yogi what I mean.A non-com
mtssioned officer had been the round
et the outposts one night. Ile was
malting his report to the commanding
officer, who had asked harp where
meth and such a picket was. "Over
there, sir," the man replied. In an-
swer to another question, he said,
"Over there." Simply because he had
omitted to repeat the word "sir,"
that man svgs courtenlartialled; and
lost his stripes.
TOMMY ON HIS OFFICER.
"What did Tommy think 01 his offi-
cer as a lender?"
Tiley were elevem8 leading you in-
to deetit traps, unless you kept your'
eyes very wide open, They d.ld not
ha ogiro
know what to . will d I s 1i va
g 7011. n
ease that happened M er on
at ng of loin,
We were supporting the Highlanders,
When they were shot down 'be scores
we°<
bold 1 lho gauannd, and format' the
first firing lino, 'There was a grteat
dent of barbed wire, fencing about
Ctrouohing on ail feirrs, w,° manobod
to get past one tonne'. The next (Maid
not be passed, as the wires wero too
close together, The Boers were firing
in front and on aur' Mule, We were
protecting a 'battery .of guns ,by
firing volleys at the enemy. That's
the may thing that will keep them
quiet, Tho lieutenant in eammand
of my seot.lon lost his head, complete-
ly. Really,' he kept 'on saying, Melil-
ly, I don't know what to do. T think
we obeli be cat off 1f we Ley hero,
Really, X bcJieva we had bathe' me -
taro.' 'I, think, .sit',' X ventures to
sug'ges't—they don't like you ie ln-
terfei'e, soyou must; be °arefal—'we
had better remain here,' Ile tboaght
bettor. of 11:,' and therewe stayed,
If wo had refired, we should have
lost some more {,runs. Some of the
officers eared very little far their
mon. They would speak' bo them as
18 they were dogs, At Afagcrsfontein
one oe my men was wounded In the
arm. We borund it up as well as we
could. He had to lie out in the open
all day long, foe the Boors fit,'ed at
the stretcher-bearers. At night, when
we were about to retire, I asked tiro
offioor in command of my company
what wo should do with the wounded
man, 'Do,' he said; 'we must •leave
him behind. He will have to stay
mut all night' I knew that would
,wean certain deatb,fbr he had lost.
a terrible "amount of blood, and I
know also that he had a wife and
two children at home in England. I
therefore got four of my men to make
a stretcher out of a blanket and
two rifles, While the others were
firing volleys at the Boers, we got
him safe into camp. Of (soars°, you
got no credit for it, But the man's
life was saved." ,
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AN ARMLESS ARTIST.
Having Lost Ills Arm., Ile Uses the Brush
0611, Ills Stealth.
Bartram Hiles, an armless artist,
of London, England, is attracting
moth attention by bis paintings in
water colors. When eight years of
age, he lost both arms, but having al -
reedy. made a beginning in the study
of art and baying a strong natural
taste for painting even this calamity
did not close his career as an artist.
He determined to learn to draw and
paint by holding the brush in his
mouth.
He acquired such oontrol over the
muscles of his mouth that in two
years after he began his work in this
way las work took a prize at a local
exhibition.
Wbem he wan 16 Mr. Hiles exl ibit-
ed, a water color at the British Fine
Arts Academy whioh elicited much
admiration though the (fact that the
painter was without (hands was' not
known by those who satyr Lhe picture.
So far as his present work goes the
rtechnique is in every way equal to
that of men who work with two
•hands.
In fact Mr. Hiles in no way acknow-
ledges that he is handicapped by bis
physical misfortunes. He is wrapped
up in his work and is bright, cheer-
ful and happy—neither expecting nor
even admitting. that Ibis base calls for
sympathy. He seems absolutely to
have found a substitute for his hands
in working with the brush mixing
the colors skilfully and laying them
on deftly.
(Among the latest exhibits of Mr,
Hiles work have been pictures at the
exhibitions of the Royal Society of
Bristol artists and at the Dudley Gal-
lery.
allery. Sir. Hiles evidently looks for -
wand to seeing one of his works hung
at the Royal Academy, for ;ho made a
smiling remark to that effect not
long ago when talking of his work.
He works in a little alcove in the
south nave of the Crystal Palace,
London, where he is surrounded by
sketches, designs and artislie draw-
ing's, all products of hia own art. His
best effects, where tints have been
employed, have been Secured by the
use of water colors. It is doubtful
whether he will ever excel in oil, the
heavy pressure of that sort of .work
being perhaps too much for one com-
pelled to secure results by such means
as Mr. Hiles is forced to adopt.
VIE COST OF IT.
The Cashier shook his head de°ided-
ly.
In all candor, he replied, I advise
you not to lacgin stealing the funds
of the bank. Them) is vary little i.1t
it. You will have to spend about all
you make for Cast horses', wino sup-
pers, and that sort of thing, in order
to keep the I)ircalots from booming
suspleious of you!
''Cha teliem was deeply tmprossed for
it was evident ghat his chief spoke
with knowledge.
moe
A POINT IN PRECEDENCE.
Mr. Mttrmaduke-Jones•—Sootety now-
adays seems to be made up of much( a
lot of people we don't know.
Mrs. Marmaduke-Jones—Oh, don't
put it that, my dear; say rather that
society nowadays ie made up of such
a 10:1; of people who don't know us.
J ESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSOR MAR. I?,
",Jesus (Intl raw," incite sc. 14.46, Golden
Text, Luhc
P1IsACTICAL 0101)115.
Verse 13, Pilate, when he bad gall-
ed together the chief priests and the
rulers. Compare Malt, 27. 11.23;
Mark 15, 0-14, Apparently the San-
hedrla or commit was stili in Session;
at least its members had not dispors-
ell, Wben, Pilate had 'striven to
tha'oiv all the responsibility con-
cerning Jesus on the Sanhedrin 1151
members claimed :that they had no
power to exeonto judgment. To toes
oonvegsation: between Joann anih
Pllabo whioh John reoo451 was due
probably tliegreat desire shown by
the governor- to secure the release
of Testis. The words and the people
point to this grent,desire. Pilate
hp00910 from the council to ilio crowd,
ooaafident that the "common people"
who "heard him gladly" will support
him, Stow. ;
11. :Yo leave brought this man un-
to me, as one that pesvorteth the peo-
ple. Turns them away from the
religion of the nation or from the loy-
alty to the Roman. govternment. I.
having examined him before you,
have found no `' fault in this man,
Pilate's examination had proved that'
Jesus waa in another sphere of life
from the rulers.
15. Nor yet Herod. To whom our Lord
had been sent by Pilate, when lee
hoard that Jesus wawa Galilean. In-
stead of for I sent you to him the
iievlaed Version has "fornate Sent bim
back unto us" Nothing worthy of
death is done unto bim. "Nothing
worthy of death has been done by
him',"
10. I will therefore chastise him,
and release him. •Pilate proposed to
scourge him—a punishment inflicted
by the Roman magistrates in certain
cases for offenses loss than capital•
This was said :in a spirit of weak con-
cession to the assembled multitudes,
since he bad already declared thein-
nocence of theaccuscd; and the Jaws
took advantage of this weakness.
17. This verse of the Authorized
Version is omitted in the Revised Ver-
sion. It !s wanting in several import-
ant Greek manuscripts. In most
classes which study from the Author-
ized Version, mention of the omission
would be of little service, for it re-
cords an historic' font, whether Luke
originally wrote it or not„ and it be-
longs properly to Matt. 27. 15 and
Mark 16, 0. Suoh an act of public fav-
or was often shown In old times on
occasions of publics rejoicing.
18. Cried; out all at once. A un-
animous clamor. Away with this man
and release unto us Barabbas. Amen
who wast at once a prisoner and
popular. Barabbas• is not so much a
name as a "patronymic." "Bar"
Means a son: "Abbas" may be eith-
er the enamel of the man'slfathen or it
may mean a complimentary phrase
often applied to priests it may mean
the "son of a rabbi." there is some
evidence ins favor of reading in Matt.
27, 10 the name "Jesus Barabbas."
10. Toho tells us that Barabbas was
a robber. Maria agrees with Luke
that he ♦vas a notable insurrectionist,
and time murder for which he was
held responsible had been committed
during the uprising. It bas been con-
joetured that he was a leader of the
mob which arose when Pilate ruth-
lessly appropriated Jewish religious
moneys. This may explain his popu-
larity.
23. They' were instant with loud
voices. "They pressed upon bim
with loud voices." "Instant" means
"uent."
24.rgPilate gave sentence that Jt
should be as they required Matt, 27.
21411; Mark 15, 15-10. The motive
whiul, at lost prevailed with Pilate is
mare eeltp' shown in John 19, 12-16,
Ile feared that the Jews 'would ac-
cuse him before Caesar, and from his
many acts of cruelp and extortion be
had reason to dread the consequences.
But the very midfortuno which he
sought to avoid by condemning the
innocent did really befall bim alter -
ward. The six years oh his governor-
ship oe Judea were years of arbi-
trary violence, and tour years after
our Lord's death he was dismissed
from his °barge, and is said to have
destl'oyed himself in banishment at
Vienne, in Gaul.
25. Whom they had desired.
"'Whom they were clamoring for,"
Barabbas.
26, Simon, a Cyrenien. Cyrano
was acity in the north of Africa,
where many Jews wore settled. Simon
whose sons Alexander and Rufus are
named by Mark, may have been
known as a follower of oar Lord, but
was probably taken by the soldiers as
a stranger On him they laid the
cross. They dill this apparently be-
cause our Lord was unable to bear
the cross any longer.
• IND00IL A'1'HLLTICS. ' !
1Iy muscles are getting frightfully
out of f col 'tion.
1d,
lINoll ]1ny a pair of old bass and-
irons end Scour them up.
Mi;.N AS THEY PAG,
Lord Roberto lass entered upon the fit,
tiotb year of his military service.
Andrew D. White, the United States
embessador, bas been sleeted a memhec
Of the Berlin ,Aeadewy et Seleuce.
Besides Hiram Maxim the only two
Aa tritons to be knighted by an 10ngli0
monarch were Sir Curtis Lalnpeoti and
Sir E1118 Ashmea+l Bartlett,
Congressman John Sharp Williams of
Yazoo, AXiss„ wns 11 classmate at Heide!.
berg of the present emperor of Germany,
The two were telends,.and Air, Williams
Is still an admirer of the kaiser,
General SVilliane Gaston Lewis, who
dled at his home in Goldsboro,
the abet day at the age of 00, was elle
of the four surviving ex -Confederate
brigndler generale in North Carolina.
An ell: preserve has been established
at Jaeksou's Hole, Weeby 151. V. Gilt -
net; who fears that the clic will share
the fate of .the buffalo, Ile now has a
herd of 19, having started four years ago
withhalt a dozen.
,Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii naturally
has the distinetien of drawing the largest,
amount of money which congress' al-
lows for mileage. The law allows 10
cents a mile, So Mr. Wilcox gets over
$1,000 for his round trip. •
Robert Gearhart, who ie 84 years old,
recently walked from his home in Brush
Creek township to McConnellsburg, Pa.,
and back, making "a round trip of 52
miles. He 1s the father of 28 children
and has never been ill In hie lire,
Almon S. Sherman, who was the third
mayor of Chicago, is still living at the
age of 03. He was born in Vermont.
Hie present home is in Waukegan, Ills.,
and he seldom visits Chicago. He moved
out of Chicago before the big flee.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, our new min-
ister to Switzerland, is a graduate of
West Point. He served in the Third ar-
tillery, traveled much, studied in Prance,
was professor of civil engineering and
mathematics at Iowa college aud Dart-
mouth and wrote several successful nov-
els and textbooks.
The new Persian minister, Isaac Khan
elofakhomed Healey, wears European
tress and talks fluently in Frenc), al-
though he knows but little English, He
is applying himself with great industry to
the task of learning the language and
hopes to be able to make himself under-
stood before the end of the winter. Gen-
eral Bien is a handsome man of stalwart
physique and a face that indicates strong
character.
It is .a remarkable coincidence that
John In. Francis, the founder of the Troy
Times, should here held the same office
which his son has now been called to till.
The senior Francis was made minister to
Greece by President Grant in 1871 and
held the office for three years, reslguing
in orderto return to active journalistic
work. The son, succeeding the father as
editor and. proprietor of The Tithes, is
now chosen to occupy the same post.
THE ROYAL BOX.
Fix -Queen Isabella does not approve of
the engagement of her granddaughter,
the Princess of the Asturias, to the Duke
of Calabria. The duke's father, the
Count of Caserta, is an exile from Spain
because of Carlist conspiracies in which
he was engaged.
The Prince of Wales' greatest yacht
racing rival is the kaiser, 0 most gener-
ous supporter of British pleasure craft
sailing. As head of the Royal Yacht
squadron the prince holds precedence to
the German emperor—the only living
man that does so.
The king of Greece, who was 55 years
old on Dec, 24, has reigned longer than
his father, the aged king of Denmark.
It was on Alareh 30, 1S03, that he acced-
ed to the throne, having been proclaimed
ting bathe Greek national assembly,
while Ming Christian did not ascend the
throne of Denmark until the middle of
the November following.
Many of the purchases made by the
shah of Persia last summer in Europe,
as well as some of the presents made to
him, went to the bottom of the Caspian
sea by the sinking of the steamship Vera
in a storm. Among them rem the 18
carriages bought in Paris. There is no
chance of rccorering anything, as the
Vera went down in 000 fathoms.
TOWN TOPICS.
Constant digging is the only thing that
will insure clean streets in Cleveland.
Things get dirty here much sootier than
In most other cities,—Cleveland: Leader.
It has reached the point where unless
the better elements In St. Louis hang to-
gether they are la danger of that dire ca-
lamity of "hanging apart."—St. Lords
Republic.
Suburban railway lines in Sweden have
to provide a special car for intoxicated
persons. Why don't Boston's no license
suburbs demand similar accommodations?
—Boston Globe.
Baltimore may be called too conserva-
tive by other more lively communities,
but, then, it is happily free from their
financial storms, which may even things
n little. And, if it Is a trifle slower, it
has more reserve power in its monetary
nerves, which counts for much more 11?
the long run.
ANIMAL LIFE.
A small, stingless bee is found in some
parts of Mexico. Its honey is slightly
tett and is more esteemed than the sweet
honey of other bees.
A shepherd of New South Wales has
tried dentistry for sheep with great suc-
cess. Be had a valuable ram whiol,
found grent difficulty in masticating its
food owing to the loss of teeth. Actin•
tial teeth were inserted.
The ornithologists of Great Britton
and America have jest finished a spirited
discussion, which has lasted for more
than a year, as to which is the largest
bird that flies, The prize has been award-
ed to on American bled, the great condor
of the Andes, The second prize has been
given to the fierce heepy eagle of the
Philippines.
POWDER AND BALL. 11 1
The British cruiser Terrible establish-
ed aa exceptional record at the recent
prize firing by its crew with Ale 0 inch
guns, nighty ]lits were sweet] out of
104 Mends Med.
Another new rifle has been Invented,
this time in Sweden, and England line
placed orderss foe
some e sem fie. It is 1t1
1 Y. 1
automatic contrivence, which is said to
mean a revolution of the whole system
or rine shooting. Germany bee ren, some
gun barrels 10 1.iwetlell to l,ac•- the new
intention fitted to. thein.
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