The Brussels Post, 1901-4-25, Page 6DONE BY HARD HITTING.
ev, Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Battles of Life.
‘408Patell groin Waihington eeyss
• .sellov. Dr, Talmeee Preached trolls the
following text :—"elle hand Piave Un-
to th O. aword,"--2. Sam. xxlii. 10,
A greet general of Xing David wee
Elouzar, the hero of the text. The
Philistine's had opened e battle
sigainet him ; and ble tecems ran; hut
be with three ether meu lisle the field.
He fought with web feroolty that the
Philletinos were appalled and routed.
Putting Ma hand on the hilt of Ifie
illnercl, he ;wept the fingers arouncl
until the tips of the fingers were
clenched on the other side. Now
avlth a' down etroke laying open the
head of Lite Lord's enemies from cra-
nium to !shin; mow eoraing iu upon
them with a aharp thrust at the
• end now with swift, keen, glit-
tering stroke, leaving late careasses
of his enetniea by the roadside, "Fall
back!" shouted the officers of the
, Philistine, army, The ery ran all along
the line—"Fail back!" Eleazar, hal-
ing cleared the field, throws himself
on the k round to rest ; but the sinews
of his and haves teen SO long clench-
ed around the sword that the hilt
of it has entered the palm of the
hand, and the gold wire around tbe
hilt has broken the: skin °X the palm
until he eannot droy the sword which
be has ISO illustriously wielded. Thet
te what I call magnificent fighting
for the Lord God of Israel, and we
event more of it. I am going to take
up your time this morning in above -
Mg how Eleazar took hold of the
sword, and how the sword took hold
of him.
. In the first place, I notice that he
took hold of that sword with a tight
grip. The soldiers M his army who
ran aletty could easily drop all their
weeper:Ls whenever they wanted to do
no. I hear their swords clanging on
the rocks as they throw them down
In fright. But Eleazaa'a hand chive
unto bis sword. Tbe Met is, that in
this Christian conflict we, want a
tighter grip of tbe gospel weapon—
the, two-edged sword of God's truth.'
a I ani sick and tired of seeing people
with only
HALF-AND-HALF A HOLD.
Tbey take hold of a part of God's
.Word and Let the rest go, and the
Philistines, seeing their loose grjp,
(wrench the entire sword away. The •
only safc thing for us to do is to
put our thumb down on the, first
verse of the Vest chapter of Genesis,'
and sweep our hand On around until
the New Testament shall cm= in the
palm, and sweep the fingers still on
around until the Ups of the fingers
clutch on the word: "In the begin-,
ning, God create,j the beavena and
the earth." I like an infidel a great;
deal better than 1 do one of these
namby-pamby Christiane who takew1d al s
,
ip o
his fingers, and knows what part to
keep and what part to let go. Gee,
by positive miracle, has kept this
book together, aad it is a Damascus
blade. In a sword factory the sev-
erest test they can apply to a sword
LS the winding of the blade around
a gun -barrel like a ribbon, and then
;when the sword Is let loose it springs
back to its old shape. This sword of
God's Word has been put to the test,
and it has beau bent this way and
that way, and wound this way and
that way; but it always springs baok
again. Just think of it ! A book
written eighteen centuries ago, and
some of it thousands of years ago,'
yet published to -day at the rale of
twenty thousand copies a week, ancle
more than one million copies a year.;
A book rairmuloasly written, miracu-
lously preselved, and miraculously!
. scattered, is a book you want to !reap
a, tight grip of. He who gives up the '
Bible, or any part of t, give* up par-
don and life and omen and. heaven.
Again, I notice, in Eleazarat grea of
the sward an entire eell-forgetfun ;
noes'. He did tot realize that the
hilt of the sword wan eating down
into the palm of his hand, and that ,
wbile he was taking hold 0,r the sword '
the sword witS taking hold of
Re forgot the pain In his band i in bill
desire to destroy the PhIIisLinos. Ilie
band clave, unto tee, e•.
our Christian work wo want stelf-
forgetfulnesS. If we are all the time i
afiraid we are going to get hurt, we
will not kill the Philistinee. WhO 1
cares whether our hand Le burt or
not ? When wo are battling in
emir
A GLORIOUS CONFLICT,
let no throw our whole nature into
in entire 13 elf-abnegtaion and self-
foagetfulacas. I would rather live
fave yeara more and have theta in-
dustrioue and censer:rated to Christ,
„than to live fifty years more and have
ahem indolent and useless, What
aro pain and persecution, and mi -
representation and falsehood, when
teve awe engaged in the service of sooli
a Master? Do not be groaning bee •
rouse you meet with such severe rin
itleakes from tho world. Stop thinks .
!mg of your wounded hand and think
oZ the victory. When itle.aear
iplunged into the conflict with such
ba holy reeklesenese 113 did not think
rwhether he het a hand, or an nem, or
a foot; or think of anything but
tory. "leis hand clave to hie sword."
4 Again I remark that El azar's hand
proves that he had done a great deal
of hard hitting with his Sword, and
tlitat something had got hurt. When
I see Eleazair and the three brave men
airlying book a whole army of Philis-
tines, 5. am not coerprerel that "his
haed oboe to his sword." The foot
!wee, every Lime the paint of the
sword struck an enemy, the, hilt of
the award struck deeper Into Elms
ealee hand. It bee long ago been
dtacievered inmilfeary life, you can-
not conquer ao Otietray by roeowater
eireecime. You must base, sharp and
deatruotive work; 1313 1(1 only to 130 done
bY herd hitting, There are intern-
perance, and fraud, and gambling,
and lust, ead ten thousand regiments
--armed regiments—of Phillatine ini-
qu:ty. Soft aermenl in mar0000 0208-
003 laid down by lcid glove% in the pree-
ence of an exquisite audience will
Jeerer do the work, We nutet 04111
things by their right namea. We must
expel from our churehos the hypo-
erttes who eet tee sacrament on
comraunkia days, stud then devour
Widow' houles between meals 1 We
bave to gen.t expending all our wrath
on the Hittites and jelxibites and
Glrfiashitee of olden tines. Let them
Poor wretthes go, when we have im
many Vring illustratioae of appal-
ling iniquity that need to b.,
DRAGGED OUT AND SLAIN.
rfeleed Le here, Abab b here: jezebel
lei here. Tbe destroying angel is
here. The neassaere of the infants
is here. • We must, sendal on foot,
helmet on head, heaotplate over
heart, • Eleazar-sword in the rigbt
hand, le2t ao hard that the results will ,
not only be seen in th,s gashes( of fall -
on iniquity, but in the adherence of
the sword to our ow.0 band. 011, We
tire so afraid somebody will criticise
our sermons', or our prayers, or our
coehortations, that we forget our de -
tare Echr the world'a eonquest in the
fear we will get hart; wIalls Elenzar.
goes Lute the conflict with such en-
thusiasm be does not care whether
be is hurt or not. "Hie hand clan
unto the sword."
Agoan, I haotieo bow hued it was
far Eleetzar to get Ws hand and hi(3
sward p,arted. Ile had been f:ghting
agaensi tba Philistines so long that
the senewa had can o e aro
sword and it becama rigid, and when I
•he gets through with the conflict, he ,
cannot drop it. And I se,e three cam- !
rade warriors corateg lle to help htm, I
and they bathe the back of the hand
of Elea.za.r, arta they try to relax tbe
=melee and the s:news. They can-
not get !t loose. 'Dhe oword sticke
fast. They pry opem the fingers',
and they pry back the thumb, and af-
ter they sumeed they find 1113 cum
of the wound corresponds with the ;
curve of the hilt. "His hand olave I
unto the sword." You and I have
seen the seam th,ing many a time.
There are Zs). the Unite!). States
O great many aged ra!nisterg
They are too decrepit or invalid to
take parishes. They fou.glit a mighty
battle for God in other days. the1r!
naroes are ia the onureh records styl-
ed "Emeritus" or the words are put!
down, 'et minister without a charge."
They have taken off the heads of morel
Philistine iniquities than you
count from noon until sundown. They
oceficil
were a self-denying ram of ininietere,
They bad few books, and small sal-
aries, end they swam spring freshets!
ID meet their appoint -meets. Put
that old, worn-out minister into a
prayer -meeting, or put him sotne Sun-
day into the pulpit, or put him in oe
Nick rmen where a dying man wants1
console -then, and it is the same old'
gospel ring of admonition and pal -
Hon. The sword which for bait a
century has been wielded against the,
Philistines is so imbedded in the old
man's hand
HE CANNOT DROP IT.
I preach this iternion this morning
as a tonic. I want you to take hold
of God's truth with such an iaeradie-
able grip that all the forces of earth
and hell cannot loosen It, and I want
you to strike so hard for God that
it will react, and svhile you take the 1
sword, the sword of God's truth willi
tako you. After the battle is over
and the war is gone soldiers gather
together, and tbey show their scars.
One soldier rolls up bis coat sleeve,
and he says: "There 1 was svounded
bn the arm" and another soldier pens
dawn his collar, and he says: "There I
was wounded in the neck;" end an-
other soldier says: "1 have never had
any uee of that limb, since the gun-
shot fracture." Ole. my Christian
friends, when We get back our bodies
an the resurrection, day I wonder if
we will have any scars to prove our
spiritual bravery? Jesus will stand
there, sears on his hands, scars on
his feet, sears on his brow, scars
over hhs heart, won in the great bat-
tle of redemption, and all heaven will
sob aloud with emotion and gratitude,
And all who have nursed the sick and
eared for the poor will show the evi-
dences of earthly exhattstion, and
Christ shall wave his scarred hand
over the scarred multitude, saying:
"Ye auffered with me cm earth, now
bo glorified with me in heaven." And
the great organs ot eternity will
take up the chant, and St. John the
martyr will sweep the keys with his
fingers: "These are they who canon
out of great tribulation,, and had
their robes washed and made white
in the blood of tbe Lamb." But on
that day what will be your chagrie
and mite if it shall be told on the
streets ot heaven that in thia world
wo shrank baek from all toil, from
all hardship, from all fatigue? No
battle -scars to show the glorilled;
not so much as one ridge on the palm
of the hand to sbow that just once
in all this great battle for God and
the truth we clutched so tight and
struck so hard tbe.t the hand clave
to the sword.
NUTRIMENT TN SNAILS,
Snails are riot only regarded as a
groat delioacy in Paris, but are reek-
oned as very natritioue. Hygienists
say that they oontain 17 per cent. of
nitrogehous matter, anti that they are
equal to oyaters in nutritive proper-
tiee. Nearly 100,000 pounds et snails
are sold daily the Paten markets.
They are carefully reared for the per -
peso hi extensive soall gardens in the
provinees, and fed on aromatic herbs
In) make their'(lavor finer, One snail -
(try in Dijon ' read to bring 1:1 to
1318 proprietor 5,000 a• year.
ENGLAND'S ROYAL CROWNS
FOUR OF TURA ANP THEY ARE
VALOR!) AT $15,000,000.
(tucra Ilelarta's trawnOsnoic
Tear 10 Mahe—The allot Iletenata
ict.rehot,t, Is the everici'lleined al &Mono
elle— Descoplum or Three onase
The date of King Edward's ooronae
Lion hos notyet been aunatmeed, bat
titter, axe allg.ne that it will net be
long deferred, and as tho new' sone
ore:ga is a peel master In the art. of
amennanY, the Laaglialt . people will
Imre an opportunity of irituessing
rneet gorgeona state parade, the !eke
of 'which i, PorhapS, poesible in /so
otheT country. Queen Vletoria wee
erowned ou Attie 28, 1838, a year and
eight dAys after her aeoession sixty-
itur Years ago, aed, a4 =Volt be °x-
i -seated, there aro very few persone
now Ewing who, either as partials
pants or spectators, were present at
that grand oceas:on, ao that the spec -
thole, ocour)ng, as it does', only (Mee
02 tweee in a lifetime, hila trom that
fact a novelty WI:eh gives it ad-
ditional interest.
QCJEEN VIOTORIA'S CROWN
woe made eepeolally for the occasion,
a»sl:t is remembered that (he great-
er part of a year was oorisurued in the
manufacture, The order for its con-
stauction 15414 given soon after the
aooesaton of the Queen, and there is
o tradetion that the long interval, be-
tween the accesslon and the corona -
Lien nests pertly due to ths delay' in
making the arosan, orb and soapier,
which aro necessary part of the Car.
Ontition machinery. The Victoria
crown was made of jawele taken from
other crowns and royal regal:a,
tlesugh a larga number of gems were
purchased especially for use 10 orna-
menting the crown of the virgin
Queen. The Victoria crown is c a
diadem., the difference between that
and a crown eonsieting in the fact
that the latter ba surmounted by an
arch weth globe and cross on top. The
cap is of orinason velvet, with ts bor-
der of e.rmOne, the lining Ls white silk,
arid the total wolght b 39 ouneesf and
5 Pennewedgnts (007, SP that, with
such a headpiece, Shakespeare's utter -
eine about the uneasy bead that
wears a crown- could easitly be veri-
fied.
The band abore ths border conseets
o,f two sows of pearls', the lower have
leg 129, the upper 118, In the front
of the orow.n and between Use rows
on pearls ee a eappleasi or onorMous
ebe, brought from India during the
reign oir George J.V. and purchased by
beat for the crown regalia. At the
pere, and on tbe sidea are six sap-
baek of the crown es a em.aller sap-
Phares and eight emeralds. Set
ierou_nd the large Sank -litres are
ISOITRITBEN LARGE DIAMONDS,
and 128 bealllionts from two to four
carats each surround the emeralds.
On thiss pant of the crown there are
sixteen tree:Al ornamente, contain-
ing at together 104 diamonds. In
the center of a diamond crosa and
. . .
(10059 1210 whdo5 was given to Edward, the
Black Prance, by Don Pedro of Cas-
tile In 1187. This ie the ruby wiOial
• Sn the helmet of Henry Ve at
the battle of AgOneteert. Ile regard-
ed St as a notenot, and ever since that
great ye:tory it hap been ',reserved
teeth treligeona care in thos royal re -
gene of England. The ruby is sot
teeth seve,nty-five diamonds', and three
other crosses on the sklea and back
of the crown have lagge =events for
centesr gems, land caeb. from 124 to
132 deamonde. Between 1152 Maltese
orosaee ara four fleur-de-Lis, each
having a trilby center and nearly 1011
diamonds. 'The imperial arches,
which :rise free:a the Maltase crosses,
are composed of leave9 and acorns of
dianionde and pearl/. In the arches
are 103 110 table and 500
Tose diamo,nde The "mound" at the
top of the arch is composed 05 5(18 clia-
mond.s and the oross above the
"mound" has a large aapph'se, sur -
=untied by 10S small deimonds.
A particular deseription is given of
this; glittering bauble, for, with the
potsebblo exception of the traperial
crown of Russel, it is the mose spten-
did diade,no the world coratains. No-
thing like it had ever been seen in
England before, and oat of rever-
encs ter the famous Queen, St is pro-
bable that et will be preserved intact
among the regal:a. A crown con-
taining 2783 diamonds, near iy 100
other gems and over 500 pearls', ia
worth preserving for
ITS INTRINSCC VALUE.
So for nothing else.
Many years ago a leading jeweler
of London was requested to examine
the armee and make an est:in:tate of
Is value. Ile did 91, and repoeted
that at tha roast moderate estMiste
the crown was worth at least 41100.000,
but lets figures, Ware scoffed at by
other jewelers, who deelared tlmt .15
the jewels were taken tram the orowe
and sold singly, theiT aggregate valise
tvottid not fall short of 42,000,000.
There: are three other orowns in the
regalia of England. Of these, the
meet impertaxit is the crown of St
&tweed, so called from the fact that
St cant:alma, or te supposed to con-
tain, a Tone oS Edward the Confes-
sor, the moat famous isa:cat England
ever gave to. the (search.
Tlatie 0000011 was rattail eer the coron-
ation of Oita Has IT., after his return
DOOM ele.110, and wass u(Sed Tat all sub-
eequent coronations until that of
Victoria. Its joivele have a peculiar
li.atery. During tha rule or Crom-
well and the Pne:tans, lnirliament
ordered tete aroma g511 '13 to be fielti.
The order was (Serried into oftect.
Tho ettliVelS then in existenee were
broken up atteasold eor old gold, 15W1..
cal the, jawels wore daspesed or sing-
ly and Yn Wachtel' to ally who caaed
to buy. The nob!llty and gentry of
England, inepired by a loyalty neh'eh
der,ed not calmer, determaictl to
prevent the clitsperSal 05 the gems in-
to foreagn countries, Se they hoegitt
all the larger ttlid stivre valltable
iltollog, Artier tim reetoration Mast
ea Orme jewel% wore repotted to tim
Xfing'a ereaanaer end repuroinuma for
the Maven, theugh, 51 MsnY 00300, the
gentleMen who /Mound them re -
eased 1141'4104,13, reawd:4g 4401.4301ros
44 tba out000an4 ratmor awl au)
ow.44104.
Tzuo (Imam coNsorms calowN
its thz third 51 impartanee, 5.13 14 said
to awns been made for Cathar':ne qf
dereganza, consort of Ohatlal II, The
fourth crown is known ea the
"Queen's Crown." 113 18 0 golden oleo -
let, ten:a:out area= and very heavily
jeweled. It Wile made fax Maria, W-
e:tete, tau were of AMAPA xr, :me regalia
contains ablo Pirince of Wales
e000011, an ornamented golden eirolet,
wiehout jawele, Besides the erowne,
the Itnglieli oegalla usenprises a
variety of objege alnaog as valuable.
'Plane are several scepters, the meat
uotable of Walt is that of St, Ed -
awed, a rod of pure gold over ninety
pounds en weight The orb at the
top of Ulla notable emblem of roy-
alty, is aaid to ocintain pieee of the
true elms% St. Edward's rod, as 11
Is called, is not used by the, severeign
on .nocount of its `weight, although at
ueronations, it hal frequently been
marled before the Xing. The royal
sopbe 18 a rod 2 feet 9 Moises long,
10oo:1y set with preoioua stones.
Queen Vittoria's scepter was made
for her coronation, its chief fea-
ture being the diamond Oroag at tbe
tap. There is another scepter, the
"seepter of the .dovc," So called from
the fact that the orb is en -mounted
by a golden dove set with ,jewele.
Marie d'Esto heti an ivory scepter
wall a dove of whlte onyx at that tpp
and a splendid matter was made for
the coronation DS Mary, svife. of Wil-
liam of Oranga. The orbs of the Xing
and Queen are jsweled globes, sur -
elevated by almond caosses and at
the coronation of a sovereign, the
scepter is held in the right hand and
thessglobe en the left.
Besides thee articles, there are
many others !indispensable to the
ceremony of a coronation. There
are. SWerdl of justice, jeweled, sharp
painted send keen. There is the Cur-
tana, or poentlese swerd of mercy.
More are coronets= bracelets, to be
donned at the proper tame and gol-
den spars' fox tile K:ngss heels. There
are oil vessels and salt collard, wine
fountains and great drinking cape of
sol:d gold, all of which come into
play at one thole or another, during
the ceremonees.
THE ROYAL REGALIA.
is kept in tee tower of London, the
citadel, of the capital and in tbe por-
tion known a.s the Wakefield tower.
The ea:tress: !itself Witte erected by
William the Conqueror, to overawe
the turbulent populaCion af London..
Many subeequent add:tions wore
made, to tiro fortres% arnong the fast
or 1,-5:011 was thil wakoeioci tower,
mooted by command of Welliam Ba-
rna. The crown jewel% are displayed
upon a pyramid with the splendid
dicideta or Qu.e.e.n Victoria at the top
and a leage iron cage prevents a
close approach. The door of the
cageIs fastened witlt several locks,
the keys chf which are held by differ-
ent off'cials, all of vrhlom muet be
present ere entrance eau be obtained.
The value of the crown regalia is es-
ternaked to exceed *15,000,000, and ex-
tamoadinary precautions are always
taken to prevent the operat:ons of
b,u.rglars or other th'eves!. Several
sentinels are always on guard in
the passages and enthout the tower.
Vasiteas are admitted only by spectial
ticket and before giving permission
to visit the tower, inquiry ie institut-
ed regarding the applicant. The
Kohlamor, one of the most Lemma%
diamonds in existence, is not at Lite
tower, but es kept at WincLeor, where
there .is another oollectien of royal
wealth, conseeting mostly of golden
Plate and dallier service.% used at the
coronet:ton feasts and on &ober state
otea.sionn Intensely practical as the
Engl.:Leh dire, they nevertheless have
enough or sentiment to regard with
almost superst:tions reverence, these
maglenicent emblems of eerie gate
and their exmbetton during the cor-
onation parade is antioipated en one of
the greatest chows of the age.
TRAINED DOGS.
Kneen aid Gentienten Dawn nnii 'Mime
Relieve Them or s'ionautes.
Parisian thieves arc clever, else
same of them would not have trained
a dog to be a useful accomplice. Tie
was a masiiff, a.nd his 'trick WAS to
go bounding up against old gentlemen
in the street.
Naturally Ilse average old gentle-
man is not steady enough upon his
feet to stand against four feet or so
of mastiff, and the dog would, as a
rule, bring his victim to the ground.
Th,en a "lady" and "gentleman"
would step forward, and with profuse
apologies assist the fallen man to his
feet. A.t the same time they would
ease him syf his watch. and of any
other valuable be might barmen to
have about 13110,
Training can do much with a clog.
A writer in Obambers's Journal tells
of the successful efforts of a dog
owner whom Ito knew to train a dog
to abstain from barking. It took
three years to accomplish the task,
and at the end the owner flattered
himself that in his nou-barking dog
lie had a novelty.
In ettene 1:43110.40 cities that dog
would have been prized, for there is
a quaint Japanese law in force there
tvbich mak ies tile owner oi a night -
barker liable to arre.st nna the pen-
alty off a year's work for the benefit
of the ueighbors who Imre been dis-
t strbed,
The nombarker, however, wae not
so great s novell,y es his trainer
believed. The writer asserts thet
there are at. least three varieties of
dogs that never, bark—the Austra-
lian, the Egyptian Shepherd dog, and
the "lion -headed" dog or label.
SUCH A QuBurt rBI,Low.
Oranker pays as he goee.
Tiate plenty of money, eh
No; merely eccentric.
We are nearly all too blew, to be
sarprised at others, but concerning
ourselves, amazes:lent la ever in order.
THE SUNDAY SCOOT,.
neat
INTARNATIONAIA LR$SOR; APRIL 28
"Jesus Aidicars ta illo 49555 (05." ellohn PO,
^ Jeep, Galilee 1001, 441ts'/0.10.
i ' OBACTIClai NUPDS.
Verse IP,- The same day. The acky
Of the resurrection, cluing whioh he
had already Appeared to tee group of
women who first vlsited the sepelobre,
to Mary Megdelone, to the two die-.
eiplea gents' to aliztunaue, and to Pete
00. Htl'Ange indeed would it bare
beeu if wile tbe aeundence and cloven -
fold oonsecretiou of the first day of
the week it had not been at once
known ss preeminently the Lord'e
Day end ezeld neared. At eyenieg.
But before eunclown, Tee doors were
shut where the disciples were aseeme
bled, The gospel.accounts taken to-
gether point ICI one plaoe of assent-
blage—the upper room, which is re,-
peatedly alluded to and whieh may
have been in the house of the mother
of John Murk. It was for fear of
the Jews that the disciples met here
and not in the temple courts ite bere-
tefore and as afterward. "The Jews"
mean the chief ecoleeiestical authori-
ties—the eeemles of Jesus. Cum° Jesus
and etood In the midst: A statement
width, taken in its natural meaning,
asserts thaL our Lord suddenly and
silently opened tag door. No mirage
. _ .
Is implied. Pence be unto you Words
widen eoula not be pronounced by
Jesus in the hearing of his diseiples
without their auiekly remembering
the other statement,"Not as the world
givoth. give 1 unto you." In the an-
cient East everybody gave everybody
his " pcaoe." It was tne common ex-
change of courtesy. Out when
Jesus used common phrases he put
uncommon meanIng and uncommon
farce into lateen, and WO are to un-
derstand that immediately through
the hearts of these disciples /lowed
like a river tbe "peace wbich passeth
understan,cling."
20. Ile sleowed unto thean his hands
and his side. Anticipating their
reasonable doubt. Then were the dis-
ciples glad. Fulfilling our Lords
tvords, John 10. 22.
21. Peaoe be unto you. "A, second
blessing." As my Father bath sent
rae, even so send I you. The Greek
for "hath sent" is tbe verb from
watch our word "apostle" is derived,
"1 am my Father's 'apostle; you are
mine,"
22. Ho breathed on them. Follow-
ing in this as in so many other 10 -
stances conceptians, if not customs,
familiar to his dieciples. Receive ye
the Holy Ghost, And dau.btless they
then and there cisme into. closer oom-
munion with (he divine Being than
ever lbeifore. gshrysostom rigidly
limits those words: "As the Holy
Spirit was not given before tbe ascen-
sion, je,ses here merely declares the
apostles to be approved men and
n2ake.e there capable of receiving the
gift of the Hely Ghost, wbich is short-
ly to deseend upon thorn." But such
an interpretation seems to be hamp-
ered by tho liimitation of the senses.
One must have exceedingly material
conceptions of the Hely Spirit if one
cannot understand that the dasoiples
may now have received the Holy
Ghosi in deed and in truth, and yet
hare had to wait for the fitness which
came with the fuller outpouring of
the blessing at Pentecost.
23. Whomsoever sine ye remit,
they are remitted unto them; and
whomsoever sins ye retain. they are
retained. "Remit." here means "for-
give." This is a text whice has been
meek misused. The Catholic Church
undeestands that the apostles were
here given the power by the utterance
of a word to shut in or out of God's
kingdom an eternal life. Bat a
close study of the Bible disperses
many of the diffieulties that are on
the surface. A easeful readin,g of
Lake 24. 33-53 convinoes us that
others besides apostles were present,
and certainly one of the apoetles was
absent; so that at the oulsot we can-
not believe that Jesus here gave a
power to ehe apostles to be trans:I:net-
ted by "apostolic sueeession" through
the periesth,00d. In the second place
"forgivenese" 'is oveeywbere through-
out the New Testament. made depen-
dent cm sepenlance anti faith, and
there is no indication at this Leine or
at any other that the apostles had an
absolute knowledge of the bunion
heart. Certainly modern ministers
and priests have not. Bet i,he terms
of salvation the apostles were to pro-
olaim were to be canfirnted by divine
power.
24. Thomas, one of the twelve,
called Didymus. Didymuss and Throes
as have the same meaning—"a twin."
Was not with them. So only ten of
the apostles received this power,
whatever it was.
25. The other disciples therefore
said ago h'm, We have sten tin Lords
This statement is like that in our
lesaon, thet the women told the apos-
tles of the angels; it does not mean
that the disciples all together reeited
in eoncert this remarkable statement,
but that one by one as they meti him
they told him the wonderful story.
Except I shall see, eta. These words
have often loeen quoted as showing a
wrong spirit, but Ibis does great in-
justice to Thomas. There is a type
ol mind hungry for new things to be-
I:eve. There have been in all ages
credulous Christians, and they are
offien uncharitable toward those who
requate reason for their belief. 11
ie well to emphasize the truth, but
Christianity puts no premium on
eredullies "Believe oe the Lord
Jesus Christ.' in iLs essential mean-
ing is, "Commit yourself to him." Ev-
ery moral being eoncedes there is a
right and a wrong. The man who
with bia whelc heart chooses the
Iright and deolares undying hostility
in the wrong will have no trouble
about his belief. "If any man will
do His will, he shall know of the doe,
trine." iThomas Lad not yet bad
satisfactory evidence of an astound -
ince ruiraele, ana very properly he
withheld hie belief, But Thomas bo -
'Weed in Christ. All of Thomas's
ideate had boon foetid in Christ, and
he Wan eth 4005 11 011P )1
15(104 In .14
doubi4 us Peter weal in hie oonfidenve,
24, After eignt &lye. We Would any
0reo101;:tria:o70Weeir',41,0he° vile'en:t 1:170 r4dgeh0 11:101 sclY.
to study oeoare on the first day 051130
The peoullar jelvisli method Of eeole-
ening we have atheedy noted, With.
in. Bidden again for fear of the
,Tews. Tbe _doors being ghat, Olosed
and barred as before, Realm be unto
yett. The 5211:40 courtesy, Aad the
same benediellon, arid doubtless the
stone ceneelotre bleaSing to tho Oa.
-
27. Benoit hithoi.. Ottr lined Shows
his leeoWledge of Lite words whieb the
doubling disciples lied spoken in his
abseuoe. Be net faithlees, but be-
lieving. More literally, "Be iiot
felthloss, but faithful," Thelnas
had ahown his faithfulness as a load-
er at taus apostles when aesae pro.
Penect to go into what ecemed 00 it -
Cain death at Bethany. He was
Lien wiling anneal; eager to die with
his Lord. But now that his
Lord was dead, aed he left alive, a
hopelessnese had arnica in his soul
which endangered lila faith.
28. My lord and my God, Augustine
suggests that Thomas did not dare
to touch stud did not need the evidence
of touch when be °nue San' lite Lord
and heard his words. The paintera usu-
ally represent Thomas as pressing hiS
finger into tbe wound, or as -about
to do so, but his "full end free con-
feesion," as Dr. Churton says, "is not
that of a man who had wetted for the
evidenee of touch. It is a confession
morsi Pell and free than we xead of
as made by any othea apostle To our
Lard while on earth , receiving and
adoring him as very God." '
EL Thomas, because thou hest seen
me, thou hag believed; blessed are
they that have uot seen, and yet have
believed. Believing in ansus ineludes
both a belief in the narrative 05 ,1110
°areel. and a belief in and a moral
(holm of these holy qualities 04 1051011
he is the embodtment, No one with
open mind ectuld 'have watched htin
in the days of his flesh and not
reeognized the purity and goodness
of whicb he was the inearnation.
Thomas was peculiarly blessed in bar-
ing been associated with this boly
One for three years, and he loved the
qualities for which Jesus stood, Cala-
phas and his crowde saw the same
deeds aed heard the same words, but
because with their hearts they had
merle a vicious moral choice they did
not "believe in bim," although, of
course, they lied no doubt about hls
existence. We, though distant from
Jesus, by eighteen centuries and morn,
Limy also believe in bim, both in his
historic reality and in his goodness
and atoning power. There are two
ways of possible approaeh to .Tesus—
by making the absolute globe of his
goodness and tnore slowly accepting
him as an hisleseic person; and, as
is much Mare frequent, especially am-
ong those brought up within the
Christian qurch, "ISy aociepting the
story first and later learning to love
the God thus revealedateAll Christians
should bave a broth -arty reverence for
the expeRetice nf selle'other Christians,
regardiesn of bow that 'experience be-
gan. ,
ALPHABET Oal A PIN'S BEAD.
The Achievement of n nlitiadolehle Ea*
graver:Who Spent a Tear at It.
These is a man in Philadelphia who
wears a commonplace looking little
pin as a watch charm. To the naked
eye it is not different from the mil-
lions of other Idns. Yet its head is a
mastexpleee of tbe engraver's art, for
an it b engraved the English alpha-
bet in Old English lettering, and in
the centre is out the year when it i
Wile done, "1900.a
The naked eye cannot distinguish a I
scratch on ths pin's head, but a Pow- I
edit]. magnifying glass, such as is used
by a watchmaker, reveals the letters
of the alphabet in proper order around
the edge of the head, every chareater
separate and perfectly formed.
There was on exhibition at the Paris
Exposition last year a marvel of Lill-
putian work, the writing of the
Lord's Prayer on paper one -eight of
an ineh rquare., This was done by
Fred Swarts Ermk, a penman in Phil-
adelphia. Ile regarded it as the fin-
est work of the kind ever done, but
when he saw the engraving on tho
pin' a hdad .be oreafeseed that he had
been outdone, Ile bought the nvork
of the engraver, August Steinke, for
a trifle and recently carried the pin
to a jeweller and requested a sales-
man to have it gold plated -and a lit-
tle ring soldered on the body of the
pita, so that he could attach it as a
charm to his watch chain.
"Some' sentiment conneoted with the
pin, oh 1" asked the saletanan.
"Nano at all," replied the customer,
"just look at the head through a
glass."
The jeweller did so, and then dis-
covered the olphabet. The engraver
who aid the work spent one•year 1013
11, ctnso, tedious was it that be could
only work at it a few rainutea at a
timo.ci
5131454COLL:4010N8,
ralsalad 10 VINItOR t0 se Oonntres
OlssircitIlo IfoIland.
IltludflY aluong the 4(014 bueghere of
Reiland eve Mr, Oliften joitueou fin
oppertneftia to see three citureit *lee.
tions taken up in rffidd eineeeeiOn+ TTe
bad mired to be directed to 41: elltIrtietQr,
Mae eatintrY atirelt in an 00117111a Til-
lage. A.4 n result he went 57 nada /rein
Imeden to a little place With ass
pronommeable name, where there was .4k
cluwelt seyere 51 ite eimPlieilY SS the
Meeting houeee Of coloulel NeW Englaud.
It resembled them, too, iu ite
for there Wee 110 attempt At Walentlig te,
and the people were dependent upon foot
Moms et tbe Md fasbioued type 11413 3058
begienIng to go out of vogue in America
a hundred Yeitee ago, Several Wef� ef
these little boxee steed ie the church en-
try, neatly pilee against the wall, ready
to be filled with smoldering peat and sure
Piled to the worshipers as they cone in.
Wheo the time for the collection ar-
rived, a man etarted oet from the railed
off space before the pulpit, which seam
was occupied by the °Mere, and with a
black pocket at the end of an eiglat feet
pole proceeded to als task. With this
accessorY ha could ranch clear to the end •
of.a pew, only he lied 10 10 careful not to
hit some worshiper with the butt end
while milking his snot reaches.
Everybody in the congregation put in
=nothing, and the collector made a lit-
tle bow every time a eoln jingled tu the
pocket, Be had gone about half way
reend when another elder started out
With another bag end pole. The Writer
avondered he bad not started before, His
purpose, however, was not to help his fel-
low collector finish the work. Instead,
he stetted Just where the other had.be-
gun and passeifille bag (.0theBeane peo-
ple, and every one dropped in a coin as
faithfully as 110 1104 done the erst time. '
Nor was this the end, for the second
collector had no sooner:got a good -start
than a third stepped out from the pulpit
trout with bag and pole aud went as in-
dustriously over the ground as the two
others had done. Ile was just as suc-
cessful as hie predecessors.
Things were getting seelone. The
stranger had put silver in the first bag,
but fearing that the collection might eon-
tinue indefinitely he dropped copper
coins in the second and third bags and
was not a little relieved when he saw
that the rest of the men in the elders'
seats kept their places.
Later lie learned the secret of the proc-
ess. The first man collected for the min.
ister, the second for the church, the third
for the poor. As each member of the
congregation contributed one !lamed
cent to each bag it seemed as if a little
calculation might have meet] much col-
lecting. 'The sum of the three deposits
would in our money be about one and
one-fifth cents for each person.
At the element evhen the bags began to
pass the minister gave out a hymn, but
the congregatiim fluisbed einging it long
before the collection was over. There
did net, however, ensue one of those si-
lences during which you cau hear pins
drop and flies buzz, for the minister
ignored the collectors, Who were still
makieg their halting progress through
the aisles, and promptly began his sets
none—Youth's Companion.
A LESSON IN CAUTION.
The New Store Deiced...0 and tee
Snepected Shoplifter.
"'When In doubt let her alone' is our
first and most important niaxIni in re-
gard to shoplifters," said a New Orleans ,
floorwalker of long experience. "It is
better to let a thousand guilty people es.
021)0 and carry off our property with
them than to inn the risk of making ono
mistake, and when you hear of a woman
being actually taken Into custody you may
rest assured that she has been under sur-
veillance for days and that the evidence
against her is strong enough to convict a
bishop. It doesn't do to jump nt con-
clusions, even when they are 'caught in
the act,' as tbe saying goes, and that re-
minds me of a little incident which taugbt
me what was probably the most valuable
-lesson of my life.
"It bappened soon after I went Into the
business," the floorwalker went ou,
"when I was holding down the job of a
house detective in a department store al-
most as large as this. It was my first
employment of the kind, and naturally I
was anxious to show my efficiency; so I
was a little disappointed when it mouth
or more event by without giving me 11
chance to gathee in a culprit. One day,
when we had a big bargain sale in prog-
ress ana the store was jummed with peo-
ple from end to end, I had my attention
attracted to a quietly dressed, middle •
iaged woman who was wanderine, front •
deparbnent to department in a manner
that struck me as suspicious. At last
she stopped before a fancy goods counter,
where a number of handsome silver card.
cases were displayed, and a moment later
I saw her pick up one or them and drop
it into her pocket.
"She stepped at once into tbe crowd,
and I rushed after her. I was a little
distance away at the time, and the crush
ems so great I could not get to her imme-
diately without exciting a panic. Just
before I reached her side the young man
who managed the Gluey goods depart-
ment squeezed in ahead of me and tapped
her on the shoulder. 'Pardon me, mad-
am" be said, 'but you left this on niy
counter,' aud be handed her a enrilease,
almost the facsimile of the ono I saw
her pick up. 'Why, that enu't be mine,'
she exclaimed, looking staetles]; '1 have
mine In my pocket.' The department
malinger opened the case ho bad brought
and disclosed a large roll of bills, a hun-
dred dollar note on the outside. 'This
:my help you to identify it,' be said,
smiling. By that time.the lady, bad ex-
tracted the other. 'Yes, that is ' mine,'
slosald .whers she saw the money, 'It
ab
was an surd Mistake, but you see
mth
they look veey much alike on e ont-
otdth,
"During this brief eolicemy my blood
van cold. Ton seconds more and I would
have bed the womau under areost, prob-
ably Involving the house In a great dam-
age 13 uit and certeinly losing nly job. As
the department malinger tanned ha saw
Inc for the first time, 'Iloilo, aimi' he
'said. 'I suppose you were itilending to
call her back. too.' 'Yes,' I replied slow -
le, but I was mighty cavern] not to tell
bite how I was intendlua to do h." -
A TIN' vEasm., LANG CAGE.
To place an umbrella in a rack at
a club or restaurant tadicates that it
will ehortly change owners. An 1110.
brella held over a lady and pouring
cateraots of rain over a man's silk
hat is ra. sign of touriship, When a
man is nugly beneath an umbrella,
all 111100neetolle 95 the fact that the
lady at his sido, is getting very wet,
11 18 a sure sign of marriage. An um -
beetle cerried in the precise position
ealculated to remove the eyes of pase-
ers-by, signifies, "5. am a women."
TO IDENTIFY LOST DOGS.
In order to belp the restoration of
stolen dogs the Veatch Society "As-
sistance aux Anitnaux" has made ar-
eangemente to thitao A nuraber on
the cox of every dog or eat pregented
at the society's establishmemt, The
Paler ,cled °' et!a11.regi if'sitaeirra8od' llpebt% Ptattlinioolds
will be, Icept, ownere will always be
able to establish identity by eeferenee
to the aumber on the ahimal's ear,
abnoodut.he, -testimony of the tiOaiety's
•
Threescore and ten years is the'psalun
let's measure of life, but la CaithasSa.
SOOOtta, a haste 02 10, Unless menial, is
described as a lad ot by his brother of 00
!Is a boy. . •
Oysterd wben stale will opeo 0ss113'-1
but the shell will close on the ;Aire wheti