HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-5-16, Page 3IIEROFS AND IIEROINES•
Rev. Dr, Talmage Says They Will
Stand High on the Last Day.
froPe Washington soya:
Dr. Talmage peeitelied from
the follewine text: "Tbeu, therefore,
endure ha1'dnetia."-2 Tim il. 3.
' Hisheriane are uot sloW to aeloamit.
ledge the meritg of great mtary
elliettethe. We have the full-length
portrait ot the Beldwing, the Mont-
t, Nellie end tee tilarehal Keys cd the
world. History is not written in
black ink, bat with red ink af hu-
man blood,The gods of human am-
bitioe did not drink from bowie made
out of silver, or gold, or precious
gtones, but of tee blembed skater of
the fallen. But 1 am 'ea -day to un-
roll before you a emit of heroes that
the world hag never acknowledged;
they, who •faced no gung, blew no
bugle -Katie, conquered no eitieS,
chaitted no mptives to Unix chariot
:wheeler, and yet, Web° great day of
eternity, will stand higher than
tbose whom 'woes gartled the na-
time; and geraph, and rapt spirit,
and archangel will tell their &mete to
a listening univeree. 1Lamm the
liercee of common. everyday life. 3
1 In thig roll, in the firsplace, I
find all the hercieg of the sloe -roof.
When Satan had failed to overcome
Job, he gaid to God, "Put forth thy
hand and touch hie bones and his
flesh, and he will nurse thee to thy
face." Satan bad eound out what
aim have all found out, that sickness
id the greatest test at one'g eharac-
ter. A man who can atand
•that can tand Anything ; to
be fillet up in a room, se fast •aS
.though it were a baatile; to be so ner-
Yuma you cannot; endure tie tap of
a child'e foot; to have luxuriant
fruitwhich tempts: the appetite of
the robuet and the healthy, excite our
loathing and disgust when it first
appear e on the platter; to have the
rapier oe ' pain littrike through the
gide or across the temple, like a
razor, or to put the foot into a vice,
or to throw the whole body into a
blaze ot a fever. Yet there have
been met and women, but more wo-
men than men, Wno have cheerfully
endured thig hardness, Ilirough
. yea re of exha.usting rbeumatisine
ad excruciatine 'neuralgiae they
have gone, and through bodily dig-
tregses that rasped the nerves, and
lore ,the rameles, and paled the
cheeks, and stooped the shoulders'. By
the dim light of the sick -teem taper
they IlaW on their wall the pieture of
that land where the people are never
sick. Through the dead silence of
the night they heard
THE CHORUS 02 THE ANGELS.
The cancer ate away her life from
week to week and. month to month,
and She became weaker and weaker,
and every "good night" wee feebler
than the "good tOght" before—yet
never earl, The children looked up
into her face and saw suffering trans-
formed into a heavenly amile. Those
.vilo suffered on the battle -field, amid
shot and shell wore 'not so rawth
.heroee end heroines as those who in
tbe asylum had fevers wbieh no ice
could cool and no Buttery could
cute. No shout of comrade to obeer
thera, but nembness, and aching, and
hontesiekness—yet willing to offer,
confident in God, hopeful of heaven.
Heroes( of rheumatism; beroes of
heuralgla; heroes of spinal emu-
plainte; heroes of sick headache; he-
roes of lifelong invalidism; heroes
•and heroine. They shall reign for-
ever and /waren Bark! I entch
just one note of Lhe eternal anthem;
"There Mull be no more pain." Bless
God for thAt.
In this roll I also find the heroes
of toil wive do their work uncom-
plainingly. It 19 comparatively easy
Jo lead a regiment into battle when
you know that the wbole nation will
applaud • the victory; it ie compara-
tively easy to doctor the sick when
you know that your skill will be aPt
preolated by a large. cionmanti of
iriende and relatives; 21 is compara-
tively easy to acldress an audience
.when in the gleaming „ oyes an • the
flushed cheeks you know that your
Oentirnents are adopted, but to tlo
gewine whore you expect that, the
employer will oome and thrust his
thumb throegh the work to show how
imperfect it- is, or to have the whole
garraent tbeeWnebeick on yen to be
done over Again; to build a wale and
know there Will be no one to as; you
did it well, bill: only a ewearing era -
player hoWling across the scaffold;
to work until your eyes are dim and
arid your back mime and yout'heart
faintg, aud to know that if you stop
before eight, your ehildren will
etarve, AIII the sword has not Olin
tee many eh the imedle.
Ie ihi9 roll 2 also eind the berms
who have uncomplainingly etidured
domestic injustice. • There ere meta
who for their toil and anxiety have.
no isytapatby in their homes. nes
'meeting applieatiou to business gets
them a livelihood, but an ontrugal
.wife matters itIle is fretted at
from the marmot he entere the door
unlit he comae out of ie. The exits.
Perla/one of beefless life augmented
by the exasperations of amnesties life.
Suoh men are laughed at, but they
have a heart-brealcieg trouble, and
they would bave long ago gone into
appalling dissipations but for the
grace of God. Society to -day is
etrewn 'with the weethe et men who
under the northeast: etorn of denies-
tio infelicity have been
DRIVEN ON THE ROMS, '
There are tens of thousands ot diunk-
ands to this coluotry to -day, made Seth
by their witme, That is prose: nut
the wrong is ,generally in the apt
pasito eirection, Yoe, woeld, not have
ied go ter to Dad a Wife wheel) life
le a Perpetual martyrcloni. Seine,
tiling heavieg tben the etroke et a
Vet. uoicied weeds, etaggerings heme
at midnight, and conetant maltreat -
moot wheel ileVe left her only a
wreck et whet she was on that day
when in the midst of brilliant a4-
semblages the vowe Wore tAken, and
8Ilorgan Played the wedding march
and the orieriege vatted away with the
betereetion of tee people. No bitter
W09198 wlsen thio rolliceine comparo
/one at two Wolcott in the ineeming
Pitch the husband dead drunk it the
front entry, No bitter •warde when
wiping trent tbe swollen brew the
blood Strlielt out in, a mid -night car-
ou,sal. Bending ("vex the battered and
brelsed ferra cif hiw who, when he
took
her froan her father's "tepee,
monoLved love, kindnegs, and proteo-
OM, yet nothing but syrapethy, and
peelers, and foraivegess before thee
are aaked for. Nol bitter word e When
the family 13ible .goes for rum, and
'the pawnbroker's litho') gets tbe last
deceet dresa. SOme day, destaing to
evoke the story of her tsorrowis, you
say: "Well, lepto are you getbilag
along now?" and xellying her trembl-
ing voice and quieting her quivering
lip, She staye: "Peetty well, 2 thank
you, pretty well." She never will tell
you. In tee delirium a ber laat
siekneas she may tell. all the /motets
a her life -time, tat she will not tell
that; Not until the, books of eternity
aro Opened on the thrones of judge
moat will ever be known what She
has ;Suffered. Ohl ye who( are twist -
hag a garland for tee victor, put it
on that pale brow. When she he dead
tee neighbours will beg linen to make
Le3: a ;shrouds and be meal be carried
oat In a plain box with no silver
plata to tell her years, for she has
lived a, thousand yeare of trial and
anguish. The gemblere and the swin-
dler,s itho deetroy her husband wilt
not come to the 'einem'. One Car-
riage will be enough for that funeral
—one carriage to carry the orphans
and the two; Christians woraen who
grestded over the obsequies. But
there is a fiaele and a clank of a
celeetial deer, and a about: "Lift
im your head, ye everlasting gate,
and let he come in!" And Ohrist
will step forth oil say: "Oame in! ye
surtaxed eith me cm earth, be glorifi-
ed with me iu heaven." Wbat is the
highest throne in heaven? :You say:
"The throne of the Lord Geed Al-
mighty and the Lamb." No doubt
about it. ;What is the next highest
throne in heaven? I speak it
seeme to me thee it will be the throne
of the drankardO wife, if she with
cheerful patience, endured ail her
earthly torture.
, 11E110E9 AND HEROINES.
But I ani speakimg this morning of
those wbo, out of their pinched pov-
eirty help others—of such men ite those
Oturi.stian miesionaries at the West,
whit are Hiving on e250 a year, tbat
tbey may proclaim Christ to tlie peo-
ple, And ef throe people who have
only a half loaf of bread, but give a
piece of it to others who are hungrier;
and ef those who have only a mettle
of coal, bat help others to fuel; and, of
Lhasa who ba ve only a dollar in their
pockets, and give twenty-five cents
to somebody else; and of that father
who wears a shabby coat, and a that
mother wlio wears a faded dre.ss, that
their children may be well appareled.
You eall them paupers or ragarauf-
fine or emigranta, of tatterdemalions.
I call them heroes aud heroines. You
and I may not know where they live
or what their name is. God knows,
and thee have more angels hovering
ever them than eeu and I have, aud
they evil! Oave a. higher seat in
Heavem. They may have only a cup of
oold wate,r to glee a poor traveller,
or may ba.ve only picked a splinter
from ander the nail of a ohild'a finger
or have put only two mitea into' the
treasury, but the Lord kn,ows .thera.
Cionsidexing what they had, they
did more than we have over
aene, end their ended, firms will be-
come a white xolee, anal the .small
room will be an eternal mansion, and
the ced hat a coxoneit of victoey, and
all the applause et earth and all the
sbou.ting of heaven will be d,row•ned
out when Ged riseup to give Hie re-
ward to these humble workerin His
kingdom, and say to them: "Well
dime, good and taitheul servant,"
13ut there is great excitement in
banyan. Why those long processions,
Why tho booming of that great bell
in the tower? It is eoronation daY
to heaeete, Who are those rising on
the thronete with crown.% of eternal
royeltee? They must have been great
people On earth, ;world-renowned pee -
pie. Net They, taught in a ragged
Schoen Is that all 1 That is all, Who
axe tease' souls waving sceptrea ot
eternat clonainion? Why, they were
little thildren who waited on in-
ealid mothers, That o13? That le all.
She wan Galled Little Mary," on'
emelt. "
SHE 15 AN -EMPRESS NOW.
Wbo are tbat groat multitude onehe
highest throgee ot heaven'? Who tiro
they 1 Why, thee tea the, bangry,tbey
clothed the naked, they healed the
sick, they coniforted the heart -brok-
en. They never found any rest un-
fit they put their head down on Om
pillow et the eepulehre. G'ocl wittchee
them. God litughed defience at the
enemies who put their heels bard
awn on theee his dear ohildrem rind
one clAy the Lord struck his handsel
hard on hie thigh' that Um onotipot.
eat sword, rattled oh the buichler, as
he eaid: "I am their God, and no
weapon forraed againet them shall
Mosper." What harm can the world
do you. whorl the Lard Altnigbty witb
unsheathed eiword foolts for you1
preaeh this woman thit morning
In tornfort. GO hetes to the place
jest. where Gott luta put you to play
the bore and heroine. Do not: envy
any man his motley, or his applause
or hie metal 1105111011, 1)0 not envy any
woleitn her wardrobe, or her exequies
ite appearance, lie the beret or the
beroine. If there be lio flour in the
bouso, and you do not knoW where
your philerett aro to got broad, tis -
len tine yeti will hoer steMithing
ineping egathet the eindow-pape, Go
to tee wtmlOW, and you will fled it
11,4 the boaJ 02 8 reVen, and open the
wipdow, and there Will fly in the
meseeessee that fed BOJO. Do yotl
thirtie tliat. the God 0210 growa the
oetton of the Soutb will lot rot
ereeze for Lace of teethes ? Ilo Yoe
think that the Gad Who allowea tlia
disciples oln Senday morning to go
trite the grain -field, and then take
the grain gad rub it in tbeir /lands
and oat --4o yeu thinle God will let
You sterve 1 Did you ever hear the exs
Perience of that old man, "I have
been young ,and now am I old, yet
Any e I neYer Seen the righteous for-
saken, or his seed begging bread," Got
lip out of your deseouragereent, 0
troebled flout, 0 eewine woman, 0
man, kicked and cuffed by unjust e01-
ployere,0 Ye Who are hard bestead
lit the battle of life and know not
which way to turn, 0 you berett one,
0 you etek ono with oomplaints yen
have told to no 000, Come and get
the cemfort of thie subject. Lieten to
our great Claptaine; clieer: "To him
that overoom.eth wet I eive to eat of
the fruit of the tree of life which
183n the midet of tbe Parodist) of
ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
--
That trapaened In: Tears Whose t2rea8
Events Live tit the 211nde or nem
Mega calculations have establiebed
the law. tht regulatee eclipses, not
only In the future but ea the paat,
and, teankg to these mathematical
reaults, several commonly accepted
historical istakes in the (Intel of
famona events have been rectified,
Time Om time e/ the birtle and death
at Cbriet has been corrected witlai the
help of aatronomy, and the two twits;
eetablished as followe: The Chris-
tian era begen in reality, with the
year 4 instead a the year I, as com-
monly believed. That furnishes us
with an entirely new solution for the
tireeorae question, "Winn deco the
twentieth oentury begin?" It ig only
en the year 527 £I). that Dimoysiue
-Exiguug, a Romth priest, fixed the
date of the Julian period, when the
Christian era was suppoled to begin.
glee Herod, who ordered the babieg
killed at the time of the birth of the
500 of MOTT, died, according to the
Jewish historian Josephine shortly
after an eolipee of the moon. All as-
trottonalcal tableg hkow that this
eclipse was visible at Jeruealein 04
March 13, 4710, Julian period. There-
fore Chriat was born before this, or
at .the lateat 80 December, 4709, in-
stead of December, 4713, as commonly
believed.
The world le four years older than
we ina.agined, anti if we want to be
exact, we had better date our; lettere,
thee month, May, 1905, instead of
May, 1991. Atitronoraleally it is also
proved that the crucifixion took plaoe
in the 4,746111 year of the Julian per-
iod, the Savior being at the time over
36 years ot age.
But another 'sericite feet in refer-
ence to the death of Chriet is found
it the recorde of eclipses. et refere
to the great eclipee of the, still which
Greek philetsophers ot the time de-
clared to have take o place in that
year and taonth, and which would
then correspond with the sudden
darkness that fell upon tbe city of
Jerusalem iv.hen the
SAVIOUR OP THE WORLD.
gave up hie breath on the, cross, Thie,
hoevever, has been contradicted by
astronomers, who declare that such
darkness must have been of abgolutely
miraculous origin,. as an eclipse of
the sea visible m Judea could not
possibly have taken place thee year.
• Here are the dates and bistarical
facto *which, by their strange coin-
cidence, kept a number of sun eclips-
es alive in the minds cif man;
463, B. 0.—The Great PereiantEtiCePt
Lien War.
431 B. 0. --Terrible plague in Atli-
ene
59 .A. D.—Nero murdere his mother,
hgrilMines,
• 237 A. 1).---T1ie stars were seen at
ripen. Death of Emperor Conetan-
thee
• 810 A. D.--DeaLli of Emperor Louie
the Pious,
1133 A. D. --The Great Bohlem a
the Ob.rLetian Church began; two
1493'.6.. D.—Christopher Colerebus,
19 Sarpaiea, obtains assistance from
the natives just in time to save hig
men from etervation by predicting an
eclipse that threw the Indians at
hig feet in ithject terror.
1799 A. 31—The memacree of the
Freneh Revolution.
1800 A.. D.—The bloody victory of
Austerlitz.
1813 A. D—NtipoleonO terrible de-
feats ab Lelpeio, Bautzen, etc.
1820 A. D,--itturder of the Duke do
Berry, heir to the Pre,neh throne,
1851 4.. D.—Napeleon 212. maseaores
Republienor all over Frence.
1858 A.D.—Oreini's bombs kill motes
of guard % around Napoleon IIL and
his Empress.
1860 A. Do-Aunouncee the bloody
War of the Secession, in the United
Sthtee, •
1870 A. De -This extratirdinery
Nemo) visible le the terrible year ei
the Prance -German Woo, 300,000 men
killed.
1900 A. le, MuY but
were and rumors of ware the world
over,
e NOT QUITE SATISPIED.
A visitor among the poet in the
Best -end of London found unexpect-
ed testern.ony to the disadvattiteme of
health during oneof bee reeent
Mrs, 10, hos a family ce a dozen child-
ren, and, titre most a her class, sho
had 118e tele OE woe to tell,
How are the cbildreit, Sirs, fl,lia-
qU1l'Cd the ealler,
All ve,vy well, indeed, ma'am, very
well, indeetl,
Yoe otight to be tharikeul, 219Auto,
with se inuell eiekness all (Omit.
Oeee, ina'arn; I auppove I ought to be
tbankful—but, I tell you, ma'am,
ivbe,r. theylee Well they, eat on awful
lotl"
Tie SUNDAY SCHOOL
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IliTBONATIONAO LESSON, AIM' 19
".,Inesus otileends late Woven." ImIce 24, 44,
09, Acts Z, ilehlrit 5dt0.O24, 011.
LI, I PRAOTICAL leOl'ES. 1
Veree 1., The earmer treatise, Tee
Gospel a80or11l51 bo Oulte, 0 Theo.
philue. The Man to Nrhoan the gos-
pel of Luee ag well as the, Aots ot
tlie Apostles Was declioated. 21 id
generelly assumed that lie was v.
Greek becauge et bis Greelt name,
but that ig mot a certainty, ger jeWe
frequently heel Gree e namee, as, for
inetenee, Pbillp and Andrew, and that
be Vag a tame of dielluotion, be-
cause, of the phrase "meet excellent"
whiela Is aeseciated with big nanle 19
the dedication a the goemil—a phrase
whileb ig elsewhere used ag a compli-
ment 131 addregaing men of position,
nth tor example, ie Acts 24. 3 and
Actg 28, 25, ,Tesus beg -an a work
which wail to be carried on by 13113
appellee, To • do and teach. HIS
llfe wag an exemplification of the
clootrtneg he taught, 4„ !
2, The dee 19 tthieb he wag talien
up. The day of the agoension. Be
through the Holy, WINO had given
commandment/I unto the apostles
whom be had ehogen, This may
mean either that tee epeeial com-
ingedmentg here alluded to were giv-
en to the apogelee, not by our Lord
peraonally, but by the Hely Ghost as
an agency; or it may mean that the
Lord, himself anointed by the Holy
Gbeet, gave the eorounandtnents. The
queetion is one of little practical
importance. 1
a. To when., aldo he showed himself
alive. He demonetrated his life
after death; made plain 'le many In79
hie resurrection.. Passion. An old
English word for "suffering,” bore
referrieg to our Lord'a death. By
many infallible prorifie The Revis-
ed Veraion °tette the word "infallie
ble," not to weaken but to atrengthen
the staterneet, Being seen of them
forty days. Literally, "through
forty day," or, as the Revised Ver.
akin has it, "by the space of forty
day"—that Is, at intervals clueing
that period, Speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Jesus was the King, and insight natter -
ally be expected to talk of the king-
dom, • The disciples were to be the
arabamadors or repreeentatives of the
kingdom of God, and would need more
inetruetion. What they had heard
before hut could not underatand
would (some to them with fresh mean-
ing in the light that eherte from the
oPen grave and from. the cloud that
received their Lord.
4. Beiug assembled together vdth
them Parhalni in Jerusalem on the
day ot the ascension, perhaps at au
earlier date. Commanded them that
they should not depart from Jerusa-
/era, but wait. Compare Luke 24. 49;
me John 14. 16. Though they thus
waited, they were far from behag
idlere, for their time WAS spent in
Prayer and conference. The premien
a the Father. The gift of the bless-
ed Comforter, the Holy Sphie, wham
God the Father had promised by his
prophete in the Old Testament to
sanctify the hearts of his faithful
people, Tao 44. 3; Ezek, 36. 26,127; Joel
2. 28, 29, and. whirl Team himself
had proaniaed but ahoy days before,
John 14. 15, 16. 'Ye have heard oe
me. Nobably in the long communica-
tion he had with them during coad
after the Lordet Supper, as recorded
In the laat chapters o/ John.
5. For John truly baptized with
water; but yo shall be baptized with
the Holy Ghoet not mealy days hence.
Them are the very words et Sohn\ t110
Baptiet, • Luke 3. 16. The baptism
with water wag the symbol and type
of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The
baption a the Holy Ghost was to be
monumental in ita manner and, in its
abundance, The Holy Spirit lad
been in their hearts before, but lluly
were to waie for Something unpreced-
elated. The "not many day a hence"
proved to be tem. 'He eays 'mat
many' that they may laope; he dime
not aay how few in order that tiny
may wa tch."—Chrysos tom
6, When they thereeore were 00 10
together. This, would seem to boon
the Moot of Olives, near to Bethany.
During the very feet interview they
had with the Lord they netted of, hino
"tbey kept aekieg him," Lord., wilt
thou at tlaig time restme again tlao
kingdom to Teraele "The disciples
had not yet unlearned their notione
of a temporal kingdom." Their nee
Om wee tributary to the Romen,s.
The dimiples had much oe spiritual
disomniment, but their old way of
thbekbig led them. Lb oppose that be -
thee the world could he eoneerted
Christ it must be eonvorted to rude -
ism; and if so, wby not Mom Jerusa-
lem the bentre of power, and Jesus
the vieible King? Many Christians
harbor eh:altar thoughts to -day.
7. It is not foe you to know the
timee or the seasons, 19111011 tbo Fatb-
er hath put 80 his own power. Com-
pare Matt. 24 Thig response le not
a deuial of their belief, but a state-
ment that the limitations of their
knowledge had bean reathed. Some
devout men like God to keep no live -
thrice.
8. To almil receive power, after
t Mat the Holy Ghoet is come upon you.
Power la all that anYorte Watts in
thie world, and abundant power of
the divine sort would more than
realize all their dreams a neitioual
and religious greatness. This power
wag to come from the Holy Ghoeti Ye,
shall be wileesees unto nee The
Geook word for "witnesees" is "moat
tyre." 'Wieneases be the early +days
were so /stem compelled to give up
(Irak liVOs for the sake of tostluaony
that. the two weeds came to have the
5011110 Inearline. Thn epread of the
Gaspe', then, is tot to depetel on
argameet demonstrotien, but on
simple testimony to the Holy Ghost.
Both in Sexusaleue and in all Judea,
and in Samaria, and unto the utter -
meet parb at the meth neatening
at home yew.' inflame% Ls to bel telt
tite boud o8 tho nation, onkel-
L.0
ter that tO the eerie eit the (teeth,
aitit to the end et time. .
9. Wield they belield. 4.s thee
41090 leeelitg, Tbey were closely
watetties, Luke 84. 01, 110 wee taken
00. Mare 10. 19, "The 9000149104 le
aol heeertied by the ether two
ifellSts, Bat it is entitled to by Paul,
BIM, 4, 9, 10; 1 Tina 3, 10." A oleos.'
receiv,ed hem out of their eigbe 4.
bright elould et gime wee the :symbol
of God's presence, teeth a ()loud led
OfoSee an4 Ilia followers over tbe
deeeri; ot Sinai; Entail, a cloud abode ie
the hole Piave; each 01 oloud had
overshadowed Jiteurs on, the Mout
of TrensfIgeration, Loire's statement
that oar Lord wee engem:ed. in blest
sing his disciplea whee he disappear-
ed, Luke 14, 60, is of great interest,
By biesslee Olean he acted so their
great Higb Priest, coaseeratieg thont
whom he sent teeth to bless in his
name. The last weeds iviiieb 1461 wee
halted to speak oqe earth were words
laoice4teassItgra—nPeris °Donis hi°st ethf else Waal' kipirneg,
bectina pewee,
10. While they iooked eteadfastie
toward helixes as he ;went tee Full
of unspeakable delight and euximity
and soxrow. Behold, astoeishina to
smaayg,etbtii:opmen tithed by them in while
a phrase repeatedly tised tol deseribe
emparel. "leeen in white apparel" is
11. Ye race a Galilee. That they
were GaIlleans was pro.bablo evident
both by 'their dres% and theix accent.
(T,i&arecolvoisetinthistrataedas7ticaha isvaa:htiofatmais.
Harley would be with 4,10. W11 a
•Ytuttgu,arzaillgthluzspg ifaclQtthellemavetnledoA, sorlaor4ngt
as they had tharouohly secular con-
ceptiens. O'or a physical man to rise
from the earth and to be hidden! by
an ascending cloud wag marvelous
enough to fix any eyes upon the
Pines whe,re he Ind vanished The
force of the angel's question, "Why?"
is that they &aimed have by this titne
diseaverred that the things of the
kingdom of God are not conoernbag
the "flesh and blood," and that it
needs a spiritual eye, an eyeg of
faith, to follow the Lard on his jour-
ney to the right hand of God tile
Father Almtghtee This same jesus...
shall so MMUS in like manner ag ye
b•ave seen lane go into heaven. Goad
me,n sometimes forget that ibis brief
statement, go full cte meaning to us
all, was made almeet immediately af-
ter our Lard's statement, "It is riot
for you to knoevl times Or seaSons."
et is possible 19 spend too much time
and to recondite ebudy in endeavors
to ascertain precisely when and pre-,
eisely how o.ur Lord will come, Let
418 celnely believe the words of Scrip -
bare and receptive that the mast int -
portant thing for us Ls to have our
Lord with us every mornent of our
lives; then no surprise eau be disaster.
BRITISH TACTICS IN THE WAR.
--
A Boer's Impression of Warfare as Ent.
ployed to South A.frlea.
Adelbext Count Sternberg, in an
article in the Times on "Some Tactical
Leasons in Wax," records bis personal
impression of 'modern tactios as em-
ployed by tbe Extglish against tbe
Boers. He sayst—South Africa is, of
°otiose, not a good example of tbe con-
duct of war, settee conditions have ob-
tained there whith will never occur
again. But, neverthelese, r was able
from the side of the Boers to, watch
the effect of modern tactics as em-
ployed by the English. I mention,
therefore, one thing: --"Those Euro-
peats an the Boer eide who had the
old military tactics, so to say, inbred
is them, we,re all either shot or taken
prisoners without being of any real
use tvhaterer. Under the watense
English fire of any a the early bat-
tles, Oolenso and ItagerStontein le -
eluded, bad any one attempted to
perform orderly duties or even stand
upright, he welled have been a dead
mat in the first half tour. After
such experiences oux first care must
be, at maneetweree in time of peace,
to pay attention to and reckon with
this effect ot modera weapons. I,
therefore, cherish the unalterable con-
viction that a return to line tactics,
to the tear of fortifications, is a thing
af nece:ssity. By fortifications I, a
coarse, mean field fortificatiocis. Lord
Eitobezwer, on the first day of his ar-
rival, broke with the olel syatena, and
has began a new kind of line tactics."
In oenclusion th,e writer says:—
'There is no doubt that since Lord
Roberts and he liegiap to command in
South Africa the Boers luive been of
no MSS 1 the field, and for this' rea-
m= only—that these coamnanders have
einployed their troops i10 a widely ex-
tended order. The morel effect was
gaexzerinagoolfrani
imterya. Ikzo.p-eanieemnbearar zwoittuthalive.
tein at the great dark snalte oe the
British line ceiling round and round
us; amid yet that line wao as thin as
a thread. I would, therefore, tnake
it clear that the intet useful result
of th,e South African campaign is the
lesson that we should break with the
ekes order system, shotuld keep the
reserves mil of the zone of fere, tine
ugly attempt the offensIve with great
etronmepectian nod careful turning
to ateatent of the ground and dark-
ness. Battles are not to be Walt ica
a day. They Must be begun as Wel-
buten began them and ended as Lard
Roberts ended them." ,
WHY HE BOUGHT THE HALF.
• PENNIES.
A gentleman living in a rural
part of Lancashire sent his coachman
to a eeighboring village for five
ahillings'-worth of penny startles.
After a time John returned from
biS theinp of two milts.
Hie f ano were a Self-satisfied look
When he mine into hie empl, yore
presenee,
Got the stemma, joint?
Yee, sir, the Man replied, handing
over a beteb of halepenny stamps.
I said penny statute, ,T,oine and you'
Ve got halfpenny ones.
Yee, sir, and the smile widened.
Poked for five shilitegs'tworth of
Stamps, mid the postmaster says,
"Halfpenny or ponnyr "po you sel I
halfpenny siampei" t asked. "Yee,"
seid he. "Well," says 1, "it you
can buy atitinps for a halfpenny,
warat'e the uso ot Mein a Penne r
An' 2 boittit the halfpenny stamps,
POISON FOE YOUR MOE
IMMENSE A.P/IOTINT II414+EPAI,T11
CAUSED BY ARSENIO,
It is lenient le ewes or Me itettelea
Which Wo pia)* or Madly DellY
Symptema or eltrento Poltorthog.
The oatmeal case oe atgenie poison-
ing at letenoltesier, England, Mils et"
tenlion ie a &turtling manner to the
riske we all run even in our own
14001448. Tliousands of tong of poison
axe 12000 tiled in the roeuutaaturine
arts% including a quantity of arteale,
Aeoordieig te the Britieli Registrar,
General, only twelve or foueleen
(loathe ace ur anti ually train Menlo in
England, meet of them being tool -
dented, But =deol met, who have
enquirea into the matter, mere that
00 bemeese amount of 111-19m11li
arteee frOm the use ot thig drug,
tvOich may be lenocently taken at
lunob time co absorbed in the bed-
room.
This is perfectly credible when we
eanelder the various useg to whiob the
drug 18 put. It is used In making
shot. Three parts a erectile are cora-
bleed with 1,000 parte of lead, to make
ordinary shot. Now, shot is elctenSiv'e-
ly u. waehime bottles apd in
11118 poteess a geed deal oi the argent°
,getg detached and adheres 10 1118 bot-
tles, When these are eilled with beer
the areenie dissolves in the beverage
and, though the quentity ie too small
to 'Were a moderate drinker, it often
eeriously affects the health.
To enderstand how these infinitesi-
mal quantitiee of arsenic prove berm -
f ul, a ctirloUS property of the drug
must be explained. It is what the
do ,
otora call 'cumulative" in its ac-
tion. Viet le to say, when a dose ig
Wallowed it sticks tenaolouely in the,
body, tied though the body gate rid
a a little of it every day, it takea
f rom two to tax week's to eliminate
the whole.
Green -backed playing Garda very
oaten con tato arsenic, and many great
card-playere get an eruption on their
had rom this source, os ewe,
IN DUST AND GAS. -ee-it't
Theatre tickets, railway tickets,
omnibuo tiokete are also frequently
coloured with a pigment containing
thie dangerous chemical. It is math
used in the manufacture of artificial
flowers, and it comes away from then,
as from wall -papers, both in the form
of dust and aa a gas called "arsine."
nig also used in the coloring of ohilt
dren'e toys, crayons, pendia, the
glazed papera that carer confection -
erg, lamp ;shades, end many toilet
artioleo Violet powder frequently
contains arsenic, and seine time ago
two children were fatally poieoned by
the use of this powder.
Arsenical soap is greatly favoured,
by ladies vain of their skin. Un-
doubtedly armnic has the effect, if
properly used, of beautifying the skin.
But very often the soap causes a
nasty reser tbrough its poisonoue
qualities, and it helps all the other
thing e in producing ill -health.
Areenle is very etten present in
gloves, stockings, and hat lthingst and
oause a roth, or gets net° the. system.
Perhape one of the most dangerous
poison-carriera is the colored window
or bed curtain.
Tbere teems to be no end to the
artielee of daily use which may be the
mysterious cause of atomach aches,
sore oyes, nouraleia, and otber rosette
a chrom.e •arsenics poisoning. Britan-
nia metal spouts, forita, and teaPote
frequently contaio arsenic, which is
slowly dissolved out of them in eget
All kinde ,of glassware may havesome
arsenic in their substunee, thougb not
so often nen, as formerly- It is uaed
Ln bronzing brassware and tinning
sbeet-iron. Orpiment, an arsenical
compound, is used as a bair destroy..
er, and tanners often use it to take
the hair off ekis. Several deaths
have been lemma to it. .A.rsenite of
copper le toed, under the name of
paria green, for destroying insects on
potatoes. Possibly, 41 finds its way
into the tuber, and te eaten by us at
dinner. Cern intended for geed is
steeped in an arsenical solution to
prevent "smut" and here, agnin,
tOere 14 sorae probability that the
drug passes Into the new corn, and
thue into aux breed. Then, inost
sheep dips consist of arsenic, an it
is almost certain that soros 024 11 gate
into the ;sheep's body and remains in
the mutton; while fly -papers, flyswie
ter, and rat pastes owe thelx destruo-
tive power to arsenic, and When 128-
ed in a honie some of the ooison pees-
ee bath the air. To mention one MOTO
source a .dongcr, bremeease quanti-
ties et arSento are thrown into the
beach of ships to prevent vegetation
and nothing le more likely than that
corn subsequently loaded in bulk
geta cosatamind
In Most oases, bowever, it 39 con-
soling to know that lee trifling quan-
titlea of arsenic we emit -len telly take
into our eystern do more good than
liarmtt is au excellent taaM, and
prometes boatel). when taken in suit-
ahle quantity. The symptoms ot
slight chronic, poisoning are unfortu-
nately easily taken for something
else. Otte victim always had. a cold in
his head, and thought it arose tram
draughts in les office, but it 1789
really duc to irritating effects ot lit-
erate, which fact he did not discover
till hie health was undermieed. Most
people feel their eyes sore, its, if there
were .and in them usually the stom-
ach is in an inflamed condition, but
tele is put donvu to ordinary dys-
pepsia. Neuralgia, beadaohe, and de-
pressian. 08 spirit g are other symp-
toms. But no one thinks of arsenic
poisontng when he suffers from thoge.
CHANGES AT RISLEY.
The title 9E the great "Oneen'a
Prize" of the N. It. A. will hencefor-
ward be tittered to the "HingO
trim," by command of Ws Majesty,
who will coittirune patriot al the as-
sot:kitten. Inetead of tee rounds at
000 yards and fifteen at 600, the sec-
ond of the three Move of the cam -
petition will th Ware colisist of to
rounds at 030 ynrd.i and 1911 02 800,
LEPHANTS XN NRITISII 4 •
leblr Tgraitted ttr"rigetles for 34 0041;13i.
v4m171te
1. 0:wrTti
One of tlieng features
est the Eritish army life presented to
the 'Etymon in India is A117)14104 by
the remarkable eeticiepoy of the alto
pliant; brigade, most highly develop.*
ed through the 044111 of tho Marmot)
in eandling the giant* Anizo41.1, TbeIS
ueefulee,ssIn ludia cam seareety
imagined br one. eel; familiar Tillie
Lim amount and Variety a work wbich
they riecompliele but it would be a
eoriotie eaistake to imagine teat tele
degree of usefulness is a t (mined
tbreugb gay aptitucte oe the unwieldly,
animals or naturel tendency towarde
11, It is due eolely and entirely to
the ivonderful ability of tbe natiyeu
in training the huge animals and
overeorning their uatural incline-
tione. This cannot be too highly,
praieed. Neitlier meet it be imagined
that the 13,80 of elephants 174 aerny,
vanlaii4e,4n:u.mt:*:4ablygt °avtelk:
7ei'1ot:3leasleNl
thedife1ty11:thvhoi,ieietralis::rtd.4r,,.ytlelIsnotttaie°jjgeit3114li!6Prbetu1it.rnna;ktble :)2g?irV4.1
hiS ateringth and endurance play an
important part, He can never, how-
ever, perlorm theio feats 'Witlioat
C001—
tuaai attendance and direction.
steaetly hie power of work is unap-
preneiablheo;w-teerliser,.neireeted by skilful
bads.
,
21 13 REMAR1CABLE.
The transportation facilities which
are provided for the solo teee of the
elephant are quite as remarkable. I
witneesed recentlyedds the writer,the
loading and detraining of a lot of ale-
phants on the Madras railway, Both
were remarkable priseessos. In load-,
ing a rope is faetened to bin foreleg,
and a lot of natives eaul and pull at
it to induce the animal to take' the
first 'steps into the ear. This is only
aceorripliehed, however, by admonish-
ing him in the, haunch by means of
a tusk. The first step taken is raps
idly tollowed by the others until lie
stands sately on the ear. This por-
tion of the task is accomplished com-
paratively- easily, however, wheal:moo
pared with the next. At first, he 19
timid and slightly frightened, but
when the car starts his fear 15 1708*
derful to behold. Though he may ride
a hundred times he never overoomeg
11118 tear though 31 33 much mere pro.
laounced viten he takes his initial
Ode, after, say, two meinth,s' acquaints
ante with civilization, He rends th44
air with wild erumpetings, endeav-
ours 'fruitlessly to escape, and only,
ceases hie, efforts when the ear has
again come to a standstill. In tram*,
porting the elephants by aea the dif-
ficulties are alraost ae great. They
tire raised by means of a canvas sling
from the wharf to tee ship, strug-
gling to eseape and rending th,e ale
with their Mies, Once abeard shiri
they are easily managed, the motion
not affecting,thera, beeseise they do
not see the moving panorama before
them. Unloading them is easy. They,
are lowered to a raft beside the shin
and allowed to swim ashore. They
take to the water easily, and are exs
cellent swimmers befog able to swius
eight or tem miles at a stretch withe
out tiring.
NATIONAL DEBTS OF TIIE WORLD.
They Itave teereesen Erom$2,500,000,000 In
17014 to 831,000,000,008 in 000*
The xecent announcement a a new;
British loan of 9300,000,000 Lends ill-
te,rest to a etateanent else issued re-
garding the national debts of the
world. Tiles statement shows, in
brief, that the natinoal debts of the
world aggregated mare than 930,-
000,000,000, at the close. of the nine-
teenth century, or ten LianeS as much
as in the closing yeatre of the eigh-
teenth centney, In 1793, at the lm-
gimning of the Napoleonio ware, the
national d.ebts of the woeld amount-
ed to aperezema,tely 42,500,000,000; in
illOgrulth:tylonwerroebtaaeionaoriting, staoLt0h00e,oboescle.t
000. In genera' terms it may be mkt
that the 'world's datioaal indebted-
ness In 1900 aggregated ten times
what It did at the beginning ot the
nrneteenth centurry. Meentime popes
Letitia has thareased 150 per cent., and
gold and silver'19114811I form the baste
of the Money with whieh debt pay -
Patents are made, 300 per cent., tvlsich
with the utilization tie the various
forms of credit as currency, may have
inexeated the werrld's clroulating
medium quite iit peopertion to the ixt-
°Pease ea -national debts.
Thia &noir/nous inereaee in national
iodobteancas is chiefly the result of
wars, standing armies and works tit
Pebble utility. To this may be added
ot tendeney in many case.% to oreate an
annual deficit by expenditures ex-
ceeding revenues made in deterene to
popular demand, whirl deficits ulti-
mately to.ke ,tite form a funded or
bonded indebtedness. But the bulk
of these onormotts debei i erom war
proparation and the construction of
public work, such as railways, canals,
harbors and the emerovement of wa-
terways, Ot the naelways of the
world, whose total cost bas been
estimated at $0.0,000,000,000, about
One-third are owned by national gov-
ernments, indicating that 4447910100nantely one-thied of the inctreate in
indebtedness lia9 been applied to
works of this eharaeter. But the fact
that great wars have eampelled the
nations engaged in teem to make
enermous addit lone to their funded ie -
debt remelt clearly identities this the
principal eactor in the great increase
int national indebtedness whice has
ebaractiatteril the history of national
financee in the nineteenth century, ,
False teeth too n011' made trom
paper, tied are egad to last it nic-
titate
The etiolate for the ordeame 14o-
100109 Whicla went bp a year age by,
more than a millioto has gone. up
Lbes year near& a million peuead
more, the -exact imm being. 4005,000,
130 wages alone there is on increase
of 44,000 p91 .Weilleie •