The Brussels Post, 1901-6-6, Page 6A PAC
AGE OF LEITERS.
The Rev. Dr. Talmage Offers You the
King's Pardon.
, A deal/atoll from Washington eags t Palled trout hina 1 notice stall fere
them, spiritual influences) 1 do not
eeltdv*D'r• "1411°42e' P11°4 j:114.41 tile mean arty influextee gone up Irenn
following text :-"Yet detil Ile devise earth and etherealized, but the DI -
=axis that his beldame be not ex- vine Spirit, $arno eall the. Oona -
paled trona elm." -2 Sam. xiie 14. fosterer; it is east foe my purpose to -
That paasaga I never noticed until linigSbLpotlbyeati. Iotoultlhaelumaittots,teolv.:z;
week. The wise, wittY and leeeg" that influenoe memos upon a man how
;native woman ot Telebaltesaid this in vho actin, :Ile cries; he tram-
trying„neneme to tato ales; he says things and does Slimes
t° 1)°"'eeee --- that five mtnutos before lie oeuld not
boner his beautiful but xecrectet son
leave been csaxed or hired to sayor
Abealom. For exquisite etrategean Pee do. The haman soul and reliigon
Mon bee illo equal In tbe other sex. seam antagonietio elements; but this
If throe, had 'been a plain demand tbat diviee spiritualism seems the her-
Alatialont. be takeu back It would have rueueing elleulisteY that bellegs in-
to comity these opposing elemente,
been ineffeotual, but this woman come .1'he ganeral mode 01 the Holy Spirit
poseMa fieleaa which completely eme- la en seleoting means that are utemr-
,
tueed David'a heart. She winds up thely insigrigine and teoam, meei.ert
them the steps 'ot Christian ascent.
' atory by aaking him to imitate the .
At a fair in England a man stepped
Lord, saying: "Yat doth God devise LIP to a peddler's stana and bought
ineana tha,t hie haniebed be not expelle something. Thad be took a leaf
ed from him.” . from a catechism ani wrapped the
artiale ta that loaf; but one line in
Indeed, then, aro ere all banished that attbeehlem ushered his soul into
from God. Wlaat do you mean by ban- the kingdom of God, Two mon wero
lehmente Well, it meanbeteg &riven wrestling on the green. One tbrew
away and wearing fotter. It means tten other. .AtThriettan man came
g and seed
t will be sad Indeed
bitter absence from home. et means if Satan trips up your hope and you
in some. Mecca and on some oceaSions are both eternally overthrown." That
an expatriation to Siberia to delve ushered both of them into tbo kin
the militia and to be fastened in a g-
domof God indue time.0b, it ,Is
O mighty spin.e. Sometimes PeeP.e
Oxalic -gang, Yes, the wbole race is laugh under it, Sometimethey
beniehed ; our first parents from pray under its pewee. There is a
Paradise; the recreant angels banish- soul bowed down. The Holy Spirit
is
ed from heaven; the whole human bowing him. down.
family banishod from peace. Where THERE I$ AN ANXIOUS ONE.
L e the worldly man who has anything There is a deriding face trying to
worthy of tha name of happiness? throw off religious impressions.et
te often the case when the Holy Spirit
What ars those anxicem looks of the comes to a man's heart he acts in -
bankers, a the bankers, of the mer- fernally to throw off the impres-
chants, of Lhose men iu the club house siott. And se sometimes when tho
OrThet great multitude of people SPirit comes to a man he prays, and
sometimes be blasphemes; but tha
wh° tramp up euel down Bxe`adwaY1 Holy Spirit always eames with one.
Banished from God. Banished from idea, and that is to show man that
peace. Banished from heaven. Sin has "God hath devised means that the
broke& in, and it Ims snapped all the banieJaed be not expelled froni him,"
strings of the heart; it has unbind Teat Holy SpiriL in this Imam tce
night. You have fat strangely ever
all the Lastxuments of earthly accord; site you came Leto this room. There
it has, thrown tho whole earth into are doom opening in your soul that
o jaie.gle. An old writer tellof two have neves boon opened. Yoa are
wonderiag where you will come out
brothere who went out to take a walk at the teat.
You. 008 that these
in the night, and one of them looked
Christian people are on a road that
up to the sky and said, "1 wish Thad you ate not travelling, and though
o paature field ae large as the night you may not adnatt the words heasma
heavens." And the other brother look.- or hell en your mind, you are osensci-
ed up into the aky, and said, "1 wish 0116 Ot the fact that thore must be
I had aa many oxen as, therre are two destinies, two careens, two can,-
atara in the sky. "Well," said the anions, two terrnini, two words en-
tente "how would you feed so many tagoarietire, and evereaatingly swung
oxen?" Said the second, "I would turn apart. 0, wthat is tilts suppressed
them into your pasture." "What 1 agitation? What is this await. sit -
whether I would or not el' "Yea, whe- esnee? The Holy Spiait! The innate
ther youwould or not." And Lhere Speen! The eternal Spirit! The
axen0 a quarrel, and when the quar-
rel ended one had alain the other. Divine Spirit! The eighth/lig-footed
and fire -winged Spirit! The armed
And ao there haa been a ridiculous genet; The all -conquering Spiral
coning in all ages of the world, some- The omnipotent Spirit! He comes
times, about immaterial things, some- down upon your soul with an aval-
times about supposititious things,and aneh 01 powor. He eemmemee siall
if this man had all the night heavens to xeneuaste he begs you to believebe
far an estate, he would not be happy, aeoe yon to ge.e.
and if that man had as many oxen "Have. ye received
the Holy Ghost?"
aa there are stars in the sky be would Araong the means that "God has de -
not be happy. eased that the banished be not expel -
BANISHED FROM GOD. led from. hem" I •notice also Christian
Banished from peace. Banished from surrouncting.s. First, there is the in -
heaven. Now, if my serna.on should fleet= o/ ancestral piety. Was
stop just beam, it would be as though there not a good man or woman in
a man should look thorough the win- yousr ancestral line? Is tdaere not an
ket of a penitentiary and say to the old Bible around the house with worn
incescerated, "What a hard time you calves and tamed down leaves, ,giving
havb." What a small room. What poor you the hint that there was some one
faxe,what a hard pillow. Alas/or youl who prayed? Was there a family
No, air, I will not go to the wicket altar at which you used to bow? The
of tbe prison, until I can say, "Sirs, carpet may have beans worn out, and
do you know what this document is? the chair may have been salsd for old
Can you read that signature at the fueniture, and the knee that knelt on
foot at the page ? That is the goy- the one arid beside the other may
cenor's sign.ature. You are a free never again be pliant in earthly
man." If my sermon should stop at worship; but you, remember,
thee point it would be as though I DO YOU NOT REMEMBER?
went into a penal colony, and Ishould
say to tha slaves. "On w.hat small Tim_ Ala! that Christian homestead, the
its you B.Te kept. It is most dream memory of it to -night almost swamps
f al that you are. never to be allowed Year soul. When the fleet death
to go home to nue families. Alas for cam,e to the house what was itthat
yout No, I will not go to thet penal comaorted the old people? When
colony, until I can say, "Sirs, I have Yon stood fanning them in their last
good news to tell you, The queen hoax what was it that gave them
hen take n your case into especial eatuenge, the dear, old departing soulsl
elemeney, and in two or three weeks 0 you banished anal, hear the voice of
you axe to go home to your wives. the Christian dead to -night, bidding
end children. Give me your teiled,blis- Yoa come home. I remember being
tared hand in congratulation." A man with nay father one day when he was
who tale only half the story of the ploughing in a new ground. It was
gospel might better not tell tiny of it. nary hand ploteghing, and 1 remember
Weil, my frieed, what are some of how the swestt dropped down on the
the meane that "God has devised that Plongh handles, and I reanaraber at
tha banielied be not expelled from noon hearing ray mother ass she stood
him?" In the tint Otos, the forst- at the corner of the house far away,
pith up through the rifts of skull- ealleng us to oome bome, thrtt the
shelved Calvary. Constantine has, table was spread, and the deming hour
deeignated that hill as the ono on had arrived. And some of yon are
which Jesus died. Dean Stanley says down lgt life, and You. have a hard
there are on that hill shattereds frag- time. It is rough ploughtng, and
=Ms of litue-stone rook aleft ovi- thereis the Gwent of toil aad the
dently oe tbe orucifixion carthquelee. sweat el msany sorrows. Do you aot
And, my friends, it is through that hear te-neght voices from hoaven., ory.
fissure of the rook that our path to ing, "Come home, the tabte is spread,
pardon lies; through the earthquake the banquet lo ready. Coma home?"
of conviction, under the dripping Is there not in your present surround.
crimson of the cross. Ah, do you not kegs a Christiaa influence? lo tbere
like tho smell of blood) Neither do 1; not a Cheislian wife, or husband, or
but without the shedding ot blood child, or beother, or &alert Through
there is no remission. Our debts are that influsentec God has been calling
never to be paid unless Umtho cloy. a great white. 05, yoa must have
en arteries of eesue Christ they are been a persistent came to have 'with-
liquidated. :steed an muscle and withetood tio long;
Coming up to -night through thotee What will youdo next'd What will God
fiesures In the rock, you going up, do next/ He will somehow break up
Christ corning down, yes will moot, (hie menoLony. Will it be fire, or
and there will be joy on earth and atom, or the opening furnaces of the
jay in heaven over your souls doomed world? What next? God
PARDONED AND FORGIVEN. will not be forever meeting these
mesrages of invitations and alarro.
Now the Christian traoks the blood
What next? Them will be a ohan,ge
all arctund the shelving the grey emae mese, 0 soul! On the read
limeetooe rook on Calvary -the blood
the great martyrdom of Jesus You Leave]. there is a tuen just ahead
THREE WAYS OF LIVING,
-ens
WITHIN YOUR igleANS---UF TO YOUR
NS
FileA,,e13EXOND YOUR MEA1M
11 WI'le Prerlde for the nature -
teleamee Ssentliag All l'an Pars
-et le a (Menu ce elm eceemie leour
Means.
Tho men who livee within hie moans
wise. A young couple, team Ln thar
angle clays, had a free band ba moot
things (Imamate, epeet raortey, and en-
:10Yed ocanfint to the full, perhaps
feel it a texriblo bardebip to meaeure
out naemaal comforts, in handfuls
only,
But this is the wisest thing to do
io (tasty married days, for anoient
though the, old saw its there is much
oh
in "take care of tbe
pence. and the ehilliugs and pomade
will take ooze a tbentaeltres."
How. ale you to lire witbin your
meang ? It 0013 be done easily, and
no matteat bow amall your income may
be, it ought to be done,
If one's life lone itself easily to ac-
counts registered under the headings
of "Dr." and "Cr.," and it one were
really boneat in keeping tbese are.
oounta, it may be heftily assumed that
tbe heavieat tteni aPPeaullatU in the
books would be without a doubt
"Keeping up appearances."
Thie tatullous. custom wbiela has de-
seroyed the happiness of many a
home and dispensed from many a
young heart the seede of domestic fe-
licity and eententment, leade people
to spend money they cannot afford.
Though the future is yet ear dis-
stant for tho many, provision should
new, this vary day, be made for it.
Bat 0111088 you live within yew means
it is impossible for nu to
PROVIDE FOR THE FUTURE.?.
11 ie not logie to spend what you
an =
ceaand trust to luck for the
future. It Le a ruinous policy to fol-
low, Chance, or expectation, has a
disagreeable knack of forgetting
friends'. Chance is a fickle dame Who
rheum to the tune of unaertainty.
Of course, it Ls a most difficult
thing to be anybody, or to pretend
to be somebody when you are not,
and not keep up appearaiaces. If yeu
accept invitatione to other people's
houses you art bound by all the laws
of aelf-re.speet to. return the compli-
ment, All thee is very nice, but what
does it amount to? Tim money spent
in thia way may not bo nauch, dieseet-
ed in its yarioUS individual items, but
that is not the point.
Thia M tbe treed of it ; Mrs. Brown
Christ. sree seeing mans eame, atm of you. This nieht thy soul may be
they washed that red cstrnage into required of thee. Somse of you have
the valley at the foot ot tho totem.. loaeo called by the gospel for many
taiz ; out the. Chrislean erisily 785070. Do yea Suppose that Goa will
ter
tinthe red mark on the rock, arid tawnykeep on In that line? No, I tell
the glimpse, of it in song or sermon You Plainly, my d:ea' hearer, there will
eters all big sonsibilities and °resets ba is change 53You-r mac'.
a1l hls prayers. 11 it were needed
that all the hosts 01 heaven' should
be gathered for nee great batten The Garman Governmetit renewer;
there would be only orm nonao thae nearly 055,(o0,000 a year ftodia Ito
could rally the universes, and that to railways.
the battle of Jesus' 1jo Waneerd end San Francini) are
Among the means that God has each almost exaaely 11.000 miles from
demeted that the lettoishea 55 nee ex,- London.
liOr080a 4114 50115 and Men attire to
be peoeuree Mad meintaluocl, and as
buelnees people are not in trade for
the fun of the thing, or for your
ManYentenmethette horses and merles and
Men Muet be neebitalued by the pee,
plc for whoee bonofit tbey exist, Neve
Cir mind what PeePle see, deeet leeeP
O seevent £rshand. d
ow, e rater own
meek:et:Wm It 115 511015787,
Living boyoud 3'0113' means, 5 c (mince
sent infinitely waso. 13! people be-
ocinue liable fOr more money than tbey
elm tealeo from Unite own eesourcee,
Lt baa to be. borrowed. Tis balancing
up of thoLr aceounte Is, too depressing
an smoupation fox Omen ther never
analyse their expenditure, they 5101,-
eir knew how the,y stand, but 511. the
vaxioue bihIs, oome in; they meet them
au
HAVE MONEY.
Th03, are, of 000155, ePending 5015capital and interest, and As smell a
state of thinga oannot possibly ex -
Let fox long, the dey of reelconing
Gomel round, and they are tloored at
lea t.
The line dividing the people who
live, up to thelt means Zind Omni who
live beyond teen, means is very thin.
A striele taketc you frosn one to the
other divisiota.
.11 begins by entexialeing, perhaps,
an a grander male than your 13100508waireants-again for the sake of ap-
petteamies-going in for expensive
cense, and procuring various kinds of
luxusies, whioh, perhaps, .you would
not hare thought of getting ire but
far Mrs. Robinson, who bas al) she
wants.
If all the Memo you havo be de-
rived front only your salary, then be
morally honeet and avoid modern
snobblehness, and go back to tile
storting peint. Live within your
/imam, and apply tbe balance to lay-
ing tho foundalaoh ot eornethittg tang.
ibla for you and youre when the day
of-parhapa your forced -retirement
comes.
With the pre...peat before you of an
endowment or an annuity, so easily
procurable nowadays, by exercising a
little patience and thrift, you will not
feas ite advent. Ira the absentee of thls
assistance it would go badly with
yon.
SAFE IN A THUNDERCLOUD.
Thenornaricable Experience or a Preacher.AeronautIn Ettgltilad.
To be in the very heart of a thun-
dm cloud and escape unharmed is an
unusual if not a unique experience.
That is what happened to Rev. John
M. Bacon and some companions in
one of his baloon. ascensions from
Newbury, England.
Mr. Bacon le. telling of the =Per-
in:0e says: "In seemly more than
twenty minutes from the staxt o.
sudden and surprising change took
place in our circumstances. Our en-
vironment, which had appeared ab-
solutely calm and cleax, began
has been to Mrs,. Robinson's, and as ehenglag with the rapidity of a
Mr. Robinson is in a •good position, 1 , transformation scene. Below us the
their house ea enty 0100 le, all ete 15_, hundred feet which separated us
Mils. .
On the other hand, Mt. Tyown is not
in SUCil a good position, but his wi1e.
wetted not for world e let Mrs. Hobbl-
e= knoev that, so when it te Mrs, i horizon tet the level of our eye and
Robtiason'a turn to visit the. Browns, 1 higher opposed a denso fog barrier of
the Robinsons must be impressed tvith an aseen hue. Overhead of course
the idea tbat their mew friends, the the sky view was entirely hidden by
Browns, are well off, when they are, ; tho huge silken globe. At this time
as a raatter of 'fact, poorly oft. 1 we were being sivept along on our
To effect this, miracle yeene leen , course, whic11 remained sensibly un -
Brown buys a new gown, new this ,I altered in direction, at a speed which
and new that. The husband does the i we suescquently were able to fix at
sama thing, being Robinson's friend, approximately forty miles an hour.
and thole fen or e50 a year domestic, I "To ourselves the full significance
too, lf it can be. manaeeds, is changed 1 of these circumstances was not int -
foe a $100 girl, who lent be. told to , mediately apparent, but the onlook-
wear flowing etrings to her cap ' ers at our point of departure -the
LIKE THE ROBINSON GIRL. town gas works, now some five miles
goes against the grain to do as the
O 11115 of your income, even though it 1 proac
A HEAVY THUNDER PACK
wottike-clearly detected the op -
To live willetu you.: mean's, put by 0011e'
yerang Smiths, and rowns and Rob- and, as they reasonably asserted,
insane do, for, after all, your n.eigla- , coining against the wind, It, tower-
bouss may be. living up to their means ed above the baloon, now seen pro -
possibly beyond them. !Meted plainly against its face. 11
The ample who live quietly in a , came on rapidly and assumed for -
little imam in a side street, where ' minable proportions. The baloon
rent and rtes and taxes are lowest, j was flying duo west at high speed,
are far ,happier than them who aro and at apparently no great distance
dombiled in a h.ouee on the main road : overhead the thundeeeloud was pro -
where all the °bargee are approxim- gressiag at a moderate velocity not
onely highen Live, them, within your . accurately determined, but one
meant), remembering that you are do- , east or directly opposed to the mir-
ing the wisest possible thing in xe- face current,
epect of the future. 1 "And now with it whietle a blind,.
Living up to your means, is, par ing shoat of hail attacked the aero -
excellence, the commonest form of ' /tants, stinging their faces so sharply
mode= living. I 0,s to give the idea that the stones
People do thie because they DIM not . were Telling from a great height, and
leanest even with themselves. They immediately afterward from all sides
axe deceiving themselves and every- , and close around _flashes of lightning
body ales all round. They do not roe- shot out with remarkable frequency
lize how many things they do because and vividness. We were, in fact,
they are right or flume:tame but be- i fairly ombosomed in the thunder.
e,ause the Robb:mons and the Joneses ' ciciucl. Other and near observers
and the St/lithe do them. I narrowly watched the phases of pile -
'ale spending 02 au their mcnaer , nomen50 now in progress. These were
cannot afford them p/easure, The 1 the countrymen who became interest -
twinge of conecience must ootne in i oil sreetntors and who presently
somewhere. It is but a p1158100saion which ' came to our assistance. They seem -
peen -Ades some people to uppear grand. 1 ed to hove imegined that the baloon
eir than they are, anore influential, ! must be infallibly struck, inasmuch
better off than they are, and this ' as it appeared to them completely
Ls why the world ie suoh a. great : encircled with lightning. It was, in-
sheaVmh'y Mast life by giving a ranch deed, the worst storm the country -
higher rent than can be afforded out side had knoWn for nattily years. At
of youx email tresome? 01 course, your Devizes, only a few miles about, it
lasted for live hours continuously. A
little way on Our right n, houSe was
struck and burned to the ground,
and on our left a couple of soldiers
were killed cm Salisbury plain,
from the moth began filling 111 with
a blue haze quite transparent but
growing palpably filmier, while
ahead, as aloe right and left, the
idea, ie to live in a nice looality, oth-
erwiae it would mean your being look-
ed doevn upon.
Beam tho brunt of what your friends
or neighbors think. The day will
most assueeily arrive when your
neighbors will have forgotten you and
your attempts to impress them witb
the impoetance of your position, a
dielinction arrivee at at the cast of
a comfortable. future.
A. person who lives, up to his means
Is risking a mighty stake -his very
all. If hie futuro depended upon hes
living up to hie means, Lhe rashness
of hie living might ha excusod, but
Mite Ls net tho came leather is it to
be found in the desire
SIMPLY TO MAKE A SUOW,
The people wile live up to their
amane will hoop O. sorvent. when they
,sould &tatty manage flie week them -
...elves, With OCelmonol help. They keep No, wo thin t Imo in
A gervent net bet:Ruse they want to, Then why !won't you give it to us?
but becauve the people all xoturd Well, dear, tiaid the smother, gently,
them do, arta they must, to ten amid you, tend Ben will gat to
Again, they cannot go out market-
eue for them mime ; newt of the nolgin gutareling over it.
Oh, no, wo elnOne. leveed Tom, eager -
hem" ao tbel° tu8i'eal, th° "'ad"- ly. 'You needn't lao is bit afraid ot
1111)0. call in their traps, tied tako or that mothex. I won't lot Ben tottela
• bbs I1b0b5n dnor ,
THE STZ.D.A.'Y SCHOOL.
1,11118011 X, tioECOND QUARTER, INTER.
NATIONAL 1111111118, JUNE 9,
Wext of the ieeseon, Acotte eel], 0-10,
Xonory Verson, 0-8--0ooldee '703(1,
Aots xxvI, in-clotnin•intary Prepar.
cd ba' -Cite II0V, X), 05. StoarnO,
0, "Nigh Onto DaMaecue about noon
eeedeelY there eitoue eroin lemma a
great light round ebout me." 'Wo Save
Scan studying the ApPeteraAces of oer
Lord to His discsiplee atter Hie resurrec-
tion, tuel uow in thie leesau aud the aext
we have tem of UM poSt ascullOiOn
isp-
L50l5I1110i It would be yery profitable
to constant IXIS first post ascensioo ere
pees:since to Stephen. Let every Ono lay
up Acte00, and niaY become A 500-
titant wod in our Ismael, In studying
this lesson it ^emelt] bo yory profitable to
write out in parallel coluinne tho three
meounte 01 this incident In chapters ix,
1-20; xxvi, 9-20, awl the portion we are
About to study. Paul tells us that lto
was On kis way to Damascus to bring the
believers there to Jerusalem to be pun,
taloa (verso 5), and, believing that he
ought to do many things contrary to the
neme of Jests of Nazareth, ho had put
saints M prison and helped put them to
death (xxvi, 0-11).
7. "Saul, Saul, why pereecutest thou
81. o? He and all who were with him
fell to the ground, but he alone bears]
these words, spoken in the Hebrew late
guage (eorupave the parallel accounts).
The Vele° was for him, not for his eono.
panlocie. In Dan. x, 7. we read that be
&ono saw the vision; the men who were
with Idle saw It not, but were filled evitb
fear. The vision and the words wore for
Daniel, not for thom. When Peter was
releaset] front prism, ho alone saw and
heard the angel; the guards knew Both.
ing of it. So It may 'be vhen He calls
His saints to,meet Him In tho air. The
world may see or hear nothing, but per-
haps be afraid.
8. "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom
thou persecutest" This In answer to his
question, 'Who art thou, Lord?" What
O reyelation for Saul, who bad believed
,Jesus to be an Impostor and who, sincere-
ly wishing to do right before God, sees
in a moment that he is all wrong and
that the believers in Jesus whom he had
beei . persecuting were right and that he,
Saul, had been persecuting Christ in
them. That Israel's Messiah had actual-
ly come and been rejected and crucified
hy the rulers of the people, and that he
Is, with them, guilty of His death. In a
moinent he sees his Lord, and he seee
himself as a rebel against his Lord and
Saviour.
O. "They heard not the voice of Ilim
that spoke to me." Chapter ix, 7, says
that they heard a voice; there is uo con-
teadietiout there San be none in Scrim
turo. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit et
Truth, eannot contradict Himself. They
heard a sound, but not the words, which
were for Saul only. Compare John xii,
28, 20, whore some heard words, but inh-
ere only hearcl something like thunder.
Do you hear Him speak to you personal-
ey when_ you read His word, or is it all
indistinct?
10. "And I said, What shall I do,
Lord?" or, as In ix, 0, "Lord, what wilt
Thou have me to do?" Saul submits, Ile
accepts tbe risen Christ as Israel's Mes-
siah and as 55 Lord .and Master, awl
his question is no longer what the chief
priests would have hen clo, but what the
only true High Priest woull have him
do; he bas ceased from man, for he has
seen the Lord. He is sent to Damascus,
but under a very different authority from
that which sent him from Jerusalem, and
to learn the things that bare been 09 -
pointed by God for him. If our honest
questions are, Where wilt Thou, Lord?
(Luke exit, 9) and, What wilt Thou,
NO DANGER.
Two brothers, grown m.en now, are
fond of aiiting down end zomparing
past experriences. One partioularly
happy recollection ea thie
There was an olel coffee -mill in the
attie which, on boys, they greatly (le-
aked to poseess. One of them, Tom by
narao, sought his mother and begged
heir to give it to them,
don'ts believe 1. min, Tom, said she,
regretfally. I %hotted lileo to, but Pen
afraid I can't.
1301, why, mother 1 urged Tom. You
don't uee
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hUhilriad one eY Mends as pee roe
lion in ale at the Soldiere' uteri Salle
era' Families neereolation.
Sir Charles and Lady Gibbons, see
Stamtvell Nacre, near Stains, have
been beroavea by tem, death of their
youngest con ill SOUtil Africalie le
reported to have died while loet on
the veldt, lier. *Mebane, wee attatned
hie majorley not long ago, was at
elafeking during tho siege, and del
good eerviee ger the defence of the
town, The (Moused was ie nephew ef
Sir John and Lady Doran, Ely House,
Wexerged,
CrFoster Peabody bag offered
to give 6$5,000 for the erection of a
Young Been'a Oinietian Aesoolettion
building at teolumbue, Ga., prided
Shat the eitizona shall epee to main-
tain the inatitUtiOn. He has offexed
$20,000 for a Young teen'a Christian
A.esociation building fox negroes under
the &erne oanditiona.
The will of Bernard, Wolff, jr., who
died ieecently in Pittsburg, makes di-
rect bequest of about pox% includ-
ing 22,000 for benevolent: purposes,
and pamindee tbat if hM children shall
die without 1118110 before his widow, the
residue of his estate of $250,000 shalt
be divided one-half to go to the
leranklin and Mateliall College, Lan-
oaatex, Pa. ono Wirth to Catawba
College, at: Newpert, and one -
female to the 13oaod of HOMO Missions
of the Reformed Church.
Two deaths of centenarians have
lately taken place in the County Car -
Law, On Easter Monday the funeral
of Mra. Jeff Brennan, took renoe at
Coon. This old lady had attained the
wonderful age of 109, and up to the
time of her death was in the posses-
sion of all her mental faculties, be-
sides being angularly hale in body.
Very shortly before, the death of o.
Miss Comerford took place in the
neighbouring parieh of Leighlin-
bridge, in her 10515 year. She was in
business, and remained keen and aa.
Live to the very leen
The spring show of the Royal Dub-
lin Society was perhaps the best it
has ever had yet. Under the nettle
breeding scheme ost the new Depart-
ment of Agriculture a number of
premiums aro given to bulls, and, Lille
tis itsell brings a largo gathering of
animals. In the shqw, the good old
Shorthorn continues to hold its own
against all comers, as the entries in
the vareaus elasses devoted to this
breed number 445. The next most
popular breed is the Aberdeen -Angus,
with 176 entries. Herefords do Int
s
be
reamedes.
bo
g
row in popularity with Irish
The late Queen's visit to Ireland
last year gave the shanirock-wearing
on the patron saint's day a good filip,
as in England the custom became
as popular as in Erin. The supply o1
shemrosiks at Covent Gardens recent-
ly was calor/opus-fully ten times
that of termer years -and it is most-
ly genuine Irish stuff, and not Eng-
Ush clover. The King sent an
equerry to Covent Garden the Wednes.
Lord? He will not fail to show us all day before St. Patrick's day, to pur-
the things appointed for no and guide us chase X3e, worth of shamoocies, fan
in them.
11. "I could not see for the glory ot
that light." So those who were with
hint led him by tho hand into Damascus,
and be was tbree days without sight, and
neither did eat nor drink (ix, 9). He
most have learned much as he communed
with God those three days ot ayiag to
self and the world, ana doubtless the
Lord wondrously and lovingly revealed
Himselt to him. What a blessed expe-
rience it woula be to have such a vision
of the glory ot God that SVC would DO
more see the attractiveness of this
world's vanities because of the glory of
that light! Eyes and ears for Him!
12, 13. "Brother Saul, receive thy
siglit." Thus said Annulus, a disciple,
having been commissioued by the Lord to
search out Saul and be a blessing and a
comfort to him. Give much attention
here to Acts ix, 10-10, and note among
other things that the Lord in heeven ob-
serves the street in the city on Thiele we
sojourn and the house on the street. He
knows just where to find us always atid
just what He can do with us, and thoss.
who are Mein may be ebosen vessels
unto Wm to bear His name it willing
also to stiffer for His name's rake. Saul
hail spent mucli at the three days in
prayer, and the Lord had greeted him a
vision of a man coming to him and put-
ting his fiend upon him that he might re-
ceive his sight.
14-10. Note the honors conferred upon
Saul and take them to yourself as far ast
your faith wilt allow, remembering that
all things aro yours but yoorself, and
you, if redeemed, should bo leaf Menet for
Himself (I Car. 111, 21; ye le 20; Ps. iv,
3). "Chosen to know His will." See II
Pet. 111, 0; eohe yi, 38-40; love, 24; Luke
eel!, 42, and cobsider how fully you are
living in the will of God. "See that Just
One." "They BIM no man any more save
Somas only with themselves." "Run
with patience looktim unto .1e815e"
(Mark ix, 8; Heb. en, 1, 2). "11one the
voice of lells mouth." "This is my be-
loved Son; hoar Ilim" (Muth, evil, 0).
Let our deterininntion be, "I will hear
what God the Lord will speak" (Pe.
lxxxv, 8); not the (minions of men, but
only the voice of God. "Thou shalt be
His witnese unto ell men of what thou
haat soon and heard." Compare Acts iv,
20; I eohn I, 8, end say,before God how
and where you stand. Ara you the
Lord's aervantLO turn people
. .
nem darkness to light from satan unto
God, that they may receive forgivetiess
and hibernation by faith to Christ by cle-
clitring because yeti cannot help it that
which you base seen tier yourself in
Christ and beard with yoor own ears
from Hire? (Chapter xxvi, 10-18.) tt la
the priVilago of overy shiner who bast
ever hearti the gospol to receive the Lore
;tents raid be saved; 115 the Privilege of
every raved one to be joyfelly etenscloos
of the torgiveneee of sins and by it con-
fer:tent Ine ntel testimeny la,l etbers to
Him (eolin 1, 12s 1.1, 37; Ian v, 121
Avateexiiie88.e.eele *lam exit V),
decorating the royal table on theel7th
a March. The Conntess ot Limerick
sold a very largo quantity in aid of
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund, and
got orders from all sorts; and con -
anthem of men.
A olever and amuaing escape one
made from Armagh prima, recently,
An untried prisoner named Casey,
while out for exeraseein the prison
yard, managed to slip away from the
others unperceived. Ho scaled a wall
and. got Late the GOverttOr's garden,
Which is situated just behind Lhat
offbial's residence. Tim prisoner,
with the utmost sang froid, walked
leisurely through the garden and pro-
ceeried to the Governor's Mechem He
was interrogated hero as Lo ids busi-
ness, what he etateel in the most in -
=cent and natural manner that he
had been sent by a gentleman for
some flowers. He then asked was
it Mr. McClelland's helms he was in,
and being tolct not, ha politely apple-
gized for having made the mistake, of
going to the wrong house, and was
shown out uf the front door without
any further qUeslion. The Prisener
was later re -arrested.
; A. SMART BUSINESS BOY.
He waa a very small boy, and very
ragged, but there was a look in his
ens of ehrewd intelligence beyond his
yeame. His lett lianel be held behind
his back, but his, eight hand was ex -
WILL WED A NOVA SaUTIAN
DAIJOHTER OF A WaL,KNOWN
41URJCAN eztti14, ,
Icenioneo Connected 17515 the Mariana% el
Pas Motives nod Hiss PlagIcr, ot
Washlagtott, I?, 0,
Waahington ecoiety bee been pro.
vicled with eolmething of a mild sense -
tem by the anneunoement oe Mies,
Beizebeth Plaster's for timomeng
marriage to Ois. Creorge Wilbert Me -
Nome of Daddeole, Nova Scotia,
Mese Elegem 11 tho dougltier of
Brigedier-General Flateler, (tad was
eorate five years ago ono of the belle%
et the United Stelae capitah She is'
interesting, not only on account of
Ser wealth and beauty, hut aleo be -
cause of tile samewhat romantio otoryi
thee is, told about h.er.
It seems that in 18915 the Flaglere
were litetally haunted by small boys,
who, in spite ref numberless warnings,,
treepassed in the (seamed eviiieh ad-
joined their manse= in the suburb)))
of Washeneton. As aeon 5.8 0101
Member or iservant of the family
vaniehea from eight they would, scale
uthtetievbegalinareeealle,ls an.d see to work 1.117
One hat August .day Mee Fleglee
happened to be standing behind the
drawling roam blinds when a negro
Soy Olmbe 09BT ths well ante serarabled
up one of the batten apple treee. She
seized a small eparting rifle that be-
longed to her brother evitb the inten-
tion oe scaring the urchin. 'She raised
the tWeapOtIl and Hoed it. I
APPEARANCE 1/4 CIOURT.
A.Imost SIMUltaneouslt something
fell from the tree., ana when ths
smoke cleared away the ohidd was
found lying an the ground mortally
wounded. Tho coroner's jury exoner-•
abed Wise ringlet', but the verdict
raieed a BbDr311 of indignatien emong
the negro readouts en the neighbor-
hood; and after a periosi of consider.
able agitation tbe General's daugh-
ter was indicted and brought to trial
when a verdlot of "guiHy of involun-
tary manslaughter" Wan returned,
ana Miss Flagler wag sentenced to a
nominal three hours' imprisonment. ,
Miss Fleeter was a groat favorite
in Washing Lona sonic ty, and her
friends planned to receive her With
dinners and dances, but sb.e would see
nobody and go ziowhore.
One day sbe suddenly disappeared,
for she had imposed a sentence of
volontary exile an herself, being de-
termined to renounce the world and
its gaieties for ever.
She became a reoluse in a little
fishing village called Baddeek, in
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where her.
aim was to expiate wbat she consid-
ered her sin by doing good to the
poorest and saddest-raothers who
waited in vain for tho return a their
sons, and wives who were still wait-
ing eor the doep watere to give up
their long-miesing husbands.
By degrees sb.e was able by hoe un-
tiring kindness and helpfulness to
win the cemplete oonfidanoe 01 these
simple fisberfolk, and her services
rapidly 'became so rauch in demand
that she had no time to brood over
her trouble.
WHERE SITE MET THE DOCTOR.
And it was trhilie tending the sick
that ate was first brought baok to
the world the had left, for it was at
the bedside of an invalid that she met
Dr. Geceme McKeon, a young phy-
sician, who had gone to seek expert -
mem and practioe among the poor of
NoIvS
to wasctibau.
t natural that the man
of medicines should Lail in love with
1113. good Samaritan, whona iho grate-
ful village folk wore wont to call "the
blessed lady." The beautitul, sorrow.
ful-looking lady, who dwelt in a her-
mit caLtage called "The Bow:mile,"
awakened in him an interest infinitely
more absorbing than medicine. So ha
set 1311,1.5(11,f the bask which her rela-
tives and friends had failed at- to
eztice her back to the larger world
she had left.
15 the evenings he used te) go up
te the oottage which Miss Plagler
had built on the lonely rooks to oon-
malt her about same pet plan. or.now
project in which her help wee need -
ea.
And oo this romantic wooing went
on, until one day Washington society
was 'agreeably eurprised tohaar that
the. Brigadier-General'a daughter was
coming back to ths gay, busy world
which had ma known her for five
whale years.
elarly 111 31.111,3 bar return is to be
signalizod by a brilliant evodding in
St, Margaret's ohterch, to be followed
by a great reneption, ab whioh Wash-
ington nociety will bo present. In-
deeel, Kiss Flagler's bids fair Iso be
the wedding of the season,
Itornantio LIB 11112 w1jia Story is, it
cannot appeal to any mailer half so
powerfully as to tha heroine of
who will thue plunge beak Min the
vortex of nem:key woman's life after
an absence of over five years -years
spent In leading what has practically
been a hermit exintenoe as far av hor
farmer friends have been concerned.
It will probably seem 53 htsr as though
she hod been suddenly awrikened from
sernaige dream; all the events of
her Ilia among Um fisborfolk of Nova
Scotia being oompressed into the
fanobs of a night's elm:nines.
tended, and lactween two grimy Da -
gen was a half -smoked stump ce a
eineette. Ile had 553 eye on it welt -
drama men who was walking jnintily
along the etreet swinging his Orme,
I say, mistox, said the boy, gelatin a
match, will yew, please
Tho men Mopped good-netteredly,
and emitted when he tone the dirty
cigarette atump. He rnadc is pre-
tence of neorobing his poakets for a
matele and finally said:
I bayonet got one.
The boy haettly slipped the stump
into ble pocket, and withdrawing hie
hand from behind his back, display-
ed a Mame box containing an assort-
ment of email boxed,
12 yea' ain't got [no enabehee, said he,
new's a good time for to 'buy. I got
Min all -Wax and wood, and SOMA
wlsst worOt blow out in tbe wind,
and °there what will. How many- do
you want: 1 Yea* takee yor plok
He. sold two boxee. .
elatisio.ms use 0 oz. only of emffeo a
bead in the year. Engles& poople 14oz,
Mad Dutch 022ta,
00 out of eavoyy 100,000 of lertglencles
population aro toestantly in prison,.
52 of Seollaudel 100,000, and 110 of Ire-
ton dee
NOW 'RIMY .ARE MARRIED.
A benhful young man wenb three
times, to tusk a beautiful young lade
it he *alight be tbe partner of her
joys, and marrows and other household
fterulturea but each Unto his heart
failed him, and he topic the queetion
away unpopped.
She saw tho anguith of his soul,
and had compassion on him. So, the
nate time he came, ehe asked hini if
ha bad tbouglit to bring it sersW-driv-
e.r with Calm.
He blushed, and wonted Lo lenoev
what fer.
And alio, in Um fietnees a hey heert,
add aho del not IriloW but that he
would metal to aerate up bie courage
before be left.
Ito teoit the hive ema the give