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The Brussels Post, 1901-9-12, Page 6THE WALL OF DAMASCUS Lessono to be Learned From St, Paul's Remarkable Escape. • A fidelatcb from Washiegtoxi seers: e -Rey, Dr. Talmage preached from the following, text: Le Corinthians xi, 63, '"lehrough e window at a bas- ket WAS 1 10t delell by the wall." Sermons oxi Paul in Jail, Paul oze Mars Nita Paul in the shipwreek, Paul before the santiedrin, Peel be- fore Felix, aro plentiful, but in ply OA we have Paul in a basket. . Dainaecus is a city of white and glistening architecture, shmetimee called the eye °I the East," some- times called "a pearl surrounded by emeralds," at, one time distinguish- ed for movie oi the best material, celled DaMascue blades, and, uphol- stery of richest eabric called damask. A horseman of the mune of Saul, riding toward this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The 'torso had dropped under a flash from the sky, which at the same tinie Was ao brIght"it blinded the rider for many days, and, I think, so per- manently injured his eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the ficeh he efterwards epealts of. Ire had started for •Da- mascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall, front his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation, The mayor gives authority for his tiniest, and the popular cry is: "Kill him I Kill him l' The city is sur- rounded by a high wall and the gates are watched by the police lest the Credal' prisoner escape. Many of the honses are built on the wall, and their baleonies projeded clear over mid hovered above the gardens out- side. It was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this day visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and LET DOWN IN BASKETS. Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends had him, now in one place, now in another. fle is no coward, as fifty ineldents in his life demonstrate, but he feels his work is not done yet and so he evades as- sassination. "Is that preacher here?" the foaming mob shout at oral aouse door. "Is that fanatic here ? tl,e police shout at another house door. Sometimes on the street incognito he passes through a cloud of clinched fists and sometimes he secretes himself on the house top. At last the infuriated populace get on sure track of him. They 'lave positive evidence that he is in the house of one of the Christians, the balcony of whose home reaches over the wall. "Here he is ! Here he is !" The vociferation and blasphe- myand howling of the pursuers are at the front door. They break in. "Fetch out that gospelizer and let us hang his head on the city gate. Where is he ?" The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good stout basket in the house. Paul's friends fasten it rope to the basket. Paul steps into it. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Petal holds the rope with both heads his friends lower away, care- tulle- and cautiously, slowly but surely, farther down and farther down, until the basket strikes the „ earth and the apostle steps out and et afoot and alone starts on that fa - all nee, Tile fate of CihristeMletu in a haSket 10t, dottrel. from a *win- dow on the well, What you do, do well. If you make a Me, Make it strong and true, for you know not how enuoli may depend on your worli- mariehle. lj yoet tashion a boat, let it be waterproor, for you anoNv pot who may sail in it, If you put a Bible in the trunk of yoev boy as he goos from home, lot it, be remem- bered la your prayers, for It may have a mission as feu'-reeeeting as the ea book whieit the sailor rried in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest man's life Is an !elan(' be- tween two eternities—eternity past rippling agiiinet his shoulders, eter- nity to come touching his brow, The casual, the accidental, that which merely happeaed so, are parts of a great plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall is the .cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the Church in the storm of the centuries. 0, men and women, you brag some - lime how you have fought your way in the world, but I think thero have leen helpful influences that you have never fully acknowledged. Has there not been some influence in your early or present home that the world can- not see? Does then not reach you ii•om among the New England hIlls or from the western prairie or from English or Irish or Scottish home A CORD OP INFLUENCE that has kepe you right when you would have gone astray and which, after you had made a crooked track, recalled you? The rope may be as long as 30 years or 500 miles long or 8,000 miles long, but hands that went out of mortal sight long ago still hold the rope. You want a very swift horse, and you need to rowel him with sharpest spurs and to let the reins lle loose upon the neck and to give a shout to the racer if you are going to ride out of roach of your mother's prayers, Why, a ship crossing the Atlantic in six days can't sail away from that, A sail- or finds them on the lookout, as he takes his place and finds them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle a rope in tho tempest and finds them swinging on the ham- mock when he turns in. Why not be frank and acknowledge it? The most of us would long ago have been dashed to pieces had not gracious and loving hands steadily and lov- ingly and mightily held the rope. But there must come a time when ice shall find out who these Damas- cenes a -ere who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them and all those who have rendered to God and the world unrecognized and unrecorded services. That is going to be one of the glad excitements of heaven, the hunting up and picking out of ehose who did great good en earth and got no credit for it. Here the church has been going on 19 cen- turies, and yet the world has not recognized the services of the people in that Damascus balcony. Charles 0. Finney said to a 'lying Christian G 'ive my love to St. Paul when ou Ineet him." When you and I led him, as We will, I shall ask 11111 to introduce Inc to those who ot him out of TUE DA‘IASCUS PERIL. Come, let us go right up and ac- ost those on the ell de of heavenly Mentes. Surely they must have in battle a tuilIi,n men. Sure - they must have beete buried with 11 the cathedrals eotuulIng a dirge nd all the towers of all the cities °Meg the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daugh- ter in a humble home that I might take care of my permits in their old age, and I endured without coin - plaint ail their querulousness and administered to all their wants for 20 ;Terse' Let us piles on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was for 80 years a Christian inva- lid and suffered all the while, occa- sionally writing a note of sympathy for thew worse oft than 1, and was eneral confidant ef all those who ad trouble, and once 10 it while I as strong enough to make a gar - lent for that poor family in the ack lane." Pass on to another Irene. Who art thou mighty one f heaven? "1 was the mother who deed a whole family of children forl od, end they me out in the world hristian merchants, Christian me- innies, Christina wives, and I have ad full . reward for all my toil." et us pass on in the circle of moues. "I had a Sabbath school aSs, and they were always On my! art, and they all entered the King- • • mous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished earth and hen - ';ea. Appropriate entry in Paul's a diary of travels : "Through a win- t dow 10 a basket was 1 hit down by the wall." I observe first on what a slender tenure great results hang. The rope - maker who twisted that cord fasten- ed to that Metering basket never knew how much would depend upon ' THE STRENGTH OP IT. How if it had been broken and the apostle's life had been dashed out? What would have .become of the Christian Church ? All the magnifi- cent missionary work in Pamphylia, Cappadocia, C a lathe Macedonia would never have been eccomplished. 0 All his writings that make up so in- 11 dispensable and enchanting it part of W the New Testament would never have 11 been written. The story of rester- b rection would never have been so tl glnriously told as he told it. That o example of heroic and, triumphant ei endurance at Philippi in the Medit- erranean Euroclydon, undev flag- C gellation, and at his be- el heading would itt have is kindled the courage of 10,000 1/141:- tyrdOMS. But that rope holding that ti basket, how much depended on it 1 el So again and again great results he have hung on slender circumstances. The parsonage at lepworth, Eng- land, is on fire in the night, and tho father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the ground, but One remains he the con- suming building. That 000 awakes, end lindieg his bed on fire and the , building crumbling, comes to the r window, and tteo peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant 4 standing on the shoulder of the oth- er, end down the human ladder the 0ruvl hey descends—John Wesley. If you 01 would know how 401011 depended on / 0 that ladder of peasants esk the mil- tih Monk of Methodists on both aides of ia the sea, Ask their mission seations all amend the world, Ask their ten hundrede of thousands already as- 00 cendect to join their founder, who ae would' have perisbed but for the liv- it ing stairs of peasants' shoulders. th PRACTICAL INFERENCE: •m There an' no Insignificanctee in life. de The minutest thing is it part of a We magnitude. Tnfinity le made up of fo lenitesinuels ; great things an ag- gregation of email things. Betide- heiti manger pidlitig.on fa star in the easleirri sky. 6ne book le ce drenched • xe(lorh; mouth is evangelization of ar u email:ado. beci boat Of .aaperrus PI' on the Nth 'freighted With e1e1hts for :ed anse .5 and mg ior their arrival." But who art thou, the mighty one of heaveh on. this other throne? "In time of bitter persecution 1 owned it houee 11 Da- mascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ Was hounded from street ta street and I hid hini from the assassins and len 1 found them breaking into my use and 1 could no longer keep in safely 1 advised hint to FLEE FOR HIS LIFE, d a basket was let down er the wall with the maltreated ail in it, and I erns one who helped Id the rope." And I said; "Is at all." And he answered: "That all." And while I was lost in utzement I heard a strong voice at sounded as though it might co have been hoarse from many posavee, ancl triumphant as though might have belonged to aim of e martyrs, and it said: "Not any mighty, not many noble are lied, but God hell chosen the ak things of the world to con- und the things which nee inIghtv, and base things of Lho world ,ind things Nvhich are despised linth (108 chosen, yea, and things which are not to bring to naught things which e, thee no flesh should glory in his esence." And I looked,to see from twice the vele° data°, and 101 It Watt the very (MO W110 heel 6441, "Tbroligh et NVietleiv ill a beaket was / let down by the 'vela" Nethieg uniMportant in your life Or Mine. Three uneteette pladel on Use right side of the figere one mekes 11 tinneetend, and she naughte on tile right side ot the figure 011o a m1111011, end ceer nethiligness placed oa the right Side may be augratintation il- limitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the Wake, let down front a Danutscus baleany, THE MARCH OF REFORM THE 'MIDWAYS." CoulltY and Dietrict fairs are the Mea e that at this time of year ate tract our urban population. That tho pleesuras offered should be free from vicious tendencles is a thing to be desired by all • lovers of couatry and kind. Ever since the Chicago World's Fair, the tone of ,Canadlan Exhibielons has been decidedly low- er, for while liquor is excluded by law and Its illegal sale cuts but a small figure, vulgar and even inde- cent side-shows 'lava multiplied and games of chance, With sometimes outright gambling attachments, have flourished. The followleg iteta front it Chicago miner will be of interest to those who hope for an ebb in this tide of temptation to our Camedlan youth:— The Civie Committee of • Boston submitted seven questions to tee sec- retaries of all the State Boards of Agriculture, asking whether, in their opinion, the purely legitimate agricul- tural fair pays better in the long run. Twenty-four secretaries have declared unanimously •against the wIde-open fair, and say that intoxicating li- quors should be vigorously excluded, together with games of chance, vul- gar tent shows, "nildways„" circus features, etc: This is most satisfac- tory news. The annual fair has grown, in many instances, to be a centre of danger for attending young people, as well ass adults, and it is to be boped this body of secretaries may be able to rush their theories to practical issue." ^ Te7w ENGLISH CHILD. On Mareh 20111, the bill prohileit- ing the sale of intoxicants to per- sons under 16 years of age" passed the English House of Commons by 372 to 54. High hopes were enter- encoerage in every way, inete64 of SaYliVe 'Seldiers will drink,' and Maleing 110 effert to prevent lee Thus in P0400 abstinence Is prontoted, but 10 wav 111 le required of officers end eeldiere alike, not for the :lake of neerels, bet for the Oak° of vietOrea "To this antleeenteen argaellent MOM, the field of atilletice let Me add a yet stronger one from the field 01 buebiess, suggested by the tact diet the ealiroael companies and 61per edit. of all Amerienn employers fa.- vor abstainers lin seeking employee, an argtiment to whielt attention lied been called by a recent Beanie inter- view with our owa comenaader-in- General Mlles, whose anti -can- teen, opinion, with that of Generals Wheeler, Ludlow, Shafeer and 11QW- ard, ceetweighs the opinions of all the lesser officers on the other side. "The Washington Post recently in- timated, in view of the abstinence iti- erettelngly required of employes by railroads anti other beat -Imes estabe lishineras, it Would soon come to Pees that the government, eerviee would be the only 0110 open to hard drinkers. Dut perhaps those who control our army will learn, as our anti-eanteen envy has (Iowa thee the man behind the gun needs a clear head as innate as a man who runs a freight train," NEW ZEALAND, Woman's Seffrage Now Zealand has been a bete noir to the g•am- ,blers, liquor setters, and purveyors Tor vice. It has given an impetus to all reform movements and has so in- creased the vote cast in favor of Prohibition, at the plebiscite taken wieh every parliamentary election, that the liquor interests ere thor- oughly alarniecl, and are afraid to risk another vote throe years from now. They are advocating a plebis- cite in favor of not taking a vote for six 00 ten years. wEcAr NOT TO DO IN A BOAT. Some Rules for the Guidance of the Land -Lubber. Some people, fearless because ig- 'aren't of clangors, will insist upon oat parties, and we have every warner a long list of unnecessary ccitients on our rivers. Most of hese might have been avoided by a ittle knowledge of what not to do n a boat. To begin at the begineing, when eking your plate do not step on the ide of the boat, or the consequence will be that, unless you have a very xperienced maviner as your compan- on, he wile through the sudden arch of the boat, be pitched back- yard into the water. But place your foot en the seat, all in the middle of it; don't stand here hesitating, but give your eight on to. that foot and prompt - y step with the other onto the floor f the boat. Sit down at once, eveb if not in ie particular spot yois wish to oe- upy; the change can be made over o unich better after a minute or so, hen you have quite made up your iind, where you would best like to it, and when the boat has recovered •oin the little wobbliness occasion - 1 by your entry. Be sure uot to stand up whoa any- ody else is moving about the boat. Iore accidents have happeaed that way than any other. Even if you should think that by so (Ming you might avert a catas- trophe, renounce the idea—unless, of course, a very trustworthy guide should counsel the action. a tamed that a halt was to be called i in the alcoholizing of the Englieh child, so graphically described by t many recent writers in English and s American temperance journals. But the congratulations indulged In were e premature. An August Issue of the 1 London, England, "White Ribbon" 1 says, "By a majority of one vote the Grand Committee has swept out of w the measure its central princirle, by t passing an amendment, permitting w drink to be delivered to children if 1 in 'closed and sealed bottles!' " The Chicago Union Signal com- ments as follows:—"Absurdity could tl not further go—a loose cork and 0 c paper label would comply with such s a restriction: and the main evil' of w familiarizing children with the e scenes and the language of the pub- s tic -house would remain. untouched. It America has a perpetual battle on 01 hand to keep in enforcement sucb laws as we have prohibiting the sale b of intoxicants to minors. Perhaps we do not realize bow much deeper Is the crime against childhood in Mir England. Observation was very recently made by a Teetotal Evidence !Society on one licensed house in London during seven hours. In that time, 1,702 men, 706 women and 1,365 children entered the house. Words fail in the face of such facts as these." 1 THE CANTEEN. The life and death grapple in pro- gress in our sister nation to the south, between the temperance hosts rend the liquor elements, finds ifa storm centre in the effort now on foot to repeal the law, enacted De- cember Gth, 1000, by the American Congress, prohibiting the sale of li- quor in army canteens. Both sides realize that there la much at stake, Id' if the law is allowed to stand, it is it national procicunation that li- quor is not necessery for the endur- ance of mental or physical strein, and its mandate will influence many a civilian valeta temperance societies cannot reach. Rev. Wilbur la, Grafts, Secretary of the American National Reform Bureau, said recently, in en address before the Cleveland Y.111.0 A •— "The regimen of the regiment ought to be Cult of the athlete, even if moral considerations be left out of account. As the pugilist, even in training for retail fighting, must ab- stain, much more should the soldier in the wholesale business, with vast- ly greater issues at stake. When the i ug physically best equipped of modern ta pugilists lost the championship everybody knows that 'John Barley - core' really knocked him out with a blow 'below the belt.' All intoxi- cants are really `knockout drops,' Which reminds us of "one more drop' ntunoly, that intelligent men should drop the out -grown ignorance fossil- ized in that lying name 'strong drIalte 'Cold Water Bobs,' head of the British Army, got that proudest of leis tiLlee by appealing successful- ly to the athletic side, of army ab- stinence. ITe took two regiments and gave them a ration of whisky, and stetted them on e. long march, in the hills of India. On the same me march he Melded rile° two regiments supplied with EL ration of beer, and ' e„ men s w th water in, tee place of intoxicants. Whisky led 14 ale It soon fas- Above all things, remember that when going through the rapids it is perfectly essenttal to sit still, leo not rock the boat to tease a companion ; and, if frightened, sit still and do not grab at anyone. Do not wear fine clothes, but dress neatly. Large hats, feathers and streaming ends are inappropriate and most uncomfortable on the riv- er. A light woolen skirt, a cotton shirt with a jacket to match the skirt and a plain straw hat are nev- er amiss; but a more shady head- gear may be donned with a simple sununer dress for a smarter occasion. It is impossible to leeve the sub- ject withotit a word of advice to a lazy man. Never allow a girl to scull you up stream in the blitzing sun while you loll back at ease. The girl may be a would-be athlete, protesting that she likes it, but all the same you must not permit her to so overtax hev strength as to risk a sunstroke. There could be only one opinion as to the manes brooding under these circumstances, anti his selfishness is beyond hope. SHAVERS, PLEIASE NOTE! Have you noticed Chat, after a very "close" shave in summer time, your face is Irritated, and that some IY Piinples appear over the course ken by the razor ? Tt is especially noticeable if you happen to go out immediately, and the streets are dusty, Scientists have been good enough to explain this disagreeable condition. Of course, the microbe is at the bottom of the mischief, but the explanatten is inLeresting and may help shavers to avoid the trou- ble. There are microbes that take advantage of ei•asures in the side, and these minute organistns aro driven by tho wind, together with the dust which forms their dwelling - plate, on to your face. If your skin be whole they can do nothing but it till the wind takes them off ain or until you wash them away. 1 the dose shave has so scraped ur skin that It offers the microbe opportnnity it wants; la it goes 1 yott Sant for a LIM front tied - tittle's and pimples. The microbe y leave you without going fertile". 11 may 0111,00 your system to do schief elsewhere. QUITE PROT./Eft, rthodex lioleum—"lethel I How ny times must 1 tell you ie leed to pick flowers on the Sab- el ?" god, end tlien beer led for a Utile, ma but the 'cold water tunny' showed oe fav greater enderance and reached the mi goal not miler Sooner but stronger than the others. By such tests and by ehowing in official statistice year after yen', that nbstaincrs send only • 0 Lwo-thirds as many ter 1,001) to the aut hospital and only one-third tte many WiC to the guard house as the drinkers 1 -ad British generals of the India Army Ethel-e"Ilet utothee, Ian only have induced one-thlril al lhuir Sot- picking real Sabbath ones—Adam's- does to join the British A my Total thread -an tl-uced le, Tinto thy, Solo. A.bstinence Association, which they maxtee-seal and Jack -ea -the -pulpit I" THE S. S. LESSON ENTgANATIONA.I. LESS ON, $r1.. 15. 1 Teeet of the IeeeS0n, GEM. xxxii 1-32. Golden Text) I,11,ke xviila 1. 1,2. "And jeeob Wont on Itle Way, and the ample of God enet him." Ia our Met, lesson tho Lord end tee angels appeared to him as he wee leaving time and now, after twetetY years (ellapter xxxl, 28, 41), as he is about to reture home with wives and children tied servants and much cettle, the angels of Goa meet hini. In what Nvondeoue grace the Lord (Male whet this maxi 1 And He ie jeeits (Billet the same yesterday end to -day and forever (Hob, xiii, 3) anti has just the same grace for you and for me, Ta ellaPterS Xxix to XXxi, inclusive, between the lest les- son and this one, we have. an ace eount of Jacob's 20 Years with La- bile*, his faithful' service, his mar- riage, bia increase and the Lord's special care of him (chapter xxxi, 11-18, 24, 29); also ie 'verses 41 to 55 the incident of the covenant be- tween Laban and Jacob at (Weed or Mizpah as they separated. 3-8, Jacob sent messengers to Esau, his brother, and on their roe turn, learning that Esau was dim- ing to meet him with 400 men, be becomee filled with fear .and dis- tress and attempts to protide for Ile safety of at least a portion of his company. Notwithstanding all Cod's gracious care of him these many years, he does not seem to have learned to trust Him without far. -.12. In humility lie looks to Cod and pleads His promises to him, ac- knowledging all His great goodness with gratitude. This is a right at- titude toward God. The assurances of God when ho loft his home and when he was about to return should leave delivered him from all fear °Oncoming Esau's treatment of him But many believers aro not arty more trustful now, for with such assur- ances as John x, 27-29 ; Phil. a 6; 11 Tim. a 12, etc., thero are those who have their fears lest they may not reach home, but be lost some- where by the way. 13-28. He prepared a great present for Esau that he might therewith appease hiin—five droves of goats, sheep, camels, cows and asses -580 in all, with instructions to those in charge of the droves as to what they shall say to Esau when they meet him. It looks as if he felt that he must do somewhat to help God in this matter. He evidently believed the worai's motto used by many be- lievers, "God helps those W110 help themselves," but the teaching of Scripture es that God helps those who cannot help themselves, and we must come to an end of ourselves before we Call know His power (Ps. Ixecii, 12 ; cvii, 27, 28 ; Ism. xi, 29, and all Elis miracles). 21. "And Jacob was left alone, o.na there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of day." The margin says until the ascending of the morning. It is not Jacob wrestling with a man that he might prevait over him, but the men wrestles with Jacob that he May conquer Jacob, and Jacob evidently stoutly resists him until morning. God is ever seeking to break us down, to humble us, to bring us to an end of ourselves, that He may bless us indeed and show us Ills strength and magnify Himself in us. 25-26. Toward morning the man who wrestled with Jacob touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh and put et out of joint, so that Jacob could no longer resist, after which Jacob clung in his helplessness, say - lag I will not let thee go except thou bless me. This is the secret of prevailing with God, our helpless - noes clinging to His power. Con - !eider those who came to Him when TIe was on earth for us and see how in every case His power was made maelfeet on belittle of utter helplessness ; the blind, the lepers, the woman with the issue, those at the point of death and those who had died. 27, 23. "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel, for as it prince least thou power with (lod end with men and hast prevailed." Wo cannot get oin• new name of saent until We confess that 500 are and have been sinners and naught but sinners. J acob must acknowledge himself as Jacob or supplanter, (chapter xxvit, 36, margin) before he Call receive hie new name of levael (margin, EL prince of Cod), The Splvit through Hosea says, "13y his strength he had power with God ; yen, he had power over the angel and prevailed ; 110 wept, and made supplication unto Hine ; he found alba in Bethel, anti there lIe spoke with us, even the Lord God of hosts : the Lord is his memorial" (Hos. xii, 3-5). Then follows the exhortatiott to turn to God and wait on Cod continually. This is the secret of preveiling prayer, per- sistent clinging to God alone, plait/l- ing only our need and His great mercy. We will always have oc- casion to say, "Though ouv 101 - guides testify against us, do _Thou it for Thy name's sake" (Jer. xiv, beiplessness and unworthitess and, 7). When we take the place of utter like Jacob, cvy, I teen not, let thee go, we shall see fulfillments of John xlv 18, 14, and similar promises. This is thc first mention of the great mime of :Israel, it nnme that always Is used to designate Jacob or Ills posterity. It . is never used as a name for the church, not even in Gal. vt, 16, where it evicleitterincans the believers . in Israel, who tire spoken of in addition to other be- lievers. There is no authority for tice terut "spiritual lsrael:' though it may properly be used in reference to truli believers in Israel, but should never be applied to gentiles. We must not confound the chttech With levee'', nor tho kingdom with either, though both will be very promthent 111 the kiegdont. 20-32. "Ho blessed isllo there," So .Inceb called Lhe name of the place rental (margin, the face of (108), foe lie said, / have seen God face to Mee, mut my lifo le pee - !hewed. This and lex, xxiv, 11 vodif,. 80, in the light of John 1, 18,, toad' eliet every mallifestatio of (108 le througe Ills Son, In Eden lee Well as here and in all tbe other appeeraneee of God We 1111151, reeogneee whore, WO keoW ea the Son of Gedi 0a Lord JeeUel Chalet, the Lord Of holies, the Lord God of Ierael, Jehovah of the Gicl Testament, ve110, by His precious bleed shed for us has provided eternal redemption and a joint 110Ir" ship with Himself tor all who re- ceive him It would seem that Ja- cob carried with him NOm thee time the evidence of that night's conflict, and we neust never forget that we have been robele against Clod, chil- dren of disobedience, and by His grace have been redeemed. We must learn to know that in us—that is, in our fiesa—there dwelleth no good thing (Rom, vile 18) and glory in the Lord alone, seeing no man bot nItlril 1;1.1177 1°.;arkinitYwirsi :17);:.10, SCS:1117,111,101a0vb1.1° xv1i,e4E1E2eat211,11 TRACKING- A mann. An Exciting Adventure in Search of a Man -Eater. . A writer In the Indian Sporteag Times gives some details of the de- preciations of a tiger in various vil- lages during the famine' year. In the course of his remarks he sage that tor a Whole year the monster conthie teed his depredations almost wi thou t molestation. Over forty people had leeen slain, and the village herds suf. fared severely. The local forest ranger was in a state of terror, and had written to his superior in ternis much as -follows, showing the diffi- cult situation in which he compiled Isis reports:— "February lst--Up a tree. where I adhere with much pain and discom- posure while big tiger roaring in a very awful manner on the fire line. This is two times he spoiled my work, coming and shouting like thunder and putting me up a tree, and making me behave like an insect. I am not able to climb with agility owing to stomach being a litele big, owing to bad water of this jungle. Jungle mans can fly tip tree quickly. Even when I do not see this tiger, and ho does not make a dreadful noise. 1 see the marks of his hoofs and his nails on the path. The writer of this iertielo continuos: So It came about that when my camp was pitched in the vicinity of the "Yellow Peril," a deputation, headed by Koombappa, presented it, self before my tent, and begged mo to rid the neighborhood of a mon- ster concerning whose doings each ono had some piteous tale to tell. It was a, long tramp up the valley before daylight next morning, and a stiff climb up the path, which wound its way over the rocks and through the thick bamboo jungle. Now, the Jungle was so thick aud extensive that to beat for the tiger would be a useless task. Nothing could be seen in tho dense thicleds of the coevderonwohere he lurked. What was to b "SHINAll WITH DELLS." Then I bethought me of a mode of hunting of which a sportsman of 60 years of age had told me. This was the "shikar with bells." A native, adorned only with a coating of wood ashes, with a tray containing burn- ing oil -wicks upon his head, and a chime of belts in his hand, precedes the hunter in search of game on a dark night. Such was the plan now proposed. At ten o'clock at night Koombappa., smeared with ashes and bearing the lights upon his head and the chimes in his Mind, preceded me to the forest. It was a weird ad- venture. Nought, could be seen but the dim (melee° of trees in the gloomy forest. My compen ion's moveuaents became more grotesque and, as it were, iespired. The light:. danced before my eyes ana Cast a beautifill glare for some yards ahead. The tinkle of the bells be- came more sonorous, and filled the forest with a weird noise that exer- cised an indeseribable spell over the senses. Suddenly the spectral ash, clad figure ceased to advance, but frantically continued its ceaseless antics. :E peered into the gloom in front, and saw two luminous orbs shining through the darkness. Slow- ly they approached. 'rho movements of the dancer became seasmodic as the huge form of the tiger emerged from the shadows arid stood erect be- fore us in the dint flickering light, with every hair set, breathing heav- ily, with panting toegue and heaving sides. As 1 raised my rifle and fired between the creature's eyes Komn- bappa, sank to the ground exhausted by his exertions and excitement. '1'lle lights were exhausted at the Solna MOInent, and all was silent and buried in darkness. For some mo- ments I dared not MOve. At length an my eyes became necustomed to the darkness, objects .eutlined them- selves amid the eurroencling obscur- ity and the great Mem of Lhe appeared lying on the ground a few ards off. My build had pierced his brain. LARCIE LANDOWNERS, The largest:eland() wner in England proper is 1,110 1411c0 of Northuntbor- land, who possesses 185,000 acres, mainly of course, in the county from which he talces his title, and he is the only one of these eight -and - twenty great lords who lias nal, an acre either in fecoleand Or Ireland, The largest landlord in Ireland iS the afarquis of Conyegiuna, who owns 150,000 acres', in Wales, "The Prince in Wales," Sir \Valetta Wil- liams Wyen, whose acres amount in 145,000, is the only posseseer of more than 100,000 acres who is not a peer. 0 A PERFECT BOY. "1 never heard Of but one perfect boy," said Johnny, pensively, alt be sal, in the corner doing penance. "And who was that ?," asked intinunee "Pape.---Nehen 50 was litlee," was the answer. And silence reigned for the spade of five Minetest ' IN THE DAYS OF DUELLING FOOTBALL ANB WISTS NOR RAPIRRS AND PISTOLS, Why Puelling Was RtoPPed In England—Hew Et Is Done If one 0hansTithegrC:ttnieneenitt'is minty more-dignifled to settle the reetter with ewords than to get setiefaetiod out of it vulgar squabble, in the law courts? Modern duelling whit the sword is a 1110Q and (tollgate game, gentle, end nearly harnalese, 111 ie practised all over Europe, and no- body gets seriously hurt except by Otwoenicideitillet' Tiso nt At oilnilYgli°tIllievell:041e °Celt elld° so:i.tv,icoen pain of retirement from the In the , Getman ithiverOties even'Y student belongs to a club, Duel with the sword awe arvanged between dubs, end fought out by' the cham- pions with perfect good humor. No- , body loses his temper, and slight ivounds are often dressed with .salt tie make them permanent ovnamelles and trophies of Ocala In France the duellists aro mostly journalists with a taste for slender- ing theiv neighbors, Their "honov" Is satisfied with a bullet which does not hit, or any casual sWord-priak which draws blood. If a Man gets killed everybody is, shocleed and amazed; and every 'brave duellist gets not only satisfaction for .what he. is pleased to call his "himor," but also lie is 'advertised by the -newspapers more than even the soap and pills, without having to pay a cent for heaps of glory. Most people think that the English haVel given up duelling because it is ridiculous. Not a bit of it! They have been obliged to abandon the sport because, once their temper ia roused, they get ferocieus, and HILL IN EARNEST. Not only that, but aft English duellist does not know when he is beaten, but insists on fighting to the death. We all know how awful a thing is an English war—earnest, deadly, prolonged through defeats and disasters which would discour- age any other nation. The last doz- en or so of duels fought in England were all mortal in their issue, sever- al of them fatal to both combatants. They were fought by men of the high- est distinction, whose deaths appal- led the whole nation. So grieve was the sacrifice of life that her Majesty led public opinion in putting a stop to the practice, To -day English public games—foot- ball, cricket, polo, racing, and fox- hunting --are all more dangerous than Continental duelling; and their light- ing with fists is looked upon by the French and Germans much as we re- gard 'Spanish bull -fights. They call the English savage brutes. A. Ger- man student insulted a Canadian at Leipzig* not long ago, and the Can- adian refused bine the satisfaction of a duel. But lie goxe such Maple satisfaction with his fists that nei- ther that German nor any other has had occasion to insult him since. All the world over English sailors are looked upon with ewe because of tilde deadly earnestness in fighting. ITALIASS AND SPANIARDS. and the rest can fight with , knives every day without any serious re- sult; but Nvlien the Englishman uses a knife at all be kills. Although the foreigner tries hard to persuade himself that the fact that ho once fought a duel is ever- lasting evidence of his valor, lie se- cretly envies the reel valor—the strength of mind—which prompts an Englishmein to ridicule such childish - nese ees Continental duelling. "Make believe" Is not in the Briton's na- ture. Ho either fights really or leav- es it alone. The followieg story illustrates the absurdity of duelling. Two Parisian gentlemen arranged to fight a duel in Calais. They were highly pleased —at least, one of them was—at the prospect, for it meant public preela- nention of their bravery at the cost of only a scratch or two, tend, What Was more serious, of a few coppers for collo°, But one of the duellists, as it turned out afterWarela, really wanted to kill and to be killed, because he bad decided to. commit suicide. On, learning this, the other maft Kemple ly fainted, and had to be carried off Lo bed. It seemed to be a great clisaripeinte meat to the one or suicidal inclina- tions. After unsuccessfully trying to pick a quarrel with his "second" ho went and drowned himself, TO REVIVE THE DROWNED. Then is a new way of pumping air Mee the lungs of a drowned man, or what is really important, a halt - drowned Mau. 1.1 is called the La- borde method, and conststs In pull- ing out the patient's tongue as ill as you can aad letting it slip baCk Into the throat again, repeating the action fifteen thnes a minute. You nip the tongue as far beak as you can, insuringa firm grasp by cover- ing your finget• and thumb with a linen handkovehlef or whatevev sim- ilar Merle may be bandy, Before beginning e•ou use your finger, pro- tected by the liendkerchief, to clear away whatever 4410115 limy be ob- struct:Mg the subject's throat. Meanwhile, the patient, is lying on his back, with his head lower thaa Itis heels,', end a knife or cork or any other handy obJact between his back teeth to keep his jaws open. If you have tiny help, station two pee - sons on their, knees on eithee side of the patient, and have them exert pressure, one on the ribs and the other on the abdomen. LONGEVITY OP QUAKeeRS, The eemarkable longevity of the Society of 101,1011de Ilne been fully sustained during the past year, the average Lige at (Math Mom one 10 one hundred yenee in the United Kingdom being sixty -ono years seven menthe and sevee days. Two Members aeotit females) have flied dyer 100,