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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-1-9, Page 6JjQfl4JZ 0011'NETS. Th0 Enftlfsh promo VOW With 1101,110 .001000r0 Int) atieceas of iron= diplo- macy Olua ai Sus, in tho loto =bogio with Turtett Thu loontion Sp�ro. tatOt rears ',Moo If Mae way 'tf., O01- 100ting clobte ahottiti Income come mot, otto. pone, .of the world would to tau roomy of syndic:moo ond taillikatiairoo nager to roolizo oxtrove- goat pronto." lt industrial propula tio$ ore to be orator:tad by arms, tbo semi-eiviiizosi slates will bocoala wag- azioe,o of economic suopowder, may explode at ony moment, Tho Illoropean clanger from tlie Platoolt POSition of Turkoy is extroino, and arliais front two causeu. One i that the Europotio States, Groot Britain exeeptita, aro ougurly desirous to 'mi- llion,' her, o that Russia. and 'Ger- maay aro silootio battling ovor oola cessions in Atiotollat and Pranoo will domand rat eepoontic protector- ato over laytia; while Ito:stria and Italy butigor for commerce with thu Levant, with which French proton - Mons aro incompatiblo. Tlutre wal be porpotual friction in the march for profits, Tho other Is that Turkey is not molly SO .powerless as oho is deemed, and that all this pressuro, will= will bo greatiy aceontuatod tor .. Preach success, may have a inummln- ary moult. TOO Turks aro bitterly Milt -acid by their humiliations, they 'nay resolve to din as they have lived, a fighting caste, and their re- sources aro not yet exhamsted. A strong Sultan could still place in tho flold an array or six hundred thous- and of tho bravest soliliors in tho world, defend his coasts a.nd ports with torpedo boats, and oven in de- feat inflict torriblo blows upott lile conqueror. it is true that tho ad- vent of a strong Sultan is most ino- trobable, the race of (Allman appear- ing at last to be worn out; but a Sultan wortk as a Merovingian is quite probable, and a strong Mayor of tho Palace or Grand Vizier would bo even moo° dangerous because replaceable. A ruler of Tookuy who threw all cautioa to the winds, summoned every Osmanli to. his standard, stopped all payments oxeopt for munitions of war, and Ought as Mo.hdi fought at Omdur- man, would, to begin with, shatter all Europoan alliances, might hold in chock for three years any single Eur- opean power, and might while being defeated• cause an oxplosion such as .Ettropo has not had to taco sirice the SpahLs throateoed Vienna. The Sick Man ivill boqueath nothing, and tho whole wootern world desires his horilago. Tbe catastrophe may not o,mo jut yet, for the strange boing *who now occupies the throne of Tur- key, and who will neither yield nor fight, gems irremovable; but It can- not bo put off forever, and if history affords us any guidance, tho Turk ivill dlo biting hard." Tho Xing of Englaod and Emperor , of India has invited the following! Indian princes to attend his corona- tion next June: The Maharajah of 1 Gwalior, tho Rajah. of 1Collitcpur, the Maharajah of Jaipur, Um Nawab of ; Dahawalpur, and the Rajah of Nab- I ha, 1:11e Majesty is aware of the 1 loyal feellogs that would pronipt a, coasiderable +lumber of Indian princ- es to ho pro.sent, at the ceruraony, and would gladly have welcomed a largor deputation, Considerations of space and acconarnodo.tion, however, et:impelled a limitation of the nura- berg. An ondoavor has accordingly' bean made to rendor the selection as representativo as possible from the • roligious, and torritorial poin.th of view. The following princ- es recOived, but for domestic or other reasons wore unablo to accept, Lite royal invitation: The NIzam of Haiti- arabad. tan Maloaraal of Ildaipur, the Maharajah of Travancore, and tho Ra- jah of Clochirt. His Majosty, while ex- cusing the ataindance of the remain- ing priests and chioro, is anxious to afford them an opportunity of tosta tying their loyalty to his throne, and person. He has therefor° instructed the ViaOroy to hold a durbar at Del - Ilion on January 1, 1903, attendoneo at which will be regarded by his Ma- jesty aO equivalent to proson.co at the Ooronation. Steps aro also being tattoo by tin) ,Viceroy, who is in re- ceipt of instructions 'tom tho Secre- tary Ol Stoto, to select with the aid of the local governments, a small numbet• ot representative gentlomen to attond Gm coronation front tho digerent tamable= and presidency towito, Later on, a similarly ropre- oentative .EutOpean deputation will bo selocted rroin public bodies and varibtiWt. bratiolios of the public ser- vico in Indio,. It is also in, coritotoo Option to sooll a largo military con- tingent to Lotto part in filo corona - Gott eetantoideO repretatiting all ranks arid clasOos Of the native array Min Oh0 ImpOrtrat Servico troops, GIRLS, Isabol--"I'voIL lotroly compliment ftm you, Itoba," Irtnao--."Oh, sat 1$ it?" Isitbelo-"Sotatboay Amid thh.t X look Blot yttita' IUE RICHES:I POSSIBLE GIFT in All Ages God Has Honored Good Motherhood, fientroei iwcovita ce nos trPo rtoo,,,,o 81 414flotr ,t0 tot peitiroutot t Oimcoore. ottlietto A despatch ham Washington ony$ at/toy...Ur. Talmage promoted too tho following text : Luke'ii, 1 "Ancl they cams with haste at fonial Mary and Joseph and the be lying in a antriger,". Thobtttctlt window shutters of a 1/ comber itlh1, wen thrown DOW, al some of the best singers of a Woo wbere thoy all sing stood thore ttzi putting back the drapery oi ciao cOmited a peace mahout until ail ti =boos of hill mica volley applaud° end cincorect the halleluiah =mu 001.110, let us go ,into that Christina Scone as though ao had never beim worshipped at the manger, liere 0, Madonna worth looking at. wonder not that the most frermen ttlI lttnds attcl itt alt (Anis tlnzi centuries is Mary. And there at' arys itt paiaces and Marts in •cab ins, and., though German and Frolic and Italian and Spanish and Englis pronounce It dlllerenily, they aro 0,1 numeinkes of the one whom wo fin on a bed of straw, with hor pal face against the soft: face of Chefs in the night of the notivity. All tit great pointefs have tried, on =ovum 1.0 present Mary and her child cia the incidents of that most farnou night of tho world's history. Re pbuel, in three dinerent ruasteiploco telebratod them. Tint orm to ., out 1 .1 cl $ the adoration of tho maid, vorroggio needed to do no more than his Mn donna to become imniortito -Madonna of the Lily," by Leonardo clo, Vinci, will khan° the admiration of all ages. But all Lilo gatiorion 0 Dresden are forgotten when I tidal of the small rootu of that gallero containing the "Slott= Madonna.' Yet all of them are copies of St Matthew's Madonna and Luke's Ma donna, tho inspired Madonna ca the old book which we had put into our hands when wo were infants and that we hope to have under our heads burg insato,d of Harrisburg, afal this reported to Governor Curtin, • I thriir opponents at Gettysburg. And the Rotuma forces started to melt totday the plaid ts to .doolde all thu Itt great battles, make 0,11 tho laws, &Mtn) all the destinies arid tither at in tee world'S ealvetion or (bottom, be tion, Men, wometa notions,. oll earth and till tion.von, It BEHOLD WOE GILD 1 Id 'OTotice also that in Liao )3Iblo night 11, sceno Clod honored scionco, ' Who one d. the three wise Mon kneeling befOre io the Blain° infalt? Not boors, not d ignoramuses, hut Caspar, 13althasar s. mut Melchior, men who knew all that s Was to bo known. They wore the .0 tsafic Nowtons anti .1a0reliels and is Paracloys of theit Gine. Their al- • 1 chenty was thu forerunner of our so-, t blimo chemistry, their astrology the - mother of our magnill000t asOrrtoomy O and whom I see theso solentists bow, - ing boforo tho beautiful babe 1 seo It tho prophecy of the time whon all h tho telescopes and microscopes, and 1 an tho •.Leydon jars, and all the °tee- d trio batteries and all the observia O tories, and all the universities shall t bow to Jesus, It is much thaa way O alroady. Whero is the collogo that , does not have morning prityors thus d bowing at the manger? Who bo.ve :4 been the greatest physicians? - Onattin ' tho nanios 01 1.00 living s lest we should bo invidious, biive 1 not had among theta Christian men like James Y. Simpson and Bush Dad Valentino Mott atriad A.bercorouble and Abernethy? 11, o have been our greatest scientists? J osoph Henry, who noted and clicci in Um faith of the gospels, and Age,ssiz, who, stancliTt with his students amoog the nills took off his hat a and sald, "Young gontionion, beforo wo study theso rocks let us pray for • wisdom to the God who 'node the rookb." Ali geology will yet bow boforo thu flock of Ages. All botany will yet worship (lie Rosa of Sharon, All asti•ononty will yet recognize tho star of 'athletic:no I Boliold also in that first Christmas night that God honored the fields. Collie in, shepherd two, to Bethle- bem and soo the chile. "No," they say; tove aro not dressed good enough to come in." "Yes, you are, come in." Sure enough, the storms and the night dew and the brambles have made rough work with their apparel, but none has a bolter right to como in. They web° the first Oo hear .1.no music of that Christmas night. The first an- neumement of a Savior's birth was made to those 'nen in . the fields. There were wiseacres that night in Beth/oho:a and Jerusalem snoring an deep sleep, and there wore salaried cancers of government who, hearing - of it afterward, meat navu thought that thoy ought to have hod the nrst news of such a groat evont, some one dismounting from a. swift camel at their door and knocking 1.111 at some seatinol's quostion, tqw140 COMES THERE?" the great ones of tho palmo might have been told of the celestial arriv- al. No, the shepherds heard the first two bars of tho music, the first in the major 'key, and the last in the subdued nfinor, "Glory to Cod in the highest 'and on earth poaco, good will to Mont" Ala yes, the fields WHEN 1VE DIE. Behold, in the first place, that on the first night of Ohz'iL' itfo God honorod tho brute creation. You can- not got into that Bothiebein bara without, going past tho camels, the litotes, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes of that stable heard tno first ery of the Infant Lord. Some or the old painters represent the oxen and camels kneeling that night. beim° the newborn baba. And well anight they kneel I Have you over thouom that Christ came, among other things, to alleviate the =net -logs of the Lome creation ? Was it not appropriate that he should, during tho first few days and nights of his lifo on earth, be surrounded by the dumb beasts, whose moan and plaint pad bedew - Jag have for ages boon a prayer to God tor the arresting*. of their tor- tures and the righting of their wrongs ? Not a kennel in all the couturies, not a bird's nest, not a herd freezing in the poorly built cowpen, 1.101: a freight car in summer time bringbag Lite beevos to market wornout horso on towpath, not a miles of agony, not a surgeon's room witnessing tho struggles of fox or rabbit or pigeon or nog in cne hor- rors of vivisection but has an inter - rest in the tact that Christ was torn in a stable surrounded by brutes. Stancrng then, as I imagine now I do, in that Bethlehem night, tato an infant Christ on the one side aud the speechless creatures of God on the other, I cry : "Look out how you strike the rowel into that horse's side; take ofT that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth; removo that saddlo from that raw back ; shoot not for fun that bird that Is too small for food ; forget not to put water into tho cage of that canary : throw out some- crumbs to th000 birds caught: too far north ftt the wInter's inclemency; arrest that. man who is making that one horse draw n, load heavy enough for three ; rush in upon. that scene whereare torturing a cat or transfixing but- terfly and graashoPper; drive not off that old robin, for her nest is a mother's cradle, and under tar wing there may be three or four musk:ions of the sky in tr trial " ittiatn- tliett and in your schools tearli the corning generation more Mercy than thonan oprescrintingeneration has ever this marvelous Titbi show picture of tho nativity, while you° point out to (heti the angel, show them also the camel, and while they hear the celestial chant let them also hoar THE COW'S MOAN. Behold, also, in this Bible scene how on that Christmas night God honored childhood. Clatilhood was la bo hottored by that advont. Bo must have a child's light limbs and a child's beaming eye rind a citild's flaxon hair, and babyhood was to bo, honored for all time to come, and a , cradlo waS to moan xnore than it grave. Mighty God, I May the rence-n Goa of that ono child's face be oeou in all infantile tacos l XL woo it oha 1 In Naanuitin Icit- chen that told tho great Syrian war- ' rior where ho might go and get mir- ed of tho leprosy 'which at lao sevonth plunge la tho Jordan was left at Oho bOttom of the aivar, It was to tho cradle of looves in which O child witS laid, Nicked by the Nile, that God'called tho attention of history. It Ores a sick child , that evokoci Christ's curative sympathies. it WAS a child that Chrtet set it" the midst of tho Oquabbling dip- ciplos to teach the logo= of humil- , Mat A child deaded Waterloo, Ohowing. th0 army • of Blucher how it could tako a. ohott eta through the flolds whon, if the old road had been follotved, th0 Prussian . general would hay° como tip too Tato to save tho dootinios of Europe. It W00 11, chitcl that clooided Gettysburg, ho having. Overheard two COnforlOrato generabi in a conveyor/Wort itt. which they dOeided to mareli for Ceti:oar. oevo bonore Thr, old shepherds With plaid and crook hove fur the most part van- ished, but we, have, grazing on our Amorican , pastime fields and prairio about°42,0UU,000 snoop, and all their keepers ought to follow tho shoot, ads of my text and alt those who toil in the fluids, oil vino dressers, all orchardists, all bus- bandinen. Not only that Christmas night, but all up and down the world's history. Clod has been hon- oring the fields. ;Nearly all the mes- siahs of reform arid litoraturo and elogimme aud low and boaavoloncro have COMO from the fields. 1Vash- ington from the fields. Jefferson from the fields. The presidential rao.r- tyrs, Garfield and Lincoln and Mc- Kinley, front the fields. Henry Clay froth tho fields. Daniel Webstor from tho fields. Martin Luther trom the fields. Before this world is right the overfloWing popblations ol our crowded cities W.1.11 have to tako to thu fields. Itistead of toin mer- chant -s in the rivalry as to who sl,a11 sell t at ono apple we want at least eight of thorn to go out and raise apples. Instead of ton mer- chants desiring to sell that ono bush - o1 of wheat, NVO want at least eight of them to go out and raiso wheat, The world watts moat hand bandit, more bronzed cheeks, more muscular arms. To the faints! God 'honored them when 110 woke up the thephords by the midnight anthem, and Ho will, tonne the world lasts, =Minim to honor the fields. When the shephord's crook was that fain- ouo night stood against tho wall of , the Itothiehem khao, it was a pro- phecy of the Limo when throoluir's flail and loaner's plow and wood - males ax and ox's yoke mut sheaf binclor's rake shall surrender to tho God who mode tho couritry, as man inade tho town. • TICE,PIRST WORD thild utters lo apt to be "Dalai:awe" and the old mita lo his dyitor clrearn calls: "Mahal Mother" It Matters riot whether sho was 'brought; up in tho sutroundings of a ,city atul itt af- anent honto and was dressed appro- priately with to/atone:0 to Ott, do: aloha of modern Ilia or avhother Oho Worti the old thno cap and EOM, round socetooloo ond AMMO* Of her own MAO caid knit yotir soaks oath bet' oWn ModlOO ittiated .hy the broad nroplaeo With groat backlog ablaze, on 0 winter night. It inattoro not how ontny Wriniciro erosood nod ro- crossed her face or tow intioli hor =mailers Mopped with 1,119 burilotot of a long life If ,you 2111111.12(1 • Madohna, hers would ho tho facia 1Vhat a goralue hand she had When P0 wore Olok and What A vole to soothe the pain, mid tam thole any 0110 WhO cOuld Up a room with 20400 mid portly and light? Ana whitt a sad Oay tbat wait when we Callie bona) and she coult1 groct us not, foo Imo lips wero forevut ittilll COloo bOott, Mather, in theSe Christ - lima times and toke yotir old Place, and, aS ten or twenty or fifty yeora ago, osinio and optit the old Biblo us you uSect to; road and loneol itt the Sang) place whero yoo Used to pray and look upon its, as of old, whon am" wisOod us It merry Cimisto ina$ or o happy neW yearl But not That would not be ralr to (ll you back, You bad troubles onough end berenvoluents enough whit° you wont bero. Tarry by tho throne, mother, till wo Join you there, your prayers all answered, and In the eter- nal bonientead of our God Ivo ehall ago's' keep Christmas Jubilee to - taller. But, speak front yOur throne, all you glorified Mothers, and say to all these, your sons and daughters, words of love, words of warniag, words of cheer. Thby need youi• vole°, tor they have travail= far and with many a heartbreolc since yoti lefO them, and you will do well to call from the heighta or Heavon tho valleys of earth. Hitt!, enthroned ancestry! Wo are comingl Keep it pia= right beside you at tho banquet! THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATION.A.I, LESSON, JAN. 12. Text of Lesson, Acts :in, 1-21. Golden Text, Acta a., 1. "And when the clay of Pente- cost was fully tome they oaro IA tin EIS glory. When 1te thus comes, Ifs not surprioing, considerato this hut, which him been assigned to the with one accord in ono place," alas Itve will come p1 th Sim to De associ- , elaborate arrangemont, that no Belem prisoners who aro industrIOUsly ln;. day. called Pentecost, or "fiftieth atea with -01m in incigirig the natMns have escaped from Dlyatalawa, . canal, and with him there I saw a day," is mentioned again in chapter : (Col. la, 4; I. Coo, vi, 2; Hey. it, HOUSING 010 TI1D BOERS. Inam who constructed a lath° for him- xx, 16, and d 1 Cor. kvi, 8, as e. aY126-28j, Let us be fillod 'with tho , self, and olio now turns out dozens to be remembered aad obsci•ved and Spirit and be Iiis faithful witness= Tito huts of the prisoners are moat of souvenir napkin ringa, which aro wk.:titer the emotion ca Matthias to flu a 0 come. clod by six buildings, where aro sta- seat to Colombo to no sold, After 1 In the new meal offering , of ' first tamed the British Guards. There are'ad seen theso two men mono so 12-15, 'Pilo ouperitatural 00eurronre, woo to theta dreamt Jows wbolly in- eoinprehonsihie, Ana 1.111131 Lel= to ox- Plithi it by saying 121)111 tho inert were full of pm wino, about MI silly 00 expitioattOrt AS la fritan 1,31 Homo of the wise ond profosocilly devout men or our cloy of some of tho \tandoori -41 Worke or 000. 'rho ma Viral man, however educated or roll - glens be maY be, cannot reative the aro foolishnoos unto Elm (T. Coto II, 34,1, ancl theso devout, ialialous Joys flooded Just what Inicodemuo nectiod, a now birth, Um gat of God, tvhieh many of them a 1111.1, later r000lved. Thhe at twisaton of this WOrld Can- not comprehend or eapictin tho 11)111315 of Goa is repeatedly shown In 1.1)13 book of naniel, a book which 80100 of Gm wise men 000m to wish out of the Bible, perhaps Matins° therein shown the utter inability of Gm wiodont of Egypt to oxplain the things of God, 'rbe stagy of this world aro drunkth en, but not wi wino (Tea, tocix, 9). Consider also Mph, v. 1 8, and some slinilority be- tween a man fill= an With wino d one fined with the Spirit, 16-21. Peter does not say thot this was the fulfillmant 01' 011115 part Of ;Tool's prophecy which he quotes, but that 112' was a sample of it or, if *twt.e#eettett,64oft thht6otwatih*teeteteeteeetetologtot AMONG BOER PRISONERS $001100 And incidents at fiat o.,,,,,,,00taotemerootoot000tto Camp iti the Island of Ceylon. 400#4iit*firitOta0n4qVV4ilitlirtit4titVVVit4iIVVilet90#9#449intitte `Vnore'. are 4,735 Boer PritiOneril 1011, ricicety, Wotan() struoture, and fined on the loland of Ceylon by tho hither the BOOM Math' whenever BritiSh authorities, onci. of these ae• theli• "underotondingsa roquiro at. 500 tiro in tho camp at Diyaalattra, tuition, 'rho buid0000 is a potato. so considered myself fortlinitte able One, for the shoemaker, who iv, when I received permlooton 110212 811' 00 goway, 1.110 govOonor, to visit that comp, writ= 11. 8, Moroi - 1, armed,' a Chicago reportor. soonoliavo to ualarge lus prm oisott The pules rogarding visitors are no- but ho repliod that he didn't expoot oessarily otringont, and lcnow that to be In Ceylon, much 'longer, 011000- 11. 100141(1 apt be Possible for me to 11131,1)1 course, that the P01' is nearly talk with the mon without a permit over, lite stationor's, which is a front some warn in outbority, Bilt shanty conetruated of bamboo and with kis excellency's permission the eocoanut loavos, In loosed by j. 11,431wos clear, I traveled out to Rouosow cit Co, This high-soundieg Diyatalawa and fauna It to be situ- name suggests the investment of ated In isolatcd neighborhood, capital, but as fur as 1 could far away from ally town, and con- serve his Stools consisted Mainly of nected with the railway station and pencils and postal imods and small civilization only by an aerial rope- ebony elephants that 0113purchascd . , , , IS used trollop(); t fuel by the Boors as souveniro of their ex - end provisioos to tho persons within Ile, which is far from being without you prefer, a fulflilluent, for one has the barriers. • ;its ontertalnIng side. truly marl that propnooy may nave Tho camp IS inclosed by a wiro en- I I was surprised to observe the ser- gorminant accomplishment while the tanglernent, Whit+ ingentouoly coo- Mos 040070.121011 of some of the pois- complete fulfillineno yer zss too fta structeci to prevent tho 05094)0 of tenors, One has accomplish= s.oine turd, That Joel's prophecy has not any prisoner, There aro two fences excellent work in painting and water - yet had lis fulfillment (11. you will .of Wire netting about ton feet' high, color drawing, auother carves pipes, suffer the wora) or its IMO. fulfill- and constructed ton feet /matt, and and a third whom ,I saw liad con- ment Is seen in the context, for Is- botween thetu io a moos of barbed struotecl an organ with Ids own Mel Is still as/mined and humiliated Piro, stretchod in a way to make it hands, and without 3101.1.11131 any ma - oolong the nations, and J01'4410311 iS iMPOSSIble for any 1)0111011 10 climb terial from without alie-cconp aove not holy, for strangers still pOsscaS across, Running along this barrier, Ilttlo rubber and sumo bamboo for her,oancl the Lord has not yet re- within the camp, is an insulated part of Oho pipes. Tho organ has a turned to dwell in Zion (Joel 131, 17, wIro, which, when stopped upon, fairly good tone, and Is now USed in 21). The Judgntent of nations (Joel ' Hap antal000n in the guard hut. the peliglous serviees on Sundays. 111, 1, 2), of which our Lord spoko Hence It would not be possiOle for a Tho man' who constoucted it was or- i Matt. xxv, 3146, has not yet Prisorter to approach tbe. ontangle- iginally an • organ builder in Johan - taken place, for Ito has not yet come moot without being inscovot•od. esbdrg 1.10W works out t Jo ees 11 te aristourazic nano, of Du PlooY, to enabled to employ threo as- sistanto. I suggested that he would fruits fifty days aftOr the sheaf of also Moo huts' for native watchers, much with so little material 1 de- , nrst fruits, the former representing the resurrection of Christ on the clay ttoltrn tgot:eotteitEkaviltolgtt 1°Ionorthteuul°8natuut. cierdidatuhdatingtleenultito;.rs ao not lack en - after the Passover Sabbath anci the modated in large wooden buildiag ere aro various arrangements at pilsoneis thenaetves are 'moo t latter, ilfty days later, suggesting Diyatalawa for thu entertainmont of the event of ournesson in connection where thoy both eat. and sleep,...11 the prisoners. Ono of the largest the G with the beginning of the gathering of the body of lhrist from all na- tions. Tho leaven in tho fiftieth day offering sets forth the sin even in the believer, for leavai. is always a typo of evil, but it is met by the blood of the sacrifice (Lev. xxiii, 17-21). ClirMt is the first fruits; we aro a, kind of first fruits (I Coo, xv, 23 ; Jas. 1, 18). While, the disciples of Christ waited for the proud= of the had worn out five Bibles in beating . a drop scone, painted by one of the o to Tommy Atkins. 'I he Doers at years. His parishioners worshipped O VoltV. Boxing practice is going on. haat and tho coarap is largo cmouoli • the ground on which ho walken, and ' within tho hut at ail tithes of the SERMON ON CHARITY. Scotch Minister's Plea Lo Poor of His Parish. arty wore assigned to eacw013 1)1011 ch /CI 17sue, 11 stitornu c Lhaiortc! ainsd kint.0‘10sa accase.ss ittlee It.e0Ceteha0". but for sanitary renSons this num- "The congregation Will noo bo boo has boon slightly reduced. 'I tio moo, intip at oil Ulnas of tho day and ove- seated and gie their undivided atten- It contains a. few Lables that boas aro fairly condortitha, and oluto tion to the followita intimations, are. well stocked with books and 'stag- ing inn Visit 1 heard ne 001'4)114104 azines, which ottani° tho prisoners to Some o' them ate MaiSt as import- ant as tho serrnon," said the Bev. aro =rood. 'It is indeed better than of the of the food with which the In'ISOnerS pass the thne agreeably. ' At one cod Tammas Macielmrson, as he finished . that onjoYed by I large room is a substantial "addressin' the throne of grace," , , toe British Guard, stage, which is used for coucorts and for the prisonets' rations includo but- theatrical onteratinnonas. ;Mom is He was in hisoeightieth oar, and t - 1 Father they continued in priliyer and a , ; me oust out of the pulpit desk at ce.ptivos depicting • tho eattle of supplication' (Acts 1, 4, Entooato generally in good health though/they orattersto'ntein whether the election of Mattbias to ' 4.1' -fit i Au= torboirnio kirk during a f d 1 li ' from tho Boer point of fill the pat= of Judas was of the Lord or of Peter is a question. Some disciples still find xt difficult to'ray and wait without, tho transaction of some othor business. We may pos-Ithe poor—they saw to it that. the I minister lacked for nothing. Their Having never visited South Africa , I LIKE TO PLAY atJOITS. • I hardly kneW-IT7Tiat to expect of the 1 though he was practically penniless-- teo °low Glom plenty of room for eat day, and on Sundays it is often used for ho gave most of his ineome tomats° ond athletic sports, for hu• 1 • • ably find Paul and not Matthias tin - atid minister read the announcements burghors. I think I was rathor dis- Ono of tho favorite out-of-door pas - the twelfth. See tho ono accord of tho Lord's people in 1, 14; ii, 1, 46; iv,24; v, 12; viii, 8; xv, 25; Just soven thnos; the ono accord of Satan's fol- lowers in oil, 57; xii, 20; xviii, 12; xix, 29; Just four times, the world- wide nuiliber, suggesting the whole 'world in the wicked one hating God (Ilev. vil, 1; I - John v, 19, rt. V.; John xv, 18, 19), The word Is only used onco elsewhere (Rom 6) and then said : I appointed to find them so rough and times at tile camp is quoits, and the bear that Widdy Tamson is in uncouth in appearance, but of cows° clang of tho rIngs 1$ Moira ithuost • destitute circumstances. This ramma they bare little inclucemeat to keep continually. As many as thirty mam- bo, Nano o' God's heritage ma= themselves tidy at Diyatalawa. They os of quoits 1iav4 been kreavit to bo softer in the midst o' the guiti folk wore for the most part pleasant to in progress at tho samo time. Boovi- o' Auchterbirnie. Think o' this on talk with, ana had surpri.oingiy few Ing is also POPtriar. the Way to yer homes. WO have it Complaints to make of their treat,- All sorts of atilletICs are carried on in the Holy Writ, that uivver fails, meat at the hands of the British, by curtain of tho younger eminent In that that givoth 1.0 the puir One old gentleman was frank onough the oamp, and Gioia • • always gt'oott lendeth to the Lord.' There is a, to adnut that thoy had boon handl= interest in the boxiug tout miming blessed privilogo. Think ca too far- with greater considpration than any matches when they occur. Ono of . and teaches us with ons mind and inters ci' Auchiarbirnie being loaders, British prison:it' receive -I In tho Tram- the prioonerso named Jantifollowato one mouth to glorify God. land haein' the Lord for a customer 1 noun was once a well-known boxer, and se- ' 24. "They were all filled with the And 'too need to foreclose to get' "This Governor of Ceylon," ho ad- vend young fellows, k town as "Jim Holy Ghost." When the Holy Spirit haPit Payment, for it'll be returned deci, "is a proper floe man, and ho ,Holloway's pots," have become under canto upon Christ at His baptism, tweuty, thirty, fifty and a 'Mildred knoWS how to deal with poople. If bis direction vIlry pr011eitnit in the Be earn° in the 1°.rin of a 401'0, for fold. Noo ye can a mist) line croas ho had been down at the Gape in Mil- ntanly art, there was no need of a purifying or oawbeat and corn, and tattles, as I nor's placo tho troublo might hove 1here aro several notables oolong consuming fire, but saved 811)0019 can wool thSLify; for the Lord has boon settlod Ion ago." ' tho m•Isoners at Diyato.lawit. I was mod the Spirit aS a fire. The 1403111131 In Ism. lxiv, 2, "The tiro. causeth the lye hae been unco generous to me. 1 'moved yer bowels o' compassion, oncl i T urry to privileged to shako halals with a son known," taken in connection with ' b ' 1 .1 . "o sal Pooe You are in uo h . waters to boll to make Thy obtain your liborty?" I asked., of President Boomer, a brother Of name !Then see if ye canna raiso guid craPo . °No, indeed," replied the burgher President atevn and with three Doer Ole water thed E awl the Spirit as fire helps us to 'understand why some peoplo who know mu= of tho word of God seem to have tio power or go In them. The wator is oot boiling; thoy need the Ore of the Holy Spirit. 'rho Spirit co.me as the Lord Jesus said Be would and took possession . of these redeemed cities, His temples, and matinee they began to speak, or rather the Spirit who ailed- them be gan to speak through them. See in g who "oust havo'boun nearly 70. "I goneriao. Young, Mr. 1Crugur rOacm- , the frist fruits o' the harvest to hope De Wet will keep on fighting. bles his fothor in facial oxpression puir Tatuson., •I'd roma., remain a:prisoner- for thee and is U. mita of tho characteristic "Sanders Grant '11 send her a loaa rest of raV thins to 'leo hint sur- popper. taboa He held tht rank of a Of firewood. Fine due I kea that • I • ' , render, and Go would most all of uo liad coronet in the Boer army. Pros- see't in Sanders' generous e'e. A.nd ' ' ' _ • s One kerain he keepti. too, as I 0111 31 rOZI.Ot at that tve'ro " not idoot tot n s brother was a cona ken ; for I'M burning Smile O't my - we° down iltere- to Map him Ms Mendota, 'and is' a. man abdut 60 self, thanks to kindness," ' yoars old. • 1,- Tho officers aro all accommodated Sanders, sitting.. in las pow, tho ob-I The Prisoaers vary 1 age from in. special huts and aro treated with served of all observers, was cona to 75 years, and aro of all riegrees of pletely won over, and would gladly' eclucatiott and wealth. Some of them. groat !aspect by the rank and Ms of the. prisoners. General Roux, other - had given. Widdy Tamson the earth, atritaci at Diyathlawa with a con- ... moon, n nouth -Attica . the were owned 112, mot! ee nr Ote, f , had ho alderablo Sum of tnoaoy fri their pos- Acts iv, 31, how when they I session. This was taken from them fighting Paraant' eoneevaS ullISOlf fined on another occasion they spoke the word of God oath boldness. While yet with them in His mortal, body Jesos had told. thorn, "It Is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Pother that sPeolteth iu you" (Matt. z, 20). Neither the thoughts nor the words were theirs; but, as in tho case of the sweet psnimlot of Israel, tho Spirit of the Lord spoke by. them, mut His xvord was in tholt tongue (31 Saint mail, 27), 5-11. Jews from all nations were gathered at Jerusalem, and quickly thoy came together and heard those unlearned Galitoenns talking in the laoguageo of all lands eoncorning the writ:lawful works of God. .Tho Holy Spirit had taken full control of these men and was tolling through them the things of God and of Christ as Jesus said 11`e would (John Oaf, 18- 10), Ito who flrot gavo different, languages to peoplo Kinn, xl, 7) can as oasay 00,118e others to spook thoso langummo whoo Aeon fit, and al- though We (I0 nob hear of talsslonor- ion hi our day acqualog foreign latipaingo in that Way, yot non net quitihteel witt znismonarreo who, In tenon= upon Job xxxvl, 4, moo ablo to spook in a Malign toogno In a vary, ohort time, Ono whom 1, Imola Mooed titi examination In alx tnontho that would ordinarily requir0 fayonr of Wady, Tho STAHL time not talk of tho tvotke ofanan nor dons Ito boom' man, but Ilo love$ to honor God, Lilco tho tiotvititt of Abianitin when ho wool) to obtoin Iona for loan°, Ito tono of Gm only Mon ond Mar (Ito Patton givon all titiogo litto hond, Tho inotitiongot of the Lord '10 not expeotod to think out Illotomfos and tell the PeOintr his thaughtia but bo is nitrated to ta- vola° it from the Lord and delivea it ail' the tOrd'S ,InalSage (11/X., 12l Jot.. 1„, Jolat ail, 40; Pet groatly with the roligious lifo of the "And Peter Michio '11 send her a for no prisoner is allow= to have pickle o' tea. Oh, but it '11 ho Star a larger sum than $8 a week. Those camp. and them aro frequeat servi- missed oot o' Peter's abundant who wore ponniless 0111011 arrival aro ees in• th° recrestl°n hut nad smut!' store." Peter is behoudett to the Lord of courso supplied tvith clothos by timest „the, °Pen air. Rea. Mr. dorrainy things, and Is a living ex- the Doltish, and they aro ponnitted ooaostnee so a nteh elergYznan from Pre- empts o', the alvver-failin' truth o' tO =PO 11100031 in 01131 waY they can :101.1t1, dOes the preaching, and tho the Holy Writ, 'The Ilan' 0' the dil- within Lho eamp. Somo assist in 'majority of .atlio caPtIves aro in at - gent maketh rich.' Peter's a Mod- making repoIrs and doino rhoros for ttenclance at the regular services, ALL IIA.V11 B.LBLIeS. General is anothor officer much Christian, workut chiel, We'et1,11 a' testify." tho British offlcors, and others Move Peter, too, inunodiately foil into 'established uniquo stores, in which Ithey sell small morchandise of every iutoreated in work. "Jimmy .Grant was tellin' me tho, description, Otto entormising fellow I Nearly every prisoner hal a Bible of ither day," continued Ole Reverend constriwted 05 °von of mud and !his own, alai 1 Was imptessod with rainniaS, "that lie was smile started a 1211120131. F1 makes a kind the ovidottoo of thr5 cavuestness of fine meal the , nog: T quite believe of Dutch calm which is like(1 by tho these figating Pion. Thorp is no a He is the only miller in Auche'prisoners, and his trade haft grown doubt but thoy nritily bolknoi that •b' ' no er float so .largo that he now omployo two ttaidookirk 1.0 Jobb. o' Groat's can assistants, mhe wails and roof or compare oil' lam. Better send a tho bakery ate covoiad with ocld bits picklo to the wiady, alintny, keop up tar account 'WI' the MIAS- attractiVO n0lalaraliCe. The OakeS. and Of canvas, and the extorior is very ter." Jimmy registered it full pock like ahnost everythino, else within of bost oatmeal In his own mind, ilia mem), sell at tho price of an Eng - "Beaton. Scott.' '11 oend the widdY lish penny, nnd the baker is said to some o' the lino Lollies I SaW in Ilia make ciulte proflo. barn loot Tuesday. I neeclim ask Beaton, for icon fa' well be woulcion, NAMES RECALL BATTLES, be be backward in daeng a'kind act The orisoners or War aro iond or btoirnitie. deservin' wittily in Atiehter- indulging their fancy for street nom. ,,Ana our ruid Eromo, wun crap_ =cloture, and hove' aittmcil Ibo , streets between. theie huts aftet Man, by tbo looks o. him, (Ian ,harot lobs towns and battle gtounds Iti 1,110 ty kooP hisetoitt, scut hoodoos ia no to gon„so„1, ono 01 the busiest auk, limo sem/ailing to fill the Widdy's ougtfamo ft combo osteyns000pt, pat. "Nao fear of the widdy's otatvio, and it is hero thot nioot of the, When tho'Lord has put. the twit of cilia shops aro aituated. ThOtO itto the camp gooder, statiottor, tOboocrat- the math tho parielt kirls o' Atich- int and frid.tani,, and, „ thn metes terlarnio, The Lord Moo promisod to bo a hOsbartd to the widdy, and 1,10 aro invetOrittO Smokers, tho tobito- wanto all yo to be bribiers-inelaw, waist doee the lorgeet .truotheso of aYnoc'11•01' ant ggollaladtit yl000rlecisnP'"Iodt Soo' "Itbrirg. all. Thi ownetithile of lima Holtman, eonthitts grotto otota, under the e- --- v• ariolia dolicacieil for tho titbit; and Gam, and yer 'hearta aro as big ail tho posorkero aro fond oE boyhts„ gt 10.00r i ' 110 1 of Ty. 11148111' 'llecnilimAuccil,1tnitc.bilf.11111° thop is a sigit ben:rims tho 0101.1km-it Thero woo 0.11611111—tai: thTo-tigli---thit: W• °rdS "140 C1redit'" re" liettelea kirk, and then the mihiSternt vat= Was raised in prager, yor bodies, Tho Lord rolOard yer P0111 caolove. Noo let's prof= UM little goOd things to eat whet" they have et 111060Y to spend. Outsido the Cod lts on thoir side, mid with this knowledge they are likely to fight on as loog as lifo lasts: • Aly short visit to Diyatalowit taught me more coact:thing the Meat than I had learnoci trout Gm reading of ninny books, returnail tti Colombo feeling that, tho end of the War is still fait off if theta aro many moro at hOnie like those Men, ahoy aro patient, eartieSL, hood -workbag, and thoir pocullaritloo are more than fact by their many expellent quota: Oita. It is Mcleod fortunate thot Gay ore Ho Well understood by Sit West., Ridgway,fOt othortviso (11011 ottptiv-r ity in Ceylon might be leas bearable. Tillf3 English govornior win be glom). gratt. Oredlt, in the foturo for his troatatent of the Doer prisoners at Dlytttalo.Wa, attil ttim 'Motes but las hunmao polity Duty Semi to haaton tho end 01 12110 kar? NUMBERED 110135118. Itarbry hone itt 00 British Army Is nutabortal, and Imo t littlo history kora, for it all to itsolf, The numbor Is broaded upon the aninutl's Mod tem...a-tit° thousands on the neat. hirut OvklelitlY knows Ills euel-t'lnerS' fooO, and the unlat, ' tenn, and !tune The CaMp shoemaker 18 located itt tecls 011 tho ort bod t,q4, 11C., 01 Pet* .04111k