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The Brussels Post, 1902-4-3, Page 7,,,,,assaaNrawa.,......1,01,a,!aPaa1,0•11,150a1,04191.amas[4.1,111PSal11.118...84 KINDNESS OF THE GOSPEL The Spirit of Love Should Enter Into Our Business Enterprises, SOICOOL OP CHRIST, (EztV._g 01,4 tit tot Plitirrt.2! l[wo? ey imam Nally, of Tecantv, at the papartataab at AgrioultUro, 01tiwyJ A despatch from Washington says: --Roe, Dr, Talmage preathed Nora the following texts -1. Timothy, iv 8, "Gbillinese is profitable unto all thinge, having menthe) of the life that now Is and of that Which Is to come:" There im a gloomy ised passive way of waiting for events to come upon U, rind there is a heroic way of go- ing out to meet them, strong in Cod and feni•ing nothing. When the body of Outiline was JOund on the battle- field It Wall found far in advance; of all ids troops and among -the enemy, and the best wayis Apt for us to lie cleave and lot the events, ol life trample over us, hut to go forth in fehristian spirit determined to con- , quer. *You ave expecting prosperity. •and I fun doterinined so far as t have anythirig to do with it, that you Shall not be disappoiated, and, therefove, 1 propose, as God may help me, to project unon your at- tentiort a new clement of su.cecss. You baVO ha the business firm n1411.1113/, Patience, , indestre. Perseverance, ec- ,ononiy—a very strong business then —but. there needs to be 0110 member added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner, either, the one inteoduced by my text, "Godlleess, which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now Is as well as of that which is to come." 14UppOSt1 you are ell willing to admit that godliness is intportant in itti eternal relations, but perhaps some of you say, "All 1 want is an opportunity to say a, prayer before I die, and all will be well." There are a great many people who suppose that it they can filially get safely out: of this world they Nvill have ex- hansted the entire advantage, of our holy religion. They talk as though religime were a mere NOD OF RECOGNITION Which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on -our way up to a hea- ;wanly mansion; ay though it were an admission ticket, of no use =- Copt to give at the door of heaven. 'And there are thousands of people who 1111NO great admiration for ti. re- ligion of tho shroud and a religion of the coffias and a religion of the hearse and a religion of the cemetery who have no appreciation of a relig- ion for the bank, for the farm, Tor the fautory, for the warehouse, for the jeweler's ehop, for the oflice. Now. while I would not throw any Slur on a. post-mortea religion. I want to -day to eulogize an ante- morteut religion. A religion that, is of no use to you while you Ilve sviIl be of no use to you when you die. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, 'teeing promise of the Mo- net now is as well as of that which is to come." And 1 have al- ways noticed that when grace is very low in a man's heart he talks a great deal in prayer meetings about deaths and about coilitis and about graves and about churchyards. I have noticed that the healthy Chris- tian, the Illaa who is living near to Cod and IS on the straight road to heaven, is full of jubilant satisfac- tion and Lniks about the dtities of this life, understanding. well that. if God helps hint to live right ho will help him to die right. NOW, in the first places 1. remark that godliness is good for a physical health. I do not Mean 1.0 say that 11. Nvill restore a broken down constitution ordrive rheutnale, ism from the limbs or neuralgia, from tho temples, or pleurisy from the siclo, but I do mean to eity that it gives ,one atich habits and puts one in such condition es aremost fa,VOr- able for physical health. That I be- , Bove, and that I avow. Everybody knows that buoyaecy of spirit Is good physical advantage. CLOOM, UNREST, DEJECTION, Which deelaree tbelt ''00d11.- eeee 15 profitable onto 4111. things, leaving the promise of the' life that now is as well as of .that which is to mine," So if you stint out two mon in the world with equal physical hoot th, and then 000 01 010111 ithall kat the roligiort of Christ In his heart and the clew shall not get it, the ono who becomes a MI ef the Lord Almighty will live the longer. "With long life will 1 satifify hint and show my salvation." legain 1 remark -that: godlinees 15 good for the intellect. 1 ICOOW 501110 have supposetisthat just 1111 Mon as ft, man enters iitto the Christian life his intellect gave into a bedwarfing propose. teo far from that, religion will give new brilliancy to the intel- lect, new strength to the imagii111.- tiOn; 110W 101*C0 to the will and wider swing -to all the intellectual fftelilties. Christianity is the great central fig- ure et whieb philosophy has lighted its brightest toren. The religioo of Christ is the fountain out of which learning has di peed 1 ts clearest draft. The Helicon poured forth no such inspiring Waters as those which flow from undev the throne of God clear as crystal. . Now, commend godliness as the best mental_ disciplim, better than belles lettres to purify the taste, better than mathematics to harness the Mind to ail intricacy and elabor- ation, better than logic to marshal the intellectual forces for onset and victory. It will go with Thigh Mil - lee and show hint the footprints of the Creator in the red sandstone. It will go with the botanist and show him celestial glories encamped under the curtain of a water lily. It will go with the astronomer on the great heights where Cod shepherds the groat flock of worlds that wander on tho hills of heaven answering his voice as he calls thorn by their Again I remark that godliness is profitable for one's disposition. Lord Ashley, before he went into a groat battle, was heard to oiler this pray- er: "0 Lord t shall be very busy to -day. ! if I forget thee, forget me not." With Such it Christian disposi- tion as that a man is Independent of all circumstances. Our piety will. have a tinge of our e.rb at war with every pulsa- tion of the heart and ev- ery resonation of the lungs. They lowee the vitality and slacken the circulation, while exhilaration pours the very balm of heaven through all the currents of life. The sense of in- sincerity whlctlt sometimes hovess over an unregenerate man or pounces upon him With the blast of ten thou- sand trumpets of terror 19 most de- pleting and most exhausting while the feeling that all are working to- gether for our good and Tor oue everlasting welfare is conducive of physical health., -Yon will observe that godliness !e- duces industry, which is the founda- tion of good health. There is no low of hygiene that will keep a lazy man well, Pleurisy will stab him, erysimans will burn him, jaundice will discolor him, gout, swill cripple him, end the intelligent physician will not prescribe antiseptic or febri- fuge or anodyne, but saws and ham- mers and yardsticks and crowbars and plukaxes, There Is no such thing as good physical condition without positive work of some kind, although you should sleep on down of swan or ride in earning° of softest uphol- stery or hove on your table all the luxeries that were poured nom the wine vote of Ispahan and Mantles Our religion says: "Away to the bank, away to the field, away to the shop, away to the factory! 1150 1101110 - thing thet, will enlist all the energne of ;vow body, mind and soul!" 'Dil- igent in business, er vent Itt, sip i t• i t, serving tho Lord," while upon the - bare back of the idle' and the drone moire ,down the sharp lash, of the ap- ostle 1151 he says, , "If any innu will not Week, neithoe shall he eat." , Oh, how important In this elny, when so much is said abolit anatomy and physiology nod therepetitirs nod Smile neW style of 11011116110 bit OVOr and 1111011 spriuging moil the wined, that sem remelu enderstand that the highest school a 1110(110110 is the the oecs of religion. A 10101 Who postpone religion to sixty year) of age gets relielon fifty years too late, lie may get into the lringdoln of Ceti by final repentorice, but What eon eeMpeneeto Mtn for a whole lifethne unalleviated ane uneomfoeted ? You want religion to-tley in the training of that cbild, You will want res 'igloo to -morrow in deallog with that customer. You wanted rellgien YosteedaY toeurb your ternPer. Is your arm stroog euougli to beat your way through the floods ? Can you without being incaeed in the mail of Clod's eternal help, go forth amid the assault of all hell's sharp- Shootees ? Oa you walk alone aerose those orimbling graves and timid these gapieg earthquakes ? Can you, tvaterlogged and mast shivered, outlive the gale 1 Oh, how Many there have been wet°. Pest1/011.• Ing the religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged brit> mistakes they never could correct, elthough they lived eixty years afteis and like ser - petits creshed under cart wheele dragged then mauled bodies miler the rooks to die. So those nom have fallen under the wheel of awful cal- amity, while a vast multitude of others have taken •the religina of Jesus Chrint into everyday life and, first, in practical business affairs, and, second, on the throue of hea- venly triumph, hove illustrated, whilo angels looked on and a uni- veree approved, the glorious truth that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life Whieli 11055 18 as Well US OF that which is to ecnne." NATURAL TEMPERAMENT. If a limn be cross and sour and fretfut naturally, after he becomes a Christian he will always Wed to be armed against, the rebellion of those evil inclinations. 31ut religion has tamed the wildest 'natures. It has turned fretfulness into gratitude, despondency into good eheer, and those who were listed and ungovern- able and uncompromising have been anatie pliable and conciliatory, GOOCI resolutiom reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It Lakes a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bated evil habits than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger lasso thati ever held the buffalo on the prairie. Again I temark that religion is good foc worldly business. I. know the genertil theory ts the more busi- ness the less religion, the more re- ligiou the less business. Not so, thought or. Ilans. in his "Biography of a Christian Merchant" when he says : "Ile grew In grace the last six years of his life. During those six yeers he had more business crowding him Chan at any other, time." lit other words, tho more worldly business 11, man hart the shore oppoctunity to Sent) (10d, Now, religion will hindev your business if it be a bad busieess or if it be a good business wrongly conducted. if yon tell lies behind the countots if you use false weights and measures, if you put sand in sugar and beet, juice in vine- gar, end 1ctrd in butler and sell for one thing that which Is another thing, then , religion will interfere with teat business, but n. lawful got, into a country for thp first Lime IL played terrible havoc, Atal this is 'business, lawfully cenclucteds will find the religion of the Lord Jesus a very interestingpoint, for if we ahandoned Netecinatints We should be 'Christ. its mightieSt auxiliary, Religion will give an equipoise of id the atone position to -clay. Ice - spirit. It will keep you from ebulli- tions of temper; 'and you know a great Many fine businesses have been blown to atoms by bed temper, .11 will keep you fvom worriment about frequent loss; it will keep you in- dustrious and prompt; , it will keep you back from squandering and from BENEFITS OF VACCINATION WHAT IT HAS DONE TO RE- DUCE SMALLPDX EPIDEMIC Jenner, "1 oan't get sma1ip0X ; Pee had the cowpox,' Pettlug two and two tegother, jenner resolved L0 QX!! poriment. Ilis Melt experfinent WILS porfgrgiod on it boy named ;lamest Phippe, On May , 140, 1770. Taking some lymph from the hand of a dairy- maid named Saralz Nelwee, Whe had been Infected by a cow, be inserted it into the arm of the boy. 'Pilo vaccination ran the same course fie months later, Dr. Jenner tried to it ilooe in our day ; and then, two Inoculate the boy with smallpox, and foiled. Ile repeated this experi- ment on many others, failing every time to give them senallpolc. in these days we are supplied with figures of vaccinated and unvaccinat, ed eases, and very convincing they are. But no evidence is 90 stroeg as this of denner's, '1141] MICROBE' THEORY. Now, what is vaccination, and how doee it act ? liow it acts nobody !mows, Some say that the lymph. or a inicrobe in it, when ineerted Into tho arm passes into the blood, and consumed all the material on Nvhich emollpox flourishes. It takes a good many years—from six to ten, or more—for this Material to be re- newed, and until it is renewed the perion cannot get smallpox. Others say that the lymph puts something into the blood, which remain') there and Mlle the smallpox microbes Nvhenever they come along. But it is gradually exhaueled, and thus the person becomes' liable to infection after some yeass. What, it is we partly know. 'Cows sitffer from cowpox, whith .shows self In exactly the same way as vac - oblation in the human being—a, iltritt- ber of vosiclee appeaving. The fluid is taken from these vesicles on a little piece of bone or ivory, and in - mated into the child's arm. It might be taken front this child at the end of eight days, and inserted into another child. But it is not taken from the second child ; ' re- course is had to the cow again. The lymph is) now taken direct froiti the cow—or, rather, the calf—in all or most cases. An Article •Dealiag With the Nest Discussed Question. of the Day. -In the eighteenth century tufa the early part of the nineteenth matey everybody In (neat Britain had the smallpox, It killed more than ,one- third of the children, most men and womea wore badly disfigured, and thousands of people were blinded, and their constitutions ruined. The frightful disease spared no one. King William 111. lost his Queen— Queen Mary—to it ; his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, and two cousins, and he himself suffered severely from the disease, and was maimed for life. It killed an Emperor of Austria, a Icing of France, a Dauphin of Franco a Queen of Sweden, and an Empress of 32 1,18sia. When people advertised fov servants, it was usual to state that they must have had the small- pox. An old pollee advertisement of a, man wanted for coining says, "lie 1Ins- no pock-marke," which shows that It 'wee quite san extraordivary thing to lie without that .disfigure- ment, says London Answers. Sire joint Simon says that 8,000 per died of smallpox every year in London, and 6,400 per mil- lion in Liverpool. A census of the them of Ware wee taken in. 1722, with the following result : Had smallpox before . 1,601 Had. it this year 63 2 Died of it this ...... 587 had so far eseaped it, and 1:311(e); To have it Only 302 mit of a, population of 2, - were "to have it." 11. Wa8 the terror of miteriagemble ghee, for, if not already disfigured, they did not know the day they might be. binety-slx out, of every hundred people who died of smallpox were ehildren under ten ;sears. The most curious thing was that the few who grew up Withoilt being attacked considered themselves badly treated, for they knew they must have it some clay, and they Were 111 EL 000 - Stant State auxiety. RAVAGES OF shrALLrox. These few Mots show what a ter- rible scourge smallpox wns to our forefathers. Bot It was a. greater sconrge elsewhere. Raving been ma- scot in England for several. cen- turies, smallpox had attacked nearly all the inhabitants. Therefore, when- ever epidemic broke out. it found most of the people protected hy -51 previous attack. When, however. it 11111d is 00 example of what would happen to us in that event. In 1707 smallpox was Baruch:earl into Ireland, and out of a popula- tion (if 50,000 it killed 8.000, Get- ting into Mexico, it slew 80 111ally people tbat .1.here were not °slough left living to bury the dead. Auct dissipation ;11. will give you ft kind- when if, attacked the American In- dians it killed six millions out, of a ness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mere store total nI Iwelse minicina• courtesy which shakes bande iolent- It is; cams', therefore, to imagine ly with you, risking about: the health with what My Jenner's discovery of vaccinittiou wns • meo.ca. ismo, ciliated child onder telt yearn old at of your family when there Is no ; while anxiety to know whether your child (looked to him in such numbers that "la A Vitllos Board Ir there 111154, been 58 deaths of unvac- is well 01' Sick, but the 0111d0tY is he, ;had 1:0 bill 111 t) little 8111111000- 11111 eli i I deem Long ago nearly to know how many dozen canaille house in his garden, to use 1LS n ri ; pocket handkerchiefs you will take vaccinalloa station. Parlianomt all who died were children but in and BR, BULB'S GOOD WORK. WHAT HE HAS TO $AY ARO.= THR BEXTTen SoLDIEE. Pro.goor Slanders Apainet the TraSpe and Administration ' Contradicted. ' Slanders against the conduct Of the individual Britimli soldier in South Africa, and false accusuti0118 In regard to the general administra- tion aro ably refuted by Dr. A., 00411111 Doyle In lile latest book on the war. "1 Nvent to South Africtt with great lidi..tildutwilastiotehrr,e'e" :YasnoTatthlYie f 91a. utthheori, months itt Bloemfontein when there were from ten to thirty thousand men encamped round the town, Dur- ing that, time I oney 01100 saw a man drunk, 'X once heard of it soldier striking a Boer. It was because the man had refuseul to raise his hat at the burial of the eolclier's comrades. I not only never saw any outrage, but ill many confidential talks with oilicere I never heard of one.' "I eaw twenty Boer prisoners ewtitteallin fitei minutes of their capture. The soldiers were giving them cigar - "Only two tutsaillts on wumen 011111(4 to my ears while I was in Africa. En each case the culprit was 41. Kann, and the deed was promptly avenged by tho British army." THE BEFIJOEF., MORTALITY. Of the formation of the niech-talk- ed of concentration catnip>, Dr. Conan Doyle says that the British had u choice of three courses. •`Tho fir:et was to send tho Boer women and children Otto the Boer lines—a course which became im- possible when the Boer army broke into scattered bands and had no longer any definite lines; the second was to leave them where they were ; the third was to gather them to- gether and care for them as best we could." MISGUIDED AroTRoR Lova The Boer women themselves aloe to blame for the deplorable mortality among the children front measles. They refused to allow them Lo the quarantined, "Boer mothers, with a natural in- stinct, preferred to cling to their children and to make it difficult for the medical men to 001110111 them in the first stages of the disease. The remit was a rapid spread of the epi- demic, which was the Mere fatal as many of the sufferers were In low health owing to the privations un- avoidably endured in the journey from their own homes to the camps." TS VACCINATION SMALLPDX Many people wonder whether vac- cination is a form of smallpox. Pro- bably it is, for if smallpox is trans- ferrea from st human being to a calf the calf gets cowpox. And then if a human being is vaccinated from this ealf, he ;411055e the same symptoms as If vaccinated In the ordinary way. Then, again, since smallpox became so rare in this country cowpox ,has disappeared from the farm. So that doctors believe that smallpox in the human being was the original cause of cowpox. Cows suffered also jest where they were touched by the milkers hands. Other animals get 'a form of smallpox, too. The gt•easo, or heel - tag, of horses, issexactly 11101 cow- pox,.ana it ciecure *hem they aro touched by human hands. Camels which nee milked ia Eastern mune tries suffer from camelpox. And in Bengal the eineken-pox of fowls acid the smallpox of human beings are called by the same nasue—"gootry." Our army and navy and post office supply very fercible evidence, In 1804 revaccination on entering the navy beciune compulsory, and the smallpox mortality fell from 10 to 10 per 300,000. The 'London post (Alice staff, which is all revaceinated, had not, a single death among its 10,500 members Miring the great epidemic of 1871. Among d001008, 11UO2i0S, 111141 00 attendarits in hos- pitals, W110 are nearly all rovaccin- atoci, the mortality is only one-sixth of what it 10 among people in gen- eral.' But from other infectious dis- eases the doctors and nurses have a mortality six thnes greater than the public, because there is no vtiecina- tion te protect thefn. VERY CONVINCING FIGURES. in Cormany—where everyone is vaccinated in childhood, and again at twelve, and when all recruits are once more vaccinated on entering the army --,smallpox is practically Un- known. In Prussia, in 1872, the deaths from smallpox were 2,620 per mil- lion. in 1874 revaccination became compulsory, and the death rate fell to 86 in .1875, and to t per million in 1881. Most of the statistics ave rather old, foe the simple, reason that it is necessary to compare the periods be- fore and after vaccination was dis- covered or enforced.. In Copeoltagen, for instance, the deaths for twelve years before were 5,500 per million per annum, and after only 158. In all Sweden they were 2,045' before vaccination, and sank to 2 in 1884:- 91. In England 99 neople died io the eighteenth ceetury for each ono who d108 11011', lit the preeent. London epidemic there has been no death or any vac - PAY OAsu. DOWN. ' It Will prepare you for the Metals:al duties of everyday 1110 1 do not moan to sey that religion will mike ue financially rich, but 1 do say that it will give 118, 11. 111181100 1114 of, a comfortable sustenauce at the stela, a emnfortable subsietence all the way through, and it will help us to diceet the bank, to mimeo tilt traftle, to eoncloct all one businese mattere and to make the most in- significant affair of our Me a matter of vast importance, glorified by Christine Prineilde• How can yon get along without this rel leen. ? is yeti e Physical health so good you do not want this divine tonic: 1 it your miod 140 01001', SO VaSt. SO comprehensive, that yott do not wept this- (thine loepiratioe 1 le seem worldly lend - nese so thoroughly established thaL you have 110 esie for thet religion Which has been the belp and deli ver - Etter or tolls or thouseeds of men In trims of worldly trolatte ? And if what1 Imve said is trim then you 800 Nvhat n fetal blmieer it is when a num (511) 011)118 (1 WO'S espirnlien voted him .5110,000. lionors 550011 showered on 111111 by neeign tenni- triem ; and when he 151010 1.0 the Great Napoleon, begging for the re- lease ot 0 1111111 who heel boon taken prisnuer. Napoleon said : "1 eats nothieg to that inan." •Pl 1'l ST 1eX1siel 1 1 al leNT. Yet Jointee Netts not tile real dis- covererlen. many ,vears the dairy- maids of Gloucestershire, Devonshire 11,1111 801110 other counties heel heen celebrated for their beauty. While all other women had faces scarred with pocle-marke, them dairymaids possessed emootli, healthY skins. This 55118 clue to the Met that when the cows they hod got COW - pox, Nvilich im the modeen L'uriously, the fact was known to 0 geoid1 ninny people, but llo doc- tor 111111 the sense to tern it to ac - coma, hi I 774 an. Jeety, 11. ellou- evetershive farmer, was so convinced that cowpox protected one from smallpox (fiat ho vaccinated himeelf, his wife, end his two 110118, and then he came tip to London and defied the doctors to give him timalipox, To Iiim 154 really due the distinction of tl seo err i 1111; 111001 Oat ion. Some years before that a titilryinald had seld tO the present epidemic they are mostly growteem.neople. WIIII1N YOU ABE elAFE, This britigs us to the interesting quesi ion—how long does protection last 7 It taste to some extent all one's life. Of course, there are ex- ceptions to every rule ' • but vaccina- tion in infancy almostsecures one against smallpox for 111110 or ten years. Then the liebility gradually inereases ; but the *vaccinated per- son has always twenty eliances of escapieg death to (me ehauce of the person who 11108 110001 beea vaccinat- ed. lievaceination is practically a complete protection from death. Then, it is found that wrier() eight people with one vaccination -mark die, 801•011 With tWO marks die, toile with three minks, and only two and is heti with four marks. This refers to those vaccinated only 111 infancy. To stun 1111 ; 11 you have never belle ventilated, and you come lit contact. With 11 8014111(1101 patient, you tire veey likely to get the dise 001111! it you have been vaccinated hi Itt- ftttcy yeti have tt good Chance of es - eating ; Ind, should yom get it, you are likely to 110NC 11, 111 a mild form, BOER MURDERS. Tho author has investigated and proved cases of the Boer abuse of the white flag, the plundering clad shoot- ing of British wounded, and the sys- of Kans. He tematic murder quotes the actual experience of Lanee-Corporal Hanshaw at Gras- Pa'1;-ind1ng WO 01000 outnumbered and resistance hopeless, wo threw down our arms and held our hands up. Pte. Blunt, who was with me. shout- ed 'Don't shoot me, I have thrown down my rifle."rhe Boers then shot Pte. Blunt dead. He was holding his hands above his bead at tho time. Lieut. Man then shouted, "Have mercy, you cowards." The Boers then deliberately shot Lieut. Man dead as he was standing Nvith his Inulds above his bead. Then they shot at Pies, Pearso and Harvey, who were both standing with their hands up, the same bullet. hitting Pte. Pearse in the 110SC, Pte. TOPIveelVItEMEIWATIONS. Dr. Conan Doyle's suggestion for eettlement is to form a Boer reserva- tion in the northern part of the Transvaal, like the Indian reserva- tion lu America, "Guarantee them, as long as they remain peaceable un- der the British flug, complete pro- tection nom the invasion of the miner or 1.110 prospector. Let them live their own lives in their ow11 way with some Maple form of home rule of their own. The irreconcilable men who could never rub shoulders with the British could find a home there, and the British colonies would be all the stronger for the placing 111 quarantine of those who might in- fect their neighbors with their 05011 bitterness, t. . Without some such plan the OMAN Will haVe 110 safety -valve in Soleil Anne. The work is at once a lefetwe and an explanation—a defence of British pulley, British, soldiers, mid the British treatment of the Boers ; an explanation of the charges whlob have been eiroulated 01 fiseeign items - tries by emissaries of tho late Boor Govermuent. Dr, Doyle has prepared this pamphlet as a gift to the pea- Ple of Um empire and is reeeit 1 i,Jul profit nem its publication. It has been 1 vanslated into all the .1Curo- peen languages. and is beteg widely circulated in every eivilived country. The publishers are 01)011 LO 11100151! 11111[4: to promote its publication. It may he had of all booksellers at the cost of production, which is tett mite. THE S, S. LESSON, INTERN,ATION,AL LRSSON, APRIL O. 'I'ext of the Lesson, Acts ix., 1..0 Oradea Text, tit., 19, 1, 2, Saul yet breathing out threntoninge and slaughter againSt the disciples of the Lord. What an evil breath be had! The word translated -breathing. out" is used only title once and 111011115 to breathe in or out, to breathe, to live. His very life was to hate Christ and Christians, mid yet the time cante when ito could truly say, "For me to live is Christ," (Phil, 1, 21). Our first introduction to him is in chapters vii viii, 3, 3, in col -election with the death of Stephen and the persecution following, which at this time was still going un. alaul's own account of his life in those days Is found in chapters xxil, 8, 4; xxvi, 9-11; Gel. i, 13, 14, but in Mph. le 1-8, he speaks of it all as being under the prime of the power of the an. 8, 4. li'aul, Saul, why persreutest thou me? Thus spake Jesus of Nazareth to him In the Hebrew language (xxvi, 14) end arrested hint in his mad career, for Clod had determined 11011- 0e101101 him, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further" (.100 xxxviii, 11). Whoever touches a Christian touches iihrist, Hiffiself, but not, ov- en the devil can go one step beyond God's permission (Job. i, 10; Ban. iv, 35; Zech. ii, 8). Though it was midday, this light from heaven was above the brightness of the sun, and Saul could not see for the glory of that light (xxvi, 18; xxii, 11). 5, 6. The Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecuteit. He recognizes 0 superior and asks, "Who art Thou, Lord?" The an- swer fills him with trembling and astonishment, for Jesus of Nazareth is actually speakieg to him. Seeing Him to be indeed the Christ, the Messiah, whom the prophets had foretold, he at once acknowledges Him as Lord acid meekly asks what he is now to do. Thus suddenly shall Israel as a, nation be surprised some day, and, lookiog upon Ilbn whom they plereed, they shall be fill- ed with true penitence and, accept- iag Him as their loug-expected Mes- siah, shall say: "Lo, this is our Cod. We have waited for Him, and He will save us" (Zech. xi', 10; Isa. xxv, 0). Saul's conversion WEIS a patterct or type of the conversion of tho nation (1, Tim. 1, 16), 7-0, He was three days without Sight and neither did eat my drink. The men who were with him fell to the earth., seeing the light and being afraid. They also heard the V0100 of some one speaking, hut did not hoar the words, for those were for Saul only. Compare xxii, fl; xxvi, 11. It was somewhat like the experience of Daniel and of our Lord as recorded la Dan. x, 7; John xii, .28, 29. That Saul really saw jesus is evident from verse 17 and I. Cor, xv, 8. What Jesus said to In certain isolated village in Saul as Ile commanded him to eise England there is a congregation and stand upon his feet is fully stat- which is not characterized by lavise ed in Paul's testimony before Agrip- liberality. Thne after time the min- im in xxvi, 16-18. Consider bim tater has vainly appealed to his pep - three days blind and fasting, the ple to contribute more generously to rEarms OF Tille A. warning, from 0 trustworthy source, of the danger in looking al a very brilliant: light with unshield- ed eyes is furnished by tho singular experience of a gentleman at Cor- nett University. Who imprudently ob- served the partial eclipse of the sun in May, 19(10, without using a Shade glass. Afteeward, looking across the landscape, he saw 0 flock of eight or ton red birds flying reratteally about, 'Upon examination ho found that the sun's ray's had formed a crescent -shooed image on the centre of the reline of the left eye. the col- or of the linage being green with a rewrote recl border. The effect is Still noticenble. and the use of the left oyo for seientific work lute had to bo abandoned. 8 cubic feet of 811055, 5511011 111011,0d make 1 cubic foot of Water. C1UT70.4.14 MOMENT, HOW Overage Won :150 Pay for the Khedive,, Sir Pdivard "Shifting Scenes" Parries the reader to Pgypt at it stirring time In tho '1144017 of the Young ICILOWNV, and shows 'how courage won the day for him, When the moment 'came for tWbombard- meat of Alexandria the'yoUng khe7. dive refused to take shelter On beard an English man-of-war, saying that his lot lay with his people. Ha was khedive in nothing but name, the whole power having pass- ed Otto the hands of the rebels, (Lnd his chances of eenape were hardly groater than these of it martyr 10 11 1101151111 arena before the wild beasts were uncaged. They did not send wild beasts to tear hint, but they did sood a contain and his company with orders to despatch him, The wit and the presence of mind of the' khedive thawed what was Intended to be the eitpreme tragedy of the re- volution into a comedy - Ho saw the bund Of soldiers ,esim- ing towards the Palace. When thee, arrived, prepared for resistance and intending to break in the doors, they found the aide-de-camp of the khedive at the feet of the great steircase. Ho met them civilly, and told them that the khedive was ex- pecting them, a.nd that he had given orders that they should be conduct, ed at ouce to his presence. Hale -sobered by the unexpected re- ception, the soldiers mounted the grand staircase and were ushered into the presence of the man they had been sent to murder. He stood alone, -calm and unhurried, in the centre of the great reception hall. Ho at onto addressed them, telling them that he knew the errand ou which they had come, but that be- fore they carried out their instrue- tions, he, like every man who was condemned to die, had a right to "o ak To1.1115 they agreed, and he pro- ceeded to explain the situation with a quiet good sense that won their attention. He told them that in the long run the greatet• power must conquer; that as matters stood he had the pledge of the English te maintaie hint as khedive, but that if he ne longer existed they would be likely to take the country for them- selves : and that therefore from a. patriotic} point of ViONV they had better let him live. After discussing* the matter at sons length ia this strain, be pro- ceeded to play his last card. He told the officer in charge that lie would at once raise him in rank, and confer upon him the order of tho Medjidie. With regard to the soldiers who accompanied him, he would constitute them Ids personal body -guard at that moment, as they might already bavo perceived that he was very much in want of soldiers. Thus it cisme about that the little band which had come to kill remain. - ed to bless. TOLD IIIM CONFIDENCE, 11. world shut out, -the body mortified, dying to self, God dealing with his soul. It is 1,110 period of death pre- ceding resurrection (Gen. xxii, 4; xlii, 17; Jonah ii, 17; Hoe. vi, 2 ; John 14, 19; Rev. xi, 11). 10-12. Inquire in the .house of ju- dos for one called Seel of Tarsus, for, behold, he prayeth. Thus said the Lord to Ananias, a devout disciple and one who had a good report of all the Jews at Da- mascus (=II, 12). He, like Philip in it previous lesson, is prompt and obodiont, ono ott whom the Lord could rely to do His bidding. His reply reminds us of Stunuel and Isaiah (I Stun. • iii, 4, (3, 8, 10 ; licit. si, 8). These three days find Saul and his Lord. in intimate com- munication. Saul talks with the Lord, and the Lord in sisien reveals 'Himself more fully to 80.111. FL'OM ,Jesits Christ by revelation he receiv- ed the gospel and from Him also all his future instruction ((1at. i, 11, 12, lti, 16). 18-16: Ho is -a chosen vessel unto um to bear my name. Ananias hesitates justa little as he thinks of Soul's reputation mud authority and his madness against Obristians. The. Lord gracionsly bears with Ananias in his objections, hot repeats His command hi go and assures him that Saul is to be His special messenger to the gentiles. Otto would think that the Lord's -Mist Assurance to Ananias that the persecutor was praying- would have been sufficient encouragement, but we are 50 8101V to 'expect wonders from 111111 whose mime is'Wonderful. Saul is not. only chosen to bear the mime of Christ, but also to suffer, for, faithfulnese to Christ and suf- fering for His sale are ieseparably connected is, this present evil age, while the whole world Both in the wicked one ((ial. 1, 4; 1. John v, 19, le.V.) See also John xv, 18. 10i Xvi, 30; Philip, i, 20; II Tim. 0, 12; 12, but be encouraged by Emu. viii, 18; 1 C'or. x, 38, 17-20. Receive thy sight nati be filled with the 'Holy Obost. Thust said Anemias to Sete, as, having found him just, where the Lord said he would, ho put his hands upon him and told of the Lord's minions; i on. Ho received sight, both mistral and spiritual, confessed Christ in baptism, took food for the body end AVON strength- ened and immediately preached in the synagogues that Josue of Nitta - mill is the' Christ, the Mon of God. Old things are passed away, all thiegs aro become 11055, the Spirit has clothed Himself with Saul (Judg. vi, 81, Ti. V., ntargin) and .now henceforth he does- but one thing. knotes ltd. 0110 Maeter, and for Mal 18 ready to lay down his the Nude of the church. Ihe mem- bers indeed gave sometbing, but it was nearly always the smallest .sil- ver coin of the realm that was plac- ed in the plate. A shrewd Scot who had recentr ly gone to the place and joined the church was not long before he no- ticed the state of affairs, and 0. re- medy soon suggested itself to his practical mind. "I'll tell you what," he said to one of the officials, "if you mak' me treasurer, engage to double tho collections in three months." His offer was promptly accepted; and sure enough the collections be- gan to increase, until, by the time he had stated, they were nearly twice as much as formerly. "How have you manned it, Mr. Sandman?" said the pastor to hint one day. "It's a great secret," returned the Scot, "but tell you in confidence. The folk, I saw, nmistly gave three - peony bits. Wed, when 1 got the money every Sabbath evening, X carefully picked oot the mut' eons and put them by. Noce as thereat only a limited number o' the theta, penny -pieces in a, little place like this, and as I have maist of them, at present under lock and key, (.hu folk nutun give sexpenees, at least. instead. Sae (.bat's the way the col- leetionle aro doubled." Mid the pastor went away declar- ing that every Scotsman WW1 a bora financier. 4. rrimohmENT. A clever answer in court wris that given to Chief Justice Coleridge years ago when he was defellding ct lady who had become a Sister of Mercy end W04 expelled trout the 0 ute onvs0ut for refusing' to obey the 1 She had lwought an action fov ex- pulsion and libel. in the course of the trial Coleridge assumed that breaches of distipline tire trivial, contemptible, and should never be noticed. "What has Miss Sevin done?" he asked Mrs. 'Kennedy, cs mistress of novices, "Well," said the lady, "she has, for example, eaten straWbervies." "Eaten strawborriee? What harm is there in that?" "It was forbidden, sir," said airs. Xennetly. 'But, Mrs, Kennedy, What troublo WaS Illtely to come from eating st'r.an‘`vell'le,risli°r8,7"..sahl Mrs. Xennetly, "you might as well ask what teem- ble Was likely to roma from 0111,;1111.; all apple: and yet WO know what troublci did mine front it," That elosect the discussion, — A IIEDIetaliNG TRAIT. Mrs': Ilatterson—"Doin yoe think ItIre. Polkadot is cktm awful goeeite?" ans, liatleesoo—"Mity he so. But there's one good thing about her. Sim never tells antithing 11110111any- one thai, there isn't seine truth la." jaffers—"I vead of a man last spring who Was hypnotised and bur- ied For several days. " Mrs. Oaf- fers—"I don't doubt it. Some men will do almost anything to get, out speiog Cleaning."