HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-4-24, Page 3THE PO ER OF SILENCE
It Is Better Than Any Sarcastic or
Bitter Answer.,
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despatch from Washington Revs: -
Bev. Dr. irabanige preached from the
following text:--ltevelation, 1,
"There was silence le heaven but
the space of hair an home"
From alL we can learn it is the.
only blue heaven over si.oPPod,122
does not stop ita 01.1/111, eitib$ (Or the'
night (01' there is I)0 night there.'
11. does not- Rine 101' a, niague, toy
the inhabitant never Heys, "I am
sick." .11 doe** not stop for bank.
ruptcles, The its illilabitalitS 110.31e1'
fail. 7 1 does not stop for impass-
able streets, for there. are no fallen
snows or sweeping freshets. What,
then, stopped ft, for thlrey minutes?
Drotlus aria Peoressur Stuart, think
it was at the time of the destruction
of Jerusuleni. Mr. `Lord thinks it
was In the yen' 31.1, between the
close of the Diocletinn persemition
seed the beginning of the wars by
which Constaneine gained the throne.
But thet wns till a guess, though a,
learned and brilliant guess. I do not
keow when it wtts, and 1 do oot care
when it wile, bu22 the feet, that
such an interregnum of sound took
place 1 ain certain. ''''.1'he1'e was
10/1C0 is heaven alma the spare of
half an hour."
.And, ilest of ttli, we learn that God
and all heaven then honored siltmee.
The longest ancl widest dominion
-
that eVer,existed is that °rev WiliCh
81 illness was (1)0011. Poe en eternity
there hed not been 82 .Romid. World -
making WaS !atm' ((010 052)1(23182031
For unimaginsible 'ages it was 13
3311130 universe. Clod was the only
being, and as there was no one to
speak to, there Was nO utterance.
3)ut that silence has all been broken
Up into 0701.1(18; and it hns become
A NOISY UNIVERSE,
Worlds in upheaval, worlds in con. -
gelation, worlds ta conflagration,
worlds in revolution.
In my text heaven spared thirty
*ninnies, hut it will 'levee again
snare one 1113155) le. In worship in
earthly eltheehes where there are
many to take part we have 20 eoun-
e'el brevity, but how will heaven get
oe rapidly enongli to let one hun-
dred and forty-four thousand get
through each with his own story and
then one lunched and 1'01'1y -four mil-
lion anct then ono hundred and for-
ty-four billion and then one hundred
aue forty-four triliion? Not only are
till the triumphs of the past to ha
conemetuorated, hut all .22110 triumphs
to come. -Not mite what we know or
God but whet we will know of Trim
after everlasting study of the deltic.
Jr my text. had said there was silence
in heaveo for thirty deys, I would
ticie 1)120 (9 been startled' tit the au-
notirmenient, but it, indicates thirty
-Ville', there will be so
many friends leo 1112111 gp, SO many
or the greutly good and useful that
we will ward to see so mealy of the
.iiisertitable things of (meth we will
need explained so many exeiting
earthly experienveg WO Will Want to
1 IS over, raid [II the other spirits
mid nil the ages will Want 1.110 882111182.
that there Will be opporeiinity for
seC1181111011. 1ToW bliSy We Will be
eept in hating pointed Lout to up the
heroes Mat 11052011708 that the world
never fully appreciated -the yellow
fever and cholera doctors who died,
not flying front their poets; the fe-
male mimes who raced pestDence In
1012t1'e1.te8. the reelroad engineers
who stayed at their pieces in order
1 Mir0 the train, though they them-
selves perlehed. 'rite multitudes of
men ilitcl women who get no erown
oil earth we will want to see when
they get. their crown in heaven. I tell
you heaven will have 150 more half-
hours to spare. .
sideleve also impresses me with
the anmortelity of a hali-hour. That
half hour mentioned in my text is
more widely known than anyother
parted in the calendar of heti-Nen.
None of the whole hours or heaven
iS rileaSilred off. none of the years,
none of the C01) 1 -l1)'!1'21, Of the mil -
hoes of ages past and. the millions ol
tiges to come not one is especially
measured off in the Bible, llu1 the
half hour of my text is
411113E 'IMMORTAL,
The only part of eteenity that
was ever mensured by earthly ti1.110,
piece was Measured by the ininute
bantl of my -text. Ohl the half Mums!
They cleidde evimything, 1' al3,1,1lot
asking what you will do with the
years or nionthe or days of you],
lite, 11111 0911101. 01 11182 half hours?
me the history or y01311 halt /10tIrS
and 1. 05.111 tell 70002 1110 1.0170 or your
whoio lire 00 earth and the slory
of yogr whole life in eternity. The
right or wrong things you earl think
in thirty niinuteg, the right or Wrong
things you (enemy in thirty minutes,
the right 01' wroug thiegs you can
do hi thirty minutes are glorious or
balefel, inspiring or despeente,
Loo10 ma for the fragmente 0( 1.11310,
'rimy are pieces or eternity. It was
the half hours between shoeing horses
1 hat, Made Elihu Burritt the learned
blaelcsmith, the half hours between
professionul calls tut a physician that
made Abercrombie the t'llristian intik
esopher, the hale hones between his
duties ae sehoolumoder lhtt2, (1)111231
1411 1 111011 73. Chase chief 11181100. the
half hours bete/tam the shoe lases
that made Henry Wilson vice-presi-
dent of the United States, the half
between boats that made
James A, G erne' 11 ores den , The
Imlf hour a tiny for good 1100108 or
bad hooka, the half hour a day for
prayer or? indolenee, the half hoot' .0.,
day for helping others or Wasting
others, the half hour before yen go
211 business anti the half hour after
yeti return from business -that nutkee
the difference bet 01 the SC 1101 al'
and the ignoealutis, bet Cretin 1110
01111811282» and 1110 infidel, lfel 090011 the
saint and the demon, between tri-
umph and ,futtestroplitt, between ima-
ven and hell, mOst tremendous
things of your Hie and mine Were
eertaili half boort*, half hour
when in the parsonage of a country
=MAW= 1 resolved to Jimmie a
Chrietiali then and there the, 121012
hum, when I decided to beeome
PREACtIllat T1/3.3 G.OSPEL,
the half hour when 1
first, realized that my son WaS
dead, the half Moue when 1 etood on
the top 01 my 110080 211 Oxtord street
and suw our ettnreb burn, the half
hour in which I entered .J (l'31811,10111,
the hall 110111? in Lvhich J. stopped on
Mount Calvary, the half hoer in
which 1 Rtood on Mars hill and about
ten or fifteen other half helms aro
the ebisf times of my life. 'You May
forget the mime of the exact years
of most of the important events of
your existenee, but these half Mame
like the half hour of my text, will
be immortal. I_ do not emery tvleat
you win MY with the twentieth eon-
turv, 2 do not (gory what You Will
de with this year, bet what will you
do with the next half bour 9, Lipari
that hinges your destiny, and dur-
ing that, some of you will receive
the gospel end melte complete stir -
'render, and during that others of
yell will make final and fataL rejec-
i Lion of the full end free and -urgent
!and inmatisionect offer ot life eternal.
I 011, Out the eext, hell lio Might
Ore the most glorious thirty minutes
of your earthly existence I
/Lenin, my text suggests a way of
studying heaven so that we ctue bet-
ter endeestaitel it,. The word. "eter-
ulty" that we eitn handle so. much
15 an immeasurable word. Knowing
that we could not, tinderstaed that
WOrd, the Bible uses it only one.
We :My, "Forever and ever." But
bow loug Is "forever (0)11 -00700 ?"
am glad that my text puts under
our eye heaven fee thirty ;Mentes.
As when you see a great picture,
you put a sheet of paper into a.
Scroll and look through it or join
your forefinger to your thuimb and
look through the circle betweeit, and
the picture becomes more intense, So
this nutsterpiece oi heaven by St.
John is more impressive when we
take only thirty minutes of it at a
time. Now, we have something that
WC call conic nearer to grasping, and
it, is ft quiet heaven. When we dis-
couree abont the multitudes of hea-
ven, it, must be almost a nervous
shock to those who have all their
lives been crowded by many people
and who want it quiet heaven. For
the last thirty-five years I have been
much of the time in crowds and un -
,der psibliO scrutiny and amid excite-
ments, [Ind 1 have ommethnes thought
for a few weeks alter I reach hesven
1 -would like to go down in some
quiet. part of the ('0101 12), With a few
friends, and for a little while try
COMPARATIVE SOLITUDE.
This there are those whose hearing
is so delicate that they get no sat-
isfaction when you describe the crash
of the eternal orchestra, and they
feel like saying, 011.0 good 07011111» 1(1
1111(18011. 8111(1 after hearing me
speak of the mighLy chorus of hem -
eon, 'lilac intiSt he a great heaven,
but whet will beconie of my poor
heed 1" Yes, this MIR hour of my
text, Is a still experienee. "There was
silenve In beaven for half an hour."
'•You will iind the inhabitants all
at home, Enter the King's palace
and only take a glimpse, for we have
only thirty minutes for all heaven.
"Is that Jesus ?" ''Yes." Just un-
der the hate along his foreheacl is
the mark of a. wooed made by a
bunch of twisted brambles, and his
foot, on the throne has on tho
round of his instep another mark of
a wound made by a spike, and -
scar on the palm of the right hand
arid a sear on the palm of the left
hand. But wlint n countenance 1
What a smile! What a grandeur 2
Wbat a lovelinees 1 What ail over-
whehning took of kindness and
grace ! Why, he looks as ii he had
redeemed a world 1 But come on,
for otir 1.10)10 -121 short. X/0 you see
that rim of paluees ? That is the
Aposeolic row. Do you see that
long reach of itrebitectural glories ?
ghat is Martyr row. Do you see
that immense structure ? That is
the higgeet hotme in 1103101311 2 that is
"1110 house of many manslotis." 110
yon see that wall ? Shade your
eyes against its burning splendor,
for that is the wall of heaven, jas-
per at, the bottom end amethyst at
the top. See this river rolling
through the heart of the great me-
tropolis ? That is the rivet' con-
cerning which those who 0111.0 lived
on the banks of tho 120,118010 or the
Alabamaor the Milne oe the Shan -
n011 say, "tee never saw the like ot
this for clarity and Remelt." Puss
down those boulevards of gold and
ember end sapphire end see those
interminable streets built by the
Arehl lea of the universe into homes,
over the threshold of which sovrow
navel' sLeps and 0111 of whose win-
dows faces, mire pale with earthly
sickness, now look rubicund with
IMMORTAL lileALTIT.
"Ole let me go in and 3100 them I"
you may. No, you cannot- go in.
There are those who would neve52
consent to 'let you .001110 011t again.
You see', "Lot MO stay hero in 1.1)15
Wile° where thee' never sin, where
they tweet? suffer, whoee they- \t'er
part." No, nc 1 Otir time is .short,
bur thirty minutes are almost. 5(0110.
Conte ail 1 11e 111113.1 go hack to
earth before this half hour of hea-
veati,y silence breaks up, for in your
Mortal state you cannot etchlre the
pomp .1111(1 eplendor and resonance
while ems 11,112 heer eireeee Is
ended. The (lay vei 1 1 colno 011011 70011
01111 SCO 110820-00 1111 blast, but 1101
nine. ' Remember we are mortal yet
tmtl commt 01131111'e the 1111 I 1011 of
Itemenly harmonies and ennnot en-
dure oven the silent heaven for nmee
than hitif an hour, Mark 2 The
ciock in the toWm' of beaVoit begins
10 strike, and the heti limit' le ended.
But hoW will you speed the first
hell hone of your heavenly citizen-
slaip atter you have gone in to
stay 1 After YOttr Prostration belor°
the throne in worship of hitn Who
Made it p0Ssible Mr you to get there
at ail X think t(1erefit of 7000))'111-12,111511'3105121 in 11231031011 will be passed
in receiving your reward,if you have
been faithful. I have a strangely
beautiful hook conteining the pie -
tures of the medals struck by the
English Co Lertiment in honor 01
great betties, These medals are
Mimed OVer tile heart of the return-
ed heroes of the eerily on great mei
enellons, the royal family present and
the royel bands playing -the Cri-
mean medal,' the medal of the me
-
tiny, the Victoria Cross, the Water-
loo modal, In your first half hottr
in heaven in some way you will be
honored for the earthly struggles in
which yoll won the day. Stand up
hotore ell the royal bousee of heaven
and, reeelVO the insignia while you
are ennounced as victor 02'Q1' 1,110
drafts and freshets of .the form field,
victor, over tile temptations di the
Stock. Exchange, vietor over pro-
fessional alliirements, victor over
domestic victor over me-
chanic's shop, victor ON'Or the store-
house, victor over home worriments,
victor over phyeieal distresses, vie -
tar over hereditary depressions, vie -
tor over sin and death and hell.
Take the badge that celebrates those
vielorlem through 0111' Lard '1053)8
Christ. 'Take it in the p52e501100 of
all the galleries, saintly, angelic fold
divine. Wbile all heaven chants,
'"J'hese are they who came out, of
great tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb."
LIT'PLE 1 -TART RIVER.
March 3'1, 1902.
Not in the blood of battle,
Not in the rage of strife.
Not in the muskets' ratele
That mingles death with life. ,
Not in the victor's story,
Not. In the fight's' result,
Not for mere empty glory
Do we this day exult.
BLit because far from our borders,
Down o'er the burning 110e,
Canadian lads took their orders
And poured out their lives like
wine.
Just on the sea, they mustered,
flaw and unused end untried,
They lay on the veldt quite unflus-
tered,
Determined to stay till they died.
There till tthout were the horsemen,
Tim tireless Boer Centaur,
Bold as of' yore were the Norsemen,
Totighened and seasoned in war.
Neve was the whiskered pandour,
South Africe's fierce hussar,
Matched with Canadian valor
ln the sharp, fierce shock of Plat.
Like a dust -devil swept from wind-
' waed,
3.302911 'On the line he ConIC,
Rein -free the steed unhindered,
Leaped as if fresh to the game. -
But the Metford's bark was steady,
Steady and trite and straight,
And the galloping foe were not
ready
To rush In the face of fate.
"Oile it them, lad'," criecl Car-
ruthers,
And tile rifles anSwered his words,
As the lessening band of brothers
Sighted for two hundred yards.
But, the 1 a 3.1t 111811a(10 fairly stoPlIed
them,
They staggered, then halted, then
wheeled,
And Johnny just said; ;We've stop-
ped them,"
And sank in the spot Where 110'd
kneeled.
'Twits victory sure, but ghastly ;
Never a man but was hit ;
Nine had arrived at their "lastly,"
Forty were bleeding a bit.
Nine died. but their names are
•
On glory's immutable rolls,
Ear withiu death's dark portal
We follow these dauntless souls.
They could die, leut they could not
eurrender,
Could not smirch Canada's mune,
And we who servive will reiteember
Their deed, their death and their
fame,
-John A. Ewan in Toronto Globe,
4----
111111511 1.1 RIOT.
A girl baby WaS recently brought
to a clergyman to be baptized. The
hitter asked the name of the baby :
"Dinah M„" the father responded.
'But what does the '111.' stem"
for '?" interrogated the minister.
'Well, I do not know yet ; it all
depends upon how she turns ont.''
"Row she 1.111118 Ont 9 Why, 1 do
not understand you," said the
cleric.
"Oh, if she turns out nice 01131
SWeet and 'handy 11110111 the 1101550,
like her mother, 1 shallcall her
Dinah May. Rut if she has rt. dery
temper and displays a bombshell dis-
position like mine, 3 shall call her
Dinah Might."
4._
EN leel 1ES OF MLIelliP.
The worst enemies of sleep are
worrylog, overwork', overeating, 2n-
dit3OS Li WO suppers, and the habitual
use of stimillants owl drugs. The
cure includes strict attention to
diet, a well -ventilated sieephig-room,
some 115111 exercise, like a welk dime
the evening nivel, and freedom, of
conese, from worr,y. Napoleon hed
as many 120.53011 and perplexities es
the nex1 man, but arbitrarily :hut
them off. lt. is tot welt go go to
lied hungry. A cup of 1101 milk or a
light sandwich is advised when that
sensatioe is Mt. Yet" it is 11eeestanre-
10 remember than insomnia and au
overloaded stomach ere *lonely ee.
[male led. Stimulant s end narcotics in
the end are sleep destrOyere, When
Cita 05111010 subject 18 weighed the
main remedy 30 seeu to be good hab-
its and 22 tranquil mind.
STATZSACAN'S COMI NTS,
Lord PalmerSton Liked Plain
Writing and 13Ia011 Ink,
Lord Paltnetstun's minutes. 01` Me,
ntorunds: 1111011 publie papers .Were
often Very anttlsing, Whenever they
were intended to convey 10 AMMO:1
they were eetirical wither then se-
vere, and often thee contained a fine
vor linement-seeadier that it 211831
1,111/101311, '1,0 tell whether it, was 1101,TUBE
intended to be hunioreite,
A mthor South Ae
fritte (*Mehl' olive
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HI VaTil FLOW 118
OP13,01,1,A,TX01,7 )ITT 110 AE,
TBANSINIAY/ED,
Speculators Work Corner on Na-
va/ Review, But IVIay 001130tO Grief,
The Westminster City Cot meil haS
approved a striking scheme for de-
, corittlug the streets within ite
Ahot leitlyrdOenaptai Orikt
ltflitt)lndse, 1,711,114,11,1.111.s, so,,,,5511,1,88: 11,,brioescesti511;11.*iu‘g‘.*iii wptisCsh
NajOr Merritt 4xplaining to Lord Kitchener the Use of the Cana- ra,11‘1%)..81.10,111
1 I1011;1111;31,, toa
31(10113
Paok Saddle. (This has since beeu ordered for the ,,,51
Army in South Africa.) 072115 (5 of Voliftittil lutists, t.titliffi by
goose! goosel''
toagatitiin.11101diteel,ss,leartfisuninin sysit'•juhl, i1s.otther 5A",'"lt,t1111,1ne(,31:11.05.0lOorgfree11tociisi afiroldwori6clwelierebse.
HIE S. S. LESSON,
INTEBNATION,A.I. LSSON,
ArRxx, 27.
'Text of the Lesson; Aets xi., 1-18.
Golden. Text, Acts x,, 43.
world. ofT(111006q. canes else receired the
The apostles mid. brethren that
were in Judea heard this, and it is
plain heent th0 001110X11 that. 11. did
flat fill them with my. Row unlike
our Lorcl Jesus the most of Rim ells-
olPles Emil At ore time some of the
apostles felt like burning a town be-
cause some of its people would Lioe
receive Christ, and 11007 ehey seem to
feel somewhat like burning Peter be-
cause through hint some uncivemn-
cised people had received Christ. We
receive Christ NV11031 NVO r0Ce10e the
word ot' Cod concerning Rim it is
It simple and most reascumble thing -
to receive with meekness the word of
God, yot comparatively few do it.
Those who do give joy to our Lord
(eTate 1, 21; jolan xvii, 8).
2, 3, When Peter was come up to
Jerusalem, they that. were of the eir-
cumelsion contended with 11101.
Though they had been for years
with Jostle and had been filled with
the Spirit, they had not leareed the
significance of "whosoever" nor that
"in Jesus Christ neither cirouln0133
sion availeth anything^ nor unelecum-
eision, but a, nOlV creeture" (Jolla
iii, 18; Ceal. vi, 15). 'The feeling
still exists- in some quarters that it
would be wrong to officiate or hides
the communion outside of one's owe
denomination.
4-10. Peter rehearsed the matter
from the beginning.
About the sixth hour Peter felt
led to go on the housetop to pray
and, being hungry, would have eaten,
but while they made ready he fell in-
to a trance and saw this vision (x.,
9, 0). At that very lime the meS-
sengers from Cornelius were near to
Joppa, and. it, Lees necessary that
Peter should be ready to reCeita3
theta and go with them, which he
certainly would not have done but
for this specie.' vision. It is beauti-
ful to see God peepateug llis see -
vents for the good works which He
has prepared tor them.
While Peter VMS COnSidering the
significance of the vision the messen-
gers from Cornelius were at the gate
(11(111521 ng for 11101, and, instructed by
the Spirit, he called the men in and
lodged them, and the next, day he
and six others started with the mes-
sengers for Caesarea and the home of
Cornelius. This book might, well be
called the acts of the Ithly Spirit in
the name of the Lord Jesus. In it
we see Cod and angets and mon all
working together that nem may
know the riches of God's grace and
}Tis wonderful love.
18, 34,. ' Who shall tell thee words
whereby thou and all thy house
shalt be saved.
As Cornelius told Peter why he
had seet fur him this is what he
said that the enge1 said Peter
would do; therefore at the time
of that vision neither Cor-
nelius ner his heuee, 1teweee,. de_
vout, sena saved, and Peter had to
COMO from Joppa to tell them the
goad news concerning Jesus Christ
that they ntight, be Sneed, 1 1 0w few
seem to feel as Paul clid when 11e
said, "I am debtor both to Creeks
and to barbarians, so, as much a
ill Inc 18, 1 11111 ready to preach the
gospel" (Rote i, 14, li)).
15.- And as I begaii to speak the
Itoly Ghost, tell on them as on us
at the beginning.
Chapter x, 41, says, "While Peter
yet spake these words the Roly
Ghost fell on all them whith heard
the word." Su it, was while Peter
was still epeaking' mat just at the
beginnieg of his discouree that. eloct
wrolight, so marvIdously. There was
nothing' in all this got up by man,
neither the discourse nor the resnits,
A11 was from God. 31 is my in-
euetudng conviction that if we preach
the preuching which God bids us
(Jonah tit, 2) the results will be all
that God pleases (bet. iv, 11).
112, Then remembered 1 the word
of the Lord, how that ITO said, .101111
indeed beptized with water. lnit ya
8113533 la' haptIzed with the 11,111'
Cthost,
These aseension words (Acts i,
lied therefore only a fultilhuent itt
Pentecost. ;acre is +mother fultill-
nient. tout so it, goes on and trill
until the groat fellillment, or filed 1-
111011e, of Joel ii, 28-32, in the Ilene
future. Jesus hied told them that
1110 Spirit would bring to their re-
membrance what Ile had said unto
there *John xtv, 26), and lle is now
doing this 'vitt* Peter,
17. Voeasinueli then us Clod gave
them the 111(0 gift as Re did unto -us.
Who believed cot 'the Lord Jesus
Christ. what W118 that I multi
withstand God ?
Peter was in 110 hands of the Lord
the Lord's messenger, I ho 1.orti's
80r0710111, and Waif ho Lord who
wrought, all this, as thee- might hate
expected lie would had_ !hey believed
whet Mo commanded concerning' give
ing the gospel 1.0 moo' ('('1,1 1111')) mid
the prophecy of .10)01 voncereing
pomeng out Spiril upon all
flesh. 'Before Peter and the Mho' siX
JeWish beet hren -God did for the un-
eircumeised gentiles ite.t what 1 10
had (10)10 at l'ellfeenst for 1'! '01)1318218 -
ed Jews,
1 8. When they hrimi these 1111 Ilg'23,
0.11ry 1101d their Petle0 and 51 ori fled
tiod, enying, Tile» heth Goti 01210
to the gentiles grained repentance
unto life.
The prionise to Abram ifrati that
all families of the earth should be
blessed ill him Wen., xii, 3), and it
Wan written by the Spirit through
Isaiah that lsrael should blossom
and bud and 1111 the face of the
earth with heat xxvii, 6), One
would think that in the bleesing to
this gentile household through Peter
the Jew the brethren might have
semi fulfillment of these things
and not have been surprised ate
prophecies still awititing lulllllnieiit
when fulinled shun greatly still -nese
a host of belies ors.
TlilE STATUS '04'
Every Year 11EarkS 'art Advance'in
ITer Favor.
next enlargement of the 111021»
5211150 in this country or tbet to the
south of us will surely be made
through the granting of the ballot
to 190.01011. Women's 520110 and in-
fluence are being mime fully recog-
nized now that O'er it is .1:J0f:out-
ing a necessity for her to be placed
in a position to help cleanse the po-
litical 'Irene, Some 02 the best men
_Lind women of this and ;Ober lands
are convinced of this as the follow-
ing will show. In Des Melees, Iowa,
the senate has paSSOd a resolution
providing for the submission to the
01005, 03')) of it .const itutional a mend -
meet for equal suffrage. in Anna -
polls, Md„ the S'tato senate 11115 pas-
sed tile bill admitting women to
practice in the Slate Courts. Chris-
tiania, Norway, has elected six
women to its town council.
The following will show how gen-
eral this is becoming: -In France the
wonien teachees elect 011015111828 011 ell
bowels or education. Sweden wo-
men vote for all elective officers ex-
cept represeutittives; also, indirectly,
for members of the Upper House. In
Ireland the women vote for the Har-
bor Boards and Poor Law Gurnee?
ions, and in Belfast for municipal
officers. In ReSSia W0111011 1100150 -
holders vote. for all elettive officers
and on local matters. Again/ "Of
the Women _who recently took 00112-'
1)10122111,0 examinations In Washing-
ton for positions in the civil service,
over '77 per cent, passed, es against
62 per eent Of the Men." The lion,
W. Dudley lemilke, U. S. Note Civil
Service Commissioner, said, at the
reeent Ni tiontel Suffrage Convention
in Washington, ''One of the greatest
eliconsclone compliments ever re-
ceived was pttid me the nth& day by
my deughter. Some 1050 asked,
'Who is Inconel' in your house, any
way'?" She answered, "1 have lived
there all iny life, und I have not
f01111(1 'that o)lt yet." Ile (-05111)101e8,
"1 de not desire to have a wife who
in all respects would render me un-
questioning obedience; it would de-
stroy that fair eompanionship which
ought to exist. between husband and
wife."
A0411 1ST ATIVE DUTIES,
hes been proven, time and
eguin, that. 110111011 are supremely
qualified for annlinistrative deities.
Strauge that there should be any
hesiteney as to her fitness for the
franchise, because "front the dawn of
the world's history it has seemed
Pertectly reline:11 for her to be a,
queen.
111010 at England during the reign
of MiZa31'l11, 11.8 adVancomont, In
literature, philosophy, science and:
e0111211.0.6?, was phenomenal. We See
her at the age of 5:I, the leader of
her troops at Tilbury. Isithella of
Spain, by hei. unselfish tact, and
keen foresight. made the discovery of
Ibis continent possible. And what
need lutve we la make reference to
the late reign of Victoria', Iles it
not been the most 10131(3 1'13111)1)) 011 re-
cord? She was not only a queem
but a type or true WOManilood as
NVoll, and her illiprest1 will he feltson-
generations yot unborn.
Women is being rapidly forced in-
to her pristine pinee and potver. Eve
by a divine edict, at creation's
dawn, was with Adel]) to "subtitle"
the earth, and over 11 to ha\ ff "11(1-
111 1111011,"
1(001.1 111 LITTLE.,
Religi on makes good tumor but it'e
a poor cloak.
There is no 311000 toll lowly for the
dlspley of high qualities.
We never beemee citizens of the
kingdom or Cod by obedience mere-
ly.
I'rayer is the puke of the Christ,-
iniee life -there ba no secular, no ea -
erect, oil is ClOd.
AN We 50110 moving- down the stream
of time let us be ?prepared for land-
ing at the right huten.
If yo51 ere art uncommonly good
Vitristlaff, you can prove 11. move
easily by your good deeds than by
your intul words.
God likes the men who choose
hard Ohms. Ile gives herd tasks as
proof of his I0N0 1.0 those NV110111 110
traStS 11011011S.
Christine who counts on the
constant presence and the contutu-
otts help of Christ ill a person 02'110 t
18 hard to d Mcolirage,
The 121(11')) 1. coligregat 101.1 mai the
grealeet named suecess art? vain
if our faith does not take in Um
"1110rey8'8e21l," 1111(1 )10. CO0P11 Ilt 01
(1011-13 peomise and law,
y, 1
amp,
struetion for a eeply; ;deem' it 5101111 010010111 l
"Civil enswer, meaning nothiag." This scheme of decoration is to be
1-Ittu321ivei eine; wile hie hoblee. carried out along Piccadilly, St,
yeral limes he selit ('11')'') 11) 8(rfet,„,
P1111
and conaillS fibronM ,$,`"e' eee 1,191-1111 P01153115them to write round, legible hands, ";1',,
and to use black Ink. Ulm most etriking mut of the dee
0” Dee etunt,ewiettel, ee55pa1;,11 1Ie ['orations will be ft 10701t1 triumphal
left the eonnaent: 101111 opposite the houses of Paela,-
' '11 t,'sh a niizi i if111T1I,wh1 chie to renvstrt 12111 lerit
111,1,l'1111(l 2315 niivesinfnts1s1381es.07(11tonsist02acel;
0Y0!.' teal arch and tevo side rches,- 0011-
'1215had the greatest objeetiou to
structed in the Gothic style. On top
111(1 when a nnpee mit._ of the geehes will be flgurss of St,
George, St. Andrew 11110. 115.. Patrick.
101) hal 855.7020si'uL up fur "Is The entire route of the procession
signature, he reterned it with the
in the neighborhood of Westminster
""n131)1111.5': . he writer of this lel US. lost Abbey will be lined on both sides
with countless white standards upon
the ese of his right hand? 11 not,
why does be make all hie loiters tall masts,
slope backward, like the raking PREPARATION 1312(11100.-
111(1815 ot an Amerlean schooner?"
Next in 1113portallee 113 imedwriting
arid ink eves puneteation. Ile held
it great Objection to persons • who
had the habit of -sowing commits"
Coronation preparations are noW
beginning in 0130111.151. This 14 Partic-
ularly to be notieed o.t Westminster
Abbey, where vanloads upon e'en -
Made of timber are being deposited
mid still more to these who treed no at the entrances. From what•I •
slops whatever. This WaS his 001(1 -learn, on the very best of' authority,
name on a 1(11011 01 papers which had there will be at least seven thonsaud•
not been properly punethated: people present inside the . Abbey,
'Write to the stationery office for
Quite two-thirds 02 them...will see no -
a sufficient supply of full slops, Sell] 1- thing of the coronation reremonies*
colons and commas; for the use of I
the eePri"g whatever, though, of course, all will
"E 1115$ °M"' !hear the 1)211510 and .'see -the procee-
furnish these things out of my 010111
private stores when I hove time to present et the ceremony, including
sions. -Only three baronets will. be
look over despatches -for signature; .0 he . , , .
but 1 ant not ahvas's sultwiet,'rt:ly Elekinen
h'isliro to supply the" "heielleee'" The determination to hold the nee -
13eckett Bacon,
Pins for the purpose ef Ms1°Mngal rerieW bn the Saturday tollowbeg
papers together seemed to 1)1(11 mill
abomination, and this Was a minute, the coronation (*1remoniee has caused
very mach annoyance 0)1101)5 -the gen-.
eoneereing teem: eral public, but it must be reneem-,
"I desire that all the pies In this bored that the people who have en- •
ollice be immediately, made over to tertaining to do must be connider--•-
the female Munch or the establish- ed. 'To have pleolottged the coronae
WOMAN'S SNIBT WAIST.
The novelty of the season is un-
doubtedly, the shirt waist with
plaits that run to or over the
shoulders. 'The smart example illus-
trated combines that feature with
the new deep pointed cuffs and stuck
end is suited to all the season's
waistings, madras, Oxfords, pique,
charabrays, linen, batistes, silks,
light weight flannels, albatross and
the like; but in the original, is of
silk chambray in pale blue, stitched
with white, and is held by white
pearl buttons.
To cut this waist for a woman ofl
medium size, 4 yards of material 21
inches wide, 81. yartls 27 inches
wide 8 yards 82 inches wide or. Lie
yards 44, inches wide will be requir-
ed.
DANGERS OP CELLULOID,
A heated curling iron will readily;
start 1,1)82 evolution of dense awl!
highly Inflammable funleS if brought
in confect with a celluloid comb or
hairpin. says the London Lancet.
The proximity of a. -naked light adds
to the thon.rer mmemonsly, ler the
fumes of celluloid will ignite lierCely
at 801110 nollsi dera 3' dist a nee front
the flame. The 1(11311 flittetfirfirS of
these dime -ernes ortielee should be!
compelled 10 stamp plainly upon
(hem 113e words "highly innani-!
nimble." Th11 danger is no imagieary I
one. A gentlemen wit h n lighted
tiger in hie mouth wes tanying upon
an "A inericen ermine! hir»ished with;
cell
11 0131 oid keys. 'When some red-hot ;
ash dr01111ed ‘11,2011 the keys they 31 -
burst letee fumes and flame, I
which could only be extinguished
with the greateSt
11111.43 1313.1slon of TIDIC.
The division or time into honrs Was
practiced among the Babylonians fret**
remote nntiquity, but it WaS 1413)31)11'.
('112154, the philosopher, who introduce4.
the liebyleniun honr into' Europe. 'The
sexageslinal system of notation WAS
01108011 by that ancient people because
there is no number having so many di-
visions as sixty. The Babylonians di.
vided the daily journer -or the sou, the
ruler of the day, into twenty.rour pars -
stings. Each parasang or hotir 'wila
Ord/divided into sixty minutes and thet
again into sixty secolids. They com-
pered the 1(1105(0081 11111110 by the sun due.
ing one hour 2(1 111(1 time of the cqninox
to the progress *node by a good walker
in the Same period of time, both -cov-
ering one plieneeng, mid the conrse of
the min during the full equitioctial day
was fixed at twenty -rout Prtraeitnge.
o
Londoe's whiter temperature a vim -
ages 21745., and its summer 62/1g.
The eight nuiseles of the Minim
jaw exert a. force of about, 50011,.
1.1012 festivities another week, tell al-
ter the navel rerieur, would baye en-
tailed 011011110115 expense. Therefore,
for eronozny's sake these hard times,
it was not considered expedient to
put off the naval review for tt. week,
Besides, the achniealty• has, for
nearly a year, been making its ar-
rengements, and to put beck the Pre-
granune only one week- would have
caused a great upset in naval. MOW.,
molts all over the world;
SPECULATORS BUSY.
At Potannouth a great number of'
American specale.tors have been go- ..
leg about charteringevessele of all
descriptions, which they .intend hir-
ing only for review day. But, as a,
well known natttical authority said
to me, there is very great likelihood
of the aforesaid speculators coming* i-12
a nasty 'cropper, as it will ..be
shindy impoesible for limey -people
to get down to Portsmieuth for the
reVieW unless they go several days
ifefore the event. -and few would care
lo give up the London sights. in --
eluding. processions and illumine -7. , .
lions, for the sake of the review. .An
onicial at one of the railway stations
told 1110 that it Was considered next
to impossible for any great number
of people io get to the railway slit-
tiims Fridley night, let alone reach
Portsmouth, for millions of people
will be in the streets to see the coe-
onation and those who,
have had eXperience or shows like
this know that the steeets- are im-
passable except at a snail's pace,
hee0 heard that .any number of par-
ties are being mede up already by
society people to leave leondon alto-
ge•ther for coronation week, as they
don't intend to lose the naval re-
vhw. Rouses are letting first and
furious 011 the isle of Wight, 'rola the
of May, or abbut six weeks ear-
lier than usual.
ElLIANO TUE GOLDEN 000SE.
,As time advances it becomes 11101.0
apparent than ever that there ie --
ing to he a big slump in the business
of letting houses, seats and grand
stands unless the owners of these get
into a more reasonable frame 01
mind. (Inc wonld think that the • •
failures of some of those who erected
Siands 011 010 0110081011 of the Dia-
mond Jubilee would be too fresh in
the memory for such speculalors to
risk a repetition of that disaster.
Boards are appearing all along the
roilte where the proeessions ist both
days will miss. but Um prices eisked
are .so high_ that those in cludge Of
the box evfficee say business is bang-
ing flee terribly.
it is the mune with houses. neve
is one inetance of what owners ere
doing: -According to the statement
01 a certain house ngent, MI owner
wrote to him saying that his 1101186
usually lot for the 5e105011 tor 81,500
aR this wes coeonation year, he
would 'tate uothing less time $4,000,
It is the same till round with both
the larger and the smaller bailees.
11 is likely that if people wanting
houses, seats and grand stands will
only hold ont prices wilt suddenly
inite n, 27e11 great drop as the coro-
nation draws 110111'. Thorn is 110
danger ihat by waltieg they will
miss the elinuce or getting (1 522'0101110-
1102111131, There Will be found to be.
Plenty of 1.00311 for all,
"Mothbr," meld 11 eery 112551318,
"Mr. '.1'rl vitt 10111, his little boy on
an emend to get. 11 11(111[1PM things,
and Jimmy di do t forget our."
'"('11,11 's the right kind of boy to
NI ye," (4.110.8,1 1(1/4.0115.
WiSh yOli were like bin), iferantef you
alWays forget one or two." "ltut 1
emild rf member 1111 the things Mr.
'frit itt told jimmy to get.'"'Mutt
were they 1'' "A hundred fur,,tage