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Tt1 BRUSSELS P OS T
ANATHEMA, IVIARAN-ATEA,
yon.
REV. DR, TALMAGE EXPLAINS THE
MEANING OF THESE WORDS.
Personal Apriertesinee or 00e Saviour -Ms
',Overlie's!, or intseosition Took
Everybody's Troade-Veriell kir 0 Eon
. Nes to Love Jesus-TIve kr. Pictures
the Collates or Christ.
A deepateh -from Washington says:
-Bev, Dr. Talmage itretiehed from the
foln»ving text :-" If any men love net
the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Ana-
thema Maran-atha."-1 Con xvi. 22.
The smallest lad in tbe hose 'mews
the meaning of all those words except
the Iwo last, Anathema elaran-at ha,
Anathema, to out O. Mersa:net ha, at
His touting, So the \Ones passage
might read: "11 any man love not
• the Lord Jeeus Meet, let him be ton
off at His coming." Well, how could
the tender-hearted •Paut see' t hit 1 W e
have seeu him with tears discoursing
about human want, und flushed with
eXeiteraeot. about human sorrow', and
now he throws shoes red-hot words in-
to ibis letter to the Corinthians. Ilad-
be lost his patienee ? 0, no. Had he
resigned hiu eonsidence in the Chris-
tian religion? 0, no. Had the world
treated hint so badly that he had be-
come its swurn enemy 1 0. no.
needs some explanation, 1et.n.less and
I shall proceed to show by what Imo-
eess Paul Mine to ibe vehement ut-
teranee of my text. Before I close, if
God shall give His Spirit, you shall
eease to be surprised at the exclama-
tion of the -Apostle, and you. yourselves
will employ the same emphasis, de -
"Li any man Ime not the
Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathe-
ma .Maraneetha."
If the photographic art heti been dis-
covered early enough, we should have
the Metal proportions of C1ir1.11,-4 he
front face, the side fare, Jeeus sitting,
Jesus stending-preelded He had sub -
to that art ; but since the sun
did not bacome a portrait -painter un-
til eighteen vent uries aft er Christ, your
idea alentt the Sov Ma's personal ay-
pearance is alI guess -work. Still, tra-
dition tells us that He w as s he moat
infinitely beautiful being that eter
wanted our small earth. If His fret-,
tures had been rugged, and Ws gall
had eeen ungainly, that weuid net I
have bindered Him from being attrac-
tive. Many men you have known and i
loved have had few charnis of pbysiog-
nomy. Wiberforee was not attractive
in fare. '.4tiera4es was repulsive. Su- 1 a
warrow, the great leuesitut hero, leak- t
ed almost an imbeeite. And some wheal
you have known. time honored, and tov- A
ed, have not had very urea, au rain ire-
ness 01 pereenal appearanee.
THE SHAPE OP THE MOUTH,
and the nose. and the eyebrow, did not ir
hinder the soul from shining through d
the em ban of the face ip all-powerful f
irradiation. But to a lovely exterior a
Cheiet joined all loveliness of disposi-
tio. Rua through the galleries of
heaven, and fiud out that He is 111011- a
such. •fhe sunehiue nf His luve ming- ,st
ling with the shadows of His sorrows,
moseed by the crystalline stream of
Bis tears and the exims,n flow tog ft
forth of His blood, move a puituvewor- h
thy oi being called the masterpiece of
Is4t.tath"tIllog‘Itlakrly taP,Pumernansheaatiurb
, . LIU
111 be done winh anon herd lathavi
It seems to me Os there ought to
tionae ebastisenaent for a Mao who\
not love emelt tt enlist, Does it,
euake vow: 1)114041 tin le tu think
telt it the mioister 11153 fitlaellOOd.' 41. man
. standing next to Min said:
It may he yourself." "0, reo." he re-
nd eltedi "I shall live en to be an old
tit; mem' That night he breathed bis
inNEL.11.si Thursday, when the horse down
. 1 11 Hall (bodied off at such
:pi" •
11 farietis rale and beeeme uneontroi-
;, table. and the min leaped from the
carriage, artd his feet were e111101 111
the linem, and he W118 dragged a long
1,1! ditaanee end picked up stone clead-i
nhat a learning that was to tnose who
toek.ed 00I If thet had heen you In
,
e the carriage, end, yen had limped, and
1..„7 yeur feet had statight in the lines, and
16 you 1.1101 been pieked up as he yeas,
„ where would you have been this hour I
" Standing before some whit Acton shall
ist .
be lauoched into great eternity, what
are your equipments 1 About to jump,
ellette tvill yon land ? 0, the subject
Itt
rd1(1 overwbethiing 10 1114'. ant tn
„f
1)43' these things to you, I say them
1,1 to myself. "Lord, is it 1? .1s it 1
ur Soar of us pant to -night never to meet
td again. It never !refine, I now here
s, venunil. my situ] into the keeping of
the Lord Jesus Christ,
a
;Sewed the Lord JeFlUS Christ you strt
41541 01140. How you have
1..,//0,0KED 18 NEB
or• ?
be
till
not
of
Jesus euraing over the tens of thieue-
audit milee that meem to serarate
, God end us, mut then to ,'"we e wan
jostle Vint out, and puqh Elm batik,
and eliut the door in His facie, and
lremPle nnote His ent rea While
you may not bo able to rise up to title,
towering exellemmit of the ApoeLle i
ray text, ytwt eau at any rale some-
what understand his feelings when he
cried out: "Afi er all this, 'if a man
love mit the Lord JESUS Christ, let lsicn
be Anathema ;Huron -at ha,' "
Juoo IouI at 1h 141311411(1' o( no
loving Now, th.ire is nothing
that ext.ites a man like iniustit.e. You
41 elong the street, andi you see yoUr
little ehild buffeted, or a ruffien conies
' and takes it boy's hat and throwe it
into She ditch, yen nen; even
great meanness, tenot injustice, tloatt
is." You cannot stand injustice. 1
rvotr.roher.. t1.1 hoyhoot! days,
41j51 11 •
4141 1101114141 111 1I'iJl
.11.al I. New York. Thousands of peo
were huzzaimr, and the same kind
audiences were easetubleil at the same
time in Boston, Edinburgh, and Lon-
don. Why Because the Medial
family in Itaiv, toot been robbed of
their Bible, "A little thing" you :say.
Ali, tlIal IILJUSII1? 041115 arouse e i it f orl1c10.
i't0110r,U1
RUT while we are so sensitive about
injusti,e as het ween mnir and 011111
him 111 1 le SellSitiS14 We are about in-
justice bet ween man and God, if
there ever was a fair and. square pur-
ehase of anyt hing. then Christ pur-
chased us.
• HE .PALD FOR US
not shekels,. not in 2411114' 1)41 coins
inseFilied With effigies of 111,1.-eelmt, or
Aninna s toe:elate or tyre of ene,
but in 1100 10.101:4 voin-one red, the
other .glittering -td. od and rearse 11
anything it) pa:based and paid for,
(mane not the goals 10 be delivered ?
if you leave bought a property and
given the money, do you net want to
Male into possession of it
you say. "1 vcill have ic. boughot
and rend for it." And you will go
maw Itee it, and you will denounee the
man as a defrauder. Aye, if need be,.
you will hurl him into jail. Yoe will
say: "I am bound to gee that property.
I bought it. 1. paid fur it. .Now,
transpose the ease. Suppose Jesus
Christ to be the wronged yurehaser on
the one side, and the imeeeitent stml
t;}.11. Ithel oAtrt TiyeinauteubtdeaftrusuudehHiam
exorlaane price. and huw do you fte&
thout that injustiee 1 flow do you
feel towards thet spiritual fraud, tur-
aiude, perady A. man with an
ardent terutaerament rises yender un-
der the gallery, and he saye thEtt sue.h
njusitee as between naan and men is
t tol ,
' Go
Pel'iliPelliteebtTbbeettinedeunulaeli 'ttlitre
011
he brings his fist down on the Pew
nd he says: "1 can stand thie injus
iee no longer. After all this pur
LiTtee 'ght1tr, n.1:11.1 igt7flot 1 .11141eatenia:
toren-it "
go 011 (1 further, and thow you inn
theidal it is for a man nut to luv
'Mho,. If a man gels in treuble, an
ie cannot .get out, we hove only un
eeing towards him-symiatthy t
ester to help him, 11 he ha
ailed for a veal. amount of money
nd Cannot pay more than ten cent
a dollar, oye 11 he eannot pay any
dug. thougli oreditors may cow
iter him like a peek of hounds, w
yumathize With him. We go to hi
ore nr house, and we express out
m(10161.1.0, But suppose the. day be
ore that man failed, NV infant E, Dodge
ad erene into his store and said: "3Iy
dend, I bear you are in tumble. I
ave come to help you. If ten dent-
in,' dollars will see you through pair
erplexity, I have a 1011 11 ef thea
11.41 0 for you. Here ie thettue fat
e tinemnt of that loan.' Suppose the
en sent "Witb that ten 11)041811nd
ol ate could get threued, until next
uing, and then everything, will he
i right; but, Mr. Dedge, 1 don't want
; won't take it; I would rather fail
an tale!) it; duet even thank you
r offering it," Your synnenthy for
at Milo would (tease imme d in e 1 ye
ou tvuuld say: lied fair (11)' 14
11, I ,rit have gia oat; he wanks to
How you Wive broken Ilis heart,
eou, my brother, ever metteuve
Meaning of that one passege; "Beheld,
stand at the door and knork?"
:mem ratite to me as it did this aft
noon, white I eas thinning on t
sulefeet, "Beheld, I stand at thesis
anti knoek." Seem Jenuttry day, t
therraimwter five degreea below ze
1111111 illid the sleet. beating me4.
lesely against you, yoit go up the sti
of a butiee wheke you have a ery
portant errand, You knock with('
knuckle. No answer, YOU aro Ve
earnest, slid you sore freealtig.
lleXt thin, you kilut:It harder, After
whilp. with your ftst you beat agar
'the door, 'You 51141111 get, latil
1 11/0a Le is carelese or stubborn, and
does nia want you Your errat
I •11 • 1. , ',IN go au tte. The Le
Jesus Christ (Vines Up on, the Kees
your heart, and with very sore bto
11, knoeks hard nt the door of yo
t(Inst,is „111Minstan5li:lailTfItii% Il111 tehri 07k
14.4. says: "bet Ate in. Ignave (mine
4
gleat 44ar, I Ilitre VOW 11 1 1 the wey
from 'Nazareth, from Bethlehem, front
ide Golgotha. Let 3te in. I am shivering BREAKING.THE SAD NEWS.
0-1 and blue old) the wild, Let ele in.
My feet are hare but for their coverit
for a turban of 10100111es.
of 1,100d, 'My head is uneovereci b
13, ;
i.sti 11 0111015 of toot, and head, an
heart, I beg you to let 3Ie i
0, 1 5111V41 1111013 bore a great while, an
the n:tedo is getting darker. 1 a
rant with hunger. I aria (Imo. to gt
in. , it te latch -shove bee* ti
non. Won't you let Me in ? 'Won
you ? 'Behold, I stand at the door an
knooke" But after awhile, my broth
el', the scene will change. It will b
ariether door. 11111 Cbr1st will be on th
other ' I 11, e On 1
inside, and the rejected sinner will b
on the outside, and the sumer wil
say: "Let sito in, let tne in. I her
male and knock al the door14(1
(.11111 a great Uay. I eenie the wa
fr,na earth.
1 AM SICE .AND DYING.
pm.
111(111.0:0 Men on streetal Doty to Notify
6
1111 ef el 'f •
41 Wle s en 1 eclElents Occur.
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111
'1 dSSc1 11141410(3
le I 14
news to widows ami orphans at home,
't
d I did it myself for thirteen years. The
- I company chose me because I was faill-
e met, looking, Rod I Muck to the job
e
' Ion I d, • '.. . • ,
e work, To go into Et home and hear
1 , the wife singing about her Work and
, be compelled to tell her that her
4 ; Jack's just been killed down in the
y ; freight yard takes nerve.
i "Of course, had different ways of i
s breaking the news. Sometimes 'asked
f what Hine Jim would be home, or
tt where he was going that night, any- .
thing to get started, especially if
, knew the Wolnan. Strange to say, when-,
- ever I came near the fact, saying I'd
e heard that Jim was hurt, the Wonlen
would scream out. they were sure he
o was killed. Tbea I let, them cry awhile
▪ tantil they'd get ready co ask further
Shout it, ,It Was nOt so hard atter
I that. I often thought that the wom-
employees to inform wives tbat tbeir
husbands had been killed," said a rail-
road boss," but now regular men do it
' -men who knowh • b •
0,44 1114. in. The merciless storm heat
iliy unsheltered head, The wolves 1,
a great night are on my track. Le
me in, With both fists 114101 agains
this door. O. let me in. 0, Christ, le
n•,te in. 0, Holy Ghost, let me in. 0
Gad, let ine in, 0, my glorified kin
dre.1, lei me in." No answer save th
mice Cbrist wh'o shall say: "Sin
nee. When 1 str,od at yotir door, you
woold not let Itle in. and now you or
standing at 4y door, and canno
lel you in. The day of your grace I
past. Officer of the law, seize him.
And while the arrest is going on, Etl
the nlyr01d u eaten rose on gallery
Bald. throne, and cry with a loud voice
that snakes. the eternal city quake
from Cap -stone to foundation, saying
"If any Mau love not the Lord Jesus
Christ, let hina be Anathema Mayan
atha..'"
d Wheat a ratio refuses 1 love Cbrist
and rejects Him, the Apostle intimates
- he butchers Jesus, and you cannot get
- any other meanieg put of that pas -
05 He "crucifies the Lord of
Glory." It is just as if you went to
a timber -yard and gut 1400 pieces of
wood, a long piece and a short piece,
and barainercol them together, and
d thou you went to an apothecary's'
; sutore and get a chemist to Mix ou
, p the bitterest draught IMeelblee_ened
t:t then emu caught Christ and li ted
on the one and made Hint drink the
; other, 13y our sties we have done this,
We have ripped open the old wounds.
• We have flogged Christ witb thongs
; that cut. to the spinal column. We
have pelted Him with iron hammers,
• 0, pear soul, stop that. Quit that
niasstlere. of a God! Take your bands
ff II m / Decide Dpeide 0, is that
hat 11- (01' C0mlctg 10 4(1041 usl
Fm His kiss of loveedo we give Him
the blow of rejection ? Crucl. Cruel
IVIa...er I think of all this, my surprise
Id the .:1pestle ceases, and I have
. me at last to the point at Which the
An ,stle spoke, Ant I feel as Veheinent-
ly as he did, and I can join with him!
and
en saw so much sorrow in my Lunt
, from my long serving in the business '
that they knew what I came for. I
tried to look cheerful, but there was a
- weight in my heart that euu/dn't
throw off.
111, eternities. Fiume 00 Waft Of 1 „
en, the eelestim toptilat nal 14, oll1rt !
be enchanted but for the feet that they '
have the grand and magnificent ori- tui
1, and they want rit, picture. lent
Christ .beving gone ao ay from ea
we are dependent Upon lour
meturee. Mat hew look one, Marken -Lib
other, Luke another, and John amen- 1 -0
r eare not Iv Web picture you lake
it is lovely. Lovely He 00 1414 1111(igelh-,;.
er lovely, He lent way a taking upl
a dropsical limb 11 it hum hurting and ti
14 renewing the valiance from lie eye
01(1 hotti the knife. and of starting the ho
rireuletion hroUgh the shrunken ar- f„
tortes feitiltalt the ehttek of (he elev.l tee to
bat tory. and of putt ing int el tigenre t 11
to the dull st f I •111(3 of
stringing the auditory nerve of the '
deaf ear, and Of striking a 01 lettlitt lon
into the stiff tongue, WWI of making 11,
the stark-naked ,mailina» dress him- i
self and exehange tranbsione for 01 0 00
-
man, and of 4111 looking from the skele- 111
ton grip of deo, 11 the daughter Jair- fa
us to einbeeton her in her geed futheret 111
it uees ,0l help 11014 lel inm
il." there ie no one in all this
use who would have any sympat hy
O that man. Bur do not let us lie
o hasty. Christ bea I'S of our epiri-
al emberrassments, Ile finds that
e are in the very verge of
ETERNAL DEFALCATION.
• finds the law kte eking al our (Moe
th this dun: "Poe. wbat thou
est." Ws do not know which wily
1 urn, Pay? We cannot pay14
rthiug a oll the millions of nbliga-
in, Well, Chr(s) comes in enti savg
arms. 0, Er, e. ! ocely-erte mg. at and- "1
!ng, kneeling, lying clown-elways love- no
lere is .31) name; you can use 31y
am, out name will be worthless,
. ve y is sect ifiee. hy, He lin
gave up everything ter US. Mins, cel- of
etimeanionship, Mush. of sera- iin
Otte harps, balmy breath of et I' rent , so
allanner, all joy, all light, nil muse., Int
ilnd hened the go (418 slant shut behind or
Ilirn as Ile Paine Dill 1 0 fight for our no
freedom, and with bare feet plunged 044
On the sharp javelins of human and "T
talanie bate, trail His blond spurted bit
into the hives of those Who. tnk
slew You want the soft, to
low, minor key 14, sweetest mush.. rat
to deseribe the pathos; bUt it neetili an lull
orehestra, tinder swing of arehangel's wh
baton, renething from throne lo man- ma
ger, to drum and trumpet the doxofo-,1111
fries of HIS praise. Hp took every- tin
vbrod"a troy Be -the leper's swknems,' wit
the widow's dead boy, the herlatet 'gra
ithome, the Go li lea n fisherman'e poor "if
lurk, the invalidism of Simon's ruttih-.Ch
- a V, 1e sting of AltilehlAS tint- 11
putated ear. Ile noir el/N.71,0E17's 1
troulile. Some people cry very easily, nu,
and for 80(05 71 is very diftieult to ery. Jee
A GREAT MANY TEARS for
on Home eheelts do not mean so tnuelt Yita
as one leer an another eheek. What, rut
Is thei 1 see glittering in the mild eye evil
of Jettue1 It was n1 1 the SorrOWS of An
emelt. rind the WoeS of hell, from. whieb 511)
• He lied plueked mer aecreted ine 7011
to rilO tranteinrent drop, lingering on to
the lower e.yelash 1141111 it fell n nein
theek red with the Stap Of Illiertan and
1 147 red 1111 1111Writing on the back
(1110 obligation nen got you through
ieli 1' re.' Now suppose the seul
ye: "1 know 1 (4 113 in debt; I vane
ee these obligations either in time
in eternity; but, 0 Christ, I wan(
1 'thy help: 1 ask not Thy reseue, Go
ay from me," You WOO d say:
hal roan, why, he deserves to die, Ile
d the offer of help; he would itot
1.1 it. He is a free agent; he ought
have Whitt 11..Wori1si 11.. rho° es deal h
her t lion life, Ougbt you not give
n freedom of thoicer"I'hough
ile ago there Was Only one ardent
n un ler the gallery', who under:amid
Apostle, now there ere hunerede
the house who oan say nad tie sly
tun themselves; "After ell this in -
if tole, anti rejection, and abet Bliley,
any man love not the Lord Jesus
riot, let him be Anatheme leferan-
tt.,,
go e stop farther, end say it is
et eruel for a man not to 10
US. The meanest thing I could do
YOu would lie n 'mile .1, huvt
O feelings. 441,41 p words sontet lines
like a dagger. An unkind look
1 semetimes rive like the lightning,
unkind deed may overmaster a sen-
ve eeirit, and if your have mode up
r mind tlint you hove done wrong
any one, it does not Like you two
utes to make up your. Mind Ws)
apologize. Now, Christ. is a
550e, salt, hitter, burning
tear 'of ..Tnsus. No wonder thnt reek,
end sky, end reinetery were In eons -ter -
'Amino when He died, No wonder the
universe was ennvilsed, It wns the
tord God Almighty bursting into
handle of delicacy end se.nsittvermas,
0 what rough treatment He has re-
ceived sometimes from our intuits. We
have strut* Him in the fare, end Oil
the swollen ehoulder, and on the in-
flamed temple. Every time ,you re-
TtIle GREAT MULTITVDE
oil gallery and throne one hundred
Lind ferty and four thousand, saying:
"lf, after all this, a man love 1101 Ole
.Loril Jesus Christ, let him be Ana-
thorna Maraa-atha."
Me t'ex proztouncos Auathenaa Mar-
an-atha upon all those wile refuse to ;
love hrist. Anathenet-cut off. rut.
off front light, from hope, from peace,
frhm heaven. 0 sharp, keen, sword-
like words! Cut off Everlastingly
eut off! "Behold therefore Ihe good- 1
owes and • ;041 4
Lin ro wineh severity; but
104, 01,1 (bee, geodness, if thou
time in Ilis goodness; el hetwise
et,
thou atso shell he mit off," Maran-4
5111-1 hat is the other word, "Wlem
tie emnes" is the tileining of it, Wiel
Ile eome ? I see no signs of it,
looked inth lite sky I:tenth/lit 11.4 1 rOdli
down to eintreli. sate 110 eugns of
the mining. No signal of Gud ein ,
eeartnee. The earth stands eolid on its
oundetem. No ery of welcome or of
wee., Will 1Ie come Ile will, Mar-
an-titha Hear it, ye mountein, and
prep.tro 10 Nil, Ye cities, and prepare
reign, Ye wicked, tend prepare to die,
to but n. Ye right:tome, prepare 40
.Ma run -a !ha 1 Ma ran -a tha I Ile corers
It etteme to toe as if Ile may lie•start-
ing now, as though Ile had ordered up
Ills chariot with fire -shod Jig/lining:a
hathessed to it. The retinue mouriL-
ed in front, mounted behind, I bear
the clank of the sword of judgment.
Open the gates, and they come mete
and they ride down the. steep hills of
henven, ten hotteand sainle4 His body
gutted. I hear the galloping of the
hoofs of the snow-white weds, near -
Ye
Int rl, ye cursed I Ma -ran -tithe ar-
a n -a tba 1 But 0, My throttler, .0 am
not tei aroused by that coming as am
to a previous tanning, and that is the
coming of 011 death -hour, witich will
fix everthing for ue. enn»ot exact-
ly say whether it will he in the 110010,
or at the sundown when the people
are coming home, or in the morning
whom the world is waking up, or vvhila
the chick is
STRIXING TWELVE AT 711.4}Er.
nearer. Awake, yo dead 1
books Come, ye bleseed Dee
Bath I tell you what think, that: with
Sonlo of you ii will be before next Sun-
day night.
A minister of the Gospel said to en
audience); "Before next Sabbath SOnle
ot you will lbe gone." And a Man said
during the week: "I shall watth now,
non if no One (Dee In our oongregation
during this week, shall go and tell
SACRIFICE ALL FOR CREED —thpne,„:1-ag e1virrgi?MleqP°3178r)::
VASTLY DIFFERENT WAYS 0
PROPITIATING THE DEITY,
world until be is reduced to tnakednees.
But the initiates who want to bo
° Medicine Men break the retiord. In
eertatn tribes they used quite lately
to bite everybody they met -bite out
great chunka. Also they ate live
Ing, and up to Om year 1889 they vet-
ettiole. ate rorpsei4 anfong the Qaugutl.
GODS APPEASED BY BOMAN BLOOD
The Azle(' tribes of Blexico made tee-
mendous sarrifleem for their religion,
Lanefiliflt,leettretjnaetlifrmssi_aveavso,rtylbeffiiii.ye.oninte tibaely
except hemsel yes. Our aneetstors, tit
eneient Britons, clic' worse, for wbere-
oauerthroerAcrzattebresrsonly clubbed or stabbed,
burned their to
death. It is said Oita on great tie -
(tasking at immense statue was built
of wiekerwork, filled with living pee-
ple, antt tnen burned, A great many
African tribes make htunan eacrifiee!
now to juju, and In some of Our re
cent wars -notably the Be.nin eam
paign-we have te ken int Ova ci les"
whien were nothing better than.
vast, slaughtering grounds, full of bu
man TOMaille. As will be remember
ed, the wells in Benin CIty were full
of corpses, and &eery jackal ha Afriea
ebeaermhosocict.to be fattentng in the neigh -
Women ha Hindustan think nothing
of death for their religion, The prae-
Gee of suttee, or widow -burning, ite
still practiced, though strangly put
down. A Japanese, tvhose religion hi
hie honor, commits suieble by the ela-
borate and awful ceremonial of hertz-
kiri, and his relations look on and ela
prove
Tke sititietties sten of kan, When Onee
Aroused, E•rit stole m Nothing snort
or the Weld.. pervisii 511111055 Di lit
ersetemettlatten, mot aaetent urtte.11;
spinet' ee tmatotatteit,
Althougb to a cerinin extent and ine
ft certain sense the religion of tb
'Western Hemisphere and of those peo-
plea whom the English -Speaking na-
tions cal/ "civilized" is deep and more
:spiritual than that of the Emit, no-
thing strikes the traveler and the his
tartan more vividly than the inteneity
which those races lett° are bred be-
neath the hottest rays of the sun will
cling to their beliefs. Beside the
faith a the simplest Chaental Europ-
ean anti Ameriean Cbriatianity fades
into mere platitudes. Your refined
Westerner rarely furniebes a martyr,
if martyrs Ilre desirable,
DERVISHES MUTILATE THEM-
SELVES.
Few religions impose on their fol-
lowers a more treenendoue task than
the pilgrim:1ga to At:tea-the Hadj, as
it is called. Prom 310roceo On one
side, and from India on the other
a thful followers of Moblunmed brave
the very real dangers of thousands
1,
of ALL FOR CREED.
miles of desert and sea to visit the
Prophet's tomb and gain the eoveted
privilege of tbe green turban. The
risit oI cholera alone is terrific, It
rages always at Meucci, and is sprend
by tbe reeking water „of the Prophet's
well, swarming with disease germs.
Teavelers who have visited the Emit
hare probably seen something of the
'whirling bands of daneing dervishes,
but it is not generally known (.bat
these dervishes at certain times as-
semble in thousands in Constanttnople,
and there, after dancing uotil they fall
into a sort of hysterical freney, gash
themselves frightfully with keen -
bladed knives. Death often ensues
from sheer loss of blood, bul it never
cheeks the practice.
A European doetor wbo was present,
disguised, at ene of these performances
deciared that tbe men's bodies were
literally covered with old sears and
balf-healed and open wounds, and that
be could not imagine how any human
being could survive sueh! an ordeal.
TERRIBLE HETES OF BUDDHISM,
The Buddhist religion has 5e0,00051100
°Dowers, chiefly in Further India,
Ceylon and China. Pilgrimages are
as essential to Ilindoos as to leloham-
inednnm
s -and not only to en but to
vomen One pilgrimage ie to 111op of A.dara's Peak in Ceylon. There,
,420 feet above the $ea, is tne print
1 Buddha's foot, and thither the
ileginte climb up an ascent so steep
hat the only way of reataiing the sum-
mit is by iron cbains Xasteued to 1.11o.dr,
1u some cases, notably among Hin-
cio sects; a man who is dd evoteto
eligion mull think. Of nothing else,
01 505511 of cleanliness, He straps
irdeelt to a post, and so remains in
(lenient for the rest, of his lite. He
05118. one ;hand elasped for years un
le the finger nails grow right through
I began by saying that there might el
"I once called at the home of a e
yougn wife. Her husband, an engineer
was killed at a bridge that morning.
When she opened the door and look-
ed au nte she dropped In a dead faint e
without saying a word. Afterward she t
told me that sbe had taken 41 nap after 7
breakfast that morning and had seen 0
me in her dream etanding in front uf p
her, telling 1101 171411 Barry was killed. t
Once the ware I came to learn was mak-
ing bread. She was up to her elbows r
in dough. 1 asked wIlere Mr. Jones
lived, walked off and waited for balf
an hour until she got her bread in "
the pans, and then I went back and r
' told her the sad story of her husband's n
death by a cave -ha at a culvert. At 11
another bouse, the mother and two
children, neatly dressed were ready to it
go to 41841114147 school picnicit took t
14
nerve to stop them tind break the news.
the palm., extending, perbape, four or
be rain. It was cloudy. 'rhen said v
to the wife she had better not go SS
TOM might be baek from Work. pret-
ty soon. Then ehe knew.
1151(0(1 the company to be relie.e-
ed a my jeb three times before they
found some one to take toy pine."
ROYAL AUTHORS.
Queen Victoria has always had a
leaning toward authorship and the has
often related to diet inguiehed members
of the writers' craft bow she. when
young, sent anonymous contributions,
cbiefly poems, to editors, only to re-
ceive them bade with the usual expres-
sion '0 regret.
The same experienee befell both the
Prineess Louise, the Marchioness of
Lorne, and the late Duke of Ahbany.
The latter Wed to tell how en editor
wm a
rote to hit the same time re-
turning his manuscript, to fthe effect
that althougb the statemente llamado
were interesting enough, they seem-
ed to be "quite without Authority,'
The Princess 105)15 (11015 fortunate on
many 01080101353. One editor repeated-
ly accepted articles on art from her be-
fore he discovered her identity.
The Princess says that one tit the
proudest momenta of her life was that
In which she found a cheek made out
to herself, in the name of "Myra Fon-
timely,' fox literary work.
701wife of the Gernann Emperor,
Ion, a few years ago was keen oi at-
quirinp literary fame. Her book, a
gory of old German days, wandered
from publisher to publisher without n
kind word being said for it --o feet
whirl. the Empress now acknowledg-
es caused ber more disappointment
then any other trouble had ever done,
Antal' the book had Made Its ronnd
the Biomes wished to publish it on
her own 11050(1(11, hut 008 stringly die-
eunded from doing so by the Enver-
Or,
Sontehow the story got abroad among
the publishers, and the Empress watt
waited upon one day by a deputate
from a leeding publishing firm of Ber-
ta who asked to be allowed the honor
of publishing her work. The Empress
told the deputation Ilutt her experientio
as an authoress had caused her 50 1111104
disappointraent that after her husband
had read tvbat she had written and
prononneed unfavorable upon it she
had ordered the manuscript to be des-
troyed.
Only onb death frione Mnallpox laas
been registeeed Londoia tinting the
pent tWelvo Menthe.
ve 121,3)011, 011 he tother side. Ile
ows to keep one arm extended, and
alter months or years of agony the
museles anti bones stiffen into a rigid
bar beyond all emurol. He stands on
one leg, and in time the other leg be -
tomes toe feeble to support the slight-
est weight, HO walls himself up in a
ale, which be never leaves. Very
ifterent is the Moslem. W1.10 shaves
1.1 head and goes :laud for the sake
f more perfeet cleanliness, leaving
nly a 10-e14 of hair by whiele he thinks
e Prophet, ilia master, will lift tahn
haven.
TORTliR.E MADE A WARRIOR.
la
11
a
h
to
Some of the Indians used to share
the Seine belief, but there was a xnutth
finer raitli among the fighting tribes
of the plains and the Rooky Mountains.
There a e ou uma who wanted to rise
to the rank 01 warrtor went out alone
into the wilderness, where he starved
)limoslf mail be saw visions. 'the Rig
SpiXii. COMO to him and told him his
wampum or metibine. This might be
a sleek or stone, and so long as be Oar -
lied it be shoulil have the protecLion
of ItLe god. Wheu he got his teem-
purn he went back to the Lribe, where
he submitted to long boors QS torture,
hanging to a rope festened into great
slits in his chest, nail 14 quivering
Hersh tore away. If he made so inueb
as a man 05 ery he was dressed as a
equase, and must be a slave forever,
hut if he bore the ordeal he becarae a
warrior. That religion bred up a
splendid race of mem genermis, hardy
and brave. In India '-hook swinging"
was a well-known but awful cere-
beg. The suflerer was slung in the
air by reteel hooks through the flesh
of bisback, ft has now been 'done
away wttla by the:British Govern -
anent.
THE tIBTQUITIOhTS 1411331131713 MAN,
The commonest kind of religion
among savages is Shatuaniena. The
Shemin is the medicine. Man Or magi -
chin who praetites wittheraft or blaelt
megie eo please the spirits who rule
the world: Generally he Is a pretty
bed tot, because be extorts hrom the
people more than even the thief, and
anybody who disobeys gets murdered
or sacrificed to the gods. In the
South Sea Wends the Sheninn end all
his property are taboo -must not he
teuebed an pain of instant death.
Among Taints, the Shaman heals tbe
sick by driving out evil spirits. He
does this by sitting beside the patient,
bowling and drumming night or day
until the victim dies or gets well mit
of sheer desperation. In obstinate
oases theeShaman jumps ate anti dowt
enethe patient's chest, who has to pay
it high Terme for the treatment. The
sit* suffer nauela for their religion.
Arno)* the Britisb Columbia cook
vibes ft man hos at certain feasts
130418 '0 all that xnan holds dear,
)lunger, thirst, torture unspeakaide,
death even? What is there that a mon
will 1401 (10 for his el:Egli/us bellefai 11
ls one of llee most remarkable 111114415in the world to native what the Morn -
hers of the different 1101 118 consider
the highest virtues, and the way in
00111,11 each think their separate rites
anti pracdices the best and most pleas-
ing.
English peoples most not be selfisb
and deny that virtues are possible 30
those who do not believe as they do.
Of the inmme of Christian petit/lea only
5 per eent goes in charity; the Hebrew
rime give avvay just double mueb in
proportion. The Maborasuedans prae-
tiee what they preach in the wtry of
abstinerwe during the month of Rem-
cifhan, their Lent. They go absolute-
ly without food until nightfall every
day of the whole month. 'fhe true
Mithounuedan Le a total abstainer.
QUEENS OF THE' WORLD.
The tallest Queen in Europe is the
young Withelminn, of Holland. She
15 0117 nineteen years oldbut reaches
5 feet 11 1-2 inthes ioto the nir. She
is lightly built, with a weight of only
130 pounds but has the, bust inreattre-
ment of a Juno -42 inches. Her waist
meaeures only 21 1-2 inehee and tier
hips 40 inches. Her Majesty of MI -
land is, in other words,so ill advised
as to lace herself most cruelty,
Wilhelminios Inlet ineasurement, de-
spite her yiuth, is surpassed by that
of none of the Queene except Mar-
gherita of Italy and Victoria of Great
Britain, The latter is the shortest
sovereign in Europe, She is only 4
feet 11 inthes high a.nd tips the beam
51 171 pounds.
The heaviest Queen in Europe is
/elan-sheen:a of Italy, "the Pearl of
Savoy." She turns the scales at 174
pounds, but her height, 5 fret 5 inebes,
enables her to "cerry off ' her stout-
ztess and to preserve the carriage of a
fine woman, Her waist measure of
40 inehes shows that despite her ad-
vaneing years sbe still retain) a queen-
ly figure. Her hips measure 48 inches.
.A shade taller than elargherita ie
the more willowy Queen Regent of
Spain, She is 5 feet 5 2-5 inches in
heiglit, with a weight ot 147 petunia
lter bust and hips measure 115 and 40
inthes, respectively, and her waist is
el inches about,
One el the most superb figures
amung Lrteropean royalties is that or
Natalie, the romentle Queen of Bereia,
Sim is 5 feet 4 3-1 inehes high,evith
a buitt measure 22 inehes, htpe
are 41) inehes around, and ehe weightt
130 pounds,'
Queen Sophia of Sweden mid Queen
Marie Henrietta of Belgaina are eath
.5 feet 4 imhes in height a.nd. their bust
mearture is 30 inches. Queen Sophia
weighs 110 pounds and Queen Marie 3
pounds more„The Sweelith queen pos-
seases on the W11010, however, the more
stylleh, if less natural, figure, with a
waist Immure of 24 inelles, and a hip
measure of 38, while the Queen of the
Belgitual meaeures 27 inohes around (hi,
watet and et) around the hips,
The Queen of Portugal and the Czar-
ina of Itussto are closely paired in the
matter of aim Queen Amelia te older
and has a nailer ana more Inanonly
tigure. fehe had a bust ineaeure ot 35
inehes and a waist measure of '23, hut
Nome time ago she gave up wearing
corsets, and the inereatte at her Witiat
measurement has not been recorded.
The Czarine is only ai inches mon/1cl
Ole bust and 22 around the wide!.
Their hip naeasure is or was the same
-SS 'tithes, The Czarina is' 5 feet 2
1-2 inehee tall and weight) 120 pounds,
while Queen Maxie weighs i23 emends
and is half an inch Miter,
There is not in the entire group a
beautilul figure, acco Ming to the
ideals of the seulptors, which differ
from those of the dressmakers,
1I114 GOOD CON.DUCT.
The Manager -How (lame you to
leave your last place?
Applicant -I was ditteharged for
good bebavior, sir,
The Matinger-Ilischnrgecl tor good
behavior? That's unueual, isn't
1519
Applicant -Well, you see, good ton -
duet took nixie months off my Sen-
tence.,
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MISMATED BARS.
I suppose yea are mire a person s
two intro are not of equal etrength?
yes, I know tote uf men who
have a deaf ant for beggarand a
meet acute one for Invitations to
drink.
AUG 11, 1R99
-srcolooz-J.Es xgcsa317=04,
A LITTLE GIRL'S PLAINT.
My brother Will, lie ueed to be
Tim nieent kind of girl
He wore a little (trees /Ike ate,
And had Ws hair ite purl.
Wete7Wittbd:il84lid ten"48'
hi,Ande03,liladft0y;
linwhiaillituttltaent:e4gintiotdo aoldbotyimes are gone
Rflar!imthaploiteckeetntsadinh
e Ole
hra
iplaituttlse; sults,
And 'us off ail his yellow curie,
And Rent them to my aunts,
And Will, he wan so pleased, I biliev
Me almont jumped with joy; '
But I must own I didn't like ,
Will turned 1411.0410 boy,
And »Ow he plajia with horrid tops
I don't know now to spin,
And marbles that I try tri Shoot.
But never bit or win,
And leapfrog -I can't give a "beak'
Like Charlie, Frank, or Roy,
Olt, no one knows: how bad I tea,
Sint* Will has torned a boy!
I have to wear frocks juet the same, .
And nove they're 'mostly white; .
I have to sit and just be good,
While lei 1 11 can climb and fight.
But I must keep dressea Mee,
And wear lny hair in curel,
And, woree-ote worstest thing of all -
1 have to stay a girll
DIG STRIKE IN 111I1 KITCHEN.
It was evening and the who
s1Ioti/t1 long 11140 have gone out, was
engaged ill a heated 1liS0111180.111 with
the Boiler 08 to his views of forming
a culinary club or union fur the pro-
tection of the several interests of all
the kitchen utensils. The object of
tine organizeLion 0111.5 to be a general
diecussion by the various denizene of
the kitchen on that very I'm:mannl
ettliject, the betterment of their social
condition and a raise In wages.
A general call was sent out, to which
all of the utemits promptly responded,
viewe or the Fire were somewhat
limited in .Range; in fact, his best laid
schemes invariably teent ttpt in smoke,
ehe Broom then oftertd a few sweeps
11)41 temarks, which were instantly
taken up by the Dustpan, who offer-
ed to (1ert.). them out at owe, 33441 1135
Poker then suggested that as aergeant
al arms he should stir up all ef. Ole
other utensils and get a thought from
each. The Stove who had just given
the Meat a terrible toasting, now call.
ect on the Saucepan and said that it
woe fully time tbat the Soup WAS laid
on the Table. Tbo Table took exeep-
btilii,mnit.o this, and said that everything
appeared always to he oimat
,
which the Loaf laughed hysterically,
which every one amid WEIS most 511
The Cabbage, who had fairly been
boiling over all this time, remarked to
Ole Corn Beef that it was high time
they celled on the ineh, The Dish
took it upon inmeelf LO make several
personal remarks about the Spoon,
who was always flirting with the Fork
to which (bo Knife matte some cutting
remarks in behalf of his friend the,
Fork, Tbe Fork retorted that if any
sauce was wanted her friend the Tare.
en would supply all that Woe needed.
'The Onion was on his feet in a mom-
ent, and in a few stinging words,
which actually brought tears to the
eyes of the Potato, said they had been
waiting e long time to hear what the
Sala11 ha11 to propose. Now the Salad
had been all thia tinle dressing, and
felt very Hour at (be Vinegar, whobad
been aitking her to hurry up for some
time, The Sugar, with a few sweet
wolde, soon put things to rights with
the help of the Cruet, who alwaye had
a happy way of pouring oil on troubled
watere, The 51,:s1ard was feeling
very hot at what appeared to be neg-
lect On the part of the assembled corn-
tplaunby regarding the purposes of tho
. Then the Steak, who was always
ready for Moil with the Gridiron,
threw in a few savory remarks. The
Kettle, who all this time bad been
quietly singing to herself, now began
to bubble over with excitetuent, and
atiempted to draw the attention of
the Tea, who was engaged ln a quiet
tete-a-tete with the Cream Pitcher
but as little, pitalaers have: large ears,
hearing everything, she immediately
rematked that it was enough to curdle
the blood in your veins to see such go-
iogs on in a quiet kitehen.
'the Sago here made a wlee request
that the original subject of the meet-
ing be adhered to, and thought it was
Thyme that some real seasonable 5(141-
wore made, so that they
mighi come to some rational nonplus -
ion. The Oyster said he would open
with a 1-2 dozen words in beel-e of his
friend, the Clam, Into Waal engaged In
a very similar occupation, baL said, be
might be stewed, broiled or fried, but he
frieassed if he coulcl underatand tvhat
the meeting teas all about.
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A RAT'S TACT,.
Tnere are, more muaeles in the tail
of a rat than in the hand of a 1110.10
just think how ramy touselea that
must be. Look at your hand end
count how many movements you aan
make with it. Every finger, can be
moved forward and baeltward and from
side to side, every joul1 has ite own
separate moveMents, the wrist can be
moved in any direetion you please, and
for each little motion there is a sep-
arate set of HUM muscles, each one of
which will do just what you want it
to.
The rat's long tail is just as handy
to him as our hands are to us. 137' its
ape he crawls along narrow ledges a n
holde ou tightly with it. He uses it.,
too, in jumping, and ran jump to ri
great height, for a ret, 111 this way.
QUEDR, MIMS HOGS.
. Did you ever notice how many dif...
eerent shapethe birels' ego baits V All
of tbese dieferent shapes are to Serve
Santa utieftil purpose, The eggs of the
owl are almaat round and are, easily
1410101 347' the old bird when it wishes
ID tern aeon around to be Warn11.1C1 On
011ier
Other eggs narrow at the snlaller
end in eneli a way that four of (hem
pieced together al/meet eorm a Square,
Rnd the 13195040151319504015bird Pan over Dern
a
11 nicely,
Then there are the long thin eggs,
like those of the guillemot, 01)1111 are
laid on flat, bare reeks, high above the
Sea, The guilleinet only lays 1)1341 1(4141,
and when she fliee atickly awny or
tvhen a midden rig of wind venues it
no'0 splits around like a top inetead 01
rolling away, 415 14 Would do 11 11 were
round,