The Brussels Post, 1899-10-12, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST.
THE RETREAT OF JOSHUA
REV. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS SOME LESSONS
FROM IT.
,_.--- Sometimes the Best Thing to Do Is to Run—Your Retreat
Is Your Victory—Days of Victory for the Church—
The Triumph of the Wicked Is Short—Some Christians
Do Not Take Good Aim, Hence Their Attack Amounts
t0 Nothing.
A despatch from Washington, says: l flight is your advance. Your retreat
—Rev. Dr. Talmage ,preached from the l is your victory.
following text:—"Then ye shall rise up A SPOONi UL Oli' BRANDY
from the ambush and seize upon the taken for medicinal purposes by a
city:"—Joshua viii. 7. man who twenty years before had been
reformed from drunkenness hurled in -
Two weeks ago on Sabbath evening, to inebriety and the grave one of the
best friends I ever had. Your retreat
is your victory.
Here is a converted lntaoer. fife xs
so strong now in his faith in the t.os-
pel he says be can read anything.
"What are you reading? Bolingbroke?
Theodore Parker? Andrew Jackson
Davis's Tracts 1 Swedenborg's
Dreams? Tyndall's Glasgow Univer-
sity Address?" Drop theist and run.
You will be an infidel before you die
unless you quit that. These men of
Ai will be too moth fon you. Turn
your back on the rank and file of , un-
belief. Fly before they cut you with
their swords, and transfix you with
with my family around me, we were
talking over the steed of the text. In
the wide open eyes, and the quick in-
terrogations, and the blanched cheeks,
I realized what a thrilling drama it
was. There is the old city, shorter by
name than any other city in the ages,
spelled with two letters — A -i, Ai,
Joshua and his men want to take it.
How to do ib is the question. On a
former occasion, in a straightforward
face -to -fano fight, they had been deal
feated; but now they are going to take
it by ambuscade. General Joshua heel their javelins.
There ars people in this audience
two divisions in his army .� the one to -day who have been well-nigh ruin -
division the battle -worn commander ed becuse they risked a fool -hardy ex -
will lead himself; the other division he pedition in the presence of mighty and
the
sends off to encamp in an ambush on overwhelming temptations, and
the west side of the city of Ai. No mast of Ai made a morning meal of
them, Your retreat is your victory.
torches, no lanterns, no sound of heavy So, also, there is such a thing as vic-
torious retreat for the Church. Thou-
sands of times the kingdom of Christ
has seemed to fall back. The days of
retreat for the Church were days of
victory.
The Pilgrim Fathers felt back tram
the other side of the sea to Plymouth
Rock, but now are marshalling a eon-
tinent for the Christiauization of the
world. The Church of Christ falling
bath from Piedmont, falling back from
the Rue St. Jacques, falling back from
St. Denis, falling back from the Wur-
temburg Castle, failing back from the
Brussels market -place, yet all the time
triumphing. Notwithstanding all the
shocking reverses which the Church
of Christ has suffered, what do we see
to -day? Three thousand missionaries of
the cross 00 heathen ground. Sixty
thousand ministers 02 Jesus Christ in
this land. At least
TWENTY-FIVE ki ILLIONS
of Christians on the earth. All nations
today kindling in a blaze of revival.
Falling beak, yet advancing, until the
old Wesleyan hymn will prove true:
" The lion of Judah shall break tbe
chain,
And give us the victory again and
again."
battalions; but thirty thousand swar-
thy warriors moving in silence, speak -
Ing only in a whisper; no clicking of
swords against shields, lest the watch-
men of Al diseovee it and the strata-
gem be a failure. If a roystering
soldier in the Israelitish army forgets
himself, all along the line the word is
'sin! Joshua takes the other division the
one with which he is to march, and
puts it on the north side of the city of
Ai, and then spends the night in re-
connoitering in the valley. There be
is, thinking over the fortunes of the
coming day, with something of the
feelings of Wellington the night be-
fore Waterloo, There he stands
in the night and says to
himself. "Yonder is the division in
ambush on the west side of Ai. Here
is the division in ambush on the west
side of Ai. Here is the division, I
have under my espeofal command, on
the north side of Ai. There is the old
city slumbering in its sin. To -morrow
will be the battle. Look! The morn-
ing already begins to tip the hills."
The military officers of Ai look out in
the morning very early, and while
they do not see the divisions fn am-
bush they behold the other division of
Joshua, and the cry "To arms 1" rings
through all the streets oft the old town
tied every sword, whether hacked and
bent, or newly welded, is brought out,
and all the inhabitants of the city of
Ai pear through the gates, an infuri-
ate torrent, and their cry is: "Come,,
we'll make quick work with Joshua
and his troops!" No sooner had these
people of Ai come out against the
troops of Joshua than Joshua gave
euch a command as he seldom gave:
"Fall back 1" .Why, they could not
believe their own ears. es Joshua's
courage failing him? "Fall back!"
The retreat fs beaten and
THE ISRAELITES ARE FLYING,
throwing blankets and canteens on
every side. And yen ought to hear
the soldiers of Ai cheer, and cheer, and
cheer. But they huzza too soon. The
men lying in ambush are straining
their vision to get soma signah from
Joshua that they may know what
time to drop upon the city. Joshua
takes his burnished spear, glittering
in the son like a shaft of doom, end
points it toward the arty; and when
the men up yonder in the ambush see
it, with hawk -like swoop they drop
ori stab of parwithout stroke of take the city answord
put
it to the torch. So much for the divi-
e4oa that was in ambush.
How about the division that was
more espeoially under Joshua's com-
mate? No sooner does Joshua stop
in the fligbt, than all his, men stop
with him, and as he wheels they wheel,
for in a voioe of thunder that shook
axe earth, he cried, "Halt 1" One
strong arm damming back a torrent
of flying troops. And then, as he
points his spear through the golden
light toward that fated city, his troops
know that they are to start for it.
What a scene it was when, the divi-
Sion in ambush that had taken the
city marched down against the men
tot Ai on the the side, and, the strops
under anthem doubled up their enem-
ies from the other side, and the men
of Ai wee caught between these two
hiurricaaes of ,Israelitish courage,
thrust before and behind, stabbed in
But there is a more marked illustra-
tion of victorious retreat in the life
of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages.
First falling back from an appalling
height to an appalling depth, falling
from celestial hills to terrestrial val-
leys, from throne to manger ; yet that
did not seem to suffice Him as a re-
treat. Falling back still further, from
Bethlehem to Nazareth, back from
Nazareth to Jerusalem, beak from Jer-
usalem: to Golgotha, back from Golgo-
tha to the mausoleum in the rook, back
down over the precipices of perdition,
until Ile walked amid the caverns of
the eternal oaptives, and drank of the
wine of the wrath of Almighty God
amid the Ahabs, and the Jezebels, and
the Belsbazzara, 0, men of the pulpit
and men of the pew, whys tell only ealf
of the story ? Christ's descent from
heaven to earth does not measure half
the distance. It was from glory to
perdition. He descended into hell. All
the records of earthly retreat are
nothing as compared with this fall-
ing back. Santa Anna, with the frag-
ments of his army flying over the
plateaux of Maxim, and Napoleon, and
his army retreating from Moscow in-
to the awful snows of Russia, are not
worthy, to be mentioned with this re-
treat, when all the powers of darkness
seemed to be pursuing Christ as He
fell back, until the body of Him who
came to do such wonderful things lay
pulseless and stripped. Methinks that
the city of Ai was not so emptied of
its inhabitants, when they went to
pursue Joshua, as perdition was emp-
tied of devils when they started for
the pursuit of Christ, and He fell back
and back, down lower, down lower,
ebasm below chasm, pit below pit, un-
til He seemed to atrike the bottom of
objurgation and scorn, and torture.
0, the long, loud jubilant shout of
ball at 'the defeat of the Lord God Al-
mighty I But let not the powers of
darkness rejoice quite so soon, Do you
hear that disturbance in the tomb of
Arimathea? I hear the sheet rend-
ing, What means that atone burled
down the side of the hill? Who is this
coming out ? Push Him bank 1 The
dead must stalk in this open sunlight l
01 it is our Joshua.
LET HIM COME OUT,
Re comes forth and starts for the city.
He takes the spear of the Roman guard
and .points that way. Church Militant
marches up on one side and Church
Triumphant marches down on the oth-
er side, and the powers of darkness
being caught between these ranks of
celestial and terrestrial valour, noth-
ing is left of them save just enough
breast and back, ground between the to illustrate the direful overthrow of
upper and the nether millstones 02 On and our be al th eternal victory,
God's indignation, Woe to the city of On Hie hall all the crowns, In Hit
y bend be all the ria !mar His feet
1.i Cheer for the triumphs of be all the Alperin hearts; and here,
Israel I Lord is on•
Lese 01 th%fa. son the second; The triumph of
the wicked is short. Did you ever
see an army in a panic? There is no-
thing so uncontroliable. 22 you had
stoocl at Long Bridge, at Washington,
during the opening of our unfortunate
war, you would know what it is to
see an army run. And when those
than of Ai looked out and saw the men
of Ai upon the men of Joshua. Your of Joshua in a stemmede,they expect-
orelysafoty is to get away from them, them easy Work. They would .s. 0,
Your dissipating companions will some g as the equinox the leaves. ,
around for. your overthrow. Run for me gleeful ando jubilant descent• h the
.our life 1 hall beak I' Fall men of Aupon the mon of Joshua!
o 1
back But their exhilaration was brief, for
from the drinking saloon. Fall back the fids of battle turned, and thaee
from d;sslpatiag companionship, rail quondam con'
back froth the wine party, go q conquerors loft their miser -
back able carcasses iu oho wilderness of
i, Lesson Life first: There is such a
thing as viotorious retreat, Joshua
falling back was the first chapter i
i s ec85st ( i
its u ss a hos agement, and there
are times in your life when the best
thing you can do is to run. You were
once he victim et strong drink. The
�ilem'iJohn and the decanter were your
fierce foes, 'They earn dews upon
you with greater fury than the man
OCT, 12, 1899
13etbaven, So it always is. The tri-
umph of the wickeit is short. You
made twenty thousand dollars at the
gaming -table, Do you expect to keep
It? You will die in the poorhouse.
You made your fortune by iniquitous
traffic. Do you expect to keep it ?
Your money will scatter, or it will
stay long enough to curse your 'still -
(Iran after you are dead. Call over
the roll of bad man who prospered, and
see how short was their prosrerity.
For awhile, like the, man of Al, they
went. from conquest to conquest; but
after awhile disaster rolled back upon
them, and they were divided into three
parts; misfortune took their property,
the grave took their body, and the lost
world took their souls. I am always
interested in tbebuilding of theatres,
and In the building of dissipating ea-
lons. I like to have them built of
the best granite, to have tbe rooms
made large, and to have tbe pillars
made very firm. God is going to con-
quer them, and they will be
TURNED INTO CHURCHES,
They ore going to change hands—these
stores in which fraudulent men do
business. These splendid banking in-
stitutions, where the president and the
cashier put all their property In their
wives' bands and then fail for two
hundred million of dollars—all these
institutions are to become tbe places
where honest Christian men do busi-
ness. How long will it take your boys
to gel through your ill-gotten gains?
Tile wicked do not live out half their
days. For awhile they swagger and
strut, and make a great splash in the
newspapers ; but after awhile it all
gdwindlesraph:—
down into a brief para -
"Died, suddenly, September 5th, 1899,
at thirty-five years of age. Relatives
and friends of the family are invited
to attend the funeral on Wednesday,
at two o'clock, from his late residence,
on Madison -square,"
Some of them jumped off tbe docks.
Some of them took prussic acid. Some
of them fell under the snap of a Der-
ringer pistol. Some of them spent
their last days in a lunatic asylum.
Where is Oakes Ames, the despoiler
of publio men, of Credit Mobilter in-
famy? Where are Ketcham and Swart -
out, absconding swindlers? Where is
James Fisk, this libertine? Where is
John Wilkes Booth, the assassin? and
all the other misdemeanants? They
do not live out half tbeir days. Dia-
embogue, 0 world of darkness i Come
up, your locks dripping with eternal
fire, Hildebrand, and Henry IL, and
Robespierre, and with blistering and
blasphemy and ashen lips hiss out:
Ths triumph of the wicked is short I"
Alas! for the men of Ai, when Jos-
hua stretches out his spear toward the
city.
Lesson the third: How much may be
accomplished by lying in ambush far
opportunities. Are you hypercritical
of Joshua's manoeuvre? Do you say
that it was cheating for him to take
that city by ambuscade? I answer
if the war was right, then Joshua
was right in his stratagem. He vio-
lated no flag of truce.
HE BROKE NO TREATY,
but by a lawful ambuscade captured
the oily of Ai. 0 that we all knew how
to lie in ambush for opportunities to
serve God. The bast opportunities do
not lie an the surface, but are secreted;
by tact, by stratagem, by Christian
ambuscade, you may take almost any
matte of sin for, Christ. Come up to-
ward mac with a regular besiegement
of argument and yoe will be defeat-
ed; but just wait until the dor of
their hearts us sot ajar, or they are
off their guard, or their severe caution
leeway from home, and then drop on
them from a Christian ambuscade,
There has been many a man up to'hts
chin in scientific portfolios which
proved there was no Christ and no
Divine revelation, his pen a seinetar
flung into the heart of theological op-
ponents, who, nevertheless, has been
discomfited and captured far God by
some little three-year-old child who
has got up and put her snowy arms
around his sinewy neck, and said:
"Papa, why don't you love Jesus?"
0, make a flank movement; steal a
mareh on the devil. Cheat that man
into heaven. A five -dollar treatise
that will stand all the laws of homile-
tics may fail to do that which a penny
tract of Christian entreaty may ac-
eomplish. 0 for more Christiana in
ambuscade, not lying in idleness, but
waiting for a quick spring, waiting un.
tit just the righb time comes. Do not
talk to a man about the vanity oftbis
world on the day, when be has bought
gold at "la," and is going to sell it
at "15," but talk tc him about the van-
ity of the world on the day when he
has bought at "15," and is compelled
to sell it at "12." Do not rub a mane
disposition the wrong way. Dn not
take the imperative mood ween the
subjunctive mood will do just as well,
Do nut talk In perfervid style to a
Phlegmatic, nor try to tickle 'a Leiria
l,emperament with an icicle, You can
take any man for Obrist if you know
how to get at him, Do not send word
to him that to mgrrow. at ten o'ciook
you Drgpose to open your batteries
upon him, but comet on him by a skit -
Put, persevering, God -directed embus-
oakie, ,
Lesson the fourth; The importamee
of taking good aim.
THERE IS JOSHUA,
but how are than people in ambusb
up yonder to kiiow when they are t0
drop on the elty, and bow are these
men around Joshua to know when they
are to stop their flight and advance,
There must be same signal—a signal
to stop the one division and to start
the other, Jtahue, with a spear, ail
which were ordinarily hung the colour
which were ordinarily hung the colour
of battle, points toward the city. He
stands in Beth a conspicuous position„
and there is so much of the morning
light dripping from that spear -tip, that
ail around the horizon they see it.
11 was as mune as to say: "There
10 the City. Take it, Take it now, Roll
ldawn frolm the west aide, Surge up
from the north side, It is ours, the
city of Ai." God knows, and We know,
that a great deal of Christian attack
aan'ounts t0 nothing, simply because
we db not take good aim. Nobody
knows, we do not know ourselves,
which point we want to take, when
Wes ought to matte up our allude what
God will have irsi to do, and point our
spear in that threaten, and then hurl,
our body, mind, soul time, eternity
at that one target, In our pulpits,
sad pews, Sunday -schools, and prayer -
meetings, we Want to got a reputation
for saying pretty ,hinge, and So We
point our spear toward the fl`otvii •s;
Or we wart* a relettethea for nays te
sublime things, and we point Our spear
toward the stars; or we want to get
a reputation for historical' knowledgg'e,
and we point our spear toward the
past; or we want to get Et reputation
for great: liberality, so wo swing our
War all around, and it strikes all
points of the horizon, and you can
make mutt of it whatever you please;
while there is the old world, proud re-
bellions, and armed against all righte-
ousness; and instead of our running
any further away frame its pursuit we
ought to turn around, plant our foot
in the strength of the eternal. God, lift
the old Gross, anti point It in the direc-
tion of the world s conquest, till the
redeemed of earth, marching; up from
one side, and the glcrifiea of !leaven
marching down from the other side,
the last battlement of sin is ocanpol-
led to swing otos the streamers of Im-
manuel!. 0, Church of God,
TARE AIM AND CONQUER,
I have heard it said: "Look out for a
man' who' boa only one idea ; he is ir-
ressistible." I say, look out for the
Church et Christ which has one idea,
and that a determination fox soul -
saving, I believe God would strike me
dean. if I dared to point the spear in
any other direction. 0 for some of the
courage and enthusiasm of Joshua!
He flung two armies from the tip of
that spear.
Coming to you at the close of
our Summer vacation, and starting
again in the season of work, I wish I
could sound the tocsin of a great cam-
paign. It was slide/ for us to rest
unless it was to get stronger muscle,
and fresher brain, and purer heart for
God's work. I feel on my head this
morning the hands of Christ in a new
ordination. 0, my people, do you
not feel the same omnipotent, pres-
sure? There is a work for all our
Churches. 0 that we might stand up
side by side and point the spear toward
the pity! It ought to be taken; it will
be taken. Let lie decide upon the
work which we, as Christian Churches,
have to do, and in the strength ofgGod
go to work and da it. ,
I believe that Lala year will be the
most stupendous year that heaven
ever saw. The nations are quaking
now with the coming of God. It will
be a year of successes for the men
of Joshlna, but of doom for the men
of Ai. . You put your ear to the{ rail
traok and you can hear the train com-
ing miles away; so I to -day pat my
ear to the ground, anal I hear the
thundering on of the Iightning train of
God's meroies and judgments.
THE MERCY OF GOD
is first to be tried upon, this nation. It
will be preached in the pulpits, in the-
atres, on the streets, everywhere. Peo-
oitheoil be invited to Gospel, and. the story, and
t the ethe
song, and the prayer will be "mercy."
But suppose they do not accept the
offer of mercy—what then? Then God
will Dome with His judgments, and the
grasshoppers will eat the crops, and
the freshets will devastate the valleys,
and the defalcations will swallow the
money markets, and the fires will burn
cities into ashes, and the earth will
quake from pole to pole. Year of mer-
cies and of judgments. Year 02 in-
vitation and of warning. Year of
jubilee and of woe. Which side are
you going to be on? With the men of
Ai or the man of Joshua? Pass over
this autumnal Sabbath into the ranks
of Israel, , I would clap my hands, at
the joy of your coming. You have a
chancepoor the
worldocome, wiithoutrJed
sus.You
cannot stand what is to come upon
you and upon the world unless you
have the pardon, and the comfort,
and the help of Christ, Come over. On
this side is your happiness and safety;
on the other side disquietude and des-
pair. Eternal defeat to the men of
Ail Eternal victory to the men of
Joshua!
1v
BRITAIN WANTS CANADIANS.
The Force Would be Accepted with Sinter -
est Cratltude.
A despatch from. London says:—
Queensland and New Zealand have
taken precedence of Canada in coming
to the aid of the,idmpire in South Af-
rica. Their definite and official Gov-
esnment offers of 200 troops in the
case of Queensland and 250 in the case
of Now Zealand •have been officially
accepted by the Imiperial Government.
The troops are to be fully equipped and
at the disposal of the British comman-
der in Capt Town by October 31st, .To
this extent Canada seome to have been
forestalled by Australasia in her
proud position aa pioneer of the Em-
pire.
500 TROOPS WOULD BE ACCEPTED.
,As cabled on Tuesdays the Canadian
Government hes made no formal offer
yet, but has, in a letter from Sir Wil-
frid Laurier to Hon. 14Ir. Chamberlain,
practically invited euggestione. The
original idea was a force of 1,000 from
Canada. The Canadian Government
has now, however, been advised that
should Canada desire to place at the
disposal of the British comnnander at
Cape Town by October 3l four fighting
units numbering 509 in all, infantry
preferred, the Imperial Government
will accept the offer with the sincerest
gratitude, and the fullest appreciation
of the high Imlperial aims diotating the
proposal.
In official circles generally the prac-
tical solidarity of the Empire when the
Empire's interests aro at stake is re-
garded as of the highest significance in
face of the Empire's enemies all the
world over.
OFFICERED BY ONE MAJOR.
Tlab proposal is that these, 500 Cana-.
diens should be officered by one major,
with Dapteins and subalterns. The de-
sire in so limiting the numbers is to
ensure that each colonial unit shall
have what a soldier always prays for,
the best possible show It the fighting
line,
iA despatch from Perth, capital of
West Australia, announces that the
Government of that colony, has doid-
ed tb despatch a West Australian con-
tingent to the Cape.
LAKE OF 1301L1N0 MUD.
Near Grobogana, Java, there is a
take of boiling mud about two miles
10 circumference. ,Cmmeese columns
of steaming mud are eonstantly tris-
ing and descending.
BRITAIN AND Baffin
THE NAVAL BRIGADE HAS ARRIV-
ED AT LADYSMITH.
Ornish Troops Glassing on the Moller to
itepoi the Expected lavnslmt — Cen,
Butler Bilis the Queen /ioo,L nye,
Ai despatch to the London Daily
News from Bloemfontein says that all
the bsrghere of .the Orange Free
State have been ecmmandeereii and
mxbllized in different puree of the
Republic, They have been ordered to
act strictly an the defensive, They
will probably, bo kept six miles from
the border 10 order to prevent colli-
sions with the Bxitish.
It is asserted alt Mafeking, on reli-
able authority, that the buxghershave
been strictly pnjotned not to cross the
western frontier 'or to interfere with
civilians, but, to resist the pa,ssage of
au armed force.,
A oorreepondent at Ladyamlth, Na-
tal, cables:—" The Fifth Lancers and
a, naval' brigade, from Durban have, ar-
rived here, and afire encamped near the
railway."
General Slr Redvers Buller arrived
at Balmoral castle on 'Wednesday night
as: the guest of Queen Victoria to bid
her Majesty'ta;rewettl on his departure
for South Africa,
A despatch from Joh5nneeburg re-
ports that Kathie are raiding the
business planes send houses in the East
Rand. The whiten fired on them. A
speoial force of police has been de-
sputohed to disperse the raiders.
5,000 RESERVES TO BE CALLED OUT
While there is ate diminution in the
flood of .despatches frcm South Africa
recording the military preparation
and movement's :MS both sides, with all
kinds of aocuraite and inaccurate ru-
mours and speculations, the real situa-
tion remains unchanged.
It is expected that 5,000 reserves
will be called out on Thursday, and
that an army corps will be mobiliz-
ed on the loth or the 201E of the
month. •
In, the !meantime it is interesting to
note that neither side shows anxiety
to precipitate t conflict, but is rather
inclined to give opportunity for the
play of peace influence.
INDIAN TROOPS ARRIVE.
The Pietei maritzburg correspondent
of the T:mis confirms the report that
enough Indian troops have arrived to
make the military situation secure, and
says the a,uthorities declare further
disclosures regarding military move-
mxnts ehould be suppressed, as valu-
able lnfoimation has already leaked
to the Boers through the London news-
papers.
A despatch to the Times from Lo-
batsi, near Mafeking, says it is a re-
markable fact that the natives there
declare they will not fight for the
Transvaal, but will, in preference, cross
the border, because the Boers are too
severe, and are always punishing
them,
TO DESTROY THE BRIDGE,
The correspondent of the Standard
at Beaufort, West Rand, says fugitives
who have arrived there report that
forty teas of dynamite have been laid
down for the destruction of the rail-
way bridge over the Orange river at
Nobals Point, a frontier station be-
tween Cape Colony and the Free State.
KRUGER WANTS TO FIGHT.
A special despatch from Pretoria
says that President Kruger expresses
himself strongly on being prevented
by the Executive from: going to the
front. He is reported, to have said:—
"Some people say I am the cause of
the present troable, and I want to take
my share of the' fighting with my
people." The same despatch, announ-
ces that Commandent-General Jou-
bert's wife has started to join her hus-
band on the border, Heavy rains have
_fallen, and the Sandspruit river is
flooded.
BOER ARMY LEADERS UNDECIDED
A despatch from Voiksrust dated
Wedeesdayl says a council of war was
held to -day, Commander -General Joa-
bert• presiding, and the oommandants
of all the different commandeers be-
ing present. The conference was short
and indeoisive. It is understood that
no move will be made fox, a couple bf
days, Most of the British residents
have gone to Natal
Increased: activity is being shown at
Woolwich, and it 'ie alleged that pro-
vision is being made there to send sup-
plies for two army' corps. 'Your hunt
dred tons of material and munitions of
war have already been shipped tor
Attlee.
A Johannesburg despatch says:—
"The Government has turned over the
Ferreira mine to the idireetors on con-
dition that work is to proceed. The
Steck Exchange is closed."
LAW IN THE TRANSVAAL.
An unconfirmed report says that
martial law has been proclaimed in the
Transvaal.
A desputoh from Johannesburg says
the regular distribution of letters has
ceased, The Government box com-
neendeered all dynamite and cyanide
supplies, which Lave berm reynoyed and
placed under strict guard at various
depots, A strong guard hes beensta-
tioned at the reservoir to prevent tam-
pering with the water,
'An enthusiastic meeting of Irishmen
was held Wednesday evening in Kim-
bexloy, under the presidency of a
former Mayer of the town, at which
resolution's were unahtmous.ly adopted
expressing disapproval of the con.ctuct
of Irisbtnen who eympatlized,witla the
,Boers,,and of the .coulee' of the Irish
Parliamentary party in extending sym-
pathy and stippori; to the Transvaal in
the present erisis,
FR,IEN117LYAs EVER.
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new two mo years
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Bella—Oh, 1 knew ycu by yam'bon-
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When the Nerve Cen.ules Ma Nutrition,
A. Wonderful Recovery, Illustrating the
Quick Response of a Deplete. Nerve
System to a Treatment Whir*
Replenishes Exhausted
Nerve Forces.
MR. FRANI( isAUER, BERLIN, Oxen,
Perhaps you know him ? In Water-
loo he is known as one of the most
popular and successful business men of
that enterprising town. As wanag-
ing executor of the Kuntz estate, be is
at the head of a vast business, repre-
senting an investment of many thous-
ands of dollars, and known to many
people throughout the Province.
Solid financially, Mr. frank Bauer
also has the good fortune of enjoying
solid good health, and if appearances
indicate anything, it is safe to predict
that there's a full half century of
active life still ahead for him. But
it's only a few menthe since, while
nursed as an invalid at the Mb
Clemens sanitary resort, when his
friends in Waterloo were dismayed
with a report that he was at the point
of death.
" There's no telling where I would
have been had I kept on the old treat-
ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry
laugh, the other day, while recounting
his experiences as a very sick man.
"Mt. Clemens," he continued, "was
the last resort in my case. For
months previous I bad been suffering
indescribable tortures. I began with
a loss of appetite and sleepless nights.
Then, as the trouble kept growing, I
wels getting weaker, and began losing
flesh and strength rapidly. My
stomach refused to retain food of any
kind. During all this time I was
under medical treatment, and took
everything proscribed, but without a
relief. Just about when my condition u
Sold by G. A.
seemed most hopeless, I heard of e
wonderful cure effected in a case
somewhat similar to mine, by the
Great South American ltTervine Tonic,
and I finally tried that. On thefiret
day of its use I began to feel that it
was doing what no other medioine
had done, The first dose relieved the
distress completely. Before night I
actually felt hungry and ate with an
appetite suoh as I had not known for
months, I began to pick op in
strength with surprising rapidity,
slept well nights, and before I knew
t I was eating three square meals
regularly every day, with as much
relish as ever. I have no hesitation
whatever in saying that the South
Amerioen Nervine Tonic cured me
when all other remedies failed. I
are recovered my old weight—over
00 ponnds—and never felt better
n my life."
Mr. Frank Batter's experience is
hat of all others who have used the
outh American Nervine Tonic. Its
nstantaneous notion in relieving die -
rase and pain is due to the direct
feed of this great remedy upon the
erve centres, whose fagged vitality
s energized instantly by the very first
ose. It is a great, a wondrous cure
for all nervous diseases, as well as
ndigestion and dyspepsia. It goee
o the real source of trouble direct,
nd the siok always feel its marvel-
ous sustaining and restorative power
t once, on the very first day of its
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIOAL LESNSON, OCT. 16.
erne
" Esther Pleading for the People:' DOL.
8, 33, 15.17. golden 'text. Pont, 37. 3.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 9. Esther spake yet again.
Haman had been overthrown, his pro-
perty had been given to Esther, his
dignities bad been given to Mordecai,
but there was still a difficulty. ;The
laws of the Medea and Persians
must not be altered, and the decree
for the destruction of the Jews was
still in force, Fell down at his Poet,
and besought hi,m with tears. We
need not wonder at the intense passion
of Esther, for although elle was In
high favor with Ahasuerus, she was
really, with all her countrymen and
women, under sentence of death. Be-
sides, the king was so whimsical and
so irresponsible ,bat there was no
security how long his favor might lost,
4. The king bold out the golden scep-
ter. This was the recognized sign of
royal favor. The scepter was "along,
tapering staff," Woman's tears have
always been a strong argument,
5, Let it be written to reverse the
letters devised by Raman. Esther was
a woman and a Jew, and ill is not.like-
ly that she knew much concerning Pox -
slat law, but she was asking what
the king himself could not grant—Che
royal degree could not be legally re-
versed,
0, How can I endure to sae the de-
struction of my kindred. With great
cleverness she disregards the danger
to her own life and dos not even ne-
edy Mordecai.
7. Then .the king Ahasuerus said. 13e
begins by showing at once his kind -
begins by showing at once bis kind-
ly feeling toward Esther and Morde-
cai, and his inability to do mere.
8. Write ye ciao for the Jews, NS it
liketh you, in the king's name. As 1t
he said, "1 can prohibited by law, front
reversing my own decree, but here i4
my ring and here is my authority(
do you devise any counter-measure
that you ;like." A shabbier, more cow
ardly retreat was never made,
9-14. The plan on which Mordecai and
Esther agreed was td notify the Jewel
everywhere to stand in self-defense
and when victorious to take posessioxb
of the gods of those who attacked
them.
15. Mordecai went out from the pre,
sauce of the king in royal apparel, He
had been summoned to the king's pre-
sence because of the honor that Ahasu.,
erus proposed to confer upon him in
recognition of his discovery of the
plot against the king's life. He had
been invested with the insignia of
Haman's office. and clothed with the
authority of chief minister. He now
goes forth to attend to hie official
duties. Blue and white. . gold.
. fine linen and purple. Purple and
white, and blue and white, seem to
have been the royal colors. The crown
of gold was a coronet, aaign of prince-
ly station. The fine linen was the
most famous texture of ancient days,
and its fineness that/ of our modern
silk, The city of Shushan rejoiced
and was glad. That teeny Jews Were
thane it is hardly necessary to goy,
for Jews have always flocked to oath-
s. It was probably the seat of civi-
lization and, order, as well as c£ royal
ntajasly, and the decree made at :Ha -
man's suggestion had never been pop-
ular there. See nhap, 3, 15.
10, Light Happiness.
17. A feast; and a good any. The
first of a long linty of exyltent nation-
al patriotic anniversaries. Many of
the people of the land became Jews.
Not becauee they believed in God, bet
cause the fear of the Jews fell up-
on than. A mast cowardly and wick-
ed act on their part, but an act ,whish
displayed, nevertheless, the ,great
woxlt which God had wrought on,
their la half.
PB.IMA FAq Ito EVIDIDNCH.
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once when yell acid you had serve,.
With me f
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stand you three months Mst he air
angel.