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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-7-28, Page 66 THE BRUSSELS POST nutvemetnesensannianwimasseasm Arrival Ill Beyrol'li. 00 00. 00811N 11. 1n0r10. Having heard that I was on the way Beyrout, many relatives and friends we forth to meet me and for many da after my arrival, as the manner of t easterner is, many oontinued to eon I3syrout is the Julia Felix of the auolen and, In its cosmopolitan oharaoter, It next to Alexandria, hitt far before t seaport of Egypt in its educational i stituttone. Presbyterial] missionari from America arrived in Jerusalem the third decade of the present eeutn bub soon after abandoned the Holy Ci and took their position in Beyrout, tl port of Damascus. The Christie liberality of Great Britain and Amari created the Syrian Protestant college en the printing press, both controlled by t Amerioan Presbyverian ntiesionarie The Bible society employed the printin press generously and at once nmitiplie and oheepened copies of the word of Go Religious tract societies made possib the publication of a hest of Pr'otestat books and pamphlets, controversial, d votional and otherwise, The Jesu fathers were soon provoked unto Woo works and they published it mngnilicen version of the Arabic scriptures an erected a university with degree con faring powers. The Greek orthodo could not be kept back either, aud the too established and maintain a gran hospital and an army of sellable. Ther are about tett weekly and bi-weekl journals as well as monthly and b monthly magazines in Beyrout and th means of acquiring education in this tis ing Syrian seaport are at once abandon variates, good and cheap ; improvement in other respeota appear to !veep pac with the progress of learning. It is fel bowever, by many, that the introductio of schools into Syria has been too sndde and too widespread, and therefore ther are too many who oan use the pen an too few who care for the spade, and, if he not wrongly informed, this kind o mischief is beginning to be perceived b many in this, our Canada. My firs Sabbath in Beyrout was the Protestan Sabbath school anniversary, and bad the privilege of addressing th school of wbloh I was e. pupil betwee '69 and '73. I told them about th Triennial International Sabbath sohoo convention, whish I attended in June o 1390 as a Canadian delegate in Pittsburg Pa. I took care to make it plain the my views had changed, and now that nm older and know more, I hold that no controversy but conversion is the miseiot and end of the gospel. Jusip Badder the pastor of this congregation, is townsman of mine and he conferred an honor upon me by inviting me to 000upy his pulpit the following Sabbath forenoon and to assist him at the communion the afternoon of the same day. The conftlo between Jesuits and Protestants here i long and lively. In the days of my boy boort or youth, my impression was bba the Churoh of England and 000000form By had an understanding that Palestin proper was to be occupied by Episcopacy and Northern Syria by Presbyterian missionaries, but now the Right Rev Bishnp Blyth has established a congre. gation m Beyrout and contemplates the estnblisbment of more in Lebanon. On the other hand the Free Church of Soot - land have organized a mission in Tiber- ias, Itev. A. Ben Olins is in Jerusalem, and before this article shall have reached the preys, the Canadian Presbyterian missionary will have established himself somewhere south of Mt. Hermon. The multiplicity of Protestant denominations and the intersection of their lines of operation may be overruled by wise providence for the glory of God, and the good of man, nevertheless it stands written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. ni1I)IANA. While in Beyrout I received a letter from the late lamented directress of the British Syrian Reboot, Mrs. Mentor Mott, saying that David Barron, missionary to the Jews from the Mildtnay 0050e0- anoe, was in Brimana and that be was very desirous to have an interview with me on Jewi.h work and that she had told htm that I was the very man he needed. Brimana is a village of soma 2,000 in- habitants, about 2,000 feet up on Mt, Lebanon and three hours journey from Beyrout. I Inst no time in getting to Brimana. Mr, I3arrotr is well versed in the scriptures in their bearing on the Jewish question and is the anther of some valuable tracts on the question, and undoubtedly has the effuse of the Jews at hearb, but like many other friends of the Jews, he is alien to tbeir customs and language, and is much in the same poli. tion as a Chinaman trying to evangelize the masses of 11Iontreal, and without knowing either French or English. I heard him address a meeting in English and was delighted. He is a premillennial• let and does not believe that the Lord Meth oast away his people forever. He wished to oocupy Joplin., the field that Rev. A. Ieeu Oliel vaoated, but his physician told him that the condition of hie health did nob admit of his residence in Jnppa, earl he moved on, I believe, to. wards Aeia Minor. Brimana is the oen. tre of the British Friends Lebanon mis• sion, which was originated by Tbeopho. lus Waldemar, a Swiss, and 00 maintain- ed at the cost of about 2200 per annum. The main departments of this work are : the hospital, dispensary, a boy and a girl boarding schools, a meeting house and some half dozen day eahoole in the neigh. borbood. The staff consists of Herr Waldemeuo, the founder, his son•in-late, the medical enperintenclent of the mis- tion, two British lady volunteers and the paid assistants, native and foreign. Beshara Manasseh, 141. D„ Mr, Walde• menr's sou-in•law, to whom the natives seem to ascribe muoh of the 8000e3s of the mission, requested me to assist them by giving a week's services of addressee within the hounds. 1 grabbed at the chance with the grasp of a drowning man, and is less than two weeks return• ed to Belmont', and made a begimtlug. At the drat meeting I told them how Canada, which was little less than a bush 100 years ago, is now sending men aud money to evangelize forsigo countries, I told them of our deaf and dumb and blind institutions, and of Obviation work generally in the Dominion, but my de• eoripbion of the Toronto winter free brenkfaet seemed to them the ''top piece," and f had to repeat that it is quite true, ladies, young and old, me well ae men, leave their warm, oomfortable houses in the dark, cold and bleak mein• iuge, assemble in a pertain building, pre - pare and serve up brnakfaet to at many itoor and ragged of Toronto aa choose to come. Yes, well dressed Jostles, 801130 of thein with servants to attend theta at home, waited upon both honest and dis- honest poor, aud, more than this, they sang for them too. Tho people there have no di0ionlby whatever to unierstrand (low a woli.ta•daperson oan fling a dol• lar to a poor man through the window, they can easily understand how a sheik of an sumer or ecoid may oall upon his servants to give a meat, scene flour or anything else to a poor lean, but the puzzle is to understand how the better -off can give, not only of their means hot also of themselves. Not the giving but the serving is the incredible thing, and yet, for myself I do not see ab all why my dosoriptlon of tllo Christian ladies of Toronto should amaze the people of Brimana, for I am sure anyone who is nob blind and dumb aud sanselasa eon see a living example of Christian humin. ity and sel!saerifice in those (easter volunteers to triton I have referred. Nevertheless, schools, bibles, tracts and hospitals, indespensable as they be, oaa never take the plan of preaohing any• more than clan a well furnished resi• deuce take the plane of good meals, No one need waste time in juettfying the organization of schools and religious tract societies agaiust me, for I believe in all this as thoroughly as anybody else but I do not believe alt this is taking the place in any measure of the agency of preaching, and that attempts to preach in a broken, or partially mastered Ian. guage can never be exposited to fame in great results. A fano foreign missionaries in Syria bare studied the classical Arab. ipso that they became authorities and authors among Arabin spooking people, but even their trinmph cannot take the place of preaching to the masses in the oolloqual dialects. Tho book Arabic, and especially that of the Horan, can no more move the masses of the so-called Arabia• speaking populations than can the Eng. fish of Chaucer move the masses of Can- ada. One missionary, au excellent man and a thorough Christian, is preaching now through an interpreter in the same way he did when he was appointed twee• ty years ago. I heard another preaoh sixteen years ago, and beard him in 1801 but I can't say that I noticed much air. ferenae in Ilia Arabia and even the native preacher who undertakes to write hie addresses and deliver them as if he were addressing a congregation of educated people misses it as surely as does a fore- igner. The congregation et Beyrout does call for attention to literary form of the sermons of its pastor. A British mission• ary told me that a woman who had listened to him for tee or fifteen years applied for membership in the ohureh and when he examivad her he found that she had no idea of even the most elemen- tary Christian truths. Then indignant and disappointed, he called for his translator and said, "Come here, we must settle this ; either you or I mush be astray ; we have been telling a story for ten years in the ears of this woman, and she knows nothing about it. I believe the brother in gnestion has a different translator now. The moral of all this is that iE native Christian preachers tan be had at all, we ought to have them at any pride, although it should be at the cost of breaking down the wall of par- tition which saparateabetween the caste of native and the other caste of foreign Christiana, t.►rr ; R10c swoN1. EXTINCT. Vol Tleey Rhnov Meier flm,esvttisns of 0 Eamily al 0110 �Vorhl'e Pair, When the next World's Fair 18 held it is not probable there will be any Lap- landers present. Ten years ago there were 27,000 Lap:anders. Now there are only 11,000. Death and amalgamation are oinking away with them as a die• tinning branch of the human family. Ethnologically this may he the troth. It doesn't seem to agree very well with ' what old Kiug Bull, the head of the Midway colony, claims for himself and family. Bull says he is 112 years old. His son, Bale Bull, he says, is 90 years of age. Bats Hygd Ball, the grandson, is 78. Bale Hygd Bull has a daughter 59 years old, and her son is 41. The grand- son of Bolas Hygd Bull has a son 29 years old. The daughter of this 29 -year-old Ball is 14, and she has a little girl 2 years old. Thus, it appears, according to old Ring Bull, that eight generations of this family are living. co King Bull, however, is a tough nut. Ib will not do to judge tine Laplanders by him. He bas toasted "a cave" not far from Lapland, on the Midway, and he has tried several times to drink all of the beer in that cave. The last time the Laplanders were invited to some gathering on the Midway old King Bull had such a head on him he wouldn't trust him=elf outside of the village. The Lapps were anxious to go and old King Bull said they might if Reilly would take care of them ; be would trust them with Reilly, but with nobody else. Reilly is a young Colum. bien Guard from Dubuque. Ms beat is the Lapland village and he has cam. pletely won the old chief's confidence. So Reilly chaperoned the Lappa for a ride on an electric raliway. And in the party were the five red -clinked, dark. haired, bright-eyed Dcoloarien maidens Goner i 11 jYows, It le estimated that there are 10,000 unemployed men in Denver, Col., at the meant t tame, The Nortvegiall Storthing has Wooed Ring Oscar's appanage from 330,000 to 356,000 kronor. Oorrespondents at Naples profess to be unable to gain any infornnaliou ooneern- ing an epidemic+ there. A banderillero named Lobito was gored in the bull ring at San Fernando, (ala de Leon, last week, and died an Rorer after. A Grand Trunk passenger brain struck a street oar at 10th and Halstead streets, Cbicago, Monday night, killing four per. sons, At Vidalia, Montgomery county, Ga., Jamas Strickland killed James Lockley, It is said that Lookfey killed Strickland's clog the day before. S. N. Dusenbnry, cashier of the suspended bank of Puyallup, Wash,, has been arrested on a charge of ombozaling 911,000. Ile ie in jail. Mise Emma Garrett, of Philadelphia, principal of a deaf mute school in that arty, ootnnlitted suicide at Chicago Wed- nesday night by jumping from the fifth story of a hotel. Mall carrier Ohms. Miller, at Mattoon, Ill., Wednesday night shot and fatally wounded Otis sweetheart, Mary Moak, who had discarded him, Miller then committed sttietde. Geo. Grandin, who says he represents Le Journal, Paris, leEb New York on Sat- urday to walk to the World's Fair. Ile expects to mane 50 miles a day. He carries no money, relying entirely upon good -fellowship. Itis stated at Rome that the German Government has intimated thab no 062. tial opposition will be made in the Reichstag bo the proposed law allowing the return to Germany of the members of Oatholio religious orders. A despatch received last week at Duluth, Minn., says that the mob at Ewen, Mich., had just taken the man suspected of starting the fire which de- stroyed the town and hung bins to a tree. Ewen was a lumbering town and has beau built up on a boom. The substanti- al part of the town, with the exception of one or two buildings, is entirely wiped out. The loss is placed at 9300,000 aud the insurance at 985,000. Chas. F. Duerr, aged 41, a stonemason of Dayton, 0., was brutally murdered about 2 o'nloatr Saturday morning while returning with his wife and children from a party. As they were about to cross a narrow bridge over Zeley'e ditoh they found their way obstructed by three ruffians, who refused to step aside. Alrs, Doerr squeezed through with a baby carriage wbioh she was wheeling, bat her husband was knookad down with a stone and then stabbed through the heart. A11 this 000urred within a stone's throw of his home, and while bis wife and child- ren were near by. The murderers escaped. An explosion took place iu No. 4 shaft of the Kingston Coal Oo. at Edwardsville, Pa., last week. A gang of mon were at work driving a slope, when a naked lamp Mame in contact with a large body of gas. The shock of the explosion tore away timbers, smashed mine oars and horribly burned three men and a boy, who are not expected to recover. A resetting party went to the assistance of the victims, who were humidly brought to the sur- face. The flesh upon two of the nee was literally cooked and presented a sickening sight. C:aeito Una .CNTC•an;• Owen Sound Gas Company is putting in a new gasometer. Montreal is having an epidemic of burglaries just now. Severe damage by hail is reported in a section of Nova Scotia. Aid. Garratt, of London, fell from a waggon one day last week and broke his leg. The Soobchmen of London had a big Pio-aie at Port Stanley one day last week. There has been 263 deaths in the Waterloo poor hoose since its organize• tion. .The sum of 915,000 has been sub. scribed toward a new opera house in Guelph. A man named Durham was Milled by a falling load of lumber near St. George last week. The idea of a Conservative convention in Toronto baring September has been abandoned. Charlie Kelly, aged five, was drowned at Wallaeeburg last week by the up• setting of a boat. • A movement is on foot at Montreal to bring Sir Hector Langevin back into ac- tive politioal life. In South Monaghan, near Peterboro', James Dawson, aged 85, fell on a mowing machine and was killed. Harris & Field, of Woodstock, shipped 8,500 lbs, of gooseberries to a Debroib firm on Wednesday of last week. Hamilton retail grocers had a pic-nio to Niagara Falls on Thursday of last week, which was patronized by 8,000 persons. The Masonic grand lodge closed at ttawa on Thursday of last week. Hun. . 81:. Gibson was re•eleobed grand master. Mrs. Eli Ooty,of Anderdon, Essex Co., gave birth to twin boys a few days ago. She is also the mother of twin girls, aged 14, and twin boys aged 4. A Kingston clergyman, who recently fused to pay toll, because ministers lite on duty are exempt, has been fined 1 and costs. He will appeal from the nviction, At Ingersoll Mr. Matheson gave the 10. year-old eon of J. M. Humphrey, a horse- whipping for hanging on the rear of his cab, and some fears are expressed of ery- sipelae setting in a wound on the little chap's leg several inches long, made by the whiplash. An elderly gentlemen represented him. self Met Friday nigh at the Queen's Hotel, Toronto, as John Adams, of Buffalo. Iso retired to hie room about 10 o'clock and nothing more was seen of hftn until next morning about 9 o'clock. When the chambermaid went to his room she totted the door looked, and as no response came to knooks at the door e boy was pat he through the fanlight and the door uolooked from the inside. Mr. Adams wee tined lying dead in bed. A. d ,otos was sent for, and found deceased had died from an overdose of morphine—whether administered mien. tionally or not cannot be said. A cheque for 9650 was found in his pockets and a small student of oast, 0 who belong to the highest nobility in Lapland, aud who dame to the fair to weave hair ornaments, play the guitar and embroider as they do where the sun never sets in Summer. These nomads of the north look rug- ged. They may be as long•lived as old King Ball claims. But they are the In- dians of the North Pule region. They are re w being driven out of existence, just as are o the North American aborigines, Settle- ment by more civilized people is forcing the Lapps farther and farther to the north. It is taking possession of their lakes and their reindeer pastures. Some of tate Lapps at:wept the changed condi. tions and lose their identity. Others sling to the life of their forefathers, maintain the purity of the blood and fall back into the mountains of the north. Of this latter close are old King Bull and hie colony brought to the World's Fair, They have with them their belongings, even to seventy tons of moos to feed the reindeer during the stay. The teat of civilization is the eetimabe of woman, Patient waiting ie often the highest way of doing God'a twill. A New York health inspeotoe on Fri. API of last week ran aoress a mon, !tie wife and three children, all aflioted with smallpox, The family Were poor and could not afford a dootor. Au old Blau,amaa John 10oidds woo ran over and Milled by au motheaten train from Brtuttfor'd on the (k, 92. It. about three ranee froth Port Dover, last week. The bottler' of Hiroo unknown Wren anti portions of a vessel have been gonad on Olio south shore of Manitoulin Island, fourteen miles uortlteaet of the Duels Is- lands. 1HECOOK'SBEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA, White Stair Lin©o ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS. Between Now York awl Liverpool, via Queenstown, every Wednesday, As the steamers of this lino parry only a strictly lhnibecl number in the nrlitsl and maw= otnnv aocommodabloue, intending passengers berths isted necessn y at an early sea- son, Tor plans, rates,eta, apply to W. H. Kerr, Agent, Brussels. LEA t.' INC I wises to intimate to the ladies of Brussels and surrounding country that I am solling my large stock of Millinery goods; consisting of Hats, Bonnets, Flowers, tSac., R biGAR.DIJESS OF COST. Call at 01300 and leave your order if yoit wish to -secure a bargain. Miss I/I&Pherson, Fashionable Milliner. JULY 23, 1893 , _ sweistr=astargmnmwrrrnase PRONE/ TO LOAN. Any Amount of Money to Loan on Farm or Village Pro- perty at 6 6. 6i Per Celli,, Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of, repaying when required. Apply to A. Hunter,' Division Court Cleric, Brussels. THE'. Fb,ETCHER, 1'raetioat GT/'cttclf.t,taker and Jeweler. Thanking the pttblio for past favors and support and wishing still to secure your patronage, we are opening out Full Lines in GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. Silver Plated Ware from Established and Reliable Makers fully warranted by us. Clocks of the Latest -Designs JEWELRY 1 WEDDING RINe9, Lamas Grist Rnvos, Berman, EAnmyee, o. te. Also a Full Line of VIOLINS and Violin Strings, tea., in stook. N. It.—sesurer o r JEarrtn ge Licenses. T. Fletcher, - Brussels. Confederation Life Association. Head Alice : TORONTO. Capital aud Assets, $5,000,000 New insurance, 1892, $8,670,000 Insurance at Bisk, $22,565,000 Policies Non -Forfeitable aud In- disputable after two years. Gains for 1892 over 1891 in In- surance, Written, $755,000, Or over 25 per cent. Insurance at Risk, $1,978,000 Or Nearly 10 per cent. Assurance Income, $48,678 In Assets, - $489,878 W:Z.KERR, AGENT, BRUSSELS. R CU A Preparation of herbs& Roots the Medical Properties ofwhich are universal! known. S,TIVE n is imps!. ealUMB.E REMEDY mil's' PURIFYING THE BL00D '1`JR .9 C95liveness,Indlgesttarieyspepsta;5our Stomach KADA[NEAND DIZZINE55, SOLD BY 3. T. PEPPER, DRUGGIST, BRUSSELS. Mackinaw Folder" "St. Lawrence River FO/del" "Seasonable Hints" May be had FREE on Application to TORONTO TICKET OFFICE, 1 Zing Street E ,, Cor."Young. it. Or any Agent of the Company. J. T. PEPPIER, Agent, Brustele. Ayer's Hai r Vigor Makes the hair soft and glossy. 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Parsons thoroughly versed in Wall Papar will wait upon ,you and aid you in making selections. We hang paper 111 a first-class manner and are prepared to ex- ecute the best kind of decorations. WINDOW BUN DS. --I have an elegant stock of Window Blinds, well assorted, that will only need to be seen to be appreci- ated. They may bo had either trimmed or plain by the yard. W. . RODDICK, House, Sign, Carriage and Ornamental Painter. THE NEW CHEAP STORE, C.S S HI Zl S _ G -EO. GOOD'S OLD STAND. Grand Opening- Sale on Friday and Saturday and Following Days. We have boon for several days opening up the finest;stock of Now Goode ever disph,yed in Brussels, We invite you to visit our store and we will offer you such bargains as will make our Opening Sale memorable and the New Cheap Store famous in Bennis. The New Goods at the New CheoR Store consist of Ladies', Misaes'.and Child- ren's rine Boots, Shoes and Slippers in all the new colors and materials Gentle- men's Fine Laced Balmorals, Oongrees, Gaiters and Oxfords int Dongola Kid, dor: dovan and Calf, Working Shoes for Farmers and Meohanioe—Strong, neat, durable and cheap. Bays' and Girls' School Boots very Cheap. Our Boot and Shoe stook is well worth the attention of ail intending purchasers, TRUNKS AND VALISES—NEWEST AND BEST, Chinaware, Crockery and Glassware in Tea Sete, Dinner Sete, Toilet Sets, Water Sots, Lemonade Sete, Fancy China Plates, Cups and Simons. Fancy Choosers, Bobble, Lamps, Sm. Don't fail to see our Handsome Goblets at 5o. cult, in foot don't fall to inspect this elogaut stook of China, Crookery and Glassware. GOOD SROS. NEW CHEAP STORE, MRS. TUFTS, Manager.