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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-05-13, Page 7e.Id.ay ScI001. LNTEUNATIONAL LR:SelON NO. VII MAY 15, 1004. The ProdigeaSen—Luke 15:111-21, Sandy verses 11.32, Commentary—I. Leaving barna—vs, 11.13 11, A certain; mean—'Cilie simple, uupretentious.beginning of the most beautiful of ail the parables. The man is here the image of God the Father.—Lange. Two sons-13oth are. Jews, alta idea that the elder son, re- presents the Jews and the younger the Gentiles is foreign to the par- etbie, but in ebaraeter the two sons 'may be said to be representative of mankind, foar we have in them ex- amples of two great phases, of alienation from God—the elder is Winded by self-righteousness, the younger degraded by his unright- reousn ess.—Wil1eeck. 12. Mine iyounge,r—"Fle t'epreeesnts openly wicked persons, seals as pub- licans and sinners," He also repre- sents the thougintl.ss, careless youth. He was ovsrcoitfictent and could be easily deceived. Give me -It has bee:1 a custom in the east for sons to de- mand and receive their portion of the inheritance during the father's lifetime.—Clarke. "The request show- ed 1, selfishness; ', ingratitude; 3, self-will; 4, a determination to do wrong; 5, undutifulness; 6, narrow vision;' Ile divided his living—The yielding to the request strikingly sets forth the ,permission of free- will to mean, and also the fact of God's bestowing many gifts upon even the unthankful and disobcdeut, Man's will is supreme in fixing his destiny. 13, Not many days—Ile bad decided upon his course and hastened to be gone. "This shadows forth the ra- pidity, first, of national and sec- ond of individual degeneracy."—Far- rar. Gathered all together—"Sinners wile go astray from God venture their all." Took his journey—He was weary of his father's government and desired greater liberty. As• soon as the bridle of restraining grace is taken o.f, we are soon gone.—Benry. Wasted his substance—So sinners waste the gifts Goal has give.; them. ] .e worldly 1 fe is always a waste- ful 1 fe. With riotous living—In verse 3O we see 1,ow long he fell. las body, mind and soul were debased. 11. In distress.—vs. 11-1 6. 14. Spent all—He dal not stop until his last dollar was gone. H.s passions reign- ed. 21hts represents the sinner who has thrown aa ay the merry, favor and love of Goal, and has wi fully re- jected the salvation of Christ. A mighty famine—!'I`he soul .living at a distance from God, and shalt out from; intercourse with Him, will very soon feel its own utter emptiness. Aa•m ghty famine will follow: In want --Beal want is soul want. Tan pro- digal now felt the effects of his dissipated course. Tune 'steps dowry - ward were "apostasy, profligacy, penalty." Bee Prov. xxiv. 34. 15. Joined himself to' a citizen. Tlie saan'e wicked life that before represented 'by riotous living is here represented by servile living. for sinners are perfect slaves. TO feed ;swine. This was doubly degrad- ing, and especially so tit a jaw. "The degradation at the end et a. course of sin is here represented." "Shaine, contempt and distress are . wedded to sin, and can never (be divaraed." 16. With the husks. The husks were not the pods of soma other fruit, but "tile fruit et the carob - tree, cased for feeding swine." No lean gave 'un'to aim. 'those whom he had called, his friends now desert- ed him.. Tney had taken la'•a money and then cast him aside. The agents do the same tc(--slay. T'he .•;alaoniteeper 1va11 rob a man of dies inoney, health and character, and then kink bins oat of the 'back door to die. III. The dre&sion to return,—vs.17- 1(1 17. He rame to himself. Sin de- thrones the reason. A state of sin te a. state of folly and madness, lot the madness is in the heart (dare. 9, .3. His lack of, reason is creep, 1, In that he ;aliens for his "nl;)ney. 12. When he lett home. 3. When he went to live with Riarlots. X. When he unki;ertoo7: to uatisfv his hanger with swine's food. Biread uuougk anti to spare. The lowest in Imiy father's house has 'bread to; ,give t(( the poor. God's people are abundantly supplied with good things. I perish with hunger. Sin - tiara will nos( l.Um'o to Christ until they ogee tiletu:elves really to per sh. la I (w111 Weisel He had left home by his Own ifree will, and he must return the salana Tway. God compels no,, one to do right. And go. Fol - having the decisiah'C there mu'et be an effort put fc/rth. I have six-, ned. The fitirst thing to del is to imalce a Lull 'confession of our sins (11 John, 1, 9 ; Job, ;30, 27, 28.). Against heaven. Against God, .Every )sin is a sin against God. And before thee. He h'ad'aleo sinned against his earthly father. "i11 is ever a token of the sincerity of repentance, when one views even ;the sins ccgnmitted against others es transgre sioeis against God."—La.nge. 10. No mare 'worthy. Be"is ready to humrale self. Ile known that in justice this father could shutthe. door against him ;! he will plead for mercy only. PRAIC,TIC]AL SURVEY. Perhaps no portion of scripture is more generally read and bolds great- er cliarm for the average person, both old and young, rich and poor, than the lesson to -day. It can stand two tests which Byron declares to be conoluslve of the merit of liter- ary creations. It p'leaees imrnediate- ly, and it pleases *permanently; yet it sets forth the condition of every mon, in lila estrangements, degra- dation and dissatisfaction as a ,sin ner before God. We aro inclined to weep with the poor boy; when 'through his sin and folly; ho is brought to want and suffering, but 'w'hen rightly) understood this wee the beginning, or at least an in- citement to that which led to true nobility and permanent joy. The :acts ohmv, us tha;t.bis was a Ddtiable condition .in Heart, tendencies and at- titude at the first stages, when in his father's bouse lie was surround- bylluxury and the emoluments of w.eaat(h; i • The parable sets forth many; im- portant facts; 1. Touching reiation- slhip. ✓t 1;s a;father is the instrumental cause of the .son's 'being, so God is the source of all life. Man then is the offspring of God, not a helpless orphan. How 'high his .dignity, how rich his ''p trimionyl in hie fatber'r! house. The relation he demands, 'yea, expects at man, is that of loving, obedient fellowship to Him ; but ra- tber than yield this to God and cone under the restraints of parental au- thority, man, in base ingratitude willingly, blindly, persistently turns from his loving, Heavenly. Father to pursue his own way. 2. The whole difficulty: with mankind is alienated affection. 'his difficulty' has its root in that enmity; of nature which is not subjected to the saw of God nei- ther indeed can be ; so there is in- difference to God'e affectionate re- gard, His Italy nature and His bound- less mercy; and grace. Self and self- indulgence become the uppermost, the actuating, controlling motive of the life. 3. Sad to relate, man in this course has many abettors, who will share with him his profligacy; and commend his course of ruin. They' will even band themselves in organized effort to combat the thought that any allegiance is ow- ing to the kind father, or that any; restrictions should be placed upon the impulses of the depraved heart. They. say, "In festive joy let us eat, drink and nrake!merry." 4. Thus thoughtlessly and indifferently men are led to forget their high relations and their desperate condition until awakened to the consequences of their own sinful coarse, They then discover that every step in the de- parture from God has been deeper debasement for themselves. The picture must be turned now; to .showy the way ;back; to.God. 1. In this condition the prodigal reflected. Ile remembers one friend. atany call God cruel after they have wasted His benefactions and brought them- selves to wretchedness, but the pro- digal sees what he has brought upon. himself by his owe perversity. He 'e then thinks that even his father's servants have enough and to spare, and he 'believed his father whom he knerw to be good and kind would re- ceive him as one of them. 2. Il'e re- solved to overcome his jprride, humble himself and confess his sin. He could heave rested there and have perished. One step more wee necessary to place him in a holpreful moral relation. 3. Do arose. Here was action. He passed beyond mere thought, mere regret, more resolving. Nothing would now satisfy him but complete reconciliation and a full restoration to the favor of his long offended father, an.d he now yielded himself fully to Sass father. All his proud in- dependence was gone ;. all lass self- will bsa:d given way ; no longer was he inflated with his own self-import- ance or self-righteousness. His con- trition was so deep that the truth of his father's .love, so great, so con- sta.nt,only aggravated his guilt. So be returned, fully resolved to make no term ear conditions, but to yield all his supposed rights and claims neon his father. In this he shows a largo measure of faith is his father ; faith in his father's power and faith. 4n his f'ather's readiness to pardon It was the poor fellow's rightful at- titude and his action in a proper spirit thereto that secured him the welcome that the father gave him. William P. Ferries. ROUTED THE NATIVES. British Coluian in Nigeria Scores a Great Success. Bonny, West Africa, May 0.—On the 8th of April Major !Trenchard, with a force of 250 seen, had an encounter with, the natives in the Okpoto country, 711 miles up 'the Erne Raver, in Southern Nigeria. i3ix villages were burned, and two -hun- dred of the natives were killed and wounded. ' to British lost four na- tive soldiers killed and seven wounded. Tae British expedition referred to is ono that was sent against the Okpoto tr,lbe w,h'ich last December attached a il3ritish, patrol and killed two white officers and forty or fifty native troops. The expedi- tion has had some severe ;fighting. In one of the recent encounters the natives broke a Britisa. square and inflicted some loss. A FLAG INCIDENT. British an 1 Norwegians Would Not Enthuse at Ltlga, Russia. Leipsic, May IJ.--atie Tageblatt to- day prints a le't'ter from Riga, Euro- pean Russia, in which the writer says that when the news of 'the Rus- sian success at Gen'sian, Corea, tiva,:, published 1? rida,y,; last the harbor- master, who is a Government offi- cial, called an tho vessels in port to display their flags in honor of the event. The 'British and Norwegian captains refused to do so, but the German vessels, wh]ch were numer- ous, were decorated with flags. The townsmen of Riga, it is added, saw in the German demonstration confirmation of the Emluuror's word". "Russian sorrow, is German sorrow." The afternoon newspapers here and elsewhere. in Germany mildly pro- test against the action of the cap- tains of the German ships, classing it as a bread] of neutrality!. I3uda Pest.—iliaurue 'Telma the I3un- garian novelist, is •much worse to -clay, and his death is hourly expected. SHIP'S CREW RESCUED AT SEA Worked Nine Days at With Revolv New York, May 9.—The North Ger- man Lloyd steamer l'm'inzess Irene, which arrived here. to -day from Genoa, Naples and Gibraltar, brought eight shipwrecked seamen from the Austrian barkentine Mariji, Captain Bertolozzi, which was abandoned in mid -ocean May 1. When sighted by the Prinzess Irene the Mariji was tossing about helplessly at the mercy of the waves, her hold 611 - ed with water, her boats washed away and the eight men of her crew were huddled together on the roof of the af- ter house, The barkentine was a hope- less wreck, and after the crew had been taken off by a lifeboat from the steamer the doomed craft was fired. Pumps, the Captain er in Nand. Captain 13artolozzi said that bis ves- sel was dismantled in a gale Paine days before she was sighted by the Prinzess Irene, and was leaking badly. After nine drlys of continuous work, at the pumps, the crew became discouraged at times and tried to abandon their labors. The captain, however, stood over them with a revolver, compelling them to con- tinue. With•nino feet of water in the, hold, and no boats, the outlook was dreary enough. Although food and water were ample, the health of the men gave way undea their derfterate exertions The cook was taken i11, and others be- came so exhausted that they were una- ble to work. Only four men were fit for duty when the steamer hove in sight. Ile lfariji was valued at $12,000, and her cargo at $10,000. ONCE,UPON A TIME In Buffalo, N. 3..• there was a re- L]gioas sect °ailed "atillerites," and they figured it out that the world would came to an end on a certain day. They disposed of their property and made their robes, and got ev- erything all ready. Matt the night before the day when the trouble was to occur, some of the M'lilerites lost their nerve, and made a rush across the river to Canada, so to escape the general wreck. "Every day is judg- ment day," Emerson says, and if more of us Would take a trip' over to Canada once in a while (or often- er), it would be good for us. The air there is full of ozone—no miasma —no fever, and the fish do bite pro- digious, if you know where to go. The Grand Trunk Railway people have compiled a. little book telling about Canadian fishing resorts, howl to get there, rates, hotel accommoda- tions, etc. It is sent for the asking. Suppose you write for it to -day. Ad- dress, G. T. Bell, General Passenger and Ticekt Agent, Montreal, Quebec. YOUNG TIGER AT LARGE. Only weighs 75 Pounds, but it is Big Enough to Terrorize the People. Long Island City, L, I., May 9.— Somew;]aere in the jungles of Long Island City a tiger awaits his prey —and prey that pay Come leis way. Policemen, citizens, brave ;small boys and others are on the trail of the beast, while in nearly every Long Leland City saloo'n diagrams have been clraw,n on the bars to show dhow; bold Taunters, otherwise 'busy, would capture the `tiger if they only -had the time. Au empty dog kennel and a broken chain in. back ,yard ofthe house, 1S• iAeaclemy street, are silent evidences; of the tiger's es- cape. The wlrite Phones of three chick- ens in an ,adjoining yard and here and there a; elead• dog or cat tell the ,stony of the beast's ferocity. The' blood stainer jaws and fiery eyes of the Ibenst are exp.e•eted at every astreet corner, while Long Is- land :City has^a /corner an cold chills, and toanc;orte will Create a. de - mend for nerve tc(taicas. lames Clair, onto elle amateur champion lightweight baser, is the owner ca the eniseing tiger. The an- imal rwaa given to him three weeks Mrs. Elizabeth if. Thompson, of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy ( Wise Templar, and Member of W.C.T.U., tells how she recov- ered by the use of Lydia E. Pinlcham's Vegetable Compound. " num Mies. I'1 Names : — I am one of the many of your grateful friends who have been cured throe h the use of Lydia L. Pinkbasn's Vegetable Compound, and who can to -day thank you for the fine health I enjoy. When I was thirty-five years old, I suffered severe backache and'frequent bearing -down pains; in fact, I )tad womb trouble. I was very anxious to get well, and reading of the cures your Compound had made, I decided to try it. I took only six bottles,but it built me up andcured me entirely of my troubles. °i My family and relatives were naturally as gratified as I was. My niece had heart trouble and nervous prostration, and was considered incur- able. She took your Vegetable Com- pound and it cured her in a short time, and she became well and strong, and her home to her great jay and her bus - band's delight was blessed with a baby. 1 know of a number of others who have been cured of different kinds of female trouble, and am satisfied that your Compound �� is the best medicine for sick women."— Mae. Er. rzAsltra 11. TnOmPSox, Box 105, Lillydale, N.Y.-- MOO .Y.-••$5000 forfeit If original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. ago b,v a ;vessel captain, alai it is 7 months ofd and weiglhs about seventy-five pounds. Tfi'he tiger got away last evening and the Bunter's Point pollee were notified this morning. Ever since tete report reached the police sta.' tion a man looks 'out oI an upper window- if there is a noise outside the door. -it 11, the polio' are search- ing far the tiger. Others are aiding, but, stmearage to relate, they make the search from trees, house tops, high fences and barn roofs. They lave heard that a tiger can walk out on a trolley wire and slide down the pole of a passing car and eat a motorauan and conductor in twelve minutes. James Clair owns a saloon, and many inquiries have been made there about the tiger. "Has he got stripes, Jim ?" asked one anxious resident. . "Sure," was the reply.• "Then you should search for him on Blackwell's Island," said the caner. The tiger's home was near.te high sago] and the pupils there -do not feel very comfortable. Principal De - merest has assured them, however, that the tiger is too young to be very harmful. Up to a late hour this afternoon Burden's wools and surrounding meadow land had been searched, and it was reported that claw prints had been discovered_ A party has gone toward Sunnyside, and the men emp'Ioyed on the Newton Creels bridges are prepared to prevent the tiger from crossing to Greenpoint and making las way to •isfcCarren's headquarters. At noontime Mr. Clair offered a reward of $10 for the return of the tiger alive. Nurse's Good Words. --"1 am a profes sional nurse," writes Mrs. Eisner, Halifax, `. 8. " f was a great sufferer from rheum- nrism—mtvost constant association with best phl.Ici ins 1 bad every chance of a cure 11 it were Iu their power—but they Earle;', South American Rheumatic Cure was recom- mended—to-day my six years of pain seen) as a dream. Two vottles cured nue. 100 TO TIE VESSELS UP. — Decision or the Lake Carrier's Association. Ottawa R,epirt—Today an or - dor was sant out to the head officers of the Canada Atlant.c Railway Co. notifying alt agents in the New Eng- land atates and elsewhere not ,to accept consignments of freight for lake shipments. From present indi- cations the Canada Atlantic Tran- sit Company's fleet will be tied up as a result of a labor struggle in which the Lake Carriers' Association are involved. Navigation on alt the great lakes, with the exception of }Lake Superior, is scheduled to open 01) Thursday, but few vessels will 1et under way. Absolute suspen- sion of freigu.t tarifa on the great lakes has ,:len decreed by the Lake Carriers' Association, with. which the Canada Atlantic ,Transit Co. are identified. A. Canada Atlantic official said to -day : "Yes, It is correct that the order has gone forth• tying up lake traffic. 'Elbe present trouble is with the masters and pilots, and t a meeting will be held to -morrow to try and arrange a settle(tnent. If the masters smuts pilots persist • in their demands traffic will be tied up, bat it is a question whether they can hold out for long or not. SOCIE'T'Y WOMAN A THIEF. Theft of $20,000 Worth of Jewels Traced to tiler. • Paris, May 9.—After, the death of Declass de Alla at the Hotel Bris- tol last hfrrch, it was found that a casket containing jewele valued at $20,000 was missing. The lost jew- els included a diamond earring, the wedding gift of Emperor Napoleon III. to the Empreee ugenie, which was later presented by the Empress to her niece. The Spin.nish Embassy communicated with the authorities concerning the missing casket, and the police have nosy, traced the theft to a society lady who visited the Duchess during her last illness. The jewels have been recovered, and it is probable that the family of the Du- chess will refuse to prosecute the ac- cused. New Orleaa's, La—Mayor Capdeville has asked the members of the Board of Pollee Commissioners of New Orleans to resign, as a result of. charges by Com- missioner John A. Woodevrlle that the Commissioners are "grafters," and are 'responsible for, gambling houses and lot- tery shops. _ The Markets '!'orcoilbo Ifarinere' Ise.aricet.. The offerings of grain on the street to -day; were nil, the farmers' being bui,sly; engaged in ploughing. Say dull, five loads selling at *12 to $15 a ton • for timoth!y;, and at to $10 for +mixed. Stralw; be nom- ln al, Dressed hogs are firmer, lights be- ing quoted at $7.25 per cwt., and • heavies+ at Wileat, 'white, bush., 91 to 92e;; red, bush., al. to 92.e; spring, bush., 90e; goose, 77 to 78c; oats, bush., 39 'to 3191¢;; peas, 'bustle 65 to 66c; ;ser- ies'', buds., 45e; Ilay, timothy, per ton, $12 to $15 ; clover, ,$9 to $10; straw per tan, $10; seeds, alsike, bush., $4.- 50 to $7.60; red clover, $5.50 to $7.- 7a; timothy, $2 to $t ; apples, per bbl, $1.50 to $2.25; rlressed hogs $6.- 75 to $7.25 e eggs, per dozen, 15 to 17c; butter, dairy! 16 to 17e, cream- er, 18 to 20c; chickens, per Ib., 13 to 14c; turkeys, per ib., 16 to 180; potatoes, bag, ljnl:a0 to $1.30; cab- bage, per bag, 40 to 50c ; cauli- flower, per dozen, 8125 to $1.75; celery;, per dozen, 40 to 50e; beef, hindquarters $7.50 to $9; fore- quarters, $5.50 to $6.50 choice, car- cass, $7 to $7.25; medium, carcase, $6 to 1$6.50; lamb, yearling, $10 to ;Silt; o :m$9utto.50.n; I8 to s9; veal, per cwt., $S Lmratish Cat tie Markets. London, May 4.—Canadian cattle are slow at 10 1-2c to 11 1-2c per lb. ; refrigerator beef Sc per ib. ihbeep 13c per lb. ; yearlings, 13c. Leading Wheal Markets. Jttly. New York 9(L 7-8 89� 1-2 Flt. Louis ... w h2ayj. -- 82 S-4, Duluth ... . 90 5-8 90 5-8 Toledo 101 8991 9 3.-4 \kinneapolis ... 115-8 911 8 Toronto U,orse Market. Sales in consequence of last week'o horse Show have been uncommonly light, and for the moment there . is no. brisk demand for any particular class of horse. General purpose and heavy draught continue to sell fairly well, how- ever, while good express horses are hard- ly obtainable, and could- easily be sold; for from $150 to $100, being a little ad- vance over last quotations. Delivery horses also show an upward tendency,. as do roadsters and matched pairs. Sin- gle cobs and carriage horses show a slight decrease in price. Delivery horses - have taken on a wider range, going from $125 to $200. Common cattle are in lose demand than ever, and the prices are• away down. Last week's Horse Show sale was well attended, and the prices paid for Mr. Beck's lot, running from $250 to. $475, are considered fairly satisfactory. Twenty other saddle horses and drivers - averaged $200 apiece, the entire sale be- ing about the best of the kind that has- been held in recent years. There were 125 of all sorts up at the Repository for sale on Tuesday. Quotations, founded mainly on this week's sale at the Repository, are as fellows: Single roadsters, 15 to 16 hands .... . $150 to $200' Single cobs and carriage horses,15 to 16.1 hands 125 to 1S750 Matched pairs and car- riage horses, 15 to 16.1 hands ... 375 to 500 Delivery horses, 1,100 to 1,200 lbs. . General purpose and ex- press horses, 1,200 to 1.350 lbs..... . 150 to 190 Draught horses, 1,350 to 1,750 lbs. .... 160 to 225 Serviceable second-hand workers .... .. . 50 to 125 Serviceable second-hand drivers .... .... 35 to 96' Bradstreet's Trade Review. Business at Mofttreai is a little more active in wholesale circles this week,. The orders for water shipment on the opening of navigation are accumulating,. and much freight is waiting for ship- ment. The western traffic is likely to be delayed for a couple of weeks owing to. the lateness of the opening of naviga- tion on the upper lakes. Remittances are fair now, but of course there is room for improvement. There is a fair de- mand for stoney and rates are steady. Business at Toronto is more settled' this week. The burned out firms have• mostly found new temporary quarters, and are getting in stocks to meet cur- rent demands, and hope to be in a pose+ tion to meet all the demands of their customers very soon. Values of do- mestic and imported manufactures are firmly held. The prospects for trade the next couple of months are encour- in agA t Quebec business as a rule in the various branches of trade is not active,. and the demand is only for immediate wants, At `'ictoria, Vancouver, and other Pacific coast trade centres, as reported' to Bradstreet's this week, • mercantile operations are on a fairly large scale. Large shipments of eattie, hardware, machinery, etc., are being made to the 'Yukon, and some perishable goods, such as batter, eggs, etc., have been made to the White Horse. Real estate busi- ness is active at Vancouver, and there is much activity in building. The more favorable weather is having tete effect of improving trade at Winni- peg and tlrongh Manitoba now. Many settlers continnie to arrive, and as they appear to be well provided with easli,. the arrivals of these newcomers in the • country are expected to be quite an im- portant factor in the purchasing power of the country. Seeding operations are becoming more general, and it is con- fidently expected that there will be an appreciable increase in tine wheat area., 125 to 209 Blobbs--Yes, he has failed in every- thing verything be has undertaken. Slobbs—Thera why doesn't he start a eorrespondencsa. school?