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"AMOS,WHAT SEEST HOU?
AND 1 SAID, A PLUMB LOU
Text of a Sermon in Which Dr. Talmage
Scores Earth Made Religions and. Urges
For the Heaven Made Sort.
Washington report: From Trondh-
jem, Norway, where Dr. Talmage is
now staying, he sends the aollowing
discourse, In which lie stows that the
world can never be benefited by a re-
ligion of human manufacture, whilh
easily yields to ono's surroundings, but
must have a religion let down from
heaven; text, Amos via, 8: "And the
Lord said unto me, Amos, what eeest
thou? aid I said, a plumb line."
The solid masonry of the world has
for me a fascination. Walk about some
of tele triumphal arches and the cathe-
drals 400 or 600 years old. and see them
stand as erect as when they were
built, walls of great height, for cen-
turies not bending a quarter of an Inch
this way or that, so greatly honered
were the masons who builded these
walls that they were free from iax-
ation, and calld "free" masons. The
trowel gets most of the credit for
these buildings, and its clear ringing
on stone and brick has sounded across
The ages. But there Is another imple-
ment of just as much importance as
the trowel, and my text recognises it.
Bricklayers and stonemasons and
carpenters, in the building of walis,
use an instrument made of a cord, at
the end of which a lump of lead is
fastened. They drop it over ; he side
of the wall, and as the plummet natu-
rally seeks the center of gravity In the
earth, the workman discovers a here
the wall recedes and where it bulges
out and jest what is the perpendicular.
Our text represents God as aLanding
son the wall of character which the
Isra.elltes had built and in that way
testing It. ''And the Lord said tette
ine, Amos, what seest thou? And I
said, a plumb line."
What the world wants is straight up
and down religion. Much of the so-
called piety of the day bends this way t
and that to suit the times. It is t
oblique, with a low state of sentiment
.and morals. We have all been built:l-
ing a wall of character, and it is glar-
ingly imperfect and needs reconstrac-
tion. How shall It be brought into '
perpendicular? Only by the divine
measurement. "And the Lord said
unto me, "Amos, what seat thou? And '
I said, a plumb line."
The whole tendency of the eines is
to make us act by the standard of ,
what others do. We throw over the
wan. of our character the templed
Plumb line of other lives and rejeet
alte infellieble test whim Amos saw. I
aor me ',amnia not bs
what you think Is right, len who t ,
God thinks is eight. This perpetual
referente to the behavior ef Others. '
as though it decided anything but
human fallibility, is a mistake wide
as the world. There are 10000
plumb lines in use, but only one is
true and exact, and that Is the line
of God's east nal right. There i a:
mighty attempt being made to reeon-
struet and fix up the Ten Command-
ments. To many they seem too rig.d.
'The Tower of Pisa leans over aboat
thirteen feet from the perpendicular,
and people go thousands of miles te
learn how, by extra braces and vari-
ous architectural contrivances. It is
kept leaning from century to century. I
'I'ho divine b liPe needs te be
thrown over all merchandise. Thou-
sands of years ago Selotnon diseovered ;
the tendeney of, buyers to depreciate
goods. He saw a mem beating down
an article lower and lower and say-
ing It was net worth the price staked,
and when he had purchased at the
lowest point he told everybody whet a
sharp bargain he had struck, and how
he outwitted the merchant. "It is
naught, saith the buyer, but when he
Is gone his Way, then he hoasteth,"
(Proverbs NZ 14). Society is so ut-
terly askew in this matter that you
seldom find a seller asking the price
that he expects to get; he Puts on a
higher value thee he expects to re-
ceive, knowing that he will bave to
drop. And if he wants $50, he asks
$75. And if he wants $2,000, he asks
$2,500. "It is naught," malt the buy-
er. "The fabric Is defective; the style
of goods is poor; X an get elseevItere
tt better article at a smaller price. It
is out of fashion; it Is damaged; it will
fade; it will not wear well." After
awhile the merchant, from everper-
suasion or from desire to dispose of
that particular stock of goods, says,
"Well, take it at your own price,"
and the purehaser goes , home with
light step and calls into his private .
office his confidential friends and
chuckles while he tells how for balf
price he got the goods. In other
events, he lied and was proud of it.
Nothing woula make times as good
and the earning of a livelihood so
easy as the universal adoption of the
law of right. Suspicion sirikee
through an bargain making. Men
Who sell know not whether theywill
ever get the money. Purebasers
know not whether the goods shipped
will be according to the sample. And
what, With the large number of
clerks who are making false entries
and then a.bscpruling, and the explosion
of firms that fail for millions of dol-
lars, honest men are at their wits'
end to make a living. 1-Itt who etanes
111) atnid all the pressure and does
right is Accomplishing something tow-
ard the establishment of a high corn -
iterate' prosperity. I have deep Sym-
pathy for the laboring classes who
toil with hand and foot. But we
must not forget the business men
who, witacert any complaint or'
annefed ,proceesion through the
street, are enduring a stress of cir-
cumstances terrific. The fortunate
eeople of to -day are theft who are.
receiving daily wages eir regtilar sal-
aries. And the men most V) be pitied
those who conduct a business
le prieee are fS,lling and Sea try
to pay their clerks .and employes and
are in such fearful stratts that they
Would quit business toemorrow if it
were net for the wreck and ruin of
others. When people tell at what a
ruinously low rate they purchased
an article, it gives me more aismay
than satisfaction. 1 know ht means
.the bankruptcy and defalcation of men
in many deptentments. The men who
toil with the brain need full as much
aympathy as those who toil with the
hands. All business life is struck
through with suspicion, and panics
are the result of want of confidence.
To feel right and to do right under
all this pressure requires martyr grace,
requires divine support, requires celes-
tial re -enforcement. Yet there are tens
of thousands of such men getting
splendidly through. They see others
going and themselves going down, but
they keep their patience and their
courage and their Christian consisten-
cy, and after awhile their success will
come. There is e• enerally retribution
in some form for greediness. The own-
ers of the big business will die, and
their boys will get possession of the
business, and with a. cigar in their
mouths and full to the chins with the
best 'Igoe/sand beland a pair orspank-
ing bays, they will pats everything on
the turnpike road to temporal and
eternal perdition. Then the business
will break up and the smallest dealers
will have fair opportunity. Or the
spirit of contentment and right feeling
will take possession of the large firm,
as Eecently with a famous business
house, and the firm will say: "We have
enough money for all our needs and
the needs of our children. Now let us
dissolve business and make way for
other men in the same line." instead
of being startled at a solitary instance
of magnanimity, it will become a
common thing-. I know of scores of
great business housses that have had
their opportunity of vast accumula-
tion and who ought to quit. But per-
haps for all the days of this genera-
tion the struggle of small houses to
keep alive under the overshadowing
pressure of great houses will continue;
therfore, taking things as they are,you
will be wise to preserve your faith
and throw over ail the counters and
shelves and casks the measuring line
of divine right. "And the Lord said
unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And
I said, A plumb line."
In the same way we need to rectify
our theologies. An sorts of religions
are putting forth their pretensions.
Some have a. spirituelle religion, and
their chief work is with ghosts, and
others a religion of political economy,
proposing to put am end to human
misery by a new style of taxation, and
there is a humanitarian religion that
looks after the bodies of men and lets
the sera look atter itself, and there is a,
legislative religion that proposed to
rectifyall wrongs by enactment or
better laws, and there is an aeethetie
religion taat by rules of exquisite taste
would lift the heart out of its defoirm-
!ties, and religions of all sorts, relig-
ions by the peck, religions by the
square foot and religions by the ton -
all of them tieviees of the devil that
would take the heart away talent the
only religion that will ever efteet any-
thing for the human race, and that is
the straight up and down religion writ-
ten in the book which begins with Gen-
esis and ends with Revelation, the re-
ligion of the skies, the old religion,
the Ged given religion, the everlasting
religion, which says, "Love God above
all and your neighbor as yourself."
All religions but one begin at the ,
wrong end and In the Wrong place. The
Bible religion demands enat we first ,
get right wtth God. It begins at the a
top and measures down, while the
other religions begin at the bottom
and try to measure up. They stand ,
at the foot of the wall, up to their a
kneein the mud of human theory and 'a
speculation, and have a plummet and a
string tied fast to la and they throw
the plumtnet this way and break a
head here and throw the plummet an- e
other way and break a head there, and sa
the they throw it up, and it (senses r
down upon their own pate.
I want you to notice ,this fact, that
when a. man gives up the etraight
ule and down religion of the Bible
for any new-fangled religion, it is I
generally to suit his sins. You first _
hear of his change of religion, a.nd 0
then you hear of some swindle he
has praoticed in a. special mining
stock, telling some one if he well put t
In $10;000 he ean take out $100,000; e
wall it cannot further on be correct-
ed, 'Because by the law of gravita- SUNDAY SCHOOL
tion a wall must be straight in ors
der to be symmetrical and safe.
young man is In danger of getting
defect In his wall ciC character th
may never be corrected.
Remember that the wall may b
100 feet high, and yet a deflection on
foot from the foundation affeots th
entire structure. And if you live on
hundred years and do right the la
eighty years you may nevertheless cl
something at twenty years of ag
that will damage all your earthly ex
istence. All you who have bui
houses for yourselves or for other
am I not right In saying to thes
young men, you cannot build a WE
so high as to be independent of th
character of its foundation? A. ina
before 30 years of age may comm
enough sin to last him a lifetim
Now John or George or Henry o
whatever be your Christian name o
surname, say here and now; "N
wild oats for me, no cigars or cigar
etts for me, no wine or beer for en
no nasty stories for me, no Sunda
sprees for me I am going to stai
right and keep on right. God hel
me, for I am very weak. From th
throne of eternal righteousness le
down to me the principles by whic
I can be guided in building every.
thing from foundation to capstone
Lord God, by the wended hand o
Christ throw me a plumb line."
"But," you say, "you shut u
young folks out from all fun." Oh
no! I like fun, I ha.vo had lots o
it in my time. But I have net ha
to go into the paths of sin to find it
No credit to me, because of an extra
ordinary parental example and Mau
ence I was kept from outward trans
gressions, though my heart was ba
enough and desperately wicked.
have had fun illimitable, though
never ssvore on oath and never gam
bled for so much as the value of
pin and never saw the inside of a
haunt of sin save as when many
years ago, with a commissioner of
police and a detective, and two eld-
ers of my church, I explored Nets
York and Brooklyn by midnight, no
out of curiosity, but that I might i
pulpit discourse set before the peopl
the poverty and the horrors of under
ground city life. Yet, though wa
never intoxicated for an instant an
never committed one act of dissolute
ness-restrained only by the grace o
God, without which reatraint I woul
have gone headlong to the bottom o
infamy -I have had. so much fun tha
I don't believe there is a Islam on th
planet at the present time who ho.
had mare. Hear it, Men and boys
women and girls, all the fun is o
the side of right. Sin may seem at
tractive, but it is deathful and lilt
the machineel, a tree whose dew
are poisonous. The only genuine hap
piness Is in a Christian life.
Oh, this plumb line of the everlast
Ing right! God will throw ite ovez
all our moral deflections. God wit
throw it over all churches to show
whether they are doing useful wor
or are instances of idleness and pre
tense. He will throw the plumb
line over all nations to demonstratt
whether their laws are just or cruel
their rulers good or bad, their am
billions holy or infamous. He threa
that plum line over the Spaniel
monarchy of other days, and whit
become her? Ask the epliatared
hulks of her overthrown armada. H
threw that plumb line over larencl
imperialism, and what was the re
suit? Ask the ruins of the Tuileries
and the fallen column of the Place
'Vendome and the grave trenehes
Sedan and the blood of revolutions
at different times rolling through the
Champs Elysoes. He threw the plumb
Inc over ancient Rome, and what be-
came of the realm of the ancient
raesars? Ask her war eagies, with
beak dulled and wings broken, flung
helpless into the Tiber. God is now
throwing that plumb line over this
republic, and it is a selenin time
with this nation, and whether we
keep His Sabbaths or dishonor them,
whether righteousness oe iniquity
dominate, whether we are Christian
or infidel, whether we fulfil our ?Me-
lon or refuse, whether we are for
God or against Him, will decide whe-
her we shall as a nation go oh in
higher and higher career or go down
n the same grave where Babylon
nd Nineveh and Thebes are sepui-
hered.
"But," say you, "if there be no-
hing but a plumb line what can any
f us do, for there Is an .)1,1 proverb
vhIch truthfully declares: If the
est mares faults were writien on his
orehearl, it would make him pull his
tat over his eyes.' What shall we
re when, according to Isaiah, `God
hall lay judgment to the line and
ighteousness the plume:eV" Ah,
tete is where the gospel remises in
With a. Savior's righteoueness to
take up for our deficits. And while
see hooleittg on the wall a pluinb
ine, I see also hanging there a cross.
Ind while the one condemne us the
ther saves us, if only we will hold
o it. And here and now you may be set
ree with a more glorious liberty
ban Hampden or Sidney Kesclu-
ko ever fought for. Not out yonder
r down there or up there, but just
here you are you may get it.
The invalid proprietress of a weal-
thy estate in Scotland visited the
otitinent of Europe to pa rid of her
ealadies, and she went to Baden. Be-
en and tried those waters-. and went
to Carlsbad and tried these waters,
and instead of getting better she got
worse, and in despair she said to a
physician, "What shaIl I dor HIS
rePlY Was: "Medicine can do nothing
or you. You have only one chance
rid that is in the waters of the Pit
<ea:nay, Scotland." "Is it possible,"
he replied. "Why, those \velars are
on sits,- own estate." She returned,
ahd drank of the fountain at her own
gate, and In two months was cempletely
sinning and dying,
recovered. Oh, sick and dis.sased and
why go trnclging
all the world over And seeking here
and there relief for your diseottragecl
spirit, When close by and at your very
feet and at the door of your heart,
aye, within the very estate of your
oa n consciousness, the healing wa-
ters of eternal life may be had and
had tbis very hour, this very min -
that over
silatse: is Ilthieessceraoss, btehoUGgh°6 the man -
against the plumb litre that Attlee
cipating power of which you end
may live and live aorever!
a, INTERNA.TIONA.I. 1,16138011 NO. IX,
at AUGUST 26, 1900,
ee Jesus the Good Sheplierd.-John 10;1-10. •
e Coramentery.-e0renneeting links -
e Lite rulers of the Jews had exegete
st manicated the man whose eyes acetyl
o had opened (see last leesoee because
e of tele testimony he bore concerning
- lea deliverer. Jesus found the men
It and revealed .hlinaelf JO Wen as the
sn, seSo:. of (laid Immediately after then
e our Lord again addresaed the Phall-
e 1. By the dcor-The sheepfolds of
n the East are not covered like our
a stables, but are mere enclosures sur-
e. rounded by a wall of loose stones
✓ with thorn -bushes upon the top, but
✓ ually an effectual barrier against
o lila% wolves. -Van Lennep. "There Is
_ only one door to Oriental sheepfolds.
0, Here the aoor Is the way appointed
len God for entering bils kingdoms and
Y the leadership In le. Tim sheepfold -
't The true Church of Ceirist. A. thief
P and a robber -A. thief endeavors to
e guin Me booty slyly and avoid detec-
t tam ; a robbe.r in a lortgana prepared
h to do -violence. These false teachers,
- who rejected Christ' and who were
. devouring the sheep from a purely
f mereeriary standpoint, were the
thieves anti robbers.. The appneatioe
s was easy.
, 2. 13y the dbor-Openly with no
f need to conceal his. purposes. By the
a way what He ditrecte the sheep to
, enter.
_ 3. To Trim the porter openeth-The
- Holy Spirit is the one who opene the
- door to the shepherds ; see freque.nt
d uses of this symbolism by the npostles.
I Those who, like eltems, are "innocent,
trustful, tem:liable, obedient." Hear
1
- hts volee-rile leave is a pleasent voice..
It sometimes seeme severe, but is O-
a waye in love. Ily name -In the east
in a fleck of hundred:8 each shoela
would have its own menet It le Kahl
that Cyrne anal Caesar conid repeat
the names of the men of their great
• armies:. cl 1
t 4. The sheep follow Him -We must
n fallen. where Christ lends. "Sometimes
e the last pastures awl the waters of
- rest lie beyone deserts and mountain.%
e anal rough ways lead to them; still,
d 'Trans leacie Hie (queen (MOM there.
- 5. A stranger will they not roller-.
f Thi gi is true ameng the sheep in the
d eastern countries, rend it 14 equally
true enema, lexes people. Shrewd men
f may reveler% for a time, brit some day
t the mask will be torn off by Christians
O themeelves :
n theinselvai (Matt. xxl. 45; Mate xa.
..s 15.11. T'n,leretrioil not - Aware that
e on whiell the application turned.
s 7. 1 itin the. 0.0or-Works, ordinance%
_ charaeter, are not the iloor ; the
- 19), they did not see the eenet hinge
, taese deseriptions were leveled at
k nee Plierieee; elainuel to be instru et -
e Isfacition-"fite paniutee" Ise. hie-
-, the benefite to be received by enter-
_ ohi- of the people: claimed the right
1 . eatall be ravel," II. Liberty of
L qiut-"ge In and out."
1 who enme pretending to be pastors
. or guidee to the people. The scribe);
' ll Ir elle* men (hater in -What are
' 1:01Ve4 WO emptele the peeple.-Ilarnee.
.
whoa) only elm 51•11 1'; to promote them-
ing In through Christ ? T. Salvation
to reguiate the affairs of religion;
ehurch is not the door ;.1(1'21.1r(ls.4e(otuillintlinIiitleti.
8. All that came betere me -Those
1 11. ele Protection and mire,
out -We must go in to trust. to reet,
_
to think, to pray, before we mil go
out to do effective work for the
f Lord.
10. And may here it at untie -liter (ft.
V.) -Christ le able to give Hie peo.
ple abuntlent life. :irate,' ere, seeking
"more" life: what :et -It neel le "life"
-the Christ life, the, al•undrart life.
"By tide is meartt, T. riellieet of life.
11. Overflowing life." eu el a life is
a growing, Mere -ming life.
11. Giveth Ills life for the deep -
Pre -clone truth? John ee. 111, T. ,Tohn
iv. 10. Wheta contract wae the; be-
tween. ITimeelf and tho unitely men He
wee addreeeing.
112. An hireling -.The hireling le tlie
one este, rebore isimphr for hie veriges,
or he has sa.crificed his integrity or
pillaged into irremediable worldli-
ness. His sins are so broad he has
to broaden his religion, and he be-
comes as broad as temptation, as c
broad as the eoul's darkness, as
broad as hell. They want a religion d
that will allow them to keep their
sins and then at death say to them,
"Well done, geed and fatthful ser-
vant." and that tells them, "All is
well, for there is no hell." 'What a
glorious heaven they hold before us!
Come, let us go in and see it, There a
are Heroa. and all the babes he isms -
sacred. There are Charles Guiteau s
and Robespierre, the feeder of the
French guiletine, and all the liars,
thieves, louse -burners, garroters,
pieltpockets and libertines of all the
centuries, They have all got crowns
and threnes and harps aed scepters,
end When they chant they sing,
"Thanksgiving ana honor and glory
and power to the broad religion that
lets us all into heaven without re-
pentanre and without faith in those
humiliating dogmas of ecclesiastical
old fogyism."
My teat gives me a grand oppors
tuntty of saying a useful word to all
young men 'who are now forming
habits for a liretime. Of what use
to a stonernaeon or brick-
layer IS 0, plumb line? Why hot build
the wall by the linaldea eye and.
hand? Because they are insufficient, is
because if there be a deflection in the SO
Life is not 810 ShOkt tub that there
aiways time ter courteey.-EMer-
0,
27. Be knows their dispositions and
habits, diseases and eireunista,nceer,
and has a perfect knowledge of
their every requirement.,
The Good Shepherd. "goeth before";
and "leacleth" His people. How seg-
eralicants whether consedered from, a
r,negative or an affermative point of
view! Jeans says, "Follow me." John
rice, 19. Paul says,. "Be ye therefore
followers oe God as dear children."
Eph. v. 1. .
The Good Shepherd makes ample
provislion to supply every legetimate*
requirement. of Hes people. Vs. 9, 10,
See Pa. xxlie "Life abundlantly." "He
shall be saved, amd shall go in and
out and find /mature." "He me,keth
me to Ile drove le green pastures ; He
leadeth nes beside the still waters,"
etc.
The Good Shepherd stands by His
people in teme of danger and is ready
to make aria, socrifikie to protect and
to save them from the element's that
war upon them and the enemies that
would make of them a prey. Vs.
1-15, "No one shall snatch them out,
of My hazel," says Jesus, "and no one
is able to snatch them but of the Fa-
ther's, handl." Vs. 28, 29, IL V. David
was an example, ref a faithful and
courageous shepherd when he sl,eve
the lion and the bear, 1 Sam. xvel.
84-37.
The Good Shepherd sympathizes
with and adapts Henseef to the varie
ous conditions and circumstances of
His people. "He shall feed Ms flock
Dare ehepherd; he shall gather the
lambs with his arm, and carry them
In hits bosom, and shall! gently lead
those that are with young." Ise, a's,
11. Read Ezek. 34.
The Good Shepherd is the author
and dispenser of eternal, 1Sfe to all
tliem. who obey Han. Vs. 27, 28; Hob.
v.9.
The Ceciel Shepherd Is the supreme
good, for He is God (v. 20); is the
"Great iithepherd," because He is tim
Almighte- (Heb. xal. 20) ; he is the
"Chief Shepherd" en comparison with
the minesters of the gespel; (1 Pet.
vt 4). and the "Sheoherd and Dishep"
of all the souls that compose the
Church of Gel. 3. Pet. 25. Whew -
MARKET REPORTS
The Week, j
Liwilie4.010104v110444,4111111010
Leading Wheat Preirkets.
Following are the eloaleg (Motel
tons at importitet wheat centrel
to -day, , . 1
e Male Sept,
Chicago ... •.• sm. $0 74 8'1
New York .,. 097 5"
Milwaukee 76 1-2 --
St. Louis ... 0 71 1-4
Toledo 0773-44 078 141
Detroit, red ... 78 i 0 79,
Detroit, white ...-. 078
Duluth, No. 1 }1... ---
Minneapolis, No. 1 I
Northern ... 0 75; ; , 074 1
Minneapolis, No. 1 1
. hard ... ... 0 7'a ae-s
Toroetto Fruit Market.
'Heavy deliveries and a fair demand
*were the prevailing characteristic:a of
yesterday's trade at the wholesale
fruit market. Pilaw ranged as tol-
lows: Bleak currants, 80e. to $1;
tomatoes, 10 to 200e pears, 20 to 40ea
cueumbere, 10 to 15c.; apples, 10 tot
20c, per basket; green. corn) t5 to 7e.
Per dozen.; potatoes, 30 to 35c. per
bushel ; Canadian peachee, 15 to 40o.
pecbasket; red peppers, 80 to 45c.;
°Mons, 25 to 80e. per basket; la.wtext
berries, 3 te 7c. per basket; plums.,
65 to ilea; muskmelon% 15 to 20e. pieta
basket, and 50 to 75e. per ease celery,
az; to 50e. per dozen ; huckleberriee.
65 to e0e. per basket, azel bananas/
$1.25 to $2, per bunch!.
Toronto Live Stock Market.
eaeh 230 OD to 00
Export cattle, choice, par cwt4 80 to a 12i
Export cattle light. percwt459 to 75
Butchers' cattle, picked 4 35 to 4 65
Butchers' cattle. choice 4 10 to 35
Mal:here cattle, good 3 75 to 4. 00
do. medium 3 35 to 3 75
Butchers amnion, per cwt. 3 09 to 3 05
nulls. export, heary, per cwa. 4 23 to 4 60
ever can truthfully say, ',The Lied, ifulls. export,lieht, per cwt.- 3 75 to 4 15
0.0. .Tehovala la my Shepherd," ma y Feeders, Om to 1,0s5Ilisecwt .... 3 75 to I 00
&sae with unbounded confalenee ex- do, .2 10 Moles 3 25 to 3 75
claim., "1 ehitIl not. want." Psa. Xxil:I. Sleek steers, mo to 700 lbs, per
cwt. 3 00 to 3 50
1.-J. Craig. do. ontcolors and heifers. a 23 to 260
Butchers' hulls, per ewt 2 50 to 3 00
THE APPLE CROP. Ligat stock bulls, per cat 2 00 to 2 50
Sheep. export ewes, per cwt3 TS to 4, Oa
_ do. buelN '', 75 to 3 00
Sheep, butchers . each..... 2 00 to 3 50
fipring lambs. each 2 30 to 3 50
de. per ewe. 4 50 to 1 7.5
Calves per hood 2 00 to 8 00
Hogs.elloive, per cwt. 6 25 to 0 OJ
Hoeseight, per cwt. 525 to 0 Oi
Hogq.ileavy, fat, per owt 537l to 0 00
nut.rs,cOrn fed 5 511 to 0 00
,
3 01) to 0(2
225 to 00
Outlook for That Very imeortant
Crop 'Phis Year.
Mr. Elem. James, Board of Trade
buialing, Toronto, sends out a crop re -
Slew Ana trade edentate from wheel
the following is take a:
etags
Peeking for export -In. a plentiful
season like this; poeitively peek only Manitoba Crops.
fruit that is free f rom worms and Winnipeg Report. Iteports received
sealer and not undersized. If von can, at the Provincial Department of Agri -
grade leinang earket a into two sizes,
as; It is preferable. If you do not un-
deretand paellang for eapert write for
me- circular covering same fully. Ite-
member freight is zee high on poor fruit
as on the hest.
culture, anti front travellers rettieving
from the country, Imilitette that the
harvest in Sin -Omen 'Manitoba le ma
well advanced, anti is progreesing •fav -
()elegy. In other parte the harvest '
a little later, lint tit> grala is all in
Englieh crop report -English crop so .• excellent collation for cutting, ant
goes.' ttat it will affeet the sales of harvest is general all over the pro
Neutellitit fall earleiles, Yltlee. The barley and oat evolve evil
Thiebsoelle:no.11,reIliur;ilgtAiturgott,triopfsl:ttiemillatilifk-e, , be later them wheat by hilly a fort
night, and the 'farmers; will thus I:
.Eilglish varleti7s conelet largely or /area plenty of time VI stoak Jit thel
green fruit. . wheat before the calla* grains a
rnitel States Ontario and :Cove. reatar. The demand for lahorere tin
Seotitt--Thts folicriving report was ad- year has been email, in compariem
opted nt the Nitticaml Apple eleppeee i with Met year, when over 8,000 evert
Convention in elevelanti, Ante erd, t asked for,
being the general convert:ens or opinion t World's Wheat Crop.
of three, presr 1-
11,, mai is Nally, out By t Waat.rigitill. MM. 13e -The tvir
private reports from every evetion : : eteteetve ta ele. wheat veep et h
*From 0 careful and eomprehensive re- ' w„tee ,f,).te lebe.4000 131v2, pee bee
VIPW of all informal:len he our /Recipes- 1 comp.:tee ay the Deeementent ,„r Agri,
Pion it Is our °plaice). that the venting ) curt ure. Tear siasw th t t 111 11t'&JIM-
01)1)1c. cam uf tit s ISnited States and i tries of tar? sett:al:ern latintspheer
Caleada Ili:eluding Novo :4110'lle will l'e whiell are tenunteely inehreed ir
ereintriee.
'•While eertain ripple bearing sae-! less than I50,ar13.000 eueliele. This I
t : . erops, ties prodstetion stiel herdic` Lai
5
'tit ' n;•4 of tee ral tell e trace report : 10.000,009 teed:s sl,- .rt. cif ia
neelerpte anti (Well light yielde, the : yeatas proileetE .0, auseratie a
inite)rtant. The erop of New England. ' sine' neeterati re/lust:lens.
proportion of sueh to the wheal is un- Chili are tette over ere:aeries shOwite
New York, NeW .1 ereer eel Penni-YU At Duluth toaliter rezeipts or :gra'
te.etenit 'western, Southern and South- t- Val 213, Nem/etre.] teeth 248 eat
eaten is tens" heasa ras a whales 'no' were 54 cars ; at. Menneapeets• 15
the largest with n the Illetory of these &tenements of tat% W r:i's Wheat
weetern tier of states, Nrhile 001 re- else week alai lee ee *year atse,
porting a generally full ern's, ail an- The Wtheat orterp ca Orogen 1.'s es
with no love or eOtteertt for the work. tielpnte a ThOdPrdte ;t'iolii, While ,Niellloe nt tteil at 40,000.000 bastele by th
Such a person is nen interests eertein
reeks hate the Itemise (>1 heltry ytel in Portland Oragenien, and 7,000,00
eeetions. The crop of the far be,
Awes el old velreet eareed over.
meta happinteee anti negleete ale] lie' I t (I' 'Fe tto 1, ill n fell •
wee net v
etreys the flork„
big, feeding. guarding, tearhing,
14, ant the good eltepherd--Watele 1"'ne, while Ontario and Nova lenitia to,-
ing, on Trade.
tiy/114,1 poet the heaviest ()top on record.
a* ...W.I...
for the flork.-Bib. Moe. know 'My
eheep. There 14 a mutual affeetion
le-
IW'Pefl the. shepherd and the i1(14 p.
Thera he a mutual affection between
the Father and the S >02 one is par-
allel witlt the other.
10. Other savele have T --The Metals;
'win we's') etant to he bratieht into His
thurell. "The Good Shepherd eweep;
the world with Ille thonght. Here ie
the universal relatiret of .teete to sin.
ners ef all lhatione end tongmes." Shell
bec.eme one Hoek ill. V.)-0111) floek
net in entree or name, but in what is
far more l'ESPIW411-(Me hi Christ.
"Otto in heart, one in purPoset 011e 10
th Service. of God mid titan."
Teachings. -Christ's sheep. 1. lenow
the Shepherd's voice. 2. They hear -
or heed ails yoke. This is on" of the
surest marks of a sheep. :1. They
follow Hon. The way inny $"111 f`u,ree.:, we infty S3feh' ATIVelprttp n ,! are aria. Renakestisses a.re, satletast
tamer ouentity Ulna .ean be profit. ter.s.
In 19:03, tolel n,floi),ory) berreer were :
it;Inolel-lictinte:t7Intintli)14 i‘,Ift ,n(i'ol),Illelltititielngfigfisinrilele"-.1 1:orati:::1 it)il:kl (:):
0,77:11ttg'iesi.17Co'
cables hae
ably eterorted. With proper tritnelt • Paperts- ter the ereire:17,..I:nti
a et' fruit ca rrying well Great lari. , ve:bniNitytreic,r: ;Ietr3e; tileir:e1:::z1,7:setatlall Iteir:
consumed, the oretsiocally very low ! been ItertYY. The titrar tr
prittes were not (ten •I'l :Ilene through , caused large Tosses, to liackers. Thee
oettilisttiltilitie-wIleit tsici-ras4cpit:11,111,tke,i•noft,r, eellIsa. {
repneTtlillratilinvirstireft;s1h.(cili.:1.1:irEirsgPari.7etateealtl'i7ativs:
tbenetnae of leirrels were improperly • bet industry
peekea awl delayel for week,: en clerk
ledsree ithiement, notneally lenaine in
the general apple Yield of the entire t been (tweet. In dry Weeds, the Vella])
Trade at Mentreet ttlee week h
tntde comp:tree layarabey wie
"To ruin ,nro, it. ie my opinion that
countre- will hey* lied vo parallel in ' vf
this past, and that It le generally te ales,t, year. Cotton etereee are firm.: I
good qualite. Is repartee there has been som
"To be freely marketed and eon. ', shaleng in values of waiellen fa,bele
Evened, apples will therefore have to .: Remittance's on the whoee are ra,i
be bought at very Iow pricer." ' Woe: is dell aini sales are elem.
From my peeennal knowledge, after !• : Trade cenrettens at Toronto th
I find that few are short thie
elelting tungt of the Ontnelo irectione, week have been influent:at by thr
yo.u....! weather, and trade eirel'es lat man,
the spy yleel is not generally as large ' !Inas have not shown that nestiela
as last year, lett the crop is more . wheel wouni otheriviae have been it
gement' and Mettitity considerably! tit...130)1e. Graters for the Mil have be
I fairly num.erous but, it Is expeet
that neet week- there will be: an t
lamer.
In Nova Sentle the dreuebt has re- l.
generally heivy eroe outlook le not i eupphas for tele Mil an) are Mew tne:
eently, but I believe it hes sustainee
no serinue datnege.
tardeil the erre) mellower it until re- t ore -oats in latainess et >tie by travellers:
Summary and Outlook -While the 6.4itgl741T123U:.11170 ftlillr?111711Saett'Cinlalartigl
Va.1 .1..raee at Itanaltesie eentinme
'Valli
hevond nuidificetinn by climate in.; leg !liege seepauerts of goals,
dark and diffitinit, awl teem danger- • " ,
ous, but where He blade Maar full"w-
4. They know not the voile. of
"strangers," and will net toll'ee
them. tetra ngers t a Ilt Wilily, (Ina
many professed Christians will go
after them, but tile 81leeP Will '130t.
5. On the contrary, the »lupe flee
from them. The (feed Shepherd, 1.
Timms His steep. 2. Is known ia-
Hie sheep. 3. Has a personal inter-
est in His sheep. 4, Gives; them lib-
erty. 5. Gives soul satisfaction. 0;
Gareth for the sheep. 7. eiveth Me hut cenelition and $,0i(11 '1,2' affeeting
life for them. 8. Giveth thorn eternne The ree,ease, simeresee, Met will hive ere expected to have U. salute:Atilt:
life. to be eneebeeed very Tow, anti 0313'eifect ten trade in. the near flitter
PRACTICAL iarItVEY. perfeet aaility el:level to premise a 're - tee:eery reteil!ers, have bough
The Jews, to whom tliis parable
Ilberaily or the falialloantry remit
was were, in an early day;
largely a pastoral people. ThBachelors are tanees are Palette eatiseactiery.
13ael. ey merit.
:k.t M•aartp,g bueerress leis beeneoMi
spoken, • l
Biteiness reentelitlene at London. /le
prosperous. The itee.vy grain crop
were familiar with the nature and
habits of sheep and the dangers to
whital they were exposea in that
country. They, no doubt, were sonua
'what conversant with the relation
the 'shepherd sustained to Ilis flock
and the duties and responsiblities of
Hit position. Both in the Oid 41111.1
Ntew Testaments divine inspiration
very beautifully and effeetiveey uses
sheep to represent the various char-
aeteristies and relatione of Gotle '
people, and also their natural ena-
bility to defend theinselves against
their enemies that prey upon them
and the many dangers to which
they are exposed.
The Good Shepherd has the great.
et Ineasure of love for His emople,
"gem Good Shepherd given His life(
lot His sheep."'
The Good Shepherd has the greet-
aceentinted With Hie people. Vs.111.
It has been found no study of what inaceive. hrietei cue -tine le•
300 easier of loss of hair that bald- be'guntime the weather lave been fa
11055 p1'eV(1,18 lirVt With unmarried , eerible to he rveste operatieenee :Tec.
men -which ie contrary to the gen- is a good deed of bleeding goeng
eral belief. The worriee of the Wehrle (ma lomber, partieuleely Beetesb
lor may he fewer, bat they nre more umbla eambee, is la eteme demeneetve,
trying to the scalp than are the
Milltitudineus (Are4 of the man of
fe nilly. Most bold people are found
to lead 'mime- lives, am) almost all
of them belong to i he intellectual
eines, rsaally the logs of hnir begins
before the teeth year. In women it
usually constitutes a general thin-
ning 1 in men it atfecte the tem of
the head. Diseasee that affect the
general watrition of the body are
likely to thin the hair.
'Ilte little that is done seen*
nothing when we look forward and
nee ,,ter not lettes of stapie. emcee at
steady. Ilene:act/tees are otely tale
Tbe Sbaltas Visit .
The Shah of Persia, who was mal
ing a tour of hlurope when his
tempted assessinatien took pl
le the menarth who, on a f
er visit to England, expeesse
sire to witness, an exemetio
gate prison. No tubjee
hand, the oriental limn
teously •ottereil any me
suite be serve, es an
He Was eleseippoltiee be
Nee how much eve have yet to de.- fielais of the j tit iitelle.0
Goethe. , Kea I -Quetta -me ()Mir,