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` 11 0 U OF T� W A
(„„.(rtkuttJi, cyan tbbon', although
4 THE Ii0 R RE ,1 R' , n •'hell is i*m su clnctt to heti flet ft
to»c1 h1x shirt into rlbbunm. .Another
struck a table where two officers
) were letnyhlg teles and they were
weawiexd, though not seriously.
0' However, there is a possibility Out
4, these were ufecrulwlous shells, which
AS REVEALED Li THE LETTERS OP BRITISH SOLDIERS. 0 played 'possum with dark purPoseie,
0, for when Dr. Stark, a naturalist, de•
sewed by them mild-mannered shells,
✓t eeeesee.✓eteee ✓i✓er✓r✓✓✓r. eeeee.eeree eeee eeee ream ventured to ett on his veranda he was
Lit and had both lege torn from hie
Targe number of Germane nal Ilol- body, He toed, oryhig, eemee after my
la lidera." cut P'
Prlente Prichard, of the Mounted A shell toted a vietlnt hi a Natal
Itfnntee Company, First King's Liv poll/email who was nooking in a cet-
erpoo1 Regiment, has this observation ler, another tore into a haeltal,
to make, after one of the fight's at 'mule the Melte length of the building
Ladysmith: " War le all right w) long and killed two orderlies standing out -
ns the actual fighting is on. A 'on elle, and next tiny tee mime hcurpital
doestet seem to care whether he gest was mtreck and another man klllirl.
Pilot or not. It obangti a fellow cum• One day Inert week a c'ort'eeloudefet
pletefy ; all he means to think niont telegraphed that while the Bets shells
Is getting up to the enemy and mak- were flying moat, 1:ngilNh .woolen
Ing a hand-to-hand fight of it ; hut were parading the etrelete of Lady.
the Perera won't from tile bayonet- smith in utter contempt of them. Te -
they turn and run • • • Ib is day rennet( the lavonie rommetlt:
after the fighting is over that a fel- "Lady killed by elicit ; arother, Inlet. -
low fele it, when he looks round and ed."
sees the dead and wounded, lean tell however, the bus neeN Is not at all
you It mikes you feel a bit solemn, one -Melee A Beltpsh shell dropped
earl wish there was no mule thing as Into a crowd of Bier soldiers, killing
war." one of them and wounding seventeen.
GHASTLY WORK. The Boers have found still another
.And here Is another picture from It use for the shell, and one that isn't
patrticlpnnt In the battle of Elands without its cleverness. A lot of the
Lnagte, and It Indicates pretty clear• "trek" oxen belonging tore the Baltlxb
I,c went you may have 0uepxs'ted In Inelye Ith bad been feeding on the
from the statements already made, veldt outside and wandered further
many of the Iloere who begged then their discretion should have per-
thatf0r mercy found it not, oven though t. Thr+ Boers maw find coveted
they' Individually laid down their them. shells
to Accordingly they began to
arias. "I tell you," snyn the private
throw shells letweett the oxen and the
at Elands hnagto, "It was n great BABA camp and the former natio-
at
terrible eight to see those horse -
owner'.
took to their heels toward their
men hew their way through tile Deers °wear►' enemies'.'rhki Boers eoutin-
with their swords. Three times they ped Bring, g1'adnally shortening the
otlent-
ttlag,ht slfishingh tltA�.rliurind leuffered ng, lyainear,nwllaetl Voth eytRa�led out tand
Platte ,lteterel,v, and I suppose we gobhled them.
got our backs up a bit. -anyhow, 0 e Curtis Brown.
gut even with Jouhertee men. I mew 't'tyELA hI1 ANS NEAR.
w'ternl Boers whose heads bad been _
cut right off by our envalrymem'e
The "Drifts" and the Ihublte of
week It is ghastly, Isn't it 7 But
ife the plain truth. Nome of the Nutnl'e River.
Wear la beginning to come close home
to the English people, and it in the
perspaal news that twinge it to year,
earl a London correetaudent of the
New York Preece. On the strength of
the despatcher and the pert 1 rorre-
spondence It was possible to talk
loftily about eget And wrong end to
erltlrlao the fMteattntto of tli^ troops.
That was war in general. But the
real war, the pear In pwrtivul0r, the
e tet'Ias of indltldeal otrugglm, the
mrad11eu 01 Mitchell', the'Inet er:es of
the dying mad the heart -breaking
ppictutw of the dead -all that k jus
.-- beghtaing to Acme in family lettere
erre from the prlvatee who are hl the thick
of IL. and, la •aultsegltence, the fight•
ins ane ceased to ixe uiotnnt and
Impersonal,
And the tragedies at home, where
the Momen must weep, are nu lest let-
ter than those at the front, where tbo
Open meat work. Probably no army
stream lute witnessed more pitiful
mesas than line the doorkeeper of the
two small rooms of the British War
Office, 111 Pall Mali, where the belle -
tine pre posted up, and the wines of
the Mand end wounder' given out.
THE DOORKEEPER'S STORY.
The procession of relatives, ehum0
and sweethearts torn by doubt and
anxiety 10 never-ending.
" Ni' said the doorkeeper yester-
day, "It's Just like thin all day long.
Bad; yes, sir, It's mighty 41111 111111
Mighty hard to RICO right along. The
Office nottftes the friends of theta
Iris** address they know, but they're
only a few, after all, and, many 1nu1
out here for the first time that their Boers end died in praying at, A From; eorresspoatent writes (Dec'.
hoabendo and fathers and brothers are . titndes. Many, I was told by a 7thl to the London Timer: If we are
dead. It's a grim bueltesr, ' friend In the Fifth Lancets flung to teki ('oleneo, it will have almost
"One day a tall, dark -eyed girl, ; down their arm'+ as soon no they certainly to he by crossing the river
nicely dressed and with plainer 00 her saw the fish of the lances, and, higher up end outflanking the Boer
hitt,' came in, with it little skater of ' clasping their ]muds 010nse their peeltion. There are three fords by
a boy by the hand. Ile wits a pretty
'little chap; Mealy got np, toe. \Veil,
they carne in together, nod the girl
began to read the bulletin that wne
up, and the little chap said quirk like,
'You'll be glad, won't you, Mist Mats'I,
when my brother gets home?'
" Well, she said something to him,
and then began reudin' again, 11 1111
maidenly s 11 to shier, rind the
ookevd nt the little Thep
htning had struck her tend
him, and then the ,hist dragged him
away front there, and las they walked
down the street I could sea that she
wne crying end eo'thittg with every
Step elle took. .1 knew mighty well
What she'd rend."
TR.AGEDIES OF PARTING.
The news that awaits bugs. Archer
L yet more pathetic. 111. is young, told
Ile wife took It hard when he wale
ordered to the front the other dray.
'The Night he galled Nile and the three
children pat up all night In thee' room
•) t the setgget�atnte' quarterN, til, eitibtt•cu
In thel:: nlghteblrtn keeping awake to
gee the lasts of their father. .tt 5 in
the morning the bugle iounde,l, and
the sergeant hugged them 011 nnd tore
himself away. But hie districted wife
ran after him and followed the regi-
tn t unpp the street, leo vino the clod
dren behind her. (('hill' Der W114 gong
the clothes of the little boy of thrr
liugght tire. The nelghtore hoard tit,'
nyIldren eerenming and put out the
flamla0, but when the mother returned
the tittle hoy wag dying. He breathed
his last that afternoon. The official
record M the inquest that followed
contains this line: "inquest mnnteewhat
delayed through mother falling prom -
trate after identllying holy of de
ceased,"
When the Forth Lettbaeh1re Regi.
Ment :united out from Preston a
few days ago. one of the private* who
sight of his white-faced wife
wi the baby is her arm, in the
midst of the crowd couldn't stand it.
He threw discipline to the whets
rtlhsd from the rinks, and gave theta
last big hug. The crowd broke
Into 4 mighty cheer, raised him
ON their shoulders with the qihy It
- eke arms, and carried him to tell eta-
,. eke.
T SCARES THE BOERS.
. at hence when the lei,
toletters Md fatal official tele
age 4roetved are ouch as 'should
be Oirett upon, hut from thesis
we get the reap news frons
the seems o1 the war. 1 have
red as many 00 possible of these
and a careful comparison of
Maga to light a fact of which
full afgttlfboanee las not even be -
to be realised -a fast that may
a great deal of weight In pre-
atlaw for future ware. It It that
lM bayonet, and not the bullet or
shell, will whip the Boers In the
all. Of course many of the
terra coming in from the partici-
pants In the wriggle are colored by
prejudice or enthusiasm. After going
• teroaseh a grentd mnsn of then It can
ji0 alftrmed pro' thesis that In ala+
lltatter of facing shot and 'shell the
80ori have been Just an courageous
and dogged as their opponents. Iint
when It eame to bayonet and lance
they clearly were overmatched and
often frightened. A Boer soldier writ -
Uig hotne after the charge of Elands
Lewitt.. itt.. 'says : "Men on horses ca rry-
ing Woks with spikes 00 top melte
ga loplug at ns. They picked um np
on the spikes like bundles of hey."
NO MERCY.
pone extracts from the letters writ-
ten",' rN.iett aoldtere give some vie•
id sadblood-curdling glimpser of tht
'total mei of the bayonet and of the
med fury of the charge and of the
merciless horor of war in genersl
than will appear in any history of
this war that comes to be written.
For example: "White we charged the
Boers ,with our long bayonets, those
Whet tit Sot get away went on their
knees for mercy, and I ran tell you
they got it with a long hook. I had a
narrow escape from being captured
by three of them, but I l ILI down and
settthe three 1,01bh- 59 yards
I. A tlremarne sae 01 the armored
trains who well in the midst of the
bSttie tet Elaine Laagte'says: "'1"11.,
Ogee,* and the Gordons lost very
losses. The greatest number were
k{liid while des/ending a elope under
a'MORNWOMed title fire, but ones at
!Ma feet of the hill tbey charged the
p(y0� ttLtb fixed ktyonets, 'Abe
tltatlegwsa could not attend against
sed fled precipitately. Mean-
Laaoers hod been creeping
I p rebti*(I, and as the Beare reached
the bottom the tt.$r* *berget ea
these et full all . Om of the Der,
tat a had never seen
told me t� �
swat i
aMseb' t sight, although he had passed
through several severd ,.nglg.-me'nl.
tn. Penaa-etre:eken nt their
feel reveres the &era threw down
ata to ears
Mimi *ad attempted
tJMlei °� em e
betrit.w a uttariy useless, for, with
pleats of 'Mia jutau I' the Lancers were
upeaa'lbem, and the awful work com-
. Very few Boers escaped, and
neatest number gave themselves
II/sonars, All the head men be -
4i Boers were either killed
-end am(mt time was a
The Country May Now Settle
Down to Prosperity.
OPEN TO RAILWAY TRAFFIC
The Klinilfn wne destroyed as 1
merlons power in the battle of (huller
man; but that Is not the Hunte thhlg
as establishing an acting donthtiot
(vee a etreteh of roadies! anti gener
ally waterless country some 7011 •ell
from West to east and 500 from mire
to eolith. On the pr l Ilce west o
the Nile, no soldier of the Egyptlal
Ilovernntent Itae reed foie in the
weeternnost, Defer. Kenton -et, be
leveret It and the White Nile, lately hnr
Iiot•ed tete Khilde. Attempt% have been
made to peoli Into the Bahr•ehGhntal
and tip the White Nile to the equuter-
IuI lukea, Tut they have not been 0nc-
ceoefd, The Hudd, or floating vegeta-
tion, 1100 effectually impelled the gan-
hoate, and 1)0ceme0 mune and more
difficult as the riser fills. a Lowe -
river exporlitIon from 1'gnndn leo He
far beam (((
baf(lad by the mune Min -
(On the other hand, the country east
of the Nile has i:een fairly eovere.t np
to the frontier of Abyssinia. The River
Sobat nnd Its tributaries' hive been
explored for a distance of nearly 1100
index, and a fortified port, the south-
ernment In the Soudan, eetablishetl at
Nader, over 250 mike by water from
Enslloln. The Blue Nile and its tribn-
ter(ee ere commanded to the head of
lutrigution. The "island; or country
lxetweeu the White and Blue Niles -
the beet rotten laud in the Sauln1-i(
pae(fled, Gedurif is being connected
with Ka'eala and the ICI Sia roast by
telegraph. A0 80011 110 minable a rail.*
way will probably be constructed from
Khartoum, along the Blue Nile, by
Abu Marne, Gednrlf and Kamilla to
Sunken. Gednrlf le the granary of ties
Simian; grnin there can be bought
double n0 cheap ns at Karelia, and
e'gltt thmen as eh^cep RN at Otnduriutin.
Better commnniratlon between the
raped mrd Ito bread enmity is the
fires nereeelty of the dtuntlon.
The retraining setI011 of the eo11-
t
as
FIGHTING IS HUNGRY WORK.
�,,I Il�l1,111n,11'1,1.
1 'ljn
IIli�lli��11 1
1!l{li;lii,illUir'll ''4110
The Rush of the " Leioesters " for Lunoh After a Skirmish Outside Ladysmith.
heads, lagged for mercy. Bat they
lead shown no !nervy to our emu.
Some thy, 11 I 0111 sparred, 1 will
tell you some lneldente of how the
Boma Imitated to our luau-kllllug
turd hitmmerlug our wounded tax they
My on Ole field -and title wens oue
revenge!"
IIF..tfM SMASHED LIKE EGGS.
One more story from the many
available met be told to clinch thus
Idea of the bayonet's deadly work,
and to slew what madmel eoldlere
have to Raceme ht the heat of bat-
tle l'rlvate Thompsqu, of the
Queen's Royal 31111 e, after' telling
how a oongusie fell dead in his arms,
groaning ' Mother," and how he was
almost blinded by the life -blood of a
noun next to ldm, wvlto Taut been hit
by to retell, proceeded thus: "Our ad.
1'ailee 111141 now lasted five and a
half hours, and we were about 100
yards from the top When caame that
brier which put new life into lig-
"FIX bayonets." As he gave this
order, our colonel fell, shot dead. We
thou closed W, and with leveled bay-
ouete went at them for all We
were worth. With a wild cheer we
were among them. The bayonets
weft to work, and Iteadta were
)misled like pumpkin. Then, with
another cheer that could be heard
above the roar of artillery, the see.
ond line of the King's burst upon
them; but that cheer frightened
the Moore. They were 8peechtese
with terror when they saw that line
of cold steel contiug at them. They
threw down their area and float It
confusion, only to be cut up into
travelers' samples when they reach•
ed the bottom by our cavalry."
It is Bald that the Burrs were se
amazed nt the wowide Inflicted by the
lance at Elands Ls« gt3 that, htet'ad
of burying the bodies, they took some
of them to Nt,wcaetle at peeler that
the British had transgressed the law./
of war.
QUEER TRICKS OF THE SHELLS.
Although the lot of the people cooped
tip in Ladysmith, Kimberley and the
other beeleged towns can larclly be
described as "a happy one," It appears
to have Its compeltlttlons In the
Opportunittee it ghee to them for
observation, pnrticnlarl,v of the ways
of the shell.' Apparently, the shell le
an old enetouter, a thing of whims
and ecoeutrfritlee. You never can tell
Met what he to going to do next. It
Is Bald that few of the Boer shells
explo.le, hut merely fall on the plait,
sending up dense donde of dust, or
burrow into the earth. Surae enter•
prising' folk dug np one at Ltdyi ttlth,
opened it delicately and found Mettle
nothing on earth but u chunk of eine
Another pinriged through the roof of
Mie Royal Hotel, glances off the well,
!muse1 conventitor:11' 1•ut of tie, frost
door and deminred a paving stone
without bursting. A hotel at Hate -
king has n stellar story to toil. A
obeli from a 94 -pounder struck the
building. and five newspaper met who
were handling cues In the billiard
room made Involuntary earroms
against the wall. Every possible con-
slderation was indicated in the con-
duct of another troll, which sliced the
entire roof off a Meat !pale without
which we eau cross to du titin. They
ure called Marltser'!, Potgeiter'e and
TrIehard'e Drifts, about 10, 15 and 20
tulles repertively from Cotonou). We
are not to be allowed to rrosm any of
theta drifts umoplooed, for the Boers
who trekked westward from l'ulettee)
, have fortified no less than eight pose -
thine along the river. Many of these
positions are supposed to have been
made under the ttpervlslon of Ger-
man engineers, for native 'route who
have been among the Boers report
that tie order* were given by meet
whom the Boers addressed no "Pit,"
a most unusual thing for a Boer to
do, and who were dressed in uniform.
Besides occupying these positions
almlg the river the Boers lave assem-
bled in ronekterable forte at Mount
Tabanyama, a mountain lying about
15 miles southeast of Ladysmith.
The (holes of this p oettlon %bowls
excellent generalship, for It com-
mand* the uppronrltee to Ladysmith
from either 1 otgelter'i or Tele -harder
Drifts, t , an I In cam of defeat rover*
the retreat towurdt . the western
passes. This extension of front has
naturally xomewhnt weakener] their
position nt Colette°, as they have
withdrawn from It n certain number
of both men and guns. What their
strength le at the present moment it
IR Iml�elble to MY.
The newe from S'r George White
flint he could read the messages
flneheil to him from the searchlight
of the Terrible that has been intimate]
here le of extreme importance, ns It
means that he le acquainted with oar
movements and will be able to co-
operate with them. There le still,
(however, one element of aheolute un•
certainty ngalnst which nothing can
be done. We are absolutely dependent
upon the elver remaining low in order
to cross the drifts. The name Tugela
means "fear," and It 1,1111 received the
nnme from the rapidity with which It
.will cone down in flood. A thunder-
storm among the monntalns In which
It rims will raise the river many feet
in n few minutes, end n reeldont 011
its banks told me that he has vee;
It thee forty feet in n single night!
The enrront to at all time exceedingly
swift, and a comparatively alight rise
le sufficient to make the drift impass-
able, while a heavy rise will Iweep
away nny temporary bridge that may
have leen erected.
A Medical Tune.
I think that the Iutjorlty of (here!'
elotre to Brooklyn are helps to
eltnreltee. But some of then' have got
0 bud habit of late -the quartette
habit. They sing without the na'om•
p)allmett of 1111 organ and thus ex.
Tilblt ail the blemishee of their voices.
Only well-trained and highly vetti-
1nl, lbto_erM 11'1, vilely ,,a+turc 10
rine without musical accompaniment.
When the amateurs try the expert -
merit they Inflict needle pain upon
their hearers. And the modern an•
then' ! I recall an menden on which
which the anthem rut in thin way:
Soprano-" 011, take this pill-"
Tenor -"Oh, tea-a.ke tide 11(11-"
Clontralto-"O•o-b, take this p111-"
Basso ''0-o-o•h, take this p111-"
All together -"Oh, take this pilgrim
hums." -Brooklyn PteJle,
dna-the Nine banks from Wady
Half' to Khartoum -le the one
where most progress may naturally
be looked for. It to the longest con-
guererl end the € ie1eet to crnmm�-
nlcato with. But what as country 1
South of Khartoum rain Dille freely
In summer -stere, hardly ever. Ite(1-
hot rocks and white-hot stand -eye -
tapering glare, coarse, sapless grass,
mllmma thorn, wooden -fruited dour•
palme, empty bladders of Dead Seo
fruit, white ants and ecorpions, tan-
gle -.haired, herring -gutted, hall
human men. Yet everywhere there
V n bad and a not quite eo had.
There Is nearly always n lip of moll
along the river bank, and that Holl,
Irrigated by water -wheels, will Hue.
port men. The water -wheels have
been broken and burned, It le true.
The 'nen have been epeared. the wo-
men taken for eonenb)nee, and tine
bubine flung into the rivers But the
experience nt Hengelo, now restor-
ed to Egypt for three yo tarn en-
courages the hope that the coun-
try will f111 up wiener than you
would think. Fugitives? (sprang up
from everywhere to claim theIrdere-
Ilet made in Do:goln province;
moon water -wheels creaked neatened
the green corn embrolderal the
river. Dongola went far to supply
the Khartoum army with grain.
But even If the eountry fills up more
quickiy than there Is any right W
exit, it must still rerunht for
Years half peopled, half desert.
Within a matter of weeks 'after
these lines are rend the railway should
have reached Khartoum, and the Sou-
tlanahlatdd be pptn to t radp.uBut where
there is little to bring out of it coun-
try heretwill be little to be taken
in. There is ebony and other good tim-
ber on the Blue Nile; there are also
gum, ivory and ostrich feathers to be
had, but not in any great quantity!.
The thief impediment to trade will
probably be the difficulty of bring-
ing up bulk! goods like fabrics, for
the railway :e blocked with stores and
materials for the dam at Assuan and
the rebuul!ing ref Khartoum.
Briefly there is no place for heroics
about the reopened Soudan. Khartoum
Is being slowly transformed from a
collection of cid ruined mud huts to
a collection of new, stable ones. The
Governor's palace will be as palatial
ea an Italian rural hotel. The Gordon
College will be en elementary echoed
for 11 ((le boys between seven and four-
teen. The provincial governments are
soldiers in (heir ablri-sleeves, the In
courts the snore as the pprovincial gov-
ernments. It all has to it made out of
nothing. The Soudan has no element of
a country -not even population. It ie
a scraped tablet; and only the broad -
set and plainest lines of social lite
can as yet be. drawn epee it. nut
111.+..- ti ill le 'tree 0, 1 ,1 hem a„ueh.
Security is the first requisite. As the
new generation grows it will fin( the
paths already marked out for it. -
G. W. Steeverla, in Frank Leslie's Poe
pular Monthly for January.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON NO. IV.
JAN. 25, 1900.
Tiellaptlem and Temptation of Joiva.-Matt
3;13104:11,
Supt. -What is the Holden Text f
School.-'fhte Is my beloved Sat, in
whom I am well pleaeedt Matt, iii. 17.
5 ommentery,-13. From Galilee -
This wee the first public act xl1lce
He waa twelve years of age. 'lo be
baptised -,Any confession of sin wax
of &suras out of the question.
14. Forbade --Earnestly and press-
ingly opposed Wm. -Clarke. 1 have
need, etc. -Although John wee filled
with the Holy Ghost from his birth
(Luke i. 1G), yet he needed the baptioum
of the Holy Ghost and tire. "He need -
el to reredve a larger ineaaurw of
the gift, and graces of the Holy
Bpi ria." -Manson,
16. Suffer it to be so now -These
were the Brat worts of Christ's pub
lie tektite ry. In this Josue humbled
himself at the very, outset, Fulfil el
righteousness -To leave nothing un
done which would be honoring to the
ordinances of God. -Menson. He suf-
fered
ubfered him -The same modesty which
led him et first to decline the honor
Christ offered him now caused him
to perform the service Christ enjoin-
ed upon him.-lfenry.
10. The beaveos were opened -Luke
,stye that Jesus prayed as soot as He
wee baptised. Luke ie. 21, "Here is
the first recorded prayer of Christ
end its answer. It was when He was
praying that the Steadl was sent down
upon titin, and in all probability it
Was this that IIe was praying for," -
Stalker. A threefold alga was given:
1. 'the heavens opened. 2. The dove
descended. 3, The Bather spoke, He
saw it (Mark 1. 10), and John saw it
(John i. 39, 34), and it is probable
that all who were present saw it;
for thie was intended to be Hie public
inauguration. -Henry. Like a dove -
There Ikea been u dtitfelreume of opin-
ton as to whether th.e was a real,
literal dove. Luke stye it wee la a
bodily shape like a dove (Luke ill.
22), sad that ought to end all dia-
cuesiotl. "A symbol this of perfect
gentleness, purity, fulness of life, and
of the power of communicating it."
-La age.
47. My beloved eon -Jesus Christ is
the Son of God from eternity.
1. Then -Immediately atter Hie bap -
(tam. "Such ere the violent allerna-
tiata of human expeneamee; baptized
and tempted; approved of God and
handed over to the devil." Into the
wilderness Tredttion has fixed upon
a high ledge en le( Quaranlania, near
Jericho. Mark says He was with the
will beasts. To be tempted -Christ
begins His work with a personal en-
counter with Satan. "'To tempt :0, lit-
erally, to stretch net, to Try the
strength of. But the asci s I v,er-
ally need in a had Renee element; to
entice, wive, 01 provoke u1 gin."
e. Forty days- ylueeo, 1,11.1:1 11 turd our
Lord could fast forty Jaye because
they were in communion with god and
living a heavenly life. -('larks. Luke
says He was tempted during Lha whoa'
forty days. "The struggle was power-
ful, personal and intensely real. Christ
for our sakes met and conquered the
tempter's utmost strength." -Farrar.
Afterward an Hungered -After the
forty days were ended.
3. It Thou be -Beware of the tempt-
ation that cornea with an If in ite
uoutit.►-Parker. Stonttt...bread--'7t
wet r as tippet; to Hie linnywlint e Beret,
i'►4,
site." "The meaning of tele tempta-
tion is, distrust the divine providence
and eupporl, and make nee of illicit
mu'nug 10 supply Thy eeueeeity "-
Clarke.
4. It le written -Deet. viii. 8. Josue
anxwered the devil by tieing the sword
of the Spirit. Not live by bread alone --
Human support depends not on bread,
but upon "c'od'e unfailing word of
promise and pledge of all needful pro-
%Mentlnl rare.."
8. I innnrle of the temple -The scene
changes from the wilderness to Jeru-
salem. "Some well known pinnacle
,oast hoer been intendmdgrtobatbly''tije(
royal porch, on the southern side of
the temple, whleh looked down Into
the valley of the 11Idron below It,from
n height so dizzy that, according to
,1o,ephue, it anyone ventured to look
down les head would awini at the Im-
measurable depth." -Farrar,
6. Cast thyself drown -int HIe flret
reply to the 41001 Jame had (shown
HIR unbounded confidence In (ital.
Now satin takes Him at that very
point. if Thou ba the Son 0f pkat
enst Th,vself from the pinnacle. This
was It temptation to presumption,
or we Farrar Nays, to aptritual pride,
For it Is written -The devil has a
Bible, but he misquotes and misap•
plies. 1(1e Hu angels charge - A
. mutilated quotation of Paas, xel. 11,
"Satan wotild have Christ needless-
ly thrust himself tuts danger, pre -
smiling on safety."
7. Written .. tempt-Deut, vi. 16.
" To tempt God is to put ellm to
the proof -to demand evkWi ce of
His power aid of Hie wilt to fulfil
His pronises, instead of waiting pa-
tiently and trusting 1n Him."
S. Exceedingly high mountain -
Some high mmmtaln In Judea where
a general view could be had of the
country. Showeth him -The idea of
any magical influence of Satan upon
the vision of Jame seems lnappro•
printe. The prospect from a high
mountain was sufficient as a basis
for a rhetorical description of the
world, its kingdoms and. their glory.
-Lenge. Luke add, "In a moment
of time." The kingdoms of the world.
-The root of the third temptation
lay in the supposition that the
kingdoms of the world were the
devil's kingdoms, and that he sound
dispose of than.
9. Worship me -Here the devil nP
pones In hie true character. The
musk le thrown off. Jesus parley'
with him no longer, but speaks with
authority,
10. (let title hears - Josue conemended the tempter to return to
his own place.
11. The devil leaveth Wm -The de- -
vil had made the etrongeot effort of
which he was capable and had been
baffled at every point. Angels came
and ministered -"Brought that food
that waa necessary to support na-
ture." They name to strengthen 112m,
for Setae had only departed "for a
season." Luke iv, 13.
Teachings, -To n sinless nature no
emptation can arise from within, hut
must ba presented from without. No
man, however holy, its exempted from
emptation. To be tempted is not min.
here is no temptations that cannot
bO resisted. "No pretense of humil-
1 y must rause us to decline our duty."
He who thinks that we live by bread,
lone will make the securing of bread
he chief object of this life." The
evil comas in our weakest. moments,
hen we are weary and hungry, 1Ile ,
seer as an angel of 1(gbt, as though t
P would help lie. "The would Iry I.,
or lie to pe(((rm act.* to develop our
with -to dhow u* bow to be more 1
elig:oua. Was there ever such a
devil i" "Man is exposed im two ways 1
o the power of evil. He may be drawn e
O actual sin by enticements, or he s
may be turned aside iron good by e
hreetened' Or by inflicted e.uff,ring."
PRACTICAL SIIIIVEY. Ili
"To fulfil all righteousness," 'lis" e
Leander Kimball, found guilty of
having dynamite in his pxxleession for
an unlawful purpose nnd shown to he
an aeeoelate of burglars, was Nen-
teneed by Chief Justine Meredith to
seen Pere le the Penitentiary.
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to destroy" either the ceremonial or
the moral law, 'but to fulfil" both.
The sane holy' Ixtrpoee poese8804 His
true followers. 1'pon this principle
Jeaue bases their spiritual relation•
ship. " Whueever sImII do the will 0
my feather which is In heaven, th
same he my brother, and Rioter, and
mother." Tithe tmdlee, first, entire
mnbnineion to the will of Hod. It wail
n rltten prophetically of Jeans, age
before 111H coming, "Lo, I tome to do
thy will, O Hod 1" while concerning
Himself He declare.+, "1 ('111110 down
from heaven not to do mine own will,
but the will of Illtu that sent me."
The gospel provides lumpiness, but
requires rlghteouonese. Confidence
apart from obedience le not fate; but
presumption. Abraham's faith
wrought with his works, and by
worke was hie faith made perfect.
The temptation of Christ wale as ee•
seethe at tinter° of HIH mission as the
more delightful experience/ of Istp-
tlem and blessing. fin wan "led up of
the Spirit Into the wilderness" for the
purpoe tint., "haling suffered being
tempted," Ile might le able "also to
Hurr"r term than are tempted."
Temptation forms ane of the Import -
/tilt 111x+1110 of bidldhig up and confirm-
ing l'lu•Istlan experience and charas-
' ter ; and the endurance of the sante
Is as much it 'fulfilment of righteous-
ness" as the more delightful seasons
which form a part of every Christian
life.
The temptatlone of Christ include In
principle all those wldch are incident
to n Christian lite. They are: 1, Die -
trust. "1! Thou be the 14011 of diod"-
A choice of present good rather than
harmony with the divine will -"cone
'nand these stones that they he made
bread," 2, 1'resuntptton, "Cad Thyself
down." 3, Compromise to gain a right
end. "ATI shah be Thine if Thou wilt
fall down."
Temptation overeonte. The fleet
great battle of redemption was won
weld the solitudes of the ,Tudettn wil-
derness, when Christ overcame, first
for Hlneelf, nnd representatively for
His people.
The means. "It le written." Tempta-
tion IH often too subtle, too Hadden,
and too powerful to he overcome by
our own reasonings. Then we can have
recourse to the scripture given by
inspiration of God, nnd he "thor-
oughly furnlahed." "It is written" le
the safe aneiiorage of the dorm -totaled
soul; and the sufficient reply to the
most subtle enggeetlon of Satan.
Hence the necessity, alto too little ap-
preelated, of having the mind stored
w1111 tiro Word of (Ind.
A MOTHER'S ORION'.
First News of Son 111 Nino Venn to of
I{ le Execution.
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EXACTITUDE THERE A DUTY
"He seems to be a flowery youth,
fond of Illiteratio'w, like mud and
misery" This waw the grim cone
nIetIt of all old theological professor
after refuting one o: the printed
sermons' of the summon. of 1lertry
Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church.
The Rev. Mr. Billie lute now brought
out it volume lit his literary dia-
' rourHew. ' 1ireat Boetks as Life Teach -
ere" (1'. 11. Revell & 1a) Ho excuses
the Introduction of mach themeslnto
the pulpit on the ground that Vier
some reeslxt, our generation has
('loped he text books on ethics and
morals." Hence the duty of the
preacher to turn to tithe great
poenms, essays and novels." As a
motile of temporarily conciliating
our generation, these lecture -per -
M0110 have been, if we may Jusge by
newspaper reports, a great ear.
ce08. But It remelts 0 grave ques-
tion If the experiment has really
• been Justified, fund more than douht-
fifl If outer clergymen would do well
to follow Mr. Hillis' ex !e,
We Huy tits' because him valuate
of eertucnts yields evldttace to the
lusty reader that for the pulpit to
take to expounding literature
would !stile sure meaem, of Mucin-
ie ddiig itIOtettd of enhancing Ito au•
thorlty and Influence. The *pint of
acepticlam would surely Spread
abroad 11 preaching in general were
us lame and wireless In statement..
of fact ate Mr. Mille in this book. We
say nothing of smelt assertions of
hie scathe one he makes In describing
the death of 111111 Vatican: '' I)oubt-
less@ some angel was standing In the
gloom, with )utetretched hands,
waiting far the soul." That L a
specie@ of literary criticism In which
the clergy meet neooaarhy be the
highest authority. But even a lay(
meg may "sit up" when he beam
a tylniator say of Gladstone: "Among
hie close frletlds at Oxford were
Tennyson, t'aunliig, Menefee, Lowe,
and that youth who waa W be known
0,0 Cardinal Manning."
neWhat are the facts? on Wan
ver at Oxford. In thepoet's "Life"
e publlsho,l a letter from Oladetone to
Hallam Tennyeon, giving his reroaee•
Cott of the first time he met Tennyson,
which was some years after he had
left Oxford. Maurice wan never at
Oxford. Lowe and Manning well
there, and were contemporaries of
Gladstone; co that Mr. Hills' mistakes
are three out of a possible five. We
fear that a close examination of fib
hook Would show other Inaccuracies iv
glaring, 11 not as many In a stogie saga)-•
tenee. Thus we find him 'speaking of
Carlyle as being a "young man" in
1850, Fifty-five to young or not, we
admit, according to the side teen
which you view It. 1t is safe to say
that all of Mr, 1H111o' rongregnthrn
move 66 would find thte doctrine of
his loth sound and comforting. But
let Carlyle's ease, at any rate, the
doer ie closed, for he himself once
flouted Tillers for speaking of a roe•
tall Frenchman as "young" when the
fellow Wag "forty-othi" ! What would
he have salt nt being written -down a
young man himself at 557
Such tlundere, It must he confessed,
would go far towards undermining the
authority of the pulpit. It Is not a
question of opinion. That may be
uttered• as dogntnt(rally front the
"acre] desk In a mntter of literature
ae In a matter of religion. hnndleti'
rhetoric may be allows.' to poet m
g111Vet'onal, rte In that bold figure em
11107011 by Mr. Wilk of a "metre tree
eller" on the Inge whom he (neelese
to "etretrlt oat hie bund nml 1'reuk
off a chunk of ilium, else'. But
the most devout 5:1n'ne1 •;, 111 liar
edified 'under the dremcee, of ilia
annc'ttmry, when I h. t r,' paiptbts
dropping., Geo error 1" „•epeotpt ttrslJ,
known mntter, 1,f f1-'.1. '1 he lois
immlrn'�ty of t he rbn 11 ,1's blest{ dm' the
88 ooitinu 11.11 11 u'onfleeavitetlf to
k
sorrel 11'-' -' "1 never projudkoe or
'enema ' 1 nr.'':"'ber," wrote Jamem
Oa1 "l ik r:o h.:nr as L Ifni
Pne 11..1 „ only a oorotlary to Lin
p seri, ^"a "I love a holy do-
t•nu11 ���n110 eoaerdsnce;sthnt1t10-
Firi • „ ih trite Law atei' ends with the
Yet we doubt i,(,. even the
11„ t• ele enduring 'Rowell would have euf-
• 1 and 51,88* no ar'gn if he had
s48tred to a sermon on a poem, eud-
eett.endi*g, wlkh.Ouch' a sudden and
*explivable jump as the "Bridgewater
teatimes" mated to make, '"therefore,
ope thou i,
1 n Chrilslt "
1
It would be n serious m.'otnke, we
hick, for the pillpit to enter into nn
equal competition with great )lt-
ralu're or great criers. The old mm -
ort of the pious Was that, i4 the tier -
rot were poor, "God taken a text and
reaches patience." But if the veer
eel (s a poem or essay, there will
o ther be. inipat:enee to get home to
owl or eeeayfnf nt feet haat. "Dun-
ne is sicced hat .( sound d(vite,' but
here's no divinity that doth hedge
n the pulp't from the peril of level'.
us comparfaon'e, i4 (t Invitee them hr
eheiee of eecttlnr themes. -,N. Y.
erring Post. �
Cleveland, ,Tette 15.-A messenger
boy rams' the door Ixfl of the hcnlvo
at No. 180 Dodge street yesterday at-
tento0n, "I've got a telegram for
lire. Merle lattermost," Ire said when
t lw door was opened.,
Mrs. Patterson' le employed there an
tlonneatfe, Fite elute from the
kite -tam, alytiwd her atme in the book
and tore owe the envelope. Thin In
Whitt she rend :
1'ittehttrg' Penitentiary, Jan. 15.
Mrs. Merle Plate:won, No, 180 Iloi�'e
street, CI I, Gldo•
R'illlam Pat Resort, your POs, will be
hanged to n',srrow• Come tit once.
The metier burst into a paroxysm
of tears. }teenier,' of the family by
whom she IN employed waisted her to
her root, where mho haat knee re-
nnalea, almost completely helpleen
from grief.
Mrs. Pltteron told her story as
follows: 'The terrible telegram
nr,ntelit 1110 the first tidings 1 have
had from my Hon for nine years.
"I wpm married when but 15 years
Hid. noon after ntY marriage my hoe
band and I hard trouble, and he left
'18 , taking my 19-monthe-old boy with
him. I did not see him again for six
years. At the Mime I was living in Al.
tonna, Pa. A detective returned my
boy to me, but only to have him
taken again by his fattier, four years
tater, nail I lout not heard from him
FMCS that time until I received the
terriblle news that he Was tc) b0 exe-
cuted on the getllowm for the murder
of Aline Vna Horst.
"I have always thought that my
boy would conte t:) spite bad end. I
have prayed for years that the Lord
would take him from this wicked
world, and my prayer ham been an-
swered.
"I knew the Lord world seine time
hear my prayer, although the terri-
ble manner 1n which my ioy Is to die
freaks my htea.rt. I am unable both
flnalainllY and physically to go t„
see my eon before ,he ties. 1 want 1"
know where my .boy's body 1s to r•1,.s,
and whether he re
•
petltel lir out i"' f
ore le died." I'
Pattereon was hanged tel. 11,11 d
tug. He murdered Atter,. eerier, ,,n.i• 1
Vat Hann. The ohne stn- t1.' ,,,lilt 'r
of a quarrel over a 7'. G, , ,:,111141 11
Wtlliant Champ, of 011„lu rltter^on
watt jeitlaio. i
- u
Neve N'elklr,g Iteor ter IVInter. 1
The nen 1 :, 11 nl :hoot for temhdne m
feel this a'urr '" stout, lea,}feetffe, with iter 1ilt soles, broad Pheels nnd eilid0'eby higher topsrInnth,1.,'1,10,1st shoat of (net
t.,,,,,, i.� f, t the top4 of the new P
hur� ,9.,-1 U n•oewble Lee xhurter t
)levels (4,,,ltw worn 00 noel In time
1n•her y1.ns of the wheeling craze. i
„y ;u•c designed to be used alto- 0
rtn,e• with the double-faced short a
kit•'n that everyone will wear this E
inter and are ail sensible a fashion
. the abbreviated skirts themselres.
'hut is to be a winter of sensible fneh-
nn for street wear and ehort•skirted,
tuut-eoled figures will hull their H
we nettled flurries of snow or ins•
re ut mud.
clo ne at once the purpose, inrtbud and
result of the incarnation red HIM
stria of ;smut Christ. He came " not
Aa a full private In the University
company of the Queen's Own, the pre.
sent Poetmaoter•flererah served hie
reentry In the Fenian raid of 1870.
e has therefore been awarded the
general eervtno medal which is Just
now beets issued,