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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1898-09-01, Page 2THIS IS THE SON OF GOD piekpgcket, or a bmes idea 'his crimes t wa man; u our of wayglan is aggravate when we hear him blas - _ pbeming the Redeemer. Oh, shame in- REV. DR TALffiAGE SPEAKS OF deacribable 1 Oh, ignominy unsupport- CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION. able I Hissed at by a thief I In that ridi- • e""" cule I find the fact that there Is a A Wild Ilol! In Jernsalem-.A Tlme for a hostility betweon sins and holiness. There cannot be, there never has been, Christian to Fight The People ItaMed for Christ's Coat -Theta strike Jesmis amid any sympathy between honesty and Ileup lndlgnftlts lipun tllm-ChrlsCs theft, between purity and lascivious - Hess, between zeal and indolence, be- Mother at lite etoss-The Peutteta Loser faith and uribel)af, between Malengetor-Dr. Talmage Draws a Flue light and darkness, b hea000d Picture of the Seene. seeren and hell. And when I arae a t, A des toh from Washin ton sa s:-- pa g Y man going out to discharge hie duty, Dr. Talmage preached from the fol- and he is enthusiastic for Christ, and lowing text: "And the people stood I see persecution after him, and scorn after him, and contempt atter him, I g•,.- beholdin Luke xxiii, Sb. say: "Hark I another hiss of the dying There is nothing more wild and un- thief I" And when I see Holiness go - governable than a mob. Those of you ling forth in her, white robes, and who have read history may remain- Charity, with great heart and open hand, to take care of the sick, and bell) bar the excitement in Poria during the the needy, and restore the lost, and time of Louis XVI., and bow the mob I'find her lashed with hyper -criticism, rushed up and down frantically. To and jostled of the world, and pursued this da.y you may see the marks of the frokn point to point, and caricatured wit low witticisms, 1 say : 'lobe l an bullets that struck the palace as the other hiss of the dying thief It is a Srwiss guards stood defending it. Thera sad thing to know that this malefactor is a wild mob going through the streets died just as he had lived. People near - of Jerusalen. As it passes along it ly always do. Have you never remark - instance is augmented by the multitudes that ed that E There is but one mentioned in all the Bible of a man come out from the lanes and the alleys repenting in the last hour. All the to join the shout, and the laughter, other men who lived lives of iniquity, as far as vv -e can understand from the and the lamentations of the rioters, Bible, died deaths of iniquity. If you who become mora and more ungovern- live a drunkard's life, you will die a able as they get towards the gates of drunkard; the defrauder dies a defrau- the city. Fishermen, hirelings of the der; the idler dies an idler; the blas - high priests, merchant princes, beg- phemer dies a blasphemer; the slan- darer dies a slanderer; the debauchee gara mingle in that crowd. The are y dies a dehauchee. As you live you passing out now through the gates of will die in all probability. Do not, the city. They come to a hill white therefore, make your soul believe that you can go on in a course of sin, and with the bleached skulls of victimar--a then in the last moment repent.. There bill that was itself the shape of a skull, is such' a thing as death -bed repent - covered with skulls, and called Gol- Lance, but I never saw one -I never gotha, which means the place of a saw one. God in all this Bible pre - sents us only one case of that kind, skull. Three men are to be put to and it is not safe. to risk )t, Jest our death -two for theft, one for treason, case should happen not to ba the one having claimed to be king of the Jews. amid ten thousand. Each one carries his own cross, but "Repent l the voice celestial cries, one is so exhausted from previous No longer dare delay; bardships that He faints under the The wretch that scorns the Mandate burden, and they compel Simon of diems And meets the fiery day•" Cyrano, who is supposed to be in sym- But there were race of light that pathy with the condemned man, to streamed into the crucifixion. As take hold of one end of the oross and Christ was on the cross and looked help Him to carry it. They reach the down on the crowd of people, Hie saw hill. The three men are lifted in hor- some very warm friends there. And rid crucifixion. When the mob are that brings me to the remarking up - ori th'e friendly group that tivere ar- howling, and m°eking, and hurling ound the cross. And the first in all scorn a.t the chief object of their hate; that crowd w•as Ilia mother. You the darkness hovers, and scowls, and need not point her out. to me. I can the anguish, the swoops upon the scene, and the rocks see by the sorrow, woe, by the upthrown hands 1 That all rend with terrific, clang, and chok- means mother 1 "Ob," you say : "why ing wind, and moaning cavern, and didn't she go down to the foot oP the drooping sky, and shuddering earth- hill and Bit with her back to the scene? It was too horrible for her to look up- quake declare, in whisper, in groan, on." Do you not know when a child in .shriek: "This is the Son of God."� is in anguish or trouble, it always I propose to speak of the two groups makes a heroine of a Mother ? Take of spectators around the cross -the her away, you say, from the cross. You cannot drag her away. She will [rlendly and the unfriendly. In the keep on looking; as long as her son unfriendly group were the Roman sol- breathes she will stand there looking. diers. Now it is a�good thing to Oh what a scene it was for atender- serve one's country. There is not an hearted mother to look upon. How gladly she would have sprung to His Englishman's heart but thrills at the relief. It was her son. iter son . How name of Havelock, brave for Christ and gladly she would have clambered up brave for the British Government. on the cross and hung there herself When there was a difficult point to if her son could have been relieved. How strengthening she would have take, the officers would sa "Bring Y been to Christ if she #might have come out the saints of old Havelock." I close by Him and soothed Him. Oh, think, if Paul had gone into military there was a good deal in what the lit - service, he would have eclipsed the tle sick child said, upon whom a surgi- cal operation of a painful nature must heroism of the Caesars, and the Alex- be performed. The doctor said : ' chat anders, and the Napoleons of the world child won't live through this operation by his bravery ana enthusiasm. There unless you enceegrage him. You go in and get his consent. The father told is a time to be at peace, and there is a him ail the doctor said, and added : time when a Christian has to Ei ht. g Now, John, will you go through wit h I do not know of a Graver or braver it? Will you consent to it?" Tie look - thing than for a young man, when it ed. very pale, and hie thought a min- Aute, Yes, father, it is demanded of him, to turn his back and acid: you vv bolas my hand I wi ll!" upon home, and quiet, and luxury, and, So the father held hie hand and ]ad' hie at fn the service of his country, go forth straight htrough the peril. Oh wom- to camp, and field, and carnage, and an, in your hour of anguish, who do want with you? Mother, Young martyrdom. It was no mean thing to be a soldier; it was no idle you man, in your hour of trouble, who do ,Roman; tett• -• '-,� ,blest army has In it You. want to console you ? Mother. I1 the mother of Jesus could have only sneaks, and ase were the men who were detailed from that army to attend taken those bleeding feet into her lap' to the execution of Christ. Their If she might have taken the dying head dastardly behavior puts out the on her bosom I If she might have said gleam of their spears, and covers their to Him, " It will soon be over, Jesus - it soon be over, and we will meet banner with obloquy. They were cowards• They were ruffians. They will again and it will be all. well." But, no. were gamblers. No noble soldier would have struck her back with their would treat a fallen foe as they treated she Glared not come up so close. They the captured Christ. Generally hammers. They would have kicked her down the hill. There can be no allev- there is respect' paid to the garments of the departed. It may be only a bat, iation at all. Jesus must Buffer and or a coat, or a shoe, but it goes down Mary must look. I Buppose she thought (be birth -hour in Bethlehem, I sup - in the family wardrobe from genera- tion to generation. Now that Christ of pose she t.bougbt of that. time with I-$ to be disrobed, who shall have His her boy in her hosoni she hastened on coat? Joseph of Arimathea would tri the darkness in the flight toward, have liked to have had it. Mary, the Egypt. I suppose sbe, thought of Hie boyhood when He was the joy of hey another of Jesus, would have liked to heart. I suppose she tboug)it of the have had it. How fondly she would have hovered over i,t, and when she thousand kindnesses He hart done her must leave It, with what tenderness p°'t forsaking her or forgetting bey she would have bequeathed it to her even in His last moments; but turn - "There )e best friend. It was the only covering of Christ in darkness and storm. That Ing to John and saying: mother; take her with you, She is ol(' was the very coat that the woman now. She cannot help herself. Do fol touched when from it there went out her jupt as I would have done for hey virtue for her beating. That. was the if i had lived. Ile very tender and gen- tle with her, Behold thy moi her l" Sb( only wedding garmrnt he had in the marriage of Cana, and the storms that thought it al I river ; and there is n( swept Galilee had drenched it again memory, like a mother's memory, an( and again. And what did they do there is no woe like a motherls woe `with it? They raffled for it. There was another frienc in that In this unfriendly group around the group, and (hat was Simon the Cyren• cross also were the rulers, and the inn, He was a stranger in the land scribes, and the chief priests,, Lawyers,__but hats been long enough to show )ria amid judgea, and mi.nistere of religion favoritism for Christ. 1 suppose hew"e in this day are expected to have some one of those men who never can Be( respect for their office. No minister anybody imposer] upon but. be wants of religion would scoff at or mock a to bell) him. "-Well, Simon," iho3 condemned criminal. And yet the cried out, "you are such a friend tc great men of that land seemed to be Jesus, help Him t.o carry the cross equal to any ruffianism. They were You see Him fainting under it.." S( c,1 vieing with each other as to how much scorn and Billingsgate they could cast he did. A scene for all the ages time and all the cycles of eternity tii.to the teeth of the dying Christ. a cross with Jesus at. the one end of Why, the worst felon, when his onemy it and Simon at, the other, suggestin8 has fallen, refuses to strike him. But the idea to you, oh i rouble sould that t.hege men were not ashamed.to strike no ane• need ever carry a whole, Cross Jesus when He was down. So it has You have only half a cross to carry been in all ages of the world that there IP you are in poverty, Jesus was Poor, have been men in high positions who and, He comes and takes the other• end despiaed Christ and, Hia Gospel. What of the cross, If you acro in Psi"Ou- Popes have issuetdl their anathemas I tion, Jesus was persecuted, and He What ,judgment -seats have kindled comea a.nd takes the other end of th( their fires 1 What inquisitions have cross. If you are in any kind of ,trou- sharpened their sword I "Not this ble, you have n sympathising Redeem- ma.n, buts Barabhas; now Barabbas was er. Oh bow• the truth flashod iupor. a robber." Against the Christian re- my soul this morning. Jesus ak, on( ligion have been brought the bistori- end of the cross and t.ho soul ati the ccy.l genius of Bibbon, and the polish of other end of the cross; and when I Shaftesbury, and the kingly authority see Christ and Simon going up the hill of Frederick of Prukpia, and the bril- together, I say we ought to help each limey of John, Earl of Rochester, and other to carry our burdens. " Bear yc the stupendous intellect of Voltaire, one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Innumerable pens have stabbed it, and law of Christ." If you find a man in innumerable !rooks have cursed it, and persecution, or sickness, or in business that mob that hounded Christ. from trouble, go right. to him and say: "My Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" brother, I have come to help you. You bas never been disperse(!, but Is aug- take hold of one end of this cross and I menting yet, as many of the learned will take hold of the other ems of the men of the world, and great men of the cross, and Jesus Christ. wit Come In world, come out from their studies, and take hold of the middle of the and their laboratories, and their pal- cmas; and after awhile there will be area, and cry: "Away with this man t no cross at all." '- . ' ,away with Him l" The most bitter hostility which many of the learned "Shall Jesus bear the erose alond, men of this day exercise in any direc- Aad all the world go free? No, there's cross for every ani, tion they exercise against Jesus Christ, the Aon of God, the Saviour of the a And there's a erose for sae:' world, without whom we will die for But there wag another %arked per- iivver, , ., , _m ,, ., .• , . -., . , : in this sonage in (bat, friandlq group Thal He was group of enenmtes surrounding was The penitent malefactor. the ernsv, in this unfriendly group, 1 a thief, or had been; no disguising also find the roiling thief. It. seer,=• that tact. All, his crimes Came upon that he. twisted himself on thw spiken: him with relentless conviction. What 111e forgot. his ow•n pain In his com wits he to do? "Oh," he says, "what plete nntipalby t.o Jesus. I do not. shall I do with my sins upon meV and know wh:lt kind!1 of a thief he was. I he looks around and sees Jesus, and do not, know wps0 r he bad been a sees compassion in His face, and he • says: "Lord remember me when Thou co,meat into Thy kingdom." What did Jesus do I Did He turn and say : "You thiel t I have seen all your ortmes, and you have jeered and scoffed at me, noir die for ever ?" avid he say that I Oh, no ; Jesus could not say that. He says : " This day thou shalt be with me Ln Paradise." I sing the song of mercy for the chief of sinners. Mur- derers have come and plunged their red hands in this fountain, and they have, been made as white as snow. The prodigal that was off for twenty years has come back and sat at his fath- -a table. The ship that has been tossed in a thousand storms floats in- to this harbour. The parched and sun - struck soul comes under the shadow air this rock. Teats of thousands who were as bad as you and 1 have been, have put down their burdens and their sins at the feet of this blessed Jesus. "The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain In his day ; And there may I, as vile as he, Wash all my sins away." But there was another friendly group. I do not know their names we are not told but we are simply told there were many around the cross who sympathised with the dying sufferer. Oh lh� wail of woe that went through that crowd when they saw Jesus die. You know the Bible saysif all the things Jesus did were recorded the world would not contain the books that would be written. It implies that what we have in the Bible are merely specimens of the Saviou's mercy. We are told that one blind man got his eyesight. I suppose He cured twenty that we are not told of. When He cured the one leper whose story is recorded, He might have cured twenty lepers. Where He did one act sof kindness mentioned, He must have done a thousand we do not know about. I see those who received kind- nesses from Him standing beneath the cross, and one says: "Why, that is the Jesus that bound up my broken heart." And • another standing be- neath the cross says: "That is the Jesus that restored my daughter to life." Another looks up and says: "Why that is Jesus who gave me my eyesight." And another looks up and says: "That is Jesus who lifted me up when I was sick; oh, I can't bear to see Him die." Every pelt of the ham- mer drove a spike through their hearts. Every groan of Christ opens a new fountain of sorrow. They had better get on with that crucifixion quickly or it will never take place. These disciples will seize Christ and snatch Him from the grasp of those bad men, and take those ringleaders of the persecution and put them up in the very place. Be quick with those nails. Be quick with that gall. Be quick with those spikes, for I see in le sorrow and the wrath of those dis- ciples a storm brewing that will burst on the heads of those perse- cutors. . To -day we come and we join the friendly crowd. Who wants to be on the wrong, side? I cannot bear to be in the unfriendly group. There is not a man or a woman in this house who wants to be in the unfriendly group. I want to join Ghe other group. We come while thy are bewailing, and join their lamentations. We see that brow bruised; we hear that dying groan; and, while the priests scoff, and the devils rave, and the lightnings of God's wrath are twisted into a wreath for that bloody mount, you and I will join the cry, the supplication, of the penitent malefactor: "Lord, re- member me when Thou earnest into Thy kingdom." Oh, the pain, the igno- miny, the agony;.and yet the joy, the thrilling, bounding, glorious hope 1 Son of Mary I Son of God 1 .•.1 There was a very toucbyng scene among an Indian tribe in the last cen- tury. It seemed that one of the chie.ftain3 had slain a man belonging to an opposite tribe, and that tribe came up and said: "We will extermin- ate you unless you surrender the man who committed that crime." The chieftain who did the crime stepped nub from the ranks, and said: "I am not afraid to die, but I have a wife an•i four children and I have a father aged, and a mother aged, whom I sup- port by hunting, and I sorrow to Ieave them helpless." Just as he said that, his old father from behind step- ped out and' said: "ITB shall not -die. I tak- his place. I am old find well stricken in years. I can do no good. I might as swell die. My days are al- most over. Tie cannot be spared. Take me.." And they accepted the Facrifice. Wonderful sacrifice, you say; but not so wonderful as that found in the Gwpel! for we deserved to die, aye, we were sentenced, when Christ, not worn out with years, but in the flush of His youth, said: "Save that man from go- ing down to the pit; I am 1 be ranFom! Puthis 1nrrdenson Slyshoulders. Let stripes fall on My back. Take My heart: for his heart. Let. Me die, that he may live." Shall it. lm told to -day in heaven that, notwithstanding oil those wounds, find all that. blood, and al, those tears, and oll that agony, you would not: accept him? " Well migrht thi sun in darkness hide And shut. hi.s glories in, When Christ, the mighty maker, died For man, the creature's, sin. Thus might I Lisle my bushing face While !lis dear cross appears, Dissolve my heart in thankfulness And melt my eyes in tears. Rut; drops of grief can ne'er repay The debt of love I owe ; Here, Lord, f give myself away, " Tis all that I can do." Oh, Lord Jesus w•e accept Thee. We all accept Thee now. There is no hand in all this great audience lifted to smite 'Thee on the neck now. No one will spear Thee. now. No one will strike 'Thee novo. Come in, Lord Jesua I Come quickly. , A SOCIABLE SEAL. Strung;# Amory of the Remarkable Condolet orn lien Animal. A gentleman residing in Brought.y Ferry, lvbo owns a yncht, took a run down the river the other day, accom- panied by some friends, for the pur- pose of having a seal hunt, says the l,.di,buvgh Pi.spit,i%h. (hs the banks at the mouth of the estuary they saw large numbers of seals, old and young. Believing that. these creatures are attracted by whistling they tried the experiment, and were surprised to ob- serve a young seal following in the wake of the yacht. Continuing to wbistle the creature followed up the river, disappearing for a time, and then reappearing with its betas above the surface of the water. It was not far off when the yacht reached its an- chorage in West Ferry Bay, and after the yachtsmen went ashore they were more than astonished to see the young m*l flopping up the beach behind then. So tame iyas the creature that they haft ito di.ffficul � iA capturing it. It was carried to their homd. Xt was well fed and cared for. Not slaving a proper place for keeping such a pet it wps resolved to restore it to its na- tural element, and the yachtsmen pro- ceeded down the Driver to the neigh- borhood of Droughty Coatle, where it was pl$ced in the water. So attached, however, ha(1 the seal become to its captors that it refused to leave and again followed them home to West Ferry. . THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ' s when the actual warPara e Thou have . ew five gan. shuuldost smillen gen. or six tilues; then hadst thou INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 4. smitten Syria till thou hadst Conyurll- ed it. "The kingdom of heaven auf- `'-'�� fereth violence, and the violent take it �• The Death or Ettrha.' :l !lung# t3. t4.8b. by force;" it is the zealous and ener- Golden Text, Psnlm lie. mfg. getic who conquer. Faith and zeal PRACTICAL NOTES. are at the bottom of every victory (Verse 14. Elisha was Fallen sick oY 'He was wanting in the proper zeal for obtaining the full promises of his sickness whereof he died. He was God," -Keil. Now thou shalt siuito now fully eighty years of age. Dur- Syria but thrice, 'she last ing his long life he had faithfully Berv- verse of this lesson declares ed both hie God and hie kin After g that this prophecy was exactly accomplished. If Joash had had more the vision at Dothan, which we studied weverent confidence in the work of in our last lesson, the city of Samaria Elisha, the conquests of the second was besieged by the Syrians. Their Jeroboam might have been anticipated armies surrounded it closes a.nd the Y. by him. 2(1. Elisha sleds and they buried him. agony and distress of the garrison and Very different from the fate of the the inhabitants have seldom been Bur- man who was taken in a chariot of passed. Even children were eaten, `ably fire to heaven. Where Elisha was buried is not known, prob- and the most re ulsive articles of e ! Mari . near to Samaria. Josephus men- Food were sold for• fabulous prices. In twos the magnificence oP his funeral. his desperation the king sent to be- The bands of the Moabites invaded the head Elisba, int Elisha announced that land at the coming in of the year. An evidence of the weakneas of Israel, es - within twenty-four hours the famine pecially as the point where they prob- would be replaced by superabundance; ably discovered was far from the na- and it was so. The whole story is full tional border. 21. As they were burying a man. That of suggea>ilon. And now after more is, ae some unnamed laraelites osis years of unrecorded goodness Elisha is burying a friend. Behold, they spied dying. Joash the king of Israel came a band. The Hebrew has it "the down unto him. , Things bad strange- b nd." An evidence that such bands ly changed in Israel since Elisha be- into the ssepulaar of Elisha. They had gan his ministrations. The godly no place else to put him. There was work of his predecessor, Elijah, had had no time for ceremony. They did not deep effect on the national character know whose Elisha's tomb was, but took the nearest. Anil when the man was and sentiment, and when Elisha as a • let down. This is not in the Bible young man picked up the older text. rElisha's tomb was not a pit dug prophet's mantle and started on hie )n the ground like a modern grave. career as the prophet of Israel it Touched the bones of Elisha. 'The one corpse, wound in its grave clothes, but was alts another larue] from that q uncoffined, was strongly pushed over which he was now about to leave. Then to the other one, which was equally the influence of Ahab's family a>}d bound. c the foul worship of Baal were felt 23. Th'e Lord was gracious unto them. everywhere; now Ahab's dynasty was And therefore they were preserved. His covenant to Abraham was repeat- no more, and Baa) for awhile was far- ed to Isaac and Jacob, a promise that gotten in Israel. It is true there was the children of Abraham should be much of- sin and open idolatry. It is preserved with gracious mercy. Neith- also true, however, that the most of er cast he them from his presence as the people accepted the true doctrine yet. The time came when they ,Acre of Jehovah, For forty-five years. and cast away, rejected, but for that they more Elisha has not been mentioned and not God were responsible. The sad in the Bible record. Joash was a die- event came more than a century from acendant of Jehu, who bad usurped this time. , the throne and put to death all the 1•e- 24. So Hazael king of Syria died. This presentatives of Abab's family that be was the cruel king who so severely had could find. Vigorous as Jehu was, he punished the Israelites. Ben-hadad his had not been able to maintain himself son reigned in his stead. Hazaiel, successfully against the Syrians and usurper, gave to his eldest boy the Assyrians, but the kingdom had grown name of the monarch be had dethron up to comparative strength again, and ad and murdered. the influence of Elisha had comme t.o 25. Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz too be regarded by both king and sub- again out of the band of Ben-hadad jects as one of. the powerful forces the Bon of Hazael the cities. These ha working toward national prosperity, been captured from Israel by th Wept over his face. The king's sorrow greater Ben-hadad. Three times di for Elisha's death was sincere, and it Joaah beat him. Thrice defeated, Haz should have been, for he owed his roy- ael was forced to abandon his conquest al inheritance to Eliaba's influence and in western Samaria. He retained, how acts. 0 my father, my father I In all ever, the trans-Jordanic terittory religions ministers have. been adressed which was not recovered by the Israel as ' father." That is the ordinary title iter till tire reign of Jeroboam Il. of a Roman Catholic priest, 'Frequently used by all sorts of Protestants. Padre and papa are the names that other na- tions give to the ministers of the Gos- THE KAISER IN NORTHERN SEAS' pel, and the title Pope has the same — origin. The chariot of Israel, and the Ile Has Despatched the Olga, Manned b horsemen thereof. A phrase equiva- Setentme Teutons, to d'ongnar Arra lent to the standing army of the na- Flany Tribes. tion. It was acompliment of the high - eat sort, phrased in exactly the words Eager to increase his domain, an that Elisha himself had used when his finding no more colonial territory t "father," Elijah, bad been taken from conquer, Kaiser Wilhelm is going t him to heaven. It wns more or less proverbial, and in any case carried the extend his imperial sway over the p idea that no fortifications that Israel lar seas. could construct, were equal in their By order of His Imperial Majesty defensive power to one good man whose the German Government has just de eyes were opened by the spirit of God. That a king should visit a prophet was snatched the corvette Olga, arms astounding, and in the East prophets with quick -firing guns and manned b• were kept by kings as servants. The some three hundred scientific Teutons r•everanee, of Joash for Elisha gives us to the arctic regions to explore th a favorable view of some phases of the king's character. fishing beds in northern waters an 15. Take boar• and arrows. 'The East seize the choicest haunts of the fine was the land of symbols, and when the tribes in the name of the Fatherland prophet gave this command the king For a long time the marine brant and the bystanders would know that a symbolic act was about to be per- ,of the German government has bee formed. He took unto him bow and, turning its attention to the subjec arrows.. Very^ likely tiie king, whose of deep-sea fishing. A fishing fleet o faith was not of the strongest, was five thousand sailboats and six bun bored by the prophet's command: 16. Put thine hand upon the bow. dyed steamBhips, is at present draw "Hold it in position for shooting an ing its net through the North Sea arrow." He put his hand upon it. day in, day out, during nine month That is, he set the arrow, pu)le'cl' the of the year. The Germans realize tha string, and took aim. .Ellsha put his hands upon the king's hands. Elisha their waters have attained the great was the"man of God," and whatever he eat point of production, and that a did was looked upon as being done by the rate at which they are being work God. The bow and arrows represented ed, the fishing beds will eventually b the king's endeavors to conquer his exhausted. enemies, and Elisha's hands put on them indicated that God was about to For this reason German shipowner give poker to the king's efforts. have been sending their fishing steam "Christ himself deigns to put his hand ships, for the last few years, on trip upon our hand in order that we may a$ far north as Iceland. Tneir tate draw the bow arigbt.. It is his arrows that must lye shot, and it is we who has been so productive as to mor must shoot them, but if we dv our part than repny the expense of the trip with faith earnestness, strength, rind It is the object of the Olga expediti perseverance, we will have a blessing to make observations on deep-sea fish from him.'" -Wordsworth. 17. Open the window eastward. !Vin- ing. in the waters of the far North doors in that, day were not made cf The corvette carries a fishing commi glass, but of lattice work, which could cion, among tae members of which ar be opened and closed at, pleasure, Of course hlisba's command was not ad- many scientists from the Biological in dressed to the King, but to aservant. stitute of Helgoland, who will stud "Eastward" was Jn the direction of the the habits of the Northern fish. Pro territory which Iilizael, king of Syria. fessional memlers of, the commission half wrested from Israel. Eli- sha was by Prophecy about to among whom is the Fishing Marler o encourage Joasb t.o take. back the stol- Helgoland, have been instructed to ob en countries, and therefore he chose tain the location of the beat fishing for the symbolic act the window that beds. looked toward them. And he, opened it. Aboard the Olga is a crew of 26( "One opened it." Elisha, said., Shoot, fishermen, commanded by Lieulenani And he shot. Intent was the king on of Fishery Jaeger. Thus it is expect. doing what The prophet told him, that ed that, valuable information will bt he might have the assurance. that gathered by the scientists and profeB would come from the parable'he was sional men who compose the expedition helping to enact.. And he said. That At the Imperial wharf in Wilhelms is, Elisha said. The arrow of the Lord's baven the Olga wits most carefuJl3 deliverance:, and the arrow• of deliver- fitted out for her trip. hor the. scion. nnce, from Syria. SulrsCilute the nartlg tilts there was constructed betw•eer Jehovah for 'the Lord. The meaning decks a large, well ventilated labors is, this arrow represents Jehoval's lie- tory, fitted with necessary apparatus liverance of Israel from its t.rouhle. and scientific .instruments, and con a delivea•ance from Syrian tyranny. tainin an excellent. technical library i?OT thou shalt smite the Syrians in For the practical needs of the expe• Aphek, till thou have consumed them. dition there are dragging nets nn( So i-61 is not merely deliverance after fishing implements of all kinds. The all, but victory. • The army defeated Olga carries storm sails, and has beet shnll be annibiluted. In• Aphek. A provisioned for five months. She is town, trree miles east of the Sea of. bund for Tromsoe, Norway, find thence Galilee, where (nice before the Isral- will steam for the Island of Rpitzber ices }tad roamed the Syrians. There is gen in the Polar Sens. The corvette no record of t his second battle of Ap- i!t an iran ship of 2,169 tons dispince.. hek, but w•e must assume that whet ment., 2,100 horse -power and has a spee.( wits brophesied came to pass in his- of twelve knots. Heretofore, she hnf tory. ,The modern' vilingo Pik is on the been engaged in the supervision nn( site of the ancient Aphek. protection of the North Sea fishing in 18. H•e said, Tnko the arrows, And be dustry. Tier armament haB been re took them. Elisha commanded the king moved, with the exception of her gaicl to take the quiver into his hands, and firing guns. the king (did soy, and doubtless hold the arrows in a bureb. Smite upon the YOUNG MICE AS A DAINTY. ground. It is not certain what ibis means, but the best authorities ex- A French writer states, says tb( plain it as a commaind to strike Hong Kong Presa, that a dainty high• with the arrows against the floor. He smote thrice, and ly esteemed by Celestial goarmandi stayed. The king struck the arrows on consists of young mice,, which are serv. the floor three times, and then the ap- ed alive to the guests, who dip there parent folly of the whole transaction In d pot of honey and slowly awallow coming upon him, he stopped, nor could be be induced to carry the smym- their► one by one. At the marriag( holism further. He did not enter into feast of the present Emparor of Chine its spirit at all. He was ready to more than fifty thousand of these lit• tlggbt put this shooting looked like tie creatures were served. Is this e 'the ohildla 1 ' '' ' ' - ' romance or has statement ani play. 10. The man of God Ivan uva•oth with foundation in faot ? We have novel him. Indignant at his lack of faith heard of young mice as a dainty be. and real, Furthermore he was con- forts. ! I Boious that there was more of real. symbolism here than Joasb understood. William Neff of 0olorado, unearthee The same feebleness of obarnoter which mix baby, ooyotes on his ranch, and ler! the king to strike three tunes Ian trained them so that thoy follow hire place of twenty would have the name like dogs. "QUEEN'S HARD BARGAIN." t Troublerulue Character fin Both Anny anti Navy. In mservfoo pbraseology, the man who is always giving trouble is known as "A Queen's Hord Bargain," Bays th-e London 'Mail. . Such men abound in both branches of her Majesty's service ; but it is in the army that they are the .greater nuisance. Every year numbers of men either desert or are dismissed as un- deairable characters from various regi- ments. Only the other week two line battalions (stationed at South Africa sent home i,n one batch no fewer than forty men who had been turned out in this i time manner, though by th a most of them ar•e probably again wear- tngher Majesty's uniform; forusually the Q.H.S. no sooner gets turned out of one regiment than be enlists in an- other, or else enters the navy. There are (many men atilt serving who have been in ten or adozen different regi- ments at one time or another. Of Course, it is against the regulations for men ; ON�CE DIIS1MiSSED THE SERVICE to 'rejoin ; but they do it, well knowing tbat discovery only means a short im- prison;ment. kome years ago the Q. H• B. used mainly to devote his attention to the Militia, frequently making quite a tour of the various battalions as a re- oruit, in order to get the bounty from each. But when the authorities took steps #o prevent this systematic fraud, the Q.H.B. went over to the regular forces. The Royal Artillery is now a favorite corps with him, doubtless for the reason that being cut up into divis- ions and sent to so many different sta- tions, the chances of detection are less. But almost every regiment has its share of these men. The drill instruc- tors pick them out easily enough on the barrack square, for their manner invariably betrays them. Sometimes they are discovered through their studied ignorance ; sometimes they be- e tray themselves in a moment of for- g•etfulness; but if they do not give trouble by k MIS.CONDUCTING THEMSELVES the instructors often prefer letting the d scallywags pass to incurring the both - e er of court-mat•tial proceedings, which d service men cordially deteet. The "(queen's Hard Bargains" may be divided into two .lasses -those ,who are born "bad" and those w•ho get in- ti trouble through sheer exubrance of spirits. The two are about numerical- ` ly equal. Among the former are doe, Cors, univei-sity graduates, spend- thrifts, and failures of every kind, for the army is the last refuge of many strange characLera. The second class provides us with some of our bravest y soldiers. Very frequently the man whc tl iso hero in the field is a bluckguurd in barracks. Admittedly the pluck- iest member of one of our recent little d West African expeditions was a Tommy o who was hardly ever off the default- e.rs' list when at. home. . ° It must be borne in mind when as- o- sassing Tommy's character that what in civil life would be looked upon &l but slight peccadiltoes, count as serious offences when reckoned against the - soldier, and Tommy may easily get a d bad service eba.racter witbout ever bar y ing committed what. the man in the street would deem ej A PUN7�'iIABLE OFFENCE. d For instance, if a soldier were re- ported for not saluting his officer, he y would be, severely reprima,gded, n( matter how good a.n excuse he had tc h offer for the omission. n The born "bads" however, are not t deserving of sy(mpaftby. .It is ten tc one but that before they have beer f ##bony months in the regiment the) _ find (themselves in some serious trou - ble. Then, irl order to escape punish went, they confesi to having made z false attestation. Often. too, thea s make a confession in order to esoape t foreign service, or because they, de - sire to find some more comfortable t regimeut. In this way •the "Queen's Hard Bargain" gives the authorities - endless 'trouble, anal puts the countr3 e to great expense. ,Every Mime the Q.H..B, re -enlists be a adopts a fresh alias,and so frequently do some of them change t.hei.r name! - in this way that it is doubtful whether s they could remember the one the) h started with. e .Many scores o£ the deserters and dis charged soldiers Ino - join the. navy fit stokers, and they give as much trouble on there as t.bey did in the aister service - When discovered the naval aul.horitier give bu't slhort shrift to the Q.H.B. Oc e.tsionally :the instructors will give f s surprise word of command as tbeh e squad is standing easy, and by lh( - #runner in which the men respond to it the trained ones oa.n be easily picke( Y out. POPULATION OF EUROPE. A Gain of 37,000,000 Over the Census of Tet Tears Agro, . According to figures given by t h( latest number of La Revue Francais( do 1'Etranger, the totnt population of Europe, by calculations mace, on ill( latest census is 380,00(1,0011, which is fr gain of 37,000,000 over that compute(, January, 1888. Isere is a table s:hciwin@ the figures given in the. Revue Fran cause de 1'Etringer: F,uropeau Russin and Fin land.106,L'OO,CO G.6rmany . . . . . . . .... . 52,3(10,00( Aust ro-Hungary . . . . ....... 43,500,00( The l nited Kingdom . ........ 39,8(10,00( Eu rope. . . . . . . . . . 38,500,00( Italy. . . . . . . . . 31,30(1,00( Spain. . .. . . . .. 18,ow,00t Belgium. . . . . . . . , 6,fi00,00( Turkey, in Europe . . . . . 5,800,00( Rournnnia .. .. .. . . . . 5.600,00( Portugal.. , . .. .. 5000,10: Swollen. . . . . . . . 6100,00( Holland . . .. . .. .. . 4,900,0(1( I Bulgaria. . . . . . . . . 3,300,00( Swit zerland.. .. .. .. .. 3,(10(1,(,0' Greece . . . . . . . . . 2,4(10,0(1( Denmark. . . . . . . . . 2,3(10,00( Servia.. , . , 2,300,0(1( Norway. . .. . 2,000,00 The density of the population ne- cording t,o each square kilometer � about 386 squnre miles, is thus reek. lone(!; In Belgium, 220; Italy, 169; Hol• land, 149; England, 126; Germany 07 Switzerland, 73 ; .France, 72 ; Aust.ria 69; Spain, 36; Russia, 20. While the annual increase of the population of Russia has been 1.45 for every 100 in the last ten years, that of Germany has been 1.15, of Austro-Hungary .90. of England, .85, of Italy .45, of Fennel, 08. At this rate of augmentation, in 100 years Russia would have 228,000,00( inbabitants, Germany, 106,600,001, Aus. tria, 70,000,000. 1ngland 66,000,000, it Aly 44,000,000, and France only 40,000; 000. NOT PREPARED TO SAY, 4119 Nephew -Do tgort like mint juleps better than cocktails, Uncle? The Colonel -You ,youngsters do asst I some bard questional IVY POISON AND CURE, Dow Tl; f ,y May ne Distinguished. Poison ivy g'rowe over trees and fences and runs over walls and along the ground. It may be distinguished by its brown, hairylike atem, its three leaves, in clusters, and white berries. it is also known as the poison oak, Sometimes it takes the form of a bush, and other times that of a vine. The poison ivy and the poison sumac are utterly unlike in appearances t bot belong to the same gonerM or er- thus. The poison sumac grows in swampy, places, and is known also as poison dog- wood and poison alder. It grows from six to twenty-five feet In height, in sh.rublike form, and dbe foliage consists of about five pairs of opposite and ter- minal leaflets. it can always be re•- oognLzed in the fall by its color and white berries. : Ivy poison is very painful ; first the akin is very itchy, then red and swol- len, eventually breaking into blisters. The face often swells so much that the• eyes are closed. Having described the plants and told how to detect the poison, we append a number of recipes for the latter'.. oure Wuhan the poison is in its first stages, writes Mr•s. A. M. Huntington. in the Ladies' Home Journal. Bathe the affected parts with a saturated eoluticn of baking soda, bio- alrbonate of sodium, in water that is warm-no't hot, as that changes the soda into washing soda; or, Bathe with warm water and soap-, good, pure soap ; or, : ta..the with alum curds; a tablespoon• ful of powdered alum to a pint of milk; o're , Bathe with weak ammonia water; one part aqua ammonia to five parts of water ; or c. Bathe with carbonate of sodium, one ounce to half a pint of water, or sul- phite of sodium or chlorinated soda in same quantity to same amount of war ter ; or, Bathe with lead -water and laudanum, in equal parts, or with witch hazel adsded ; or, Bathe with half an ounce of phenol sodi,que diluted in three ounces of wa- ter ; or, ' Bathe with one ounce of glycerite of carbolic acini diluted with eight ounces of water ; or, f Baths the affected parts with a 2 per cent solution of creoline. ' In the later stages, when the inflaon- mation and great blisters appear - Ilse sassafras bark tea ; two ounces of bark to a pint of hot water. Let it soak a few hours, and bathe, while it is warm, the affected parts ; or, Oak bark tea used do the same way as the above ; or, Paint •the blister with fluid extract of serpentaria., being careful not to get the extract near the eyes; or, Break the blister, if not already broken, by pricking, and drop, with quill or dropper, solution of subsul- phate of iron, full strength, into the blister. ( ' PROSPERITY IN THE WEST. Fartaing Conmryralty of '.Manitoba and ilte Territories ItlddingThemselvem ofDelit. A traveller who has just returned from an extended trip through the west makes some interesting observa- tions on the satisfactory conditions of affairs that now prevail throughout Manitoba and the Territories. In an ex- perience covlering many years, be states, that he has never seen such prosperity among the farming com- munity, Moat of them are free from debt, a wonderful change from a few years ago, when ,it was not uncommon for a country merchant to carry a ma- jority of his customers through the Beason on the prospects of that Fea- son's crop. The farmers are not only free from debt, but many of them are investing money as a rule in buying up the vacant lands near thein. This desire on the part of the farmers to acquire more land, and the increased prices at which they are holding their own farms, is the strongest possible evidence of the prosperity of the coun- try. Sections where a few years ago, wild lands could be purchased at three and four dollars an acre, are now so well bought up that the sume land can- not be bought for less than eight or nine dollars; and farmers with improv- ed farms will not part with thein for less tban $20 an acre. The erection of substantial farm buildings lends an air to the proyl,erity of the country that is most satisfactory to note, An- other big advantage has been made through the establishment. of creamer- ies at many points and co-olrerative dairying will do a great deal low•ards assisting the farmer. These changes for the better are not altogetfier at- tributable to the better prices re- reived for wheat, but to the fact that farming has now• ceased to he a BPRcu- )ation, and has been brought down t.o ft working basis. As a consequence,, much more attention is being paid to details and met hods, and farmers are mare systematic in their work. Wbat striift'S Lhe trat,eller rhost forcibly is the amount of new land that is being broken up this summer, indicating a very hopeful tuna among the farmers, More land. bas been broken this year than in any previous season since 1887. ALTT'MINi?M. Droty-forging is now being; applied to shaping aluminum. It i,3 forged t.o (shape like iron. This improves its strengUi. Among new uses may be cited the following, For centrifugal rnaChlnoB it is found applicable on a(• - count of its lightness. The oil -cups on locomotive crank -pin bearings are now made from it. The brass cups were very apt to break off int the neck; the light. alumintun does not. Litho- g:ra hie, plates aro made of it. The surface is preprtre,t I,y the sand -blast. '!'his roughens it, and it. is lh,•n r•nlled between smooth ioilcrx, It is propl sed to make identiriea(ion tltgs of the inetatl for Foldiers. They etre to he inscribed with the mune tins address of Lhe wearer, and ir, cup••. of death in ;battle, ecill remove I.:.;nfrgl utwvr- utinty r(e•n.rcely lees pail.(ul be sut w• tuted therafur. NOT A TRAVG:r,FR. �,r Jules Verne, in spite of the fact .I so many of his hooks relate to doings in foreign parts, bus traveled very lit- tle. \'hen he 6 going t.o write a story, and has tiottied the .veno of it, he sets to work to read up books relating to thnt lwr!icular part of the wrrrlri. Perhaps it Jn (mist ns well LhAt he is gent ('ape+ident, ns so many novelists Aare, on ti.itteg dlffrrent countries before anscrfhiug Owni. as othorwive he wcul.l have !,orn cent pelted 'to travel to the mien and jnur- noy both in the dopths ::f Ihn sea a,ld tbo bowels of the earth. Jul6s Vol•no once owned n yacbt., l,ut he reser gtot beyond the Moditerrnnertli in It, th,mgh lie is intensely fond of Lbe sea.