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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1898-09-15, Page 2- .1-1 -11 .11 -1-1-- I—-, 1-�,.�."..."�..-.�--�1.11�11-1 I,-- _--1--_---.-- " - — - � . � I � . 11 . I . - , . I �.- - � � I %. . I � . . . . . I : I ... " � , . . .. . ,V I I �� . ,-, I I . 11111 �,.�,�. .. _�.,4i . � I t, ,.,*q.. il � . . . ffl�?�` i I..;,- I . -1 �__ ___=__._::___ __ . , . . � 66. 1 LET THE fICTURE . . . � I . — I . . - I . REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON I ":: THId UNCLUANNESS OF MAN. I . '' — ,. . 1. Tivelve Hundred Million Souls Shipwreck- ,, , ,.. . I . ed -Apollogle* Will Not Cleanse Tour �' .1. l4oull of Sht-Dr, Tainkoge Advimea Every ,�..� one to wind out jab& where They Stand r- -Good Regolutionti Will Not IsVitsh I'. . ". q A,wtiay rraw-gressionoi-Appeall. to 81W � ueft. I .�; . A despatch from Washington says,.- , . Dr. Talmage preached from the follow- � Ing text: "If I wash myself with Snow- - , �- water, and should I cleanse my hands in 'I alkali, yet shalt thou plunge me in the . � ditch, and mine own clothes shalt ab- .�. -v . -Job. ix. 30, 31. :,;, hor me." . I , I Albert Barnes-honorad be his name ; -.1 '� 'aight .,", on earth and in heaven -went st,t . . I .11 back to the original writing of my text 1 � " � �', I'-, and translated it as I have now quot- k;l - .",,� , ed it giving substantial reasons for , ,;�� . so doing. Although we know better, � . , . � k.� the ancients bad un idea that in snow- 1�11", �1;. - water there was a special power to . I k 0 '_. cleanse, and that a garment washed �11 �" :$ a,nd rinsed in it would be as clean as �,.', clean could be; but if the plain snow- . � " � water failed to do its work, then they ,.,?, I � would take lye, or alkali, and mix it , * ��', , I . �'�. with oil, and under that preparation t, l., � , they felt that the last impurity would � : . � certainly be gone. Job, in my text, in ,�'.' - most forceful figure, sets forth the , . �:.- idea that all his attemps to mttke him- - . ..� ,�-, self pure before Go,4..wefe* a dead fail- ' ", . ure, and th&t�vffiless we are abluted by �, -- ' I .,_r,---*6ffie-t,fi:1`ng better than eartbly liquids ,:Z_� and chemical , preparations, we are i 11 . loathsome and in the ditch. "If I wash � 1, myself with snow -water, and should I I . :, �, cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt L_. thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine I ��., '4,* own clothes shall abhor me." .- �,�., You are now sitting for your pie- r, ture. I turn the camera obscura of 11-11 nl!t God's Word full upon you, and I pray . 4 , that the sunshine falling through the 44_ 5 skylight may enable me to take you 60 * I just as you are. Shall it be a flatter - V. �o Ing picture, or shalt it be a true one? You say: "Let it be a true one." The . first profile that was ever taken ,was tp taken three hundred and thirty years III, before Christ, of Antigonus. He had a V It i" blind eye, and he compelled he artist " - 1 1. to take his pl�ofile, so as to hide the � defect in his vision. But since that 1 _1. � Invention, three hundred and thirty I I years before Christ, ,there have been a I� great many profiles. Shall I, to -night, I give you a one-sided view of yourselves, a profile, or shall it be a full-length . portrait, showing you how you stand . before heaven, and earth, and bell? if . God will help me by his almighty , grace, I shall give you that last kind � , , , , � * , , , , � - I � I I of a, picture. When I first entered the ministry, I used to write my sermons all out and . . � read the�a, and run my hand along the ! line lest I should lose my place. I have , � �i hundreds of those manuscripts. Shall , er; for in .. ! those days I was somphow overmaster- �, , Y, ed with th-3 idea I heard talked all �� . axound about of the dignity of human I I nature, and I adopted the idea, and I "I �. evolved it, and I illustrated It, and I having seen more of the world, and � axgued it; but coming on in life, and * � 1� I v, , studied bptter my Bible, I find that .I.- ' - early teaching was faulty, and that ,'I v. . there is no difgirifty in � . human . nature �._ until It is reconstructed by the grace, V of G od. Talk about vessels going to ,,, �.Lces on the Skerries, off Ireland I * I Z here never wRa .such a Shipwreck as I. 'th I be Gihon anti th3 Diddekel, rivers of I Eden, wh,re our first parents founder- �� ed. Talk of a steamer going down with ( , I five hundred passengers on board I � . _____ - Wh-i_t.,W tbitt-AgAliet-abip-mv,reck of twelve, I hundred million souls. We are by � � nature a mass of unclean!inPss and put- � refaction, from which it takes till the . I 1; omnipotence and infinitude, of God's I I .� grace to extricate us. "If I wash my- , self with allow -water, and should I I;- - s in alkall, yet ,-halt " cleanse my blind, � Thou plunge me in the ditch, and my I �1 own clothes shall abhor me." ; �� - I remark, in the first place, that �, some people try to, cleanse their soul . ; of .sin in the snow -water of fine apolo- � gips. H -re is one man who says: 11 l� i I � � arni, n. sinner; I confess that; but I tn� � berited this. My father was a sinner, � my grandfather, my great-great- � grandfather, and all the, ,%iy loack to � � Adam, and I couldn't help mysr1f,11 My �� brother, have you not, every day in � your life, added something to the 01-ig. � inal estate of sin that was bequentbed I to you ? Are you not brave enough to � . mit f e . .as that you have sometimes sur- � rendered to sin which you ought to � have conquered? I ask You wbe*thpr it � is fair play to put upon out, ancestry I things for which we ourselves are per- � sonally responsible ? Tf your nature was � askew wben you got it, have you not � sometimes given it an additional twist? I Will all the tombstones of those who �� hrivp preceded us make a barricade high enough for eternal defences? I 01 . knr)Nv a devout man who bad blisphe- I mous parentage. I know an honest � � man whose father wits a thief, I know a pure man whose mother was a -,vai( � of !he street, The bereilitary tide ma� . be very strong, but There is such a � thing ,is stemming it. The fact that i .. I have it corrupt nature is no reason 6 why I Should yield to it. The deep � striinst of our soul can never be wash. ed out by the. snow -water of such in- � , suffirient. apology, � Still futbersayssome one: "If lbave I gone into sin, it has been through my � complinions, my comrades, ,rind associ- � � ales; they ruined me. They tnught me to drink. They took me to the gamb- - ling hefl, They Plunged me into the I house of sin. Tbey ruined my .soul." � I tin not believe it. God gave to no one I the power to destroy you or mo. If a r man is destroyed, be is self -destroyed � awl that is always so. Why (lid you not breik away from them? If they � had tried to steal your purse, you � would have knocked them down-, if i lhpy had tried to purloin your gold � . t 11rh, you would have riddled them I vkh ,Rho( ; but when they tried to Steal �, vrmr immortal soul, you Placidly Sul), V mitted to It. I �- Still further, some persons apologize i� for their sins by saying: "We are R 11 great (teal better than some people. � �e � YOU see People all around about us that � ire a great (]Pit worse. than we." You I , i gland lip columnar in your integrity, I rind look down upon those who arq I. prostrate in their habits and crimefl. I I. What (if that, my brother? H I failed i through recklessness and wicked im. il 1 fir"dPlice for one thousand pounds, 19 r the matter alleviated at all by the, v rIct that soynebodY else has frilled for � ,,no hundrAd I housillid pounds, rind I � ; somebody PIRO for two hundred thou. . r-tind pounds? Oh, no. if I have ill(, � . neurnIgin, shall T rehist, medical at- �� t� , ; tondrince because my rt has vir- . F, iflont typhoid fever? The friet that hit, �', disenqe 1.4 worse than miti-flopq th.-it � I . ellrA mine ? Tf 1, through my folilhArd. � Iness. leap off into eternal . woo, does r� N� . IL. - I ,_'��,� 1_---,%��__ "�A,., � � , _ 6 1 � - . 11 , I I"" �,�_ _`,___,__ . ., ... -, .. I � � . qi- - - . . . , . � .1 I W� . - . ,It � ? , 1 . . : .'� . I'll. I � � . , . `i; I .. I � � It breAk the fall to know that others higher into deeper dark- not 0nI r engines at work; but all M,la 10am DIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 1",V off q cliff ujo� on board the Spain. R'be it by am to the a to which the vaunted Russia.= power _4 Because others are depraved. is A '' , Nw boat -davits are swung around. The I ibit any excuse for my depravity ? boat is lowered. I got luto it witb a INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. I& Am I better than they I Perhaps they had temptations than I have had. red flag, aAd cross over to where the Scotia Is their stores ever got through the Sue worse Perhaps their surroundings In life werel'I'lle coming, and I wave the flag. captain looks off from the bridge, ,, - CaPtIvItY or the Ten Tribes." 9 Rings. more overpowering. Perhaps, oh man, and Bays: "What do you waritt" I re- 17. 9-18. Golden Text, I Cbrou. IS- 0 - it you bad been under the same Stress Ply: "I coins to take some of t,our pais- PRACTICAL NOTES. of temptation, instead of sitting here seng0ra across to the other vessel-, I and army from the far East are draNyu to -night you would have been looking think they will be safer and happier Verse. 9. The phrase the children al through the bars of a penitentiary. there." The captain would look with Israel has hero tha restricted meaning Perhaps, obwoman,had youbeenunder indignation, and say: "Get out of the of the kingdom of Israel, "the northerE the same power of'temptation, instead of sitting here to -night, you would be %i,ay, or I wi r you down." And ' 11 un then Iwould back cars, amid the jeer- kingdom." Did secretly those thingt tramping the street, the laughing .Ing of (two or three hundred people that wera not right. Their national stock of men and. the grief ,of the an- looking over the taffrall. But the Spain life had been begun wrong by an offi- gels of God, dungeoned, body, mind and and the Scotia meet under different cial abandonment of the temple it soul, in the blackness of despair. Ah, circumstances after awbile. The Sco Siberia. The Russian Government has do not let us solace ourselves with the tiM is coming out of acyclone; the life- Jerusalem and of the priesthood thought that other people are worse boats all smashed; the bulwarks gone; of Aaron. This "Sin of Jero. than we. Perhaps in the future, when the %%heeil off; the vessel rapidly go- boam, the son of Nebat" was open and our fortunes may change, unless God prevents it, we may. be worse than ing (town. The boat -swain gives his , last whistle of despairing command. flagrant; but it was followed by relig- they are. Many a man after thirty The passengers run up and down the ious obliquity immeasurably worse years, after forty years, after fifty deck, and some pray. and all make a Ahab and Jezebel intro,duced the beau - years, after sixty years, has gone to great outcryi The vaptain says: "You tiful but venomous worship of Baal -8 pieces on the sand -bars. Oh, instead of wasting our time in hypercriticism have about fifteen minutes now to pre - liare for the next Nvorld." "No hopel' moral poison of the deadliest sort ; and about others, let us ask ourselves the sounds from stem to stern, anti from not until Jelin had extirpated the for - questions, where we stand? what are the ratlines down to the cabin. I see eign priests was its curse removed our sins? what are our deficits I what are our perils? what are our hopes? thedistress. lam let down by the side of the Spain, I push off as fast as I - Not even then, for idolatrous practicei Let each one say to himself: "Where can to%vards the sinking Scotia. Be- were covertly continued. True, the Peo. will I be? Shall I range in summery fore I come up people are leaping into ple turned again to a nominal wor. fiplds, or grind in the mills of a great the water in their anxiety to got to ship of Jehovah ; but the formal wor. night? Shall it be anthem or shriek? the boat, and wben I have Swung up shipers of the true God were reall5 Shall it be with God or fiends? Where? under the side of' thg ��cotia, the ifren- Little Sister -What's the diff'rence Where?" Some winter morning you go zied passengers rush through the slaves of superstition and practicers ol out and see a anowbank in graceful gangmity until the officers, with axe vice. Bad as "calf -worship " was, it drifts, as though by some heavenly and clubs, and pistols, try to keep was not it which eventually destroyec compass it had been curved, and, as back the crowd, each Nvantiag his turn Israel, but an omnipresent idolatry the sun glints it, the lustre is almost to come next. There is but one life- Rosenbaum means peezness? Rebecca insufferable -and it seems as if God boat, aild. tbey all want to get into as foul as that of Baal, and conducted rth in a shroud it, and t he cry is: "Me next! Fine next!" 'by stealth, in darkened rooms and se. with white plaits woven in looms celes- You see the application before I ma�e eluded woodland sanctuaries. The3 tial And you say; "Was there ever it. As Iong, as a man going on in 02ts pher Columbus say when called him Up at the seance? He said he was tnything so pure as the snow. so beau- sin fi,els that (ill is well, that he is built them high places Ili all their cit. iful as the snow I" But you brought a coming out at a beautiful. port, and has ies. Instead of keeping to the one tem - pail of that snow and put it upon the all sail set, be wants no rescue; but if ple and the one altar commanded b) Stove, and melted it, and you found Under the flash of God's collv'ct'ng God, they erected many of these. Thi., that there was a sediment at the bot- Spirit he shall see that by reason of does not seem to us at first glanc( tom, and every drop of that snow-wa- sin he is dismasted and water-logged, to be a very heinous offense, a(-) Ion@ ter was riled, and you found that the ,rind going down into the trough of the as they worshiped the true God; but snow -bank had gathered up the im- sea where he cannot live, hoNv soon be in tillies of relative ignorance, wher purity of the field, rind that, after all puts t he sea -glass to his eye and sweeps the beat means of worship were a ser. it was not fit to wash in. And so I say it will be if you try to igather the horizon, and at tile first sign of help cries out: "I wamt to be saved. ies of symbols, types, or object -lessons up the�e contrasts and comparisons . I Nvant to lbo saved -now. I want to be it was necessary that these symboli should be uniform; uniformity of priest. with others, and with these apologies attempt to wash out the sins of Iyour saved for ever." No sense of danger, no application for rescue. hood and one central sitric(unry werti heart and life. It will be an unsuccess- Ob, that God's eternal spirit would indispensable. That the God-fearint; people recognized this I! ful ablution. Such snow -water will never Nvash away a single stain of an flash ulion us asense of our Sinful. ness. Thei Bible tells the story in let- generally made evident by the bact that Jeroboaix . immortal soul. "I ters of fire, but we get used to it. We could secure no priests except from thf offacourings of the nation. From ill( But I hear some one say: wi.11 try something better than that, I will try joke about sin. We make merry over it. What is sin ? Is it a trifling thing ? tower of the watchmen to the fencei: the force of a good resolution. That Sin is a vampire that is sucking out city. Front the loneliest arid most ex, will be more pungent, more cau,tic, the life -blood of your immortal nature. posed place to the most crowded and more extirpating, more cleansing. The Sin? It is a Dastile that no earthly best fortified. "Pit. snow -water has failed, and now twill key ever unlocked. Sin ? It is expatria- 10. They set them up images. try the alkali of a good, strong r4psolu- tion from God arid heaven. Sin? It is lars," such as at the outset were de. tkton." My dear brother, have youany grand larceny against the Almighty, voted to the worship of Blial; and b3 idea that a resulution about the fu- for tile Bilile asks the question: "Will means of these pillars,. doubtless, Broa' ture -will liquidate the past? Suppose tA man rob God?" answering it in the was still worshiped. But it is probabl( I owed you a thous�and pounds, and affirmative. The Gospel IS a writ of that many used these pillars in tht I should come to you to -morrow, and "Sir, replevin to recover roperty unlaiv- worship of Jehz)v4ih also, observing ritei invented by tfiemselves rattler thal say: I will never run in debt again; if I should live thirty years fully detained from l3od. The bell at the cemetery gate tolls, those commanded by God. Such ritet I will never run in debt to you again;" The procession goes through, and ropes must in the very nature of things IK will you tiLrn to me and say: "If you are wrapped around the casket, and deliaFted and deltasing. Groves, Artifi � will not run in delit, in the future I the casket loxered five or six feet; cii"I structures, probably pol,es, devoLec wilt forgive you the thou�and pounds." but the body inside t lie cas- to the worshi of Baal and Ashtoreth Will you do that? Nol nor will God. ket is no more dead than is every which may ial!l rough And geUdItill Wa3 ' We have been running up a long .wore man until he has been regenerated by be Said to have corresponded to th� of Indebtedness with God. If for the tile gvacoa of God. It is not I say so, worship of Bacchus and Venus. Thest: future we should abstain fro in sin, but, the Bible, which pronounces us , " and "groves" Nvere placed ir "imagm that would be no defrayment of past dead. dead -in trespasses and sins. � every high hill, and under -every greer indebtedness. i -Though you should Tho maniiie who puts around his brow tree; for it was on billtops and in for - live from this time forth pure as an a bunch of .Straw, and thinks it is a ests that (h- lirentious %vorship of ill( archangel before the throne, t hitt I c,fown. and holds in his hand a stick ancient E:tst was most indulged in. would not redeem the past. God, in I and thinks it is a sceptre, and gathOrs 11. Thtre they burnt incense. Incensti the Bible, distinctly declares that He - up Some pebbles, amd thinks they are was the universal symbol of prayer; a( "will require that which is pabt. "_ diamonds, is no more beside himself regarded by heatbon ,,is Gwell as b3 pi�st opporturiLties, pait, neglects, �ast than is every one who has not accept- worshipers of th- true Got]. But Mose., wicked words, past impure in ed the Lord Jesus Christ as his per- �sonal restricted the burning of incense to: tLonst past everything. The pa Saviour; for the Bible, in the the golden altu,r which was within the great cemetery, andevel'y(Lay is lnuri-'parable, intimates that every prodigal veil. The incense burned in "bigl ed La it. And here is 'a h;ng row of 1 is ho3ide himself, in phantaslit, in de- Places" -wilh li.�,atbeni!;h ace.ompani- three hundred and sixty-five graves. I lirum, in ma-driess. The Bible is not ments could never 1,6 accepted It is a vast cemetery of the past. But i c0milliment-ary In its lan,guouge. It does the Lord carried away before them God will rou�;e Lhem all up with rebur-,! not speak mincingly about our sins. Original inhabitants of the land, whosf rectioriary blast, and las the prisoner 1 It (loes not talk apologetically. There indulgence in foul practices in conneC- �tands face to face with juror and I is no vermilion in Its style. It does not tirin with their idolatrous worshipwaF judge, so you and I will have toi-ome CoVer up our transgressions with the chief cause of their Providential up, and look upon those departed days i blooming metaphor. � overthrow by the Israelites. And now fa.oc to face, exulting,in their smile or ' My brethren, shall we stay down strange tu say, Israel copied their ex- own. "Murder where sins thrusts'us? We cannot af- ample, and, like them, wrought wicked will out" is a, proverb that stops too ford to, 'I have, to -night, to tell you tbingH to provoke the Lord to anger short. Every .sin, hoNirever small as that there is something purer t-han Some -of these ,"wicked things�' are wel I as great, will out. Jn hard Dimes, snow-ovater. something more pungent mentioned in detail in verse 15, 16, and yeani ago, it is autbentically stated � : than alkali, anti that is the blood of 17. Thery were four notable ,stages in manufacturer was on the way, with a ! J.esus Christ that cleanseth from all the downward ca'reer of the Israelites I,ag of money, to pay off bN hands. 1A . Sin. Aye., the river of salvation, bright, First, false worship of the true God, man infuriat-d with hunger, met him: cr,YFItalline.. and heaveo-born, rushes engaged lit nierely for political enda on the road, and took a rail with a i through this audience with billowy secondly, ripen worship of MINe goas: nail in it from a paling fence, and � tifle, strong enough to wash your sins thirdly, R formal return to the true , c -truck him down, and Ahe naff, enter- ing the in,tantly bim,1 ! completely forow , P r - r I N � " t Y. Ob - Sris u 9, - I -e F tb(� dam that holds it back iioov break, -G-wil-,,�6 i T e t h e - pe orpT e - -in--T'ff e -i r ,he�, - - ,frf E falste Nvitb moge en - .skull, slow Thirty years after the murder went and the floods of salvation roll over US. worshiped gods ergy than ever; finally, the lascivious - back to that place. He passed into the I "Let the water and the blood, ness, cruelty, and effeminacy develop - graveyard, where thn sexton was (jig- . Froin thy side, a healing flood, eAl by these false systems of worshiF ging a grave, vnd while he stood there 1 Be of sin the (]cable. cure, entered into the nation's life, ,and amid the spade of the sexton turned up a Ra�,e f rom wrath and make me pure." the turmoil ,rind anarchy of its closing skull, and to] the murderer F-aiv anail protruding from the back part of t h4,,, I ( Th � Lord Jesus Christ bonds over you 'to years all .sorts of crime were prevalent -oppressio n, drunkenness, rubbery, skull, anti as the sexton turned the -night, and, offers you His right � f irst hand, proposing to lift you tip, and murder abounding in every part glar,-. on the murderer, and he, f irst pattiried with horror, stood in siletrice, making you whiter than snow, and of the kingdom. 12. They Nerved idols, The word for but soon cried out: "Guiltyl (luil ty! . then raising you to glories that never (lie. "Ifilly," said it Christian hoot - idols is " filths;" folio-wers of the true 0 God!" The mystery of the crime bla-k to anotber, "when we come up God could not but regard with utter was o%er. The man was tried rind to b(,a-.,,en, it won't make any difference, contempt these objecls of false wor- exe,cuitod, :4- fiiends, all the unpar- � tb it ,we've been liootblacks her- ,Ship, Ye shall not do this thing. This donod .sin.. F.,' our 'lives, though we . I %tlf,'.'� i %-,i eliall get. in, not somehow or I wm,�is s by Jehovah in the Ten Cum - may think , It y are buried cout. of!ight � bu'l Iffily, Nye sball get straight tad.ai,l ents rind in other plac" and gone into a more .9kelel.on of me- , , tbrtugh the. gate." Ob, if you onlyl 13. Against Israel, anfl agiinst J it d- mory, will turn up in the oemetery,of knew - how full. and free, and tenedr is I all. The kingdom of Judah had been the past, and glower upon us with. th-Ar misdoingm. I say all our unpar- knew how full, find free, and tender is perb-ips a little more faithful to Je- doned sins. Ob, have you done the! , tho offer of Christ, this night you would ,,ill take Him without one single hovah'9 high ideals than the kingdoin (if Israel; at leant they reverenced the prepo-terous thing of supposing that I exception ; and if till the doors of this temple, and the priesthood, and (be good rc�olutions for the future "ll � hou 4e were looked save one, Find you royal line of David. flu( thtir morals ' wipe out the past. Good resolutions, though they may he pungentandcau�- '; were compelled to make egress I)y too, were rotten, Gol showed no pro' I.i � a,i a k ili, Wiwi no power tcl eneut ra- only one do -w, and I stood there and iquestioned you, and thp. gospel of ference for eithor divki,in, but sent his prophets alike to Israel rind Judah, and Irie a sin -have no power to wash iChrist had rnade, tile right impression I lh�klitof lb�mvssng, (if vveryprolih,,f away a trane,gre�sion. It wants something more than earthly (-bLmi,4-' upon your heart. to-nigbt, you would I is, "Ye shill not. do t.bis thing." By till by lite try to do IlAq. Yea, yea, though "I anFr%vpr me as you went out, one and till: Jesus is mine, and I am His." Oh the proph.,tq, and all spers, "Seer" was the older name. 'rho words wash myself with snow -water, ,not should I cleanse my hands in alkali, that this might be. tbe night when were nearly synonyms. To tho king - yet shalt Thou plunge me. in thet,ditch, you would receive Him. dom (of Israel these prophets had li(en sent ; Abijah ond Sllilonit.,,, in I lie first and mine own olothe.,i .shall abbor mp.11 and France is Oil) convincing. 1 Jerohoam'.4 time � Jelitti, the Rom of linn- You Free ftrom the last part of thi 's text that Job's idea of sin was very A LANIP THAT IS ALWAYS LIT. tint, in Batishia's time � E;ijtih and Miea;ih, under Mill); Elklia, during different from that of Lord Byron or A lighting novelty is rt lamp that the r'cigns (if Jehorarn. Jehu, Jphoahaz, Eugene Sun, or George Sand, or Af. J. Mi,ebelet, or any of the hundreds of never requires but one ignition. There rind Jonsh; Jonnh, flosen rind Amos, in writers who have (lone up iniquity in . is a large wick and a Small one. Wbile the r,ign of JJrrohonrn [I.; Abed, under King Pekab. This list. does not include mezzoti.nt,and garlanded I he wine cup the main wick is hurning, the .small one those sent to Judah : and there were, with eglantine and rosemary, rind made the path of the libertine end . is kept extinguished. When the lamp is no longer wanted, the large wick is doubtless, others ,Ahose names have not ]won preserved. Turn ye from in howers of easo instea,l of onihehot flagging of infernal torture. You see put out hy heing turned down. This lights the small wick which burns until your evil ways, ,,in() keep my command - tc that ifolly thinks that sin is not it is again extingushed by ithe turn- ments rind my statutes. liccording all the. law. ThN wits tb� very essence ery parterre: that it Is not a a 11 lowery it is ing, tip of the mnin wick,. to which it of all propilptin tvaching, its may lie Parterre; that not 9L table -land of fine prospects; simultaneously Iransfers its flame, seen from scores of passages; for ex - that it in not music, dulcimer, '401,000,('01 (if ppople in Indh, it folloNvs ample, Hos. 12. ll; 14. 2; Joel 2. 12,13; violineello, castanet, and, Paridean IVORY VENEFIVS. Amos 5. 4-15; Tan., 1. 113-20', 31. 6; Jer. S. 7, 14 ; Ezek. 11. 6; 1F. 30. Pipes, all making music, together. No. He says it is a ditch, long, deer),, loath- Veneer oulting has reached much per- * 14, They would not heiir. Familiar. some, atenchful, and we are till plung- fliction that ,it Single elephant's tusk, Ity with trust tends to harden the Od into it, and there Nye wallow, rind 30 inches hing. is now cut in London co�nqcikncex of the disobedient. Hard - sink, and struggle, not able to got into a Sheet- of ivory 150 inches long Pno,l their necks in ,a Ifebrew figurp out. Our robes of propriety and robes of worldly Profession are Raturated in and 20 inches wide, and some .sheets of of sp.,ech for rtubl-orn self-will. ofJkP to the neck4 of their fathers. flogged- t.he slime rind abomination, and out, rosewood and mahogany are only about fiftieth of an inch thick. negs of w0l rind other moral charar- 90111, covered over with, trionsgression, a teristirs are as heredithry as com- 1111tes Its covering. rind the covering hatP8 the Soul until we are plunged _____ . - - - SPEED OF OCEAN STEAMERS. plexion or features. That did not believe in the Lord their God. Even into the dltch� and our own clothes The speed of our fastest ocean sterim- Rome of those who formally worship- , bhor us. I know that. Rome modern religionists Pria is now greater than that of ex- ed him had no practical t,ruqt in him 15. Thvy rejected his statutes. They caricatUre Sorrow for sin, and they press trains on Italian railways. diRobeyed the moral and the ceremon- make out an easier Path than the "pit- tive services would quickly reveal to tal law, HiR covenant. (See Exod. 19. grim's progress,, that John Bun7an APPRECIATED THE SITUATION. 5-8 and 28, 8-8.) TIL9 teAtimonleg. The dreamed of, The road they travel does, not I ravel where John did, at the "fy First Tramp -It wux an hour an' a testimonies of God xro his command - ments, They followed vanity, and of Destruction, bdt at the gate of I Cu half dLg mornin' before d find anybody dat 'd give me some break - became vain. Literally, "They follow - f he university; rind I am, very certain "Tn the frix Past, that is, in Amour Primorskayrt, the area on which tiny ed nothingnem, and became nothing." � t bit t, it will not etim-ti out where 0ohn's f t. - &S Second Tramp (sympathetically) - Went after the heathen tbnt were (lid, under the Shining ramparts of the celestial city. No repentance; no It's a wful to have yer leisure time round about them. Tbety bad conquer - ed by moral rather than physical Sup. Pardon. If you do not, my brother, broke up like datl I oriority; tint] always n nation Is as - feel that you Are down In the ditch, — aLmilatANd to the object of its worsbip. what do you want. of Christ to lift U But now they followed the evil ex - ,V011 out? If you have no appreciation De Dude, who does not like a very ample of theW inferiors, Rank to the of the fact that you are astray what high collar-TheiAe collars are very same morral depths, and were about 110 you waht of HIM who Patina t'o AePk ,ind V lit gh. Sbow me something lower. to Meet the same ruixi. The Lord bad PAVA that it hich was lost ? . ondor Salesgirl, with dignity -Those ari a the cha,rgod tbA that they should not do 18 the Rootla eominsr aermn the Atlan. cheapest we have, Six. We don't keep %, I[Ic,o them. ee Lev. 18. 8, no; Dent, iz, tic. Tha wind IS abaft, so that r3heibna I ' slop -shop goods. 2941; 18. 0-14J 1 �* ., . . . . I . : i i � , . I- .1 , . . I . . : '' . I . : ; 11 , � � . 11. 1. � I .1 . � I .. .:� , A I . , "ir I I . I I ). 1, I . . . I I . r I - - _\_ , .. 11,.ial. , , I . I I ,� � . I � . I 11111111" .. - 2____�S .. . _J._-.._ __ �.- - I L-jAWANNIldn"-bA-iiiaii—i..� --- L I - -�. 2. F" ..,Iq . . . . .1 - . I . I .. . 16, They left all t,ke commandments the LOUD RUMBLINGS OF WARs ___ - - - commissa,flat and transports and Send. Ing fa.r East is tualc Of Lord theIr God. The ritual . Order being neglected, the stated feasts it by am to the a to which the vaunted Russia.= power and e"Afioes and even the Sabbath — would be unequal. Even if trun8ports itself ceased to call the nation's atten- GREAT DIPLOMATS OF THE WORLD were forthcoming, anti the troops or tion periodically to spiritual truth. As MUCH DISTURBED. their stores ever got through the Sue a consequence lying, false swearing, ------* CanaJ and the Red Sets, nothing counts stealing, drunkenness, adultery, and bloodshed became characteristic of Britain and Russia May Fight ever China-- Save them, for the British fleet is stronger In fact thun it is on paper. Israel. Molten images, even two WIU Uni United states be 11ragalln"k All the military stores, commissariat calves. These, as we have said al- A11Y In the Struggle to open the orients and army from the far East are draNyu ready, marked the beginning of their Tratle Dotorm. from Moscow, Hieff, Petersburg, Odessa downward career, although they re- With one wa.r perhaps just over, it and Nikolaieff. Until the Trans-Sib�- presented not a false deity, but Jehov- needs no straining of ears to hear the orian Railway is finished every one of ah. One of them stood at Dan, and ominous rumblings of another gather- these re -enforcements must travel by the other at Bethel, They were held t� Pe the deLties of the na- ing. The most optimistic student of se.a. If the Suer, Canal were blocked the Russiam axinies for the far East tion, Bethel being called the king's events in the far Fast admits that soon- must pass around the Cape of Good chapel. Made agrove. Pointing to the er or later Russia and Great Britain Hope, or maroh 1,950 miles in Eastern worship introduced 4)y Jezebel, the must fight over the Chinese question, Siberia. The Russian Government has grossest worship ever known in Israel. All the host of heaven. Not until,now The latest so-called triumph of Rus - no financial credit for such an enter - prise as this. Nothing but the ignor- ha�s Israel been charged with this cri- , Stan diplomacy, by which moves were amce of the population, which the Gov- minal worship. Manasseh introduciad checked and China apparently made to ernment does its utmost to maintain, it into Fhe southern kingdom from fl . up from her friendly attitude to Brit- prevents the formation and expression Baby I oil or Nineveh, perhaps from the Arabs; it was probably the "newest - - ain, into the arms of the enemy, Ruasiu, ,4 a public opinion on the subject, the influence of which Russian Ministers thing" in the morbid religious enter- has exasperated the British so much are themselves the last to deny. I i prise of the day. Served Baal. This is that, as one expresses it, "Much more I the cilimita. Jehu had destroyed the open service, but Its evil rites had a and the gunis will go off of their own FUNNIGRAMS. 1�1 .. lasting popularity, and we) know thtat accord." — .1 ' I it continued to flourish in underhand- In the whirl of diplomatic strife in YoW remind me so much of my poor, Pot. fashion down to 'the days of Ifosea, the Orient, where the politician Who dear first husband I You remind me of who had died Oust before the captivity. wins a point for the, nation he serves him altogether too much, my dear. 17. They caused their sons anti their daughters to pass through the fire. finds on the day following tha.t a rival Bad Aim. -Not a single book that I This horrible Sacrifice had only very statesman has secured the ear of the have written has made a hit. Him; you must have some Spanish blood in your reclently been offered to Moloch by the unstable Mongolian and reversed the veins. northern kingdom, though the citi- zens of Judah piad for years shared move, Great Britain has just met with Little Sister -What's the diff'rence this most inhuman of Canaanitish cus- defeat in one of her pet projects. In 'tween 'leotricity and lightnin'? Little toms. Used divination and enchant- Pursuance of the "open-door" fight a, Brother -You don't have to pay noth- ments. Reveled in superstition. By struggle for the remcivat o fbarriers to in' fur lightnin'. omens and magical ,practices of every sort fthey their faith in free trade in the vast market of China, Mr. Isaaestein--�So you Wilk young superseded God. Modern endeavors in the Same - . in which Great Britain has been hattl- Rosenbaum means peezness? Rebecca direction and with similar evil re- ing for American interests, as well as Tearicatein, coyly -Yea, papa ; he talks sults Fire spirit -rapping and theosophy. her own, an agreement was made with nodding but nonsense. 18. 'I'berefore. Because of all this departure the Lord (Jehovah) wag very the Pekin Government whereby it was A Timely F.seape-What did Christo- they angry. Not irritated, but profoundly understood that Dritl,,h influence pher Columbus say when called him Up at the seance? He said he was grle,Aeod. Removed them out his sight. , should dominate the Yang-tse-Kiang mighty glad he was dead. As if, Palestine was Jehovah's abode. Neglected privileges are taken away, Valley, and that this vast area should A Tangled Web -Tommy -Pa, why There was none left, but the tribe of be opened for till time to are single women called spinsters? Pa Judah only. God's peculiar people, the MERCHANTS OF THE WORLD. -1 expect it's because they are always object of his love and his rare, 3nelud- ed both kinpdoms; but the northern So importitnt -was this concession to spinning a web to catch a man. kingdom had so rapidly deteriorate(] . British and American commercial in- Our hearts go out to the poor, re- that none was left for God to caress terests that when Lord Salisbury came marked the observer of men ..and and prosper, but Judah. And, sad to nay, Judah learned no good lessons t ou Publicly with the assurance that, things, largely because our hearts can go out without getting our feet wet. from her sister's overthrow, but sinned nothing would be allowed to Interfere She --So Mr. Stripper has just c'elebrat- on till She too shared Israel's punish- with the carrying out. of the contract ed his golden wedding. He-G61den ment. that gave to the British supremacy in wedding? Why be's only just got mair- - TEA AND COFFEE POTS. one portion of China, his former vacii- ried. Sbe-Yes, but the girl has ;Clo.- __ lating ,rind incompreh�,usible policy was 000. 41981111 Pewlees dball Have Done Do . oly In the overlooked, and the day of unyielding She -Have you heard " Songs With- Thne of Englaud'a FArly Koverellcus. firmness welcomed. It seems th-tt this out Words?" Heo-I've heard a lot of . The tea put and tea kettle, tea cups . rejoicing was premature, for it is ad- them without music. After that the incident and the piano were closed and teaspoons are such essential ad- mitted by -Brifish .statesmen that Rus- - Dar ain' no good o' bein backwai,_41 juncts of our daily domestic life that sia ordered Chinit to break her agree- in dis life, said Uncle Eben. De parro'i It seems quite diffic-ult to realize that ment with Queen Victoria's Govern- ain't a very smart bird. But it mau- it few generations ago there were none ment, anti th,it, instead of refusing, in 1 ages party comfortable, jes' by git- of them. The coffee pot is distinctly dread of the Lion's wrath, she allowed I i tin on tie perch an' hollerin' do little the older of the'two, for coffee was herself to be bought over body and soul i bit he knows. not only introduced into England, but � by the Russian bear. the I Wanted His Usual Sleep. -Hotel I - fai.rly well known, and coffee houses To go back a little, in order that - Clerk -What time do you wish to be existed in the time of James I., and the situation may be understood by those! called in the morning? Foormor-I don't ethicts of coffee making were the Same to whom events in the Fax, Eu,st are I ' wanter be called at all, and I won't then as now. Chocolate was popular- unfamiliar, the direct point lit issue is � stop -at 'your tavern If I have ter git ly Introduced by Catherine of Bragan- a railroad running from Tiensin north- up before four I Do I? za, the Portuguese wife of Charles I.I., ward, and intended to reach. Newell- - An acquaintance, meeting an Irish - and her Itidies, and many a straight, wang, a, city that is built on the Mau man carrying a small box, asked him slender chocolate pot has since then Tung Peninsula, wh,,re are situated the ivIlat it . contained. Sure, an' It's full done duty for coffee. . towns and harbors of Port Arthur ,and of nothing, replied the son of Erin. Nothingl exclaimed (he other. And, The earliest ea.rtbenware pots were Talienwan, whivil. were leased by the pray, what does nothing look liket made about 1690, and tea had then been Chinese, to Russia. The capital for the Faith, an' If ye'll shut your eyes, ye'll a ars as a luxury, construction of this railroad wits to I be afther seein' it immediately. anti cost something like a sovereign a, have li,,en furnished by the Hongkong andShinghai Bank, aBritL,h org-niza- Heredity -Mr. Billus, was looking . pound, or a few pounds were brought ' , tion, and the muney adV,LnQt,d was to casually through an old pocket diary, over from the east by travelers and have been secured by a Luortgage on yellow with age, that had comp down given awa.y as presents. To this per!- the property. I The action that has just caused so to him from his grandfather. Fifty-four years ago yesterday, he said, as I see oil belongs the story of a sailer who niuch oonsternation was the refusal of from an entry here, the old gentlP.man s6nt a little home to his mother in the Tsung-li-Yamen to allow Lbi4 deal drank a mint julep. Well, what (if that? Lincolnshire, and the family exhaust- to be xnado, which refusal, It is known, 'vvas by the Russian asked ,Mrs. Billus., Nothing, only I've , ed all their simple -arts of cookery on the directly prompted Government. The,Chinu,ge inethod of is morriing,-blitme, him I I . stuff, fLrsf boiling, and then f17- ing the lbaves, amd pronounced them breaking -the agreement with the Brit- ish was to refuse to sanction the grant - A little boy bad come to school for uneatable in the end. ing of the mortgage; of course, without the first time. The teacher, to encour- A rainiature silver tea pot, with a its money being, secured the Hongkong and Shinghai Bank could not make the age the children to bpeak, li�ked thF,m simple questions, .s�ch as, How many diminutive cup and spoon, exists in required advance, anti at) the -whole feet have you'? etc. 'rho cautious lit - someone's collection, and the date of plan was wrecked. tle man, however, list oned wit hout say - them is 1690, and a tiny teaspoon, about This is not the worst. Some excuse Ing anything. At last the te,wher, n()-- -twolinch- long.-bea-ra the4late-of -1699,1might-have A silver te,a pot of 1709 has a little flap,' been-fuund for the R - UAffL'an Government's successful unduing of t icing thtsT Sand trT him, How uT.Tn-y-fm�t- - cover to the ispout, presumably to keep I British plans to build a raiiroit(i to did you say you h!id ? Afraid of rom- mitting himself, he said: Please, sir, the stearn in, and to this day there Newchwang, whit -h would be it menace didna say I had any. are People wbo use a small ebony plug 1 to important a'. rategic points oN% ned by for that purpose. IRUst;ia, but, the fact, that the railroad Poor old Li Hung Ch;ing! ext-Iiiined Tbat Queen Anne was a tea drink-. is to be completed : the man whose sympathies tire easily Or is evident from the well-known con- UNDER RU&SIAN INFLUENCES, I excited at long range. He is always temporary lines: ,a, 14 And that the Chinese have broken sin being called (!a to give lit) something Greilt Anna, whom these realini agreement with liti(ain. (only to make or other. Yes, replied Sonator Horg.1rim obey, the same agreement Nvith Britain's but Li underStands his I.usinf,ss- Us Does Sometimes counsel take, and some- great rival, and avowed enemy, is what always manages to put 'em tiff NNith times tay, caused a red-hot wave of indignation a yellow jacket, or a pearock feather, the latter being the fashionable pro- to Sweep through tho,. British Empire. or Rome .Such trifle. fie linlig,; oil to nunciii.tion of the word Until well on It im admitted e verywheire th:a it el.i.sis his bank account zind hN 1-ull %%ith the into the present century. The tea is inimitiont. Russian Goverillnent, right n1iing. kett le or ' sukey," also dates f rom the The only excuse that can be found for latter part of the seventeenth century. thLs last buini'iation being 31loWed to _. Before then there wita little need for pass in silon-o, is that Queen Victoria; BEGGARS WITH FORTUNES. hot IVILIPI'; Ili(-. general beverage at till and not I,ord 8alisbury, is responAble.i — meals wits tile, a very mild kind, call- It is stated that tb-� aged Queen is un- inoillances wbere ,444nie rrore%oonat netz e(t small, or table beer, being in ordin. ititerably (opposed to having the closing gars Have 194-conle I'Venliby. a ry une. If milk had to be beat ed there wa,s ,it proper copper pot for the years of h,r reign darkened by it bloody war. With thi� . 11rilish, however, much When Tori, a well known Italian pro - purpoNA, anti silver saucepan� wj�e its they reverence their Queen, the em- fessional beggar, (tied last year, there used at, mulled wine. % pirt, is fit -Fit, and no Fa ntiniental notions were found hidden away in his rooms SO Z, ME, Q(TE'FR N1011FLS. . will stand in the way of it declaration bank books, securities, gold and silver, lit the reign of George I., Silver tea kettles, te,n, (of war utiless in some mnnnt�r, not ;it I present 'po,isil,1v to foresee, the all trios- I .amounting collectively to the value of and coffee pots, rind tea caddies, were made in considerable I phon� in th Orivnt clears. : upward of 2,000,000 francs, or $4110, - numbers, and were extremely plain, Wint. would lip tht� rv,sult of a war I 000. His heirs were two nephews, who though in the reigris of his st;ccess,r,3 lictwoen Itus,ia rind Great Britain? for years hold been existing in a' State they began to be, chased arid engrev- This is th-, question (11-11 is liping di.4- of pitiable poverty. . ed. In 1700 it was very usual to flute vU."Fied ,Ali�rvver Hie (4tiven's subjects .silver ke.tIles, so tbat they bore a ga t tier. oil th- conlinvilt, wbere In 1859, a beggar who died in Aux - good (teal of resemblance to melons. France is expoetell to (III,,' livi,gelf %sill, erre, France, was found to have 1,000,00 Queen Victoria has a very handsome ltu,ssh ill tile fight %%ith Britain, 1114. francs in bonds in n trunk, and in his kettle of Ibis shape at Windsor Caa� tie, and. it stands on a small triang prospect, of Americit sitting %il(h t11W latter is regarded %%ith colls-irle 1_1 lie eel lar 400 bot t Ica of wine of t he vintn go lar tray. A model of it may be ge� it uneamin,lis. It i,i reolize,l that ,iptinst of 1790. Ili the .R,imO year Rli old bVg- in tile. South 12,ensi riglon TMUHeurn- Great firit:dll alont�, i�itfl 1he looa,iihle gar woman, trifirrited Marie I)ufour, who Many of the early te.a. Pots were filted al:i-inve of J-ilvin. Ittissh and France occupied a wretched garret at abouse with Nimall silver baskets to bring on would have lit it, h,trids full. Against in ,he. ]In,. tie Sevres, Part,,, was found the Apout and pirment tiny tea leaves a conihination th-it includes the from vinterinK the cut), and tlipy are I'N I I'El) s 1,,vr i.:n A N 1) G It I-'A,r , dead in her hed. In a bundlo belong- c-ornmonly U'lell il:i('erniany to this (lay; BRiTAIN, ing to her were found a deposit re - and 1,110 custom bat4 been to some ex- ceipt. for 30,000 francs in the name of tent trevived in England. , rho hopelessness of it fight liy Rus.411t, the deceased arid g�ivernmenl. seituri- The fashionable Nvedding present in and France is Oil) convincing. 1 ties repreFenting an annual income of the lime of George If., and, indeed, Cooler li-adq aniong th-, 11, I i(kh (lip- 1 lorrints feel I h -d RusNitt has � 580 francs. I long of ter, waq a set of I wo tea ca old ies assured no 1 A man name.([ Gustave Marcelin, a and a basin fitted into leatber-that intent ion of it I lowing li,r,ielf to lie profetisional beggar was found dead In is to say, a shagreen-caso, which at- d,rawn into a confli"t NNilh (#rVHt, It 1. it-; ' his room in the Rue Puy Guillaume, so contained ,it spoon wit.lit a pierced ,,in. Ow, proinin tot stNIP141113n Fturl'R! Avignon, in November, 1992. A search howl and a long, pointed handle. 'I'lle, ill) the situation in thk %%;ty: lerl to the discovery of French gov- pierced spoon was to pour the tea "Since Ill-ro is no vdiwated Middle e,-nment b(aids and various .securities through when there NvAs no basket, and class %% hogf, wins en n be i rust el to gov- to the value or $100,0"O. Ili, left apa- (he long handle was to clear tile spout Prit. hon,411y hilf a, provinve (in ;L pill- por reques(ing ilial his snvings inight of the tea pot from the lea%es that ,one(,, n4 1,10) i%hito mrii rule nearly I,e divided equally liolween the City speedily choked it up, for the fixed '401,000,('01 (if ppople in Indh, it folloNvs tin(] the Bure:iu (to Hit-taftititiance. , stridner, where the spent idtins, thn . thit the real itilcrPst(st (if Ru�xi-i luilli- The wert1thiest living profPssionn] body Of tile put, was Fin inv�hlion of Filily lie in th-, dirvelion of 1pe:irc, not I)eggar, Simon oppasieli, was in H03 much later days. Indeed, the absence of war. So far its my observations, sentenced to action ,�oars' hard lah, or presenceofit often determines the Feriding rind tonversationg emible me to for perjury. Ile Nvas horn williout. fol�4 date of a silver pot. judge, t,here. is no more vital interest In or arms, and his physical derectlo Those pierced spoons are sometimes the preservation of peace during the brought him exoeptionoll sympathy and called toddy ladles, but the genuine next 20 years than HURKin herself. cash. fn IPRO, Rt the age tit fnrty-sev- Wile was deeper and had more of a Pence. during the next. five years I.,; not an, be had saved $60,003; and in IS88 he, bowl, and occasionally they are call- Only e8sential to her welfare, but if had by Speculation increased his for - ed strawberry spoons, find maybe found Russia wore, to risk a conflict wit b any t u net t to 0 12.5,600 [Yi on Rh, a n it som n $20,- . in collections of curios and on silver European nation, especially with Fng- 000 in Triests and flnren),n real estate. tables. )and, the Strait upon her ndministra- Since then he has quadrupled his Sir Walter Scott, in "St. Ronan's tive services would quickly reveal to wealth by trading on th<� I)ntirse. Well," records bow Silver strainers an astonished Europe the feet of clay were used, when tea was rare and pro- now obscured by the sparkle ,and enrus- to exbauated tea leaven 'h(!'n) Ptuhte 'b cationa of ri, brillitint 41plornapy. COAT, OTJTPTT*r OF NATAL. 'Ou�%" on y had been well watered and drained. They were then divid- "Tn the frix Past, that is, in Amour Primorskayrt, the area on which tiny At a. recent South Afr',mn hninqUot, ed among the company, and eaten with war with Britain or Jn"n would 1%0 Sir Wait or-lbel.v -11ut chinson mention- sugax and broad and butter. partially f6ught. nut, there (]wells n, P4 Chat the, monthly output, of coal in Teaspoons first began to be goner- population. of a, quarter of a million of Vittal had inores,sed from 12,W0 tons al about 1750, J)ut the oblef difference Russian RUhjPCt,S. Prtivigionst for in I QQ3 to 30 tons; in 1898. He added between them and earlier mall Spoons these People, and for the convict isintrid from ,000 aq .9 noii1fle fact that. on .4qril 10 last w&A that. the bowls beoitline oval In- of "" I iAn Fire sent all'tho way tiv, ,qhilist in Durfirot harly& 'loaded I,- ateriA of round, and the topos of the Odesq!,ht'hrough the Suez I Otto tons of eoa.1 in The day. handles were fl&t and thaso.d. . penme of equipping tin a . . . I . . . 0 %, . . . � "I I . I . I � .. I .. � I I 1. I I . I .. . I . . . I . . . 1 I I I I . I . . I I , . . . . .. I . " 1. . . . � I . ,;,, . I . . I I . I . . � . . I I I . . , , �, � �, . . . 11 . . I 11 1. � , . 1 $ . . I O.- ";,iWIt � . I `\ % , - F ' I , �� 11 .. 4 . 11 - "I I . &, _ awsimWommshim �_. ww��Iii,IiIIL I I � i A ,