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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1898-11-24, Page 2WELTS On OLDEN TIE' 9 �.I- gels with eacthro wings tL g .upward amidst the t#lr•gxtes, oryin "Dowd t" LL .�j,�r .L ,�11,�!i and ppirits lost in black brood -wheel- - ed d wu amidst the caverns, crying REV. ISR. TALMAQE PREACHES QN "Dead 1•' I,Ixpiatiou I expiation i THE WELLS OF ABRAHAM. Cowper overborne with his sin, Corbeddu's Career• In 6ardluta Like That threw himself ,Into a chair by the win-- _ dow, Pinked up a new '1 estament, and TUe CenrtsWp splotch au,l ilachcl •-\1'itere his eye ltfor upas this, "Whom God the chief Dattiet or Christianity are haul t Larth as a propitiation Fought -Why Afore Neu do Not Carne to throng faith in his blood;" and dn- Christ-Dr. Talnraxe Beheads an Invita stagtlyt he was free I Unless Christ uou to Come Around the Old Gospel pays oqr debts, we go to eternal jail. Won. Unless our Joseph opens the king's IA despatch from Washington• says: corn crib, we die of famine. One eaon- ,•-Dr. Talmage preached from the fol- towing teat :-",And Isaac digged again five far all. A hoe hen got worried about his sins, and care to a priest and asked how the walls of water, which they had he nig* be cured. The priest said,' digged In the days of Abraham his "If yifd; will drive spikes into your' shoeS and walk five hundred miles you , lather ; Lor the Philistines had stop will get over it.' so he drove spikes. ped them after the death of Abraham; into his shoes and began the pilgrim - and he called their names after the age, trembling, tottering, agonizing on names by which his father had called the way, until he came about twenty miles, and sat down under a tree, ex- them," -Genesis xxvi. 18. hausted. Near by a missionary was an Oriental lands a well of water is preaching Christ, the Saviour of all a fortune. 7f a king dug one, he be- men. When the heathen heard it, he came as famous as though he had built pulled off his sandals, threw them as' far as he could, and cried, "That's e pyramid or Dont uered a province, 1 what I want ; give me Jesus 1 give me Great battles were fought for the con- Jesus I" Oh, ye who have been con- quest or defence of such wells of wa- victed and worn of sin, trudging on all will ter ; castle and towers were erected to yam days to reap eternal woe, you not this morning, at the announce - secure permanent ossession of thorn. P meat of a full and glorious atonement, The traveller today finds the well of throw your torturing transgressions to Jacob dug one hundred feet through the winds? "'.the blood of Jesus Christ a solid rock of limestone, These ancient cleanseth from all sin;' that was the very passage that came to the tent of wells of water were surrounded by Hedley Vicars, the brave English sol - walls of rock. This wall of rock was , dier, and changed him into a hero for covered up with a great slab. In the the Lord. centre of the slab there was a hole Around this great well of the Atone- ment the chief battles of Christian - throu hwhich the leathern bottle or g ity are to be fought. Ye Bedouins of earthen jar was l.et down. This open- infidelity, take the other wells, but ing was covered by a stone. When do not touch this. I call it by the Jacob, a young man of seventy years, same game that our father Abraham gave it -the Atonement. Here is was Courtin Raehol, he won her fav- g where he stood, his staff against the our, the Bible says, by removing the well -curb. Here is where he walked, stone from the opening of the well. the track of his feet all around about He liked her because she was industri- the well. 'Phis is the very water that with trembling hand, in his dying mos sus ensu h to come down and water g ment, lie put to his lips. Oh Ye sun - the camels. She liked him because be atiuck, desertworn pilgrims, drive up was clever enough to lay hold and give your camels and dismountl a pitcher I a lift to one who needed it, of water for each one of you, and will fill the trough for the camels. See lit was considered one of the great- the bucket tumble and dash into the est calamities that could happen a ns,- I depths; but I bring it up again, hand over hand, crying, •'Ho every one that tion when these wells of water were thirsteth, come ye to the waterst" stopped, Isaac, you see in the text, Now, bring your shovels and your found out that the wells of water, pickaxes, and we will try to open an- t'hit had been dug out by his father other well. I call it the well of Chris - ,Abraham at great expense and care, liaai comfort. You have noticed that there are a good many new ways of had been filled u b the s itoful Phil- P Y P comforting. Your father dies. Your istines. Immediately Isaac orders them I neighbour comes in, and he says, "It all opened again. I see the spades is only a natural law that your father plunging, and the earth tossing, and ( should die. The machinery is merely Worn out;" and before he leaves you, the water starting, until the oldwells he makes come other excellent remarks are entirely restored ; and the cattle about the coagulation of blood, and the come down to the trough and thrust difference between the respiratory and their nostrils into the water, their hod- nitrogenized food. Your child dies, and your pbilosophic neighbour comes, les quakin at evory swallow, until g and for your soothing tells you that they lift up their heads and look it was impossible the child should live around and take a long breath, the with such is state of mucous mene- water from the sides of their mouths branel Outl with your chemistry and nI dripping in sparkles down into the Kph esiomeY a pia nlNew Testament! trough. T never tasted such water in would rather have an illiterate man my life as in my boyhood, I drank out from the backwoods who knows Christ, of the mos covered bucket that swung talk with me, when I am in trouble, edly tried foo• cattle stealing, until one than the profoundest worldling who up on the chain's of the old well -sweep;, does not know him. The Gospel with - and I think when Isaac leaned over out. telling y"u anything about mucous the curb of these restored wells, he membrane or gastric quite, or hydro - chloric .;acid, comes and says 'All felt within himself that it was abev- things work together for good to those wage worthy of God's brewing. He who love God;" and that if your child was very careful to call aff the wells is gone, it is only because Jesus has by the same names which his father I folded it in his arms, and that the Judgment -day will explain things that had called them by ; and if this well are now inexplicable, iOhl let us dig was called, " The well in the Valley," out this old Go.,pel well of comfort, or " The well by the Rock," or " The Take away the stoicism and fatality well of Bubbles," Isaac baptized it with with which you have been trying to fill it. Drive up the great herd of the same nomenclature, your cares and anxieties, and sslop You helve noticed, my Christian their bleating at this cool fountaint friends, that many of the old Gospel To this well David came when he lost wells that our Pothers dug have been Absalom; and Paul, when his back was red and raw with the scuurp and Dr. tilled up by modern Philistines. They young, when his daughter died; and have thrown in their sceptecisma and Latimer, when the flames martyr- their philosophies, until the well da al- n dom leaped on his track; and , most filled up, and it is nigh impossible penin when he heard the knife sharpening to get one drop of the clear "wat'er. for his beheading; and all God's sheep These men tell us that you ought to in all the ages. put the Bible on the same shelf with the Koran and the old Persian manu- After one of Napoleon's battles, It scripts, and to read it with the same was found that the fight had been so spirit ; and there is not a day but terrific that, when the muster roll somebody comes along and drops a was called of one regiment, there were brick or a stone, or a carcase in this only three privates a,nd one drummer - old Gospel well. Wie are told that all toy that answered. An awful fight the world wants is development, for- that) Ohl that Christ today might getful of the fact that without the come so mightily for the slaying of Gospel the world always develops down-' your troubles and Borrows that when ward, and that if you should take the you go home and call the muster -roll religiose of Christ out of this world, in one hundred it develop of the terrible troop, not one -not one -shall answer, Christ having quelched years would into the "Five Points" of the universe. every annoyance, and salved every Yet there are a many men and gash, and. wiped every tear, and made great there are a great many rostrums whose whole work it is to fill up these complete extermination, Now, bring your shovels and pick - Christian wells. axes, and we will dig out another 'You will not think it strange then, well -a well opened by our father if the Isaac who speaks to you this Abraham, but which the Philistines morning tries to dig open some of the have filled up. It is the well of Gos-' old wells made by Abraham, his fath- Pel Invitation. I suppose you have er, nor will you be surprised if he noticed that religious address in this calls them by the same old names. day, for the most pdrt, has gone into Bring your shovel and pickaxe and the abstract and essayie. You know crow -bar, and the first well we will the word "sinner" is almost dropped open is the glorious well of the atone- out of the Christian vocabulary; it is ment. It is nearly filled up with the •not thought polite to use that word chips and debris o1' old philosophies now. It is Methodistic or old -fashion - that were worn out in the time of ed. I£ you want to tell men that they Confucius and Zeno, but which smart arc sinners, you must say they are men in our day unwrap from their spiritually erratic, or have morale de - mummy -bandages, and try to make us ficits, o: they have not had a proper believe are original with themselves. I spiritual development; and I have not plunge the shovel to the very bottom heard in twenty years that old hymn. of the well, and I find the clear water Come, ye sinners, poor and needy.' starting. Glorious well of the atone- In the first place, they are not sin- ment I Perhaps there are people here ners, and in the second place they who do not know what atonement are neither poor nor needyl I have means, it is so long since you have heard Christian men in prayer -meet - heard Lha definition, The word it- Ings and elsewhere talk as though self iP You give it a peculiar pronun- there were no very great radical ciation, will show you the meaning- change before a ma.n becomes at-one-ment. Man is a sinner, and a Christian. All he has got to do is deserves to die. Jesus comes in and to stop swearing, clear his throat a bears his punishment and weeps his few times, taake a good wasb, and he griefs. I was lost once but not I am is ready for heaven I My friends, if found. I deserved to die but Jesus every man has not gone astray, and if took the lances into his own heart un- the whole racse is not plunged in sin til his face grew pale and his chin and ruin, then that Bible is the great - dropped on his chest, and he had Pst fraud ever enacted ; fol•, from be- istrength only to say, "It is finished l" ginning to end, it sets forth that they The host swung round into the trough are. Now, my brothers and sisters, if of the sea, and would have been a man must be born again in order swainpod, but Jesus took hold of the to see the kingdom of God, and if a oar. I was set in the battle, and must m<an is absolutely ruined unless Christ clave beeei cut to pieces had not, at check his course, why not proclaim it? night -fall, he who rideth on the white There must boon infinite and radical horse come into the fray. That which change, in every man's heart, or he must have been the Waterloo of my chin not come within ten tbousand defeat now became the Waterloo of my miles of heaven. There must be an triumph, because Blueber has come up earthquake in big .soul, shaking down to save. Expdation I expiation I The his .sins, and there must be the trum- law tried me for high treason against Pet -blast of Christ.'s resurrection bring- God'and found me guilty. The angels ing him up from the depths of sin and of God were the jurors impapeled in rlarknesn into the glorious life of the the, case, and they found me guilty; I Gospel, Do you know why more men was asked what I had to say why sen- do not come to Christ ? It is because tense of eternal death should not be men are not invited that they do not pronounced upon me, and I had noib- come. Fou get a general invitation ing to say. I stood on the scaffold of from your friend: "Come round some God's justice; the black Cap of eternal limp to my house and dine with me." dea,t h wan about to he drawn over my You do not go. But he says, "Come eyes, when from the bill of Calvary around to -day at four o'clock,, and One came. He dashed through the bring your family, and we'll dine io- ranks or earth and heaven and hell. txether." And you Ma.y, "I don't know Ile rode swiftly. His garments were riq I hrtve any engagement; I will dyed with his blood, his face was enme." "I expect, you at four o'clock," bleeding, his feet were dabbled with And you go, The world feels It Is a gore, anti he Pried out, "Sa.ve that man general invitation to come aroundrsome from going down to the pit, I am the time and sit At the great Gospel feast, rnnsmn," and he threw hack the coat Anrd men do not come because they are from his heart, and that. heart burst not specially invited. It is because into a crimson fountain, and he drop.. You do not take hold of them and say, cad dear! at my feet; a.nd I felt. of his ' My brother, come to Christ; come ieancls, and they were stiff; and 1 now -come now 1" now was it that in fish of hits feet and they were cold;a.nd the Jaya of Daniel Baker, and Truman i felt of bite heart, amd it was pulse- Osborne, and Nettleton, so many thou- ttass; and I cried, "Dead 1" And an- sands came to Jenna f Because those or`: ;i _. _. - ___.____ ______ .. ..._______.. _. . ' ......__.,_,�,_,,,.,_,. _ _.-_. _. good men did nothing else but Invite 1 them to life- THE WORLDS BILL Off` FARE . -_ ....__.__. —_.. _ _. _ _. l8 POVNVO TO F..AQH PFJtSON. 15 _ .._.. _. - __T_ ._-.........._ A FAMOUS BANDIT. � . iT y� /� /�? ME S NDAY come. They spent their Austria-Hungary uses pounds; ,...,,, tS. 1,,HOOL, time in uttering Invitations, and they ,,,,,-„• - Sweden, 20; Norway, 12, and Spain. Corbeddu's Career• In 6ardluta Like That * -A did not mince matters either?; Where did John Bunyan's pilgrim start from? COMPARATIVE AMOUI+�TS QF FOOD only 7 pounds. Tobacco is another native of the or Dick Tur pin. INTERNATIONAL I.ESSQN, NOV. 27. Dld ho start Psora some easy, quiet, USED BY PRING�PAL NATIONS. era Would which has come lata general Not long ago I described the death '^^^' cosy place? No; if you have read John _,_" use. Our own nation stands at the of the famous Sardinian brigand, Cox- "Temperance Lesson 11 Prov. 10-39, hold. BunYau's '•Pilgrim's Progress," you Strange to say the Potato 1s, the Principal know where he started from, and that head in the total consumption, using 200 million pounda during the, year, beddu, who was killed in a fight with on Text, Faro►. I. 10. Staple Cro of the world-Irelltud is vvas the Cit of destruction, where ev= R Y but this is only 43 ounces to each per- the aarabineers.. A complete history of , PRACTICAL NOT]W. ery sinner starts from. Do you know too Greatest goaY�rmer of tUe Potato what Livingstone, the minister,--JFrance Beads Tho List 4% Copsusmp• son. -much less than the consum tion Bel ium, for w,lich � . his eareer'es naw obtainable. It is in - torestin its Peres 10. Hear. Attend. O my anal. Seoteh was preaching about in Scotland when lieu or Wheat -Tho uulted States Uses Consumes of e;iample, a t Switzerland. stands at i 0 ounces, g for Duck Turpin -like epi- andel, Corbeddu, was no oordlnaxy bei- IY the same wise maxi were writiA In' g tb.ree hundred souls under one sermon the Most float-btreat Britain where 80 auiWes are used• The Neth- a modern days, doubtless he would add. co,a4e to Christ ? lie was preaching the Yost Tea and Deer. - er,Iands use 51 ounces to each person, grand. He did not go about shooting " O my daughter ;" buf when this wail about the human heart as unclean, The s,varage man it asked what is and hard, and stonyy: Do you know the most important scop of the while Germamy, noted for its use of this "weed;' requires 48 ounces, which poor fishermen or muleteers for the sake of the Pew lire theiy might have written the average Jew did not W ; what Geor a Whitt[eld was preaching g puts it 5 aunoes in advance of our own in their pockets, but he carried on his that womanhood needed or oould about in hie lir-t sermon, when fif':een world, would unhilsitatingly say, souls saw the salvation of Gode It was "Wheat." This is true in the United nation. Russia uses 24 oisnces; France, 29; Italy, 22; Stpain, 82, and the profession in a manner so distinguish- preaiate instruatiom in wisdom. Thp ex - this: "ye must be born again." Do States, but far Pram the case in the United Kingdom, 23 ounces. ed as too make him the king of the altation of womatnhwd is due to Chris - you know what is the last subject he aver preached upon? "Flee the wrath world as a whole. The first place In the use of beverages the various natiohs show an equally marked diver= Sardinian outlaws. He was born in ianity, Receive my sayings. These "saydngs" give the results of two to come." Vh I that the Lord God must be given the potato. Ireland is gence• Take, for example, the mat- 1844 at Uliena, in Sardinia, of a well - °curses of life, in opposition to eAcb would come into our pulpits and pray- not the otaly +country of Europa which er meetings, and Christi�.an circles, and ter of tea. In this Great Britain and her dependencies in Australia lead the to-do famil and until called to do y' military service he lived an agricul- other. A wise man is the man who brin g us from our rhetoric and pro- subsists largely an that vegetable. OE 6 world, requiring no� less than 88 ounces � tura! life. 13e tack part in the sap- Profits by other people's experience, found metaphysics, an our elegant all the staple craps oP the world, the hair-splitting, to the oldtashioned well potato takes the first place, the an- per capita, whish is a total in Great Britain of 230 million pounds, and in tie qli Rartne in 187U, but while stn- who sits at the feet of the t8aohere of Gospel invitation. There are enough nual cr winners in this iP °p er' more than 4,000 mil- Australia of 22 million pounds, Canada t1oned with the Bersaglieri regiment, sof the ages and weaves out of their wisdoml h'is own thoughts and words this house morning, lion bushels, against 2,500 million buaki- they should come to God, to make joy uses somewhat lees, the average bein g wwhich their formed part of the Rome and cote. The years of thy lips shall enough in heaven t o keep jubilee a ens of wheat, 2,600 anillion bushels of 70 OUNIDEJS TO EACH PERSON. garrison►, chis predatory instincts �' many• No't every good person• lives thousand years, Whg not come? Have corn, 1,300 million bushels of rye, and you never hada s serol invitation to P ?50 The United States requires 110 mil- lion pounds of tea, which is 24 ounces awakened. Having `heard that a ter- twin priest was wealthy, ha, with an to be aged ; not every bad person dies mil%tan bushels of bade OE the come? If not, I give it now; you, You, y total potato crop, Europe produces per capita. Russia, however, uses only 60 million pounds, or 9 ounces to accoanplice, made a false key and en- early. Such a statement is not made; you, come now to Jesus I why do you try to cover up that cancer with a fully seven -eighths, which is two and each person. tared t'h+e priest's house. To the great it wvauld mot be true. But this is true, that habits of virtue tend directly to piece of court -plaster, when Christ, the one-half times as much as her wheat, Sur take In the, use of coffee the Netherlands stand at the head, using no less than surprise of the robbers, the priest was health and longevity. Three genera - eon, with his coal el, would g P and all her cereals t it all away, and it would never come ogether are but 870 ounces to each person. Denmark at supper. They seized, bound and 'him tions of prudence and virtue will not a ain ? Do ou know that your nature 50 per cent. more. g Y consumes 247 ounces, and Belgium 176 gagged and stole 1,300 lire from issue in a fourth generation with phy- Is all wrong unless it has Ween cu not In the consumption of the potato, ounce. Next comes the United States, with 515 ounces, which re uirea ,his bureau. The authors of the crime sical weakness and early death. Wise - ed by the grace of God? Doo you not Ireland, ass may be expected, stands at know that God be with q a total of 725 million pounds during wore never discevered until Corbeddu ly doss Dr, Adam Clark write : "Our cannot pleased the head. Her aver a annual con- you, my dear brother, fn your present s,8 the year. At the other end is Rusaia, we after years) principal diseases spring from indol- state? Do ou know that your sinful aumptian per capita is 1,467 pounds, or Y whose a P ople consume 80 million BOAtyl'IED OF HIS ACHIEVEMENT. once, intemperance, and disorderly. condition exeltes the wrath of God i a dail aver a of 4 y ag pounda per person. "God ea h p during the year, or 3 ounces es Spain uses but 9 ounces Qnd Afton return to Sardinia from his mag passions. True religion tt in- is angry with the wicked every Next comes German with a d'ay." Do you not know that you have y PAr cap' Great and Great Britain only 11 canoes. military service Corbeddu was repeat- abits, dustry, promotes solver habits, destroys maade war upon God i Do you ,not ita consumption of over 1,300 pounds. Germany requires 78 ounces, or a edly tried foo• cattle stealing, until one evil passions, and harmonizes the soul, know that you trove plunged your Her total consumption reaches 1,170 total of 245 million pounds; Switzer- day he failed; to answer to a summons and thus, by destroying the,eausea of spear into the Savdour's aide, and that million bushels, or land, 112 ounces; France, 53; Austria- �lungar 82, end Ital 1 y, y, 7 ounces. and tobk to ties hills. At this point most diseases, prolongs life." 11. I have taught thea in the way you have punctured his temples, and spiked his feet, and that you have MORN] THAN A QUARTER Perhaps the widest divergence is to began- Itis celebrated exploits. First, of wisdom. " I " stands not merely for broken his heart Z o! the entire cancrum tion of the world. P be found in the use of the stronger drinks, Take beer, for exam le. In with am armed band, he stole a sum of Soiome,n or any other sage, but for hte collected fatherhood and mother - Oh I is this what he deserves, You blood boa ht soul ? Is this the price Thon some the Netherlands, with a per g P this the United Kingdom takes the money (roan a house, at Lula in 1882. T'he sauce year he and other outlaws hood of humanity. "Thee " stands not you pay him for his long, earthly capita oonsumptioae of 840 pounds; lead, with no less than 1,200 million Sanvero merely for Rehoboam, or the Hebrew I s nnd•t tramp, and his Fhelterless night hon Norway and Sweden, with 740 gallons per year, or 30 gallons to each killed and robbed a man at youth of his time, but far all young his dying prayer, and the groan that ,i made creat inn shiver ?, Do you want i pounds ; France, 700 ; Austria-Hungary, inhabitant. Germany uses 1,400 mil- lion gallons, or 27 gallons per capita; Mills. In 1884 he fought and nearly killed a aarabineer at Banns. in 1885, men and women, all boys and girls collected in our Sunday schools to -day. to drive another nail into him? Do 663, and Canada, 660 pounds. At the and then comes Denmark, with 24 gad- lona to each person. In the United he, with some companions, killed a They, and the multitudes of young peo- ple who do not o to Sunda school, Y you want to stick him with another other end oP the list stands Italy, with thorn? Do you want to join the mob aper capita consumption of only 4g each • 1,050 million gallons are used oarabineer and nearly killed an inspec- g are alike the heirs of all the ages, that with blooly hands smote him nn pounds. The United States requires "His year, which gives an average of 15 gallons to each person. Switzerland for and another oarabineer at Orani, in the foremost files of time, enriched b the teachings of the dead. Even Y the cheek, crying, blood be on us 25(I million bushels of and children foreverl" Ob your potatoes ayear, uses 14 gallons Por ca iia p , Frames, 6 and stole a sum of 14 600 lire. Next ' if heedless, or unbiest by the influ- our sinsl and when I say that, I do not or 200 pounds Por each, person. This gallons; Sweden and Norway, 7; the year, he robbed the post and deprived ences of a C9erislian house, still the Dick out some man who may not have ys less b 38 y pounds than the average Netherlands, 8, and Canada, 4 gal- loos. Such wine-drinkin countries as g Count Spada, who was in the d111gence, of watch" rings, gun and bi boots. g world's inherited wisdom is theirs. I! we to-do are more ractical] wise Y been in a house of worship for for- ty but I out any man oosumption in Great Britain, and Spain, Italy, and Greece use very little ,his The big boots Corbeddu afterward wore Y P than the world was in Solom,on's time years, pick you ch-,ose, whose heart• has not been about the same as that of Australia. beer. Italy requires, iii hunch of his exploit. In 1894 he and the most confirmed pessimist will nbange-1 by the grace of God. Oh your European Russia uses 850 million bush- LESS THAN A GALLON, robbed and killed a wealthy man at Borore. Afany other crimes were put hardly dispute that statement, the im- provement is due to the teachings of. ainsl I press them on your attention els, or 481 pounds ger capita. -t be sins of y."ur lifetime. What a In the Greece about 2 quarts, acid Spain but down to him or were committed b y brigands his Re- successive I generations of observers and record' for a death pillow I What data consumption of wheat, France for the judgment day I What a cup beads the list, requiring 300 million little over a pint. In wine consump- tion, however, Spain takes the lead, minar under orders. wards amounting in all to 2`2,000, lire experimenters, the aggregated wis- � dom of the world. But if it be true of gall for your l ips l Look at all the bushels a ear, or 469 y pounds to each with M gallons to each person. Then were odfered fon' 'has capture, but in 1 that the world has been taught in thg Irina of your childhood and ripor years, with their Parke l tongues, and adder inhabitant. Next oom,es Canada,with comes Fiance, with 29 gallons, and Italy, 24 gallons. These countries are vain. His most famous exploit wus not the way of wisdom, how specially true is it of those who have,been Christian fa - stings, and de•tihless poignancy, wn- 360 pounds per capita, a total of 30 i.n marked contrast with beer -drink- capture, but the liberation of two thers and mothers. Emphatically less Jesus with His heel shall crush the million bushels. Italy requires 307 ing Germany, which uses but little Frenchmen, MM. Pralle and Paty, who have they been led do the right paths. serpents. You have sinned against ounda p per capita, or a total oP 160 over a gallon of wine per inhabitant, h,ad been seized and held to blackmail It is a bad temptation that comes to your God ; you have r lased against and the United Kingdom, which re- b'y otheur brigands. 1"heir ca Lure ave p g some young people to scorn or avoid Jesus ; you have sinned against your million bushels. Germany, Russia, quires less than 2 quarts. In the rise to a violent campaign in the whole the old. Disobedience to parents and grave -ay, you have sinned againsT Great Britain, and Hungary each use United States the consumption of wine Frencah and Italian press against the doing in secret things which parents the little resting -place of your darling about the same total, 165 million bush- has largely increased during the last condition of the Sardinian police, and would disapprove is, as has been wise - child, for you will never see her again ale; but Great Britain's per capita unless repent. How can go year, reaching a total of 38 million gallons, which is almost exactly 2 Signor Crispl, who wa.s then premier, ordered th,a authorities in the island ly said, "one of the first steps toruin, and a long, long step." An added you You to the good place, the pure place where consumption is 250 pounds, against 93 quarts to each person. Russia uses to liberate the two Frenchmen at all meaning is given to this verse by the she is, your heart unpardoned? You pounds for Russia, 180 pounds for Ger- about a gallon of wine per capita, and costs, All the carabinecrs were mo- fuller revelations oP Christianity have sinned a ainst a Christian fath- g many, and 230 pounds for Austria- Austria-Hungary nearl� 3 gallons. bilized, and the telegraph officers which its writer did without knowing. er's counsel card a dying mother's Hungary. In the United States the Canada, hmvever, take., the lowest place, with less than 1 pint to each worked nighE and day, though with- out discovering the prisoners. At last To us do these later days has coma the wisdom of God, 1 Cor. 1. '24, the word prayer. 1 saw account the other day of consumption of wheat is 240 pounds, person.-McClure's Magazine. a subperfeot named Marongin appeal- of God. John 1. 1, who is made unto _an a little boy wh7 was to be takeg ►,y a requiring a total of 300 million bush- ed to Corbeddu by means of his friends. us wisdom, and in whom are hid all city missionary, with some other boys, els. The Netherlands use the same The superfect and the brigand had an the treasures of wisdom a.ud know - ledge, Col. 2. 3. to the country to find homes. He was well clad, and had a naw bat given Per capita as the United States, re- CHINESE TELEGRAPHS. , interview, in which the official prom- ised Corbeddu anything he might wish 12. Thy steps shall not be straitened. him ; while the missionary was Petting quiring 20 million bushels. At the -- on condition that he would get the It- That is, narrowed, circumscribed. the other children ready to go, t his boy other end of the list is Japan, with Novel Ifethod of Transmuting nod Print- alian administration, out of . a bad Where the Spirit is there is liberty. went into a corner and took the hat but 18 millions total, making a par ho had thrown of P, and tore the fining Ing Illessaxes. The telegraph is the only institution scrape, Corbeddu at once accepted the task of liberat5ng the Frenchmen, and Thou shalt not stumble. God's provi dente turns the atumbli.ng-blocks of out of it. The missionar said, "What capita Consumpti,nn of 22 pounds. Y Where of modern science which has obtained WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS life into stepping -stones. Note also the first„ of the clause. Free are you doing with that out You these countries lack in the don't want it. Whit are you tearing consum flan of . wheat, however, the P any considerable foothold in China, they were delivered safely into the hands of the authorities. Corbeddu's part course shall be insured to the wise the lining out for i" "Ah I" said the buy, "that was made out oP mother's deficit is, as a rule, made up in other says the Engineering Magazine. Pek- professional pride was so great that man when he "goes," that is, when ho walks amid ordinary circumstances of dress. She loved me very much before grams- Ryer is this grain most in use ing is connected by wires with Tient- he would acts neither the 10;000 lire life; but when he has to run, that is, she died, and I have nothing to remem- in Russia, where 580 million bushels sin' and with Manchurian points up to reward offered him' nor a free pardon, nor any other compensation, consider- in the emergencies of life, he is equally ber her by but the linin And so g•' are consumed each year, or an average the boy tore it out a,nd put ib in his the Russian frontier, whence sonnet- tion is continued by Russian Siberian ing himself sufficiently paid by hav- secured by God's providence. Lake no tha t in that hour, the hour of em - bosom. Ohi -would you not like to o� lines to Europe. The capital is also ing dome In twent four hours what ministers, prefectayand an army of a ge� 13. Take fasteholdllofayinstruction. have one shred of your mother's re- 307 POUND PEI'R CAPITA. ligion to remember her by ? Do not connected with all the treat y ports and carabineers had been unable to accom- "Lord, I would clasp my hand in her prayers clamour for an answer At "the head of the list of European this morning? Du you not see her hold count.riss stands Denmark. with a per principal cities in China proper, and these again with each other. Canton Plmh' t From that time, he gave up his mur- thine." Instruction, thus personi- fied, is but one of the servant maids her withered hands stretched out from capita use of 320 pounds; then Sweden, the death -bed, be ging you to come to 314 g pounds, and Norway, 224 pounda, has cannealion also through Yunan deace expeditions and enjoyed in paste tho fruits of hie robberies. He of God's great nursery. Tho thought here is oP Discipline, however, rather God and b'e at peace wikh him. Would Italy' uses but 29 pounda pax capita, with Burma. China learned the val- kept herds of cows and pigs and flocks than of Information, She is thy life. you like. to have the purity of your and Germany only `26 pounds, while ne o! the telegraph in the war with of sheep and goats. He lived in a cave "Knowled ge is power." Verily; but .ant mother ? V4 uuJd ou not' like to have France re uirea 59 y q pounds, or a total France, and it has long since been ad- on an almost inaccessible mountain to which the was known Self-discipline is life ; without it we lhe comfort she felt in dark dayst of 36 million bushels. The rye used Would you not like to have some of for food in the United States aggre- mitted to have "become indispensable." The telegraph, however, is under im- peak, path only to himself, and his brother. The hasten toward spiritual, moral, intel- I,wtual, and physical death. that peace which she had in her last gates about 80 million bushels, or 22 moments, when she looked up through pounds to each inhabitant. perial control, and there is probabl Y little opportunity Por its extension as cave was se arated from the path b P Y precipice, over which Corbeddu peas- � the trunk tree, draw- 14. Enter not into the path of the wicked. We have commented a !tory her spectacles at you, and said she The use of oats for human food is must go away, for .Tesus called her, also, as a rule, largest where wheat is a private enterprise. Chinese writing not being alphabetic e on of a small ing the trunk after him into the cave. upon this verse in the introductory Paragraph. It couples wolf with verse and you said, 'Mother, we can't spare least common. Norway, for example, you;" and the outcry of grief was an- stands near the bead of the list, with but syllabic,, and there being as many characters as there are words in use, On one occasion, a daring thief din- 's hiding -place .and covered Coof 11, I have taught you the right path, so do not enter the wrong path. "Ven - swayed h along breath that told you 112 pounds per capita. Germany use- the telegraphic messages are sent in a robbed him of a atetntity of the store- a q he had accumulated. He would sur- tare not into the cam a P ny of thosC sn- the though thou it was all over Z Oh, my God I let not 97 pounds ; the Netherlands and Swed- mother be one side and father on the en, bath 90; Russia, 90; Belgium, 74; number cypher. For trauscrib"ng messages received a daublo-encded typo P rise the mountain hunters and show think with plague, think thyself guarded with cin anti - same side, and loved ones on the same Spain, •55; Italy, 46; and Austria -Hun- is used; on one end is the character them the bo -t district in wh{ch to look for game. Though a Sardinian, he al- dote."-�Ienry. i side of the throne, and" I be on the oth- gary, 46 pounds. In spite of the large er side. I£ we are this morning on use of oats as a food in Scotland, the and on rho other the corresponding number. When a message is receiv- mast always spoke Ttalian and mani- 15. Avoid it,; pass not b y t. Thio is a "sign" that the trap Church of the wrong side let us cross over- average of the Unit..^.d hingdam is but let us cross over now. Blessed 12 pounds. In the United ,Mates it is ed, it is set up by the numbers, and then printed from the reverse, or char- fested great disdain for the other out- law ;s, whom be willed guastamestieri, "trade God would seek to throw out in front of every liquor shop, gambling house, Tesus, we come bruised with sin, and estemated'that 180 million bushels are acter, end. or spnio e Lately he seems and den of inquity. Abstain from r throw ourse.ves '{n the arms of tlhy used Par Pood, or 77 pounda per capita. - __..r,__.� t to have got into the had books oP the ever a earance of evil. 'Pouch not Y PP compassinn I None over wanted thea Canada uses 51 pounda, HOW SCIENCE DETECTED CRIME. anrabineers, by whom he was killed after a heard fight some three the unclean thing. Walk in the Spirit more iban we Oh I turn on -us thy It is in the use of meats that the years and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of benedic! ion I Whatever else we lose various nat ions show a wide diver- The Berlin newspapers have lately a'g'o'' the flesh. But if you find that you cr get, we must vain heaven. "Lord, Bence. At the head of the fiat, both been telling, with great glee, of a - +� - have already made a mistake, then save us -we perish?" as to total and per capita consumption, Let us come around the old Gospel stands the United States. Not less triumph of -ciente over crime. In one W'ORLD'S WARS. take not one stop more; stop at once; turn from it rand pass away. well. A good many of you came in than 11,000 million pounds are retain- of the great offices of the German capi- The cost oP the world's wars since the 16. They sleep not except th.�y have these doors this morning carrying a ed for theie use or 147 pounds t6 each tal anumber of petty thefts bad been Crimean war has boon $12,265000,000 done mischief. The old-fashioned very Heavy burden. Ido not know person. Of this, in round numbers, what it is -I can tcuot what it 5000 million pounds aro beef, 4,000 committed, the pockets of"hoats hang- for ennugh to g(ve a. couple of scve- "wicked" whom Solomon had in mind lay awake nights thinking whom they guess a; but I noticed some of you, when pork, and 800 mutton. Next stands Ing in theante-room being visited and reigns to every man, women and child could next kuoek duwu nrd rob. Even Poo came in this norning, looked sad, the United Kingdom, with an average cigars and small change extracted. on the globe. today there live some of that sort. But dt may lie home trouble you can not of 100 pounds per inhabitant; but only Thepolicewere for atime non-plussed —__ - there are others, and it is perfectly ell any body. Haw many have bur- a fraction of this amount goes to the and invoked the aid of science, A pro- ' FORBIDDEN BOOKS, proper in a tomperance lesson to speci- lons on your shoulders and on your Irish, since their average consumption feasor being conswited, he advised the In Russia many scientific and miscel- fy t.hem, who often sit up to plan how belarts? Come to the well ; put down is but 56 pounds. Norway uses 80 insertion o£ a delicate aniline powder lanaous books are not allowed to he to make weak men break temperance ;he pack right beside the well. Jacob's pounds; France, 77; Spain, 70; Ger- well was one hundred feet deep, a.nd many, 64 ; Sweden and Switzerland, 62; i.n the mouth end of some cigar, to be placed at 'the .mercy of the thief. The sold, simply nn account of a Pew oh- pledges rind how t.o decoy ignorant boys and girls into ruin. True, no rut through the rock; but this Gospel Belgium, 61; Austria-Hungary, 60; next morning there was a summoning ject.ionable lines. But if any one needs such text aas this is to.he narrowed in well is deep as eternity, and is cut anti Russia, Portugal, and the Netb- of the clerks and a general inspection the book he can send a letter, with a its application to the liquor evil. It -fight down through the hearttof the erlands, 50 pounds. Italy uses but 24 of their mouths. One unha ppy youth certain fixed sum of money, and get mfors t.o Iha whole breadth of sin ; Son of God, ,Shovels opened that other pounds of meat per capita.. was discovered with aniline tongue a.nd spevial permission t'o order a copy. and there are some very innorent busi- well ; spears opened this. You remen- The United Cltates also .stands at the lips. - a- nesses which ore prosecuted in a very ser Jbe old well -sweep in the country head in the use of eggs, . _ __,_.-.__-. 1 C MASCULINE INTUITION. guilty manner. Rut perhaps there is was made out of two pieces -one FULLY' 10,000 MILLION planted in the ground, and on it was OURSELVES AND OUR CLOTHES, Mr. Simkins -Our new neighbor, no class of men in modern life, who comp nearer to being fitly described by being required in the course of a ear, swung a long beam, which w•e laid hold y °r 133 eggs to each Next "Happily," said Mr. Stoggleby, "we hiss. 7�a,mkina is not a very seal house- keeper, is she Z verse lti, than 1 ha liquor deo lora. rP in our bo hood 'and brought down- person. y ward, and the bucket dipped into the stands Canada, with 90 eggs per capita.. do not realize the change in our per- S• Mrs. imkins-indeed she isn't. Sbe 17, The eat the bread of wickedness Y violence. 5it- Denmark uses 80 a s; France, 78, and water and came up full. So the Cross gg Germany, 76 eggs. The iTnitad Bing- conal appearance ns we would grow older, the change [s so a)ight frons clay lets things lay around every which waw. HovV did yon lrnnw Z and drink t.he, wine of ling down at. table,•, whPre instead of rf Jeans is made nut of two pieces. I dom re uires but 39 e a ;oke one piece and plant dt °lose by this q 88' to each Por- t to slay; and then, as a matter of £act, Mr. S[mkins-nh, her hu5hanl )asks bread and-aiiecU they devour plans of mischief and instead of rid wall, and then awing on it the long son, and, Italy but 47 eggs. In the use of rice there is a wido we aare, t.o ourselves at least, ever as so jolly. --- malicious drink they swallow plans of cruelly )iece, and I la bold of it with' my Y divergence. The United States, for )raker, and I pull it down until the young as we feel. "But XONGY NO'ORJECT• and swindling. 18, The of the ju.st, The ,nan- exam le, re uires but 800 million 3aviou shears, the bottom of the P q 3aviour's tears,and then fetch it up, Pannd-, which is only 4 pounda per it is not eo olonut our clothes; we raannot make them even feel young, Arigg�y--Biggins s;iys hP is gain to path nPr of life of thn man who sPPks to clod. Thee )ubblin foaming, brimming, spark- capita. Great Britain takes 350 mil- g' lion swards, or 9 ounda to each per- P P its they grow old, to Pay nothing of lies in them lookin so -they will P g B get send his wife one hundred dollars a week while rho is away, conform to the. rules of shining light. Thn ruing sun.. iinel fag, with the water of which, if a mats [rink, he shall thirst. son; Spain uses 5 pounds, and Italy 14. worn and threadbare- And we are Griggs -lie mutat: belong to the peace- more acid morn unto the i,Prfect day. brightness is never But Japan requires no les- than 800 'To /the dear fountain of thy blood, age of all India i- Pounds, and the aver likely to forget about that, and to give no thought to the Im ression the P y at -any -price pasty, Every morning in its n. figure, of the Lord .Tesus Christ, who iR Incarnate Godl I LI y' : 200 pounds. The )Province of Bombay tray make upon other people, There we ---.- the Light of the world. Tet us 'ti •ski Sere let me wash my spotted soul alone uses 10,000 million pounds, or 547 make n mistake. We should keep an Woman I Woman t Mr. Knowit-Mrs. in t hat Light. . . Candles no not tie From crimes of deepest dye. pounds to eaab inhabitant. 'A eye on our apparel ; and, as to trim- Strorigmind is gradually developing more and more; t hey hurn down to t hs lamps not shine rnora and guilty, weak, and helpless worm, A statement commonly made is On thy, kind arms I fall ; • ' that the United States takes the lead ness, at least, have that In keeping not with our gray bead, but with our fresh her buaband into an ideal man. Hs, socket, cls mere; their ail (in out. MPtemo do not 3e thou my strength and righteousness in I,be use of sugar, This, however, and ever youthful heart." does everything now just as she wants shine more and more; earth's ntmogp- My Jesus and my all," is not the case. The paim must be -•- ----- him to. Mrs, Sharper -Yea; and when here soon submerges them. Rut the i.he, morning shineth more and -- - ,. given to Great Brit:adn, which re- Harry -It is enorug'h to kill anybody sloe Utas him perfect she will despise sun of A CANDID TRAMP. ugiires 3,000 million pounds per an- tree way you woanen kiss ane another. him because he didn't have a mind of his more unto the perfect da.y. So it is the Light of the world and the Lady -Now that ou have 'finished a num, or 80 unds to each inhabitant. y P° ;ood, substantial dinner, I suppose you in the United States, 5,500 million T caw you kiea Po11y Broese last even- ing, and I know you hate her. Har- own 1 ° Not the Same Tbing-fie had just fin- with nth of the ust on which its glory to shed d vill not object to sawing a few sticks pounds are used, but the per o0- to f wood? ernleainptlon is 7 pounds leas thanpIn riet.-O, wall, what's a kimf I know lhhod a fairly gond dinner which the 19. The way of the wicked is aR Tramp --I'd like ter obleege yer, Great Britaln, or 78 ppoodnds. France where I can get plerit mord. y The Gerinan Fire Departm6at--•Ihave houeewite had set before him and rose darkness. !Midnight gkxun. Th,•y know what, *� st umhle. Or- ppyoo p ady, but me toga is so thin dat I'm rises 900 million unds, or 26 ounda the honoT to announce, that tb+ Aga. But, a'he protested, you aa.id not at dinartly rnny cannot see that. their ,freod I csouldn't stand the cold. each Person. Germany, which has the made such remarkable strides [n eaptadn, the fire Is iii the fourth story, and our you d saiw woad. Not at all, itiea am, lie own mi.M44s lead t hem t o downfal l ,Lad --Cold) And thermometer at pro• y 0 in the shadel Are you orazy? during beet augur firn other nations, lad,ioxa and horse w111 rr3soh only to replied. I said IrAw wood, axed T did, A toll Ale thus are the bloated urned But some of them da mP it, brit do ani. Tram Nope I knows it's hot, bu' 'Atains but 1IR10 of it comparatively P - bar Tho total the second. Indeed? Then wo'll haps to wait till the fire 'ata dowli to the pwllatB eveTY nowv and ,then turned know bow to get rid of the lendeney to evil. 7'he wn.y t'o do so is to "come en it'll be a cola day w'en I saw waocl Car own can-utiipt[on. is 950 million or only second I dowvn by t'he weary ,sons oP poverty, to Jegua," and "rs,alk in the light.' , Ioeq pounds, . 1 r - . t . .., 0 41